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Stop shoving Islam into our faces as if it is some fait accompli. I am tired of hijabs on wonderful tolerant Muslim characters on TV; I am tired of the relentless whitewashing of every Muslim atrocity in the world; I am tired of Iran being placed on a pedestal by the UN as some paragon of enlightenment.

Nike condemned for putting hijab on Iranian mathematician who chose not to wear one

Nike has been condemned for depicting a celebrated mathematician in a hijab, despite the fact she chose not wear the garment while she was alive.

Maryam Mirzakhani, who died of breast cancer in 2017, was the only woman to date to have won the Fields Medal, one of the highest awards in the field of mathematics.

She left Iran after graduating university in 1999 and moved to the US, where she chose not cover her hair.

But screenshots of an internal Nike newsletter sent to staff in its Ascend employee network were shared by a number of social media users.

They display a drawing of the mathematician wearing a white hijab, which some on Twitter suggested was based on an image first doctored by Iranian officials for propaganda purposes.

Iran is a savage, backward country that has a ruling elite of Shia clerics who happily gorge on the advantages of Western culture while decrying it at every opportunity to keep their hold on power. The Iranian people may or may not have the fortitude and strength to topple them, but embracing the vile behavior of the mullahs is certainly not the way to help the cause of freedom in the world. But that isn't the goal of these people...it is quite the opposite.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
-- Samuel Adams

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Ah...here's a new installment in NY Mayor Bill de Blasio's relentless drive to sound even stupider than last week's idiocy! Give him credit; the man is on a mission, and he is succeeding.
My New Plan to Climate-Proof Lower Manhattan
On Thursday, I am joining a group of climate scientists and local officials to announce we're filling one of the biggest gaps in our coastal defenses. We're going to protect Lower Manhattan, which includes the Financial District, home to a half-million jobs, 90,000 residents, and the nexus of almost all our subway lines.

It will be one of the most complex environmental and engineering challenges our city has ever undertaken and it will, literally, alter the shape of the island of Manhattan.

All across this country, cities are grappling with the same existential threat. But nowhere in the $4.75 trillion budget President Trump just proposed is there anything approaching a plan to protect our coastal cities from rising seas.

And thank God for that!

I wonder if little Warren Wilhelm (his real name) understands that changing the shape of lower Manhattan will also change the flows of two rivers? Or that there are always...ALWAYS... unintended consequences of such large-scale projects. And most of all, maybe he can spend more time running the city and less time grandstanding all over the country and world. He fancies himself some sort of progressive avenger, constantly doing battle with big business, the Republican party, conservatives, and pretty much anyone else who doesn't embrace his peculiar brand of big city corruption.

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What is 'green' about hating Israel?
But while Israel’s farmlands were devoured by flames and defenseless animals suffocated in raging fires, representatives of the American Green Party traveled in November to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to deliver a letter calling for a full investigation into alleged “war crimes” committed by Israel against the Palestinians.

The letter claims that Palestinian rioters “have defended themselves mostly with rocks, burning kites, balloons and tires, homemade rockets and starkly tragic human suicide bombers” in the face of “the heavily blockaded Gaza border.”

Nowhere in the letter was the Green Party calling for an end to the Palestinian war on nature, even though the deliberate stockpiling and burning of thousands of tires on the border fence caused serious environmental damage and jeopardized the health of both Israeli and Palestinian civilians.

The answer of course is that "green" politics is simply leftist politics with an environmental-activist twist.
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1 Gorilla!

Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 19, 2019 11:03 AM (ffYR/)

2 How about the use of legs?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 19, 2019 11:05 AM (RD7QR)

3 Stephanie Myers @_StephanieMyers
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NEW:
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein has reportedly reached an agreement with AG William Barr to stay at the Justice Department "a little while longer." Rosenstein had planned to step down in mid-March; this amid reports the Special Counsel investigation is "winding down."
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HMMMMM maybe RR is not a Black Hat ?
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Late Last Thread

Posted by: Deep State in Deep Shit at March 19, 2019 11:06 AM (BqBId)

4 Top something.
And, I love the Sam Adams quote.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:06 AM (ufFY8)

5 The Nike deal pisses me off. I'm vehemently against hijabs and to put one on someone who didn't want to wear one, well, Nike, eff off

Posted by: Seems legit at March 19, 2019 11:06 AM (jUVms)

6 Holy crap! 5th?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:07 AM (ufFY8)

7 Iran is really great!

FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!!

Posted by: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at March 19, 2019 11:07 AM (V+Bqa)

8 You know what's green? Replacing nuclear power with wood burning. At least that's whay green parties in Europe seem to think.

Posted by: Someguy at March 19, 2019 11:08 AM (dy5uS)

9 Iran is a savage, backward country

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Real savage backwardism has never been tried!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 19, 2019 11:08 AM (+y/Ru)

10 bye bye Phil Martelli

I don't know why but I'm kind of sad!

He was past it, but such a great guy.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (Rarvo)

11 There will be a point where there won't be a 'backlash' against these goat-humping fvckers, there will be a Crusade.

Unfortunately, that requires Christians, and they seem to be relatively dormant nowadays.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (ufFY8)

12
Nike has gone full libtard

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (OLCnA)

13 Gorilla!


Dude.

Posted by: I'm a Chimp at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (fuK7c)

14 News You will Never See Reported:

Subheading, "Democrat Economist Finally Understands the Long Term"; or, "The Ultimate Never Trumper" -

Alan Krueger, head of Obama's Economic Advisors, Princeton Professor, and famed author of the study which claimed that Minimum Wage levels have no effect all on Employment Levels, committed suicide this last weekend. He was only 58.

If you go to CNN you will find a few articles of praise and a very passive statement that "he died" - no mention at all that it was actually suicide, although you can find that info if you search the web.

And I say to Bill Kristol, "Go Thou and Do Likewise".

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (Kpl3J)

15 de Balsio really defines stupid doesn't he...and for everyone who voted for him.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (0tfLf)

16 Real savage backwardism has never been tried!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 19, 2019 11:08 AM (+y/Ru)

The great Mongolian Empire would like a word with you.

Posted by: Someguy at March 19, 2019 11:10 AM (dy5uS)

17 It's too bad that the people Adams was talking to aren't content with just going and being happy slaves on their own, they insist on sharing it with us, by force if need be.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 19, 2019 11:10 AM (wA4OO)

18 If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
-- Samuel Adams


I'm constantly amazed how smart people were who didn't even have smart phones or twitter! That quote is just magic. "May your chains sit lightly..."

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2019 11:10 AM (dzJ3R)

19 There will be a point where there won't be a 'backlash' against these goat-humping fvckers, there will be a Crusade.

Unfortunately, that requires Christians, and they seem to be relatively dormant nowadays.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt


That's because magazines don't load themselves.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2019 11:11 AM (21UM+)

20 So Mayor DeBolshevik is trying to out Venice the EU on massive projects.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2019 11:11 AM (/snPg)

21 15
de Balsio really defines stupid doesn't he...and for everyone who voted for him.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (0tfLf)


JJ had a link to a story saying that the berm idea thingy actually made some sense. I didn't read the whole thing, so anything further I say about it should be considered 'talking out of my ass'.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:11 AM (ufFY8)

22 The answer of course is that "green" politics is simply leftist politics with an environmental-activist twist.

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Green is the new red.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 19, 2019 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)

23 On Thursday, I am joining a group of climate scientists and local officials to announce we're filling one of the biggest gaps in our coastal defenses. We're going to protect Lower Manhattan, which includes the Financial District, home to a half-million jobs, 90,000 residents, and the nexus of almost all our subway lines.

Lower Manhattan is, in large part, made from fill and has always been highly susceptible to flooding.

I like this whole "coastal defenses" thing, though. Pretty neat, there.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 19, 2019 11:12 AM (YJn4J)

24 The Nike deal pisses me off. I'm vehemently against hijabs and to put one on someone who didn't want to wear one, well, Nike, eff off

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They just did it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 19, 2019 11:12 AM (+y/Ru)

25 Unfortunately, that requires Christians

They best hope it's Christians. Socialists prosecute wars in ways that are most unpleasant.

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2019 11:12 AM (dzJ3R)

26 The Founding Fathers only meant muskets!

And actual printing presses done by hand!

And actually moving soldiers into your house!

And that the federal government should fund everyone's retirement by age 65 (50, if you're a government employee)!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:13 AM (XSSCs)

27

Drink my beer.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 19, 2019 11:13 AM (aKsyK)

28 11 There will be a point where there won't be a 'backlash' against these goat-humping fvckers, there will be a Crusade.

Unfortunately, that requires Christians, and they seem to be relatively dormant nowadays.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (ufFY

More specifically it requires a Pope(Protestants have no unified leader) to declare one. Catholics being half of Christendom anyways makes up a fair portion of the recruiting pool.

Posted by: Someguy at March 19, 2019 11:13 AM (dy5uS)

29 I have already boycotted all Nike products.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 19, 2019 11:14 AM (sjdRT)

30 28 11 There will be a point where there won't be a 'backlash' against these goat-humping fvckers, there will be a Crusade.

Unfortunately, that requires Christians, and they seem to be relatively dormant nowadays.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (ufFY

More specifically it requires a Pope(Protestants have no unified leader) to declare one. Catholics being half of Christendom anyways makes up a fair portion of the recruiting pool.
Posted by: Someguy at March 19, 2019 11:13 AM (dy5uS)

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I'm tellin' ya.

Francis is bringing back the Knights Templar. Polish hegemony over Eastern Europe will be the first major step.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:14 AM (XSSCs)

31
JJ had a link to a story saying that the berm idea thingy actually made some sense. I didn't read the whole thing, so anything further I say about it should be considered 'talking out of my ass'.



Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:11 AM



Well, if those 90,000 residents want to pay for it, go ahead. Its their island. But given its a Dem stronghold it won't be done in 12 years and that is supposed to be when, according to other "experts" it is too late.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2019 11:15 AM (0tfLf)

32 Nike has been condemned for depicting a celebrated mathematician in a hijab, despite the fact she chose not wear the garment while she was alive.

What the hell did she have to do with Nike, anyway? Was it a Nike hijab? I hear they're moving into that market.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 19, 2019 11:15 AM (YJn4J)

33 31 Well, if those 90,000 residents want to pay for it, go ahead. Its their island. But given its a Dem stronghold it won't be done in 12 years and that is supposed to be when, according to other "experts" it is too late.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2019 11:15 AM (0tfLf)

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They should probably just move to a conclave in the Rocky Mountains.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:15 AM (XSSCs)

34 22 The answer of course is that "green" politics is simply leftist politics with an environmental-activist twist.

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Green is the new red.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 19, 2019 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)

Hence the term "watermelon": green on the outside, red on the inside.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 19, 2019 11:15 AM (RD7QR)

35 The Nike deal pisses me off. I'm vehemently against hijabs and to put one on someone who didn't want to wear one, well, Nike, eff off
Posted by: Seems legit at March 19, 2019 11:06 AM (jUVms)

Nike is all Commies and fags anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2019 11:16 AM (nPGq2)

36 Nike is based in PORTLAND.

What else did yall expect?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 19, 2019 11:16 AM (d7Ww2)

37
They best hope it's Christians. Socialists prosecute wars in ways that are most unpleasant.

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2019 11:12 AM (dzJ3R)

Islam is socialist anyways. Literally. ISIS, being fundamentalist, was implementing welfare.

Posted by: Someguy at March 19, 2019 11:16 AM (dy5uS)

38 Francis is bringing back the Knights Templar.



Je suis Jacques DeMolay!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2019 11:17 AM (21UM+)

39 Everyone should wear NIKE Swooshstikas.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:17 AM (2LelM)

40 News You will Never See Reported:

Subheading, "Democrat Economist Finally Understands the Long Term"; or, "The Ultimate Never Trumper" -

Alan Krueger, head of Obama's Economic Advisors, Princeton Professor, and famed author of the study which claimed that Minimum Wage levels have no effect all on Employment Levels, committed suicide this last weekend. He was only 58.

If you go to CNN you will find a few articles of praise and a very passive statement that "he died" - no mention at all that it was actually suicide, although you can find that info if you search the web.

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His big thing was raising the minimum wage. He was a super genius.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 19, 2019 11:17 AM (+y/Ru)

41 I had some fait accompli for desert the other night.

Posted by: Chris M at March 19, 2019 11:17 AM (eAZVt)

42 Nike is based in PORTLAND.

What else did yall expect?
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 19, 2019 11:16 AM (d7Ww2)

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Hows about a company that focuses on their customers and selling good products? Os that too much to ask anymore?

Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 19, 2019 11:18 AM (ffYR/)

43 Lower Manhattan is, in large part, made from fill and has always been highly susceptible to flooding.


I just finished a book about immigration into NY over the centuries. In one illustration, they showed the overlap between the parts of Manhattan built up with fill since the city was established, and those flooded during Sandy. They are almost identical. Perhaps we should draw a lesson.....naaaaaaah.

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2019 11:18 AM (wW03z)

44 That Nike story repulses me. Just when I thought my opinion of that company couldn't get any worse, it does. There sure is a worldwide islam push, there's no denying it. They must have some deeeeep pockets and are throwing money hand over fist at those in power to push their repugnant "religion" on the world. It's everywhere. Last week, I got a flyer in the mail from Ulta. One of the products showed how it looked on different skin colors: a white chick, a tan chick, a brown chick, a darker brown chick. The brown chick in the pic? She was in a hijab.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 19, 2019 11:18 AM (JoUsr)

45 31
JJ had a link to a story saying that the berm idea thingy actually made some sense. I didn't read the whole thing, so anything further I say about it should be considered 'talking out of my ass'.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:11 AM
Well, if those 90,000 residents want to pay for it, go ahead. Its their island. But given its a Dem stronghold it won't be done in 12 years and that is supposed to be when, according to other "experts" it is too late.

When you strip away all the "climate change" bullshit that he's spewing, it sounds like he's just talking about putting up some levees, which any coastal city should have, and all I can say is "why weren't you building those already?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 19, 2019 11:18 AM (Kpl3J)

46 How about a hijab for Krapernick? Bet they sell tons of ChiCom sneakers and stretchy pants.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:19 AM (2LelM)

47 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:09 AM (ufFY

It won't take too many of us to run the goat humpers out of our country.

Posted by: clutch at March 19, 2019 11:19 AM (BhNY3)

48 Busy morning, just finished reading the ONT and jumped to the Gorilla. Fen, if you are here, I will certainly pray for both you and your son. You do so much for all of us, I know you only asked for prayers for your son, but Moms need lots of prayers too.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 19, 2019 11:19 AM (f8dwL)

49 De Blasio's "Manhattan Project" will, like the Cali-slow-train-to-nowhere, keep the NYC left funded and bankrupt the city coffers which will then demand higher taxes and a federal bailout. Little will be actually built but many expensive studies will be done.

Posted by: geoffb at March 19, 2019 11:19 AM (zOpu5)

50 And actually moving soldiers into your house!

And that the federal government should fund everyone's retirement by age 65 (50, if you're a government employee)!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:13 AM

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What would be fun is to produce a White Paper on US military base closures and send it to AOC. The paper could explain how many millions could be saved by placing American troops into the local towns and cities and shutting down all the billets and mess halls.
After all, the locals would surely welcome the new house guests as they are direct beneficiaries of the security they provide. And the saved money could go to badly needed social and community organizing programs.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2019 11:20 AM (0tfLf)

51 When you strip away all the "climate change"... that he's spewing, it sounds like he's just talking about putting up some levees, which any coastal city should have, and all I can say is "why weren't you building those already?"
Posted by: Tom Servo



Because a levee is really just a wall, and they don't work.

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2019 11:20 AM (wW03z)

52 https://goo.gl/BFc3gG
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Yellow vest protesters storm Attorney General's office in London
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I think they are serious

Posted by: Deep State in Deep Shit at March 19, 2019 11:21 AM (BqBId)

53 31


JJ had a link to a story saying that the berm idea thingy actually
made some sense. I didn't read the whole thing, so anything further I
say about it should be considered 'talking out of my ass'.







Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 19, 2019 11:11 AM





Well, if those 90,000 residents want to pay for it, go ahead. Its
their island. But given its a Dem stronghold it won't be done in 12
years and that is supposed to be when, according to other "experts" it
is too late.





Posted by: Diogenes at March 19, 2019 11:15 AM (0tfLf)


ITS FUNNY CAUSE IF MANHATTAN BUILDS A BERM TO PROTECT ITSELF AND THE SEAS RISE, THE WATER HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE AND THAT MEANS NEW JERSEY, STATEN ISLAND AND BROOKLYN WILL ALL FLOOD.....BUT YEAH MANHATTAN!!!


Posted by: Ben Rothlisnbebergler at March 19, 2019 11:21 AM (ymnmz)

54 With auburn hair and tawny eyes,the kind I can't see under your hajib, it's trueThat hajib just bums me blue...

And Iran, it's so far away.

Posted by: A Flock Of Seagulls at March 19, 2019 11:21 AM (V+Bqa)

55

EM BAKLAVA FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at March 19, 2019 11:21 AM (GEhPL)

56 Bill de Blasio wants to save Manhattan from rising seas which refuse to rise.

Climate change is so unco-operative.

Posted by: Decaf at March 19, 2019 11:22 AM (Z8eDV)

57 I believe the Venetians did something similar to protect their city from storm tides. Cost a bundle and doesn't work. But, Venetians remind everyone of vagina.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:22 AM (2LelM)

58 That Nike story repulses me. Just when I thought my opinion of that company couldn't get any worse, it does. There sure is a worldwide islam push, there's no denying it. They must have some deeeeep pockets and are throwing money hand over fist at those in power to push their repugnant "religion" on the world. It's everywhere. Last week, I got a flyer in the mail from Ulta. One of the products showed how it looked on different skin colors: a white chick, a tan chick, a brown chick, a darker brown chick. The brown chick in the pic? She was in a hijab.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 19, 2019 11:18 AM (JoUsr)


Yep. 9/11 was pretty much the most successful attack in history. Muzzies have achieved almost everything they wanted (and then some!) and paid pretty much no price, at all.

There are A LOT of traitors in this nation who have given aid and comfort to the muzzies in that attack as they have worked to prostrate us in front of the muslim hordes. A LOT.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 19, 2019 11:23 AM (YJn4J)

59 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 19, 2019 11:23 AM (XTxlQ)

60 When you strip away all the "climate change" bullshit that he's spewing, it sounds like he's just talking about putting up some levees, which any coastal city should have, and all I can say is "why weren't you building those already?"

Because the point of coastal cities (other than commercial ports) is that the coast is pretty. If you build walls so that you can't see the coast it stops being pretty.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 19, 2019 11:23 AM (fuK7c)

61 >Because a levee is really just a wall, and they don't work.

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2019 11:20 AM (wW03z)


Obligatory: http://tinyurl.com/y7bkx4ch

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 19, 2019 11:23 AM (sjdRT)

62 44
That Nike story repulses me. Just when I thought my opinion of that
company couldn't get any worse, it does. There sure is a worldwide islam
push, there's no denying it. They must have some deeeeep pockets and
are throwing money hand over fist at those in power to push their
repugnant "religion" on the world. It's everywhere. Last week, I got a
flyer in the mail from Ulta. One of the products showed how it looked on
different skin colors: a white chick, a tan chick, a brown chick, a
darker brown chick. The brown chick in the pic? She was in a hijab.


Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 19, 2019 11:18 AM (JoUsr)

ITS FUNNY CAUSE THEY ONLY SHOW THE RELIGIOUS TRAPPINGS OF ONE CULTURE AS BEING SOMETHING TO BE TOLERATED NAY APPLAUDED.

Posted by: Ben Rothlisnbebergler at March 19, 2019 11:23 AM (ymnmz)

63 I view a flooded Manhattan as a good thing. Think of the real estate opportunities that await you in Staten Island.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:23 AM (2LelM)

64 I believe the Venetians did something similar to protect their city from storm tides. Cost a bundle and doesn't work. But, Venetians remind everyone of vagina blinds.
Posted by: Puddin Head



Suggested edit.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2019 11:24 AM (21UM+)

65 I loved that politician in Australia who slugged the kid who threw an egg at him.

Enough is enough.

Posted by: Decaf at March 19, 2019 11:24 AM (Z8eDV)

66 So, now Nike steps up to plate for the Ayatollahs... I love it!

Too bad I hate exercise so much, or I'd have one of my donors buy me a crate of their unreliable, self-destructing sportswear.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at March 19, 2019 11:25 AM (AzW6q)

67
I have already boycotted all Nike products.



I'd already stopped when their products started turning to pricey garbage. My problem now is there's so many companies I'm boycotting I need to start a spreadsheet.


I started looking for a new coffee maker, and remembered that I'm boycotting Keurig, but can't remember why! Proctor + Gamble is easy, so is Dick's. And Nike won't stop reminding me - which is probably a good thing. "Hey! Remember why you hate us?"

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:25 AM (sLicW)

68 Nike has gone full libtard
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Remember the chess grandmaster woman who wouldn't play in Iran because they demanded that she wear the heejee?

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 19, 2019 11:26 AM (MIKMs)

69 I have to agree that any govt project in NYC is really just a plan for thievery and graft. More Leftist grand scale larceny to pay themselves off. Not just with their tax money but ours too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 19, 2019 11:26 AM (r+sAi)

70 So Nike is denying a woman's choice.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2019 11:26 AM (/snPg)

71 Must be the price Nike will pay in order to keep their sweat shops from being targeted by the left.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 19, 2019 11:26 AM (wGbBR)

72 I started looking for a new coffee maker, and remembered that I'm boycotting Keurig, but can't remember why!

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:25 AM (sLicW)


Because they're overpriced and make shitty coffee?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 19, 2019 11:26 AM (YJn4J)

73 "That Nike story repulses me."

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#MeToo.

Posted by: Decaf at March 19, 2019 11:27 AM (Z8eDV)

74 Obligatory: http://tinyurl.com/y7bkx4ch
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 19, 2019 11:23 AM (sjdRT)

Heh. I expected that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2019 11:27 AM (nPGq2)

75 I had one good pair of Nikes in the early 1980s. Instead of making the same good pair they decided they had to make a thousand bad pairs. I believe the good pair were called Nike International or something. Nikes don't hold up for long.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:27 AM (2LelM)

76 Nike's virtue signaling is incomplete until the Nike ad features men forcibly applying the hijab to the unwilling woman.

Such footage would be eaten up by the mutawaa...

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:27 AM (Bdeb0)

77 I like how Deblasio solves two problems with one stroke. Hey lets push all of NYC garbage into the water and call int a "protective berm"!


Hey Bill, the 1970's called they want their waste disposal policy back.



Kids will be saying 30 years form now. When I was a kid there wasn't a giant ring of garbage around Manahattan.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 19, 2019 11:27 AM (ymnmz)

78 Zod wore Nike Oregons when he was rowing (for land work). Very good shoes while they lasted. They lasted one season.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:28 AM (Bdeb0)

79 More Leftist grand scale larceny to pay themselves off. Not just with their tax money but ours too.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

This is really about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Boston's Big Dig at March 19, 2019 11:28 AM (FTlwv)

80 Had I to guess who is going to win this global, existential battle between civilizations I would have to put my money on the Muzzies, in spite of their living, essentially, in the 9th century.

They're motivated, and are not burdened with self-loathing and civilizational self-doubt like the west. Plus we have to deal with traitors behind our own lines who we've either allowed to come or normalized after they invaded.

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:28 AM (NYS7S)

81 Manhattan is so sexist. Personhatten, please.

Posted by: Kirsten Gillibrand - my pronouns are retard, retard, and retard at March 19, 2019 11:28 AM (34alA)

82 From the sidebar:

Rowling: "Dumbledore is gay"
America: "Well, yeah. He's English."
Australia: "Damn skippy, mate."
DVD sales: ...

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at March 19, 2019 11:28 AM (lXZ2r)

83 72 I started looking for a new coffee maker, and remembered that I'm boycotting Keurig, but can't remember why!

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:25 AM (sLicW)
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I have a Baum. Looks nice but it has a fuckton of switches and lights that I have no idea what they propose they serve. The coffee is nice.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:29 AM (2LelM)

84 Because they're overpriced and make shitty coffee?


Those little cartridge things are not my cup of tea so to speak, and I don't see myself trying to do a "refill" at 6am when I'm half blind. Nope, big basket, pour in coffee, add water, hit "on" switch.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:29 AM (sLicW)

85 Note to self: Re-watch 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

"Allah favors the compassionate!"

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:29 AM (Bdeb0)

86 >Heh. I expected that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2019 11:27 AM (nPGq2)


Reading comments while that is playing is a hoot.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 19, 2019 11:30 AM (sjdRT)

87 Those little cartridge things are not my cup of tea so to speak, and I don't see myself trying to do a "refill" at 6am when I'm half blind. Nope, big basket, pour in coffee, add water, hit "on" switch.
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:29 AM (sLicW)

the 4 cup 14 dollar mr covfefe! it is the besterest

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2019 11:30 AM (JFO2v)

88 85 Note to self: Re-watch 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

"Allah favors the compassionate!"
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:29 AM (Bdeb0)

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No prisoners!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:30 AM (q8oeS)

89 Keurigs are for fags. Real cowboys boil their coffee in an old boot over a mesquite and dried horseshit fire.

Posted by: Festus at March 19, 2019 11:30 AM (V+Bqa)

90 I had one good pair of Nikes in the early 1980s.


If you were a track runner in the 70s Nike was a godsend. The only "running shoes" available were Adidas and Puma and they weren't that good.

One day the coach had us meet a guy in the parking lot who had a trunk full of samples. We drooled. We ordered. The shoes were built by people who understood running.

I still have warm and fuzzies about back then, but the now nonsense is nonsense.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (fuK7c)

91 The real magic is in my ass, Harry!

Posted by: Dumblewhore at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (34alA)

92 It will be one of the most complex environmental and engineering challenges our city has ever undertaken and it will, literally, alter the shape of the island of Manhattan.

Doesn't sound very green. If Mother Gaia wants to flood Manhattan, that is up to her.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (I2dne)

93 I have a Baum. Looks nice but it has a fuckton of switches and lights
that I have no idea what they propose they serve. The coffee is nice.



Baum or Braun?

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (sLicW)

94 French Press works without electricity. Remember that the next time you get a hurricane warning.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (2LelM)

95 That Nike story repulses me. Just when I thought my opinion of that

company couldn't get any worse, it does. There sure is a worldwide islam

push, there's no denying it. They must have some deeeeep pockets and

are throwing money hand over fist at those in power to push their

repugnant "religion" on the world. It's everywhere. Last week, I got a

flyer in the mail from Ulta. One of the products showed how it looked on

different skin colors: a white chick, a tan chick, a brown chick, a

darker brown chick. The brown chick in the pic? She was in a hijab.




Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 19, 2019 11:18 AM (JoUsr)

ITS FUNNY CAUSE THEY ONLY SHOW THE RELIGIOUS TRAPPINGS OF ONE CULTURE AS BEING SOMETHING TO BE TOLERATED NAY APPLAUDED.


Posted by: Ben Rothlisnbebergler at March 19, 2019 11:23 AM (ymnmz)


ITS ALSO FUNNY CAUSE THEY NEVER SHOW A HIJAB WOMAN PLAYING NICE JEWISH WOMAN IS TRADITIONAL GARB.





Posted by: Ben Rothlisnbebergler at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (ymnmz)

96 New Zealand = 1/60th of September 11.

Posted by: Chris M at March 19, 2019 11:32 AM (eAZVt)

97 Baum or Braun?
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Maybe the later. It is branded so heavily Euro, my ass don't stink, fancy its hard to make out the brand.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:32 AM (2LelM)

98 HMMMMM maybe RR is not a Black Hat ?
*****
Late Last Thread
Posted by: Deep State in Deep Shit at March 19, 2019 11:06 AM (BqBId)
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An easier explanation is probably "Barr is also a douche" rather than "Rosenstein is a secret white hat."

I would love to eat some crow over my assessment of Rosenstein.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:32 AM (I2dne)

99 This might be unpopular, but I like diversity.

But I also really like Reason. And Reason dictates that you tell the difference between "diversity" and strengths.

And I really like the Lord. And the Lord has taught me that what man calls "diversity" is sometimes just sin.

Diversity appears to me to be an investment in an open society. It can turn into a cost, but it has potential as a yield. To take the pollyanna road that speaking against diversity--such as a analyzing its potential as a cost--is forbidden, is too freaking stupid for words.

Diversity fits into the Western idea of civil governance. Your fit in the society should have nothing to do with what "makes you different". In fact the more different people you can integrate into society proves that point of the balance of your laws. The machine-like functioning of the Law is precisely the goal of Law.

However, you cannot for "diversity's sake" allow the importation of significant cultural changes antithetical to the Western principles that promote that value of balance. (Which, in abstraction, is not in any way ethnically based.) Part of our culture has a value to absorb as much of an alien culture as we can--but no more. That culture must be preserved and not overrun, because it starts to show the cost of diversity past its balance point.

"Diversity is strength" is a far-too simplistic slogan.

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:32 AM (vDqXW)

100 I had one good pair of Nikes in the early 1980s.

I believe the good pair were called Nike International or something.
Posted by: Puddin Head


Nike Cortez.
The approved footwear of high school students everywhere.
Red swoosh - guys.
Baby Blue swoosh - girls.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2019 11:32 AM (21UM+)

101 91
The real magic is in my ass, Harry!

Posted by: Dumblewhore at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (34alA)



!!!!????!!!!

Posted by: Dumbledore's Child Army at March 19, 2019 11:33 AM (ymnmz)

102 Those little cartridge things are not my cup of tea so to speak, and I don't see myself trying to do a "refill" at 6am when I'm half blind. Nope, big basket, pour in coffee, add water, hit "on" switch.
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:29 AM (sLicW)

Yep. Your basic Mr. Coffee FTW. My Phillips at home doesn't even have a timer on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2019 11:33 AM (nPGq2)

103 If you were a track runner in the 70s Nike was a godsend. The only
"running shoes" available were Adidas and Puma and they weren't that
good.



Those are the Nike's I remember. Simple, soft, light, blue. I think they were made in Beaverton back then. I wasn't a runner, but my friends in HS were all cross-country guys, and man, those shoes were comfy. Hard to find too.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:33 AM (sLicW)

104 They must have some deeeeep pockets and are throwing money hand over fist at those in power to push their repugnant "religion" on the world.

Uh, yeah. They sure do...
- 1970's oil embargo
- $100+/bbl oil

So yeah, we're pretty much funding the savages who will overrun us.

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:33 AM (NYS7S)

105 So Dumblebore was hosing the boys at Hogwarts then. Probably used a passout potion.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 19, 2019 11:33 AM (r+sAi)

106 Samuel Jackson Beer

https://tinyurl.com/yxkzm7mo

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2019 11:34 AM (JFO2v)

107 105 So Dumblebore was hosing the boys at Hogwarts then. Probably used a passout potion.
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What do you think the wands are for?

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:34 AM (2LelM)

108 104 They must have some deeeeep pockets and are throwing money hand over fist at those in power to push their repugnant "religion" on the world.

Uh, yeah. They sure do...
- 1970's oil embargo
- $100+/bbl oil

So yeah, we're pretty much funding the savages who will overrun us.
Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:33 AM (NYS7S)

===========

Oil ain't at that price anymore.

Hillary would have worked to make that price happen again, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:34 AM (q8oeS)

109 From the sidebar:

Rowling: "Dumbledore is gay"


I wonder when Amazon will start selling "modernized" versions.

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2019 11:34 AM (TQyCa)

110 Bunn makes an awesome home coffee maker that doesn't need to hook into a water line like most of their models.

It has a heating reservoir that stays on constantly. You add a pot of water in like any coffee maker use, but that water is used for the next pot.

So once you hot go, the whole pot brews in under three minutes, and it makes good coffee.

If your family drinks a lot of coffee - this thing is ideal. Quick brew, and you can run it like a crack fiend for years before it'll break:

https://tinyurl.com/y2lhy6bn

Posted by: Hot Bunns at March 19, 2019 11:34 AM (AzW6q)

111 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:32 AM (I2dne)
*********
Ummm Yeah the Guy PDT picked is Deep State

Posted by: Deep State in Deep Shit at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (BqBId)

112 Another conspiracy or two or more -- the Saudis paid Trump's National Enquirer buddies to buy Bezos' dick picks or the Joooos hacked Bezos -- pushed by NeverTrump dies...
https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/
1107975207053152256

Posted by: andycanuck at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (Dh1wo)

113 Nike Cortez.

The approved footwear of high school students everywhere.

Red swoosh - guys.

Baby Blue swoosh - girls.



Nike Cortez will get you shot in parts of CA (like anywhere but Yosemite). They've been adopted by MS-13 or some-such because of the name.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (sLicW)

114 Oil ain't at that price anymore.

Hillary would have worked to make that price happen again, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:34 AM (q8oeS)

Nope, thanks to OrangeManBad

But they had plenty of time to make metric fuktons of cash when oil was their monopoly.

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (NYS7S)

115 So Dumblebore was hosing the boys at Hogwarts then. Probably used a passout potion.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 19, 2019 11:33 AM (r+sAi)
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No, Dumbledore is fictional. He is the ideal, celibate gay. The Magical NegroGay.

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (vDqXW)

116 105
So Dumblebore was hosing the boys at Hogwarts then. Probably used a passout potion.


Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 19, 2019 11:33 AM (r+sAi)


He use the scent of the Forget-Me-Lot flower to disguise the potion!!!

Posted by: Goofy Longbottom at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (ymnmz)

117 Why doesn't DiBlasio just welcome the floodwaters and declare Manhattan a sunk-tuary city?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (m45I2)

118 Coffee is correctly made using a French press.

That is all.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (Bdeb0)

119 Yep. Your basic Mr. Coffee FTW. My Phillips at home doesn't even have a timer on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2019 11:33 AM (nPGq2)


Bingo. All a coffee maker needs is an on-off switch. The one frill that is okay is the auto-off, but even that is really unnecessary.

And some of the newer machines have gotten so nutty that you can't even tell when they're brewing, because their lights are always lit in some way. Cuisinart has taken this approach. Their machines are now close to useless, in addition to being total rip-offs.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (YJn4J)

120
...
Diversity appears to me to be an investment in an open society. It can turn into a cost, but it has potential as a yield. To take the pollyanna road that speaking against diversity--such as a analyzing its potential as a cost--is forbidden, is too freaking stupid for words.
...
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:32 AM (vDqXW)
+++++++++++++
A central tenet of the Left is that you must never ever perform anything approaching the concept of a "cost/benefit analysis."

Just ask Johan Norberg about that. On the topic of polar bears he asserted that if the goal was to save polar bears, it would be cheaper and more effective to aggressively target poachers instead of deindustrializing the world to tackle "climate change."

He was basically unpersoned by the Left over it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:36 AM (I2dne)

121 French Press works without electricity. Remember that the next time you get a hurricane warning.
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (2LelM)

You still have to boil the water. And they are finicky, and only make a cup at a time. I have a graniteware camp percolator to make coffee with when the power is out. Then, I also have a generator.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (nPGq2)

122 So Ms Rowlings are you saying your character Dumbeldore is like a pedophile Catholic priest?

That should shut her yap if she has any sense left.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (/snPg)

123 If your family drinks a lot of coffee - this thing is ideal. Quick brew, and you can run it like a crack fiend for years before it'll break:

https://tinyurl.com/y2lhy6bn
Posted by: Hot Bunns at March 19, 2019 11:34 AM (AzW6q)
+++++++++
I rate this as "true" from personal experience.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (I2dne)

124 >118
Coffee is correctly made using a French press.



Is that when 2 gay Parisian baristas hug?

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (sjdRT)

125 "With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable." - Prince Feisal

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama-Butcher at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (zxzKH)

126 Holy crap. Anti-vaccination nutcases attack parents who don't vaccinate when their kids die because they weren't vaccinated.

"Interviews with mothers who've lost children and with those who spy on anti-vaccination groups, reveal a tactic employed by anti-vaxers: When a child dies, members of the group sometimes encourage each other to go on that parent's Facebook page. The anti-vaxers then post messages telling the parents they're lying and their child never existed, or that the parent murdered them, or that vaccines killed the child, or some combination of all of those.

Nothing is considered too cruel. Just days after their children died, mothers say anti-vaxers on social media called them whores, the c-word and baby killers."

https://bit.ly/2CtqmED

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wrong it hat say bullets interpretation means nothing. at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (xyung)

127 Manhattan is already built out over in-fill.

In any case, more cities should go the route of Venice.

Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (BD/yx)

128 That should shut her yap if she has any sense left.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (/snPg)

I see the flaw in your thesis.

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (NYS7S)

129 Coffee is correctly made using a French press.

That is all.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (Bdeb0)


If you like picking coffee grounds out of your teeth.

French presses are good to have around for emergencies. But that's it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (YJn4J)

130 114 Nope, thanks to OrangeManBad

But they had plenty of time to make metric fuktons of cash when oil was their monopoly.
Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (NYS7S)

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But they also built nanny states for their people or private empires that both require massive influxes of cash to maintain.

They can't keep funding terrorism forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (q8oeS)

131 But they had plenty of time to make metric fuktons of cash when oil was their monopoly.

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (NYS7S)

They're generally not super prudent. If they had invested all that money for decades, we'd be facing a real juggernaut. As is, they're worried about financing welfare. Iran is in deep economic shit.

Posted by: Someguy at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (dy5uS)

132 "Diversity is strength" is a far-too simplistic slogan.
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:32 AM (vDqXW)

And multiculturalism is an apartheid mentality, strongly encouraging people to arrange themselves by race and stay away from others, to hold to the culture of their native nation, and never dare to mix with others else be branded a race traitor or cultural appropriator.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (J+mig)

133 I must admit, some of the best tasting coffee I've had came from a Bunn coffee maker, albeit a commercial version.

Posted by: Roy at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (xqdqQ)

134
121 French Press works without electricity. Remember that the next time you get a hurricane warning.
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (2LelM)

You still have to boil the water. And they are finicky, and only make a cup at a time. I have a graniteware camp percolator to make coffee with when the power is out. Then, I also have a generator.
------------------
I have a gas range, a gas grill and a small one pot gas burner. I probably have some old heat tabs from my C-Rat days laying around.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (2LelM)

135 94 French Press works without electricity. Remember that the next time you get a hurricane warning.
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (2LelM)

I just wait 35 seconds for genset to start and stabilize at 110 v 60 Hz

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (JFO2v)

136 It will be one of the most complex environmental and engineering
challenges our city has ever undertaken and it will, literally, alter
the shape of the island of Manhattan.

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No doubt produced by appropriately 'diverse' engineers -- like the footbridge in Florida.

(ps - a pet peeve of mine is teaching children with math talents and engineering talents some kind of estimating as a way to solve problems since children using estimates is not anywhere close to an experienced person estimating)

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (MIKMs)

137 But they also built nanny states for their people or private empires that both require massive influxes of cash to maintain.

They can't keep funding terrorism forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (q8oeS)
+++++++++++
This is true, but terrorism is a comparatively cheap outlay. They can probably keep it up for a goodly while.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (I2dne)

138 126 Holy crap. Anti-vaccination nutcases attack parents who don't vaccinate when their kids die because they weren't vaccinated.

"Interviews with mothers who've lost children and with those who spy on anti-vaccination groups, reveal a tactic employed by anti-vaxers: When a child dies, members of the group sometimes encourage each other to go on that parent's Facebook page. The anti-vaxers then post messages telling the parents they're lying and their child never existed, or that the parent murdered them, or that vaccines killed the child, or some combination of all of those.

Nothing is considered too cruel. Just days after their children died, mothers say anti-vaxers on social media called them whores, the c-word and baby killers."

https://bit.ly/2CtqmED
Posted by: Moron Robbie - wrong it hat say bullets interpretation means nothing. at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (xyung)

============

I feel like some people should discover a real religion instead of these weird fake ones. They might be happier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (q8oeS)

139 Coffee is correctly made using a French press.

That is all.



*cough*

Posted by: Bialetti at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (fuK7c)

140 They can't keep funding terrorism forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (q8oeS)

They don't have to.

Western Europe, on it's current trajectory, doesn't go deep into the next decade.

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (NYS7S)

141 127 Manhattan is already built out over in-fill.

In any case, more cities should go the route of Venice.
Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at March 19, 2019 11:37 AM (BD/yx)

Is not that expressway by the east river 100% reclaimed land?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2019 11:40 AM (JFO2v)

142 I started looking for a new coffee maker, and remembered that I'm boycotting Keurig, but can't remember why!

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 19, 2019 11:25 AM (sLicW)

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Bonavita.

https://amzn.to/2QzB3uA

There are other makes out there that get the water up to the ~195 degrees, but I think this is the cheapest option.

And that temperature makes a huge difference, even with white trash Maxwell House or Ol' Roy (my personal daily favorite).

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wrong it hat say bullets interpretation means nothing. at March 19, 2019 11:40 AM (xyung)

143 137 This is true, but terrorism is a comparatively cheap outlay. They can probably keep it up for a goodly while.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (I2dne)

============

Also true.

But Iran's concerns should become more inward focusing as their incomes dry up. Their need and desire to bomb outside targets will become less prominent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:40 AM (q8oeS)

144 French Press works without electricity. Remember that the next time you get a hurricane warning.
Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:31 AM (2LelM)

You still have to boil the water. And they are finicky, and only make a cup at a time. I have a graniteware camp percolator to make coffee with when the power is out. Then, I also have a generator.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Stainless Steel Camp Boiler from Cabela's.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2019 11:40 AM (21UM+)

145 But they also built nanny states for their people or private empires that both require massive influxes of cash to maintain.

They can't keep funding terrorism forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (q8oeS)

That's why the effort to take over the world now. They will burn through the oil windfall, then they got nothing and fade back into obscurity unless some new accident of technological development and its dependent resource blesses them.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 19, 2019 11:40 AM (J+mig)

146 Coffee is correctly made using a French press.

That is all.

*cough*
Posted by: Bialetti at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (fuK7c)

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Mr. Bialetti was a man who lived, and died, in style:

https://tinyurl.com/y4znzcmg

Posted by: Hot Bunns at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (AzW6q)

147 klown car now a short bus to get all the riders

Trump-Russia-Obsessed Rep. Eric Swalwell Mulling a Run for President in 2020

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (JFO2v)

148 if the goal was to save polar bears, it would be cheaper and more effective to aggressively target poachers instead of deindustrializing the world to tackle "climate change."


It would be cheaper still to open zoos and feed the bears captive seals.

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (wW03z)

149 If DiBlasio wants to encircle Manhattan with a dyke why doesn't he just drive the perimeter with his wife?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (m45I2)

150 Sponge

Posted by: FIRST!!!!! at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (uopCm)

151 In fairness to Mayor Bill de Blasio, my understanding is that he does have some knowledge of dykes.

Posted by: Fritz at March 19, 2019 11:42 AM (2Mnv1)

152 >Trump-Russia-Obsessed Rep. Eric Swalwell Mulling a Run for President in 2020

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (JFO2v)



Yes please.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 19, 2019 11:42 AM (sjdRT)

153 If ye love wealth better than liberty, the
tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home
from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick
the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

-- Samuel Adams



I'm constantly amazed how smart people were who didn't even have
smart phones or twitter! That quote is just magic. "May your chains sit
lightly..."

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2019 11:10 AM (dzJ3R)


The modern day version would be-Get the hell away from us before we shoot you in the fucking face, have fun being boot lickers, and if you're lucky it won't hurt when the muzzies saw your head off, and if somebody asks, we don't frigging know you.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 19, 2019 11:42 AM (9Om/r)

154 I feel like some people should discover a real religion instead of these weird fake ones. They might be happier.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Some should just meet God.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2019 11:42 AM (21UM+)

155 The Venice project is a truly almost Rube Goldberg spectacle to combat the simple geological fact that Venice is really built on a bunch of low lying marsh islands that are sinking.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2019 11:42 AM (/snPg)

156 But Iran's concerns should become more inward focusing as their incomes dry up. Their need and desire to bomb outside targets will become less prominent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:40 AM (q8oeS)
++++++++++
In Iran's case, definitely. They will need to ramp up their internal security organs as things gets worse. They turn their efforts within. This transition is the worse for Iran and the better for us. Since I am on the "us" side, I hope it is rapid.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (I2dne)

157 rich people live on the coast and get bailouts for when they have storm damage, cuz they have senator friends, so you pay. Stossel did a report on that ... said he took the $200k or so ... felt kinda bad, but took the money of course.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (Cus5s)

158 I'm constantly amazed how smart people were who didn't even have smart phones or twitter! That quote is just magic. "May your chains sit lightly..."
======================
I love that quote too...one of my previous favorites was: I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (bWBdM)

159 But they had plenty of time to make metric fuktons of cash when oil was their monopoly.

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:35 AM (NYS7S)


The only reason the arab/persian countries got any oil money was because we were stupid enough to let them steal the oil fields in the forced nationalizations of the 50s and 60s. That was one of the biggest mistakes the West ever made. The arabs didn't own and had no right to shit and we never should have let them steal anything.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (YJn4J)

160 Trump-Russia-Obsessed Rep. Eric Swalwell Mulling a Run for President in 2020



Swalwell hasn't enough wit to mull a cup of cider.

Posted by: pep at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (wW03z)

161 He was basically unpersoned by the Left over it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:36 AM (I2dne)
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That's while I'll never be a leftist. I can't deal with the cognitive dissonance which "true belief" can only escape into an "open mind" which your superiors will treat like a mailbox.

You have to reach pretty far on the right to get a mind as closed as a moderate leftist, IMO.

Well Logic is part of the Patriarchy. So I guess Analysis is too. Cost/benefit analysis is RACIST!

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (vDqXW)

162 156 But Iran's concerns should become more inward focusing as their incomes dry up. Their need and desire to bomb outside targets will become less prominent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:40 AM (q8oeS)
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In Iran's case, definitely. They will need to ramp up their internal security organs as things gets worse. They turn their efforts within. This transition is the worse for Iran and the better for us. Since I am on the "us" side, I hope it is rapid.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (I2dne)

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You know what will help? Pallets full of cash to the mullahs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (q8oeS)

163
That's why the effort to take over the world now. They will burn through the oil windfall, then they got nothing and fade back into obscurity unless some new accident of technological development and its dependent resource blesses them.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 19, 2019 11:40 AM (J+mig)

That feel when sand becomes the world's most important resource.

Posted by: Someguy at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (dy5uS)

164
152 >Trump-Russia-Obsessed Rep. Eric Swalwell Mulling a Run for President in 2020

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (JFO2v)

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Yes please.
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Swalwell is a total gimp. He would do anything for a couple of bucks. Anything.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (2LelM)

165 Cowboys?
How 'bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?

Posted by: Burger Chef at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (RuIsu)

166 Wall st. gets a wall but America just gets flooded.

Posted by: DaveA at March 19, 2019 11:44 AM (FhXTo)

167 >>If you like picking coffee grounds out of your teeth. French presses are good to have around for emergencies. But that's it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 19, 2019 11:38 AM (YJn4J)

Even today mankind demonstrates a lack of facility with basic tools.

Kneel before Zod.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:44 AM (Bdeb0)

168 It would be cheaper still to open zoos and feed the bears captive seals.
Posted by: pep at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (wW03z)

or cancel SS for Aleutian Indians and force them to haul grandma out on the ice!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2019 11:45 AM (JFO2v)

169 The Venice project is a truly almost Rube Goldberg spectacle to combat the simple geological fact that Venice is really built on a bunch of low lying marsh islands that are sinking.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2019 11:42 AM (/snPg)

People are stubborn creatures. They've lived there for a long time and refuse to give up on it. I have to wonder if any of the other lost lands of myth were similar, with holdouts simply refusing to bow to reality.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 19, 2019 11:45 AM (J+mig)

170 Well Logic is part of the Patriarchy. So I guess Analysis is too. Cost/benefit analysis is RACIST!
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (vDqXW)
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It's also misogynist. Not very intersectional at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:45 AM (I2dne)

171 children using estimates is not anywhere close to an experienced person estimating


********

Nonsense!
I estimate that roughly 7 gazillion plastic straws have killed (in my estimate) 400 patillion sea turtles.

/9-year-old environmental "activist"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2019 11:45 AM (m45I2)

172 Transborder Industrial Mastic Human Flypaper Array.

Do it, Donald Trump. Do it now.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:45 AM (Bdeb0)

173 Keurig yanked ads from Hannity over some lefty outrage of the day IIRC. I use the K machine at work when I need more than tea, always have bought off-brand cups (cuz frugal) l I like my french press for coffee at home.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at March 19, 2019 11:46 AM (pAkRe)

174 Venice is really built on a bunch of low lying marsh islands that are sinking.


We aren't sinking. You're rising.

Posted by: Venetian islands at March 19, 2019 11:46 AM (wW03z)

175 I feel like some people should discover a real religion instead of these weird fake ones. They might be happier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (q8oeS)
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I believe Chesterton had something to say about that.

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:46 AM (vDqXW)

176 Aeropresses make a great cup of coffee, too. Key being "cup." I wouldn't recommend it if you're having company unless you just want to show them your Aeropress.

Handy to keep in an RV, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wrong it hat say bullets interpretation means nothing. at March 19, 2019 11:46 AM (xyung)

177 The story of Venice is a pretty good one.
Local tribe gets persecuted, banished out to the marshes where they build a great city and become powerful merchant-kings.

Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 19, 2019 11:46 AM (w7KSn)

178 175 I feel like some people should discover a real religion instead of these weird fake ones. They might be happier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (q8oeS)
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I believe Chesterton had something to say about that.
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:46 AM (vDqXW)

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It's actually the central theme of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Seriously.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:46 AM (q8oeS)

179 I feel like some people should discover a real religion instead of these weird fake ones. They might be happier.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (q8oeS)

They who believe in "nothing" will believe in, literally, anything.

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (NYS7S)

180 I love that quote too...one of my previous favorites was: I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at March 19, 2019 11:43 AM (bWBdM)

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Or as I rephrased it in my song "When It Gets Gangsta:"

"Some say it ain't worth it but fuck that shit...
I'd rather die like a soldier than to live like a bitch."

Posted by: Willie D at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (AzW6q)

181 Mr. Bialetti was a man who lived, and died, in style:

https://tinyurl.com/y4znzcmg
Posted by: Hot Bunns at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (AzW6q)

Those Moka pots are shizznit, too, and if I had a gas range, I would get one. Used to have one; don't remember what became of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (nPGq2)

182 The US has to get rid of straws because people in sh*tholes don't know how to throw them in a trash can.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wrong it hat say bullets interpretation means nothing. at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (xyung)

183
Angie Merkel is being interviewed at a World Policy forum. She decided to dress as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (OLCnA)

184 >>People are stubborn creatures. They've lived there for a long time and refuse to give up on it.Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 19, 2019 11:45 AM (J+mig)

The Mississippi River is the GI tract of the United States. Its terminus is New Orleans, which is shaped like a bowel. Err, 'bowl.' People still live there.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (Bdeb0)

185 Angie Merkel is being interviewed at a World Policy forum. She decided to dress as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (OLCnA)
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She and Hillary! share a wardrobe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (I2dne)

186 "climate-proof"

Posted by: bluebell at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (aXucN)

187 It's also misogynist. Not very intersectional at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:45 AM (I2dne)
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It will have to come out! .... All the bits of it.

Posted by: R. Gumby, Brain Specialist at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (vDqXW)

188 183 Angie Merkel is being interviewed at a World Policy forum. She decided to dress as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (OLCnA)

I truly hope someday she is held to answer for her crimes against the European People and Western Civilization.

Alas, much like Felonious vonPantsuit, it will almost certainly not be.

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (NYS7S)

189 >>They who believe in "nothing" will believe in, literally, anything. Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (NYS7S)

This is incorrect.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (Bdeb0)

190 And then Venice goes all robber-baron to protect its money-making trade rackets. Along with looking Egypt for the bones of St. Mark and hiring out the 4th Crusade to sack the economic rival Constantinople.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 19, 2019 11:49 AM (/snPg)

191 They who believe in "nothing" will believe in, literally, anything.
Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (NYS7S)

Who sang that song?

"You gotta stand for something or you'll fall for anything"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:49 AM (Ct55T)

192 This is incorrect.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (Bdeb0)

?Que?

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:49 AM (NYS7S)

193 Photographic evidence of what actually happened to the polar bears.

http://tinyurl.com/the-end-is-near-ish





(Hint: The penguins ate them!)

Posted by: Muldoon at March 19, 2019 11:50 AM (m45I2)

194 If you like picking coffee grounds out of your teeth. French presses are good to have around for emergencies. But that's it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair


Bad juju if they are glass. Buddy busted his camping. No cofefe! for you!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2019 11:50 AM (21UM+)

195 The Mississippi River is the GI tract of the United States. Its terminus is New Orleans, which is shaped like a bowel. Err, 'bowl.' People still live there.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (Bdeb0)

I suppose that makes the MS/AL coast the taint of America.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:50 AM (Ct55T)

196 I feel like some people should discover a real religion instead of these weird fake ones. They might be happier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (q8oeS)

A benign religion works wonders as an inoculation against cultist quackery.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 19, 2019 11:51 AM (J+mig)

197 re: building up lower manhattan.

It's not a bad idea. In fact, much of lower manhattan is already "reclaimed" swamp land that was filled in previous eras. The area is very low lying and could get clobbered by the right storm. One of the side effects of building a massive city on an island that is not far above sea level.

That being said... good luck making it a reality! Environmental impact studies are going to shut this shit down so fast it'll make your head spin.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 19, 2019 11:51 AM (GBteo)

198 ?Que?
Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:49 AM (NYS7S)
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Zod. Super-atheist.

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:51 AM (vDqXW)

199 189 >>They who believe in "nothing" will believe in, literally, anything. Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 11:47 AM (NYS7S)

This is incorrect.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (Bdeb0)

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Zod is an exception.

I do believe that the statistical normal for people is that they need to believe in something bigger than themselves to help them find some kind of meaning.

Like all of humanity, especially there being 7 billion of us, there are exceptions, but most people need that belief in order to function.

Everyone thinks that they're an exception, but very few are.

The more people who could realize that they've replaced belief in a god with belief in a man, or a state, or something kooky like vaccines cause autism, the more that they would be able to self-correct. Hopefully.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:51 AM (XSSCs)

200 The letter claims that Palestinian rioters "have defended themselves mostly with rocks, burning kites, balloons and tires, homemade rockets and starkly tragic human suicide bombers" in the face of "the heavily blockaded Gaza border."


A blockade is not offensive, dummies.

And all the 'defenses' they describe are offensive.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2019 11:52 AM (oVJmc)

201 The Mississippi River is the GI tract of the United States. Its terminus is New Orleans, which is shaped like a bowel. Err, 'bowl.' People still live there.
Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:48 AM (Bdeb0)

I suppose that makes the MS/AL coast the taint of America.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:50 AM (Ct55T)


And that officer is when the fight began.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 19, 2019 11:52 AM (aS1PU)

202 Little Warren Wilhelm?

Bill DeBolshedick is 6'5". He much more qualifies, in the words of Fred Sanford, as a Big Dummy.

Posted by: mercenary13 at March 19, 2019 11:52 AM (kOdoV)

203 >>Zod. Super-atheist.
Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:51 AM (vDqXW)

But only for today. During Lent.

And it's "superior-atheist," human.

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:53 AM (Bdeb0)

204 Carter: Gave away the Panama Canal and overthrew the Shaw of Iran.

Thanks, Jimmuh!


Posted by: Blake - On the Road in ID at March 19, 2019 11:53 AM (INrtr)

205 And that officer is when the fight began.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 19, 2019 11:52 AM (aS1PU)

Perineum, indeed...

Right in the clacker-bag!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:53 AM (Ct55T)

206 OK, this is a random polar bear story 'cause y'all are talking about polar bears. It's from a thing on the teevee about a guy who went polar bear hunting.

It's really expensive to hunt polar bears. You have to buy a $30K permit, you have to hire a legitimate Esquimeaux to guide you, and you have to do all of the get yourself and your gear to North Polarstan and stay there a while.

So our guy spends maybe $50K, buys a certified Esquimeaux, Esquimeaux sees a white bear and says "shoot that one". Our guy shoots and kills.

When it goes to the taxidermist the mold doesn't quite fit. Taxidermist wonders if it isn't really a brown bear. Canada impounds all of the guy's stuff and threatens him with jail for murdering an unapproved species.

Long story short, it turned out to be a brown/polar hybrid and Canada eventually let him go and gave him his stuff back, but not before he'd spent lots more money and time dealing with it.

I think if you have a personal Esquimeaux telling you that the white thing is a polar bear that should be good enough.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 19, 2019 11:53 AM (fuK7c)

207 I suppose that makes the MS/AL coast the taint of America.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:50 AM (Ct55T)

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I can't imagine the white sand beaches of the Gulf as anything negative. Maybe something wonderful and moist that is near said part, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wrong it hat say bullets interpretation means nothing. at March 19, 2019 11:53 AM (xyung)

208 A blockade is not offensive, dummies.

And all the 'defenses' they describe are offensive.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2019 11:52 AM (oVJmc)
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To the progressives, words have - at best - no meaning. At worst (the typical case), they corrupt the meanings until they are used in the opposite fashion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:53 AM (I2dne)

209 But nowhere in the $4.75 trillion budget President Trump just proposed is there anything approaching a plan to protect our coastal cities from rising seas.

Is he pounding on Trump to get a Wall? Well, isn't that special...

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2019 11:54 AM (n6bs1)

210 Crap.

Shah.

Posted by: Blake - On the Road in ID at March 19, 2019 11:54 AM (INrtr)

211 196 I feel like some people should discover a real religion instead of these weird fake ones. They might be happier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:39 AM (q8oeS)

A benign religion works wonders as an inoculation against cultist quackery.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 19, 2019 11:51 AM (J+mig)

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It's the theme of my next book.

Fantasy world. In the final days of a civil war that saw loyalist vs. the old religion, the loyalists have won. A victorious knight returns home to find that he has nothing save a woman he knows is his wife, but he doesn't actually know her. She spent the past few years raising their son, who died weeks before the start of the book.

They have nothing to believe in anymore, so they grab onto the first thing bigger than them that comes along: a dragon that seeks warmth in the fires they light on their plantation to kill diseased crops.

They chase the dragon through the countryside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at March 19, 2019 11:54 AM (XSSCs)

212 ¿Que?

Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:54 AM (vDqXW)

213 Is he pounding on Trump to get a Wall? Well, isn't that special...
Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2019 11:54 AM (n6bs1)
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It's more like a bulwark.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:55 AM (I2dne)

214 210 Crap.

Shah.
Posted by: Blake - On the Road in ID at March 19, 2019 11:54 AM (INrtr)

If Crapshaw isn't the name of a Democrat Senator...

It ought to be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:55 AM (Ct55T)

215 >>I suppose that makes the MS/AL coast the taint of America. Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:50 AM (Ct55T)

So when people describe Pensacola as the "Redneck Riviera," they're not exactly on-point.

"Redneck Prostate."

Posted by: Zod at March 19, 2019 11:55 AM (Bdeb0)

216 Zod is an exception.

I do believe that the statistical normal for people is that they need to believe in something bigger than themselves to help them find some kind of meaning.

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Those are the suckers, dupes, and easy marks... some people embrace atheism because we seek to become living gods in our right.

We're the dangerous ones.

Posted by: V.I. Lenin at March 19, 2019 11:55 AM (AzW6q)

217 209 But nowhere in the $4.75 trillion budget President Trump just proposed is there anything approaching a plan to protect our coastal cities from rising seas.

Is he pounding on Trump to get a Wall? Well, isn't that special...
Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2019 11:54 AM (n6bs1)

Yeah, I don't think those of us who *don't* live or work in lower manhattan should have to pay to protect rich liberals' office spaces in huge sky scrapers that are build in what is very clearly a flood zone.

If anyone should pay for it, it should be the city.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 19, 2019 11:56 AM (GBteo)

218 "Alan Krueger, head of Obama's Economic Advisors, Princeton Professor ... committed suicide this last
weekend. He was only 58"

he also worked with Hillary. His suicide note said he decided the whole commie thing he had pushed was just the corrupt mafiosa milking profits from the proles, and he had been their tool.


He now loves Trump ... and knew this would get him killed and his family harmed ... so "goodbye cruel world ... oh, and build that wall, lock her up".

Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2019 11:56 AM (Cus5s)

219 He now loves Trump ... and knew this would get him killed and his family harmed ... so "goodbye cruel world ... oh, and build that wall, lock her up".

Posted by: illiniwek at March 19, 2019 11:56 AM (Cus5s)

Hey, they don't call it "Ar-can't-cide", do they?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:57 AM (Ct55T)

220 It's the same shit whenever a hurricane hits -- "well, we all need to chip in to help rebuild this $10 million dollar water front mansion that was built 15 feet from the high tide line."

Like... whaaa? Really? That doesn't seem right.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 19, 2019 11:58 AM (GBteo)

221 Long story short, it turned out to be a brown/polar hybrid and Canada eventually let him go and gave him his stuff back, but not before he'd spent lots more money and time dealing with it.

I think if you have a personal Esquimeaux telling you that the white thing is a polar bear that should be good enough.
Posted by: Bandersnatch


Also, don't call it a brown bear if it's all white. Don't care how "hybrid" it is.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 19, 2019 11:58 AM (21UM+)

222 nood democrat antisemitism

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 19, 2019 11:58 AM (I2dne)

223 But nowhere in the $4.75 trillion budget President Trump just proposed is there anything approaching a plan to protect our coastal cities from rising seas.

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(Checks prices of beachfront property and Manhattan real estate)

Huh. Weird.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wrong it hat say bullets interpretation means nothing. at March 19, 2019 11:58 AM (xyung)

224
"You gotta stand for something or you'll fall for anything"
=====

Billy Preston, 'nothing from nothing makes nothing.'

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 19, 2019 11:58 AM (MIKMs)

225 that get the water up to the ~195 degrees,

run the water thru a cheap one twice, 1st without grounds.

Posted by: DaveA at March 19, 2019 11:58 AM (FhXTo)

226 But nowhere in the $4.75 trillion budget President Trump just proposed is there anything approaching a plan to protect our coastal cities from rising seas.



Dihydrogen monoxide is out of control!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2019 11:59 AM (oVJmc)

227 Billy Preston, 'nothing from nothing makes nothing.'
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 19, 2019 11:58 AM (MIKMs)

Heh.

I was actually thinking of an older country song... George Strait or something like that...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:59 AM (Ct55T)

228 Dihydrogen monoxide is out of control!
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 19, 2019 11:59 AM (oVJmc)

Stop Global Moistening!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 19, 2019 11:59 AM (Ct55T)

229 197
re: building up lower manhattan.



It's not a bad idea. In fact, much of lower manhattan is already
"reclaimed" swamp land that was filled in previous eras. The area is
very low lying and could get clobbered by the right storm. One of the
side effects of building a massive city on an island that is not far
above sea level.



That being said... good luck making it a reality! Environmental
impact studies are going to shut this shit down so fast it'll make your
head spin.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 19, 2019 11:51 AM (GBteo)


OK here me out...... we take all the trash form the space cruiser and we set it on orbit around the hull......



Shut up BETO!

Posted by: General Organa (I am not a princess!) at March 19, 2019 12:00 PM (ymnmz)

230 And, what the hell? just build a wall. I *assume* you've been doing it all along since you've been an island for 400 years- surely, you noticed the water when you bought the thing.

It doesn't sound like some national crisis, unlike, say, a snowstorm that reaches you and snarls traffic.

Posted by: t-bird at March 19, 2019 12:00 PM (mhs6e)

231
A blockade is not offensive, dummies.

And all the 'defenses' they describe are offensive.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles


Cuba has long called our "non trading" with them a blockade.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 19, 2019 12:01 PM (aKsyK)

232 Two phoney bomb threats in Toronto at a subway station...

https://twitter.com/TorSunCity/status/
1107801457804410883

...and it's Muslims.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 19, 2019 12:02 PM (Dh1wo)

233 So the whole thing about the giant snake in the "Chamber of Secrets" is just a metaphor for... for...

Aw MAN!!! That's just wrong,

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 19, 2019 12:02 PM (jp0Bv)

234 Now I wish I could still drink coffee.

Posted by: DaveA at March 19, 2019 12:02 PM (FhXTo)

235 In order to allay Muslim sensitivities, New Zealand is going to stop referring to the largest city on the South Island by it's name.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at March 19, 2019 12:03 PM (3eV0J)

236
But nowhere in the $4.75 trillion budget President Trump just proposed is there anything approaching a plan to protect our coastal cities from rising seas.


The Dutch put NYC where it is ,get the money from them.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 19, 2019 12:03 PM (TAmPV)

237 Posted by: Axeman at March 19, 2019 11:51 AM (vDqXW)

Ah, savvy.

All good, Zod. (tips cap)

Posted by: DocJ at March 19, 2019 12:04 PM (kPl7q)

238 Alan Krueger, head of Obama's Economic Advisors, Princeton Professor ... committed suicide this last
weekend. He was only 58"


Now he has to worry about minimum salvation needed.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 19, 2019 12:05 PM (7PXtO)

239 If Trump would have budgeted for NYC they would have claimed he was protecting his real estate investments.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 19, 2019 12:07 PM (7PXtO)

240 " klown car now a short bus to get all the riders

Trump-Russia-Obsessed Rep. Eric Swalwell Mulling a Run for President in 2020
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 19, 2019 11:41 AM (JFO2v)"

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At the his rate the Moron Horde will be the only people not running for president.

Posted by: Decaf at March 19, 2019 12:08 PM (PUz4C)

241 "Long story short, it turned out to be a brown/polar hybrid and Canada eventually let him go and gave him his stuff back, but not before he'd spent lots more money and time dealing with it."

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Not only are the polar bears not dying out but they have enough time for shenanigans with brown bears.

Posted by: Decaf at March 19, 2019 12:11 PM (PUz4C)

242 I have hated Nike since the advent of Tiger Woods when they went all virtue signaling in the first round of advertisements. Vile corporate culture in my mind.

Posted by: Steven Wilson at March 19, 2019 04:41 PM (KNjCL)

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