The Morning Rant

"Democrats and their progressive media allies shrieking about Russia 24/7 need to step back and listen to themselves. And knowing a little history wouldn't hurt. Back in the 1950s, they used to laugh at the Birchers who were finding commies hiding under every bed. And who also made the claim that President Eisenhower was self-consciously a Soviet agent. That last bit was the straw that broke the camel's back for William F. Buckley, who barred anyone associated with the John Birch Society from appearing in his National Review magazine.

He thus booted them from the conservative movement. And it worked. The John Birch Society was effectively marginalized to this day.

"Well, that was then, this is now. The progressives do not have anyone like Buckley, no voice of reason or sanity who can stand athwart history, yelling 'STOP!'

"And since the only way to maintain a conspiracy theory against the evidence of facts and logic is by expanding it, they just keep getting crazier and crazier. Look at those WaPo headlines. One Republican after another gets declared a Russian asset, and then the *entire party* gets labelled a Russian asset, and there is no evidence that any editor at the WaPo ever said, 'Wow, this is just crazy talk' or 'We need to dial it back a bit, otherwise we'll sound like a bunch of kooks and lose the confidence of our readers.'

They're all on board the crazy train, and there's no brakes."

(h/t Nathan Brand for the WaPo headlines)

The Descent Into Madness:

That's Not How This Works:

Finally, Some Common Sense:

Actor Anthony Hopkins said he avoids talking publicly about politics because he believes “actors are pretty stupid.”https://t.co/W7vEXgT8dk
— Rory Sauter ❌ (@SauterRory) December 8, 2019

Who Dis:

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For the 'Ettes:

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Bonus Who Dis - This Man Is 103 Years Old Today:

"Cory Booker? I crap bigger'n he does."

Friday's Celebs: Laurence Harvey and France Nuyen, who were together in A Girl Named Tamiko (1962), which I had never heard of until I started looking for hotties I could pair Harvey with. The ST:TOS connection was an unexpected bonus.

Today's Edition of the Morning Rant Is Brough To You By:

Southern Style Chicken Tenders pic.twitter.com/niHBin3CRZ
— Land of Food (@landoffacts) December 7, 2019

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:13 AM

Comments

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1 first.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2019 11:13 AM (JUOKG)

2 top three !!!

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2019 11:13 AM (zr5Kq)

3 TOP TWO

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2019 11:13 AM (zr5Kq)

4 top ten

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 09, 2019 11:14 AM (Fxgkp)

5 Sup, Moron Robbie?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:14 AM (q80AH)

6 Them chicken strips look pretty spicy to me.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2019 11:15 AM (JUOKG)

7 Tom Skerritt, Kelly Preston (?)

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2019 11:15 AM (Ez6QX)

8 Honorable Mention!

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 09, 2019 11:15 AM (88+cf)

9 There's the monkey!!!

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 09, 2019 11:15 AM (ECrgQ)

10 I don't know who the woman is but the stretch marks on the last photo are strangely appealing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -David Hogg wants to toss salads at December 09, 2019 11:15 AM (3rtj0)

11 Oh and Bonus is Kirk Douglas, of course.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2019 11:16 AM (Ez6QX)

12 7 Tom Skerritt, Kelly Preston (?)

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2019 11:15 AM (Ez6QX)

Yes!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:16 AM (MRoRq)

13 Kirk Douglas is the extra credit. No idea who she is (or the guy either) but she's MILFtastic.

Posted by: The Rabbits at December 09, 2019 11:16 AM (RD7QR)

14 O the times! O the moray eels ...

Posted by: Adriane the MTA Critic ... at December 09, 2019 11:16 AM (LPnfS)

15 Jack Palance was the one who had the "crap" line. Not Kirk Douglas.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2019 11:16 AM (E+OcO)

16 Kelly Pressley and Tom Skerrit. Pickett Fences?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at December 09, 2019 11:16 AM (5l6gb)

17 Kirk Douglas. Capt. Yelland. The Final Countdown.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2019 11:16 AM (jS35y)

18 Kirk Douglas was a badass.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 09, 2019 11:17 AM (j05a4)

19 that's mandlebaum! you pussies.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 09, 2019 11:17 AM (KP5rU)

20 *Kelly Preston

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at December 09, 2019 11:17 AM (5l6gb)

21 Happy birthday Kirk Douglas.

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2019 11:17 AM (zr5Kq)

22 I hereby denounce myself as a Russian asset!

Gde moi dengi, Vladimir Vladmirovich?

Ya hatel be polychat dengi!

Dai mne dengi!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:17 AM (I2/tG)

23 Ah, a variant of the middle school classic, "If you didn't do it, why are you being so defensive?!" argument.

Presumption of innocence! How does it work?!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:17 AM (I2dne)

24 Goldman is working that Strawman hard: It's either Russia or Ukraine.

It's both--and whatever they did pales into insignifigance compared to the massive criminal election interference by our own Nat/Sec Apparatus--starting in Hussein's Oval Office.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (Ndje9)

25 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (arJlL)

26 Einar!

Posted by: Archer at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (gmo/4)

27 Ngyuen?

Elaan of Tryus

Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (jS35y)

28 i am proud to be a russian assett. feels good to be a gangsta.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (KP5rU)

29 Tom Skerritt, Kelly Preston (?)
Posted by: Jordan61

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (7jTtI)

30 no

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (Fxgkp)

31 "The Entire Republican Party Is Becoming A Russian Asset"

That's disconcerting.

Posted by: eleven at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (M0u+N)

32 Well I guess I'd better get back to work. I already got one talking-to about my internet usage.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (Ez6QX)

33 15 Jack Palance was the one who had the "crap" line. Not Kirk Douglas.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 09, 2019 11:16 AM (E+OcO)

I know. I originally had him saying that about Jack Palance, but switched it at the last minute to Booker.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (MRoRq)

34 New masthead for the Washington Post:
"Democracy dies as an entry on a Russian Intelligence balance sheet"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (I2dne)

35 Some left wing asshole lawyer working for the dems quoted his young kid?

Ala jimmy carter? LOL

assholes

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (cEsBM)

36 OMG baby yoda is so cute! I just can't even!

MUST CONSOOM!!!

Posted by: Typical Consoomer, sucking in Soy at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (tVQUs)

37 Goldman Strawman, both a floor wax and desert topping

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (jS35y)

38 Damnit, now I want chicken.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (J+mig)

39 Oh, no Picket Fences (Lauren Holly)...Space Camp FTW.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (5l6gb)

40 Are the new Ghostbusters going to pretend that the vagina Ghostbusters never existed and didn't make a bunch of flatulence jokes because equality?

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They're going to ignore it completely.

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Can you think of franchises where this is common? Lucas' Star Wars did the midicholera infection and I think Disney walked it back, and I'm sure lots of the re-bootings have tried to make believe the past instances never happened, but is this common with pop culture stories?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (3rtj0)

41 Shimon Prokupecz @ShimonPro
This is gonna be interesting today. Christopher Steele was told yesterday that information on him that he has not reviewed and was expected to be redacted was declassified and will now be included in the Inspector General's report today.

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (BqBId)

42 Jack Palance was not Spartacus, and neither is Corey Booker.

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (88+cf)

43 And the Stormfronters arrive.

Posted by: The Rabbits at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (RD7QR)

44 Moms Mabley, Pigmeat Markham and Kirk Douglas !

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2019 11:20 AM (arJlL)

45 GET THAT DAMN BIRD OUT OF MY EYE !!

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 09, 2019 11:20 AM (oiW2a)

46 i am proud to be a russian assett. feels good to be a gangsta.
Posted by: chavez the hugo

If I were, there'd be a LOT of dead dems.

Russian mafia doesn't play.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 11:20 AM (7jTtI)

47 For the "who dis" lady, if you scroll down just enough to see her eyes, but leave everything else hidden, she looks like a young Hillary Clinton!

Time for some brain bleach, now.

Posted by: Grimaldi at December 09, 2019 11:20 AM (2wdJR)

48 I'm so old I remember when Democrats loved Russia.

Posted by: jsg at December 09, 2019 11:20 AM (cz8Bv)

49 28 i am proud to be a russian assett. feels good to be a gangsta.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM (KP5rU)

Honestly, if I had the choice to be ruled by Globalist Deep State types or Putin, Putin wins hands down.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at December 09, 2019 11:20 AM (J+mig)

50 ... 'We need to dial it back a bit, otherwise we'll sound like a bunch of kooks and lose the confidence of our readers.'

_______

"That's 'reader,' as in the singular, comrade." -- Jeff Bezos

Posted by: ShainS at December 09, 2019 11:20 AM (9GaEk)

51
Kelly Preston, Tom Skerrit and Isser Danilovich...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2019 11:21 AM (zBaqJ)

52 We never see Donald and Melania in the same room as Boris and Natasha? - The Washington Post.

Posted by: Archer at December 09, 2019 11:21 AM (gmo/4)

53 40 Are the new Ghostbusters going to pretend that the vagina Ghostbusters never existed and didn't make a bunch of flatulence jokes because equality?

=========

They're going to ignore it completely.

--

Can you think of franchises where this is common? Lucas' Star Wars did the midicholera infection and I think Disney walked it back, and I'm sure lots of the re-bootings have tried to make believe the past instances never happened, but is this common with pop culture stories?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (3rtj0)

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This whole reboot stuff from 30 years ago is pretty new.

Before, it was the odd sequel like The Color of Money (sequel to The Hustler) or Saraband (sequel to Scenes from a Marriage).

The closest from decades past may be Bond changing from one movie to the next and no one mentioning it.

In terms of franchises today that continue despite failures, there are a handful. Superman Returns acted like Superman III and IV never happened. The newest Halloween acted like none of the sequels since the original Halloween happened. The newest Terminator acted like nothing after Terminator 2 happened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:21 AM (q80AH)

54 Didn't some moron over the weekend post that his millennial kids call the impeachment charade "the season ending episode?"

Posted by: Jen the original at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (I3OPu)

55 In the meantime continued silence on Bill Clinton's 500k Russian payday while Hillary was SoS.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (oiW2a)

56 "The Vikings" is a pretty good Kirk flick but what the hell is it about Tony Curtis and tight shorts?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (dfRN6)

57 I was a Russian asset and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

Posted by: eleven at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (M0u+N)

58
You don't have to be stupid to be an actor. But it helps.

Seriously - it's a job where being a dumbass actually is a plus. Blank slates and all.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (AzW6q)

59 49: yup. total agreement.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (KP5rU)

60 That's a Young Laura Ingraham and the guy that killed Kennedy (Ted Cruz's father?).

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (CjeDS)

61 Hey, Permaculture Pete, you forgot the Joo weather machines!

The International Zionist Conspiracy is making a fortune driving up the cost of french fries, by causing an early winter in Idaho!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (I2/tG)

62 It's "I crap bigger than him."

Posted by: irright at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (aSKRB)

63 Blog note: Comments containing phrases such as 'jewdar' and 'the tribe' are subject to immediate removal.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (MRoRq)

64 In terms of franchises today that continue despite failures, there are a handful. Superman Returns acted like Superman III and IV never happened. The newest Halloween acted like none of the sequels since the original Halloween happened. The newest Terminator acted like nothing after Terminator 2 happened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:21 AM (q80AH)

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Thanks. It's no big secret that I don't watch too many movies, so I'm always struck when this sort of thing is so obvious.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (3rtj0)

65 48 I'm so old I remember when Democrats loved Russia.
Posted by: jsg

Not Russia, the USSR. They never liked Russia. Loved them some Bolsheviks though.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (vN4+Q)

66 Can you think of franchises where this is common? Lucas' Star Wars did the midicholera infection and I think Disney walked it back, and I'm sure lots of the re-bootings have tried to make believe the past instances never happened, but is this common with pop culture stories?

you want to see God-Level Retconning, try PHANTASM

lol

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (Rarvo)

67 63 Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (MRoRq)

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OM's gonna ban himself!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (q80AH)

68 So McCarthyism has made a comeback in DC. Nice.

Posted by: WisRich at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (G0vdT)

69 It's Russians all the way down!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (hLRSq)

70 Goldman is working that Strawman hard: It's either Russia or Ukraine.

It's both--and whatever they did pales into insignifigance compared
to the massive criminal election interference by our own Nat/Sec
Apparatus--starting in Hussein's Oval Office.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 09, 2019 11:18 AM

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Everyone on the left is ignoring the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the room, A Ukraine ruled that people in their own government illegally interfered in the 2016 election.

It's not a myth. Even the nyt reported on it.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (JUOKG)

71 Tom Skerritt, Kelly Preston - Link is Space Camp?

Posted by: Flubber at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (PQnIX)

72 Zdrastvuite

Posted by: Sock Monkey...imperialist stooge at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (Fy0Aq)

73 Kirk "I am Spartacus" Douglas in The Vikings. Not only does he lose an eye, but I (think it was) Tony Curtis (slave to the Vikings, proof the Vikings made it to Brooklyn) lost a hand.

Speaking of Spartacus, i don't think Douglas every uttered the words in that movie. All the other guys did. So they all got crucified...

Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (Rbu5d)

74 good-bye

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (Fxgkp)

75 Although the term didn't exist fr much of it, they've "rebooted" Batman more times than I can count. A lot of standalone movies telling the same stories with different people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (I2dne)

76 Spartacus!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (r+sAi)

77 I for one, am pro-glowing-in-the-dark.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (1vWDB)

78 Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (I2/tG)

I know it's tempting, but please don't feed the trolls. Thank you.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (MRoRq)

79 Zdrastvuite
Posted by: Sock Monkey...imperialist stooge at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (Fy0Aq)

Privet !

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (zr5Kq)

80 61 Hey, Permaculture Pete, you forgot the Joo weather machines!

The International Zionist Conspiracy is making a fortune driving up the cost of french fries, by causing an early winter in Idaho!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (I2/tG)

We can confirm. The Rabbit Cabal approves of this technique.

Posted by: The Rabbits at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (RD7QR)

81 It's "I crap bigger than him."
Posted by: irright at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (aSKRB)

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Yup. And I bet Cory poops are pretty big, IYKNWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (AzW6q)

82 73 Speaking of Spartacus, i don't think Douglas every uttered the words in that movie. All the other guys did. So they all got crucified...
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (Rbu5d)

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"I am Spartacus"?

Yeah, he was silent until he had to kill Tony Curtis, I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:25 AM (q80AH)

83 61 Hey, Permaculture Pete, you forgot the Joo weather machines!

The International Zionist Conspiracy is making a fortune driving up the cost of french fries, by causing an early winter in Idaho!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (I2/tG)

Nah, that's just Cass Sunstein "nudging" prices up so that the hoi polloi can't have them.

Posted by: Allie at December 09, 2019 11:25 AM (sm6Pk)

84 Not Russia, the USSR. They never liked Russia. Loved them some Bolsheviks though.
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (vN4+Q)
++++++++++++++
Right. They loved communism and the USSR. Russia as a country outside the context of the USSR is a manifest betrayal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:25 AM (I2dne)

85 63 Blog note: Comments containing phrases such as 'jewdar' and 'the tribe' are subject to immediate removal.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (MRoRq)

Alexthechick is going to be very salty with you about your hatred of the Cleveland Indians.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 09, 2019 11:25 AM (CLxlH)

86

When you accept the fact that wapo is the un-admiited DNC newsletter, it all makes sense.

These people aren't crazy; they're liars.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 09, 2019 11:25 AM (v9F6s)

87 if a dipshit like mayor pete floated to the top of russian politics, he would be in an unguided space capsule as we type. fact. headed toward the sun.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (KP5rU)

88 Hey, wasn't there some govt report or something due today, or did the teacher give them an extension?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (r+sAi)

89 Skanky McStank

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (rpxSz)

90 Who dis? Looks kind of like Bradley Manning in the first pic

That's Not How This Works

Actually, yes it is. The left only knows one way to have trials: show tribunals. You're already guilty, the trial is for them to demonstrate their virtue, warn others, and create an atmosphere of terror.

The college tribunals where they don't evenallow the accused to present a case, the Soviet trials where you're guilty, and the trial is merely to establish HOW guilty. Obviously you must be guilty, the people in power say you are, and they cannot be wrong. To even question this is yet another crime.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (KZzsI)

91
OMG baby yoda is so cute! I just can't even!

The kids love the flamethrowers.

Posted by: Yogurt at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (aKsyK)

92 Remember this

The 1980's called asking for their foreign policy back because the Cold War's been over for over 20 years.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (oiW2a)

93 Where's WaterCow when you need him?

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (ECrgQ)

94 If the Dems truly go after President Trump for "treason" then they are trying to incite someone to physically take out PDT.

They are pushing the crazy faction of their side as hard as they can, because, in their eyes, and the rest of the world, they'll be able to claim they are not responsible for the actions of one of their crazies.

And MSM will cover for them.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (qC1Sy)

95 79 Zdrastvuite
Posted by: Sock Monkey...imperialist stooge at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (Fy0Aq)

Privet !
Posted by: runner at December 09, 2019 11:24 AM (zr5Kq)

P'rzhalste, piridaitsye kisoslatke kriv'yatki?

(Please pass the sweet and sour shrimp)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (zBaqJ)

96 91
OMG baby yoda is so cute! I just can't even!

The kids love the flamethrowers.
Posted by: Yogurt at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (aKsyK)

========

"Well, yeah."
-Sipping from my Spaceballs cup

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (q80AH)

97 Cheech/Chong's Nam Vet cousin?

Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (X/Pw5)

98 Hey, wasn't there some govt report or something due today, or did the teacher give them an extension?

#twoweeks?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (KZzsI)

99 Who dis?
Why, Mr and Mrs Muse of course.

Posted by: Winston a dreg of society at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (Tt761)

100 You know who else was Spartacus?

Posted by: eleven at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (M0u+N)

101 I suspect that the Russians probably are planting assets as fast as they can manage to do so at the moment.

With all of the wolf-crying going on, it has become a meaningless accusation that is just dismissed out of hand. Ideal time to pump us full of real assets.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (I2dne)

102 Kelly Preston's middle name is Kamalelehua.

Posted by: SMH at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (RU4sa)

103 How did this show up and I didn't know?

Let's RANT!

Oooga Oooga Oooga

Let's RANT!

(BRB, still catching the last comments on last thread - don't wait up for me)

Posted by: mindful webworker - click at your own ricks at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (Lsu/B)

104 13
No idea who she is (or the guy either) but she's MILFtastic.

Posted by: The Rabbits at December 09, 2019 11:16 AM (RD7QR)

John Travolta thinks so too.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (N39Ws)

105
Right. They loved communism and the USSR. Russia as a country outside the context of the USSR is a manifest betrayal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:25 AM (I2dne)

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Yup. If you feel like bashing on Putin, his comment about the collapse of the USSR being the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century is perhaps the stupidest thing ever said by a politician in my lifetime.

Yet none of the Left said a peep about that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (AzW6q)

106 You don't have to be stupid to be an actor. But it helps.

Doesn't Limbaugh say something like "Washington is Hollywood for ugly people; show business is politics for stupid people?"

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (PDA8A)

107 I've been rewatching Cheers & am now in the years when Tom Skerrit is playing Evan Drake, the big chief at the corporation that owns Cheers

Posted by: josephistan at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (7HtZB)

108 Cheech/Chong's Nam Vet cousin?

Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (X/Pw5)

Strawberry!

Posted by: Archer at December 09, 2019 11:28 AM (gmo/4)

109 Movie actors ARE pretty stupid. Truman Capote made the same point. It's to their advantage. The camera is absolutely unforgiving when it comes to anything that looks like "acting" or self-consciousness. That's the problem both Olivier and Streep have. They're both brialliant actors, but we can see them acting. Works great on the stage. Not so much in film. Olivier strikes some poses in "Hamlet" that make you want to run head-first into a tree, without a helmet. That's why Katherine Hepburn told Hopkins--"Don't act. Just read the lines."

Posted by: Caliban at December 09, 2019 11:28 AM (qEujL)

110 http://bit.ly/2DXoIeX
********
IG report lays out compelling evidence FBI misled FISA court in Russia case, sources say | John Solomon Reports

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 09, 2019 11:28 AM (BqBId)

111 Alexthechick is going to be very salty with you about your hatred of the Cleveland Indians.
Posted by: Buzzion

Why is she an Indians fan ?

Doesn't she live in jersey ?

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2019 11:28 AM (arJlL)

112 My dog is a Russian agent. I just picked up all her poop and when I came back from the garbage can dropping it off, she left another poop.
Who else but a Russian agent would do such a heinous act?!?!?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 09, 2019 11:28 AM (pw+jk)

113 If the Dems truly go after President Trump for "treason" then they are trying to incite someone to physically take out PDT.

They are pushing the crazy faction of their side as hard as they can, because, in their eyes, and the rest of the world, they'll be able to claim they are not responsible for the actions of one of their crazies.

And MSM will cover for them.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (qC1Sy)
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I don't know when they enter the "hot lead" phase of the "get Trump by any means necessary" program, but I think that's where it's going to go eventually.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:28 AM (I2dne)

114 Comments containing phrases such as 'jewdar' and 'the tribe' are subject to immediate removal.

I need a ruling here, is "five sided space Joo with the weather machine" acceptable?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 11:28 AM (KZzsI)

115 d20 > d8

Posted by: josephistan at December 09, 2019 11:29 AM (7HtZB)

116 85 63 Blog note: Comments containing phrases such as 'jewdar' and 'the tribe' are subject to immediate removal.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (MRoRq)

Alexthechick is going to be very salty with you about your hatred of the Cleveland Indians.
Posted by: Buzzion

Heh. I was wondering about that myself.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 09, 2019 11:29 AM (vN4+Q)

117 P'rzhalste, piridaitsye kisoslatke kriv'yatki?

(Please pass the sweet and sour shrimp)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (zBaqJ)

Privet !

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2019 11:29 AM (zr5Kq)

118 Right. They loved communism and the USSR. Russia as a country outside the context of the USSR is a manifest betrayal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:25 AM (I2dne)

And that's why Russia is the Left's bogeyman du jour now.

Turning away from Communism has made them apostates to the Cult of the Almighty State.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at December 09, 2019 11:29 AM (J+mig)

119 65 48 I'm so old I remember when Democrats loved Russia.
Posted by: jsg

Not Russia, the USSR. They never liked Russia. Loved them some Bolsheviks though.
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (vN4+Q)

Never confuse a Russian with a Soviet.

Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 09, 2019 11:29 AM (Rbu5d)

120 They never liked Russia.

A sizable number of Harvard types and other Democrats got rich off the "loans for shares" program after the fall of the Soviet Union, which transferred the assets of the Soviet state into the hands of a handful of oligarchs, with minimal benefit to ordinary people (who were supposed to be the beneficiaries of the program).

This was a major reason why you got Putin - the Harvard-sponsored transition to capitalism in Russia functioned pretty much the way Communist propaganda said it would.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (I2/tG)

121 Lol. House Democrats trying to sell the upcoming passage of USMCA as their accomplishment. I'm chortling my as off.

It's called doing your job, assholes.

They wanted wage guarantees for MEXICAN workers. Last I checked the House represents American citizens. Mexico told them to get bent.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (8/E19)

122 Yup. If you feel like bashing on Putin, his comment about the collapse of the USSR being the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century is perhaps the stupidest thing ever said by a politician in my lifetime.

Yet none of the Left said a peep about that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2019 11:27 AM (AzW6q)
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Or his intent to rebuild it. He was station chief in Berlin when it all came apart. He called Moscow and demanded a military force to put down the uprising and just got the run-around and silence.

I saw him interviewed by an American press outlet about "why did you run for president in Russia" and he related that story. He finished it with, "I will ensure that never again is there silence on the line."

Who Putin is has been clear from day 1.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (I2dne)

123 I need a ruling here, is "five sided space Joo with the weather machine" acceptable?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 11:28 AM (KZzsI)

It's perfectly fine if you want to be on the DC City Council.

Posted by: Councilman Trayvon White (D) at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (tVQUs)

124 And the Stormfronters arrive.
Posted by: The Rabbits at December 09, 2019 11:19 AM (RD7QR)

Hey, Permaculture Pete, you forgot the Joo weather machines!

The International Zionist Conspiracy is making a fortune driving up the cost of french fries, by causing an early winter in Idaho!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (I2/tG)

Blog note: Comments containing phrases such as 'jewdar' and 'the tribe' are subject to immediate removal.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (MRoRq)

Sometimes it takes a lot of comment reading just to piece together the things you miss.

Posted by: Rocky Balboa at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (z79tQ)

125 So, I'm not the only one that thinks baby Yoda looks like a Mogwai. Hah!

And I never thought that "tribe" or "M.O.T." was derogatory wrt Jews. We have Cobs here who are proud to be M.O.T.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (/sgva)

126 Never confuse a Russian with a Soviet.
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 09, 2019 11:29 AM (Rbu5d)

Scratch a Russian, find a Tartar.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (wCmLp)

127 I don't know which is more amusing:
The Dems new-found fear of Russia or their even newer sudden respect for the Constitution

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (vPKfA)

128 Putin says Ukraine was corrupt ... Trump says Ukraine was corrupt ... therefore Trump is a Russian Agent. Sure, that makes sense.

They say this even as indictments are coming down for many Americans involved in money running out of Ukraine, and the clear prima facie evidence of Joe/Hunter taking millions in bribes (influence money) is widely known. Old Joe bragged about his clout.

But can they work up to Soros, and open the books on his propaganda enterprise, that reaches into 100 different influence operations?

Influence Ops are a BFD, they are foundational to how our FBI/CIA works covertly to dirty up their enemies (like Trump). It is the whole of the Fake News Industry (war on traditional America) ... and the whole coup is one giant influence op, working right within the DC corridors of influence peddling and sedition. It sways elections globally, and domestically.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (Cus5s)

129 Who else but a Russian agent would do such a heinous act?!?!?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 09, 2019 11:28 AM (pw+jk)

Wait until you see what she did to your shoes.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (ECrgQ)

130 I didn't know I shared a b/day w/Kirk Douglass.

Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (X/Pw5)

131 'We need to dial it back a bit, otherwise we'll sound like a bunch of kooks and lose the confidence of our readers.'

-
That ship has sailed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (+y/Ru)

132 That's the problem both Olivier and Streep have. They're both brialliant actors, but we can see them acting.

Which really makes them.... not brilliant actors. Brilliant at voice coaching and preparing for a role, but not so much in execution. Streep is the single most overrated actor in the history of mankind. Just because you can learn an accent doesn't make you a genius. It just seems that way in comparison with Ashton Kutcher.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (KZzsI)

133 I thought everything was about Drumpf being in collusion with Ukraine? Ukrain, Russia, close enough for the libs.

Posted by: An Observation at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (mdsFe)

134 Alexthechick is going to be very salty with you about your hatred of the Cleveland Indians.
Posted by: Buzzion at December 09, 2019 11:25 AM (CLxlH)

Maybe I can set her up on a date with Baker Mayfield.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (MRoRq)

135 Sometimes it takes a lot of comment reading just to piece together the things you miss.

=

I have a feeling I missed something....

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (zr5Kq)

136 130 I didn't know I shared a b/day w/Kirk Douglass.
Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (X/Pw5)

========

So does JJ!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (q80AH)

137 This is just devastating. Trump should end this now. Note how much the Obama years made it worse.

Off the Record, U.S. Officials Acknowledge our Strategy in Afghanistan Is "Fatally flawed" https://t.co/EQmd0Asoa9

...Over in that faraway, deeply troubled country, the American taxpayer has paid for soybeans that won't grow, weapons that Afghan military forces lost, a $2.9 million farming-storage facility that was never used, and a $456,000 training center that "disintegrated" within four months. An Afghan power plant that the U.S. helped build was operating at just 2.2 percent of power production capacity. The SIGAR office round that significant portion of the U.S.-built buildings for the Afghan military are more flammable than international building codes permit. (Hey, why would you need to worry about burning buildings in a country at war, right?)

Inspector General John Sopko... uncovered waste, mismanagement, corruption, and all kinds of problems that no one wants to see, whatever their view of the war in Afghanistan.

...Heavy losses in the poppy-growing province of Helmand have required rebuilding an Afghan army corps and replacing its commander and some other officers as a result, a U.S. general said, of 'a combination of incompetence, corruption, and ineffectiveness.'"

...U.S. officials acknowledged that their warfighting strategies were fatally flawed and that Washington wasted enormous sums of money trying to remake Afghanistan into a modern nation."

Judging from the report, the more the United States tried to fix Afghanistan, the more they complicated and worsened existing problems.

During the peak of the fighting, from 2009 to 2012, U.S. lawmakers and military commanders believed the more they spent on schools, bridges, canals and other civil-works projects, the faster security would improve. Aid workers told government interviewers it was a colossal misjudgment, akin to pumping kerosene on a dying campfire just to keep the flame alive...

In public, U.S. officials insisted they had no tolerance for graft. But in the Lessons Learned interviews, they admitted the U.S. government looked the other way while Afghan power brokers - allies of Washington - plundered with impunity.

...The expectations got ratcheted down a little more, hoping that the Afghan government would get a little closer to something resembling a functioning state that would not collapse the moment we left.

It is not for lack of trying or lack of studying and attempting to adapt our efforts to be effective within the local culture. In 2010, the Pentagon started assembling Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that women could play a unique role on Special Ops teams: accompanying their male colleagues on raids and, while those soldiers were searching for insurgents, questioning the mothers, sisters, daughters and wives living at the compound.

The United States has allocated more than $133 billion to build up Afghanistan - more than it spent, adjusted for inflation, to revive the whole of Western Europe with the Marshall Plan after World War II. Since 2001, more than 775,000 U.S. troops have deployed to Afghanistan, many repeatedly. Of those, 2,300 died there and 20,589 were wounded in action, according to Defense Department figures.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (FBrfY)

138 Blog note: Comments containing phrases such as 'jewdar' and 'the tribe' are subject to immediate removal.
Posted by: OregonMuse

We'll lose a lot of our Jewish posters then. Because I have seen more than once where they refer to themselves as "of the tribe".

Especially CBD.

Then again, he's a known anti-semite going way back.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (7jTtI)

139 They wanted wage guarantees for MEXICAN workers. Last I checked the
House represents American citizens. Mexico told them to get bent.

==
Anything to make the cost of living go UP for American citizens.

For the people those demofascists are.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (pw+jk)

140 Hi all. What's happening?

Kelly Preston makes a great redhead! Too bad she has such an odd marriage.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2019 11:32 AM (NVYyb)

141 they've "rebooted" Batman more times than I can count.

Somebody did a supercut of all the times we've had to watch Bruce's parents being killed.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 09, 2019 11:32 AM (PDA8A)

142 130; do does sefton. big deal.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 09, 2019 11:32 AM (KP5rU)

143 "Please tell Vlad I'll be more flexible after my next election."

---- some prissy former Marxist preezy

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:32 AM (ptqGC)

144
He was station chief in Berlin

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I don't think he was actually station chief, IIRC. But yeah he was a KGB spook running Stasi spooks at the time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (AzW6q)

145 Hollywood should remake Spartacus, and get Booker into the movie somehow

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (NVYyb)

146 Tartar sauce is under-rated.

Posted by: eleven at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (M0u+N)

147 Kelly Preston has great tits

Posted by: JoeF. at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (CqE5x)

148 133 I thought everything was about Drumpf being in collusion with Ukraine? Ukrain, Russia, close enough for the libs.
Posted by: An Observation at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (mdsFe)

They keep switching back and forth so often, it's hard to keep track. The Dems must have the Acme Goalpost Moving Co. on permanent speed dial.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (MRoRq)

149 Anyone heard anything out of Catherine Herridge ?

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (rpxSz)

150 I wonder if anyone has ever tossed out the suggestion of acting sanely in a WaPo editorial staff meeting.

Has anybody at CNN ever suggested cutting down the donut ration?

Posted by: N.L. Urker Philips Screwdriver of the Gods at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (Uu+Jp)

151 Happy Birthday, BignJames!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (I2dne)

152 I'm pretty certain the mystery girl has multiple orgasms at will.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (CLteG)

153 130 I didn't know I shared a b/day w/Kirk Douglass.
Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (X/Pw5)

Happy birthday!

Posted by: josephistan at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (7HtZB)

154 I always understood "I crap bigger than him." to mean "One of my dumps weighs more than that whole persons bodyweight." Not that my poop is larger than his poop.

Posted by: irright at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (aSKRB)

155 Kelly Preston makes a great redhead! Too bad she has such an odd marriage.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2019 11:32 AM (NVYyb)

Odd marriage?

Posted by: Moochelle at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (ptqGC)

156 Hi all. What's happening?

Kelly Preston makes a great redhead! Too bad she has such an odd marriage.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2019 11:32 AM (NVYyb)

Travolta's beard

Posted by: JoeF. at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (CqE5x)

157 I didn't know I shared a b/day w/Kirk Douglass.
Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (X/Pw5)

========

So does JJ!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Oh damn. Happy birthday Kirk Douglas and JJ!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 11:34 AM (7jTtI)

158 Irina Veronina is a fine Russian asset. Unfiltered image searches will be highly NSFW.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 09, 2019 11:34 AM (NWiLs)

159 Streep is the single most overrated actor in the history of mankind

--

How dare you!

Posted by: George Cloonie at December 09, 2019 11:34 AM (3rtj0)

160 Sometimes it takes a lot of comment reading just to piece together the things you miss.

Posted by: Rocky Balboa at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (z79tQ)

So that's what was going on.
Sheesh.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 09, 2019 11:34 AM (hLRSq)

161 I always understood "I crap bigger than him." to mean "One of my dumps weighs more than that whole persons bodyweight." Not that my poop is larger than his poop.
Posted by: irright at December 09, 2019 11:33 AM (aSKRB)

Yes, but if the first is true, so is the second.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 09, 2019 11:34 AM (CqE5x)

162 Doesn't Limbaugh say something like "Washington is Hollywood for ugly people; show business is politics for stupid people?"

I reject this saying, as it assumes politicians are smart. Some are, of course, but many are dumber than a box of hairy rocks that look like doorknobs. This is especially true of the CBC, where the ability to think and speak intelligently appears to be a disqualifier. Thomas Sowell wouldn't be allowed in.

Posted by: pep at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (T6t7i)

163 55
In the meantime continued silence on Bill Clinton's 500k Russian payday while Hillary was SoS.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (oiW2a)

______

... and the rest of Uranium One ... and Joe and Hunter Biden's $1.5 billion grift from China ... and [well, this could take all day] ...

Posted by: ShainS at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (lgy2g)

164 Oh damn. Happy birthday Kirk Douglas and JJ!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 11:34 AM (7jTtI)
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Mega dittoes!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (qC1Sy)

165 Lol. House Democrats trying to sell the upcoming passage of USMCA as their accomplishment. I'm chortling my as off.

It's called doing your job, assholes.

They wanted wage guarantees for MEXICAN workers. Last I checked the House represents American citizens. Mexico told them to get bent.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (8/E19)

I"m convinced the Democrats are going to torpedo the USMCA by inserting all kinds of poison pills in it Then , when it get's rejected by Trump, and the Republicans in the House, they will scream and squawk that Trump is giving welfare to the Mexicans and Canadians, hurting American workers, and then will start investigations into the quid pro quos those two countries gave him to be their stooge.

They will use it through the election cycle. Just watch.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (I3OPu)

166 So does JJ!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:31 AM (q80AH)

Yeah, but my Medicare Advantage plan kicked in.

Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (X/Pw5)

167 Hey, don't worry folks, I know the Government runs out of money again in 10 days, but I'm SURE Congress is on top of it!
/spit

Posted by: Don Q at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (NgKpN)

168 Yes, but if the first is true, so is the second.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 09, 2019 11:34 AM (CqE5x)
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Counterpoint: Beagles. They seem to poop out more than their own body weight.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (I2dne)

169 Ahh Kelly Preston.

I would give her the best 2.5 minutes of her life.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (CLteG)

170 Turning away from Communism has made them apostates to the Cult of the Almighty State.

Russia is governed by Czars - you had the regular Czars, a Soviet Czar, a forty-year interregnum, and then a capitalist Czar.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (I2/tG)

171 I didn't know that Sefton shared the same Birfday as Issur Danielovitch! Happy Birfday!!

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (flINI)

172 I was in line at a Michael's store the other day, and glaring at me from a magazine rack was Mooch, on the cover of Time.

"Michelle Obama: Her Inspiring Story"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (ptqGC)

173 all streep ever did is play streep. no talent pile of commie shit. must have laid more pipe than the alaska pipeline.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (KP5rU)

174
I saw and old interview of Travolta by Dick Clark (I think on American Bandstand), where Travolta said something about he and his friends being at the club. Clark cut him off, and said something like "Nobody here wants to know about those kinds of clubs, John."

I was both flabbergasted and laughing myself silly. Clark straight-up called him out as a homo on live TV.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (AzW6q)

175 Good point about Batman.

We watched the Lego one this weekend again. It has some really clever bits.

Posted by: George Cloonie at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (3rtj0)

176 Once upon a time, newspapers had to actually, you know, sell newspapers to stay in business.

Every time you buy something from Amazon, you are contributing to the Washington Post and its ability to continue to spew propaganda without having to sell its fishwrap.

Posted by: Boots at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (oGBso)

177 I read that "Peloton commercial" got more Google searches than "impeachment" last week.

(Peloton makes exercise equipment & had a mildly controversial ad which feminist spokesharpies disliked.)

Btw, RAS has Trump's JA at 51/48 today-- about 4 days in a row. This is quite different!

Posted by: mnw at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (Cssks)

178
What's all this about anti-MOT remarks?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (zBaqJ)

179 172
I was in line at a Michael's store the other day, and glaring at me from a magazine rack was Mooch, on the cover of Time.

"Michelle Obama: Her Inspiring Story"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (ptqGC)
As told before or after she hated her country?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (N39Ws)

180 Dammit, George, everyone can see that it's you pretending to be someone else.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (3rtj0)

181 Happy Birthday, BigNJames!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (ptqGC)

182 MMMM Kelly Preston. Yes!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (r7Fvf)

183 If the Dems truly go after President Trump for "treason" then they are trying to incite someone to physically take out PDT.

They are pushing the crazy faction of their side as hard as they can, because, in their eyes, and the rest of the world, they'll be able to claim they are not responsible for the actions of one of their crazies.

And MSM will cover for them.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 09, 2019 11:26 AM (qC1Sy)

The GOP, led by that see you next Tuesday Paul Ryan, never went as hard after the commiecrats and unfree presstitutes for motivating Hodgkinson as they should have. Contrast that with how they blamed Jared Laughner on Palin.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (y7DUB)

184 I was in line at a Michael's store the other day, and glaring at me from a magazine rack was Mooch, on the cover of Time.

"Michelle Obama: Her Inspiring Story"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (ptqGC)

She's always on the cover of something, so she must sell magazines.
But who buys them? Blacks?
Or white suburban soccer wine moms who like to virtue signal by displaying the rags on their coffee table?

Posted by: JoeF. at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (CqE5x)

185 Well, if guilty men refuse to testify, that means Schiff... uh, Schiff... is innocent because he knows he is being called strictly for the political theater.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (7Fs5Q)

186 Are the new Ghostbusters going to pretend that the vagina Ghostbusters never existed and didn't make a bunch of flatulence jokes because equality?

I just saw the trailer for the new one and it looks fantastic, which was said by nobody ever about VagBusters.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (ZGrMX)

187 Kirk Douglas is 103. I wonder if he's been collecting SS since he was 65?

How does that work for actors/actresses who don't get a weekly/biweekly check?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (7jTtI)

188 172 I was in line at a Michael's store the other day, and glaring at me from a magazine rack was Mooch, on the cover of Time.

"Michelle Obama: Her Inspiring Story"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (ptqGC)
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The article probably reads like the person who wrote it was paid by the adjective.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (qC1Sy)

189 172; she inspires me to be a better subversive. i can't begin to fathom the depth of disgust i have for that freak of nature. and that swingin dick of hers.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (KP5rU)

190 126 Never confuse a Russian with a Soviet.
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 09, 2019 11:29 AM (Rbu5d)

Scratch a Russian, find a Tartar.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (wCmLp)

Heh.

I love the blond(e)-hair-blue-eyes-plus-epicanthic-fold look. Had that look in my Hungarian forebears.

Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (Rbu5d)

191 186 Are the new Ghostbusters going to pretend that the vagina Ghostbusters never existed and didn't make a bunch of flatulence jokes because equality?

I just saw the trailer for the new one and it looks fantastic, which was said by nobody ever about VagBusters.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (ZGrMX)

=========

It's about as good a trailer as you can make. It's good.

It also doesn't include man hating jokes, which is nice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (q80AH)

192 Blog note: Comments containing phrases such as 'jewdar' and 'the tribe' are subject to immediate removal.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:23 AM (MRoRq)

Yeah!

Screw the Braves!

And the Nats too, while we're at it...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (Ft8fw)

193 I was in line at a Michael's store the other day, and glaring at me from a magazine rack was Mooch, on the cover of Time.

"Michelle Obama: Her Inspiring Story"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (ptqGC)
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Her latest book, er I mean bribe, is already at the used book stores. Glaring out at all passersby.

Posted by: Boots at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (oGBso)

194 "Posted by: Jen the original at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (I3OPu)"

I would have been with you a few weeks ago and I will wait for the House vote, but it looks like Democrats have changed their tune. Impeachment is killing them and they are looking for a "win" they can sell in purple districts and to key constituencies. That's their plan now anyway. They want this to show they can be "bipartisan". BTW I just spit my coffee when I wrote that.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (8/E19)

195 And new Ghostbusters shows a respect for the original, which Lady Ghostbusters outright didn't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (q80AH)

196 You would think a Republican would bring up Biden and his son in this show trial, but no they keep going the route of there was no quid pro quo with Trump playing the Dem game. There should have been a quid pro quo! and it is perfectly fine because the president sets policy.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (r+sAi)

197 Michelle Obama's inspiring story of marrying a man who accomplished something?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (3rtj0)

198 She's always on the cover of something, so she must sell magazines.
But who buys them? Blacks?
Or white suburban soccer wine moms who like to virtue signal by displaying the rags on their coffee table?
Posted by: JoeF. at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (CqE5x)

Something tells me it's far more the latter than the former.

Posted by: Surfperch at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (tVQUs)

199 Nicole Kidman much better actress than Meryl Streep.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 09, 2019 11:40 AM (oiW2a)

200 The GOP, led by that see you next Tuesday Paul Ryan, never went as hard after the commiecrats and unfree presstitutes for motivating Hodgkinson as they should have. Contrast that with how they blamed Jared Laughner on Palin.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (y7DUB)
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Yeah, the GOPe precipitated this nonsense through the mass retirement of 40 house members.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at December 09, 2019 11:40 AM (qC1Sy)

201 194 "Posted by: Jen the original at December 09, 2019 11:35 AM (I3OPu)"

I would have been with you a few weeks ago and I will wait for the House vote, but it looks like Democrats have changed their tune. Impeachment is killing them and they are looking for a "win" they can sell in purple districts and to key constituencies. That's their plan now anyway. They want this to show they can be "bipartisan". BTW I just spit my coffee when I wrote that.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (8/E19)

==========

"Hey, you know that huge clusterfuck of impeachment that I made? I killed it after months and months. You're welcome. Re-elect me!"
-Red district Democrat asking for re-election

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:40 AM (q80AH)

202 And new Ghostbusters shows a respect for the original, which Lady Ghostbusters outright didn't.

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Proper respect would be to not redo.

Posted by: SH at December 09, 2019 11:40 AM (sX1BW)

203 What's all this about anti-MOT remarks?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (zBaqJ)

some mamzer stopped by ?

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (zr5Kq)

204 The Princess will suspend. The Princess will suspend!!!

Posted by: Jabba the Hut at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (hKi6n)

205 I read that "Peloton commercial" got more Google searches than "impeachment" last week.

(Peloton makes exercise equipment & had a mildly controversial ad which feminist spokesharpies disliked.)

Btw, RAS has Trump's JA at 51/48 today-- about 4 days in a row. This is quite different!
Posted by: mnw at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (Cssks)

The actress in the Peloton commercial that the feminazi are screaming about has a new commercial out for a boutique distillery. I don't really get it. She is with two friends, and they are sitting at a table, with a martini in front of each of them. Staring into space, Ms Pelaton robotocally tells her friends that this gin is really smooth. Then proceeds to shoot the entire martini down, while her friends stare at her and mumble something about the evening was going to be interesting.

Supposedly a shot back at the feminazi's? I didn't understand it.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (I3OPu)

206 I like the Dems respondes to passing no bills: "we've passed over 250 but they've died in the Senate!"

Oh, so no actual popular bills then?

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (vPKfA)

207 Scratch a Russian, find a Tartar.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 09, 2019 11:30 AM (wCmLp)

That's a saucy thing to say!

Posted by: Don Q at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (NgKpN)

208 I drink the Kool Aid and I'm proud
I use to feel alone in a crowd
but now you look around these days
and it seems theres a hot Kool Aid CRAZE
I'm a Russki he's a Russki she's a Russki we're a Russki
wouldn't you like to be a Russki too?
i'm a Russki he's a Russki she's a Russki
if you drink the Kool Aid you're a Russki too!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (+y/Ru)

209 Mrs. John Travolta!

What a beard, huh?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (bDqIh)

210 You would think a Republican would bring up Biden and his son in this show trial, but no they keep going the route of there was no quid pro quo with Trump playing the Dem game. There should have been a quid pro quo! and it is perfectly fine because the president sets policy.

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What do you mean. I think several Republicans have brought it up.

Posted by: SH at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (sX1BW)

211 Ahh Kelly Preston.

I would give her the best 2.5 minutes of her life.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth

Yeah, right.

If you're Superman.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 09, 2019 11:42 AM (1vWDB)

212 206 I like the Dems respondes to passing no bills: "we've passed over 250 but they've died in the Senate!"

Oh, so no actual popular bills then?
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (vPKfA)

=========

"The Senate has done nothing!"
-The House

"Say what?"
-The Senate, standing in front of dozens of new justices in the federal judiciary

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:42 AM (q80AH)

213 Supposedly a shot back at the feminazi's? I didn't understand it.
Posted by: Jen the original at December 09, 2019 11:41 AM (I3OPu)
++++++++++++
Getting drunk and slutting it up is very empowering. Just ask the feminists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:42 AM (I2dne)

214 159 Streep is the single most overrated actor in the history of mankind

You may change your mind when she starts doing porn

"Outta of Africans"

instant classic

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2019 11:42 AM (rpxSz)

215 Jaime Ray Newman; Tom Skerrit. Kirk Douglas. Only connection between first two is that each guested on Leverage.

Posted by: Jrgunn at December 09, 2019 11:42 AM (adx8h)

216 Magazines are pretty much dying so putting Big Mike on the cover will have a minimal impact.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 09, 2019 11:42 AM (y7DUB)

217 How does that work for actors/actresses who don't get a weekly/biweekly check?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (7jTtI)

Self employed still have to pay into social security. So they get benefits back when age eligible.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 09, 2019 11:42 AM (I3OPu)

218 I'm a broken record on the subject, but a big ol' universe should allow a Ghostbusters movie to not be about good guys shooting things with magic backpacks (or death stars, or planet destroying supervillains, etc)

Kids investigating a cave, or a religious experiment, or who knows what. I'm pro-magic backpacks, but man, I'd love to have some well written thought experiments.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:43 AM (3rtj0)

219 And new Ghostbusters shows a respect for the original, which Lady Ghostbusters outright didn't.

Lots of respect. Great soundtrack too - it sounded like they either custom-scored the trailer or the sound editor was really, really good at pulling pieces out of the movie's score and piecing them together.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2019 11:43 AM (ZGrMX)

220 I see Tom Skeritt and, of course, Kirk Douglas. How long a successful career must Skerritt have had to be in that first picture? He's fortunate.

Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2019 11:43 AM (gHCnG)

221 Ozzy was the man

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=RMR5zf1J1Hs

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2019 11:44 AM (1glZx)

222 And new Ghostbusters shows a respect for the original, which Lady Ghostbusters outright didn't.

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In the trailer, they say, ""There hasn't been a ghost sighting in 30-years." They're treating Ghostbusterettes with benign neglect.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 09, 2019 11:44 AM (+y/Ru)

223 Gotta laugh at Hollywood. The last guy with the eye and the scar across his face is supposedly some badass and in all his fights and scars and such has never had anything happen to his teeth.???

Given the era he's probably acting in, his teeth would be decayed, missing and they sure wouldn't be white like those.

This is why people think going back to the middle ages wouldn't be so bad. Cause they think it will be like how Hollywood protrays it.

Um. NO.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 09, 2019 11:44 AM (iDOB7)

224 >>The actress in the Peloton commercial that the feminazi are screaming
about has a new commercial out for a boutique distillery. I don't really
get it. She is with two friends, and they are sitting at a table, with a
martini in front of each of them. Staring into space, Ms Pelaton
robotocally tells her friends that this gin is really smooth. Then
proceeds to shoot the entire martini down, while her friends stare at
her and mumble something about the evening was going to be interesting.

Supposedly a shot back at the feminazi's? I didn't understand it.- - -

Yeah, it's Ryan Reynold's gin company.

I think it's either meant to be the actress and her friends consoling her over the failed ad *or* a continuation of the character getting drunk with the girls after leaving her "creepy" husband.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:44 AM (bDqIh)

225
"Hey, you know that huge clusterfuck of impeachment that I made? I killed it after months and months. You're welcome. Re-elect me!"
-Red district Democrat asking for re-election

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:40 AM (q80AH)

More excuses & explanations will be made than John Belushi delivered in The Blues Brothers.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 09, 2019 11:44 AM (hLRSq)

226 Her latest book, er I mean bribe, is already at the used book stores. Glaring out at all passersby.

Posted by: Boots at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM (oGBso)

There were copies of "Becoming" on the discount shelf at the Super Kroger here. 25% off.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:44 AM (ptqGC)

227 Streep was kind of cute in a might-fuck-just-before-I-pass-out kind of way in Deer Hunter. After that NFW.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 09, 2019 11:45 AM (y7DUB)

228 222 And new Ghostbusters shows a respect for the original, which Lady Ghostbusters outright didn't.

-
In the trailer, they say, ""There hasn't been a ghost sighting in 30-years." They're treating Ghostbusterettes with benign neglect.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 09, 2019 11:44 AM (+y/Ru)

=========

Which is apparently pissing off the Lady Ghostbuster's three fans.

Of course, those three didn't actually see Lady Ghostbusters in theater. They got it from Redbox with a code. But they're committed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:45 AM (q80AH)

229 So, where is the Horowitz exoneration?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 09, 2019 11:45 AM (7Fs5Q)

230 Heh.

I love the blond(e)-hair-blue-eyes-plus-epicanthic-fold look. Had that look in my Hungarian forebears.
Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 09, 2019 11:38 AM (Rbu5d)

Forebears. Spit.

I shit bigger than you.

Posted by: Ten Bears at December 09, 2019 11:45 AM (z79tQ)

231 The fringe Democrats have allowed their hatred of Trump for beating their queen so bad they have gone off the deep end. And whether they know it or not they are destroying the Democrat Party.

And Tom Skeritt easy after top gun. The chick not so much.

Posted by: Vic at December 09, 2019 11:46 AM (mpXpK)

232 What's all this about anti-MOT remarks?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 09, 2019 11:37 AM (zBaqJ)

I felt the need to issue a warning after I banned a troll, and the warning may have been overbroad.

E-mail me if you want more details.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 11:46 AM (MRoRq)

233 >>And new Ghostbusters shows a respect for the original, which Lady Ghostbusters outright didn't.

I think it's being made by Harold Ramiss' son - it's definitely the offspring of someone involved in the original Ghostbusters who has no patience for the lady version.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (bDqIh)

234 Remember when you used to have to pretend to take the Grey Lady seriously? Neither do I.

Posted by: rammajamma at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (PQRcz)

235 Kinda off current topic and probably belongs somewhere in Art:

I was really heartened that restoration work is funded and ongoing for the Black Hawk statue (The Eternal Indian by Laredo Taft) overlooking the Rock River. Came up on local news talking about funding issues and commending all the private contributions.

It is just a beautiful piece in a beautiful location and I am very happy that people stepped up to conserve part of our cultural and artistic heritage. So there.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (MIKMs)

236 So, where is the Horowitz exoneration?

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I don't think he has exoneration powers. People he interviews have to volunteer to exonerate.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (3rtj0)

237 Skeritt is a good supporting actor but only really liked about three movies he's been in .

Ice Castles
Alien
Dead Zone

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (oiW2a)

238 Regarding movie franchises, Anal Sluts 8 had absolutely nothing to do with Anal Sluts Volumes 1-7!

Posted by: Porn Guy at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (2wdJR)

239 I thought Mooch's new book was:

"Eating Your Way to Beauty on 15 Pounds of Ribs Per Day"

A Diet For The Rest of Us

Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (9X624)

240 I think it's either meant to be the actress and her friends consoling her over the failed ad *or* a continuation of the character getting drunk with the girls after leaving her "creepy" husband.

Right, the gin commercial is meant to have the woman be the same character, who has now divorced (they show her ring finger) because her husband implied she was fat by buying her the bike.

There's a great edit of the Peloton commercial where she's on the bike with that POW-in-Nam look on her face and the screen on the bike is showing Joe Biden yelling "You're fat!".

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (ZGrMX)

241 The fringe Democrats have allowed their hatred of Trump

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By fringe, you mean the media, Hollywood, academia, the political left, the Democrat House, the Democrat presidential candidates, and all Democrats.

Posted by: SH at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (sX1BW)

242 I opened an email from Barnes and Noble, to discover an offer of a signed copy of "Becoming."

They're still pushing the hell out of that book.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (ptqGC)

243 233 >>And new Ghostbusters shows a respect for the original, which Lady Ghostbusters outright didn't.

I think it's being made by Harold Ramiss' son - it's definitely the offspring of someone involved in the original Ghostbusters who has no patience for the lady version.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (bDqIh)

========

Ivan Reitman's kid, Jason.

Who's a very good director. Thank you for Smoking, Tully, Up in the Air, Juno, and Young Adult are all his.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (q80AH)

244 Of course, those three didn't actually see Lady Ghostbusters in theater.
They got it from Redbox with a code. But they're committed.

To which mental institution?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (xkSJa)

245 Forebears. Spit.

I shit bigger than you.
Posted by: Ten Bears at December 09, 2019 11:45 AM (z79tQ)

Oops!
:$

Posted by: Flyover EDKH at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (Rbu5d)

246 Which is apparently pissing off the Lady Ghostbuster's three fans.

Of course, those three didn't actually see Lady Ghostbusters in theater. They got it from Redbox with a code. But they're committed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:45 AM (q80AH)
+++++++++++++++++
The solution to this obvious. This is a clear-cut case of market failure.

The only thing to do is to permit Hollywood to make their woman-hating pap for general sale, but to ensure a federal subsidy for right-thinking films and will be guaranteed wide distribution.

If this fails to spark the right kind of responses, audiences will be selected by lottery, using the jury pool in each locale with a movie theater. Attendance will be mandatory. Tweeting or reviewing will be forbidden.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (I2dne)

247 And whether they know it or not they are destroying the Democrat Party.

I keep thinking this but it doesn't happen. The GOPe keeps tossing them a lifeline.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (y7DUB)

248 Self employed still have to pay into social security. So they get benefits back when age eligible.
Posted by: Jen the original

Thanks Jen. I had no idea how that works for them.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (7jTtI)

249 "Michelle Obama: Her Inspiring Story"

AA admit to Princeton University.
Majored in sociology and African-American studies.
AA admit to Harvard Law School.
AA hire by the Sidley & Austin law firm in Chicago. Briefly worked there.
Went to work for the City of Chicago, being hired by Valerie Jarrett. Briefly worked there.
Landed a cushy nonprofit job as executive director. Briefly worked there.
Went to work for the University of Chicago as an administrator.
Had the University of Chicago Hospitals create a job for her when her husband was elected state senator.
Had her salary tripled when her husband was elected US senator.
Went to Washington when her husband was elected President. The University of Chicago Hospitals eliminated her job.

Inspiring!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (I2/tG)

250 @237 you didn't say TOP GUN you are disqualified

Posted by: blaster at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (MLfDH)

251 224, thanks for explaining.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (I3OPu)

252 234
Remember when you used to have to pretend to take the Grey Lady seriously? Neither do I.

Posted by: rammajamma at December 09, 2019 11:47 AM (PQRcz)

=====

Paraphrase of Andrew Klavan: "The Times, formerly a newspaper, is now a cross between Pravda and a bunch of six-year-old girls who have just seen a mouse."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes - the Housekeeper at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (IttZ7)

253 This is why people think going back to the middle ages wouldn't be so bad. Cause they think it will be like how Hollywood protrays it.

Um. NO.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 09, 2019 11:44 AM (iDOB7)
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Well they ARE doing their best to recreate the Middle Ages in urban areas controlled by Leftists, by encouraging homeless encampments resulting in those areas becoming open sewers of human waste. Which leads to typhus and plague and all sorts of diseases not seen in the civilized west in hundreds of years. Yay! Ren-fair cosplay for realsies!

Posted by: Boots at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (oGBso)

254 Regarding movie franchises, Anal Sluts 8 had absolutely nothing to do with Anal Sluts Volumes 1-7!
Posted by: Porn Guy

They subverted expectations.

Posted by: eleven at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (M0u+N)

255 I think it's being made by Harold Ramiss' son - it's definitely the offspring of someone involved in the original Ghostbusters who has no patience for the lady version.

Ivan Reitman's son Jason co-wrote and directed, and it's produced by Ivan Reitman and Dan Ackroyd.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (ZGrMX)

256 Ah, a variant of the middle school classic, "If you didn't do it, why are you being so defensive?!" argument.

Presumption of innocence! How does it work?!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:17 AM (I2dne)

Kafka-Trap: Your denial of your guilt precludes any possibility of your innocence, and aggravates your crime by your attempt to conceal it.

*Gavel!*

Next defendant, Gregor Samsa! Approach the bench.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (1glZx)

257 Happy Birthday, BigNJames!
Posted by: Jane D'oh

seconded

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (arJlL)

258

Who Dis ?: Don't know but she is from Clevageland how about those Browns,still enslaved.

Posted by: saf at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (5IHGB)

259 WhoDis Girl #2 - was she the original girlfriend in Back to the Future, or the replacement girlfriend in the sequels? I don't know who the other gals are.

WhoDis Guy #3 did that great portrayal of J. Jonah Jameson in that Spider-Man movie. I don't know who the other guys are. Except that one, but I can't think of his name.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click at your own ricks at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (Lsu/B)

260 Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at December 09, 2019 11:44 AM (iDOB7)

The eye removal and scar caused by a hunting falcon .

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (oiW2a)

261 255 I think it's being made by Harold Ramiss' son - it's definitely the offspring of someone involved in the original Ghostbusters who has no patience for the lady version.

Ivan Reitman's son Jason co-wrote and directed, and it's produced by Ivan Reitman and Dan Ackroyd.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM (ZGrMX)

==========

And it seems like the main character's grandfather is supposed to be Harold Ramis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:50 AM (q80AH)

262 >>I was in line at a Michael's store the other day, and glaring at me from a magazine rack was Mooch, on the cover of Time.

"Michelle Obama: Her Inspiring Story"
Inspiring to whom?
She's Hillary Clinton 2.0: I went to an ivy league school and then got some jobs thanks to my husband's political career, and NOW I'm stinking rich and lecturing the rest of you on how to live your lives.

Real inspiring

*makes fapping hand gesture*

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:50 AM (bDqIh)

263 I had a Russian assistant once - now that was an asset.

Posted by: rammajamma at December 09, 2019 11:50 AM (PQRcz)

264 mooch's new book.

this penis aint gonna suck itself, sucka!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 09, 2019 11:50 AM (KP5rU)

265 Supposedly a shot back at the feminazi's? I didn't understand it.
Posted by: Jen the original

---

No - she left her pos husband in the Peleton commercial as he was a stooge and condescending and now she, with her friends, have gone all - You Go Girl!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2019 11:51 AM (Y4EXg)

266 https://www.un.org/en/observances/anti-corruption-day

It's Biden's day

Posted by: Jean at December 09, 2019 11:51 AM (nlzuN)

267 The lady in the original Peleton ad has a severe case of resting cringe face. That seems to be what set off the usual shrieking harpies.

Posted by: pep at December 09, 2019 11:51 AM (T6t7i)

268 I haven't seen one House member in the hearings bring it up, but they do in TV interviews, but it should be in the hearings. That said, I could easily have missed it. I want it to be the first sentence they say every time they speak hammered home again and again. I rarely get what I want.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2019 11:51 AM (r+sAi)

269 Regarding movie franchises, Anal Sluts 8 had absolutely nothing to do with Anal Sluts Volumes 1-7!
Posted by: Porn Guy

They subverted expectations.
Posted by: eleven at December 09, 2019 11:49 AM

Surprise!

Posted by: The river otters at December 09, 2019 11:51 AM (ejd/p)

270 237 you didn't say TOP GUN you are disqualified
Posted by: blaster at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (MLfDH)

Me no like Top Gun.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 09, 2019 11:51 AM (oiW2a)

271 Nicole Kidman much better actress than Meryl Streep.

So was Liberace

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2019 11:52 AM (arJlL)

272 Right, the gin commercial is meant to have the woman be the same character, who has now divorced (they show her ring finger) because her husband implied she was fat by buying her the bike.

--

I hope they show her on the dating scene and trying to connect with the men in the bars before going home to a cold, empty house and pouring another drink as she slowly puts that middle age weight back on.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:52 AM (3rtj0)

273 I wanted to pick up a copy of Schlichter's book and finally found it at my local B&N some time ago.

I checked "current affairs." Nothing.
I checked "politics." Nothing.

Found it best sellers. One of two copies, stacked *behind* Mooch's book's gigantic display.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:52 AM (I2dne)

274 The fringe Democrats

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The use of the term "the fringe Democrats" implies the existence of mainstream Democrats and there's no evidence of that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 09, 2019 11:52 AM (+y/Ru)

275 Kelly Preston...I'd grind her corn.

Posted by: The Scotsman at December 09, 2019 11:52 AM (WX+x0)

276 I had to turn off the TV.

Nadler actually said he didn't have to swear in the two opening witnesses, because they were "just giving opening statements." About how terrible PDT is. The Rs looked like they were going to rage stroke en masse.

We're a banana republic now.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:52 AM (ptqGC)

277 The Little Drummer Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VGQZwIlWiU

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at December 09, 2019 11:52 AM (EMi53)

278 for M'Chel? you're going to need a bigger hand.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at December 09, 2019 11:52 AM (o6pht)

279 Went to work for the University of Chicago as an administrator.
Had the University of Chicago Hospitals create a job for her when her husband was elected state senator.
Had her salary tripled when her husband was elected US senator.
Went to Washington when her husband was elected President. The University of Chicago Hospitals eliminated her job.

Inspiring!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (I2/tG)
---------------------------------------

The University of Chicago gig actually had a purpose, the University had closed its Level I trauma center Emergency Room which served an AA clientele in the Hyde Park neighborhood. They needed the "right person" to explain to the community why the community needed to accept the loss of their neighborhood ER.

Posted by: Boots at December 09, 2019 11:53 AM (oGBso)

280 Some of the most sage-like advice I received as a young adult: never, ever volunteer to be in a police lineup. Ever.

So, to the mouthbreather who believes "Innocent people testify"? Yeah, lolgf and eajsbod.

Posted by: DocJ at December 09, 2019 11:53 AM (77WPm)

281 I opened an email from Barnes and Noble, to discover an offer of a signed copy of "Becoming."

They're still pushing the hell out of that book.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:48 AM (ptqGC)

email them back: "No thanks, I still have a lifetime supply of Dreams of My Father hanging in the outhouse."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2019 11:53 AM (/sgva)

282 Thanks for the b/day wishes, all....think I'll have a drink.

Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2019 11:53 AM (X/Pw5)

283 >>Ivan Reitman's son Jason co-wrote and directed, and it's produced by Ivan Reitman and Dan Ackroyd.
Ah, thanks!!

A while back I listened to the Joe Rogan (I know) interview with Dan Ackroyd and it turns out Ackroyd is wayyyy into the supernatural, and knows all this stuff about UFO/alien sightings, ghost encounters, and even had an experience with a ghost in a previous home. Kinda wild listening to him chat about this in detail years after Ghostbusters.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:53 AM (bDqIh)

284 You would think a Republican would bring up Biden
and his son in this show trial, but no they keep going the route of
there was no quid pro quo with Trump playing the Dem game. There should
have been a quid pro quo! and it is perfectly fine because the president
sets policy.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2019 11:39 AM

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IIRC everyone was warned that if they did that they would be removed from the hearings.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2019 11:53 AM (JUOKG)

285 Contact lenses were a new thing when Kirk Douglas was in The Vikings.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 09, 2019 11:53 AM (r6GLc)

286 Alistair Sim A Christmas Carol is best A Christmas Carol.

Posted by: jsg at December 09, 2019 11:53 AM (cz8Bv)

287 283 >>Ivan Reitman's son Jason co-wrote and directed, and it's produced by Ivan Reitman and Dan Ackroyd.
Ah, thanks!!

A while back I listened to the Joe Rogan (I know) interview with Dan Ackroyd and it turns out Ackroyd is wayyyy into the supernatural, and knows all this stuff about UFO/alien sightings, ghost encounters, and even had an experience with a ghost in a previous home. Kinda wild listening to him chat about this in detail years after Ghostbusters.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:53 AM (bDqIh)

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His original draft of Ghostbusters involved magic wands. These became the proton packs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:54 AM (q80AH)

288 They needed the "right person" to explain to the community why the community needed to accept the loss of their neighborhood ER.

--

Holy cow. That's the Uncle Tom I keep hearing everyone refer to, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:54 AM (3rtj0)

289 I flew with the old man, A-4's hell of a pilot.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 09, 2019 11:55 AM (r7Fvf)

290 Ghostbusters trailer looks like it has Dianne Franklin's daughter in it. I mean, not for real, but same look and sense, but at age 13

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 11:55 AM (KZzsI)

291 I believe a DC area moron was in the gallery at the start of the hearing. He went off yelling about the sham impeachment, and how the American people are sick and tired of the clown show. It was an amazing rant, and he got a lot in before he was dragged out of the gallery.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (ptqGC)

292 "Michelle Obama: Her Inspiring Story"

AA admit to Princeton University.
Majored in sociology and African-American studies.
AA admit to Harvard Law School.
AA hire by the Sidley & Austin law firm in Chicago. Briefly worked there.
Went to work for the City of Chicago, being hired by Valerie Jarrett. Briefly worked there.
Landed a cushy nonprofit job as executive director. Briefly worked there.
Went to work for the University of Chicago as an administrator.
Had the University of Chicago Hospitals create a job for her when her husband was elected state senator.
Had her salary tripled when her husband was elected US senator.
Went to Washington when her husband was elected President. The University of Chicago Hospitals eliminated her job.

Inspiring!

Has the biggest shlong of all the First Ladies

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (arJlL)

293 Report comes out at 1:00 Eastern. Babies will be split. Training will be recommended.

Posted by: The Rabbits at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (RD7QR)

294 PSA: Bass pro is giving free two day express shipping on all orders over $50.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (JUOKG)

295 >>The University of Chicago gig actually had a purpose, the University had
closed its Level I trauma center Emergency Room which served an AA
clientele in the Hyde Park neighborhood. They needed the "right person"
to explain to the community why the community needed to accept the loss
of their neighborhood ER.

Right, and it was just a coincidence that the person who helped her "find" that job was Valerie Jarrett, who was (maybe still is?) on the board of the U. of Chicago hospital. Always nice when your husband's political handler and so-close-she's-like-family friend does that for you. *wink, wink*

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (bDqIh)

296

Which Kelly is best Kelly?

a) Kelly Lebrock
b) Kelly Preston
c) Kelly Bundy

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (v9F6s)

297 Southern Style Chicken Tenders?

Reminds me I've been wanting fish 'n' chips for a while now. Or at least some fish sticks. Childhood comfort food, I guess. (It's the tartar sauce.)

___

I'm confused about this whole Russian interference thing.

I thought the commie Dems and Media would be happy with that. When did the Rooskies quit being their ideals and start being their boogeymen?

Or is it all just propaganda, their thinking that Trump's base fears Russia?

But Trump's base isn't buying the lefty media anyway, so they must be appealing to their own base... who fear Russia?

*boggle*

Posted by: mindful webworker - click at your own ricks at December 09, 2019 11:57 AM (Lsu/B)

298 I hope they show her on the dating scene and trying to connect with the men in the bars before going home to a cold, empty house and pouring another drink as she slowly puts that middle age weight back on.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:52 AM (3rtj0)
+++++++++++++
This would break the cardinal rule of advertising: "Show nothing realistic."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:57 AM (I2dne)

299 the University had closed its Level I trauma center Emergency Room which served an AA clientele in the Hyde Park neighborhood.

Amusingly, now that Michelle's been gone for a long while, the University of Chicago has reopened its Level I trauma center.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 11:57 AM (I2/tG)

300

Myrna Loy?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 09, 2019 11:58 AM (v9F6s)

301 Kelly Preston is hot, but also a Scientology cultist, so a big nope from me...

Posted by: ZEUS OF OLYMPUS at December 09, 2019 11:58 AM (wtvvX)

302 301 Kelly Preston is hot, but also a Scientology cultist, so a big nope from me...
Posted by: ZEUS OF OLYMPUS at December 09, 2019 11:58 AM (wtvvX)

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You don't have to fall in love. You just need to fall in line.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:58 AM (q80AH)

303 They needed the "right person" to explain to the community why the community needed to accept the loss of their neighborhood ER.

--

Holy cow. That's the Uncle Tom I keep hearing everyone refer to, right?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I support medically approved diets for anorexics who are trapped in fat girls' bodies at December 09, 2019 11:54 AM (3rtj0)

It should be, particularly that mush mouthed whiny ignorant pile of shit Eric "My People" Holder.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 09, 2019 11:58 AM (y7DUB)

304 Has the biggest shlong of all the First Ladies
Posted by: JT at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (arJlL)

That's a clit, h8er!

A clit with testicles, but still...

Posted by: Sockittome at December 09, 2019 11:58 AM (z79tQ)

305 Which Kelly is best Kelly?

a) Kelly Lebrock

b) Kelly Preston

c) Kelly Bundy
d) Kelly Slater FTW!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:58 AM (bDqIh)

306 Which Kelly is best Kelly?

a) Kelly Lebrock
b) Kelly Preston
c) Kelly Bundy
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM

Preston. A) The other one got a little big. and C) Not her real name, even if it was. B) is the best.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM (r7Fvf)

307 Or is it all just propaganda, their thinking that Trump's base fears Russia?

But Trump's base isn't buying the lefty media anyway, so they must be appealing to their own base... who fear Russia?

*boggle*
Posted by: mindful webworker - click at your own ricks at December 09, 2019 11:57 AM (Lsu/B)
+++++++++++
I think it was convenience. They had the playbook written up, and Russia always tries to meddle in some way because they're an enemy.

They went too hard, screamed too loud, and left no way out. They're committed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM (I2dne)

308 Report comes out at 1:00 Eastern. Babies will be split. Training will be recommended.

Posted by: The Rabbits at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (RD7QR)

Goal posts will be moved!

Posted by: Mobile Goal Posts at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM (6A9Kg)

309 Kelly Preston is hot, but also a Scientology cultist, so a big nope from me...

Xenu can make your dick bigger. For only $10 million, made payable to David Miscarriage.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM (ZGrMX)

310 Wonder Woman 1975 trailer is just confusing. OK looks like the 80s, more or less, but what the heck is going on?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM (KZzsI)

311 When did the Rooskies quit being their ideals and start being their boogeymen?

About the time the Soviet Union collapsed would be my guess.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM (xkSJa)

312
Right, and it was just a coincidence that the person who helped her
"find" that job was Valerie Jarrett, who was (maybe still is?) on the
board of the U. of Chicago hospital. Always nice when your husband's
political handler and so-close-she's-like-family friend does that for
you. *wink, wink*
=====

So how in the stump-toed froggy hell did they become multimillionaires -- from old used cars to mansions and chauffers. All on the public dime.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 09, 2019 12:00 PM (MIKMs)

313 310 Wonder Woman 1975 trailer is just confusing. OK looks like the 80s, more or less, but what the heck is going on?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM (KZzsI)

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1984

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the ~~Force~~ Schwartz at December 09, 2019 12:00 PM (q80AH)

314 The official Democratic party line now is that they have to impeach the evil Trump, despite the election being less than a year off, since OrangeManBad will steal the election again if he is not removed.

It's a backhanded acknowledgment that Trump is getting reelected.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 12:00 PM (I2/tG)

315 Which Kelly is best Kelly?

a) Kelly Lebrock
b) Kelly Preston
c) Kelly Bundy
Posted by: Soothsayer

Kelly Bundy puts out on the first date.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 12:00 PM (7jTtI)

316 They went too hard, screamed too loud, and left no way out. They're committed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM

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The democrats cried wolf too many times. Good thing they didn't shout it in a theater.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2019 12:00 PM (JUOKG)

317 Except for all the commies Buckley was right.

Posted by: nip at December 09, 2019 12:01 PM (Izot6)

318 Wonder Woman 1975 trailer is just confusing. OK looks like the 80s, more or less, but what the heck is going on?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM (KZzsI)

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1984
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 09, 2019 12:00 PM (q80AH)

That last bit with the trash can in funny.

Posted by: runner at December 09, 2019 12:01 PM (zr5Kq)

319 Kelly Bundy puts out on the first date.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 12:00 PM (7jTtI)
+++++++++++
But she will burn a hole in your wallet and screw up the pizza.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2019 12:01 PM (I2dne)

320 I don't understand why news people interview the president's wife about politics.

So, Mrs Krabowski, based on your 4 years of experience being the wife of a plumber, what do you think about my stopped up toilet?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 12:01 PM (KZzsI)

321

Kelly Bundy puts out on the first date.
Posted by: rickb223

This would've been 75% more funny if you posted as Bud B.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 09, 2019 12:02 PM (v9F6s)

322 It shall be noted the obamas decided not to go back to live in chicago. They are going to take their chances with the sure prospect of dying from rising sea waters of global warming rather than live there.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2019 12:02 PM (r+sAi)

323 Nood. IG Report due in one hour.

Posted by: JAS at December 09, 2019 12:02 PM (DBGf/)

324 I don't understand why news people interview the president's wife about politics.

So, Mrs Krabowski, based on your 4 years of experience being the wife of a plumber, what do you think about my stopped up toilet?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 12:01 PM (KZzsI)
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Probably questions like that.

Posted by: Mrs. Krabowski at December 09, 2019 12:02 PM (I2dne)

325 I mentioned a local boy who was murdered by the Saudi rage boy in Pensacola.

I actually sat and cried reading his father's statement.

21 y.o. Airman Apprentice Cameron Walters graduated Great Lakes on November 22, and hadn't been at Pensacola Naval Station but a brief time. He was following in his retired Navy dad's footsteps.

On Thursday night, he and his dad video chatted. His father said his boy proudly told him he had passed the exam qualifying him to stand watch and help secure building entrances at NAS.

When news broke the next morning of shots being fired at the base, Shane Walters called his son's cellphone repeatedly throughout the day. There was no answer. He learned later his son was standing watch at the classroom building when he was killed.

God bless and comfort that dad and family. I can't even imagine.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 12:02 PM (ptqGC)

326 296
Which Kelly is best Kelly?

a) Kelly Lebrock
b) Kelly Preston
c) Kelly Bundy
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM

Kelly Bundy was pretty hot back in the day. Can we get an honorable mention for Kellyanne Conway? Smart, fun personality, hardworking...seems like the perfect 'ette.

Posted by: Grimaldi at December 09, 2019 12:02 PM (2wdJR)

327 Training will be recommended.

I know a number of Federal employees, and it is astonishing how much "training" they do.

This is because any time the Federal government screws up in some fashion, the default solution is to mandate more training.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 09, 2019 12:02 PM (I2/tG)

328 A disservice has been done by not including pictures of 23yo Kelly Preston in "Mischief".
You know the ones.
NSFW

Posted by: Downcast at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (KnsgW)

329 I'm a broken record on the subject, but a big ol'
universe should allow a Ghostbusters movie to not be about good guys
shooting things with magic backpacks (or death stars, or planet
destroying supervillains, etc)

Kids investigating a cave, or a religious experiment, or who knows
what. I'm pro-magic backpacks, but man, I'd love to have some well
written thought experiments.
Posted by: [Moron Robbie. . .]at December 09, 2019 11:43 AM (3rtj0)

I pray it is not Goonies with unlicensed nuclear accelerators.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (1glZx)

330 They needed the "right person" to explain to the community why the
community needed to accept the loss of their neighborhood ER.

=====

And the 'right person' to explain to the community why they should give up their lakefront public park.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (MIKMs)

331 Pretty amazing to watch this weekend the protesters in Hong Kong after six months of pro-democracy protests sing the national anthem while waving American flags. Contrast that to the evil in our politics, media, and Hollywood.

Posted by: Cheri at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (oiNtH)

332 The Obamas only have their shrine in Chicago, they don't live among those people. Its the Hamptons or nowhere for them!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (KZzsI)

333 >>God bless and comfort that dad and family. I can't even imagine.That makes me so mad. Such a waste of a good young man!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (bDqIh)

334 About the time the Soviet Union collapsed would be my guess.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Not scanning your email for ad targeting at December 09, 2019 11:59 AM (xkSJa)

I'd say what really clenched it was when they realized that Russia's new system, flawed as it is, wasn't going to collapse back into communism. For a while, they were able to live in denial... there was still a strong Communist Party, and they thought it would win and the USSR would be reborn.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (J+mig)

335
This impeachment farce is the Democrats INTERFERING IN THE 2020 ELECTION.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (v9F6s)

336 Is the new Wonder Woman movie basically the "Flashback" storyline?

You know, to reset the DC universe after Zack Snyder made a dog's breakfast of it.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (9X624)

337 Over in the Madrona section of Seattle you can still see Tom Skerritt at the local Starbucks from time to time.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2019 12:04 PM (axyOa)

338 Right, and it was just a coincidence that the person who helped her "find" that job was Valerie Jarrett, who was (maybe still is?) on the board of the U. of Chicago hospital. Always nice when your husband's political handler and so-close-she's-like-family friend does that for you. *wink, wink*

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (bDqIh)
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but only the "right person" could tell the angry neighbors that they had to shut up and accept the loss of the ER.

Somebody who checked all the right boxes, including having the right last name?

The hospital was losing money hand over fist, and wanted out from under the burden of running a Level I ER in a mostly diverse neighborhood. Those ER's are usually full of people who don't pay, but not just "anybody" can tell the neighbors to shut the hell up and beat it. This is something Larry Elder could explain better than I can.

Posted by: Boots at December 09, 2019 12:04 PM (oGBso)

339 I pray it is not Goonies with unlicensed nuclear accelerators.

That's what it kinda looks like, but less fun and more intense. I think its trying to vibe heavily off of that Netflix show

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 12:04 PM (KZzsI)

340 Which Kelly is best Kelly?

a) Kelly Lebrock

b) Kelly Preston

c) Kelly Bundy

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 09, 2019 11:56 AM (v9F6s)

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Kelly's Heroes, of course.

#Duh!

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 09, 2019 12:04 PM (NYIfp)

341 Which is apparently pissing off the Lady Ghostbuster's three fans.

Of course, those three didn't actually see Lady Ghostbusters in
theater. They got it from Redbox with a code. But they're committed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Strong with the Force Schwartz at December 09, 2019 11:45 AM (q80AH)

You do have a movie and arts criticism newsletter, right? How much is the subscription?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2019 12:05 PM (1glZx)

342 Is the new Wonder Woman movie basically the "Flashback" storyline?

I read a rumor that said something like that yeah. Not sure why Wondy is using her lasso like a Spider-Man web line though. Couldn't she fly at the end of the last movie?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2019 12:05 PM (KZzsI)

343 Wonder Woman 1975 trailer is just confusing. OK looks like the 80s, more or less, but what the heck is going on?

1984, and I have no idea what's going on, but the production and sound design is incredible. As a Gen Xer I fully support Hollywood lining up to suck my dick.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 09, 2019 12:06 PM (ZGrMX)

344 Community organizers, duh.

Also nood

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at December 09, 2019 12:06 PM (0GvUH)

345 58
You don't have to be stupid to be an actor. But it helps.

Seriously - it's a job where being a dumbass actually is a plus. Blank slates and all.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (AzW6q)

Liberty-biberty...
Don't worry, we can dub in in.

Posted by: Liberty mutual ad at December 09, 2019 12:07 PM (KnsgW)

346 325 I mentioned a local boy who was murdered by the Saudi rage boy in Pensacola.
_______________

Reports say that the murderous muzzie was set off by his instructor making a joke in class about his "porn 'stache."

F*#king unstable snowflakes who can't handle even a stupid joke without flying into a killing rage. Idiots like this should never be allowed to enter our country, let alone get military training here.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 09, 2019 12:07 PM (k4dH2)

347 And the 'right person' to explain to the community why they should give up their lakefront public park.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 09, 2019 12:03 PM (MIKMs)

I think Gaylord successfully pissed off everybody with the concrete buttplug posing as a library with no books.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 09, 2019 12:08 PM (y7DUB)

348 I see my confusion about rooskie collusion was already addressed 'way back in #84 and #118. Russia ≠ USSR

sigh. 8ball says still cloudy

Posted by: mindful webworker - click at your own ricks at December 09, 2019 12:08 PM (Lsu/B)

349
So how in the stump-toed froggy hell did they
become multimillionaires -- from old used cars to mansions and
chauffers. All on the public dime.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 09, 2019 12:00 PM (MIKMs)

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book deals and campaign funds

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 09, 2019 12:08 PM (NYIfp)

350 Carl's Jr should make an ad with Peloton woman and her husband trying to get back together and he buys her a double cheeseburger! Maybe she could make a self-video of eating one or two every day for a year and give it to him as a Christmas present.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 09, 2019 12:09 PM (m45I2)

351 book deals and campaign funds

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 09, 2019 12:08 PM (NYIfp)

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it also helps to be immune from insider trading laws...

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 09, 2019 12:09 PM (NYIfp)

352 In about 1988-89 maybe, my friend and I went down to Madame Wong's West in Santa Monica for an early evening and who strolls in but a very young Christina Applegate ("Kelly Bundy") and William Faustino for "Buds" birthday party. She had this wide eyed look of someone new to the business but was breathtaking in person.

Posted by: Actually inside the beltway at December 09, 2019 12:10 PM (fMhOl)

353 Kelly Bundy puts out on the first date.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2019 12:00 PM (7jTtI

Kelly Bundy puts out on every date.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at December 09, 2019 12:11 PM (MRoRq)

354 >>Reports say that the murderous muzzie was set off by his instructor making a joke in class about his "porn 'stache."

F*#king unstable snowflakes who can't handle even a stupid joke
without flying into a killing rage. Idiots like this should never be
allowed to enter our country, let alone get military training here.
- - -

That is BS.

The guy haaaated America, hosted a terror snuff film dinner party, and tweeted how much he hated America right before he went on the shooting spree. No one triggered this guy, he planned it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 09, 2019 12:12 PM (bDqIh)

355 Figured I'd willow this and wake ace up.

Does anyone really expect the Dems to pay a serious price for their literally unbelievable and despicable behavior?

It's not 1972, or even 1980. Barring big black swans they've had little chance for the WH for a while. But they'll possibly even hold the House.

And the GOP will remain the same, based on current trends. Recall that the more ridiculous the Dems, the less responsive the GOP has to be. "What, you're going to vote for THEM? Oh, actually, no, we have no agenda and will not be tying ourselves to real objectives, thanks for asking."

Posted by: Rhomboid at December 09, 2019 12:12 PM (Nuq8s)

356 172
I was in line at a Michael's store the other day, and glaring at me from a magazine rack was Mooch, on the cover of Time.

"Michelle Obama: Her Inspiring Story"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2019 11:36 AM (ptqGC)

_____

I'll take "Yet another example of things you'll never see you about Melania Trump" for $1,000, Alex!

Posted by: ShainS at December 09, 2019 12:15 PM (lgy2g)

357 Grace Kelly

Posted by: Muldoon at December 09, 2019 12:15 PM (m45I2)

358

354 >>Reports say that the murderous muzzie was set off by his instructor making a joke in class about his "porn 'stache"

My goat LOVES my porn 'stache, infidels!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 09, 2019 12:15 PM (pNxlR)

359 My GOAT thinks I'm sexy

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 09, 2019 12:24 PM (BqBId)

360 Reports say that the murderous muzzie was set off by his instructor making a joke in class about his "porn 'stache."

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Separate his head from his body. Feed body to the sharks. Pack head in lard.. Return head to SA.

Still deciding what to do with the other detainees. Do not provoke me further.

XOXOXO
PDT

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2019 12:40 PM (Y4EXg)

361 337 Over in the Madrona section of Seattle you can still see Tom Skerritt at the local Starbucks from time to time.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2019 12:04 PM (axyOa)

Madrona is the new Ballard.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 09, 2019 12:42 PM (e1mEI)

362 The laugh is our entire media is working for Putin.

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2019 12:56 PM (3ZQT1)

363 /Sock off

Posted by: Muldoon at December 09, 2019 12:59 PM (m45I2)

364 Tom Skerritt and Kelly Preston, with the link being 'Space Camp'. Bonus is of course Kirk Douglas from 'The Vikings'.

Posted by: Jamie at December 09, 2019 03:22 PM (f/f2q)

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