Finally A Decade With A Name Again - "The Twenties"<br>[BUCK THROCKMORTON]

Finally A Decade With A Name Again - "The Twenties"
[BUCK THROCKMORTON]

Well here we are – at the end of a "20-year decade." When decades don’t have names, we don’t get the normal 10-year identity for measuring the timeline of life, and we haven’t had a named decade since “The Nineties.” Some of us tried to make “The Aughts” happen for 2000 – 2009, but it never caught on. If people refer to that decade at all - and they rarely do - it is referred to as “The Two Thousands.” The current decade is completely nameless. “The Teens” would have worked, but that would seem to exclude 2010 through 2012. So just like in December 2009, no one is doing retrospectives of the preceding decade. As I recall, there wasn’t even a sense of there being a new decade in 2010.

This “20-year decade” started with Y2K on the calendar, culturally started with 9/11, featured the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars, saw a communication revolution with the iphone, a black President was elected (which somehow made the left even angrier about what an awful racist country America is), and ended with the Trump revolution. Along the way, every losing Presidential candidate abandoned the precedent of losing with dignity. Instead, each losing candidate (Gore, Kerry, McCain, Romney, Hillary) has embarked on a bitter path of score settling, denial, or vindictiveness. Say what you will about GHWBush, Dukakis, Dole and Mondale, but at least they didn’t try to punish their adversaries or tear the country apart out of spite just because they lost a Presidential election.

When I think about how I perceive decades of the 20th Century, 1900 - 1919 also run together. In my mind that “20-year decade” starts with the Wright Brothers, then Henry Ford brings cars to the masses, and then it ends with WWI. The other decades stay confined to their 10-year spans. (e.g. – Prohibition and Flappers in the Roaring Twenties; Depression & Dustbowl in the Thirties; WWII in the Forties; Bobby Sox and Rock & Roll in the Fifties; Surfing and then Vietnam, Hippies & Woodstock in the Sixties; Watergate & Disco in the Seventies; etc). If lumberjack beards and hipster clothes are the defining look of the decade that is now ending, my advice to hipsters would be to change appearances soon. You didn’t want to be the guy still wearing leisure suits in the 80s, and I’m guessing that the lumbersexual look will be similarly subject to parody as we move forward into the Twenties.

One other thing we need to retire at the start of this decade is naming years “Two Thousand something”. The new year will be “Twenty - Twenty”, not “Two Thousand - Twenty”, then the following year will be “Twenty - Twenty One,”not “Two Thousand - Twenty One.”

Finally, a big year-end thanks to Ace and the Cobs. I discovered this blog around 2010 and it has been my favorite ever since. I’m pretty sure I’ve read every post since then, something I cannot say about any other website or publication. I’m grateful to be able to contribute a little to this unique forum. Happy New Decade!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:10 PM

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1 The Boring 20's!

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:11 PM (Z1ykJ)

2 The 20's are back!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:11 PM (dUJdY)

3 3rd?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at January 01, 2020 05:12 PM (sQKzv)

4 Let's bring back flappers and the Charleston!

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:12 PM (Z1ykJ)

5 Damn clutch.. I missed it by that much!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:12 PM (dUJdY)

6 23 skidoo!

Posted by: LASue at January 01, 2020 05:13 PM (Ed8Zd)

7
I'll say the Whoring Twenties just because it rhymes, but I think the 20s are going to be yuuuuge in some way.

We haven't had a decade worth a nickname since the Swingin' Sixties as far as I know, but I think these 20s are going to have one someday.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:14 PM (oGNNA)

8 The Roaring Twenty's called. They said to enjoy the ride.

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2020 05:14 PM (i+qnA)

9 Let's bring back flappers and the Charleston!

Indeed!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:14 PM (dUJdY)

10 23 skidoo!

Posted by: LASue at January 01, 2020 05:13 PM (Ed8Zd)

The bee's knees!

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:15 PM (Z1ykJ)

11
Oh, and again just for the sake of rhyme:

The Snoring 20s
The Warring 20s

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:15 PM (oGNNA)

12 Calvin Coolidge is cool again. And the Coolidge Effect.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 05:16 PM (u82oZ)

13 Uh, the decade doesn't start until 2021. This is the last year of the 2nd decade.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 01, 2020 05:16 PM (+0AKE)

14 The question is, East Egg or West Egg?

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:16 PM (Z1ykJ)

15 I hope '20s era jazz makes a comeback.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 01, 2020 05:17 PM (u8l4t)

16 Uh, the decade doesn't start until 2021. This is the last year of the 2nd decade.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 01, 2020 05:16 PM (+0AKE)
Ah, you sound like my step-dad. We're going to celebrate Buster's first birthday!
"His first birthday was when he was born..."

OK, FIRST Anniversary!

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:18 PM (Z1ykJ)

17 I hope '20s era jazz makes a comeback.
Posted by: Puddleglum

And the dresses

Posted by: Jean at January 01, 2020 05:18 PM (B7KlG)

18
Didn't the 1920s "roar" because of crazy productivity and prosperity? I can see that happening again, although maybe the 30s (Dirty Thirties?) will be better if second-term Trump or his successor can get our immigration policy in order and we quit taking the basket cases and criminals of the southern hemisphere and start importing more Poles, Hong Kongers, and Hungarians.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:18 PM (oGNNA)

19 As I recall, there wasn't even a sense of there being a new decade in 2010.

I noticed it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:20 PM (XVuno)

20 I don't buy the its not the decade yet stuff. You are putting a new number in the tens place value, its a new decade.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 05:20 PM (r+sAi)

21 You're a year early for this post. The next decade doesn't start for 366 days. Wanna put it back in draft until then?

Posted by: Weirddave at January 01, 2020 05:20 PM (k6/rI)

22 10
23 skidoo!

Posted by: LASue at January 01, 2020 05:13 PM (Ed8Zd)

The bee's knees!

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:15 PM (Z1ykJ)

++++
Just ahead of my time, folks.

Posted by: Joe, doin' his No Malarky Tour at January 01, 2020 05:20 PM (5DZMc)

23 I hope '20s era jazz makes a comeback.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 01, 2020 05:17 PM (u8l4t)
I love big band, and some of the modern spin-offs.

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:21 PM (Z1ykJ)

24 The Paolo, he will call this new decade "the Scoring Twenties." Because, of course.

Posted by: Paolo at January 01, 2020 05:21 PM (XVuno)

25 Just ahead of my time, folks.
Posted by: Joe, doin' his No Malarky Tour

Burma Shave!

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at January 01, 2020 05:22 PM (VNfwt)

26 I noticed it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:20 PM (XVuno)

I think because we were all so enamored of the Light Bringer time just flew. Sort of like half of my retirement money.

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:22 PM (Z1ykJ)

27 I hope this is the decade where the left self destructs.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 01, 2020 05:23 PM (+0AKE)

28 Or; In the year of our Lord 2020.
Has a nice ring to it.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2020 05:23 PM (xcd1u)

29
There should be a lot of jokes about this being the year of having a clear vision for the future and whatever. "We now have a 2020 vision of Trump's scars and blemishes, and it's clear, our choice is BIDEN!!!" (I think it's going to be Biden.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:24 PM (oGNNA)

30 But with fappers, not flappers.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 01, 2020 05:24 PM (Dc2NZ)

31 I hope this is the decade where the left self destructs.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 01, 2020 05:23 PM (+0AKE)

They really want to be taking us along with them.

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:24 PM (Z1ykJ)

32 Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:24 PM (XVuno)

33 if you'd told me at 2010 that Trump would become president, the demons would go full tilt socialist, the magic lightbringer would literally spy on his successor, and Hillary! would not be president (ever), I'd never have believed you.

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at January 01, 2020 05:25 PM (VNfwt)

34 29 year olds RULE!!!

Posted by: Miklos, even better than 29 at January 01, 2020 05:26 PM (QzkSJ)

35 Just watched Little Women. Beth died. Again!

Posted by: Jmel at January 01, 2020 05:27 PM (OeWgo)

36
Anyway, one thing: I didn't watch a darn one of those "Decade in Review" shows or "Best of 2019" things. That's the trouble with television at this time of year. Bunch of clips patched together as an(other) excuse to not do journalism.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:27 PM (oGNNA)

37 21
You're a year early for this post. The next decade doesn't start for 366 days. Wanna put it back in draft until then?

Posted by: Weirddave at January 01, 2020 05:20 PM (k6/rI)

+++
This really puts a damper on the psyche, as if we have this empty year to wait out and be part of something substantial.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 01, 2020 05:27 PM (5DZMc)

38 Hey, we could give Prohibition another try!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:27 PM (XVuno)

39 If you told me in 1980, that iran would still be attacking embassies, I never would have beli.....ahh nevermind, they will never change.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 05:27 PM (r+sAi)

40 That's the trouble with television at this time of year. Bunch of clips patched together as an(other) excuse to not do journalism.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:27 PM (oGNNA)

Like we need an excuse not to do journalism?

Posted by: The MSM, Now with 28% More Truthy Goodness at January 01, 2020 05:28 PM (XVuno)

41 You're a year early for this post. The next decade doesn't start for 366 days. Wanna put it back in draft until then?

Posted by: Weirddave

The New and Glorious Decade will begin Nov. 3, 2020.

Posted by: Miklos, paid leave until then? at January 01, 2020 05:28 PM (QzkSJ)

42 Gee our old La Salle looked great
Those were the days.

Posted by: Birkenstock Cowboy at January 01, 2020 05:29 PM (GzDud)

43 I had high hopes in 2000 that it would be the Naughty Oughties, but alas no.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 01, 2020 05:29 PM (Dc2NZ)

44 I nooded.

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 05:29 PM (7juvc)

45
if you'd told me at 2010 that Trump would become president, the demons would go full tilt socialist, the magic lightbringer would literally spy on his successor, and Hillary! would not be president (ever), I'd never have believed you.
Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski

=======

If you'd told me back when Hillary was elected NY Senator that she would never be president, I'd have been spared a few ulcers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:30 PM (oGNNA)

46 year early for this post. The next decade doesn't start for 366 days.

Well, that assumes we're pedant enough to demand that "1 BC" isn't what it is, which is 0 AD. And if we're pedant enough for that, we're pedant enough to observe that Matthew's Gospel has Jesus born in Herod's reign, which ended 4 BC = -3 AD.

So really the decade started three years ago and this post is late.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 01, 2020 05:30 PM (ykYG2)

47 That's the trouble with television at this time of year. Bunch of
clips patched together as an(other) excuse to not do journalism.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia

We gots Godzilla on Comet!

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 01, 2020 05:30 PM (LOq4H)

48 Two more terms of Trump and there's no way it'll be the Boring 20's!

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2020 05:30 PM (q7oNT)

49 Let's try the braless thing again. That was fun while it lasted.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 01, 2020 05:30 PM (5v5Zx)

50 If you'd told me back when Hillary was elected NY Senator that she would never be president, I'd have been spared a few ulcers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:30 PM (oGNNA)

++++
I'll never get over Obama getting elected twice. Never.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 01, 2020 05:31 PM (5DZMc)

51 The Trump Twenties

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 05:31 PM (7juvc)

52 YEAH!
HAPPY NEW DECADE, HORDE!

JAHR NULL! JAHR NULL!

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (G546f)

53 Hey, we could give Prohibition another try!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:27 PM (XVuno)
Yep! My new years resolution is get on the wagon. I've been clean and sober for, um, about 15 hours, 9 minutes and 46 seconds now. They say the first 18 are the hardest.

RIGHT?!?!?

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (Z1ykJ)

54 I'm most jazzed about moon bases, Mars landings, and asteroid mining.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (Dc2NZ)

55 The 1920s were, amongst other things, the time of the greatest housing boom the USA ever experienced.

The first auto-centric shopping plaza ever was built in Kansas City.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (+fPHo)

56 Well, I retire this year.. end of April. Applied for my SS. It will be very strange not getting up at 5:45 and going to work every day. I just hope I don't kill my husband.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (dUJdY)

57 I was productive outside for a couple hours and now I want a nap. Unfortunately I don't do naps.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 01, 2020 05:33 PM (cDw3P)

58 Hope it doesn't take till the 30's to end speech prohibition. Maybe the speakeasy will make a comeback.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at January 01, 2020 05:34 PM (e1mEI)

59 Posted by: clutch cargo

you can do it!!!

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:34 PM (G546f)

60 I read all the arguments before. But the 50s started in 1950. The 40s ended in 1949. The 20s starts in 2020

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 05:34 PM (Lqy/e)

61 I'll never get over Obama getting elected twice. Never.
Posted by: washrivergal

The first time I kind of understood in that Bush had assumed a fetal position for his second term and McCain gave a great convention speech then quit campaigning. The country needed break and Dogeater ran an issue free campaign. Vote for me to heal.

But after his first term it should have been obvious he was in way over his head, like Carter. Romney was just awful.

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at January 01, 2020 05:34 PM (VNfwt)

62 2020.

Hell, when I was younger I thought I would be dead by now.

Hahahaha....Hey you bastards, I'm still here!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 01, 2020 05:34 PM (Z+IKu)

63
Well, wikipedia sez:

"The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney."

Okay, I believe these 20s will be characterized by economic prosperity, but culture? Snoring 20s. Virtual reality porn and sex bots may wind up having more impact than jazz. There's my happy thought for the decade.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:34 PM (oGNNA)

64 Well, I retire this year.. end of April. Applied
for my SS. It will be very strange not getting up at 5:45 and going to
work every day. I just hope I don't kill my husband.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (dUJdY)

No, don't kill your husband. That's definitely something you should hire out for.

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:34 PM (Z1ykJ)

65 I mean I really don't want to spend what's left of my life in prison. Just sayin...

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:34 PM (dUJdY)

66 56
Well, I retire this year.. end of April. Applied for my SS. It will be
very strange not getting up at 5:45 and going to work every day. I
just hope I don't kill my husband.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (dUJdY)

+++Congratulations. April will be here before you know it.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 01, 2020 05:35 PM (5DZMc)

67 Yep! My new years resolution is get on the wagon. I've been clean and sober for, um, about 15 hours, 9 minutes and 46 seconds now. They say the first 18 are the hardest.

RIGHT?!?!?

They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. But so does a journey of 10 steps.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:35 PM (XVuno)

68 1920's - Bernice bobs her hair
2020's - ?
Yeah, I can only think of transgender surgery jokes, and frankly, I am really tired of talking about those freaks. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2020 05:35 PM (bDqIh)

69 I wish someone had asked. I would have promoted "The Noughties"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 05:35 PM (1glZx)

70 I am going to pick a nit here...

The new decade starts January 1st 2021

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (flINI)

71 If this is "the 20's," then the last 10 yrs must've been "the Gay Nineties," applying the same logic. A harbinger of Gay Pete & the First Gentleman.

Posted by: mnw at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (Cssks)

72 No, don't kill your husband. That's definitely something you should hire out for.

Pish. There's lots of people here who would help a sister out on general principles.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (gd9RK)

73 year early for this post. The next decade doesn't start for 366 days.

Well, that assumes we're pedant enough to demand that "1 BC" isn't what it is, which is 0 AD. And if we're pedant enough for that, we're pedant enough to observe that Matthew's Gospel has Jesus born in Herod's reign, which ended 4 BC = -3 AD.

So really the decade started three years ago and this post is late.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 01, 2020 05:30 PM (ykYG2

This is why i love this place. We got math, we got religion and we got history.

All on this Smart Military Blog.

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (i+qnA)

74 I'm most jazzed about moon bases, Mars landings, and asteroid mining.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (Dc2NZ)

Hey, WTAF?

Posted by: Flying Cars at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (XVuno)

75 If you want to feel old, look up Black Sabbath War Pigs Live 1970. 50 years ago. What a performance.

Posted by: freaked at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (Tnijr)

76 I don't buy the its not the decade yet stuff. You are putting a new number in the tens place value, its a new decade.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 05:20 PM (r+sAi)

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So the "first decade" only has nine years in it.Math is hard.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (cfSRQ)

77 I remember how I felt like all was lost when Barky was re-elected. But in hindsight we dodged a bullet not having Romney put bipartisan nails in the economy with ACA and Globull warmening and such.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (cDw3P)

78 Posted by: washrivergal at January 01, 2020 05:35 PM (5DZMc)

I know. Can't believe how fast 2019 went. Now that I'm retiring can time slow down a bit? Please?

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (dUJdY)

79 I put in for SS three years ago. I'm still working. I may never grt to retire if we don't get the house on the market. And the company I work for was sild although the old owner is staying on to do biz development. Don't know how they will feel about me working from home and coming in just for staff meetings.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 05:37 PM (Lqy/e)

80 Sydney and Los Angeles as major cities in the 20's? No, not buying that

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2020 05:37 PM (q7oNT)

81 67 Yep! My new years resolution is get on the wagon. I've been clean and sober for, um, about 15 hours, 9 minutes and 46 seconds now. They say the first 18 are the hardest.

RIGHT?!?!?

They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. But so does a journey of 10 steps.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:35 PM (XVuno)

Yay, Cicero! Sometimes there are useful articles here:

https://www.thefix.com

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 05:37 PM (7juvc)

82 >>I'm most jazzed about moon bases, Mars landings, and asteroid mining.

SPACE FORCE!!
It will not be a punchline in 2030.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2020 05:38 PM (bDqIh)

83 Calvin Coolidge is cool again. And the Coolidge Effect.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 05:16 PM (u82oZ)

Harding AND Coolidge

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 05:38 PM (1glZx)

84 Hell, when I was younger I thought I would be dead by now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

I seriously remember reading the local newspaper when I was about 16 and seeing an obit where someone died at like 56 and thinking, "Oh he had a nice long life"

Now I'm 29.

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at January 01, 2020 05:38 PM (VNfwt)

85
You wanted moon bases, Mars landings, and asteroid mining.

You'd settle for a reliable low Earth orbit shuttle

You get TikTok

Posted by: freaked at January 01, 2020 05:38 PM (Tnijr)

86 Well, that assumes we're pedant enough to demand
that "1 BC" isn't what it is, which is 0 AD. And if we're pedant enough
for that, we're pedant enough to observe that Matthew's Gospel has Jesus
born in Herod's reign, which ended 4 BC = -3 AD.
---
Except there is no Year Zero outside of Maoist/Khmer Rouge fantasies.

You start counting with 1. The first decade ends at 10. The next starts on a one and ends in a zero.

Math is hard.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:38 PM (cfSRQ)

87 Hey, WTAF?

Posted by: Flying Cars at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (XVuno)

I hear you bro.

Posted by: Jet Pack at January 01, 2020 05:38 PM (czrY0)

88 49
Let's try the braless thing again. That was fun while it lasted.

Posted by: Count de Monet

You bet, sweetie.

Posted by: Hillary at January 01, 2020 05:38 PM (T6t7i)

89
Can we have a pope like Pius XI again? Instead of this clown?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2020 05:39 PM (7rVsF)

90 I am going to pick a nit here...

The new decade starts January 1st 2021

That's a stupid nit. Don't pick it. You'd just be wrong.

Wrongy McWrongerson wrong.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2020 05:39 PM (gd9RK)

91 lol bander. I will be volunteering and stuff.. getting my Etsy shop where I want it. I will stay busy. Hubby just loves to talk and drives me nuts sometimes. It's all good though. If I hadn't met him when I did I would probably have died years ago. For real. I wasn't the smartest chick back in the day.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:39 PM (dUJdY)

92
after his first term it should have been obvious he was in way over his head

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski

=======

It was obvious -- to those who didn't observe him through the MSM.

That second election was bizarre, and I truly think it wouldn't have happened without the complicit press. Operation Fast & Furious, Benghazi, and the New Black Panther surrender would have sunk him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:39 PM (oGNNA)

93 So, did the 20th century start in 00 or 01?

Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2020 05:39 PM (MTxDQ)

94 So the "first decade" only has nine years in it.Math is hard.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (cfSRQ)

that's what wiki says, fwiw

the 0's BC and the 0's AD each only have 9 years in their list of decades
(remove space)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_decades

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:39 PM (G546f)

95 So the "first decade" only has nine years in it.[/i\

Decades weren't invented until 10 A.D. Nobody needed one before then.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2020 05:40 PM (q7oNT)

96 The decades are a modern convention. They did not talk about them in BC.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 05:40 PM (Lqy/e)

97 So the "first decade" only has nine years in it.Math is hard.
So nothing happened in year zero or day 1?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 05:40 PM (r+sAi)

98 stupid phone...

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (q7oNT)

99 97 So the "first decade" only has nine years in it.Math is hard.
So nothing happened in year zero or day 1?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 05:40 PM (r+sAi)
------
I think this might be algebra.

Posted by: Weasel at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (MVjcR)

100 maybe I will get a 1920s style bob haircut

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (G546f)

101 Screw the math. If it looks right, it is right dammit.

Posted by: freaked at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (Tnijr)

102 94
So the "first decade" only has nine years in it.Math is hard.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (cfSRQ)

that's what wiki says, fwiw

the 0's BC and the 0's AD each only have 9 years in their list of decades

(remove space)

Oh, FFS. You people sound like Jonah Goldberg doing cute fighting.

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (T6t7i)

103 >>The new decade starts January 1st 2021

Aaaand we have our "longbows vs. crossbows" for the next decade, whenever that starts.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (bDqIh)

104 The decades are a modern convention. They did not talk about them in BC.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 05:40 PM (Lqy/e)

How weird it would have been to live in 1 B.C. and be wondering what was so special about the end or the year, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (XVuno)

105 The concept of 0 did not come along until much later.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (5v5Zx)

106 that's what wiki says, fwiw

the 0's BC and the 0's AD each only have 9 years in their list of decades

(remove space)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_decades

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:39 PM (G546f)
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Wikipedia?

Please.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (cfSRQ)

107
As I recall, there wasn't even a sense of there being a new decade in 2010.

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The perception of the passage of time came to a halt during the Obama years. 2008 was Year Zero, and also every year after that.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 01, 2020 05:42 PM (t5m5e)

108 Also, Jewells, thanks for making me a hero in the house. I gave Mrs Blutarski one of your Chiefs bracelets for Christmas. She wore it during last weeks game. Chiefs won and NE lost. To Miami. At HOME. Chiefs win a bye week.

She gives all credit to the bracelet.

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at January 01, 2020 05:42 PM (VNfwt)

109 I remember how I felt like all was lost when Barky
was re-elected. But in hindsight we dodged a bullet not having Romney
put bipartisan nails in the economy with ACA and Globull warmening and
such.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (cDw3P)

We'd certainly be looking at Hillary in the WH right now. On the big screen in the reeducation cafeteria.

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:42 PM (Z1ykJ)

110 Flying cars, moon colonies, personal robots, zero gravity boots, rocket packs, disintegration rays, floating cities:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/uu3k6f6

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 05:42 PM (7juvc)

111 The new decade starts January 1st 2021

Aaaand we have our "longbows vs. crossbows" for the next decade, whenever that starts.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (bDqIh)

We covered that topic ad infinitum at Y2k. I thought it was settled.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:42 PM (XVuno)

112 For obvious reasons, I never type "SS" any more when referring to Social Security. I type SSA (for "Social Security Administration") instead.

A bit less jarring.

Posted by: mnw at January 01, 2020 05:42 PM (Cssks)

113 Oh, FFS. You people sound like Jonah Goldberg doing cute fighting.

Posted by: pep

Meh, for those of us in the cheap seats. It's passable entertainment.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 01, 2020 05:43 PM (LOq4H)

114 Math is hard.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:38 PM (cfSRQ)

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especially when the AOSHQ style guide prohibits math in an form on the blog.

to The Barrel with all y'all hashing our NYD buzz with the pedantic nit picking.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 01, 2020 05:43 PM (zHXTb)

115 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the term "Flappers" has something to do with requiring cosmetic labia surgery? Or, maybe not.

Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2020 05:43 PM (gXIcl)

116
There was no history before me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2020 05:43 PM (7rVsF)

117 MNW. Throw everyone off and type SSDI or FICA.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (cDw3P)

118 "any" form, you fat fingered idiot!

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (zHXTb)

119 "The concept of 0 did not come along until much later."
This argument has gone on long enough. How stupid would you have to be to not know there was nothing?

Posted by: freaked at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (Tnijr)

120 She gives all credit to the bracelet.

lol!! That's awesome!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (dUJdY)

121 Loved this post. let's take bets on what the twenties will eventually be called. I'll hold the cash.

Posted by: iandeal at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (vgGyZ)

122 Decades are a marketing gimmick. It's like the Boomer generation spanning 20 years. It makes no sense, as early Boomers could be the parents of late Boomers. The other generational labels don't cover that many years.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (Lqy/e)

123 So, the 2000's didn't start until 2001. I think we're starting to confuse math and cultural concepts.

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (Z1ykJ)

124 The concept of 0 did not come along until much later.
Schrodinger's year then?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (r+sAi)

125 If you want to feel old, look up Black Sabbath War Pigs Live 1970. 50 years ago. What a performance.
Posted by: freaked at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (Tnijr)

I had it pointed out to me that you can sing War Pigs to the tune of Deck the Halls.

"Generals gathered in their masses,
Falalala, lala lala
Just like witches at black masses
Falalala, lala lala
Evil minds that plot destruction
Falalala, lala lala
Sorcerers of death's construction
Falalala, lala lala."

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (1glZx)

126 How weird it would have been to live in 1 B.C. and be wondering what was so special about the end or the year, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (XVuno)

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Obviously that BC/AD dating convention came later, and the chronology was adjusted to the new reckoning.

Prior to that, the Romans centered their chronology on the date of the foundation of the City of Rome (AUC). The Greeks used the date of the First Olympiad.

In both cases, the year of the event was the FIRST year, not the "zeroth" year.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (cfSRQ)

127 So if you are a lumberjack, is it ok to dress as one? Asking for a friend

Posted by: NativeNH at January 01, 2020 05:45 PM (dtRY5)

128 Well, I retire this year.. end of April. Applied for my SS. It will be very strange not getting up at 5:45 and going to work every day. I just hope I don't kill my husband.
Posted by: Jewells45

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Good for you! I retired at the beginning of Aug. I love it but, as you mentioned, the biggest issue was/is being around the lovely Mrs TP all day. She's been retired for a few years and had her schedule set. Now I'm following her around like a puppy. "Whadda want to do? Let's do something!! C'mon, Hon!".

She has repeatedly told me to; get out of the house, go find a group/club/hobby you like, get a girlfriend, something, anything - give me some space!

Some of those suggestions have promise.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 05:45 PM (Y4EXg)

129
21 You're a year early for this post. The next decade doesn't start for 366 days. Wanna put it back in draft until then?

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When you think back to 1980, do you think of the 1970s or the 1980s?

Decade as a subjective social phenomenon, not a strict dictionary definition.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 01, 2020 05:45 PM (t5m5e)

130 Not worried about decades, I'm just happy waking up everyday.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2020 05:45 PM (r2+xA)

131 Off by one errors will persist long after we've all learned to code.

Posted by: DaveA at January 01, 2020 05:45 PM (FhXTo)

132
"The concept of 0 did not come along until much later."
This argument has gone on long enough. How stupid would you have to be to not know there was nothing?

Posted by: freaked at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (Tnijr)

This is arguments, the next room down is abuse you manky scots git.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 01, 2020 05:45 PM (5v5Zx)

133 As I recall, there wasn't even a sense of there being a new decade in 2010.

I think we were all beseeching SMOD, who failed us miserably.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2020 05:45 PM (q7oNT)

134 Baby Godzilla looks like mom had a romp with the Pillsbury Dough Boy...

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (LOq4H)

135 We'd certainly be looking at Hillary in the WH right now. On the big screen in the reeducation cafeteria.

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:42 PM (Z1ykJ)

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it's amusing that you think there would be a cafeteria...

i doubt there would even be rations, or water, for that matter.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (zHXTb)

136 a black President was elected (which somehow made the left even angrier about what an awful racist country America is),

Because 'racism' to them is really nothing but a ticket to power. Since they don't have absolute power, America is still racist and it is the Eternal Crisis of Human History.

They have no problem with practicing racism, as long as it is in pursuance of their power.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (Gz7dA)

137 There was no history before me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh<<<<<<
Wha!!!????

Posted by: Hadrian the Sixth at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (r+sAi)

138 A bit less jarring.

Damn.. I never even thought of that. Good point though.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (dUJdY)

139 "The concept of 0 did not come along until much later."
This argument has gone on long enough. How stupid would you have to be to not know there was nothing?

Posted by: freaked at January 01, 2020 05:44 PM (Tnijr)

Have you ever gotten on Twitter?

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (Z1ykJ)

140 I don't recall McCain or Romney being sore losers. Unless you meant lashing out at the GOP for not being fawning enough over Obama.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (l9m7l)

141 That's a stupid nit. Don't pick it. You'd just be wrong.

Wrongy McWrongerson wrong.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2020 05:39 PM (gd9RK)

If you pick at it, it will never get better

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (1glZx)

142 Prior to that, the Romans centered their chronology on the date of the foundation of the City of Rome (AUC). The Greeks used the date of the First Olympiad.

At least none of you morons are seeking to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (pPNCa)

143 Oh, FFS. You people sound like Jonah Goldberg doing cute fighting.

Posted by: pep
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Unlike Jonah Goldberg I know what I'm talking about.

I'm also right.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (cfSRQ)

144 I retired at the beginning of Aug. I love it but, as you mentioned, the
biggest issue was/is being around the lovely Mrs TP all day. She's been
retired for a few years and had her schedule set. Now I'm following her
around like a puppy. "Whadda want to do? Let's do something!! C'mon,
Hon!".

I retired at the end of June, and Mrs. pep retires April 3 of this year. I'm working a couple of days a week, and she hopes to do the same. I think that's worked out nicely, but I can see being ready for full retirement in a couple of years.

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (T6t7i)

145 96 The decades are a modern convention. They did not talk about them in BC.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 05:40 PM (Lqy/e)

They talked about ten-year periods: dekaeteros in Greek, in Plato.

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 05:47 PM (7juvc)

146
If you pick at it, it will never get better
Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (1glZx)
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And it will get infected.

Posted by: Weasel at January 01, 2020 05:47 PM (MVjcR)

147 137 There was no history before me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh<<<<<<
Wha!!!????

Posted by: Hadrian the Sixth at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (r+sAi)

I'm Hadrian the Fifth, I am...Hadrian the Fifth, I am, I am...

Posted by: Hadrian the Fifth at January 01, 2020 05:47 PM (Gz7dA)

148 We covered that topic ad infinitum at Y2k. I thought it was settled.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

millennium decade

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:47 PM (G546f)

149 At least none of you morons are seeking to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (pPNCa)

IMO, Thermidor is a great name. It works for months AND it works for crustaceans!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:48 PM (XVuno)

150 Hadrian the Fifth

Are they coming to take you away?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 05:48 PM (u82oZ)

151 92

after his first term it should have been obvious he was in way over his head

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski

=======

It was obvious -- to those who didn't observe him through the MSM.

That second election was bizarre, and I truly think it wouldn't have
happened without the complicit press. Operation Fast Furious,
Benghazi, and the New Black Panther surrender would have sunk him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 05:39 PM (oGNNA)

+++
The first time he was elected, I don't remember ever being so forlorn and despondent about our country. I told myself, well, at least we are now over all of the racism accusations. Little did I know, we'd only just begun.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 01, 2020 05:49 PM (5DZMc)

152 We are chez zombie were discussing this other night.

The first named decade was the 1890s -- known as "The Gay Nineties." But then (as noted here) there was a 20year gap in which there was no real name for 1900-1909 nor for 1910-1919. In France they had "La Belle Epoch" and in England "the Edwardian era," but nothing really here.

But then the 1920s happened, and suddenly decades were named again -- The Roaring Twenties, in that case. Most subsequent decades didn't come with a predetermined adjective, except for maybe "The Swinging Sixties."

Generally, however, history doesn't match the year-ending-in-zero decade format -- significant events happen at random.

Even so, with an striking regularity for quite a while there, history DID match the decades.

WWI ended at the very end of 1918 -- let's just say at the beginning of 1919 to help my thesis along. 1919 was one of the most tumultuous years in US history, and finally in 1920 things settled down and we truly were in a new era - women could now vote, alcohol was banned, war was over forever, the stock market skyrocketed, and everything was modern and different.

Then, weirdly, exactly ten years later, in the waning weeks of 1929 -- the stock market crashed, and we enter into The Great Depression just as 1930 dawned. Once again history matched the decades.

And then, amazingly, on Sept. 30 1939 - the Nazi tanked rolled across Poland, and WWII erupted - just as the '40s dawned. Yet AGAIN history matched the decade.

History then went out of sync with the decades until, in the US at least, 1980 happened, and with the Reagan Revolution the endless march of progressivism was suddenly stopped in its tracks. Not quite as major as the other events, but close.

1990 was again nothing, but 2000/2001 saw the Bush Gore meltdown and then 9/11, again launching a new era. Not quite as neat and tidy as the other historical moments, but close.

2010 -- again a nothing year. Will 2020 keep tru to form and be a "big" year?

Counting presidential elections as turning points every 20 years when they land on a year ending in zero is kinda cheating, however.

If Trump wins again, that really wouldn't be a epochal moment in history.

If Bernie Sanders wins -- yeah, that would be epochal. In a bad way, just like The Great Depression, WWII and 9/11.

So: I pray for a BORING year. May we NOT live in interesting times!

Posted by: zombie at January 01, 2020 05:49 PM (fK2gX)

153 142 Prior to that, the Romans centered their chronology on the date of the foundation of the City of Rome (AUC). The Greeks used the date of the First Olympiad.

At least none of you morons are seeking to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (pPNCa)

I love how Academics pretend that the Years aren't based on the of Christ's birth.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at January 01, 2020 05:49 PM (dKiJG)

154 IMO, Thermidor is a great name. It works for months AND it works for crustaceans!

Posted by: Cicero

Yeah, but what month gets named St. Jacques or Newburgh?

Posted by: pep at January 01, 2020 05:49 PM (T6t7i)

155 We are chez = We at chez

Posted by: zombie at January 01, 2020 05:49 PM (fK2gX)

156 Tonypete my husband is a hermit. He rarely leaves the house so that's a problem. Maybe if I'm home I can convince him to go do something with me. I would love to out for breakfast a few times a week, take in an afternoon movie etc. Will be a challenge but if he digs in his heels I'll just go alone. Would not be the first time. Biggest challenge for real though is when I'm trying to work on jewelry and he keeps yapping away. I'm like.. omg just shut up already. I can't concentrate!! lol.. he knows he talks too much bless his heart.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:50 PM (dUJdY)

157 137 There was no history before me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Wha!!!????
Posted by: Hadrian the Sixth at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (r+sAi)

LOL

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2020 05:50 PM (i+qnA)

158 At least none of you morons are seeking to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (pPNCa)

Year Zero was 1975.

No rice for you!

Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot at January 01, 2020 05:50 PM (Z+IKu)

159 If they can change the color of the Republican party to red, I think we can accommodate a shift in the way we refer to the decades. What difference does it make anyway? In what way is your life adversely affected?

Posted by: a concerned decadent at January 01, 2020 05:50 PM (Tnijr)

160 So: I pray for a BORING year. May we NOT live in interesting times!
Posted by: zombie at January 01, 2020 05:49 PM (fK2gX)

Amen!!!

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:51 PM (G546f)

161 zombie

I agree. Boring is good. I need boring in my life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 05:51 PM (u82oZ)

162 At least none of you morons are seeking to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar.

That's a sideshow. We already changed counting enough to make it meaningless.

We used to let a guy named Julius count the years, but he just fucked off and wasn't reliable. Then we got a guy named Gregory and he's been doing alright.

You can still find different birth years for George Washington, depending on who was in charge of counting that day.

And no, nobody ever lived in Year 0 or Year 1. Some time after the birth of Our Lord some people said what do you think? Maybe 200 years ago?

Pedanty pedants being pedantic are wrong. It's a new number, it's a new decade. And yes, we did cover all this at Y2K.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2020 05:51 PM (gd9RK)

163 And it will get infected.
Posted by: Weasel at January 01, 2020 05:47 PM (MVjcR)

And it will scar, and you will carry that forever.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 05:51 PM (1glZx)

164 >>I don't recall McCain or Romney being sore losers. Unless you meant
lashing out at the GOP for not being fawning enough over Obama.

I recall McCain and his campaign people blaming Palin for the loss. McCain even said so publicly not long before he died, which was a (typical for him) jerky thing to do, since she couldn't push back on a dying man without also looking like a jerk.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2020 05:51 PM (bDqIh)

165 Let us pray the ROE at the embassy is kill em all and let God ( the real one) sort them out.

Posted by: rammajamma at January 01, 2020 05:52 PM (xceTB)

166 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the term "Flappers" has something to do with requiring cosmetic labia surgery? Or, maybe not.

Posted by: Orson at January 01, 2020 05:43 PM

I would call BS on cosmetic labia surgery being a thing. But, I had an employee who had it done on his gymnast daughter. He said she was Olympic grade athlete, but her labia lips were too large in the outfit and distracting.

Can't believe I just typed that, but true story.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 01, 2020 05:52 PM (Dhht7)

167 I was the Y2K you'd been waiting for.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (EgshT)

168 We used to let a guy named Julius count the years, but he just fucked off and wasn't reliable. Then we got a guy named Gregory and he's been doing alright.

Gregory is why November is 11 instead of nine and December is 12 instead of 10. October used to be eight. He bollixed up the whole scheme.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (XVuno)

169 Does anyone besides the pros dance to the Charleston anymore?

Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (MTxDQ)

170 Some of you may remember when Y2K rolled around, Drudge ran a headline called "99 Year Century" and it pointed out that the New York Times was hailing 2000 as the "new millennium" but the same paper hailed 1901 as the first year of the 20th Century.

So people are dumber now.

No, I won't go along.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (cfSRQ)

171 At least none of you morons are seeking to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar.

Ub-oh. Is that ten months of ten-day weeks and a clock that only goes to ten?

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (q7oNT)

172 Christ was born in 4 A.D., most scholars believe, I think.

I've been reading a bio of Augustus, btw. I know just enough Roman history to get in trouble with someone who really knows it.

I found this interesting: they didn't use John Doe, John Doe, II, and John Doe, III. They were ALL just "John Doe.'" A practical joke to confuse posterity.

Posted by: mnw at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (Cssks)

173 Gregory is why November is 11 instead of nine and December is 12 instead of 10. October used to be eight. He bollixed up the whole scheme.
Posted by: Cicero (

terrible!

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (G546f)

174 well, that grammar sucked.

Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2020 05:54 PM (MTxDQ)

175 >> The concept of 0 did not come along until much later.

My hero zero, such a funny little hero, until you came along, we counted on our fingers and toes.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCz5hNjnBb4

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 01, 2020 05:54 PM (f1Vqw)

176 Can't we have the Roaring 20's again?

*dusts off Zoot Suite.*

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'fighting to save cactus from Big Soda' at January 01, 2020 05:55 PM (VqhL9)

177 I would call BS on cosmetic labia surgery being a thing. But, I had an employee who had it done on his gymnast daughter. He said she was Olympic grade athlete, but her labia lips were too large in the outfit and distracting.

Can't believe I just typed that, but true story.
Posted by: olddog

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What the hell is wrong with some parents?

Rhetorical question - my SIL/DIL are pieces of work themselves.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 05:55 PM (Y4EXg)

178 Let's no he pedantic about when a decade starts. Leave that shit to the NR cucks.

Posted by: Regular joe at January 01, 2020 05:55 PM (6/uwW)

179
Ub-oh. Is that ten months of ten-day weeks and a clock that only goes to ten?
Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (q7oNT)

Yeah, that stupid metric calendar. Another idiotic idea characteristic of the French.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2020 05:55 PM (7rVsF)

180 It would be nice to see fancy man and woman pair dancing popular amongst the general populace again, rather than the jiggly one person ego flop we have now and get off my lawn.

and its a new decade.

Posted by: Hadrian the Sixth at January 01, 2020 05:55 PM (r+sAi)

181 If some people choose to live in the past decade, I can't stop them, but I choose to live in the shiny nood decade now

by the time youze stickler guys catch up all the good spots will be gone

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:56 PM (G546f)

182 I recall McCain and his campaign people blaming
Palin for the loss. McCain even said so publicly not long before he
died, which was a (typical for him) jerky thing to do, since she
couldn't push back on a dying man without also looking like a jerk.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 01, 2020 05:51 PM (bDqIh)

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McCain's people couldn't even wait to lose the election before stabbing Palin in the back and blaming her for the upcoming defeat.

A man with zero class.

The next time his fat daughter opens her trap about her dear, dear dad, I'd love someone to ask her how his first family is coping. Does she reach out to her half brothers and sisters? They knew him longer.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:56 PM (cfSRQ)

183 Does anyone besides the pros dance to the Charleston anymore?
Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (MTxDQ)

There is an active Charleston community in Southern Cal. It's mostly kids in their 20s. Swing dances have a big following, with the more energetic ones like Charleston and Lindy being the purview of the yutes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:56 PM (XVuno)

184 However it is officially the French Republican Calendar

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 05:56 PM (1glZx)

185 Can't believe I just typed that, but true story.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 01, 2020 05:52 PM (Dhht7)

Just wow.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'fighting to save cactus from Big Soda' at January 01, 2020 05:57 PM (VqhL9)

186 181
If some people choose to live in the past decade, I can't stop them, but I choose to live in the shiny nood decade now

by the time youze stickler guys catch up all the good spots will be gone

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:56 PM (G546f)

++++
Hear, hear.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 01, 2020 05:57 PM (5DZMc)

187 Add my name to the list of people who know that A DECADE DOESN'T END WITH A "9"!

Posted by: RKae at January 01, 2020 05:57 PM (70QWq)

188

I agree. Boring is good. I need boring in my life.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 05:51 PM (u82oZ)

Happy New Year, Salty Dog!

I always crave down time, but when I get it, I lose my mind.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 01, 2020 05:57 PM (TdMsT)

189 ooops off sock.

new decade.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (r+sAi)

190 For Ben Had:

153 olddog, How's the hand doing?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2020 05:34 PM

Throbbing. Diced some bacon today for Blackeye peas, but skipped dicing onions. Baby steps.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 01, 2020 05:42

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (Dhht7)

191 Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 05:50 PM (dUJdY)

Time to start to create new things and hobbies to do together that would prompt him out of the house. For instance, take up photography, and let that decide locations depending on the type that appeals to you (wildlife, macro, street, landscape). Or, horticulture! Start growing orchids or begonias, build a greenhouse, go to botanical shows, join groups, enter contests! Or, get an RV, fix it all up and start making crystal meth. Meet interesting new people, learn Spanish and new skills, all while supplementing your income!

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (Z1ykJ)

192 Gregory is why November is 11 instead of nine and
December is 12 instead of 10. October used to be eight. He bollixed up
the whole scheme.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

I thought the monks pointed to the sun spot on the floor and said, "It should be over there, your calendar is f'd, fix it."

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (LOq4H)

193

Poodle skirts were made out of poodles.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (YLYCU)

194 I found this interesting: they didn't use John Doe,
John Doe, II, and John Doe, III. They were ALL just "John Doe.'" A
practical joke to confuse posterity.

Posted by: mnw at January 01, 2020 05:53 PM (Cssks)

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They did use junior and senior. They also handed out tons of nicknames, hence Gaius "Caligula."

Plus, they could pick up names. Kick some German ass? Congrats, you're now Germanicus.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (cfSRQ)

195 We should go to a decimalized calendar, and enjoy all those windfalls we got from converting over to the metric system.

A year is now 100 days, a month is ten, and every day is now equal to 84 Old English hours.

See? So simple.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (Gz7dA)

196 We can pass Powerball numbers and stock tips back to those living in the last decade

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2020 05:59 PM (q7oNT)

197
Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (Z1ykJ)

You sucked me in with the beginning and got me with the end.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'fighting to save cactus from Big Soda' at January 01, 2020 06:00 PM (VqhL9)

198 196 We can pass Powerball numbers and stock tips back to those living in the last decade
Posted by: t-bird

==

I literally LOLef

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 06:00 PM (G546f)

199 Ladyl! Serious question: The "no flour, no sugar" quick summary of weight-loss technique: Is the "flour" just wheat? Is rice o.k?

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:00 PM (7juvc)

200 This is why people who want to latinize Trump's name should go with Donaldus Trumpius rather than Trumpicus because that would imply he conquered the Trumps.

Instead he would Donaldus Trumpius Pelosicus Schumericus Maximus.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 06:00 PM (cfSRQ)

201 We can pass Powerball numbers and stock tips back to those living in the last decade

Pish. Anyone dumb enough to stay in the old decade probably doesn't have the sense to show gratitude.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 01, 2020 06:01 PM (gd9RK)

202 Plus, they could pick up names. Kick some German ass? Congrats, you're now Germanicus.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (cfSRQ)

Scipio got the cognomen "Africanus" by defeating Carthage -- one lousy city (although a persistent thorn in Rome's side for a long time).

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 06:01 PM (XVuno)

203 Do we all get to wear knickers??

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2020 06:01 PM (CjFDo)

204 McCain's people couldn't even wait to lose the election before stabbing Palin in the back and blaming her for the upcoming defeat.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

A few weeks after the conventions, the polls actually showed McCain winning (he talked about Dogeater's unbelievable inexperience).

Concerned, Fredo's campaign felt they needed foreign policy gravitas and so reach all the way down to Quid Pro Joe as an example of Fredo's overarching intellect. They actually thought adding Greasy Joe Bribem helped them. Then McCain quit campaigning.

Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at January 01, 2020 06:01 PM (VNfwt)

205 OT - catching up with the day's posts. Has anyone else made the connection between registering your personal weapons and registering a DACA kid?

The leftists are going to get what they sow, good, long, and hard...with no lube. How many of those illegal dumbasses registered (self identified) themselves for forced deportation?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Irony is a hard and cruel mistress at January 01, 2020 06:01 PM (VcFUs)

206 We can have a superbowl flag football game: New Decade Shiners vs Old Decade Pendants. Bras and pants optional.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (r+sAi)

207 We should go to a decimalized calendar, and enjoy all those windfalls we got from converting over to the metric system.

A year is now 100 days, a month is ten, and every day is now equal to 84 Old English hours.

See? So simple.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 01, 2020 05:58 PM (Gz7dA)

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The way things were going, I half-expected Obama to start putting speed limit signs in kilometers again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (cfSRQ)

208 Let us not lose our heads here.

Posted by: Zombie Louis XVI at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (EgshT)

209 At least none of you morons are seeking to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (pPNCa)

I really liked metric time!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (BiNEL)

210 Scipio got the cognomen "Africanus" by defeating Carthage -- one lousy city (although a persistent thorn in Rome's side for a long time).
Posted by: Cicero

and of course there is our very own Ace Shelficanus

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (G546f)

211 So, now that we're past 200, I am interested in the Moron Meta on this.... If you are Trump's foreign policy advisor here, what are the appropriate responses to Iran-controlled attack on US compound in Iraq? Taking into consideration desired amount of escalation, risks of further retaliation, properly punishing the regime and deterring any more events?

Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (DRgs8)

212 Imagine living in B.C. when the first day of the month was the 31st. That would be confusing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (XVuno)

213 Posted by: pep at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (T6t7i)

I'm going to semi-retire when I turn 60. I'm going to get a brainless job at a Home Depot or Academy Sports or my Tennis club or something similar. I can't wait until I never have to deal with entitlement leeches and crooked doctors and lawyers again.

Posted by: Easy Andy at January 01, 2020 06:03 PM (2DOZq)

214 199 Ladyl! Serious question: The "no flour, no sugar" quick summary of weight-loss technique: Is the "flour" just wheat? Is rice o.k?
Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:00 PM (7juvc)

Hi m!

Flour is just wheat. It is an ingredient in more items than you're think, but it is pretty easy to be wheat-free these days.

Rice is fine.

Some people with wheat sensitivity are also sensitive to oatmeal, I've heard.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 01, 2020 06:03 PM (TdMsT)

215 Zoot Suits are the 40's

Good try though. Come back with a pince-nez, celluloid collar and a racoon coat, or try again in 20 years.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 06:03 PM (1glZx)

216 I'm most jazzed about moon bases, Mars landings, and asteroid mining.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (Dc2NZ)

We have mined Ceres. Attempt no landing there.

Posted by: the Aliens at January 01, 2020 06:04 PM (LxWV7)

217 I also starting reading Ace in 2010, and have appreciated it as a uniquely witty conservative forum. It seems to me that each decade, though having a distinct personality, is slightly less distinct than its predecessor, at least going back to the 1960s, since I was born in 1960. The '60s had an extremely distinct personality, the '70s less so, the '80s less than the '70s, etc. I'm not sure why that is exactly.

Posted by: norrin radd, sojourner of the spaceways at January 01, 2020 06:04 PM (8YXYE)

218
Re the decade argument. It's simply a matter of convention. The two decade counting schemes have names. Cardinal decades count decades as starting at the 0. Ordinal decades start at 1.

Most of us use cardinal decades.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 01, 2020 06:04 PM (f1Vqw)

219 and of course there is our very own Ace Shelficanus

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (G546f)

++++And riding his Vespa chariot.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 01, 2020 06:04 PM (5DZMc)

220 Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (DRgs

Nuke them till they glow and shoot them in the dark.

Posted by: Madamemayhem at January 01, 2020 06:05 PM (myjNJ)

221 On a funny note, Apple News kept showing up in my emails.

I reported them as spam, pointed and laughed.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 01, 2020 06:05 PM (Z+IKu)

222 The "no flour, no sugar" quick summary of weight-loss technique: Is the "flour" just wheat? Is rice o.k?

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:00 PM (7juvc)

I've heard "Don't Bite White!"
But I am a casual observer and believe in whole grain beverages as a primary means of sustenance!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at January 01, 2020 06:06 PM (BiNEL)

223 I think Romney had a better chance in 2008 to beat Obama than McCain. It was McCains turn so they ganged up on Romney in the primaries.

Posted by: Easy Andy at January 01, 2020 06:06 PM (2DOZq)

224 We should adopt a new calendar with the world ending 12 years from 2019 -- call it the Thunberg Hysteria Calendar -- so that this year would be "End Year - 11."

Of course, we'd have to have done this every 12 years for the past century and for new centuries to come ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make the 20's Roar Again! at January 01, 2020 06:06 PM (WqPYg)

225 Do we all get to wear knickers??
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2020 06:01 PM (CjFDo)

Plus-fours. But you, sweetie, can wear what you like.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 06:06 PM (1glZx)

226
I've heard "Don't Bite White!"
But I am a casual observer and believe in whole grain beverages as a primary means of sustenance!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at January 01, 2020 06:06 PM (BiNEL)

{{{Hrothgar!!!}}}

Posted by: Ladyl at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (TdMsT)

227 53 Hey, we could give Prohibition another try!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:27 PM (XVuno)
Yep! My new years resolution is get on the wagon. I've been clean and sober for, um, about 15 hours, 9 minutes and 46 seconds now. They say the first 18 are the hardest.

RIGHT?!?!?
Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 05:32 PM (Z1ykJ)

Hey, Clutch Cargo!
I mis-aimed my response, aiming at Cicero, above.
Congratulations! And sometimes there are useful articles here:
https://www.thefix.com

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (7juvc)

228 Is rice o.k?
Posted by: m

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Depends what you are seeking to accomplish. Rice has some of the highest carbs per unit. For example: 1 cup - approximately 40 grams carbs.

Nothing to do with sensitivity to gluten but still . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (Y4EXg)

229 lol clutch!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (dUJdY)

230 Zoot Suits are the 40's

Good try though. Come back with a pince-nez, celluloid collar and a racoon coat, or try again in 20 years.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 01, 2020 06:03 PM (1glZx)

It's pretty amazing the history of zoot suits actually. Maybe being a CA lad I had heard so much about the zoot suit riots (Grandma had a real strong opinion on that one), it was a pretty big deal back then.

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (Z1ykJ)

231 I am going to pick a nit here...

The new decade starts January 1st 2021
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 01, 2020 05:36 PM (flINI)

I think we have to recognize that we have calendar decades, and cultural decades, and they are not necessarily the same ten years, or even necessarily ten years in span.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (LxWV7)

232 Ladyl! Serious question: The "no flour, no sugar"
quick summary of weight-loss technique: Is the "flour" just wheat? Is
rice o.k?

Posted by: m
............
Rice has lots of carbs.
If you are talking about keto...

If you need flour, there are veggie/nut alternatives like almond flour.
But I've never gone this route.. I would simply rather abstain.. just go lower carb, higher protein. The crap Ace does to his body is pretty extreme to me.. and the weight comes back anyway as soon as you go back to carbs.
I plan on doing a lower carb lifestyle for the next few months.. beef stew in the oven.. I will not eat the potatoes. I WILL eat the carrots.. GOOD carbs, because high in fiber!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (CjFDo)

233 Ther period from 1900 til the beginning of WW1 was a little more well defined in the UK and France than it was in the US. In the UK, that's the Edwardian period (of course George V was crowned in 1910) and in France, it was usually called Fin de Siecle'. Litererally, that means "end of the cycle", or end of the Century, but it was generally used to refer to that general era, as wells "Belle Epoque", which really encompassed 1871 - 1914 France.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2020 06:08 PM (V2Yro)

234 214 199 Ladyl! Serious question: The "no flour, no sugar" quick summary of weight-loss technique: Is the "flour" just wheat? Is rice o.k?
Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:00 PM (7juvc)

Hi m!

Flour is just wheat. It is an ingredient in more items than you're think, but it is pretty easy to be wheat-free these days.

Rice is fine.

Some people with wheat sensitivity are also sensitive to oatmeal, I've heard.
Posted by: Ladyl at January 01, 2020 06:03 PM (TdMsT)

Thanks! That sounds easier than it might have been!

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:08 PM (7juvc)

235 I don't know what my diet would be considered. It is high-fat, high-protein, but I can eat rice and potatoes without gaining weight.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 01, 2020 06:09 PM (TdMsT)

236 if you are trying to go gluten-free, rice is ok

but read labels carefully, as gluten shows up everywhere

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 06:09 PM (G546f)

237 So, now that we're past 200, I am interested in the Moron Meta on this.... If you are Trump's foreign policy advisor here, what are the appropriate responses to Iran-controlled attack on US compound in Iraq? Taking into consideration desired amount of escalation, risks of further retaliation, properly punishing the regime and deterring any more events?
Posted by: RichardWindsor

Nuke those goat fvcking picnic table cloth wearing camel jockeys into the 2nd century AD.

I chose the 2nd century so that people a thousand years form now would KNOW that we meant to do that shite.

Posted by: ColdWarriors Come Out To Play at January 01, 2020 06:09 PM (VcFUs)

238 Do we all get to wear knickers??
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2020 06:01 PM (CjFDo)

If you want to wear women's underoos, which is what "knickers" means in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc., by all means, go right ahead.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 06:10 PM (pPNCa)

239 217
I also starting reading Ace in 2010, and have appreciated it as a
uniquely witty conservative forum. It seems to me that each decade,
though having a distinct personality, is slightly less distinct than its
predecessor, at least going back to the 1960s, since I was born in
1960. The '60s had an extremely distinct personality, the '70s less so,
the '80s less than the '70s, etc. I'm not sure why that is exactly.

Posted by: norrin radd, sojourner of the spaceways at January 01, 2020 06:04 PM (8YXYE)

_______

It's the same reason why time seems to go faster the older you get. The novelty of things and your frame of reference when young it YUGE compared to your experience (like a fraction with a large numerator and small denominator ... but decreases with time (numerator decreases while denominator increases).

I know, I was told there would be no math ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make the 20's Roar Again! at January 01, 2020 06:10 PM (WqPYg)

240 222 The "no flour, no sugar" quick summary of weight-loss technique: Is the "flour" just wheat? Is rice o.k?

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:00 PM (7juvc)

I've heard "Don't Bite White!"
But I am a casual observer and believe in whole grain beverages as a primary means of sustenance!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at January 01, 2020 06:06 PM (BiNEL)

Hmm. Will ponder.

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:10 PM (7juvc)

241 Nuke those goat fvcking picnic table cloth wearing camel jockeys into the 2nd century AD.

I chose the 2nd century so that people a thousand years form now would KNOW that we meant to do that shite.
Posted by: ColdWarriors Come Out To Play

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Newsletter details post haste Kind Sir!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 06:10 PM (Y4EXg)

242 Somebody is going to have to do a 4 square graph or a Venn diagram to see where the New Decadeists, Old Decadeists, Crossbowers, and Longbowers fit in.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 06:10 PM (r+sAi)

243 (1) Additional monetary sanctions? Definitely, in any event, and they need to hurt. Something like, 1X times whatever we're doing already.

(2) But I think this not only warrants, but it demands, a military response. I think this is needed precisely because Iran is in a cycle of increasing military agitation (speed boat piracy, proxy terrorism, Israel/Syria/Iraq/Turkey destabilization.). But what? The 1980s military thinking, which persists to this day, usually entails cruise missile attacks on facilities and equipment, with aim for small loss of life. These are bombing statements. I don't think these very effective.

(3) With their economy teetering, their citizens restless, their Nuclear program advancing (you have to assume they're further than anyone expects, perhaps already in possession), you need an agrresice strategic military strike in value-add pay off to the on-going sanctions. Something like, pinpoint bombing of oil pipelines, or, simultaneous bombing, sabotage, engine destruction, fuel poisoning, etc. of all commercial tankers under the Iran flag. All of them.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:11 PM (DRgs8)

244
Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (DRgs

Drone that Khamenei prick.

Posted by: dartist at January 01, 2020 06:11 PM (K22Va)

245 223
I think Romney had a better chance in 2008 to beat Obama than McCain.
It was McCains turn so they ganged up on Romney in the primaries.

Posted by: Easy Andy at January 01, 2020 06:06 PM (2DOZq)

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I know a lot of people think that Romney and McCain took dives because of Deep State, but they were both verifiable idiots.

Romney legitimately got his ass kicked by a reporterette. The guy couldn't stand his ground with any kind of conviction when challenged.

McCain was crazy. He picked an unknown VP on a whim, dumped on her, suspended his campaign not because the fix was in, but because he was reckless.

The same calm, rational behavior that caused him to crash five jets and wreck his first marriage and almost end up in jail in the S and L debacle was in play.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 06:11 PM (cfSRQ)

246 >The first time he was elected, I don't remember ever being so forlorn and despondent about our country. I told myself, well, at least we are now over all of the racism accusations. Little did I know, we'd only just begun.
Posted by: washrivergal

I think it was the election of the first not-white President that sort of opened the doors to all the anti-white wokery we see today

Posted by: DB at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (iTXRQ)

247 How weird it would have been to live in 1 B.C. and be wondering what was so special about the end or the year, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (XVuno)

Well, back in 1 BC, the year would not have been 1 BC. It'd be something or other on the Roman or Jewish calendar.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (LxWV7)

248 211
So, now that we're past 200, I am interested in the Moron Meta on
this.... If you are Trump's foreign policy advisor here, what are the
appropriate responses to Iran-controlled attack on US compound in Iraq?
Taking into consideration desired amount of escalation, risks of
further retaliation, properly punishing the regime and deterring any
more events?

Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (DRgs

Send the Iranians a billion dollars cash.

Posted by: Barry O at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (l3+k2)

249 #DontBiteWhite

Posted by: Mikey Moore at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (EgshT)

250 211 So, now that we're past 200, I am interested in the Moron Meta on this.... If you are Trump's foreign policy advisor here, what are the appropriate responses to Iran-controlled attack on US compound in Iraq? Taking into consideration desired amount of escalation, risks of further retaliation, properly punishing the regime and deterring any more events?
Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (DRgs

You've got to put pressure on the Iraqi government to stop that from happening. And if they can't, maybe it's time to pull out of Iraq all the way and cut all of our aid to them.

I don't believe anyone inside the embassy was injured, so that argues for a non-violent response.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (V2Yro)

251 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 06:11 PM (cfSRQ)

I'm talking Romney 2008.

Posted by: Easy Andy at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (2DOZq)

252 12 Calvin Coolidge is cool again. And the Coolidge Effect.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 05:16 PM (u82oZ)
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It wears off. He was mayor of Northampton, Mass., died there. Northampton Mass. which make places like Berkley seem like it's controlled by the John Birch Society. Where cops are called Violence Workers and when cops go to schools and the high 5 the little kids, POCs and their supporters are horrified that the kids are being taught to respect whitey and paid for thugs, and the city pols agree. Don't get me started on Smith College.

Posted by: Groundhog at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (VYwSh)

253 Hey, Clutch Cargo!

I mis-aimed my response, aiming at Cicero, above.

Congratulations! And sometimes there are useful articles here:

https://www.thefix.com

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (7juvc)

Thanks!

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 06:13 PM (Z1ykJ)

254 The fact that McCain, Romney and Hillary all hated and were jealous of Trump is proof that he just was not supposed to win.

Romney and McCain did what they were told to do--lose.

Hillary was promised the presidency and it was hers right up until around 9 o'clock election night.

Those three could be controlled. Trump won't be.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 01, 2020 06:13 PM (o1fzk)

255 I hope history will show the year 2017 as the dawning of America 's new golden age

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 06:13 PM (G546f)

256 Nuke those goat fvcking picnic table cloth wearing camel jockeys into the 2nd century AD.

______

My preference is to send in numerous special forces assassination hit squads to take out as much of the mullahs and political leadership as possible. Then provide arms to and support prearranged and hand-picked leaders and their freedom fighters.

I don't understand why this isn't the preferred method of disabling an enemy rather than sending in and having killed/maimed tens or thousands of troops.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make the 20's Roar Again! at January 01, 2020 06:14 PM (WqPYg)

257 Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2020 06:07 PM (CjFDo)
Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 06:09 PM (G546f)

Thanks, everybody. Ace will be doing a Gainzzzz thread real soon; more to ponder.

Posted by: m at January 01, 2020 06:14 PM (7juvc)

258
Obviously, in the future, this will not be 2020 AD, but 4 AT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 01, 2020 06:14 PM (f1Vqw)

259 How weird it would have been to live in 1 B.C. and be wondering what was so special about the end or the year, right?
Posted by: Cicero

---

I always have wondered about Joseph and Mary considering gifts for Jesus on the following years.

Joseph - "Poor kid, having his birthday on Christmas. The little guy is gonna get hosed on gifts again this year."

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 06:15 PM (Y4EXg)

260 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 01, 2020 06:04 PM (f1Vqw)

Part of the problem is assigning a single specific value to an interval not a point. 1 January is a point date, a year is NOT a point, it is the year interval between 1 January and 31 December, so 1 January is the beginning of the first year of counting.
Thus 1 January 0 AD to 31 December 0 AD is the first countable year of the decade.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at January 01, 2020 06:15 PM (BiNEL)

261 211
So, now that we're past 200, I am interested in the Moron Meta on
this.... If you are Trump's foreign policy advisor here, what are the
appropriate responses to Iran-controlled attack on US compound in Iraq?
Taking into consideration desired amount of escalation, risks of
further retaliation, properly punishing the regime and deterring any
more events?

Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:02 PM (DRgs

Cruise missile everything involved in the Iranian nuke program.

Posted by: davidt at January 01, 2020 06:15 PM (l3+k2)

262 Somebody is going to have to do a 4 square graph or a Venn diagram to see where the New Decadeists, Old Decadeists, Crossbowers, and Longbowers fit in.

You'll also have to fit in the Carrot-containing vs. the Carrot-free Chili Cooks, and the NL Designated Hitter Denialists vs. the AL Designated Hitter Enthusiasts.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 06:15 PM (pPNCa)

263 210
Scipio got the cognomen "Africanus" by defeating Carthage -- one lousy
city (although a persistent thorn in Rome's side for a long time).

Posted by: Cicero

and of course there is our very own Ace Shelficanus

oh, did ace win? i thought we were dealing with shelf aceicanus.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 01, 2020 06:15 PM (kf5Ci)

264 So, now that we're past 200, I am interested in the Moron Meta on

this.... If you are Trump's foreign policy advisor here, what are the

appropriate responses to Iran-controlled attack on US compound in Iraq?

Taking into consideration desired amount of escalation, risks of

further retaliation, properly punishing the regime and deterring any

more events?

Posted by: RichardWindsor
.................
Trump already made the appropriate response.
Done. No further action needed. He quashed an Iranian backed faux protest. He sent them packing.
They won't try that again.
Just as they haven't tried more incursions in the Persian Gulf. They know they will pay.
Trump slaps them down like the annoying flies they are.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 01, 2020 06:16 PM (CjFDo)

265 Well, back in 1 BC, the year would not have been 1 BC. It'd be something or other on the Roman or Jewish calendar.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (LxWV7)

There used to be a show on TV with cavemen and the BC thing was a running joke. I actually knew that nobody in BC dated anything as "BC" because I'm smart.

I'm smart and I want respect.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 06:16 PM (XVuno)

266 We should have taken action against Iran when they shot down our 30 million dollar drone.

Posted by: Easy Andy at January 01, 2020 06:16 PM (2DOZq)

267 254
The fact that McCain, Romney and Hillary all hated and were jealous of Trump is proof that he just was not supposed to win.

Romney and McCain did what they were told to do--lose.

Posted by: JoeF. at January 01, 2020 06:13 PM (o1fzk)

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Objection - assumes facts not in evidence.

Mitt Romney is a career squish. Always has been, so his collapse during the debate is entirely who he is. Show one example of him digging in, holding his ground and hitting back.

Same with McCain. The man was always a loose cannon. The best thing that could have happened to him was getting shot down an captured because his dad could only cover his ass for so long.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2020 06:16 PM (cfSRQ)

268 Groundhog

Not that you are bitter. Oh no.

The Left is a cancer to civilization.

And we seem to avoid the ending of it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 06:17 PM (u82oZ)

269 I saw part of the All in the Family reboot with Woody Harrelson as Archie. It was awful, especially the actress trying to do Edith. Archie and Edith were just people of a generation and we actually knew people like that. But the actors and actresses just tried to do an impression of the original actors. Just awful.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 06:17 PM (Lqy/e)

270 258
Obviously, in the future, this will not be 2020 AD, but 4 AT.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 01, 2020 06:14 PM

I can't stop laughing!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 01, 2020 06:17 PM (TdMsT)

271 Well, back in 1 BC, the year would not have been 1 BC. It'd be something or other on the Roman or Jewish calendar.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (LxWV7)

In most ancient Kingdoms, years were figured as "Year (whatever) of King Nu-Nu's Reign". Each new king, the year reset to Zero. (The Egyptians may have counted by Dynasty) The Romans used "Ad Urbe Condita", the years since the legendary founding of Rome. Their year Zero was 753 BC by our reckoning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2020 06:18 PM (V2Yro)

272 Send the Iranians a billion dollars cash.

Posted by: Barry O at January 01, 2020 06:12 PM (l3+k2)

Less a quite modest "handling and management" fee, of course!

Posted by: V Jarrad at January 01, 2020 06:18 PM (BiNEL)

273 204 . . . A few weeks after the conventions, the polls actually showed McCain winning (he talked about Dogeater's unbelievable inexperience).

Concerned, Fredo's campaign felt they needed foreign policy gravitas and so reach all the way down to Quid Pro Joe as an example of Fredo's overarching intellect. They actually thought adding Greasy Joe Bribem helped them. Then McCain quit campaigning.
Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski
_____________

He didn't quit campaigning, you miserable mouth-breather. He listened to my advice and "suspended" his campaign during the financial crisis and attended a meeting at the White House with President Bush and Obama.

I knew that the media would praise McCain for his statesmanship and that their coverage of the White House meeting would really give a boost to the campaign by comparing McCain's long years of public service--and his gravitas--with Obama.

McCain's polling number went up another 20 points after that, but Palin kept dragging the ticket down and dampening the enthusiasm of the Neanderthals that are crucial for any GOP win.

Posted by: Steve Schmidt, Still Fat at January 01, 2020 06:18 PM (9vQJW)

274 and of course there is our very own Ace Shelficanus

oh, did ace win? i thought we were dealing with shelf aceicanus.
Posted by: Anachronda at January 01, 2020 06:15 PM (kf5Ci)
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Able was I, ere I saw Ivar.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ivar-shelf-pine-30318163/

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 01, 2020 06:18 PM (Dc2NZ)

275 You have nothing to fear from a flameout, my friendsh.

Posted by: Zombie Senor Juan McCain at January 01, 2020 06:18 PM (EgshT)

276 There used to be a show on TV with cavemen and the BC thing was a running joke. I actually knew that nobody in BC dated anything as "BC" because I'm smart.

I'm smart and I want respect.
Posted by: Cicero

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I imagine there were plenty of folks that always accidentally wrote "B.C." instead of "A.D" on their checks just out of habit.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 06:18 PM (Y4EXg)

277 Dude, Trump has an opportunity here. Obama completely ignored the Iranian citizen uprising at beginning of his Presidency. But they're trying again, and Iran is being a dick, and our President is Orange Man Bad Ass.

Iran may very well be baiting a loss-of-life attack, so they can use the response to (in their view) help re-agitate their own populate vs. the West.

But sometimes, you have to take the bait. But you need to do so in way that exacerbates all of Iran regime's current problems, but without hurting whatever nascent chance there is of a revolution to less-extreme form of government. Can you imagine Trump sitting in office when THAT happened?

So, how does the President go about it?

Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:18 PM (DRgs8)

278 1 BC is 3760 on the tribe calendar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (Vd9Tp)

279 Somebody is going to have to do a 4 square graph or a Venn diagram to see where the New Decadeists, Old Decadeists, Crossbowers, and Longbowers fit in.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 06:10 PM (r+sAi)

I recommend Ginger and MaryAnn.

Posted by: tbodie at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (i+qnA)

280 The prancers reelection tore a piece of my heart out. Still got up and went to work the next day.

Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (MTxDQ)

281 Very tired but can't go to bed to early or will be up all night on the ONT

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (ZCEU2)

282 Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 06:15
Heh. Just for reference I am a NDCBCFNL type.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (r+sAi)

283 Easy Andy

Easier to let them rot away. Like North Korea. The only one really hurting that nation is Bottle Rocket Man and his 300 families. Let them starve in the dark.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (u82oZ)

284
if you are trying to go gluten-free, rice is ok

but read labels carefully, as gluten shows up everywhere

Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 06:09 PM (G546f)

My psychotic ex went gluten free back around 2004. Long before it was trendy, or restaurants even knew WTF. I got really good at gluten free everything cooking (I did all the cooking). And you've GOT to keep reading labels, because at least a few years ago, ingredients could suddenly change. Almost nothing said "gluten free" on it. Heck, I had gotten so good I could taste if something had gluten in it.
Potato flour for thickening, real Tamari for soy sauce (otherwise it's mostly wheat), you start to pick up all the little tricks to make food taste like food again. The only thing that I've never found could be replicated was good bread or pasta. There was one brand of pasta I found that was very close (German brand used peas believe it or not), I almost wept when I first tasted it.

I'm since off of that now that I'm a bachelor, but grudgingly admit I did feel a bit better off of flour. A lot of people who are having digestive problems should try it out. Many people of European descent have a minor allergy to gluten.

Posted by: clutch cargo at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (Z1ykJ)

285 100 maybe I will get a 1920s style bob haircut
Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade at January 01, 2020 05:41 PM (G546f)

I've been growing out my hair (all of 2019) and now it's -just- at the "bob" stage.

For once I'm in style, only 100 years late!

Posted by: Flyover at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (Rbu5d)

286 Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 06:17 PM (Lqy/e)

I had no idea such an abomination existed.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (Dc2NZ)

287 That is the best description of the last twenty years I've heard. The last twenty years kind of sucked.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 01, 2020 06:20 PM (ZUHuo)

288 Mitt Romney was never electable. He won the Republican primary because, just like McCain, the media wanted him to, and plenty of dems cross over voted in the stupid states with open primaries.

I know plenty of evangelical conservatives who could not, and would not pull the lever for any LDS presidential candidate regardless of who the opponent was because of religious beliefs.

Posted by: Kazi at January 01, 2020 06:20 PM (0x00j)

289 For once I'm in style, only 100 years late!
Posted by: Flyover at January 01, 2020 06:19 PM (Rbu5d)

I almost cut my hair.

It happened just the other day...

Posted by: Ladyl at January 01, 2020 06:21 PM (TdMsT)

290 "If you are Trump's foreign policy advisor here, what are the appropriate responses to Iran-controlled attack on US compound in Iraq?"

Nuke it from orbit. It IS the only way.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nuke it from orbit" at January 01, 2020 06:21 PM (Tnijr)

291
The Flintstones are on. It's the episode when Fred and Barney accidentally enlist in the Army, then end up in the space program.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at January 01, 2020 06:21 PM (YLYCU)

292 Northampton Mass. which make places like Berkley seem like it's controlled by the John Birch Society.

Hard to believe that Jonathan Edwards started the first Great Awakening when he was the town pastor in Northampton in the 1730s.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 06:21 PM (pPNCa)

293 I imagine there were plenty of folks that always accidentally wrote "B.C." instead of "A.D" on their checks just out of habit.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 06:18 PM (Y4EXg)

And then you had the never-ending arguments over whether A.D. started at 0 or 1.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 06:22 PM (XVuno)

294
So, now that we're past 200, I am interested in the Moron Meta on this.... If you are Trump's foreign policy advisor here, what are the appropriate responses to Iran-controlled attack on US compound in Iraq? Taking into consideration desired amount of escalation, risks of further retaliation, properly punishing the regime and deterring any more events?
Posted by: RichardWindsor

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I've seen a few commenters say we should stop funding Iran-backed governments in that region.

This comes just as Mike Pompeo has signed a check for any number of millions or billions to Lebanon, which just elected the Hezbollah candidate as president -- so I don't expect any common sense soon.

Drop the proxy war shit and go after Iran directly, so I like Lindsey Graham's idea of attacking the oil refineries, but you know -- as IF.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 06:22 PM (oGNNA)

295
I almost cut my hair.

It happened just the other day...
Posted by: Ladyl

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Getting kind of long. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 06:22 PM (Y4EXg)

296 True story. Son number to just answered chow call wearing a camo Palin for President T shirt.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at January 01, 2020 06:22 PM (TOOqT)

297 I tend to think of 2020 as the end of the 20-yr decade and not the beginning of the "Twenties," but I guess that's just the math-guy in me. I'm totally up for a new decade, especially if it's a roaring one that doesn't end with a depressing crash.
Here's to hoping that the new "Twenties" will one day be defined as the decade The Real Americans took back their country from the corrupt plutocrats, the pretend socialists, and the closet communists. Woohoo! Go Trump!

Posted by: JEDKH at January 01, 2020 06:23 PM (Q0Ghc)

298 Fred and Barney accidentally enlist in the Army, then end up in the space program

And the Rooskies crammed Dino into a tiny capsule and let him die in space.

Posted by: Zombie Senor Juan McCain at January 01, 2020 06:23 PM (EgshT)

299 Mike Pompeo has signed a check for any number of millions or billions to Lebanon

wtf?

Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2020 06:23 PM (MTxDQ)

300 The Left is a cancer to civilization.

And we seem to avoid the ending of it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 06:17 PM (u82oZ)

Civilization or the Left?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at January 01, 2020 06:24 PM (BiNEL)

301 Just keep adding sanctions and producing Petro products. And smiling.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at January 01, 2020 06:24 PM (TOOqT)

302 Getting kind of long. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at January 01, 2020 06:22 PM (Y4EXg)

I could've said it got in my way...

Posted by: Ladyl at January 01, 2020 06:25 PM (TdMsT)

303 142 Prior to that, the Romans centered their chronology on the date of the foundation of the City of Rome (AUC). The Greeks used the date of the First Olympiad.

At least none of you morons are seeking to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 01, 2020 05:46 PM (pPNCa)

If we all go back to the Julian Calendar, we'll have 13 more days to argue about it!

Posted by: Flyover at January 01, 2020 06:25 PM (Rbu5d)

304
Fred and Barney just got catapulted in a hollow log. They think they landed on the Moon...

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at January 01, 2020 06:25 PM (YLYCU)

305 Didn't the 1920s "roar" because of crazy productivity and prosperity? I can see that happening again, although maybe the 30s (Dirty Thirties?) will be better if second-term Trump or his successor can get our immigration policy in order and we quit taking the basket cases and criminals of the southern hemisphere and start importing more Poles, Hong Kongers, and Hungarians.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

JUST NO IRISH!

Posted by: Howard Johnson, how many flavors? at January 01, 2020 06:25 PM (UmCSQ)

306 NOOD!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 01, 2020 06:26 PM (XVuno)

307 Treating Nork land like a seige, cut off what you can from getting in and let them wither away, its doing pretty well so far.

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2020 06:26 PM (ZCEU2)

308 I almost cut my hair.
It happened just the other day...
Posted by: Ladyl
Getting kind of long

This is about me isn't it?

Posted by: freaked, looking a little shaggy at January 01, 2020 06:26 PM (Tnijr)

309 Mike Pompeo has signed a check for any number of millions or billions to Lebanon

wtf?

Posted by: Infidel at January 01, 2020 06:23 PM (MTxDQ)

Lebanon is the new Ukraine?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar knows that EDKH at January 01, 2020 06:26 PM (BiNEL)

310
I know plenty of evangelical conservatives who could not, and would not pull the lever for any LDS presidential candidate regardless of who the opponent was because of religious beliefs.
Posted by: Kazi

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Brilliant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 01, 2020 06:26 PM (oGNNA)

311 There was a reboot of the Jeffersons too with Will Ferrell. I didn't see any of that. Harrelson wasn't Archie as played by Carroll o'Connor, so passable performance.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 06:27 PM (Lqy/e)

312
This is about me isn't it?
Posted by: freaked, looking a little shaggy at January 01, 2020 06:26 PM (Tnijr)

Yes.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 01, 2020 06:27 PM (TdMsT)

313

Ladyl, please don't cut your hair.
I've just added long hair to my mind's eye pic.
Hate to have to change it.

Posted by: teej at January 01, 2020 06:27 PM (U+v0Q)

314 My onion swings from my belt.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 01, 2020 06:27 PM (yQpMk)

315 The iconic black bob haircut of the 20's had an unusual origin - it was King Tut! Tut's tomb was opened by Lord Carnarvon and his people in 1922, and it became a huge sensation across Europe and America. It was so trendy that all the girls wanted haircuts just like those in those fabulous Egyptian tomb paintings, and the 20's bob was born.

More fun Trivia: Lord Carnarvon lived in Highclere Castle, the great manor featured in Downton Abbey. It really was his house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2020 06:28 PM (V2Yro)

316 I think Trump's hands are tied on Iran. Going into 2020, more Middle Eastern war would not be a popular move.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 01, 2020 06:29 PM (H5knJ)

317 Some Quakers don't use "pagan" names for the days of the week. Don't remember if they do the same for the months. I think they do.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2020 06:29 PM (Lqy/e)

318 So I see I'm going to keep getting the comment after a nood alert

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2020 06:29 PM (ZCEU2)

319 291

The Flintstones are on. It's the episode when Fred and Barney accidentally enlist in the Army, then end up in the space program.

Posted by: Soothsayer, very senile at January 01, 2020 06:21 PM (YLYCU)

++++
So Ancient Aliens is correct, we have done all of this before.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 01, 2020 06:29 PM (5DZMc)

320 I hope history will show the year 2017 as the dawning of America 's new golden age
Posted by: vmom wishing all a great new decade

It's the New Orange Age!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at January 01, 2020 06:30 PM (UmCSQ)

321 RichardWindsor

I would advocate for a sabotage campaign. In a hot war, Iranian electrical power generation is the mission kill target.

In peace, it gets harder. But there are ways to make the Iranians need to divert funds to keep their generators in repair.

But to encourage them, I would target the Elite supply chain, and make the leader's hospitals get ineffective Chinese drugs. And bad medical equipment. They have a lot of older leaders.

If they travel outside Iran, that is an opportunity for mischief.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 06:30 PM (u82oZ)

322 288 Mitt Romney was never electable. He won the Republican primary because, just like McCain, the media wanted him to, and plenty of dems cross over voted in the stupid states with open primaries.
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Never. I despise Pierre Delecto. Somewhere early on, dude got idea that path to power was to agree with and adopt liberal policies, except for a very small handful of whatever the top 5 conservative issues are (according the pollsters of the day), and "fight" for those, by agreeing with whatever the Liberals demand (as measured by getting that number of liberals to vote for legislation X, and assuming -- against all evidence, history and practice -- that a certain segment of "reasonable" dems will break ranks and vote of "compromise" bills.). A plastic, empty, poll driven poster child of the RINO class.

Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:31 PM (DRgs8)

323 (3) With their economy teetering, their citizens restless, their Nuclear program advancing (you have to assume they're further than anyone expects, perhaps already in possession), you need an agrresice strategic military strike in value-add pay off to the on-going sanctions. Something like, pinpoint bombing of oil pipelines, or, simultaneous bombing, sabotage, engine destruction, fuel poisoning, etc. of all commercial tankers under the Iran flag. All of them.
Posted by: RichardWindsor at January 01, 2020 06:11 PM (DRgs

Those targets, yes. But also destroy the Revolutionary Guard bases, and all their inhabitants. Poison gas, if need be, but lots of very big bombs might do it. Also pinpoint bombing raids on those neighborhoods in the cities where the mullahs live, and also destroy some major mosques. More or less leave the military alone, and let it be known that a secular military coup would be warmly welcomed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2020 06:36 PM (LxWV7)

324 So, now that we're past 200, I am interested in the Moron Meta on

this.... If you are Trump's foreign policy advisor here, what are the

appropriate responses to Iran-controlled attack on US compound in Iraq?

Taking into consideration desired amount of escalation, risks of

further retaliation, properly punishing the regime and deterring any

more events?

Posted by: RichardWindsor

Well...sending in the Marines, etc wasn't Trump's only response I'm sure.

There was probably some high-level communication to the Iranian head of gov't saying essentially-

"Alright, you've had your little tantrum. Nobody was hurt and there's been no real damage.

If you stop, right fucking now, this very instant and withdraw, then we'll just consider this all a mistake.

If not, then we'll kill all of your men attacking our embassy, and since you're responsible, the weight of our real response will fall on your heads.

Your choice."

Something like that.

Which was exactly the right thing.

The Iranians know they're dealing with a serious man with President Trump not a frivolous, little, weaseling soy boy like Obama.

They backed off.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 01, 2020 06:40 PM (q57gj)

325 naturalfake

Heard a report we killed about 20 of the invaders. All hushed up, of course.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 01, 2020 06:41 PM (u82oZ)

326 NaCly Dog,

That's totally possible.

Target the known Iranian assets in the crowd.

A little bitch slap as it were to make sure the Iranians paid attention to the message.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 01, 2020 06:45 PM (q57gj)

327 246 - I knew when Obama was elected that it meant SHTF. It was like what happened to NYC when Dinkins became mayor. Their coterie decided it was Payback Time and we got it good and hard.

The Korean Store boycott in Flatbush (cops discovered 18 molotov cocktails and a Vietnamese storekeeper hit with a claw hammer) and the Crown Heights riots (3 days of rioting, 2 deaths, 7 stores burned and Al Sharpton decrying "the diamond dealers"); laws against 'aggressive panhandling" were repealed in 1993 so Larry Hogue terrorised the Upper west side as "the Wild man of 96th st.) and Brian Watkins was stabbed to death defending his parents from a wolf pack on the subway.

Posted by: vivi at January 01, 2020 06:48 PM (11H2y)

328 Today is my Aunt Annie's 99th birthday.

Posted by: Annalucia at January 01, 2020 07:06 PM (S6ArX)

329 We invented zero (0).

You're welcome

Posted by: The Muslims at January 01, 2020 07:07 PM (flINI)

330 The new decade does not start for another year. We could go back and add a year Zero and then change the date that everything happened, I guess or we could just get the fucking thing straight. I was overjoyed with Fox News last night for pointing out this out. Apparently, other news casters just repeat the same mistake until everyone repeats it too. Das Pravda comrade.

Posted by: Thomas LaBelle at January 01, 2020 07:28 PM (XHdLb)

331 #331 - EXACTLY.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 01, 2020 10:10 PM (Kqe1U)

332 Decade names?
How about: The "Naughties" and the TEENIES"?

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