Sunday Morning Book Thread 03-25-2018

Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts

Good morning to all you 'rons, 'ettes, lurkers, and lurkettes. Welcome once again to the stately, prestigious, internationally acclaimed and high-class Sunday Morning Book Thread, a weekly compendium of reviews, observations, and a continuing conversation on books, reading, and publishing by people who follow words with their fingers and whose lips move as they read. Unlike other AoSHQ comment threads, the Sunday Morning Book Thread is so hoity-toity, pants are required. Even if it's these pants, which everybody will be wearing by 2030. (h/t Orwell & Goode)

Pic Note

I'll get back to posting pics of moron libraries next week. This was the photo I was going to use for the Oct. 15th book thread, but Oct. 11th was when I tore my arm off, so I never had the opportunity to complete it. Until now.

It Pays To Increase Your Word Power®

Anagrams:
ERIC CLAPTON is an anagram of 'narcoleptic.'
THERESA MAY is an anagram of 'share my tea'
MEG RYAN is an anagram of 'Germany.'
BRITNEY SPEARS is an anagram of 'Presbyterians' (also 'best in prayers').
PEPSI COLA is an anagram of 'Episcopal'
CLINT EASTWOOD is an anagram of 'old west action'
GEORGE WASHINGTON is an anagram of 'War on? He gets going''
DONALD TRUMP is an anagram of 'Lord Dampnut'

ACE OF SPADES is an anagram of 'Escaped Oafs' (h/t peacelovewoodstock)

It Takes a Village

Apparently, students have been reading The Lottery, the classic short story by Shirley Jackson, and are missing the entire point. Ace already covered this on Tuesday, but luckily, there's a point or two that I can still beat to death.

What does the story mean? Jackson said this:

Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

I look at it like this: what is the worst, the most horrific thing you can think of? In Jackson's case, it was ritualistic human sacrifice set on a backdrop of a small, placid village, so small that everyone pretty much knew everyone else. Of course, that was back in 1948. Nowadays, kids are exposed to bloody-as-hell horror movies such as Saw, Hostel, and the like, and graphically violent, bloody-as-hell TV series such as Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, compared to which a ritualistic human sacrific is weak tea.

Not to mention Stephen King, who has milked the "creepy small town" theme to a fare-thee-well.

Yes, there is some of that pomo non-judgey stuff in the mix, too, but I don't think that's the main thing. The main thing is that The Lottery, relying as it does on shock value to make its point, is simply outdated.

So what does is take to shock millennials? What will make them think "Ugh, that's just messed up."?

What about a story about a small town lottery whose winner has to move permanently out of his parents' basement? Is that scary enough for them? See, that's the problem: the only example I could think of is a satirical one. In order to be creeped out by the Abnormal, you need to have a strong sense of what the Normal is, or what it should be. And right now we're pretty much at the point where the two magnetic poles are reversed, where the Normal is now the Abnormal, and vice versa.

I wonder what sorts of horror stories millennials are going to be writing?

Moron Recommendation

Moron commenter 'Rgallegos' likes The Fall of the Duke of Duval: A Prosecutor's Journal by John E. Clark, about the near-legendary corruption of Texas politics:

The name Parr may not be familiar to most readers, but many know Lyndon Johnson's first U.S. Senate election was tainted: this 1948 "Box 13" fraud was perpetrated in the town of Alice in Jim Wells County, Texas, by George Parr, the "duke" of neighboring Duval County. Clark, an assistant federal prosecutor under U.S. Attorney William Sessions (later FBI director) in the 1970s, played a key role in the long federal grand jury investigation of the Parr machine and later trials of its leading operators. His book describes the system of patronage and corruption Archie Parr developed in the early 1900s and his son George ran until a 1970s legal onslaught--set off quite unintentionally by an IRS audit of an Austin contractor--brought it down.

Not since Hillary Clinton have we seen a national-level politician more corrupt than LBJ. And while many would argue that Nixon should top the list, what he did was peanuts compared to the wholesale graft and grift of the Democrats. I encourage interested parties should read It Didn't Start With Watergate by Victor Lasky, a book I've touted on more than one previous book thread. Lasky contends that

Watergate was mainly a media event, points to Democratic scandals which have been relatively ignored, and claims that leading Democrats were fully aware of plans for the break-in and did nothing to prevent it.

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186 I can't recommend "The Boys in the Boat" by Daniel J. Brown highly enough. It's an amazing story, that weaves together depression era life, the rise of Nazi Germany and the University of Washington's improbable selection and performance at the 1936 Olympics. It is meticulously detailed, with amazing side stories. One in particular: Bobby Moch, the superlative coxswain for Washington, learns on the eve of the voyage to Hitler's Olympics, that he is Jewish, a fact his 1st gen. immigrant father concealed from him because he thought their life would be easier.

This is one of those books that screams "Make me a movie!!"

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 18, 2018 11:12 AM (ty7RM

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is $10.99 for the Kindle edition. The paperback edition is about the same price.

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'Ette shibumi recommends The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand:

Amazing book. Not as long as Atlas Shrugged, but still longish. What's scary about it is that I have heard people mouthing the exact same collectivist trash that she wrote about decades ago.

Rand was born and spent the first 20 years of her life in Russia during the early years of the communist revolution, so she was an expert on collectivist trash.

If I was going to start someone out on Rand, I'd give them this book rather than Atlas Shrugged. It has all of the ideas contained in Atlas Shrugged without the endless speechifying.

I think this is another book that screams "Make me a movie!!" I don't think the first version they made was all that good, even though Rand herself wrote the screenplay. A new version, scheduled for a 2019 release, is "in development".

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Books By Morons

Moron author Mark Robbins has put his sci-fi utopia novel Walden Shock on sale and wants us morons to take advantage of it.

Using current science and technology as a firm foundation, this fictional chronicle provides the reader with a truly positive and optimistic view of a future utopian society. The “common”, or “typical” opinion of mankind’s future is one of a sterile world devoid of love, freedom or initiative – and where lives are largely under the rigid, scientific control of a global despot. In sharp contrast, this enjoyable story envisions a world in which human ingenuity and family cohesion are the cornerstones of society. Walden Shock makes a vibrant and logical argument for the value of freedom, discipline and integrity in our society (current or future), and this well-spun story is much more fun than lecture. You will be stimulated and entertained as the singularity arrives in West Texas with guns, cowboys and robots – this story is fun!

I say: any novel with guns, cowboys and robots is worth reading. I plunked down 99 cents (the sale price) for Walden Shock, and maybe you should, too.

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Also on sale for 99 cents is the Kindle edition of A Rambling Wreck: Book 2 of The Hidden Truth by moron author Hanz Schantz:

Off to college for the education he'll need to defeat the guardians of the hidden truth, Peter must infiltrate a deadly conspiracy, thwart an attempted social justice takeover of the school, save his professors from assassination, and somehow find time to study for finals. The stakes are now higher than ever. To succeed, Peter must discover who burned down the Tolliver Library, find new allies in his fight, and secure the assistance of the legendary George P. Burdell himself.

This novel, incidentally is a finalist for the Conservative-Libertarian Fiction Alliance (CFLA) Book of the Year. The full list can be seen here.

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Don't forget the AoSHQ reading group on Goodreads. It's meant to support horde writers and to talk about the great books that come up on the book thread. It's called AoSHQ Moron Horde and the link to it is here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/175335-aoshq-moron-horde.

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So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm.

What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 09:00 AM

Comments

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1 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2018 08:56 AM (aC6Sd)

2 Mornin' book freaks!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 08:56 AM (qJtVm)

3 Currently reading Taliesin: Book One of the Pendragon Cycle by Steven Lawhead. I had read this previously in hardback a long time ago checked out from the library (pre-Kindle days).

http://tinyurl.com/y9x8mfs5

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 25, 2018 08:57 AM (mpXpK)

4 OregonMuse, do you now have a cool liquid metal Terminator arm or more of a retro Steampunk device?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 08:59 AM (qJtVm)

5 Just getting into The Ionian Mission of the Aubry / Maturin series but picked up The Far Side of the World this week to stay ahead. From what I heard its not entirely like the movie but will find out when I get there.

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2018 09:00 AM (aC6Sd)

6
After Friday's disastrous episode, Lord Dampnut is right on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:01 AM (VM6ev)

7 Reading Pacific Crucible by Ian Toll about the war in the Pacific against Japan. Lots of stuff about the main players like Nimitz and Yamamato.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at March 25, 2018 09:01 AM (+Tibp)

8 Hiya !

Posted by: JT at March 25, 2018 09:02 AM (iiJXB)

9 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. Hope the shitty news this week (supplt whatever annoyed you the most) didn't prevent you from enjoyable reading.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 09:02 AM (V+03K)

10 Good morning! Light snow here today.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:04 AM (hMwEB)

11 Hope the shitty news this week (supplt whatever annoyed you the most) didn't prevent you from enjoyable reading.
Posted by: JTB

I agree. Bring on the IG report and let's get back to indicting some swamp dwellers.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at March 25, 2018 09:04 AM (+Tibp)

12 Some of those anagrams are a hoot.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at March 25, 2018 09:05 AM (8EJVd)

13 I read The Rescue Mission by John Ball because it got mentioned on the Book Thread a while back. Published in 1965, the novel deals with two Civil Air Patrol pilots flying a malfunctioning Super Constellation in an attempt to evacuate two medical cases from a Caribean island. Decent story and lots of technical details about the Connie's mechanical systems. The author also shows America beginning to recognize and overcome racism (one of the CAP pilots is of Chinese heritage and the Connie's regular flight engineer is black). A quick read and I liked it a lot. Rating = 4.5/5

I also read The Grantville Gazetter IV edited by Eric Flint. The book is an anthology of short stories and essays set in the 1632 universe in which a modern West Virginian town gets sent back to 1630s Europe by the "Ring of Fire." Nothing was awful but nothing really grabbed me, although the story in which a 60 year old up-time widower and a 30 year old down-time German widow feel mutual attraction for each other does have a sweet ending. If you are an oil field engineer, there is a long article on 1630s oil field development that didn't keep my attention but has an extensive bibliography. Rating = 3/5.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 25, 2018 09:05 AM (5Yee7)

14 For those that checked OM's pants link, did that model and outfit remibd anyone of a Goon from Goon Island in the old Popeye cartoons?

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 09:05 AM (V+03K)

15 Currently re-reading "Afghanistan:Soviet Vietnam" by Vlad Tamarov.

The book is a history of his tour of duty there from 1984 to 1986 with the 103rd Airborne Division.

Interesting on how ineffective the Russians were in country and how basic their organizational system was in getting draftees thru boot camp and dumped into their front line units.

Lots of pics too from the author during the time he spent there which still surprises me.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 25, 2018 09:06 AM (EoRCO)

16 Reading 'The Secret War' by Sanche De Gramont. Published in 1962 it's about U.S.A. and Soviet espionage. At the beginning of the Cold War we were newcomers, but the Soviets had a long history of spying, mostly on their own people, going back hundreds of years.

During the 20s and 30s the Soviets had such an easy time getting information from us, and they got a lot, that they had a difficult time separating the good from the bad. 1917 the U.S. Army/State Department formed a cryptographic unit called MI-8 (a precursor of the NSA), or the Cipher Bureau and broke foreign and our diplomatic codes. Shutdown in 1929, one theory is when Henry L. Stimson became Secretary of State in 1929 he was appalled the unit existed. He is supposed to have said; 'Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.' If true then what an ignoranus.

Some head music.

Chaiyya Chaiyya
https://youtu.be/0v1It89cKxY

The Cramps-Psychotic Reaction
https://youtu.be/ZhDnmmfJGyk

Hillbilly Moon Explosion-Long Way Down
https://youtu.be/t9i6rF64tdU

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at March 25, 2018 09:06 AM (8EJVd)

17 Still working my way through 'Ten Days in May, 1940', as recommended here. Also picked up a copy of 'The Raft', also recommended here, and have started it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2018 09:07 AM (9tO1t)

18 I'm reading "What the Hell Did I Just Read" by "David Wong" (actually Jason Pargin) about 20-something monster hunters John, Dave, and Amy. It's the third in the series (I haven't read the others - yet) and I love it. It begins with our trio in a car chase on a dark and stormy night:

"It rained like we were a splatter of bird shit God was trying to hose off his deck."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 09:08 AM (qJtVm)

19 The Lottery, the classic short story by Shirley Jackson"

Never did hear of it until the recent kerfuffle, and still don't get it.
Was the author trying to ban stoning? Hardly an ancient "ritual" - it was a punishment for an action, not a "lottery".

I rate it a solid "meh" at best.

Oh, and A.C. Doyle (he of Sherlock) may have kicked off the "kreepy small/rural" vibe...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 25, 2018 09:09 AM (7LY+6)

20 I'm going to take a short break from military history to read Gordon Chang's The Coming Collapse of China. A snippet...

"China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are everywhere: Deflation grips the economy, state-owned enterprises are failing, banks are hopelessly insolvent, foreign investment continues to decline, and Communist party corruption eats away at the fabric of society"

Might be fun.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at March 25, 2018 09:09 AM (+Tibp)

21 My father-in-law recommended "The Boys in the Boat" to me. I haven't read it yet, but it is on the list. He raved about it.

Posted by: no good deed at March 25, 2018 09:10 AM (eIQHF)

22 OregonMuse, do you now have a cool liquid metal Terminator arm or more of a retro Steampunk device?

He's a cob, so I assume that all the O'Spades money has been able to rebuild him as the 6 Million Weimar Reichsmark Man.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 09:11 AM (fuK7c)

23 I say: any novel with guns, cowboys and robots is worth reading. I plunked down 99 cents (the sale price) for Walden Shock, and maybe you should, too.

Just downloaded it. Took a while because my Android refused to connect to the router at first.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 25, 2018 09:11 AM (mpXpK)

24 During the 20s and 30s the Soviets had such an easy time getting information from us"

As "we" (the 20th Century progressives) were handing everything over to them as quickly as possible...

There was a real love fest between Foggy Bottom and the Kremlin...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 25, 2018 09:12 AM (7LY+6)

25 thanks for mentioning A Wrambling Wreck, OM

Another of the clfa finalists is also on 99c sale, For Steam and Country

I did a short post on them yesterday (link in nic)

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:12 AM (hMwEB)

26 That's a library? Where are the books?

Posted by: josephistan at March 25, 2018 09:13 AM (ANIFC)

27 I have Anthem by Ayn Rand on hold at the library

also reading The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout now

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:13 AM (hMwEB)

28 Just looked up The Fountainhead. I can't understand why a book as old as this is priced at $10. Other than just gouging because they know they will get it.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 25, 2018 09:13 AM (mpXpK)

29 This week - reading "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" as a break from slightly heavier stuff. It's a charming, expository novel, which one hardly sees any more; a story told in letters by the various characters. It's set in immediate-post WWII England and the Channel Islands, when everyone was still pretty much numbed by the war. (Did you know that wartime rationing went on in England for about ten years after the war? That's how broken they were - and they were the winners!)
I am finishing up the next Luna City book - a Half Dozen of Luna City. It's going out to the beta readers this week, and should be available on Kindle by the end of April.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at March 25, 2018 09:15 AM (xnmPy)

30 I'm going to a pop-up used books sale today. A local bookseller closed up shop last year, but has decided to come out of semi-retirement & is having a one day only sale at a local brew pub.

Posted by: josephistan at March 25, 2018 09:16 AM (ANIFC)

31 Just looked up The Fountainhead.

That book may have induced the most cognitive dissonance evah in me.

I found it to be horrible, awful, inartful, not very good, and also bad as a novel. But her thoughts and message and philosophy lingered and kept seeping in long after I was done reading the stupid book.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 09:16 AM (fuK7c)

32 For those that checked OM's pants link, did that model and outfit remind anyone of a Goon from Goon Island in the old Popeye cartoons?

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 09:05 AM (V+03K)

Don't know about anyone else, but clicking on the pants link was a pretty depressing experience for me.

The "New Normal" is obviously the "Old Abnormal"!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 09:16 AM (n9EOP)

33 That liberry is wicked ahesome.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2018 09:16 AM (EZebt)

34 13 I also read The Grantville Gazetter IV edited by Eric Flint. The book is an anthology of short stories and essays set in the 1632
universe in which a modern West Virginian town gets sent back to 1630s
Europe by the "Ring of Fire." Nothing was awful but nothing really
grabbed me, although the story in which a 60 year old up-time widower
and a 30 year old down-time German widow feel mutual attraction for each
other does have a sweet ending. If you are an oil field engineer,
there is a long article on 1630s oil field development that didn't keep my attention but has an extensive bibliography. Rating = 3/5.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 25, 2018 09:05 AM (5Yee7)

I got the first one of those short story books and haven't got one since. My recommendation is to only get the first three books in that series. Flint has decided he is going to milk that series into eternity.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 25, 2018 09:16 AM (mpXpK)

35 26 Its just a reading room connected to the library

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2018 09:16 AM (aC6Sd)

36 Anybody read "Unholy Terror: Bosnia, al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad" by John Schindler? It was recommended to me because Slick's "humanitarian" bombing of the Orthodox Christians on behalf of the Muslims has bugged the fuck out of me ever since it happened, particularly how the MFM was spooging uncontrollably at the thought of going to war. I'm not very far into it but it's already confirming nearly every fucking thing I strongly suspected, namely that there was and always has been a radical muz element present there that collaborated with the nazis that persisted through the post war commies, who oddly considered the fucking rock worshippers as somehow tolerable even though those cocksuckers are just as politically motivated as the red internationalist fuckers. Anyway I'm still into the historical matters and it's just dawned on those red dumbasses after the Iran revolution they start seeing pictures of Khomeini in windows that maybe this Shia/Sunni split isn't gonna keep those assfucks from joining the umma anyway and sorting out the differences afterward. Just fucking brilliant.

Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone else has read this. It might be OOP and there was only one copy available in the entire Cleveland public library since this wouldn't be of interest to most of the commies and buttfuckers who use the system.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 25, 2018 09:17 AM (y7DUB)

37 That's a library? Where are the books?
Posted by: josephistan at March 25, 2018 09:13 AM (ANIFC)

I had the exact same impression when I looked at the photo. I guess the stacks are hidden away in the alcoves along the left and right margins of the photo. I bet you really need those dedicated desk lamps at night; the ambient lighting appears to be awful.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 25, 2018 09:17 AM (5Yee7)

38 Got a full coating of snow here, stupid groundhog wouldn't know 6 weeks from 10 weeks if it bit him.

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2018 09:18 AM (aC6Sd)

39 It has been a week for casual reading. I put the CS Lewis academic essays and suspense books aside. Instead it has been reading about muzzleloaders, life on the early American frontier and the like. Also, I've been enjoying Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, and Winnie the Pooh stories, all nice hardcover editions with the original Illustrations. They make relaxing, entertaining reading. And I have no problem with more 'charming' in my life.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 09:18 AM (V+03K)

40 That's a library? Where are the books? "

In the library - Skip is correct, that's a separate bit - a "reading room". Original cash donated by a Brit, IIRC.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 25, 2018 09:19 AM (7LY+6)

41 wad the library in the pic originally a church?

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:19 AM (hMwEB)

42 ACE OF SPADES is an anagram of "Escaped Oafs"

Also, reading Pinker's "Enlightenment Now", now sure yet what all the fuss is about.

Posted by: peacelovewoodstock at March 25, 2018 09:21 AM (TRdjw)

43 I'll second the recommendations for The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand's classic portrayal of an individualistic architect remains sadly relevant many decades after the original release.

If you check out the rest of the CLFA Book of the Year finalists, you'll find lots of other great books. I've read seven of the ten so far, and they're at least good and mostly great. Voting opens April 2, so I hope you'll read as many as you can and express your opinion when the time comes.

Independent authors need your recommendations, reviews, and referrals, since word-of-mouth advertising is the primary way we have to let interested readers know about our works. Thank you all for supporting "moron authors" like me, and other independent authors writing from conservative and libertarian perspectives. It makes a difference.

Posted by: Hans G. Schantz at March 25, 2018 09:21 AM (NhF/Q)

44 Back then, libraries were book churches.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 09:22 AM (qJtVm)

45 "Anagram" is an anagram for "Gram Ana".

Sorry, that's all I've got.

Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2018 09:22 AM (sdi6R)

46 wad = was

I recently realized that I'm a sucker for novels where the main character is first seen as a child, something awful happens, then the rest of the story is them grown up

I suppose that's the Jane Eyre model

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:22 AM (hMwEB)

47 6
After Friday's disastrous episode, Lord Dampnut is right on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:01 AM (VM6ev)

===

Mrs. Franpsycho has settled on "President Trumpenegger".

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2018 09:23 AM (EZebt)

48 I am starting to get sick and tired of "law and Order"'s left wing views...The left infests everything like lice in long hair

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2018 09:24 AM (SjImc)

49 I think I better stop reading the Book Thread now, I've already ordered three kindle books and the day is young!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 09:24 AM (n9EOP)

50 Many of the CLFA finalists are on Kindle Unlimited
I'm thinking of getting a free trial so I can try reading them all

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:25 AM (hMwEB)

51 I am starting to get sick and tired of "law and Order"'s left wing views...The left infests everything like lice in long hair

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2018 09:24 AM (SjImc)

The theory is that eventually you'll learn to love the lice!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 09:25 AM (n9EOP)

52 Back then, libraries were book churches.

And now they're homeless shelters.

I used to haunt a reading room at the NYC Public Library when I was young and broke. Half the time I was unemployed and desperate.

And yet, like church, there was this stately palace available to me just because I existed and it gave me a feeling of being part of something larger.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 09:25 AM (fuK7c)

53 Hrothgar, same here. I finally broke down and just made a file for Horde authors on my Kindle. I have a lot of reading to do.

Posted by: no good deed at March 25, 2018 09:26 AM (eIQHF)

54 Shock Value fro Teens : I'll give you two from The Canon. Raskolnikov's ax murder . Had a class revolt because we did the discussion right before lunch. The second , just about every other page of Blood Meridian. Savages on both sides , indistinguishable , one from the other. And the Star of the Show was the Walker Colt , in .44 caliber , thank me very much . You want Gun Violence , think on that sucker at black powder muzzle velocity . a hole the size of a fist , entry and exit. Yeah Real Gun Violence.

Posted by: jay hoenemeyer at March 25, 2018 09:26 AM (veLCF)

55 I got the first one of those short story books and haven't got one since. My recommendation is to only get the first three books in that series. Flint has decided he is going to milk that series into eternity.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 25, 2018 09:16 AM (mpXpK)

I got a stack of the books for cheap and have been diving into it periodically. Most haven't been worth keeping, but I found two gems of short stories in Grantville Gazette III that I really liked: there is a humorous (but not disrespectful) story of the Lutheran preacher converting the heathen up-timers and more serious story in which a down-time Benedictine monk finds a new mission for the order as fire fighters.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 25, 2018 09:26 AM (5Yee7)

56 I read The River God's Vengeance by John Maddox Roberts. This is the eighth in the SPQR mystery series. In 53 B. C. Decius Metellus is serving his year as aedile, the lowest rung on the ladder of Roman authority. When an insula, a Roman apartment building, collapses, Decius is off to investigate the corrupt building trades. His investigation leads him to the highest and most powerful levels of Roman society. As usual, one learns much about Roman life during these times.

On the Kindle, I read Raven Shadow: An Adventure of the Spirit by Win Blevins. This is an excellent book which tells the story of a Lakoda, Joseph Blue Crow. When Blue is born, his grandmother declares that he will receive his great-grandfather's pipe to signify that he was born to carry the sacred ways of the Sioux.

Blue goes to boarding school at 14 and then on to college. He lives in the white man's world for twelve years; but when his girlfriend commits suicide and his grandmother dies withing days of each other, he moves back to South Dakota, but not back to the rez. Trying to walk with one foot on the red path and one on the white, Blue stumbles into eleven years of alcoholism and despair until he is saved from a suicide attempt by his friend.

After cleaning himself up with the help of AA meetings, Blue immerses himself in the world of sweat lodges, four-day fasts on mountain tops and travels to the spirit world which culminates in him going back to Wounded Knee to find the fate of his direct ancestors there.

In the author's notes Blevins says that although this is a work of fiction, his primary goals were to depict an honest account of the Ghost Dance, Wounded Knee, and the Big Foot Memorial Riders who follow the trail of their Lakoda ancestors in late December each year.

Win Blevins is an authority on the Plains Indians and the fur-trade era of the West. When one reads Raven Shadow one learns a lot about Lakoda history, culture, and religion while reading an excellent story of one man's walk through life.

Posted by: Zoltan at March 25, 2018 09:27 AM (T8WeQ)

57 Just finished Catriona which is the sequel to Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. Hadn't realized there *was* a sequel until my "collected works" book had it. Much less of an adventure story and more angsty romance, which probably explains it being less well known.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 25, 2018 09:27 AM (rp9xB)

58 Buckeye Cop to the Barrel

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:27 AM (hMwEB)

59 Votermom, if you are a fast reader, the Unlimited fee pays for itself. I get my money's worth and then some every month.

Posted by: no good deed at March 25, 2018 09:28 AM (eIQHF)

60 31 Just looked up The Fountainhead.

That book may have induced the most cognitive dissonance evah in me.

I found it to be horrible, awful, inartful, not very good, and also bad as a novel. But her thoughts and message and philosophy lingered and kept seeping in long after I was done reading the stupid book.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 09:16 AM (fuK7c)

You should only see the movie! Or not. Gary Cooper is wooden and dummy-like.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:28 AM (VM6ev)

61 no good deed, I am a fast reader BUT nowadays I am a very fitful reader

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:29 AM (hMwEB)

62 Flags of Our Fathers on sale for $1.99 today.

http://tinyurl.com/ycut9w43

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 25, 2018 09:29 AM (mpXpK)

63 I recommend Ayn Rand's first novel "We the Living". It told the story of a young woman in the 1920s Soviet Union. She said many years later that it was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography.

The novel was published in the 1930s after being turned down by a number of publishers, one of whom told her that she "didn't understand Communism".

Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2018 09:29 AM (sdi6R)

64 47 6
After Friday's disastrous episode, Lord Dampnut is right on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:01 AM (VM6ev)

===

Mrs. Franpsycho has settled on "President Trumpenegger".
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2018 09:23 AM (EZebt)

I thought I saw somewhere someone claiming that this in fact was a huge win for PDT. Okay, go with that...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:29 AM (VM6ev)

65 Kindle had The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs as a Daily Deal this week so I got it. Haven't looked at it yet, but I hope it will be interesting and informative.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 25, 2018 09:30 AM (rp9xB)

66 I did interrupt my reading this week to listen to a lot of music. It started when one of the threads mentioned 'Songs From the Wood' by Jethro Tull. That put me in the mood for madrigals, then Renaissance music and Baroque ensembles playing period correct instruments. So much beauty for the ears. It helps me keep my balance.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 09:30 AM (V+03K)

67 I read We The Living as a kid

it made me very sad, and taught me all I need to know about communism

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:31 AM (hMwEB)

68 Flags of Our Fathers on sale for $1.99 today.

Keep a handkerchief handy.

Posted by: JT at March 25, 2018 09:31 AM (iiJXB)

69 Oh, I get that, votermom. I've pretty much stopped watching TV. So, I have a lot more time to read these days. There are a few shows I still catch, but as far as network television, not a thing. Couldn't even tell you what the lineup is nowadays.

Posted by: no good deed at March 25, 2018 09:32 AM (eIQHF)

70 Downloaded Libivox a few weeks ago to because I spend a lot of the work day driving around and too much more talk radio was gonna cause me to bust a cap in somebody's ass.

First book I "read" was Moby Dick. I have tried several times over the years to read read it but just COULD NOT do it. I did enjoy listening to it. Now I understand why it is so widely acclaimed.

Almost finished with Ivanhoe. A good story and an interesting window on a time gone by.

Highly recommend Librivox for listening to public domain books.

Posted by: weirdflunky at March 25, 2018 09:32 AM (vB6hJ)

71 Buckeye Cop to the Barrel
Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:27 AM (hMwEB)

Yup, I had an italics end-tag fail. At least I have the end-tags hidden at the end of my nic so the failure doesn't propagate.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 25, 2018 09:32 AM (5Yee7)

72 Sister read and liked The Boys in the Boat.

There's a documentary about the same subject I tripped over which is good. Forget the title.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 09:32 AM (pV/54)

73 I received, but have not yet read (so many books on THAT stack!) two book on Plains Indian warfare: Fate Worse than Death by a husband-wife team surnamed Michno, a collection of captivity narratives mostly from women, I believe, and Counting Coup and Cutting Horses, by Anthony McGinnis, which is a general history of intratribal warfare on the Plains during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Both should be interesting in perhaps gruesome ways. I got the Michno book because I am trying to run down some good references for the (mis)treatment of women in Plains warfare - A number of the better western fiction writers I run across mention it (such as Elmer Kelton's great The Wolf and the Buffalo) and I've run across references to it non-fiction, but I don't have any primary sources. I'm hoping that the McGinnis book, along with another book I have but haven't yet read, Calloway's One Vast Wintercount, will give me a solid grasp on the wars between various NA tribes during the 18th and early 19th century, before the US began the conquest of the West in earnest.

Posted by: Grey Fox at March 25, 2018 09:33 AM (bZ7mE)

74 I like the library picture. There was a time when libraries were Cathedrals of Knowledge.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2018 09:34 AM (BISGd)

75 ooops

Posted by: Grey Fox at March 25, 2018 09:34 AM (bZ7mE)

76 Still working my way through the Georgette Heyer Regency novels. Most of them are 9.99 or more for Kindle but several were on Kindle Unlimited. A bargain to read several in one month for 9.99.
Life at casa never enough caffeine has been a bit depressing due to family issues so light hearted reading has been the best way to go.
Didn't care for The Fountainhead movie, read the book instead.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at March 25, 2018 09:34 AM (N3JsI)

77 never enough caffeine, prayers for your family

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:36 AM (hMwEB)

78 That put me in the mood for madrigals...

Have you heard Richard Thompson play "Oops, I did it again" as a madrigal. Hilarious. Go to the 3:23 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU

Posted by: no good deed at March 25, 2018 09:37 AM (eIQHF)

79 I love Georgette Heyer romances, btw. So fun.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:38 AM (hMwEB)

80
Mrs. Franpsycho has settled on "President Trumpenegger".

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2018 09:23 AM (EZebt)

I thought I saw somewhere someone claiming that this in fact was a huge win for PDT. Okay, go with that...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:29 AM (VM6ev)

I missed all this shit, have no clue what went on, but it seems like trump is all hat and no cattle.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at March 25, 2018 09:38 AM (aMlLZ)

81 Good morning horde. Amy Lynn, Hatchet is now available on paperback and Kindle. For those of you that like the books.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at March 25, 2018 09:39 AM (YwHOD)

82 votermom, thanks. Haven't heard from them since Thursday. Hoping that means things are going well.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at March 25, 2018 09:40 AM (N3JsI)

83 First book I "read" was Moby Dick. I have tried several times over the years to read read it but just COULD NOT do it. I did enjoy listening to it. Now I understand why it is so widely acclaimed.
Posted by: weirdflunky at March 25, 2018 09:32 AM (vB6hJ)

Audiobooks have that effect even with books you've already read, in my experience. I chose a book I'd already read countless times before as one of the free ones on Audible, and I picked up things from listening to it that I hadn't noticed the first 25 times I read it - something about the reading/parsing part of your mind being freed to concentrate on speech instead.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (y87Qq)

84 alright I will confess to reading and liking a mainstream sjw-ish YA last week
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
a bit angsty, dark faery horrorish type story
the sjw parts were minor - a supporting character is bi, etc

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (hMwEB)

85 I wonder what sorts of horror stories millennials are going to be writing?

We already know what scares them, its all those distopia novels like Hunger Games and the scary stories in Harry Potter: stories about deprivation and people telling them "no." No cell phones, no food court, no wifi.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (39g3+)

86 At least I have the end-tags hidden at the end of my nic so the failure doesn't propagate.

Close tags in a nick is cheating.

I'm still reading Turgenev's "Sportsman's Sketches" because Hemingway liked it and it was free on kindle.

Our guy is a sportsman in that he's travelling all around going hunting, but he doesn't talk about the sport much. It's all recounting stories of the people he meets. He's an aristo but takes pleasure in understanding the lives of the peasants he meets.

The problem I'm having is the intricate nature of the czarist class system. The guy we just met is a proprietor peasant, which is different from a peasant, let alone a freed serf or a regular serf or a serf who chose not to buy his freedom.

I'm not saying that communism was a good answer but I understand the impetus for the revolution.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (fuK7c)

87 Bossman Ban The Gunz Hogg read The Loytery and came in his pants at the ending.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (RkSNw)

88 Just saw a big fat squirrel almost fall out of my tree.
I have Kindle unlimited. I use it mainly for my son.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (kufk0)

89 After Friday's disastrous episode, Lord Dampnut is right on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:01 AM (VM6ev)

===

Mrs. Franpsycho has settled on "President Trumpenegger".
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2018 09:23 AM (EZebt)

I thought I saw somewhere someone claiming that this in fact was a huge win for PDT. Okay, go with that...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:29 AM (VM6ev)

Eh.

As much as I hate the spending bill signing,

I think Trump has a longer view and realizes that both the Chinese and Russians are on the march-

becuz Obama did his level best to damage the military for 8 years.

China for sure is building up to a confrontation, in the 2020s I'm guessing, where they can back down the US. Their Pacific Artificial Island Build-up is part of that. They too, take the longer view.

What I think Trump didn't expect is how those Washington A-holes would hold the nation's defensive capabilities for ransom.

Not a bit of patriotism among the Congressional Scumbags.

I guess their Chinese Overlords pay quite well. And according to Mark Levin...very, very well.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (9q7Dl)

90 Grey Fox, I have the Michno book - and it makes for horrific reading, being a collection of captivity narratives from the 19th century; mostly by survivors of a round of Indian captivity. I could only read about three at a go, since just about every one began with ghastly violence - murders, rape, torture ... every combination of vicious treatment you can imagine. But an excellent antidote to the 'peaceful native Americans, in touch with nature and honoring women' blah-blah-blah trope so currently fashionable in history-writing circles.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at March 25, 2018 09:42 AM (xnmPy)

91 Is anyone else here a map nut? Reading maps is sort of like reading too, isn't it? I did a lot of sailing and backpacking (and some flying) when I was a WeaselPup and have never lost my love for maps and charts. The advent of GPS systems is great and I use them, but nothing can compare with spreading a chart out on a table.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 09:42 AM (MVjcR)

92 Not thrilled with the omnibus spending bill but take satisfaction in knowing that life in the US would be a living hell if Hillary had won. I truly believe it would have been worse then Obama's 8 years.
Damn it's difficult typing with 30 lbs of beagle in your lap.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at March 25, 2018 09:42 AM (N3JsI)

93 91

I am a map nerd and proud of it

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:43 AM (RkSNw)

94 The movie made bout Fountainhead was pretty good, not the least of which because they cut down her mega speech the hero gives to about 1/10th the length. And Gary Cooper. Not real fond of him slapping the girl to the floor as courting, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 09:43 AM (39g3+)

95 I guess their Chinese Overlords pay quite well. And according to Mark Levin...very, very well.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (9q7Dl)

Elaine Chao and Mitch McConnell declined to comment!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 09:44 AM (n9EOP)

96 You should only see the movie! Or not. Gary Cooper is wooden and dummy-like.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:28 AM (VM6ev)
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But what about that steamy scene where he is manfully drilling into that big block of granite while Patricia Neal looks on in an estrogenic fog of lust? Good stuff!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 09:44 AM (qJtVm)

97 The problem I'm having is the intricate nature of the czarist class system. The guy we just met is a proprietor peasant, which is different from a peasant, let alone a freed serf or a regular serf or a serf who chose not to buy his freedom.

I'm not saying that communism was a good answer but I understand the impetus for the revolution.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (fuK7c)

Huh.

Actually, with all the commissars, secret police, guild bosses, etc-

It looks like Russian Communism, just kinda renamed the serf system and called it "New and Improved".

Posted by: naturalfake at March 25, 2018 09:44 AM (9q7Dl)

98 Antemeridian salutations, Horde.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 09:45 AM (NWiLs)

99 ''I don't think the first version they made was all that good, even though Rand herself wrote the screenplay. ''

True enough but Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal had some sizzling chemistry on screen. I guess it extended to off screen as well.

Posted by: Tuna at March 25, 2018 09:45 AM (jm1YL)

100 I'm not saying that communism was a good answer but I understand the impetus for the revolution.

Russia's system before communism was a miserable face-grinding mess of basically horror for anyone who wasn't aristo. I understand their desire for changing that, and why they'd be dumb enough to buy into communism, since almost nobody in the country could even count to seven. Ignorance, oppression, and unfairness are fertile ground for the commie agitator. The problem is, of course, that things got no better for the average serf. All that changed were the names and the symbols.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 09:46 AM (39g3+)

101 Last weekend I had had enough of politics and took a break from the internet. I read "Dead Wake" by Erik Larson. It told the story of the last voyage of the Lusitania.

He told the story as a narrative, but there are endnotes and a bibliography to back up his quotes. I liked the structure of the book, which consisted of many short chapters alternating between the Lusitania, the U-20, and the top secret "Room 40", which was a part of British intelligence that was intercepting wireless transmissions from the German navy.

Even though we all know how it ends, the author did a good job building up the tension.

While there was no Jack and Rose on board the ship, the book actually did have a love story as a subplot, between Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt. For reals.

Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2018 09:46 AM (sdi6R)

102 "I recently realized that I'm a sucker for novels where the main character is first seen as a child, something awful happens, then the rest of the story is them grown up I suppose that's the Jane Eyre model"

Bambi?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 09:46 AM (pV/54)

103 Posted by: naturalfake at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (9q7Dl)

I agree. We are not able to fight a two front war. Reading the intel briefs every morning has got to scare the hell out of you. This isn't the first time. I enlisted at the end of the carter admin. I was in an F-14 squadron stationed at Miramar. When I got there we had 14 planes, two flew and we stole parts out of the rest of the planes to keep the two flying. Our pilots barely got their hours. It was a mess.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at March 25, 2018 09:46 AM (YwHOD)

104 The advent of GPS systems is great and I use them, but nothing can compare with spreading a chart out on a table.
Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 09:42 AM (MVjcR)

Any excuse to break out the compass, dividers, parallel rulers... I like a hobby that requires brass accoutrements.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 09:47 AM (y87Qq)

105 Posted by: naturalfake at March 25, 2018 09:41 AM (9q7Dl)

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I tend more to your view than Mrs. Franpsycho's, but Trump's entire shtick is built on being a dealmaker, and that aura of invincibility is now gone like sh*t through a goose.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2018 09:47 AM (EZebt)

106 Not real fond of him slapping the girl to the floor as courting, though.

I remember him raping her as "courting". Or are you talking about the movie?

In any event, it's problematic.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 09:47 AM (fuK7c)

107 My local rag has a story today about how awful it is that the number of refugees settled in the area dropped by 50% from 2016 to 2017.

My reaction: Thank you PDT.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:47 AM (RkSNw)

108 I wonder if I could work up some kind of pyramid scheme for book sales. You get 2 people to buy my books and I'll send you one you haven't got yet for free!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 09:48 AM (39g3+)

109 Oh, you did mean the movie.

Never mind.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 09:48 AM (fuK7c)

110 Patricia Neal! What a great actress.

She even made tired and worn out look sexy in "Hud".

Posted by: naturalfake at March 25, 2018 09:48 AM (9q7Dl)

111 I lurve maps. I would love to have a library with maps hanging on the walls.

Ooh, look at this image. Looks like the Library of Congress has its priorities right:

https://www.loc.gov/loc/walls/images/wa013001.jpg

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 09:48 AM (qJtVm)

112 A couple of weeks ago Elisabeth Wolfe mentioned 'Come, Tell Me How You Live' a memoir by Agatha Christie about going on a dig in Syria in the 1930s. So far it is delightful: humorous, spritely, and revealing of the times and attitudes. Not what I expected from Christie. I wonder if it inspired the Amelia Peabody books, which Mrs. JTB and I thoroughly enjoyed.

Thanks to Elisabeth for the suggestion. I bet the Agatha Christie course see will be teaching will be a lot of fun.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 09:48 AM (V+03K)

113 I remember him raping her as "courting". Or are you talking about the movie?

Yeah the movie was more tame and still troubling. Ayn Rand didn't quite get relationships beyond lust and power I don't think.

Her big strength was diagnosis, seeing the problem and explaining why its bad. Her solutions were bad, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 09:50 AM (39g3+)

114 I read a piece last week saying a lot of people in E. EUROPE are pining dor the good old days of communism. Still a lot of poverty there, especially in the rural areas. Sounds very 1917ish....

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:51 AM (RkSNw)

115 Going to a gun show to show 'proper' respect for the 'march of the Asshats' yesterday. BBL.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 09:51 AM (V+03K)

116 My reading of "The Walking Drum" by Louis L'Amour was interrupted when "Worth Dying For"
a Reacher novel, came into my possession.

I'm gonna go rustle up some grub and read awhile.

Later

Posted by: JT at March 25, 2018 09:51 AM (iiJXB)

117 Agree with naturalfake.

Trump got rolled on spending because his defense spending was held hostage, with the complicity of R Congresscritters.

To not fix spending would have sent the wrong signal at absolutely the worst time to China and the Norks.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 09:53 AM (pV/54)

118 I am a map nerd and proud of it

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:43 AM (RkSNw)

An old friend of mine was an officer in the Navy in the 80s and 90s, and while poking around after the Soviet Union fell, he found a bunch of old naval charts, which he used as wrapping paper for gifts.

It was odd getting a gift whose wrapping was the best part!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2018 09:53 AM (wYseH)

119 I'm currently reading American Colossus - The Triumph of Capitalism 1865-1900 which sounds dull as hell but is really well presented and interesting. It weaves the really big gilded era names we all know (JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc) with lesser-known ones and totally forgotten names. And it starts back earlier than most stories of this kind, before the Civil War where these guys got their start.

The big drawback is that its a tome, and as I age I have less and less patience with huge long books.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 09:53 AM (39g3+)

120 I thought I saw somewhere someone claiming that this in fact was a huge win for PDT. Okay, go with that...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 09:29 AM
~~~~~

For what it's worth, Twitter is all a-flutter with one of Trump's latest tweets:

"Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M!"

Of note, according to the NYT (so you know it's true) it was the Army Corps of Engineers who did the soil sampling along the border in prep for the wall.

More Twitter-ations claim that PDT does not have to spend all the money that was allocated to dem pet projects.

Just looking for a silver lining here.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 25, 2018 09:54 AM (HiDrR)

121 well, if We the Living was semi-autobiographical, I always thought Kira was a fool to prefer Leo over Andrei.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 09:54 AM (hMwEB)

122 So, the Omnibus spending and spending and spending bill. I'm not at all happy that PDT signed instead of vetoed. I think it was a very bad move. However, I'm angriest at the GOPe cocksuckers who let that piece of shit bill get constructed and passed in the first place. They're more interested in sticking it to PDT, fucking over the base, and sucking Democrat dick than doing what they ought to be doing. So far PDT is about the only one who isn't constantly grabbing his ankles for the progs and begging to get it harder, so I'm not going to start damning the man from the rooftops.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 09:54 AM (NWiLs)

123 104 The advent of GPS systems is great and I use them, but nothing can compare with spreading a chart out on a table.
Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 09:42 AM (MVjcR)

Any excuse to break out the compass, dividers, parallel rulers... I like a hobby that requires brass accoutrements.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 09:47 AM (y87Qq)
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Yep! In fact I think a lot of the fun I get from reloading is in using tools like calipers and micrometers to make very precise measurements. The process is very tactile and pleasant especially for someone who sits at a desk all day.
And while very reliable, GPS systems do break (or go crazy) and as someone mentioned here recently, steer you inadvertently into the wrong part of town.
As you mention, the process of planning a trip using chart tools is sometimes as fun as the trip itself.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 09:54 AM (MVjcR)

124 Grey Fox, I have the Michno book - and it makes for horrific reading, being a collection of captivity narratives from the 19th century; mostly by survivors of a round of Indian captivity. I could only read about three at a go, since just about every one began with ghastly violence - murders, rape, torture ... every combination of vicious treatment you can imagine. But an excellent antidote to the 'peaceful native Americans, in touch with nature and honoring women' blah-blah-blah trope so currently fashionable in history-writing circles.

That is about what I was expecting.

For the record, I don't think that many serious historians believe that "Hippy Indian" stuff. That is more the pop culture take...

Posted by: Grey Fox at March 25, 2018 09:55 AM (bZ7mE)

125 Hello, everybody. It's International De-Lurk Day.

(fades into shadow)

Posted by: Editor at March 25, 2018 09:55 AM (FdjhG)

126 Im tired of "for the military" excuse. It's like "for the children" which excuses all sorts of idiotic apending/regulations.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:55 AM (RkSNw)

127 122 So, the Omnibus spending and spending and spending bill. I'm not at all happy that PDT signed instead of vetoed. I think it was a very bad move. However, I'm angriest at the GOPe cocksuckers who let that piece of shit bill get constructed and passed in the first place. They're more interested in sticking it to PDT, fucking over the base, and sucking Democrat dick than doing what they ought to be doing. So far PDT is about the only one who isn't constantly grabbing his ankles for the progs and begging to get it harder, so I'm not going to start damning the man from the rooftops.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 09:54 AM (NWiLs)

This x1000.

Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2018 09:57 AM (sdi6R)

128 My walls used to be covered with old National Geographic maps. Basically my grandparents started collecting the magazine back when it had no photos on the cover and kept all the maps that were sent out with it, plus the ones I had from my days of getting the journal. I don't know how many there are but its a pretty sizable amount.

But the walls are basically just painted plywood and its hard to get a pin into. Plus, with my windows open in summer the wind blows them pretty badly and they started to tear. And since its an attic room, the walls are partly slanted in along the roof line, so they hang more loosely and it wasn't working out.

I love maps. Part of the reason I love role playing games is the excuse to make maps of places that never existed. I've gotten a lot of use out of turning existing topo maps from ranger stations in Oregon wilderness areas into gaming locations.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 09:57 AM (39g3+)

129
Texas teen was beaten, had hot cooking oil poured on her after refusing arranged marriage: police

Let's play guess the religion?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2018 09:58 AM (SjImc)

130 I have to go and finish furnishing my new home. My Semi truck. I'll be on the road for three weeks at a time. Good day horde.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at March 25, 2018 09:58 AM (YwHOD)

131 For those artistically inclined, I'm re-reading and going through, Fun with a Pencil by Andrew Loomis.

It was written in 59' but it is pretty much the best book on drawing, perspective and composition one could buy.

Also finally found the best Archival quality waterproof drawing ink

De Atramentis - Archival Ink.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 25, 2018 09:58 AM (UfMVm)

132 The excuse I heard last week was the military isnt strong enough right now to fight Iran and China at the same time, so we have to give dems their christmas tree in orser to get more funding.

Sigh.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:58 AM (RkSNw)

133 Cloud and Townsend's book Boundaries is a Kindle Daily Deal today.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 25, 2018 09:59 AM (rp9xB)

134
Texas teen was beaten, had hot cooking oil poured on her after refusing arranged marriage: police

Let's play guess the religion?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2018 09:58 AM (SjImc)

Texas...so crazy Xtianists.

Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:59 AM (RkSNw)

135 I went down the rabbit hole looking up school and public library murals. There are some wonderful artists out there. Also some low-rent Diego Riveras, but mostly awesomeness.

And look what Commerce and Art can do when they get jiggy:

http://www.lifeinmichigan.com/a-date-at-the-detroit-public-library/

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 09:59 AM (qJtVm)

136 Count me among those who lurve maps.

I had an 1879 altas centerfold map of Plymouth County framed and it's on my wall. It's cool to look at how the geography itself has changed due to storms.

These days at a practical level I rely on DeLorme Atlas. It's state by state books, oversized magazine size, with town by town-ish breakdowns and they're topographical.

Huge fun, especially when you end up in a part of the boondocks where no cell service means no gps.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 10:00 AM (fuK7c)

137 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 09:48 AM (qJtVm)
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Now I want bacon!

My dad was a Naval Aviator, and I have several of the aeronautical charts of the U.S. and Mediterranean he used in the late 50's with his handwritten notations. Priceless.
I also have a collection of maps of the place I live back to when George Washington was the owner.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:00 AM (MVjcR)

138 126 Im tired of "for the military" excuse. It's like "for the children" which excuses all sorts of idiotic apending/regulations.
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:55 AM (RkSNw)

There are significant substantive differences between the two. The military is something concrete, beneficial and purposeful. It's also one of the few legitimate things the Feds spend money on. "For the children" is invariably nothing more than a manipulative ploy to hit people in teh FEEELZ about socialist policies and eroding Constitutional rights. However, neither one should be some kind of magic talisman that makes bad policy or bad budgetary decisions good or acceptable.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 10:00 AM (NWiLs)

139 Thanks to a couple of mentions on the book thread, I've now read a couple of the Rex Stout "Nero Wolfe" books.

Thanks for the tip, they've been very well done.

The ending of "The Doorbell Rang" is a hoot.

Posted by: Blake at March 25, 2018 10:01 AM (WEBkv)

140 129
Texas teen was beaten, had hot cooking oil poured on her after refusing arranged marriage: police

Let's play guess the religion?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2018 09:58 AM (SjImc)

Frying was involved, so I'm guessing Southern Baptist.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 10:02 AM (NWiLs)

141 Posted by: Editor at March 25, 2018 09:55 AM (FdjhG)

Editor! How have you been doing?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 25, 2018 10:02 AM (rp9xB)

142 So far PDT is about the only one who isn't constantly grabbing his ankles for the progs and begging to get it harder, so I'm not going to start damning the man from the rooftops.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 09:54 AM
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See my #120. It appears that PDT plans to use some of the military money to build the wall. It very possibly was part of the plan all along. He is claiming (rightly so) that the wall is a national security issue.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 25, 2018 10:02 AM (HiDrR)

143 Texas teen was beaten, had hot cooking oil poured on her after refusing arranged marriage: police

Let's play guess the religion?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2018 09:58 AM (SjImc)

Texas...so crazy Xtianists.
Posted by: #neverskankles at March 25, 2018 09:59 AM (RkSNw)

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Amish, it's always the Amish.

Unless it's the Quakers.

Or, perhaps the Calvinists.

Posted by: Blake at March 25, 2018 10:03 AM (WEBkv)

144 I should try reading Anthem, I've heard its a good Ayn Rand book. I tried reading Atlas Shrugged and it was a rough go.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 10:03 AM (39g3+)

145 Frying was involved, so I'm guessing Southern Baptist.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 10:02 AM (NWiLs)
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Ha!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 10:03 AM (qJtVm)

146 Here's a great map
https://tinyurl.com/y85vjyz5

Shows Napoleon's march to and retreat from Moscow. The width reflects the size of his army. It even shows during the retreat where so many French died trying to cross a river.

Edward Tufte, noted guy on visual information, calls it the best ever.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 10:04 AM (pV/54)

147 In his final tuneup before the regular season, Los Angeles Angels starter Shohei Ohtani had another uneven performance, this time against minor league hitters Saturday.

Ohtani, 23, unofficially threw 85 pitches, but his fastball command was off, resulting in five walks, a hit batter and two wild pitches. His velocity was also down from previous starts, according to scouts in attendance.

Ya gotta be careful with Japanese Pitchers...It's no sure thing

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 25, 2018 10:04 AM (SjImc)

148 120 More Twitter-ations claim that PDT does not have to spend all the money that was allocated to dem pet projects.

Just looking for a silver lining here.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 25, 2018 09:54 AM (HiDrR)

I'm desperate enough to catch that sliver of a lifeline.

That said, this was the golden opportunity to shame Congress in front of the entire nation and really galvanize the struggle between the people and the socialist Deep State. He could have demanded that they write two separate bills for the defense budget and the wall, and then a separate spending bill for all else but at 20% less across the board (and that could've been the bargaining chip to start the deal making).

Instead, he allowed them to publicly humiliate him and us. And the icing on the cake was that veto threat which went nowhere.

It was a moment that would have been a political game-changer and could have dealt a significant blow to the political class.

He blew it big time, and I don't think another opportunity like this will come along before the midterms. And after that, all bets are off.

Shame.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 10:04 AM (VM6ev)

149 See my #120. It appears that PDT plans to use some of the military money to build the wall. It very possibly was part of the plan all along. He is claiming (rightly so) that the wall is a national security issue.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 25, 2018 10:02 AM (HiDrR)

Perhaps, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 10:04 AM (NWiLs)

150 Thanks to a couple of mentions on the book thread, I've now read a couple of the Rex Stout "Nero Wolfe" books.

I have enjoyed all the ones I have read. Someone took over writing them after Stout died, but they are not nearly as good in my opinion, and got more specifically into the times and politics than he did.

Another series worth looking into are the Perry Mason books, there are a ton of them. Every one I've read from the series so far has been very enjoyable, especially the earliest ones. Forget the TV show, these are a blast.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 10:05 AM (39g3+)

151 Begging the indulgence of O'Muse and book threaders, for one self-plugola? Merely a digital comic, not a "real book," but you can read it for free and ~~pay me for it~~ make a donation of support anyway, if you want. ;-)
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Jerusalem Report
Monday Morning News
David ben Abner reporting for Jeusalem Networks

"All Jerusalem is abuzz after the dramatic arrival yesterday of the alleged Messiah and wonder-worker, Jesus of Nazareth...."
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Link in nic to page 1 of the comic. (From 2013)

N.B.: Comic is not necessarily exactly conforming to scripture in all points.

Posted by: mindful webworker - face-palm sunday at March 25, 2018 10:07 AM (PukHz)

152 I've seen the Boston Public Library in Fallout 4. No electricity though....

Posted by: The Guy at March 25, 2018 10:07 AM (ruOrN)

153 These days at a practical level I rely on DeLorme Atlas.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 10:00 AM (fuK7c)

I have never used the Delorme MI Atlas & Gazetteer in my car, granted, but I like having it there.

I should try reading Anthem,
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 10:03 AM (39g3+)

It's worth reading. The only bad part about Anthem is it makes you think the rest of Ayn Rand is a quick easy read and then you get lured behind a dumpster in an alley and the free market holds you down while objectivism kicks your teeth down your throat for twelve hundred pages.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 10:07 AM (y87Qq)

154 And look what Commerce and Art can do when they get jiggy:

Oh, that Detroit library is gorgeous.

Our local library is a grand relic from the town's good days, which are gone, and the library is a guilded homeless shelter.

The thing I get a kick out of is the mural. It's a big socialist realism thing of manly men making tools over a forge and it's ringed by forge and factory smoke as a frame.

Because back then pollution meant prosperity.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 10:07 AM (fuK7c)

155 Ya gotta be careful with Japanese Pitchers...It's no sure thing

Yeah hitting carries over pretty well between leagues but pitching may not. They have different parks, different hitting approaches, smaller players (not as big and fast), and I think even the ball is a different size. It may take him a year or more to adapt, and that's a long time to wait on a pitcher.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 10:07 AM (39g3+)

156 Wife is watching Chris Wallace on Fox. He's interviewing two teenagers about the march and their lusting for gun confiscation.

Funny he's not pressing very hard. I can't even.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at March 25, 2018 10:07 AM (+Tibp)

157
I tend more to your view than Mrs. Franpsycho's, but Trump's entire shtick is built on being a dealmaker, and that aura of invincibility is now gone like sh*t through a goose.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2018 09:47 AM (EZebt)

Well, you could be right.

But, I don't think so.

Just as pretty much everything post-911 has been a dispiriting lesson in just who Our Betters are and what they really believe,

I believe Trump has just gotten the measure of exactly who he has to work with in Congress in the strongest possible manner.

National Defense? Support for our fighting men and women? Something all patriotic Americans can agree on, right?

Nope.

Not when there's goodies to be squeezed out of the American taxpayer like so much tuna custard squeezed out of a kitten.

That "Deal" was the best he could do at this time.

What happens from here will be the real tell.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 25, 2018 10:08 AM (9q7Dl)

158 He blew it big time, and I don't think another opportunity like this will come along before the midterms. And after that, all bets are off.
Shame.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 10:04 AM
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See, I think the whole veto threat was part of his shtick and was directed at the dems not us.

He plays these games all the time and to be honest, I don't think he's screwed us yet. Wouldn't be surprised if this omnibus fiasco turns out to be yet another glorious Trumpageddon!

Fingers crossed.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 25, 2018 10:09 AM (HiDrR)

159 Like anagrams? You should try cryptic (British style) crosswords. Start with the ones in the National Post (actually Canadian (search for natpostcryptic)) and The Nation (yes, it's far left, but the puzzles are good)

Posted by: Otto Zilch at March 25, 2018 10:10 AM (8rVl6)

160 Ohayo gozaimus minna, genki hai?

I know one writer who tortures herself to create characters with anagram names. A lot of agony for little payoff in my opinion.

Millennial horror story - Siri dies.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 25, 2018 10:11 AM (my6cm)

161 Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 10:04 AM (pV/54)
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Wow. Very cool.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:11 AM (MVjcR)

162 Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is a fascinating read. A coworker brought in his old edition and I didn't get much done that day.

I found a collection of graphic representations of info that will effectively shut down Chore Day for me (it takes very little). Here is a link to the pdf:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a50f/ 335f700ccfe31ad4c0873eaa305ab15fc6b8.pdf

(break in the middle)

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 10:12 AM (qJtVm)

163 The spending bill is all smoke and no mirrors.

It is all kabuki with some break dancing thrown in along with the shadow wall stuff the landlord did in the Big Lebowski.

Fake money chasing votes. Why not just double the spending next year....as the smartest woman on the planet said not too long ago, "What difference does it make?". We are in debt up to our eyeballs and it will be too painful for our elected leaders to do much about it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 25, 2018 10:13 AM (EoRCO)

164 The local public library here in Salem is a 70s concrete slab monstrosity. WHen it was originally opened, they painted the slabs alternate hues of purple and orange, to make it even more of an eyesore. But inside wasn't too bad because the shelves covered up most of the purple and orange carpeting.

Since then there's been a lot of reno work and replacing the carpeting, powerwashing the hideous paint off. Its not as bad, but still that brutal stone block construction over most of the building. And they have book sales every so often to move duplicate copies or books that aren't being checked out as much, which makes it a nice place to get old books they don't like any longer.

Unfortunately it also means that books like The Mark of Zorro just aren't in the library system any longer, because old patriarchy racism.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 10:13 AM (39g3+)

165
Well said insomniac. Ryan and McConnell are pushing this crap in the omnibus bill. They both need to be voted out of office.

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin (thought leader) at March 25, 2018 10:13 AM (YMuSO)

166
Book thread?

What Happened....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 25, 2018 10:13 AM (KtXzc)

167 Millennial horror story - Siri dies.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 25, 2018 10:11 AM (my6cm)

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Oh, great idea! Though, maybe have Siri commit seppuku after dealing with an exceptionally brain dead millenial.

Could be a hoot as a short story.

Posted by: Blake at March 25, 2018 10:13 AM (WEBkv)

168 >>Perhaps, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Read this all the way to the end. Look when it was written.

https://tinyurl.com/y9haeawr

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2018 10:13 AM (/tuJf)

169 Millennial horror story - Siri dies.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 25, 2018 10:11 AM (my6cm)

Oh my. *snerk* That would be just *giggle* terrible!

Posted by: Alexa at March 25, 2018 10:14 AM (NWiLs)

170 And I see we are talking Trump ... again

Jya ne.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 25, 2018 10:14 AM (my6cm)

171 Erie, you'd like this as well, but it is hard to beat Tufte!

https://flowingdata.com/

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 10:15 AM (n9EOP)

172 I tend more to your view than Mrs. Franpsycho's, but Trump's entire shtick is built on being a dealmaker, and that aura of invincibility is now gone like sh*t through a goose.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2018 09:47 AM

How can you make a deal with 100 individual Senators headed by some Kentucky back-woods hick? To me, that's the question. They short-sheeted him while his attention was turned to other matters.

That 'Old Boys Club' isn't welcome to outsiders. Especially Trump, the ultimate outsider. They don't give a crap about spending constraints, it's all about dividing up the pork.

I'm not sure there's anything the hell he, or any other person on the globe, can do about it.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at March 25, 2018 10:15 AM (LOgQ4)

173 OK, Lord, it's time to call Jimmeh home. Just watching an interview with Jane Pauley talking to Jimmy Carter. I haven't had coffee and the remote is more than an arms length away.

So Jane says something like, the hostages not being released while you were President must be one of your great regrets. Jimmy says, "Well that's not entirely true." You see, because they were on a plane, y'know waiting for him to not be President before they could leave, they were actually in the process of leaving while Jimmy was President.

Facts? Who needs 'em? What freaking planet do these nut jobs live on? They are like abusive spouses convinced that the victim made them do it.

ugh. not how I wanted to wake up.

Sooo, books! now I'll read the content....

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 25, 2018 10:15 AM (tMFgx)

174 Trump needed to signal to China and the Norks (and Russia) that we're serious about our military. Timing is critical. Ds and many Rs required a price in pork for this. Shutting down government with a veto wouldn't change this, just make it even more visible.

And he's fighting on too many other fronts right now.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 10:15 AM (pV/54)

175 I should try reading Anthem, I've heard its a good Ayn Rand book. I tried reading Atlas Shrugged and it was a rough go.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 10:03 AM (39g3+)

The ideas behind Atlas Shrugged are good (i.e., Rand knew how the looters and moochers think), but it is a 350 page story told in 1000+ pages. I got to where I was just skimming the lengthy speeches to get back to where stuff was happening. Also, the whole thing about Galt's Gulch was a rather unsatisfying Deus ex Machina way of solving the problem of collectivists crushing national economies.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 25, 2018 10:16 AM (5Yee7)

176 I really do think that some stories about the horrors of having government spying on you really are due. Its ridiculous, all the stuff people were worried about in the 1990s they readily and deliberately welcome into their homes and cars today. Because instead of forcing it on people through law, they presented it as trendy, hip, and exciting new TECHNOLOGY and people who F'IN LOVE SCIENCE eat that up with a spoon without thinking about it even once.

In the 1980s there were all these stories about the horrors of government surveillance and silencing voices, such a V for Vendetta. Most of them came out of England, from cringing nancies terrified that Margaret Thatcher would show up and spank them.

Today, when its actually, literally happening in the UK... crickets.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 10:17 AM (39g3+)

177 No two ways about it, Trump got rolled by the GOP and the Donks.

Trump has to smarten and up and understand that the GOP for all intents and purposes is a subsidiary of the Democrat party and that if he wants his priorities hes got to go after the GOP.

McConnel is not going to do away with the 60 vote rule for budget related info on his own.

The President has to go straight to McConnels voters and start threatening these fucks.

Because they are literally going to give him nothing.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 25, 2018 10:18 AM (UfMVm)

178 1. Ya got yer anagrams bass ackwards. Supposed to be (strange phrase) is an anagram of (somebodys name).

2. A Rambling Wreck is a fun read like the first book. Pretty ballsy of the author to set about writing a story that involves our understanding of electromagnetic radiation being wrong! I mean, he either has to figure out a clever way of ending it without telling us what the mistake is... or he actually knows something every other physicist has missed! Now, most clever ways of ending things just piss the reader off, and most breakthroughs in physics tend to be announced via scholarly papers (I was going to say peer-reviewed but these days it seems more like pal-reviewed), so good luck Hanz!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 25, 2018 10:19 AM (SXaOr)

179 Posted by: Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 10:15 AM (n9EOP)
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Cool!

The army ants bridge-building video is...hypnotic.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 10:19 AM (qJtVm)

180 Starting to read late Roman poets, beginning with Namantianus' De Redito Suo in english. Post-Apocalyptic Roman-era adventurer-pron

Posted by: Bigby's Groping Hands at March 25, 2018 10:19 AM (z2W2E)

181 Millennial horror story

We have a safety recall.

Posted by: Tide Pods at March 25, 2018 10:20 AM (Tyii7)

182 Reading The Fall of the Duke of Duval: A Prosecutor's Journal by John E. Clark. If anyone knows what Box 13 is and how it benefitted Lyndon B. Johnson to start his political career than this book is for you. Ballot stuffing, graft, bribes, murder, and guess who it helped? Demodcrats. Great book!

A summary from Booklist: "The name Parr may not be familiar to most readers, but many know Lyndon Johnson's first U.S. Senate election was tainted: this 1948 "Box 13" fraud was perpetrated in the town of Alice in Jim Wells County, Texas, by George Parr, the "duke" of neighboring Duval County. Clark, an assistant federal prosecutor under U.S. Attorney William Sessions (later FBI director) in the1970s, played a key role in the long federal grand jury investigation of the Parr machine and later trials of its leading operators. His book describes the system of patronage and corruption Archie Parr developed in the early 1900s and his son George ran until a 1970s legal onslaught--set off quite unintentionally by an IRS audit of an Austin contractor--brought it down. The Parrs controlled their territory's dominant Hispanic population by selecting Latino agents and providing jobs and services to needy constituents; in the meantime, astonishing sums of money flowed from county school boards and reclamation offices to the Parrs and their friends. A true-crime tale with a vivid local-politics focus."

Posted by: Rolando Gallegos at March 25, 2018 10:20 AM (59GQk)

183 This week is Holy Week, so I will be reading Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons on Cana and Calvary and The Way of the Cross, both by Fulton J. Sheen. And both short, so I can get them read and also get all my Easter prep done as well.

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:21 AM (oMtOd)

184 183
This week is Holy Week, so I will be reading Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons on Cana and Calvary and The Way of the Cross, both by Fulton J. Sheen. And both short, so I can get them read and also get all my Easter prep done as well.

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:21 AM (oMtOd)

nice

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 25, 2018 10:22 AM (0O7c5)

185 And as a warning, I would straight up fire Elaine Cho.

Having her in the administration has amounted to jack shit.

She can go slob the knob of that drooling buffoon on someone elses time.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 25, 2018 10:22 AM (UfMVm)

186 Posted by: bluebell

Heya, could you please send me an email, if you don't mind? Thanks!

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 10:23 AM (y87Qq)

187 I read that Barbara Stanwyck badly wanted the female lead role in the Fountainhead. She would have been more compelling than Patricia Neal -- if the director hadn't demanded the wooden acting.

I liked the book; the message about a CEO compromising his principles because public/media pressure is timeless.

Posted by: smilin jack at March 25, 2018 10:23 AM (otSEE)

188 167 Millennial horror story - Siri dies.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at March 25, 2018 10:11 AM (my6cm)

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Oh, great idea! Though, maybe have Siri commit seppuku after dealing with an exceptionally brain dead millenial.

Could be a hoot as a short story.
Posted by: Blake at March 25, 2018 10:13 AM (WEBkv)

Or AI gets dumbed down by years of interacting with millennial idiots. Soon, an old TI graphing calculator is the smartest thing, man or machine, on the planet.

Posted by: josephistan at March 25, 2018 10:24 AM (ANIFC)

189 3 Books in that big arssed Boston Library...seems aboot right.."wasted space" galore..the book of Keils and two porno rags.....

Posted by: saf at March 25, 2018 10:25 AM (5IHGB)

190 Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:21 AM (oMtOd)
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My pal is here!

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:26 AM (MVjcR)

191 Heya, could you please send me an email, if you don't mind? Thanks!
Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 10:23 AM (y87Qq)
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Done!

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:26 AM (oMtOd)

192 laugh tv has that eddie murphy movie where he goes to congress perfect for background noise

Posted by: jimmytheclaw chronic insomniac at March 25, 2018 10:26 AM (taqr5)

193 Howdy, Weasel! Did you and Mrs. Weasel go out for breakfast yesterday as usual?

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:27 AM (oMtOd)

194 Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 10:19 AM (qJtVm)

I thought you'd like that, and there are an amazing number of different topics covered there!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 10:28 AM (n9EOP)

195 I recommend Ayn Rand's "Anthem". It's quite unlike anything else she wrote. It's longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, so I guess it's a novella.

It is set in a future collectivist society where words like "I" and "Me" have been banned. In that, it eerily presages Orwell's Newspeak in "1984" which was written a decade later.

But Rand was a pretty obscure writer at the time, and "Anthem" is one of her lesser-known works even today. I don't think Orwell read it before writing "1984".

Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2018 10:29 AM (sdi6R)

196
193 Howdy, Weasel! Did you and Mrs. Weasel go out for breakfast yesterday as usual?
Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:27 AM (oMtOd)
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No, not,this weekend. Not sure why not, either, now that you mention it. But the ol' ball and chain is at church right now and has promised to bring me back a breakfast sammich.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:30 AM (MVjcR)

197 Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is a fascinating read. A coworker brought in his old edition and I didn't get much done that day.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 10:12 AM (qJtVm)

Thanks for the heads-up on that book. I just ordered a copy for work since that is exactly one of things I do for a living now. For those interested, the interwebs shows a fair number of copies available for less than $20 including postage.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 25, 2018 10:30 AM (5Yee7)

198 I recommend Ayn Rand's "Anthem". It's quite unlike anything else she wrote. It's longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, so I guess it's a novella.

Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2018 10:29 AM (sdi6R)

My dad's copy was published by a pamphlet company, not a book publisher. *shrug*

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 10:32 AM (y87Qq)

199 Highly recommend Librivox for listening to public domain books.
Posted by: weirdflunky at March 25, 2018 09:32 AM (vB6hJ)

Thanks for the recommendation. I recall trying to slog my way through Ivanhoe in high school; I was a big reader, but generally disliked assigned reading. Stupid kid.

Posted by: smilin jack at March 25, 2018 10:32 AM (otSEE)

200 Borrowed the audiobook, Crisis of Character , and not to my surprise, listened to someone who listed the lack of character displayed by Hillary Rodham in dealing with subordinates. Simply horrible person, and I thank God daily that she never became POTUS.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at March 25, 2018 10:32 AM (rdl6o)

201 Speaking of libraries. In the days before the internet, what did young horny boys do for porn?

Word get out in my all boys high school that the Mid Town library had bound copies of Playboy on the shelves (for the articles!, damn your eyes).

So your humble narrator made the trek -- several times. Until all the good ones had been cut out by other droogs. More's the pity, the tragedy of the commons.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 10:32 AM (pV/54)

202 I remember reading at least ten years ago a history professor stating that his students had been so situationally ethic and multicultured that they refused to condemn outright the Holocaust. Sure, Adolph was a bad guy but what about the British in Malaysia? It doesn't surprise me at all that millennial are OK with The Lottery.

Speaking of which, I finished Dean Koontz' Ashley Bell this week and it makes use of a number of literary allusions, in particular Flannery O'Conner's A Good Man Is Hard to Find, specifically the famous line that grandma would have been a good person if "had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

Like many Koontz books, the ending is not as good as suspense building part of the book. I will say, however, the ending does raise some literary philosophy pojnts of its own.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 10:34 AM (+y/Ru)

203 I've been trying a lot of alternate authors I've never read before lately and its been a lot of strikeouts. Even some classics aren't working out. I tried to read Beau Geste and I cannot comprehend how it got made into a movie. Its just not very good at all and the writing is obnoxious.

Over and over its the same thing: a person starts telling a story about something exciting that happened, but stops or withholds information that actually makes it exciting while things delay getting the information out. They have dinner and go to bed. The next day, more of the story is told, again not giving anything away. Over and over until finally the big reveal which is actually quite interesting, but by that point you don't give a crap.

Repeatedly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 10:34 AM (39g3+)

204 >>>I wonder what sorts of horror stories millennials are going to be writing?

I got about half way through watching the Purge, and it was such stupid, politically correct garbage I just stopped at that point and took it back. Luckily it was from the library.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 25, 2018 10:35 AM (/qEW2)

205 But the ol' ball and chain is at church right now and has promised to bring me back a breakfast sammich.
Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:30 AM (MVjcR)
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I have to remember to get her email address the next time I see her. She might be interested in certain wording that shows up around here.

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:36 AM (oMtOd)

206 I have to remember to get her email address the next time I see her. She might be interested in certain wording that shows up around here.

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:36 AM (oMtOd)
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uh oh.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:37 AM (MVjcR)

207 I was a big reader, but generally disliked assigned reading. Stupid kid.
Posted by: smilin jack at March 25, 2018 10:32 AM (otSEE)
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Maybe, like me, you didn't actually mind the assigned reading too much but you hated how it was dissected to within an inch of its life in the classroom. I always wondered how these long-dead authors would feel if they knew what was being said about them and their works.

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (oMtOd)

208 Millenial horror story: in a socialist utopian future, runaway climate change destroys the world's soy bean crops. People are forced to eat animals for food. Males, now free of overdoses of plant estrogens, start developing chest hair and aggressive tendencies. Then someone rediscovers the long-lost and forbidden knowledge of gunpowder. People are no longer bound to be slaves of the state. Oh the horror!

Posted by: PabloD at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (P5MdX)

209 uh oh.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:37 AM (MVjcR)

This should ward off the evil....

http://tinyurl.com/yb5w4v2z

or this:

http://tinyurl.com/yd5wne9n

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (wYseH)

210 Damn it's difficult typing with 30 lbs of beagle in your lap.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at March 25, 2018 09:42 AM (N3JsI)

One of the neighborhood dog owners has a beagle, much along in years; I just adore this dog and feel a warm glow whenever he looks into my eyes and wags his tail. God blessed us with dogs.

Posted by: smilin jack at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (otSEE)

211 The Lottery, the classic short story by Shirley Jackson"

Never did hear of it until the recent kerfuffle, and still don't get it.
Was the author trying to ban stoning? Hardly an ancient "ritual" - it was a punishment for an action, not a "lottery".

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I interpret it as a warning that the hysteria of extremism can lead to irrational evil. OM suggests that the story is out of date considering the prevalence of contemporary evil but perhaps that is just what makes it timely. Planned Parenthood anyone?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (+y/Ru)

212 Christopher R Taylor,
If that attic room theme is just maps covering the walls and you don't want to move them around mod podge is your friend. You can plaster the walls then paint a layer of mod podge ontop and it will dry clear. sort of a permanent solution but it looks cool. I've done boxes and such but you can do walls.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 25, 2018 10:41 AM (kufk0)

213 208 Millenial horror story: in a socialist utopian future, runaway climate change destroys the world's soy bean crops. People are forced to eat animals for food. Males, now free of overdoses of plant estrogens, start developing chest hair and aggressive tendencies. Then someone rediscovers the long-lost and forbidden knowledge of gunpowder. People are no longer bound to be slaves of the state. Oh the horror!
Posted by: PabloD at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (P5MdX)
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They will become the Eloi.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:42 AM (MVjcR)

214 Speaking of libraries. In the days before the internet, what did young horny boys do for porn?
Word get out in my all boys high school that the Mid Town library had bound copies of Playboy on the shelves (for the articles!, damn your eyes).
So your humble narrator made the trek -- several times. Until all the good ones had been cut out by other droogs. More's the pity, the tragedy of the commons.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 10:32 AM (pV/54)

Bum's Nests were always good for a porno mag or three.

Out in the woods or along the railroad tracks, you would come up on a bum's nest with empty bottles, burnt out campfire, cigarette butts and well worn porno mags for confiscating.

Just be sure the resident bum was off bumming somewhere before raiding his stash.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 25, 2018 10:42 AM (EoRCO)

215 They just finished building a multi million dollar public library in the Westchase area in Houston. Its very nice but it's going to be a big waste of money. The homeless will like it though.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 25, 2018 10:43 AM (2DOZq)

216 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (wYseH)
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Thanks CBD. I was already making my final preparations.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:44 AM (MVjcR)

217 I tend more to your view than Mrs. Franpsycho's, but Trump's entire shtick is built on being a dealmaker, and that aura of invincibility is now gone like sh*t through a goose.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2018 09:47 AM

For this once, I am willing to wait and watch how Trump deals with it. Yeah, it is a shitty deal, but sometimes you just get shitty deals and there is nothing one can do about it.

The military is in very bad shape right now. Obama was very successful in ripping it to shreds. And in these days and the days coming we are going to need a strong military.

Trump is right when he said his first priority was insure the safety and security of this nation. I have come to the conclusion that he became willing to pay a political price for this. As I said, I will watch and wait.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 10:44 AM (Fs5vw)

218 Grey Fox at #73 If you're still here, have you read Empire of the Summer Moon? By SC Gwynne.
It's the story of the Comanches. Not nice people. It covers their attitudes towards captives, weapons, tactics. The great raid across Texas to the Gulf of Mexico.

Posted by: Winston at March 25, 2018 10:44 AM (wgCUV)

219 214 Speaking of libraries. In the days before the internet, what did young horny boys do for porn?
Word get out in my all boys high school that the Mid Town library had bound copies of Playboy on the shelves (for the articles!, damn your eyes).
So your humble narrator made the trek -- several times. Until all the good ones had been cut out by other droogs. More's the pity, the tragedy of the commons.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 10:32 AM (pV/54)

Bum's Nests were always good for a porno mag or three.

Out in the woods or along the railroad tracks, you would come up on a bum's nest with empty bottles, burnt out campfire, cigarette butts and well worn porno mags for confiscating.

Just be sure the resident bum was off bumming somewhere before raiding his stash.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 25, 2018 10:42 AM (EoRCO)

A friend from High School's back yard shared a fence with an adult book store. He just went dumpster diving to get his supply.

Posted by: josephistan at March 25, 2018 10:45 AM (ANIFC)

220 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (wYseH)
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Cruel. And uncalled for.

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:45 AM (oMtOd)

221 Moby Dick was a huge failure when first written. Justified in my opinion.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 25, 2018 10:45 AM (2DOZq)

222 I had a newspaper route. Two of my customers were subscribers to Playboy. On alternate months each would get his copy a day late.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 10:46 AM (fuK7c)

223 209

yeah, not clicking those

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 10:46 AM (hMwEB)

224 I don't post very often, as a moron author I don't want to be seen as promoting my own books, but I do want to say how much I enjoy the Sunday morning book threads. I also envy the fellowship a lot of you seem to have.

As to what I'm reading, aside from hardcore military books in German that I'm translating for the current book I'm working on, I've just started Brandon Sanderson's The Alloy of Law. The guy sells a zillion books so I figured I might as well find out why.

Posted by: William Alan Webb at March 25, 2018 10:46 AM (OhYcy)

225 Good move, votermom. One is worse than the other. Both are nausea-inducing.

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:47 AM (oMtOd)

226 And now I'm off to the book sale. Hope I find something good!

Posted by: josephistan at March 25, 2018 10:47 AM (ANIFC)

227 As some people have pointed out frequently that I have begun to accept is that the United States is an exception that is only a temporary state of being until the world returns to its default state of might makes right.

Those that don't follow rules will always eventually defeat those that do.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 25, 2018 10:48 AM (2DOZq)

228 For this once, I am willing to wait and watch how Trump deals with it. Yeah, it is a shitty deal, but sometimes you just get shitty deals and there is nothing one can do about it.

The military is in very bad shape right now. Obama was very successful in ripping it to shreds. And in these days and the days coming we are going to need a strong military.

Trump is right when he said his first priority was insure the safety and security of this nation. I have come to the conclusion that he became willing to pay a political price for this. As I said, I will watch and wait.
Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 10:44 AM (Fs5vw)
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I'm inclined,to agree. As much as I'd have liked him to give them the finger, I'm also reminded how glad I am that I don't have to make these kinds of decisions.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 10:49 AM (MVjcR)

229 >>Trump is right when he said his first priority was insure the safety and security of this nation. I have come to the conclusion that he became willing to pay a political price for this. As I said, I will watch and wait.

Trump's twitter is interesting this morning as it often is when trying to understand his intentions.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2018 10:50 AM (/tuJf)

230 Trump tweets:
As a matter of National Security I've signed the Omnibus Spending Bill. I say to Congress: I will NEVER sign another bill like this again. To prevent this omnibus situation from ever happening again, I'm calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for all govt spending bills!"

Sounds like a red line to me.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 10:52 AM (pV/54)

231

Looks a lot like Harvard's Widener Library, which is amazing.

Widener, pronounced in its kraut-pre-nazi pronuncation Videner, which somehow transforms into Vahdnah to all the campus yahoos who want to impress themselves and you by sounding German.

Anyway, the history of how and WHY the Widener Library was even built is kinda interesting. Mrs Widener lost her son, a Harvard alum (or student, I forget which) in the Titanic disaster, so she the library built in his honor/name. Back then, you could build these wonderful stone buildings kinda cheap and kinda quick using Men Willing To Work, i.e., slave-labor in today's view.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 10:52 AM (T8N1n)

232 Just finished Rodney Stark's "How the West Won - The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity."

Liked it. Recommend it.

Posted by: fretless at March 25, 2018 10:55 AM (uDTP4)

233 A Donald Trump MAGA anagram:

PROUD LAND (TM) with tm as the logo

Posted by: Rex B at March 25, 2018 10:55 AM (4TQzD)

234 the manchurian candidate is on at TCM. Still horrific.

Posted by: vivi at March 25, 2018 10:55 AM (11H2y)

235 I'm a sucker for time travel books and for dog books so I just had to gst Tomorrow by Damien Dibben about an immortal dog who travels through time to find his master. I've only just started but so far it's quite good.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 10:56 AM (+y/Ru)

236 Still in cold ass NY. Sitting in The Little Dinner in New City waiting for my breakfast order. I can't seem to get out of here. Hopefully this is my last week.

I am wondering who got my Salt Lake City job though.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at March 25, 2018 10:56 AM (mVMmK)

237 Trump's twitter is interesting this morning as it often is when trying to understand his intentions.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2018 10:50 AM (/tuJf)
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Sometimes he wears his heart on his forehead, and other times he's like Churchill's description of Russia: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. And half the time I think he's making it up as he goes.

I'm with Weasel: I'm glad I don't have to make those kinds of decisions. Heck, I have trouble deciding what to make for dinner most nights.

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:56 AM (oMtOd)

238 the manchurian candidate is on at TCM. Still horrific.
Posted by: vivi at March 25, 2018 10:55 AM (11H2y)

?

He's on Netflix, surely?

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 10:56 AM (y87Qq)

239 Trump: "I say to Congress: I will NEVER sign another bill like this again."

Congress: "Challenge accepted."

I fear this is his "Read my lips" moment. As, as disappointed as I am toward him for signing this piece of shit, I am livid at the Congressional Republicans--particularly Bitch McConnell.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 25, 2018 10:57 AM (NL6wI)

240 A friend from High School's back yard shared a fence with an adult book store. He just went dumpster diving to get his supply.
Posted by: josephistan at March 25, 2018 10:45 AM (ANIFC)

Damn, some people have all the luck.

Dumpster diving and for porn. Your friend was a very lucky fellow.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 25, 2018 10:57 AM (EoRCO)

241 >>>In order to be creeped out by the Abnormal, you need to have a strong sense of what the Normal is, or what it should be. And right now we're pretty much at the point where the two magnetic poles are reversed, where the Normal is now the Abnormal, and vice versa.

This is true. So their story would start with an idyllic society, in which they went to concerts and malls and some routinely got shot up by terrorists. The friends of the victims would briefly mourn and then carry on and mostly be happy. Then all of a sudden Donald Trump jumps out of nowhere. The millennials are petrified with fear. "I'm gonna put an end to these attacks. And I'll build casinos on the remains of the terrorists' mosques. Yuuuge, classy casinos. I will make America great again". They all run screaming in horror. Ie. they'd run from the one trying to prevent them from getting killed.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 25, 2018 10:58 AM (/qEW2)

242

The massively-wide-and-many granite steps going into Widener is impressive.

I've never been to Washington DC, but it's a lot like those buildings.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 10:58 AM (T8N1n)

243 Heck, I have trouble deciding what to make for dinner most nights.
Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:56 AM (oMtOd)

*opens envelope*

"Chicken Francese and asparagus in vinaigrette"

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 10:59 AM (y87Qq)

244
I don't know about you, but granite steps and tall columns make me erect, if you know what I mean.

I LOVE masonry. Sexually.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 10:59 AM (T8N1n)

245 Book nerds!

Posted by: Ogre at March 25, 2018 10:59 AM (Dp6qK)

246 Widener is a college near Philadelphia which I never heard pronounced in Krautish. (It's also a name / word completely unfamiliar to me as being German, what up with that?).

In HS winter track meant lots of teams meeting at a college with an indoor track and Widener was one of them. I think it was the one that had sort of a tunnel on the far side and you'd be tempted to elbow someone into a post when no one could see you.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 10:59 AM (fuK7c)

247
"Chicken Francese and asparagus in vinaigrette"
Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 10:59 AM (y87Qq)
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That will have to be for tomorrow. For once, I've already figured out today! Short ribs.

Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 11:00 AM (oMtOd)

248 The military is in very bad shape right now. Obama was very successful in ripping it to shreds. And in these days and the days coming we are going to need a strong military.

Trump is right when he said his first priority was insure the safety and security of this nation. I have come to the conclusion that he became willing to pay a political price for this. As I said, I will watch and wait.
Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 10:44 AM (Fs5vw)

The problem with that logic is that a strong military is not built in Washington. It is not created by giving the bureaucrats in the Pentagon billions and billions of dollars to build shiny new toys.

A strong military comes from a people who are committed to their own defense. Who will send their sons to sign up and take an oath to protect and defend.

Protect and defend what??

And with what??

We're sending them to march in the streets and change "guns are bad!" We have no national unity, and no leadership in Washington committed to help create one.

Anything this Administration and those bureaucrats will create, with the money directed by this bill, will be in service of lining their own pockets and creating a paper military.

But people are free to tell themselves the same lie over and over again: As long as we spend enough money on the military, we can tolerate giving in to the Washington establishment.

We've been doing that for as long as I've been alive, and what has it gotten us.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2018 11:00 AM (Pz4pT)

249 The media now getting "wisdom" from teens and pre-teens about we ought to live, what rights ought to be kept or jettisoned, how to keep our "democracy," etc. Reminder: children should be seen and not heard.

Posted by: FIIGMO at March 25, 2018 11:00 AM (E+qJE)

250
Widener is a college near Philadelphia which I never heard pronounced in Krautish. (It's also a name / word completely unfamiliar to me as being German, what up with that?).

Is it, really?

I'm just going by what I read on the plaque on the wall.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:01 AM (T8N1n)

251 I just got a Nook and I'm treating it like a box of bonbons, I've read three book in three weeks. I love my personal library but this is like having a crack dealer as a roommate.

Posted by: vivi at March 25, 2018 11:01 AM (11H2y)

252 For those that checked OM's pants link, did that
model and outfit remibd anyone of a Goon from Goon Island in the old
Popeye cartoons?

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 09:05 AM (V+03K)

Heh. Yeah, now that you mention it, it does.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 11:01 AM (Dbv1R)

253 Even if it's these pants, which everybody will be wearing by 2030.

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LOL. Well, at least The Mooche will have an opportunity to do some modeling in 2030 ...

Posted by: Lord Dampnut at March 25, 2018 11:02 AM (BiLU+)

254 I was cleaning off my coffee table (there was no room for an actual coffee cup) and spotted my extra copy of The Deplorable Gourmet. One could spend an afternoon just perusing the comments.

And Bander, I just noticed in "Sides" that the 'ron's arm clutching the Valu-Rite bottle has French cuffs and cufflink, because classy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 11:02 AM (qJtVm)

255 Speaking of libraries, again. If you want steps, can you beat Columbia's Low Library

https://tinyurl.com/yah7ajyn

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:03 AM (pV/54)

256
I was cleaning off my coffee table (there was no room for an actual coffee cup) and spotted my extra copy of The Deplorable Gourmet. One could spend an afternoon just perusing the comments.

Is this a euphemism for cleaning our guns?

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:03 AM (T8N1n)

257 8 Millenial horror story: in a socialist utopian future, runaway climate change destroys the world's soy bean crops. People are forced to eat animals for food. Males, now free of overdoses of plant estrogens, start developing chest hair and aggressive tendencies. Then someone rediscovers the long-lost and forbidden knowledge of gunpowder. People are no longer bound to be slaves of the state. Oh the horror!
Posted by: PabloD at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (P5MdX)

Sounds like a great idea for a book. Even as a movie. Except I would change it to an unexpected drought and heat wave despite all fossil fuels not being used for over five hundred years.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:03 AM (Fs5vw)

258
I thought we used "I was cleaning my canoe/s..." for gun-cleaning euphemism?

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:04 AM (T8N1n)

259 ... but nothing can compare with spreading a chart out on a table.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 09:42 AM (MVjcR)

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You've obviously never spread Stormy Daniels out on a table.

Posted by: Lord Dampnut at March 25, 2018 11:04 AM (BiLU+)

260 I always wondered how these long-dead authors would feel if they knew what was being said about them and their works.
Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM (oMtOd)

That was part of it. I recall asking in high school English class, "Can't "Call of the Wild" just be a good story about an owner and his dog?" I did not make points that day.

Posted by: smilin jack at March 25, 2018 11:05 AM (otSEE)

261 And Bander, I just noticed in "Sides" that the 'ron's arm clutching the Valu-Rite bottle has French cuffs and cufflink, because classy.

Awww. That's sweet of you to notice. Yup.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 11:05 AM (fuK7c)

262 249 The media now getting "wisdom" from teens and pre-teens about we ought to live, what rights ought to be kept or jettisoned, how to keep our "democracy," etc. Reminder: children should be seen and not heard.
Posted by: FIIGMO at March 25, 2018 11:00 AM (E+qJE)

Hogg boy is desperately obnoxious, arrogant, entitled, spoiled and has been moved into the spotlight by forces beyond his ken. I can't believe he is helping the gun control cause.

Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 25, 2018 11:05 AM (nBr1j)

263
Speaking of libraries, again. If you want steps, can you beat Columbia's Low Library

Now that's some sexy steps.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:05 AM (T8N1n)

264 >Sometimes he wears his heart on his forehead, and other times he's like Churchill's description of Russia: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. And half the time I think he's making it up as he goes.

Yep. And sometimes he provides clues as to what he is thinking and how he might accomplish things. Like this one.

>>Because of the 700 and 716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military many jobs are created and our Military is again rich Building a great Border Wall with drugs poison and enemy combatants pouring into our Country is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M

(punctuation removed because we can't have nice things?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2018 11:05 AM (/tuJf)

265 Is CBS winning the race to the bottom with its 60 Minutes interview of Stormy?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:06 AM (pV/54)

266 Oh, the three are: Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, a brilliant writer but a full WhiteyisEvil screed; The Girl Who Was Caught in the Spider's Web, a very readable continuation of the Lizbeth Salander series (with one gapng plot hole but so readable!) and Right Ho, Jeeves, by PGW. a pleasure!

Posted by: vivi at March 25, 2018 11:07 AM (11H2y)

267 Another map fan here. Ironicially, I began reading maps (navigating) to please my unpleaseable first husband. Husband is long gone, but the map fetish lingers on.

Another recommendation for Boys in the Boat. It was un-put-downable for me.

Finally, to tie together Georgette Heyer and classic mysteries, her eleven mystery novels are a hoot. (But run, do not walk, away from Penhallow. Sometimes classed as a mystery, it's not and it has none of the lightheartedness I read Heyer for. I think she was getting revenge on her publisher with that one.)

Posted by: Art Rondolet of Malmsey at March 25, 2018 11:08 AM (S+f+m)

268 A re-imaging of an old classic.

Can't wait to review it.

http://tinyurl.com/yavcntb3

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 25, 2018 11:08 AM (EyPfd)

269 ad the Manchurian Candidate was a great book. And Frank Sinatra is awesome.

Posted by: vivi at March 25, 2018 11:08 AM (11H2y)

270
Re: Stormy Daniels

The reason why her stupid story isn't gaining traction, despite Fake News trying to make it so, is because it's pointless.

For several weeks she's been howling about how she wants the "legal right" to tell her story about her sexcapade with citizen Donald Trump over a decade ago.

Well, dummy, you just TOLD your story!
Message received. We got it.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:08 AM (T8N1n)

271 Carne Asada and chicken fajitas tonight. The flan is the oven right now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 25, 2018 11:09 AM (89T5c)

272
Wait, CARTOGRAPHY is sexy, too??

You love maps...sexually?? Is this even possible??

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:09 AM (T8N1n)

273 165: maybe Mitch and bitch need a special counsel to hunt for crimes in their China collusion scandal

Posted by: CN at March 25, 2018 11:09 AM (5gaNQ)

274 Is this a euphemism for cleaning our guns?
Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:03 AM (T8N1n)
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Always trying to immanentize a Gun Thread, aren't you guys?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 11:10 AM (qJtVm)

275 I see Hairyback Guy is colluding with them Russians.

*scribbles furiously*

Posted by: Mueller at March 25, 2018 11:10 AM (RrKXQ)

276 The flan is the oven.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 25, 2018 11:09 AM (89T5c)

*sigh*

Roger, acknowledged.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 11:10 AM (y87Qq)

277

What's more to know about Stormy Damiels??

She's a WHORE. She will do anything for $$. Got it.

But 60 Minutes, which has long-been Fake News, wants to broadcast a Whore's Account of Events.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:12 AM (T8N1n)

278 Chuck Todd is such an asshole. Giving some D congresscritter all the time he wants to spew lies about Russia Facebook Collude.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 25, 2018 11:12 AM (5OEn4)

279 Last night's movie thread, someone mentioned the film "The Bad News Bears" would horrify millenial snowflakes.

And there is a book version, iirc I read it.

Posted by: Hands at March 25, 2018 11:12 AM (EzdLW)

280 Sorry I'm late getting here. Thanks to CBD for faithfully posting the book thread every Sunday while I am still abed.

4 OregonMuse, do you now have a cool liquid metal Terminator arm or more of a retro Steampunk device?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 08:59 AM (qJtVm)

More like this, I think: https://goo.gl/images/rZf8E3

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 25, 2018 11:12 AM (fi4JO)

281 273: roll all this shit into one. RICO ftw.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 25, 2018 11:13 AM (89T5c)

282 "Well, dummy, you just TOLD your story!"

I want to see how CBS handles the interview, especially with the build-up. Expect the spin will be how Trump uses women and then throws them away. And how he uses minions to rape them (figuratively) over and over again, by silencing their voices.

Or do they go sordid. He demanded unprotected sex!

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:13 AM (pV/54)

283 a Whore's Account of Events.
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The great missing Thackeray novel.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 11:13 AM (qJtVm)

284
Whoa.

A word I'm not familiar with?? My Lexicon happens to be quite large. Not bragging.

Immanentize??

My Spell Cucumber is rejecting it.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:14 AM (T8N1n)

285 281: And I think the "McCain Institute" is a pay for play too...Cindy's beer money ain't enough

Posted by: CN at March 25, 2018 11:14 AM (5gaNQ)

286 If any millennials desecrate the burial grounds of my ancestors, they will discover the true meaning of the word horror.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at March 25, 2018 11:15 AM (/qEW2)

287 Re: anti-Bill of Rights march:
there's some video going around of 4 or 5 pre-teen/teen girls posing like tough chicks. One of them tears the Constitution in half, and they all cross their arms and do duck faces. Yeah, that'll fix it.
Everything I see from this march has Soros' fingerprints all over it.
He really does want the end of America as we know it.
Also, I saw something about new video from 'Vegas and Parkland shootings that doesn't jibe w/MFM accounts. Donning my tin-foil chapeau, is it possible these shootings weren't what they seem to be?
BRB, checking Infowars...

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 25, 2018 11:15 AM (ty7RM)

288 More like this, I think: https://goo.gl/images/rZf8E3
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 25, 2018 11:12 AM (fi4JO)
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I didn't know you're friends with James Cameron!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 11:15 AM (qJtVm)

289 Expect the spin will be how Trump uses women and then throws them away. And how he uses minions to rape them (figuratively) over and over again, by silencing their voices.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:13 AM (pV/54)

In many ways, this is the story of Bill Clinton.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 11:15 AM (y87Qq)

290 Dumpster diving at an adult book store? Did he have a hazmat suit?

Posted by: Hands at March 25, 2018 11:16 AM (EzdLW)

291
60 Minutes tonight....

a modern-day rendition of Game of Thrones' "Shay the whore" testifying against the midget.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:16 AM (T8N1n)

292 281: And I think the "McCain Institute" is a pay for play too...Cindy's beer money ain't enough

It's never enough!

Posted by: George Soros' exhausted check writing hand at March 25, 2018 11:16 AM (ty7RM)

293 As some people have pointed out frequently that I have begun to accept is that the United States is an exception that is only a temporary state of being until the world returns to its default state of might makes right.

Those that don't follow rules will always eventually defeat those that do.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 25, 2018 10:48 AM (2DOZq)

Actually, the opposite is true. History records over and over, that those nations who adhere to certain standards of behavior, that have a purpose and a direction, will always defeat those who don't.

The problem is, that state of being appears to always be temporary. Some have made it last longer than others, but eventually nations fall, because they stop having a set of rules by which they operate, and resort to the feel-goods and the chaos behind it.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2018 11:17 AM (Pz4pT)

294

I have a Big Lexicon. In my pants.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:17 AM (T8N1n)

295 Immanentize??

My Spell Cucumber is rejecting it.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:14 AM (T8N1n)
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That's because The Man doesn't want you to know!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton

Great sport was made of this word in the Illuminatus! trilogy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 11:17 AM (qJtVm)

296 Immanentize??
Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:14 AM
~~~~~

...the eschaton.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 25, 2018 11:18 AM (HiDrR)

297 About the epidemic in school violence.

On a typical day, over hundred people -- many of HS age -- die of opioid overdoses.

If you want to cut gun violence in our blue cities -- where the problem is -- do what Rudy did in NYC. Thanks to Black Lives Matter, we've gone in the other direction with predictable results.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:18 AM (pV/54)

298 there's some video going around of 4 or 5 pre-teen/teen girls posing like tough chicks. One of them tears the Constitution in half, and they all cross their arms and do duck faces. Yeah, that'll fix it.

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Hitlerjugend.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:18 AM (+y/Ru)

299 286 If any millennials desecrate the burial grounds of my ancestors, they will discover the true meaning of the word horror.
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at March 25, 2018 11:15 AM (/qEW2)

Fauxchahantas. The indian goddess of the great Oklahoma crab herds.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:18 AM (Fs5vw)

300 Wanna bet 60 Minutes will ask Stormy who's paying her?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:19 AM (pV/54)

301 271 Carne Asada and chicken fajitas tonight. The flan is the oven right now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 25, 2018 11:09 AM (89T5c)

FLAN. Puerto Rican terrorist dessert.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 11:20 AM (VM6ev)

302 >>>>"Well, dummy, you just TOLD your story!"

I want to see how CBS handles the interview, especially with the
build-up. Expect the spin will be how Trump uses women and then throws
them away. And how he uses minions to rape them (figuratively) over and
over again, by silencing their voices.

Or do they go sordid. He demanded unprotected sex!

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:13 AM
.
.
.I suspect it's going to turn out like the rachael madcow "I've got Trump's Tax Return" epic failure.

Probably going to be a whole lot of "I wish I could tell you what happened, but I signed the NDA (or did I?) garbage".

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 25, 2018 11:20 AM (+Dllb)

303 That pants pic. Put a red tie on the model and he's the Hamburglar.

Mmmm, burgers.

Posted by: Hands at March 25, 2018 11:22 AM (EzdLW)

304 302: Don't sleazy whores want to be used for $$$, I thought that was the whole idea?

Posted by: CN at March 25, 2018 11:22 AM (5gaNQ)

305 Immanentize??

My Spell Cucumber is rejecting it.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:14 AM (T8N1n)

Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> uncheck "enable fnords".

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 11:22 AM (y87Qq)

306 FLAN. Puerto Rican terrorist dessert.

I've tried really, really hard to like flan. Just isn't working. I think it's the texture. And the lack of flavor. And the texture.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 25, 2018 11:22 AM (ty7RM)

307

FLAN. Puerto Rican terrorist dessert.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 11:20 AM (VM6ev)

FLAN: The gays attempt to make custard.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:22 AM (Fs5vw)

308
... by people who follow words with their fingers and whose lips move as they read ...

You do me high honor by continued use of this phrase in the book thread intro, OM!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 25, 2018 11:22 AM (pNxlR)

309 Good bookie morning, all.

"The Lottery" to me was an eye-gouge to Christianity and hypocrisy. The main 'evil' was stoning, an OT method of capitol punishment; the villagers 'had always done things that way' so tradition, and the icing on the cake was when the main character was all right about doing it until it was her turn, so hypocrite.

Half-assed hate on Christians. oooooooo gives me the willies. /s

Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 11:23 AM (xGMkv)

310 Re: Stormy Daniels

The reason why her stupid story isn't gaining traction, despite Fake News trying to make it so, is because it's pointless.

For several weeks she's been howling about how she wants the "legal right" to tell her story about her sexcapade with citizen Donald Trump over a decade ago.

Well, dummy, you just TOLD your story!
Message received. We got it.
Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:08 AM (T8N1n)

Isn't she the gal who, a month or so ago, was telling people the story wasn't true? That it was others claiming she'd had sex with him?

I don't follow this crap. I really don't care.

But yeah, the whores are going to put on tv, a gal who has sex in exchange for money.

And that's supposed to be news?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2018 11:23 AM (Pz4pT)

311 I've got a puppy, an Irish tuxedo standard poodle, that I am housebreaking so we have breakfast/play time in the yard. It is 50 degrees with a breeze so rather cool but he and I are reading the book thread and playing this morning.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:24 AM (+y/Ru)

312 Q: Was the alleged affair w/Mz. Daniels alleged to have happened when DJT was w/Marla, or Melania?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 25, 2018 11:24 AM (ty7RM)

313
If she goes on Fake News to tell the world how Donald Trump mistreats women....

I mean...she's a whore. She does sex for $$ on video.

In other words, she's one of those women who will let ANYONE to penetrate her orifices AND record it on video for all the world to see in exchange for hundreds of dollars.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:25 AM (T8N1n)

314 ve tried really, really hard to like flan. Just isn't working. I think it's the texture. And the lack of flavor. And the texture.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 25, 2018 11:22 AM (ty7RM

Sugary KY jelly.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:25 AM (Fs5vw)

315 Earlier this week on Psycho Joe, Stormy's lawyer floated the meme that she had been threatened but wouldn't say by who. Mika ran with it that Trump did it.

I expect it was that she got heckled by a Moron on the strip club circuit she's now on.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:25 AM (pV/54)

316

John has a damp nut

Posted by: BBC radio at March 25, 2018 11:26 AM (IqV8l)

317 https://www.loc.gov/loc/walls/images/wa013001.jpg

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 09:48 AM (qJtVm)

Cherubs make the best bacon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 11:26 AM (Dbv1R)

318 Carne Asada and chicken fajitas tonight. The flan is the oven right now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 25, 2018 11:09 AM (89T5c)

FLAN. Puerto Rican terrorist dessert.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 11:20 AM (VM6ev)

I thought Carne Asada was the artificially created dinosaur in the most recent Jurassic Park movie.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2018 11:26 AM (Pz4pT)

319
You've obviously never spread Stormy Daniels out on a table.
Posted by: Lord Dampnut at March 25, 2018 11:04 AM (BiLU+)
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I'm already in enough trouble!

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 11:26 AM (MVjcR)

320 If I had time would have asked Josephstan where it was, might have gone.

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2018 11:26 AM (aC6Sd)

321
Yeah, these women don't make as much $$ as you'd think.

You know why?

Because Supply-side is abundant in the "pron" industry. You can find lots of girls who do sex for dollars.

$500 is usually enough. A thousand if they're "pros" and a known-name.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:27 AM (T8N1n)

322 If you want to cut gun violence in our blue cities -- where the problem is -- do what Rudy did in NYC. Thanks to Black Lives Matter, we've gone in the other direction with predictable results.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:18 AM (pV/54)

I don't understand why other mayors of big blue cities won't look at Rudy's successes as mayor of NYC and figure out how to adapt his tactics to their own miserable, failing cities -- which is what NYC was before Rudy was elected.

Because Rudy was a successful mayor under any objective standard of measurement.

But no, like that stupid mayor of Baltimore, they're all in on "giving them space" to riot, vandalize, and burn it all down.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 25, 2018 11:27 AM (fi4JO)

323 Cherubs make the best bacon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 11:26 AM (Dbv1R)

Cherizo!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 11:27 AM (qJtVm)

324 The media now getting "wisdom" from teens and pre-teens about we ought
to live, what rights ought to be kept or jettisoned, how to keep our
"democracy," etc. Reminder: children should be seen and not heard.

And the correct answer is...

https://tinyurl.com/y75ajcmc

Posted by: tu3031 at March 25, 2018 11:28 AM (O5Q3r)

325
"The Lottery" to me was an eye-gouge to Christianity and hypocrisy. The main 'evil' was stoning, an OT method of capitol punishment; the villagers 'had always done things that way' so tradition, and the icing on the cake was when the main character was all right about doing it until it was her turn, so hypocrite.

Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 11:23 AM

What booknlass said.

That's how I interpreted it. Forced to read it for English class. Cheap shot at Christianity as full of small town close minded hypocrites, tradition is mindless, etc etc

Posted by: Hands at March 25, 2018 11:28 AM (EzdLW)

326
The whole purpose of "Stormy Daniels" and Fake News is to continue to say outlandish and outrageous things to provoke a reaction/denial from President Trump.

The allegations and insinuations will continue until President Trump enters the fray. Then, it will become an even bigger fake story.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:29 AM (T8N1n)

327 Mika ran with it that Trump did it.
...and Joe was thinking, "What a pussy. Why didn't she just fall down in his office a couple of times, violently smashing her head against his desk?"

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 25, 2018 11:30 AM (ty7RM)

328 The reason why her stupid story isn't gaining traction, despite Fake News trying to make it so, is because it's pointless.

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I read a poll the other day that despite Attention Hogg and the CNN News Blow Boys a solid majority says you are safer with a gun than without one. And the News Blow Boys lose credibility every time one of this majority sees the constant gun grabber grabasm.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:30 AM (+y/Ru)

329 Good bookie morning, all.

"The Lottery" to me was an eye-gouge to Christianity and hypocrisy. The main 'evil' was stoning, an OT method of capitol punishment; the villagers 'had always done things that way' so tradition, and the icing on the cake was when the main character was all right about doing it until it was her turn, so hypocrite.

Half-assed hate on Christians. oooooooo gives me the willies. /s
Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 11:23 AM (xGMkv)

Not Christianity specifically, but Western Culture. Which of course includes Christianity.

These nice, otherwise innocent people are all going to slaughter someone, to somehow preserve their way of life.

This was immediately after WWII, and during the buildup and danger of the Cold War. Against the commies.

So yeah, I don't know anything about the author, but being an author in the 40s, I'm guessing she was a pinko.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2018 11:30 AM (Pz4pT)

330 >>>>>Isn't she the gal who, a month or so ago, was
telling people the story wasn't true? That it was others claiming she'd
had sex with him?

I don't follow this crap. I really don't care.

But yeah, the whores are going to put on tv, a gal who has sex in exchange for money.

And that's supposed to be news?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2018 11:23 AM
.
.
.Correct. She has changed her story more than once.

I would love for her to let loose with a bunch of B$.

What amazes me is that Trump is twitter silent on her story, which means he does listen to someone advising him.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 25, 2018 11:30 AM (+Dllb)

331 Geraldo was saying that Trump was with Stormy Daniels during his affair with playboy model Karen MacDougal which happened while married to Milania.

At that point, I'm almost ready to say, Well Done, Sir! It's kind of like if you're rich and famous, the ladies will let you grab some mish here and there.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 25, 2018 11:30 AM (tMFgx)

332
The media now getting "wisdom" from teens and pre-teens about we ought to live, what rights ought to be kept or jettisoned, how to keep our "democracy," etc.
Posted by: FIIGMO

As should we all. Unless we want to be wished into the cornfield.
/s

Posted by: Hands at March 25, 2018 11:31 AM (EzdLW)

333 307

FLAN. Puerto Rican terrorist dessert.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 25, 2018 11:20 AM (VM6ev)

FLAN: The gays attempt to make custard.
Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:22 AM (Fs5vw)

I always did make a cunning flan.

Posted by: Blackadder at March 25, 2018 11:31 AM (NWiLs)

334 "The Lottery" to me was an eye-gouge to Christianity and hypocrisy. The main 'evil' was stoning, an OT method of capitol punishment; the villagers 'had always done things that way' so tradition, and the icing on the cake was when the main character was all right about doing it until it was her turn, so hypocrite.

Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 11:23 AM

What booknlass said.

That's how I interpreted it. Forced to read it for English class. Cheap shot at Christianity as full of small town close minded hypocrites, tradition is mindless, etc etc
Posted by: Hands at March 25, 2018 11:28 AM (EzdLW)

Lefty writers do love to hate on small towns. I do note, all of Agathie Christies books, maybe just most of them, were set in quaint little villages.
The old TV series, The Avengers, also had the most of their goings on going on small villages.
I don't know if they represent hatred of small towns or not.

Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 25, 2018 11:31 AM (nBr1j)

335 Latest CNN Poll Says Public In Favor Of Letting Porn Stars, Children Determine Public Policy

Posted by: This...Is CNN at March 25, 2018 11:31 AM (O5Q3r)

336

What's the difference between Stormy Daniels and Andrew McCabe? They both want to "tell their stories" so badly.

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:32 AM (T8N1n)

337 Hitlerjugend.

Bad.

Although I may occasionally have binged "Bund Deutscher Mädel".

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 11:32 AM (fuK7c)

338 Flan has a long mustache. Repeat, flan has a long mustache.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 11:32 AM (NWiLs)

339 The main 'evil' was stoning, an OT method of capitol punishment

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Either that or contemporary Islam.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:32 AM (+y/Ru)

340
Wait, so the "story" has now evolved into Donald Trump was cheating on his pron girlfriend with a playboy centerfold while cheating on his wife?

Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:33 AM (T8N1n)

341 336

What's the difference between Stormy Daniels and Andrew McCabe? They both want to "tell their stories" so badly.
Posted by: Soothsayer Is Going There at March 25, 2018 11:32 AM (T8N1n)

I'd bang Stormy Daniels. McCabe not so much.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (NWiLs)

342 Given the pod generation's reaction to "the lottery, ahould we be concerned that buckets of rocks are the new thing in modern classroom supplies?

Posted by: sarahw at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (Sp1NT)

343 MEG RYAN is an anagram of 'Germany.'

I'd go with "MANGY-ER", instead.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (8gDQu)

344 I don't understand why other mayors of big blue cities won't look at Rudy's successes as mayor of NYC and figure out how to adapt his tactics to their own miserable, failing cities -- which is what NYC was before Rudy was elected.

Because the leftist philosophy is incapable of anything good.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (Fs5vw)

345 Huge fun, especially when you end up in a part of the boondocks where no cell service means no gps.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 10:00 AM (fuK7c)

GPS is not dependent upon cell service. Maybe, if you use your cellphone as a GPS device, but dedicated GPS devices, both hand-held, and vehicular, have no need for cell service.
Look up Magellan and Garmin.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (Dbv1R)

346 That's because The Man doesn't want you to know!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton

Great sport was made of this word in the Illuminatus! trilogy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 11:17 AM (qJtVm)

========

Interesting. In the article they left out Ahmadinejad wanting a nuclear war in order to bring about the coming of the 12th imam.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (/qEW2)

347 Latest CNN Poll Says Public In Favor Of Letting Porn Stars, Children Determine Public Policy

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Can we get rid of Turtle McConnell, RINO Ryan, Nanzi Pelosi, and Schnucky Tumor?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:35 AM (+y/Ru)

348 Or do they go sordid. He demanded unprotected sex!
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:13 AM (pV/54)

A germaphobe dipping his wick in a cum dumpster like Stormy already has my bullshit detectors on high alert, over and beyond having the host of Vanderbilt Poofter 69 conducting the interview.

Back to books: Have been plowing my way through American Sanctuary by A. Roger Ekirch who is a reasonably good narrator but doesn't weave as compelling tale as Jay Winik, for example. He's a lot drier of a writer, imo; not that that is a disqualifier, far from it. But he's good at tossing in summary statements like "Except for the Civil War, the years immediately preceding the tumultuous election of 1800 - the "Revolution of 1800", as Jefferson would call it - were the most rancorous and divisive in the history of American politics." The Federalists and Republicans really hated each other.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 25, 2018 11:35 AM (y7DUB)

349 Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:18 AM (pV/54)

I don't understand why other mayors of big blue cities won't look at Rudy's successes as mayor of NYC and figure out how to adapt his tactics to their own miserable, failing cities -- which is what NYC was before Rudy was elected.

Because Rudy was a successful mayor under any objective standard of measurement.

But no, like that stupid mayor of Baltimore, they're all in on "giving them space" to riot, vandalize, and burn it all down.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 25, 2018 11:27 AM (fi4JO)

The New York model (or more accurately the San Diego model) was not just about having more cops with more toys to fight the criminals, it was about not giving an inch. Not allowing no-go zones, not surrendering neighborhood hot spots to the criminals.

There was research being done at the time, that showed if you cleaned up this hot spot, the criminals didn't just move elsewhere. They stopped committing the crimes!

Nowadays, there are no-go zones in every major city, and the criminals know it. So they do what the do, in ever expanding circles. And the more they take, the more the cities give away. And the more frustrated cops get, because they know they're not doing anything other than washing the streets afterwards.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2018 11:35 AM (Pz4pT)

350 >>Look up Magellan and Garmin.

Look up boats and planes.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2018 11:37 AM (/tuJf)

351 Fox released their latest generic Congressional poll, democrats are up by 5+ losing a lead of 15+ from the same poll done in October.

Looks like the tide has has flattened their wave.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 25, 2018 11:37 AM (+Dllb)

352 Northernlurker: The old TV series, The Avengers, also had the most of their goings on going on small villages.
I don't know if they represent hatred of small towns or not.

Can't remember which Sherlock story it was (40 years since I read them) where the detective and Watson are traveling to the country. Sherlock waxes on about how what goes on behind the high walls and broad lawns of rural folk is darker than what goes on in the teeming city.

Sherlock was not a fan of suburbia, I deem.

Posted by: mindful webworker - elementarily at March 25, 2018 11:37 AM (PukHz)

353
Da plane!

Da plane!

Posted by: Tattoo looking up at March 25, 2018 11:37 AM (T8N1n)

354 One of my favorites lines from "Wag the Dog":

CIA Agent Young (William H. Macy): There are two things I know to be true. There's no difference between good flan and bad flan, and there is no war.

Posted by: Art Rondolet of Malmsey at March 25, 2018 11:37 AM (S+f+m)

355 What amazes me is that Trump is twitter silent on her story, which means he does listen to someone advising him.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 25, 2018 11:30 AM (+Dllb)

He's silent because it's probably true. But who cares? No one. But the media keeps harping on it because they believe at some point it's going to finally get through to a lot of Evangelicals that their president is not a "moral man." They already know that Trump is a sinner and have still been steadfast in their support, but I guess the media figures that pounding away is going to finally hit paydirt.....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 25, 2018 11:39 AM (7uYFy)

356 Bad.

Although I may occasionally have binged "Bund Deutscher Mädel".

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 11:32 AM (fuK7c)

An anagram for BAD MEN SCHEDULE TURD.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 11:39 AM (y87Qq)

357 GPS is not dependent upon cell service. Maybe, if you use your cellphone as a GPS device, but dedicated GPS devices, both hand-held, and vehicular, have no need for cell service.
Look up Magellan and Garmin.

I'm aware of that. This was cellphone GPS which needed cell towers to fill in the maps.

BTW, the best thing Clinton ever did was to turn off the intentional error in GPS. We went from you're sort of near here withing 20 yards to you're exactly here in the blink of an eye.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 11:39 AM (fuK7c)

358 An anagram for BAD MEN SCHEDULE TURD.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 11:39 AM (y87Qq)

Those Germans are into some perverted shit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 11:40 AM (NWiLs)

359 Fox released their latest generic Congressional poll, democrats are up by 5+ losing a lead of 15+ from the same poll done in October.

Looks like the tide has has flattened their wave.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 25, 2018 11:37 AM (+Dllb)

Does this suggest that voters are already "locked in?"

Posted by: JoeF. at March 25, 2018 11:40 AM (7uYFy)

360 "The New York model (or more accurately the San Diego model)"

It broke the cycle that bad guys had to "pack" because other bad guys were "packing," hence gun shooting went down. But over time it's led to decreases in all sorts of crime.

With the example of NYC it's like we ran a controlled experiment but ignore the obvious conclusions.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:41 AM (pV/54)

361 Those Germans are into some perverted shit.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 11:40 AM (NWiLs)

And so meticulous about it. A proper schedule and everything.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 11:41 AM (y87Qq)

362 I'm ok with Porn Stars determining public policy. Letting kids do it is suicide by cannibalism with no pie for dessert.

Posted by: Burger Chef at March 25, 2018 11:41 AM (RuIsu)

363
I completed reading Lust for Life by Irving Stone, a bio-fiction-ography of Vincent van Gogh. This was written well overall and broken into chapters by where he resided at the time, beginning as a young man in London. Certain chapters stood out above the others. Borinage, St. Remy, and Auvers were largely dark and troubling, as was his life at those times. Paris and Arles are lively and full of color. It helped me that I also own Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings by Rainer Metzger, a collection of reproductions of all his works (reputedly) so I could follow along via his works with what Stone was describing in words. I recommend this for anyone who enjoys VvG's art.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 25, 2018 11:42 AM (pNxlR)

364 Gennifer Flowers > Stormy Daniels

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 25, 2018 11:42 AM (2DOZq)

365 Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 11:23 AM

What booknlass said.

That's how I interpreted it. Forced to read it for English class. Cheap shot at Christianity as full of small town close minded hypocrites, tradition is mindless, etc etc
Posted by: Hands at March 25, 2018 11:28 AM (EzdLW)

Lefty writers do love to hate on small towns. I do note, all of Agathie Christies books, maybe just most of them, were set in quaint little villages.
The old TV series, The Avengers, also had the most of their goings on going on small villages.
I don't know if they represent hatred of small towns or not.
Posted by: Northernlurker but call me Teem. at March 25, 2018 11:31 AM (nBr1j)

I'm a big fan of the Morse universe (the British tv shows, I've never read the books), which are set in Oxford.

You would think, watching those shows, that Oxford professors and deans and the students are all Crips and Bloods, slaughtering each other all the time.

As fun as the various tv shows have been over the years, it's all nonsense.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 25, 2018 11:42 AM (Pz4pT)

366 I always wondered how these long-dead authors would feel if they knew what was being said about them and their works.
Posted by: bluebell at March 25, 2018 10:40 AM

In my junior year of high school I had two English teachers, one for each semester.
For the entire Spring semester, instead of the five or six American novels from the school curriculum, we studied The Great Gatsby.

This teacher had an elaborate theory about the color imagery in Gatsby, especially the color green.
After about a month of this, one of my fellow students pointed out that there was a use of green on the last page of the novel that completely contradicted the teacher's theory.

Her response: "Oh, that must have been an oversight on Fitzgerald's part"

Posted by: Chuck C at March 25, 2018 11:43 AM (0V2ki)

367 "The Lottery" to me was an eye-gouge to Christianity and hypocrisy.

Too many people on "our side" worry too much about being called a hypocrite, particularly because the people flinging that accusation are usually assholes and dumbfucks. The other day a skirt elsewhere was concerned that her attitudes on abortion have changed but she doesn't want to be accused of being a hypocrite because she's beyond child bearing age; completely ignoring that viewpoints can change because you have a lot of experience under your belt of just how these great social experiments have played out. Anyone wants to call me a hypocrite, have at it; in most cases I don't care.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 25, 2018 11:43 AM (y7DUB)

368
I completed reading Lust for Life by Irving Stone, a bio-fiction-ography of Vincent van Gogh.

Great movie. Kirk Douglass.

I did a paper on this for a psychology class.

Posted by: Tattoo looking up at March 25, 2018 11:43 AM (T8N1n)

369 He's silent because it's probably true. But who cares? No one. But the media keeps harping on it because they believe at some point it's going to finally get through to a lot of Evangelicals that their president is not a "moral man." They already know that Trump is a sinner and have still been steadfast in their support, but I guess the media figures that pounding away is going to finally hit paydirt.....
Posted by: JoeF. at March 25, 2018 11:39 AM (7uYFy)

Evangelicals I think will stay with Trump, accepting the good with the bad, just like God does with each one of us.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:44 AM (Fs5vw)

370 Karen McDougal > Gennifer Flowers > Stormy Daniels

I don't get Trump going for Stormy -- she looks harsh.
For her Mad Skillz?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:44 AM (pV/54)

371

Also did a psych paper/essay on The Three Faces of Eve.

Posted by: Tattoo looking up at March 25, 2018 11:44 AM (T8N1n)

372 ********
That was part of it. I recall asking in high school English class, "Can't "Call of the Wild" just be a good story about an owner and his dog?" I did not make points that day.
Posted by: smilin jack at March 25, 2018 11:05 AM (otSEE)****

I recently re-read Call of the Wild and White Fang. Boy, dogs have really turned into pampered wusses over the last hundred years or so.

Posted by: Cosda at March 25, 2018 11:44 AM (n/OEq)

373 Those Germans are into some perverted shit.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 11:40 AM (NWiLs)

And so meticulous about it. A proper schedule and everything.

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The orgy is not over until the paperwork is done.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:45 AM (+y/Ru)

374 >>>Bossman Ban The Gunz Hogg read The Lottery and came in his pants at the ending.

I got yer immanentized eschaton right here.

Posted by: Hogg and MaHogg at March 25, 2018 11:46 AM (/qEW2)

375 The Lottery" to me was an eye-gouge to Christianity and hypocrisy. The main 'evil' was stoning, an OT method of capitol punishment; the villagers 'had always done things that way' so tradition, and the icing on the cake was when the main character was all right about doing it until it was her turn, so hypocrite.

Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 11:23 AM

I picked this one out just because.

It seems everyone read a different version of the story than the one Ace linked.

The one linked didn't say anything about Christianity, in fact it mentioned ensuring better crops appear after the event (not a Christian belief)

It also mentioned a rumor that other cities had done away w/ lotter

Posted by: dDan at March 25, 2018 11:47 AM (hwYmz)

376 Why is it, whenever we learn that a Republican engaged in sexual sin, that it happened back when they were a Democrat?

Do politicians think they have to switch parties to R if they repent? Or does switching parties cause them to see the error of their ways? Or does a general moral improvement cause both the repentance and the party-switching?

Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at March 25, 2018 11:48 AM (/A+Cl)

377 Evangelicals I think will stay with Trump, accepting the good with the bad, just like God does with each one of us.
Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:44 AM (Fs5vw)

The progs and GOPe don't understand Evangelicals despite being smarty pants and sciency.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 25, 2018 11:48 AM (y7DUB)

378 Thing about the Boys in the Boat movie, Harvey Weinstein boght the rights to the movie based on Brown's yet to be written book back in 2011. The book came out in 2013. I can only guess what's taking so long....
The book had plenty of local history too. I never knew UW crew races were held along the northwest shore of Lake Washington. George Pocock, the famous Brit boatbuilder who came over by way of Vancouver BC and heped guide their program is buried in Acacia Cemetery. It nearly overlooks the old race course.

Posted by: Rex B at March 25, 2018 11:48 AM (uz0Rg)

379 >>BTW, the best thing Clinton ever did was to turn off the intentional error in GPS. We went from you're sort of near here withing 20 yards to you're exactly here in the blink of an eye.

My buddy owns a boat sales/service company. He got a job to install electronics in a brand new half million dollar sailboat for a rich Wall Street type that had literally never sailed offshore. This was his first boat.

He installed what was at the time a state of the art GPS system tied into an autopilot amongst other toys. The boat owner decided that it would be a great idea to make his first sail a cruise to Maine and along the coast line.

My buddy showed him how to use the electronics but cautioned that he should probably try some shorter, simpler day sails to get used to the boat and the electronics. The owner chose poorly.

He used as one of his waypoints a rock ledge off the Maine coast and since he had an autopilot he thought it would be a great idea for he and his girlfriend, who also had no sailing experience, to set the autopilot and go below for lunch.

The GPS driven autopilot worked flawlessly and drove the boat right up and onto the ledge driving the keel through the bottom of the boat and totaling it. Hillarity continues to this day.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2018 11:48 AM (/tuJf)

380 What's the difference between Stormy Daniels and Andrew McCabe?

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Andy does butt stuff?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:49 AM (+y/Ru)

381 The only anagram that comes up fo Cannibal Bob that makes sense is Cabin Bobbin. Most others start with Bacon and then nonsense words.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 25, 2018 11:50 AM (o7tuA)

382 Is the next thread due soon? If not, I'll post the AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List here.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 11:50 AM (Ckg4U)

383 Too many people on "our side" worry too much about being called a hypocrite, particularly because the people flinging that accusation are usually assholes and dumbfucks.
...

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 25, 2018 11:43 AM (y7DUB)

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This is true, it needs to be emphasized. The left are sleazy and manipulative, and this is one of the tools in their toolbox by which to con/browbeat people into conformity.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 25, 2018 11:51 AM (/qEW2)

384 "set the autopilot and go below for lunch."

A euphemism no doubt.

I thought the point to sex on a boat was to do it in the great wide open.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:51 AM (pV/54)

385 380 What's the difference between Stormy Daniels and Andrew McCabe?
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Andy does butt stuff?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:49 AM (+y/Ru)

See I'm laughing already.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 25, 2018 11:51 AM (o7tuA)

386 He used as one of his waypoints a rock ledge off the Maine coast and since he had an autopilot he thought it would be a great idea for he and his girlfriend, who also had no sailing experience, to set the autopilot and go below for lunch.

That's a funny story. "Lunch", huh?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 11:52 AM (fuK7c)

387
Hitlerjugend.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:18 AM (+y/Ru)

Cue Tomorrow Belongs to Me!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 25, 2018 11:52 AM (pNxlR)

388 He used as one of his waypoints a rock ledge off the Maine coast and since he had an autopilot he thought it would be a great idea for he and his girlfriend, who also had no sailing experience, to set the autopilot and go below for lunch.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2018 11:48 AM (/tuJf)

And the boat ran over a homeless lady walking her bicycle across the Atlantic.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 25, 2018 11:53 AM (8gDQu)

389 It looks like media was using million man math on Gun Grabapalooza. They claimed 800,000. Actual number near 200,000.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 11:54 AM (+y/Ru)

390 382; Slap, check your mail.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 25, 2018 11:54 AM (KP5rU)

391 Anonysaurus, you're right about Islam, but when Jackson wrote, I think it would have been a referral to the Old Testament, but your comment supports my second point, and that is that high school and college age people now, in the majority, think that the worst sin is judging.

Illogically, stoning isn't as bad. their imaginations are warped.

Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 11:54 AM (xGMkv)

392 What booknlass said.

That's how I interpreted it. Forced to read it for English class. Cheap shot at Christianity as full of small town close minded hypocrites, tradition is mindless, etc etc
Posted by: Hands at March 25, 2018 11:28 AM (EzdLW)

I didn't see it that way when I read it. To me, it described an alternate, post-Christian world or the world that would exist if Christ hadn't redeemed us. Since more and more people are rejecting Christianity, it's not surprising we are seeing a return to paganism.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 25, 2018 11:55 AM (H80UQ)

393 I thought the point to sex on a boat was to do it in the great wide open.

It is to me, but I've never owned a boat that has a below decks.

There was a hilarious moment once when I'd gone a few miles offshore with a special friend and it turned out to be on the route of the Boston-Provincetown ferry.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 11:55 AM (fuK7c)

394 >>That's a funny story. "Lunch", huh?

That was his story. Who am I to doubt this genius?

Although he did prove to be quite resourceful. He somehow got the insurance company to buy him a new boat.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 25, 2018 11:55 AM (/tuJf)

395 369 He's silent because it's probably true. But who cares? No one. But the media keeps harping on it because they believe at some point it's going to finally get through to a lot of Evangelicals that their president is not a "moral man." They already know that Trump is a sinner and have still been steadfast in their support, but I guess the media figures that pounding away is going to finally hit paydirt.....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 25, 2018 11:39 AM (7uYFy)

Evangelicals I think will stay with Trump, accepting the good with the bad, just like God does with each one of us.
Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:44 AM (Fs5vw)

The progressives don't realize they've screwed the pooch on this one, since 20 years ago, they went all in on defending Bill Clinton's horndoggery. "But it's just sex", they lectured us.

OK, so it is. Now, just like then.

Since that time, good moral character in our elected officials no longer matters. The new rules, put in place by progressives, have rendered that view obsolete.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 25, 2018 11:55 AM (fi4JO)

396 I thought the point to sex on a boat was to do it in the great wide open.

So they could show up on Google Earth?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 25, 2018 11:56 AM (8gDQu)

397 Maps!!! Delorme Gazeteer state maps are the best. Topographic details. Lists of things to see. Do. Bike. Hike. Boat. Museums. Phone numbers.
On vacay, at Deschutes Brewing, I was looking at the Oregon Gazeteer. Gal asked what is it. A map I reply. She asked what do I use it for.....

Posted by: PhilDirt at March 25, 2018 11:56 AM (ZXMiM)

398 Checked my mail, chavez. Yahoo is on another "delay" today.

...either that or the NSA is screening our emails... lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 11:57 AM (Ckg4U)

399 Saw the movie "Death of Stalin" yesterday.
It's a riot.
I can't believe Hollywood made it.

Posted by: navybrat at March 25, 2018 11:57 AM (w7KSn)

400 Combining running into shit and the book thread, I recommend 'Adrift' by Steven Callahan, the story of his spending 76 days adrift alone in a life raft after his boat sank in the Atlantic.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 11:57 AM (MVjcR)

401 398: I'll resend it now.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 25, 2018 11:58 AM (KP5rU)

402 "good moral character in our elected officials no longer matters."

These things with Trump are old and cold. No sign of philandering in recent years. Makes a difference.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:58 AM (pV/54)

403 ...unless you are talking about the "Uncle Fester" email, chavez.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 11:58 AM (Ckg4U)

404 the point to sex on a boat
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:51 AM (pV/54)

The chart here says it's a "close reach".

That's what it says, anyway.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 11:58 AM (y87Qq)

405 Got it, chavez! I'll look that up after I post the weekly prayer list.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 11:59 AM (Ckg4U)

406 Combining running into shit and the book thread, I recommend 'Adrift' by Steven Callahan, the story of his spending 76 days adrift alone in a life raft after his boat sank in the Atlantic.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 11:57 AM (MVjcR)

Not a surprise ending, I guess.

BTW, douchebag actor aside, All Is Lost is a good movie, except for the crappy ending.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 25, 2018 12:00 PM (8gDQu)

407 Her response: "Oh, that must have been an oversight on Fitzgerald's part"

Posted by: Chuck C at March 25, 2018 11:43 AM (0V2ki)

"Never mind the facts. My theory is correct."

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 25, 2018 12:01 PM (fi4JO)

408 Since that time, good moral character in our elected officials no longer matters. The new rules, put in place by progressives, have rendered that view obsolete.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 25, 2018 11:55 AM (fi4JO)

Not to mention lefties honor every rap singer, Hollywood pervert, and abortionist so morality is not really of much importance to them...nor is truth for that matter. Outrage is a tool to oppress, nothing more.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 25, 2018 12:01 PM (o7tuA)

409 403; that's it.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 25, 2018 12:02 PM (KP5rU)

410 AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Dennis- (3/21/18 ) 79 Y.O. Dad fell again and couldn't walk for several days (too many beers) after a trip to the ER. Now back in hospital again with low oxygen levels and some pneumonia. Too many years smoking. So pray for my mother who has to put up with her stubborn husband and that hopefully she will be able to care for him when he gets home.

joeindc- (3/21/18 ) My father is undergoing a severe COPD episode, including pneumonia and and lung embolism, after breaking his hip. He could use some prayer time so that he stays strong and pulls through this.

Detroit Pete- (3/21/18 ) How can I add my wife Sandy to the prayer list? She has pancreatic cancer.

ChuckR- (3/22/18 ) My business partner's wife has had a recurrence of bone cancer and on 3/22 is having surgery on both hips. She is a wonderful person, kind and caring. Prayers please for her recovery.

-A special prayer for westminsterdogshow, who I personally wronged on Thursday. I mis-characterized our interaction as her "hanging-up on me". That wasn't true. I was arguing a stupid point and she was merely trying to correct me.

My own stubbornness led to her disengaging with me --politely, I might add.

I was wrong and have apologized to her because she has been nothing but sweet to me.

I am sorry, westminsterdogshow. Calling you out on the ONT was childish and stupid.
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Please contact me through email, homemadegravy71 at the hooya, as I cannot be around for many of the posts in most threads. Feel free to copy and paste others' prayer requests and send them to me.

If I can post in your "voice", I'd like it better. It personalizes the prayer, instead of my shorthand.

I'd also like to pray for the people who aren't on this list. For those who don't choose to publicize their trials and maladies, I understand. You won't suffer in silence. A candle will be lit in your name.

Please remember the Prayer of St. Francis:

http://www.prayerguide.org.uk/stfrancis.htm

Corrections, additions and updates can be sent to the email in my nic.

Be as specific or as vague as you need. Anonymity is, of course, welcome.

-This list will be posted nearly every Sunday, as close to Noon as possible.

Let us console others, O Lord.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:03 PM (Ckg4U)

411 111
I lurve maps. I would love to have a library with maps hanging on the walls.

Ooh, look at this image. Looks like the Library of Congress has its priorities right:

https://www.loc.gov/loc/walls/images/wa013001.jpg

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 09:48 AM (qJtVm)
--------On the wall just outside my reading room, I have a largeish (3x4) World map and a Michelin map of Europe that's a bit larger. I had to lower the world map because every time one of our friends came over and her son (now about 7) came along, he'd come upstairs and want to have me point out places on the map to tell him about. It was easier to move the map than keep hauling a chair over for him to stand on.

Posted by: Still John at March 25, 2018 12:03 PM (dLn0a)

412 the whole media hoohah about Stormy D, and whatever other skank takes a break from the stripper pole or the truck stop, is to break up DJT's marriage.

Scott Adams had some harsh words about this and CNN's Anderson Pooper is on his s#it list.

Posted by: vivi at March 25, 2018 12:03 PM (11H2y)

413 396 I thought the point to sex on a boat was to do it in the great wide open.

So they could show up on Google Earth?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 25, 2018 11:56 AM (8gDQu)

Nothing that hasn't ruined.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 25, 2018 12:04 PM (o7tuA)

414 Just bought Walden Shock and Rambling Wreck. Nothing like Horde authors on the book thread.

Posted by: RI Red - that's all, folks. at March 25, 2018 12:04 PM (T5ZMz)

415 How could you come up with a literary theory about the use of the colors in Gatsby that's contradicted by the last page?

what part of "green light at the end of Daisy's dock" and "green light -- orgastic future" don't you get?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 12:05 PM (pV/54)

416 I'd bang Stormy Daniels. McCabe not so much.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (NWiLs)

Well, maybe if you had a strap-on made from a cactus?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 12:05 PM (Dbv1R)

417 Thank you Slap!

Posted by: Infidel at March 25, 2018 12:06 PM (a3OL0)

418 I meant Google hasn't ruined. Gees.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 25, 2018 12:06 PM (o7tuA)

419 You're welcome, Infidel.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:06 PM (Ckg4U)

420 " the whole media hoohah about Stormy D, and whatever other skank takes a break from the stripper pole or the truck stop, is to break up DJT's marriage."

It's a kind of assassination attempt, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 12:07 PM (pV/54)

421 dDan, Christianity in America was everywhere when Jackson wrote, and stoning was known to be OT.

fiction goes at things "slant"...doesn't have to mention it outright.

Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 12:07 PM (xGMkv)

422 Thanks as always, Slap.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 12:07 PM (MVjcR)

423 I will re-post the list in the next thread, just to make sure that the prayers and my apology are known.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:08 PM (Ckg4U)

424 I don't understand why other mayors of big blue
cities won't look at Rudy's successes as mayor of NYC and figure out how
to adapt his tactics to their own miserable, failing cities -- which is
what NYC was before Rudy was elected.

Because the leftist philosophy is incapable of anything good.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (Fs5vw)

And because, in many of the blue cities, the Mayors come from, and are elected by, the demographic responsible for most of the crime.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 12:08 PM (Dbv1R)

425 You're welcome, Weasel.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:09 PM (Ckg4U)

426 You rock Slap. Not the stoning kind. The good kind.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 25, 2018 12:09 PM (o7tuA)

427 fiction goes at things "slant"...doesn't have to mention it outright.

Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 12:07 PM (xGMkv)

If that's the case, then w/ other cities doing away w/ lottery, wouldn't that be considered a victory for Christianity?

Posted by: dDan at March 25, 2018 12:09 PM (hwYmz)

428 424 I don't understand why other mayors of big blue
cities won't look at Rudy's successes as mayor of NYC and figure out how
to adapt his tactics to their own miserable, failing cities -- which is
what NYC was before Rudy was elected.
Because the leftist philosophy is incapable of anything good.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (Fs5vw)
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Because the left is not interested in solving problems. The left is only interested in telling you who you should blame.

Posted by: Weasel at March 25, 2018 12:10 PM (MVjcR)

429
Because the leftist philosophy is incapable of anything good.

Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:34 AM (Fs5vw)

And because, in many of the blue cities, the Mayors come from, and are elected by, the demographic responsible for most of the crime.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 12:08 PM (Dbv1R)

Exactly. Perfect.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 25, 2018 12:11 PM (o7tuA)

430 "And because, in many of the blue cities, the Mayors come from, and are elected by, the demographic responsible for most of the crime."
-Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 12:08 PM (Dbv1R)

Yup. Mennonites.

*shakes fist*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:11 PM (Ckg4U)

431 Stormy Daniels is going to claim that Trump got her pregnant and forced her to get an abortion. The picture of the CD Rom her lawyer posted will be an ultrasound of the baby.

I'm not buying any of it but mark it down. Her lawyer is connected to Chicago Rambo and other big hitting commies. They are going all in.

Posted by: Monk at March 25, 2018 12:11 PM (Wux4A)

432 the worst sin is judging.

Illogically, stoning isn't as bad. their imaginations are warped.

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 12:12 PM (+y/Ru)

433 Thank you, Cannibal Bob.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:12 PM (Ckg4U)

434
Barack Obama is an anagram of commie sodomite. Well close enough

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 25, 2018 12:12 PM (SiINZ)

435 A funny about google maps. (The resolution isn't good enough to show you having sex on a boat, btw).

There's an oyster farm off Barnstable, MA that shows up as black lines in a distinct pattern because of the way the beds are laid out.

For a while they were arranged to spell "eat more oysters" and that was visible on google maps. (Satellite view).

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 12:13 PM (fuK7c)

436 "Stormy Daniels is going to claim that Trump got her pregnant and forced her to get an abortion. The picture of the CD Rom her lawyer posted will be an ultrasound of the baby. "

Can't be true. She's had have asked for $1 million, and gotten $500,000, not $130,000.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 12:14 PM (pV/54)

437 I don't get Trump going for Stormy -- she looks harsh.

For her Mad Skillz?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 11:44 AM (pV/54)

The last 20 years have not been kind to her? Maybe she is charming and fun to be around, in person, or was back then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 12:14 PM (Dbv1R)

438 Posted by: vivi at March 25, 2018 12:03 PM (11H2y)

Believing that "by any means necessary" has moral authority gives you a vast degree of freedom in attacking your "enemies"!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 12:15 PM (n9EOP)

439 How could you come up with a literary theory about the use of the colors in Gatsby that's contradicted by the last page?

what part of "green light at the end of Daisy's dock" and "green light -- orgastic future" don't you get?

Since I burned my notes and that book after school ended and it was 30+ years ago, I don't totally recall.

I think it had something to do with the color scheme of a train mentioned at the end. Whatever it was the teacher's color scheme theory went beyond just the color green.

Thirty years of therapy down the drain.

Posted by: Chuck C at March 25, 2018 12:15 PM (0V2ki)

440 Re: books by Morons - Old Sailor's Poet has a new Amy Lynn book on Kindle and in paperback, "Hatchet" by Jack July.

Posted by: real joe at March 25, 2018 12:16 PM (qpClX)

441 I'm not buying any of it but mark it down. Her lawyer is connected to Chicago Rambo and other big hitting commies. They are going all in.

Posted by: Monk at March 25, 2018 12:11 PM (Wux4A)

This is their MO. They will make it so uncomfortable for your family and hopefully ruin any relationship you have with your spouse that it will destroy you family. A bonus for them would be if your kids are shunned by their friends and your business destroyed too by losing clients. Oh, if you blew you brains out in the process that would be way cool.

fcuking sick sick bastards.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 25, 2018 12:17 PM (o7tuA)

442 I will re-post the list in the next thread, just to make sure that the prayers and my apology are known.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:08 PM (Ckg4U)

You da man, bro'!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 12:17 PM (n9EOP)

443 436 "Stormy Daniels is going to claim that Trump got her pregnant and forced her to get an abortion. The picture of the CD Rom her lawyer posted will be an ultrasound of the baby. "

Can't be true. She's had have asked for $1 million, and gotten $500,000, not $130,000.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 25, 2018 12:14 PM (pV/54)

It will be manufactured. A fraud.. There is no way to prove the baby was his or hers. Its will be traumatic and emotional and meant to pry Christians from his base.

NeverTrumpers will be in on the fraud as well.

Posted by: Monk at March 25, 2018 12:17 PM (Wux4A)

444 Thank you, Hrothgar.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:18 PM (Ckg4U)

445 Happy Birthday Booknlass !

Posted by: JT at March 25, 2018 12:19 PM (iiJXB)

446 "Stormy Daniels is going to claim that Trump got her pregnant and forced her to get an abortion. The picture of the CD Rom her lawyer posted will be an ultrasound of the baby. "

Will the kid be holding a sign reading, I'm Donald Trump's love child

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 25, 2018 12:19 PM (SiINZ)

447 Whores like money? Who knew?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 12:19 PM (+y/Ru)

448 My recommendation was posted!! Yayyy!!!!!! It is a great book folks and you will shake your head as to what Parr got away with for so long in South Texas. Then you will wonder did Hillary learn from him?

Posted by: Rolando Gallegos at March 25, 2018 12:20 PM (59GQk)

449 Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 25, 2018 12:17 PM (o7tuA)

Goes along well with the indirect/direct attacks on associates or supporters to isolate the President from any non-Establishment staff.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 12:20 PM (n9EOP)

450 There was a hilarious moment once when I'd gone a
few miles offshore with a special friend and it turned out to be on the
route of the Boston-Provincetown ferry.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 25, 2018 11:55 AM (fuK7c)

Reminds me of an old Playboy cartoon: A blonde bimbo is strolling down a pier with the lech in a yachting cap. "You say your yacht sleeps two?" Just out of her sight is a dinghy filled with a mattress and two pillows.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 12:21 PM (Dbv1R)

451 And the answer is yes.

I am wearing pants.

This is The Book Thread. I'll not defile it with tighty-whiteys.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:21 PM (Ckg4U)

452 (397) I use paper maps to find pay phones.

I keep several states worth of DeLorme Gazetteers in my car at all times. I'm old.

Posted by: ro-man at March 25, 2018 12:21 PM (RuIsu)

453 440 Re: books by Morons - Old Sailor's Poet has a new Amy Lynn book on Kindle and in paperback, "Hatchet" by Jack July.
Posted by: real joe at March 25, 2018 12:16 PM (qpClX)
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Aaaaand purchased.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 12:23 PM (qJtVm)

454 Tonight on 60 Minutes: Stormy Daniels

Today on Drudge: 15 Years of Collecting Rhino Semen Finally Paying Off...

Coincidence?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 12:23 PM (+y/Ru)

455
Sour Genome is an anagram of Oregon Muse.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2018 12:25 PM (r+sAi)

456 nood

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 25, 2018 12:25 PM (mpXpK)

457 The Delormes are great for the one thing that GPS software still doesn't do very well - show you what's just beside your route. GPS-enabled pathfinding is great for point-to-point, but if you have to deviate, it really tries to get you back to the route that it thinks is right rather than giving you a parallel detour. The old standalone units used to have an 'avoid interstates' option, but to the extent that it ever really worked, I don't think the smartphone apps even include it any more.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 12:26 PM (y87Qq)

458 *Nood Israel*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at March 25, 2018 12:26 PM (Ckg4U)

459
Ha even better.... Segue Moron.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 25, 2018 12:26 PM (r+sAi)

460 369
He's silent because it's probably true. But who cares? No one. But the
media keeps harping on it because they believe at some point it's going
to finally get through to a lot of Evangelicals that their president is
not a "moral man." They already know that Trump is a sinner and have
still been steadfast in their support, but I guess the media figures
that pounding away is going to finally hit paydirt.....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 25, 2018 11:39 AM (7uYFy)

I was listening to a rerun of Prager yesterday and a caller asked him how we could support a man with Trump's failings as our moral leader.

Prager did everything but scream at him that Trump isn't our moral leader, our pastors are our moral leaders, Trump is the president. We don't look to him for moral guidance.

Posted by: Still John at March 25, 2018 12:27 PM (dLn0a)

461 Old and busted: Don't drink the water.

New hotness: Don't eat the burritos.

Toxic gases killed entire American family vacationing in Mexico...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 25, 2018 12:27 PM (+y/Ru)

462 It will be manufactured. A fraud.. There is no way
to prove the baby was his or hers. Its will be traumatic and emotional
and meant to pry Christians from his base.

NeverTrumpers will be in on the fraud as well.

Posted by: Monk at March 25, 2018 12:17 PM (Wux4A)

I don't think ultrasound images of unborn babies were practical back in the day when this is alleged to have happened.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 12:27 PM (Dbv1R)

463 Well thanks JT! you're sweet!!

I'll be back later. Going to see my middle daughter!

Posted by: booknlass at March 25, 2018 12:29 PM (xGMkv)

464 Or instead of an abortion, Stormy will claim that Trump and his legal team put so much pressure on her and stressed her out that it caused a miscarriage.

Posted by: Monk at March 25, 2018 12:29 PM (Wux4A)

465 >>> 371

Also did a psych paper/essay on The Three Faces of Eve.
Posted by: Tattoo looking up at March 25, 2018 11:44 AM (T8N1n)

"Eve" wrote her own book years later, I'm Eve. The authors of three-faces were assholes who bought the movie rights to her story and ran off the Whoreywood to cash in, leaving her on her own. She did eventually re-integrate with help from more honest "professionals" as well as her family.

Posted by: Helena Handbotsket at March 25, 2018 12:29 PM (o7a0F)

466 My mother's name is Carole.

Anagram: ORACLE. It fits.

Now to read content.

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 25, 2018 12:30 PM (PWPy3)

467 I don't think ultrasound images of unborn babies were practical back in the day when this is alleged to have happened.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2018 12:27 PM (Dbv1R)

Even the 3D ones today don't show much unless you're trying to prove that Captain Uncanny Valley was the baby daddy.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 25, 2018 12:31 PM (y87Qq)

468 I've always preferred the Fountainhead over all of Ayn's works. "Howaed Roark laughed." "Man's ego is the fountainhead of human achievement."

Posted by: Locke Common at March 25, 2018 12:33 PM (AuwE4)

469 It won't be video. It will be still images saved. The affair happened between 2006-2008 IICR.

Posted by: Monk at March 25, 2018 12:35 PM (Wux4A)

470 88 Just saw a big fat squirrel almost fall out of my tree
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Probably preggers! I forecast mini treerats in your near future.

Posted by: Escaped Oaf at March 25, 2018 12:35 PM (HU5Fu)

471 "I wonder what sorts of horror stories millennials are going to be writing?"

And Joshua and Emilie died and went to Hell, where they had to do their own laundry.... forever, and ever, and EVER.

Posted by: Anagram Nation at March 25, 2018 12:36 PM (Q7M5N)

472 Stormy's ultrasound showed embryo with incipient scalp weasel. Case. Closed.

Posted by: mindful webworker - willowed wallowed at March 25, 2018 12:37 PM (PukHz)

473
362 I'm ok with Porn Stars determining public policy. Letting kids do it is suicide by cannibalism with no pie for dessert.
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 25, 2018 11:41 AM (RuIsu)

If that is a hint to read " Lord of the Flies" it was well crafted. Think I will read it again and see Boss Hogg populating Jack.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 25, 2018 12:43 PM (e1mEI)

474 @178 - Ray Van Dune: Actually, I do think I know something most every other physicist has missed. The secret "suppressed" electromagnetic theories I describe as having been discovered by Heaviside in The Hidden Truth and A Rambling Wreck are some of my own work. They've been discussed in a few papers, but haven't received the attention I think they deserve. Making them one of the "MacGuffin's" in a science fiction series is one of the ways I'm working on to get the word out. For more details, you can see my post on Dirac's Big Mistake. Click through on the link below.

Posted by: Hans G. Schantz at March 25, 2018 12:48 PM (NhF/Q)

475 150 ... The original Perry Mason books are great as are the movies made from them. Very different from the TV show. Mason is more of a rogue or scamp and there is a lot of humor. Definitely worth the read.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 12:50 PM (V+03K)

476 Damn! Y'all had to mention maps and charts and the tools that go with them. And at the moment we don't have the horizontal space to spread them out.

Bummer!

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2018 12:52 PM (V+03K)

477 Snow! Again!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 12:55 PM (qJtVm)

478 471 "I wonder what sorts of horror stories millennials are going to be writing?"

A conservative speaker shows up at Berkeley and NOBODY protests! The horror....

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 25, 2018 12:59 PM (H80UQ)

479 <i>I wonder what sorts of horror stories millennials are going to be writing?</i>

You studied like crazy for the Imperial exam, and sacrificed your childhood on the altar of cram-school, so that you could go to college. Only now, competition is so stiff everyone wants an advanced degree for Walmart greeter, and the major hedge funds are talking about outsourcing foreign investment banking. Plumber? Mill operator? Let's not be crazy here - you're not rich and connected, and no one's worked on the pipes in this city in decades - witness the "accidental fountain". You did a bit of math on credential inflation and discovered that the nation had crossed a tipping point: The credentials required to actually get out of this nuthouse and lead an independent life were expanding faster than you could possibly complete coursework. In short - you're never leaving school.

Posted by: ams at March 25, 2018 01:01 PM (FiBra)

480 Another millennial horror story:

"When Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams, he found he had the urge to go to church and pray to Jesus..."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 25, 2018 01:01 PM (H80UQ)

481 Well that passed over quickly.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 01:08 PM (qJtVm)

482 Thanks to those that recommended SPACE GRIFTERS, so damn funny. The Audiobook is very well done and the book is read as SASHA

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 25, 2018 01:20 PM (dKiJG)

483 314 ve tried really, really hard to like flan. Just isn't working. I think it's the texture. And the lack of flavor. And the texture.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 25, 2018 11:22 AM (ty7RM

Sugary KY jelly.
Posted by: Soona at March 25, 2018 11:25 AM (Fs5vw)

Homemade flan is delightful.

As are homemade Creme Br�l�e and homemade Key Lime Pie.

Y'all need to stop eating at the Titty Bar Lunch Buffet.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 25, 2018 01:32 PM (E3rQ4)

484 Stringer Davis' Grander Visits:
Trades Virgins, Rigid Servants,
Starves Driving.

Deriving Tsars Drives Ratings;
Dares Rising TV (Dang, It's Rivers).

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 25, 2018 02:00 PM (H5rtT)

485 'Escaped Oafs'

There doesn't seem to be a feminine equivalent/ synonym for Oaf...although the word itself appears to be genderless, all the synonyms and common usage are masculine.

Oaf'tte?

As an 'Ette, I would be down with that.

Posted by: Shanks for the memory at March 25, 2018 02:14 PM (TdCQk)

486 Creme Brulee is wonderful. I don't like flan as much but I still like it. If you're a fan of puddings and custards and enjoy their texture, you'll like that stuff. Some people really can't abide the texture.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 25, 2018 02:14 PM (H80UQ)

487 Shanks, I would be partial to Oafess, like Giantess.

Or L'Oaf.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2018 02:18 PM (qJtVm)

488 @160 --

Ha! Well done, Anna.

Count me among the map lovers. I started with them when I was reading the original Executioner series in high school, then with Ludlum novels, which involve a lot of scene shifting.

A fond memory is of reading an early Saint story that took Simon around Germany. One stop was Leipzig. Tried to find it in my atlas with no luck. Finally looked at East Germany, and there it was. Of course, this story was years before WWII. Felt weird to realize that the world hasn't always been the same, particularly in regard to European political boundaries. That started my interest in prewar films and animation.

As for recent reading, I'm nearly done with "The Underboss," a true crime account of Boston's Mafia kingpin, Gennaro Anguilo, who took over a scattered assortment of bookies and melded them into a single syndicate that he ran for 30 years. The FBI nailed him by bugging his headquarters. Unrevealed at the time was how a rival ganglord, James "Whitey" Bulger, conned the bureau by pretending to be an informant. In short, the Irish took sides against the Italians. Boston seems to be a strange area.

Posted by: Weak Geek at March 25, 2018 02:38 PM (zT4Y1)

489
Or AI gets dumbed down by years of interacting with millennial idiots. Soon, an old TI graphing calculator is the smartest thing, man or machine, on the planet.
Posted by: josephistan at March 25, 2018 10:24 AM (ANIFC)

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Flowers for Siri?

Posted by: Blake at March 25, 2018 02:44 PM (WEBkv)

490 my hubby makes amazing flan
old family recipe
uses the pressure cooker

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at March 25, 2018 03:24 PM (hMwEB)

491 49 I think I better stop reading the Book Thread now, I've already ordered three kindle books and the day is young!
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at March 25, 2018 09:24 AM (n9EOP)

I was up to four before I even got to your comment.

Posted by: Miss Sippi at March 25, 2018 03:49 PM (TJQYQ)

492 I wonder what sorts of horror stories millennials are going to be writing?

Meeting a white, male, Christian, Conservative, gun-owner who works in the Oil & Gas industry.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at March 25, 2018 04:17 PM (o7l6R)

493 ACE OF SPADES is anagram for 'posse facade'

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at March 25, 2018 05:27 PM (o7l6R)

494 I'm reading _Dodge City_ by Tom Clavin for book club.

Posted by: goodluckduck at March 25, 2018 05:55 PM (V8zw+)

495 A female oaf would be an oaffe?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 25, 2018 11:19 PM (39g3+)

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