Is This Something? ISIS "Capital" Raqqa Now Claimed to be Under Control of US-Backed Syrian Kurdish and Arab Forces

Well, I guess it's good that some ISIS guys were killed, but we'll have to see if the US backed forces are much better.

Probably at least somewhat better, at least.

An alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters, who are backed by the United States, announced they have taken full control of the Islamic State's so-called "capital" of Raqqa, Syria.
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello released a statement on Tuesday afternoon announcing that the fighting was over after a four-month assault, BBC reports.
The SDF is expected to make a formal declaration of the city's liberation in the near future. The final assault came at the end of three years of IS control in the city, and involved a final stand from up to 300 IS militants, according to the the BBC.
Earlier on Tuesday, the SDF cleared the last two major IS positions in Raqqa – the municipal stadium and the National Hospital.
Reuters news agency reported that fighters raised the flag of Popular Protection Units, a Kurdish militia that dominates the SDF, inside the stadium and celebrated in the streets and chanted slogans from their vehicles.

If you click on the link, you'll see a picture of female fighter, who I'm gonna guess is a Kurd (just because we hear about Kurdish female fighters) holding aloft the flag of the Syrian Democrat Forces.

It's a good picture. I wish I could be as hopeful about it as I might have been back in 2004.

Ah well -- I will choose to be optimistic and declare this to be Really Something.

Bonus: The SDF is primarily Kurdish and has declared their parts of the former state of Syria to be autonomous. This angers Turkey. And that's a good thing.

I would like to arm these guys up so they can fight the Turks.

Feeling Better: The SDF mocks ISIS by doing donuts in Al-Naim square -- which ISIS had done when they took the city in 2014.

7- Ultimate slap to ISIS. SDF in Raqqa told me this summer already they would do a doughnut at AlNaim square to make fun of ISIS. @akhbar pic.twitter.com/qXxRhv4W6U
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) October 17, 2017

Posted by: Ace at 06:37 PM

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1 I hate Sonobi.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 17, 2017 06:37 PM (Ri/rl)

2 Nah. NPR said that Kurds are cowards and ran from Kirkut.

Posted by: golfman at October 17, 2017 06:37 PM (48QDY)

3 The Turks are a nasty bunch.
The Kurds will need every weapon available.

Posted by: mpfs, Not My Circus..Not My Sonobis at October 17, 2017 06:39 PM (79p/O)

4 we live in a bizzaro world where the new muslim regime controlling turkey are our nuclear tipped nato partners.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 06:39 PM (RDd1I)

5 Has Megyn Kelly given us her take on this?

Posted by: Meremortal, with hand over heart at October 17, 2017 06:39 PM (3myMJ)

6 Send in the Sonobi militia.

Posted by: mpfs, Not My Circus..Not My Sonobis at October 17, 2017 06:40 PM (79p/O)

7 It's a thing until one side wipes out the other, the UN may send a nasty letter.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 17, 2017 06:40 PM (6Ll1u)

8 When will the State dept. be handing Raqqa over to the Iranians?

Posted by: 13times at October 17, 2017 06:40 PM (WHVu+)

9 It's a thing until one side wipes out the other, the UN may send a nasty letter.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

That would be a strongly worded letter on embossed letterhead.

Posted by: mpfs, Not My Circus..Not My Sonobis at October 17, 2017 06:41 PM (79p/O)

10 has something happened recently where the never trumpers and the insane left have had something in their world view verified? What the hell, man?

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 06:42 PM (RDd1I)

11 is this another one of those short term wins that will cost the GOP in the long run, like Gorsuch

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 06:43 PM (RDd1I)

12 Keep On a Raqqin Me , Baby

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 17, 2017 06:43 PM (2wRtc)

13 Undoing Obama's legacy.

Posted by: Max Power at October 17, 2017 06:43 PM (q177U)

14 Saw on Twitter (via a promoted link, so I didn't visit)
Two women who escaped from prison were apprehended in an escape room.
If that place doesn't immediately start advertising as "harder to escape from than prison" then their marketing department should be fired.

Posted by: Downcast at October 17, 2017 06:43 PM (ay8eq)

15 And now the Iraqi's and Kurds are going to start killing each other.

What a mess that part of the world is...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at October 17, 2017 06:43 PM (xJa6I)

16 Mmmm...

Donuts.

Posted by: Homer at October 17, 2017 06:44 PM (S2TYU)

17
We choose to ignore all aspects of this story as Barack Obama was not involved.

Posted by: The MSM at October 17, 2017 06:45 PM (EgwCt)

18 Just in time for the civil war between Iraq and the Kurds.

The Iraqis took Kirkuk after the Kurds declared an intent for independence.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 17, 2017 06:45 PM (4ErVI)

19 It was the slow and steady work President Obama did all those years that allowed Trump this victory. Unless it goes pear shaped in which case it was all Trump.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Dreaming of a White Privilege at October 17, 2017 06:45 PM (Nwg0u)

20 Now that is a Horde-worthy FU right there.

Posted by: Insomniac - Redneck Death Squad Ninja at October 17, 2017 06:45 PM (NWiLs)

21 Hey Garrett, you still around?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 06:45 PM (/tuJf)

22 I think it's time to start nation building once again.

also,
It's Now Legal to Liquefy a Dead Body in California

Better for Gaia then burying or cremating.
-Drudge

Posted by: Under Fire at October 17, 2017 06:45 PM (mcI77)

23 Early night for Trump.

Posted by: Max Power at October 17, 2017 06:46 PM (q177U)

24 Even Paste Eater Joe said that they should break up Iraq into pieces.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 17, 2017 06:46 PM (6Ll1u)

25 19 It was the slow and steady work President Obama did all those years that allowed Trump this victory. Unless it goes pear shaped in which case it was all Trump.

+++++++++++

just like with the north korea situation, obama had set them up the bomb so they could gradually expand outward without any pushback from a supine west...until something went boom.

like blaming wwii on churchill.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 06:46 PM (RDd1I)

26 Yep.

Arm the Kurds.

Give them everything they need.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 06:46 PM (S2TYU)

27 Unfortunately the Iraqi government is now turning it's sights on Kurdistan now that ISIS is basically finished.

Posted by: josephistan at October 17, 2017 06:46 PM (ANIFC)

28 Free Kurdistan

Posted by: Phildirt at October 17, 2017 06:47 PM (eFXb/)

29 Meh. It's not that I don't care. It's that I can't see how it helps much. And I have doubts...

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at October 17, 2017 06:47 PM (z2W2E)

30 Time to lick the ISIS donuts.

Posted by: Ariana Grande at October 17, 2017 06:47 PM (Tyii7)

31
Yeah, ace, it's something, and it's good. SDF or its components, separate or together, don't have to be (and likely aren't) some righteous pure band of boy scouts.

Very bad, very important neighborhood. Some are clearly enemies, and dangerous. Some less of either, some a lot less of either. Worst ones getting defeated = good for us.

Recall it was very much in our interest that one of the worst regimes in history - Stalin's - survived, so that they could, together with us and the Brits/Commonwealth, beat the Germans. And then, nearly over-night, that regime became our global enemy for several generations. Life rarely resembles the crappy fictional stuff people seem to love.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 17, 2017 06:47 PM (QDnY+)

32 But they will never beat ISIL.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at October 17, 2017 06:47 PM (HgMAr)

33 In a perfect world, we just give all of Syria to the Kurds and tell them "A Republic, If You Can Keep It."

(Pisses off the Turks, Russkies AND the Iranians . . . a threefer).

Posted by: filbert at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (65kS9)

34 I hope the Kurds don't get hung out to dry, like always

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (M+Lyo)

35 Now, if we could only take back the US Capitol ...

Posted by: ShainS at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (CyOK9)

36 I wouldn't say round. More pear shaped.

What's up, Straw?

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (S2TYU)

37 I want to start doing some fresh water fly fishing around here. What would you recommend for a good all purpose weight and make if you have a preference?

Mostly trout and stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (/tuJf)

38 PuTang must be ok w/this or he would have piped up.

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (AAbgH)

39 so, right, soetoro? Which side of history is which now? and who are we now?

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (RDd1I)

40 >>Has Megyn Kelly given us her take on this?

Posted by: Meremortal, with hand over heart

She chime in as soon as she get down off that pole.

Posted by: Aviator at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (2cuLk)

41 I thought I saw something where Trump isn't going to back the Kurds if a new war breaks out.

I would. They were stand up guys and gals with ISIS. Plus fuck Turkey.

Only thing I'd say is you guys are great but you gotta stay over in Kurdistan. Not back a fight and then letting in millions of new refugees because of it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 17, 2017 06:49 PM (4ErVI)

42 Is that the holey city of Raqqa? That's not even a real word there is no "u" after the "q"s.

Posted by: freaked at October 17, 2017 06:49 PM (UdKB7)

43 It's Now Legal to Liquefy a Dead Body in California

Better for Gaia then burying or cremating.
-Drudge

Posted by: Under Fire at October 17, 2017 06:45 PM (mcI77)
............

mmm...Soylent Green Shakes.

Posted by: wth at October 17, 2017 06:49 PM (HgMAr)

44 35 Now, if we could only take back the US Capitol ...

+++++++++++++

just teh GOP, negotiating against themselves while the DNC is sitting in the ditch, having a slurpee.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 06:49 PM (RDd1I)

45 >>I want to start doing some fresh water fly fishing
around here. What would you recommend for a good all purpose weight and
make if you have a preference?

Mostly trout and stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw

Half pound of C4 is more reliable.

Posted by: Aviator at October 17, 2017 06:50 PM (2cuLk)

46 I want to start doing some fresh water fly fishing around here. What would you recommend for a good all purpose weight and make if you have a preference?

Mostly trout and stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (/tuJf)

Where ? and for what ?

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2017 06:50 PM (M+Lyo)

47 Rivers and streams of New England. Trout mainly.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 06:51 PM (/tuJf)

48 Riddle me this Batman, how the fuck is Turkey still in NATO?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 17, 2017 06:52 PM (6Ll1u)

49 Roll cast, spey cast or switch?

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 17, 2017 06:52 PM (2wRtc)

50 Yeah, remember Jugfuck thought he could force the world to call them ISIL?

Posted by: Max Power at October 17, 2017 06:52 PM (q177U)

51
Iraqis would likely find a way to be stupid, even without the enstupiding influence of Tehran at the moment. And moving on Kirkuk is stupid. Being under a Stalinist system for several generations, most Iraqis seemed to lose any adult sense of how things work (well).

There has been conflict and angling and maneuvering and skullduggery in Kirkuk since Saddam's regime fell. Almost every day, it's never stopped. But Baghdad is making a big mistake if they think they can win it all (the $$$$$) there. Kurds have lots of pressure points to use.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 17, 2017 06:53 PM (QDnY+)

52 Yeah, remember Jugfuck thought he could force the world to call them ISIL?
===

That was his pet name for them.

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 17, 2017 06:53 PM (2wRtc)

53
Even Paste Eater Joe said that they should break up Iraq into pieces.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 17, 2017 06:46 PM (6Ll1u)

The only problem with that is Iraq gets 1/3rd smaller while Iran gets 1/3rd larger.

However, the Kurds seem like the best version of Islam available.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at October 17, 2017 06:53 PM (EgwCt)

54 >>46 I want to start doing some fresh water fly fishing around here. What would you recommend for a good all purpose weight and make if you have a preference?

Mostly trout and stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 06:48 PM (/tuJf)

Orvis 7inch trout polyleaders. There is no substitute.

Posted by: Under Fire at October 17, 2017 06:53 PM (mcI77)

55 Free Kurdistan. Free Puerto Rico. Free Hawaii. Free California.

Posted by: josephistan at October 17, 2017 06:53 PM (ANIFC)

56 Probably at least somewhat better, at least.

-------------------------------------

Minimally on the margins? Statements like this could led to irrational exuberance.

Posted by: RioBravo at October 17, 2017 06:54 PM (giT7q)

57 No spey. I'm a saltwater spin and troll guy but I want to start adding some freshwater fly. And I'm just a beginner in this world so nothing to exotic required.

Just a good all around rod to get started.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 06:54 PM (/tuJf)

58 48 Riddle me this Batman, how the fuck is Turkey still in NATO?

_______________

the same idiot mindset who thought goddell would win against trump bc he hurt the nfl players' feelings thought that they were standing with democracy by backing erdogan against a pro-democratic coup against a muz nutjob who ignroes the bounds of democracy.

also, the same brain scientists who think they have the right to get rid of trump via the 25th. So, basically, they defended erdogan in bad faith to support another anti-american enemy get power.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 06:54 PM (RDd1I)

59 I think somewhat less awful is the best we can hope for over there. And I mean... the people seem to like it that way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 06:54 PM (39g3+)

60 "Riddle me this Batman, how the fuck is Turkey still in NATO?"

--------

It might be that the membership is held over their head to prevent even worse actions by Turkey. Eventually they will have to be kicked out, they are now firmly in Zimbabwe territory with Erdogan. There is no hope for Turkey until he is dead.

Posted by: Decaf at October 17, 2017 06:55 PM (r6Y2i)

61 But they will never beat ISIL.
Posted by: Barry Soetoro at October 17, 2017 06:47 PM (HgMAr)

The JEF loved using that to piss off the joooos; kind of like scratching his nose with his middle finger. Needless to say the State Dept catamites all followed suit.

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 17, 2017 06:55 PM (y7DUB)

62
Tinfoil, inertia, the greatest force in nature.

You might ask why Germany is still in NATO. Or why NATO still exists.

In fact, these questions were asked by some, waaay back in the 90s. They got no serious answers. Since then "NATO" has become even more of a farce. On the practical level, where it matters.

Inertia.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 17, 2017 06:55 PM (QDnY+)

63 >>Mostly trout and stuff.

Likely a 4 or a 5 weight. Depending on the size of the river/stream and of the fish.

Small creeks, occasional fish up to 18-20" on the dry. 3-4 weight

Med Creek / small river, occasional fish up to 22-24".
5 Weight

Larger River / Lake, occasional fish 24-30" .
6 Weight

If you want a Bass / Trout utility rod - Get my email from the Dildo and I will send you one.

As far as brands go, pick a size and I will let you know which Brand / Model would likely be your best bet.

Most Fly Rods Models span too wide a range 2wt - 10 wt. You want to choose a model that was based / designed around your usage before it was filled out to make an entire model line.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 06:55 PM (S2TYU)

64 My last cab driver was Armenian and gave me a semi short history of the Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Muslim and Christian history and conflicts. Ay yi yi.

Posted by: LASue at October 17, 2017 06:55 PM (hZ+us)

65 Kurds are the only Muslims that have a grasp on reality and the modern age or whose word means anything.

Posted by: Decaf at October 17, 2017 06:56 PM (r6Y2i)

66 Apropos of nothing - I hate McCain.

Posted by: IC at October 17, 2017 06:57 PM (a0IVu)

67 No spey. I'm a saltwater spin and troll guy but I want to start adding some freshwater fly. And I'm just a beginner in this world so nothing to exotic required.

Just a good all around rod to get started.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 06:54 PM (/tuJf)

Checkout the Echo outfits, about $150 with a rod, reel, line and case. Steve Rajeff is the founder and he was a rod designer for G Loomis and a world champion caster. 4 or a 5 wt

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2017 06:57 PM (M+Lyo)

68 Yeah, remember Jugfuck thought he could force the world to call them ISIL?

+++

#bringbackourgirls

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at October 17, 2017 06:57 PM (z2W2E)

69 Mmm. Donuts.

Posted by: homer simpson at October 17, 2017 06:58 PM (mJ8mX)

70 Isn't it great that we no longer have to hear "ISIL?"

I swear the JEF just did that for the same reason he said "Pockeestahn."

Posted by: buzzion at October 17, 2017 06:58 PM (z/Ubi)

71 Best thing to do is contain it until the worst elements boil off.

Which will happen eventually. Probably hundreds of years after I'm dead, but whatever.

Contain the poison and don't let it out. Let them kill their way to enlightenment. It'll happen eventually and probably somewhat faster if we're not interfering in it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 17, 2017 06:58 PM (4ErVI)

72 64 My last cab driver was Armenian and gave me a semi short history of the Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Muslim and Christian history and conflicts. Ay yi yi.

+++++++++

reminds me of SNL where kumail nanananjiani came out in his monologue to lecture whitey about muh islamaphobia against the pakis. Ass if pakis around the world, especially oh I don't know...the india border and rotherham...have been muz lunatic rapey murderous assholes.

enjoy the no go zones when they come to your neighborhood.

one of my favorite tropes, an immigrant-barely conversant in his home culture-and fully steeped in lefty sjw BS pretending 1. the USA is alone in evil and 2. what? I never heard of any reason to fear muzzie pakis.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 06:58 PM (RDd1I)

73
Actually Kurds are Kurds first, second, and third, and (Sunni) Muslims next. Kind of a practical adaptation to experience.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 17, 2017 06:58 PM (QDnY+)

74 >>If you want a Bass / Trout utility rod - Get my email from the Dildo and I will send you one.

That's too generous. But it sounds like a 5 weight would be a good place to start.

Any brand you like?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 06:59 PM (/tuJf)

75 Liberals actually miss "hashtag diplomacy"

Unreal

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at October 17, 2017 06:59 PM (z2W2E)

76 >>Checkout the Echo outfits, about $150 with a rod, reel, line and case. Steve Rajeff is the founder and he was a rod designer for G Loomis and a world champion caster.

Whom I trashed in the 1999 and 2000 San Mateo Fly Expo Casting Contest prelims.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 06:59 PM (S2TYU)

77 Apropos of nothing - I hate McCain.

+++++++

listen to the idiotic hate spewing from his voice hole. He fucking hates us. I have no idea what the point of him is.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 06:59 PM (RDd1I)

78
Hold my falafel and watch this.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 17, 2017 06:59 PM (eXA4G)

79 Liberals actually miss "hashtag diplomacy"

------------------------------

I don't see how they have time given the hysteria over Trumptweets.

Posted by: RioBravo at October 17, 2017 07:00 PM (giT7q)

80 >>That's too generous.

Yeah. Get me your address.

I will send you a 4 piece outfit with a Die Cast Reel.

Whole shiterie. All you will need to do is tie a fly on it.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:00 PM (S2TYU)

81

I would like to arm these guys up so they can fight the Turks.

Yeesh, I hope you're not serious. Ergodan's needs to go but a full out war Kurd v Turk would be a huge murderfest. They need an amicable divorce even more than we do. Let's arm them just enough to keep Ankara pissed off but not rolling tanks.

Posted by: DaveA at October 17, 2017 07:00 PM (FhXTo)

82 None of this ever would of happened if Trump had'nt invaded Iraq.

Posted by: WaterCow at October 17, 2017 07:00 PM (zkGZ8)

83 16 Mmmm...

Donuts.
Posted by: Homer at October 17, 2017 06:44 PM (S2TYU)
-----
Doh!

Posted by: homer simpson at October 17, 2017 07:01 PM (mJ8mX)

84 Isn't it great that we no longer have to hear "ISIL?"

I swear the JEF just did that for the same reason he said "Pockeestahn."
Posted by: buzzion at October 17, 2017 06:58 PM (z/Ubi)

Or calling Iraq Mesopotamia.

Whoever said he's about as American as a Jakarta street urchin was spot on; and I'm stealing that, with an additional homo descriptor, to use elsewhere.

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 17, 2017 07:01 PM (y7DUB)

85 The only time Iraqi troops don't throw down their guns and run home to hide behind mama? When facing off against Peshmerga? Wait, what? Peshmerga are badass patriots.

WTF.

Posted by: 13times at October 17, 2017 07:01 PM (WHVu+)

86 82 None of this ever would of happened if Trump had'nt invaded Iraq.
Posted by: WaterCow

++++++

maxine waters and hillary are like please let the dum dums echo this.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 07:01 PM (RDd1I)

87 >>Checkout the Echo outfits, about $150 with a rod, reel, line and case. Steve Rajeff is the founder and he was a rod designer for G Loomis and a world champion caster. 4 or a 5 wt

I was actually looking at them the other day in a local shop. So much variety it was hard to know what was good and what was just expensive.

Thanks.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 07:01 PM (/tuJf)

88 If you want a machined aluminum reel, though - you can pay for that.

But I have at least 15 brand new rods downstairs.

You are welcome to one.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:02 PM (S2TYU)

89 >>That's too generous.

Yeah. Get me your address.

I will send you a 4 piece outfit with a Die Cast Reel.

Whole shiterie. All you will need to do is tie a fly on it.

Well, there you are, morons at work.

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2017 07:02 PM (M+Lyo)

90 >>Yeah. Get me your address.

Only if you let me pay you.

I'll ask CBD to give me you email.

Thanks very much.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 07:03 PM (/tuJf)

91 Apropos of nothing - I hate McCain.
Posted by: IC at October 17, 2017 06:57 PM (a0IVu)

That is always on topic for any thread I'm reading.

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 17, 2017 07:03 PM (y7DUB)

92 Apropos of nothing - I hate McCain.
...........

The feeling is mutual my friendsch.
Ow, my head.

Posted by: Sen. John McBitter (R) at October 17, 2017 07:04 PM (HgMAr)

93 >>Only if you let me pay you.

That's what she said!

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:04 PM (S2TYU)

94 Whom I trashed in the 1999 and 2000 San Mateo Fly Expo Casting Contest prelims.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 06:59 PM (S2TYU)

My, My

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2017 07:04 PM (M+Lyo)

95 Isn't it great that we no longer have to hear "ISIL?"

I swear the JEF just did that for the same reason he said "Pockeestahn."

It was just an affection of someone who spent a summer in a hostel in France so they think they are a citizen of the world and so much more sophisticated than dreary Americans.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 07:04 PM (39g3+)

96 OT/ Is anyone here from Alabama? Supposedly Moore is tied with the Dem

Posted by: It's me donna at October 17, 2017 07:04 PM (O2RFr)

97 come on Correa

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at October 17, 2017 07:04 PM (zO+RE)

98 Turkey has 350,000 troops. However competent they might be, they are not pussies. Turkey has a competent air force with 300 aircraft for attack missions. I doubt Kurdish groups want an actual war.

Posted by: RioBravo at October 17, 2017 07:05 PM (giT7q)

99 95 Isn't it great that we no longer have to hear "ISIL?"

I swear the JEF just did that for the same reason he said "Pockeestahn."

It was just an affection of someone who spent a summer in a hostel in France so they think they are a citizen of the world and so much more sophisticated than dreary Americans.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 07:04 PM (39g3+)

As I said, the same reason.

Posted by: buzzion at October 17, 2017 07:05 PM (z/Ubi)

100 I wonder where we could find someone used to stopping payments on a development like NATO that no longer is profitable.

Posted by: DaveA at October 17, 2017 07:06 PM (FhXTo)

101 The Kurds have been doing pretty well for the last couple of years. Our government must be dreaming up a real doozy of a way to fuck them over again, this time around. Shit's gonna be *EPIC*, yo!

Posted by: FaCubeItches at October 17, 2017 07:06 PM (rznWS)

102 A real fight between the Kurds and the Iraqis now is not going to be pretty.

The Iraqis they'll send in aren't the greenhorns who ran away when ISIS showed up. They're battle hardened veterans who cleaned out Mosul and Anbar. They'll fight.

Same with the Kurds. They've been fighting for years now.

It'll be a shit show.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 17, 2017 07:06 PM (4ErVI)

103
You might ask why Germany is still in NATO. Or why NATO still exists.

NATO lost its raison d'être upon the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 17, 2017 07:07 PM (IqV8l)

104 >>My, My

He is an AMAZING caster.

He just couldn't take all the wind those days.

And those Echos are nice rods.

Thing with most of the pro casters is they aren't really good fisherman.

Same goes for the authors. Like Gierach and Swisher... they suck at fishing.

AK can angle, though. And tie.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:07 PM (S2TYU)

105 Let me uh be uh clear....this is not uh who uh we are.

Posted by: Barry at October 17, 2017 07:07 PM (nILVB)

106

mmmmm. what this bowl of cheesy potatoes needs is some sweet corn. And some cream; creamed corn, and some bacon bits, with just a hint of onion.

yep, that's all I need, one can of creamed sweet corn, and I would be happy.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 17, 2017 07:08 PM (m9X4Y)

107 Route 66 went from Chicago to LA right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 17, 2017 07:09 PM (6Ll1u)

108 103
NATO lost its raison d'être upon the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 17, 2017 07:07 PM (IqV8l)

Exactly. It's yet another illustration of how governmental organizations take on a life of their own.

Posted by: rickl at October 17, 2017 07:09 PM (sdi6R)

109 Strategic Patience is key. Not unlike Reggie keying my lock.

Posted by: Preezy 44 at October 17, 2017 07:09 PM (bc2Lc)

110 Ass if pakis around the world,
-----
Butt always wear a condom.
See what I did there through Allah?

Posted by: a muzzie with rabies at October 17, 2017 07:10 PM (mJ8mX)

111 >>AK can angle, though. And tie.

That's what I plan to do this winter, tie. I got started with the saltwater stuff but the freshwater looks even more intriguing.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2017 07:10 PM (/tuJf)

112 @15: "And now the Iraqi's and Kurds are going to start killing each other."

You misspelled "continue"

Posted by: FaCubeItches at October 17, 2017 07:10 PM (rznWS)

113 You might ask why Germany is still in NATO. Or why NATO still exists.

In fact, these questions were asked by some, waaay back in the 90s. They got no serious answers.
---
And again in the Oughts. The Germans squealed that it would be bad for the economy if the Americans and their bases left the country.

Will we still be there when it's majority Muslim?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 17, 2017 07:10 PM (qJtVm)

114 My, My

He is an AMAZING caster.

He just couldn't take all the wind those days.

And those Echos are nice rods.

Thing with most of the pro casters is they aren't really good fisherman.

Same goes for the authors. Like Gierach and Swisher... they suck at fishing.

AK can angle, though. And tie.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:07 PM (S2TYU)

I think for the money the Echo rods are good. A lot of rods are too fast for beginners. I fly fish, but its the least amount of fishing I do. I figured out I don't need an $800 rod. I have an Orvis Helios and am almost afraid to use it

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2017 07:11 PM (M+Lyo)

115 We should arm the moderate terrorists and commence bombing everyone else, including the moderate terrorists if we run out of orher targets.

Posted by: John McVain at October 17, 2017 07:12 PM (ylUqT)

116 As I said, the same reason.

Yeah, and its why the elites love him because they all think that's the acme of human existence. That summer they backpacked around Germany and tried hash in the hostel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 07:13 PM (39g3+)

117 "Pockeestahn."
...........

Tolleebohn, Copen-hah-gen, Eye-rock.
You wingnutz just need more sophisticado.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at October 17, 2017 07:13 PM (HgMAr)

118 Ha, I know a guy who is a great caster and a bad fisherman

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2017 07:13 PM (M+Lyo)

119
Heh, now brother Bob Weinstein is being accused of sexual harassing a producer. Nothing as bad as Uncle Harvey by a long shot, but he's catchings some incoming.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at October 17, 2017 07:14 PM (8O3HH)

120 It's Now Legal to Liquefy a Dead Body in California

Better for Gaia then burying or cremating.

-Drudge

Posted by: Under Fire at October 17, 2017 06:45 PM (mcI77)

--

You can't dump phosphates into the rivers and streams, but spilling Grandma out of a Mason jar into the waterways is okay.

At this point, I'd rather liquify CA.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at October 17, 2017 07:14 PM (mQ0Mc)

121 We should arm the moderate terrorists and commence bombing everyone else, including the moderate terrorists if we run out of orher targets.
Posted by: John McVain

+++++++++++++

and then give them and their extended families and twitter feed voting citizenship and lifetime welfare here. because that's who we are, or something.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 07:14 PM (RDd1I)

122 Hey do you guys have any suggestions about a mid-level fly reel?

Posted by: Meremortal, with hand over heart at October 17, 2017 07:14 PM (3myMJ)

123 Trump is not qualified to determine our bomb targets. Only I am. And Lindsey Graham. Maybe Hillary, my good friend. And the voices in my head.

Posted by: John McVain at October 17, 2017 07:15 PM (ylUqT)

124 >>I think for the money the Echo rods are good. A lot of rods are too fast for beginners.

Yes.

But, Fast Rods are fragile, and the chew through tippet and leaders. So, shops love to push them. Hard to learn a proper cast with one, though.

I prefer med-fast action for 90% of applications.

Helios is a nice ride, and Orvis has a pretty great Warranty Program. Unless you are slinging something with a BIG beadhead, they are pretty durable.
Once, you knick one though...it's just a matter of when.

In the big winds, though a man needs a stiff rod.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:15 PM (S2TYU)

125 ISIS came in like a lion and out like a lamb. A Raqqa lamb.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 17, 2017 07:16 PM (/qEW2)

126 At this point, I'd rather liquify CA.
..............

I told my daughter I want her to bury me in the backyard.
She said no can do, gotta get a death certificate so I can cash in all your chips. And they will NOT let her keep the body.

Posted by: wth at October 17, 2017 07:17 PM (HgMAr)

127 They were all willing to get on their knees for a money shot. Now they're turning on me.

Posted by: Harv at October 17, 2017 07:17 PM (JGVnY)

128 @81: "They need an amicable divorce even more than we do."

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....

Oh, wait....you're serious? In that case, let me laugh even harder

AH HA HA HA HA HA

Posted by: History, played tonight by Bender Bending Rodriguez at October 17, 2017 07:17 PM (rznWS)

129 Route 66 went from Chicago to LA right?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

Correct. The Mother Road.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2017 07:17 PM (FxM6p)

130 I always loved how it was Pockeystahn this and Cheelay that, but never Nipon or Deutschland.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football - Forever at October 17, 2017 07:17 PM (rjrh3)

131 >>Hey do you guys have any suggestions about a mid-level fly reel?

Pretty much only use Ross reels.

A vintage Gunnison is all I use. I have 3 or 4 of them.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:17 PM (S2TYU)

132 Route 66 went from Chicago to LA right?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 17, 2017 07:09 PM (6Ll1u)

In the song, yes; technically I think it ended in Santa Barbara.

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 17, 2017 07:17 PM (y7DUB)

133 In the big winds, though a man needs a stiff rod.

That's what Paolo always says

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 07:17 PM (39g3+)

134 ISIS came in like a lion and out like a lamb. A Raqqa lamb.
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No, thanks. I just had a piece of ass and I'm full.

Posted by: a muzzie with rabies at October 17, 2017 07:18 PM (mJ8mX)

135 OT: but go here and read the 2nd paragraph. That's where it gets REALLY good!

https://tinyurl.com/ycxfldsm

Posted by: The Gimp at October 17, 2017 07:18 PM (LVrfb)

136 Make that Santa Monica.

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 17, 2017 07:19 PM (y7DUB)

137 The Clinton/uranium story is not even getting any play on fnn.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 17, 2017 07:20 PM (PUmDY)

138 My husband decided to watch the news on PBS last night. They were talking about this. The Kurds are declaring this as part of an independent Kurdistan and had some non binding referendum last week. The Iraqis disapprove. The US says it is neutral here (which I think is the right choice). both of the experts on the show said it would have to be negotiated.

Basically it's a good thing.

Posted by: notsothoreau at October 17, 2017 07:21 PM (JKNZq)

139
Wiki has the map of the original Route 66. There's some attempt at a rival for nostalgic purposes. With some historic sections being used a tourist attractions and all that.

The interstate system killed Route 66.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at October 17, 2017 07:21 PM (8O3HH)

140 Bob struck me as a smeg head. I didn't believe him for a minute that he was a saint and his brother the sinner.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at October 17, 2017 07:21 PM (zO+RE)

141 >> That's where it gets REALLY good!

I was reading something about that earlier. Harv may have jizzed in a pan, not the potted plant.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at October 17, 2017 07:22 PM (8O3HH)

142 OT: but go here and read the 2nd paragraph. That's where it gets REALLY good!

https://tinyurl.com/ycxfldsm

Posted by: The Gimp at October 17, 2017 07:18 PM (LVrfb)
............

Special sauce for the elite clientele.

Posted by: wth at October 17, 2017 07:22 PM (HgMAr)

143 ISIS was, I think, far too openly vicious to last long. the Red Army in WWII were able to pass themselves off as liberators in Eastern Europe until the war was over. If the people you are conquering know ahead of time that you are going to kill most of them in horrible ways, they will, if they are armed, naturally fight like hell and do everything to resist you. Because ISIS was so frigging psychotic their ability to form alliances with the natives was nil.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at October 17, 2017 07:22 PM (P8951)

144 >> Harv may have jizzed in a pan, not the potted plant.

Sounds delicious.

Posted by: John Podesta at October 17, 2017 07:23 PM (S2TYU)

145 @125: "
ISIS came in like a lion and out like a lamb. A Raqqa lamb."

ISIS is happy to lose; their philosophy actually demands it. The faithful are supposed to be defeated by the infidels, then Jesus will lead the survivors to victory over everyone in the final battle at Jerusalem.

It may not be the best thought-out philosophy, though.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at October 17, 2017 07:23 PM (rznWS)

146 I think every Hollywood exec comes to think of themselves as godlike and presume every starlet wants to swandive naked on them as a matter of course. Because many of them probably do. So yeah, groping and sexual talk and so on is gonna be likely. THat's bad, but frankly I'd be willing to put up with it as long as the starlets slapped them silly... and the rapists, pedos, molesters, and extortionists sexually harassing girls for parts were strung up by their tender bits on fishhooks for the world to see and prosecute.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 07:23 PM (39g3+)

147 Special sauce for the elite clientele

+++

ITS PEOPLE! ITS PEOPLE!!!!

Posted by: Marlon Brawndo at October 17, 2017 07:24 PM (z2W2E)

148 The interstate system killed Route 66.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear
________

It's just as well.

Posted by: Hudson Hornet at October 17, 2017 07:24 PM (zkGZ8)

149 Socialista, a West Village hotspot.
Don't piss off the waiters.

Posted by: wth at October 17, 2017 07:24 PM (HgMAr)

150 @132: "In the song, yes; technically I think it ended in Santa Barbara."

Santa Monica Pier, on some maps of it.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at October 17, 2017 07:24 PM (rznWS)

151 Wiki has the map of the original Route 66. There's some attempt at a rival for nostalgic purposes. With some historic sections being used a tourist attractions and all that.

The interstate system killed Route 66.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at October 17, 2017 07:21 PM (8O3HH)

In the last few years Mrs H and I have meandered through parts of it between St Louis and Amarillo and then parallel to Interstate 40 in northern Arizona. Definitely parts are touristy in a retro way.

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 17, 2017 07:25 PM (y7DUB)

152 Well, I guess it's good that some ISIS guys were killed, but we'll have to see if the US backed forces are much better.
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Well, I thought for sure they'd be less rapey until we saw the Weinstein brigade.

Posted by: Axeman at October 17, 2017 07:25 PM (JhE5a)

153 Didn't I-40 basically replace Route 66?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 17, 2017 07:25 PM (PUmDY)

154 And considering the Brits literally invented the new name "Pakistan" and they call them "Pakeees", it's an affectation born out of ignorance and not some specialist, learned knowledge. (I've forgotten exactly and I'm on the tablet so I don't feel like Bing searching it but its an acronym with the P for Pashtun etc.)

Posted by: andycanuck at October 17, 2017 07:25 PM (mJ8mX)

155 Potted plant is funnier than a pot.

Posted by: josephistan at October 17, 2017 07:26 PM (ANIFC)

156 Dammit wrong person sorry

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at October 17, 2017 07:26 PM (z2W2E)

157 WTF was that Castro!?

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:26 PM (S2TYU)

158 Harv "Want some SIZZLE with your steak?"

Posted by: The Gimp at October 17, 2017 07:27 PM (LVrfb)

159 146 I think every Hollywood exec comes to think of themselves as godlike and presume every starlet wants to swandive naked on them as a matter of course.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 07:23 PM (39g3+)

And then consider how much more actual power DC politicians have.

Posted by: rickl at October 17, 2017 07:27 PM (sdi6R)

160 Kettle was all like Ha now look at you, pot

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at October 17, 2017 07:27 PM (z2W2E)

161 Didn't I-40 basically replace Route 66?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 17, 2017 07:25 PM (PUmDY)

Saw a lot of Route 66 signs and ads going to and from GNAMM on I-40.

Posted by: Country Boy - 2017 GNAMM survivor at October 17, 2017 07:27 PM (+ENy9)

162 Castro screws the Yankees!
Mmm. Good chowdah.

Posted by: zombie JFK at October 17, 2017 07:28 PM (mJ8mX)

163 "Paki" is now considered a racial slur in UK, as bad as the n-word here. To us, it doesn't have that connotation, and Americans sometimes get in trouble for using it. W. Bush did, IIRC.

On a board I used to frequent a few years ago, there were some Brit moderators and they banned a guy for using "Paki", innocently. He was reinstated after explanation, but that was when I learned what a slur it's considered across the pond.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at October 17, 2017 07:28 PM (8O3HH)

164 astros: kurds
Yankee stadium: arRaqqa

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at October 17, 2017 07:28 PM (zO+RE)

165 Potted plant is funnier than a pot.

Posted by: josephistan at October 17, 2017 07:26 PM (ANIFC)
..........

After reading the article, it sounds like he did both. At different times.

Posted by: wth at October 17, 2017 07:28 PM (HgMAr)

166 No way I'd eat a Kurd.

Posted by: Little Mrs. Muffet at October 17, 2017 07:29 PM (/qEW2)

167 "Didn't I-40 basically replace Route 66?"

For the east to west part. It parallels I-55 for most of its north-south part here in Illinois.

Most of the original Route 66 here has turned into back country roads.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at October 17, 2017 07:29 PM (sf2BM)

168 I was reading something about that earlier. Harv may have jizzed in a pan, not the potted plant.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at October 17, 2017 07:22 PM (8O3HH)

So my 15 minutes of fame is over already????

*sobs*

Posted by: The ficus plant at October 17, 2017 07:30 PM (+ENy9)

169 Astros are lookin good. Which is hard for an Astro, so I'm doubly impressed.

Posted by: grammie winger - Go Cubs Go at October 17, 2017 07:30 PM (lwiT4)

170 163. What about kebab? Is that also verboten/haram?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at October 17, 2017 07:30 PM (fA1SL)

171 After reading the article, it sounds like he did both. At different times.

++

He should say it's a disorder kinda like pika

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at October 17, 2017 07:31 PM (z2W2E)

172 No way I'd eat a Kurd.

Posted by: Little Mrs. Muffet at October 17, 2017 07:29 PM (/qEW2)
==================

They're good deep fried.

Posted by: grammie winger - Go Cubs Go at October 17, 2017 07:31 PM (lwiT4)

173 Country Boy, really big stretches of 66 are now I-40 I think

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 17, 2017 07:31 PM (PUmDY)

174 Send in the Health Dept. Inspectors.

Posted by: wth at October 17, 2017 07:31 PM (HgMAr)

175 I have a Ross for my 7 wt. Hoping for something good but less expensive for a little 7' 9" Powell 4/5 wt that's nice for dries, small streams, tight quarters, etc.

Posted by: Meremortal, with hand over heart at October 17, 2017 07:32 PM (3myMJ)

176 >> After reading the article, it sounds like he did both.

As our own wonderful Duchess Miley put it, it was a reign of terror and rain of jizz. Across three continents.

This guy (besides being a straight up violent rapist) was some kind of prolific public compulsive masturbator.

With Angie Everhart, he just let it fly on the carpet. Can you imagine getting up and having that spot on the carpet to worry about stepping in?

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at October 17, 2017 07:32 PM (8O3HH)

177 Potted plant is funnier than a pot.
Posted by: josephistan at October 17, 2017 07:26 PM (ANIFC)
---
HA! Hear that, Pot!!!

Posted by: Potted Plant at October 17, 2017 07:32 PM (JhE5a)

178 153 Didn't I-40 basically replace Route 66?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 17, 2017 07:25 PM (PUmDY)

I think "Gomer Pyle USMC" replaced "Route 66"

Posted by: josephistan at October 17, 2017 07:32 PM (ANIFC)

179 Garrett, I remember from watching him when he was a Cub that Starlin giveth and Starlin taketh away. made pretty plays and really boneheaded ones sometimes in the same inning. Don't know if he's gotten better with the Yankees.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at October 17, 2017 07:32 PM (P8951)

180 After my bro's neck surgery in Vegas, I went over the dam and took Route 66 for as long as I could. As luck would have it, the water pump on the Yukon started to go out. A little roadside gas/mechanic gave me a few gallons of water in old radiator coolant jugs. Such a cool place and super nice guy. I would drive Route 66 anytime I found it!

Posted by: Infidel at October 17, 2017 07:32 PM (4ZKcy)

181 There's an interstate now that runs from Oregon's coast to Boston that I'd like to run. Its an old highway like Route 66 too, been taken up by other roads in some places. Not as publicized because no musicians took it on their tours.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 07:33 PM (39g3+)

182 Didn't I-40 basically replace Route 66?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 17, 2017 07:25 PM (PUmDY)

The largest chunk of it from Oklahoma City to Barstow, CA.

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 17, 2017 07:33 PM (y7DUB)

183
*ears perk up*
Doughnuts?

Posted by: NYC Cop at October 17, 2017 07:33 PM (7Cr6v)

184 Yes, it's a slur throughout the Commonwealth including here and Oz; and it's still pronounced 'pakeee'.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 17, 2017 07:34 PM (mJ8mX)

185 Are Kurds like the mythical "moderate Muslim"?

Ie. do they just want to be left alone, and have no interest in funding terrorism or engaging in expansionism?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 17, 2017 07:34 PM (/qEW2)

186 I wish the Astros kept their original name.

(The Tralfazes.)

Posted by: FireHorse at October 17, 2017 07:34 PM (zkGZ8)

187 Evening my peoples

Posted by: thathalfrican - Sorta lurkmode B at October 17, 2017 07:35 PM (IYHxL)

188 and it's still pronounced 'pakeee'.

PackER is a slur unless you're in Wisconsin

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at October 17, 2017 07:35 PM (z2W2E)

189 when he was a Cub that Starlin giveth and Starlin taketh away. made pretty plays and really boneheaded ones
===================

Ayup. Hey Donna Amersand - I'm going to Door County for a few days, then over to New Glarus. My entire family has put in their beer orders. My grandkids just want to see the goats on the roof at Al Johnsons.

You need any Spotted Cow?

Posted by: grammie winger - Go Cubs Go at October 17, 2017 07:36 PM (lwiT4)

190 >>. Hoping for something good but less expensive for a little 7' 9" Powell 4/5 wt that's nice for dries, small streams, tight quarters, etc.

I might. Might. Have a 4/5 sized, Machined Aluminum Reel (Semi-Sealed Disc) downstairs. Chinese manufactured.

Equivalent to the Cabelas, Bass Pro and such branded reels.

If not, I am pretty sure I have a nice alloy one that will match that rod.

I have a bunch of backstock from when I dissolved our Rod Co.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:36 PM (S2TYU)

191 >> *ears perk up*
>> Doughnuts?

I like to ice the doughnuts.... Come here, Arianna. I'll make you a star.

Posted by: Uncle Harvey at October 17, 2017 07:36 PM (8O3HH)

192 I wish the Astros had the Jetsons dog as a mascot.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at October 17, 2017 07:36 PM (P8951)

193 Also, lotta guides I knoe love those Galvan reels. (sp?)

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:36 PM (S2TYU)

194 Somebody needs to do something about that fucking Hawaii judge. No way he's doing what he's doing for anything but ideological reasons.

Posted by: Country Boy at October 17, 2017 07:36 PM (+ENy9)

195 185 Are Kurds like the mythical "moderate Muslim"?

Ie. do they just want to be left alone, and have no interest in funding terrorism or engaging in expansionism?

++++++++++

there's like a two step shuffle.

as if we have to reward any random nationality on earth with mass immigration to the West just because they act like normal people.

second, the kurds are good muslims but notice they aren't on a lefty sponsored hijrah to the west.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 07:37 PM (RDd1I)

196 "Paki" is now considered a racial slur in UK, as bad as the n-word here. To us, it doesn't have that connotation,

So. Fucking goat humper is still ok, correct?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2017 07:37 PM (FxM6p)

197 Dammit! You *bleeping* *bleep*heads! I said no splooging in the saucepans you *bleeping*bleep* wankers!

Posted by: Chef Ramsay at October 17, 2017 07:37 PM (HgMAr)

198 Kurds are a mix of religions, including Yazidi and Zoroastrian

and their Muslims are generally secularish and moderate (these days)

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at October 17, 2017 07:37 PM (zO+RE)

199 Are Kurds like the mythical "moderate Muslim"?

Seems like I remember seeing some documentary on a cable channel about the women of the Peshmerga. Basically, they're a bunch of communists.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 17, 2017 07:37 PM (1YEOU)

200 >>With Angie Everhart, he just let it fly on the carpet. Can you imagine getting up and having that spot on the carpet to worry about stepping in?

A gentleman always stands on the wet spot.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:38 PM (S2TYU)

201 Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:36 PM (S2TYU)

If it shows up let me know, thanks!

Posted by: Meremortal, with hand over heart at October 17, 2017 07:38 PM (3myMJ)

202 >> I said no splooging in the saucepans you
>> *bleeping*bleep* wankers!

Read your contract carefully, bitch.

Posted by: Uncle Harvey at October 17, 2017 07:38 PM (8O3HH)

203 Aw geez

Posted by: grammie winger - Go Cubs Go at October 17, 2017 07:39 PM (lwiT4)

204 Someone in the previous thread opined that actors couldn't be trusted with your goldfish.

Well, I can be totes trusted with your cold feet.

Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at October 17, 2017 07:39 PM (+EgYj)

205

Judge HR

...Gregorius Triple

This is more like it.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:39 PM (S2TYU)

206 194 Somebody needs to do something about that fucking Hawaii judge. No way he's doing what he's doing for anything but ideological reasons.

++++++++

I know, right?

as if his position is so secure, he can dictate US immigration policy.

Let's just read the 14th amendment as granting the world a right to come to america just because...get this...every person in the world has an ethnicity and a religion.

wanna stop a particular person with a combination of a particular race/ethnicity...you are either creating a special class that discriminates against other or discrmiinating against another class.

duh. The left likes to read these amendments as suicide bombs.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 07:39 PM (RDd1I)

207
It looks like a long and twisted path to the ONT.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 17, 2017 07:39 PM (m9X4Y)

208
At this point, I'd rather liquify CA.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun

I'm working on it.

Posted by: Kim Jong-un at October 17, 2017 07:39 PM (IqV8l)

209 Harv may have jizzed in a pan, not the potted plant.

There's a whole range of non-stick comedy that won't match the arboretum.

Posted by: DaveA at October 17, 2017 07:39 PM (FhXTo)

210 >>If it shows up let me know, thanks!

Yep. After the game I will go and look.

Posted by: garrett at October 17, 2017 07:40 PM (S2TYU)

211 There's an interstate now that runs from Oregon's coast to Boston that I'd like to run. Its an old highway like Route 66 too, been taken up by other roads in some places. Not as publicized because no musicians took it on their tours.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
________

US Route 20.

I can't speak for the whole road, but in my neck of the woods (Upstate New York) it's a very pretty drive.

Posted by: FireHorse at October 17, 2017 07:40 PM (zkGZ8)

212 I admire ISIS the way I admire liberals. They are utterly dedicated to their cause and they will sacrifice their lives, their networks, and their football leagues for the sake of that cause. They are willing to make death threats and occasionally actually shoot political opponents. They've got grit. They know how to intimidate.

As Yeats said:

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 17, 2017 07:40 PM (/qEW2)

213 fuck the inbred paki scum. We should say it every day because our conquered British cousins can't.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 07:40 PM (RDd1I)

214 Grammie, you're offering to go on a beer run for me? how nice! I'm not sure if you can get anything that Isn't already available to me but door county will be gorgeous right now. I wish I was up there

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at October 17, 2017 07:41 PM (P8951)

215 fuck the inbred paki scum rapist child molesting shitstains. We should say it every day because our conquered British cousins can't.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage at October 17, 2017 07:41 PM (RDd1I)

216 PDT seems so bored when he is on a tele prompter except for the ad libs.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 17, 2017 07:41 PM (PUmDY)

217 So. Fucking goat humper is still ok, correct?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2017 07:37 PM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Moroccan Donkey at October 17, 2017 07:41 PM (+EgYj)

218 I wish the Astros had the Jetsons dog as a mascot.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V.
________

And I wish Ole Miss adopted Admiral Akbar as its mascot.

Posted by: FireHorse at October 17, 2017 07:41 PM (zkGZ8)

219 So it's the Green Bay Pawkers then?

Posted by: andycanuck at October 17, 2017 07:42 PM (mJ8mX)

220 nood and stuff.

Posted by: FireHorse at October 17, 2017 07:42 PM (zkGZ8)

221 You can't make an omelette without wanking your eggs.

Posted by: Chef Harvey at October 17, 2017 07:43 PM (HgMAr)

222 OT:

Can someone recommend a good (cheap) website for ammo? Looking for .223 and 5.56

Posted by: IrishEi at October 17, 2017 07:43 PM (HiDrR)

223 I seem to remember reading something on Walid Shoebats site and he was very dubious about the Kurds. Wasn't exactly complimentary about them.

I read a little bit of Shoebat but I am unsure of what I think of him overall.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Sorta lurkmode B at October 17, 2017 07:43 PM (IYHxL)

224 Wouldn't Admiral Akbar give away plays all the time

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at October 17, 2017 07:43 PM (z2W2E)

225 Donna - yeah, the rest of the week looks good for leaf-watching. My daughter wants raspberry beer. I never heard of such a thing.

Posted by: grammie winger - Go Cubs Go at October 17, 2017 07:43 PM (lwiT4)

226 We're probably the last generation to know what Route 66 is, and to actually see it when we were 29.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 17, 2017 07:44 PM (6Ll1u)

227 Come ON orange people get your head in the game

Posted by: grammie winger - Go Cubs Go at October 17, 2017 07:45 PM (lwiT4)

228 This is what happens when the Supreme Court drops the ball on its duty: they should have heard the previous travel order case, but decided not to, because the order was expiring soon. Now we have another ruling by a leftist jackwagon that should never have happened.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 07:45 PM (39g3+)

229 It looks like a long and twisted path to the ONT.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 17, 2017 07:39 PM

You are in a maze of twisty threads, all different.

Posted by: AoSHQ Cave at October 17, 2017 07:45 PM (+EgYj)

230 When I was a kid, maybe ten, we drove from Illinois to California. It took us forever. I want to say we took Route 66, but that may be a faulty memory. I'm not sure if route 66 went that far

Posted by: grammie winger - Go Cubs Go at October 17, 2017 07:47 PM (lwiT4)

231 Are Kurds like the mythical "moderate Muslim"?

A guy I used to work with once vacationed in Kazakhstan. He said it was a Muslim lite place; i.e. no problem with alcohol and western mores, at least the sane ones.

Posted by: Captain Hate at October 17, 2017 07:48 PM (y7DUB)

232 Gee. The nood is Ace.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 17, 2017 07:50 PM (mJ8mX)

233 Kurds are a mix of religions, including Yazidi and Zoroastrian

and their Muslims are generally secularish and moderate (these days)

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at October 17, 2017 07:37 PM (zO+RE)

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I'd heard Zoroastrians were really dwindling as far as numbers. Nice to know there are a few surviving ones among the Kurds. Lot of debate over how much influence it had over Judaism and Christianity (ie. a devil who was almost equal and opposite to God).

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 17, 2017 07:51 PM (/qEW2)

234 This is what happens when the Supreme Court drops
the ball on its duty: they should have heard the previous travel order
case, but decided not to, because the order was expiring soon. Now we
have another ruling by a leftist jackwagon that should never have
happened.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2017 07:45 PM (39g3+)

Lawyers, it's all about the money!!!!

Posted by: Infidel at October 17, 2017 07:51 PM (4ZKcy)

235 Route 66 St Louis to Oklahoma City replaced by I-44. There are some stretches where you see those old motels and crazy roadside attractions.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 17, 2017 07:52 PM (JyFLk)

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