Mini Chess Thread 03-17-2018

Pic Note

I don't know for sure, but I think the kid is Sammy Reshevsky, who truly was a child prodigy. And I like the guy sitting directly above him with his hand on his head. The look of horror on his face tells you he's just realized that he's hung his queen.

As always, the chess/dress pr0n tread is an open thread, so there is no such thing as an off-topic comment.

Easier Problem - Black To Play (BWTC 203)

Hint: Unite the knights

r1b2r1k/pppp2pp/8/4N3/1PBn3q/2Q5/P2N1nPP/R1B1KR2 b Q - 0 1

More Challenging Problem - White To Play (WCSC 4)

Hint: Start the exchanging

r4k1r/pp3ppp/1bppbq2/4n3/3pPB2/1B1P2Q1/PPPN2PP/R4RK1 w - - 0 1

Dress Pr0n For the 'Ettes:

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Maureen O'Hara is ready to celebrate her homeland in this chic shamrock hat, 1940s. https://t.co/2Vx8P4HOHt #vintage pic.twitter.com/5EZyOYktGA
— Ephemeral Elegance (@drapedinhistory) March 17, 2018

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Solutions Update

Easier Problem - Black To Play

r1b2r1k/pppp2pp/8/4N3/1PBn3q/2Q5/P2N1nPP/R1B1KR2 b Q - 0 1

1...Nd3+!
2.Kd1 Qe1+
3.Rxe1 Nf2#

More Challenging Problem - White To Play

r4k1r/pp3ppp/1bppbq2/4n3/3pPB2/1B1P2Q1/PPPN2PP/R4RK1 w - - 0 1

1.Bxe5 Qxe5

This is perhaps a hard move to see, but trading the queen is probably best. Here's what can happen if Black tries to save her: 1...Qg6 2.Bxe6 Qxg3 3.Rxf7+ Ke8 4.Bxg3 Bd8 5.Nc4 and White's attack looks unstoppable.

2.Qxe5 dxe5
3.Bxe6

And Black cannot recapture, so White has won a piece outright.

Hope to see you all next week!

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Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board. Or, Windows users can just "triple click" on it and the entire line will be highlighted so you can copy and past it into your chess app.

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So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 05:15 PM

Comments

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1 Those guys up top seem pretty serious.

Posted by: HH at March 17, 2018 05:09 PM (mIJBI)

2 First?

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 17, 2018 05:09 PM (VVx7X)

3 Samantha Power tells Trump it's a bad idea to piss off John Brennan

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291547/

Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 05:10 PM (LiyEm)

4 Laura Ashley meets Holly Hobbie

Posted by: NCKate at March 17, 2018 05:12 PM (1l010)

5 These people feel very feee to make threats against the president don't they?

Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 05:12 PM (LiyEm)

6 We need more gingers on the Dress Pron thread!! Happy St. Paddy's Day, Horde!!

Posted by: SteveOReno at March 17, 2018 05:12 PM (2sCft)

7 I'm not sure why but it looks to me that chess photo was taken in Russia.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at March 17, 2018 05:14 PM (LeX56)

8 he's just realized that he's hung his queen.

"Balls!" said the Queen. "If I had them I'd be King."

My ... how times have changed.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 17, 2018 05:15 PM (8gDQu)

9 This is my first post in a Chess Thread. I am not a chess player, but is there a move called the Fire McCabe Gambit?

Cause I think I saw it yesterday.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 17, 2018 05:15 PM (7+qdf)

10 Afternnon y'all.

Posted by: tbodie at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (uh5kC)

11 "When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you."

It's not like he's an unhinged rage-a-holic when it comes to the president.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (2NqXo)

12 Samantha Power tells Trump it's a bad idea to piss off John Brennan

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291547/
Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 05:10 PM (LiyEm)

That sounds wrong, just wrong.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (LeX56)

13 How are you healing, OM?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (xJa6I)

14 Or afternoon.

Posted by: tbodie at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (uh5kC)

15 Amazon deletes reviews of conservative authors with no explanation.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291544/

Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (LiyEm)

16 Also I don't like this trend of attractive women wearing a lot of clothes.

It needs to be stopped.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (xJa6I)

17 Hanging Queens,

This is what we've been reduced to, Sad

Posted by: JuJuBee's pet at March 17, 2018 05:17 PM (VWsDy)

18 7 I'm not sure why but it looks to me that chess photo was taken in Russia.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at March 17, 2018 05:14 PM (LeX56)

I'm guessing it's Poland, where Reshevsky was born.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:17 PM (jlKn3)

19 I'm not sure why but it looks to me that chess photo was taken in Russia.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at March 17, 2018 05:14 PM (LeX56)

I'm guessing it's Poland, where Reshevsky was born.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:17 PM (jlKn3)

That makes sense.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at March 17, 2018 05:18 PM (LeX56)

20 Does look like some serious ass kicking going on

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2018 05:19 PM (aC6Sd)

21 I hope the Secret Service is on their toes. These nutjobs feel comfortable openly threatening Trump. What else might they feel compelled to do?

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:19 PM (2NqXo)

22 13 How are you healing, OM?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (xJa6I)

Snail's pace. Saw my doc yesterday re: my back injury. He refilled my Rx for oxy, but there's not much else he can do. These things basically heal themselves, and at their own pace.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:19 PM (jlKn3)

23 >>These people feel very feee to make threats against the president don't they?

They've been making stupid comments like this throughout the investigation. Comey even admitted he was trying to force a special counsel by leaking.

And then they mock people who suggest that there is such a things as a Deep State. Cause they're wicked smart.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2018 05:20 PM (/tuJf)

24 Maureen O'Hara is buried at Arlington National Cemetery alongside Brig. Gen. Charles Blair, USAF, her third husband who died in a plane crash in 1978.

Posted by: Vendette at March 17, 2018 05:20 PM (4EhXo)

25 18 7 I'm not sure why but it looks to me that chess photo was taken in Russia.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at March 17, 2018 05:14 PM (LeX56)

I'm guessing it's Poland, where Reshevsky was born.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:17 PM (jlKn3)

+++

Mebbe it's all of the curtains used as wall decorations - says eastern Europe.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 17, 2018 05:20 PM (tcwn1)

26 I have to run but I thought the horde would appreciate a picture of a M107 Barrett. And the girl who owns it. (it's at the end of this outstanding group of cartoons)

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ydza3cjc

Posted by: Huck Follywood, live from the gulag! at March 17, 2018 05:20 PM (rBnYq)

27

No Irish lasses in traditional dress for St.Paddy's day

#Sad

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 17, 2018 05:20 PM (lKyWE)

28 Problem 1:

... Nc2+
Qxc2 Nd3+
Kd1 Rxf1+
Nxf1 Qe1#

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 17, 2018 05:21 PM (8gDQu)

29 OM,
Not sure if it's intentional but the link opens the Chess thread in a new window.

Posted by: tbodie at March 17, 2018 05:21 PM (uh5kC)

30 Oh, and another thing? University of Maryland, Baltimore County has a world-renowned chess program.

Posted by: Vendette at March 17, 2018 05:21 PM (4EhXo)

31 I like the guy in the upper left hand corner. Looks like Daniel Craig's grandpa, mugging for the camera

Posted by: JuJuBee's pet at March 17, 2018 05:22 PM (VWsDy)

32 >>> Samantha Power tells Trump it's a bad idea to piss off John Brennan

We won't like him when he is angry? We don't like him when is placid, either.

Posted by: Pontiac at March 17, 2018 05:22 PM (cHbmY)

33 Thanks Huck, she is cute. So's the dog.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 17, 2018 05:22 PM (xJa6I)

34 I think
., K-c2+,
Qxc2, N-d1 ds+,
R-f2, QxR#

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2018 05:23 PM (aC6Sd)

35 22 13 How are you healing, OM?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (xJa6I)

Snail's pace. Saw my doc yesterday re: my back injury. He refilled my Rx for oxy, but there's not much else he can do. These things basically heal themselves, and at their own pace.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:19 PM (jlKn3)

Well keep up the PT, hopefully you'll be better soon.

Stupid natural healing speed...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 17, 2018 05:24 PM (xJa6I)

36 Donald Trump, oh behave!

Posted by: Samantha Austin Powers at March 17, 2018 05:24 PM (2NqXo)

37 11 "When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you."

It's not like he's an unhinged rage-a-holic when it comes to the president.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (2NqXo)

Who said this?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 05:24 PM (NWiLs)

38 29 OM,
Not sure if it's intentional but the link opens the Chess thread in a new window.
Posted by: tbodie at March 17, 2018 05:21 PM (uh5kC)

Thanks. Should be fixed now.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:26 PM (jlKn3)

39 Damn show-off kid.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 17, 2018 05:26 PM (HiQSt)

40 Who said this?
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 05:24 PM

John Brennan.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:27 PM (2NqXo)

41 17
Hanging Queens,

This is what we've been reduced to, Sad

Posted by: JuJuBee's pet at March 17, 2018 05:17 PM (VWsDy)

Perhaps we can start hanging some dirty bureaucrats soon. If hanging is too much, just dowse them in a fine sheen of tar, then sprinkle down feathers liberally to taste.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at March 17, 2018 05:27 PM (DxWUs)

42 2nd motion to keep up PT, moving helps range of motion.

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2018 05:27 PM (aC6Sd)

43 Who said this?
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 05:24 PM (NWiLs)

Brennan, I think.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 17, 2018 05:27 PM (xJa6I)

44 Off, defunct car sock.

Posted by: fluffy at March 17, 2018 05:27 PM (cHbmY)

45 I imagine that the guy with his hand on his head, well he's thinking the same thing that I am! Unite the knights! Yeah, okay .... duh! Danger, warning, hazards at every move! All good chess players MUST be psychics and we need to put them somewhere safe, where they can't make us do things.

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 05:28 PM (EaQ6/)

46 First one has me baffled. Visceral instinct says move the knight but the beer keeps arguing for bathroom break.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 17, 2018 05:28 PM (e1mEI)

47 Who said this?
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 05:24 PM

John Brennan.
Posted by: JuJuBee

I thought it was Eileen Brennan... or was it Walter?

Posted by: Bruce at March 17, 2018 05:28 PM (8ikIW)

48 Problem 2:

Bxe5 Qxe5
Qxe5 dxe5
Bxe6

Up a piece and bearing down hard

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 17, 2018 05:29 PM (8gDQu)

49 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 17, 2018 05:29 PM (8gDQu)

Nice work.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:30 PM (jlKn3)

50 Kid: Hey, I didn't get a harrumph out of that guy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 17, 2018 05:30 PM (HiQSt)

51 Maureen O'Hara was a beauty and I LOVE the green outfit! Oh Maureen if only you were still around I would have had the perfect accessory for that outfit!

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 17, 2018 05:30 PM (dUJdY)

52 Hello, Horde.

CW Jr. has an actual girlfriend.

Prayers needed. For him, not me.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread of the Spaaaaaaaaace Forrrrrrrce at March 17, 2018 05:30 PM (z05p0)

53 If that top photo is pre WW I, it is beautiful work. Heck, with that clarity and shading it's great for modern film.

Posted by: JTB at March 17, 2018 05:30 PM (V+03K)

54 Chess thread rules!

Dress number #2 looks like my 1st ex-wife. Great in bed but not so great for the wallet. Or maybe I remembered that backwards.....

Also, get that kid out of there, the adults are SMOKING!

He must have died from black lung....oh the horror! the horror........

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 17, 2018 05:31 PM (EoRCO)

55 Weird. Two solutions to problem 1 already but mine is different, I think.

1. Nd3+ Kd1 (double check)
2. Qe1+ Rxe1
3. Nc2#

Posted by: Off the reservation at March 17, 2018 05:31 PM (vWMNq)

56 OregonMuse:

"I don't know for sure, but I think the kid is Sammy Reshevsky, who truly was a child prodigy."

Yes -- that's indeed Sammy Reshevsky, probably the greatest child prodigy of all time -- although as an adult he never quite reached world championship level. But when he was between 5 and 10 years old, he was the strongest kid player ever, a feat no one has matched since. That's one of the most famous pictures in the history of chess.

Posted by: zombie at March 17, 2018 05:32 PM (42M22)

57 1 ... Nd3+
2 Kd1 Rxf1+
3 Nxf1 Qe1#

Nc2+ moves allow the king to move to e2

Posted by: Sjg at March 17, 2018 05:32 PM (gDSJf)

58 I guess, if I had a way-back machine, then I'd probably pull it over to the side of the road if I saw Maureen O'Hara hitchhiking. Ya' think !? What a total honey. ... Children here is a picture of your mother ... yes, no, she doesn't love daddy anymore, but she still loves you. It would be worth the pain, I'm sure.

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 05:33 PM (EaQ6/)

59 It looks like Vlad Lenin doesn't like the way the game is going. He may have to pull a Trotsky on that brat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 17, 2018 05:33 PM (HiQSt)

60
Mr. President, the American people will hear my story very soon. And they can judge for themselves who is honorable and ███ what ███ a ███ liar ███ I am.
— James Comey (@Comey)

Posted by: James Comey, teetering closer to the edge of the abyss at March 17, 2018 05:34 PM (LOgQ4)

61 There is no bear rug in front of that fireplace! What the hell kind of place is this?, anyhow!

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 05:35 PM (EaQ6/)

62 Weird. Two solutions to problem 1 already but mine is different, I think.

1. Nd3+ Kd1 (double check)
2. Qe1+ Rxe1
3. Nc2#

Posted by: Off the reservation at March 17, 2018 05:31 PM (vWMNq)

That's really nice.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 17, 2018 05:35 PM (8gDQu)

63 Problem 1: Smother mate. Solving time: one second.

Whenever there's a problem with knights and queens like that, it's almost ALWAYS a smother mate. And the moves also almost always follow the pattern seen here: Double-check, sac queen check, move knight back checkmate.

Posted by: zombie at March 17, 2018 05:35 PM (42M22)

64 Dude, nobody wears a boater to a chess tourney.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 17, 2018 05:35 PM (HiQSt)

65 AlexTheChick's response to Brennan on Twitter is just what I would have said, if I weren't so slow of mind. Essentially: You say you have such info that will bring the President down? Bring it.

I don't think he does.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread of the Spaaaaaaaaace Forrrrrrrce at March 17, 2018 05:35 PM (z05p0)

66 Kid: "You gonna sell me some cough drops or are you here to play chess?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 17, 2018 05:36 PM (HiQSt)

67 Second Problem

1. Bxe5 Qxe5
2. Qxe5 dxe5
3. Bxe6

wins a piece.

Posted by: Off the reservation at March 17, 2018 05:36 PM (vWMNq)

68 Maureen O'Hara was a beauty and I LOVE the green outfit! Oh Maureen if only you were still around I would have had the perfect accessory for that outfit!
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 17, 2018 05:30 PM

The movie stars back then got away with some really outrageous hats. They pulled it off, though. It's the attitude. That and being drop-dead gorgeous.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:38 PM (2NqXo)

69 The kid has a lot of medals for a seven year-old.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 17, 2018 05:38 PM (HiQSt)

70 Maureen O'Hara is buried at Arlington National Cemetery alongside Brig. Gen. Charles Blair, USAF

According to the Veteran's Cemetary guide we talked with, in a military burial, the husband and wife are buried stacked on top of each other. Whoever goes first, goes deepest.

Posted by: Gruesome Jon at March 17, 2018 05:39 PM (tZC/B)

71 Second problem:

Spent a minute looking for fancy-schamncy ways to mate or win the queen, but saw none. So instead, settled for the basic piece-win with BxB. The black queen is now attack by the rook, so it has to recapture QxB. Then QxQ, and black must reply PxQ. But THEN, after white's BxB, the pawn is pinned and can't recapture the bishop, so white just won a piece (and the game).

Posted by: zombie at March 17, 2018 05:39 PM (42M22)

72 15 Amazon deletes reviews of conservative authors with no explanation.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291544/

Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (LiyEm)

++++

Vox Day offers some insight.

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-clue-may-be-in-name.html

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 17, 2018 05:40 PM (pvjTE)

73 Overlooked the queen covering e1 after the knight move in my solution.

1 ... Nd3+
2. Kd1 Qe1+
3 Rxe1 Nf2#

is the answer

Posted by: Sjg at March 17, 2018 05:40 PM (gDSJf)

74 Corned beef and cabbage has pretty nearly sucked all of the vodka out of my system. I'm gonna have to start over from scratch!

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 05:40 PM (EaQ6/)

75
Nc2+ moves allow the king to move to e2

Posted by: Sjg at March 17, 2018 05:32 PM (gDSJf)

Yep. I screwed that one up.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 17, 2018 05:40 PM (8gDQu)

76 I thought it was Eileen Brennan... or was it Walter?
Posted by: Bruce at March 17, 2018 05:28 PM

Couldn't have been Walter. Never would threaten the president.

Posted by: Gary Cooper at March 17, 2018 05:40 PM (2NqXo)

77 Samantha Power tells Trump it's a bad idea to piss off John Brennan
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291547/
Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 05:10

As some said in comments I read about this...so what's he gonna do? he's some retired dude who worked in the govt., what is the exact threat.

BTW Sammie, it's a bad idea to unmask hundreds of people who were wiretapped, since it's illegal unless you really have a legit reason to do so, which you didn't.

Posted by: Farmer at March 17, 2018 05:40 PM (yJ1e6)

78 40 Who said this?
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 05:24 PM

John Brennan.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:27 PM (2NqXo)

What a lunatic.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 05:42 PM (NWiLs)

79 Mr. President, the American people will hear my story very soon.

This sounds like something Dan Rather would say. Seriously.

Anyone who uses a line like this,

(a) is a pompous buffoon

and

(b) has got nothing to back it up with.

If Comey had a compelling story, he'd have gone public with it by now. Trump should call his bluff. Preferably in a storm of withering tweets.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:42 PM (jlKn3)

80 62 That's really nice.

Except I got the colors reversed ... but I was trying to get it down before zombie showed up ;-).

Posted by: Off the reservation at March 17, 2018 05:42 PM (vWMNq)

81 78 40 Who said this?
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 05:24 PM

John Brennan.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:27 PM (2NqXo)

What a lunatic.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 05:42 PM (NWiLs)

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I'm just surprised he didn't sign off from that spittle-flecked rant with an "inshallah"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 17, 2018 05:43 PM (HiQSt)

82 In Bangkok hung queens are considered a good thing.

Posted by: TimInVirginia at March 17, 2018 05:44 PM (ADtLB)

83 With many Leftist owned companies on the web blocking or hamstring conservatives Prager this week wondered if someday there will be a Leftist web and everyone elses web.

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2018 05:44 PM (aC6Sd)

84 Spent a minute looking for fancy-schamncy ways to mate or win the queen, but saw none. So instead, settled for the basic piece-win with BxB. The black queen is now attack by the rook, so it has to recapture QxB. Then QxQ, and black must reply PxQ. But THEN, after white's BxB, the pawn is pinned and can't recapture the bishop, so white just won a piece (and the game).

Posted by: zombie at March 17, 2018 05:39 PM (42M22)

You and your damn English descriptive notation.

But your analysis is exactly right.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:44 PM (jlKn3)

85 Anyone else following the candidates matches? Caruana is doing well. Kramnic and Mamedyrov just had the weirdest press conference. I could not follow it at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvMEJ1Nw5M

Posted by: Off the reservation at March 17, 2018 05:45 PM (vWMNq)

86
#MeToo

Posted by: Hung Queen at March 17, 2018 05:45 PM (lKyWE)

87 Well, corned beef and cabbage is done. Letting it rest for about a half hour. Hope it turned out okay!

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 17, 2018 05:48 PM (dUJdY)

88 Maureen O'Hara is buried at Arlington National Cemetery

So, I guess she's dead huh ?

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 05:48 PM (rIG58)

89 AlexTheChick's response to Brennan on Twitter is just what I would have said, if I weren't so slow of mind. Essentially: You say you have such info that will bring the President down? Bring it.

I don't think he does.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread of the Spaaaaaaaaace Forrrrrrrce at March 17, 2018 05:35 PM

There's nothing. They thought they'd have him out in 6 months based on their falsehoods. It appears to be inducing rage-strokes at this point.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:48 PM (2NqXo)

90 John O. Brennan, the man who sat on his hands and kept his mouth shut while patriots in Benghazi burned and bled. He's exactly the right person to thrown under the bus at this point in time. Thanks for your service, John. Now, go to your room!

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 05:49 PM (EaQ6/)

91 Who said this?

Posted by: Insomniac

The guy on first ?

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 05:49 PM (rIG58)

92 If I were PDT I would NEVER talk to anyone outside of his inner circle, and when I say innner, I mean INNER.

Mr President, don't trust anyone.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 17, 2018 05:50 PM (SjImc)

93 85 Anyone else following the candidates matches? Caruana is doing well. Kramnic and Mamedyrov just had the weirdest press conference. I could not follow it at all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvMEJ1Nw5M
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 17, 2018 05:45 PM (vWMNq)

Caruana's 4th round win against Kramnik (Petrov Defense!) was fun.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 05:52 PM (jlKn3)

94 The guy on first ?

WHAT did he say?

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 17, 2018 05:52 PM (dUJdY)

95 How old is Sammy Reshevsky and what's his opinion on gun ownership?

Posted by: Lefty Media at March 17, 2018 05:52 PM (2NqXo)

96 Uggggh, my wife is torturing me. She has some lame movie on about Barry & Michelle, "Southside With Me". Not impressive. She wants to laugh at it, just said...so she started out as a bitch and ended up as one!

Posted by: Farmer at March 17, 2018 05:52 PM (yJ1e6)

97
* hides behind drapes, like a true man of principle *

Posted by: James Comey, teetering closer to the edge of the abyss at March 17, 2018 05:53 PM (LOgQ4)

98 John Brennan played chess with the Iranians. Barack whispered the losing moves into his ear.

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 05:53 PM (EaQ6/)

99 The guy on first ?

WHAT did he say?

Posted by: Jewells45

I dunno.

THIRD BASE !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 05:54 PM (rIG58)

100 Dress pron!

KTY has started looking at prom dresses
Waaah
In my mind she's still two years old!

Posted by: Votermom's phone now on Team Gloom Sub Duty at March 17, 2018 05:57 PM (zD0wM)

101 3
Samantha Power tells Trump it's a bad idea to piss off John Brennan

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291547/

Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 05:10 PM (LiyEm)

Sounds like a threat to me.

I can't wait for the IG report and the lies that the Democrat Press Tool spews.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 17, 2018 05:58 PM (UsCnO)

102 If I remember the routine correctly it was Who's on first, What's on second and I Don't Know is on third. I still laugh my ass off when I watch it. They were so funny. Costello reminded me of my dad for some reason.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 17, 2018 05:58 PM (dUJdY)

103 I'm just surprised he didn't sign off from that spittle-flecked rant with an "inshallah"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 17, 2018 05:43 PM

He may have dropped dead from a rage-induced heart attack before he had a chance. Somebody ought to go check on him before the neighbors notice the smell.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:58 PM (2NqXo)

104 93 Caruana's 4th round win against Kramnik (Petrov Defense!) was fun.

I played through the game on 2700chess.com with the engine. Kramnik was even and then suddenly his game fell apart ...

https://tinyurl.com/yb6ylrba

... I did not really see that Caruana did anything to force it but he is very tricky. I should look at the press conference for that game, I guess.

Posted by: Off the reservation at March 17, 2018 05:58 PM (vWMNq)

105 #2 is gorgeous.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 17, 2018 05:59 PM (Tnhbr)

106 If nothing else are they outing other Deep Staters?
Wouldn't piss me off if a enemy was getting fired

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2018 05:59 PM (aC6Sd)

107 I think I've mentioned it before, but my grandfather beat Reshevky (of adult vintage, not the child prodigy) in a simul once. He was the only one to win.

Never got to Master level, but he was Ohio state champ .

Posted by: broseidon, semi-official komodo dragon shifter at March 17, 2018 05:59 PM (icI8A)

108 http://politi.co/2pk0EvD
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McCabe says his Russia probe work sparked smear campaign before firing - POLITICO
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NO SHIT ???

"Look, it's personally devastating. It's so tough on my family," he told POLITICO during a wide-ranging interview conducted earlier this month, before his firing.

"But at some point, this has to be seen in the larger context," said McCabe, 49, who says he has voted for every Republican presidential nominee until he sat out the 2016 contest entirely. "And I firmly believe that this is an ongoing effort to undermine my credibility because of the work that I did on the Russia case because of the investigations that I oversaw and impacted that target this administration."
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The FUCKING BALLS on this guy

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 17, 2018 06:00 PM (y3aQB)

109 I bet that a Russian bot could solve these chess problems. And if it couldn't, then it could always just go and ask Vladimir for the answer! I am really tense about the outcome of tomorrows election in Russia. I think Vlad is hanging on by his fingernails ... uh-huh, yeah, right!

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 06:00 PM (EaQ6/)

110 McCabe has to be totally exposed. Worst kind of traitor

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 17, 2018 06:03 PM (1wiLK)

111 http://bit.ly/2FHZUuE
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Mueller Investigation: Gates Deal Violates Federal Policy | National Review
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McCarthy the TURD had his own the road to Damacus moment? how sweet, Too late, Dumbass

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 17, 2018 06:03 PM (y3aQB)

112 109 I bet that a Russian bot could solve these chess problems.
Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 06:00 PM (EaQ6/)

Heh. Any off-the-shelf chess engine could solve these problems. It's getting harder and harder to come up with positions that the chess engines can't handle.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 06:04 PM (jlKn3)

113 Oh, yeah, now I see it! It's the green fingernail polish, on that under-age looking little thing that is leaning against the sliding glass door, that makes it appropriate for St. Paddys day. I think that I detect some round-eye surgery there. I wonder if she is online as bait in a sting?!

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 06:05 PM (EaQ6/)

114 Mrs. E cooked possibly the best corned beef and cabbage I ever had. I was like chloroform though. Or maybe it was that whiskey and soda before I ate.

Posted by: Eromero at March 17, 2018 06:06 PM (zLDYs)

115 My Advise to PDT, fire them all now...it's gonna come to that anyway....they are out to get you and nothing will stop them.

Preemptive action is always the best move.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 17, 2018 06:07 PM (SjImc)

116 Good to sessions for firing that scrunt mccabe, but this is all sessions fault for recusing himself.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 17, 2018 06:08 PM (SjImc)

117
Paid no attention to the internets last night watching the historic No 16 win in the tourney, then did yard work today on a perfect day, turn on the puter and what do you know Ha ha ha, mcabe you f'ing corrupt loser. And then he has the temerity to be all butthurt when he was part and parcel of attempted treason. Only about 50 more firings to go. Loving seeing the Left have various aneurysms.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 17, 2018 06:08 PM (r+sAi)

118 108 He know's he is going to be exposed so laying the groundwork for the "undermining" bullshit.

Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 06:08 PM (LiyEm)

119 112 .... Heh. Any off-the-shelf chess engine could solve these problems. It's getting harder and harder to come up with positions that the chess engines can't handle.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 06:04 PM (jlKn3)

Hey! Don't piss off the Russian bots with that kind of talk!

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 06:08 PM (EaQ6/)

120 I used to play chess with my grandfather. He taught me.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 17, 2018 06:09 PM (3fxCO)

121 "Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community - they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

--Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Trump is showing Schumer that he had it backwards. Trump has the whip hand, not the intelligence community.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 17, 2018 06:12 PM (pvjTE)

122 Shoot. Now I miss my dad.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 17, 2018 06:15 PM (dUJdY)

123 That little kid has big feet. Probably needed to support his massive intellect. No wonder all those grown men are looking at him like they would like to wring his neck. One guy, in the upper-left, is reaching into his jacket for a pistol. But, the truth is, no foolin', the little girl (about mid-center-left) is the one sending him psychic directions on which move to make next. Burn the witch!

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 06:17 PM (EaQ6/)

124 Considering the overall imbecility and repulsiveness of Brennan's tweet, this seems to be a petty criticism, but........

Does he even know what the word "venal" means?

The leftist party line has been that Trump is a Nazi monster determined to become dictator, if he is not already one. It's all about hatey-hate and power and egomania.

Granted that the Left is hardly above claiming the absurd about Trump --- the surreal charge of homophobia, for example --- I still haven't seem them try to claim that he is in this for the money!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 17, 2018 06:18 PM (0jtPF)

125 Shoot. Now I miss my dad.

Posted by: Jewells45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:18 PM (rIG58)

126 Well, tonight should be good. It's Saint Patrick's day, my monthly poker game is tonight plus I'm wearing green and am in fact of Irish descent..

Posted by: HH at March 17, 2018 06:18 PM (mIJBI)

127 They said the Queen was hung. And they was right.

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at March 17, 2018 06:20 PM (IqV8l)

128 Gramps taught all us grandkids the basics of chess. Unfortunately, my idea of chess sgtrategy is to have the King pull a gun on the mating pieces. Apparently this is not an approved move for the World Chess Federation.

Sigh!

Posted by: JTB at March 17, 2018 06:20 PM (V+03K)

129 Sounds like Mr. Brennan should chill out - maybe have himself a nice tall glass of grain alcohol and a big porkchop. Oh wait.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at March 17, 2018 06:20 PM (c1VpD)

130 I'd really rather have a dictator than a mob. With a dictator, at least you know where you stand. With a crowd of touchy-feely pukes trying to run things, there is nothing but chaos. Maybe democracy would be better than either of the other choices, but if I'm going to have to choose a dictator over a utopian-dreamer, show me the ballot.

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 06:22 PM (EaQ6/)

131 No, no, no! No more! Not this time, consiglieri. No more meetings, no more discussions, no more comey/mueller tricks. You give 'em one message: I want comey and mueller. If not, it's all-out war: we go to the mattresses.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 17, 2018 06:22 PM (SjImc)

132 On a happier note.......we had so much fun yesterday at the indoor pistol range, we hit the outdoor rifle range today. It was an amazing 44 degrees and sunny today. The only gun we brought was my M1 Garand. 30:06. There were 3 younger guys shooting when we got there. All tactical looking stuff, .223, black and plastic. Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop. We let them get to a point where they went down range to get their targets then came back. Then we started shooting. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. The kids were saying "That's a battle rifle." Roger that. We let them all shoot the legend. Love that gun. Love the guys who served with it too.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 17, 2018 06:25 PM (3fxCO)

133 Tell that little leprechaun to keep off my lawn chess set unless he wants a pot o'gold up his wee arse! rainbows NOT included.

Posted by: saf at March 17, 2018 06:25 PM (5IHGB)

134 Stay safe today, Hordlings, and limit the percentage of alcohol in your whiskey to 5x or less the percentage of Irish in your ancestry.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 17, 2018 06:25 PM (DMUuz)

135 Send Luca Brasi to reason with them.

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 06:26 PM (EaQ6/)

136 134. Of course, advice is not applicable to Slavs. Keep it under a litre of distilled spirits, in addition to the usual three litres of beer and kvas. Leaves more booze for the amateurs today.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at March 17, 2018 06:27 PM (fA1SL)

137 104 93 ... I should look at the press conference for that game, I guess.

Here is the critical position. Oddly both Kramnik and Caruana say this should be drawn with correct play.

https://youtu.be/N_9EmctslAo?t=5m56s

Posted by: Off the reservation at March 17, 2018 06:28 PM (vWMNq)

138 Has anyone tried Really Bad Chess? It's an iOS/Android app. The first time you start it, it plays some problem scenarios against you to determine your 'ranking', and from then on, when you start a new game, you and the computer get allocated a number of points based on your relative ranking which are represented by the pieces you're given. Both you and the computer get two full ranks of pieces just like in Earth chess, but if you're a hopeless wreck then five of those sixteen pieces might be rooks and three might be queens (placement is random), whereas the better you score, the more pawns you have and the more high-value pieces the computer gets. Because the starting pieces are randomly placed and allocated based on how well you're doing, opening books go out the window immediately and you quickly end up in positions that resemble endgames after a torrent of pawn promotions.

It's a really refreshing way to play if you're like me and find that once you've set a game aside and flushed your mental 'state' of it, it's impossible to return and remember just what the hell you had planned to do next. Ideally, you should be able to sit down at any point in any game sight unseen and take over, but until I get there, having a game like Really Bad Chess comes at it from the other direction because the board is already something you'd never see in the wild before you even make the first move.

http://reallybadchess.com/

This might have been discussed here before...

Posted by: hogmartin at March 17, 2018 06:29 PM (y87Qq)

139 Gramps taught all us grandkids the basics of chess. Unfortunately, my idea of chess sgtrategy is to have the King pull a gun on the mating pieces.

Yeah, and pre-soak the board in lighter fluid
and if ya start losing, light a cigar and throw the match on the board.

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:29 PM (rIG58)

140 Remember, as long as you are here posting, you can't be out at the side of the highway saying, "No, Officer, I haven't been drinking ... just ask Hillary. That's her, passed out in the back seat."

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 06:30 PM (EaQ6/)

141 Thanks JT.. I still laugh. How they kept all that straight is really quite amazing!

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 17, 2018 06:30 PM (dUJdY)

142 solutions are up.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 06:31 PM (jlKn3)

143 Thanks JT.. I still laugh. How they kept all that straight is really quite amazing!

Posted by: Jewells45

You're welcome Jewells.

I hadn't seen that clip in years, I watched it before I posted it and I was crying from laughing.

It was like seeing an old friend.

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:33 PM (rIG58)

144

When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you."

It's not like he's an unhinged rage-a-holic when it comes to the president.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 05:16 PM (2NqXo)

Are you kidding me? This hormonal pre-teen girl idiot was the head of the CIA? What a fool.

Posted by: LASue at March 17, 2018 06:36 PM (Z48ZB)

145 solutions are up.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 06:31 PM

Don't be too quick to look at them.

As chemists say, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 17, 2018 06:36 PM (DMUuz)

146 >
As chemists say, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 17, 2018 06:36 PM (DMUuz)<

I'm a chemical engineer and you owe me a keyboard.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 17, 2018 06:38 PM (3fxCO)

147 My cornbeef and cabbage meal is on hold till the Wednesday before Easter . My folks are coming down then. In the meantime, Guiness lager, Murphys Stout, and I'm going to fry some fish.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 17, 2018 06:40 PM (PsiYn)

148 JT @ 139----
Now I want a damn cigar. Hey, I know. I will smoke a cigar at the NRA convention. Staying in a hotel for a few days so Mrs E won't mind.

Posted by: Eromero at March 17, 2018 06:41 PM (zLDYs)

149 AlexTheChick's response to Brennan on Twitter is just what I would have said, if I weren't so slow of mind. Essentially: You say you have such info that will bring the President down? Bring it.

I don't think he does.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread of the Spaaaaaaaaace Forrrrrrrce at March 17, 2018 05:35 PM (z05p0)

Exactly. That is the theme of the National Review article- Brennan's whole schtick is like a fortune teller who alone can read the tea leaves or crystal ball messages. Brenna's thing is only he has access to the super secret information that makes the Russian investigation into Trump oh -so-very worthwhile. But of course, he can't reveal that information because-- its super secret!!!

Posted by: LASue at March 17, 2018 06:41 PM (Z48ZB)

150 I'm going to fry some fish.

Posted by: Puddleglum

What kinda fish ?

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:41 PM (rIG58)

151 The gal in the emerald colored dress,,,,,,,

I likey!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 17, 2018 06:41 PM (PsiYn)

152 JT @ 139----
Now I want a damn cigar. Hey, I know. I will smoke a cigar at the NRA convention. Staying in a hotel for a few days so Mrs E won't mind.

Posted by: Eromero

When & where is the convention ?

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:43 PM (rIG58)

153 It was like seeing an old friend.

Indeed, it was

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 17, 2018 06:43 PM (dUJdY)

154 The third pic. Oh, woe to the men she will eventually encounter. Souls stolen.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2018 06:44 PM (7ThJ3)

155 150: nothing fancy. Whiting filets. I bought some Old Bay seasoning and McCormick fry mix.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 17, 2018 06:44 PM (PsiYn)

156 Brennan looks like he's about to have a stroke or a massive heart attack. He needs to take up yoga.

Posted by: LASue at March 17, 2018 06:45 PM (Z48ZB)

157 something about these girls in somewhat modest dresses is creeping me out.

Posted by: LASue at March 17, 2018 06:46 PM (Z48ZB)

158 154 The third pic. Oh, woe to the men she will eventually encounter. Souls stolen.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2018 06:44 PM (7ThJ3)

I know, I've used her pics in several previous threads.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 06:46 PM (jlKn3)

159
Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:43 PM (rIG5

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Just enjoyed a Monty No. 4!!

Posted by: Weasel at March 17, 2018 06:47 PM (MVjcR)

160 First weekend in May at Dallas. less than 2 hours from where I sit.

Posted by: Eromero at March 17, 2018 06:47 PM (zLDYs)

161 70 According to the Veteran's Cemetary guide we talked with, in a military burial, the husband and wife are buried stacked on top of each other. Whoever goes first, goes deepest.
Posted by: Gruesome Jon at March 17, 2018 05:39 PM (tZC/B)
Dang, top or bottom, you'd think the survivor would prefer not to be buried yet.

Posted by: Downcast at March 17, 2018 06:48 PM (v2Njf)

162
Is Sammy playing against one of the Smith Brothers?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 17, 2018 06:49 PM (SiINZ)

163 157 something about these girls in somewhat modest dresses is creeping me out.
Posted by: LASue at March 17, 2018 06:46 PM (Z48ZB)

I'm sorry to hear that. My intent with the dress pr0n is a celebration of normal.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 06:49 PM (jlKn3)

164 And did Trump "scapegoat" McCabe? NO! Sessions fired him after a thorough investigation and in accordance with the recommendations of many inside the FBI, due to McCabe's repeated lies and breaches of protocol!!!

This is not an attempt to "shut him up." How could it be?

Honestly, Brennan has gone round the bend.

Posted by: LASue at March 17, 2018 06:49 PM (Z48ZB)

165 : nothing fancy. Whiting filets. I bought some Old Bay seasoning and McCormick fry mix.

Posted by: Puddleglum

Nice.

Enjoy !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:50 PM (rIG58)

166 I'm sorry to hear that. My intent with the dress pr0n is a celebration of normal.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 06:49 PM (jlKn3)

I didnt mean to offend. It probably says more about me than about your pictures!

Posted by: LASue at March 17, 2018 06:51 PM (Z48ZB)

167 Brennan ought to take a Hajj, it will do him good to get away

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2018 06:51 PM (aC6Sd)

168
Brennan looks like he's about to have a stroke or a massive heart attack. He needs to take up yoga.
Posted by: LASue

He took up Boo Boo.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 17, 2018 06:51 PM (IqV8l)

169 First weekend in May at Dallas. less than 2 hours from where I sit.

Posted by: Eromero

Have fun and be safe !

And enjoy yore see-gar !

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:51 PM (rIG58)

170 I'm sorry to hear that. My intent with the dress pr0n is a celebration of normal.

You have no idea how appreciated that is after what I've seen around here.

Posted by: Bob from the NSA at March 17, 2018 06:52 PM (KnvBS)

171 Dang, top or bottom, you'd think the survivor would prefer not to be buried yet.
Posted by: Downcast at March 17, 2018 06:48 PM (v2Njf)

Ha! It's not like they just bury the survivor outright. I think they give you a bag of sandwiches and some comic books with a flashlight.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 17, 2018 06:52 PM (y87Qq)

172 Skip, maybe he will get caught in a stampede.

Posted by: Eromero at March 17, 2018 06:53 PM (zLDYs)

173 ''Samantha Power tells Trump it's a bad idea to piss off John Brennan ''

Somebody pointed out that these people really, really believe their own bullshit that PDT is stupid. I would think that after a year they should have figured out that they are dealing with an exceptionally bright, methodical thinker who does not take threats like that lightly.

Posted by: Tuna at March 17, 2018 06:53 PM (jm1YL)

174 >>Honestly, Brennan has gone round the bend.

Someone must have put Salts in his Foot Bath.

Posted by: garrett at March 17, 2018 06:53 PM (3uPPj)

175 Just enjoyed a Monty No. 4!!

Posted by: Weasel

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

What the heck is that ?

Ya know what I wanted to ask you ?

Does your sombrero have the dingleberrys hanging down ?

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:54 PM (rIG58)

176 Samantha Power tells Trump it's a bad idea to piss off John Brennan

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291547/
Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 05:10 PM (LiyEm)

That Irish bint needs to fark right off

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 17, 2018 06:54 PM (SiINZ)

177 Send Luca Brasi to reason with them.
Posted by: goon at March 17, 2018 06:26 PM

Oh, thanks. Geez, I just got repaired from the last stabbing-in-the-hand they did on my surface. Sigh.

Posted by: Countertop in the bar at March 17, 2018 06:54 PM (2NqXo)

178 That Irish bint needs to fark right off
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 17, 2018 06:54 PM

That Irish meth head bint. Not sure she has all her teeth.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 17, 2018 06:55 PM (2NqXo)

179 >'Samantha Power tells Trump it's a bad idea to piss off John Brennan '

"Guy's a Muslim", she continued.

"You never know when he'll blow up. But you know he will. They all do", she finished.

Posted by: garrett at March 17, 2018 06:55 PM (3uPPj)

180 Ok, I just had a couple of Trader Joe's Brownie Bites with Sea Salt. Yummmmy

Posted by: Tuna at March 17, 2018 06:56 PM (jm1YL)

181 Meh. This should have gone on the gardening thread.

Been cutting some slats and stakes to make stake/rail additions to add to the lawn tractor yard-cart.

Cart is one of these, btw. If you run across one at a decent price, it's been great. Dump bed, tailgate slips out. That price seems very high. I paid ~$99.00 for mine on sale. https://preview.tinyurl.com/yazdl8b6

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2018 06:56 PM (QxXRY)

182 Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 06:54 PM (rIG5

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Monty 4 = Montecristo Numero Four-o. A cigar!

No, no fringe. I went with a simple and conservative black band, although Ben Had has promised me a buzzard feather.

Posted by: Weasel at March 17, 2018 06:56 PM (MVjcR)

183 I'm sorry to hear that. My intent with the dress pr0n is a celebration of normal.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 06:49 PM (jlKn3)

See, that's where you went wrong.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 06:56 PM (NWiLs)

184 OMG! My corned beef brisket turned out amazing! Thanks for all the tips from the morons this morning.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 17, 2018 06:57 PM (dUJdY)

185
Just read Brennan's tweet. What an arrogant twat. Just like Jimmy Drama these commies bastards are so righteous and full of themselves. Rot in hell

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 17, 2018 06:58 PM (SiINZ)

186 180 Ok, I just had a couple of Trader Joe's Brownie Bites with Sea Salt. Yummmmy
Posted by: Tuna at March 17, 2018 06:56 PM (jm1YL)

What's with the current fad of putting salt in every goddamned thing? Salted brownies, salted chocolate, salted caramel. What's next, salted salt?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nowhere Man at March 17, 2018 06:58 PM (NWiLs)

187 1st problem: move black rook up next to other one. Check
White kin has to move left.
black rook takes White Queen, Checkmate...

i think.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2018 06:58 PM (4xfzw)

188 WE'VE GOT MOVIE SIGN!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at March 17, 2018 06:59 PM (jlKn3)

189 ''What's with the current fad of putting salt in every goddamned thing? Salted brownies, salted chocolate, salted caramel. What's next, salted salt?''

I know where you're coming from but these are really good.

Posted by: Tuna at March 17, 2018 06:59 PM (jm1YL)

190 Shooting at our local mall, nut job killed his girlfriend and tried to kill himself.

Posted by: IC at March 17, 2018 06:59 PM (gcme+)

191 Just enjoyed a Monty No. 4!!

Posted by: Weasel

Cool

No, no fringe. I went with a simple and conservative black band, although Ben Had has promised me a buzzard feather.

Posted by: Weasel

Not to sound judgemental, but a GOOD friend would give ya the whole buzzard.

Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 07:00 PM (rIG58)

192 D friend would give ya the whole buzzard.
Posted by: JT at March 17, 2018 07:00 PM (rIG5

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It's a kit.

Posted by: Weasel at March 17, 2018 07:01 PM (MVjcR)

193 A feather is kinky. The whole buzzard is perverted.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 17, 2018 07:02 PM (QLvwG)

194 What's with the current fad of putting salt in every goddamned thing? Salted brownies, salted chocolate, salted caramel. What's next, salted salt?
Posted by: Insomniac
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Deep fried salted salt.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2018 07:02 PM (QxXRY)

195 Brennan has bumped his head one too many times on that prayer rug.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 17, 2018 07:02 PM (Uz6Yq)

196 Shooting at our local mall, nut job killed his girlfriend and tried to kill himself.
Posted by: IC

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Ah kilt her cuz I loved her!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2018 07:03 PM (QxXRY)

197 We're the new arugula.

Posted by: Sea Salt at March 17, 2018 07:04 PM (Tyii7)

198 Somebody noticed that chocolate covered pretzels are really good so let's get more of that.

Posted by: steevy at March 17, 2018 07:04 PM (LiyEm)

199 Movie Nood

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2018 07:04 PM (aC6Sd)

200 I love the green dress.
But that model's head is ginormous!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 17, 2018 07:04 PM (0jtPF)

201 What makes sea salt better than land salt?

Posted by: Weasel at March 17, 2018 07:05 PM (MVjcR)

202 But that model's head is ginormous!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille

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See: Vanna White

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2018 07:06 PM (QxXRY)

203 >>What makes sea salt better than land salt?

The Tides.

Posted by: garrett at March 17, 2018 07:06 PM (3uPPj)

204 Weasel, The Mexican Vulture feathers are really unique. You can't shoot them here so I just have to wait for one to mysteriously die. That happens quite frequently.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 17, 2018 07:06 PM (Uz6Yq)

205 What makes sea salt better than land salt?
Posted by: Weasel at March 17, 2018 07:05 PM (MVjcR)

No jurisdiction once it's past 12 miles.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 17, 2018 07:06 PM (y87Qq)

206 What makes sea salt better than land salt?

It's the ancient whale poop.

Posted by: Sea Salt at March 17, 2018 07:07 PM (Tyii7)

207 >>What makes sea salt better than land salt?

Mermaids

Posted by: garrett at March 17, 2018 07:08 PM (3uPPj)

208 I don't watch movies.

Posted by: Ronster at March 17, 2018 07:09 PM (MAzx1)

209 Muad'dib, sounds great about the range trip. I also usually find the young'ins are dying to try the M1 - and they love it, of course. So much power, so easy to shoot, and the looks.

Tomorrow depending on weather and a head-cold, hope to shoot in the occasional casual action rifle match. I bring both the M1 and a Mosin-Nagant, to match up with what some other people there are shooting - though lately it's been just the match director (SKS) and me with the M1 shooting classic iron. All the rest with those funny looking black plastic things that seem to terrify all the ignorant hoplophobes.

There's usually a short range stage or two in the pit, so I bring an M1 carbine for that. Just add a pistol stage (1911) and it'd be a WWII 3-gun.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2018 07:20 PM (QDnY+)

210 Brennan is, like so many of the Obama appointees, a psycho and a lightweight. Actually he has always seemed that way since he first came to my attention years ago.

As time goes by the mystery (to me) of how so many of the people in the Beltway who get to the top do so - when they are lightweights and have lots of other negatives as well - only deepens.

If he had any interesting info, Mueller would have it. But since Mueller is running an illegit special counsel operation not predicated on any actual crimes, who knows.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2018 07:22 PM (QDnY+)

211 Yikes! Tornado warning NW of here. I guess it's that time of year again.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2018 07:40 PM (ZpfqO)

212 That child in the third photo, the non-reflective part of her face is a warm expression, the reflected expression suggests that she is doing this against her will.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at March 17, 2018 07:41 PM (lD3vL)

213 Brennan looks like he could be the creepy guy in a van by the school playground.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at March 17, 2018 07:49 PM (bML9A)

214 so IC you are in Thousand Oaks?

Posted by: son-of-ceviche at March 17, 2018 08:08 PM (DYMfk)

215 "Look, it's personally devastating. It's so tough on my family," he told POLITICO during a wide-ranging interview conducted earlier this month, before his firing.

"But at some point, this has to be seen in the larger context," said McCabe, 49, who says he has voted for every Republican presidential nominee until he sat out the 2016 contest entirely. "And I firmly believe that this is an ongoing effort to undermine my credibility because of the work that I did on the Russia case because of the investigations that I oversaw and impacted that target this administration."
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The FUCKING BALLS on this guy
Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 17, 2018 06:00

As I said last night, this guy brought it ALL on his OWN family, azzhole. What an arrogant prick.

Posted by: Farmer at March 17, 2018 08:45 PM (yJ1e6)

216 You couldn't get a toothpick up this guy's ass with a pound of Vaseline right now. You're next, swamp rat.

James Woods March 17, 2018
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James Woods On John Brennan

Posted by: DeploraBOT at March 17, 2018 09:04 PM (y3aQB)

217 Lovin' the mini chess thread. Thanks for doing these.

Posted by: Zogger at March 17, 2018 10:47 PM (SKahJ)

218 Maureen could wear a dead rat on her head and she would still be a goddess!

Posted by: Riderinthesky at March 17, 2018 11:57 PM (FFmNo)

219 For the easier problem I think I see a mate in two.

1. ... Nd1+
2. RxN QxR#

Posted by: jdgalt at March 18, 2018 12:42 AM (3SFo/)

220 I am a lurker with a chess question.

Would you introduce castling and the en passant rule when teaching chess to a five year old? I wonder if it might be too much too soon.

Any responses are greatly appreciated.

Posted by: Not Smart Enough to be a Moron at March 18, 2018 08:05 AM (0xA9s)

221 Isn't this a better solution ?
...Ne4+
Kd1 NxQ#

Posted by: George at March 19, 2018 02:32 AM (+6NIC)

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