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Saturday Morning Coffee Break
Ahh Saturday morning my little sunbeams. Let us take a look at a few stories that didn't get too much attention here at the AoSHQ.
Enjoy these stories or something else in this open thread. Just a couple of rules: 'Ettes don't have cooties, so be nice to them; no running with sharp objects and be nice to one another. Have a great weekend!!!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 22, 2019 08:27 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: April at June 22, 2019 08:30 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 08:30 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:30 AM (AZxMX)
Looks like rain again here but hope it clears up by game time.Posted by: Jewells45 at June 22, 2019 08:31 AM (dUJdY)
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Disregarded?
Hmm...no...rather weighed and examined in light of the Bible.
Of course, I speak as an orthodox Protestant.
Posted by: lizabth at June 22, 2019 08:20 AM (RFh5Y)
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Obviously, I was painting with a broad brush there. There's lots of variation within Protestantism.
The Puritans famously didn't celebrate Christmas because it was not in the Bible, and persecuted those who did.
And of course we now have groups like the United Methodists who simply excise text they don't wish to follow.
My point was that French-isms legalistic approach is powerless in the face of the left's remorseless redefining everything.
His
fallback position that "sincerely religious" beliefs should be respected
is as sturdy as a paper bag in a hurricane. After all, what standing
can one's fidelity to an imaginary being have vs the very real
*feelings* of someone who finds those beliefs hateful?
French-ist liberalism would have been powerless before original Mormonism, just as it wilts in the face of Islam today.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:32 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: April at June 22, 2019 08:33 AM (OX9vb)
See, it's not discrimination, because it's literally the textbook definition of discrimination, but Reasons.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:33 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:33 AM (JFO2v)
Was just asking myself do I deserve a 3rd cup?
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 08:30 AM (BbGew)
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I have a co-worker who drinks an entire pot before 11 a.m.
I had a supervisor who did the same, and sometimes had a second pot for the afternoon.
Indulge yourself.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:33 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 08:34 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 08:30 AM (BbGew)
*skips Significant other*
Skip never has a 3rd cup at home.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:34 AM (JFO2v)
With a wooden whipping rod, crafted to the dimensions specified by your friendly local imam!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:34 AM (AZxMX)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:34 AM (JFO2v)
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Skip never vomits at home...
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:35 AM (cfSRQ)
What is this "cup" thingy y'all keep mentioning?
*admires RTIC 20 oz coffeve*
Morning, y'all!
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 08:36 AM (6qErC)
No, we don't deserve that. How about PURR AND SETTLE DOWN IN LAP?
Instructions for my cats, naturally. I'm sitting at Panera with my breakfast (God, it's gotten $$$$) and checking in.
Countdown for Lousy-ana: Only about 180 days until cool weather.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:36 AM (4c+5M)
With a wooden whipping rod, crafted to the dimensions specified by your friendly local imam!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:34 AM (AZxMX)
I bet many more Paki husbands die in their sleep than reported.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:36 AM (JFO2v)
The only priority for the day is to buy a replacement coffee maker.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:37 AM (AZxMX)
Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 08:38 AM (V2Yro)
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Our cats are specialists in this role.
Having had her morning meal, the elder is settled at my feet, resting after her exertion.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:38 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: April at June 22, 2019 08:33 AM (OX9vb)
That needs to become A Thing.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:38 AM (t+qrx)
On MSNBC, Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll is asked whether she would press rape charge against the president. MSNBC apparently hoping for Lewinsky-dress situation. Carroll says no charges. Why? Says it would be 'disrespectful' to women being raped on the border.
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You mean where actual, non-imaginary rapes happen?
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E. Jean Carroll tells MSNBC she and Trump were at Bergdorf Goodman, looking at a 'beautiful, filmy gray, see-through' item of lingerie. They went to a dressing room. Why? 'I have the idea that I'm going to make him put it on over his pants.'
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Yeah, that's credible.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 08:39 AM (+y/Ru)
Nah. Kitteh would rather run thru the house, then pounce on keyboard...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 08:39 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:36 AM (JFO2v)
pbuh
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:39 AM (AZxMX)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:40 AM (JFO2v)
Rickie Lee Jones new covers album "Kicks" is very good and lots of fun.
Some interesting and unexpected song choices. Plus, excellent back-up playing behind the vocals.
Enjoying it a lot.
As an aside, I'm not really a fan of RLJ's original music but I always pick up her covers albums.
Her taste in songs is superb and the production and instrumentation always shines.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2019 08:40 AM (J2mEl)
The LG Rebel phone at Target looks good for $80, and I'm already with Tracfone with a boatload of minutes, so I'd be set once I transfer my contacts and pictures and register the new phone with TF.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:40 AM (4c+5M)
Bergdorf Goodman, looking at a 'beautiful, filmy gray, see-through' item
of lingerie. They went to a dressing room. Why? 'I have the idea that
I'm going to make him put it on over his pants.'
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Yeah, that's credible.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 08:39 AM (+y/Ru)
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Trump has pretty aggressive defamation lawyers. Calling someone a rapist without proof is pretty defamatory, even if it is a public figure.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:43 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:43 AM (JFO2v)
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He was Patty Duke's son by a previous marriage, and took John's name, then?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:43 AM (4c+5M)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:33 AM (t+qrx)
As long as I have a hive mind approved reason to persecute you to the ends of the earth, it is my virtue signaling duty to do so!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:43 AM (AZxMX)
Posted by: April at June 22, 2019 08:44 AM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:44 AM (4c+5M)
persecute you to the ends of the earth, it is my virtue signaling duty
to do so!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:43 AM (AZxMX)
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And because it's a private business, it's perfectly okay.
Posted by: David French at June 22, 2019 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 08:45 AM (6qErC)
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Yeah, that's credible.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 08:39 AM (+y/Ru)
Have you ever met someone that's been sexually assaulted so many times and NEVER reported any of the incidents to authorities?
Yeah...batshit.
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 08:45 AM (cF8AT)
Yeah...batshit.
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019
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We resent being compared to this human!
Posted by: Bats Everywhere at June 22, 2019 08:46 AM (4c+5M)
Snort. Even the other newz outlets are staying far, far away from this nutjob...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 08:46 AM (6qErC)
Nadler called Ms. Hicks Ms Lewandowski 3 times.
Where are the women? Why are they not demanding he resign?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:47 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: David French at June 22, 2019 08:44 AM (cfSRQ)
And it is even better if I can deny you business opportunities, and preferably bankrupt you in the process, because free trade among individuals!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:47 AM (AZxMX)
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 22, 2019 08:47 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 08:45 AM (cF8AT)
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We prefer the term "persons of guano."
Posted by: The Crazies at June 22, 2019 08:47 AM (cfSRQ)
The woman bring/throw him their lingerie.
More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 22, 2019 08:48 AM (Z+IKu)
E. Jean Carroll tells MSNBC she and Trump were at Bergdorf Goodman, looking at a 'beautiful, filmy gray, see-through' item of lingerie. They went to a dressing room. Why? 'I have the idea that I'm going to make him put it on over his pants.'
I believe her.
Posted by: Jussie at June 22, 2019 08:48 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:43 AM (4c+5M)
crazier than that, even - saw an interview with Sean Astin about it a couple years ago, when some testing finally revealed who his biological father actually was. (some forgotten Hollywood gigolo or something) It was after Patty Duke died (2016) and Sean revealed that the hardest part of his life had been growing up with his mother's recurring bouts of severe mental illness, and she had admitted that when he was conceived, she was drunk and drugged most of the time and wasn't even sure who she'd been in bed with. After all that, John Astin still loved her and took her in and stabilized her, and took care of her child like he was his own.
Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 08:48 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 22, 2019 08:47 AM (y7DUB)
It's good to have a sense of perspective.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:48 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 22, 2019 08:06
Morning, Jewells. She's doing better. Still not eating a lot.
Met with oncologist this week. Starting chemo next week. It's been 12 weeks since Whipple surgery and Dr. said can't wait any longer.
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 22, 2019 08:48 AM (Dhht7)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:47 AM (JFO2v)
Progressive women approve...
Conservative women have been deplatformed!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:49 AM (AZxMX)
Posted by: Ladyl urgent prayer needed for Laura and Allison at June 22, 2019 08:49 AM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2019 08:49 AM (MVjcR)
That first link has been a thread at Beer Advocate for a while and I've
avoided clicking on it to see the SJWs going hair on fire. Looking at
it here reveals it's an IPA that's the underlying beer at issue so I
officially don't give a flying fuck.
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 22, 2019 08:47 AM (y7DUB)
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IPAs are a blight upon my fair state. Can't stand them.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:50 AM (cfSRQ)
What really pisses me off is the trend in phones now with "non replaceable" batteries.
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From the same companies that proclaim "environmentalism" and wave their green flags.
*spit*
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 08:50 AM (SYNdr)
'Sup?
Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2019 08:49 AM (MVjcR)
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Hey, I finally got the M1907 Dreyse back from the gun shop. Planning on taking it to the range in a couple of hours.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:51 AM (cfSRQ)
*tips cap to Cap'n*
Dare I say - IPAs generally suck these days. If I want to drink vinegar, I'll go with Heinz...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 08:51 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:51 AM (cfSRQ)
The range over here?
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:52 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 08:52 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler
________
Sometimes I see a name like that and wonder if the person who still go on to be great -- so great that canonization eventually follows. Then, centuries from now, people would think of Marijuana Pepsi as Saint Marijuana Pepsi.
A step further, what if this virtuous soul was martyred on April 20? Then 4/20 would be the Feast of Marijuana Pepsi and the antireligious hippies would hate it.
Posted by: FireHorse at June 22, 2019 08:53 AM (ta49A)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:44 AM (4c+5M)
Well, as always your enjoyment of RLJ will depend on how well you like her jazzbo/hipster/beat poet song stylings.
Like the best jazz singers, she doesn't sing on the beat so much as she slides around it.
I enjoy what she does, so it's always nice that she brings her "take" on things to0 the party.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2019 08:53 AM (J2mEl)
The picture of Jerry Nadless on the ONT. Could he get his belt any higher? Perhaps around his neck
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 08:54 AM (ZrlZo)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 08:52 AM (t+qrx)
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Rose Lake, yes.
Also will bring the 1894 Winchester and see if I can't get its rear sights sorted out.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:54 AM (cfSRQ)
Every one of them documented to have crossed in illegally, got processed for asylum claim, and then disappeared and later failed to show for hearing.
Oh, and who got fake IDs.
Snatch them, fly them right back to their jungle dump.
The left will go crazy, but the response should be, "they broke the law to get in, broke the law to stay, and broke the law to steal IDs. We gave them a safer ride home than the one they paid for to get snuck in"
"And there will be many more."
Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 22, 2019 08:54 AM (4ZE6o)
I had no idea that Patty Duke's life was that bad! I liked her a lot, one of my first boyhood crushes, during The Patty Duke Show, and I'd always admired her work . . . but it sounds like she really lived Valley of the Dolls. Brrr.
I need to stop reading tell-alls about the actors and actresses I've admired for decades. Depressing. I just know I'm going to find out stuff I was better off not learning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (4c+5M)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 08:54 AM (ZrlZo)
Well we can always hope that self hating jew will hang himself by mistake
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (V+Su2)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (SYNdr)
Back Up,
then Back Up the Back Up,
and finally,
then Back Up the Back Up Back Up methodolgy
seems fine these days!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (AZxMX)
I need to stop reading tell-alls about the actors and actresses I've admired for decades. Depressing. I just know I'm going to find out stuff I was better off not learning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (4c+5M)
THAT world is not a normal world.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (V+Su2)
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:50 AM (cfSRQ)
It's far from the first time that I've been out of step with the NEW BIGGEST THING but all I ask is for a token few taps to exist for styles I prefer at watering holes.
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 22, 2019 08:56 AM (y7DUB)
I'm betting "that's different because reasons," though.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 08:56 AM (SYNdr)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 08:57 AM (UUBmN)
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Hey, I finally got the M1907 Dreyse back from the gun shop. Planning on taking it to the range in a couple of hours.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:51 AM (cfSRQ)
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Nice! Did it need a particular repair?
Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2019 08:57 AM (6TInh)
I need to stop reading tell-alls about the
actors and actresses I've admired for decades. Depressing. I just know
I'm going to find out stuff I was better off not learning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (4c+5M)
THAT world is not a normal world.
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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That's why I need to stop!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:57 AM (4c+5M)
https://bbc.in/2RCGrOV
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 08:34 AM (+y/Ru)
Named after her parents two favorite things?
Last month she received her PhD in higher education leadership from
Cardinal Stritch University in Wisconsin following her dissertation,
"Black names in white classrooms- teacher behaviours and student
perceptions".
Oh yeah, it's all whitey's fault that her parents are fricking idiots.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 08:58 AM (ZrlZo)
Posted by: Weasel"
Nutt'n. 'Sup wid u?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 08:52 AM (6qErC)
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Not mucho. Stayed home from the farmo to get some work done this weekend. I'm approaching that slowly.
Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2019 08:58 AM (6TInh)
Wife had my stove top percolator parts in the dishwasher when I got up so been using her k-cup 1 cup at a time.
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 08:58 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (V+Su2)
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It's time for people to accept that show business is really just a form of prostitution.
A century ago, people knew that. No one cared what actors or actresses thought about the burning issues of the day.
I blame World War II for the change.
You had so many Hollywood types like Clark Gable, Brig. Gen. Jimmy Stewart etc. put on the uniform and serve with honor that we gave this people the benefit of the doubt. We accepted them as upstanding and honorable, but the fact was most weren't.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:58 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
That's why I need to stop!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:57 AM (4c+5M)
The "normal" world is more than enough depressing enough for me!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:59 AM (AZxMX)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 08:59 AM (cY3LT)
Meet Patty who's taken every drug
From LSD to cocaine, bub.
But, Patty likes peyote highs
So high she thinks that she can fly
What a crazy broad!
Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2019 08:59 AM (J2mEl)
Hmmm. So mocking "higher ed" is bad and anti intellectual?
Sure...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:00 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 08:59 AM (cY3LT)
Half price, because you're drinking for two.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 09:00 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 09:00 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2019 08:57 AM (6TInh)
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They sold it with the wrong magazine. When it started slipping out, the resulting misfeed caused the firing pin spring to give out.
So they modified the magazine and put in a new spring. Supposedly should work now. Will find out shortly.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:00 AM (cfSRQ)
Bergdorf Goodman, looking at a 'beautiful, filmy gray, see-through' item
of lingerie. They went to a dressing room. Why? 'I have the idea that
I'm going to make him put it on over his pants.'
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Yeah, that's credible.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 08:39 AM (+y/Ru)
How many doors has she added to her house?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 09:00 AM (ZrlZo)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 22, 2019 09:01 AM (4ZE6o)
Well, that and advertising/television bought into the whole celebrity thingy...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:01 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 09:01 AM (t+qrx)
As I have said in my "The Old Ways Are Best!" manifesto:
There was a reason that in days of old, actors and actresses could not be buried in sacred ground!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 09:01 AM (AZxMX)
They sold it with the wrong magazine. When it started slipping out, the resulting misfeed caused the firing pin spring to give out.
So they modified the magazine and put in a new spring. Supposedly should work now. Will find out shortly.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:00 AM (cfSRQ)
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Good luck! That's an interesting pistol. Will you let us know how it goes at the range on the gun thread tomorrow?
Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2019 09:02 AM (6TInh)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 09:02 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 22, 2019 09:03 AM (Jj+59)
A.H. Lloyd, around what time do you think you might be there? I might stop by.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 09:01 AM (t+qrx)
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Noon-ish. Maybe 12:30. I've got some errands before I get out there.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:03 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 09:02 AM (BbGew)
You are off by a factor of 100 or so!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 09:03 AM (AZxMX)
I had a supervisor who did the same, and sometimes had a second pot for the afternoon.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd
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Good Sir, you say this like it's a bad thing.
One my 2nd already.
IM OKAY!! REALLY!!!
Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2019 09:03 AM (Y4EXg)
Justice Nathalie Lieven admits in the ruling of the heartbreaking case that its an immense intrusion to order the abortion against the womans will, but argued that its in the best interest of the woman.
Coming to America if G-D forbid the left ever grabs control
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 22, 2019 09:04 AM (V+Su2)
Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2019 09:02 AM (6TInh)
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Sure. Otherwise, I'll do a review for ya with pictures.
I am a Noted Author famous for writing good, you know.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:04 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:04 AM (6qErC)
Sure. Otherwise, I'll do a review for ya with pictures.
I am a Noted Author famous for writing good, you know.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:04 AM (cfSRQ)
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That's right! Thanks!
Posted by: Weasel at June 22, 2019 09:05 AM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:06 AM (6qErC)
We accepted them as upstanding and honorable"
Well, that and advertising/television bought into the whole celebrity thingy...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019
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And we saw the leading men and women doing upstanding and honorable things in their films and TV shows. Even though we knew that was fiction, the impression carried over in our minds.
Nowadays, leading characters can get up to pretty dishonorable things. See Bryan Cranston as Walter White in Breaking Bad. He doesn't go undercover within a drug ring to break it up; he's part of it, eventually comes to be a leading drug kingpin himself, and admits at the very end that he liked doing it. Much as I love the series and the character, it's realistic and horrifying -- the kind of role that actors who specialized in villains would have taken on in the Sixties, say, or earlier.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 09:06 AM (4c+5M)
Where are the women? Why are they not demanding he resign?
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 08:47 AM (JFO2v)
Imagine the shrieking if he called Valerie Plame Ms. File Clerk.
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 22, 2019 09:07 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (4c+5M)
You find out a lot of bad stories, because as nevergiveup said, that world is not a normal world, a whole lot of free and easy money flowing around.
but amid all the bad stories, every now and then you find one out about someone who stands out above the others, as a person - rare, but people like that always are. Before I heard this story, I just thought of John Astin as some TV comic actor who was mostly forgotten, but in the part of his life that counted, he was so much more.
Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 09:07 AM (V2Yro)
Justice Nathalie Lieven admits in the ruling of the heartbreaking case that its an immense intrusion to order the abortion against the womans will, but argued that its in the best interest of the woman.
Coming to America if G-D forbid the left ever grabs control
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 22, 2019 09:04 AM (V+Su2)
Sounds like there's a lonely lamp post in Britain.
As always the Left chooses death, forced state approved death over life.
It really is a death cult. Especially. if you look at who and what they promote the most.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2019 09:08 AM (J2mEl)
doing it. Much as I love the series and the character, it's realistic
and horrifying -- the kind of role that actors who specialized in
villains would have taken on in the Sixties, say, or earlier.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 09:06 AM (4c+5M)
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Eh, not so bothered by that. Film Noir is chock full of anti-heroes. There was a whole genre of gangster films as well.
Obviously, none could go into that level of development because they simply didn't have time.
You're right that TV didn't do it, but it was heavily censored for a long time.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:08 AM (cfSRQ)
The Paris protests have been had less participants today ( snicker snicker) and seem to be slowing down.
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 09:09 AM (BbGew)
Ohhhh... Charles Bronson in "Breaking Bad"???
*the mind reels, it does*
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:09 AM (6qErC)
You had
so many Hollywood types like Clark Gable, Brig. Gen. Jimmy Stewart etc.
put on the uniform and serve with honor that we gave this people the
benefit of the doubt. We accepted them as upstanding and honorable, but
the fact was most weren't.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:58 AM (cfSRQ)
Back then some were. You also had the Hollywood spin machine back then to make them look like upstanding citizens and covering up anything they didn't want people to see.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 09:10 AM (ZrlZo)
Duh. It's about the money. "Life" is a cost center, don't cha know?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:10 AM (6qErC)
heartbreaking case that its an immense intrusion to order the abortion
against the womans will, but argued that its in the best interest of the
woman.
Coming to America if G-D forbid the left ever grabs control
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 22, 2019 09:04 AM (V+Su2)
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For a country without a death penalty, there seems to be a consistent strain to English jurisprudence that demands a lot of people die.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:10 AM (cfSRQ)
P.S. As it happens, last night I happened to meet and speak at length with someone who had worked for several months recently in the White House; not someone you've ever heard of, but one of those third-tier persons who do a lot of the detailed grunt work. He said that "Trump reads more than you think he does." But he also said Trump called him, more than once, a "f---- moron" for his candid contrarian opinions. I find this reassuring for many reasons.
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I laughed.
Posted by: WisRich at June 22, 2019 09:11 AM (OAlmw)
machine back then to make them look like upstanding citizens and
covering up anything they didn't want people to see.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 09:10 AM (ZrlZo)
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Well, people had higher moral standards.
Bette Davis had multiple abortions but they were hushed up.
Now she'd be shouting them.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:12 AM (cfSRQ)
Oh, right, you mumble pieties like "heart-breaking." You know how to make this * not* heart-breaking, right? Don't murder an innocent child because some social worker demanded it.
Posted by: Gem at June 22, 2019 09:12 AM (XoAz8)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 08:54 AM
Are you sure that's not Pappy O'Daniel?
https://tinyurl.com/y6rcwdyu
Posted by: Bert G at June 22, 2019 09:13 AM (OMsf+)
(and to repeat a thought from yesterday, nothing screams "rape fantasy" like "I'm a 52 year old lonely single woman in Bergdorf's, and the richest man in town just walked in and raped me in the dressing room, and no one saw him so I'ma just gonna act like it never happened. Unless I write a book 25 years afterwards.)
Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 09:13 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:10 AM (6qErC)
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Money for all that migrant welfare has to come from somewhere.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:13 AM (cfSRQ)
Nah. It's just that this one person costs the NHS, whilst Immigration can bring in two or three already grown assets, er, people for less!
It's simple economics, you peons.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:14 AM (6qErC)
Have you ever met someone that's been sexually assaulted so many times and NEVER reported any of the incidents to authorities?
Yeah...batshit.
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 08:45 AM (cF8AT)
Well... yes.
The average crack ho probably gets raped several times a year. Part of the hazards of the job.
Sometimes they get gutted like fish, and left at dump sites too. But then, in addition to not reporting it to police (who sometimes are the perps), they're not writing books about it years later.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 09:14 AM (cY3LT)
Following up on Hollywood, I know that Louis B. Mayer was big on having the actors/actresses at his studio keep their noses clean. I think I read a story in the book Hollywood Babylon that he heard that Charlie Chaplin had an underage girl in his trailer and he went over to the trailer and ended up punching Chaplin in the nose. But maybe I'm not remembering it right.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 09:15 AM (ZrlZo)
Does that sum the immense intrusion?
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 09:15 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 22, 2019 09:04 AM (V+Su2)
Just another variation of the death panel. In a sense, the Left is just one monolithic death panel.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 22, 2019 09:15 AM (H8QX8)
Well, they pay taxes, dontchknow...
/
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:15 AM (6qErC)
They've got to be somewhere. Why can't we find out where and send a couple of tons of semtex down the chimney?
Asking for a friend
Posted by: Quequeeg the Harpooner at June 22, 2019 09:15 AM (9X60i)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 09:06 AM (4c+5M)
Iirc, because it's been a while since I last watched it, but didn't he originally get into it because he'd been diagnosed with cancer and was looking for a more lucrative way of providing for his family in case he made an early exit than being a high school chemistry teacher? I remember thinking that it was presented in a manipulative way to make people think "wellllll maybe this is ok".
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 22, 2019 09:16 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 08:54 AM
Are you sure that's not Pappy O'Daniel?
https://tinyurl.com/y6rcwdyu
Posted by: Bert G at June 22, 2019 09:13 AM (OMsf+)
It's all Fred Mertz's fault.
His pants ate him alive during the show and have been moving from person to person ever since.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 22, 2019 09:17 AM (Z+IKu)
Yeah...batshit.
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 08:45 AM (cF8AT)
But the MFM is going to run with her as the new superheroine to save us from Orange Man. No matter how insane or unbelievable her stories are
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 09:17 AM (ZrlZo)
Asking for a friend
Posted by: Quequeeg the Harpooner at June 22, 2019 09:15 AM (9X60i)
How did that work out in Libya?
Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 09:17 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:04 AM (6qErC)
It's worse than that.
They/we are bringing i9n people, uneducated, illiterate, innumerate, with different mores and socialization,
who immediately go on welfare and will be a net drain on the our systems for the rest of their lives.
So, to recap, people who don't pay and will never ever pay into the system or, at best, never pay back the amounts of public money they use,
are draining resources directly from the working and middle class workers who are paying for their "lockbox" retirement and medical care.
How exactly is this supposed to work?
The more of the illiterate, uneducated you bring into the system, the faster it will go broke.
Math. How does it work?
Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2019 09:18 AM (J2mEl)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 08:59 AM (cY3LT)
Half price, because you're drinking for two.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 09:00 AM (t+qrx)
That's brilliant! Why didn't I think of that before...
Now, does anybody around here know how one gets... how you say, pregnant?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 09:19 AM (cY3LT)
His pants ate him alive during the show and have been moving from person to person ever since.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 22, 2019 09:17 AM (Z+IKu)
Movies made in the 40s you see a lot of guys who had their pants practically up to their nipples.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 09:19 AM (ZrlZo)
How did we ever get to a place where "we're killing your child for your
own good" is acceptable? How are you different than brutal regimes in
China, Britain?
Oh, right, you mumble pieties like "heart-breaking." You know how
to make this * not* heart-breaking, right? Don't murder an innocent
child because some social worker demanded it.
Posted by: Gem at June 22, 2019 09:12 AM (XoAz
Shocking the word "adoption" wasn't even considered. SMOD, where are you?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 22, 2019 09:20 AM (D3cJf)
That's brilliant! Why didn't I think of that before...
Now, does anybody around here know how one gets... how you say, pregnant?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 09:19 AM (cY3LT)
Just say that you identify as being pregnant and don't let the h8rs!!!! tell you otherwise
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 09:20 AM (ZrlZo)
I have a younger friend here who immigrated here from Denmark, very smart, very skilled, obviously the kind of man who's going to advance far no matter what society he's part of. So a couple times me and the group we were with would ask him about it, and he'd say beautiful place, he loved his family, had a happy childhood. We'd ask him why he left and he'd just say that there was no way anyone with even the slightest bit of ambition in their lives would stay in Denmark.
Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 09:22 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 09:23 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 09:17 AM (ZrlZo)
This is what they do -- just pound and pound and pound until truth and the public turn to pulp, give up, roll over, cry for it to end. Their insane endless and vicious repetitiveness defies reason, decency, good taste and our own capacity to comprehend and to deal.
Conservatives are not made like this, and keep believing the Left will come to its senses, or some great umpire in the sky will call foul and intervene. Because we hold to sanity, reason and faith. We cannot believe people like this exist or would do this to the ends that they do them.
This is why they win.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 22, 2019 09:24 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 09:24 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:24 AM (6qErC)
Now, does anybody around here know how one gets... how you say, pregnant?
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 09:19 AM (cY3LT)
Just say that you identify as being pregnant and don't let the h8rs!!!! tell you otherwise
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 22, 2019 09:20 AM (ZrlZo)
Let me see if I'm hearing this right... you're saying a person can be one thing, and tell the world they're something different... and the world will go along with this??
That's crazy talk, that is!
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 09:25 AM (cY3LT)
I'm thinkin' you might just see one on the range, come October. My resistance.... is weak.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 22, 2019 09:25 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: monkey at June 22, 2019 09:26 AM (FTPVM)
sounds... zod like.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:26 AM (6qErC)
Looks to be another 100 degree day down here with no rain to cool things off. Heat index yesterday was 120.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 09:26 AM (HaL55)
Shocking the word "adoption" wasn't even considered. SMOD, where are you?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 22, 2019 09:20 AM (D3cJf)
I believe adoption is what the woman's parents requested in their lawsuit. But no, the baby's death will make everything tickety-boo.
Posted by: Gem at June 22, 2019 09:26 AM (XoAz8)
Posted by: monkey at June 22, 2019 09:26 AM (FTPVM)
On second thought, keep it as far away from me as possible, thank you.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 09:27 AM (cY3LT)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
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So, you're in Texas then....
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 09:27 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: pete buttigieg at June 22, 2019 09:27 AM (ykYG2)
We using the Kelvin scale here?
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 22, 2019 09:28 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 09:28 AM (HaL55)
Looks to be another 100 degree day down here with no rain to cool things off. Heat index yesterday was 120.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 09:26 AM (HaL55)
I'd have to check, but I think around these parts, since the beginning of Spring well more than 50% of our days have had rain.
It's insane. Globall warmening/Climactic change is reelz!
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 09:28 AM (cY3LT)
Meh. Pressure washed a couple hundred feet of curb, then mowed and trimmed yesterday from around 1030 to 1530...
ms mouse says I'm nutz, but I prefer warm to cold...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:30 AM (6qErC)
(at least Jussie Smollett remembered when it happened)
Although I saw even yesterday some of the prog's are already disappointed in her - they were asking "you gonna file charges? you gonna file charges?" and she just said "Oh no, because, ha! too much of a bother!!!!" or something equally stupid. (and why even bother pointing out the stupidity of the progs in not knowing that no, you can't wait 25 years and then do that.)
Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 09:30 AM (V2Yro)
It worked. No more Libyan sponsored terror against the US or Europe. The disaster in Benghazi had nothing to do with killing Kadafi and everything to do with the CIA running some covert op to arm one bunch of scumbags against another. The Libyan civil war is their doing not ours.
Posted by: Quequeeg the Harpooner at June 22, 2019 09:30 AM (9X60i)
Posted by: Josh from Marin at June 22, 2019 09:30 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 09:30 AM (HaL55)
Hopefully they gave you a good offer? Or, did they realize that they really had you over a barrel there?
Ironic, isn't it. A favorite Hordeling EMPLOYED IN THE BARREL INDUSTRY?!?!
*conspiracy theories dialed up to 11enty!*
/snrk
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 22, 2019 09:31 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:31 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Quequeeg the Harpooner at June 22, 2019 09:32 AM (9X60i)
His pants are as ill-fitting as it gets
They're baggy and they bunch up when he sits
To wear the darned things right
He must cinch his belt up tight
Though it gets a little snug around his pits.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2019 09:33 AM (mvenn)
"Feeelings... whoa whoa whoa
feeeeeelings..."
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:31 AM (6qErC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iokKq1VUrE
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 09:34 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Gem at June 22, 2019 09:34 AM (XoAz8)
Nyuk nyuk nyuk. Yeah, they worked with me, seeing as how I've been out of the industry for a few years. They're growing pretty quickly and they might have some more uses for my experience. Fingers crossed...
And something else that's pretty kewl: their company logo is the Ace of Spades. When I told B'Gal that she said it was meant to be. I'm pretty excited 1. to have some money coming in again and 2. working for an arms manufacturer.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 09:35 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 09:35 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Josh from Marin at June 22, 2019 09:30 AM (FTPVM)
Seriously though, that's the sad truth of all this. There really are some mixed up people out there, being created by a sick, twisted society that is messing with their weak minds, and they're miserable people. Horrifyingly miserable... and there are no adults around to tell them "hey, hows about you work on you there, champ. Sorry you're so messed up right now, but your solution lies with the hard work it's going to take to fix you."
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 09:35 AM (cY3LT)
Posted by: Gem at June 22, 2019 09:35 AM (XoAz8)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
*peruses company website*
Hey, I don't see a Horde discount link!
Posted by: Bert G at June 22, 2019 09:35 AM (OMsf+)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 22, 2019 09:36 AM (6qErC)
With a necktie/belt.
Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2019 09:36 AM (g0Lfb)
Could you feel it? This morning?
Nevermind that yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far. There's a chill in the air.
That's right, the sun rose later. Days are getting shorter. Pretty soon, it'll be time to rake leaves, and then, batten down the hatches and fire up the furnace for the arctic blasts.
Oh, where did the summer go?
__
Howdy y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 09:37 AM (/IMJl)
Posted by: Bert G at June 22, 2019 09:37 AM (OMsf+)
Thank you, sir, for improving my standard of living.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 09:38 AM (HaL55)
It worked. No more Libyan sponsored terror against the US or Europe. The disaster in Benghazi had nothing to do with killing Kadafi and everything to do with the CIA running some covert op to arm one bunch of scumbags against another. The Libyan civil war is their doing not ours.
Posted by: Quequeeg the Harpooner at June 22, 2019 09:30 AM (9X60i)
Agreed about Benghazi, but wasn't really thinking about that. Rather, Qaddafi had been tamed before that and was cooperating, mostly. Libya still had somewhat of a social structure, Now, after Hillary's Excellent Adventure in helping to destroy him, Libya has turned into MadMaxistan and it is a no-go zone for everyone. Much the same thing has happened in Lebanon over the years, where every strong leader has been assassinated and the country is "run" by a collection of militia's and foreign intelligence services.
It's why Israel doesn't kill all of the Hamas leadership in Gaza - it's better to know who's in charge, even if they're bad, than to have to deal with absolute chaos on your doorstep.
I would argue, don't take out a leader unless you've got someone primed and ready to go in and take his place. Because if you don't, his replacement will always be worse.
Example - Maduro in Venezuela. Sure, he's an ignorant bum deserving of death. But if he's killed in an assassination, his replacement is going one of the Cartel representatives who run the Army, and it may be months before we even find out who it is. No point in killing the leader unless it's part of a plan to remake the country, and that's something we don't want to get caught doing anymore.
Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 09:39 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, the Demofascists are certifiable at June 22, 2019 09:40 AM (Z216Q)
the US or Europe. The disaster in Benghazi had nothing to do with
killing Kadafi and everything to do with the CIA running some covert op
to arm one bunch of scumbags against another. The Libyan civil war is
their doing not ours.
Posted by: Quequeeg the Harpooner at June 22, 2019 09:30 AM (9X60i)
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Was Libyan sponsored terror an issue?
Khaddafi handed over his WMD and was a model citizen - a poster child of how to "get right" with the West.
And we overthrew him anyway, because Hillary's flying monkeys thought they could make some money selling oil contracts.
Now the place is a warzone, destabilizing neighboring countries. Migrant outflows are wrecking Europe and human trafficking is surging.
Total shitshow.
If that's your idea of success, you must regard Afghanistan is a shining victory for American arms.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:40 AM (cfSRQ)
I apparently need moar cofveve...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 09:40 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 09:40 AM (BbGew)
Pity about the acronym.
Seriously , congratulations !
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 22, 2019 09:40 AM (ykYG2)
-Someone
"With a necktie/belt."
-Posted by: t-bird at June 22, 2019 09:36 AM (g0Lfb)
No... the Man-Tit-Level Belt is silly enough for any cartoonist. There isn't even a need to "cartoonify" that image any further.
Ask me how I know.
*wink*
Posted by: Slapweasel, White Enthusiast, Blond at June 22, 2019 09:41 AM (Ckg4U)
Percolated, not drip.
If you stared closely at him you could see a faint glow.
'Moroning, Horde.
Posted by: creeper at June 22, 2019 09:44 AM (ctmIP)
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2019 09:35 AM (cY3LT)
Fix me? Why am I so wrong? OMG I think I'm going to cry. First the census, now this. It's Trump's fault, plainly.
Posted by: Josh from Marin at June 22, 2019 09:44 AM (FTPVM)
I'll see what I can do. Gotta establish my bonafides with them first.
I think they're going to get into 3D printing of some parts soon, something I really want to see. Another thing I want to see is the barrels getting drilled. That's a pretty specialized operation that's been done for quite some time. I'm pretty tickled at this.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 09:44 AM (HaL55)
We'll have a barrel of fun!
Posted by: Insomniac at June 22, 2019 09:45 AM (ywNoU)
Posted by: 40 miles north at June 22, 2019 09:46 AM (o2vOl)
Posted by: tom servo
________
Yeah, I come across stuff like this every now and again. Paul Sorvino -- didn't see much of him for a long time -- he explained that he had enough money so he was going to not work so hard and be a father to his kid.
Then there's Don Adams -- Secret Agent 86 of CONTROL -- who used to be a Marine Corps drill instructor.
Posted by: FireHorse at June 22, 2019 09:46 AM (ta49A)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 09:46 AM (UUBmN)
=====
Is Nadler Tweedledum or Tweedledee?
Posted by: mustbequantum at June 22, 2019 09:46 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: creeper at June 22, 2019 09:46 AM (ctmIP)
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmErGkeW
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 22, 2019 09:46 AM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Insomniac at June 22, 2019 09:47 AM (ywNoU)
I think it was a function of suspenders being so common. Also, the cut of the suit-coats and frock coats.
Just a different way of wearing them.
I have to say, I like 40s fashions better than the modern ones. People actually dressed to go out.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:47 AM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
*peruses company website*
Hey, I don't see a Horde discount link!
Posted by: Bert G at June 22, 2019 09:35 AM (OMsf+)
They should - they have an Ace of Spades for their logo!
Posted by: josephistan at June 22, 2019 09:47 AM (Izzlo)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at June 22, 2019 09:48 AM (C1Lsn)
UPI puts up popovers and objects to ad filters and all kinds of deterrents to reading the story.
Fortunately, outline.com works with UPI.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 09:48 AM (/IMJl)
I may watch Endgame on Netflix, but I won't consider it canon.
Posted by: MAGA at June 22, 2019 09:48 AM (tf7H1)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 09:48 AM (HaL55)
Contact me at my email, and send me your mailing address.
You can frame the envelope with the "Gun Barrel City" Post Mark, and hang it in your cubicle.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 22, 2019 09:49 AM (QzJWU)
Aren't sanctuary cities by their very definition "obstruction of justice"?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 22, 2019 09:49 AM (gAXBD)
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 22, 2019 09:50 AM (dUJdY)
Anyone near Rose Lake look for me. I'll be the guy in the MSU baseball hat.
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 09:50 AM (cfSRQ)
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmErGkeW
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 22, 2019 09:46 AM (yQpMk)
That's a real thumper and, yes, I am verde with envy. Have you shot it?
Posted by: monkey at June 22, 2019 09:53 AM (FTPVM)
(and to repeat a thought from yesterday, nothing screams "rape fantasy" like "I'm a 52 year old lonely single woman in Bergdorf's, and the richest man in town just walked in and raped me in the dressing room, and no one saw him so I'ma just gonna act like it never happened. Unless I write a book 25 years afterwards.)
Posted by: tom servo at June 22, 2019 09:13 AM (V2Yro)
The bint is also a virulent anti trumper according to her twat ( oops I mean twitter) account. LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 22, 2019 09:53 AM (V+Su2)
Meme si les Democrats ne le veullient pas, nous on est la!
Pour l'honneur des Americaines et pour un pays meilleur.
Meme si les Democrats ne le veullient pas, nous on est la!
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 22, 2019 09:54 AM (gAXBD)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
________
Why? Has someone declared Indian Lake a sanctuary city?
Posted by: FireHorse at June 22, 2019 09:54 AM (ta49A)
Posted by: creeper at June 22, 2019 09:55 AM (ctmIP)
I'm surprised you have the energy to post anything!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 09:46 AM (UUBmN)
Clean(ish) living, baybee!
Posted by: Insomniac at June 22, 2019 09:56 AM (ywNoU)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 09:56 AM (UUBmN)
=======
The central character in Hail Caesar was one such fixer.
Posted by: Vlad the implaer, whittling away like mad at June 22, 2019 09:56 AM (PF9Mg)
My role there is twofold. One, to squelch the busybody impulse as voiced by the many.
Two, to confine the "ambitions" of the many, with some sound knowledge of budgets, projects, costs and practicalities.
Thirty-three homes in this neighborhood, and some neighbors think we can afford crap like controlled entry gates.
Well no, actually... we can't.
Delivering that message and making it stick. I'll have fun doing it, and I'll know I've won when I see the crushed, crestfallen looks on the faces of the damned!
HA!*
/slapweasel*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 22, 2019 09:56 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 22, 2019 09:56 AM (gAXBD)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 09:58 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 22, 2019 09:59 AM (gAXBD)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 10:00 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Bert G at June 22, 2019 10:00 AM (OMsf+)
Posted by: Trimegistus at June 22, 2019 10:00 AM (BpS6n)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 22, 2019 10:01 AM (gAXBD)
"Black names in white classrooms- teacher behaviours and student perceptions".
One of my favorite Key and Peele skits.
In case no one else mentioned it.
https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 10:01 AM (/IMJl)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 10:02 AM (HaL55)
Alas no. I just picked it up this week from my FFL.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 22, 2019 10:03 AM (yQpMk)
Yeah, that's why I always wore high-waisted pants. You never knew when a ninja hit squad would appear to take out Ethel or Lucy.
I may be dead, but Jerry Nadler carries the high-waisted mission forward.
Posted by: Fred Mertz at June 22, 2019 10:05 AM (gAXBD)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 10:06 AM (BbGew)
Very nice! I don't envy, so you'd probably have to add Kate Upton . . . slathered in whipped cream . . . on a pile of Benjamins . . . on a boat, for me to approach envy. But that IS really nice. Congrats.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 10:07 AM (t6MX/)
Love that skit. Anytime we meet an Aaron my husband insists on pronouncing it A A Ron.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 22, 2019 10:11 AM (wvGlN)
Airshow at Fairchild AFB today, wife just informed me. It looks like we may be going. If you are there or plan to go, it would be nice to say hello.
Include "Fairchild airshow" in a post on a thread today, and I will keep checking threads, in between taking pictures.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 10:12 AM (t6MX/)
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 22, 2019 10:11 AM (wvGlN)
220
Jordan 61 or any other inland NW morons:
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 10:12 AM (t6MX/)
Spooky timing.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 10:15 AM (t6MX/)
I'd just like to say, while some might object that "gets" does not rhyme with "sits" and "pits," we here in Oklahoma have no problem with it.
ex: "Ever'thang is a-goin' great, then th' apple cart gits tumped over."
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 10:18 AM (/IMJl)
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 22, 2019 10:19 AM (wvGlN)
Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 10:20 AM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Moronau Cymreig at June 22, 2019 10:22 AM (DMUuz)
And we're desperately trying to keep it that way.
Posted by: creeper at June 22, 2019 10:23 AM (ctmIP)
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 22, 2019 10:19 AM (wvGlN)
Thanks for the tip. Yeah, it gets to be a madhouse, but the shows are cool, and we have not been since li'l flounder was about two years old. Good luck on the softball to the Mr. Don't break a leg, or something.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 10:23 AM (t6MX/)
That's *DOCTOR* Marijuana Pepsi to you, prole.
Is anybody else getting a Captcha page trying to access Instapundit? I guess I don't care so much whether they know if I'm a bot or not but I was concerned that it might be a spoof.
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at June 22, 2019 10:25 AM (qc+VF)
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 10:25 AM (BbGew)
Been hanging here since 04:30 hrs so ought to go get something done.
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2019 10:25 AM (BbGew)
It's overrated.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 10:26 AM (t6MX/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 22, 2019 10:27 AM (9SkN+)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 22, 2019 10:27 AM (9SkN+)
This morning I woke up thinking it was Sunday, because I took yesterday off. Then I realized it was really Saturday, and that I was in the middle of a three-day weekend of my own making.
In that moment, I transcended this flesh carcass and ceased to be merely human.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 10:30 AM (t+qrx)
Yeah, those "energy efficient" bulbs are really cool, aren't they?
Posted by: blake - used sock salesman at June 22, 2019 10:30 AM (WEBkv)
Posted by: lin-duh at June 22, 2019 09:58 AM (UUBmN)
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I thought it was Cimbric. Larry the Lionhearted defeated the Roman legions at the Battle of Arausio.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 22, 2019 10:30 AM (9SkN+)
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 22, 2019 10:31 AM (v6ubM)
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 22, 2019 10:31 AM (v6ubM)
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at June 22, 2019 10:25 AM (qc+VF)
It's a spoof.
Posted by: DR.WTF at June 22, 2019 10:32 AM (aS1PU)
Posted by: FireHorse at June 22, 2019 10:33 AM (ta49A)
Posted by: Paladin at June 22, 2019 10:34 AM (Y4XuR)
Quick! Post new stuff lest I go back and read the EMT... or the end of the ONT... or Ace's posts for the week...
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 10:34 AM (/IMJl)
Last night I installed some software, and while a right button isn't essential, it would make things easier.
This morning I spent almost an hour trying to find a solution on the Linux user forums.
Finally I tried unplugging the mouse and plugging in an older mouse I had in the drawer. It works perfectly.
I love simple solutions to problems.
Posted by: rickl at June 22, 2019 10:34 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #Progressivism=Socialism at June 22, 2019 10:35 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: ibid at June 22, 2019 10:35 AM (0sukT)
Posted by: Insomniac at June 22, 2019 10:37 AM (ywNoU)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 22, 2019 10:39 AM (OX6sG)
Posted by: rickl at June 22, 2019 10:40 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 22, 2019 10:41 AM (KnL+V)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 22, 2019 10:41 AM (OX6sG)
Is anybody else getting a Captcha page trying to access Instapundit? I guess I don't care so much whether they know if I'm a bot or not but I was concerned that it might be a spoof.
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at June 22, 2019 10:25 AM (qc+VF)
No, but I just clicked over there and saw the Smart Bulb video.
Posted by: rickl at June 22, 2019 10:42 AM (sdi6R)
Any morning I'm blessed to wake up to kisses from Insom is the best morning.
Alas, will probably have to wait until the fall.
Hi Insom! Smooches
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 22, 2019 10:42 AM (PkVlr)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 22, 2019 10:42 AM (fuK7c)
youtube.com/watch?v=63ZIf2H9S0E
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 22, 2019 10:45 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2019 10:45 AM (Wx/+I)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 22, 2019 10:41 AM (KnL+V)
The airport or the museum?
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 10:46 AM (t+qrx)
One went in a desk lamp. Within days, the cats, who had never knocked over anything like a lamp, knocked over the lamp and broke the bulb. Of course, we had to evacuate the house for a month while the hazmat teams cleaned up. (Haha, we vac'd up the breakage, which they tell you not to do.)
The other bulb is in a closet where the catboxes are, hanging well up out of reach of cats. It's been on, 24/7, for many years. Still going. I'll give it that.
Not like I'd ever buy another one, of course.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 10:46 AM (/IMJl)
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Ah, the djinn approach to lighting.
The bulb will last forever. It will only light up for six months, though.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 10:47 AM (SYNdr)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 10:48 AM (SYNdr)
Posted by: rickl at June 22, 2019 10:34 AM (sdi6R)
I was suspecting mouse from outset of story. Linux Mint is very polished.
Good deal.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 10:48 AM (t6MX/)
Posted by: Ripley at June 22, 2019 10:48 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 10:48 AM (SYNdr)
And cans of acetone.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 22, 2019 10:49 AM (OX6sG)
Posted by: Noted Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2019 08:43 AM (cfSRQ)
All DJT has to do is Twat a picture of her, with the comment, "I have standards, you know."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2019 10:49 AM (WG6O9)
It sounds like you had a great time in Florida.
Great news. Insom is lucky to know you.
Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at June 22, 2019 10:49 AM (TkuZ0)
Posted by: Meh at June 22, 2019 10:49 AM (Nmdgt)
Her Majesty had nerve ablation done on her knee on Thursday and it's made a big difference in her pain. Still set for replacement surgery in August,.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2019 10:50 AM (Wx/+I)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 10:50 AM (SYNdr)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 22, 2019 10:50 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at June 22, 2019 10:49 AM (TkuZ0)
Define "know" and use a lot of action verbs.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 22, 2019 10:50 AM (OX6sG)
"Hey, do you have somewhere for paint?"
"Yeah, in the same dumpster as the cinder blocks, hot dog wrappers, and old staplers."
"Thanks."
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 10:51 AM (SYNdr)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 10:51 AM (t+qrx)
Nope, no way I'm going to do that. Nurse is an excellent shot.
Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at June 22, 2019 10:52 AM (TkuZ0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 08:44 AM (4c+5M)
Danny's All-Star Joint is a real cool little song:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=9JkT3p6H4Ws
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2019 10:52 AM (WG6O9)
Posted by: FireHorse at June 22, 2019 10:52 AM (ta49A)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 10:52 AM (SYNdr)
Nope, no way I'm going to do that. Nurse is an excellent shot.
Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at June 22, 2019 10:52 AM (TkuZ0)
Smart because she likes to have something to shoot.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 22, 2019 10:53 AM (OX6sG)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 22, 2019 10:41 AM (KnL+V)
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Defense Intelligence Agency or Detroit Institute of Arts?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 22, 2019 10:54 AM (kQs4Y)
Mom hates the color on CFLs and the LEDs. Insists on incandescent.
And Mom gets what she wants. Wish her a happy 99th today, Hordelings.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 10:54 AM (/IMJl)
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And don't even try shipping them to the Philippines!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 10:56 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 22, 2019 10:58 AM (9SkN+)
Sure was nice meeting you irl earlier in the spring! Hope you're doing well.
Florida weather is a bit out of my comfort zone, but swimming in the ocean was amazing. Insom is a wonderful host. We had a lovely time enjoying each other in person. So many folks take for granted just being able to reach over and grab the hand of the person you love and give them a gentle kiss.
*sigh*
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 22, 2019 10:58 AM (PkVlr)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 22, 2019 10:59 AM (PkVlr)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 11:00 AM (SYNdr)
Posted by: Insomniac at June 22, 2019 11:00 AM (ywNoU)
Back Up,
then Back Up the Back Up,
and finally,
then Back Up the Back Up Back Up methodolgy
seems fine these days!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 08:55 AM (AZxMX)
It should be made a Federal offense to pay ransom to hackers. Or kidnappers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2019 11:00 AM (WG6O9)
I bet you're a big teddy bear. I'm not afraid of you!
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He's always good to the ladies.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 22, 2019 11:00 AM (9SkN+)
It was really good to meet you and all the other PNW Morons. We need to do that again soon.
I've been well, thank you. A very bad week this week but improving. I hope Seattle hasn't deteriorated too much while you've been gone.
Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at June 22, 2019 11:01 AM (TkuZ0)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 10:51 AM (t+qrx)
Word. LEDs are legit and offer a wealth of efficient and unconventional lighting solutions. I pulled out all CFLs and went with LEDs while rotating remaining incandescent.
Stupid government.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 11:02 AM (t6MX/)
https://bit.ly/2X1ODOn
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 11:04 AM (+y/Ru)
I know more than a few farmers who have 100+ old bulbs in their barns because they have well houses that use a single bulb to keep the pipes from bursting.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 11:04 AM (SYNdr)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 22, 2019 11:04 AM (PkVlr)
I was suspecting mouse from outset of story. Linux Mint is very polished.
Good deal.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 10:48 AM (t6MX/)
Yes, I'm very pleased with it overall. Most all I do with my home computer is web surfing and e-mail, and with my ancient version of Mac OS and browser some web pages weren't working properly any more. This is almost like having a whole new computer.
Posted by: rickl at June 22, 2019 11:04 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Anachronda at June 22, 2019 11:07 AM (IHkCi)
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/20/comic-masterpiece-ge-smart-bulb-reset-video/
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2019 11:08 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 11:04 AM (SYNdr)
Fair point, but generating heat is a terrible selling point for a light source. Anything on the right side of the equation that isn't light is waste. LEDs don't generate much themselves, but to be fair, the rectifiers aren't "free" in the energy sense.
IIRC some municipality around here replaced the incandescent traffic lights with LEDs, which don't generate enough waste heat to melt the snow off the housings.
It sometimes snows in Michigan.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 11:09 AM (t+qrx)
Hmmm....
*looks online for cases of incandescents, JIC*
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 11:10 AM (/IMJl)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 11:13 AM (/IMJl)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 11:10 AM (/IMJl)
Probably fine. A diode is a very simple component, the most dangerous thing for it is probably overcurrent.
The rectifier circuits might be more sensitive, but you can make a half-wave caveman rectifier with... more diodes.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 11:14 AM (t+qrx)
Right. Of course.
*continues looking online for just-in-case cases of incandescents *
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 11:16 AM (/IMJl)
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Absolutely. The problem being the all-or-nothing approach in banning a product that the market still found quite a bit of value in.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 11:17 AM (SYNdr)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at June 22, 2019 09:48 AM (C1Lsn)
If you ever come across an 1896 or prior Webley .455 that has not been butchered to fire .45 ACP, I would definitely be interested.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2019 11:18 AM (WG6O9)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 22, 2019 11:04 AM (PkVlr)
Good to see you roux the day. We are good and heading to air show, I am informed. Golf camp ended for oldest yesterday, complete with 5 holes of hacked up fairway. Fun times, and had the pleasure to meet a disabled vet's wife who lost her BiL in Iraq. Salt of the earth people out here.
Was in Issaquah yesterday to pick up a kayak. Don't miss it. Not even a little.
Good to see you are getting some time together.
Take care.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 11:18 AM (t6MX/)
Posted by: josephistan at June 22, 2019 11:18 AM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 11:19 AM (cF8AT)
. Her being here with me was a time of true enjoyment. Posted by: Insomniac at June 22, 2019 11:19 AM (ywNoU)
Off for coffee now.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2019 11:19 AM (axyOa)
Just as a point of order, if you want light and heat, then the heat is not "waste." Less than optimally efficient for light or heat, perhaps, but not waste.
The old infra-red heat lamp has its purposes.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 11:20 AM (/IMJl)
because they have well houses that use a single bulb to keep the pipes
from bursting.
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How do Easy-Bake Ovens work now?
Posted by: mustbequantum at June 22, 2019 11:21 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: rickl at June 22, 2019 11:04 AM (sdi6R)
I built my work system in 2009, top notch, still kicking, Win 7. I have two slightly lower spec'd boxes with Linux Lite (based on Mint), and I prefer them. Add SSD and max RAM and they smoke windows.
Best part? One click updates. Most done without reboot. And recovery options and process are amazingly smooth.
If I could completely transition with work - ms office - I would not turn back. Mostly Visio and Dragon.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 11:25 AM (t6MX/)
Posted by: olddog in mo at June 22, 2019 11:26 AM (Dhht7)
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 11:19 AM (cF8AT)
Wife loved it.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 11:26 AM (t6MX/)
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 22, 2019 11:26 AM (v6ubM)
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 11:19 AM (cF8AT)
Art Deco Heaven!!! Even if I weren't an Agatha Christie fan I would love Poirot for the stylish setting. The fact that the Art Deco aesthetic so completely fits Poirot's character (intellectual, mechanical lines, precision, angular curves) is a complete bonus.
Posted by: Gem at June 22, 2019 11:26 AM (XoAz8)
it, but didn't he originally get into it because he'd been diagnosed
with cancer and was looking for a more lucrative way of providing for
his family in case he made an early exit than being a high school
chemistry teacher? I remember thinking that it was presented in a
manipulative way to make people think "wellllll maybe this is ok".
Posted by: Captain Hate at June 22, 2019
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He did. It's a good dramatization of the principle "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
And the poster above was right that film noir had lots of anti-heroes -- but when I was growing up, those rarely turned up on the Late Show. So most of my childhood ideas of heroism were formed by Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, Roy Rogers, and Captain Kirk. Roy, for instance, was not going to be smuggling weapons into Mexico, and illegals back out, so he could fund the Double-R-Bar Ranch. That was the province, strictly, of the bad guys.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 22, 2019 11:27 AM (UP2XL)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 22, 2019 11:14 AM (t+qrx)
Some of the LED bulbs contain a small switching power supply. One would think that the PN junctions in those things would be fairly robust because of the guff that they take in normal operation, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 22, 2019 11:28 AM (WG6O9)
*continues looking online for just-in-case cases of incandescents *
Mindful, if you're serious about needing to find incandescents for your mom, drop me a line at the nic link.
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at June 22, 2019 11:36 AM (qc+VF)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 22, 2019 11:26 AM (t6MX/)
I keep re-watching it. Ask her if she thinks Monk was based on Poirot.
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 11:36 AM (cF8AT)
Posted by: Gem at June 22, 2019 11:26 AM (XoAz
Yeah, the settings are great! I'm pretty sure they've used the same white house in several different episodes.
There's 13 seasons of it and I've watched each a couple of times.
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 11:37 AM (cF8AT)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for vids blog at June 22, 2019 11:10 AM (/IMJl)
Most of what you can still get has an American-ish name but is actually made by Chicom slave labor with an early burnout design feature!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 11:39 AM (AZxMX)
Posted by: Insomniac at June 22, 2019 11:19 AM (ywNoU)
Insom, I'm sure I speak for lots of the Horde when I say I'm happy the two of you got together and enjoy each other!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 22, 2019 11:42 AM (AZxMX)
Essentially he admits to his own part in destroying California both culturally and politically, then says bye felicia.
It must be nice to be so wealthy from his years as a liberal writing liberal stories that pushed the culture to the garbage place it is, being a part of the liberal political scene that created the mess that is California. And now he can use that wealth do go live his last years somewhere he didn't ruin, and die before having to clean up his mess.
It's like when I hear Boomers bitching about Millennials. Who raised the Millennials and the GenXers (who themselves have raised some Millennials)?
The Boomer generation broke up our families, didn't take us to church (or live those values) and plunged our country into massive debt.
Now they're bitching about us.
I'm a Millennial. I get it. My generation sucks. But you raised us. You made us helpless. You destroyed us.
So kindly F*** off. I hope "finding yourself" throughout your selfish life was worth having no one care about you as you lay dying in your rest home where no one comes to visit you.
(for the record, I love my own parents, they are Boomers but they are an exception within their generation)
I know this is going to piss people off. But I really am just so tired of Boomers bitching about Millennials. I'm not normally like this.
***END RANT***
Posted by: JessiP at June 22, 2019 12:04 PM (PsdJu)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 12:05 PM (+y/Ru)
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I saw David Suchet speaking without a Belgian accent. It did not compute.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 12:08 PM (+y/Ru)
In the year 3535
Trump is Emperor for Life
A robot body, robot dong
The Left is permanently schlonged
whoa, whoa
Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2019 12:11 PM (J2mEl)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - New AIDS cases in '99 = 40K/yr. New HIV cases each year since? Take a guess at June 22, 2019 10:48 AM (SYNdr)
You forgot to first place a layer of shredded recyclable cardboard mixed with used motor oil. That will prevent blowouts and encapsulate the toxic murcury.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 22, 2019 12:13 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 22, 2019 12:08 PM (+y/Ru)
Was that when he's talking about the show? I haven't watched that yet.
Posted by: Tami at June 22, 2019 12:44 PM (cF8AT)
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