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Rockwell Moon.jpg


Boy And Girl Gazing At The Moon
Norman Rockwell

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 first

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:31 AM (8D42x)

2 yes, going to be a good day I suppose.

can't be any worse than yesterday at least...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:31 AM (8D42x)

3 and should have known it was Rockwell. he's got such a nice distinctive style. it's good art.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (8D42x)

4 I love Norman Rockwell.

Posted by: Vic at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (mpXpK)

5 Love the background.

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (ykq7q)

6 That's no moon...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (6qErC)

7 corgis called.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (8D42x)

8 Sturm: You're too old to be that naive.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (0PDHs)

9 He's clearly assaulting her.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (cqNba)

10 Arf!

Posted by: Conor at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (AZxMX)

11 Young Joe Biden.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (oVJmc)

12 and yay, I'm no longer talking to myself.

though it's good company and the advice is top notch...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (8D42x)

13 What is in that tin can?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (ufFY8)

14 It's a space station

Posted by: Obi-Wan Kenobi at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (7HtZB)

15 What's that big orange hole they're looking into? Was that an early round television?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (m79Dg)

16 Fond of Rockwell myself. I love the innocence of this one.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Conservapunk at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (AM1GF)

17 So sweet it gave me diabetes.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (EV0u2)

18 Looks like me and you, Insom.

Such a lovely time with you. How the neighbors don't give you too much grief.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (Y2wXs)

19 Oh look, it's insomniac and nurse!!

Posted by: lin-duh at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (UUBmN)

20 Prayer request -willowed from below


Member of my congregation has had three interviews about a job. He has to call again today right now. He doesn't know if he got the job or they offered it to someone else, which is a problem since he car which he was using to drive for Uber may have died and he's at end of funds. Anyway, "D" needs rough places made smooth. Thanks.

And Hadrian is in a job search too so please pray for him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 09:34 AM (ivkO2)

21 So, where's her left hand?

Posted by: FrodoB at June 21, 2019 09:34 AM (9753m)

22 Sturm: You're too old to be that naive.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (0PDHs)

well, had a dr. apt yesterday...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:34 AM (8D42x)

23 Love it. Rockwell is a part of Americana that I am sure the Socialists HATE......

Posted by: kraken at June 21, 2019 09:34 AM (90T4r)

24 Entirely unrealistic.

He still has worms left, he wouldn't be mooning with some icky girl.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 09:34 AM (fuK7c)

25 CAN PIPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkH-MdYq5mY

Posted by: SUPERSUCKERS at June 21, 2019 09:34 AM (KBp3+)

26 13 What is in that tin can?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (ufFY

Worms. He's got a fishing pole on the ground.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 09:35 AM (EV0u2)

27 What's that big orange hole they're looking into? Was that an early round television?
>>
Early test pattern

Posted by: FrodoB at June 21, 2019 09:35 AM (9753m)

28 Entirely unrealistic.

He still has worms left, he wouldn't be mooning with some icky girl.
Posted by: Bandersnatch


The point of fishin' ain't always the fish.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Conservapunk at June 21, 2019 09:35 AM (AM1GF)

29 Arf!

Posted by: Conor at June 21, 2019 09:32 AM (AZxMX)

I swear, I've contemplated opening a business in major cities loaning puppies to single guys at big parks for a modest fee.

girls can't resist puppies.

it'd be surefire winner.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (8D42x)

30 Good morning!

Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (u82oZ)

31 What is in that tin can?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt


Worms. He has his fishing pole.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (tBimT)

32 Norman Rockwell is always a good pick!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (bDqIh)

33 Figures. Babe comes along and *poof*...doggeh and fishing are forgotten.

Sap...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (6qErC)

34 Finally not having to see John Kerry on each refresh ...

Posted by: Yo! at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (1XAal)

35 Aw, geeze, there goes the fishing trip.

Posted by: Bowser at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (w54mS)

36 Good Lord... a depiction of normal behavior.... will be triggering for many....

Posted by: kraken at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (90T4r)

37 Knew it was Rockwell even before I scrolled down. Both his style, and the fact that I recognized the picture.

Good mornin', all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (ClOmq)

38
Nonetheless He Persisted - a limerick

"It's a mighty fine morning I'd say.
So I think I'll go fishing today."
"Have you got all your gear?
Do you have worms, my dear?"

"Yep, but I'm going anyway!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (mvenn)

39 A guy, his girl, and his dog.
Life doesn't get any better than that.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (tBimT)

40 The point of fishin' ain't always the fish.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Conservapunk at June 21, 2019 09:35 AM (AM1GF)

Actually catching fish is rarely the point of fishing, it is an occasional bonus though!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (AZxMX)

41 Is that Kavanaugh? Good thing that didn't leak out.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (OX6sG)

42 Entirely unrealistic.

He still has worms left, he wouldn't be mooning with some icky girl.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 09:34 AM (fuK7c)

maybe he's waiting for the full moon rise so the catfish will stir?

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (8D42x)

43 A squall line knocked me off the Internet, again.

Teej and Jewels45, it's heading for you. Penny sized hail, 60+ Mph straight line winds.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (u82oZ)

44 That's not art.

Posted by: Jackson Pollack at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (w54mS)

45 39 A guy, his girl, and his dog.
Life doesn't get any better than that.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (tBimT)

Just don't ask Harlan Ellison to write a story about it.

Posted by: tom servo at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (V2Yro)

46 Ahhh...Rockwell.

Posted by: WisRich at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (G0vdT)

47 Knew it was Rockwell even before I scrolled down. Both his style, and the fact that I recognized the picture.

Good mornin', all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Yeah. Rockwell's style is pretty distinctive.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (tBimT)

48 *removes shoes, kicks back and prepares to be entertained by insomniac, the Nurse and Norman Rockwell*

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (ctmIP)

49 Her feets too big.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (oVJmc)

50 -- FenelonSpoke --

'Morning! I posted near end of ONT (don't want to spoil this fresh, new thread)

Thanks again for your efforts here and many Moron prayers!

Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (gP/Z3)

51 A guy, his girl, and his dog.
Life doesn't get any better than that"

You misspelled "boat"

Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (6qErC)

52 Wonder why the puppy doesn't have his muzzle in the worm can. Maybe there are limits to what even a hungry puppy will eat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (ClOmq)

53 >>Rockwell's style is pretty distinctive.


Like Hummel Figurines.

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (KBp3+)

54 18 Nurse ratched

So you are bacK? Did you annoy his neighbors?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (u82oZ)

55 NaCly Dog: Sir, may I please have an alternative mission, sir?

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (0PDHs)

56 The orange circle represents Trump; the boy and girl are his base in Middle America, looking on in appreciation. The dog is the rest of the world, hanging out and hoping for a snack and a pat on the head.

The worms are the Democrats 2020 lineup, all seeking to escape the can before they are fed to the fish (not shown) who represent the cannibalistic Woke democrat base, which demands continuous sacrifice. Like Quetzocoatl, only less cool.

Posted by: Vanya at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (R7nPl)

57 Which one is the tranny?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 21, 2019 09:39 AM (+y/Ru)

58 48 *removes shoes, kicks back and prepares to be entertained by insomniac, the Nurse and Norman Rockwell*

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (ctmIP)


What happens in Florida stays in Florida!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 21, 2019 09:39 AM (AZxMX)

59 I called McAfee to bitch about the cost of my renewel. Got it cut in half but good Lord I could barely understand the person on the other end. Sounded like a Pakistani munchkin.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 21, 2019 09:39 AM (dUJdY)

60 Someone with knowledge of Rockwell's complete works needs to nominate the "just right" piece, as Nose Art for a B1-b Lancer.

Rockwell on a Rockwell.

Seindipity, and it would drive arty liberals nuts-ier.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2019 09:39 AM (QzJWU)

61 Just don't ask Harlan Ellison to write a story about it.

Posted by: tom servo at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (V2Yro)

Don't ask Brad Paisley to do a song about it.

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 09:39 AM (ykq7q)

62 49
Her feets too big.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019

*
*
. . .

She'll grow into 'em. They suggest she'll be tall. I bet Nicole Kidman had good-sized paws when she was that age.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 21, 2019 09:39 AM (ClOmq)

63 >>Wonder why the puppy doesn't have his muzzle in the worm can. Maybe there are limits to what even a hungry puppy will eat.


Nope. My Labs loved eating worms.

Also, lettuce and cabbage. Weird dogs they were.

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2019 09:40 AM (KBp3+)

64 The orange circle represents Trump; the boy and girl are his base in Middle America, looking on in appreciation. The dog is the rest of the world, hanging out and hoping for a snack and a pat on the head.

The worms are the Democrats 2020 lineup, all seeking to escape the can before they are fed to the fish (not shown) who represent the cannibalistic Woke democrat base, which demands continuous sacrifice. Like Quetzocoatl, only less cool.

Posted by: Vanya at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (R7nPl)

*golf clap*

That's some PHD level claptrap right there.

I doff my cap, good sir

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:40 AM (8D42x)

65 43 A squall line knocked me off the Internet, again.

Teej and Jewels45, it's heading for you. Penny sized hail, 60+ Mph straight line winds.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (u82oZ)

Heading for Fulton and Kingdom City, looks like.... we may dode the main part here in Osage Beach....

Posted by: kraken at June 21, 2019 09:40 AM (90T4r)

66 Good Lord... a depiction of normal behavior.... will be triggering for many....
Posted by: kraken
---------

Norman Rockwell is a tool of cis-normal oppression. Must be denigrated, then destroyed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 21, 2019 09:40 AM (4bd7D)

67 Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (Y2wXs)

It really was a great time. I haven't had any neighbors show up at the door yet but there is the possibility of ending up on the agenda for the next HOA meeting...

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 09:40 AM (NWiLs)

68 51 A guy, his girl, and his dog.
Life doesn't get any better than that"

You misspelled "boat"
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (6qErC)

Those are entirely the wrong letters to spell "whiskey".

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 21, 2019 09:40 AM (J+mig)

69 61
Just don't ask Harlan Ellison to write a story about it.


Posted by: tom servo at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (V2Yro)



Don't ask Brad Paisley to do a song about it.

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019

*
*
. . .
Tim McGraw's "Don't Take the Girl."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 21, 2019 09:40 AM (ClOmq)

70 There should be a kitteh in the picture to keep the doggeh company. Besides, you need a kitteh to eat the leftover fish (assuming any are ever caught).

Posted by: Basement Cat at June 21, 2019 09:41 AM (pPNCa)

71 Already came through NaCly. Dime size hail and heavy rain. No damage that we can see yet, but another line of storms coming. *sigh*

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 21, 2019 09:41 AM (dUJdY)

72 Mr. Peebles: 11 Young Joe Biden.

Really, people? It took eleven comments before a Biden mention? Y'all are slackin'.

Good but late mornin'.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 21, 2019 09:41 AM (/IMJl)

73 You should call the actual McAfee. He can't help with your anti virus payment but he has great whale fucking advice.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:41 AM (0PDHs)

74 Tug McGraw > Tim McGraw

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2019 09:41 AM (KBp3+)

75 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 09:34 AM (ivkO2)

On it. Also willowed.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 09:41 AM (OX6sG)

76 Morning, all. No time to hang, have to work. Hope I can check in for the Solomonic Simian.

In any event, I hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 21, 2019 09:42 AM (Ki5SV)

77 "Time spent fishing does not come off your allotted life span."

my father

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 09:42 AM (ctmIP)

78
Getting To the Bottom of the Problem - a limerick

He's surely not rolling in riches
There's a patch on the seat of his britches
"Now Billy, sit down
And stop squirming around!"
I can't Ma! It's burlap! It itches!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 21, 2019 09:42 AM (mvenn)

79 Patches on clothes reminds me of mom ironing new patches on new jeans so would last a little longer. Was not raise poor but it seems then there was a lot of practical learning from Depression and WWII that carried over into 1960 and 1970s. I do not think we had that type of ingrained culture that we passed on to our kid(s). Well maybe on cars. We tend to buy a car we like and drive it into the ground.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2019 09:42 AM (JFO2v)

80 Wait
Where is it storming?

Posted by: Yo! at June 21, 2019 09:43 AM (1XAal)

81 Quick Draw McGraw > Tug McGraw > Tim McGraw

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 09:43 AM (NWiLs)

82 I've taken heat in my artsy friend circles for openly expressing admiration for Norman Rockwell, many of whom went after him for the usual reasons: sentimentality, appeals to nostalgia, kitsch, and so on. I shrugged it off.

Rockwell achieved the emotional effects in the people experiencing his art that he set out to achieve. In a few instances, he achieved elevation, which is supposed to be the highest goal of any artist. People often feel closer to God and Truth when experiencing the Sistine Chapel, for example, and for those receptive to it, they can experience it with some of Rockwell's paintings. That is no small thing.

Posted by: troyriser at June 21, 2019 09:43 AM (y2JAS)

83 American Gothic, the early years

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 21, 2019 09:43 AM (dm05u)

84 Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:41 AM (0PDHs)

lol.. yeah that dude is a few short of a six pack isn't he?

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 21, 2019 09:43 AM (dUJdY)

85 I swear, I've contemplated opening a business in major cities loaning puppies to single guys at big parks for a modest fee.

girls can't resist puppies.

it'd be surefire winner.
Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (8D42x)

pups for pussy?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2019 09:44 AM (JFO2v)

86 Hi salty.

Not home yet. In the air. It's a long flight home to Seattle.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 09:44 AM (Y2wXs)

87 Back to work

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 21, 2019 09:45 AM (AZxMX)

88 Patches on clothes reminds me of mom ironing new patches on new jeans so would last a little longer. Was not raise poor but it seems then there was a lot of practical learning from Depression and WWII that carried over into 1960 and 1970s.


In the 90s you could BUY tattered jeans, and they called those 'designer.'

Crazy world.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 09:45 AM (oVJmc)

89 Look McAfee might be "monkeys stole my social security number" insane but dude is living the dream.

He's my pick for 2020.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:45 AM (0PDHs)

90 Rockwell is great!
A friend recently bought me a "Mending the Flag" coffee mug from a garage sale.

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at June 21, 2019 09:45 AM (DB16e)

91 Patches on clothes reminds me of mom ironing new patches on new jeans so would last a little longer


Did she at least let you take the jeans off first?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:45 AM (tBimT)

92 I swear, I've contemplated opening a business in major cities loaning puppies to single guys at big parks for a modest fee.

girls can't resist puppies.

it'd be surefire winner.
Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (8D42x)

pups for pussy?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2019 09:44 AM (JFO2v)

I like it, but is it too direct? am I concerned about subtlety?

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:46 AM (8D42x)

93 86 Hi salty.

Not home yet. In the air. It's a long flight home to Seattle.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 09:44 AM (Y2wXs)

Seattle to Florida!!!! Aye Caramba!!!!

Posted by: kraken at June 21, 2019 09:46 AM (90T4r)

94 Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:45 AM (0PDHs)

Can anyone prove that his SS was not, in fact, stolen by monkeys?

Posted by: Vanya at June 21, 2019 09:46 AM (R7nPl)

95 Biden summed up the Democrat/Iranian position: "President Trump's Iran strategy is a self-inflicted disaster."

In other words, it's all America's fault. This was also the position of Imperial Japan at Pearl Harbor. FDR was denying oil and money to Japan and DJT is denying nukes and money to Obama's Ayatollah.

I think the president smelled a set-up. Everything was proceeding a little too smoothly. Obama had eight long years to salt the bureaucracies with Iranian moles like himself. What if Iran was waiting and completely prepared based on their treasonous conspiracy? Perhaps the president was trying to smoke them out.

The #Professional Liars will spin this as "CHAOS!", but President Trump is keeping America's enemies off balance--both foreign and domestic enemies.

If there is even a difference anymore.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at June 21, 2019 09:46 AM (Ndje9)

96 I love Norman Rockwell's work.

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 09:46 AM (gmo/4)

97 Ha!

Initially Cali fort annex certain gun models, but manufacturers changer their names .....

Posted by: Yo! at June 21, 2019 09:46 AM (1XAal)

98 9 Look McAfee might be "monkeys stole my social security number" insane but dude is living the dream.

He's my pick for 2020.
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:45 AM (0PDHs)

Trump/McAfee 2020. "What was that about impeachment again?"

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 21, 2019 09:47 AM (J+mig)

99 Broseidon Czar of the Brocean

I understand you are unhappy. And that women are at the root of the issue.

However, I aver, from my single & married days, that if you let women affect your happiness you will rarely be happy.

I had some rough times too. Every time I went to sea I had to find a new girlfriend.

What saved me was to take some small piece of happiness -- exercise done well, pretty sunset, good music, etc, and hug it for all I could.

Finally, I saw your joy on Jeopardy. You were living the dream. That kind of joy, with a breezy nonchalance and witty repartee, is a winner. In life, with women, and for yourself.

Good luck, my good man.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:47 AM (u82oZ)

100 I swear, I've contemplated opening a business in major cities loaning puppies to single guys at big parks for a modest fee.

girls can't resist puppies.

it'd be surefire winner.
Posted by: SturmToddler


Yellow lab puppies or Golden puppies.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:47 AM (tBimT)

101 I like it, but is it too direct? am I concerned about subtlety?

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:46 AM (8D42x)

Doggie Style? Great name for a dog grooming place, but it may work.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 09:47 AM (OX6sG)

102
I like it, but is it too direct? am I concerned about subtlety?

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:46 AM (8D42x)

It's transgressive maybe? Perfect for cities.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 09:47 AM (EV0u2)

103 A guy, his girl, and his dog.
Life doesn't get any better than that.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (tBimT)


Did you just assume their genders and species?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents All Is Lost - A Musical Fable of the Moron Horde! Tickets o at June 21, 2019 09:48 AM (hLRSq)

104 I always loved this painting. It's a rather simple one for Rockwell who did so many crowded, complicated scenes. This is simply sweet: the cuddle (first time probably), the abandoned fishing pole and bait, the daisies, just picked, in the little girl's hand, and the puzzled expression for the beagle puppy show how some things are changing for the children. Even the use of the moon in the background, something that changes all the time, might be a metaphor.

Thanks, CBD. Such a nice painting to end the week.

Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2019 09:48 AM (bmdz3)

105 >>Yellow lab puppies or Golden puppies.

Can confirm on Golden puppies. Absolute babe magnet.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2019 09:48 AM (PxX58)

106 Not home yet. In the air. It's a long flight home to Seattle.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 09:44 AM (Y2wXs)

I did the seattle - tidewater trip a month and a half ago. always forget JUST how far it is out there.

Hope you at least get free tv in the cabin.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:49 AM (8D42x)

107 DoggyStyle as a pet grooming business name ???? Seriously??

Posted by: kraken at June 21, 2019 09:49 AM (90T4r)

108 Jewells45

That was the first line. There is another, bigger one heading your way. Just left us, going east at 60 mph.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:49 AM (u82oZ)

109 McAfee won't let us fall behind in crypto currency, alcoholism or whale fucking. No other candidate can say the same.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:49 AM (0PDHs)

110 107 DoggyStyle as a pet grooming business name ???? Seriously??

Posted by: kraken at June 21, 2019 09:49 AM (90T4r)

Not that I know of. I just said it would be a great name....if it was owned by a moron.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 09:50 AM (OX6sG)

111 I love Norman Rockwell's work.

I know "Norman Catwell" (kitteh painting a self-portrait of itself as a tiger) showed up on the Caturday pet thread a few weeks back, but it's still a nice homage to Rockwell:

https://tinyurl.com/y45pl8j7

Posted by: Basement Cat at June 21, 2019 09:50 AM (pPNCa)

112 My congregation member didn't get the job. His car which he was using to drive for Uber may have died. He said, "I can't take any more setbacks." He is divorced. His kids are not talking to him and haven't for over a year. I am seriously worried about him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (ivkO2)

113 108 Jewells45

That was the first line. There is another, bigger one heading your way. Just left us, going east at 60 mph.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:49 AM (u82oZ)

Has a nasty bow to it... heading for Columbia....

Posted by: kraken at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (90T4r)

114 https://dailym.ai/2X0qoLS
*******
92% of Berlin left-wing activists live with their parents | Daily Mail Online

Posted by: Deep State is in DEEP SHIT at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (BqBId)

115 My favorite Rockwell is the one where the family goes to the beach all excited and comes home all worn out. Sorry, I'm not very good at posting links.

Posted by: dantesed at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (88xKn)

116 Nurse ratched

May your happiness carry your through the flight and beyond.

Is Insomniac in any condition to post?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (u82oZ)

117 JQ, Our deepest condolences.

Posted by: Mrs. JTB at June 21, 2019 09:52 AM (bmdz3)

118 Blatant heterosexual privilege.

Posted by: rayj at June 21, 2019 09:52 AM (pI/IV)

119 Salty, thanks, but it isn't just women. I literally feel like nothing is working for me right now. I'm going to fight through it because that's the only way I know how to live, I'm not one to give up, but I'm way past sunsets and puppy dogs being the cure.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (0PDHs)

120 Sturm toddler,

No tv.

But I have you guys.

And Xanax.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (Y2wXs)

121 I bet if the administration opened a Logan Act violation inquiry on Kerry that the Donks would go ballistic and scream that Trump is weaponizing the DOJ and State.


But that is exactly what Trump should do.


Give Kerry the Flynn treatment.

Posted by: Radical Centrist at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (KE4PJ)

122 Norman wasn't half the alcoholic that Pollack was.

Posted by: JAS at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (I5SAg)

123 Broseidon

could be worse. you coulda had my dr apt yesterday.

so yeah, today can't be much worse than yesterday...

so since we're over 100 I can go OT:

Fen,

If you see this would you add me to the prayer list? just found out I've probably got renal cell carcinoma. but luckily it's tiny, surgery in a month and a half should get it all, and I get to keep most of the kidney.

and NOW I need a drink but I'm at work and can't yet...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (8D42x)

124 FenelonSpoke

How is your stellar organist? Please tell her I have a tiny prayer ascending for her. If she is otherwise in good shape, Docs can do a lot, even at 93.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (u82oZ)

125
Does this painting come with a trigger warning? Look at how that boy is using his white patriarchy privilege to oppress that girl who would rather be exploring an alternative lifestyle. I'm sure that Big Tech will have it banned

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 21, 2019 09:54 AM (OLCnA)

126 I have a Rockwell. It's a painting of a tall, thin mother in a dress as gives carrying a huge. She is leading two children past the front windows of a saloon. All are staring straight ahead.

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 09:54 AM (ctmIP)

127 DoggyStyle as a pet grooming business name ???? Seriously??

Posted by: kraken at June 21, 2019 09:49 AM (90T4r)

Not that I know of. I just said it would be a great name....if it was owned by a moron.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 09:50 AM (OX6sG)

it has panache...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:54 AM (8D42x)

128 Is Insomniac in any condition to post?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (u82oZ)

Had my IV fluids and I'm good to go.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 09:55 AM (NWiLs)

129 A guy, his girl, and his dog.
Life doesn't get any better than that.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:37 AM (tBimT)


Did you just assume their genders and species?
Posted by: Mikey NTH



Yes. Yes I did.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:55 AM (tBimT)

130 *sigh*. as gives = and gloves

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 09:55 AM (ctmIP)

131 Oh look, it's insomniac and nurse!!
Posted by: lin-duh at June 21, 2019 09:33 AM (UUBmN)
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I like the evolution of this story a bunch.

Posted by: jhawk90 at June 21, 2019 09:55 AM (/ZYFC)

132 Sturm, sorry to hear that. You're right, I should appreciate my good health.

I don't. But I should.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:55 AM (0PDHs)

133

OMG, everyone: Grim Milestone: 1500th prisoner executed in USA since cap. punishment reinstated in 1976.

Good!

Posted by: Soothie at June 21, 2019 09:55 AM (rozxe)

134 SturmToddler, prayers!

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 21, 2019 09:56 AM (dm05u)

135 Norman wasn't half the alcoholic that Pollack was.

Posted by: JAS at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (I5SAg)

The left tried to rehabilitate him (make him gay) a few years back.

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 09:56 AM (ykq7q)

136 *surrenders commenter's license*

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 09:56 AM (ctmIP)

137 The dog is saying, "We were fishing! Bros before hos, man!"

Posted by: andycanuck at June 21, 2019 09:56 AM (Dh1wo)

138 Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (u82oZ)

It's so kind of you to ask. She hopes to be there on Sunday; She was feeling better, but this is recurring problem. I hope she comes back this Sunday. Playing the organ is a very important part of her life. She's been doing it there for about 55 years.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 09:57 AM (ivkO2)

139 No tv.

But I have you guys.

And Xanax.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (Y2wXs)

fair trade...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:57 AM (8D42x)

140 Wasn't Pollack married? To uh...fuck what her name...is it Lee Krasner?

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:57 AM (0PDHs)

141 I've hung back a while because I know a lot of you were going to go into glycemic shock over this, but it's a well rendered cartoon.

You could get the same emotional impact showing Snoopy consoling Charlie Brown after yet another setback.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 09:57 AM (fuK7c)

142 1500th prisoner executed in USA since cap. punishment reinstated in 1976.

That's IT?!

No wonder the criminals are now so very bold...

I am disappoint.

Posted by: JQ at June 21, 2019 09:57 AM (gP/Z3)

143 I will repeat what I wrote in the MR. The US Navy needs to blast out of the water any small boats without flags and men without uniforms.

Posted by: JAS at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (I5SAg)

144 OMG, everyone: Grim Milestone: 1500th prisoner executed in USA since cap. punishment reinstated in 1976.

Good!
Posted by: Soothie


Is that all? Them's rookie numbers.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (tBimT)

145 but I'm way past sunsets and puppy dogs being the cure.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (0PDHs)


I'm assuming you've tried hitting stuff and blowing shit up?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (OX6sG)

146 Prayers up, sturm.

Cancer sucks, but you can do it. Let people help you.
And try to stay positive, Love your friends and family.
And stop sweating the small stuff

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (Y2wXs)

147 119 Broseidon Czar of the Brocean

I hear you. That sinusoidal curve of life can be tough. One day, this will be a bittersweet memory you can toss off with a quip. Memories of pain do not last, just that you were in pain.

There is always future happiness. Trust me on that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (u82oZ)

148

Did you know that Bloomberg "news" is Always Proud (2 rainbow flags) Well they're going to you know they are every fucking day of this month

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (OLCnA)

149 Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (8D42x)

I will certainly pray for you and add you to the prayer list.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (ivkO2)

150 Trump/McAfee 2020. "What was that about impeachment again?"
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 21, 2019 09:47 AM (J+mig)


It is good to start the day off with a laugh

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (hSQmw)

151 Wasn't Pollack married? To uh...fuck what her name...is it Lee Krasner?
That might explain the drinking.

Posted by: JAS at June 21, 2019 09:59 AM (I5SAg)

152 Rockwell is one of my favorites.

Rockewell hearkens back to a simpler time and way of life, of the innocence we, as a nation, had, an innocence we gave up all to readily.

Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 21, 2019 09:59 AM (qC1Sy)

153 Norman Rockwell is always a good pick!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2019 09:36 AM (bDqIh)



He's no Rothko

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 21, 2019 09:59 AM (9SkN+)

154 Greg, honey, is it supposed to be this soft?

Posted by: Girl in the painting at June 21, 2019 09:59 AM (gC2IV)

155 Hitting, yes. Blowing stuff up would be a new one.

I'm assuming this is more 'cherry bomb in the toilet' than "So first, get yourself the Anarchists Cookbook, a rented van and 200 pounds of fertilizer..."

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:59 AM (0PDHs)

156 Is that all? Them's rookie numbers.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (tBimT)


We need more 'Sparkys'.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 09:59 AM (OX6sG)

157 My congregation member didn't get the job. His car which he was using to drive for Uber may have died. He said, "I can't take any more setbacks." He is divorced. His kids are not talking to him and haven't for over a year. I am seriously worried about him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (ivkO2)

Tell him from someone who knows that, while it may not seem like it, this too shall pass.

Posted by: troyriser at June 21, 2019 09:59 AM (y2JAS)

158 Sturm, sorry to hear that. You're right, I should appreciate my good health.

I don't. But I should.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:55 AM (0PDHs)

I don't. it's all good man.

maybe it's time for a monty python "Always Look on the bright side of life" sing along?

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 09:59 AM (8D42x)

159 Dahhhh. That's so cute that I'll feel guilty about snarking about it. That won't stop me, but still.

Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (RD7QR)

160 119 Salty, thanks, but it isn't just women. I literally feel like nothing is working for me right now. I'm going to fight through it because that's the only way I know how to live, I'm not one to give up, but I'm way past sunsets and puppy dogs being the cure.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (0PDHs)

Whenever I'm feeling down I always remind myself I am not starving to death or being murdered by bandits and raiders. So things are going pretty well compared to those suckers.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (EV0u2)

161 Oh c'mon. Lee Krasner was a very handsome man. In the craggly worn-out face sort of way.

Posted by: JAS at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (I5SAg)

162

John Bolton is a warmongering fuckstick.

Posted by: Soothie at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (rozxe)

163 Posted by: Soothie at June 21, 2019 09:55 AM (rozxe)

Chicago does that every two years.

Posted by: Vanya at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (R7nPl)

164 Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 09:57 AM (fuK7c

He considered himself an illustrator but your description of 'well rendered cartoon' is just ad hominem. His work is much more than that by any measure. Your opinion, my opinion.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation man at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (e46OR)

165 Talk about long necks! But this is a Rockwell, so it doesn't bother me in the least.

Posted by: t-bird at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (Ydn2k)

166 Insomniac

I can feel your smile from here. I am so happy for you, but I will spare you the Happy Dance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:01 AM (u82oZ)

167 Patches on clothes..
>>
Yep, always got iron on patches on new blue jeans. Sears even made them that way, if I remember.
Now you buy them pre-ripped, at ten times the price.

Posted by: FrodoB at June 21, 2019 10:01 AM (9753m)

168 Talk about long necks! But this is a Rockwell, so it doesn't bother me in the least.
Posted by: t-bird at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (Ydn2k)



Rockwell was widely suspected to be a closet Mannerist.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 21, 2019 10:01 AM (9SkN+)

169 I like the one where the mother and kids are saying grace at the diner.

Posted by: JAS at June 21, 2019 10:01 AM (I5SAg)

170 Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (0PDHs)

Are you affected by clinical depression or things bad because of gf situation and job or depression exacerbated because of situations?

You are a very smart and charming fellow. You will get another job if you're looking and as far as women-isn't there a site for Jews who have a belief in God but are not Orthodox?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 10:02 AM (ivkO2)

171 Salty, I dunno, I kinda remember everything. It's nice for trivia, not as good when it comes to trauma.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 10:02 AM (0PDHs)

172 .















.








Posted by: Mark Rothko at June 21, 2019 10:02 AM (R7nPl)

173 Saturday, June 22nd - 50 th Anniversary Gala
50 Years of Illustration Art - Norman Rockwell Museum

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 10:02 AM (tBimT)

174 That's so cute that I'll feel guilty about snarking about it. That won't stop me, but still.

Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (RD7QR)

That's it...get a grip.

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 10:02 AM (ykq7q)

175 Sturm, it sounds like they caught it early. If you've got a good surgeon it'll be all right.

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 10:02 AM (ctmIP)

176 Being very shy and not having sisters (or their friends) around, I didn't get to put my arm around a girl like that until I was 17 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 21, 2019 10:02 AM (WqPYg)

177 >>John Bolton is a warmongering fuckstick.


Because he recognizes that the Iranians have been playing us for fools the last 40 years?

No. Sorry.

They have killed hundreds of Americans and plan to kill millions more.

Posted by: garrett at June 21, 2019 10:03 AM (KBp3+)

178 And stop sweating the small stuff

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (Y2wXs)

well, I tried that "don't sweat the petty things" but got it backwards and ended up petting the sweaty things...

so, it's back to the showers for me.


and yeah, the up side is 3 weeks off work once I get the knife.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:03 AM (8D42x)

179
I will repeat what I wrote in the MR. The US Navy needs to blast out of
the water any small boats without flags and men without uniforms.
Posted by: JAS at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM (I5SAg)


That will certainly put a ding in the sponge diving industry.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2019 10:03 AM (hSQmw)

180
Years later the girl accuses the boy of rape and his life is destroyed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2019 10:03 AM (BWL+E)

181 John Bolton is a warmongering fuckstick.
Posted by: Soothie at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (rozxe)

According to kick the can down the road people.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation man at June 21, 2019 10:03 AM (e46OR)

182 It's amazing Rockwell did so much painting and still found time to build all those airplanes.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (oVJmc)

183 Where Angela Merkel shakes uncontrollably:

http://tinyurl.com/y4w3goyp


Posted by: McCool at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (sZaoP)

184 #172 I think that Rothko is hanging upside down!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (Dh1wo)

185
112 My congregation member didn't get the job. His car which he was using to drive for Uber may have died. He said, "I can't take any more setbacks." He is divorced. His kids are not talking to him and haven't for over a year. I am seriously worried about him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (ivkO2)

Its a real downer to bring up but a guy in that situation may be considering suicide. Idk what to say or do to prevent it, but something to watch out for.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (EV0u2)

186 Norman Rockwell, many of whom went after him for the usual reasons: sentimentality, appeals to nostalgia, kitsch, and so on. I shrugged it off.

Rockwell achieved the emotional effects in the people experiencing his art that he set out to achieve. In a few instances, he achieved elevation, which is supposed to be the highest goal of any artist. People often feel closer to God and Truth when experiencing the Sistine Chapel, for example, and for those receptive to it, they can experience it with some of Rockwell's paintings. That is no small thing.
Posted by: troyriser at June 21, 2019 09:43 AM

Several years ago, the Detroit Institute of Arts hosted a Rockwell exhibit. My baby bro and I took our parents for Dad's birthday. It was packed. Young, old, black, white...

It ended up being one of the most popular exhibits there.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (/+bwe)

187 He considered himself an illustrator but your description of 'well rendered cartoon' is just ad hominem. His work is much more than that by any measure. Your opinion, my opinion.


I'm not talking about "his work", I'm talking about today's drawing, the one that's in front of us.

Also ad hominem means attacking the person, which I didn't. Even for Rockwell, the illustrator, I find this at the corny end of his spectrum.

I kind of hesitated because everyone's having fun with this, but one of the things we do in the art thread is look at stuff and react to it. If it's Albrecht Duerer's bunny nobody takes it personally if someone doesn't like it. Well, I think this is a maudlin bit of treacle.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (fuK7c)

188 82 ... "I've taken heat in my artsy friend circles for openly expressing admiration for Norman Rockwell, many of whom went after him for the usual reasons: sentimentality, appeals to nostalgia, kitsch, and so on. I shrugged it off."

I've seen the same reaction to Rockwell. When I was younger I might have shrugged it off, as you said. Now I suspect I would go down the smug, effete little twerp's throat. I can no longer tolerate denigating sweetness and innocence.

Posted by: JTB at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (bmdz3)

189 Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:01 AM (u82oZ)

Thank you, on both counts.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 10:05 AM (NWiLs)

190 I will repeat what I wrote in the MR. The US Navy needs to blast out of
the water any small boats without flags and men without uniforms.
>>
Tough on fishermen...

Posted by: FrodoB at June 21, 2019 10:05 AM (9753m)

191 My father made me memorize all 8 stanzas of the poem Even This Shall Pass Away by Theodore Tilton.

Once in Persia reigned a king,
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which, if held before his eyes,
Gave him counsel at a glance
Fit for every change and chance.
Solemn words, and these are they;
"Even this shall pass away."

I can only recite 4 of the eight stanzas, but it has been a help since I was a lad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:05 AM (u82oZ)

192 Hummm..so she is left handed?

Posted by: Paladin at June 21, 2019 10:05 AM (quX0S)

193 112 My congregation member didn't get the job. His car which he was using to drive for Uber may have died. He said, "I can't take any more setbacks." He is divorced. His kids are not talking to him and haven't for over a year. I am seriously worried about him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (ivkO2)


I've always found that misfortune like this is usually self imposed. Maybe he should change his lifestyle.

Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (Fs5vw)

194 Sturm,

Take all the time you need. I was eager to get back to work after my lumpectomy. Radiation and chemo were a little tougher, but you've got this.

Find happiness each day.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (Y2wXs)

195 It's amazing did so much painting and still found time to build all those airplanes.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (oVJmc)

And the rockets.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (ESNNI)

196
OMG, everyone: Grim Milestone: 1500th prisoner executed in USA since cap. punishment reinstated in 1976.

Since 1976? That was a slow morning in the USSR that Bernie and the gang praised and held up as a model for the US.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (BWL+E)

197 Willowed:

394 274 WSJ has great article on how orderly and organized the the Ration Lines are in Cuba. Commenting that American would never have the patience to be good citizens and stand in lines as ordered.

=====
I would hope the hell not!
Good Americans would be busily knotting ropes and seeking out lampposts

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (71qAS)

198 119 Salty, thanks, but it isn't just women. I literally feel like nothing is working for me right now. I'm going to fight through it because that's the only way I know how to live, I'm not one to give up, but I'm way past sunsets and puppy dogs being the cure.
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:53 AM (0PDHs)


Just want you to know that I appreciate you and your contributions to this little AoS community.

Posted by: Emmie at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (4HMW8)

199 Rockwell clearly had an affinity for dogs. Probably half of his illustrations of children also include a dog.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (ZMWtN)

200 Well, I think this is a maudlin bit of treacle.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (fuK7c)

He may have thought it was too, but it helped pay the bills.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (ivkO2)

201 My favorite Rockwell is the one where the family goes to the beach all excited and comes home all worn out. Sorry, I'm not very good at posting links.
Posted by: dantesed at June 21, 2019 09:51 AM (88xKn)


It's called Going and Coming:

https://tinyurl.com/yyg4y55p

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (Ki5SV)

202 Grim Milestone: 1500th prisoner executed in USA since cap. punishment reinstated in 1976.

Less than 40 a year. With guns killing 30 million helpless black people per year, you'd think a little more deterrence would be on the Democrat agenda!

Posted by: t-bird at June 21, 2019 10:07 AM (QrTqV)

203 >>>Boy And Girl Gazing At The Moon

And Gone Fishin'.

Posted by: m at June 21, 2019 10:07 AM (hoavu)

204 Happy Summer Solstice! The Christian part of my is meh, but the Germanic pagan part of me wants to bang of the drum all day! (It's sunny here but the forecast high is only 65F)

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:07 AM (gmo/4)

205 You could get the same emotional impact showing Snoopy consoling Charlie Brown after yet another setback.
Posted by: Bandersnatch


And that's just fine by me.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Conservapunk at June 21, 2019 10:07 AM (AM1GF)

206 It's amazing Rockwell did so much painting and still found time to build all those airplanes.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (oVJmc)

Pfft.
Hold my beer.

Posted by: Johannes Vermeer, Baroque Master and Designer of the World's Finest Tree Chippers at June 21, 2019 10:07 AM (9SkN+)

207 John Bolton is a warmongering fuckstick.
Posted by: Soothie at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (rozxe)


Correction. John Kerry is a warmongering fuckstick.

John Bolton is a competent warmongering fuckstick who is loyal the the United States and its security.

One is valuable, the other isn't.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2019 10:08 AM (hSQmw)

208 Regarding Iran: The more interventionistic branch of the right decided to bet hard on the nevertrumper side of the 2016 Republican Primary. They lost their seat at the table, like it or not. The isolationist "no war at any cost" side took their place. The only thing balancing them out is the vague sense amongst much of the base that the US should be respected worldwide and the fact that Obama made such a hash of foreign policy by selling us out at every turn. I hope that that's enough because isolationism in the 21st century is beyond stupid.

Posted by: Jackal at June 21, 2019 10:08 AM (pziek)

209 Hummm..so she is left handed?
No. He is!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 21, 2019 10:08 AM (Dh1wo)

210 Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (Fs5vw)

He already has changed it since he was driving about 8 hours a day for Uberand now isn't.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 10:08 AM (ivkO2)

211 Salty, thanks for that bit of Tilton.

Did my email ever get there.

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 10:09 AM (ctmIP)

212 I'm assuming this is more 'cherry bomb in the toilet' than "So first, get yourself the Anarchists Cookbook, a rented van and 200 pounds of fertilizer..."

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:59 AM (0PDHs)

Look, B Im a pro at anxiety, depression and anger. Especially anger. But anger for me is better than depression because i can usually find an outlet hopefully without hurting a real human being. Although that almost happened two days ago with a young punk at the boxing gym. Took all my willpower. Because I was enraged and I do think i could kill someone. Its scary. But I walked out then went back and destroyed some bags. Anyway sorry if this sounds like a lecture. Its not. I still yell at that punk in my house. It messes me up controlling myself. So back to breaking shit. Yes. M80's in watermelons, guns, and BB guns with seltzer cans (funny) and shooting nerf guns at stuff in the house and the TV at assholes. Just sayin man. I'm a fucked up human being.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:09 AM (OX6sG)

213 182 It's amazing Rockwell did so much painting and still found time to build all those airplanes.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (oVJmc)


=======


He was also fantastic in the movie "Moon."

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 21, 2019 10:09 AM (WqPYg)

214
Broseidon,
I'm about the last person in the world who should be handing out advice, but some few years ago I decided not to let myself be defined by my relations with others. I set on establishing good standards for myself and have tried to live up to them, not to influence anyone's opinion of me but so that at least I could feel some pride in myself.

Am I happier? Not sure, but at least I don't feel bad as often as I did.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2019 10:10 AM (BWL+E)

215 There is always future happiness. Trust me on that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 09:58 AM

There better be.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 21, 2019 10:10 AM (/+bwe)

216 Posted by: Mark Rothko at June 21, 2019 10:02 AM (R7nPl)

Now that was just mean. Okay, and funny, too.

Posted by: troyriser at June 21, 2019 10:10 AM (y2JAS)

217 56 The orange circle represents Trump; the boy and girl are his base in Middle America, looking on in appreciation. The dog is the rest of the world, hanging out and hoping for a snack and a pat on the head.

The worms are the Democrats 2020 lineup, all seeking to escape the can before they are fed to the fish (not shown) who represent the cannibalistic Woke democrat base, which demands continuous sacrifice. Like Quetzocoatl, only less cool.
Posted by: Vanya at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (R7nPl)

I rate this as absolutely true.

Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at June 21, 2019 10:10 AM (RD7QR)

218 Rockwell hearkens back to a simpler time and way of life, of the innocence we, as a nation, had, an innocence we gave up all to readily.

******************************

I visited the museum and his studio in the Berkshires. If you ever visit Masshole, any visit to Rockwell is guaranteed to be the highlight of the trip. His land had sweeping views of a valley that reminds you of what America used to be like before it went full retard.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 21, 2019 10:10 AM (+dsLj)

219 Fen - Everything from your first paragraph, yes. Clinical depression plus got dumped plus hate my job plus some other things.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (0PDHs)

220 I saw Maudlin Treacle open for The Sweet at Wembley Stadium

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (NWiLs)

221 It's amazing Rockwell did so much painting and still found time to build all those airplanes.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles


He was also fantastic in the movie "Moon."
Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots


He always felt like somebody was watching him, though.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Conservapunk at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (AM1GF)

222 Sturm,

Take all the time you need. I was eager to get back to work after my lumpectomy. Radiation and chemo were a little tougher, but you've got this.

Find happiness each day.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (Y2wXs)

Can I admit I'm actually a bit pissed off it's going to keep me from playing hockey for a season and a half at least?

worry about the important things, eh...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (8D42x)

223 109 McAfee won't let us fall behind in crypto currency, alcoholism or whale fucking. No other candidate can say the same.
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:49 AM (0PDHs)

Close the whale hump gap!

Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (RD7QR)

224
Probably half of his illustrations of children also include a dog.

Every dog deserves a kid.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (BWL+E)

225 Bandersnatch, I think this is a magazine cover art piece.

He did high art, but he also did illustrations which were by no means anything but cute, and intentionally so.


Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (hSQmw)

226 171 Broseidon Czar of the Brocean

One other thing. After I've been though tough times, I now have a story.

"There I was, at the hottest dance floor in Christiansted, Virgin Island. I though my boss the Chief Engineer and the CO were too drunk to count, but I was rejected by all 16 women I asked to dance that night." I got a FOAD award in front of the entire wardroom the net day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (u82oZ)

227 @206

That there's your thread winner.

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (ctmIP)

228 @ 187, Bandersnatch.

Any of the Rockwells with a large circle motif, such as this, were Saturday Evening Post weeky magazine covers.

As such, the context of the cover, as published with text, teasers and headlines, wouldbe necessary for context.

Surely, the Art Director would gave asked for a specific feel or emotion to be evoked in the reader. To sell more copies, of course.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 21, 2019 10:12 AM (QzJWU)

229 It's amazing Rockwell did so much painting and still found time to build all those airplanes.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (oVJmc)

And be a recording artist: https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY

Posted by: Bert G at June 21, 2019 10:12 AM (tOP4K)

230 204 Happy Summer Solstice! The Christian part of my is meh, but the Germanic pagan part of me wants to bang of the drum all day! (It's sunny here but the forecast high is only 65F)
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This is the time for war. Crops are in and Harvest is months away. Grab your axe and pillage. Good Times.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (2LelM)

231 McAfee won't let us fall behind in crypto currency, alcoholism or whale fucking. No other candidate can say the same.
Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 09:49 AM (0PDHs)

Close the whale hump gap!

Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize


Damn dude, take it easy...

Posted by: Rapey McSeamammal at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (AM1GF)

232 >>Can I admit I'm actually a bit pissed off it's going to keep me from playing hockey for a season and a half at least?


Speaking of hockey, NHL draft tonight!

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (PxX58)

233 I saw Maudlin Bit of Treacle open for Charlie Daniels at the Ryman in '86.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (gC2IV)

234 Several years ago, the Detroit Institute of Arts hosted a Rockwell exhibit. My baby bro and I took our parents for Dad's birthday. It was packed. Young, old, black, white...

It ended up being one of the most popular exhibits there.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 21, 2019 10:04 AM (/+bwe)


Art is not to be about uplift, beauty, or any of that bourgeoise nonsense! Art is supposed to be about neurotic angry people inflicting their hatred of the world upon everyone else and reveling in the misery they bring!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents All Is Lost - A Musical Fable of the Moron Horde! Tickets o at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (hLRSq)

235 But anger for me is better than depression because i can usually find an outlet hopefully without hurting a real human being.


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Throughout my life I found that anger was generally always better than depression (if it's not too self-destructive) because it usually caused me to at least act and do something to change the present, unhappy circumstance(s) -- rather than be passively withdrawn, isolated, and accepting of them.

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (WqPYg)

236 It's amazing Rockwell did so much painting and still found time to build all those airplanes.

I laughed.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (OX6sG)

237 Look, B Im a pro at anxiety, depression and anger. Especially anger. But anger for me is better than depression because i can usually find an outlet hopefully without hurting a real human being. "

I've heard from many professionals in the field that depression can be described as anger turned inwards. Men *tend* to externalize their emotions (although not exclusively) and women *tend* to internalize their emotions (although not exclusively).

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (Kpl3J)

238 HA! I beat someone to a gag! /does half-assed victory dance

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Conservapunk at June 21, 2019 10:14 AM (AM1GF)

239 I like Rockwell. Some things I like better than others, which is true of my reaction to most artists.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 10:14 AM (ivkO2)

240 McAfee won't let us fall behind in crypto currency, alcoholism or whale fucking.


And all he asks in return is 96% of your CPU time!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 10:14 AM (oVJmc)

241 Sturm,

Of course be pissed about
Missing hockey

I missed an entire ski season and it DUMPED that year! So much snow the ski areas were open until May.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 10:14 AM (Y2wXs)

242 Yes; Depression is often anger turned inward.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 10:14 AM (ivkO2)

243 394 274 WSJ has great article on how orderly and
organized the the Ration Lines are in Cuba. Commenting that American
would never have the patience to be good citizens and stand in lines as
ordered.



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I would hope the hell not!

Good Americans would be busily knotting ropes and seeking out lampposts

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 21, 2019 10:06 AM (71qAS)


Today's Cuban Reality:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/cubanreality

Posted by: Kindltot at June 21, 2019 10:14 AM (hSQmw)

244 Can I admit I'm actually a bit pissed off it's going to keep me from playing hockey for a season and a half at least?


That is appropriate prioritization. Your Moron Card is in good standing for the next quarter.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 10:14 AM (fuK7c)

245 Poor dog, lost his playful friend to a girl, sad look on the dog.

Posted by: Colin at June 21, 2019 10:14 AM (4jrqi)

246 creeper

Yes. I answered both e-mails.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:15 AM (u82oZ)

247 And creeper, thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:15 AM (u82oZ)

248 I've heard from many professionals in the field that depression can be described as anger turned inwards. Men *tend* to externalize their emotions (although not exclusively) and women *tend* to internalize their emotions (although not exclusively).

Posted by: Tom Servo


Don't know about anyone else, but if I directed outwards the rage I feel at myself and stifle, I'd probably be wanted in half the state.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Conservapunk at June 21, 2019 10:15 AM (AM1GF)

249 Posted by: Mark Rothko at June 21, 2019 10:02 AM (R7nPl)

Now that was just mean. Okay, and funny, too.

Posted by: troyriser at June 21, 2019 10:10 AM (y2JAS)

I laughed wondering who did the whole thread copy pasta at first.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:15 AM (8D42x)

250 Art is not to be about uplift, beauty, or any of that bourgeoise nonsense! Art is supposed to be about neurotic angry people inflicting their hatred of the world upon everyone else and reveling in the misery they bring!
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So Obama was art?

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:16 AM (2LelM)

251 Art is not to be about uplift, beauty, or any of that bourgeoise nonsense! Art is supposed to be about neurotic angry people inflicting their hatred of the world upon everyone else and reveling in the misery they bring!
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents All Is Lost - A Musical Fable of the Moron Horde! Tickets o at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM

Art is a teenager who doesn't know what gender zir is?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 21, 2019 10:16 AM (/+bwe)

252 You should consider that on a lot of mil sites with posters in the know there is a significant amount of WTF with the president on Iran. He should also stay off Twatter on this issue. His excuses are provoking even more questions.

Add to that facts coming out like the IRGC Aerospace assholes who command their AGM systems are talking. They made it clear this was a deliberate targeted act sanctioned by their command, not some rogue op. They even said there was a Navy P-8 on station and they chose not to target it because it was "manned".

Right now he looks like President Blowhard.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 10:16 AM (VkWRL)

253 Mom always liked Norman best.

Posted by: George Lincoln Rockwell at June 21, 2019 10:16 AM (XGabL)

254 Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (0PDHs)

Well, if you have health coverage see about getting a meds check up and maybe talking to someone.

The girl was wrong, but that doesn't affect who you are which is a very appealing fellow.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 10:17 AM (ivkO2)

255
Throughout my life I found that anger was generally always better than depression (if it's not too self-destructive) because it usually caused me to at least act and do something to change the present, unhappy circumstance(s) -- rather than be passively withdrawn, isolated, and accepting of them.

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (WqPYg)

You can live off anger for years but it eats away at the rest of yourself over time. Better than being inert perhaps.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:17 AM (EV0u2)

256 So Obama was art?
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:16 AM (2LelM)

Yours is better than mine.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 21, 2019 10:17 AM (/+bwe)

257 250 Art is not to be about uplift, beauty, or any of that bourgeoise nonsense! Art is supposed to be about neurotic angry people inflicting their hatred of the world upon everyone else and reveling in the misery they bring!
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So Obama was art?
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:16 AM (2LelM)

=======

Well, THAT is certainly a different way of looking at that fuckstick's reign of error: as an 8 year long performance art piece.

Posted by: Jackal at June 21, 2019 10:18 AM (pziek)

258 Rock Well, Kids

In his pocket he'd hidden a frog.
His pigeon-toed girlfriend, agog
at the jumps in his pants,
Would jump up and dance
With Fido, the cross-eyed dog.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 21, 2019 10:18 AM (/IMJl)

259 se it usually caused me to at least act and do something to change the present, unhappy circumstance(s) -- rather than be passively withdrawn, isolated, and accepting of them.

Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (WqPYg)

Yes, and you turn emotions outward instead of eating you up inside. (Imho). I exercised to exhaustion (like falling asleep finally on my garage weight bench. Or running in the hills till I can't walk). But please, don't bring up "runner high"

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:18 AM (OX6sG)

260 >>Someone with knowledge of Rockwell's complete works needs to nominate the "just right" piece, as Nose Art for a B1-b Lancer.

Rockwells Rosie the Riveter

Posted by: kactus at June 21, 2019 10:18 AM (HIasT)

261 One other thing. After I've been though tough times, I now have a story.

"There I was, at the hottest dance floor in Christiansted, Virgin Island. I though my boss the Chief Engineer and the CO were too drunk to count, but I was rejected by all 16 women I asked to dance that night." I got a FOAD award in front of the entire wardroom the net day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:11 AM (u82oZ)

OK, that's bad. I had a guy on my first boat that got turned down by the Thai bargirl...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:18 AM (8D42x)

262 230 204 Happy Summer Solstice! The Christian part of my is meh, but the Germanic pagan part of me wants to bang of the drum all day! (It's sunny here but the forecast high is only 65F)
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This is the time for war. Crops are in and Harvest is months away. Grab your axe and pillage. Good Times.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (2LelM)

Just remember that we've been celebrating this day ever since the times when we could still look to the north and see the glow coming off the ice sheets that were slowly and finally retreating.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2019 10:19 AM (Kpl3J)

263 Can I admit I'm actually a bit pissed off it's going to keep me from playing hockey for a season and a half at least?

Speaking of hockey, NHL draft tonight!

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (PxX5

Yup, and I'm trying to figure out who my Blackhawks are picking 3rd.

it's been a great pick position for us in the past. We need D still, but it's a forward heavy draft. idk...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:19 AM (8D42x)

264 Thanks, Salty.

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 10:19 AM (ctmIP)

265 Shit, posted in the wrong thread. At least it wasn't an auto-ban one.

Salty, I have five poems memorized. (Well probably some more shorter ones - stupid Dickinson...) This may shock you, but most of them are pretty weepy.

Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy, To Marguerite: Continued, The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives the Flower, and love is more thicker than forget.

Okay I lied I could probably recite Ozymandias too. And maybe The Second Coming. Probably not all of Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock because that's fucking long.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 21, 2019 10:20 AM (oZ6kz)

266 Her feets too big.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 09:38 AM (oVJmc)

And, you know what they say about girls with big feet, don't you? Big shoes!

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 10:20 AM (m79Dg)

267 Art is not to be about uplift, beauty, or any of that bourgeoise nonsense! Art is supposed to be about neurotic angry people inflicting their hatred of the world upon everyone else and reveling in the misery they bring!
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Then twitter is our age's Sistine Chapel

Posted by: josephistan at June 21, 2019 10:20 AM (7HtZB)

268
He already has changed it since he was driving about 8 hours a day for Uberand now isn't.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2019 10:08 AM (ivkO2)


The good news about changing one's life for the better is, sometimes the family comes back.

The bad news about changing one's life for the better is, sometimes the family comes back.

Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 10:20 AM (Fs5vw)

269 OK, that's bad. I had a guy on my first boat that got turned down by the Thai bargirl...
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Pattaya or Phuket? FYI, Marines were prized by Thai Bargirls. We were clean, wanted straight PIV sex and weren't dirty arabs.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:20 AM (2LelM)

270 I've been on the same meds forever and the last shrink I talked to was sort of useless. But I suppose I could try again. On the meds issue I'm always anxious because my Tourette's is completely under control and I worry that might change with new meds.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 21, 2019 10:21 AM (oZ6kz)

271 252
You should consider that on a lot of mil sites with posters in the know
there is a significant amount of WTF with the president on Iran. He
should also stay off Twatter on this issue. His excuses are provoking
even more questions.



Add to that facts coming out like the IRGC Aerospace assholes who
command their AGM systems are talking. They made it clear this was a
deliberate targeted act sanctioned by their command, not some rogue op.
They even said there was a Navy P-8 on station and they chose not to
target it because it was "manned".



Right now he looks like President Blowhard.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 10:16 AM (VkWRL)
Perhaps. But IIANM, Trump is loathe to get us roiled into another Middle East maelstrom. By launching the air assets, getting ships into position STILL sends a loud message to the Iranian regime. You know the Iranians saw all that unfolding on radar, etc. This gave them a taste of what hell will rain down on them if they try anything more.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (N39Ws)

272 Probably not all of Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock because that's fucking long.


There have been times when I could do that. I could do it again with an hour's practice.

The one I like best is "Old Ironsides" because I memorized it at seven and can still do it.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (fuK7c)

273 162

John Bolton is a warmongering fuckstick.
Posted by: Soothie at June 21, 2019 10:00 AM (rozxe)

For now I'm going with the theory that this is all a head fake and Bolton is playing bad cop to Trump's good cop. Also, every property needs a guard dog, and that's Bolton. A man who owns so many buildings understands that. I could be wrong but it's my working theory.

Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (RD7QR)

274 Brosideon - I'm going through a lot of shit myself too right now: caring for my mom who's in bad health, facing a job loss in two months, struggling with a personal issue, and doing it all without the support of a wife & kids.

Posted by: josephistan at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (7HtZB)

275
You can live off anger for years but it eats away at the rest of yourself over time. Better than being inert perhaps.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:17 AM (EV0u2)

Yes. Its a fine line. Eventually my anger or hate turns to "fuck them or fuck that"...but boy my temper all splody and shit. Also, I have a sick sense of humor which saves me sometimes, but at life's end I'll probably have "Italian Alzheimer's" . We forget everything but our grudges.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (OX6sG)

276
Bloomberg "news" is interviewing Jimmy Drama. All lefty propaganda all the time. Bloomberg is like the NPR of financial news networks

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (OLCnA)

277
Can I admit I'm actually a bit pissed off it's going to keep me from playing hockey for a season and a half at least?



Speaking of hockey, NHL draft tonight!



Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (PxX5



Yup, and I'm trying to figure out who my Blackhawks are picking 3rd.



it's been a great pick position for us in the past. We need D still, but it's a forward heavy draft. idk...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:19 AM (8D42x)

I am a happy NYR fan. We pick second! Woohoo!


Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (gmo/4)

278 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Longest day of the year, I should've slept in longer.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (axyOa)

279 >>Yup, and I'm trying to figure out who my Blackhawks are picking 3rd.

>>it's been a great pick position for us in the past. We need D still, but it's a forward heavy draft. idk...

I'm in a great but weird position with my Rangers. We are picking 2nd but for all intents the Devils are making the pick for us.

Hughes and Kakko are by far the best two players in the draft and whichever one the Devils choose, betting money is on Hughes, we get the other.

For once, we are in a position we can't screw up. Maybe.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2019 10:23 AM (PxX58)

280 Anger, like a cigarette, focuses you.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:23 AM (2LelM)

281 Every picture tells a story, dont it?

Posted by: Rod at June 21, 2019 10:24 AM (HIasT)

282 GIRL: You're so nice.
BOY: Thanks!
GIRL: But you really need a bath.
BOY: Uh...
GIRL: And what's with the patches?
BOY: Can't I just hold you for awhile?
GIRL: Bath.
BOY: [Sighs]

Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at June 21, 2019 10:24 AM (RD7QR)

283 Heh, I like that line Cannibal Bob. Too bad I'm not Italian. And Jewish Alzheimer's would be forgetting everything but your debtors.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 21, 2019 10:24 AM (oZ6kz)

284


Jimmy says Trump could be impeached but hopes he's not. Jimmy says he never saw any indication of bias in the FBI. Sure Jimmy. Go rub up against a tree

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 21, 2019 10:25 AM (OLCnA)

285 Shower and make up done before we get hit with the next storm. I've a feeling we will lose power on this one. Supposed to hit right when I am picking up groceries. Arizona looks better every day.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 21, 2019 10:25 AM (dUJdY)

286 SturmToddler

Well, the next port, I went way outside my comfort zone (with the same results) but the optics were much different.

"So you are on the run from Nazi assassins?" [As I covertly admired her 39 Ds] "Let's walk towards your hotel and talk about it."

I got the award for conduct most becoming on shore leave that time. She was a wackadoodle, and even then I knew about crazy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:25 AM (u82oZ)

287 Perhaps. But IIANM, Trump is loathe to get us roiled into another Middle East maelstrom. By launching the air assets, getting ships into position STILL sends a loud message to the Iranian regime. You know the Iranians saw all that unfolding on radar, etc. This gave them a taste of what hell will rain down on them if they try anything more.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (N39Ws)

=====

That's Styx's read on this as well. Part of the Kissenger-style madman strategy Trump has apparently been pursuing. I suspect if we hit Iran, though, it'll be more subtle than airstrikes. Think a bunch of their boats suddenly blowing up, for example instead of something more obvious and blatant.

Posted by: Jackal at June 21, 2019 10:26 AM (pziek)

288 OK, that's bad. I had a guy on my first boat that got turned down by the Thai bargirl...
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Pattaya or Phuket? FYI, Marines were prized by Thai Bargirls. We were clean, wanted straight PIV sex and weren't dirty arabs.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:20 AM (2LelM)

Pattaya. I have to admit we laughed. he wasn't a handsom fella at all. but dear lord, when a fist full of dollars isn't working over there...

side note, I still get mad at the marines getting us kicked out of the country.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:26 AM (8D42x)

289 Joephis, I hope things get better for you man. My grandparents are okay at the moment which is a blessing because I couldn't handle losing one of them on top of everything else.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 21, 2019 10:27 AM (oZ6kz)

290 I can contribute "In Flanders' Fields" and "Maude Mueller" to the poetry recital. Oh, and Fields' "The Duel," better known as "The zGingham Dog and the Calico Cat".

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 10:27 AM (ctmIP)

291 283 Heh, I like that line Cannibal Bob. Too bad I'm not Italian. And Jewish Alzheimer's would be forgetting everything but your debtors.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 21, 2019 10:24 AM (oZ6kz)

LOL. I like that...oh and let me bring up Catholic guilt. Because boy i got it sometimes. Although my 'Joo' friends in NY would say. "Catholics invented it, Jews perfected it"...

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:27 AM (OX6sG)

292 Speaking of hockey, NHL draft tonight!

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (PxX5

Yup, and I'm trying to figure out who my Blackhawks are picking 3rd.

it's been a great pick position for us in the past. We need D still, but it's a forward heavy draft. idk...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:19 AM (8D42x)

I am a happy NYR fan. We pick second! Woohoo!

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (gmo/4)

want to trade picks? it'll save you guys some cap space for the rebuilding effort..

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:27 AM (8D42x)

293 good old americana.

Posted by: trapper's girl at June 21, 2019 10:27 AM (BQJef)

294 side note, I still get mad at the marines getting us kicked out of the country.
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It wasn't the Marines that brought in the repair ship full of dykes.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:28 AM (2LelM)

295 Well, he can kiss his seat on the Supreme Court goodbye. He is totally making her feel unsafe.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 21, 2019 10:28 AM (dNzKv)

296 "Did you catch anything, son?"

"Just some crabs, dad. God, those things itch!"

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 10:28 AM (m79Dg)

297 another rainy morning on the Main Line...

t if you let women affect your happiness you will rarely be happy.

The Black Orchid corollary to this bit of wisdom is "..if you let OTHER PEOPLE affect your happiness.."

We choose to be happy, that's the only way it works, unfortunately. The other side of that is, for me at least, sometimes I do choose to be maudlin because I enjoy that too, on some level.

I'm happy it's raining, IOW. I'm only happy when it rains, ha ha ha.

ok I MIGHT be suffering mentally from the lack of sunshine up here a tiny bit!

The thing I had asked for prayers on (a very "privileged" thing btw, nothing really and truly worrisome) is going surprisingly well. So thank you! and keep it up, because this apparently is a "process" and we'll be working on this all summer which is not what I was expecting.

I took a leave of absence from work to focus on this which was smart but it's also been costly to our family finances and my mental health lol. So thanks for being here guys. It's really nice for me to talk about something OTHER than this "project" with people who are not insane. sorry to be so opaque but a) we are superstitious and don't want to jinx anything and b) I'm pretty sure there was a Moron with relevant expertise and I tend to get myself and others in trouble so I'm just going to shut up about it now

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2019 10:29 AM (Rarvo)

298 "Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (N39Ws"

Nah. They've seen this movie before. So have I. It's the same shit Trump accused Barky doing in Iraq. The ROE's were cut in a way we couldn't go after most known elements. The IRGC elements quickly figured out where the lines were and exploited them while our guys got killed as a result.

I didn't stay quiet when Barky did it. I'm certainly not going to let Trump pull this shit.

Responding to a shoot down of your asset i international airspace by taking out their AGM sites, staffed or not, is a measured response.

But, you know, we have assets in place.

*wags finger*

They don't give a fuck and he's going to find that out when next time our guys come home in a box.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 10:30 AM (VkWRL)

299 My introduction to life in Olongapo, PI as a Midshipman in the 1970's was educational.

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:30 AM (gmo/4)

300 285 Shower and make up done before we get hit with the next storm.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 21, 2019 10:25 AM (dUJdY)

Ettes, am I right? I'd be..."I couldn't shower! We had a storm!"

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:31 AM (OX6sG)

301 On the SCOTUS front, no decision on the gerrymandering case or the Census. More opinions (12 left) scheduled to be released on Monday.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:32 AM (N39Ws)

302 299 My introduction to life in Olongapo, PI as a Midshipman in the 1970's was educational.
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Did you get over to Subic City and enjoy a game of smile at Maryalynn's Blow Haven? Nothing better than a Subic Bay Sunset hummer.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:32 AM (2LelM)

303 Archer

I'll bet. LBFMs for the win.

I was on a ship homeported there for a bit. We were at sea a lot, alas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:32 AM (u82oZ)

304 Also, I have a sick sense of humor which saves me sometimes, but at life's end I'll probably have "Italian Alzheimer's" . We forget everything but our grudges.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:22 AM (OX6sG)

AND NOW COMES THE AIRING OF THE GRIEVANCES!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2019 10:33 AM (Kpl3J)

305

Pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers. "They're Magically Delicious!"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 21, 2019 10:33 AM (aKsyK)

306 I know it's callous, because it's an open case with a fugitive suspect and a doubtlessly terrified victim, but Trump should make this Francisco Carranza-Ramirez gentleman from the egregious Seattle Sanctuary City case into his Willie Horton.

And he should make sure to refer to him as "the Divine Spark, Francisco Carranza-Ramirez."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2019 10:33 AM (dClNv)

307 Someone with knowledge of Rockwell's complete works needs to nominate the "just right" piece, as Nose Art for a B1-b Lancer.

-=====
What title is it?

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 21, 2019 10:34 AM (71qAS)

308 I have said for years that Iran needs a démarche and a date from the US.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:34 AM (u82oZ)

309 Someone with knowledge of Rockwell's complete works needs to nominate the "just right" piece, as Nose Art for a B1-b Lancer.


Nose art should have tits. I'm not aware of Rockwell featuring tits.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 10:35 AM (fuK7c)

310 What's the last thing Creepy Joe has said that wasn't idiotic, or a lie, or an idiotic lie?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 21, 2019 10:35 AM (JgA4k)

311 side note, I still get mad at the marines getting us kicked out of the country.
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It wasn't the Marines that brought in the repair ship full of dykes.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:28 AM (2LelM)

nope. it was after the pullout from Somalia. someone had the brilliant idea to go STRAIGHT to pattaya from mogidishu...

approximately 12 hours after dropping anchor, we were back underway.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:35 AM (8D42x)

312 "A lot of our students feel oppressed by the statue. I know when I walk under it I feel very inferior," Gilbert said. "I don't feel that way when I'm at other places on campus. I don't think that's what the university community wants us to feel like when we're here."

So we can't build statues to great people anymore, lest they make snowflakes feel inferior. Who do we honor with statues, then?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 21, 2019 10:35 AM (dNzKv)

313 I saw Maryalynn's Blow Haven open for Subic Bay Sunset Hummer in front of Cinderella's Palace in Disneyland in 1971. Blew my nose and then they blew my mind!

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 10:35 AM (m79Dg)

314 Yeah, sure. Get SOCOM involved and insert forces for an op when Navy could just let the HARM's rip.

Makes zero sense.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 10:35 AM (VkWRL)

315 I'm just going to shut up about it now

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2019 10:29 AM (Rarvo)

No need to ever shut up around here, BO. Just speaking for myself. I'm a hot mess.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:36 AM (OX6sG)

316 306 And he should make sure to refer to him as "the Divine Spark, Francisco Carranza-Ramirez."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2019 10:33 AM (dClNv)

If Fat Jerry can sneeringly call people by the wrong name to make a point, so can PDT.

Refer to him as "Francisco Carranza-Pelosi", since she cares so much for her precious MS-13.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 21, 2019 10:36 AM (sm6Pk)

317 "A lot of our students feel oppressed by the statue. I know when I walk under it I feel very inferior," Gilbert said. "I don't feel that way when I'm at other places on campus. I don't think that's what the university community wants us to feel like when we're here."


Remember when your emotional problems were YOUR emotional problems and not everybody else's?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 21, 2019 10:37 AM (oVJmc)

318 "A lot of our students feel oppressed by the statue. I know when I walk under it I feel very inferior," Gilbert said.

absolutely asinine especially considering there were many American pioneers with more indigenous blood than soy boy Gilbert there.

just because he's a weak sister doesn't mean the school needs to piss on their legacy!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2019 10:37 AM (Rarvo)

319 "Arizona looks better every day"

Arizona, take off your rainbow shades
Arizona, have another look at the world
My myyy

Posted by: Mark Lindsay at June 21, 2019 10:37 AM (o5Lvw)

320 Speaking of hockey, NHL draft tonight!

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM
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I don't know what the Wild can do - we're stuck it the same rut the Twins were when Mauer's contract shackled them.

I do know their ticket reps can be less of an asshole, though. The other day he just didn't understand why I wouldn't want to dump even more money into this half-assed team instead of being grateful for the 20 I do show up for.

Posted by: jhawk90 at June 21, 2019 10:37 AM (/ZYFC)

321 283 Heh, I like that line Cannibal Bob. Too bad I'm not Italian. And Jewish Alzheimer's would be forgetting everything but your debtors.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at June 21, 2019 10:24 AM (oZ6kz)

Would Catholic Alzheimer's be forgetting everything but your guilt?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 10:37 AM (NWiLs)

322 LOL. I like that...oh and let me bring up Catholic guilt. Because boy i got it sometimes. Although my 'Joo' friends in NY would say. "Catholics invented it, Jews perfected it"...

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:27 AM (OX6sG)

One of my favorite Woody Allen lines, in an interview, was when he said "And I feel guilty all the time. When I was a kid and we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back." And the interviewer asked "but why do you feel guilty? You don't even believe in God." Woody: "I KNOW! And I feel incredibly guilty about it!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2019 10:38 AM (Kpl3J)

323
So we can't build statues to great people anymore, lest they make snowflakes feel inferior. Who do we honor with statues, then?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 21, 2019 10:35 AM (dNzKv)


Giant vaginas.

Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 10:38 AM (Fs5vw)

324 AND NOW COMES THE AIRING OF THE GRIEVANCES!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2019 10:33 AM (Kpl3J)

LMAO. Shut up Tom. And I mean that with affection. But in a manly way...not the gay thing.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:38 AM (OX6sG)

325 320 I don't know what the Wild can do - we're stuck it the same rut the Twins were when Mauer's contract shackled them.

I do know their ticket reps can be less of an asshole, though. The other day he just didn't understand why I wouldn't want to dump even more money into this half-assed team instead of being grateful for the 20 I do show up for.
Posted by: jhawk90 at June 21, 2019 10:37 AM (/ZYFC)

Jim Rutherford likely gives you Phil Kessel in exchange for your useless Garbage.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 21, 2019 10:38 AM (sm6Pk)

326 What's the last thing Creepy Joe has said that wasn't idiotic, or a lie, or an idiotic lie?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 21, 2019 10:35 AM (JgA4k)

Ummm..."Where's the john?"

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 10:38 AM (ykq7q)

327 SCOTUS releases 4 opinions. None of the major cases.

Interestingly, one case overturned previous SCOTUS ruling. The left wing on the court screamed "Stare Decisis! Stare Decisis!"

12 left to release. Looks like there is going to be at least 2 days of opinions, possibly three next week.

Posted by: WisRich at June 21, 2019 10:39 AM (G0vdT)

328
Would Catholic Alzheimer's be forgetting everything but your guilt?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 10:37 AM (NWiLs)

Yes. Exactly. Great I got that to look forward to.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (OX6sG)

329 Have a great day storming the castle, everyone.

Need to check on storm damage.


May no YOLO Darwin Award candidate approach your vehicle, unless you are driving a M1127 Stryker. Then, Game On!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (u82oZ)

330 A lot of our students feel oppressed by the statue. I know when I walk under it I feel very inferior," Gilbert said. "I don't feel that way when I'm at other places on campus. I don't think that's what the university community wants us to feel like when we're here."

It makes you feel inferior? Good, that means it's working.

Pussy.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents All Is Lost - A Musical Fable of the Moron Horde! Tickets o at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (hLRSq)

331 Throughout my life I found that anger was generally always better than depression (if it's not too self-destructive) because it usually caused me to at least act and do something to change the present, unhappy circumstance(s) -- rather than be passively withdrawn, isolated, and accepting of them.
Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at June 21, 2019 10:13 AM (WqPYg)


I can absolutely sympathize with this. Or, as a better man once said -

https://tinyurl.com/y55x7dz9

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (Ki5SV)

332 Someone with knowledge of Rockwell's complete works needs to nominate the "just right" piece, as Nose Art for a B1-b Lancer.


Nose art should have tits. I'm not aware of Rockwell featuring tits.
Posted by: Bandersnatch


Vargas for Nose Art.
Rockwell for Saturday Evening Post.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (tBimT)

333
New "Stranger Things 3" trailer looks good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=XcnHOQ-cHa0

Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (J2mEl)

334
Giant vaginas.

Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 10:38 AM (Fs5vw)

Woah man, that's transphobic.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (EV0u2)

335 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2019 10:38 AM (Kpl3J)

Man Woody was funny. So dry.

"I dont want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it by not dying."

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:41 AM (OX6sG)

336 What's the last thing Creepy Joe has said that wasn't idiotic, or a lie, or an idiotic lie?

Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at June 21, 2019 10:35 AM (JgA4k)

Ummm..."Where's the john?"
Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 10:38 AM (

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As he's standing right in front of the men's room door.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2019 10:42 AM (gC2IV)

337 You can live off anger for years but it eats away at the rest of yourself over time. Better than being inert perhaps.
Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:17 AM (EV0u2)


Hate keeps a man alive.

Posted by: Quintus Arrius at June 21, 2019 10:42 AM (Ki5SV)

338 My position on Iran is that if you're going to go kinetic you open the whole can of whoop-ass short of bottled sunshine. No pussyfooting, been there, done that, got the casualaties.

Go with sabotage, sanctions, support for internal opponents no matter how odious.

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 21, 2019 10:42 AM (71qAS)

339 Vargas for Nose Art.
Rockwell for Saturday Evening Post.



Verily.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 21, 2019 10:43 AM (fuK7c)

340 That young man is obviously sexually harassing that girl.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:43 AM (bVtr0)

341 337
You can live off anger for years but it eats away at the rest of yourself over time. Better than being inert perhaps.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:17 AM (EV0u2)



Hate keeps a man alive.

Posted by: Quintus Arrius at June 21, 2019 10:42 AM (Ki5SV)

And warm.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:43 AM (N39Ws)

342 334
Giant vaginas.

Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 10:38 AM (Fs5vw)

Woah man, that's transphobic.
Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (EV0u2)

Help me find my car keys and I'll drive us out of here!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 10:43 AM (NWiLs)

343 340 That young man is obviously sexually harassing that girl.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:43 AM (bVtr0)

You're assuming thats a girl? Just flaunt your 'unwokeness' why don't you.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:44 AM (OX6sG)

344 338
My position on Iran is that if you're going to go kinetic you open the
whole can of whoop-ass short of bottled sunshine. No pussyfooting, been
there, done that, got the casualaties.



Go with sabotage, sanctions, support for internal opponents no matter how odious.

Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 21, 2019 10:42 AM (71qAS)
And the Dems are already whining about AUMF. Does the one that passed back in 2001/2002 still valid?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:45 AM (N39Ws)

345 Ok, I could dick around with you reprobates all day but I'm feeling guilty about not getting shit done around here.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:45 AM (OX6sG)

346 BYW, Rockwell, like the P-47, is the purest Americana. I love his art. Innocent and simple.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:45 AM (bVtr0)

347

I'm certain we know where the missile (?) that struck the drone originated, down to the foot.

A proper response would be to reduce that spot to rubble, followed with a note asking if there was anything else in the country they were tired of looking at.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 21, 2019 10:45 AM (KATBx)

348 Hate keeps a man alive.

Posted by: Quintus Arrius at June 21, 2019 10:42 AM (Ki5SV)


Word.

Posted by: XLIII at June 21, 2019 10:46 AM (so3dR)

349 The point of fishin' ain't always the fish.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Conservapunk at June 21, 2019 09:35 AM (AM1GF)

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day.
Teach a man to fish, he'll spend every weekend sitting in a boat getting drunk.

Posted by: Roy at June 21, 2019 10:46 AM (40mSG)

350 A proper response would be to reduce that spot to rubble, followed with a note asking if there was anything else in the country they were tired of looking at.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 21, 2019 10:45 AM (KATBx)

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:46 AM (OX6sG)

351 It makes you feel inferior? Good, that means it's working.

Pussy.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents All Is Lost - A Musical Fable of the Moron Horde! Tickets o at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (hLRSq)
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This is the proper response to all this nonsense.

Posted by: jhawk90 at June 21, 2019 10:46 AM (/ZYFC)

352 Also, I'm a prime number. That's lucky.

Posted by: XLIII at June 21, 2019 10:47 AM (so3dR)

353 345
Ok, I could dick around with you reprobates all day but I'm feeling guilty about not getting shit done around here.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:45 AM (OX6sG)
If you aren't Catholic, consider converting. You get used to the guilt.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:47 AM (N39Ws)

354 Stocks at record highs yet again today.

OrangeManBad is so bad so so so bad.

Posted by: Government Agencies who created BMI at June 21, 2019 10:48 AM (FiUMj)

355 Give a man a fish, he eats for a day.
Teach a man to fish, he'll spend every weekend sitting in a boat getting drunk.
Posted by: Roy at June 21, 2019 10:46 AM (40mSG)


Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at June 21, 2019 10:48 AM (so3dR)

356 337 Hate keeps a man alive.
Posted by: Quintus Arrius at June 21, 2019 10:42 AM (Ki5SV)

Dominate or Die.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 21, 2019 10:48 AM (sm6Pk)

357 353 345
Ok, I could dick around with you reprobates all day but I'm feeling guilty about not getting shit done around here.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:45 AM (OX6sG)
If you aren't Catholic, consider converting. You get used to the guilt.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:47 AM (N39Ws)

Judaism works too.

The Jews invented guilt; the Catholics perfected it.

Posted by: Roy at June 21, 2019 10:48 AM (40mSG)

358 If you aren't Catholic, consider converting. You get used to the guilt.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:47 AM (N39Ws)

I'm guilty of being Catholic. Look upstream we beat that to death. Ok, all luego. Its been real...real real.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:48 AM (OX6sG)

359 Hate keeps a man alive.
Posted by: Quintus Arrius at June 21, 2019 10:42 AM (Ki5SV)

Tell me about it!--Captain Ahab.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 10:48 AM (m79Dg)

360 I love Norman Rockwell

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 21, 2019 10:48 AM (bcbK8)

361 I haven't looked around, but I'm assuming the left is whining that Trump lost face with Iran or some such shit? Event though 24 hours ago the same people were freaking out that Trump was a blood thirsty savage who was about to kill brown people.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 21, 2019 10:49 AM (FiUMj)

362 Cannibal bob,


I've always enjoyed your posts around here. I'm sorry you're so angry.
Throwing thing and breaking things and blowing them up is certainly cathartic.
So is prayer.

You'll be on the uptake soon.


Getting bumpy on the plane right now. Wheeeeee!

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 10:49 AM (Y2wXs)

363 Sorry I'm going to miss all these tidbits of wisdom lol OM. Set a man n Fire....funny. I'll check back.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (OX6sG)

364 If you aren't Catholic, consider converting. You get used to the guilt.

___

The biggest selling point of Catholicism is the whole forgiveness thing. Show up for confession, say a few hail Marys and no matter what you've done is all forgiven by the big guy in the sky. You guys need to market that.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (FiUMj)

365 Morning, horde. I like Norman Rockwell. We had the one of the cop and the kid in the diner on our dining room wall when I was growing up.

Posted by: Jordan61, PNW MoMe Survivor & Awesome Mug Winner! at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (Ez6QX)

366 Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at June 21, 2019 10:48 AM (so3dR)

*blinks*

*blinks again*

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (ykq7q)

367 Trump is racist for refusing to kill brown people.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (bVtr0)

368 238 does half-assed victory dance

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Brie Larsen at June 21, 2019 10:51 AM (sGtp+)

369 You can live off anger for years but it eats away at the rest of yourself over time. Better than being inert perhaps.

Posted by: Someguy


Hate keeps a man alive.

Posted by: Quintus Arris

And warm.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed



Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 10:51 AM (tBimT)

370 "I'm certain we know where the missile (?) that struck the drone originated, down to the foot."

We do and that's what we were going to hit. But when President Blowhard got the Pre strike BDA from mil, he called it off. Reason? There would have possibly been 150 "casualties". OriginAl reports were worded in a way to make you think they were civilians. Nope. Support personnel which is part of the deal. You wanna be in that role prepare to one day see what incoming looks like.

Trump didn't think that was "proportionate".

We need to find an empty kabob house or something to hit instead.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 10:51 AM (VkWRL)

371 Anger is a fuse that burns from both ends.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:52 AM (bVtr0)

372 Mark!

Range time tomorrow?

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 10:52 AM (Y2wXs)

373 Give a man a fish and feed him for a day.
Beat him to death with a baseball bat and he'll never be hungry again.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2019 10:52 AM (gC2IV)

374 The biggest selling point of Catholicism is the
whole forgiveness thing. Show up for confession, say a few hail Marys
and no matter what you've done is all forgiven by the big guy in the
sky. You guys need to market that.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (FiUMj)

They should start selling indulgences again. Pay those sins forward!

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at June 21, 2019 10:52 AM (CQ3Qb)

375 Getting bumpy on the plane right now. Wheeeeee!

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 10:49 AM (Y2wXs)

must be hitting the front range of the rockies. THAT was always s fun in the little puddle jumpers going into Gillette.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (8D42x)

376 It makes you feel inferior? Good, that means it's working.

Pussy.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet presents All Is Lost - A Musical Fable of the Moron Horde! Tickets o at June 21, 2019 10:40 AM (hLRSq)
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This is the proper response to all this nonsense.
Posted by: jhawk90


Always apologize.

"I'm sorry your parents raised such a pussy".

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (tBimT)

377 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)

378 es half-assed victory dance

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Brie Larsen at June 21, 2019 10:51 AM (sGtp+)

not possible, half-assed implies twice as much ass as you have...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:54 AM (8D42x)

379 "You guys need to market that."

You got the shorthand version. It isn't quite that easy and God keeps a ledger. He also knows what's truly in your heart.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 10:54 AM (VkWRL)

380 Ive read the Bible several times. I read it every day. I have yet to read a thing about Hail Marys.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:54 AM (bVtr0)

381 Ive read the Bible several times. I read it every day. I have yet to read a thing about Hail Marys.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:54 AM (bVtr0)

Notre Dame perfected it.

even has Jesus celebrating a touchdown...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 10:56 AM (8D42x)

382 379 "You guys need to market that."

You got the shorthand version. It isn't quite that easy and God keeps a ledger. He also knows what's truly in your heart.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 10:54 AM (VkWRL)

___

Put that in the fine print.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 21, 2019 10:56 AM (FiUMj)

383 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)

Now is no time to start.

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 10:56 AM (ykq7q)

384
The biggest selling point of Catholicism is the whole forgiveness thing. Show up for confession, say a few hail Marys and no matter what you've done is all forgiven by the big guy in the sky. You guys need to market that.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (FiUMj)

Technically you also have to be sincerely repentant. Imperfect repentance(which still passes so long as it is sincere) is from fear of Hell and the like, perfect repentance is for love of God. In both cases you have to be firmly resolved to sin no more.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:56 AM (EV0u2)

385 Trump is racist for refusing to kill brown people.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (bVtr0)

He's conflicted because of all the Caucasians in Iran. Maybe if they let in some more Somalians....

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 10:57 AM (m79Dg)

386 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.



Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)



Now is no time to start.

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 10:56 AM (ykq7q)

Maybe on my death bed...LOL!

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:57 AM (gmo/4)

387 380
Ive read the Bible several times. I read it every day. I have yet to read a thing about Hail Marys.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:54 AM (bVtr0)
Luke 1:41

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 10:57 AM (N39Ws)

388 In both cases you have to be firmly resolved to sin no more.
Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:56 AM (EV0u2)

And while failure may also be forgiven, you still have to make an honest attempt to stop.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 21, 2019 10:58 AM (J+mig)

389 I know what's truly in my heart. It's pipes and shit, right? For the blood.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 10:58 AM (0PDHs)

390 380 Ive read the Bible several times. I read it every day. I have yet to read a thing about Hail Marys.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:54 AM (bVtr0)

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Doesn't say anything about jello molds either, but that seems to be a thing.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 21, 2019 10:58 AM (gC2IV)

391
The solstice (sun stop) will occur at 11:54AM EST, just a little under an hour as I type this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 21, 2019 10:59 AM (f1Vqw)

392 Millenial dev at work is whining about war with Iran.

He's also whining that Trump called off the drone strike.

I asked him what Trump should do to make him happy.

He said, we should try soft options.

Kids....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 21, 2019 10:59 AM (bcbK8)

393 380 Ive read the Bible several times. I read it every day. I have yet to read a thing about Hail Marys.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:54 AM (bVtr0)

The first instance of intercession iirc is with Abraham and Sodom. The prayer list on this blog is analogous to the idea, excepting views on how aware saints(which is any human in heaven) are and whether they pray for those on earth.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:59 AM (EV0u2)

394 385 Trump is racist for refusing to kill brown people.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (bVtr0)

He's conflicted because of all the Caucasians in Iran. Maybe if they let in some more Somalians....
--------------------------
Maybe he could broker some Somali refugees with Iran? That would be a bonanza of virtue points on both sides of the aisle. Throw in Al Franken on the deal and we are talking Nobel Prize kind of virtue points.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 10:59 AM (2LelM)

395 Doesn't say anything about jello molds either,

I thought somewhere it said to keep your jello refrigerated, less it develop jello mold.

New Testament somewhere?

Posted by: Bruce at June 21, 2019 10:59 AM (vd8XM)

396 Man. I hate jello. Like green bean casserole there is just no way that shit is food.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 11:00 AM (bVtr0)

397 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)

Never told me what dear?

Posted by: Mrs. Archer at June 21, 2019 11:00 AM (cF8AT)

398 I think that Trump stopped the attack because our enemies ( the Dems ) wanted it.
Possibly they have been instigating it. Possible that the people in Iran about to die in our retaliation were not just operatives but young collaterals which would be used by the enemedia against Trump/USA.

Posted by: Floridachick at June 21, 2019 11:01 AM (qb5Cw)

399
Just a reminder. At the moment of solstice, when the sun's declination rate of change stops, the tits must come out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 21, 2019 11:01 AM (f1Vqw)

400 God doesn't need to keep a ledger. Your life is written in the shape and scars of your soul.

Posted by: vmom superior, order of sweet merciless ninjas at June 21, 2019 11:01 AM (dm05u)

401 Trump is racist for refusing to kill brown people.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 10:50 AM (bVtr0)

Persians are very touchy about being associated with Arabs. They consider themselves white and can get downright adamant about it. Because racist bastards.

Posted by: troyriser at June 21, 2019 11:01 AM (y2JAS)

402 Technically you also have to be sincerely repentant. Imperfect repentance(which still passes so long as it is sincere) is from fear of Hell and the like, perfect repentance is for love of God. In both cases you have to be firmly resolved to sin no more.
Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:56 AM (EV0u2)

Technically, I would think Christ's Representative on this Earth wouldn't be espousing so much Luciferian claptrap, but what do I know?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 11:01 AM (m79Dg)

403 372 Mark!

Range time tomorrow?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 10:52 AM (Y2wXs)

jah, sounds good! Time for the head to head .45 testing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 21, 2019 11:01 AM (bcbK8)

404 Man. I hate jello. Like green bean casserole there is just no way that shit is food.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 11:00 AM (bVtr0)

There's always room for jello.

Posted by: BignJames at June 21, 2019 11:02 AM (ykq7q)

405 Holding hands at midnight

'neath a starry sky.

Nice work if you can get it,

And you can get it if you try.

Posted by: Fred Astaire at June 21, 2019 11:02 AM (hu22E)

406 Vmom: Stop trying to put accountants out of work. I don't know how to tell if scars are debits or credits.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 11:02 AM (0PDHs)

407 377 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.
Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)

Progressive Insurance?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 21, 2019 11:02 AM (bcbK8)

408 403 372 Mark!

Range time tomorrow?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 21, 2019 10:52 AM (Y2wXs)

jah, sounds good! Time for the head to head .45 testing.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 21, 2019 11:01 AM (bcbK

Will it be multiple choice or essay?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 11:03 AM (NWiLs)

409 Archer, let her down easy. Start by just telling her 3.14. You can add in the rest later.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 11:03 AM (0PDHs)

410 I'm not convinced that Trump made the right decision. I'll wait and see what happens next.

AND, I don't like the whole "proportionate response" philosophy when it comes to our country's defense.

Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 11:03 AM (Fs5vw)

411 397 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)

Portuguese Inquisition?

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (J+mig)

412 In many ways, this picture describes Richard and Barack.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (Jj+59)

413
Their Children... The Hills Have Eyes...

Posted by: Boneless Chicken Fucker at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (UFLLM)

414 Millenial dev at work is whining about war with Iran.

He's also whining that Trump called off the drone strike.

I asked him what Trump should do to make him happy.

He said, we should try soft options.

Kids....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


Punch him in the nose. Then tell him, "let's talk".
Then punch him in the nose again.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (tBimT)

415 "I'm certain we know where the missile (?) that struck the drone originated, down to the foot."

We do and that's what we were going to hit. But when President Blowhard got the Pre strike BDA from mil, he called it off. Reason? There would have possibly been 150 "casualties". OriginAl reports were worded in a way to make you think they were civilians. Nope. Support personnel which is part of the deal. You wanna be in that role prepare to one day see what incoming looks like.

Trump didn't think that was "proportionate".

We need to find an empty kabob house or something to hit instead.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 10:51 AM (VkWRL)

Marcus, I'm sorry, but a lot of us don't have full trust in the US Intelligence to be factual or correct in their assessments. We seem to be able ( probably not anymore since a $130 M spy drone is in pieces) to watch Iranian boats zoom up to ships and plant/remove mines, but we don't seem to be able to stop it ahead of time. Why is that, ROE? Or behind real time observations? Poor intelligence?

Something set Trump back. I wish he didn't talk so much on Twitter about these types of situations, but he does , and there it goes. Last minute ally concern? Saudi"s? Oman? I'm not buying Trump's explanation in full.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (E3QyW)

416 A kid on a raft with a tiger?

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (0PDHs)

417 411 397 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)

Portuguese Inquisition?
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (J+mig)

Couldn't cut it. Way too predictable.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (NWiLs)

418 Apropos of nothing, Va Museum of Fine Arts is installing a statue of a black man on a horse to honor Arthur Ashe. Statue by guy that did the Obama portrait of him in the ivy.

Posted by: FrodoB at June 21, 2019 11:05 AM (9753m)

419 410 I'm not convinced that Trump made the right decision. I'll wait and see what happens next.

AND, I don't like the whole "proportionate response" philosophy when it comes to our country's defense.
Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 11:03 AM (Fs5vw)

I'm not sure there was a right decision, but the Left really wants a war they can blame on Trump.

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 21, 2019 11:05 AM (J+mig)

420 399


Just a reminder. At the moment of solstice, when the sun's declination rate of change stops, the tits must come out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 21, 2019 11:01 AM (f1Vqw)
Yeah. Except for 3 maybe 4 women whom I work with and would love for this to happen, the rest would necessitate eye bleach.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 21, 2019 11:05 AM (N39Ws)

421 412 In many ways, this picture describes Richard and Barack.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (Jj+59)

Lol...swatting each other playfully while cruising on Branson's yacht. It was...interesting.

Posted by: IC at June 21, 2019 11:05 AM (a0IVu)

422 399


Just a reminder. At the moment of solstice, when the sun's declination rate of change stops, the tits must come out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 21, 2019

*
*
. . .
I can think of quite a few women I should remind of this. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 21, 2019 11:05 AM (ClOmq)

423 I don't want war, I want to prevent it. The conundrum is that by ignoring initial aggression with insouciance, you get there faster then by any other means. Sometimes you need to beat people back with a stick, so they don't roll over you with a log.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 11:06 AM (VkWRL)

424 361 I haven't looked around, but I'm assuming the left is whining that Trump lost face with Iran or some such shit? Event though 24 hours ago the same people were freaking out that Trump was a blood thirsty savage who was about to kill brown people.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 21, 2019 10:49 AM (FiUMj)

It's almost like everyone in the MSM had all of their attacks on Trump written up ahead of time, just waiting to see which way he went before picking which pre-written attacks they needed to run.

In response to some of military people who it was said upthread wanted to go ahead with the strike - What Trump knows, that the military doesn't really grasp, is that this is a Political contest, not really a military one. Both political in the contest of wills between Iran and the US, and political in the sense of the Presidential campaign now starting. What do you think John Kerry has been telling the Iranians, seriously? He's telling them how to inflict max political damage on the President, in order to help the Dems replace him with someone more amenable to them, like Biden.

And that's why the Iranians have rolled out this very limited series of provocations, designed to get a whole lot of attention but carefully calibrated not to cause any bloodshed - because actual bloodshed is always the Big Red Line of escalation. The first side to shed blood in a contest politically justifies almost any level of bloodshed in return, and that's what Iran has been trying to goad Trump into doing. I'm sure Kerry told them that of course he would take the bait.

And that's also why Trump was correct to call off an attack which would cause 150 deaths, maybe not militarily, but it was absolutely the right thing to do politically. And now, by going public about it, he puts the burden on the Iranians to make the next move - do they up the ante, or do they accept that their plan didn't work, and back down?


Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2019 11:06 AM (Kpl3J)

425 421 412 In many ways, this picture describes Richard and Barack.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at June 21, 2019 11:04 AM (Jj+59)

Lol...swatting each other playfully while cruising on Branson's yacht. It was...interesting.
Posted by: IC at June 21, 2019 11:05 AM (a0IVu)

If by "interesting" you mean totally ghey, then yeah.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 11:06 AM (NWiLs)

426 I looked at Luke 1:41. Not seeing it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 11:06 AM (bVtr0)

427 402 Technically you also have to be sincerely repentant. Imperfect repentance(which still passes so long as it is sincere) is from fear of Hell and the like, perfect repentance is for love of God. In both cases you have to be firmly resolved to sin no more.
Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 10:56 AM (EV0u2)


I thank God that I've realized I'm not perfect.

Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (Fs5vw)

428 419 410 I'm not convinced that Trump made the right decision. I'll wait and see what happens next.

AND, I don't like the whole "proportionate response" philosophy when it comes to our country's defense.
Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 11:03 AM (Fs5vw)

I'm not sure there was a right decision, but the Left really wants a war they can blame on Trump.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 21, 2019 11:05 AM (J+mig)

======

There are more than a few Trump supporters who are convinced that Iran is a red line for Russia. Perhaps there's something to that.

Posted by: Jackal at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (pziek)

429 Apropos of nothing, Va Museum of Fine Arts is installing a statue of a black man on a horse to honor Arthur Ashe.

Why is Arthur Ashe on a horse ?

He was a tennis player.

Posted by: JT at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (7+06S)

430 Technically, I would think Christ's Representative on this Earth wouldn't be espousing so much Luciferian claptrap, but what do I know?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 11:01 AM (m79Dg)

A Pope cannot contradict infallible doctrine with his own formal teachings on doctrine without identifying himself as a fraud(is this tautological seeming? Sure, but it's a great safeguard). Popes are not impeccable nor are they represented as such. Belief in global warming is evidence of stupidity or gullibility, not satanic beliefs.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (EV0u2)

431 DOW JONES SETS NEW RECORD!!

woo hoo

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (FiUMj)

432 I'm not sure there was a right decision, but the Left really wants a war they can blame on Trump.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at June 21, 2019 11:05 AM (J+mig)
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This.

You could tell by all the posturing yesterday by the Dem's. They wanted Trump to pull the trigger so bad they could taste it.

Posted by: WisRich at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (G0vdT)

433 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.
Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)




PI? You mean you were a private dick like Shaft?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (OLCnA)

434 Xipe, did you skip the part where he kisses his sister?

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (0PDHs)

435 I'm not convinced that Trump made the right decision. I'll wait and see what happens next.

AND, I don't like the whole "proportionate response" philosophy when it comes to our country's defense.
Posted by: Sooner


I'm one of the biggest war hawks you'll ever find.
But I draw the line on killing people over an unmanned drone.

Kill one sailor? Yeah. Glass a city.
Unmanned drone? Nah.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (tBimT)

436 Did they confuse Arthur Ashe with the guy from the Old Spice commercials?

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 11:08 AM (0PDHs)

437

Ron Howard and Lisa Loring?


Sorry, wrong thread.

Posted by: Rev Al Sharptongue at June 21, 2019 11:08 AM (vI+F1)

438 Surely, I say unto you, lobbest thy pass on a sideline route and smite thine enemies with a touchdown. St. Lombardi

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 11:08 AM (gmo/4)

439 @ 370

I know what incoming looks like. Hard pass on future occurrences, please.

The people who wrote the BDA's need to be retired and ones who can assess correctly used instead.
PC has NO place whatsoever in the military.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 21, 2019 11:09 AM (KATBx)

440 377 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.
Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)


Well dear, you take the circumference of one of those round things on your chest, divide by the diameter of it, and you get PI. Does not matter if you are an A or EEE,it is always PI. Easy peasy.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 21, 2019 11:09 AM (kUmUV)

441 429 Apropos of nothing, Va Museum of Fine Arts is installing a statue of a black man on a horse to honor Arthur Ashe.

Why is Arthur Ashe on a horse ?

He was a tennis player.
Posted by: JT at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (7+06S)

"Fine art" is nothing but a racket.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 11:09 AM (NWiLs)

442 Why is Arthur Ashe on a horse ?



He was a tennis player.
>>
Exactly. Supposedly the statue was inspired by the Stonewall Jackson statue on Monument Ave.

Posted by: FrodoB at June 21, 2019 11:09 AM (9753m)

443 I'm not convinced that Trump made the right decision. I'll wait and see what happens next.

AND, I don't like the whole "proportionate response" philosophy when it comes to our country's defense.
Posted by: Sooner at June 21, 2019 11:03 AM (Fs5vw)

Hey, it was a just a drone! We can pick up a few more at Costco or Sam's.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 11:09 AM (m79Dg)

444 Apropos of nothing, Va Museum of Fine Arts is installing a statue of a black man on a horse to honor Arthur Ashe. Statue by guy that did the Obama portrait of him in the ivy.

Posted by: FrodoB at June 21, 2019 11:05 AM (9753m)

will he be holding a tennis racket?

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 11:09 AM (8D42x)

445 If by "interesting" you mean totally ghey, then yeah.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 21, 2019 11:06 AM (NWiLs)

Yeah...that too. It was just so odd...I could not imagine any heterosexual guy I know indulging in that sort of behavior.

Posted by: IC at June 21, 2019 11:09 AM (a0IVu)

446
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2019 11:06 AM (Kpl3J)
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Nice analysis Tom.

Posted by: WisRich at June 21, 2019 11:10 AM (G0vdT)

447 Did they confuse Arthur Ashe with the guy from the Old Spice commercials?
>>
Heh. The artist has done some other odd settings besides Obama.

Posted by: FrodoB at June 21, 2019 11:10 AM (9753m)

448 Broseiden

In the Teen Tourny, there were some close games and some runaways.

The kids are all clean-cut and polite; a credit to their parents.

Posted by: JT at June 21, 2019 11:11 AM (7+06S)

449 A Pope cannot contradict infallible doctrine with his own formal teachings on doctrine without identifying himself as a fraud(is this tautological seeming? Sure, but it's a great safeguard). Popes are not impeccable nor are they represented as such. Belief in global warming is evidence of stupidity or gullibility, not satanic beliefs.
Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (EV0u2)

You don't get out much, do you?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 21, 2019 11:11 AM (m79Dg)

450 431 DOW JONES SETS NEW RECORD!!

woo hoo
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (FiUMj)

It's the culmination of Obama's economic vision

*shit liberals like to say*

Posted by: IC at June 21, 2019 11:11 AM (a0IVu)

451 Horseback tennis is fun but they keep hopping the net.

Posted by: Broseidon Czar of the Brocean at June 21, 2019 11:11 AM (0PDHs)

452 426 I looked at Luke 1:41. Not seeing it.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 21, 2019 11:06 AM (bVtr0)

He is referencing the lines in the prayer. Hail Mary, full of grace(which is something like a name or title, it comes off poorly in English), for the Lord is with thee. After the greeting we ask her to pray for us/with us. That the saints pray is covered in Revelations, though you could argue that those in heaven are ignorant of events on earth and are praying about something else.

Posted by: Someguy at June 21, 2019 11:11 AM (EV0u2)

453 I am holding criticism of Trump on this Iran thingy for now. I think that we are not being told the real reasons the fireworks were halted. But I believe that Trump has no qualms about killing the enemy. The disproportionate answer is a way to slap back at our enemies (Dems, media) who portray Trump as an unstable war monger.

Posted by: Floridachick at June 21, 2019 11:11 AM (qb5Cw)

454 423 I don't want war, I want to prevent it. The conundrum is that by ignoring initial aggression with insouciance, you get there faster then by any other means. Sometimes you need to beat people back with a stick, so they don't roll over you with a log.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 11:06 AM (VkWRL)

I agree in theory, but in this specific instance, I strongly believe that Iran, on the advice of John Kerry, who was acting on behalf of the DNC/Deep State, was planning on goading Trump into escalating the situation into one of actual bloodshed, which the Iranians would then use to justify the launch of mayhem on a much larger scale - and which Trump would then be blamed for.

You can see the Deep State outlets have already started pitching "This is all because Trump voided Obama's Nuke Deal!!!" Because that's the real goal, that's what they want to bring back.

You're correct that a country shouldn't ignore aggression, but a leader has also got to be very careful about being tricked into making a mistake by his enemies.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 21, 2019 11:11 AM (Kpl3J)

455 Morning Rant is *NOOD!

Posted by: Slapweasel, White Enthusiast, Blond at June 21, 2019 11:12 AM (Ckg4U)

456 450 431 DOW JONES SETS NEW RECORD!!

woo hoo
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at June 21, 2019 11:07 AM (FiUMj)

It's the culmination of Obama's economic vision

*shit liberals like to say*
Posted by: IC at June 21, 2019 11:11 AM (a0IVu)
--------

It's a sign of who good this economy is that the Dem's want to take credit for it.

Posted by: WisRich at June 21, 2019 11:12 AM (G0vdT)

457 It's almost like everyone in the MSM had all of their attacks on Trump written up ahead of time, just waiting to see which way he went before picking which pre-written attacks they needed to run.

In response to some of military people who it was said upthread wanted to go ahead with the strike - What Trump knows, that the military doesn't really grasp, is that this is a Political contest, not really a military one. Both political in the contest of wills between Iran and the US, and political in the sense of the Presidential campaign now starting. What do you think John Kerry has been telling the Iranians, seriously? He's telling them how to inflict max political damage on the President, in order to help the Dems replace him with someone more amenable to them, like Biden.

And that's why the Iranians have rolled out this very limited series of provocations, designed to get a whole lot of attention but carefully calibrated not to cause any bloodshed - because actual bloodshed is always the Big Red Line of escalation. The first side to shed blood in a contest politically justifies almost any level of bloodshed in return, and that's what Iran has been trying to goad Trump into doing. I'm sure Kerry told them that of course he would take the bait.

And that's also why Trump was correct to call off an attack which would cause 150 deaths, maybe not militarily, but it was absolutely the right thing to do politically.
And now, by going public about it, he puts the burden on the Iranians to make the next move - do they up the ante, or do they accept that their plan didn't work, and back down?


Posted by: Tom Servo



This needs to be reposted in it's entirety every ten minutes.

Tom, you had one job. And you nailed it.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 21, 2019 11:12 AM (tBimT)

458 Surely, I say unto you, lobbest thy pass on a sideline route and smite thine enemies with a touchdown. St. Lombardi

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 11:08 AM (gmo/4)

the dropback shall be 3 paces, no more no less...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 21, 2019 11:12 AM (8D42x)

459 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.
Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)

Progressive Insurance?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
-------

I think it's that rum and lash thing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 21, 2019 11:12 AM (2kj6M)

460 Yeah...that too. It was just so odd...I could not imagine any heterosexual guy I know indulging in that sort of behavior.

Posted by: IC at June 21, 2019 11:09 AM (a0IVu)


Because it would never happen.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 21, 2019 11:12 AM (9Om/r)

461 395 Doesn't say anything about jello molds either,

I thought somewhere it said to keep your jello refrigerated, less it develop jello mold.

New Testament somewhere?
Posted by: Bruce at June 21, 2019 10:59 AM (vd8XM)

Somewhere in Acts, I think: "Then did our LORD serve the jello with the little marshmallows; and Judas did say, 'Master, this is bogus, verily', and then did our LORD know that he was the betrayer; for all loved our LORD's jello molds."

I might be misremembering that, though.

Posted by: joncelli, bludgeoning with a pouncing seize at June 21, 2019 11:12 AM (RD7QR)

462
417 411 397 I've never told my wife about PI and we've been married 40 years.

Posted by: Archer at June 21, 2019 10:53 AM (gmo/4)
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Archer, after 40 years I don't think she will be shocked. Telling her about your wild oats may open new doors to both of you. I've told my wife about everything. PI was pretty simple for 3rd Marines. It was our second home. Liberty was simple - Cork Room for AC and cold beer with no hooks to bother you - visit the Platoon Bar and check up on them - move to the Samurai Massage parlor to drain a few things - then on to the casino to shoot craps with PI play money. A trip or two to Subic City to spice things up.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 21, 2019 11:14 AM (2LelM)

463 Noodus anthropoidacea

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 21, 2019 11:14 AM (ClOmq)

464 Our ROE's only extend to our forces or those officially under our protection. We can't possibly monitor all traffic in the Gulf. Take a look at one of the online world shipping sites that shows vessel traffic in real time. That area is one of the most heavily trafficked in the world. We also have many assets for monitoring what goes on and drones like the one that was shot down are expensive, we have plenty as they're meant to be "expendable".

Make no mistake, they shot it down because the IRGC was caught red handed on video mining the tankers. It's a great asset but I suspect we probably have another MQ-9 on station already

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 11:14 AM (VkWRL)

465 Friend is having a panic attack. Started yesterday evening and won't let go. Anyone have experience with these things?

Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 11:15 AM (ctmIP)

466 And that's also why Trump was correct to call off an attack which would cause 150 deaths, maybe not militarily, but it was absolutely the right thing to do politically. And now, by going public about it, he puts the burden on the Iranians to make the next move - do they up the ante, or do they accept that their plan didn't work, and back down?
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This.

The Iranians have plan, however ill-formed it may be.

To respond to it in a predictable way would be a mistake. That is not how to win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 21, 2019 11:16 AM (ZMWtN)

467 >>I'm not convinced that Trump made the right decision. I'll wait and see what happens next.

Seems to me the only decision he made last night was not to make a decision. Yet.

He could pull the trigger at any time but once he does everything changes and the risk of war goes up substantially.

I don't buy at all that he is afraid of conflict. Giving the ok for the military to take out hundreds of Russian mercenaries in Syria, bombing them for using gas and bombing ISIS until they were dust tells me he is willing to use force when appropriate.

The end goal is to get Iran to stop building nukes and to stop sponsoring terror not to bomb Iran. Right now, the sanctions are crushing them and causing them to strike out. So far, their strikes have not been very significant. Trump looks like a statesman right now and holds the moral upper hand. If he decides to strike nobody can say he wasn't patient and that Iran wasn't the aggressor.

I believe he will hit Iran but only when he thinks he can do so with the support of allies and dissenters will be shown to be unserious.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2019 11:17 AM (PxX58)

468 465 Friend is having a panic attack. Started yesterday evening and won't let go. Anyone have experience with these things?
Posted by: creeper at June 21, 2019 11:15 AM (ctmIP)

If it's lasted that long, get them to a clinic. They need to be sedated....(must...not...sing)

Be a rock and help but don't let them pull you down and don't put up with their shit.

Hopefully one of those two suggestions will help.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at June 21, 2019 11:22 AM (bcbK8)

469 "Posted by: Tom Servo "

The only think this guarantees is our guys will be first to come home in a box.

I watched the same non sequitur argument play out in Iraq. Can't hit the IRGC because you know, that's an escalation. Meanwhile men are getting killed every other day by material they supplied and people they trained.

But nope. Don't hit this truck, that training ground, this known IRGC element operating in country, etc.

I'll be the first to eat my hat if it doesn't play out into an attack where one of our personnel or partner nations personnel gets killed because the IRGC continued to push the envelope. That's the real danger of this approach. Because it doesn't have anywhere to go except escalation from there.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 11:23 AM (VkWRL)

470 "Posted by: JackStraw at June 21, 2019 11:17 AM (PxX5"

The Russian contractors were not only given direct warning, but everybody in that area knew our element was on the ground. They not only ignored the warning, but deliberately executed direct action against our elements. The ROE's were very clear on that situation, unlike the last administration and the decision was made by command in country.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2019 11:28 AM (VkWRL)

471 List of rational thinkers to follow:
[x] JackStraw[x] Tom Servo
Well done guys. and Tom, you hit the nail on the head with Iran.
I 100% agree with every word you said.

Posted by: Getcha Pull at June 21, 2019 11:40 AM (aR6C/)

472 #8, unless we can use the crossed arms sitting photo while Merkel looks on, exasperated.

Posted by: Quilp at June 21, 2019 12:24 PM (Bf3hj)

473 Yet another Friday, and still no indictments. When will we find out Durham is just another Huber type head fake to placate the masses?

Posted by: Quilp at June 21, 2019 12:26 PM (Bf3hj)

474 I still prefer the fake Norman Rockwell painting called, "bend over and cough."

Posted by: doug at June 21, 2019 12:35 PM (uBKAQ)

475 @ 473
When the indictments do come, will you write us all an apology for being an annoying angry broken record?

Posted by: Getcha Pull at June 21, 2019 12:37 PM (aR6C/)

476 But did he get consent?

Posted by: ta-nehisi rabinowitz at June 22, 2019 11:34 PM (60DHe)

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