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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (12/16/18 )
Quote I
“We have a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided,”Tucker Carlson
Quote II
“As a country, we need to stop pretending that the same doors open for everyone, because they don’t. I’m not a person of color. And I haven’t lived your life or experienced anything like the subtle prejudice, or more overt harm, that you may have experienced just because of the color of your skin.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, (D-MA)
Quote III
Not onward, Bill—downward. It’s over for you and your ilk. We hate Kristol not only due to the aggressive Never Trumping, but also due to the fact that he seemed more than willing to believe it was righteous and conservative to send American soldiers over to die on Israel’s behalf. And he had the sort of spite for America’s indigenous working class that fairly begs for our hatred:
"Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don’t you want to get new Americans in?….[A]fter two or three generations of hard work everyone becomes kind of decadent, lazy, spoiled—whatever. Then, luckily, you have these waves of people coming in from Italy, Ireland, Russia, and now Mexico, who really want to work hard and really want to succeed…."-Bill Kristol
Taki's Magazine
In a recent study, more than four million Canadians reported using pot. Yet few of us know what it does in our brains to make us high.
It seems we all have at least one in our friends and family circle. The "organic" person because "Organic" is just so much better. Wrong Humus Breath. Your organic farming is having an impact on the climate.
Organically farmed food has a bigger climate impact than conventionally farmed food, due to the greater areas of land required. This is the finding of a new international study involving Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, published in the journal Nature. The researchers developed a new method for assessing the climate impact from land-use, and used this, along with other methods, to compare organic and conventional food production. The results show that organic food can result in much greater emissions.
It's about "alternative" energy stood on its own. And that includes Elon Musk.
Tesla has had only three profitable quarters in the 15 years since its creation. The third-quarter results reported that Tesla made a $312-million profit due to a surge in production and sales of the Tesla Model 3 sedan. The earnings were thanks in part to the company's cost-cutting, spending less on future models, and delaying of payments to suppliers. Despite the strong recent showing, doubts still linger over whether Tesla can consistently make a profit and meet its production targets. Much of the uncertainty comes because of statements coming from Musk himself, who recently told Axios that his company had been "within single digit weeks" of death. If the financial books at Tesla are really that bad, prospective Tesla buyers, investors, and government funders don't have much to cheer about, especially since the federal electric vehicle tax is slated to get cut in half by Jan. 1.
Do you blame the millennials, their
You would figure in a self-esteem class or 3 they would have taught some life basics.
Millennials who feel they lack some basic life skills can now take "adulting" classes, which are expanding across the country. The classes teach life skills like cooking, budgeting and time management, CBS New York reports, and young adults are signing up for lessons in person and online. Rachel Flehinger co-founded the aptly named Adulting School in Portland, Maine. This month, she is launching online classes geared toward millennials who want to learn how to sew on a button, understand modern art or even deal with love.
The course curriculum on love will include "how to have a relationship, how to talk to someone, conflict resolution — how not to fight," Flehinger said. It will even offer guidance on how to tell someone you love them.
Funerals are never pleasant. Did this priest make a mistake?
A Michigan couple have called for the removal of a Catholic priest who who used their son’s funeral to preach against suicide. Instead of delivering the homily the Hullibarger family expected from Fr Don LaCuesta for their son Maison, 18, the priest used to funeral to tell mourners that the youth may have ruined his chances of getting to heaven by ending his own life on December 4.I'm not a Catholic, but my faith shares some tenets with Catholicism. One of those includes suicide and the real possibility of being damned forever. My opinion? The funeral is for the living. The priest was concerned about those present and their souls. That being said, the priest should have just advised the family to go to a different congregation as he was uncomfortable with the decedent's manner of death.
Being in jail doesn't automatically make you a genius. Mailing your escape plans to the wrong person does. Genius Award Winners.
An escape plot to blast a hole into the Alamance County Detention Center was thwarted when an inmate mailed the plans to the wrong person, according to the sheriff’s office. A woman received a letter from the Alamance County jail on Dec. 6. Thinking it was a letter to her, she opened it. Inside, she found a detailed drawing of the Alamance County Detention Center, instructions for making a bomb and a plan for explosives to be planted on the south side of the detention center to create an escape route.
A customer was feeling generous. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: lin-duh galt at December 16, 2018 09:58 PM (kufk0)
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Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2018 10:00 PM (DMUuz)
Basically the Clint Eastwood version of 'Breaking Bad'.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 10:00 PM (ykYG2)
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Posted by: ALH at December 16, 2018 10:04 PM (cS3Yq)
Hey, who is in charge of those cheesecake/beefcake pix in the rant thread? OregonDave? Misanthropic Muse? Weird Humanitarian? I can't keep tracka the cobs. They all look like text in gray boxes to me.
AND SO DO YOU!
Anyway, here's one you can offer for da 'ettes, I suppose. I ain't no judge of beefcake.
Aquaman.
h/t chrissy at PoliNation
http://bit.ly/aquahunk
HI GOOD EVENING. I SURVIVED 2 PERFORMANCES OF THE NUTCRACKER. Actually, I love it.
Posted by: mindful webworker - 6 Days 'til Solstice at December 16, 2018 10:04 PM (uEauf)
Posted by: Jewells45 at December 16, 2018 10:03 PM (dUJdY)
I hope the moon doesn't think it's fooling anyone. You're right there, moon. We can all see you.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 16, 2018 10:04 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 10:04 PM (LOq4H)
The Catholic story makes me sad. I'm Catholic, so I know what the consequences of suicide are; not sure that the funeral is exactly the time to remind everyone about it, tho.
Posted by: squeakywheel at December 16, 2018 10:05 PM (g/cxV)
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 10:05 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: mindful webworker - 6 Days 'til Solstice at December 16, 2018 10:04 PM (uEauf
Talk to the Muse of Oregon.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 10:06 PM (aA3+G)
I've always had problems with his side of the Right. That side hoots the JOO JOO JOO mating call to the antiSemites.
Besides, "fighting for Israel" was never the American interest in the Middle East. (Although the point is lost on politicians on all sides.)
That interest was in fighting for Europe - its access to cheap Near Eastern energy and, also, to Suez. Without a pliant Near East, European states are thrown into poverty, and Russia conquers the lot.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 10:06 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: ALH at December 16, 2018 10:06 PM (cS3Yq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2018 10:06 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Dobie Wan Kenobi at December 16, 2018 10:07 PM (93ZJL)
Posted by: squeakywheel
Me also, but, if someone of faith is in the audience and changes their mind about suicide, is that a bad thing?
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 10:07 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: USS Weekly Standard lookout at December 16, 2018 10:08 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: ALH at December 16, 2018 10:08 PM (cS3Yq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2018 10:09 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: USS Weekly Standard lookout at December 16, 2018 10:08 PM (CDGwz)
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Steady as she goes, helmsman!
Posted by: Rear Adm. Bill "Cucky" Kristol at December 16, 2018 10:09 PM (93ZJL)
Aqua Man has a great bod but there's something off about his face. I think it's the eyes.
Posted by: Jewells45 at December 16, 2018 10:09 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 16, 2018 10:09 PM (jUcoH)
Great ONT MisHum. And good nuanced take on the funeral situation.
Style: I haz it!
[drives off in Hyundai with bowling trophy glued onto the front hood]
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:09 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable at December 16, 2018 10:09 PM (0OmEj)
On the other hand, Taki has an excellent point that a lot of those who were concentrating on the Near East, coincidentally, despised the Americans at home. They weren't going out to the small towns and the exurbs to explain why foreign policy mattered to them, too.
And then those momzers like Kristol and JEB were outright telling their fellow citizens, get bent; we can replace you with others.
Trump takes the best of those serious about foreign policy, and, also, cares about the American worker. This is rare and should be treasured.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 10:10 PM (ykYG2)
Yet few of us know what it does in our brains to make us high.
Those of us who have studied the ancient texts of the Book of the Dead, and the Cheechandchong Veda, know all the twisted pathways of hashisheness deeply well. And they're boring to all except the immediate participants. Who have profound revelations drooling whilst staring at lava lamps.
Let's talk about the zen pathways of ethyl alcohol intoxication for real fun stories.
Posted by: mindful webworker - 6 Days 'til Solstice at December 16, 2018 10:10 PM (uEauf)
Some people will go to their graves believing they are so, SO much better than all those unwashed, ignorant rubes out there, because their fragile self-esteem and self___ demand it.
It's true of libs, and it's true of the GOPe.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:11 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: BifBewalskiBot - from my we todd did phone at December 16, 2018 10:11 PM (8ZeGS)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:11 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:11 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 10:06 PM (ykYG2)
I think Taki's take on Kristol is wrong regarding Israel. For the simple fact that Bill Kristol never disliked a military engagement as long as his sorry soft ass wasn't directly involved in it.
Pretty easy to sit in the faculty lounge and blow other "conservatives" and call for American blood to be spilled.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 10:12 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: squeakywheel at December 16, 2018 10:05 PM (g/cxV)
Thanks, that's about what I was thinking (and I'm not Catholic). I didn't know there was more to the story too - the whole funeral sounds like a nightmare, with the coach who was asked not to attend showing up and then being asked to leave, getting snippy about it online, and then getting suspended from work over it.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 16, 2018 10:12 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:12 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 10:12 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 16, 2018 10:12 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:12 PM (miE9U)
Hard question to answer if you think there are any Catholics in the Church who don't know the consequence of suicide. It is a much easier question to answer if you think they do...the suicide is like an elephant in the room. No need to refresh everyone's memory at the service for which they are processing their grief.
Posted by: squeakywheel at December 16, 2018 10:12 PM (g/cxV)
Posted by: Jewells45 at December 16, 2018 10:12 PM (dUJdY)
Hey, Milady made some fantastic hummus this week.
But, breath, yes.
We very much intentionally did not eat any before going to either performance of The Nutcracker, because, five, maybe six cloves of garlic she added...
Posted by: mindful webworker - 6 Days 'til Solstice at December 16, 2018 10:13 PM (uEauf)
Craig Ferguson, who used to host the Late Late Show on CBS (and far funnier than any of the hosts now on TV with the sometimes exception of Conan), has also written a couple of novels. The first one was titled "Between the Bridge and the River," which came from a question he or a friend of his had asked a Jesuit, about whether all suicides go to hell? The priest had said not necessarily. If you commit suicide by jumping off a bridge but genuinely repent of your act and ask forgiveness before hitting the water (or ground, or whatever), you could still receive salvation.
It's an interesting thought.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:13 PM (2PXwn)
If you type "image," it's fine.
If you type "self- i m a g e" (without the spaces I obviously added here, Pixy censors it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:13 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 16, 2018 10:13 PM (l9m7l)
He could be funny, and interesting, and didn't have to bash Repubs or Trump supporters all the time to do it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:14 PM (miE9U)
Would you expect a priest to say good things about a murderer? Would you invite him to do a eulogy?
Also... we don't know how many suicides that priest has dealt with. Perhaps he is dealing with a suicide epidemic in his area. Which is a reason for him to go off the rails.
Finally... yeah, the parents should have talked to the priest about it a bit more about what he was going to say and/or not had a service that required the priest to speak.
Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2018 10:14 PM (UyW0o)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 16, 2018 10:14 PM (93ZJL)
Yet few of us know what it does in our brains to make us high.
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Dave's not here, man.
Posted by: TheHoser at December 16, 2018 10:14 PM (v3UCk)
Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
Report immediately to the barrel for your impassioned beating with a wet noodle. Also feel free to partake in fine dining and shopping at the newly renovated Barrel Shoppes! All Christmas sales 75% off!
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:15 PM (miE9U)
Note: I am not advocating suicide.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 16, 2018 10:15 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: ramondo at December 16, 2018 10:16 PM (n2k66)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 16, 2018 10:12 PM (l9m7l)
No. You are not banned.
Should you be?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 10:16 PM (aA3+G)
Then, luckily, you have these waves of people coming in from Italy, Ireland, Russia, and now Mexico, who really want to work hard and really want to succeed. "-Bill Kristol
This little shit wants to run us off our land and put us on a reservation.
He sees our habitation as no different than he views Indian habitation of this land a few centuries ago. WE'RE IN THE WAY.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 16, 2018 10:16 PM (rxtQa)
Posted by: Infidel at December 16, 2018 10:17 PM (PF4TZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 16, 2018 10:17 PM (93ZJL)
Are you in charge now?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: ALH at December 16, 2018 10:17 PM (cS3Yq)
He doesn't have to preach the whole Commedia canto about the Selva dei Suicidi, but it is a good thing to impress on other wavering souls that they shouldn't go there.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 10:17 PM (ykYG2)
It's true of libs, and it's true of the GOPe.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:11 PM (miE9U)
Bill Kristol reminds me so much of the other grad students I talk to on a regular basis, many of them from fairly conservative areas originally. The absolute contempt they show talking about everyone they knew in their hometowns and everything those people believed in, is something that never ceases to amaze me. I know I've had times in my life where I've been kind of arrogant about this or that, but I have never looked down on the people around me the way my peers do. Intellectuals are such noxious people.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:17 PM (2PXwn)
It's an interesting thought.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:13 PM (2PXwn)
Does hollering, "Oh, shit!" count as repentance?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 10:17 PM (fDU8w)
Then, through absolutely no fault whatsoever of my own, all the hamsters suddenly caught fire... :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:18 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: DBCooper at December 16, 2018 10:18 PM (bttOm)
My email is in my nic, if I can do it right.
Posted by: Farmer at December 16, 2018 10:18 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:13 PM (2PXwn)
Does hollering, "Oh, shit!" count as repentance?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 10:17 PM (fDU8w)
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"So far, so good" is probably an ambiguous case.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 16, 2018 10:19 PM (93ZJL)
Note: I am not advocating suicide.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
I seem to recall an article years ago, where "jumpers" who survived were asked if they regretted their decision.
"As soon as my hand left the rail." was the dominate answer.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 10:19 PM (LOq4H)
It isn't enough that Michelle took her life in 2017, but since our Parent Loan was discharged after her death, the IRS claims that we "earned" an additional $25,000 in "income" in 2017.
We never received a 1099, so we had no clue that we owed additional taxes - we lost our child; the government wants to come after us?!?!?
We owe them $8500: $6850 for the taxes, $1370 for a "Substantial tax understatement penalty", and $309 in interest.
Merry Christmas to us....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at December 16, 2018 10:19 PM (uDcBt)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:19 PM (miE9U)
Hieronymus Bosch couldn't paint a picture of cnbc or the rest of the sphincter media.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 16, 2018 10:20 PM (rxtQa)
Posted by: Farmer at December 16, 2018 10:20 PM (yJ1e6)
IRS needs to be publicly shamed about it. Do you have a friendly rep in Congress in your area?
Might need to give his or her office a call.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:20 PM (miE9U)
We need to schedule more of these.
Posted by: ALH at December 16, 2018 10:20 PM (cS3Yq)
He could be funny, and interesting, and didn't have to bash Repubs or Trump supporters all the time to do it.
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I still pull up old Ferguson monologues. And damn it, I still miss Geoff Peterson.
Balls.
Posted by: TheHoser at December 16, 2018 10:20 PM (v3UCk)
Posted by: ramondo at December 16, 2018 10:16 PM (n2k66)
Hey butt-munch, the little invader girl died of sepsis, not dehydration. Massive infection, probably a result of being cornholed by her brothers.
Or drinking impure water left out in the desert by Democrat scum.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 10:21 PM (fDU8w)
Did Tucker really say that? Or was he quoting some other idiot?
Oh shit never mind. I read it again. I'm tired lol!
Yeah, I did the same thing. Still figured he was joking but I was gonna snark, then figured it out.
Posted by: mindful webworker - 6 Days 'til Solstice at December 16, 2018 10:21 PM (uEauf)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 16, 2018 10:21 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 10:21 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: squeakywheel at December 16, 2018 10:21 PM (g/cxV)
He could be funny, and interesting, and didn't have to bash Repubs or Trump supporters all the time to do it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:14 PM (miE9U)
This.
And the thing is, I'm pretty sure Craig was more liberal than not on most issues. But a), he always recognized America as a great country; and b), he wasn't willing to play the "clown nose on, clown nose off" game Kimmel and other hacks play all the time. It is truly sad that the Late Show went to Colbert and not him after Letterman retired (though I'm not sure Craig would have wanted it regardless).
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:21 PM (2PXwn)
I still miss Secretariat.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:21 PM (miE9U)
They may have it on the SMTP server at Miskatonic University.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 10:21 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 10:22 PM (KP5rU)
Colbert got it because he is/was willing to be as hateful as the haters at CBS want him to be, and then some, to flyover country.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:22 PM (miE9U)
In light of actual neurological science the tenet may be mal-informed, and, saying nothing of the homily, a bad trail to continue down.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 10:22 PM (ZejZP)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at December 16, 2018 10:19 PM (uDcBt)
That really sucks. I'm so sorry to hear the IRS is after you.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 10:23 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2018 10:14 PM (UyW0o)
The article says they did discuss it with him beforehand and he delivered a completely different homily from what they had agreed on. That's a big deal to me. If he wants to deliver a homily on the irredeemable sin of suicide, it's his church, but for a clergyman to - at least according to the family - launch off on his own thing, completely different from what he'd said he would do, at the very least a breach of trust. If he couldn't get through it without doing that, he should have turned them down IMO.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 16, 2018 10:23 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 10:23 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:23 PM (2PXwn)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 16, 2018 10:23 PM (l9m7l)
I'm so sorry for your loss Teresa. Know that others here pray for you and yours.
T
Posted by: Farmer at December 16, 2018 10:23 PM (yJ1e6)
Second, if I recall correctly, there was a time in the not too distant past, in which the Catholic Church would not even hold a funeral for somebody who committed suicide.
Just for the record, I am generally against suicide, except in self defense (hat tip: The Replacements), but I will not even debate whether the world is overpopulated unless they have killed themselves.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2018 10:24 PM (wlVmf)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yb43xct6
Posted by: davidt at December 16, 2018 10:25 PM (jGvbj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:13 PM (miE9U)
Pixy hates seflies, not that I can find fault with Pixy on this.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 10:25 PM (Y8PSl)
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So sorry, Teresa.
Someone wiser than I said "government is just a name for what we do together." Said wiser person needs to be hanged from the nearest available sturdy lamppost.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 16, 2018 10:25 PM (93ZJL)
It's an interesting thought.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:13 PM (2PXwn)
Does hollering, "Oh, shit!" count as repentance?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 10:17 PM (fDU8w)
I remember reading an account of someone who attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge and survived. He said that he regretted his decision immediately upon jumping.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 10:25 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 10:26 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: TheHoser at December 16, 2018 10:27 PM (v3UCk)
Regarding the IRS - if this were me, I would hire a good tax attorney.
Posted by: ALH at December 16, 2018 10:27 PM (cS3Yq)
Working on more animation crap. Crap-lousy animation, if you happen to be a Psychlo.
Enjoyed all the ones I've seen you do so far. Check his anims, folks.
-Psychlo. I like it.
Posted by: mindful webworker - 6 Days 'til Solstice at December 16, 2018 10:27 PM (uEauf)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 10:27 PM (ykYG2)
I've always heard that the loss of a child is the worst.
Posted by: ALH
Trust me, it is. I feel for them. But, don't take it out on the priest. Someone has to be the bad guy and say hard things sometimes - perhaps he chose his words poorly. Who knows?
Suicide of a spouse stings a shitload too. What she ran she didn't take with her but - that was left for me to clean up.
No real point here except to underline the fact that life is hard. For everyone.
Bad things happen. But if you want to live through it with some measure of sanity, you'd be smart to believe everything is in God's hands ultimately. Poorly chosen words from another human doesn't affect that. And all the inconsistencies, unknowns, pains and heartaches in life will be resolved in the end, happily, for each of us, even if we don't understand all the whys and wherefores right now.
Love you guys but I'm beat. Missed Mass today as wifey has been sicker than hell lately. She's saying her prayers and I need to too.
A bit teary tonight I am. But not sad. I have been, and remain, manifestly blessed. Each of us are really - but it is not obvious much of the time.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2018 10:27 PM (9rIkM)
Balls.
Posted by: TheHoser at December 16, 2018 10:20 PM (v3UCk)
Yeah, Craig Ferguson's monologues about his battles with alcoholism or the deaths of his parents were some really high-quality stuff. I didn't really care for the few times he did those hour-long shows with a single academic about philosophical matters, but hey, it was different at least. I think he probably recognized this couldn't be carried over into the Late Show slot, and that's part of why he quit, but....dang. His serious stuff was way more genuine than Kimmel bawling his eyes out about his kid's health care or whatever.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:28 PM (2PXwn)
"As soon as my hand left the rail." was the dominate answer.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 10:19 PM (LOq4H)
Kevin Hines was 19 when he jumped off the Golden Gate bridge. He survived , with crushed vertebrae and a fractured ankle. He knew as soon as he let go he regretted it. After many years of treatment, he has written a couple of books and works with others who have suicidal thoughts. His book is called, "Suicide, The Ripple Effect". Do a search online and there are numerous articles on his experience.
Posted by: Jen the original at December 16, 2018 10:28 PM (L/94n)
He could be funny, and interesting, and didn't have to bash Repubs or Trump supporters all the time to do it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:14 PM (miE9U)
Ferguson has the 'Join or Die' segmented snake tattooed on his forearm. Ferguson seems like a decent guy and, while I am not a fan of tattoos, that tattoo seems to confirm it.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 10:28 PM (Y8PSl)
Have a team of psychologists and psychiatrists hypnotize a person who wants to commit suicide. Convince them that they are actually *doing the act,* by jumping off a bridge.
Have the person "jumping" share what they're seeing, experiencing and feeling, the whole time they're "jumping."
See if the person is regretful for jumping, as soon as they've "jumped."
Bring the person out of hypnosis, hopefully still able to know what just happened to them: that they were hypnotized into believing they were actually committing suicide, and that they regretted it the very millisecond they attempted the deed.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:29 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 10:26 PM (KP5rU
Thanks for checking it out Chavez.....
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 10:29 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:21 PM (2PXwn)
He had a really spot-on monologue I remember where he starts off by noting one of the ongoing celebrity rehab trainwrecks and then says that as alcoholic, he can't know what that person is dealing with but he knows he's not fit to judge them and that he hopes that they find what they need. It was a pretty heartfelt and personal monologue and I can't imagine any of the current hosts doing anything that honest. I'll see if I can find it, if anyone wants, it's worth seeing.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 16, 2018 10:29 PM (t+qrx)
F that! Drizzly bullish*t. Kristol didn't send our troops anywhere. W did, & it had nothing to do with "to die for Israel," unless u r a leftwing loon.
Posted by: strawdog at December 16, 2018 10:30 PM (Cssks)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:30 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 16, 2018 10:31 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: kallisto at December 16, 2018 10:31 PM (+OYy0)
F that! Drizzly bullish*t. Kristol didn't send our troops anywhere. W did, & it had nothing to do with "to die for Israel," unless u r a leftwing loon.
Posted by: strawdog at December 16, 2018 10:30 PM (Cssks)
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Forget it. He's rolling.
Posted by: Boone at December 16, 2018 10:31 PM (93ZJL)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 10:31 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:31 PM (miE9U)
First, please accept my sincere condolences. My heart hurts for you and your family.
Second, that IRS thing is an APPEALABLE dunning.
Pro-Tip. Do NOT use the various IRS "relief" companies you hear all the talk-radio-heads shill for in their ads and endorsements.
Rather, find by careful research, a true Board Certified Tax Attorney. And one who is a "shark" by reputation.
You'll pay the attorney less than what the IRS is seeking from you, and you'll pay the IRS a LOT LESS than you might imagine.
Do the research and make the calls.
You'll be glad that you did.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2018 10:32 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:32 PM (2PXwn)
Legions of failed businesses would have been profitable if they could just stiff their suppliers.
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:32 PM (0Ntuf)
David knew there was nothing that would bring the child back, but if he lived his life for God, that he would someday see the child again.
Posted by: ALH at December 16, 2018 10:33 PM (cS3Yq)
Posted by: TheHoser at December 16, 2018 10:33 PM (v3UCk)
F that! Drizzly bullish*t. Kristol didn't send our troops anywhere. W did, & it had nothing to do with "to die for Israel," unless u r a leftwing loon.
Posted by: strawdog at December 16, 2018 10:30 PM (Cssks)
^This^
Posted by: DR.WTF at December 16, 2018 10:33 PM (T71PA)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:32 PM (2PXwn)
Oh! Yeah, congratulations on that. I noticed but neglected to mention it the other night, apologies.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 16, 2018 10:33 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Farmer at December 16, 2018 10:20 PM (yJ1e6)
I tried to email you at that address, it bounced back. comcast says: not our customer.
I sent an e-mail to Cooth, asking him to email you, but I used that address.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 10:34 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 10:34 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Old Toby at December 16, 2018 10:34 PM (nnyBV)
Lohan has supposedly "converted to Islam," btw. So apparently she still has issues...
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:34 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at December 16, 2018 10:34 PM (PkVlr)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074360393999495168
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074360478959308800
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074360572148412416
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074360679082221569
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:34 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: Deacon Bleau at December 16, 2018 10:34 PM (yScAF)
The Catholic story makes me sad. I'm Catholic, so I know what the consequences of suicide are; not sure that the funeral is exactly the time to remind everyone about it, tho.
Posted by: squeakywheel at December 16, 2018 10:05 PM (g/cxV)
I've been to Mt. Carmel and never had a problem with that priest. Suicide is a grave sin in the Catholic Church.
Posted by: clutch at December 16, 2018 10:35 PM (WCHWM)
So do you damn the ones who jumped from the Towers instead of frying?
Posted by: irongrampa at December 16, 2018 10:31 PM (S/hVx)
Absolutely NOT! They knew they were about to die; they just chose the least worst way to do it.
Pilots in WWI, who mostly didn't have parachutes, often jumped to their deaths when their planes burst into flames. It seems instinctive to get away from fire and smoke no matter what. I guess it's simple pain avoidance.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 10:35 PM (sdi6R)
Guess who?
Posted by: strawdog at December 16, 2018 10:35 PM (Cssks)
Posted by: kallisto at December 16, 2018 10:36 PM (+OYy0)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:36 PM (2PXwn)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074360774364196866
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074360861748273152
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074360959819493376
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074361047304286209
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:36 PM (0Ntuf)
Legions of failed businesses would have been profitable if they could just stiff their suppliers.
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:32 PM (0Ntuf)
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I noticed this. It makes no sense. Unless you're a cash basis business, the expense is incurred when you're invoiced. Dragging your A/P payments has NO effect on your income statement. It can't make you "profitable."
A shoe shine stand might do cash basis accounting. Tesla is not a cash basis business.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 16, 2018 10:36 PM (93ZJL)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:36 PM (miE9U)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZVWIELHQQY
Posted by: hogmartin at December 16, 2018 10:36 PM (t+qrx)
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I have come nearly to the point that I approach the typical person that I meet in the workplace as if they are starring in a one-person play that they wrote, entitled "It's all about Meeeeeee!" and everybody around them is a bit player.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 10:36 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable at December 16, 2018 10:37 PM (0OmEj)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074361142162661376
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074361244335915010
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074361345192140800
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074361434681806849
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:37 PM (0Ntuf)
So do you damn the ones who jumped from the Towers instead of frying?
Posted by: irongrampa
My little brother came into contact with high voltage in his early twenties, he spent six months in the Salt Lake burn center, his spinal cord was burnt and he lost all sense of pressure on his skin. Confined to a wheelchair he decided to commit suicide on the installment plan. Do I fault his decision? Seeing him in abject agony for 13 years, I would have bought the drugs had he asked me.
So anyone thinking about suicide, think about it while your WALKING around.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 10:37 PM (LOq4H)
Actually that's good advice.
I once took an online course in dealing with difficult people at work, and its advice was basically to role-play for them, so they're always happy with you. A little demeaning but then it's also fun to know you're "pulling one off" on them.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:38 PM (miE9U)
https://media.giphy.com/media/CpWiVGG1wjwrK/giphy.gif
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:39 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 16, 2018 10:39 PM (jGvbj)
Posted by: hogmartin at December 16, 2018 10:33 PM (t+qrx)
Not a problem; I've had lots of well-wishes already, here and elsewhere.
I liked a monologue of Craig's from 2006-07 (?) where he was commenting on Paris Hilton in the midst of her legal troubles for whatever it was at the moment with her, and he ended by saying that the real problem was not Hilton herself, but the "weak and useless penal system" that dealt with cases like hers. Then he added, "Weak and useless penal system? Remind you of anyone?" Typical Ferguson humor. Loved it.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 16, 2018 10:40 PM (2PXwn)
Posted by: Infidel at December 16, 2018 10:40 PM (PF4TZ)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 16, 2018 10:31 PM (S/hVx)
I would say that in such a situation, the jump might be seen as a desperate hope for a miracle, like landing in a dump truck full of pillows. The jumper is not doing it to get revenge upon his family.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 10:40 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:40 PM (0Ntuf)
We never received a 1099, so we had no clue that we owed additional taxes - we lost our child; the government wants to come after us?!?!?
We owe them $8500: $6850 for the taxes, $1370 for a "Substantial tax understatement penalty", and $309 in interest.
Merry Christmas to us....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at December 16, 2018 10:19 PM (uDcBt)
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So sorry to hear Teresa. I would think that a good tax CPA/Attorney could at least get that whittled down to just he tax portion, as you were never notified of the "income".
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 10:41 PM (ffYR/)
Also... we don't know how many suicides that priest has dealt with. Perhaps he is dealing with a suicide epidemic in his area. Which is a reason for him to go off the rails.
Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2018 10:14 PM (UyW0o)
Good point we have such a heroin problem here that we had two billboards about it on I-75. Nice meeting you Saturday by the way.
Posted by: clutch at December 16, 2018 10:41 PM (IMcM7)
(Note the actress in red)
https://tinyurl.com/y92tkz2h
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:41 PM (miE9U)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074467313863274496
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:42 PM (0Ntuf)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074467885630803968
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074468358022672384
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074468700810608640
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074469028540936192
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074469382854725632
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074469706676035584
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:44 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 16, 2018 10:45 PM (jUcoH)
Posted by: IC at December 16, 2018 10:46 PM (4lu7W)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074478693345570816
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:46 PM (0Ntuf)
First, please accept my sincere condolences. My heart hurts for you and your family.
Second, that IRS thing is an APPEALABLE dunning.
Pro-Tip. Do NOT use the various IRS "relief" companies you hear all the talk-radio-heads shill for in their ads and endorsements.
Rather, find by careful research, a true Board Certified Tax Attorney. And one who is a "shark" by reputation.
You'll pay the attorney less than what the IRS is seeking from you, and you'll pay the IRS a LOT LESS than you might imagine.
Do the research and make the calls.
You'll be glad that you did.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2018 10:32 PM (QzJWU)
Affirmative
Posted by: Braenyard at December 16, 2018 10:47 PM (rxtQa)
Posted by: Wodun at December 16, 2018 10:47 PM (8lbPI)
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:48 PM (0Ntuf)
My hunch: removing this gene allows you to eat forever without gaining weight... but also cuts your lifespan in half, or something like that.
New discovery may soon allow you to eat whatever you want without gaining weight (link to Forbes)
https://tinyurl.com/y8jj8mmv
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:49 PM (miE9U)
(Note the actress in red)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:41 PM (miE9U)
Saw it on Broadway. I have the Playbill somewhere (as I have all my Playbills; even have an off-Broadway Showbill autographed by Penn and Teller).
** Spoiler Alert **
The first act of Noises Off is in front of the stage scenery. The second act is from behind the stage scenery. The third act is in front of the stage scenery again. The hilarity is seeing what happens in Act II in relation to what one saw in Act I and will see in Act III. Noises Off is British in its humor, very dry -- like a good martini.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 10:49 PM (Y8PSl)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PksO9DOBndU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlYef5IVoZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Dpr4QIavQ
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:50 PM (0Ntuf)
I would say that in such a situation, the jump might be seen as a desperate hope for a miracle, like landing in a dump truck full of pillows.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 10:40 PM (fDU8w)
No, see my #136. I think it was pretty much instinctive, to get away from the smoke and flames.
People almost always jump from fires, when they're faced with a choice between asphyxiation and taking just *one more breath*.
I've also read that when the people crowded up at the holes in the wall trying to breathe, some of them did not willingly jump but were inadvertently pushed out by the crush of the crowd behind them. Horrible.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 10:50 PM (sdi6R)
Anyway, I wanna see it. Also tempted to get the DVD. It's cheap at B&N.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:51 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 16, 2018 10:45 PM (jUcoH)
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Me too. It is fairly common, I think. If nothing else, the last 2 years of my life, especially the last 6 months, have given me a great perspective on the "who am I to judge"thing.
There has been some small benefit to the train wreck my life has become.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 10:52 PM (ffYR/)
The frustrating thing is that Trump's tax reform bill makes the discharge of a parent loan due to a child's death non-taxable, but only starting in 2018.
Since our discharge was in (late) 2017, we don't get to take advantage of that.
We have until January 9th to respond - we will be out of town until after Christmas....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at December 16, 2018 10:52 PM (uDcBt)
IMHO a great film, even though its ending is a bit rote and predictable.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:53 PM (miE9U)
People almost always jump from fires, when they're faced with a choice between asphyxiation and taking just *one more breath*.
I've also read that when the people crowded up at the holes in the wall trying to breathe, some of them did not willingly jump but were inadvertently pushed out by the crush of the crowd behind them. Horrible.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 10:50 PM (sdi6R)
I think that we have two different ways of expressing the same thought: that the WTC jumpers were decent people in desperate straits, and not selfish narcissists seeking to pile guilt upon surviving family members.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 10:54 PM (fDU8w)
Is this stand ok with all those christian?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 10:55 PM (ZejZP)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 16, 2018 10:56 PM (S/hVx)
They were trying to live for one or two more seconds.
No sin in that.
Posted by: navybrat, on a mission from Odin at December 16, 2018 10:57 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at December 16, 2018 10:52 PM (uDcBt)
Do a quick bit of research. I think you can file for an extension on that "response" deadline, just as with a normal tax filing.
If so, DO so. Take the pressure off of yourself there whenever and however possible.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2018 10:57 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 16, 2018 10:56 PM (S/hVx)
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I'm with you on that one.
Posted by: dDan at December 16, 2018 10:57 PM (hwYmz)
Posted by: kallisto at December 16, 2018 10:57 PM (+OYy0)
the-christians-should-never-judge-fallacy/
Posted by: SMH at December 16, 2018 10:58 PM (RU4sa)
IMHO a great film, even though its ending is a bit rote and predictable.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:53 PM (miE9U)
My current all-time favorite British comedy is "Brexit".
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 10:58 PM (Y8PSl)
For all their horrible reputations, whenever I've had to call them, the people I've reached have been decent, friendly and helpful.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:58 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:59 PM (miE9U)
Good guys and raising good Americans, they rock. As do the good folks here on AOSHQ.
Nite all, time for a nap here. Chiro in the morn, hope it helps.
Posted by: Farmer at December 16, 2018 10:59 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 16, 2018 10:56 PM (S/hVx)
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Absolutely agreed. Their ultimate fate was certain, and not of their doing.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 10:59 PM (ffYR/)
Happy? Try again.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 10:59 PM (KP5rU)
There is a difference in committing a sin vs. having a thought or tendency toward it.
Posted by: clutch at December 16, 2018 10:59 PM (kiSdp)
They were trying to live for one or two more seconds.
No sin in that.
Posted by: navybrat, on a mission from Odin at December 16, 2018 10:57 PM (w7KSn)
The NYPD considers all of the Jumpers to have been murdered.
Posted by: Surfperch at December 16, 2018 11:00 PM (Aaxh4)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 16, 2018 11:00 PM (jUcoH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:01 PM (aA3+G)
I've been on the other side as well and understand what it feels like to be in the hopeless desperate state. But for the grace of god i didn't pull the trigger.
Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable at December 16, 2018 11:02 PM (0OmEj)
Is this stand ok with all those christian?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 10:55 PM (ZejZP)
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How TF did you get from point A to B to Z with this post?
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 11:02 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: clutch
My point entirely. What if recieved wisdom isn't the thing of understand? What if the catechism was based on an incomplete understanding of motivation?
I'm more than willing to go out on a limb an say the Church's lacuna a literal moral dead-end and a viciously ill-informed one at that.
If suicide is a mortal sin, AND it is an inheritable trait, then the Church has no other option than to declare parents with that trait murders.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:03 PM (ZejZP)
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:03 PM (m45I2)
Is this stand ok with all those christian?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 10:55 PM (ZejZP)
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How does having a genetic disposition that they have no control mean that the parents intentionally and willfully killed the child?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2018 11:04 PM (wlVmf)
If ignorance of the science behind pot's high is supposed to be an argument against it, it's a stupid argument.
There are enough valid arguments.. and some of those include alcohol..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 16, 2018 11:04 PM (438dO)
I am going to do some more "research" on this.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 11:06 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: tankdemon
Because, under that rubric, they knowingly created a child likely to commit a mortal sin.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:06 PM (ZejZP)
Am I going to hell?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:06 PM (m45I2)
That electric clock is older than I am. It's been the kitchen clock in my family's home since before I was born. I've seen it in photos from when I was a toddler. Every time we moved or repainted the kitchen, my dad painted that clock the same color. It probably has several layers of paint on it.
I unplugged it for now. I'll have to think about looking to see if it can be repaired.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 11:07 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:03 PM (ZejZP)
If most suicides do so before they have offspring, how can it be a heritable trait?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:07 PM (fDU8w)
Children are conceived in sin
Parents & their children are sinners
Each sin of omission or commission is an individual choice
As you are not responsible for your parents sins neither are they responsible for yours
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:08 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:03 PM (ZejZP)
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You are talking about clinical depression, which is treatable in most, but not all cases. That's the only genetic link. Why do you insist on dragging Christianity into it? Makes no sense unless you are just trying to flame Christianity.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 11:08 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 11:08 PM (KP5rU)
It's the status quo isnt it?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:01 PM (aA3+G)
"Brexit" could be enlivened by a few of their songs in it. Just for old-times' sake. But I think to really get that old-time flavor into "Brexit", they need a few head choppings in the Tower of London. The classics are always the best.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:08 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:06 PM (m45I2)
No, but eeehhhh,....if you make the next left at Alboqoikie, you'll get there, Doc!
Posted by: Bugs at December 16, 2018 11:09 PM (QzJWU)
David Duke cant get 100 neo nazis show up for a TED talk.
Just sayin
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 16, 2018 11:09 PM (xss3U)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 16, 2018 11:09 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:03 PM (ZejZP)
The fact that the parents are still alive is a pretty good indicator that your "inheritable trait" theory is bollocks. And, once again, for it to be a sin, an action (or failure to accomplish a required action) must be intentional and willful.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2018 11:09 PM (wlVmf)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 11:09 PM (ykYG2)
MisHum, the ONT does deliver!
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 11:11 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:11 PM (aA3+G)
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Obamacare?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 16, 2018 11:11 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 10:59 PM (miE9U)
Nope. It's a Comedy of Errors/Manners, not much different than Trollope's "The Pallisers" (to tie multiple ONT conversations together).
We already had the running gag of The Band Which Must Not Be Named.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:11 PM (Y8PSl)
You are talking about clinical depression, which is treatable in most, but not all cases. That's the only genetic link. Why do you insist on dragging Christianity into it? Makes no sense unless you are just trying to flame Christianity.
Posted by: Calm Mentor
I didn't insist on dragging Christianity in anything. That was the rubric posited in the story above.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:12 PM (ZejZP)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:06 PM (ZejZP)
Congratulations. You have entered the land of tinfoil haberdashery.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2018 11:12 PM (wlVmf)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 16, 2018 11:12 PM (S/hVx)
I unplugged it for now. I'll have to think about looking to see if it can be repaired.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 11:07 PM (sdi6R)
What brand of clock? Some really old electric clocks had an open movement, but starting maybe 60 years ago, they went over to enclosed movements. The motor is contained in a small metal drum about the size of a snuff can, and the electromagnet has pole pieces that flank a projection on the drum.
With the enclosed type, sometimes you can place the motor drum in a pan of light oil, and heat it on the stove until air bubble escape. Then let it cool (in the oil) and a partial vacuum inside the drum will suck in some oil.
I will bet you there are youtubes about electric clock repair.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:13 PM (fDU8w)
Does anyone care how alcohol makes them high? I don't think so!
If ignorance of the science behind pot's high is supposed to be an argument against it, it's a stupid argument.
There are enough valid arguments.. and some of those include alcohol..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 16, 2018 11:04 PM (438dO
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I got to the ONT just now, saw that story, and reacted that very way. Didn't have far to scroll up to find someone saying just what's on my mind.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2018 11:13 PM (oGNNA)
Am I going to hell?
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Did you forget to close a tag?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 16, 2018 11:14 PM (+y/Ru)
Just an interesting story, with multiple takes/views
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:14 PM (aA3+G)
Am I going to hell?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:06 PM (m45I2)
Yes, because you'll miss all the Horde's witty repartee.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:14 PM (Y8PSl)
Many years back, I went to the funeral of a friend who'd been killed in a car accident with a drunken driver. She belonged to some religious sect called the Dutch Reformed Church. (Legitimate bunch, not a cult.) I nearly stormed out in the middle of the thing. The minister stood there in front of the family and friends and delivered a fire and brimstone sermon on how my friend's death should teach all of us that death is imminent and how we should live our lives solely as preparation for death and the judgement of god. Not a single word of comfort for the grieving family. Not a word of hope. Just that death could come at any moment and we all needed to be ready when it happened.
The XO is Roman Catholic, so I have attended several RC funerals. Every one of them, the priests have spoken of the joy of the person going to be with god, the joy that person brought to others during their lives, and how we should remember them with love.
What an incredible difference.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 16, 2018 11:14 PM (GefzX)
Kurt Vonnegut has written about this. Without looking it up, I think his mother committed suicide by swallowing Drano.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 11:14 PM (sdi6R)
Will also contact our local House representative - she is a good Republican!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at December 16, 2018 11:14 PM (uDcBt)
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
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I can't read those words without hearing Handel's Messiah
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 16, 2018 11:15 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Calm Mentor
I didn't insist on dragging Christianity in anything. That was the rubric posited in the story above.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:12 PM (ZejZP)
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Please point out said rubric. Please be very specific as to how you came about your "conclusions" from said rubric.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 11:15 PM (ffYR/)
So true. Next time a Catholic priest dies, I'm going to crash the funeral and lecture his family that he would be bound for heaven if not for covering up his parish's child pedophile ring.
The grieving father should have dragged this priest outside and gone all Henry II on him.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 16, 2018 11:15 PM (xss3U)
5. "Presenting Ken Burns' latest miniseries, 20 hour-long episodes on the greatness and groundbreaking innovation of the Trump presidency"
4. "Frontline investigates: Whether people actually eat and enjoy Nutella or it's just a giant hoax"
3. "There's no need to call in, we don't really need or want your money"
2. "And now, tonight's episode of Masterpiece Theatre, starring Kevin James and Adam Sandler"
1. "For One Night Only: Betty White Nude!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 11:15 PM (miE9U)
The fact that the parents are still alive is a pretty good indicator that your "inheritable trait" theory is bollocks. And, once again, for it to be a sin, an action (or failure to accomplish a required action) must be intentional and willful.
Posted by: tankdemon
Um, no, it doesn't. Inheritance has prior reference.
Intentional action has as we know in some cases, possibly suicidal tendencies, an inheritable component, yes or no?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:16 PM (ZejZP)
Nah, couple days in Purgatory and he's golden.
Posted by: irongrampa at December 16, 2018 11:12 PM (S/hVx)
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We could get Muldoon out in a jiffy if we set up a GoFundMe to raise a nice fat indulgence. Does the Vatican accept PayPal?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 16, 2018 11:16 PM (93ZJL)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 11:16 PM (KP5rU)
Please point out said rubric. Please be very specific as to how you came about your "conclusions" from said rubric.
Posted by: Calm Mentor
It's in the orginal post.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:17 PM (ZejZP)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 11:17 PM (miE9U)
5. "Presenting Ken Burns' latest miniseries, 20 hour-long episodes on the greatness and groundbreaking innovation of the Trump presidency"
4. "Frontline investigates: Whether people actually eat and enjoy Nutella or it's just a giant hoax"
3. "There's no need to call in, we don't really need or want your money"
2. "And now, tonight's episode of Masterpiece Theatre, starring Kevin James and Adam Sandler"
1. "For One Night Only: Betty White Nude!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve
Who leaked the Memo?
Posted by: PBS at December 16, 2018 11:17 PM (LOq4H)
I can't read those words without hearing Handel's Messiah
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 16, 2018 11:15 PM (IDhUW)
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Show-off. I just keep picturing Linus and his blanket.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 16, 2018 11:18 PM (93ZJL)
******
My father was an inveterate punster. I inherited it from him. And I expect to see him again when I cross over Jordan. Come hell or high water.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:18 PM (m45I2)
Well, enjoy the last few years of this interlude in human civilization in which video and audio recordings constitute evidence that a thing actually happened.
Once Deep Fake Technology prevails, we will live as our distant ancestors did: trusting only the immediate evidence of our senses. All video and audio must be regarded as fake.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2018 11:18 PM (oGNNA)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 16, 2018 11:19 PM (IDhUW)
The last couple of funerals I went to were United Methodist.
I left completely empty and bewildered. Guess I'm use to teh Lutheran sin & gospel messages
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:19 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 16, 2018 11:15 PM (xss3U)
See? Nothing like The Classics.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:19 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:17 PM (ZejZP)
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I'm not that bright. I read it and did not see it. Please quote it, and tell the class how you got from A to Z from it. Very specifically.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 11:20 PM (ffYR/)
Passing on genes is unavoidable. I doubt that could ever be a sin. I have a 100% genetic disease. I don't blame my parent's. Specificly my mother she had the gene that is a 50% chance of being passed on. Life is worth it even with shitty genetics. So kindly fuck off.
Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable at December 16, 2018 11:20 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 11:21 PM (KP5rU)
A lot of the income tax action is done through automatic actions either from a flag from an institution, or an agent going through a list. A good tax attorney knows what can be done, and how to do it.
But get a good one, a bad one is just doing it for billable hours and hoping that the IRS will give up.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2018 11:21 PM (mUa7G)
Posted by: Calm Mentor
No, you tell me: is a the funeral of a child the proper place to incorrectly declare said child a mortal sinner?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:22 PM (ZejZP)
It's entirely possible however that I will be remanded without bail.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:22 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:18 PM (m45I2)
Maybe Moses will pave your way through the Jordan.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:23 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: mikeyG at December 16, 2018 11:23 PM (LL1Be)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:13 PM (fDU8w)
I checked, and indeed there are. You can probably find one applicable to your exact make and model of clock.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:23 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:23 PM (aA3+G)
You go to Purgatory, recite about 5 of your puns, you'll be out in the world in no time.
Posted by: Panhandler at December 16, 2018 11:24 PM (tsY/M)
Posted by: Muldoon a
Warned ya about the paper trail.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 11:24 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 16, 2018 11:25 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:13 PM (fDU8w)
I checked, and indeed there are. You can probably find one applicable to your exact make and model of clock.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:23 PM (fDU8w)
Thanks. I'll have to look for that.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 11:25 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:13 PM (fDU8w
Geez, I read that as "electric chair repair."
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 11:25 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:23 PM (aA3+G)
A spork shank from The Bluebell Collection.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:25 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 11:26 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 16, 2018 11:26 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:22 PM (ZejZP)
Absolutely, if in fact the child was a mortal sinner. Indeed, that might relieve some of the unearned guilt laid upon the parents by the child's selfish act of suicide.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:26 PM (fDU8w)
My current all-time favorite British comedy is "Brexit".
Posted by: RickZ
The only thing missing is Benny Hill chasing some big breasted beauties while Yakkity Sax is playing.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2018 11:26 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:18 PM (m45I2)
Maybe Moses will pave your way through the Jordan.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:23 PM (Y8PSl)
Is there a better way?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:26 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Calm Mentor
No, you tell me: is a the funeral of a child the proper place to incorrectly declare said child a mortal sinner?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:22 PM (ZejZP)
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Answer my question, and I will then answer yours. Unless, of course, you can't, in which case you will keep asking questions as responses.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 11:26 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2018 11:27 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 16, 2018 11:28 PM (+y/Ru)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074467885630803968
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074468358022672384
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074468700810608640
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074469028540936192
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074469382854725632
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1074469706676035584
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 10:44 PM (0Ntuf)
Damn I want one of those. Does it come with the flame thrower??
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2018 11:28 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: some rat
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'Tuning Up Ol' Sparky'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2018 11:28 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2018 11:26 PM (aKsyK)
Again with The Classics.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:28 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:16 PM (ZejZP)
Even if I were to concede the point, (which has all the substance of a shadow,) that does not in any way, shape, or form implicate a third party as having any responsibility for that intentional action, regardless the relationship the third party might have with the actor. So, no, the parents cannot be considered guilty of murder simply for having a child who commits suicide.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2018 11:29 PM (wlVmf)
Posted by: RickZ
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If he's laying asphalt in this town, he'd better be mobbed up. But He's Moses, so I have confidence.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:29 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 16, 2018 11:30 PM (c1nDO)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 11:30 PM (LOq4H)
We have a LOT of money invested in taking bribes from pot farmers and we NEED everybody to keep it illegal IN ALL 50 STATES.
Otherwise my idiot nephew might have to get a real job.
Posted by: Canadian Government and Media at December 16, 2018 11:30 PM (76Nxz)
Bout some time of his in Purgatory
Though bound with a ton of laps 'round yon sun
He punned his way out and to Glory
/fortelling
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2018 11:30 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: tankdemon
So maybe the priest sinned in condemning their child to hell because an act that might have been out of the child's control?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:32 PM (ZejZP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:13 PM (fDU8w)
I checked, and indeed there are. You can probably find one applicable to your exact make and model of clock.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:23 PM (fDU8w)
Do you think clock repair is covered by any of those "adulting" classes?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2018 11:32 PM (wlVmf)
I can't judge, I'll leave that to God, life is hard, we should be kind.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 16, 2018 11:33 PM (IDhUW)
2. "And now, tonight's episode of Masterpiece Theatre, starring Kevin James and Adam Sandler"
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Very funny qdpsteve.
The only thing that would make it a bit better is... "And now, tonight's episode of Masterpiece Theatre, starring Kevin James and Adam Sandler in the BBC Production of Shakespeare's Othello."
Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2018 11:34 PM (UyW0o)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:29 PM (m45I2)
The Brisket Family exists and operates under the radar of law enforcement.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:34 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow
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Possibly doable for me and Missus M. E-mail me at seamus underscoremuldoon at yahoo dotcom.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:35 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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I'm guessing it would be "sand contacts."
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 11:30 PM (LOq4H)
And buy natural sponges.
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:35 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: SMH at December 16, 2018 11:35 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: RickZ
The only thing missing is Benny Hill chasing some big breasted beauties while Yakkity Sax is playing.
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Benny Hill> Brexit.
Posted by: shibumi at December 16, 2018 11:35 PM (UyW0o)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:36 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2018 11:27 PM (xSo9G)
I always thought you "cleaned a guy's clock" by making a fist and hitting
Huh. Who knew?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2018 11:37 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 11:37 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable at December 16, 2018 11:37 PM (0OmEj)
With any luck, there won't be any more Hollywood actor-celebrities either. Talented people of any age, any appearance, who can voice a part and squinch up facial muscles while they're covered with a net full of little sensors will do perfectly. The animators and body models will be the next Meryl Streeps and Robert de Niros.
What can't be faked is live theater, live ballet, live intimate concerts. Things like this may roar up in popularity if we find ourselves craving an unfakable sort of entertainment.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2018 11:37 PM (oGNNA)
Number two: I did trouble-shooting on the non-working cruise control, and determined that a faulty switch on the brake master cylinder was the cause of it. Jumpered the switch out of the circuit, and the cruise control works perfectly, including shutting off when the brake pedal is tapped. I will replace the faulty switch, and restore the wiring to the as-found state, though, because that switch must have some function. Maybe a backup to the pedal-mounted switch?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:38 PM (fDU8w)
Selfish? Yes but being selfish is not always bad. A woman who just suffered a miscarriage needs to be selfish. My best friend just lost her husband of 20 years, her needs are more important than mine at the moment.
Stupid? No. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. I'm not living my life for you. If I decide life is too painful to continue, ending it is right and the decision is beyond your judgment of smart or stupid. Would you rather be tortured to death or suicide by poison? No offense, but I'm tired of people who "had a bad year" act like they are an authority on the amount of physical emotional and spiritual pain someone should tolerate, someone who has no memory of a day without agony.
Evil? My father died of cancer. Last 6 months were raw hell. Listening to him scream all night, retching so violently that he was reduced to tears. Thankfully, hospice gave him a morphine drip and ended it. Finally.
His law partner and best friend witnessed it all. Got diagnosed with the same cancer a year later. He chose a good bottle of bourbon and then ate a shotgun. I dont blame it a bit.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 16, 2018 11:38 PM (xss3U)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2018 11:38 PM (aKsyK)
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And good razors
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 16, 2018 11:36 PM (aA3+G)
Yep. That pretty much covers 'tuning up Ol' Sparky'.
ROLL ONE!
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:38 PM (Y8PSl)
For once I had all the tools.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2018 11:38 PM (mUa7G)
Answer my question, and I will then answer yours. Unless, of course, you can't, in which case you will keep asking questions as responses.
Posted by: Calm Mentor
No, I will not.
The priest intentionally inflicted pain upon the grieving parents. He used a poorly applied tenet to elevate his position.
If there's a mortal sin involved here, it's the priest's own.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:38 PM (ZejZP)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at December 16, 2018 11:39 PM (c1nDO)
Allegorical - a limerick
I once spent two days in Purgatory
If I may, let me tell you the story
It was hot, it was cold
Caused by man, so I'm told
Altogether the place was too Al- Gorey.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:39 PM (m45I2)
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Saul persecuted Christians right and left and unto death. Then he became Paul on the road to Damascus and, apparently, all was forgiven.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 16, 2018 11:39 PM (+y/Ru)
Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide.
2283 We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives. (1037)
This is part of the official teaching of the Church regarding suicide. One nice thing about the Church is that there are resources available to learn what the Church actually teaches.
Posted by: Terentia at December 16, 2018 11:39 PM (0ArPO)
We owe them $8500: $6850 for the taxes, $1370 for a "Substantial tax understatement penalty", and $309 in interest.
Merry Christmas to us....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
Heartless. I am so sorry that this has to be added to your pain.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2018 11:39 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2018 11:28 PM (9Om/r)
In the words of The Empress; "The Flamethrower is nice too"
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2018 11:40 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 16, 2018 11:40 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:32 PM (ZejZP)
The priest did not condemn the child to Hell. He expressed the opinion that the child condemned himself to Hell, but he cannot know the mind of God.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:41 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: SMH at December 16, 2018 11:41 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 16, 2018 11:41 PM (LOq4H)
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That sounds right to me.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 16, 2018 11:41 PM (+y/Ru)
One question for now is, which side is going to be the first to sabotage the
other with Deep Fake Technology? I.e., which is the Stupid Party, and
which is the Lying Party? Which side counsels patience and
bipartisanship, and which side is willing to do bad?
If you have any doubt, which side in the US has perfected the art of
ballot harvesting, and which side is wringing its hands, shocked that
such a thing was done? Which countries blandly lie about their
commitments in trade and nukes, and which countries give them another
chance?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2018 11:42 PM (oGNNA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZVWIELHQQY
Posted by: Hermey, Aspiring Dentalologist at December 16, 2018 11:42 PM (MouFt)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Intentional infliction of cruelty is which kind of sin again?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:43 PM (ZejZP)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 16, 2018 11:33 PM (IDhUW)
Perfect. Thank you.
'night.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 16, 2018 11:43 PM (t+qrx)
The best. Thing he could have done is to aknowlge the churches stance.
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In the funeral speech?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2018 11:43 PM (oGNNA)
******
My father was an inveterate punster. I inherited it from him. And I expect to see him again when I cross over Jordan. Come hell or high water.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:18 PM (m45I2)
The son of Muldoon
sat punning on a dune.
Not caring that morons were moaning,
he continued in the gloaming,
carving a Celtic rune.
Posted by: Deacon Bleau at December 16, 2018 11:44 PM (yScAF)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 16, 2018 11:37 PM (oGNNA)
Live sex shows making a comeback? Leave us out of it.
Posted by: Donkeys in Tijuana at December 16, 2018 11:44 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:32 PM (ZejZP)
Wow, I could have sworn the goalposts were just in drinking me a few seconds ago. I wonder how they got moved into the parking lot.
Maybe not the most sensitive way to go about it, but I don't think pointing out what Church doctrine states could ever be considered sinful.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2018 11:44 PM (wlVmf)
Pining away for the next world at the expense of this one is a sin for the same reason. Forsaking this world for the next is contrary to the will of God. He did not put us here to cloister ourselves in a monestary and insulate our souls in a bubble. And yet...
"Thing he could have done is to aknowlge the churches stance. Imho that is his job."
Did the Catholics at the Catholic funeral not already know that by heart?
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 16, 2018 11:46 PM (xss3U)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:43 PM (ZejZP)
But is that intentional infliction of cruelty, or is it an attempt (maybe ill-advised or clumsy) to lift the burden of guilt laid upon the shoulders of the family by the selfish actions of the deceased?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2018 11:46 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Calm Mentor
No, I will not.
The priest intentionally inflicted pain upon the grieving parents. He used a poorly applied tenet to elevate his position.
If there's a mortal sin involved here, it's the priest's own.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2018 11:38 PM (ZejZP)
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You won't even explain the logic used to in your twisted way call parents of kids who have committed suicide murderers?
I'm done with you. Never thought you were a troll to date, but on this issue you have been, IMO.
Have a night, and I hope you live in interesting times.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 11:46 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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It's always in 'Snooze' mode.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2018 11:47 PM (CDGwz)
But still, it's good that it's legal now cause then people, people, people . . . . *what was I going to say?*
Oh Yeah. People won't get arrested and have their lives ruined over smoking an herb, man.
And of course twenty years later you won't remember shit anyway.
At least I don't, man.
It's all cool and stuff.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 16, 2018 11:47 PM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: Hermey, Aspiring Dentalologist at December 16, 2018 11:48 PM (MouFt)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 16, 2018 11:48 PM (IDhUW)
It happens elsewhere too. When my father passed away the Lutheran pastor officiating had only been at the church a few years and turned out to be a fire and brimstone type. He said very little about who my father had been and instead focused on how poor, broken, sinful humans should be grateful for God's grace. God's grace true--but by the end of his homily it sounded as if my dad had been a recently released felon. It still makes me angry even after nearly 15 years.
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 16, 2018 11:48 PM (JK7Jw)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 11:49 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 16, 2018 11:49 PM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:50 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:52 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2018 11:53 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: G-d at December 16, 2018 11:53 PM (QIABA)
2283 We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives. (1037)
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Thanks for posting this.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 16, 2018 11:53 PM (IDhUW)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 11:54 PM (KP5rU)
My father died of cancer. Last 6 months were raw hell. Listening to him scream all night, retching so violently that he was reduced to tears. Thankfully, hospice gave him a morphine drip and ended it. Finally.
His law partner and best friend witnessed it all. Got diagnosed with the same cancer a year later. He chose a good bottle of bourbon and then ate a shotgun. I dont blame it a bit.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 16, 2018 11:38 PM (xss3U)
I was going to say that when I was diagnosed with cancer a year ago, I thought of those poor people on 9/11, many of whom were young, healthy, and in the prime of their lives, and were suddenly faced with immediate death.
I thought that I was much more fortunate than they were. I still do. My cancer hasn't gotten that bad, yet.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2018 11:54 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable at December 16, 2018 11:54 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:50 PM (m45I2)
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I have left this up to my daughter, withe the warning that a cremation will take several days of her life up. A true Irish Funeral.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 11:55 PM (ffYR/)
This is to ensure a future supply of people in general (like being pretty tough anyway back in the days of the formation of the Church) and Catholics in particular.
Of course when agriculture and medicine improved and the populations began rising and becoming a problem, the Church refused to revisit it's previous edicts and things have gotten out of hand in many places
I think suicide is sad, wasteful and an indication of a void in that person's life generally.
In some cases it could be justifiable.
That the priest chose the funeral to pontificate upon that subject shows bad taste and even worse humanity and just plain lack of kindness.
Got may have a punishment for suicides but it's not up to those left behind to do anything to the families who are going through the experience.
One of the many problems I have with the Catholic church.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 16, 2018 11:55 PM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 16, 2018 11:55 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at December 16, 2018 11:56 PM (uDcBt)
* I said most funerals. If Ted Bundy had a funeral, what part of his life could be celebrated? 'He had great pick-up lines'? 'He was a real knock-out'?
Posted by: RickZ at December 16, 2018 11:57 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:50 PM (m45I2)
That just added time to your Purgatory sentence.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 16, 2018 11:57 PM (wlVmf)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 16, 2018 11:54 PM (KP5rU)
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Nah. Great people here, overall. Just my opinion.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 11:57 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: kalneva at December 16, 2018 11:58 PM (qU1DE)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas a
*******
Threadwinner!
Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2018 11:58 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 16, 2018 11:55 PM (ffYR/)
Cremation....nah, bro. Ima gonna be mulched.
It'd be a sin to let 210 lb. of pure B.S. go to waste now, wouldn't it?
Oh, hell, started another theoillogical debate. Sorry.
But, while we're on the topic. Is Teh Barrel really Purgatory, or is Purgatory really Teh Barrel?
Intoxicated minds wanna know! *hic!*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2018 11:58 PM (QzJWU)
You mean tell a story about a drunk one eyed sheriff and some pushy little chick who thinks she knows it all and generally is a pain in the ass about it?
*to this day i've always thought rooster should have just left her in the desert and saved everybody a lot of grief.*
Posted by: jakee308 at December 16, 2018 11:58 PM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2018 11:59 PM (qkPKq)
Created in love, for love, by God, life must be respected from conception to final breath for the sake of the righteousness of the Lord.
Any conscious, deliberate taking of human life therefore must be viewed as a mortal sin, but always with God's grace and mercy available to the sinner.
Posted by: Deacon Bleau at December 17, 2018 12:01 AM (yScAF)
I always wanted to replace the hood things on a 57 chevy with real .30 cal mgs.
For those times when pedestrians get out of hand.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:01 AM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: Vertov at December 17, 2018 12:01 AM (mDieY)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 17, 2018 12:01 AM (KP5rU)
The priest should have told the attendees of the young man's funeral that while the Church once considered any suicide wrong, the Church now recognizes suicide has many causes and that there is successful treatment, and that the attendees should think about their relatives and friends who might be heading that way.
There is still a stigma attached to admitting anyone in the family has mental problems and every attempt to hide those problems in the closet is still made. We've made a lot of progress in the last few decades. The day will come when depression or bipolar is accepted as just one more of those quirks that make us human and they can be treated -- just like allergies or other common ailments.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 17, 2018 12:01 AM (GefzX)
Posted by: torabora
Two tons of steel doesn't help either.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 17, 2018 12:01 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 17, 2018 12:01 AM (KP5rU)
Weft is the cheese grater of thought in the HQ
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:02 AM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: torabora at December 16, 2018 11:59 PM (qkPKq)
So, you're saying that bayonet lug up on my hood is in bad taste?
Or is it the mounted bayonet?
*consults etiquette guide*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 12:02 AM (QzJWU)
Cremation....nah, bro. Ima gonna be mulched.
It'd be a sin to let 210 lb. of pure B.S. go to waste now, wouldn't it?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
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Jim, I have a recurring fantasy about delivering Al Gore's eulogy.
*ahem*
"Today, our dearly departed Al Gore reduced his carbon footprint of 320 some-odd pounds by slipping into the loving embrace of Mother Gaia."
Posted by: Muldoon at December 17, 2018 12:03 AM (m45I2)
Seeing a man wearing a hoodie with only three words printed on it - "Rob the Rich"
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 17, 2018 12:03 AM (kzoEk)
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at December 17, 2018 12:04 AM (9TR2V)
Jim, I have a recurring fantasy about delivering Al Gore's eulogy.
*ahem*
"Today, our dearly departed Al Gore reduced his carbon footprint of 320 some-odd pounds by slipping into the loving embrace of Mother Gaia."
"As he was left hanging naked in snow leopard country."
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 17, 2018 12:05 AM (LOq4H)
They should drop him without a casket from about 10,000 feet.
He'll make a nice impact crater that will eventually fill up and become a pond. Good for the ecology and provide some nurturing for frogs and ducks.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:05 AM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:06 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Deacon Bleau at December 17, 2018 12:06 AM (yScAF)
Seeing a man wearing a hoodie with only three words printed on it - "Rob the Rich"
*******
Perhaps you are misreading it. Might just be identifying himself as having done well in the stock market.
Sort of like:
"Larry the Affluent"
Posted by: Muldoon at December 17, 2018 12:06 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 17, 2018 12:03 AM (kzoEk)
Kind of self-defeating to rob the poor, ain't it?
Things willie sutton said.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:06 AM (fDU8w)
Is that a mission statement or a political position?
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:06 AM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: rickl at December 17, 2018 12:06 AM (sdi6R)
*ahem*
"Today, our dearly departed Al Gore reduced his carbon footprint of 320 some-odd pounds by slipping into the loving embrace of Mother Gaia."
Posted by: Muldoon at December 17, 2018 12:03 AM (m45I2)
I earnestly pray that your fantasy would come to pass in our present world.
But, on a bitter cold -13 day in a howling blizzard in Gore's native Tennessee. In August.
Your "Glowbull Wormening" eulogy would be epic!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 12:06 AM (QzJWU)
Nowadays we might think it would be fantastic if we had actual audio and
video of, say, Queen Elizabeth I or Jesus Christ or Genghis Khan!
Future generations won't care about fakable records of . . . us.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2018 12:07 AM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Vertov at December 17, 2018 12:01 AM (mDieY)
Maybe when Fran Tarkington passes.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2018 12:07 AM (wlVmf)
USCG will arrest your ass.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:09 AM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:09 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Deacon Bleau at December 17, 2018 12:09 AM (yScAF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:09 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Vertov at December 17, 2018 12:01 AM (mDieY)
Maybe when Fran Tarkington passes.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2018 12:07 AM (wlVmf)
I hereby declare this comment WORTHY!
*pours tankdemon a drink*
SalllllUTE!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 12:09 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:10 AM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: rickl at December 17, 2018 12:06 AM (sdi6R)
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I never had either. Until this unexplained dustup tonight.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 17, 2018 12:10 AM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 17, 2018 12:11 AM (kzoEk)
Norsemen has a scene where a dead king is covered in oil then shoved off in the boat.
No one could hit the boat with the flaming arrow.
Posted by: navybrat, on a mission from Odin at December 17, 2018 12:11 AM (w7KSn)
I'm always surprised things like this are allowed to be published.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 17, 2018 12:11 AM (/qEW2)
Nowadays we might think it would be fantastic if we had actual audio and
video of, say, Queen Elizabeth I or Jesus Christ or Genghis Khan!
Future generations won't care about fakable records of . . . us.
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This is why I am happy with my dead tree library. I know when it was published and what it said before the PC error, um, era.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2018 12:11 AM (IDhUW)
Insensitive. Like subjecting a 14 year old victim of a brutal gang rape to a vaginal and anal cavity search.
That kind of "insensitive" ?
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 12:11 AM (xss3U)
Hair + Anus + unfortunate orientation. All came into play
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:12 AM (H5Y9p)
No one could hit the boat with the flaming arrow.
Kinda stolen from Game Of Thrones.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:12 AM (ykYG2)
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 12:09 AM (QzJWU)
Thank you. Considering the topic, I assume that drink you poured is mead.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2018 12:13 AM (wlVmf)
Endeavour to persevere.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 17, 2018 12:13 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Usntakim profoundly deplorable at December 17, 2018 12:13 AM (0OmEj)
I've waxed philosophical, but to return to the immediate concerns: I
guarantee, Republicans/conservatives/the US will be the first to be
punked by Deep Fake technology. We'll be punked first, punked hard, and
punked long. Marco Rubio is trying to sound the alarm. Is anyone
listening?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2018 12:13 AM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 12:14 AM (xss3U)
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 12:14 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 12:15 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 17, 2018 12:15 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Deacon Bleau at December 17, 2018 12:09 AM (yScAF)
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No need to do that
Your comments are read, even when you don't get a response
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2018 12:15 AM (IDhUW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:15 AM (fDU8w)
Viking funerals can't be done anymore due to International Rules of Navigation.
USCG will arrest your ass.
Heh. Bet you the Kennedy's could get away with it.
Posted by: Vertov at December 17, 2018 12:15 AM (mDieY)
This is why I am happy with my dead tree library. I know when it was published and what it said before the PC error, um, era.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2018 12:11 AM (IDhUW
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Oh yeah. Audio and video records of Donald Trump, Madonna, the 9/11 attack? Meh,
who'd believe it? We'll need hand-written diaries, testimony of
old-timers, human stuff. This wild foray into virtual humanity may get us back in touch with each other.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2018 12:16 AM (oGNNA)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:17 AM (H5Y9p)
I fear a non-objective press, and snakes, oh, and heights. Really fear heights.
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 17, 2018 12:17 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:15 AM (fDU8w)
In a blow to the patriarchy, the unblemished streak of biological women winning the Miss Universe pageant continues.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2018 12:18 AM (wlVmf)
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Shit. Please use tinyurl or bitly for long links.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 17, 2018 12:18 AM (ffYR/)
Some of you know I've been to the verge. I won't judge anyone who goes through with it, because I can understand the state of mind, even if I'm not that good at explaining it.
That priest, whatever his beliefs were, dropped the ball. The funeral is to comfort those left behind and allow them to mourn, not to condemn the deceased.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 17, 2018 12:19 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:17 AM (H5Y9p)
Well said.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 17, 2018 12:19 AM (wlVmf)
Texas boy here, planning on an escape from DC . I miss the Gulf. Stayed in a rental house on beach the winter before the hurricane swept everything away. It was so peaceful and especially devoid of idiot tourists.
I'm looking to spend the week of March 25th there again. Please advise - am k going to be dealing with spring break craziness?
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 12:19 AM (xss3U)
..............^^^^^^
Would that be like a clown car?
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:19 AM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2018 12:15 AM (IDhUW)
Yeah, it took me some time to accept that.
Of course, these days, I hardly comment at all...
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 17, 2018 12:20 AM (rJUlF)
"Viking funerals can't be done anymore due to International Rules of Navigation."
5 sacks of Kingsford, 20 Pres-to-logs, 5 gallons of gas, the SUV of your choice ... and an entrance ramp to a congested Interstate, during rush hour. Light, push hard. QED.
Posted by: Jean-Pierre Folderol, Member, The League of Ugly Shirted Gentlemen at December 17, 2018 12:20 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:21 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 17, 2018 12:19 AM (rJUlF)
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Exactly this. He should have declined to preside over the mass, rather than espousing his views at a sensitive time.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 17, 2018 12:22 AM (ffYR/)
394 I always pretend my comments are such bon mots of wisdom and insight that other commenters are struck dumb with awe and are unable to respond to them to give me the respect I am due.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:17 AM (H5
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I am struck speechless by the wisdom and insight of this comment. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2018 12:22 AM (IDhUW)
Shit. Please use tinyurl or bitly for long links.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 17, 2018 12:18 AM (ffYR/)
The link wasn't that long. You're getting to be quite a scold.
Posted by: rickl at December 17, 2018 12:22 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 17, 2018 12:18 AM (ffYR/)
that link is exactly the same length as the first line in Blonde Morticia's comment directly above. Neither wrap around when viewed on my computer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:23 AM (fDU8w)
That so cries out for a My Fair Lady reboot.
Two privileged white SJWs eager on whether they can feminize a local dock worker.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 12:23 AM (xss3U)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 17, 2018 12:24 AM (GefzX)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 12:24 AM (xss3U)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 12:19 AM (xss3U)
Galveston business owners "dealt with" Spring Break, by mostly shuttering the storefronts and putting out "Closed for Maintenance" signs.
Took two or three years, but the message got out.
You won't run into very much Spring Break craziness here, nowdays.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 12:25 AM (QzJWU)
That so cries out for a My Fair Lady reboot.
Two privileged white SJWs eager on whether they can feminize a local dock worker.
Posted by: Fenrisulven
OMG! I am so on board with this! Broadway there you go!
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 17, 2018 12:26 AM (LOq4H)
FFS tonite's Emmanuel Goldstein has been identified: let's all pile on!!!
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at December 17, 2018 12:04 AM (9TR2V
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Kind of funny to watch the pile-on while I'm listening to that Craig Ferguson monologue.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2018 12:26 AM (oGNNA)
Shit flows downhill.
I think Calm Mentor has had his claimed attitude interfered with to the point where he has gone off the rails and into the weeds.
Do like as if you were in a car. Turn off the engine and get out and assess your position before taking any further action.
Or just dance around, and jump about
raise your voice and scream and shout
That works too sometimes.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:26 AM (H5Y9p)
If there are hyphens in the url, I usually just dump the url in here. PixyWare 0.7 Alpha knows to wrap those around, at least.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:27 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: irongrampa at December 17, 2018 12:27 AM (S/hVx)
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This is ... awesome.
Posted by: Typical Hollywood Producer at December 17, 2018 12:28 AM (UyW0o)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 17, 2018 12:18 AM (ffYR/)
The link wasn't that long. You're getting to be quite a scold.
Posted by: rickl at December 17, 2018 12:22 AM (sdi6R)
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You must be confusing me with someone else. First off, I asked nicely. Second off, Where have I scolded anyone for anything in recent memory? Please advise.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 17, 2018 12:28 AM (ffYR/)
Well, they had the advantage of knowing that the punishment coming was going to be much worse so doing it your self was an improvement.
Most suicide in previous days was to beat the hangman to the punch. And in some cases preserved the lives and fortunes of ones progeny.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:28 AM (H5Y9p)
Posted by: Lisa Ann, Kourtney Kane, and Jessica Jaymes at December 17, 2018 12:29 AM (Fh/kv)
*looking pointedly at Anna, and at the barrel*
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:30 AM (ykYG2)
If Pixy will let me post the original link I do because too many in the past have been ambushed and gotten malware. If Pixy kicks it back, then I select the Preview version of TinyURL to post.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 17, 2018 12:31 AM (kzoEk)
Posted by: Splunge at December 17, 2018 12:31 AM (Vb4BV)
I always pretend my comments are such bon mots of wisdom and insight
that other commenters are struck dumb with awe and are unable to respond
to them to give me the respect I am due.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:17 AM (H5Y9p
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See, I just can't top this. I'll make an exception this time and post in to say so.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2018 12:31 AM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Lisa Ann, Kourtney Kane, and Jessica Jaymes at December 17, 2018 12:31 AM (Fh/kv)
Luke Chrisco. Where is he now?
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:33 AM (H5Y9p)
I've waxed
>>>>>>
*makes room on the bed for the Blonde Ette*
Posted by: Lisa Ann, Kourtney Kane, and Jessica Jaymes at December 17, 2018 12:29 AM (Fh/kv
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Make room for philosophical, too! He's got three heads and he smells, but he hates being left out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2018 12:33 AM (oGNNA)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:27 AM (ykYG2)
1. it's tedious to count characters, period
2. it's impossible to know how many characters is too many for a "phone" to display, especially for those of us who don't use phones for browsing the HQ
3. when I post a real long link, I insert two spaces in the middle of a recognizable "word" in the link URL. I figure a reader who sees a "word" broken up will twig onto the added spaces more easily, than if they fall where non-letter characters are part of the URL.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:33 AM (fDU8w)
Whether it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...
To sleep perchance to dream...
Maybe our torments do not end with suicide.
Maybe they continue, so suicide is not a solution to the suffering caused by the slings and arrows of our outrageous fortunes.
Will was a smart guy.
Posted by: Waepnedmann at December 17, 2018 12:34 AM (5NBJB)
Legions of failed businesses would have been profitable if they could just
****
FIFY
Posted by: Publius Redux at December 17, 2018 12:34 AM (5zfA2)
Posted by: Bluto Blutarsky at December 17, 2018 12:35 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Splunge at December 17, 2018 12:35 AM (Vb4BV)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 17, 2018 12:35 AM (2PXwn)
Six years is steep for what he did, but my understanding is that he annoyed the judge.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:36 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 17, 2018 12:37 AM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 17, 2018 12:35 AM (2PXwn)
Not sure, but I think URLs were involved somehow.
Posted by: Splunge at December 17, 2018 12:37 AM (Vb4BV)
He also had some previous brushes with the law. I didn't know he'd got sentenced.
I did know it's been awhile. I remember the incident and then your nic showing up here some time afterward.
Always amuses and makes me go "ewwwwww".
Posted by: jakee308 at December 17, 2018 12:39 AM (H5Y9p)
Six years is steep for what he did, but my understanding is that he annoyed the judge.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:36 AM (ykYG2)
Looked him up. It's cute that they think "medication" will cure that fucker.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:39 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 17, 2018 12:39 AM (kzoEk)
I know that the gumdrop gorilla here thought I was too good for this nic, bless her, wherever she is.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:43 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:15 AM (fDU8w)
Watching the Miss Universe contest seems a lot less interesting when blended with the secondary contest of "spot the Tranny." The first game seems fun, but I've never actually enjoyed the second one. Why combine them?
Posted by: Splunge at December 17, 2018 12:43 AM (Vb4BV)
I know that the gumdrop gorilla here thought I was too good for this nic, bless her, wherever she is.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 12:43 AM (ykYG2)
It is one of the great nics of all time. Why mess with success?
Posted by: Splunge at December 17, 2018 12:44 AM (Vb4BV)
The best sign that a business is thriving is "delaying of payments to suppliers." That always, always ends well.
Posted by: Splunge at December 17, 2018 12:35 AM (Vb4BV
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That's another phase of our modern era (cf. my comments about Deep Fake technology and the death of Hollywood celebrities) that will, with any luck, end soon.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2018 12:44 AM (oGNNA)
This is why I am happy with my dead tree library. I know when it was published and what it said before the PC error, um, era.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 17, 2018 12:11 AM (IDhUW)
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Does anybody here remember that during the early days of Barky's regime of terror, the feds published a rule that children's books could not be donated or resold in used book stores, something about the paper might harm somebody if they chewed on it so all older children's books had to be destroyed?
For awhile there, used book stores and Goodwill stores, etc., were making a big deal out of dumping all their children's books into dumpsters.
Did the rule ever get rescinded? Are people just ignoring it?
Posted by: Boots at December 17, 2018 12:44 AM (e9omi)
How does anyone know that Miss Thailand hasn't been a tranny in the contest for years now??
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 17, 2018 12:44 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 17, 2018 12:46 AM (2PXwn)
Thanks Jim. Its really important to me. A girl that was the Sun In My Sky for 30 years just experienced every woman's worst nightmare. Her husband of 20 years has had a mistress for 2 years and not only is he dumping her after giving him the best years of her life, he decieved her the entire time. She doesn't know what believe anymore, her whole world is upside down. It just kills me.
So I'm taking her to Galveston for a week of soul searching and emotional therapy. 7-10 days in an alternate reality. The fewer people sharing it, the better.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 12:47 AM (xss3U)
Please address Congress, if Sandra Flucke can, why not a horde member?
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 17, 2018 12:37 AM (LOq4H)
****
Heh . . .To bastardize Groucho Marx's " I would not want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member": I would not want to address any body that had that body in front of it before me.
Posted by: Publius Redux at December 17, 2018 12:49 AM (5zfA2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:50 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Publius Redux
Demand they Clorox the chair she sat in, should be good!
Posted by: some rat in the swamp at December 17, 2018 12:51 AM (LOq4H)
Does anybody here remember that during the early days of Barky's regime of terror, the feds published a rule that children's books could not be donated or resold in used book stores, something about the paper might harm somebody if they chewed on it so all older children's books had to be destroyed?
For awhile there, used book stores and Goodwill stores, etc., were making a big deal out of dumping all their children's books into dumpsters.
Posted by: Boots at December 17, 2018 12:44 AM (e9omi)
That was done purely for the purpose of memory-holing traditional children's books and replacing them with modern "woke" ones. Period. Full stop.
Posted by: rickl at December 17, 2018 12:52 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 12:47 AM (xss3U)
You're a gent, sir.
There WILL be some Spring Break increase in traffic, hotel occupancy, etc. It won't be placid, calm and serene.
But it won't be SPRING! BREAAAAAAKKK!, either.
Hope you've already reserved your room? And get with me prior to travel, and I'll clue you in as to some good eateries and such.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 12:53 AM (QzJWU)
That was done purely for the purpose of memory-holing traditional children's books and replacing them with modern "woke" ones. Period. Full stop.
Posted by: rickl
You mean it wasn't because they used lead-based ink?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2018 12:55 AM (aKsyK)
A foul-mouthed parrot, who was kicked out of an animal sanctuary for swearing too much, is using technology to cause even more trouble.
The Times of London reports Rocco, an African grey, has been using Amazon Alexa to shop online while his owner was away.
His owner, Marion Wishnewski told the newspaper she was shocked to find that her Amazon account suddenly had pending orders for various snacks, including watermelon and ice cream and also a kettle.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2018 12:57 AM (aKsyK)
You mean it wasn't because they used lead-based ink?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 17, 2018 12:55 AM (aKsyK)
It had as much to do with lead-based ink as climate science has to do with climate and not mandatory global socialism.
Posted by: rickl at December 17, 2018 12:58 AM (sdi6R)
The Viz comic comes to life. Bertie Blunt, Whose Parrot's a C -
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 01:01 AM (ykYG2)
I hope a Hawaiian judge will issue guidance this week.
Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2018 01:05 AM (C78No)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 17, 2018 01:06 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2018 01:08 AM (g0Lfb)
You may not be interested in LinkWar, but LinkWar is interested in you.
But I see in your eyes the fear that would take the heart of me. There may come a day when our Moron brothers succumb to the foul miasma of a Wraparound Link. Bit it is not this day! A day of woe when a Ban Hammer's shadow darkens engulfs our heart with dread and despair. But it is not this day!
I study LinkWar so that my children can study Mathmatics and Medicine, so that their children may study Painting and Poetry.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 01:09 AM (xss3U)
Something big whacked the backside of the moon around the south pole, forming the Aitken basin. The centre of the moon's gravity then moved to our side. Lava oceans filled up the main craters on our side, and then froze into basalt.
What I *haven't* heard explained is how come the Aitken basin isn't, also, a yuuuge basalt frozen lava ocean.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 01:11 AM (ykYG2)
Jim you're salt of the earth. Thank you..
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 01:13 AM (xss3U)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 01:15 AM (AllCR)
searching and emotional therapy. 7-10 days in an alternate reality.
The fewer people sharing it, the better.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 12:47 AM (xss3U)
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at which point in time she will go home with someone else.
save your money, buy alcohol.
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 17, 2018 01:15 AM (zJ7J0)
Posted by: Splunge at December 17, 2018 12:35 AM (Vb4BV)
I don't know about companies the size of Tesla, but a lot of smaller companies go out of business even when they're profitable on paper because of cash flow. Your last customer hasn't paid yet, so you can't buy supplies for the next job, then you start losing customers...
For this reason lot of companies don't pay their invoices until a letter comes from a lawyer. Or they get cut off. I worked for a software company once that had a mishmash of different computer brands because so many vendors refused to do business with us until they got paid.
In Telsa's case I would agree it's not a good sign, but it's possible they've changed SOP such that suppliers no longer get paid in a timely manner.
Posted by: Ace's liver at December 17, 2018 01:19 AM (h2Bdk)
The Viz comic comes to life. Bertie Blunt, Whose Parrot's a C -
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 01:01 AM (ykYG2)
*****
Beautiful birds African Greys . . . lovely plumage!
Posted by: The Dead Parrot Pet Shop guy at December 17, 2018 01:19 AM (5zfA2)
It's so nice to be here speculating about Deep Fake technology, debating suicide sermons, and instructing each other on the secrets of URL posting and not have to be gnashing our teeth at President Hillary's latest outrage. Every now and then it just hits me out of nowhere.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 17, 2018 01:20 AM (oGNNA)
Posted by: Ed Snyder at December 17, 2018 01:25 AM (BHEIf)
So, we were bound to get an interesting side. I wonder what history would have been like if the Moon had simply been a plain white light in the sky.
Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2018 01:26 AM (NpvYf)
That surprises me. I have known a number of Dutch Reformed (now called Reformed Church in America) pastors and they all have been sensitive folks. That pastors sounds like he was not one of them.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 01:26 AM (AllCR)
Wow; That's terrible. I'm sorry. I would call Tax relief or one of those companies that deals with things when the IRS is after you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 01:31 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 01:33 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: Ed Snyder at December 17, 2018 01:25 AM (BHEIf)
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Um, no. Not "favorably."
The quotations on the ONT are meant for discussion, not necessarily for endorsement.
MH might give us anything from the wisdom of George Washington to the senile babbling of Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 17, 2018 01:36 AM (Rxduq)
Posted by: Serious Cat at December 17, 2018 01:37 AM (GtG/j)
Posted by: Ed Snyder
Ed, have a seat.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2018 01:38 AM (ZejZP)
Posted by: Serious Cat at December 17, 2018 01:37 AM (GtG/j)
Happy 29th!!!
Posted by: Surfperch at December 17, 2018 01:38 AM (Aaxh4)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 17, 2018 01:40 AM (ju9gW)
Happy Birthday! It's my birthday too!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 01:43 AM (AllCR)
I know. Doesn't matter. It's True Love for me, 30 years of heartache for a soulmate who consigns me to the friend zone. Soon as she gets back on her feet she'll start taking me for granted again.
I'm going to do it anyway. Probably for the same reason parents don't abandon children that are always getting into trouble.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 01:45 AM (xss3U)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 17, 2018 01:48 AM (ykYG2)
Thanks; Earlier this week I went on the morning thread and asked those who post the morning mantle of misery )not J.J.'s links) to give me a birthday present by telling me one thing they're grateful for-really grateful for. In a few hours I'll have to go back there are tell them that if they're around for the art thread they can-if they're so inclined-to post something there.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 01:52 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 01:33 AM (AllCR)
You'd go to a Vet Tech when what you really need is a Board Certified M.D. in your field of malady?
/break
Fenrisuleven...
your 481. I get that. Seriously, I get that.
That said, seems you've got a week to break the pattern.
So, break the f'n pattern.
Don't let her "back on her feet".
Sweep HER off of HERS.
Doesn't take heroics or grand gestures. Does take some balls and the sense of risk of putting it all on the line.
You've burned thirty years?
You don't have thirty more to burn. Go big, or go home alone.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
p.s. listen to "Time", by Pink Floyd, "Dark Side of the Moon" album, with lyrics on the screen in front of you.
Three or four times.
More, if it takes more for you to get the message, sir.
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 01:56 AM (QzJWU)
Imagine! The two of you turning 29 on exactly the same day!!!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 17, 2018 01:57 AM (Rxduq)
You'd go to a Vet Tech when what you really need is a Board Certified M.D. in your field of malady?
I was endorsing your idea. I am not familiar with this area.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 01:58 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Yeah, I miss gumdrop. Did she flounce, or did she just fade away?
I hope she's okay.
Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at December 17, 2018 02:01 AM (QU+qf)
When I was 29 electricity had barely been invented.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 02:01 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 01:52 AM (AllCR)
I'm never on that thread, so missed your inquiry and request.
Simply though?
I'm thankful for AoS, very thankful for the ONT, and VERY thankful that YOU are a major part of the goings on, here.
And there's not a single milligram of exaggeration in that claim, either.
I'm not Catholic...but my respect for you, is that I'd be honored to worship beside you, even though you'd have to elbow me in the ribs to let me know when to stand or sit or kneel.
And regardless of "doctrine", I'd share the Lord's Supper alongside you, anytime.
You make this a MUCH better place, and I'm not only grateful...I'm thankful.
Humbled, too.
You're the real thing, Fen....regardless of denomination, doctrine, whatever.
If you're not a Sister in Christ, then I've never yet met one.
Honored to know you, ma'am.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 02:03 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: rickl
Amen. Bastards.
Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at December 17, 2018 02:04 AM (QU+qf)
Happy birthday to all peeps and double Christmas babies
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2018 02:04 AM (ZejZP)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 17, 2018 01:36 AM (Rxduq)
Why be redundant?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 17, 2018 02:09 AM (8iiMU)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2018 02:04 AM (ZejZP)
Weft, sometimes, you're a pain in the ass, and once, you were a thorn in my side.
But you're also a solid Hordeling, and contribute FAR more than you might detract.
Don't let tonight's kerfuffle get you down. And frankly, I more agreed with the side against you, but I'll damn well defend your standing here as "not troll" in the doing.
Sometimes, it's best if everyone tosses back a ceremonial drink, and just toast to "family" and all that entails.
So, to Family...
Cheers!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 02:09 AM (QzJWU)
Now to see what happened after midnight!
Posted by: cfo mom at December 17, 2018 02:09 AM (RfzVr)
Thanks; That's very kind of you. and sweet I do hope , however, that people were not thinking I meant they should take about what they were grateful for about ME-only something they were grateful for-You know. such as "My spouse has a great sense of humor" "My son's smile lights up my world' That kind of thing. That's because I am dealing with some Seasonal Affective Disorder and so comment after comment "America as we know if is dead, dead" "No hope, no hope" gets to be more than a bit grim.
You wouldn't have to worry about kneeling in my church. People only kneel sometimes for Holy Communion. I am not a RC: I am a Protestant minister; I just like a lot of the writings of people connected with that church and I like things about high church liturgy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 02:12 AM (AllCR)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
What family can't but fight? And I appreciate your salutation more than some. Thank you, tomodachi. No joke.
May the best of the season be gentle snow and holy blessings.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2018 02:14 AM (ZejZP)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 17, 2018 02:09 AM (8iiMU)
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I leave open the possibility that one day MisHum will grace us with a quotation from Nancy in her youth --- y'no, from the time before she could use senility as an excuse!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 17, 2018 02:17 AM (Rxduq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 02:19 AM (AllCR)
Medical Marijuana, Socialism, and Cognitive Dissonance
1. The government owns the medical marijuana process, from planting, harvesting to sales. Strict safeguards are in place. Quality is assured. Taxes are collected and funneled toward education. Buyers are happy but price is steep.
2. Free market system. Marijuana is smuggled across the border, undercutting the socialist system. No taxes are collected and funneled toward education. Nightly 'turf wars' occur in major cities over the distribution of marijuana, killing thousands of minorities every year.
3. Socialists refuse to support border security.
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 17, 2018 02:20 AM (jYje5)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 02:12 AM (AllCR)
You'll really have to make it to a Tx Mo Meet.
Not only can you and I discuss some doctrine at length, but we need a truly qualified BLESSING said over the fatted calf, or whatever poor critter we immolate for chow at the arena.
Further, I'll ensure that you're the most accurate (with a pistol) Pastor-ess in your congregation, by dint of your attendance and close attention to instruction.
Trust me on this though. I'll be asking many questions of you, not as a challenge, but INQUIRY.
We didn't get 2,000 years of Christianity by way of modern Mega Churches, much as some of the more charismatic theology may seem ascendant.
There's cause and reason for the Orthodox, but to me, only in quest of truth, and not form and ceremony.
Somewhere... these all draw towards a specific gravity of doctrine, worship, ceremony and RESULT.
I'm most interested in the RESULT.
By their fruits, shall you know them.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 02:25 AM (QzJWU)
I'd be happy to edit it. * I tend to mangle manuscripts but they make sense...*
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2018 02:27 AM (ZejZP)
You are a very nice and thoughtful person, Jim with a real concern for people. If I ever have any money I would like to get to Texas. I have never been there and I would enjoy talking with you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 02:28 AM (AllCR)
As you asked I have a few things I am truly grateful for that I will share on the Morning Report.
So many things can be taken for granted. People read Better Homes and Gardens, watch the Kardashians, or read bragging FB book posts and think they are missing out and have it bad. I thank God every day for the simple things like clean water to drink - right at my fingertips! Half the world would love that luxury.
Posted by: cfo mom at December 17, 2018 02:29 AM (RfzVr)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 02:31 AM (AllCR)
I'd be happy to edit it. * I tend to mangle manuscripts but they make sense...*
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2018 02:27 AM (ZejZP)
You had but to ask...
https://tinyurl.com/y89tqfoz
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
https://tinyurl.com/y89tqfoz
Posted by: Jim at December 17, 2018 02:32 AM (QzJWU)
That is very true-about running water. It is good to be grateful for the simple things in life. My husband was telling me that people get depressed from FB because some people make things up and are very competitive. I don't use FB but I can see how that could happen.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 02:35 AM (AllCR)
Facebook appeals to almost every one of the 7 'deadly sins':
lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 17, 2018 02:39 AM (jYje5)
They would be shocked to see how small the homes are, how limited the choices are and expensive goods are in some of the countries they hail as a model of social justice for us.
Posted by: cfo mom at December 17, 2018 02:48 AM (RfzVr)
I'd say "night all", but I'm the only one here! LOL.
Posted by: cfo mom at December 17, 2018 02:59 AM (RfzVr)
Nah. I found a woman with a pure heart. Married 18 years now. Best decision I ever made, even though my heart is with the other.
Its classic Garth Brooks, Unanswered Prayers.
Isnt like just grand? LOL. But I'm still going to take care of her any way I can. Be the Greater Fool. Only thing I wouldn't do is leave my wife for her, and she wouldn't want me if I did.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at December 17, 2018 03:01 AM (xss3U)
Posted by: Alana at December 17, 2018 03:03 AM (I5Utv)
lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 17, 2018 02:39 AM (jYje5)
I don't know how 'lying' fits into the 7 Deadly Sins, but it should. Fakebook has lots of liars, including those who run/manage/censor that platform.
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Fen, if you liked 'Noises Off', have you seen 'Me And My Girl'? I saw that on Broadway, too, with Robert Lindsay in the starring role. He was good in the Horatio Hornblower movies on A and E, back when A and E was really Arts and Entertainment.
Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2018 03:03 AM (Y8PSl)
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As long as it's not another guinea pig...
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 03:06 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: Alana at December 17, 2018 03:03 AM (I5Utv)
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I really wish you were.
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 03:07 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: cfo mom at December 17, 2018 02:48 AM (RfzVr)
So many young un's have never truly wanted, except for the latest video game. Even most of our poor are rich by world standards.
/First World Problems
Posted by: RickZ at December 17, 2018 03:07 AM (Y8PSl)
Our daughter and (now former) son-in-law went through a clean eating, organic phase about 5 years ago. They tried to convince their 4-year-old daughter that she didn't like ice cream. "Ice cream's yucky" she would tell us. I told NavyDaughter that was an interesting way to handle it and I wondered if she would follow it up with "boys have cooties" as a pregnancy prevention measure.
Anyway . . . our granddaughter and her younger brother were at our house for dinner one night she studies her plate and looks up at me, "At our house, we eat goronic."
Me: *thinking* You mean organic?
Granddaughter: Yes. Is this goronic?
Me: No.
Granddaughter: So it's not healthy?
Me: *grrr* Yes, it's healthy. Your parents make healthy food, too.
Anyway, my daughter is a good cook, but during this phase of whole grain flour and (lord help us) sugar-free kale-mint ice cream at a birthday party, the kids were over to eat again. This time I made pancakes.
Granddaughter: These pancakes are white. *studies pancakes* *says skeptically* At our house, we have brown pancakes.
She took a bite . . . I like these white pancakes! They're way better than the ones my mom makes!
Which, of course, she told her mom later that evening.
We weathered the organic phase - our daughter still eats healthy but left both her husband and her organic ways.
Posted by: NavyMom at December 17, 2018 03:31 AM (kqqrA)
Posted by: Splunge
Spot the Tranny is a lot more fun when you have a completely hammered co-worker to introduce him to.
Posted by: Jean at December 17, 2018 03:34 AM (sFO1P)
Posted by: Jean at December 17, 2018 03:36 AM (sFO1P)
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My daughter only feeds the g-babies organic.
No one else is allowed to feed them, only what she prepares for them.
They're three and five and they have never had ice cream.
She too is a good cook.
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 03:48 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 03:51 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 03:52 AM (XGA3u)
Some of our kids' best memories are running an errand with grandpa and stopping at some fast food place for a burger (he Loved burgers!) and having him wink and say "don't tell grandma!" Or summer visits with my mother where the first trip was to the grocery store for all the food they weren't allowed at home. I've always tried to follow in their footsteps.
Posted by: NavyMom at December 17, 2018 03:56 AM (kqqrA)
She's keeping her children from the best times of their lives. She's hurting them more than you. And she's hurting you to pieces.
Posted by: NavyMom at December 17, 2018 03:58 AM (kqqrA)
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No.
If I had, my daughter would have been furious and accuse me of not respecting her as their mother.
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 03:59 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 04:01 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: SMH
Easy, I don't - youre nuts darling
Posted by: Jean at December 17, 2018 04:04 AM (sFO1P)
Which resulted in a Very Indignant Phone Call from daughter. Eh. I have big shoulders. She got over it. Neither of us likes drama.
She used to have a FB page dedicated to clean, organic, non-GMO eating. She's past that and is at the "all things in moderation" stage. Thank goodness.
Posted by: NavyMom at December 17, 2018 04:08 AM (kqqrA)
We live 15 minutes away, yet it might as well be 1000 miles.
The other set of grandparents, since they're wealthy and have no problems with my daughter, babysit them at least twice a week.
Yeah, it hurts, and I've cried many tears over the past month, but God knows what's going on.
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 04:08 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 04:10 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 04:11 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: NavyMom at December 17, 2018 04:15 AM (kqqrA)
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 04:17 AM (XGA3u)
Posted by: My life is insanity (formerly longtime lurker's mom on her cell phone) at December 17, 2018 04:23 AM (QCoQm)
Hope your day is wonderful.
I like your idea of stating gratefullness; today mine would be that even as difficult as it is to take care of my elderly mom with dementia, i'm grateful i am able to do so. Life is way to short
Posted by: My life is insanity (formerly longtime lurker's mom on her cell phone) at December 17, 2018 04:27 AM (QCoQm)
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2018 04:31 AM (/rm4P)
Distortions in the perception of time are not the only reason why a bag of chips may suddenly become irresistable, even though you just ate an hour ago.
Uh ... depending on the sort of chips, a bag can be irresistible if I ate 5 minutes ago, without any weed.
Tales of "the munchies" on pot are vastly oversold. It isn't so much any sort of "hunger" that motivates much pot eating but the sensation of eating, itself.
I wasn't overly impressed with that article. Pretty much everything someone does affects their brain chemistry ... which is why they do it.
Smoking pot is bad for you because it makes you stupid. It's really that simple. Of course, if you don't mind being stupid then there's nothing stopping you. It can also push certain people to psychosis, I would say, but not serious psychosis, just fvcked up pothead sort of retarded psychosis. But, hey, there's a cost to everything. You don't have any hangovers with pot so you have to figure that the cost is lurking elsewhere.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 17, 2018 04:34 AM (ndSD+)
Somebody from the audience whom I didn't know, object vocally to the idea that Heaven may be achieved by good works. Yes, I agree, grace of God is the ticket but it was just a rhetorical device, not a theology lecture.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 16, 2018 11:25
Who the heck goes to a funeral and publically argues w/ a grieving sibling of the deceased? WTF? That's some kinda "Christian" in my book, what a tool.
Condolences on your loss.
T
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 04:35 AM (yJ1e6)
LOL. If you can't figure out how to sew a button on without anyone's help then ... you are beyond help, anyway.
understand modern art
It's pretentious retardation and idolized ugliness. Anything that's appealing in modern art can be reproduced by pretty much anyone.
or even deal with love.
This must be a killer class,I'm sure.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 17, 2018 04:39 AM (ndSD+)
Happy 29th and hope you have many more
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2018 04:40 AM (/rm4P)
Since suicide is such a serious issue in Catholicism the priest might have looked at it as his duty to do what he did.
But, the family should have known something about this before and asked and the priest could have advised the family of how seriously suicide is viewed by the church.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 17, 2018 04:42 AM (ndSD+)
https://tinyurl.com/y9nbllnl
Everyone with a magazine bigger than a 1911's is a felon
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2018 04:53 AM (/rm4P)
Posted by: Vic at December 17, 2018 05:00 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 17, 2018 12:03
LOL, you might add his death has reduced the impact of Gerbil warming by him not flying around in his big ole et to "climate conferences" to solve the "problem".
These climate people really are dolts. I'm a historian, if I can be so bold as to make that claim. The planet gets hotter sometimes, it gets colder sometimes. F... Al and his socialist, globalist power grabbers.
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 05:08 AM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 05:08 AM (yJ1e6)
I would add that thank God he never became President, along with Hillary and probably others further back in our voting history..
Posted by: Colin at December 17, 2018 05:11 AM (UU+J5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2018 12:09
Thanks AOP. My email system on the puter is borked. Lost everything it appears. I'll try to access tomorrow thru Xfinity, that might work. Be well good friend.
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 05:14 AM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2018 05:20 AM (/rm4P)
In those cultures, suicide was considered an honorable out from an impossible situation or to preserve honor. Suicide was simply an accepted part of those cultures.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 17, 2018 12:24
LOL, way to stir the pot CJS. I'll be damned if some "cultural traditions" will dictate when I exit this life. I understand what you are saying, but not all of those traditions need to be given any respect.
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 05:31 AM (yJ1e6)
I'd like to know why Cohen didn't go directly to jail but gets to do his "Poor me" tour.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2018 05:32 AM (WysMc)
Calm- Good luck today.
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2018 05:20
G' Morn Skip. I missed something, what does Calm need good luck for?
And what's for breakfast today?
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 05:38 AM (yJ1e6)
https://tinyurl.com/y8js4an5
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2018 05:46 AM (/rm4P)
I'd like to know why Cohen didn't go directly to jail but gets to do his "Poor me" tour.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2018 05:32
Morning BH. Ya got me re: Cohen. Sounds like he's a slimeball and deserves some prison time but this whole clusterf*%$ is a buncha BS. They are trying to indict anyone that worked w/ Trump to intimidate other from working w/ him. Total BS.
It will be interesting to see what happens w/ Ge. Flynn in the near future. Judge doesn't seem too happy about the way he was dealt w/.
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 05:46 AM (yJ1e6)
In the Catholic Church the funeral is for the dead and the homily is to instruct the living. Traditionally you don't have people trouping up to give warming discussions about the dead; you have the funeral Mass with the dies irae (which warns of judgment), a homily by the priest,
If you have never heard the funeral homily warns of mortal sin and its risks and a call for repentance I doubt you have been to many Catholic funerals.
The priest may very well have been concerned about the Wether Effect on the people in attendance, especially the young ones.
Posted by: Deep Thought at December 17, 2018 05:47 AM (gFouE)
Posted by: Eromero at December 17, 2018 05:47 AM (zLDYs)
Also have cinnamon coffee
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2018 05:47 AM (/rm4P)
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2018 05:54 AM (/rm4P)
Have a great day everyone.
Posted by: Skip at December 17, 2018 05:55 AM (/rm4P)
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 06:02 AM (VpnSm)
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 05:46 AM (yJ1e6)
Hopefully Fusion GPS/Perkins Coie doesn't have any dirt on the judge that could be used to influence things from here on out.
Posted by: Hikaru at December 17, 2018 06:02 AM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2018 06:03 AM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2018 06:05 AM (WysMc)
Posted by: Eromero at December 17, 2018 05:47
I like your attitude E. Be well and have a great week!
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 06:06 AM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2018 06:07 AM (cqNba)
Posted by: Dreamy James Comey at December 17, 2018 06:08 AM (yhf6w)
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2018 06:08 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: ALH at December 17, 2018 06:13 AM (cS3Yq)
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 06:16 AM (VpnSm)
Posted by: sinalco at December 17, 2018 06:18 AM (yODqO)
Posted by: Hikaru at December 17, 2018 06:18 AM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2018 06:05
Yep, we can only hope in this "justice" system. They sought him as prey and sandbagged him. After all his service he appears to be to just a nice guy who didn't know that the bastards were out for him.
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 06:19 AM (yJ1e6)
And I have a second cold this winter. Highly unusual. I blame immigrants.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2018 06:20 AM (hyuyC)
Top of ta morning to ya.
The Flynn sentencing is the big tell. Do we have Rule of Law or Rule of Man?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2018 06:24 AM (hyuyC)
Lot of that going on around here.
Mrs VIA has been fighting one for about 5 days now.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2018 06:25 AM (cqNba)
Right now my schedule just fulled up. Alas.
I have to brief a CEO on some research my start-up is doing for him. That will cover the last free time I had.
But there will be other trips.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2018 06:28 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Hikaru
That's next week for me. This week will stay pretty busy. With next week being only three day long work wise, it'll be dead.
Morning all.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2018 06:30 AM (xzezz)
One week away from Christmas Eve. The Countdown begins!
Posted by: ALH at December 17, 2018 06:13
Thanks a lot. I still haven't done any shopping or got my Christmas email composed. Uggh.
I'm consoled by my purchase for the wife's birthday in Nov. Found a nice necklace w/ her birthstone and she loved it. Found it on Etsy, but you have to block them as they spam you immerselasy.
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 06:31 AM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2018 06:32 AM (WysMc)
Yes. Yes we do. For some people. The rest ignore the law (Mueller) or exempt themselves from it (Congress) for example.
Posted by: Case, gimme back my bullets at December 17, 2018 06:32 AM (XWvgx)
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 06:32 AM (VpnSm)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2018 06:32 AM (hyuyC)
Now streaming the Norwegian Rhapsody No. 3 of Johann Svendsen, as performed by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2018 06:33 AM (LsBY9)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2018 06:33 AM (xzezz)
Yes..yes there will be.
Maybe during a period on the calendar where there aren't as many holiday obligations dragging us back and forth as well.
Who knows, we might even get a chance to drag Bluebell or Weasel into it as well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2018 06:34 AM (cqNba)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2018 06:36 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2018 06:37 AM (cqNba)
I prefer to self-identify as a 'Person of Penis'.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
I'm just a dick.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2018 06:37 AM (xzezz)
A devotional from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:
https://tinyurl.com/ydflyjxs
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 06:37 AM (AllCR)
That would be way cool. The likelihood of me being a host in North Central Kansas is low.
It took 4 years for teej and I to meet up. And I saw cfo mom and teej at our County Fair. We exchanged gang signs!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2018 06:38 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 06:38 AM (yJ1e6)
Time for work preps here.
Have a serene day, everyone, with the blessing of Christmas flowing though you and sustaining you and yours.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2018 06:40 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 06:42 AM (AllCR)
Who knows.
North central Kansas is one of the great crossroads of..um...thinking...
Oddly enough, spending a lifetime of traveling the world, the number of States which I have been in that are west of I-95 is shockingly small.
And we often talk of just traveling this great country of ours for recreation and sightseeing.
So, it might happen.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2018 06:42 AM (cqNba)
So, the option is he gets a hotel/airbnb somewhere else, and I won't be staying with him. Or he could stay with us, and he will at least get to see me more. And, remember.....free. Also, it's clean and safe and comfortable and homemade food and so on.
He tells me point blank, he doesn't know where he is going to stay, but he won't be staying with us. Didn't even think about it. Didn't even want to discuss it.
Can you tell me why a guy would pass up free accommodations/yummy food/ quality time with his girl? It makes no sense to me. Why drive 6 hours to visit, and then stay somewhere else? It defeats the purpose.
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 06:45 AM (VpnSm)
That would be way cool. The likelihood of me being a host in North Central Kansas is low.
It took 4 years for teej and I to meet up. And I saw cfo mom and teej at our County Fair. We exchanged gang signs!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 17, 2018 06:38 AM (hyuyC)
No Tats?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2018 06:45 AM (aA3+G)
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 17, 2018 06:47 AM (lwiT4)
Hadrian, wasn't it you whom I spoke with a couple of weeks ago about saying the Rosary in about 15 minutes? I have a little tale for you if so.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 17, 2018 06:47 AM (NtglE)
I prefer to self-identify as a 'Person of Penis'.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2018 06:37
LMFAO
Thank you, I'm off to bed w/ a very hearty laugh. I'm gonna steal that line.
Posted by: Farmer at December 17, 2018 06:48 AM (yJ1e6)
I can't think of a more uncomfortable situation for a guy then sleeping under the same roof as a girlfriend and her family.
Women's brains are wired differently than mens.
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 17, 2018 06:49 AM (jYje5)
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 06:49 AM (RU4sa)
Can't steal that which is freely shared.
**Gives you copy of line*
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2018 06:49 AM (cqNba)
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 06:50 AM (VpnSm)
accommodations/yummy food/ quality time with his girl? It makes no sense
to me. Why drive 6 hours to visit, and then stay somewhere else? It
defeats the purpose.
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 06:45 AM (VpnSm)
It might make him uncomfortable to spend so much time with your family. He would give up a lot of his own privacy as well. He might need more space. Just a thought.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 17, 2018 06:50 AM (lwiT4)
Father at Christmas Dinner: "Pass me the turkey ____ and by the way I heard you two going at it last night after midnight. You gonna make an honest woman out of my daughter?"
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 17, 2018 06:50 AM (jYje5)
I remember getting a 'booty call' to a girlfriends house once. Her family was away. I couldn't sleep a wink after you know what. I kept hearing the family car pull into the driveway all night long.
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 17, 2018 06:53 AM (jYje5)
Svendsen, as performed by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted
by Neeme Jarvi.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 17, 2018 06:33 AM (LsBY9)
I know people from Bergen. Nice place. I've not heard that piece - I'll look for it. Thanks Hadrian.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 17, 2018 06:53 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2018 06:53 AM (WysMc)
Posted by: Hko Hchj at December 17, 2018 06:53 AM (N0Q2/)
Posted by: Hko Hchj at December 17, 2018 06:55 AM (N0Q2/)
Only enough room for one Alpha Dog in a pack.
Posted by: B.Eades at December 17, 2018 06:55 AM (Vbw7/)
Yesterday we went to the US Navy Band holiday concert in DC, as we are blessed to do every year. Every year they have a show-stopper number at the end, and this year it was my favorite Christmas hymn, O Holy Night. It was amazing.
I just found on Youtube the last 15 minutes of the concert. It is worth listening to the whole thing, but if you want to skip to O Holy Night, it starts at 3:55. There's a rousing rendition of Go Tell It on the Mountain right after which is also great.
https://youtu.be/HoeY-uA4Zhg
Happy birthday, dear Fen!
Posted by: bluebell ~ sign up for the NoVaMoMe now! at December 17, 2018 06:57 AM (U5tDi)
Lol. There will be no going at it under my parents' roof.
But, to be fair, if he stays somewhere else, there will be no going at it either.
So, I guess in my brain, we will either not be having sex for free....or he'll pay for it. Same result either way.
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 06:58 AM (VpnSm)
"americanthinker - gun confiscation begins in ( People's Republic) New Jersey
https://tinyurl.com/y9nbllnl
Posted by: Skip"
From that judges ruling retired law enforcement officers have special training and experience that makes them different form ordinary citizens.
Really? The govt. is granting an expectation to their retried armed security because the they are different (i.e better) than the hoi poi? Screw that and screw that judge. in particular. Perfect example of why I despise the govt. more every day.
Posted by: Ripley at December 17, 2018 06:58 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 06:59 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 17, 2018 07:00 AM (WysMc)
Dear Bluebell
Thanks for sharing your blessing. I will listen to the clip you have. Thanks and I appreciate the good wishes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 07:00 AM (AllCR)
Oh FFS woman. Is he coming to see you over the holiday? Is he gonna be there with you and your family? Did it ever occur to you that he might be kind 'old fashioned' and not want to be seen as a mooch, let alone have a little privacy? Lighten up princess.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 17, 2018 07:00 AM (07mXI)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 17, 2018 07:01 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: SMH at December 17, 2018 07:01 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 17, 2018 07:01 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 07:01 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 17, 2018 07:02 AM (07mXI)
Posted by: Peter North at December 17, 2018 07:02 AM (h/+hH)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman
Yeah. Those that said Biden/Beto 2020, were imho, wrong. As another poster said, the days of the dem party putting up two white guys is over.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2018 07:03 AM (xzezz)
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 17, 2018 07:03 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at December 17, 2018 07:03 AM (SqopC)
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 06:58 AM
So, you're going to punish him if he decides to use his own money and pay for his own accommodations?
I don't think I like you very much.
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 17, 2018 07:03 AM (jYje5)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2018 07:03 AM (xzezz)
I thought Beto O'Biden was hispanic.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 17, 2018 07:05 AM (cqNba)
I thought Beto O'Biden was hispanic.
nope billionaire irishman
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 17, 2018 07:06 AM (JFO2v)
Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone and thanks for Psalm 1, Grammie.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 17, 2018 07:06 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 17, 2018 07:01 AM
Didn't the nation reject the 'historic' notion of a female President less then four years ago? She has about as much appeal as HRC.
* diagrams flat line on white board *
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 17, 2018 07:08 AM (jYje5)
No no no. Not punishing him. I just mean...if he stays somewhere else, and I am at my parents' house....
I mean we could go at it some. I just wouldn't be staying the night with him.
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 07:09 AM (VpnSm)
Posted by: Ripley at December 17, 2018 06:58 AM (MxEKc)
Don't forget to donate to your local FOP.
Posted by: B.Eades at December 17, 2018 07:09 AM (BwQXu)
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 17, 2018 07:09 AM (lwiT4)
"... and we hate bill kristol because he believed it was righteous to send american's to die on israel's behalf"
what a bunch of b.s. bringing down saddam, and kristol's support for that, had nothing to do with israel.
why is that quote eve there?
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 17, 2018 07:11 AM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 17, 2018 07:12 AM (lwiT4)
No no no. Not punishing him. I just mean...if he stays somewhere else, and I am at my parents' house....
I mean we could go at it some. I just wouldn't be staying the night with him.
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 07:09 AM (VpnSm)
If you guys are serious about your relationship, ask him why he doesn't care to stay over.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2018 07:12 AM (aA3+G)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 17, 2018 07:13 AM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 17, 2018 07:11 AM
MH likes to start a discussion going. Already saw he took some heat for it further upthread.
Posted by: Newest Nic at December 17, 2018 07:14 AM (jYje5)
Posted by: bluebell ~ sign up for the NoVaMoMe now! at December 17, 2018 07:14 AM (U5tDi)
(And if he has met your family, again that may be a reason.) /
Posted by: cfo mom at December 17, 2018 07:18 AM (RfzVr)
The mistake I made was I told him it was completely up to him, whatever he wants to do. Lol.
So, I really don't want to do the cliche woman thing of saying it's up to him and getting mad for making the wrong decision.
Posted by: TickledPink at December 17, 2018 07:22 AM (VpnSm)
As a personal note and as a Thank You to Fenelon...
Beautiful birthday wishes and a blessed "thank you" for taking over the Prayer List as my family fell ill.
I'll ask not so much to be consoled, as to console.
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