Mid-Morning Open Thread

Notre Dame De Paris And The Flower Market
Marie Francois Firmin Girard

~~She~~He is a favorite of mine, and ~~her~~his technique is just stunning. I hear ~~she~~he makes great sammiches too! [For a dude. Correction courtesy of IllTemperedCur]

Seriously, the confluence of glorious, architect-quality drawing and the realistic yet gentle portrayal of the path along the Seine is delightful, and clearly lands on the "art" side of the line.

For those of you who prefer different art, here is something for you that should be less taxing on your artistic aesthetic.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Comments

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1 How about some flying buttress?

Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2017 09:30 AM (GiOiK)

2 So anyway

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at September 20, 2017 09:30 AM (LItx4)

3 I do no trust CBD's blind links, as they frequently lead to blindness.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 20, 2017 09:31 AM (0ogQG)

4 This one is OK.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 09:31 AM (mpXpK)

5 Nice try with the link....

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at September 20, 2017 09:32 AM (jAZR9)

6 Trees, so, art!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2017 09:32 AM (TyVba)

7 Where's the burning policeman?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 20, 2017 09:32 AM (dluXH)

8
That shovel in the foreground looks a little overly large.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 09:32 AM (EgwCt)

9 This is gorgeous, but then, so is Paul Newman without his shirt.

I'm torn...

Posted by: moki at September 20, 2017 09:33 AM (V+V48)

10 Ooooh, baby. Don't be afraid to click the link. In fact, if you are female, you will be happy you clicked. Thank you, CBD.

Oh, and nice picture.

Actually, very pretty picture - love the detail on Notre Dame.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:33 AM (UoSKV)

11 How can you tell it's Notre Dame without the Touchdown Jesus statue?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (gIRsn)

12 Notre Dame is very impressive, even now. Sacre Coeur is the ugly one...but the view is nice !

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (QC/4S)

13 Woman pushing the cart-->Mad Pooper.

I actually like this one.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (mcI77)

14 I like!

I don't like that it will probably have a dome and minarets in my lifetime, but that's not the artist's fault.

Mornin' Horde. I gotta do something about this constant melancholy of mine.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (AM1GF)

15 It's a rather drab scene. I didn't realize France was so...muddy.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (NWiLs)

16 How about some flying buttress?
Posted by: BignJames

Or at least, a flying head butt off the top rope!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (TyVba)

17 Mornin' Horde. I gotta do something about this constant melancholy of mine.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (AM1GF)

Hookers and blow.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 20, 2017 09:35 AM (NWiLs)

18 Sniper in the bell tower..

Posted by: McCool at September 20, 2017 09:35 AM (sZaoP)

19 Sacre Coeur is the ugly one...but the view is nice !

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (QC/4S)

Thank you!

It's a monstrosity.

They should raze it and build a Howard Johnson's or something....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 09:35 AM (wYseH)

20
Joe Bastardi tweet on Maria:

Proximity of Hispaniola should limit comeback, but once away from there on weekend, should come back Biggest US threat to me: NC, MA

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 09:35 AM (EgwCt)

21 16 How about some flying buttress?
Posted by: BignJames

Or at least, a flying head butt off the top rope!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (TyVba)

Moonsault!

Posted by: Insomniac at September 20, 2017 09:35 AM (NWiLs)

22 It is a beautiful postcard sketch, very suitable for framing at home as a reminder of your trip to Paris.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - DIY Insufferables! See the Selections in the Outrage Outlet's Hobby Area! at September 20, 2017 09:35 AM (hLRSq)

23 OT, forgive me. But which one you morons was in my neck of the woods and living up the AOSHQ lifestyle?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ltrrlb

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (jxbfJ)

24 Notre Dame is my favorite cathedral. I think it is most beautiful one. Thank God it was not destroyed in the French Revolution, and thank God the Germans did not destroy it in WWII.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (4pONO)

25 Notre Dame De Paris And The Flower Market

*****

Recycled Jokes Are Sustainable - a limerick

He looks at this scene and he sees
A flower market, making him sneeze
But those towering oaks
Block the view of most folks
So we can't see the florist for the trees!

Posted by: Muldoon at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (wPiJc)

26
By the way, Marie Francois Firmin Girard was a dood.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (veoSD)

27 This is obviously pre-islamic Paris, amiright?

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (mQ0Mc)

28 It's very gold, but otherwise pleasant. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: joncelli, Ray of Freakin' Sunshine at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (RD7QR)

29 How can you tell it's Notre Dame without the Touchdown Jesus statue?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (gIRsn)

Check your GPS...South Bend = Notre Dame.

Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (GiOiK)

30 Recently worked on a movie w/ Robert Redford. Had great Paul Newman stories & said he misses him. Regardless of politics a nice sentiment.

Posted by: Old Man with a Gun at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (XCWds)

31 That manual road repair technique seems so old school.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (hyuyC)

32 24 Notre Dame is my favorite cathedral. I think it is most beautiful one. Thank God it was not destroyed in the French Revolution, and thank God the Germans did not destroy it in WWII.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (4pONO)

I'm leaving that for the Muslims

Posted by: God at September 20, 2017 09:37 AM (NWiLs)

33 All forms of self expression are art.

Posted by: Mad Pooper at September 20, 2017 09:37 AM (/qEW2)

34 Ooh, Insty featured Ace's last from last night. At least he waited for this morning to do it...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 20, 2017 09:37 AM (AM1GF)

35 Will remind us what ot looked like before it became a mosque...

Posted by: steevy at September 20, 2017 09:37 AM (rmVvL)

36 This secondary 'art' link is becoming something like the infamous spider link.

And that's no sniper in the belfry, just Nancy Pelosi's earliest job.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:37 AM (R2RYK)

37 Oh (Ono!?), right, like we're going to click on that link, CBD!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 20, 2017 09:37 AM (W+vEI)

38
I see lauraw in the bell tower.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 20, 2017 09:38 AM (veoSD)

39 Great technique.

Just....kinda....meh.

If I saw this in an art museum, I'd probably give it ten seconds or so.

A bit like the cover for the guide book, "The Rutabagas of France".

Posted by: naturalfake at September 20, 2017 09:38 AM (9q7Dl)

40 It is a beautiful postcard sketch, very suitable for framing at home as a reminder of your trip to Paris.

That's my problem with it. It looks designed for reproduction rather than like a painting qua painting. That could just be an artifact of the scanning, though.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 09:38 AM (gIRsn)

41 23 OT, forgive me. But which one you morons was in my neck of the woods and living up the AOSHQ lifestyle?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ltrrlb
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (jxbfJ)

OTR truckers I know say this is actually surprisingly common. I guess some people like to travel, uh, unencumbered.

Posted by: joncelli, Ray of Freakin' Sunshine at September 20, 2017 09:38 AM (RD7QR)

42 I can't see Quasimodo.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:39 AM (/tuJf)

43 By the way, Marie Francois Firmin Girard was a dood.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (veoSD)

Ah hell....I'm really knocking it out of the park this week.

Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 09:39 AM (wYseH)

44 I see Quasimodo. He's spotting for the sniper.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 20, 2017 09:39 AM (JO9+V)

45 Oh (Ono!?), right, like we're going to click on that link, CBD!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 20, 2017 09:37 AM (W+vEI)
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Lizzy, do it. You won't be disappointed.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:39 AM (UoSKV)

46 14 I like!

I don't like that it will probably have a dome and minarets in my lifetime, but that's not the artist's fault.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (AM1GF)

What's funny is the dome and minarets are blatant ncultural appropriation.

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 09:39 AM (nwqNw)

47 About 15 years ago I was privileged to see Notre Dame in person. It was majestic, with this sense of history about it and feeling that it stood for so long and so many eyes have looked on it, and all that stuff.

And the French are pissing it all away. Makes me sad.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at September 20, 2017 09:39 AM (PFy0L)

48 38 IllTemperedCur

ISWYDT, and dang, that's funny.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 20, 2017 09:40 AM (hyuyC)

49 Needs more hunchback.

Posted by: Roland THTG at September 20, 2017 09:40 AM (QM5S2)

50 That is a sad but true fact of Islam, there is nothing in it they didn't steal from somewhere else.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:40 AM (R2RYK)

51 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 09:39 AM (wYseH)

Don't worry about it, CBD. He was French, so he probably still made a decent sammich.

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 09:40 AM (nwqNw)

52 Willie and Joe testified on French dirt.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 20, 2017 09:41 AM (hyuyC)

53
50 That is a sad but true fact of Islam, there is nothing in it they didn't steal from somewhere else.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:40 AM (R2RYK)

Now now. That's not fair. I'm relatively certain that they were the first to invent goat-fucking.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 20, 2017 09:41 AM (veoSD)

54 For those of you who prefer different art, here is something for you that should be less taxing on your artistic aesthetic.
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You are too good to me, CBD. Bless you.

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:41 AM (lwiT4)

55 Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:40 AM (R2RYK)

Islam has some very beautiful art, though.

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 09:42 AM (nwqNw)

56 True fact, Notre Dame was just another medieval church in France, until Hugo wrote "Hunchback". It gained massive popularity since then.

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 09:42 AM (QC/4S)

57 Why are there strike-throughs on the main part of the site? It looks really weird.

Posted by: moki at September 20, 2017 09:42 AM (V+V48)

58 Salty Dawg going for the obscure reference...

"I would git lower 'cept my buttons getting in da way!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:42 AM (R2RYK)

59 Islam has some very beautiful art, though.

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 09:42 AM (nwqNw)

cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 09:43 AM (wYseH)

60 By the way, Marie Francois Firmin Girard was a dood.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Ah hell....I'm really knocking it out of the park this week.

Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

In your defense, it wouldn't be the first time a French dude got mistaken for a chick.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 20, 2017 09:43 AM (AM1GF)

61
57 Why are there strike-throughs on the main part of the site? It looks really weird.

Posted by: moki at September 20, 2017 09:42 AM (V+V4

*snort*

I love it when a plan comes together.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 20, 2017 09:43 AM (veoSD)

62 >>>>>Why are there strike-throughs on the main part of the site? It looks really weird.
.
.
.Ignore them, just a little hitch in the fabric of reality going on.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 20, 2017 09:43 AM (+Dllb)

63 "We must ready the street for the German troops.."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2017 09:43 AM (y3sT9)

64 19 It's a monstrosity.

They should raze it and build a Howard Johnson's or something....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 09:35 AM (wYseH)

Minarets. Never enough Minarets. And some loudspeakers to blare the Muezzin's call.

Posted by: Hikaru at September 20, 2017 09:43 AM (XMDuf)

65 Ooooh, baby. Don't be afraid to click the link. In fact, if you are female, you will be happy you clicked. Thank you, CBD.
Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:33 AM

CBD, we take our hats off to you. The strength of character, the sheer scale of grace granting bluebell her long-standing request for Yoko AND Paul Newman (albeit served up on consecutive days), despite scandalous, hurtful, and, yes, even possibly mean-spirited comments about your beloved Yankees, is an inspiration to us all to up our games, to serve our fellow Morons and Moronettes with the humility, patience, and, yes, love, that you display daily in such abundance.

We are not worthy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 20, 2017 09:43 AM (ctuyM)

66 By the way, Marie Francois Firmin Girard was a dood.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Yeah. Catholics venerate Mary to such an extent that many of their men have "Marie" or "Mary" in their name (Voltaire's real name was Francois-Marie Arouet).

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 20, 2017 09:44 AM (/qEW2)

67 Mighty coblogger has struck out.

Posted by: DaveA at September 20, 2017 09:44 AM (FhXTo)

68 Goat felching? Ask the Greeks.

A mausoleum as art, the Taj Mahal.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:44 AM (R2RYK)

69 Islam has some very beautiful art, though.
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Most of it is geometric shapes, isn't it? Can they depict living things?

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:44 AM (lwiT4)

70 Darn you ITC and Scotsman.

Posted by: moki at September 20, 2017 09:44 AM (V+V48)

71 The physical traits and effects of Gothic cathedrals inspired many an artist. Referencing yesterday's conversation, even Hitler had a beautifully romantic painting of a ruined Gothic church destroyed during WWI.

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 09:44 AM (nwqNw)

72 19 Sacre Coeur is the ugly one...but the view is nice !

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 09:34 AM (QC/4S)

Thank you!

It's a monstrosity.

They should raze it and build a Howard Johnson's or something....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 09:35 AM (wYseH)
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We're on it.

Posted by: Hordes of Islamic Invaders at September 20, 2017 09:44 AM (2FnjF)

73 True fact, Notre Dame was just another medieval church in France, until Hugo wrote "Hunchback". It gained massive popularity since then.

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 09:42 AM (QC/4S)

Then...after Rockne and the 4 Horsemen, they sold out every game.

Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2017 09:44 AM (GiOiK)

74 Why are there strike-throughs on the main part of the site? It looks really weird.

Posted by: moki at September 20, 2017 09:42 AM (V+V4

Pay no attention to the idiot with the byline behind the curtain.....

Sigh.....

I need a drink.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (wYseH)

75 Hey, don't assume Marie Francois Firmin Girard's prounouns, h8r!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (oVJmc)

76 Duncanthrax, you're going to give him a big ego.

Bigger. You're going to give him a bigger ego.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (UoSKV)

77 Every time I see old pictures of Paris. my heart breaks that I didn't get to see that city as it once was.

Do you think the Muslims will destroy Notre Dame, or will it be more along the lines of the Hagia Sophia?

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (rX06+)

78 The statues around the portal are fun, I especially liked st. Dennis - he is holding his own head !

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (QC/4S)

79 This is obviously pre-islamic Paris, amiright?
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at September 20, 2017 09:36 AM (mQ0Mc)

Ummmm...Yes. As we speak Pope Frankie the Marxist is having an architect draw up plans to add that muzzie half moon pie thingee that those savages stick on top of their latrines/mosques/weapon depots.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (5VlCp)

80
I need a drink.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (wYseH)

I'll buy. It's been one of those mornings.

Posted by: moki at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (V+V48)

81 >>I'm leaving that for the Muslims

Posted by: God

You do that and we nuke Mecca!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (W+vEI)

82 Sigh.....

I need a drink.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (wYseH)
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Not until you annotate the matzoh ball recipe.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (UoSKV)

83 Attended Mass at Notre Dame a few years ago.
Husband and I always laugh about the fact that Mass ran 15-20 minutes longer because of the French vs English. French being a very flowery language.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (N3JsI)

84 Yikes! I know the French go on strike at the drop of a hat, but....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (y3sT9)

85 Ah. I see the strike is over, bon!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2017 09:46 AM (y3sT9)

86 "We must ready the street for the German troops.."
Posted by: Mike Hammer

More shade trees! Toot sweet!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2017 09:46 AM (TyVba)

87 I keep clicking CBD's link. I am that shallow.

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:47 AM (lwiT4)

88 Strike is over? So the front page isn't run by French government workers.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:47 AM (R2RYK)

89 83 Attended Mass at Notre Dame a few years ago.
Husband and I always laugh about the fact that Mass ran 15-20 minutes longer because of the French vs English. French being a very flowery language.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at September 20, 2017 09:45 AM (N3JsI)

French is Latin spoken with a severe head cold.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 20, 2017 09:47 AM (NWiLs)

90 85 Ah. I see the strike is over, bon!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2017 09:46 AM (y3sT9)

Vraiment? Merci pour le soulagement!

Posted by: moki at September 20, 2017 09:47 AM (V+V48)

91 > Why are there strike-throughs on the main part of the site? It looks really weird.

CBD, report to the barrel please. CBD to the barrel.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at September 20, 2017 09:47 AM (EAFEJ)

92 I keep clicking CBD's link. I am that shallow.

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:47 AM (lwiT4)
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It's a thing of beauty, is it not?

Once in a while, he's nice to us 'ettes.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (UoSKV)

93 Do you think the Muslims will destroy Notre Dame, or will it be more along the lines of the Hagia Sophia?
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter
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Same as they have done elsewhere, it will be converted to a mosque.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (y3sT9)

94 91 > Why are there strike-throughs on the main part of the site? It looks really weird.

CBD, report to the barrel please. CBD to the barrel.
Posted by: WaitingForMartel at September 20, 2017 09:47 AM (EAFEJ)

He's already used his white COB privilege to erase it.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (NWiLs)

95 Sanctuary! Sanctuary!

Posted by: Quasimodo, in the bell tower! at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (gbWkA)

96 87 I keep clicking CBD's link. I am that shallow.

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:47 AM (lwiT4)

Not shallow, you are just verifying that it's not Yoko.

I may or may not have clicked on it a few times myself.

Posted by: moki at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (V+V48)

97
It's a thing of beauty, is it not?

Once in a while, he's nice to us 'ettes.

Ahem.

Posted by: Shep Smith at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (oVJmc)

98 Wow, a barrel feeding this early?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 20, 2017 09:49 AM (tRaq7)

99 Marie Francois Firmin Girard (1838 - 1921) was a small town boy who made it big in the big city of Paris.

His great-great-granddaughter, Fran 'Extra-Firm' Gerard was a big artistic hit as well in 1967.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 20, 2017 09:49 AM (JO9+V)

100 I may or may not have clicked on it a few times myself.
Posted by: moki at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (V+V4

I bet you did...

Posted by: Insomniac at September 20, 2017 09:49 AM (NWiLs)

101 The guys there by the wheelbarrow are digging for rutabagas.

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:49 AM (lwiT4)

102 And the French are pissing it all away. Makes me sad.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at September 20, 2017 09:39 AM (PFy0L)

Well, to be fair, they are French!

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 20, 2017 09:49 AM (gwPgz)

103 >>I keep clicking CBD's link. I am that shallow.

I've got a couple glam shots of me in a thong if you're interested.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:49 AM (/tuJf)

104 There is a sniper somewhere up there...It's a trap!

Posted by: Strobe at September 20, 2017 09:50 AM (gbWkA)

105 Husband and I always laugh about the fact that Mass ran 15-20 minutes longer because of the French vs English. French being a very flowery language.
Posted by: never enough caffeine

Look, anytime someone wants to go on about French being an awesome language, I just recall how their word for swimming pool ("piscine") is pronounced.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 20, 2017 09:50 AM (AM1GF)

106 94 Same as they have done elsewhere, it will be converted to a mosque.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (y3sT9)

Complete with AK-47s in the basement.

Posted by: Hikaru at September 20, 2017 09:50 AM (XMDuf)

107 CBD purposefully pleasing grammie and bluebell?

Something is up.

Posted by: blaster at September 20, 2017 09:50 AM (r6yYr)

108 Looks like its crumbling a bit at the edges. Maybe tear it down and replace it with a yuuuuge luxurious casino.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 20, 2017 09:51 AM (/qEW2)

109 I've got a couple glam shots of me in a thong if you're interested.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:49 AM (/tuJf)
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Maybe. Maybe not. Depends if you're sporting a mullet. If so, then yes.

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:51 AM (lwiT4)

110 The guys there by the wheelbarrow are digging for rutabagas.

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"Rutabagas?, this is a rutabaga?"

Posted by: Anita Miu thinking it's a ginseng aphrodisiac at September 20, 2017 09:51 AM (suO/a)

111 From last thread:

"it seems Illinois is $16 billion in the hole and still digging. No word of when they'll emerge in Beijing."

Fun fact: the city of Pekin, IL (across the Illinois River from Peoria) allegedly was so named because its 1830s era founders (mistakenly) believed that it was directly on the other side of the globe from Pekin/Peking -- the name English speaking people gave to Beijing in the 19th century. Its high school sports teams were nicknamed the Chinks up until (I think) the 1970s; now they are called the Dragons.

Posted by: Secret Square at September 20, 2017 09:51 AM (+HoK2)

112 Same as they have done elsewhere, it will be converted to a mosque.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (y3sT9)

As befits an invading conqueror, they have a ceremony for this called "Breaking the Crosses", after that it's muz property until the end of time (which increasingly seems like it can't come soon enough).

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 20, 2017 09:52 AM (gwPgz)

113 CBD purposefully pleasing grammie and bluebell?

Something is up.
Posted by: blaster at September 20, 2017 09:50 AM (r6yYr)
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And moki, too.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. He's trying to get us to trust him again.

Next time it will be a link to that picture of JackStraw in a thong that he's so anxious for us to see.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:52 AM (UoSKV)

114 CBD purposefully pleasing grammie and bluebell?

Something is up.

Posted by: blaster at September 20, 2017 09:50 AM (r6yYr)
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Jewish New Year. He's turning over a new leaf.

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:52 AM (lwiT4)

115 > 101
The guys there by the wheelbarrow are digging for rutabagas.
They are burying the sniper victims.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at September 20, 2017 09:52 AM (EAFEJ)

116 Look, anytime someone wants to go on about French being an awesome language, I just recall how their word for swimming pool ("piscine") is pronounced.

IIANM, their official pronunciation of "pipeline" is "peepleen."

But the main problem with their language is that they don't have a word for "entrepreneur."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 20, 2017 09:52 AM (tRaq7)

117 It's no Sonobi.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (XFue2)

118 Newman's eyes are blue even in a black and white print.

Posted by: Roy at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (7n4KQ)

119 >>Next time it will be a link to that picture of JackStraw in a thong that he's so anxious for us to see.

They are high art. Everyone should be exposed to my art.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (/tuJf)

120
CBD purposefully pleasing grammie and bluebell?

Something is up.

Posted by: blaster at September 20, 2017 09:50 AM (r6yYr)

I have a feeling at a certain point he's going to rick-roll that link from Newman to Yoko.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (EgwCt)

121 Well, to be fair, they are French!
Posted by: Hrothgar
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Vive la France!

Posted by: Philippe Pétain at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (y3sT9)

122 Newman's eyes are blue even in a black and white print.

Posted by: Roy at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (7n4KQ)
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I know. Aren't they lovely?

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:54 AM (lwiT4)

123 > The guys there by the wheelbarrow are digging for rutabagas.

Or, they're muzzies planting IEDs

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at September 20, 2017 09:54 AM (EAFEJ)

124 Next time it will be a link to that picture of JackStraw in a thong that he's so anxious for us to see.

That London Boys link?

Posted by: Roy at September 20, 2017 09:54 AM (7n4KQ)

125 Islam has some very beautiful art, though.

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 09:42 AM (nwqNw)

You might like a book called "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk. It is about, among other things, a struggle in medieval Islam as to what kind of art is permitted.

There were strictures on subject matter and things had to be miniatures and our protagonist is trying to break out and do original art. It's an allegory, of course, but it's quite good.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 09:54 AM (gIRsn)

126 Everyone should be exposed to my art.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (/tuJf)
==========================

Please don't say exposed.

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:54 AM (lwiT4)

127 You're Minkee?

Is this your minkee?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 20, 2017 09:55 AM (EyPfd)

128 In my daily email from the NYT, an article says that if only Hillary had offered every American a check each month (guaranteed annual income) she could have beaten Trump....

I doubt that.......

Posted by: Colin at September 20, 2017 09:55 AM (rd8dF)

129 I only clicked it once.

*opens new tab*

Posted by: Infidel at September 20, 2017 09:55 AM (bfUpy)

130 >>CBD purposefully pleasing grammie and bluebell?

And Lizzy!
Hasn't earned my trust back yet, though...

Posted by: Lizzy at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (W+vEI)

131 They are high art. Everyone should be exposed to my art.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (/tuJf)

This way of thinking leads to restraining orders.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (NWiLs)

132 They are high art. Everyone should be exposed to my art.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (/tuJf)
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I think we already were. Male Model Resting, right?

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (UoSKV)

133 Once in a while, he's nice to us 'ettes.
Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM

Perhaps that's about to change. According to an email this morning, the subject of which is (and I am not kidding):

"Pure CBD- Over the counter no prescription required!"

it appears that you can now access CBD at will, with no need for a troublesome Doctor visit and pharmacy interaction.

Pure CBD without a prescription. Remember, though, with great power comes great responsibility.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (ctuyM)

134 >>Please don't say exposed.

It's a rather small thong.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (/tuJf)

135 What's happening with Cold Fury? A couple of days ago, browser said the site could not be found. Now it's showing that the domain registration has expired.
Is Mike OK? Does he need financial help to pay for registration? Does he need someone to buy the domain name to hang on to it for him until he resurfaces?
Very puzzled by this mysterious disappearance. He just posted a new article a week ago, but the site disappeared before I could read it. Did he announce a cessation of blogging? I would expect the disappearance of a popular voice like Mike's to be noticed and commented on widely, but I haven't seen a word.

Posted by: pa at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (yBKcn)

136 In my daily email from the NYT, an article says that if only Hillary had offered every American a check each month (guaranteed annual income) she could have beaten Trump....

For $10K a month, I'da considered voting for Her Heinous.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (tRaq7)

137 It is with deep regret that I am announcing today I am taking my M1 Garand to the gun range to be put on consignment sale today.

Age and a recent permanent shoulder injury are preventing me from shooting it like I want to. Someone needs to be able to enjoy shooting this rifle instead of it just sitting in my gun safe. He says he has three people interested in it already.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 20, 2017 09:57 AM (+Dllb)

138 That'll make a most excellent mosque, once we smash all the 'art'

Posted by: Pierre Al_Muhammad at September 20, 2017 09:57 AM (oGRue)

139 But the main problem with their language is that they don't have a word for "entrepreneur."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 20, 2017 09:52 AM (tRaq7)

To be fair, I think they coined the phrase laissez faire, but then promptly removed it from the dictionaire francais!

Surprisingly enough, the phrase lever le drapeau blanc is still in there!

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 20, 2017 09:57 AM (gwPgz)

140 I think we already were. Male Model Resting, right?

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (UoSKV)

On a par w/Mapplethorpe....imo.

Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2017 09:57 AM (GiOiK)

141 >>...if only Hillary had offered every American a check each month (guaranteed annual income) she could have beaten Trump....

And that's why you got Trump.
These people have no understanding of the other half of America.
Hint: We don't want moar government.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 20, 2017 09:57 AM (W+vEI)

142 That kind of exposure can get you an arrest record. Plus sniggering.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:57 AM (R2RYK)

143 49 Needs more hunchback.
Posted by: Roland THTG at September 20, 2017 09:40 AM (QM5S2)

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what hunchback?

Posted by: Eyegore at September 20, 2017 09:58 AM (oGRue)

144 It is with deep regret that I am announcing today I am taking my M1 Garand to the gun range to be put on consignment sale today.

Age and a recent permanent shoulder injury are preventing me from shooting it like I want to. Someone needs to be able to enjoy shooting this rifle instead of it just sitting in my gun safe. He says he has three people interested in it already.

Ah, that's hard to say goodbye. Kudos to you to make sure it has a good home and isn't just sitting in a safe.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at September 20, 2017 09:58 AM (tVWQB)

145 They are high art. Everyone should be exposed to my art.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:53 AM (/tuJf)
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I think we already were. Male Model Resting, right?

Posted by: bluebell

If there's an ottoman involved, I'm out.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 20, 2017 09:58 AM (AM1GF)

146 58 Anna Puma (HQCaR)

I knew you would get that one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 20, 2017 09:58 AM (hyuyC)

147 Kris, you're right about Islamic art. It can be beautiful.

I was lucky enough to be able to tour Shangri-La, Doris Duke's former home, with her extensive collection of Islamic art, much of it very rare. It is exquisite.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 09:59 AM (UoSKV)

148 Look, anytime someone wants to go on about
French being an awesome language, I just recall how their word for
swimming pool ("piscine") is pronounced.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 20, 2017 09:50 AM

OTOH, there's their word for seal.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 20, 2017 09:59 AM (ctuyM)

149 Oh my, CBD..finally something for the ladies. *fans self furiously*..it's getting so hot in here

Posted by: IC at September 20, 2017 09:59 AM (gcme+)

150 Lupe garou du Paris aaaahhhooooooo!!!!!!

Eeehhh, goes back to grooming hair.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:59 AM (R2RYK)

151 Well, nice postcard. Hope when you bought it the memories were good.

Poor France.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 09:59 AM (MIKMs)

152 >>But the main problem with their language is that they don't have a word for "entrepreneur."

Accept for the word "entrepreneur". Which is French.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 09:59 AM (/tuJf)

153 >>They are high art. Everyone should be exposed to my art.

"Dude, just don't do it. Really."
-- Bret Favre and Anthony Weiner

Posted by: Lizzy at September 20, 2017 09:59 AM (W+vEI)

154
Expose yourself to art. One of the greatest gag photos ever taken.

https://www.amazon.com/Framed-Art-Expose-
Yourself-Ryerson/dp/B01L8KN5M0

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 10:00 AM (EgwCt)

155 " That kind of exposure can get you an arrest record. Plus sniggering."

Victim: Your Honor, I was traumatized

Judge: By what?

V: His penis

J: where?

V: It's right there in the photo, your Honor

J: Still not seeing it.

V: You may need the magnifying glass.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 20, 2017 10:00 AM (EyPfd)

156 So we did this HIV health fair thing at the local Divinity School. Not for the students or anything but as a symposium for the local "faith community" in an effort to get them up to speed, enlist their help whatever.

Meh. Mostly it was only the usual suspects, plus an Imam this time. In many ways it really doesn't have a lot to do with them and it's a fool's errand. Most wanted basic stuff, procedural things. Can they catch it from the baptismal, what if they faint etc. Some were interested in ministries but I don't know to what extent.

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at September 20, 2017 10:00 AM (LItx4)

157 Interesting to see a familiar landmark as it would have looked in a different time.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 20, 2017 10:01 AM (KUaJL)

158 Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 09:44 AM (lwiT4)

Yes, it can. There are even depictions of Mohammed.

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 10:01 AM (nwqNw)

159 When GP is up, I expect all of the 'ettes are gonna willow themselves for Cool Hand Luke.

Posted by: Roy at September 20, 2017 10:01 AM (7n4KQ)

160 You're Minkee?
Is this your minkee?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 20, 2017 09:55 AM (EyPfd)

Hahaha...now that's funny!

Peter Sellers was a hoot.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 20, 2017 10:02 AM (5VlCp)

161 >>>Interesting to see a familiar landmark as it would have looked in a different time.

Part of the briefing packet prior to time machine usage.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 20, 2017 10:02 AM (dluXH)

162 He says he has three people interested in it already.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 20, 2017 09:57 AM (+Dllb)

You should give The Horde first dibs!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 10:02 AM (wYseH)

163
Paul Newman with a cigarette in his hand? Oh, the horror!

*faints*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2017 10:03 AM (BWL+E)

164 Yes, it can. There are even depictions of Mohammed. Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 10:01 AM (nwqNw)
=====

I remember some depiction of Barak (the magical horse?) that reminded me of Sleipnir.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 10:03 AM (MIKMs)

165 Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 09:59 AM (R2RYK)

But how were the pina coladas at le Traidair Veecs?

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 20, 2017 10:03 AM (gwPgz)

166 You should give The Horde first dibs!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 10:02 AM (wYseH)

He'll end up with a third party out-of-state check with a punch hole through it.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 10:03 AM (EgwCt)

167 I get the sense that this was painted after morning showers (rain, not by the people)

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at September 20, 2017 10:03 AM (oGRue)

168 But how were the pina coladas at le Traidair Veecs?

Tres bien, merci

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 10:04 AM (R2RYK)

169 Interesting to see a familiar landmark as it would have looked in a different time.

==

yes. good point. I enjoy that as well. Canaletto's painings are interesting for that.

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 10:04 AM (QC/4S)

170 163
Paul Newman with a cigarette in his hand? Oh, the horror!

*faints*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2017 10:03 AM (BWL+E)

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just imagine his sucking that in...

Posted by: Shep S. at September 20, 2017 10:05 AM (oGRue)

171 >>>>
He says he has three people interested in it already.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 20, 2017 09:57 AM (+Dllb)

You should give The Horde first dibs!
.
.Truthfully if I knew someone who really would go out and shoot it and keep it and not just turn around and sell it for a $1,000 I would give it to them with a metric butt ton of ammo.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 20, 2017 10:05 AM (+Dllb)

172 164 I remember some depiction of Barak (the magical horse?) that reminded me of Sleipnir.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 10:03 AM (MIKMs)

"Give him a lick, he tastes just like raisins."

--Reggie Love(?)

Posted by: Hikaru at September 20, 2017 10:05 AM (XMDuf)

173 Favorite Newman movie

Cool Hand Luke or The Hustler

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 10:05 AM (ODr92)

174 93 Do you think the Muslims will destroy Notre Dame, or will it be more along the lines of the Hagia Sophia?
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter
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Same as they have done elsewhere, it will be converted to a mosque.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 20, 2017 09:48 AM (y3sT9)

But the Louvre, on the other hand...

Posted by: rickl at September 20, 2017 10:06 AM (xjiRE)

175 Ah Paris....I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.

Posted by: rammajamma at September 20, 2017 10:06 AM (AjNMO)

176 Cool Hand Luke or The Hustler

Hmmmm...

Posted by: Hombre at September 20, 2017 10:06 AM (gIRsn)

177 Don't think CBD ever bothered with Canaletto...it's all Caravaggio this, Caravaggio that ...(Please don't ban me !)

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (QC/4S)

178 Speaking of Sleipnir

Still got time to enter this little writing contest for Baen. Wonder what Muldoon would write.

http://www.baen.com/contests-september2017

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (R2RYK)

179
I remember a customer I had. Would write me bad checks all the time. Nicest guy. Really. But he'd constantly write me bad checks that came back insufficient funds.

One time I got pissed off and kept redepositing the check. It bounced like three times and finally came back to me with a punch hole through it. I assumed that meant something serious.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (EgwCt)

180 Hud

Posted by: rammajamma at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (AjNMO)

181 >>Cool Hand Luke or The Hustler

Don't forget Slapshot. Where he played both an aging hockey player and an entrepreneur.

Which is French.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (/tuJf)

182 We use to live in the same town as Paul Newman. Unfortunately, I never saw him. Met his daughter once.

Clearly, NOT the same thing.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (Enq6K)

183 CBD put that up for the Jewish Holiday. Looks like he's wearing the Star of David.

Posted by: Infidel at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (bfUpy)

184 In the spirit of Marvel retconning, I'm working on a musical in which the Phantom of the Opera and Quasimodo become gay lovers.

Posted by: Shep Smith at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (/qEW2)

185 Truthfully if I knew someone who really would go out
and shoot it and keep it and not just turn around and sell it for a
$1,000 I would give it to them with a metric butt ton of ammo.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 20, 2017 10:05 AM

If y'all are in Texas, I believe we could make that happen with no problem.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (ctuyM)

186 It took me a few seconds to realize what you meant Salty Dawg. Almost slid by.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 10:08 AM (R2RYK)

187 I'll repeat from yesterday, it's my opinion that France is the real cause of most of the world's problems. Admittedly they are also a big reason why the USA exists today. Might call it a wash.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 10:08 AM (ODr92)

188 We use to live in the same town as Paul Newman. Unfortunately, I never saw him. Met his daughter once.

Clearly, NOT the same thing.
Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (Enq6K)
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What, and you didn't follow her home and hide in the shrubbery until he came outside? And you call yourself an 'ette?

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:09 AM (UoSKV)

189 By the way, now that Trump has called out the disaster of socialism, do you think the MFM would do a story on Venezuela?

Anything going on there lately?

One of the great humanitarian disasters of our day and nothing to report?

Nothing to report?

Are you kidding me?

It should be the lead story every night.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2017 10:09 AM (ATVNj)

190 Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM (/tuJf)

Wool by the pool.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 10:10 AM (ODr92)

191 For Grammie, "Joseph sold into slavery in Egypt"

http://tinyurl.com/ybhxpnkf

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 10:10 AM (nwqNw)

192 Looks like he's wearing the Star of David.

Not quite. He was a Raelian:

http://bit.ly/2xvnoOa

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 10:10 AM (gIRsn)

193 Did anyone see the article in the sidebar about Miami handing out safety/building code violations immediately after the hurricane for hurricane-related damage?

WTF?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:11 AM (vg8iE)

194 If i did this right, approximate same location today from google street view

https://tinyurl.com/ybxcucyd

Posted by: Shep S. at September 20, 2017 10:11 AM (oGRue)

195 What, and you didn't follow her home and hide in the shrubbery until he came outside? And you call yourself an 'ette?

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:09 AM (UoSKV)

It's a shame I live with....

Actually, I knew where he lived...was only a couple of miles from my house. Drove past it several times...imagined myself doing an 'I love Lucy' by climbing over the wall.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:11 AM (Enq6K)

196 136 In my daily email from the NYT, an article says that if only Hillary had offered every American a check each month (guaranteed annual income) she could have beaten Trump....

For $10K a month, I'da considered voting for Her Heinous.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (tRaq7)

If everyone received $10k per month, the cost of goods and services would increase astronomically,mas would revenue from taxes, so that within one or two production cycles, the money would be nearly worthless.

It would have the effect of both impoverishing the masses and exploding the size of government.

I'm surprised Hillary didn't offer it.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at September 20, 2017 10:11 AM (TdMsT)

197
168 But how were the pina coladas at le Traidair Veecs?

Tres bien, merci

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 10:04 AM (R2RYK)

Meh. They're okay.

Martinis from Narbonne on the other hand.....

Posted by: Beast of Gevaudan at September 20, 2017 10:12 AM (veoSD)

198 193 Did anyone see the article in the sidebar about Miami handing out safety/building code violations immediately after the hurricane for hurricane-related damage?
_____________________________________

They did the same thing in New Orleans in 2005.

I was there for relief operations and ARMED building inspectors (AR-15s) were handing out violations for people repairing their homes without building permits.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2017 10:12 AM (ATVNj)

199 Well, France's not been doing well last century or so...was just your average colonial empire before that, with a flare for diplomacy and conquest, fashion and revolution.

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 10:12 AM (QC/4S)

200 Actually, I knew where he lived...was only a couple of miles from my house. Drove past it several times...imagined myself doing an 'I love Lucy' by climbing over the wall.
Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:11 AM (Enq6K)
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Oh my word. I so wish I knew you then. I would have made a good Ethel to your Lucy.

What might have been. Sigh.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:13 AM (UoSKV)

201 WTH?

Posted by: Infidel at September 20, 2017 10:14 AM (bfUpy)

202 They did the same thing in New Orleans in 2005.

I was there for relief operations and ARMED building inspectors
(AR-15s) were handing out violations for people repairing their homes
without building permits.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2017 10:12 AM (ATVNj)

Democrat run Hell. Got to make sure they get those taxes regardless of the misery.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:14 AM (mpXpK)

203 For Grammie, "Joseph sold into slavery in Egypt"

http://tinyurl.com/ybhxpnkf

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 10:10 AM (nwqNw)
===========================

Beautiful.

Posted by: grammie winger - Shanah Tovah at September 20, 2017 10:14 AM (lwiT4)

204 Newman? Stealing scenes from him was like taking candy from a blue-eyed baby.

Posted by: Strother Martin at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (XCWds)

205 Oh my word. I so wish I knew you then. I would have made a good Ethel to your Lucy.

What might have been. Sigh.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:13 AM (UoSKV)

IKR?! Next life!

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (Enq6K)

206 Democrat run Hell. Got to make sure they get those taxes regardless of the misery.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:14 AM (mpXpK)

=========

Doing what they have always done - profit off of human misery.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (vg8iE)

207 To all the sick liberals who thought the hurricanes were karma for Texas for supporting Trump:

Any thoughts about Mexico's two massive earthquakes and hurricane in the past month?

Any witty quotes from that smartass greaseball Vicente Fox?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (ATVNj)

208 I read a story somewhere, probably here, that the Greenwich cops would set up speed traps at the foot of Newman's driveway and he'd come out with a folding chair and some beers and hang with them.

It sounded right.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (gIRsn)

209 @192 weird shit

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (QC/4S)

210 Update: After publication Reason received comment from Miami-Dade county, with the following explanation:

We were looking to advise residents of the following hazards on their properties that they may not have been aware of, but that pose a life safety threat: damaged structures that rendered them unsafe, unsecured pools with no barriers, electrical hazards (down lines, damaged meters) and gas hazards (damaged meters). If any of these hazards were found, our inspectors gave out a safety notice, which is neither a notice of violation warning nor a citation. That means there is no fine attached. The safety notices given to property owners identify the hazard, steps that should be taken to correct the hazard, and who to contact for additional information.

Doesn't seem that big-brotherish. Safety notice.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (EgwCt)

211 We use to live in the same town as Paul Newman. Unfortunately, I never saw him. Met his daughter once.
Clearly, NOT the same thing.
Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM
~~~~~

I saw him once in NYC during lunch hour, and I have reason to believe he always remembered our encounter. In fact, I would bet he told the story many times to friends over a beer.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (HiDrR)

212 I still buy Newman's Own salad dressing. It is good and 100% of the profits go to charity.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (mpXpK)

213 208 I read a story somewhere, probably here, that the Greenwich cops would set up speed traps at the foot of Newman's driveway and he'd come out with a folding chair and some beers and hang with them.

It sounded right.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (gIRsn)

Except he didn't live in Greenwich.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (Enq6K)

214 We were looking to advise residents of the following hazards on their properties that they may not have been aware of, but that pose a life safety threat: damaged structures that rendered them unsafe, unsecured pools with no barriers, electrical hazards (down lines, damaged meters) and gas hazards (damaged meters). If any of these hazards were found, our inspectors gave out a safety notice, which is neither a notice of violation warning nor a citation. That means there is no fine attached. The safety notices given to property owners identify the hazard, steps that should be taken to correct the hazard, and who to contact for additional information.

Doesn't seem that big-brotherish. Safety notice.
========

Translation: You're too fucking stupid to know what's what.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:17 AM (vg8iE)

215 Except he didn't live in Greenwich.

Oh, somewhere down in the money belt of CT. Was it Fairfield?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 10:17 AM (gIRsn)

216 " I would give it to them with a metric butt ton of ammo. "

I can have a copy of my FFL-03 to you in moments.

With an oath to never sell it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 20, 2017 10:17 AM (EyPfd)

217 I saw him once in NYC during lunch hour, and I have reason to believe he always remembered our encounter. In fact, I would bet he told the story many times to friends over a beer.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (HiDrR)

He did. I think he even wrote about it for our local newspaper. Yep. He was fond of you.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:18 AM (Enq6K)

218 Don't know much about Newman/Woodward other than they have aged gracefully. Astonishing for Hollywood people.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 10:18 AM (MIKMs)

219 How is the Socialist East Coast enclaves reacting to a storm named Jose giving them miserable weather?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 10:19 AM (R2RYK)

220 Oh, somewhere down in the money belt of CT. Was it Fairfield?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 10:17 AM (gIRsn)

Westport

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:19 AM (Enq6K)

221 How is the Socialist East Coast enclaves reacting to a storm named Jose giving them miserable weather?
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They hope to give it sanctuary and room to destroy.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:19 AM (vg8iE)

222 213 208 I read a story somewhere, probably here, that the Greenwich cops would set up speed traps at the foot of Newman's driveway and he'd come out with a folding chair and some beers and hang with them.

It sounded right.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (gIRsn)

Except he didn't live in Greenwich.
Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (Enq6K)

--

so we drove a bit just to hang with him

Posted by: Greenwich cops at September 20, 2017 10:19 AM (oGRue)

223 I saw Newman at Lime Rock once. Didn't get to meet him but he seemed like a pretty normal guy who just happened to be absurdly handsome and rich.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:19 AM (/tuJf)

224 211 We use to live in the same town as Paul Newman. Unfortunately, I never saw him. Met his daughter once.
Clearly, NOT the same thing.
Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM
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I saw him once in NYC during lunch hour, and I have reason to believe he always remembered our encounter. In fact, I would bet he told the story many times to friends over a beer.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (HiDrR)

So you spilled hot coffee on him?

(I keed, I keed.)

Posted by: joncelli, Ray of Freakin' Sunshine at September 20, 2017 10:19 AM (RD7QR)

225 He did. I think he even wrote about it for our local newspaper. Yep. He was fond of you.
Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:18 AM
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Thank you for the affirmation, Tami! I KNEW it!

Posted by: IrishEi at September 20, 2017 10:20 AM (HiDrR)

226 225 comments in and we are still talking about Paul Newman. I hope CBD sees this and realizes that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Or I guess more 'ettes with Newman than with Ono.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:21 AM (UoSKV)

227 Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2017 10:09 AM (ATVNj)

Like with Somalia, where *all* sides were muslim, except the tiny Christian minority that was wiped out, global media chose to pretend that decades of violence never happened. Their "compassion" is perfectly satisfied to let millions suffer and die if there isn't a narrative-friendly scaoegoat to pin the problems on.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 20, 2017 10:21 AM (rp9xB)

228 224 211 We use to live in the same town as Paul Newman. Unfortunately, I never saw him. Met his daughter once.
Clearly, NOT the same thing.
Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:07 AM
~~~~~

I saw him once in NYC during lunch hour, and I have reason to believe he always remembered our encounter. In fact, I would bet he told the story many times to friends over a beer.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (HiDrR)

So you spilled hot coffee on him?

(I keed, I keed.)
Posted by: joncelli, Ray of Freakin' Sunshine at September 20, 2017 10:19 AM (RD7QR)

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Must be the restraining order

Posted by: Greenwich cops at September 20, 2017 10:21 AM (oGRue)

229 Westport

I could have looked that up, but looking things up is cheating.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 10:22 AM (gIRsn)

230 I saw Newman at Lime Rock once. Didn't get to meet him but he seemed like a pretty normal guy who just happened to be absurdly handsome and rich.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:19 AM (/tuJf)
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And you didn't call me????? Some friend.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:22 AM (UoSKV)

231 218 Don't know much about Newman/Woodward other than they have aged gracefully. Astonishing for Hollywood people.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 10:18 AM (MIKMs)

He passed away in 2008...a year after we moved.

He obviously was crushed when I left.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:22 AM (Enq6K)

232 Translation: You're too fucking stupid to know what's what.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:17 AM (vg8iE)

Could be. I doubt a widow would have the presence of mind or experience to identify a broken gas or electric meter. Electric supply line hanging by a thread.

It's just a notice.

I've dealt with the cream of the crop for totalitarianism, OSHA. They don't give out a warning notice. It costs a business hundreds of dollars per hour as they nit-pick around, writing up everything under the sun.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 10:22 AM (EgwCt)

233 Here is an article that shows many images of Mohammed.

http://tinyurl.com/pth94wq

Posted by: Kris at September 20, 2017 10:22 AM (nwqNw)

234 135 What's happening with Cold Fury? A couple of days ago, browser said the site could not be found. Now it's showing that the domain registration has expired.
Is Mike OK? Does he need financial help to pay for registration? Does he need someone to buy the domain name to hang on to it for him until he resurfaces?
Very puzzled by this mysterious disappearance. He just posted a new article a week ago, but the site disappeared before I could read it. Did he announce a cessation of blogging? I would expect the disappearance of a popular voice like Mike's to be noticed and commented on widely, but I haven't seen a word.
Posted by: pa at September 20, 2017 09:56 AM (yBKcn)

Digging around at Daily Pundit (where you can find his posts occassionally), he forgot to renew his domain name.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 20, 2017 10:22 AM (jxbfJ)

235 "Doesn't seem that big-brotherish. Safety notice. "

Wonder if they were driving around in pickup trucks to do this.

The type of vehicles which might be suitable for moving debris, or heavy tools or equipment.

But hey...priorities, right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 20, 2017 10:22 AM (EyPfd)

236 For those who might care whom Salty Dawg and I are referring to, the name is Bill Mauldin.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 10:23 AM (R2RYK)

237 I saw him once in NYC during lunch hour, and I have reason to believe he always remembered our encounter. In fact, I would bet he told the story many times to friends over a beer.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (HiDrR)

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So i'm just having a quiet lunch and outta nowhere this nutbar starts humping my leg and begging for a pubic hair.

i gave here three...

Posted by: Greenwich cops at September 20, 2017 10:23 AM (oGRue)

238 He passed away in 2008...
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Shows how much I know about any of those people.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 10:24 AM (MIKMs)

239 Paul Newman was a BIG lib, no?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:24 AM (vg8iE)

240 226 225 comments in and we are still talking about Paul Newman. I hope CBD sees this and realizes that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Or I guess more 'ettes with Newman than with Ono.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:21 AM (UoSKV)

Newman is delish in that photo. I met him and JoAnn Woodward a couple of times in the 1980s at Kenyon College. He is an alumnus and she was involved in the Kenyon Festival Theater, which ran out of funds after a few years because it was run by a bunch of ignorant liberals.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at September 20, 2017 10:25 AM (TdMsT)

241 I'll repeat from yesterday, it's my opinion that France is the real cause of most of the world's problems. Admittedly they are also a big reason why the USA exists today. Might call it a wash.

Posted by: Jack Sock

They were proto-Marxists, there's that. In the 20th century, as far as importing Islam goes, all of Europe has been guilty of importing it, not just them. I think the cause of most of the world's problems was Hitler. People were rightly horrified by what he did, but a lot of people who were never associated with anything Nazi felt a misplaced sense of guilt and decided that western civilization needed to be destroyed, or at least diluted. Hitler's error did not so much cause a reaction that was a *correction* as it did a reaction that was simply another error, equally as bad.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 20, 2017 10:26 AM (/qEW2)

242 This is one lovely, pleasant work of art. The level of detail in the spires and other stonework is intriguing. The brown and tan earth colors against the muted blue of the sky is relaxing but not dull. There is activity in the figures but no sense of a frenetic pace. As I said, it is pleasant and simply nice to view.

I don't know Giraud stands with the 'critics'. I do know I have enjoyed each of his paintings I've seen.

Posted by: JTB at September 20, 2017 10:26 AM (V+03K)

243 Maybe DeBolshevik will erect a monument to Jose....

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 10:26 AM (R2RYK)

244 >>And you didn't call me????? Some friend.

I like to keep a low profile in public. A screaming, fainting woman would have blown my cover.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:27 AM (/tuJf)

245 I still buy Newman's Own salad dressing. It is good and 100% of the profits go to charity.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (mpXpK)

Yeah me too. At first I thought it would be crap, but its actually good.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2017 10:27 AM (aMlLZ)

246 Lady, you too???

How is it that all these 'ettes (and JackStraw, hmmm) saw or met Paul Newman and I never did?

Life is so very, very unfair. I am sad.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:27 AM (UoSKV)

247 I hear reports that a Hawaiian judge is putting a halt on any government intervention against Hurricane Jose.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 20, 2017 10:28 AM (KUaJL)

248 He obviously was crushed when I left.
Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:22 AM
~~~~~

I was always surprised he could live with himself after cruelly laughing at my humiliation. Perhaps it finally got to him.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 20, 2017 10:28 AM (HiDrR)

249 The comment track on the Slapshot DVD is done by the Hanson brothers. They hardly talk about the movie, or movie-making, and mostly about who could skate. Some of the actors couldn't skate at all and were shot from the knees up. The various goons from the other teams were actual minor league hockey players.

Michael Ontkean played for UNH, so he could skate, and apparently hated the Hansons as much as his character did.

Paul Newman could skate. The Hansons said that as high praise.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 20, 2017 10:28 AM (gIRsn)

250 I like to keep a low profile in public. A screaming, fainting woman would have blown my cover.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:27 AM (/tuJf)
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Low profile. This, from the guy who was offering his glamour shots wearing a thong upthread.

By the way, you're always promising those.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:29 AM (UoSKV)

251 The Great War led many in Europe to conclude it was all pointless. World War II just shoved that boulder over the cliff.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 10:29 AM (R2RYK)

252
I remember when Sandy came through and I noticed a widow-maker branch was hanging directly over the neighbors driveway. They probably never would have noticed it. Right where their kids would be standing for the school bus.

I could have ignored it. But I flagged them down. Drew their attention to the problem. They seemed pleased that I let them know. They dealt with the problem quickly.

So I can see another side to the story.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 10:29 AM (EgwCt)

253 Very cool painting. The detail on the building is incredible.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2017 10:30 AM (aMlLZ)

254 >>By the way, you're always promising those.

I'm very proud of that thong.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:30 AM (/tuJf)

255 Very cool painting. The detail on the building is incredible.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2017 10:30 AM (aMlLZ)
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Painting, schmainting. Did you ever meet Paul Newman?

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:31 AM (UoSKV)

256 Paul Newman was a BIG lib, no?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:24 AM (vg8iE)

Ummmm....Yes. Which is why George Kennedy enjoyed punching the dog crap outta him.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 20, 2017 10:32 AM (5VlCp)

257 "So I can see another side to the story."

True.
There are often unseen hazards created in weather events like this.

But the one that struck me in the article was where the fence around the pool was destroyed, and the inspector found the one remaining upright section to put the notice that basically said "Your fence is down. Moose at the front should have told you"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 20, 2017 10:32 AM (EyPfd)

258 Oh, I'm already starting to get "ZOMG!!! Call your Senator and urge them not to vote for the healthcare bill! Save Medicaid! ZOMG!"

I will try to paste the text into a separate comment and pray I don't get barreled.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:32 AM (vg8iE)

259 >>>Oh my, CBD..finally something for the ladies. *fans self furiously*..it's getting so hot in here

Ugh... this Newman person is just gross. Too butch for my taste.

Posted by: Sally Kohn at September 20, 2017 10:32 AM (/qEW2)

260 Sally bless your heart, Ethan Krupp is too masculine for your tastes.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 20, 2017 10:33 AM (R2RYK)

261
By the way, you're always promising those.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:29 AM (UoSKV)

You spelled "threatening" wrong.

Posted by: blaster at September 20, 2017 10:33 AM (ayjN1)

262 Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 20, 2017 10:26 AM (/qEW2)

France's actions after WWI directly led to the rise of Hitler, IMO.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 10:34 AM (ODr92)

263 By the way, you're always promising those.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:29 AM (UoSKV)

You spelled "threatening" wrong.
Posted by: blaster at September 20, 2017 10:33 AM (ayjN1)
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Always promising/threatening, yet never delivering.

Posted by: bluebell at September 20, 2017 10:34 AM (UoSKV)

264 Sorry about the typos above in my comment.

I thought it was interesting how the painting last week of the cowboys roping the wolf uses the same basic color scheme but its impression of thundering noise and violent activity differs so much from this work.

Posted by: JTB at September 20, 2017 10:35 AM (V+03K)

265 >>You spelled "threatening" wrong.

Et tu, Brute?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:36 AM (/tuJf)

266 241 They were proto-Marxists, there's that. In the 20th century, as far as importing Islam goes, all of Europe has been guilty of importing it, not just them. I think the cause of most of the world's problems was Hitler. People were rightly horrified by what he did, but a lot of people who were never associated with anything Nazi felt a misplaced sense of guilt and decided that western civilization needed to be destroyed, or at least diluted. Hitler's error did not so much cause a reaction that was a *correction* as it did a reaction that was simply another error, equally as bad.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 20, 2017 10:26 AM (/qEW2)

How do they get past the cognitive dissonance of the Nazis and the Muslims having been on the same side?

Posted by: Hikaru at September 20, 2017 10:36 AM (WDCYi)

267 Hmmm, won't let me copy/paste the text. Needless to say, phrases like:

"Just when everyone thought we had a breather from fighting efforts to cut and cap Medicaid, things have changed once again in the Senate. Medicaid opponents could bring another piece of health care legislation to the Senate floor before the end of September."

"It is crucial that Senate Leaders not bring this bill before the Senate. Please contact your lawmakers today and ask them to oppose this ill-conceived bill."

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:37 AM (vg8iE)

268 "How do they get past the cognitive dissonance of the Nazis and the Muslims having been on the same side?"

It's complicated.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 20, 2017 10:37 AM (EyPfd)

269 Translation: You're too fucking stupid to know what's what.

Yeah, thanks Mr. or Ms. Inspector-type-person. I would never have noticed any damage from the hurricane that just went through a few hours ago if you hadn't written me a safety citation.

Sheesh...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 20, 2017 10:37 AM (tRaq7)

270 Adam Carolla made a pretty good documentary about Newman and his car racing.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 10:38 AM (ODr92)

271 Good Lord this has been a morning already! I get on FB and apparently someone hacked my brothers FB page and his wifes and accusations of cheating are flying. I get on the phone and text her and apparently her phone has been hacked as well. Whoever is doing this is very good. They just got married in May and he adores her. Not believing a word of it but I can't talk to either of them because his phone is probably hacked as well.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 10:38 AM (zRZaJ)

272 How do they get past the cognitive dissonance of the Nazis and the Muslims having been on the same side?
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Pretend it never happened in the alternate universe in which they live? Just spitballin'.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:38 AM (vg8iE)

273 About 15 years ago I was privileged to see Notre Dame in person. It was majestic, with this sense of history about it and feeling that it stood for so long and so many eyes have looked on it, and all that stuff.

And the French are pissing it all away. Makes me sad.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at September 20, 2017 09:39 AM (PFy0L)

I went in July and was stunned to hear that most of it was torn down by savages in the Revolution. Much of what you see is a restoration.

The French are perfectly good at destroying their own culture; we can't blame Islamisists for everything there.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 20, 2017 10:38 AM (pBIv+)

274 Good Lord this has been a morning already! I get on FB and apparently someone hacked my brothers FB page and his wifes and accusations of cheating are flying. I get on the phone and text her and apparently her phone has been hacked as well. Whoever is doing this is very good. They just got married in May and he adores her. Not believing a word of it but I can't talk to either of them because his phone is probably hacked as well.
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Oh good lord. I know the feeling!

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at September 20, 2017 10:38 AM (vg8iE)

275 Ya gotta love this mornings headline at Breitbart:

Pentagon to Pay for Sex Change Surgeries Through Early 2018 - Will Make Exceptions After Cutoff Date.

I think I'd want to know before the cutoff.

Posted by: Zombie Eli Whitney at September 20, 2017 10:39 AM (0tfLf)

276 23 OT, forgive me. But which one you morons was in my neck of the woods and living up the AOSHQ lifestyle?
__________________

Dude was taking matters into his own hands.
He must have had a case of Deadly Semen Backpressure

Posted by: Bonecrusher at September 20, 2017 10:39 AM (JNTt1)

277 I think something other than the two world wars had to be going on beneath the surface to explain Europe's emerging suicidality. Most of human history has involved a great deal of misery. Europe does not appear to have folded up shop and waited for death after the Black Plague, for example.

Posted by: Jeffy Sessionz at September 20, 2017 10:39 AM (lDIk/)

278 France's actions after WWI directly led to the rise of Hitler, IMO.

Posted by: Jack Sock

Good point.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 20, 2017 10:39 AM (/qEW2)

279 Posted by: Hikaru at September 20, 2017 10:36 AM (WDCYi

France screwed up the Middle East and North Africa more than anyone.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 10:39 AM (ODr92)

280 Any witty quotes from that smartass greaseball Vicente Fox?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2017 10:15 AM (ATVNj)

You know all those bastard that voted for the PAN?

. . . oh, wait . .

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2017 10:41 AM (Gv+zt)

281 271 Good Lord this has been a morning already! I get on FB and apparently someone hacked my brothers FB page and his wifes and accusations of cheating are flying. I get on the phone and text her and apparently her phone has been hacked as well. Whoever is doing this is very good. They just got married in May and he adores her. Not believing a word of it but I can't talk to either of them because his phone is probably hacked as well.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 10:38 AM (zRZaJ)

No landline or office number you can call?

I've never had my cellphone hacked. How is that possible?

*And shaddup, Anthony Weiner*

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:41 AM (Enq6K)

282 France screwed up the Middle East and North Africa more than anyone.

Wait, ..., oh, you said "North" Africa.

Posted by: Belgian Congo at September 20, 2017 10:41 AM (gIRsn)

283 How about some flying buttress?
Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2017 09:30 AM (GiOiK)

Be silent, rood nave.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 20, 2017 10:42 AM (J2oJa)

284 France's actions after WWI directly led to the rise of Hitler, IMO.
Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 10:34 AM (ODr92)

You could argue the same for the Treaty of Vienna ending the Napoleonic wars.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2017 10:42 AM (Gv+zt)

285
"How do they get past the cognitive dissonance of the Nazis and the Muslims having been on the same side?"
>>>

Probably the same way they get past Stalin's teaming up with the NAZIs at the beginning in Poland.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 20, 2017 10:43 AM (r5KeJ)

286 Back in the mid-80's I was at Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia. Saw Paul Newman and an young Tom Cruise.

Number 33 Datsun 240-Z.

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at September 20, 2017 10:43 AM (jAZR9)

287 *And shaddup, Anthony Weiner*
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You can't keep me down!

The Weiner shall rise again!

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at September 20, 2017 10:44 AM (vg8iE)

288 >>I went in July and was stunned to hear that most of it was torn down by savages in the Revolution. Much of what you see is a restoration.

>>The French are perfectly good at destroying their own culture; we can't blame Islamisists for everything there.

Given how the Catholic Church treated the peasants in France they had pretty good reason to strike back.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:44 AM (/tuJf)

289 Yes Paul Newman was a liberal, but unlike today's whoreywood liberals he was not overly outspoken about it. I get the feeling that he would not be jumping on this trump- hate bandwagon, at least not publicly.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:44 AM (mpXpK)

290 The hunchback brought my lunch back.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2017 10:46 AM (IqV8l)

291 How do they get past the cognitive dissonance of the Nazis and the Muslims having been on the same side?

Posted by: Hikaru

I don't know. Why not emigrate Hindus? Or non-Muslim Africans or Asians, if they want to "prove" how much they love diversity and multiculturalism? I've no idea.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 20, 2017 10:47 AM (/qEW2)

292 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:44 AM (mpXpK)

Agreed. He was clearly a liberal, and also clearly a patriot. That goes a long way for me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 10:48 AM (wYseH)

293 Off to the salt mine. Later.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:48 AM (/tuJf)

294 The hunchback brought my lunch back.
Just some of it, or a whole bunch back?
Did replacing the lettuce bring the crunch back?

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 20, 2017 10:48 AM (HtLSE)

295 @275 Before there was online autocorrect humor, there was the errant headline. Best jokes evah.

ISTR that Newman's Salad-Dressing Foundation was part donor of some recent college outrage, so I bing'ed around with its name in the search field, and rapidly came to a chatty little article titled "Coming Into Newman's Own."

We won't be having the Blue Cheese Yogourt, thank you.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 20, 2017 10:49 AM (H5rtT)

296 >>>>>>France screwed up the Middle East and North Africa more than anyone.

.
.
.Don't forget us!

Posted by: The British Empire at September 20, 2017 10:49 AM (+Dllb)

297 I don't know. Why not emigrate Hindus? Or non-Muslim Africans or Asians, if they want to "prove" how much they love diversity and multiculturalism? I've no idea.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 20, 2017 10:47 AM (/qEW2)
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Well, duh....those groups traditionally have not been hostile to Western civilization.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:49 AM (vg8iE)

298 I think it's ...counterproductive to try and find that one event that caused some massive historical upheaval. Usually it is a conflation of many events, then an eruption. There were many things churning in Europe and elsewhere after WWI.

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 10:49 AM (QC/4S)

299 There was me...& then those who ate my dust.

Posted by: Steve McQueen at September 20, 2017 10:50 AM (bc2Lc)

300 So......Morgan Friedman is gonna get to the bottom of this Russia business?

https://youtu.be/VMAAwykuIOA

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 20, 2017 10:50 AM (Cb4Kz)

301 283 How about some flying buttress?
Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2017 09:30 AM (GiOiK)

Be silent, rood nave.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 20, 2017 10:42 AM (J2oJa)

Oooh, I didn't know you were apse to participate in punning.

Posted by: joncelli, Ray of Freakin' Sunshine at September 20, 2017 10:50 AM (RD7QR)

302 So......Morgan Friedman is gonna get to the bottom of this Russia business?
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Right after he's done with the bottoms of his family members.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 10:50 AM (vg8iE)

303 Given how the Catholic Church treated the peasants in France they had pretty good reason to strike back.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2017 10:44 AM (/tuJf)

A lot of our common understanding of history comes from people celebrating or defending and even justifying atrocities carried out.

History is never that simple, and any history of the French Catholic church that rests on the narrative spun by the Jacobins and their adherents should be suspected from word one.
Most of the histories of the Catholic church in Europe are heavily flavored by various pissing from socialists through the last 200 years. Actually the last 500 years including the hatchet jobs starting during the reformation.

Just to point out that these histories have an odd odor at times.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 20, 2017 10:51 AM (Gv+zt)

304 Tami, not both only have cell phones. I mean I assuming the phone is hacked. I texted her and said what the hell is going on, did you get hacked? John(my brother)? Then the reply, which now includes my brother says no, no one got hacked, John is a lieing (spelled wrong) cheater. Plain and simple. I was dualy (spelled wrong) informed in detail last night. Then the next line reads, Ya kind of sucks. But it's going to suck more for him. Then next line reads, correct.

I know my SIL, this is NOT her.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 10:51 AM (zRZaJ)

305 Yeah, thanks Mr. or Ms. Inspector-type-person. I would never have noticed any damage from the hurricane that just went through a few hours ago if you hadn't written me a safety citation.

Sheesh...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 20, 2017 10:37 AM (tRaq7)

I would have shot him as a looter.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at September 20, 2017 10:51 AM (aMlLZ)

306 The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit...

...And good afternoon.

Posted by: Kreplach at September 20, 2017 10:52 AM (2JcMg)

307 Why not emigrate Hindus? Or non-Muslim Africans or Asians, if they want to "prove" how much they love diversity and multiculturalism?

The simple and damning answer is that that would be multiculturalism without a goal, and therefore pointless. Their lips say they want multiculturalism, but it is something they reject out of hand unless they are getting something for it.

Promotion of strife against their political enemies, depredation thereof, and alignment of global politics is one such aim, getting everything they want cheaply is another.

It is clearly *not* an intrinsic good as borne out by their actions. Like everything else, a lie to cover malign intent.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 20, 2017 10:52 AM (HtLSE)

308 I still buy Newman's Own salad dressing. It is good and 100% of the profits go to charity.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:16 AM (mpXpK)

Better check what some of those charities are. I read somewhere the money went to some very liberal causes

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 20, 2017 10:52 AM (493sH)

309 I'm beginning to find the MFM amusingly creative in their melt downiness.
Whatever Trump says or does will lead to a spectacular credibility destroying media meltdown. It happens every f'n time, without fail.
There daily journey from ostensibly rational to full on gibbering insanity is the question.

Posted by: Northerlurker, Still Lurking After All These Years. at September 20, 2017 10:53 AM (nBr1j)

310 One thing WWI was responsible for was breaking up the rigid class structure in Great Britain. It is still there to some extent but nowhere near as bad as it was before WWI.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:53 AM (mpXpK)

311 AND BTW.. this is devastating to me. My brothers ex is a vindictive bitch who can't let go so I don't know if it's her or someone else. Could be SIL's son who is a mental case. I just don't know but I'm furious this is happening to them.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 10:53 AM (zRZaJ)

312 Jewells, what happens when you call their cells? No answer?

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 10:55 AM (Enq6K)

313 291 I don't know. Why not emigrate Hindus? Or non-Muslim Africans or Asians, if they want to "prove" how much they love diversity and multiculturalism? I've no idea.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 20, 2017 10:47 AM (/qEW2)

Because Islam comes with a cripplingly-restrictive system of controlling its subjects' behavior.

Posted by: Hikaru at September 20, 2017 10:55 AM (XMDuf)

314 Well yeah, the Black Death cut into feudalism, too, but nobody runs around saying, Wow, we could really use another one of those.

Well, some do, so there is that.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 20, 2017 10:56 AM (H5rtT)

315 The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit...

+++

It's a good thing you point that out, because they think they're Shinola

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at September 20, 2017 10:56 AM (LItx4)

316 Just to point out that these histories have an odd odor at times.
=====

Brit colonialism and Euro colonialism are so different that it is hard for any of us to get a grasp on it. I really think that the common law v Napoleonic law structure made the difference in how well former colonies grew and adjusted to independence. My view from the peanut gallery.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 10:57 AM (MIKMs)

317 Tami, I haven't tried to call. I am at work so it's way easier to text them. I may try on my lunch break.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 10:57 AM (zRZaJ)

318 here are the organizations Newman's won supports. I don't see anything overly bad here.

http://tinyurl.com/ybayy43h

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:57 AM (mpXpK)

319 FTR, I have met JackStraw, and if I were single, I'd look at the picture. Just saying.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 20, 2017 10:57 AM (aWjN5)

320 Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 10:49 AM (QC/4

I would normally agree but France's punitive and unnecessary actions against Germany can be directly linked to the atmosphere that allowed Hitler to rise.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 10:57 AM (ODr92)

321 >>>>>AND BTW.. this is devastating to me. My brothers ex is a vindictive
bitch who can't let go so I don't know if it's her or someone else.
Could be SIL's son who is a mental case. I just don't know but I'm
furious this is happening to them.
.
.
.How does one hack a cell phone? Honestly I have never heard about that before now.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 20, 2017 10:58 AM (+Dllb)

322 WWI brought great disillusionment to an entire generation. Not just in England, but in Germany as well. Gave rise to pacifism. People started searching for alternative - to believe in. Socialism, Nazism filled the void since "Empire" proved to be ineffective and brittle.

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 10:59 AM (QC/4S)

323 How about some flying buttress?

Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2017 09:30 AM (GiOiK)

Winged Kardashians?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2017 10:59 AM (EkNES)

324 When all is said and done, the two World Wars will probably be remembered as the Peloponnesian War of Western Civ. Greeks spent 30 years killing each other, and the civilization never recovered.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at September 20, 2017 10:59 AM (rX06+)

325 315 The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit...

+++

It's a good thing you point that out, because they think they're Shinola
Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at September 20, 2017 10:56 AM (LItx4)

---

So can we stick them in a bag, light it on fire and leave it on the neighbors front step?

Posted by: Greenwich cops at September 20, 2017 11:01 AM (oGRue)

326 WWI brought great disillusionment to an entire generation. Not just in
England, but in Germany as well. Gave rise to pacifism. People started
searching for alternative - to believe in. Socialism, Nazism filled
the void since "Empire" proved to be ineffective and brittle.
=====

Yeah. A rousing 'Huzzah' for the League of Nations. /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 11:01 AM (MIKMs)

327 Great architectural details. Thanks CBD. I had never heard of this painter before, but due to your posting of his works he's become one of my favorites. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2017 11:03 AM (iVOAv)

328
Per Joe Bastardi core of Irma collapsed while over Puerto Rico for four hours.

Should weaken enough to stay north of Florida at least. NC and north most likely next targets if it strengthens.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 20, 2017 11:03 AM (EgwCt)

329 Yeah. A rousing 'Huzzah' for the League of Nations.

==

united federation of planets

. you know it's coming

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 11:04 AM (QC/4S)

330 @325 No shit. This is A Thing:
https://www.shinola.com/

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 20, 2017 11:04 AM (H5rtT)

331 I used to think of Trump as the flaming bag of dogshit left on the front porch of the GOPe and the Dems by the electorate, but Trump is proving to be very much *not* dogshit.

Posted by: davidt at September 20, 2017 11:05 AM (12AHt)

332 317 Tami, I haven't tried to call. I am at work so it's way easier to text them. I may try on my lunch break.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 10:57 AM (zRZaJ)

Just head to the ladies room and call from there. If anyone gives you trouble, claim you were triggered about something.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 11:05 AM (Enq6K)

333 Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 10:38 AM (zRZaJ)

So sorry. What a mess! may rough places be made smooth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2017 11:05 AM (iVOAv)

334 united federation of planets . you know it's coming

Restore Pluto and the Duchy of Grand Fenwick !!!!!

Posted by: Adriane the Astronomical History Critic ... at September 20, 2017 11:06 AM (AoK0a)

335 Prayers to the people in Mexico City. Unlike Hurricanes, which are tracked many days out, or tornadoes, where you at least get an inkling of BEWARE notification, earthquakes just happen. And you never know if that first little jiggling may turn into The Big One.

I'm a born and raised California gal (currently living in exile in VA) and earthquakes are terrifying because they are so sudden and you never know where the ride is going to take you.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at September 20, 2017 11:06 AM (Xctr5)

336 279 Posted by: Hikaru at September 20, 2017 10:36 AM (WDCYi
France screwed up the Middle East and North Africa more than anyone. "

AHEM! Give a man some credit when credit is due.

Posted by: Winston Churchill at September 20, 2017 11:07 AM (k1TUh)

337 Trump is proving to be very much *not* dogshit.
Plot twist: Trump was actually a small shoggoth in a flaming bag. The stomping only made him stronger.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 20, 2017 11:07 AM (HtLSE)

338 How does one hack a cell phone? Honestly I have never heard about that before now.�

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman�

Simple, almost nobody secures the things, while channeling their entire lives through them. However, in this case it's more likely the FB passwords were compromised and should be changed yesterday.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at September 20, 2017 11:07 AM (P83tS)

339 Russian Bots are literally foot soldiers storming the beaches of both coasts.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 20, 2017 11:07 AM (XFue2)

340
So......Morgan Friedman is gonna get to the bottom of this Russia business?
=========

Taking direction from a meathead.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2017 11:09 AM (IqV8l)

341 Russian Bots are literally foot soldiers storming the beaches of both coasts.

Finally! All my time vs. bots in Unreal Tournament pays off!

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 20, 2017 11:09 AM (HtLSE)

342 This means war! The Russkies called Morgan Freeman an asshole!

"Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Freeman's words were "purely emotional" during a press conference conference earlier today and that the video couldn't be taken seriously because it was "not based on real information".

"Many creative people fall prey to emotional stress without real information about the real state of things," he was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. "

That's fancy diplomat talk for "asshole".

https://tinyurl.com/y9tcz95t

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 20, 2017 11:10 AM (Nwg0u)

343 Tami, I haven't tried to call. I am at work so it's way easier to text them. I may try on my lunch break.
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 10:57 AM
~~~~~

Maybe the phone(s) was stolen?

Posted by: IrishEi at September 20, 2017 11:10 AM (HiDrR)

344 @336 Hold, s'i'vous plais, our beers.

Posted by: Messrs Sykes et Picot at September 20, 2017 11:10 AM (H5rtT)

345 Jewel - may love and sanity prevail ...

The phone might not have been hacked, but stolen.

Posted by: Adriane the Pop Psychology Critic ... at September 20, 2017 11:10 AM (AoK0a)

346 "WWI brought great disillusionment to an entire generation."

More than a few have concluded that WW1 is when Western Culture committed suicide due to to its own jealousies, pride, and overblown ego's. And we, the survivors, have been left to deal with the zombie aftermath of an undead culture for 100 years now.

Undead, but no longer alive.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2017 11:10 AM (k1TUh)

347 346
Second look at Roma nova?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 20, 2017 11:11 AM (fA1SL)

348 I would give it to them with a metric butt ton of ammo.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 20, 2017 10:05 AM (+Dllb)

I know what you mean.

I got my dad a Mannlicher-Schoenhaeur 1905 in 8x56 for his birthday about 25 years ago.

I have it now, and I feel guilty that I am not shooting it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 11:11 AM (wYseH)

349 Jewels actual texts or FB messenger?

Make sure.

Posted by: blaster at September 20, 2017 11:11 AM (r6yYr)

350 So......Morgan Friedman is gonna get to the bottom of this Russia business?

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That'll help Hollyweird's revenue problem!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 20, 2017 11:12 AM (Nwg0u)

351 348. And that, Horde, is a good son right there!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 20, 2017 11:13 AM (fA1SL)

352 I would normally agree but France's punitive and unnecessary actions against Germany can be directly linked to the atmosphere that allowed Hitler to rise.

===

Then your logic leads us to actions of the allies after WWII. If there is another hitler in Germany, will he be "justified" ?

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 11:14 AM (QC/4S)

353 350. Well, if they keep cranking out mother! & romcoms, they're screwed.
Need moar werebears with miniguns.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 20, 2017 11:14 AM (fA1SL)

354 One thing WWI was responsible for was breaking up
the rigid class structure in Great Britain.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 10:53 AM (mpXpK)

And as a result they have a core of socialists who have systematically destroyed the concept of Pax Britannia and personal freedom.

Be careful what you wish for....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 11:15 AM (wYseH)

355 Posted by: Russkilitlover at September 20, 2017 11:06 AM (Xctr5)

Instapundit linked an article after Harvey about whether L.A. could learn anything from the rescue response that could be applied to earthquakes. The author was, probably legitimately, concerned about the lack of "social capital" in California cities, but I think it goes beyond that. With flooding the water goes away again eventually, in fact I was astounded at how fast it went away everywhere but the dam release areas, but that doesn't happen with earthquakes. You are also right that the advance notice, so that the assistance is available to roll in the instant it's safe to do so, is a big deal as well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 20, 2017 11:15 AM (rp9xB)

356 >>"Many creative people fall prey to emotional stress without real
information about the real state of things," he was quoted as saying by
the Interfax news agency. "

That's fancy diplomat talk for "asshole".

A, That is a bitingly accurate statement from Russia (never thought I'd type that!)

B, They could have just said, "Why would anyone listen to the foreign policy thoughts of a guy who slept with his step-granddaughter???"

Posted by: Lizzy at September 20, 2017 11:16 AM (W+vEI)

357 "I think something other than the two world wars had to be going on beneath the surface to explain Europe's emerging suicidality."

Oswald Spengler, "Decline of the West", 1912. He saw it while it was just beginning, explained why it was happening, and predicted in detail how it would unfold over the next couple of centuries. Everyone in academia hates his work, and has little good to say about it - because he was right, and because everything that has happened over the last century has proven him right.

He was one of the first I know of to say, in a convincing and well reasoned argument, that the Islamic cultures were mortal enemies of western culture and would always seek to destroy it, until one or the other was finally gone. He also said that this was not really about religion at all, except to the extent that religion reflects culture, but was due to the way that Islamic Culture at its core was created to be the antithesis of Western Culture, and always would be. It is a conflict that can never resolved except by death. (see why everyone hates him?)

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2017 11:18 AM (k1TUh)

358 My point is, justifying, explaining and/or excusing (I am not saying anyone is) atrocities is a slippery slope. They stand on their own, and are to be judged on their own.

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 11:18 AM (QC/4S)

359 Then your logic leads us to actions of the allies after WWII. If there is another hitler in Germany, will he be "justified" ?
=====

She is justified.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 11:18 AM (MIKMs)

360 @359. ouch

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 11:19 AM (QC/4S)

361 Well, I guess it's true. I just talked to SIL. My brother has a very serious problem. I don't even know what to say.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 11:19 AM (zRZaJ)

362 she aint that bad

Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 11:19 AM (QC/4S)

363
B, They could have just said, "Why would anyone listen to the foreign policy thoughts of a guy who slept with his step-granddaughter???"

My pastor, a couple of months back, had as a Westminster Confession of Faith discussion topic the laws on consanguinity, particularly in the original scriptural sources. So many relationships spelled out as a no-no (grandchild, grandparent), some of which seem to strain credulity... until you get to things like Morgan Freeman discovered which aren't even on the list.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 20, 2017 11:21 AM (HtLSE)

364
she aint that bad
=====

Oh, yes she is.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 11:21 AM (MIKMs)

365 357. One of the most astonishing facts about this modern world is that the western nations (and Russia, idiot stepdaughter of the west) more or less had the whole enchilada. Their will could have been enacted worldwide without lifting a finger - they'd finished the heavy work already - and then, fratricidal frenzy that surpassed even their own worst fears.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 20, 2017 11:21 AM (fA1SL)

366 Oswald Spengler.
Get the fuck out.

Posted by: Messrs Sykes et Picot at September 20, 2017 11:21 AM (H5rtT)

367 Posted by: runner at September 20, 2017 11:14 AM (QC/4S)

What are you talking about? Our actions after WWII were the antithesis of France's after WWII. And what's with the justified bs?

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 11:23 AM (ODr92)

368 France's punitive and unnecessary actions against
Germany can be directly linked to the atmosphere that allowed Hitler to
rise.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 20, 2017 10:57 AM (ODr92)

No. Germans and German culture allowed Hitler to rise.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 20, 2017 11:23 AM (wYseH)

369 Vicente Fox is pissed at Trump because he used an 11-year-old American to cut the White House lawn.

"That is my dream job and that racist kid stole my job," the former Mexican President said. "My career path was supposed to be businessman, Governor of Guanajuato, president of Mexico and then landscaper of the White House, until that little white supremacist crushed my dream."

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2017 11:23 AM (ATVNj)

370 Fratricidal Frenzy is going to be my ragtime and WWI service tunes punk band name.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 20, 2017 11:24 AM (HtLSE)

371 361 Well, I guess it's true. I just talked to SIL. My brother has a very serious problem. I don't even know what to say.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 11:19 AM (zRZaJ)

Sorry to hear that Jewells. If I were you, I'd tread lightly here....or you'll end up taking the brunt of their anger (through no fault of your own).

I'd just be there to listen if either needs to talk. That's about all you can do at this point.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 11:24 AM (Enq6K)

372 When all is said and done, the two World Wars will probably be remembered as the Peloponnesian War of Western Civ. Greeks spent 30 years killing each other, and the civilization never recovered.

-
Alexander the Great conquered the world a few years after the Peloponnesian War. Alex came from Macedonia which was then viewed as the Alabama of Greece, filled with a bunch stupid rednecks. Maybe Roy Moore the Mediocre will save us.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Doppelganger To the Stars! at September 20, 2017 11:25 AM (Nwg0u)

373 "359 Then your logic leads us to actions of the allies after WWII. If there is another hitler in Germany, will he be "justified" ?
=====
She is justified. "

"History always repeats - the first time as Tragedy, the second time as Farce." - Karl Marx

He wasn't always wrong.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2017 11:25 AM (k1TUh)

374 361 Well, I guess it's true. I just talked to SIL. My brother has a very serious problem. I don't even know what to say.
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 11:19 AM (zRZaJ)

Oh God. So sorry for both your SIL and brother.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at September 20, 2017 11:26 AM (TdMsT)

375 Merkel is simply creepy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 11:27 AM (MIKMs)

376 Well, I guess it's true. I just talked to SIL. My brother has a very serious problem. I don't even know what to say.

Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 11:19 AM (zRZaJ)

---
Sorry to hear that Jewells. If I were you, I'd tread lightly
here....or you'll end up taking the brunt of their anger (through no
fault of your own).

I'd just be there to listen if either needs to talk. That's about all you can do at this point.

Posted by: Tami at September 20, 2017 11:24 AM
---

Agree with Tami 100%.

So very sorry this happened.

Posted by: shibumi at September 20, 2017 11:28 AM (aT+Bx)

377 No. Germans and German culture allowed Hitler to rise.
____________________________________

Along those lines, I think all of the best and brightest Germans were killed in World War I and there were no strong or politically courageous Germans with the guts to stand against Hitler and the Nazis.

France and Britain suffered the same generational loss of young brave men and their sin was to become socialists.

Poland did as well in World War II as a result of the Nazi and Soviet purges of the officer corps, academics and businessmen.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2017 11:28 AM (ATVNj)

378 >>375 Merkel is simply creepy. Posted by: mustbequantum at September 20, 2017 11:27 AM (MIKMs)

I'd schlag it.

Posted by: Zod at September 20, 2017 11:28 AM (Bdeb0)

379 And as a result they have a core of socialists who have systematically destroyed the concept of Pax Britannia and personal freedom.

In their clownish attempt to prevent misguided national sentiment from enacting horrors, and to ensure the priority of interpersonal care, they've eroded shared English comity, brought about a forced loyalty to tumors on the state in the form of the NHS and BBC, and nearly eliminated intrapersonal fellow-feeling and connection to the past and tradition.

The exact conditions for a Weimar-style revolution and socialist takeove by mere lip service to something better and tradition. Irony, a bit of it.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 20, 2017 11:29 AM (HtLSE)

380 Merkel is simply creepy.
==========

She's the German Hillary.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 20, 2017 11:29 AM (vg8iE)

381 Nood

Posted by: TiminAL at September 20, 2017 11:30 AM (8J2ng)

382 "374 361 Well, I guess it's true. I just talked to SIL. My brother has a very serious problem. I don't even know what to say.
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at September 20, 2017 11:19 AM (zRZaJ) "

uh oh. It sounded clear that whoever did this had a personal axe to grind - thieves and ordinary hackers don't get so down and dirty, they have no compulsion to.

so sounds like angry crazee girlfriend on the side got ahold of the phone. Guys, what have we said about crazee???

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2017 11:30 AM (k1TUh)

383 321 How does one hack a cell phone? Honestly I have never heard about that before now.

Cell phones are little computers. Like most computers, they're full of bugs.

Posted by: Anachronda at September 20, 2017 11:31 AM (sGtp+)

384 Ape rant up

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 20, 2017 11:33 AM (mpXpK)

385 This just in!
A US Navy warship has reportedly been involved in a collision with the continent of Africa.

An investigation has been started.

Posted by: Roland THTG at September 20, 2017 11:34 AM (QM5S2)

386 137 It is with deep regret that I am announcing today I am taking my M1 Garand to the gun range to be put on consignment sale today.

He says he has three people interested in it already.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 20, 2017 09:57 AM (+Dllb)

Any idea what you will get for it? I've wanted one for a while, I'm not sure what they're going for these days. I'm going to look into the CMP program.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at September 20, 2017 11:45 AM (tu3iY)

387 Melania giving UN speech.

Posted by: Soona at September 20, 2017 12:43 PM (ZAAkQ)

388 Funny, that view is from the left bank, across the Seine to the south from Notre Dame. But the Quai aux Fleurs (and formerly the Marche aux Fleurs or flower market) are actually on the island, facing the right bank to the north with no water between them and Notre Dame. In other words, the flower market is on the wrong side of the cathedral and the wrong side of the river. I guess an artist can play with composition as he wants.

Posted by: Surellin at September 20, 2017 03:14 PM (dHQbf)

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