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Overnight Open Thread (18 Aug 2017)
USS Fitzgerald
A sobering read on what happened on the USS Fitzgerald after it hit that container ship. Solar Eclipse Myths As we wait for the solar eclipse to arrive on Monday, here are solar eclipse myths from around the world. Metal Cover of Toto - Africa
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 18, 2017 10:06 PM (nvMvs)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 18, 2017 10:06 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: freaked at August 18, 2017 10:06 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Basement Cat at August 18, 2017 10:07 PM (3C9q2)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 18, 2017 10:07 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2017 10:08 PM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: Darles Chickens at August 18, 2017 10:08 PM (Z8NdJ)
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 18, 2017 10:08 PM (6n332)
Posted by: Basement Cat at August 18, 2017 10:08 PM (3C9q2)
"There's nothing that 100 men on Mars could ever do/
I left my brains down in Africa...."
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 10:09 PM (tcamx)
Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 18, 2017 10:09 PM (nvMvs)
Sounds like a female professional wrestling league.
Posted by: zombie at August 18, 2017 10:09 PM (DQ4Fv)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 18, 2017 10:09 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 18, 2017 10:09 PM (8iiMU)
Posted by: mark1971 at August 18, 2017 10:09 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at August 18, 2017 10:10 PM (kCsT4)
Posted by: Regular joe at August 18, 2017 10:10 PM (7PllL)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:10 PM (hVdx9)
Really? They let Polish people live in Texas????
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:11 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Hillary 2020 at August 18, 2017 10:11 PM (ILitO)
Folks, this may be OUR time to step up and show our mettle. Let's do our ancestors proud.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:11 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 18, 2017 10:07 PM (IcT7t)
I can out-idiot you any day.
Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 18, 2017 10:11 PM (nvMvs)
I had no alcohol and thought it was pretty good.
Posted by: CDR M at August 18, 2017 10:11 PM (9I51B)
From Craig's List
https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/6256316306.html
Wanted woman who wants to conceive child during totality eclipse in OR
I am 40 years of age, caucasian male from Europe. My heritage is strong and pure.
My looks, instincts, knowledge and strength is 100% pure and 100% lethal.
I am looking for a worthy female with strong genes, beauty and smarts.
To join me - to experience the totality eclipse in Oregon.
Exact place not set.
If we have chemistry, I would like for us to make love while the eclipse is happening.
When totality occurs, we will have simultaneous orgasms and we will
conceive a child that will be on the next level of human evolution.
We will make love together, with me and my penis directed towards the sun.
Everything will be aligned in the local universe.
Both of our cosmic orgasmic energy will be aligned with the planets.
In a brief moment of ecstasy, we will understand everything, and together, create a new universe. Full of love...
You must like cats. Drugs are OK. Nitrous Oxide while we climax and experience totality and conception, is OK with me.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 18, 2017 10:12 PM (xPl2J)
https://youtu.be/VL5SmYP9nPE
Posted by: Zaklog the Great at August 18, 2017 10:12 PM (RkYsP)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:13 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2017 10:13 PM (HZkuJ)
My Fella Amurcan, four score an eighty proof ago...
Posted by: Hillary 2020 at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: Farmer at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (tcamx)
fat bergs - there is an enzyme for that
Posted by: Dullford Shiply at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (m9X4Y)
I had no alcohol and thought it was pretty good.
Posted by: CDR M
****
After I peel myself off my carpet in the morning (which tastes dirty), I will listen again.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:15 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 18, 2017 10:15 PM (IcT7t)
-Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (tcamx)
Marry an Eastern European?
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2017 10:16 PM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: teej at August 18, 2017 10:16 PM (2yO6m)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 18, 2017 10:16 PM (KCxzN)
Penis pointing to sun?
Drugs OK?
Nitrrous?
Beauty and Smarts?
OMG.
This should read: "Deluded new age hippie narcissist wants to copulate with something with a vagina, bring your own drugs, you'll need them. "
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:17 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Hillary 2020 at August 18, 2017 10:17 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2017 10:17 PM (0mRoj)
Shibumi: No, that is not normal. Well - it's normal when there is a natural gas leak. Sleep well.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2017 10:17 PM (FwR7v)
Posted by: Locke Common at August 18, 2017 10:18 PM (I2kp0)
Posted by: Country Boe at August 18, 2017 10:18 PM (Bj0IJ)
Yeah that one is still ongoing. Could be awhile longer.
Posted by: CDR M at August 18, 2017 10:18 PM (9I51B)
Posted by: Dullford Shiply at August 18, 2017 10:18 PM (m9X4Y)
Earlier today I read the Navy's preliminary report on the Fitzgerald.
The ship's company of enlisted sailors shone throughout their ordeal whereas the senior leadership, seemingly, did not. Commander, XO and CMC all relieved yesterday.
Kudos to the Damage Control teams. It's indescribably terrifying to turn to in the dead of night and save your vessel when compartments are flooding in 90 seconds or less and mattresses, bedding and sailors are swirling about - and you have no idea why.
RIP to our lost shipmates.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2017 10:19 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:19 PM (/ZEVC)
But, that's not the transcript is it?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2017 10:19 PM (FwR7v)
-Posted by: teej at August 18, 2017 10:16 PM (2yO6m)
*HAH!*
I'm just a Head-Banger with no musical talent.
...and my Sampson-Hair has been cut for twenty years.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2017 10:20 PM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:20 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: FireHorse at August 18, 2017 10:20 PM (zkGZ8)
Was hoping that drawbridge link had video. Must have been frightening as hell.
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 10:20 PM (RfzVr)
--
I'm available. Can cook AND bake.
However, there seems to be a gas line emergency two doors away, so who knows what's going to happen in the next few hours?
/btw... have some distant German ancestors. Not Nazis, but well, German. So yeah, pretty sure I'm a Nazi. Who can cook!
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:20 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 10:21 PM (tcamx)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2017 10:21 PM (FwR7v)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2017 10:21 PM (HZkuJ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie
Explain in more detail, please.
Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 18, 2017 10:22 PM (P5esK)
A comparatively cheap and stealthy drone with long loiter intervals can drop a JDAM.
The A-10 needs to show up occasionally to deal with armor formations, to bolster friendly morale, and to scare the living shit out of anyone who isn't friendly. JDAMs are too quiet left of boom.
By the way, on the "armor formations" front, the Chinese are armoring up at an amazing rate, to include the PLA Marines.
But not to worry! Our much smaller forces will easily overwhelm the primitive Asian hordes with amazing Western technology! ("Western technology" sourced in large part from China itself, and full of backdoors exploits.)
Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2017 10:22 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: Dullford Shiply at August 18, 2017 10:23 PM (m9X4Y)
Posted by: Country Boy at August 18, 2017 10:23 PM (Bj0IJ)
Posted by: Hillary 2020 at August 18, 2017 10:17 PM (ILitO)
Fatbergs. What sloughs off of Michael Moore's splooshy abdomen as he continues to feed like the fucking disgusting wood tick he is.
Eh. Mixing metaphors. But my point stands.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 18, 2017 10:24 PM (v3I5m)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 10:25 PM (tcamx)
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 10:25 PM (UTedX)
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um, there is a preposition that is incorrect up there
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 10:26 PM (UTedX)
Posted by: Common Tater
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I note the comment that the berthing space was never secured, which makes me think otherwise, but then, I'm just an old ground-pounder, so uncertain.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:26 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:20 PM (aT+Bx)
Who knows her way around an oven!
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 18, 2017 10:26 PM (Tnhbr)
My favorite "Africa" cover goes in the other direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQax-v67uuw
Posted by: FireHorse at August 18, 2017 10:27 PM (zkGZ8)
Oh and, hi everyone.
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 18, 2017 10:28 PM (yTnCT)
Funny guy.
My hair is a lot shorter than it used to be too.
And for the record, I don't consider myself musically talanted either.
You know the old joke. What do you call a guy that hangs out with musicians?
A drummer.
The guys I play with on the other hand...
And guys that can put together and play arrangements like TOTO did, compared to me,,, off the planet.
Posted by: teej at August 18, 2017 10:29 PM (2yO6m)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2017 10:29 PM (HZkuJ)
-Posted by: teej at August 18, 2017 10:16 PM (2yO6m)
*HAH!*
I'm just a Head-Banger with no musical talent.
...and my Sampson-Hair has been cut for twenty years.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2017 10:20 PM (Ckg4U)
yeah, not really metal in my book, that was more of a metal core type sound. Basically one of the sub genres of metal that thinks because it uses metal amps its metal.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2017 10:29 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
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Is you is, or is you ain't my baby?
Posted by: Louis Jordan at August 18, 2017 10:29 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:30 PM (aT+Bx)
"taste". "taste"? You know what? I am SICK and tired of puking and dry heaving and feeling raging thirst just because I went on a bender!
I need a video on how to buttchug everclear. Or distilled Purelle.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 18, 2017 10:31 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Brunnhilde
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Is you is, or is you ain't my baby?
Posted by: Louis Jordan
****
Tom and Jerry cartoon used that song. One of the best cartoons.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:31 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 10:25 PM (tcamx)
Any war against the US has to be won early, because after 45 days you're dealing with a US that can transition to a full wartime economy, complete with mass mobilization. Either that, or you have to be able to endure for a long time.
A lot of China's buildup seems to be centered around the latter concept. Denying the US Navy the ability to strike at the Chinese mainland, as well as building entire cities that could be populated with workers at a moments notice (what, you thought that they were just bad real-estate investing?). It wouldn't surprise me if the Chinese military had plans to quickly cut new passes through the mountains and into Central Asia as well. Those supply lines would be hard to sever by US air power, especially if Pakistan, Iran, and Russia denied the US access to their airspace.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 18, 2017 10:31 PM (Tnhbr)
... and that's why I wanted to join the Marines.
**hic**
Posted by: Hillary Clinton, who will nnever be a Marine... or President! at August 18, 2017 10:31 PM (OURe4)
/if foreigners want something to happen enough, it will...
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:32 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 18, 2017 10:33 PM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August
Well, the real estate you referenced is simply bad real estate. No one is occupying the cities and they are slowly going becoming ruins.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 18, 2017 10:33 PM (0wem/)
However, there seems to be a gas line emergency two doors away, so who knows what's going to happen in the next few hours?
/btw... have some distant German ancestors. Not Nazis, but well, German. So yeah, pretty sure I'm a Nazi. Who can cook!
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:20 PM
Were you married before? Did your husband leave you a fortune? Answer the second question first. XD (Ah...the good Marxism. If only that was the only Marxism...)
Hope the gas line thing is nothing serious.
And everyone posting/lurking here is probably a Nazi as far as our enemies are concerned. XD
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:33 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 10:34 PM (UTedX)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:31 PM
I remember that one! A classic.
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:34 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:33 PM (q1+kD)
What if we just dress up like one when our girlfriend wants to be tied up?
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 18, 2017 10:34 PM (Tnhbr)
⅋
The top pic, the Deere-Driving Doggeh? Good one. Took me a couple beats to figure out what I was looking at!
Bluebird of Bitterness had a whole series of those kind of optickling allusions pix a few days ago.
(Too lazy to bit.ly. Remove space after .com/)
https://bluebirdofbitterness.com/ 2017/08/09/appearances-can-be-deceiving-6/
Posted by: mindful webworker - octipple collusions at August 18, 2017 10:35 PM (hGZJP)
It's time to jettison the press. We need a new, objective news organization instead of bolsheviks-with-bylines. Maybe electing them would be reasonable way to do it. Just thinking outloud. The current crop is too calcified and corrupted.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2017 10:35 PM (FwR7v)
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 10:34 PM
Sonny Landham?
Posted by: otho at August 18, 2017 10:35 PM (qGuLD)
http://tinyurl.com/yawewchq
Posted by: shibumi
Someone has posted this here before but the Tea Party was a polite warning to the Ruling Class. Trump is a stern one. Do they really want to see what comes next?
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 18, 2017 10:35 PM (pY+s4)
Berthing space 2 was secured in this manner but the collision opened a hole to the sea 13' by 17' into that compartment. There's no saving a space that compromised.
To me, it's a miracle that 27 sailors escaped that space via an open scuttle. It will never be known, but I choose to believe the 7 sailors that did not were already drowned.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2017 10:36 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2017 10:36 PM (+lVUW)
Sure you're available.
I'm sure you've known you've stayed one of my faves since my early days here.
Thankfully for you the good Lord gave you enough sense to know you're waaay out of my league.
Even if I wasn't so old.
Posted by: teej at August 18, 2017 10:37 PM (2yO6m)
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An NO ONE chortled at my killer pun at 51.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:37 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:31 PM
I remember that one! A classic.
Posted by: Erik the Redacted
****
Even tho they were before my time, I grew up on the re-runs.
Between those cartoons and 6-7 concussions, I have an excuse for how I am.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:38 PM (hVdx9)
I believe the 7 sailors that died also had racks close to the where the hull was ruptured.
Posted by: CDR M at August 18, 2017 10:38 PM (9I51B)
Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2017 10:38 PM (zEjuG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:39 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 10:39 PM (RfzVr)
http://tinyurl.com/yawewchq
Posted by: shibumi
well, I ain't gonna read it. It would be too depressing. But I'm curious. Let's say there are 6 R's who are "swing" voters. I'd guess that their states voted for them because they were the shit sandwich served up on the ticket, but they voted *intentionally* for Trump. So - are they going to throw their political careers into the trash bin for no good reason? Are they going to risk the citizens of their states bringing out the pitchforks, rope and tiki torches (not that I would approve of such things *gasp*)? It would be an incredibly stupid move, given that there are even less grounds for impeachment than there were for Clown Nose Blue Dress Jackoff.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2017 10:40 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2017 10:40 PM (FwR7v)
The seasoned old hand Fire Controlman Gary Rehm got to safety, and then deliberately went back belowdecks, despite the possibility he knew of his being trapped there and drowning, to try to get more of his younger shipmates out. He died alongside several of them.
Greater love hath no man.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2017 10:40 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 18, 2017 10:34 PM
Heh. If you were dressed as a female SS officer, maybe?
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:41 PM (q1+kD)
the second question first. XD (Ah...the good Marxism. If only that
was the only Marxism...)
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You know, if I was smarter when I was younger, I would have a very different life now.
A fortune? No. See above statement re: "smarter."
RE: gas, after about 45 minutes, the biggest truck and the excavator are still here, the others are gone. Two guys working between the houses, and seem to have a waist deep hole dug between the driveway and the basement window of the closest house. Still no gas smell. So explosion is probably not imminent.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:41 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: torquewrench
I got to experience an A-10 being assigned to my unit (2nd Bde/82nd) during the Gulf War. I have a buddy who is a lifer and now a CSM, been deployed I think 6 times, who in all that theater time, has never had one assigned to him. Because nobody knows how to use them anymore, apparently. They've always been a weird hybrid ground/air thing that the Air Force isn't really interested in, because it's not sexy what with their F-35/F-22 gagillion-dollar sezzy superjets that nobody in their right mind would let loiter over a hot zone within the elevation that would allow the pilot to put eyes on the battlefield and make tactical decisions. Those are strike aircraft when used the way the normal Air Force uses them, not Close Air Support.
Nothing beats the A-10 for CAS, and yes you are right, that's some serious fucking ground troop morale improvement having one on station. I LITERALLY FELT IT MOVE IN MY PANTS, that's how awesome the A-10 is.
Posted by: Oedipus at August 18, 2017 10:41 PM (CXLVd)
It is the Senate that then would vote whether to convict.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 18, 2017 10:42 PM (FwR7v)
Posted by: Tentotwo at August 18, 2017 10:42 PM (yhf6w)
Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2017 10:42 PM (zEjuG)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2017 10:43 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: FireHorse at August 18, 2017 10:43 PM (zkGZ8)
-Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:37 PM (/ZEVC)
*chortles*
Welcome to the Party, pal!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2017 10:43 PM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 18, 2017 10:43 PM (+lVUW)
so we are now going to call it the Bannon Treatment?
so in the future, the first one to call the other a racist first wins?
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 10:43 PM (UTedX)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898626719053041664
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898626796773675008
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898626881867530240
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898626988067487744
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898627086696558592
Posted by: kbdabear at August 18, 2017 10:44 PM (3i2nH)
Heh. If you were dressed as a female SS officer, maybe?
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:41 PM (q1+kD)
Don't you dare judge me.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 18, 2017 10:44 PM (Tnhbr)
Between those cartoons and 6-7 concussions, I have an excuse for how I am.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:38 PM
Same here, minus the concussions. (I think.) Those older cartoons were always better than anything current, at least to me.
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:44 PM (q1+kD)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898627171459018752
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898627257559916544
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898627365676302336
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898627454515806208
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/898627580412084225
Posted by: kbdabear at August 18, 2017 10:45 PM (3i2nH)
I have most of my great grandparents coming from Germany around 1860s or so ... but many claim their lineage is from colonial America.
I figure most, for every two ancestors of colonial era, they surely have 126 that are from Europe or parts unknown. It is simple math ... go back to 1750 and how many generations is that? If it is twelve (they had kids young) ... then that means 4096 great* grandparents? We all have that one or two that were colonial blood, and many that were ... ? something other.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2017 10:46 PM (7Ep0P)
Posted by: Insomniac
Yes. That was usually followed by drinking beer till I resolved the boredom. Or passed out.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 18, 2017 10:46 PM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 18, 2017 10:46 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Insomniac
Which leads you to here.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 18, 2017 10:46 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Mad at August 18, 2017 10:46 PM (7zpra)
Posted by: IC at August 18, 2017 10:47 PM (gcme+)
well, I ain't gonna read it
--
Basically, the article is wish casting, and kind of skirts around the fact that the house has to start the process; the senate completes it.
Interesting thing is that ONE Senator was named: John McCain.
Also... it would seem that a majority of people think that "Mueller" has all the info he needs to hang Trump. I'm guessing for "treason."
RE: the senators who would vote against Trump... I'm pretty sure they will have jobs as lobbyists provided by their liberal friends in the corporate world if they do so. So really, they do NOT care about their careers at this point.
So the mechanics of the article are incorrect, however I have no doubt the Deep State has control over a number of Senators.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:48 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: F.N.G. at August 18, 2017 10:48 PM (kiSdp)
The rule is, "Ladies first."
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 18, 2017 10:48 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: cfo mom
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Yeah, I've never developed an ear for cacophony. I'm a throwback to the dark days of harmony, melody, articulated lyrics... stuff like that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:48 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 18, 2017 10:49 PM (1KdEL)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 18, 2017 10:49 PM (AxFdW)
http://tinyurl.com/yawewchq
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:30 PM (aT+Bx)
Those Brit reporters seem to be about as informed about how our system works as .... the typical US journalist.
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 10:49 PM (RfzVr)
A fortune? No. See above statement re: "smarter."
RE: gas, after about 45 minutes, the biggest truck and the excavator are still here, the others are gone. Two guys working between the houses, and seem to have a waist deep hole dug between the driveway and the basement window of the closest house. Still no gas smell. So explosion is probably not imminent.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:41 PM
No explosions is a good thing in this case, I'd say. XD
Yeah, "youth is wasted on the young" rings more and more true every day... But nothing to stop you from applying that knowledge going forward!
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:49 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: Mark1971
GOP keeps fucking up like they are now, enough people just might sit out to let the Donks "unexpectedly" re-take.
Because, Stupid Party.
Of course, Dondi and all the other Lying Fucks (R) will start talking all super " 'Murca Furst!!! We Super-totally meanz it!!! " in about...6 months.
Posted by: Oedipus at August 18, 2017 10:49 PM (CXLVd)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 18, 2017 10:50 PM (AxFdW)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2017 10:43 PM
Actually, yes. It really sucks... Sorry you're going through that...
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:51 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:51 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: Johnny at August 18, 2017 10:51 PM (7T51K)
It's the best opportunity you have to kill the Bishop of Aquila.
Posted by: RKae at August 18, 2017 10:51 PM (z0lPv)
126 that are from Europe or parts unknown. It is simple math ... go
back to 1750 and how many generations is that? If it is twelve (they had
kids young) ... then that means 4096 great* grandparents? We all have
that one or two that were colonial blood, and many that were ... ?
something other.
---
From now on, I'm going to tell people that I've had my DNA tested and that I have ancestors from Papua New Guinea that were more than likely cannibals.
That means that I might have a part of everyone's DNA inside of me.
So because of that, I'm technically almost every minority.
/yes, I have made ALL of this up.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:52 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 10:52 PM (UTedX)
Posted by: Insomniac
Which leads you to here.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 18, 2017 10:46 PM (0wem/)
Heh.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2017 10:52 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Insomniac
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Have your arms suddenly become too short to reach your crotch?
Posted by: RKae at August 18, 2017 10:52 PM (z0lPv)
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: Johnny at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (7T51K)
so that nation of immigrants is horse sh8t
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (UTedX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
#127
hey!
Posted by: original jake
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Hope you boys are doing alright.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (1KdEL)
unit (2nd Bde/82nd) during the Gulf War. I have a buddy who is a lifer
and now a CSM, been deployed I think 6 times, who in all that theater
time, has never had one assigned to him. Because nobody knows how to
use them anymore, apparently. They've always been a weird hybrid
ground/air thing that the Air Force isn't really interested in, because
it's not sexy what with their F-35/F-22 gagillion-dollar sezzy superjets
that nobody in their right mind would let loiter over a hot zone within
the elevation that would allow the pilot to put eyes on the battlefield
and make tactical decisions. Those are strike aircraft when used the
way the normal Air Force uses them, not Close Air Support.
Nothing beats the A-10 for CAS, and yes you are right, that's some
serious fucking ground troop morale improvement having one on station. I
LITERALLY FELT IT MOVE IN MY PANTS, that's how awesome the A-10 is.
Posted by: Oedipus at August 18, 2017 10:41 PM (CXLVd)
I am not sure about nobody knowing how to use them, they were in Iraq when I was there in 2005-6, and again in Afghanistan in 2011-12. Somebody knew how to call air. Of course, I am a Marine and I am partial to Marine aviators who are the absolute masters of CAS. F-18 pilots will damn near stir up dust to drop munitions on target, on time for the ground forces.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (DxWUs)
GOP keeps fucking up like they are now, enough people just might sit out to let the Donks "unexpectedly" re-take.
Because, Stupid Party.
Of course, Dondi and all the other Lying Fucks (R) will start
talking all super " 'Murca Furst!!! We Super-totally meanz it!!! " in
about...6 months.
--
Better plan?
Primary the f*ck out of them and replace them with non-politicians.
/someone like, oh, I don't know, Kid Rock
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: teej at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (2yO6m)
Posted by: Mad at August 18, 2017 10:46 PM (7zpra)
I can sympathize. It is scary sending them out on their own. How far from home?
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (RfzVr)
What's with the ID anyway? It's a public report. Why does anyone care who reads it?
Posted by: Dullford Shiply at August 18, 2017 10:54 PM (m9X4Y)
Posted by: RKae
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And to escape being burned at the stake.
Posted by: A Connecticut Yankee at August 18, 2017 10:54 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Sold the house, downsized, kids in school spending my money as fast as they can. Otherwise, all's well.
You?
Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 18, 2017 10:55 PM (1KdEL)
For those of us from Jesuslandia, there may be some duplication in that number.
We make fun of Arkansas, but imagine the trees of the royal families...
Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2017 10:55 PM (OBJWS)
===
you move in state or outta state?
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 10:55 PM (UTedX)
--
First world problem
Of course, humans can adapt to nearly anything.
Posted by: Dullford Shiply at August 18, 2017 10:56 PM (m9X4Y)
Posted by: A Connecticut Yankee
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"Walla Walla Washington!"
Fun trivia: My wife's grandpappy is int hat movie! He's one of the minstrels at the feast.
Posted by: RKae at August 18, 2017 10:56 PM (z0lPv)
In order to fly into Denver for Nan Desu Kan just so I can get Sumi's autograph would cost $600 round trip to include parking fee. Fee to get into con, possible taxi ride, plus food, and not sure if NDK charges for autographs...
I need to win the Powerball.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2017 10:56 PM (HZkuJ)
Posted by: Mad at August 18, 2017 10:46 PM
Good luck to her! And good luck to you as well, having to deal with it!
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:57 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 18, 2017 10:57 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 18, 2017 10:57 PM (Nk0mq)
Posted by: original jake
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Just a few miles down the road. Tired house was worth the price of the pricey land, and now was a good time to unload it, so we did.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 18, 2017 10:57 PM (1KdEL)
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 10:51 PM (q1+kD)
Thanks.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2017 10:57 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2017 10:57 PM (HZkuJ)
I saw somewhere that 60+% of americans can trace ancestors back to colonists
--
I know I can't.
And I can't do anything on Ancestry.com because... eastern europe/ 2 world wars, all records lost. My uncle had to trace his roots when he was in law school in the 50's. Got nowhere.
However, that will not stop me from making things up.
But I will not do the DNA thing.
/we all know that's just to get your DNA voluntarily, which they'll use for God Only Knows, and then, when they're done with it, they'll tell your health insurance provider that you have genetic markers for something fatal and expensive and your insurance will go up 5,000% a year. As opposed to the 200% a year increase we have now.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:58 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2017 10:58 PM (rmVvL)
You?
Posted by: Tobacco Road
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All of a piece. Nothing's fallen off yet...not sure I would notice. Just busy fending off the local Prog-hipsters keeps me busy, well, that and trying to stay ahead of the grass and weeds in the yard.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 10:59 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: Baltimorons at August 18, 2017 11:00 PM (cJDvr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
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I tell people I sold my yard, and the house came with it. They are knocking them down in my old neighborhood and putting up McMansions. So glad to be out of there.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 18, 2017 11:01 PM (1KdEL)
Tammy linked to something today about the NFL having .... wait for it .... a gay pride month! Or something.
Combine that with national anthem protests. Any marginal fands of a deplorable nature, I'd guess, are becoming former fans.
Very odd strategic marketing approach.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 18, 2017 11:01 PM (QDnY+)
They will have to use dynamite to get me out.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 11:01 PM (/ZEVC)
hey TR
went through a Scotch, Bourbon, Irish phase
have a nice starter set of a dozen bottles or so
decided I didn't like it in summer, switched to rum
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 11:02 PM (UTedX)
Wile E. Coyote is my cartoon avatar.
I just *know* those ACME rocket roller skates will do the trick!
Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2017 11:02 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: steevy
Good. Let them double down on SJW anti-Americanism. I want them to be upfront about there hatred towards vast swathes of America. As the ratings continue to slip and and stadiums are not as full as the used to be, maybe they'll get the message that they are an expendable product. I know, probably not.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 18, 2017 11:03 PM (pY+s4)
I may catch a game or two, but I plan on doing other things. Can't even listen to sports radio during the commute anymore. It's all political BS now.
Posted by: CDR M at August 18, 2017 11:03 PM (9I51B)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2017 11:03 PM (HZkuJ)
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 11:04 PM (UTedX)
Primary the f*ck out of them and replace them with non-politicians.
/someone like, oh, I don't know, Kid Rock
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 10:53 PM (aT+Bx)
Got his Kid Rock for Senate sticker on my F-150 tailgate. I am counting on him running.
Posted by: F.N.G. at August 18, 2017 11:05 PM (kiSdp)
Uh-oh.
I feel an I can't stop my leg thing coming on
The school bell rang, I was out of there
Church choir sang but I didn't care
Who wants salvation from sin
I wondered at seventeen
Burned my bridges and I burned my tires
Between those ditches gasoline on fire
Bottle of anger and scotch
Dimestore Hemingway
I thought I looked tough for the girls
But they laughed at me any way
Till I got my hands on an old Telecaster
One night stands half high or half plastered
Paved the road with guilt,, the damage done
I was proof incarnate
Youth gets wasted on the young
And since I've got cymbals to shine tomorrow and a three hour show to do with the guy who wrote those lines...
Love each other fellow babies
Posted by: teej at August 18, 2017 11:06 PM (2yO6m)
went through a Scotch, Bourbon, Irish phase
have a nice starter set of a dozen bottles or so
decided I didn't like it in summer, switched to rum
Posted by: original jake
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In the spirit of the budget minded volume drinker, my strategy through the last recession and two general elections was to become a conno-sewer of bottom shelf libations.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 18, 2017 11:06 PM (1KdEL)
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Even if Mueller has a copy of a signed contract of Trump offering his soul to Putin for...um...Seth Rich to hack the DNC?...Russia isn't an American enemy.
Now Iran? Which Obama gave billions to? Enemy - they've murdered Americans.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2017 11:06 PM (aZq03)
me thinks Trump is just the beginning, if they can throttle Trump back this time we'll have Ted Nugent in the WH
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 11:06 PM (UTedX)
The hometown fans of the Iggles once drove Santa Claus off the gridiron by bombarding him with thrown D-cell batteries.
I'm thinking this fine sports tradition needs to come back, but for players and coaches across the entire league. Also, for owners. And Roger Goodell. And the ESPN crew.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2017 11:06 PM (ujwCG)
Local news, just now: Warning, looking directly at the Sun *will* cause permanent eye damage. Don't do it.
Idiots. Blithering idiots everywhere.
No, go out and look directly at the Sun. It will build up Vitamin D in your cornea, and stop prostate cancer. Trust Uncle Publius, kids.
Uncle Publius is gonna get his big old 500A Westinghouse shipyard welder (~15HP 3-phase motor turning a DC generator) and strike up a big old arc with the biggest stick rods he's got. Look directly at the arc, kids, as long as you can. It's good for you.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 18, 2017 11:07 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Tentotwo at August 18, 2017 11:07 PM (yhf6w)
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 11:04 PM (UTedX)
10 players sat for Seattle and only 7 for the Vikings?
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 18, 2017 11:07 PM (LuKE7)
Wait 'til it starts happening to the colleges. Lack of football patronage and wealthy boosters changes everything.
Want to sit out the anthem? Sure, why not? It's not like you have a game to play.
Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2017 11:07 PM (kuiuS)
And as the players become more and more thugs...and the owners more and more carbon copy SJWs assholes...what is the point?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2017 11:08 PM (aZq03)
Suggest to the Soviet Justice Wankers that the special glasses are an Alt-Right conspiracy.
One way to take care of would-be anarchists. And be very Darwinian which they would approve of, if they could see the evidence.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2017 11:09 PM (HZkuJ)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 18, 2017 11:06 PM (1KdEL)
mrs jake wants the house paid off next summer, so I is on a budget, a very cheap booze budget at that
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 11:10 PM (UTedX)
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 11:04 PM (UTedX)
Been a Vikings fan for most of my life. But I don't know why, other than the cool helmets with the horns. I grew up in Wyoming, and was blessed with the gift of choosing my team.
That said, I only sort-of kept up last season.
So far, I am even less interested heading into this season. Frees me up to do productive stuff, like working on a metal cover of "Manic Monday."
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 18, 2017 11:10 PM (v3I5m)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2017 10:43 PM (0mRoj)
Bored? Nope.
Too lazy to resolve my laziness? Yes
But I changed that today, 8.18.2017.
I give myself the goal date of 8.18.2018 to rectify thy laziness.
All the things I've been lazy about will be changing in the next 365 days. No more procrastination and excuses. It's gonna mean work, but tough shit. Tomorrow's phrase shall be: Suck it up Buttercup.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 18, 2017 11:11 PM (aENAX)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2017 11:11 PM (rmVvL)
Posted by: Tobacco Road
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Not bottom-shelf, but I'm perfectly content with J&B Rare and Rebel Yell.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 11:11 PM (/ZEVC)
Kansas. Could seriously consider moving to this town. I never heard any
political discussions or saw a single coexist bumper sticker. They
voted 75/25 for Trump.
The population demographics are such that
it is *highly* unlikely they could muster a BLM or LaRaza mob. Or
antifa since the demographics skew a bit older and of the younger folks,
I never saw one hipster-douchebag-beta male or any
tatted-up-purple-haired feminists, but I did see a lot of workboots.
If
the barbarians want to invade this town, well they will have a long way
to travel on one of only two main roads and I suspect the Welcome Wagon
would be out in force at the city limits. These folks would in no way
put up with anyone wrecking their home.
My kinda place.
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 11:11 PM (RfzVr)
Was Trump The Enemy The Left Needed to Ignite Their Psychotic Base?
Do you wan to guess the answer?
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 11:11 PM (aT+Bx)
Retired cops.
A career of a writing style which is still not far removed from Joe Friday's "Just the facts, ma'am", coupled with the wry n' dry sense of humor that career cops are known for.
The public would be far better served by any 10,000 retired cops serving in the Reporter-age field, than even I might imagine.
Shall we give it a try, somewhere? Small to mid town market. TV, papers, radio.
What say ye, Horde?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2017 11:11 PM (MGCfm)
I shudder to think of the promotional prizes for the first 10,000 at each game...
Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2017 11:12 PM (zEjuG)
Posted by: The Ad Council at August 18, 2017 11:12 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: original jake
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Only way I could pay mine off...
was to sell it, LOL. But I've got a back up plan.
Hope all the formerly little Jakes are doing well.
You boys (and girls) take care. Gonna go load a few mags for the range tomorrow.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 18, 2017 11:12 PM (1KdEL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 11:13 PM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: Mr Tornado at August 18, 2017 11:13 PM (UTedX)
Posted by: colfax mingo at August 18, 2017 11:13 PM (gkURX)
Hell, we just don't have enough months for all this crap.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2017 11:13 PM (aZq03)
Too lazy to resolve my laziness? Yes
But I changed that today, 8.18.2017.
I give myself the goal date of 8.18.2018 to rectify thy laziness.
All the things I've been lazy about will be changing in the next 365 days. No more procrastination and excuses. It's gonna mean work, but tough shit. Tomorrow's phrase shall be: Suck it up Buttercup.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 18, 2017 11:11 PM
Good luck! It's tough and lots of work, but definitely possible!
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 11:13 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2017 11:14 PM (HZkuJ)
I was too being born in South Dakota. Haven't watched football though in two years and don't plan to start back up.
I don't even know who the Texans QB is. I guess at least I should know that if it comes up in a conversation.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 18, 2017 11:14 PM (LuKE7)
he drinks Canadian Mist
how is George Dickle?
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 11:15 PM (UTedX)
Posted by: The Ad Council
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BUT, in 110% of the path of totality, there will be people who have consumed carrots. Science.
Posted by: Knell Grassy Tyson at August 18, 2017 11:15 PM (/ZEVC)
A normally 2 hour door to door drive took almost 4 hours.
Posted by: GOULD at August 18, 2017 11:15 PM (lCt1V)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 18, 2017 11:15 PM (Ckg4U)
And Uncle Publius has some further advice for the young ladies. Because of a strange gravitational effect, due to peak tidal forces during the totality and near totality phases of the event, breast problems can develop if they are confined during said event.
They must be uncovered to avoid damage.
However, coronal light can cause a rash. A preventive measure is to cover them with a a type of protein, which coincidentally is found in male semen in sufficient quantities for proper protection.
So, I'll be more than glad to help out with that.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 18, 2017 11:15 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 11:16 PM (UTedX)
***
Well, he is the first Republican president since Reagan to actually fight the left.
I kind of get why the left is made. If the Washington Generals got a new star player that actually played to win I'm sure as one of the Globetrotters I'd be mad too...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2017 11:16 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: steevy at August 18, 2017 11:16 PM (rmVvL)
Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2017 11:12 PM (zEjuG)
You owe me a keyboard.
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 11:16 PM (RfzVr)
Rebel Yell FTW. It's usually the only thing left on the bartop after the "wretched hive of scum and villainy" which I call my circle of friends drop by.
What is *this*? I can't drink it. It has a plastic screw cap! Yuck!
I need to switch out the Lagavulin and the Rebel Yell.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2017 11:16 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf
My experience is admittedly limited to one engagement, so I'm glad to know that they're still being used (hopefully well). But every friggin year, we get to hear how "The A-10 is on the chopping block!!!!", and it makes me furious. I think those F-18 Marine Aviators have more of an affinity for the Marines on the ground than the Air Force-Army dynamic/disconnect that I got to experience.
When I was looking at becoming a TACP, the running joke was "The Army doesn't want them, and the Air Force doesn't know what to do with them!", and I always got the feeling that the same mentality that applied to the TACPs extended to the aircraft they worked best with.
My aforementioned buddy, who was at that time now up into the Brigade level of things, mentioned their TACPs were assigned at the Bde level...and I was like "??? WTF are TACPs going to be doing at the Brigade HQ level...those boys need to be down at the Company or Platoon level!"
CAS and their controller embeds don't seem to be a well-integrated function in the Army/AF dynamic, sounds like maybe they are in the Marines.
Posted by: Oedipus at August 18, 2017 11:17 PM (CXLVd)
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 11:11 PM
Very nice. Sounds like a good place to live.
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 11:17 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: Mr Tornado at August 18, 2017 11:13 PM (UTedX)
No sh!t. I was fairly concerned. Signs telling you where the tornado shelters are made me nervous. I don't think I would buy a home there that didn't have a basement or cellar.
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 11:19 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Oedipus at August 18, 2017 11:17 PM (CXLVd)
The TACP was at the brigade level because there weren't enough to push down to every battalion, so they'd get assigned by BDE during the mission planning process.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 18, 2017 11:21 PM (Tnhbr)
***
Well, he is the first Republican president since Reagan to actually fight the left.
I kind of get why the left is made. If the Washington Generals got a new star player that actually played to win I'm sure as one of the Globetrotters I'd be mad too...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 18, 2017 11:16 PM
And it remains to be seen if igniting their base runs off a large portion of their former voters. If only they had an opposition party to run toward...
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 11:21 PM (q1+kD)
NFL does gay pride month and I will even be done with my beloved Broncos
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 18, 2017 11:21 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at August 18, 2017 11:22 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 11:23 PM (tcamx)
Trannies are the big thing this year. Maybe for the playoffs.
Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2017 11:23 PM (pszv/)
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It's a good idea, but wouldn't work in reality.
You see... it's not news any more.
It's "infotainment."
Truth isn't important; you have to tell a story that's entertaining. And emotional. Something that "resonates."
Joe Friday is not going to stick a microphone in front of a woman who has just seen her child murdered. But that sort of thing drives ratings, and ratings pay the bills.
That all being said, I'd much rather have Joe Friday write and read the news as opposed to the Iranian Muslim on our local station. Or the half black half something else woman.
But what do I know? I'm a Nazi.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 11:23 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 11:25 PM (RfzVr)
I've been recommending either a splash or two ice cubes with whiskey for 20 years.
Now the science is settled!
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at August 18, 2017 11:25 PM (nNKHW)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile
That makes sense, but might be a newer thing?
Back when I was in, we had an ALO and TACPs at the Battalion-level.
Posted by: Oedipus at August 18, 2017 11:26 PM (CXLVd)
Posted by: t-bird at August 18, 2017 11:26 PM (pszv/)
So do you really need special glasses for the eclipse? We will be at 92%
here. Why is it any different than looking at the sun with your
sunglasses on?
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Yes, you MUST have glasses or else BLIND. Why is this different? IDK.
Also, other random conspiracy site said that making people watch the eclipse is to give more power to some sort of demonic/satanic/other ritual that began with Charlottesville riots. So for the safety of our nation, we should NOT participate at all.
/yes, I do visit offbeat websites, thank you for noticing my unique interests!
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 11:26 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2017 11:26 PM (JO9+V)
But what do I know? I'm a Nazi.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2017 11:23 PM (aT+Bx)
So, if Shibumi is kinky, does her guy tie her up in Nazis?
Is her safe word "Is it safe?"
/snrk!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2017 11:27 PM (MGCfm)
I'd love to clap Roger Goodhell in irons and toss his idiot ass overboard.
Maybe we can get some lovely 'Ette to accuse him of abuse, even though there's no evidence, actually, even though there might be texts of her saying she's just doing this to ruin his career, and he'll have to fire or st least suspend himself, right? For the honor of The League and all.
**clap, clap, clapping away**
Posted by: Jason Garrett, idiot ginger clapping seal HC of the Cowboys at August 18, 2017 11:27 PM (OURe4)
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 11:25 PM
Ha! Like both 'The Longest Yard' movies!
Posted by: Erik the Redacted, Deplorable Barbarian at August 18, 2017 11:27 PM (q1+kD)
got to experience."
The USMC randomly pick from the ranks of their own aviators new candidates to rotate through forward air controller school. The only service which does so.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2017 11:28 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 18, 2017 11:28 PM (Nk0mq)
Posted by: original jake at August 18, 2017 11:28 PM (UTedX)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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...for two minutes.
Posted by: Knell Grassy Tyson at August 18, 2017 11:29 PM (pIW4p)
And I think we have a new Heroine of the Blog in Heavy Metal Hannah. She' cute and I'd hit like a screen door in a hurricane 'cept my truck is older than she is.
Not quite sure about that little chrome booger on her nose, tho'. Somebody should maybe tell her about it, as a friend.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2017 11:29 PM (bIwZ6)
Posted by: cfo mom at August 18, 2017 11:25 PM (RfzVr)
Guess which one of these cheerleaders is a man!
--Old timey Howard Stern from like 1999 or something...
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 18, 2017 11:30 PM (v3I5m)
Posted by: The Ad Council at August 18, 2017 11:12 PM (Tyii7)<<<
So, no chili?
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 18, 2017 11:30 PM (OURe4)
http://www.usssanfrancisco.org/Dixon,%20Horace%20A..htm
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 18, 2017 10:13 PM (hVdx9)
A nice connection to have in one's family, sir.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2017 11:30 PM (2le8w)
If you want to live in the past...
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 18, 2017 11:30 PM (lIZQs)
**clap, clap, clapping away**
Posted by: Jason Garrett, idiot ginger clapping seal HC of the Cowboys
Eh, he is married to Jane Skinner. And I'll admit to having her image in mind during a jerk session or two.
Posted by: Oedipus at August 18, 2017 11:30 PM (CXLVd)
Posted by: Bosox Fan at August 18, 2017 11:32 PM (cJDvr)
Posted by: Dullford Shiply at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (m9X4Y)
I'm melting! I'm melting....aaargh!
Posted by: Lena Dunham at August 18, 2017 11:32 PM (2le8w)
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The sun's not as bright, so your pupils open up wide and take in all the blinding radiation that... curves around the moon, or something like that.
Now that you mention it, I don't get it either.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 18, 2017 11:32 PM (10LGw)
Posted by: The Ad Council
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One out of four children will be hungry while they watch the eclipse.
Posted by: Kneel Grassy Tyson at August 18, 2017 11:33 PM (pIW4p)
They're just afraid of blithering idiots staring at the sun, unprotected for a prolonged period.
The UV light will burn you cornea and other stuff. There's a name for this condition. It can occur with snow reflecting a lot up into your eyes. The UV doesn't penetrate and get inside your eyeball. However, infrared will and that will damage your retina. Intense visible light can do it as well.
IIRC most glass and plastic will block a good bit of the short wavelength UV, but this varies. It will let the UV-A through, though, and that, while not as damaging as the shorter ones, can still cause damage if it's high enough intensity.
Welding hoods usually have lens that completely block the UV and IR.
Arc flashes, even through the clear plastic covers, such as on one of my mine with a flip cover are not as bad because it kills the UV and IR.
Anyway, all this is because they're worried about idiots looking at the Sun for prolonged periods with no protection.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 18, 2017 11:33 PM (8O3HH)
Wild vomiteers.
It stimulates the imagination. I'm in the basement of Bones Gate (frat at the college I went to), and it's 1973.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 18, 2017 11:33 PM (Id9+8)
*looks left*
*looks right*
Victorian Railroad Hobo
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 18, 2017 11:33 PM (rnAwa)
Posted by: Mad at August 18, 2017 10:46 PM (7zpra)
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Oof.
I remember that --- the first kid, that is.
I kept a brave face. I smiled.
Until she was out of sight.
Then I cried and cried.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2017 11:33 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (tcamx)
Come to Alberta. We have many Ukrainians who have been known to make a perogy or two.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2017 11:33 PM (2le8w)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2017 11:33 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: This song is about me at August 18, 2017 11:34 PM (FAO5C)
http://tinyurl.com/yagozb6q
Posted by: geoffb5 at August 18, 2017 11:35 PM (zOpu5)
Now that you mention it, I don't get it either.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 18, 2017 11:32 PM (10LGw)
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The theory is that the rays s bending around the moon intensify them while, yes, since it is dark, your pupils are much less dilated.
Posted by: GOULD at August 18, 2017 11:35 PM (lCt1V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
Mmmm, Michelle Pfeiffer....damn, she was smokin' hot!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 18, 2017 11:35 PM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2017 11:36 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 18, 2017 11:36 PM (lIZQs)
Posted by: every Moron's mother at August 18, 2017 11:38 PM (OURe4)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille
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I recall my mother holding me and giving me a kiss when I was leaving for school. Odd, isn't it? Just one moment, a couple of seconds, decades ago, but still clearly recalled.
Posted by: Kneel Grassy Tyson at August 18, 2017 11:38 PM (pIW4p)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 18, 2017 11:38 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 11:39 PM (pIW4p)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 18, 2017 11:33 PM (JO9+V)
Pointless unless you fry them too.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2017 11:39 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at August 18, 2017 11:39 PM (FAO5C)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 18, 2017 10:28 PM (yTnCT)
Daughter and I got to see them in concert with PostModern Jukebox last week - boy, was that a GREAT time!
It sounds like they may team up again next year - it was basically two fantastic acts for the price of one. If they come back through here, I'm bringing hubs and our other daughter - I really think they would enjoy themselves.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 18, 2017 11:39 PM (wALSI)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow
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Wait...is that some kind of dog?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 11:39 PM (pIW4p)
==
And it's crucial to *align your penis* with the path of the totality.
Posted by: Sexy Craigslist Guy at August 18, 2017 11:40 PM (10LGw)
Posted by: Kneel Grassy Tyson at August 18, 2017 11:38 PM (pIW4p)
Sounds nice.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2017 11:40 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: torquewrench at August 18, 2017 11:40 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: F.N.G. at August 18, 2017 10:48 PM (kiSdp)
I forgot...... are you still around South Rockwood? I'm there now.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 18, 2017 11:42 PM (Bj0IJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 11:42 PM (pIW4p)
http://tinyurl.com/yblscxx7
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 18, 2017 11:44 PM (lIZQs)
The Dickel 12 (tan label) is quite drinkable. It can be had for about $30 for a handle.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at August 18, 2017 11:44 PM (nNKHW)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 18, 2017 11:44 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 18, 2017 11:45 PM (Nk0mq)
According to the chart, Morons are the highest-functioning.
2 wit:
Imbeciles - Those with IQs between 26 and 50 (unable to progress past a mental age of approximately six)
Morons - Those with IQs between 51 and 70 (adequate learning skills to complete menial tasks and to communicate)
And fap without instructions.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2017 11:45 PM (bIwZ6)
254 How else can a Texan get a good pierogi?
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (tcamx)
Come to Alberta. We have many Ukrainians who have been known to make a perogy or two.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Well , Alberta IS NorthTexas.
Posted by: Tejas goes from Mejico to anyplace we want! at August 18, 2017 11:45 PM (cJDvr)
Piergoi is polish/Ukrainian ravioli. With potato cheese or mushroom filling
Posted by: westminsterdogshow
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Ah. Whew.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 11:45 PM (pIW4p)
Posted by: naked Lena Dunham at August 18, 2017 11:45 PM (OURe4)
Posted by: Captain Jack Sparrow at August 18, 2017 11:47 PM (JO9+V)
Idiots - those with IQs between 0 and 25 (poor motor skills, extremely limited communication, and little response to stimulus)
Alcohol may have been involved.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2017 11:47 PM (bIwZ6)
Now get off my lawn.
Posted by: JTB at August 18, 2017 11:47 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 18, 2017 10:14 PM (tcamx)
http://mypierogilady.com
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 18, 2017 11:48 PM (lIZQs)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 18, 2017 11:45 PM (Nk0mq)
Yes. Also Olivia Newton-John. I pray she beats the persistent cancer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 18, 2017 11:48 PM (v3I5m)
Posted by: Downcast at August 18, 2017 11:48 PM (0m0zi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 18, 2017 11:45 PM (Nk0mq)<<<
Last thing I saw her in was that Dark Shadows movie. Thankfully, she apparently never chose to fuck herself up will all kinds of horrid plastic surgery. She still looked good.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 18, 2017 11:48 PM (OURe4)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 18, 2017 11:49 PM (IcT7t)
Cretins? Dimwits? Dullards? Nitwits? Maxine Waters?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 18, 2017 11:49 PM (pIW4p)
http://tinyurl.com/y7gcdhc2
Posted by: geoffb5 at August 18, 2017 11:50 PM (zOpu5)
I tried that once. Didn't go well.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 18, 2017 11:49 PM (IcT7t)<<<
We know. Yeesh.
Posted by: the ghosts that watch you fap at August 18, 2017 11:50 PM (OURe4)
Posted by: the ghosts that watch you fap
I don't mind you guys watching. But, please, stop the heckling.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 18, 2017 11:51 PM (IcT7t)
I need to win the Powerball.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2017 10:56 PM (HZkuJ)
So come to the GNAMM instead. I guarantee you can have my autograph for free.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2017 11:52 PM (2le8w)
Descending Order FTW!
She should be thankful respiration is an autonomous function. Very. Thankful.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2017 11:52 PM (bIwZ6)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 18, 2017 11:54 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow
Gnocci is Italian pierogi.
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 18, 2017 11:55 PM (lIZQs)
I recall my mother holding me and giving me a kiss when I was leaving for school. Odd, isn't it? Just one moment, a couple of seconds, decades ago, but still clearly recalled.
Posted by: Kneel Grassy Tyson at August 18, 2017 11:38 PM (pIW4p)
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But yes, it's odd, the "little" things we remember.
Maybe they aren't so little.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2017 11:56 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 18, 2017 11:57 PM (pY+s4)
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Hopkinsville, KY is expecting 100,000 visitors to a town of 30,000.
That sounds more like a college football game than a disaster movie. But we're still bringing plenty of eclipse glasses to barter, in case things go bad.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 18, 2017 11:57 PM (10LGw)
I remember "First Fap" as a kid. It was funny, didn't know any instructions at all. I thought, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. With my dick.
It's still going strong.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 18, 2017 11:58 PM (8O3HH)
towns out of gas as Portland tries to relocate for the eclipse. Sound
like the Grapes of Wrath.
Posted by: Downcas"
I'm looking forward a couple days without traffic jams as half of Atlanta is heading to north Georgia this weekend. Should be wonderful, around here anyway.
Posted by: Ripley at August 18, 2017 11:59 PM (NbRJx)
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at August 19, 2017 12:00 AM (c8EhQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 19, 2017 12:00 AM (pY+s4)
Gone to the path of totality. If you hurry, you might catch 'em.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 12:02 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 18, 2017 11:55 PM (lIZQs)<<<
Gnocci aren't really filled like pierogi or ravioli. Usually just a lump of dough or potato.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:02 AM (OURe4)
Posted by: Wladislaw Clemenza at August 19, 2017 12:03 AM (c8EhQ)
Sister in Oregon reports traffic jams and small towns out of gas as
Portland tries to relocate for the eclipse. Sound like the Grapes of
Wrath.
Posted by: Downcast at August 18, 2017 11:48 PM (0m0zi)
Think of it as a combination of a hurricane and the second coming of Elvis.
Gas lines, 12 mile traffic jams in towns that are about 5 miles across, and "tent" cities make of winnebagos.
The stupid is getting thick
Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2017 12:03 AM (mkDpn)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:02 AM (OURe4)
He's thinking of an empanada.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2017 12:04 AM (mkDpn)
3 wit:While a teenage clerk at Vons Grocery Store in California, c. 1974, she learned to tie maraschino cherry stems in knots with her tongue.
I bet they sold a lot of cherries and she got a lot of dates.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 19, 2017 12:04 AM (bIwZ6)
Gnocci aren't really filled like pierogi or ravioli. Usually just a lump of dough or potato.
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Thank you for pointing that out. I thought i was the only one who noticed that... inaccuracy.
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:04 AM (aT+Bx)
Maybe they aren't so little.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille
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I am certain beyond all doubt that entire years have passed about which I have no specific recollection of an isolated second or two with such meaning.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 19, 2017 12:05 AM (pIW4p)
know any instructions at all. I thought, this is the beginning of a
beautiful friendship. With my dick.
It's still going strong.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 18, 2017 11:58 PM (8O3HH)<<<
Friendship? Thought it was more like a guy that owed you money?
Posted by: zombie Charlie Murphy at August 19, 2017 12:05 AM (OURe4)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2017 11:52 PM (bIwZ6)
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paraphrasing what i said in an earlier thread today...
you're welcome.
Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at August 19, 2017 12:05 AM (kCsT4)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2017 12:06 AM (mkDpn)
Posted by: Kindltot
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OMG...you people are eating cute little bears?!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 19, 2017 12:06 AM (pIW4p)
Sweepers man your brooms. Clean sweep down for and aft. The smoking lamp is lit. That is all.
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 12:06 AM (FAo3p)
>> with her tongue.
If she could do that with her clit, I'd be really impressed.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 12:06 AM (8O3HH)
Going to their hotel rooms and campgrounds to watch the eclipse on Monday.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 19, 2017 12:07 AM (IcT7t)
288 Sister in Oregon reports traffic jams and small towns out of gas as Portland tries to relocate for the eclipse. Sound like the Grapes of Wrath.
Posted by: Downcast at August 18, 2017 11:48 PM (0m0zi)
I think Central Oregon would be qualified for an additional Congresscritter if the kept the population.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 19, 2017 12:08 AM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 19, 2017 12:08 AM (c8EhQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 19, 2017 12:06 AM (pIW4p)
Let me tell you about arepas and chipas
Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2017 12:08 AM (mkDpn)
Wouldn't it hurt if she tied that into a knot?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 19, 2017 12:08 AM (bIwZ6)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at August 19, 2017 12:09 AM (nNKHW)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 19, 2017 12:09 AM (e1mEI)
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:04 AM (aT+Bx)<<<
I just couldn't remain indifferent to that little faux pas-ta.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:10 AM (OURe4)
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 19, 2017 12:10 AM (aENAX)
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:04 AM (aT+Bx)
I just couldn't remain indifferent to that little faux pas-ta.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:10 AM (OURe4)
So your name is a lie.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 19, 2017 12:12 AM (ct3gb)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at August 19, 2017 12:09 AM (nNKHW)
Ahh, I've spent a few memorable nights at the gnudi bar.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at August 19, 2017 12:12 AM (tMFgx)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 19, 2017 12:12 AM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:13 AM (lIZQs)
So, I'm wondering... um, when DID you learn all that?
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2017 12:14 AM (kuiuS)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2017 12:08 AM (mkDpn)<<<
Arepas?
Banned! Banned! BANNED!!!
Posted by: some college kangaroo court at August 19, 2017 12:14 AM (OURe4)
Soooooo......local news just called Breirbart a far right controversial blog. Gah...can't even watch anymore
--
I worked part time for a tv station for 15 years. Got booted out when the guy I replaced, a gay guy in the closet, ran out of his dead father in laws money.
Have not watched a full episode of local news in three years. Could NOT be happier. I read the local free paper, and might click a local news site.
Local news is crap put out by underpaid liberals just out of college. They HATE conservatives, and if you're outed, they do treat you badly.
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:16 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Buzzion at August 19, 2017 12:12 AM (ct3gb)<<<
**hangs head, kicks at mound of snow**
I guess.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:16 AM (OURe4)
So, I'm wondering... um, when DID you learn all that?
Posted by: t-bird
Biblically speaking, we are all born into sin.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 19, 2017 12:16 AM (pY+s4)
Except dogs. Some dogs hate black people.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at August 19, 2017 12:19 AM (nNKHW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 19, 2017 12:19 AM (c8EhQ)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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It's Eve's fault!
Posted by: Adam at August 19, 2017 12:19 AM (pIW4p)
So, I'm wondering... um, when DID you learn all that?
Posted by: t-bird
Biblically speaking, we are all born into sin.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 19, 2017 12:16 AM (pY+s4)
I doubt Obama knows that.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 19, 2017 12:19 AM (ct3gb)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:20 AM (lIZQs)
I think I know better than some old book of mythology...
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at August 19, 2017 12:20 AM (OBJWS)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 19, 2017 12:16 AM (pY+s4)<<<
Thought SCOAMF was born into Kenya.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:20 AM (OURe4)
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2017 12:14 AM (kuiuS)
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at the same Indonesian madrassa where he learned to be a moose slime
#Duh
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 19, 2017 12:21 AM (kCsT4)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:21 AM (lIZQs)
**hangs head, kicks at mound of snow**
I guess.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:16 AM
--
You know, you can be a somewhat indifference penguin.
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:22 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 19, 2017 12:22 AM (kCsT4)
Local news is as bad as the network shit. I don't even trust the weather reports. We watch it so rarely we can see the staff has aged. I say that with pride.
Posted by: JTB at August 19, 2017 12:22 AM (V+03K)
Posted by: Hillary at August 19, 2017 12:22 AM (/Nite)
So, I'm wondering... um, when DID you learn all that?
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2017 12:14 AM (kuiuS)
I think Stalinists are going to say those things that Stalinists gotta say
A very close friend of mine was raised in a South Korean orphanage, and she likes to tell that the first time she saw Americans as a very young child, they were US Army soldiers giving out red cross packages.
Her room was all 3-4 year-olds and they all started screaming and hiding under the blankets from "these really tall people with giant noses"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2017 12:22 AM (mkDpn)
I don't even plan on looking at it. I will just enjoy the darkening. There was some sort of lesser eclipse years ago, when I was in NYC, and in the office. But it was neat.
Posted by: Alana at August 19, 2017 12:23 AM (6GQqi)
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:22 AM (aT+Bx)
Just watch out for the incontinent penguin. That guy is hell on the furniture.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 19, 2017 12:23 AM (Nk0mq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 19, 2017 12:24 AM (pIW4p)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:20 AM (OURe4)
The media spent years trying to convince everyone he was born in Bethlehem.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at August 19, 2017 12:24 AM (tMFgx)
If anyone has any juice or can make a lot of noise, the time is now to make it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 19, 2017 12:26 AM (xJa6I)
Finished Stage 1 of the emblingification of my '88 plain-Jane Chevy pickup. Painted the (rusty) silver wheels Hunter Green from a rattle can, and used the same color on a set of fender flares (actual Chevy parts), welded some lugs to the wheels so that '53 Studebaker small hub caps could be snapped on. They fit fine, and survived to trip to town and back on washboard gravel road. Gives the truck an air of restrained elegance, it does.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 12:26 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:27 AM (lIZQs)
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:22 AM (aT+Bx)<<<
I s'pose I'm just indifferent to Scots playing bagpipes while on an Antarctic expedition.
Oh, and to that douche, Bumblefuck Cabbagepatch, what can't pronounce my name worth a damn.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:27 AM (OURe4)
Posted by: navycopmothafingjoe at August 19, 2017 12:27 AM (RgmpP)
ground beef, corn, and onion (pre-cooked) in the center. Fold over, and
press the edges sealed. Cut a couple slits in the top, and put in the
toaster oven until brown. An easy fake copy of empanadas.
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:20 AM (lIZQs)
Migawd, you have just retro-invented the Calzone!
(I told the Spanish speaking staff of a pizza restaurant once that if they made tiny little Calzones they could call them "Calzoncillos")
Posted by: Kindltot at August 19, 2017 12:27 AM (mkDpn)
Esse, you gonna insult my granma an lill' sista like dat?!
Ooooh
We gonna get it ON toonite, esse.
Posted by: Tejas goes from Mejico to anyplace we want! at August 19, 2017 12:27 AM (cJDvr)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 12:28 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 12:28 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 19, 2017 12:26 AM (xJa6I)
Time to move all non-Leftard videos to Vevo or some other host.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 12:28 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:20 AM (OURe4)
The media spent years trying to convince everyone he was born in Bethlehem.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls
No No No, He was a God King who came out of the mist striding a mighty Unicorn? A perfect being who was not born and will live FOREVER!! HE IS ETERNAL!!
Posted by: MSM at August 19, 2017 12:29 AM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 19, 2017 12:29 AM (smD62)
The 'mist' you refer to was steam rising from a pile of shit. The Birth Pile, if you will, in the Marvel origin story.
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2017 12:31 AM (kuiuS)
Posted by: no good deed at August 19, 2017 12:31 AM (r70LM)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 12:20 AM (OURe4)"
Arrakis.
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:32 AM (lIZQs)
Posted by: Al Gore at August 19, 2017 12:32 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 19, 2017 12:32 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 19, 2017 12:32 AM (QDnY+)
striding a mighty Unicorn? A perfect being who was not born and will
live FOREVER!! HE IS ETERNAL!!
Posted by: MSM at August 19, 2017 12:29 AM (pY+s4)<<<
Don't think anyone's ever called me a unicorn before.
**glances at crotchular area**
Though I guess this could be a horn.
Posted by: Reggie Love at August 19, 2017 12:32 AM (OURe4)
Our local news reported on how proud and excited they are in Katy, TX over the brand new $70 million dollar football stadium they just opened...for the high schools. It's the most expensive high school facility in the country. Honestly, and I say this as a former athlete, this is waste of money.
Posted by: no good deed at August 19, 2017 12:31 AM
We're always hearing "they aren't spending enough money" on the schools.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 19, 2017 12:34 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 19, 2017 12:34 AM (bIwZ6)
I am stunned that there are not multiple alternatives to almost all the dominant websites, social, video, whatever.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 19, 2017 12:36 AM (QDnY+)
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Hickock45 ain't gonna be happy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 19, 2017 12:36 AM (pIW4p)
Funny, but no one remembers all the money their parents spent on them. Just the other stuff.
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:37 AM (lIZQs)
you know, I'm watching a show called LivePD
never saw them cap a dog yet
what's wrong with them
Posted by: navycopmothafingjoe at August 19, 2017 12:37 AM (RgmpP)
1.They had no clue what was coming.
2. lucky that only 7 died
3. DC saved lots of damage
4. heads are going to roll
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at August 19, 2017 12:37 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: no good deed at August 19, 2017 12:31 AM (r70LM)
That's a lot of moola for high-school football. Here in Canada, high-school (and college, for that matter) football is pretty much watched only by the classmates/friends/families of the players involved. Very, very, low key. Pro football, OTOH, has its fanatical fans just as in the USA.
One of the more obvious cultural differences between Canada and the USA.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 12:37 AM (2le8w)
-Biscotti?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 19, 2017 12:24
Those are super crunchy cookies. Tasty dunked in milk.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 12:40 AM (hscyr)
Esse, you gonna insult my granma an lill' sista like dat?!
Ooooh
We gonna get it ON toonite, esse.
Posted by: Tejas goes from Mejico to anyplace we want!
howdy everyone.
Posted by: Tickled Pink
Ooh, now you too are making fun of my granma, lill' sis, an allus brownpeez too?? It Is ON toonite you pink peeple!
Posted by: Tejas goes from Mejico to anyplace we want! at August 19, 2017 12:40 AM (cJDvr)
A company I worked for two years ago is losing clients. Which is not good. At least for them. Has no bearing on me.
The odd part is that I know exactly why they're losing them. I talk to their former clients in one of my jobs. They've told me.
However, since the guys at the former company are lying @ssholes, I will never tell them.
But still... it's odd knowing something like that. I kind of don't like it.
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:40 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 12:40 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 12:42 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: navycopmothafingjoe at August 19, 2017 12:42 AM (RgmpP)
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! Yeah, I know; hockey.
Was recently up north. Really enjoyed all the CFL highlights. Man, that's fun football.
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2017 12:42 AM (pszv/)
Posted by: GOULD at August 19, 2017 12:43 AM (lCt1V)
yo pretty lady
Posted by: navycopmothafingjoe at August 19, 2017 12:43 AM (RgmpP)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 12:28 AM (hVdx9)
Mrs out of town for the weekend?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 12:44 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: no good deed at August 19, 2017 12:31 AM (r70LM)
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Maybe,,,but consider
"...the stadium will feature a dynamic exterior LED system that is capable of displaying the color of the teams playing on any night."
Posted by: RioBravo at August 19, 2017 12:44 AM (giT7q)
So, salesmen. Need a better reason than that.
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2017 12:44 AM (pszv/)
Posted by: no good deed at August 19, 2017 12:31 AM (r70LM)
That's a lot of moola for high-school football. Here in Canada, high-school (and college, for that matter) football is pretty much watched only by the classmates/friends/families of the players involved. Very, very, low key. Pro football, OTOH, has its fanatical fans just as in the USA.
One of the more obvious cultural differences between Canada and the USA.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 12:37 AM (2le8w)
High school football seems to be massive in only a few states though. Probably popular throughout most but in some it's on another level. Texas is number 1 at that. I think Ohio is up there too, we would joke about being able to rob my town blind on years that our football team was good and making it to the state finals.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 19, 2017 12:44 AM (ct3gb)
Well hell, I was just doing a round of upgrades on some of my Linux VMs running under VirtualBox. One of the updates was to VIM, the venerable VI-like text editor.
The latest one Fedora 26 installed has a splash screen asking me to please donate money to the children in Uganda.
Every damn thing is politicized now.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 12:44 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2017 12:14 AM (kuiuS)
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Wait a minute.
I thought he once said racism was "in the DNA" of white people.
Very confusing.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 19, 2017 12:44 AM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 12:37 AM (2le8w)
Usually, it's local here, too.
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:45 AM (lIZQs)
364 Yay. back up after passing out for a bit.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 12:28 AM (hVdx9)
Mrs out of town for the weekend?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy
****
No, she is here this time. I drink one day a week and this is it.
She gives me space to destroy myself.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 12:45 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale
Isn't The Van a wonderful service?
Posted by: Hillary! at August 19, 2017 12:45 AM (pszv/)
Posted by: no good deed at August 19, 2017 12:31 AM (r70LM)
That's a lot of moola for high-school football. Here in Canada, high-school (and college, for that matter) football is pretty much watched only by the classmates/friends/families of the players involved. Very, very, low key. Pro football, OTOH, has its fanatical fans just as in the USA.
One of the more obvious cultural differences between Canada and the USA.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 12:37 AM (2le8w)
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Texas H.S. Football is treated as a religion almost. They are rabid about it. IMO, you'd find Texas is an outlier in spending that much money on a football stadium.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 19, 2017 12:47 AM (aENAX)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 19, 2017 12:47 AM (nWc4E)
High school football seems to be massive in only a few states though. Probably popular throughout most but in some it's on another level. Texas is number 1 at that. I think Ohio is up there too, we would joke about being able to rob my town blind on years that our football team was good and making it to the state finals.
Posted by: Buzzion
Its huge in Pennsylvania too. My dead, decaying, drug riddled hometown built a brand spanking new stadium for the football team. The population is shrinking (due to graduation classes leaving and never coming back since about 1977 and a heroin epidemic) but they got a new stadium. Not sure how the hell it got paid for. Still, HS football is huge in PA.
Posted by: MSM at August 19, 2017 12:48 AM (pY+s4)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 12:48 AM (hscyr)
capable of displaying the color of the teams playing on any night."
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Oh well, that makes it all worth it.
However, can the LEDs be wirelessly controlled? If they're not wireless, they're not cool.
Also, can they run low resolution video content through the LEDs? Do they have someone providing low rez video content to be played throughout the game? Is the low rez video content being played through the LEDs tied into the audio system and audio reactive?
If they can't do any of those things well then WTF is the use of the system?
/I'll take their "dynamic LED system" and raise it with the LED systems I know about.
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:49 AM (aT+Bx)
Yay. back up after passing out for a bit.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale
Isn't The Van a wonderful service?
Posted by: Hillary!
****
They pour water over me as I am transported.
Do they do that for you too?
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 12:49 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 19, 2017 12:50 AM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 12:40 AM (hVdx9)
So you're saying that the anarchists need better leaders (I know, old joke.)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:50 AM (lIZQs)
Posted by: RioBravo at August 19, 2017 12:51 AM (giT7q)
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Umm, if the company has no clients, won't that have some bearing on employees who need, say, a paycheck?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 19, 2017 12:52 AM (c8EhQ)
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with Portsmouth closed, i think some might eventually get orders to Ft Leavenworth...
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 19, 2017 12:53 AM (kCsT4)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 12:53 AM (lIZQs)
T is grumbling that her tan isn't like the good old days....first world problems
nck just started her SENIOR YEAR!!!!
she basically grew up here
no boys sniffing around yet, she's too busy with soccer to care
Posted by: navycopmothafingjoe at August 19, 2017 12:54 AM (RgmpP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 12:54 AM (2le8w)
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Oh, they still have some clients.
However, they have also lost several.
And no, it doesn't have a bearing on paychecks, since they have a rich silent partner who is their bank.
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:55 AM (aT+Bx)
Back home in Alabama, the 1st grade cutoff date was Sept 30. As a result, most kids were a year older and that much bigger for the football programs. Bear Bryant had a large pool of in-state talent to pick from when I was growing up.
HS football was a very big thing mostly because there was nothing else to do.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 19, 2017 12:55 AM (bIwZ6)
Do they do that for you too?
It better not be water!
Posted by: Hillary! at August 19, 2017 12:56 AM (kuiuS)
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at August 19, 2017 12:57 AM (0OmEj)
firing, as simply the expiry of a mutually agreed-upon term of
employment. Do I have that right?
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That's how I understand it.
It also might mean that he's simply moving to a more effective place to fight the Deep State.
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:57 AM (aT+Bx)
T is grumbling that her tan isn't like the good old days....first world problems
nck just started her SENIOR YEAR!!!!
she basically grew up here
no boys sniffing around yet, she's too busy with soccer to care
Posted by: navycopmothafingjoe at August 19, 2017 12:54 AM (RgmpP)
Ugh, T needs to watch that sun exposure!! Ha, you got a slight reprieve in the boys. What's she looking at for college? Are you expecting a soccer ride?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 12:58 AM (hscyr)
over the brand new $70 million dollar football stadium they just
opened...for the high schools. It's the most expensive high school
facility in the country."
The best part is that these facilities are typically being financed by exorbitantly costly capital-appreciation bonds. Also known as "financial time bombs". One of Wall Street's latest tricks for dopey elected officials representing mathematically illiterate voters.
So a stadium with a nameplate price tag of $70M may end up costing the local taxpayers five times that much money by the time it's all finally paid off.
Enjoy that sportsball! Go Bottomfeeders!
Posted by: torquewrench at August 19, 2017 12:59 AM (ujwCG)
HS football was a very big thing mostly because there was nothing else to do.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 19, 2017 12:55 AM (bIwZ6)
Maybe they could have some HS dances?
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 01:00 AM (lIZQs)
We need to know if she's Confederate or Union, so we'll know if we're supposed to hate her or not.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 19, 2017 01:00 AM (Ndje9)
It also might mean that he's simply moving to a more effective place to fight the Deep State.
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 12:57 AM (aT+Bx)
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He is already back at Breitbart, from whence he came. So, yeah.
Posted by: GOULD at August 19, 2017 01:01 AM (lCt1V)
No, he was fired but saw it coming in advance. Not that it was a surprise to anyone.
Nobody voluntarily resigns from that position to go back to running a blog. He "resigned" in the same way that Spicer and Priebus "resigned".
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 01:02 AM (pX+Iv)
Posted by: shibumi at August 19, 2017 01:02 AM (aT+Bx)
If I ran the zoo, all Navy bases and all recruiting offices would be forced to post, on big signs, the number of hours devoted to training in basic naval skills such as shiphandling, versus the number of hours spent on such things as correct transgender pronoun usage.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 19, 2017 01:02 AM (ujwCG)
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Wait. I thought bonds were free money.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 19, 2017 01:02 AM (c8EhQ)
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at August 19, 2017 12:57 AM (0OmEj)
There are maritime "rules of the road", as there are for vehicles at a four-way stop. Vessels under power are supposed to yield to vessels under sail. But if your vessel under power is a quarter-mile long, and weighs 200000 tons, "yielding" is an exercise in futility.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 01:03 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at August 19, 2017 01:03 AM (0OmEj)
*major, being Class 5a schools, with 10th, 11th & 12th grade student population at around +3,500. Per. School. Katy is growing at such an insane rate, that a fifth such campus is not an abstract thought, out there.
It's a semi-regional stadium, not simply one belonging to and serving only one school.
In that sense, it's a bit better than those same four schools, each building a stadium of their own.
A "bit" better. Only because each of those four stadiums would've been 80% versions of the one that was built.
The numbers of properties which would've had to have been condemned and Eminent Domained, would've cost far, far more than the mega-stadium, as built.
Plus, (minor) credit where due. It looks like they built it to last. Really.
Let's hope they did, and it does.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 19, 2017 01:03 AM (MGCfm)
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 19, 2017 01:04 AM (lIZQs)
Nobody voluntarily resigns from that position to go back to running a blog. He "resigned" in the same way that Spicer and Priebus "resigned".
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 01:02 AM (pX+Iv)
Thanks for the confirmation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 01:04 AM (2le8w)
You mean "parking lot orgies?" Yeah, we had those too. Gotta make those little football players, dontchaknow?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 19, 2017 01:04 AM (bIwZ6)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:06 AM (hVdx9)
Nobody voluntarily resigns from that position to go back to running a blog. He "resigned" in the same way that Spicer and Priebus "resigned".
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 01:02 AM (pX+Iv)
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What a blast from the past. How are your Establishment colleagues makin' it through the era of Trump, likely to last until 2024 at a minimum?
Posted by: GOULD at August 19, 2017 01:06 AM (lCt1V)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 01:06 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 12:54 AM (2le8w)
Seems like. Or maybe not.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 19, 2017 01:07 AM (Nk0mq)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:06 AM (hVdx9)
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He'll pick up the John Kasich demographic.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 19, 2017 01:07 AM (c8EhQ)
Believe me I know, There was no excuse for the Fritz to have been in that situation. Been there and seen how it works up close in a cic.
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at August 19, 2017 01:07 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 01:09 AM (FxQ2s)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 19, 2017 01:10 AM (pY+s4)
Y'all try to behave.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 19, 2017 01:11 AM (bIwZ6)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 19, 2017 01:12 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 19, 2017 01:12 AM (c8EhQ)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy
****
I meant Ivanka. My bad. Still getting carpet taste out of my mouth.
Either way, firing Bannon does not seem like a positive development.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:14 AM (hVdx9)
Once in a lifetime!
Fabulous!
Fantastic!
blah
blah
blah
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 19, 2017 01:15 AM (pIW4p)
Talented guy, to put it mildly. I can't imagine ever having even 100th of one of his skills.
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2017 01:15 AM (zEjuG)
And a 360 degree "lookout" system would result, which would work in all weather conditions, not suffer frostbite or heat stroke, and not being an "emitter", also not break ComSec conditions.
We don't need the Bureau of Ships to issue a study or RFP for the damned thing. Raytheon ought to just build it, up-spec it to dot-Mil standards, and then also sell a civilianize version to the shipping industry.
Royalties to:
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 19, 2017 01:16 AM (MGCfm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 19, 2017 01:07 AM (c8EhQ)<<<
Mailmen. Like my dad*.
*Hey, have I ever mentioned that?
Posted by: Flowbee Mailmanson at August 19, 2017 01:16 AM (OURe4)
Once in a lifetime!
Fabulous!
Fantastic!
blah
blah
blah
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 19, 2017 01:15 AM (pIW4p)
I was going to try to go, but circumstances have prevailed upon me, and I will stay home. But I won't cry about it. Going to go to a Buffalo barbecue on Sunday at a local bison ranch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 01:17 AM (2le8w)
Either way, firing Bannon does not seem like a positive development.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:14 AM (hVdx9)<<<
Shoulda opted for hardwood.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at August 19, 2017 01:17 AM (OURe4)
Either way, firing Bannon does not seem like a positive development.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:14 AM (hVdx9)<<<
Shoulda opted for hardwood.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin
****
Carpet is softer at least.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:18 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Any moonless night will work, and last longer. Oddly, that doesn't excite people.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at August 19, 2017 01:19 AM (pIW4p)
I liked you better when you were funny.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 19, 2017 01:12 AM (I
Bwaaaaahhh. Mreow!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 01:20 AM (hscyr)
Spring for some laser hair removal.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 01:21 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at August 19, 2017 01:03 AM (0OmEj)
Seems to be. Especially when we don't have one crapweasel leader to state it. And a media that is in some Mass Hysteria PMS mode that has caused their brains to short circuit as they scream Nazi! Hitler! Slaves! Hate!
They are a writhing mass of hate, bloodlust, and poisen.
They are Medusa. Do not look at Medusa.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 19, 2017 01:21 AM (aENAX)
Mrs. Old Blue and I are going to Casper as I have a niece that lives there and she has graciously provided us a place to stay. Casper is expected to more than double in size. I like to drink Heineken Light, and when I talked to her two days ago, there was not a single bottle to be had in town. Liquor stores are running out of supplies as are the grocery stores. Hotel rooms and camp sites in the area have been sold out for two years. Even if you could get a room now, it would cost you more than $1500.00 per night.
We are going up Sunday and what would normally be a four hour drive, I'm planning on six to eight hours.
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 01:23 AM (FAo3p)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:24 AM (hVdx9)
And a 360 degree "lookout" system would result, which would work in all weather conditions, not suffer frostbite or heat stroke, and not being an "emitter", also not break ComSec conditions.
We don't need the Bureau of Ships to issue a study or RFP for the damned thing. Raytheon ought to just build it, up-spec it to dot-Mil standards, and then also sell a civilianize version to the shipping industry.
Royalties to:
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 19, 2017 01:16 AM (MGCfm)
I recently finished reading a very interesting book: "The Queen of the North Disaster - the Captain's Story" , written by Colin Henthorne, who is a personal friend. One of his main points is that the new "digital" radars installed on the vessel made it harder, not easier to do the routine tasks required for safe navigation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 01:24 AM (2le8w)
The cocktail party celebrating the end of the Trump era and the great open borders single payer corporate donor takeover is scheduled for late 2019.
I'd send you an invite, but I'm told your subscription to the Wall Street Journal isn't up to date, and your ascot isn't up to par. Sorry, standards you understand.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 01:24 AM (pX+Iv)
Either way, firing Bannon does not seem like a positive development.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:14 AM (hVdx9)
Awww the tkaw household is not hardwood.
Did you miss Bannon's statement? Says he'll be fighting for trump, from the outside. Unsaid was where he can be way more effective. If some of the stuff coming down the pipe is as mind blowing as advertised (rorhbacher/assange meeting, Russian uranium deal...), he really can be.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 01:25 AM (hscyr)
Apart from the inefficiency of newscasts (so much time expended to dispense so little info), it tends to be very superficial, inept, and biased. I've found that I'm much happier. I can pick up trends and important events by skimming a variety of blogs and listening to people at work etc. I don't find that I'm less well-informed on average.
If I truly need to know something, I have to look to a source other than the news. Journalists know nothing. In college, even the Art History majors had a more rigorous course of study. Even if they were not biased, most just lack the IQ.
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at August 19, 2017 01:27 AM (H5knJ)
You know who I feel sorry for? The millions of people who are outside of the eclipse path, who will have to endure the tiresome maundering of those who see it.
Once in a lifetime!
Except for the next one which comes in 2024.
Unless I die before then.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 19, 2017 01:28 AM (IqV8l)
Either way, firing Bannon does not seem like a positive development.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:14 AM (hVdx9)
Awww the tkaw household is not hardwood.
Did you miss Bannon's statement? Says he'll be fighting for trump,
from the outside. Unsaid was where he can be way more effective. If
some of the stuff coming down the pipe is as mind blowing as advertised
(rorhbacher/assange meeting, Russian uranium deal...), he really can be.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy
****
I would be very happy if proved wrong. Unlike the NeverTrumpers, I want to be shown as mistaken.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:30 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:24 AM (hVdx9)<<<
Ha! At least we get 77%.
Posted by: women watching the eclipse at August 19, 2017 01:30 AM (OURe4)
I liked you better when you were funny.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 19, 2017 01:12 AM (IcT7t)
I must be getting old.
My memory isn't that good.
Posted by: Methos at August 19, 2017 01:30 AM (XQvuQ)
Posted by: Martell at August 19, 2017 01:31 AM (CykRJ)
You mean "parking lot orgies?" Yeah, we had those too. Gotta make those little football players, dontchaknow?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 19, 2017 01:04 AM (bIwZ6)
I have never heard of those. That's quite some high school you went to. I mean...ewwwww.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 19, 2017 01:31 AM (aENAX)
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we understand sorry standards: it's the hallmark of "Never Trump" scum.
well, that and hating America, of course.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 19, 2017 01:32 AM (kCsT4)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 19, 2017 01:33 AM (IcT7t)
A total solar eclipse occurs about every 18 months, on average. The problem is, most of the Earth's surface is water and so they don't occur over land in good spots quite as much.
The frequency at which they occur at any given place is about once every 400 years, or so, on average, but it is not a nice simple cycle.
And, because the Moon is slowly receding and the Sun slowly increasing in diameter, in 600 million years, there will be no more total eclipses.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 01:34 AM (8O3HH)
Fellow Horde Members and Morons! While the total solar eclipse is indeed a marvel, many of you will be outside the zone of totality. Even if you are in an area where the eclipse is 92% or 98%, PLEASE protect your eyes and your vision. Regular sunglasses are not enough protection to avoid eye damage. You MUST use an approved ISO or NASA approved eye protection. Or you can use at minimum #14 welders glasses. Your vision is a gift. Please don't get careless and destroy that gift. An eclipse is a wonderful thing, but please be smart with your gift of sight. Protect your eyes and enjoy a marvel of the cosmos. If you're blind, you'd have a hard time commenting here.
*Steps down off of ATC's soapbox*
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 01:34 AM (FAo3p)
I liked you better when you were funny.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 19, 2017 01:12 AM (IcT7t)
That was never intentional.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 19, 2017 01:35 AM (ct3gb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 01:24 AM (2le8w)
Non-tactical, Maritime Surface Navigation, especially concerning commercial traffic within visual range, is an analog calculation, and might be best measured by analog electronics.
I would relate it to the fact that they've not yet taught a digitally controlled robotic device, to be able to hit a Major League Pitch, with even a bit of the reliability of an MLB hitter with a .325 average.
Assessing that 90 mph fastball or 80 mph slider or 70 mph hanging curve....well, it's still an area where the human brain reigns supreme. Not to mention the brain, bone, muscle interface that has to be enacted in less than the blink of an eye.
A camera/FLIR lookout system as I've described, would work.
Especially if coupled to an audible and visual warning alert system, which ONLY the Skipper could disable with code or key. And once disabled, it's his ass in the crosshairs.
If mounted high in an Ageis' superstructure, say, 40' above water for all camera points, I think we're looking at what...at least a 20 mile horizon?
Very well within reaction times, that.
Leave the dot-Mil digital tactical radar systems, to their intended tasks.
I'm describing a system an electronic system only one level above the Mk.1 eyeball, Seaman 1st Class lookout, and less than the Tac systems for CIC.
Common sense, which means Bureau of Ships will reject it out of hand.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 19, 2017 01:35 AM (MGCfm)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:24 AM (hVdx9)<<<
Ha! At least we get 77%.
Posted by: women watching the eclipse
****
Joke's on you. You get 77% of my 62%.
Hahahahahahahaha!
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:36 AM (hVdx9)
A total solar eclipse occurs about every 18 months, on average. The problem is, most of the Earth's surface is water and so they don't occur over land in good spots quite as much.
The frequency at which they occur at any given place is about once every 400 years, or so, on average, but it is not a nice simple cycle.
And, because the Moon is slowly receding and the Sun slowly increasing in diameter, in 600 million years, there will be no more total eclipses.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 01:34 AM (8O3HH)
So watch before it will never happen again!
Posted by: Buzzion at August 19, 2017 01:36 AM (ct3gb)
Unless I die before then.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 19, 2017 01:28 AM (IqV8l)
Quite frankly, at my age, this may be my last best chance. I hope to make 2024, but nothing is certain.
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 01:37 AM (FAo3p)
I just hope the divorce hearing between Trump and Bannon is resolved quickly. Many a divorce proceeding has led to long, protracted custody fights.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 01:37 AM (pX+Iv)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at August 19, 2017 01:37 AM (H5knJ)
Lefties are all for cultural relativism. Except for white Christians. Then they are all absolutists.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 01:39 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 01:40 AM (FAo3p)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 01:37 AM (pX+Iv)
I can see it now:
Bannon: "OK, Don, you take Hollowpoint."
Trump: "Fuck you, Bannon."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 01:48 AM (2le8w)
Dead Wake
By Erik Larson
I got the shock of my life at the end. Larson doesn't make any conclusions, just prevents the evidence.
I am about 100% sure the Lusitania was 'allowed' to be in waters with the express intention of her being sunk, b/c Winston Churchill thought it would get America into the war.
There's a lot of evidence for it, and there was one thing specifically that was a tipping point for me.
I'd be interested in anyone else's opinion who read it & their conclusion. Esp. If differed from mine. But man, it was a bummer.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 19, 2017 01:49 AM (aENAX)
Given enough time, the earth would finally get in tidal lock with the Moon, just like the Moon is with earth. It would then be visible from only one hemisphere, and the solar day would be a month long.
However, the Sun will go red giant before then by a long shot.
About 600 million years in the past, the day was about 22 hours long, and there were around 400 days per year.
The solar system is chaotic enough over billion year timescales that there is non-zero probability of something crazy happening, such as an inner planet being ejected. Or a collision. For example, Mars' eccentricity may increase enough to put in an Earth crossing orbit.
Other crazy things are possible.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 01:51 AM (8O3HH)
UNLESS we start using up the Sun with moar solar energy!
It's not too late, people!
Posted by: t-bird at August 19, 2017 01:54 AM (kuiuS)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale- Not A Sea Panda at August 19, 2017 01:56 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 01:56 AM (FAo3p)
inner planet being ejected. Or a collision. For example, Mars'
eccentricity may increase enough to put in an Earth crossing orbit."
What fun!
::: rummages in attic for Velikov skis :::
Posted by: torquewrench at August 19, 2017 01:57 AM (ujwCG)
Posted by: torquewrench at August 19, 2017 01:57 AM (ujwCG)
Heh!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 01:59 AM (2le8w)
*presents the evidence
Not "prevents" the evidence.
That prevention happened all the years prior though. Only now do we get the full picture. And not a pretty one. Oh Winston. smh
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 19, 2017 01:59 AM (aENAX)
In 600 million years, C3 photsynthesis will become impossible, and the vast majority of life will die out. In 800 million years, all photosynthesis will be impossible, and just about all life will be gone.
In 1 billion, surface temperature will be 116F. Only simple, extremophile type unicellular life will be possible.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 02:01 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Fritz at August 19, 2017 02:01 AM (eLttb)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:01 AM (FAo3p)
So, a warm day around here.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 19, 2017 02:02 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 01:56 AM (FAo3p)
And maybe they were just rolling the dice. Do the Germans know we have loaded war materiel on the Lusitania? Or not? Well, if they attack her, we know they have spies in place in the USA.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:02 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:04 AM (FAo3p)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:07 AM (FAo3p)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 01:56 AM (FAo3p)
It was actually the log of the German sub commander that was my tipping point. The evidence is pretty overpowering when you read all that Larson uncovered. Stuff we didn't have prior. I didn't want to believe it was true, but the German guy's log records state's he doesn't understand why the L was there, as he had just sunk a ship prior days.
Also, we now know all the other ships were warned away and had escorts. Anyway, Larsen is a respected author & does thorough research. If you read, would love your take on the evidence.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 19, 2017 02:07 AM (aENAX)
And other grammar errors. Sorry. Late.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 19, 2017 02:09 AM (aENAX)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:04 AM (FAo3p)
In which case, they were really rolling the dice. The Germans had expressed an intent, or at least a willingness to sink the Lusitania, and anyone who boarded her had to have known that.
Bluff status: called.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:10 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:10 AM (FAo3p)
Just in time for R.R. Martin to wrap up the series.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 02:12 AM (pX+Iv)
Why are you looking at us.......
Posted by: Zombie Rosenbergs, guilty as hell at August 19, 2017 02:13 AM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:13 AM (FAo3p)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 02:12 AM (pX+Iv)
Now, that was funny! LOL
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:15 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: Zombie Rosenbergs, guilty as hell at August 19, 2017 02:13 AM (pY+s4)
Felt a little tingle did ya?
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:15 AM (FAo3p)
Just in time for R.R. Martin to wrap up the series.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 02:12 AM (pX+Iv)
And Star Wars 5,004,667! Revenge of the Disney Princess!
Posted by: Don Q, singing the Song of Angry Men at August 19, 2017 02:16 AM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:18 AM (FAo3p)
Sorry I missed you, TR.
Love you, Brother.
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 19, 2017 02:19 AM (Ckg4U)
So, a warm day around here.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 19, 2017 02:02 AM (IcT7t)
I have endured 120 degrees, driving from Yuma to A.J. without working A/C in the car. Hot enough that even date-flavored ice cream sounded good. And it was.
As smart as humans are, we could survive temperatures like that. Live mostly underground, use nuclear powered air conditioners? It would come on gradually, anyway, so we would, you know, evolve.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:19 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:10 AM (FAo3p)
I would love that. A lot of what you mentioned, Larsen reports. i felt so bad for the Captain of that ship and what happened to him. He was the fall guy, of course.
AOP - the passengers were warned, as OB posted. I remember no mention of spies in the book. America was neutral, and the passengers were assured they would be safe. No one was very worried. But behind the scenes, there was a whole lotta crap going down. Just like in today's climate.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 19, 2017 02:23 AM (aENAX)
That's what gets me about the fantasies of a large scale colonization of Mars.
There is almost nothing that could happen to Earth that would make it less habitable than Mars.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 02:24 AM (pX+Iv)
Don't worry, there's a good probability of a major extinction event within 1 million years. It could be a asteroid, or a gamma ray burst (there's a candidate star close enough that could do within 300,000 years, if it's poles happen to be pointed in our direction at the time it pops off).
A supervolcanic eruption will also have likely gone off.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 02:28 AM (8O3HH)
A little birdie told me that they don't let you scavenge for bits of trinitite any longer. More's the pity.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 19, 2017 02:30 AM (ujwCG)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 02:24 AM (pX+Iv)
Other than the massive proliferation of hipster douches.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:30 AM (2le8w)
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Posted by: torquewrench at August 19, 2017 02:30 AM (ujwCG)
They ought to light another one off to renew the supply. Tickets could be sold.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:32 AM (2le8w)
I dunno personally. Earth could wind up being as extreme as Venus due to the amount of water vapor and methane available in our ecosystems. Mars could, and I emphasize could, be terra-formed and support life but that is not a sure bet. It could be that our best chance for human survival could be on an exoplanet many light years away. And it is a sure bet that Earth will eventually become less habitable than Mars.
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:32 AM (FAo3p)
A little birdie told me that they don't let you scavenge for bits of trinitite any longer. More's the pity.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 19, 2017 02:30 AM (ujwCG)
Yep, not allowed to pick it up and take it home. More's the pity.
Posted by: Old Blue at August 19, 2017 02:34 AM (FAo3p)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 02:24 AM (pX+Iv)
Except for the White Men of Barsoom!
Posted by: Tars Tarkas, Jedek of Thark at August 19, 2017 02:35 AM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Tars Tarkas, Jedek of Thark at August 19, 2017 02:35 AM (NgKpN)
The wimmenz of Barsoom are well-endowed with bazooms.
Or, so I have been told.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:38 AM (2le8w)
Sol's habitable zone will pushed out to Mars by 1.5 billion years.
Earth will be Venus like. In 2-3 Billion years the surface temp will get to 300F. It will be Venus after that. At the 4 billion year or so mark, the surface temperature will be that of molten rock. In about 7.5 billion, the Earth will likely fall into the Sun.
In 8 billion, the sun goes white dwarf, and that's all she wrote for this solar system.
But again, the solar system is chaotic enough over those time scales that it is impossible to predict the orbits. The inner planets could collide or be ejected by that time.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 02:38 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Tars Tarkas, Jedek of Thark at August 19, 2017 02:35 AM (NgKpN)
Second book, IIRC?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 19, 2017 02:39 AM (Nk0mq)
Or, so I have been told.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:38 AM (2le8w)
From the book covers, Kate Upton has nothing on Dejah Thoris.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 19, 2017 02:40 AM (Nk0mq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 19, 2017 02:40 AM (Nk0mq)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at August 19, 2017 12:19 AM (nNKHW)
Yep. My little mutt was like that. She didn't even need to see them to get upset and bark like a Democrat in front of a camera.
White mailman drops off mail in mailbox? Ho-hum. Black mailman drops off mail in mailbox and she'd go barking mad. Never knew what it was but my guess was some black possibly abused her before we got her. But she'd get upset at blacks sight unseen, just her keen sense of smell (being a mutt, I think she got a corgi's body with a beagle's nose).
Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2017 02:44 AM (BIsma)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 19, 2017 02:40 AM (Nk0mq)
Well, from where I sit, both are equally real. Heh, little Korean gal at the local grocery store showed up for work sans bra today, which was evident. A cutie, she is.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:45 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2017 02:44 AM (BIsma)
My dog is a Basset X Border Collie. She has a good nose on her, too. And a determination to chase rabbits. Monday, she was running around the yard in tight circles, and barking. Turned out she was chasing a tiny weasel. Every so often, the weasel would rear up on it's tiny haunches, and make Grrry! fists at Pogo, and she would back off, and the chase would be on again. It was funny as hell to watch. Finally, the weasel got away into a thicket of bushes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:51 AM (2le8w)
There's an idea of an astroengineering project in the far future to keep Earth in Sol's habitable zone. Make repeated passes of asteroids by the earth to slowly perturb the orbit and drive it outward, keeping up with the increasing luminosity of the Sun.
Now, you've got Mars in the way out there, so you'd have to do something about that too.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 02:52 AM (8O3HH)
Sol's habitable zone will pushed out to Mars by 1.5 billion years.
Earth will be Venus like. In 2-3 Billion years the surface temp will get to 300F. It will be Venus after that. At the 4 billion year or so mark, the surface temperature will be that of molten rock. In about 7.5 billion, the Earth will likely fall into the Sun.
In 8 billion, the sun goes white dwarf, and that's all she wrote for this solar system.
But again, the solar system is chaotic enough over those time scales that it is impossible to predict the orbits. The inner planets could collide or be ejected by that time.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 02:38 AM (8O3HH)
Haven't they identified a bunch of nasty areas in the galaxy that our solar system is going to be traveling through too that could just shred and destroy us?
Posted by: Buzzion at August 19, 2017 02:54 AM (ct3gb)
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 02:52 AM (8O3HH)
Just give mars to the muslims; they will find a way to destroy it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:54 AM (2le8w)
We can't really predict what the two planets will look like in hundreds of millions of years. I guess I was thinking nearer term, say the next 20-200 years.
The radiation levels, the thin CO2 atmosphere and relative lack of water make the prospect of a self-sustaining Mars settlement far-fetched at best, impossible at worst.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 02:55 AM (pX+Iv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:54 AM (2le8w)
I don't know if they'd go for it. Maybe if we tell them the Jews have declared it a Holy Site. Then they'd probably swear Mohammed visited Mars on Spring Break and it's theirs and only theirs you dirty infidel!
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at August 19, 2017 03:05 AM (tMFgx)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 19, 2017 02:55 AM (pX+Iv)
I seem to remember a scheme to terraform Mars by bombarding it with chunks of ice stolen from comets or from the rings of Saturn. Settlers would live underground, of course, to avoid both cold and the radiation from the sun. But with enough atmosphere, as water vapor plus CO2, photosynthesis would get going, and make a breathable atmosphere, eventually.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 03:06 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 03:07 AM (2le8w)
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That's another thing. It's a big unknown. At one time, they thought that had a correlation with the Solar Systems movement around the galaxy with some extinction events, but that disappeared with better data on the motion.
That motion is more complicated than a simple ellipse because of the non-spherical (inverse square) galactic gravitational field.
The Sun goes around the center about every 250 million years, but also bobs up and down along the z-axis. I think we cross the plane every 30 million years or so. And now, I think we're on an upswing.
There's also movement in and out of the spiral arms, which varies the interstellar "dust" content. They may have something to do with climate as well.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 03:07 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 19, 2017 03:13 AM (AxFdW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:51 AM (2le8w)
My dog was very happy just wandering around smelling the roses, so to speak. But chase anything? She was not play oriented so unless you tossed a bone to 'fetch' (as in, 'it's mine now, suckah'), she wouldn't chase anything. I could throw no ball or toy that she would chase and fetch; she'd just sit and stare at me with a look that said, 'You threw it, fool. YOU go get it. In the meantime, I'll be over here on my back rolling in the grass.'
Posted by: RickZ at August 19, 2017 03:17 AM (BIsma)
Just give mars to the muslims; they will find a way to destroy it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 19, 2017 02:54 AM (2le8w)
It's already a desert, so they should feel right at home.
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 03:20 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 03:20 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: the guy across the street at August 19, 2017 03:26 AM (sf2BM)
time is strange. 10,000 years is nothing in geological sense, but all of human civilization is less than that!
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 19, 2017 03:30 AM (AxFdW)
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just strip mine it away...
next problem?
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 19, 2017 03:32 AM (kCsT4)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 19, 2017 03:32 AM (AxFdW)
next problem?
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 19, 2017 03:32 AM (kCsT4)
Oooooooo......that makes me very very mad.....
Posted by: Marvin at August 19, 2017 03:34 AM (sf2BM)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 19, 2017 03:32 AM (AxFdW)
They have Gobekli Tepi back to as far as 10,000 BC. But that gets close to the end of the ice age, which would have radically changed coastlines and rivers, which is where settlements were likely to be. So who knows?
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at August 19, 2017 03:38 AM (tMFgx)
an excellent point. the toba supervolcano is linked to a genetic bottleneck in humans around 75,000 years ago. so that's the window, 75,000 to 12,000 years ago or so. my guess is 10,000 is probably the outward limit.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 19, 2017 03:48 AM (AxFdW)
But...
10,000 years ago humans were hunting animals with spears. Today we're seriously talking about terraforming planets. What will we be capable of doing 10,000 years from now?
The point being, Mars is not a permanent home for humanity but just a temporary way station. We could use raw materials from asteroids and comets with spiderlike robots building artificial habitats all over the inner solar system. There may be breakthroughs in propulsion that could enable us to explore and colonize planets around nearby stars.
I do consider myself fortunate to have lived during the period when humanity took its first tentative steps into the cosmos.
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 03:50 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 19, 2017 03:32 AM (AxFdW)
Australian aborigines have lived, almost unchanged, for upwards of 40,000 years.
Now, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement ... but it is human culture, though a very limited, stagnant one. It might not come in under your "settlement" definition, also.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2017 03:53 AM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 03:50 AM (sdi6R)
The way we're headed?
Hunting animals with spears.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2017 03:54 AM (rZ+mb)
The way we're headed?
Hunting animals with spears.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2017 03:54 AM (rZ+mb)
Uh huh.
On a knife's edge, we are.
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 03:58 AM (sdi6R)
I won't say I "believe", but I do entertain the idea of advanced civilization before us (by advanced I mean like Bronze Age) that was wiped out by the events of the end of the last Ice Age and a possible Younger-Dryas Event.
Look at the coastlines at the peak of the last Ice Age. Look how much bigger the land masses were. I'll wager you there's a lot of evidence underwater.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 04:01 AM (8O3HH)
Either that, or they perfected sexbots and never invented anything else ever again.
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 04:01 AM (sdi6R)
She may trying to get your attention.
Or not.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 19, 2017 04:01 AM (IcT7t)
Anyone who read the ONT last night knows that my father in law is dying by inches from liver cancer. This has been, as you can imagine, a huge burden on my family. Gingy is holding it together for herself by the skin of her teeth. I'm holding everything else together.
I saw him last night, on facetime. We talked, bantered, just as we always do. He's 75, has worked every day of his life since he was 14. Did a stretch in the RCAF as a loadmaster. He can still pack a car better than I can, and I'm no slouch, damnit. He had JUST retired when he was diagnosed. Literally almost on the same day. Worst. Retirement. Ever.
Dad (and yes, I call him dad, he's earned the title alongside my father, if for no reason other than that he delivered to me the beautiful, perfect woman who is my wife), is skinny as a rail and getting skinnier. He's not in any pain, thank God, but it's the last lap and we all know it.
So what do I do? As I said, I hold it all together. But damn it, I like him. I love him. Not in the same way I love my dad (and if you think this is maudlin, wait until my actual dad dies, I'll be wrecked. Completely and utterly wrecked.), but it's still the same.
I'm sitting here, strong, together, because that's what a man does. It's what I have to do.
But dear God, he's going to die. And that will leave a huge hole in my life. I'm going to miss him, a lot more than I would have thought.
*Cries*
Posted by: Weirddave at August 19, 2017 04:02 AM (0otiP)
On a knife's edge, we are.
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 03:58 AM (sdi6R)
Civilization always exists on a knife's edge. That's why letting this modern insanity run wild is so incredibly dangerous.
We are never more than one generation away from total extinction.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2017 04:03 AM (rZ+mb)
I won't say I "believe", but I do entertain the idea of advanced civilization before us (by advanced I mean like Bronze Age) that was wiped out by the events of the end of the last Ice Age and a possible Younger-Dryas Event.
Look at the coastlines at the peak of the last Ice Age. Look how much bigger the land masses were. I'll wager you there's a lot of evidence underwater.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 19, 2017 04:01 AM (8O3HH)
Maybe not Bronze Age, but the advanced Stone Age cultures just before the development of agriculture were quite sophisticated. There is a fascinating documentary about "Doggerland" on YouTube.
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 04:07 AM (sdi6R)
A bit long, over two hours, but interesting.
Underwater cities.
Posted by: Marvin at August 19, 2017 04:07 AM (sf2BM)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 19, 2017 04:09 AM (rZ+mb)
I'm sitting here, strong, together, because that's what a man does. It's what I have to do.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 19, 2017 04:02 AM (0otiP)
Lost my Mom 6 years ago almost the day to Cancer. It sounds like you are doing it. The feelings of helplessness are tough. This may sound a bit harsh, but remember you are third in line for consideration here. Your FIL, then your wife, then you. Let them tell you what they want and need.
Spend time when and where you can, as much as possible. Enjoy the simple stuff. Ask all the questions you can about family history. At some point, you'll need to make arrangements as they say, so you'll need to be ready and know what his wishes are. It fell on me to go with my Dad to pick out an Urn for Mom. It was so hard and surreal, but she needed to know that it was done, and it wouldn't fall onto my Dad alone.
At some point you all will accept the inevitable. It isn't easy. I had to turn away from people walking by me at work at random times to hide the tears, but it wasn't about me, so you drag yourself forward. The disease itself was terrible in what she went through and what it did to her. But we were blessed in that we were able to have all those conversations rather than regret never having taken the time.
You are headed into some rough times. Allow yourself some slack. You aren't perfect, you can't do this perfectly, but you will get through it. To say, "enjoy the time you have," sounds trite, but it really is what you need to do.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at August 19, 2017 04:16 AM (tMFgx)
I am so sorry for you & Gingy. Thank God for the small favor of no pain. Can you take some time off to go visit with him?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 19, 2017 04:19 AM (FxQ2s)
My 17 year old cat Kira is suffering from kidney failure and I think the end is drawing near. She has mostly lost interest in eating and has been losing weight rapidly. Both of my parents lost interest in eating as they declined.
Not to equate my situation with yours, but as a single misanthrope hermit, Kira is literally my best friend in the world.
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 04:19 AM (sdi6R)
consideration here. Your FIL, then your wife, then you. Let them tell
you what they want and need.
Spend time when and where you can, as much as possible. Enjoy the simple stuff.
Oh no, not at all. I'd love to spend time with him, but he's 2700 miles away. I'm back HERE, holding stuff together, so my wife can be THERE, with him. That's far more important than any small concerns I might have. (I've been practicing British understatement, how am I doing?
)Posted by: Weirddave at August 19, 2017 04:31 AM (0otiP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EQbxjvvnPE
Posted by: rickl at August 19, 2017 04:34 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2017 04:39 AM (pPKG5)
Oh no, not at all. I'd love to spend time with him, but he's 2700 miles away. I'm back HERE, holding stuff together, so my wife can be THERE, with him. That's far more important than any small concerns I might have. (I've been practicing British understatement, how am I doing? )
Posted by: Weirddave at August 19, 2017 04:31 AM (0otiP)
Well, again, it sounds like you are doing what you need to do. It's not a problem to be solved, because you can't. The best you can do is keep yourself together so you can help them. If that means coming here to vent, let it fly. If that means breaking down for a good old fashioned ball your eyes out cry when no one is looking, let it out.
The frustration and helplessness are tough to deal with. But remember there isn't something to be achieved here. You already know what to do, it's how you do it, and you do it with all the patience, love and grace you can muster.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at August 19, 2017 04:46 AM (tMFgx)
in other news, Twitter is a yuge time suck. i ducked out to check a few other sites, wound up there, and suddenly it's almost 0200.
WTF?
hasta, y'all.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 19, 2017 04:47 AM (RcZfi)
Use your role as a Man is to console others.
Our strength is evident through our Faith. And through our Faith, we console others; rather than be consoled.
We stand strong and face the inevitable.
Might your heart be strengthened and your resolve ever-lasting as you face an impending peril.
I ask that you find the Strength within yourself to be an anchor amidst the gale.
Might God Bless you with the determination to weather this storm and be an anchor in a time of need.
Know that you are loved and I'll stand behind you, should you need renewed Faith.
God Love you.
God Bless you.
If you ever feel the need to talk, I will be there.
home made gravy 71, (all one word), at the hooya dot com.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 19, 2017 04:49 AM (Ckg4U)
When you're not yet quite awake.
I hear the secrets that you say.
When you said Shep Smith was gay.
I hear the secrets you confessed.
And now I'm making a citizen's arrest.
Posted by: Alexa at August 19, 2017 04:56 AM (/qEW2)
Regret nothing.
Asking for prayer is a simple strategy that can reap great rewards.
Allow us to alleviate your burden.
We are NOT God, but we'll help lift the weight upon your shoulders.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 19, 2017 05:06 AM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: Hillary at August 19, 2017 05:08 AM (bc2Lc)
Now is the time for those around him to celebrate his life, not mourn the end of it.
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Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 19, 2017 05:37 AM (Ckg4U)
Good morning horde
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