Saturday Afternoon Chess Thread 02-01-2020

WGM Dina Belenkaya (RUS)

TheJamesMadison will be along later with the movie thread. As always, the chess/dress pr0n thread is an open thread, so there is no such thing as an off-topic comment.

Beginner Problem - White To Play (498 )

Goal: White can force a mate in 3 moves
Hint: Reposition the knight so it's no longer clogging the b1-h7 diagonal

3r1rk1/qp3ppp/4b3/4pN2/6P1/2P2P2/1PQP2K1/5R2 w - - 0 1

Dina

Intermediate Problem - Black To Play (1098 )

Goal: Black can force mate in 5
Hint: The weak g2 square will be White's downfall

5rk1/3q1ppp/5r2/pp1pQ3/P2P4/2P2bP1/1P3P1P/R3RNK1 b - - 0 1

Advanced Problem - White To Play (1099)

How would you play to attain a winning position for White?

8/ppk1p3/2p3Rp/P3p1bP/2B1P3/1P3P2/2Pr1P2/5K2 w - - 0 1

Dress Pr0n For The 'Ettes:

Black Tulle, Lace, Velvet and Blue and Black Sequin Dress, 1910s pic.twitter.com/Iu0pXu5k73
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) November 13, 2019

Greetings from Sardinia

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Problem Solutions

Beginner Problem - White To Play

3r1rk1/qp3ppp/4b3/4pN2/6P1/2P2P2/1PQP2K1/5R2 w - - 0 1

As many of you discovered, it's a forced mate in 3:

1.Ne7+ Kh8
2.Qxh7+ Kxh7
3.Rh1#

Intermediate Problem - Black To Play

5rk1/3q1ppp/5r2/pp1pQ3/P2P4/2P2bP1/1P3P1P/R3RNK1 b - - 0 1

Mate in 5:

1...Qh3
2.Ne3 Qxh2+
3.Kxh2 Rh6+
4.Qh5

This accomplishes nothing but delay the impending mate by 1 move.

4...Rxh5+
5.Kg1 Rh1#

Advanced Problem - White To Play

8/ppk1p3/2p3Rp/P3p1bP/2B1P3/1P3P2/2Pr1P2/5K2 w - - 0 1

So the general method here is to see that White can get a passed h pawn,

1.Rxg5!

Black should not recapture. Because 1...hxg5 2.Bd3 Rd1+ 3.Kg2 and Black is paralyzed. His rook is blocked in and he won't be able to get his King over to the h-file to stop the pawn from queening.

So, Black is now a piece down. What are his options?

He can try to undermine White's position with 1...Rxc2, but after White secures the passer by 2.Rg6 Rd2 3.Rxh6, Black is pretty much finished: 3...Rd8 4.Re6 Kd7 5.Rxe5 Rh8 6.b4 Rh7 7.Kg2 and wins.

The other option is

1...Rd6

My app found this move, so I decided to see how it could be played

2.Rg6 Rf6
3.Kg2 Kd7
4.Kg3

Here I come... step by step...

4...Rd6

And now I can simplify:

5.Rxd6+ exd6
6.Kg4 d5
7.exd5 cxd5
8.Bxd5 Kd6

I figure I've got a won game at this point, but I played it out for a few moves longer, just to make sure:

9.Bc4 Kc5
10.c3 Kc6
11.Kf5 Kd6
12.Kg6 Ke7
13.Kxh6 Kf6

Black wants to trap my king on the h-file so it blocks the pawn, but I can generate threats on the other side of the board.

14.Bd3 b5
15.axb6 axb6
16.c4 e4
17.fxe4 Ke5

And there it is! The White king is now to move off the h-file

18.Kg5 Kd4
19.h6 b5
20.cxb5 and wins.

Hope to see you all next week!

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Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board. Or, Windows users can just "triple click" on it and the entire line will be highlighted so you can copy and paste it into your chess app.

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So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 05:14 PM

Comments

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1 Love both Melania's and Kate's outfits.

Posted by: EveR at February 01, 2020 05:17 PM (R0z7P)

2 First we kill all the lawyers.

Posted by: Mr. Ed at February 01, 2020 05:17 PM (kR3UB)

3 The chess babe's stare would certainly intimidate me (like I would need any more of a disadvantage).

On to the beginner problem...

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 01, 2020 05:18 PM (ch6++)

4 1

Posted by: DaveA at February 01, 2020 05:18 PM (FhXTo)

5 Problem 1 - 1. Ne7+ Kh8, 2. Qxh7+ Kxh7, 3. Rh1#

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 05:18 PM (ymrPC)

6 Even on the weekend there's isn't time to ogle the content.

Posted by: DaveA at February 01, 2020 05:18 PM (FhXTo)

7 Love that photo of Mrs Trump. Vavavoom!

Posted by: Tuna at February 01, 2020 05:18 PM (h6Lti)

8 Kate's Flirtatious Fuchsia is especially attractive on her.

Posted by: EveR at February 01, 2020 05:19 PM (R0z7P)

9 I can't even walk on a flat hard surface in heels and Melania is traipsing aroind on grass in stilettos! I have envy. She looks beautiful as always.

Posted by: DangerGitl Behind the Commie Wall at February 01, 2020 05:19 PM (NmVSZ)

10 Hmm, the sardinia chick looks interesting.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2020 05:20 PM (9Om/r)

11 Looked at the pictures, rookie mistake. I could of been a contender for foist.

Kate is pretty but she needs some Yorkshire puddings to get as nicely rounded as our First Lady.

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 05:20 PM (0x00j)

12 Fixing my name. Fraking posting on a phone sucks. I need my internet soon!

Posted by: DangerGirl Behind the Commie Wall at February 01, 2020 05:20 PM (NmVSZ)

13 What is a Gitl?

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 01, 2020 05:20 PM (MHHCZ)

14 9 I can't even walk on a flat hard surface in heels and Melania is traipsing aroind on grass in stilettos! I have envy. She looks beautiful as always.
Posted by: DangerGitl Behind the Commie Wall at February 01, 2020 05:19 PM (NmVSZ)

Most every photo I see, Melania is wearing ridiculously high heels. I swear she must have ankles of steel.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:21 PM (sm9he)

15 Dina looks mean.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 01, 2020 05:21 PM (MHHCZ)

16 Anastasia's mate

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 05:22 PM (M9L1A)

17

That girl from Sardinia is very attractive.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 01, 2020 05:22 PM (zzrK/)

18 Speaking of games, tomorrow is a big one. Especially if you live here in the KC area.

Posted by: HH at February 01, 2020 05:22 PM (mIJBI)

19 I could picture Dina as a criminal investigator working for a insurance company.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 05:23 PM (ZCEU2)

20 What is a Gitl?

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 01, 2020 05:20 PM (MHHCZ)

A female yute

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 01, 2020 05:24 PM (zzrK/)

21 Beginner problem:

1) Ne7+ Kh8
2) Qxh7+ Kxh7
3) Re1#

I think it was as easy as that.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 01, 2020 05:24 PM (ch6++)

22 I can't tell the other thread but goat tastes goooood. At least baby goat, caprete in Italian.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 01, 2020 05:25 PM (gd9RK)

23 I did get #1

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 05:25 PM (ZCEU2)

24 Evening all

Hope I do not get stuck in Atlanta tomorrow

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:25 PM (v5pgh)

25 Periodic reminder that there is a casual social guild for Horde members on Elder Scrolls Online. Anyone interested can contact either me "@Polliwogette" or Inspector Cussword "@Handsnake" through mail there or send us a friend request.

We have approximately a half dozen people who play fairly regularly. There is a guild hall with basic crafting and a Discord channel so people can chat (or not) as well as communicate easily when doing group dungeons.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 01, 2020 05:26 PM (uquGJ)

26 Question: When President Pete Buttigieg is elected, will you show the fashions of the first man? Or is he the first lady also....

Posted by: Colin at February 01, 2020 05:27 PM (gfP64)

27 Love Melania's outfit but she should use a better bra.

Posted by: IC at February 01, 2020 05:28 PM (S/NFr)

28 I had the chess babe pegged as having Mongol blood, from the first glance.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:28 PM (xSo9G)

29 I've tried goat before on a number of occasions. All baby goat, I think. I'm not a big fan.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 01, 2020 05:28 PM (MHHCZ)

30 So,doc says my prostate is bigger than Brian Stelters appetite for donuts. Whoa. So doc Frankenstein is going to send a tube up my ding dog with a robot and a high speed grinder to get rid of some prostate meat. Well, maybe not. Something more like a plasma cutter that will vaporize tissue. Where does the vapor go you might ask? Maybe in stage 2 the send in a condenser and make bladder stones. The after effects are walking funny and wearing a piss bag. OK, I already walk funny. The piss bag could be a problem. What if I roll on it in bed? I wouldn't wish this on Big Mike or Billy Krystal. Or maybe I would.
This has been your medical lesson for the day.
Send any questions to Ronsters' Urology and Morgue Emporium.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 05:28 PM (qeYd6)

31 What is a Gitl?
Posted by: Muad'dib at February 01, 2020 05:20 PM (MHHCZ)

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A girl who needs glaases and a bigger keyboard.

Posted by: DangerGirl Behind the Commie Wall at February 01, 2020 05:29 PM (NmVSZ)

32 Chess lady looks like she might steal your kidney if you're not vigilant.

Posted by: IC at February 01, 2020 05:29 PM (S/NFr)

33 3
The chess babe's stare would certainly intimidate me (like I would need any more of a disadvantage).

She has a stern, domineering look. Like the one a librarian would give to someone who misbehaved, and needed punishment. Stern, stern punishment.

Posted by: pep at February 01, 2020 05:29 PM (T6t7i)

34 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 01, 2020 05:29 PM (arJlL)

35 Chess chick looks like she'd hurt you, and you'd beg for more.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 01, 2020 05:30 PM (NWiLs)

36 Hope I do not get stuck in Atlanta tomorrow
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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Stuck? In Atlanta?

Well, since the Mayor's name is Lance-Bottoms, I figure your odds are not good.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:30 PM (xSo9G)

37 Planting a flag and going to work the chess problems.

Dina has the most beautiful eyes.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 01, 2020 05:30 PM (PHotS)

38 Hope I do not get stuck in Atlanta tomorrow
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:25 PM

Then I wouldn't go to Atlanta as the best cure for not getting stuck.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 05:31 PM (ZCEU2)

39 > 35 Chess chick looks like she'd hurt you, and you'd beg for more.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 01, 2020 05:30 PM (NWiLs)

She already looks disappointed in my performance.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 01, 2020 05:31 PM (MHHCZ)

40 18 Speaking of games, tomorrow is a big one. Especially if you live here in the KC area.
Posted by: HH at February 01, 2020 05:22 PM (mIJBI)

SF, too. We'll be having a small SuperBowl party here at Casa de Muse tomorrow and we'll be trying out a recipe for honey barbeque chicken wings from a recipe I found online.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:31 PM (sm9he)

41 Skip, there's a Brit detective series where the hero is an insurance company investigator played by Kenneth Whatley The Broker's Man he's a mensch, Dina looks perfect for the part!

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 05:32 PM (0x00j)

42 open thread so

I think this us neat - the reddit China Flu is maintaining an interactive Wuhan coronavirus map

https://maphub.net/Fuuuuuuu/map

also, USA is now screening for the virus at 20 airports, nit just 5

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 05:32 PM (G546f)

43 Dina has the most beautiful eyes.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 01, 2020 05:30 PM (PHotS)

Exactly why I posted her photos despite her rather stern demeanor.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:32 PM (sm9he)

44 Hey JT.

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 05:33 PM (0x00j)

45 list of aiports

Los Angeles International
San Francisco International
Chicago O'Hare
New York JFK
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International
Houston George Bush Intercontinental
Dallas-Fort Worth International
San Diego International
Seattle-Tacoma International
Honolulu International
Anchorage Ted Stevens International
Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Detroit Metropolitan
Miami International
Washington Dulles International
Philadelphia International
Newark Liberty International
Boston Logan International
El Paso International
Puerto Rico's San Juan Airport

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 05:33 PM (G546f)

46 >
SF, too. We'll be having a small SuperBowl party here at Casa de Muse tomorrow and we'll be trying out a recipe for honey barbeque chicken wings from a recipe I found online.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:31 PM (sm9he)

I'm smoking a pork butt tomorrow for pulled pork sammiches for the big game.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 01, 2020 05:33 PM (MHHCZ)

47 I can't tell the other thread but goat tastes goooood. At least baby goat, caprete in Italian.

The wife and I like it but our cat despises it. Got one whiff and briskly trotted out of the kitchen...

Posted by: Gabby Johnson at February 01, 2020 05:34 PM (7s3Gx)

48 Woman in the black and white dress looks like Rose Byrne, who is very pretty.

Posted by: pep at February 01, 2020 05:34 PM (T6t7i)

49 Ronster - Sorry to hear it. Hang tough. In the long run, it's for the best, but that damn sure doesn't help in the short run. I admire your attitude.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:34 PM (CDGwz)

50 Then I wouldn't go to Atlanta as the best cure for not getting stuck.
Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 05:31 PM (ZCEU2)

Sigh. Yes. But from Columbus GA I connect thru ATLANTA

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:34 PM (v5pgh)

51 The woman in the 50s-ish picture is striking a not very ladylike pose. Queen Victoria would not approve.

Posted by: pep at February 01, 2020 05:35 PM (T6t7i)

52 First problem:

Ne7+ Kh8
Qxh7 KxQh7
Rh1#

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 01, 2020 05:35 PM (NWiLs)

53 Dina looks like a Bond girl

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 05:36 PM (G546f)

54 Chess Thread Yippee!!!!

Dina got it going on like Donkey Kong....one false move and off come the pants.

Shout out to Randy Newman.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 01, 2020 05:36 PM (Z+IKu)

55 Sigh. Yes. But from Columbus GA I connect thru ATLANTA
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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Ft. Benning?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:37 PM (CDGwz)

56 28 I had the chess babe pegged as having Mongol blood, from the first glance.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:28 PM (xSo9G)

I think Melania may have some of that Mongol blood, too. If you look at her eyes (admittedly hard to do in this photo), I swear there's an Asiatic hint to them, as if Genghis Khan passed through her g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-randma's village back in the day and stopped at her hut for some refreshment.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:37 PM (sm9he)

57 This has been your medical lesson for the day.
Send any questions to Ronsters' Urology and Morgue Emporium.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 05:28 PM (qeYd6)

Ok, how many of you morons just cringed and tightened your legs together?

Sending prayers your way Ronster!

Posted by: Tami at February 01, 2020 05:38 PM (cF8AT)

58 Looks like everyone's doing well with the first problem.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:38 PM (sm9he)

59 Ft. Benning?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:37 PM (CDGwz

No but close. A Navy Reserve Center a few miles away. Wish I had had time to see the infantry museum there

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:38 PM (v5pgh)

60 I think Melania may have some of that Mongol blood, too. If you look at her eyes (admittedly hard to do in this photo), I swear there's an Asiatic hint to them,
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Very pronounced, I would say.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:38 PM (CDGwz)

61 I like the chess lady at top. She has a cruel unapproachable beauty.

The 50s dress model has a rather wide stance. I don't know what can be inferred from this.

Posted by: DB- just DB at February 01, 2020 05:38 PM (iTXRQ)

62 Leaving for Saudi Arabia in 2017, Melania left the White House in a creamy Max Mara sweater and a formfitting Herve Pierre leather skirt. The micro-ribbed knit top was complete with bow cuffs, its light color contrasting against the burnt orange pencil skirt. Herve Pierre's design included a high waist and meticulous exposed stitching, hugging the mom's sleek body.

The accessories adorning the clothes were more standard-Melania: a colossal diamond ring and nude Manolo Blahnik stilettos. When pictures surfaced, the ensemble initially made waves, as it was undoubtedly the most avant-garde Melania has worn yet as the President's wife.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at February 01, 2020 05:39 PM (Dhht7)

63 Ronster - doesnt sound like fun but hang in there

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 05:39 PM (ZCEU2)

64 think Melania may have some of that Mongol blood, too. If you look at her eyes (admittedly hard to do in this photo), I swear there's an Asiatic hint to them,

Did the mongrols make it to Central Europe?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:40 PM (v5pgh)

65 Hiya Kazi !

Posted by: JT at February 01, 2020 05:41 PM (arJlL)

66 , as it was undoubtedly the most avant-garde Melania has worn yet as the President's wife.
Posted by: olddog
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Pfft. You ever seen my hooker boots?

Posted by: The Moocher at February 01, 2020 05:41 PM (CDGwz)

67 also chess seems interesting but my level of skill is limited to knowing what the object of the game is, and knowing how the pieces move. I don't know strategies or defenses. I just try to get my guys downfield and kill as many of the enemy as possible before he does the same to me.

Posted by: DB- just DB at February 01, 2020 05:42 PM (iTXRQ)

68 Oh wow! If the chess babe was wearing the historical dress she could be deadly.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 01, 2020 05:43 PM (aIRv9)

69
Did the mongrols make it to Central Europe?
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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Geeze, these Navy guys are always at a loss on dry land.

Map: https://tinyurl.com/qvrfuol

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:44 PM (xSo9G)

70 Beautiful details from the top of the dress from 1910.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2020 05:45 PM (WI7YS)

71 26 Question: When President Pete Buttigieg is elected, will you show the fashions of the first man? Or is he the first lady also....
Posted by: Colin

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Vogue and Cosmo say "Yes!".

But Mrs. Trump? We ain't got time for dat!

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

72 Did the mongrols make it to Central Europe?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:40 PM (v5pgh)

I thought they did.

I probably should check.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:45 PM (sm9he)

73 Dina looks like a Bond girl

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 05:36 PM (G546f)

Probably no more Bond girls. It used to be fun watching a Bond movie and wonder who the girl was. Sometimes in the later Bond movies you couldn't tell who was the James Bond girl was until later in the movie.

Posted by: Colin at February 01, 2020 05:45 PM (gfP64)

74 #2

1. ...Qh3
2. Ne3 Qxh2+
3. Kxh2 Rh6+
4. Qh5 Rxh5+
5. Kf1 Rh1#

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 05:46 PM (M9L1A)

75 Chess babe looks like she would simultaneously break your heart and cut your throat.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 01, 2020 05:46 PM (hI6ly)

76 Did the mongrols make it to Central Europe?
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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Geeze, these Navy guys are always at a loss on dry land.

Map: https://tinyurl.com/qvrfuol
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:44 PM (xSo9G)

Figured they did. Lol.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:46 PM (v5pgh)

77 Wow Ronster! Prayers for a painless procedure and fast recovery.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2020 05:46 PM (Y4EXg)

78
Vogue and Cosmo say "Yes!".

Posted by: Tonypete
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We'll be the judge of that.

Posted by: GQ at February 01, 2020 05:46 PM (xSo9G)

79 Prayers up, Ronster

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 05:47 PM (G546f)

80 Reckon I'll start on our taxes.

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

81 Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 05:28 PM (qeYd6)

Will keep you in prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2020 05:47 PM (WI7YS)

82 Geeze, these Navy guys are always at a loss on dry land.

Map: https://tinyurl.com/qvrfuol
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 05:44 PM (xSo9G)

Well maybe but remember on dry land us navy Medical types always have our Marines with us to protect us and yell Yo Doc this way

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:48 PM (v5pgh)

83 72 Did the mongrols make it to Central Europe?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:40 PM (v5pgh)

Looks like it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mongol_Empire_map_2.gif

They got far into Europe. Melania ancestral homeland is Slovenia, so I'm thinking yes.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:48 PM (sm9he)

84 I'm stuck on how to start off with the intermediate problem.

I assume the first objective is to get white to sacrifice the queen. If so, I cannot see way to force that.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 01, 2020 05:48 PM (ch6++)

85 At my friends funeral last weekend there were several young women (15 - 25) wearing mini skirts or micro or whatever they're called now. These girls were from from respectable families. Hell, my friend's two daughters were among the worst ones there.

Wth is this? I know I'm about to be 149 years old but damn. This was your own father's funeral!

Maybe ok for the club but not church.

Posted by: weirdflunky at February 01, 2020 05:48 PM (cknjq)

86 The lady in the black dress looks nice also the lady below her.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 05:48 PM (qeYd6)

87 40 OM

>> honey barbeque chicken wings

Would you mind posting it here, please? That sounds really good, and I'm looking for something new/special for wings tomorrow.

Thank You!!

Posted by: ibguy at February 01, 2020 05:48 PM (EHVbt)

88 If the chess babe was wearing the historical dress she could be deadly.

I was just thinking that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 01, 2020 05:48 PM (WI7YS)

89 Reckon I'll start on our taxes.
Posted by: Weasel
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*note to self: start knocking over liquor stores now, don't wait until April*

Posted by: GQ at February 01, 2020 05:48 PM (xSo9G)

90 Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 05:46 PM (M9L1A)

Nice.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:49 PM (sm9he)

91 Saw a little of Buttaguy on C-Span2, couldn't take a whole lot.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 05:49 PM (ZCEU2)

92 Pfft. You ever seen my hooker boots?

Posted by: The Moocher at February 01, 2020 05:41
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No. And don't want to.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at February 01, 2020 05:49 PM (Dhht7)

93 Hey, Ronster, sorry you've got prostate issues...

Don't worry about the "piss bag"-- they give you a long enough hose for the bag to hang bedside. And, since you're getting the D&C For Men, it'll likely be temporary--you won't need it after the tissues heal.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2020 05:50 PM (gP/Z3)

94 Maybe ok for the club but not church.
Posted by: weirdflunky
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I see that every Sunday at Church, and think two things:

A. I'm glad she isn't my daughter.

B. What is wrong with her parents?

Posted by: GQ at February 01, 2020 05:50 PM (xSo9G)

95 Problem 1:

Knight to e7 for check. Black has to move King to H8.

Queen to H7 takes pawn for check. King must take queen to get out of check.

Rook to H1 for checkmate.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 01, 2020 05:51 PM (PHotS)

96 #74, that's a better solution that I came up with, which was a wild mate in 6:
1 ... Qh3, 2. Ne3 (to prevent Qg2#) Rh6 (adding a mating threat at h2 as well; the knight cannot defend both squares. At this point, black can only delay the inevitable mate), 3. Qxg7+ Kxg7, 4Nf5+ Kh8, 5. Nh4 Rxh4, 6. gxh4 Qg2#

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 05:51 PM (ymrPC)

97 You goat eaters are savages!

Posted by: Cannibal Blob at February 01, 2020 05:52 PM (hmgiv)

98 Reckon I'll start on our taxes.

Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 05:47 PM
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Taxes??? I thought PDJT got rid of those for you wealthy peeps. /

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at February 01, 2020 05:53 PM (Dhht7)

99
UMass (Boston) student tests + for the carumbavirus.

Wonderful.
Thanks, Mr President!

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 05:53 PM (ZeM6O)

100 The young lady in red does not appear to be Danish.

Posted by: fluffy at February 01, 2020 05:53 PM (dCRRg)

101
We knew this was serious two weeks ago.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 05:54 PM (ZeM6O)

102 As requested:

Slow Cooker Honey Buffalo Wings

Ingredients

SPICE RUB:
" 2 Tbsp brown sugar
" 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
" 1 tsp black pepper
" 1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
" 1 1/2 tsp onion powder or dried minced onion
" 1 tsp smoked paprika
" 1 tsp chili powder
" 1 tsp ground cumin
" 1 tsp dried parsley
HONEY BUFFALO SAUCE:
" 3/4 cup hot sauce (Frank's Original is what I always use)
" 1/2 cup honey
" 1 Tbsp melted butter
" 1 Tbsp molasses (optional but recommended)

WINGS:
" 4 lbs fresh chicken wings, patted dry

Instructions
1. In a small mixing bowl, add rub ingredients and stir to combine thoroughly. Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray and add chicken wings. Sprinkle rub over the top and use hands to massage the rub into all the chicken wings. I like to use nitrile gloves for this - easy clean up!
2. In the empty rub mixing bowl, add sauce ingredients and whisk to combine well. Pour over spiced wings and toss gently to coat.
3. Cover slow cooker and cook on HIGH for 2 hours, or on LOW for 3-4 hours.

FOR STICKY GLAZE:
1. Cook slow cooker recipe as directed above. Line a baking sheet with 2 sheets of aluminum foil, then place an oven safe wire cooling rack on top. Place cooked wings on cooling rack, then pour sauce from the slow cooker into a saucepan. Add 2 Tbsp cornstarch and 2 Tbsp of water to a small bowl and whisk to combine well, then pour into sauce and whisk. Cook over MED-HIGH heat until boiling, then reduce heat to MED-LOW and whisk as it cooks. Cook about 5 minutes, or until thickened to desired consistency.
2. Brush wings with thickened sauce, then broil on HIGH for 2-3 minutes, until the sauce caramelizes a little. Brush with more glaze and broil another 2 minutes. Repeat this one more time and you should have perfectly sticky wings!

Notes
Frozen wings can also be used, but the sauce in the slow cooker after cooking will be more watery, as most frozen chicken wings are ice glazed (each wing has a thin glaze of ice over it, so they don't stick together as much in the bag). For best results, thaw frozen wings before cooking.

If cooking from frozen, cook time is 3 hours on HIGH and 4-6 hours on LOW.

NOTE: We don't have a slow cooker, so we're just loading the wings into a dutch over and cook them on low for a couple of hours.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 05:54 PM (sm9he)

103 B. What is wrong with her parents?
Posted by: GQ at February 01, 2020 05:50 PM (xSo9G)

Exactly! It was shocking to me.

Posted by: weirdflunky at February 01, 2020 05:54 PM (cknjq)

104
Taxes??? I thought PDJT got rid of those for you wealthy peeps. /
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at February 01, 2020 05:53 PM (Dhht7)
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Ours went UP, but still.... greatest president ever!

Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 05:54 PM (mQ82A)

105 Ooh #3

1. Rxg5! hxg5
2. h6 Re8
3. h7 Rh8
4. Bg8!

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 05:55 PM (M9L1A)

106 The Mongols made it to Central Europe, but only on one campaign, IIRC, and they didn't stay long. OTOH, the Sarmations, Huns, Avars, Magyars, and several other Central Asian nomad peoples not only made it to Europe but hung around and were absorbed into the local populations (in the case of the Magyars, they became the local population but were also notorious woman-stealers, so the genetic pool became very European quickly).

Posted by: Grey Fox at February 01, 2020 05:55 PM (iTtBf)

107 First we kill all the lawyers.

Posted by: Mr. Ed at February 01, 2020 05:17 PM (kR3UB)

Ummm...Im sorta fond of Insomniac. How about we kill you in his place?

Posted by: Al Muhbahlzert at February 01, 2020 05:56 PM (/LQkF)

108 Apropos of only a notice tomorrow is 02-02-2020.

Think I'll buy a lottery ticket.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 05:56 PM (/f7eN)

109 There was a couple sitting beside me at the pub she was Polish. Lovely, very lovely.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 01, 2020 05:56 PM (hI6ly)

110 93 Hey, Ronster, sorry you've got prostate issues...

Don't take it lying down!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 01, 2020 05:57 PM (NWiLs)

111 I meant Rd8, not Re8

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 05:57 PM (M9L1A)

112 Sardinia girl is pretty.

Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 05:57 PM (mQ82A)

113 Corrected

1. Rxg5! hxg5
2. h6 Rd8
3. h7 Rh8
4. Bg8!

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 05:58 PM (M9L1A)

114 also chess seems interesting but my level of skill is limited to knowing what the object of the game is, and knowing how the pieces move. I don't know strategies or defenses. I just try to get my guys downfield and kill as many of the enemy as possible before he does the same to me.
Posted by: DB- just DB at February 01, 2020 05:42 PM (iTXRQ)

Here is a drunken chess tip for what it's worth.....

Instead of killing the other guy's pieces, use your pieces to deny your opponent areas of the board to limit his options. When he runs out of room, mistakes will have to be made.

Then kill 'em.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 01, 2020 05:58 PM (Z+IKu)

115 Dina the chess chick has nice eyebrows. Did you know the eyebrows are hair? I like hair.

Joe Biden

Posted by: Groundhog at February 01, 2020 05:58 PM (VYwSh)

116 Watching the University of Texas alumni/varsity game, an annual tradition. Ahh, baseball at last.

Heading to spring training (Cactus League) in about 6 weeks for the first time in 10 years. It's a great experience if you've never been there and are a fan.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at February 01, 2020 05:58 PM (fTtFy)

117 Dina's got a black leather corset under that blouse. I just know it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 01, 2020 05:59 PM (XVuno)

118 Hubby has a new problem:

A "hospital lien" arrived in the mail.

He (at fault) hit some girl's car from behind, just enough to crack her plastic bumper and break his plastic turn signal assembly. Cops showed up, ticket written, insurance info exchanged... both parties uninjured (because: barely a tap) and no ambulance called. Everybody drives themselves home. We paid the ticket, no court.

Evidently, girl got "medical care" the next day. Probably on the advise of ambulance-chasing lawyer?

Hooo boy, can hardly wait to see what's next! (not!)

I had hoped girlie wouldn't try to win the Liability Lottery, but those ducks are beginning to line up and it sure looks like trouble ahead for us! Fk.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2020 05:59 PM (gP/Z3)

119 my son is a lawyer. i frown on killing them. also, i also like insom. so, kill somebody else.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 05:59 PM (KP5rU)

120 Stephen King @StephenKing
I'm quitting Facebook. Not comfortable with the flood of false information that's allowed in its political advertising, nor am I confident in its ability to protect its users' privacy. Follow me (and Molly, aka The Thing of Evil) on Twitter, if you like.

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at February 01, 2020 05:59 PM (BqBId)

121 117 Dina's got a black leather corset under that blouse. I just know it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 01, 2020 05:59 PM (XVuno)

Chess grandmaster by day, Mistress Midnight Flame by night.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 01, 2020 06:00 PM (NWiLs)

122 nigel farage will be attending the state of the union address! (per instapundit).

Posted by: mjc at February 01, 2020 06:00 PM (Pg+x7)

123 ... make that sir nigel. please.

Posted by: mjc at February 01, 2020 06:00 PM (Pg+x7)

124 119 my son is a lawyer. i frown on killing them. also, i also like insom. so, kill somebody else.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 05:59 PM (KP5rU)

My man! Good knowing you got my back!
*fistbump*

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 01, 2020 06:01 PM (NWiLs)

125 Lawyers aren't very tasty anyhoo.

Posted by: Cannibal Blob at February 01, 2020 06:01 PM (hmgiv)

126 my son is a lawyer. i frown on killing them. also, i also like insom. so, kill somebody else.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 05:59 PM (KP5rU)

Yep. No point in carrying a conceptually valid idea too far.

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

127 Everybody hates the lawyers until you really need one.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 06:01 PM (/f7eN)

128 124: anytime, insom.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 06:02 PM (KP5rU)

129 Everybody hates the lawyers until you really need one.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 06:01 PM (/f7eN)

No we still hate them, but in the nicest way possible

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 06:03 PM (v5pgh)

130 maybe you should be pissed at the people who pass fucked up laws. those are the tools the lawyers work with.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 06:04 PM (KP5rU)

131 101
We knew this was serious two weeks ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 05:54 PM (ZeM6O)

This could bite Trump on the ass.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at February 01, 2020 06:04 PM (H8QX8)

132 10 Hmm, the sardinia chick looks interesting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Yes, she does. An interesting mix. French/Italian/other. She is attractive.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 01, 2020 06:05 PM (WBtPt)

133 I don't hate all lawyers, just the ones that turn into politicks.

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 06:05 PM (G546f)

134 Periodic
reminder that there is a casual social guild for Horde members on Elder
Scrolls Online. Anyone interested can contact either me "@Polliwogette"
or Inspector Cussword "@Handsnake" through mail there or send us a
friend request.

We have approximately a half dozen people who play fairly regularly.
There is a guild hall with basic crafting and a Discord channel so
people can chat (or not) as well as communicate easily when doing group
dungeons.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 01, 2020 05:26 PM (uquGJ)

I haven't played that game in probably 2 years. Right after the morrowind expansion. Some idiot had me reset my attributes to build a better character and it went to shit after that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2020 06:05 PM (9Om/r)

135 Chess lady has a good look with the jackets.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 06:05 PM (/f7eN)

136 102 OM

Thank you!!

Posted by: ibguy at February 01, 2020 06:06 PM (EHVbt)

137 96 #74, that's a better solution that I came up with, which was a wild mate in 6:
1 ... Qh3, 2. Ne3 (to prevent Qg2#) Rh6 (adding a mating threat at h2 as well; the knight cannot defend both squares. At this point, black can only delay the inevitable mate), 3. Qxg7+ Kxg7, 4Nf5+ Kh8, 5. Nh4 Rxh4, 6. gxh4 Qg2#
Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 05:51 PM (ymrPC)

I was thinking
1. ...Qh3
2. Ne3 Rh6 but that allows g4 and while white is still in trouble it's sloppy.

Qxh2 doesn't give white time for g4

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 06:06 PM (M9L1A)

138 Dina, come to me, Dina.

Posted by: atilla the thrilla at February 01, 2020 06:07 PM (w7KSn)

139 113 Corrected
1. Rxg5! hxg5
2. h6 Rd8
3. h7 Rh8
4. Bg8!
Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 05:58 PM (M9L1A)

You can improve this line by bottling up Black's rook before you push the h-pawn. Also, there are other lines. Black can decide not to recapture on his first move but to move his rook elsewhere.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:07 PM (sm9he)

140 The Mongols made it to Central Europe, but only on one campaign, IIRC, and they didn't stay long.
----

Five minutes is enough.

Posted by: Genghis Kahn at February 01, 2020 06:07 PM (CDGwz)

141
Submitted an application for a job yesterday. Got an e-mail today saying I was turned down. Those talent acquisition and HR types must really burn the midnight oil!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 06:07 PM (7rVsF)

142 131 101
We knew this was serious two weeks ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 05:54 PM (ZeM6O)

This could bite Trump on the ass.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at February 01, 2020 06:04
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Huh, what?

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at February 01, 2020 06:07 PM (Dhht7)

143 Mongolia has shut their Chinese border.p

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at February 01, 2020 06:08 PM (PUmDY)

144 Advanced problem: 1. Rxg5 hxg5 (else white is up a bishop), but then 2. Bd3 blocks Rd8, and now black's rook can't escape soon enough to prevent the h-pawn promotion. (2. ..Rf1+ is answered simply by Kg2). So perhaps black's best line is 1 Rxg5 Rf6

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:08 PM (ymrPC)

145 Polliwog, do you guys do ESO on PC or console? Does it matter, or are the platforms all together?

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 06:08 PM (t+qrx)

146 Mongolia has shut their Chinese border.p
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at February 01, 2020 06:08 PM (PUmDY)

They should put up a wall. Maybe a great wall.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 01, 2020 06:09 PM (XVuno)

147 Jerry..!

Jerry..!

Jerry..!

Jerry..!

Posted by: A Schiff at February 01, 2020 06:09 PM (oVJmc)

148 141
Submitted an application for a job yesterday. Got an e-mail today saying I was turned down. Those talent acquisition and HR types must really burn the midnight oil!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 06:07 PM (7rVsF)

I'm sorry, man. I've gotten plenty of those and they never stop sucking donkey ass.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 01, 2020 06:09 PM (NWiLs)

149 Melania and Kate are perfect, and I always like the Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dress.

Posted by: CN at February 01, 2020 06:09 PM (ONvIw)

150 I don't see how the china virus is Trumps fault.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 06:10 PM (qeYd6)

151 They should put up a wall. Maybe a great wall.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 01, 2020 06:09 PM (XVuno)

Yuge. And China's gonna pay for it.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 06:10 PM (t+qrx)

152 Mongolia has shut their Chinese border.p

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at February 01, 2020 06:08 PM (PUmDY)

*bonks forehead*

Posted by: Tibet at February 01, 2020 06:10 PM (oVJmc)

153 99
UMass (Boston) student tests + for the carumbavirus.

Wonderful.
Thanks, Mr President!
Posted by: Soothsayer

==

did you see it on the map I linked?
prettycool right?

Rome has cases
*sigh*

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 06:10 PM (G546f)

154 intermediate is q h3 forces ne6 to defend. Next qxh2 Kxh2 and rhen r h6 force k back to g1 rh1 ++

Posted by: steve at February 01, 2020 06:11 PM (TTy55)

155

The chinese virus is here, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:11 PM (ZeM6O)

156 Hmm. Well, every time I have needed a lawyer, that need could ultimately traced to another lawyer.

I number several lawyer among my friends and acquaintances, nice fellows, but the lawyer quality is always present. They will slip into lawyer mode at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 06:11 PM (CDGwz)

157 They sell goat by the 15-pound box in my Costco. It's in the same freezer case as the whole lambs.

Posted by: bluebell at February 01, 2020 06:11 PM (tVDnh)

158 Black dresses matter !!!

Posted by: Lump at February 01, 2020 06:12 PM (OT1XP)

159 I don't see how the china virus is Trumps fault.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 06:10 PM (qeYd6)

Have you met the left?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2020 06:12 PM (9Om/r)

160
I'm sorry, man. I've gotten plenty of those and they never stop sucking donkey ass.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo

Thanks. My point was, I'm getting turned down by a computer algorithm. No human being laid eyes on my application. Well, at least they told me. That happens about 10% of the time. The other 90% the computer doesn't even bother with that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 06:12 PM (7rVsF)

161 I see a couple of guys got the easy problem.
Intermediate, same theme:
1. --- Qh3
2. Ne3 ( only way to stop mate)
Queen sac, then Rook kill shot, details left to the reader as an exercise :-)

Advanced
1. RxB PxR
2. h6 Rd8
3. h7 Rh1 (only way to stop Queening)
4. Bg8 trapping Rook
White should be able to win that endgame

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at February 01, 2020 06:12 PM (4LbHt)

162 I wouldn't worry too much about the hospital lien. The girl had nothing to do with it; it's an automatic mailout (in some places) by whoever provided her care.

"A hospital lien is a special right granted to hospitals and emergency services providers by Statute enabling them to receive payment from the first monies recovered from a negligent third-party by the injured victim. The phrase"hospital lien" is actually short for "hospital and emergency services lien." It is a right that attaches automatically and is often accompanied by written notice of a hospital lien although this is not required. The lien applies only in emergency situations and to reasonable and necessary medical care provided as a result of the emergency for a set time period."

Posted by: Tevye at February 01, 2020 06:12 PM (V2Yro)

163 155

The chinese virus is here, now.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip

Well make some tea for it. Maybe if your nice, it will leave you unharmed.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 01, 2020 06:13 PM (WBtPt)

164 They sell goat by the 15-pound box in my Costco.

In Kathmandu the goats are tied up in front of the butcher shop and you pick the one you want. The system cleverly eliminates the need for refrigeration, which they happen not to have.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 01, 2020 06:13 PM (XVuno)

165

Jeep brought back the round headlights in 1997.

In case anyone wanted to know.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:14 PM (ZeM6O)

166 The chinese virus is here, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:11 PM (ZeM6O)

I'm guessing it qualifies as a pandemic?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2020 06:14 PM (9Om/r)

167 re 139, I had thought about 1. Bd3, but not sure of white's continuation after 1. ...Bf4

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:14 PM (ymrPC)

168
I don't see how the china virus is Trumps fault.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 06:10 PM (qeYd6)

The MFM: Because everything is his fault

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 01, 2020 06:14 PM (CSrbc)

169
My opinion of lawyers declined sharply after my recent unpleasantness.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 06:14 PM (7rVsF)

170 122
nigel farage will be attending the state of the union address! (per instapundit).

Posted by: mjc

Awesome!

Posted by: pep at February 01, 2020 06:14 PM (T6t7i)

171 I don't see how the china virus is Trumps fault.
Posted by: Ronster
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Lack of diversity on the Task Force. As an aside, see this Babylon Bee item: https://tinyurl.com/s26depm

Worth reading, because satire.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 01, 2020 06:15 PM (CDGwz)

172 Did the mongrols make it to Central Europe?

They must have. Das Alte Atlilied (the old song of Attilla) is the oldest piece of writing in what's called German. It's their Beowulf, and it's from around the same time. Atli is also central to the Niebelungen story.

And, an Austrian colonel notwithstanding, a bunch of Germans have Mongol eyes. I'm talking from the 70s, real Germans, not the recent arrivals.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 01, 2020 06:15 PM (gd9RK)

173 122
nigel farage will be attending the state of the union address! (per instapundit).

Posted by: mjc

Great idea, will make the MSM go bat soup crazy

Posted by: CN at February 01, 2020 06:15 PM (ONvIw)

174 You can improve this line by bottling up Black's rook before you push the h-pawn. Also, there are other lines. Black can decide not to recapture on his first move but to move his rook elsewhere.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:07 PM (sm9he)

I see Bd3 but after Re1+ black can whichever side it needs to accprding to the K move and you're dropping a pawn.

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 06:15 PM (M9L1A)

175 I don't see how the china virus is Trumps fault.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 06:10 PM (qeYd6)

Because you're normal.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 01, 2020 06:15 PM (WBtPt)

176 nigel farage will be attending the state of the union address! (per instapundit).

Have two golden scalp weasels ever occupied the same room? This might disrupt the entire space-time continuum!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 01, 2020 06:15 PM (XVuno)

177 one thing to know is that the test for the wuhan coronavirus can show a false negative in the early asymptomatic syage; suspected vectors should be retested after a couple of days ( not sure of interval)

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 06:16 PM (G546f)

178 I bet Trump will call him out at some point and the Euro loving Dems will be PISSED.

Posted by: IC at February 01, 2020 06:16 PM (sYDum)

179 him = Nigel Farage

Posted by: IC at February 01, 2020 06:16 PM (sYDum)

180 Hospital liens are released on real estate almost instantaneously

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at February 01, 2020 06:16 PM (PUmDY)

181 85 At my friends funeral last weekend there were several young women (15 - 25) wearing mini skirts or micro or whatever they're called now. These girls were from from respectable families. Hell, my friend's two daughters were among the worst ones there.

Wth is this? I know I'm about to be 149 years old but damn. This was your own father's funeral!

Posted by: weirdflunky

----

I've noticed the middle aged hot tomato in the bright red dress with flamboyant chapeau gets the side eye from pretty much everyone too.

Just say'n.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2020 06:16 PM (Y4EXg)

182 Rd1+ sorry

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 06:17 PM (M9L1A)

183 rose byrne doesn't look half bad either, also some of her recent film choices, leave something to be desired

Posted by: gaius martius at February 01, 2020 06:17 PM (hMlTh)

184 I certainly hope the dems don't throw a huge stompy tantrum during the SotU and look like complete dribbling idiots. But what are the odds of that, amirite?

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 06:18 PM (t+qrx)

185 Regarding the lines trying to trap black's rook at h8, black can move his King in three moves to f8 and then exchange back his rook for the white bishop and pawn. Meanwhile, white needs to move his king to capture black's pawn at g4, after which the position seems roughly equal.

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:18 PM (ymrPC)

186 Thanks, Tevye.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2020 06:18 PM (gP/Z3)

187 I certainly hope the dems don't throw a huge stompy tantrum during the SotU and look like complete dribbling idiots. But what are the odds of that, amirite?
Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 06:18 PM (t+qrx)

Nadler is scheduled as the warm-up act. He'll be doing his hilarious Mr. Potato impression, immediately followed by a competitive-eating demonstration.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 01, 2020 06:19 PM (XVuno)

188 Bander, you meant an Austrian corporal, I think.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 06:20 PM (El6T/)

189 For the advanced problem, I'm Rxg5 after h6x g5 Bd3 traps the black R and any hopes of preventing the H pawn form promoting

Posted by: steve at February 01, 2020 06:21 PM (TTy55)

190 187: I thought he and Schiffty had settled on Laurel and Hardy this year

Posted by: CN at February 01, 2020 06:21 PM (ONvIw)

191 Bander, you meant an Austrian corporal, I think.

I did. What did I say?

*scurries back up thread*

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 01, 2020 06:21 PM (gd9RK)

192 Pissed they didn't end it yet and sure Democrats will do something, maybe all black this time for end of the country or something.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 06:22 PM (ZCEU2)

193 Fox news polls have every Dim waay ahead of Trump every time, lol. They're losing me. Nfw

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2020 06:22 PM (K22Va)

194 think Melania may have some of that Mongol blood, too. If you look at her eyes (admittedly hard to do in this photo), I swear there's an Asiatic hint to them,

Did the mongrols make it to Central Europe?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 05:40 PM (v5pgh)

The Huns did, and we call the area Hungary and the Maygars did after that. It is one of the few areas in Europe proper that had plains suitable for horses in ancient times rather than forests.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 01, 2020 06:22 PM (eoQWY)

195 Oh, colonel. Well, that's also a word that's misspelled.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 01, 2020 06:22 PM (gd9RK)

196 Mongols in central Europe at least once. Tatarized Russians there several times subsequently.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at February 01, 2020 06:23 PM (trUSM)

197 This could bite Trump on the ass

EAT ME

Posted by: Chinese Hybrid Monkey-Bat Soup at February 01, 2020 06:23 PM (q0qV7)

198 182 Rd1+ sorry
Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 06:17 PM (M9L1A)

Right, and after Kg2, Black's rook can't get over to the h-file to pick up the passed pawn, so now White can start pushing it.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:23 PM (sm9he)

199 Yes, I forgot Trump is blamed for everything.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 06:23 PM (qeYd6)

200 185 Regarding the lines trying to trap black's rook at h8, black can move his King in three moves to f8 and then exchange back his rook for the white bishop and pawn. Meanwhile, white needs to move his king to capture black's pawn at g4, after which the position seems roughly equal.
Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:18 PM (ymrPC)

In that same vein, the white king will then take the f5 pawn and the B king will be on g8.

Winning for white

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 06:25 PM (M9L1A)

201 KTE just pointed out to ner that a bunch of Chinese students studying in the USA went home for Christmas and came back in January.

So yeah kinda worried about KTY at Pitt, she hangs out with Asians, and she has been feeling sinusy and tired this week.

Please add ger and all our horde students to your prayers

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 06:25 PM (G546f)

202 Ronster, prayers for you, hang in there!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 01, 2020 06:27 PM (a4EWo)

203 Fox news polls have every Dim waay ahead of Trump every time, lol. They're losing me. Nfw

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Fox also had 1000% of the people wanting Trump removed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (+y/Ru)

204 192 Pissed they didn't end it yet and sure Democrats will do something, maybe all black this time for end of the country or something.
Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 06:22 PM (ZCEU2)

Yeah, get ready for a new, last-minute "surprise" witness that no one has ever heard of before, plus some leaking of sensitive information, some alleged new crime, and the Dems will start loudly demanding a new trial

This will all take place on Wednesday afternoon.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (sm9he)

205 off tevye sock! lol!

a note to any who wondered if the Mitch McConnell was messing with Trump by not scheduling the final vote on Wednesday, after the SOTU - but it was reported today that Mitch called up Trump and got his approval before agreeing to the final schedule.

it's really pretty simple: first, every Senator wanted off this weekend after 2 weeks of sitting through this mess, and we can't fault Mitch for doing what 100 Senators wanted him to do. Then, on Monday, Dems get 3 hours of closing arguments, Trump's team gets the final 3 hours of closing arguments. After that, every Senator who wants to make a 10 minute statement (ie, cut a campaign ad for November) gets to, and that'll take a day and a half. (Democrats get 470 minutes, potentially, but the GOP Senators get up to 530 minutes) That kills Monday and Tuesday, and after that, on Wednesday, the final vote.

There's very little chance of anything surprising happening, it's all just going to be Senators standing up and talking at each other for 2 full days.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (V2Yro)

206 Thanks for all the well wishes. I will report back when it's all over and I'm back to "normal".

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (qeYd6)

207 Right, and after Kg2, Black's rook can't get over to the h-file to pick up the passed pawn, so now White can start pushing it.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:23 PM (sm9he)

Yes I see it. B rook can't get back to the d file that way.

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (M9L1A)

208 Not surprised that the leftists have concocted a way to blame Orangemanbad for this killer virus.

Betcha a fistful of quarters that this killer virus will fizzle out just like all the others.

If I'm wrong, and this turns out to be THE BIG ONE. Eh. got a jar full of quarters. Dig in.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (x8Wzq)

209 This will all take place on Wednesday afternoon.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (sm9he)

...solemnly and prayerfully.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (t+qrx)

210 Troy Polamalu of the Steelers 1st Ballot HoFer

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at February 01, 2020 06:30 PM (BqBId)

211 OM, are you advising Bd3 as white's first move or his second (after 1. Rxg5 hxg5). As noted above, I don't see a clear continuation for white after 1. Bd3 Bf4. Am I missing something here? (I've already responded above regarding the alternatives after 1. Rxg5 , including 1. ... hxg5, 2. Bd3)

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:30 PM (ymrPC)

212 178 I bet Trump will call him out at some point and the Euro loving Dems will be PISSED.
Posted by: IC at February 01, 2020 06:16 PM (sYDum)
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I'm sure angering the Euros will be unintentional.
Who knows, maybe that will be in the next go-round of articles of impeachment.

Posted by: Groundhog at February 01, 2020 06:31 PM (VYwSh)

213 Was flipping through the news channels for laughs and did see Byron York saying they should have got it done at least today now this just gives Democrats a few more days for a gotcha.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 06:31 PM (ZCEU2)

214 I don't see how the china virus is Trumps fault.

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1. Trump's trade war with China

2. ?????

3. Kung Flu

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 01, 2020 06:31 PM (+y/Ru)

215 Yeah, get ready for a new, last-minute "surprise" witness that no one has ever heard of before, plus some leaking of sensitive information, some alleged new crime, and the Dems will start loudly demanding a new trial

This will all take place on Wednesday afternoon.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (sm9he)

All of the faces of the Dem senators yesterday told me, They Got Nuthin'.

Remember how the Julie Swetnick thing turned out for Kavanaugh? Looked bad for about 10 seconds, and after that it made the Dems look like idiots since it was such a transparent hoax. So, could they do something like that, of course they could. But it doesn't matter, because it won't work. If they had anything at all that was real it would have been in our faces months ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 06:31 PM (V2Yro)

216 Troy Polamalu of the Steelers 1st Ballot HoFer
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at February 01, 2020 06:30 PM (BqBId)

They should withhold it until he cuts his damn hair.

Hippie.

Just kidding.

sort of.

Have I mentioned I am 29?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at February 01, 2020 06:32 PM (x8Wzq)

217
The talking points are now "sham trial", "no acquittal" and "backlash".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 06:34 PM (7rVsF)

218 The Senate, as an institution is designed only to serve itself and it's narcissistic membership. It does not care about Trump's base, describing us nearly the same way Hillary does - behind closed doors of course.

The GOPe loves second place. They are desperate to be first losers again so they can deflect blame for their failures.

The Turtle is going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Write it down.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:34 PM (q0qV7)

219 Ok, so the last problem, after all the major pieces and pawns are gone on the g and h files, you have the white king on g5, the black king on g8, and it is blacks move.

After Kf7 Kf5 blavk doesn't have much

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 06:36 PM (M9L1A)

220 In Kathmandu the goats are tied up in front of the butcher shop and you pick the one you want. The system cleverly eliminates the need for refrigeration, which they happen not to have.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 01, 2020 06:13 PM (XVuno)
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Ugh. I couldn't do it. I'm like the mom in The Christmas Story - I don't want my food looking at me.

Posted by: bluebell at February 01, 2020 06:36 PM (tVDnh)

221 ...solemnly and prayerfully.
Posted by: hogmartin
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With great solomenity...solamentaly...soulmently

Posted by: Al Sharpton at February 01, 2020 06:36 PM (xSo9G)

222 210 Troy Polamalu of the Steelers 1st Ballot HoFer
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani

As he should be!

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 01, 2020 06:36 PM (WBtPt)

223
The Turtle is going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Write it down.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:34 PM (q0qV7)

You would have had fun here a couple nights ago, when so many were shrieking "LAMAR ALEXANDER IS GOING TO VOTE TO CALL WITNESSES! ALL IS LOST! ALL IS LOST!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 06:36 PM (V2Yro)

224 #200, that may be so, but it's not a clear-cut win for white in this King-and-Pawn endgame, with all various pawns sprawled around, none of which are passed. Whereas 2. Bd3 after 1. Rxg5 hxg5 leads to a rapid queen promotion of white's h-pawn, meaning that black is better off conceding his bishop, which is clearly a losing position, just more slowly.

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:36 PM (ymrPC)

225 Late today. Solved puzzles so.

Easy. This a standard mating pattern; N+R after Q sack.

1. Ne7+ Kh8 2. Qxh7+ Kxh7 3. Rh1#

Intermediate.

1. ... Qh3 2. Ne3 Qxh2+

A. 3. Kf1 Qh1#
B. 3. Kxh2 Rh6+ 4. Qh5 Rxh5+ 5. Kg1 Rh1#

Advanced.

1. Rxg5 hxg5 2. Bd3 Rd1+ 3. Kg2 and white will queen the h-pawn.

Otherwise the B taken on move 1 is free.

Posted by: Off the reservation at February 01, 2020 06:37 PM (XzVUd)

226 Tom - Its not just Senators, look what the media miraculously found more leaked from the Stash's book, and what happened to Justice Kavanaugh in the last days for his hearings.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 06:37 PM (ZCEU2)

227 Dina speaks English, without the scary Russian accent
https://youtu.be/qod8viKe4i0

Posted by: Robbie Fulks at February 01, 2020 06:38 PM (RxwzM)

228 There will be no "gotchas" that gain any traction, any more than any of the ones to date have. No there, there.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 06:38 PM (El6T/)

229 Yeah,
get ready for a new, last-minute "surprise" witness that no one has
ever heard of before, plus some leaking of sensitive information, some
alleged new crime, and the Dems will start loudly demanding a new trial

This will all take place on Wednesday afternoon.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:28 PM (sm9he)

Then McConnell can stand up and say, "Fine, after the Senate votes on these two articles of impeachment, which is what the Senate has agreed to do at 4 p.m., the House Democrats can go through the process to try to send over some new articles if they're so inclined."

Posted by: Vendette at February 01, 2020 06:38 PM (SL4lK)

230 You
would have had fun here a couple nights ago, when so many were
shrieking "LAMAR ALEXANDER IS GOING TO VOTE TO CALL WITNESSES! ALL IS
LOST! ALL IS LOST!!!"

I guess the difference is that I want to be wrong. But after watching this stuff repeat itself for 24 years, I need a few years of significant proof before I will even start to have any tiny measure of confidence in Congress.

Permanent career politicians are anathema to the Republic. They simply exist to self-perpetuate.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:39 PM (q0qV7)

231
Then McConnell can stand up and say, "Fine, after the Senate votes on these two articles of impeachment, which is what the Senate has agreed to do at 4 p.m., the House Democrats can go through the process to try to send over some new articles if they're so inclined."
Posted by: Vendette at February 01, 2020 06:38 PM (SL4lK)
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I'd finish with a "neener, neener, neener".

Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 06:42 PM (MVjcR)

232 Okay, so thanks actually go to Tom Servo (tevye, lol!)

I figured the hospital lien was routine paperwork on local hospital's part.

But the fact that girlie waited until the *next day* for ($3k worth of) medical services... stinks of legal intervention, especially since she said she was "fine, no problem" at the scene.

Should I expect to see a whiplash claim at the day-before-two-years from accident date? "Pain and suffering?" "Lost wages/enjoyment of life?" Bullshit!

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2020 06:42 PM (gP/Z3)

233 Fox news polls have every Dim waay ahead of Trump every time, lol. They're losing me. Nfw

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2020 06:22 PM (K22Va)

Their polls seem to skew to left a lot. But I'm sure the new direction of the station is a winning formula from being the top rated cable news network to somewhere lower than CNN

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 01, 2020 06:42 PM (P4Vxh)

234 6 minute Trump explanation : still 100% true.

https://tinyurl.com/yd6apgnq

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:43 PM (q0qV7)

235 #215 Tom, what the 51 Senate Republicans, including Alexander, have agreed with is that they're going with what the House sent over and those witnesses and that it's not the Senate's business to do the House's job. If "new evidence" etc. shows up, the House will have to start over if they wish to follow-up with a new impeachment. I'm really not worried at this point in the process regarding the current impeachment trial.

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:43 PM (ymrPC)

236 Wouldn't be surprised if Mittens and Collins did vote for impeachment but think for absolutely no reason they won't.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 06:43 PM (ZCEU2)

237 Acquittal will be "winning" in this instance.

That will happen.

The absurd position of Alexander et al that the Dems have even proven their most basic allegation is dishonor enough for the GOP. Also, the idea that there's some kind of immunity for political figures when known, major int'l corruption is investigated - seriously not even sure these folks are intelligent enough to even realize this is the implicit proposition they are embracing.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 06:44 PM (El6T/)

238
Tim Pool says China is spraying chemicals over everywhere!

That's....one way to deal with a virus, I guess.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:44 PM (ZeM6O)

239 Deliberators gotta deliberate and that is the sense of the Senate.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 06:45 PM (/f7eN)

240 #229, Exactly...

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:45 PM (ymrPC)

241 Write it down.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:34 PM (q0qV7)

In case some of us lost our paper or writing instrument, could you keep telling us every hour on the hour until it happens?

Posted by: The nonconforming nonconfomist at February 01, 2020 06:46 PM (/LQkF)

242 224 #200, that may be so, but it's not a clear-cut win for white in this King-and-Pawn endgame, with all various pawns sprawled around, none of which are passed. Whereas 2. Bd3 after 1. Rxg5 hxg5 leads to a rapid queen promotion of white's h-pawn, meaning that black is better off conceding his bishop, which is clearly a losing position, just more slowly.
Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:36 PM (ymrPC)

I like the slow torture route, it's an easy win for white either way, but yes, 2.Bd3 is much quicker.

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 06:46 PM (M9L1A)

243
There's going to be a Resolution, I believe, condemning the president's behavior, which will give the Cucks a way to square their disagreement with the fake impeachment.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:46 PM (ZeM6O)

244 Tim Pool says China is spraying chemicals over everywhere!

That's....one way to deal with a virus, I guess.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:44 PM (ZeM6O)

Nuking China from space is the only way to be sure

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 06:46 PM (v5pgh)

245 Hey everybody.

For a second I thought that top pic was of AOC.

Then I realized it couldn't be. When you play chess with AOC, every time she takes a piece she yells "now king me!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 01, 2020 06:46 PM (L2ZTs)

246 There's going to be a Resolution, I believe, condemning the president's behavior, which will give the Cucks a way to square their disagreement with the fake impeachment.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:46 PM (ZeM6O

From whom? The Senate? Never

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 06:47 PM (v5pgh)

247 220
In Kathmandu the goats are tied up in front of the butcher shop and you
pick the one you want. The system cleverly eliminates the need for
refrigeration, which they happen not to have.

When my dad was a kid, he said he'd go with my grandma and buy chickens live in Chicago. Their ice box had a big chunk of ice in it. Not a lot of room for everything like we do now. Buy it, kill it, cook it. I think they ate better then.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2020 06:48 PM (K22Va)

248 #225, that sums up the problem solutions succinctly...

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 06:48 PM (ymrPC)

249 The talking points are now "sham trial", "no acquittal" and "backlash".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 06:34 PM (7rVsF)

And cover up. CNN was screeching that the DOJ has dozens of emails related to Ukraine aid freeze that it won't release

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 01, 2020 06:48 PM (P4Vxh)

250 233 I used to leave Fox on for background noise most of the day. Then they'll start screaming about a Fox News Alert where we're all going to die and it's some farmer with a giant squash winning a state fair ribbon.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at February 01, 2020 06:49 PM (C1Lsn)

251 Posted by: The nonconforming nonconfomist

Bandesnatch's 'r' thief strikes again.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:49 PM (q0qV7)

252 246 There's going to be a Resolution, I believe, condemning the president's behavior, which will give the Cucks a way to square their disagreement with the fake impeachment.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:46 PM (ZeM6O

From whom? The Senate? Never
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 06:47 PM (v5pgh)

House, most likely. Which is what they should've done in the first place when they decided they needed to throw a hissy fit about the Bad Orange Man.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:50 PM (LaORH)

253 250 233 I used to leave Fox on for background noise most of the day. Then they'll start screaming about a Fox News Alert where we're all going to die and it's some farmer with a giant squash winning a state fair ribbon.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at February 01, 2020 06:49 PM (C1Lsn)

Down with Big Squash !

Posted by: jsg at February 01, 2020 06:50 PM (M9L1A)

254 And yet, according to the skillful leftist ninjas that edit Wikipedia Fox News is the alt-right dream date.

The Murdoch children can't wait to be reinvited into polite society and spend dad's ill gotten money on good causes like the DNC.

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 06:50 PM (0x00j)

255
lulz

John Davis of Motorweek makes me lol:

https://youtu.be/YhvTC3z0wYw?t=4m23s

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:51 PM (ZeM6O)

256 And cover up. CNN was screeching that the DOJ has dozens of emails related to Ukraine aid freeze that it won't release
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 01, 2020 06:48 PM (P4Vxh)

Considering the cast of scumbags that infests the DOJ, even if such emails exist they're probably exculpatory and that's why they're being withheld.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at February 01, 2020 06:51 PM (NWiLs)

257 226 Tom - Its not just Senators, look what the media miraculously found more leaked from the Stash's book, and what happened to Justice Kavanaugh in the last days for his hearings.
Posted by: Skip

Bolton, on camera, said he would lie to get the foreign policy he wants. This, like everything else, will blow up in the instigators faces.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM (WBtPt)

258 Is it just me or are mishum's pet threads the worst? Something about those are aw kg ward at best - his comments below the moron pet submissions are cringey as heck. Doesnt ace have a co-blogger better at that who can take over those?

Posted by: Bujeezis at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM (9WPL0)

259

No, the Senate.
I'm predicting a mildly damning rebuke in the form of a Resolution from the Senate.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM (ZeM6O)

260 Screaming 'cover-up' was always their plan.

Posted by: Tibet at February 01, 2020 06:53 PM (oVJmc)

261 A rebuke makes sense.

Turtle has to pay off his IOUs.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:53 PM (q0qV7)

262
House, most likely. Which is what they should've done in the first place when they decided they needed to throw a hissy fit about the Bad Orange Man.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:50 PM (LaORH)

Well since the crazyies control the house, anything is possible, but they would look even more foolish and like losers than they do now and who cares

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 06:53 PM (v5pgh)

263 Keeeeeve is on the map.

Y'al see the OANN pt3 with Rudy in Ukraine?

Lot of phone calls between the VP and Ukraine.
Lot of transcripts that need to be made public.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2020 06:54 PM (/jZjK)

264

More than a few Cuck senators (who are voting to acquit) are saying the what the president did was "wrong" and "inappropriate."

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:54 PM (ZeM6O)

265 No, the Senate.
I'm predicting a mildly damning rebuke in the form of a Resolution from the Senate.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM (ZeM6O)

No fuckin way lol.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 06:55 PM (v5pgh)

266 Think Bolton was referring to lying to furriners, wasn't he?

In any case, he's considerably clouded/complicated/stained his already colorful reputation with the antics of the last week.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 06:55 PM (El6T/)

267 The Murdoch children can't wait to be reinvited into polite society and spend dad's ill gotten money on good causes like the DNC.

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 06:50 PM (0x00j)

They will still be hated by the left because the left needs its Emmanuel Goldstein's for their 2 minutes of hate and Fox News is one of them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 01, 2020 06:55 PM (P4Vxh)

268 I can't wait for PDT unleashed in 2021.

Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 06:55 PM (MVjcR)

269 260 Coverup was their plan. Schumer seems to be using the word Watergate a lot, implying "we know Trump's covering up something and we aim to find out".

Posted by: bill in arkansas at February 01, 2020 06:56 PM (C1Lsn)

270 I agree with the Dems in their criticism of Dumbass Alexander.

If you think it's wrong then vote for witnesses to prove it, cowardly dipshit.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:56 PM (q0qV7)

271 Ronster, I think the catheter bag that tapes to your leg will wake you up if you roll on it. It will cause back pressure to your bladder.

If you are concerned about a blowout, get a mattress liner though. I expect it would be nice to pee again, and happy making to find out it is just large and not malignant.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2020 06:56 PM (0TbLI)

272 I can't wait for PDT unleashed in 2021.

Pudding futures are going UP!

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2020 06:56 PM (gP/Z3)

273
Is it just me or are mishum's pet threads the worst?

It's just you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 06:57 PM (7rVsF)

274 The absurd position of Alexander et al that the Dems have even proven their most basic allegation is dishonor enough for the GOP. Also, the idea that there's some kind of immunity for political figures when known, major int'l corruption is investigated - seriously not even sure these folks are intelligent enough to even realize this is the implicit proposition they are embracing.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 06:44 PM (El6T/)

What you say is correct, of course, but I don't believe Alexander's position is "absurd", even if I disagree. The real problem is that this kind of proceeding is both political and legal, and everyone keeps jumping back and forth between the two.

Alexander is answering the Democrats who's said "This should be a Real Trial! With Witnesses!!" With a purely Legal argument, not a political one. In any criminal trial, when the prosecution has failed to prove an actual crime, then the Court MUST dismiss (or the jury acquit) no matter what. The idea is that, EVEN IF everything the Prosecution says is true, the Jury must still acquit. Because the Prosecution screwed up their own case.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 06:57 PM (V2Yro)

275 Bolton's friends should have told him to STFU.
Then again, considering his lack of discretion, he probably doesn't know who his friends are.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2020 06:57 PM (/jZjK)

276
Posted by: Bujeezis at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM (9WPL0)
It's you.

Posted by: dartist at February 01, 2020 06:59 PM (K22Va)

277 More than a few Cuck senators (who are voting to acquit) are saying the what the president did was "wrong" and "inappropriate."

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 06:54 PM (ZeM6O)

Who cares? I sure don't. They can cluck their tongues at Trump all they want to, but as long as they vote to acquit, that's really all that matters.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 06:59 PM (LaORH)

278 If you think it's wrong then vote for witnesses to prove it, cowardly dipshit.
Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:56 PM (q0qV7)

Alexander is basing his argument on a principle of English Common Law that has been around for several hundred years. If the Prosecution fails to prove a crime, there is no need for a defense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 06:59 PM (V2Yro)

279 Our State Dept ran a fucking coup on the Ukranian Govt. Let's have some exposure on that, why don't we.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 06:59 PM (/f7eN)

280 271 Ronster, I think the catheter bag that tapes to your leg will wake you up if you roll on it. It will cause back pressure to your bladder.

If you are concerned about a blowout, get a mattress liner though. I expect it would be nice to pee again, and happy making to find out it is just large and not malignant.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2020 06:56 PM (0TbLI)

Sleep on the recliner; you're going to feel like crap anyway.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2020 07:00 PM (/jZjK)

281
God (and President Ping Pong) only knows what China is spraying all over the place.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 07:00 PM (ZeM6O)

282 275 Bolton's friends should have told him to STFU.
Then again, considering his lack of discretion, he probably doesn't know who his friends are.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2020 06:57 PM (/jZjK)

He has a new book, the sales of which must be juiced.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 07:00 PM (LaORH)

283 Yes, CNN. The DOJ will release the Ukraine documents at some point. Except it will expose your political allies. Biden's, Clinton's, most of Congress and the Senate. I suspect the Ukraine is a giant money laundering operation for the World's elite. Our ruling class is not smart.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 01, 2020 07:00 PM (WBtPt)

284 It is wrong for CPAC to disinvite Romney. While voting for witnesses was stupid, there has to be room for debate and dissent on issues. Conservatives should not be like Democrats and the kids at college.

Posted by: jeff carter at February 01, 2020 07:01 PM (c73GF)

285
It is wrong for CPAC to disinvite Romney. While voting for witnesses was stupid, there has to be room for debate and dissent on issues. Conservatives should not be like Democrats and the kids at college.

Posted by: jeff carter

lulz

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 07:01 PM (ZeM6O)

286
He has a new book, the sales of which must be juiced.

Sounds like it won't be released, if it contains classified info.

Posted by: Tibet at February 01, 2020 07:02 PM (oVJmc)

287 Posted by: jeff carter at February 01, 2020 07:01 PM (c73GF)

So, you're Jimmy's cousin?

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (/jZjK)

288
It is wrong for CPAC to disinvite Romney.

Is this Backstabbers Appreciation Week?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (7rVsF)

289 Alexander is basing his argument on a principle of English Common Law that has been around for several hundred years. If the Prosecution fails to prove a crime, there is no need for a defense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 06:59 PM (V2Yro)

It's amazing to me how many dolts on Twitter are running around saying that Trump needs to submit witnesses and evidence to prove his innocence.

I think even Pelosi or Schiff said words to that effect.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (LaORH)

290 Oh, I want to say something really nasty but I'm going to bite my tongue.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (/f7eN)

291 284 It is wrong for CPAC to disinvite Romney. While voting for witnesses was stupid, there has to be room for debate and dissent on issues. Conservatives should not be like Democrats and the kids at college.
Posted by: jeff carter

Nice satire.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (WBtPt)

292 Forgot, few minutes ago saw a news flash on my tablet from NBC ,
Sloppy Choppers thinks The Turtle humiliated Roberts by not having witnesses, no mention of America's MiL Warren chewing out and humiliating Roberts.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (ZCEU2)

293 Posted by: Bujeezis at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM (9WPL0)
Forget to turn your vpn on ShainS?
Posted by: ShainS -- Registered Hat Offender at February 08, 2019 03:41 PM (9WPL0)

Posted by: Can you smell the cordite? at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (/LQkF)

294 And therein lies the irony Quiet Man. The more those spoiled rich kids try they would be better off becoming conservative they would have true respect from us.

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (0x00j)

295 If you think it's wrong then vote for witnesses to prove it, cowardly dipshit.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 06:56 PM (q0qV7)

Alexander is basing his argument on a principle of English Common
Law that has been around for several hundred years. If the Prosecution
fails to prove a crime, there is no need for a defense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 06:59 PM (V2Yro)

Not to mention that the House managers, who said around 3 dozen times that they had proven their case, were at the same time asking the jury to do what they didn't feel like doing and issue subpoenas to witnesses, because at in December "We don't have time to go to the courts!" Why is the latter the Senate's problem?

Posted by: Vendette at February 01, 2020 07:04 PM (SL4lK)

296 The Left will say that the 44 D Senators who voted to acquit represent 53% of the population, so Trumps guilty. Fuck the Constitution, it's 100 years old

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 01, 2020 07:04 PM (jENyQ)

297 You would have had fun here a couple nights ago, when so many were shrieking "LAMAR ALEXANDER IS GOING TO VOTE TO CALL WITNESSES! ALL IS LOST! ALL IS LOST!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 06:36 PM (V2Yro)
*********
He/She was one of the ones doing that It is getting REALLY REALLY FUCKING TIRESOME

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at February 01, 2020 07:05 PM (BqBId)

298 Sardinia has those Bronze age tower based ruins called Nuraghe, usually ultimate around wells and springs. They outlasted the Cretans, and the Mycaens but not by much. They appear to have been a similar system as the Mycae with a manor based society that controlled as far as thy could project power, and with a combination of imported trade goods, bronze and local interpretation of Cretan goods.

Very interesting place and not as researched like Crete an Troy.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2020 07:05 PM (0TbLI)

299 Kerry practicing the Jedi Mind Trick.

The statement I saw he starts out insisting "I don't say a negative thing about ANY of the other candidate"

And ends that point by saying that Biden is the only one who could have gone into some states and "not lost voters".

Which, I gotta think, is not negative. Because he said he doesn't say anything negative about the other candidates...who would lose votes.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:05 PM (Eicbe)

300 Posted by: ShainS -- Registered Hat Offender at February 08, 2019 03:41 PM (9WPL0)
Posted by: Can you smell the cordite? at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (/LQkF)
-----------

ShainS is not the troll, even though they have the same hash. This has come up before.

Posted by: bluebell at February 01, 2020 07:06 PM (tVDnh)

301 God (and President Ping Pong) only knows what China is spraying all over the place.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 07:00 PM (ZeM6O)

Those bastards! That's my job....

Posted by: President Billy Jeff the Rapist at February 01, 2020 07:06 PM (Z+IKu)

302 Kindltot at February 01, 2020 06:56 PM (0TbLI)

Doc seen a small cancer tumor during the prostate biopsy, but it was so small it couldn't be tested to find out if it is aggressive. I think I will be OK.
And, yes I will be glad to empty my bladder again w/o a catheter.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 07:06 PM (qeYd6)

303 bluebell, I wish my market carried goat. I'm in a goat desert.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:07 PM (/f7eN)

304 Mittens will never learn if he isn't shut out.
You want to go play with the Democrats, go play

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:08 PM (ZCEU2)

305 Wish I could send you some, Ben Had. I don't think a box of frozen goat would do well through the mail, though.

Posted by: bluebell at February 01, 2020 07:08 PM (tVDnh)

306 258 Is it just me or are mishum's pet threads the worst?
Posted by: Bujeezis at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM (9WPL0)
You must be fun at parties.

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 07:08 PM (0x00j)

307 It's a large thing to admit you are wrong. Romney is a small man.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:10 PM (/f7eN)

308 may bujeezis would be happier at hot gas or the cuckshed.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 07:10 PM (KP5rU)

309 It's amazing to me how many dolts on Twitter are running around saying that Trump needs to submit witnesses and evidence to prove his innocence.

I think even Pelosi or Schiff said words to that effect.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (LaORH)

What is really frightening is that this one key principle, right here, is the huge difference between the American/English system of justice, and the Stalinist system of "justice".

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 07:10 PM (V2Yro)

310 It's amazing to me how many dolts on Twitter are running around saying that Trump needs to submit witnesses and evidence to prove his innocence.

I think even Pelosi or Schiff said words to that effect.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 07:03 PM (LaORH)
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I'd say that runs with the idiocy that has one repeating "fair trial" without recalling to mind that a "fair trial" is what we promise the accused.

But two of the elements of a "fair trial" are
1. Presumption of innocence
2. Right to face your accusor (Ciarmella)

Of the first, the main thing they charged the President with was not an out-and-out crime, but "corrupt motive" (Orangemanbad). They never *proved* corrupt motive, the just demanded that you cohere to their narrative which "explained" a corrupt motive.

But there central charge runs 180-degrees counter to a presumption of innocence.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:10 PM (Eicbe)

311 271 Ronster, I think the catheter bag that tapes to your leg will wake you up if you roll on it. It will cause back pressure to your bladder.

If you are concerned about a blowout, get a mattress liner though. I expect it would be nice to pee again, and happy making to find out it is just large and not malignant.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 01, 2020 06:56 PM (0TbLI)
---------------
Yes to the mattress liner, or a good quality waterproof mattress pad.

Switch to the big 'overnight' bag at bedtime. Hang it below the level of your bladder, so you won't get that back-pressure.

The 'leg bag' is generally too small for overnight anyway: only 300ml, iirc. 'Overnight' bags are generally 2 liters capacity, so you don't need to wake up and drain.

How do I know these things? Dad had prostate cancer and lived for many months with fulltime catheter inserted.

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2020 07:11 PM (gP/Z3)

312

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 07:11 PM (ymrPC)

313 Interesting.
Very interesting that he would share two hash's with someone that is always busting MisHum's chops.
Whatta I know?

Posted by: Far be it for me at February 01, 2020 07:11 PM (/LQkF)

314 You know what I don't understand? RINO horn is supposed to be an aphrodisiac. It would seem RINO should be more of a boner killer like saltpeter or Lena Dunham.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 01, 2020 07:12 PM (+y/Ru)

315 312
Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 07:11 PM (ymrPC)

Maybe

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 07:12 PM (v5pgh)

316 bluebell, alas it would not. Thank You for the thought though.

I am taking your advice to heart about the MoMe menu though.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:12 PM (/f7eN)

317 Is it just me or are mishum's pet threads the worst?
Posted by: Bujeezis at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM (9WPL0)
~~~~~

It's you. We love MisHum and the Pet Thread as it is.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 01, 2020 07:12 PM (sGotD)

318 What is really frightening is that this one key principle, right here, is the huge difference between the American/English system of justice, and the Stalinist system of "justice".
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 07:10 PM (V2Yro)
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The only guiding principle is they want what they want.

The modern liberal practice is a practice of infantilization. They don't want a Stalinist system, because that sounds bad. But they do want that power, so that what they want can be the outcome.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:12 PM (Eicbe)

319 Oh yes - another key element of Stalinist "justice" - Thought Crimes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 07:13 PM (V2Yro)

320 God (and President Ping Pong) only knows what China is spraying all over the place.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 07:00 PM (ZeM6O)

Sweet and sour sauce. It's all they've got right now

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 01, 2020 07:13 PM (Id7VH)

321 Of
the first, the main thing they charged the President with was not an
out-and-out crime, but "corrupt motive" (Orangemanbad). They never
*proved* corrupt motive, the just demanded that you cohere to their
narrative which "explained" a corrupt motive.

But there central charge runs 180-degrees counter to a presumption of innocence.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:10 PM (Eicbe)

His defense team pointed out many times that to the House managers, it didn't matter what Trump said or any Ukrainian official, even the president of that country, said in that phone call or publicly at other times, because trust them that they could read all of those people's minds.

Posted by: Vendette at February 01, 2020 07:14 PM (SL4lK)

322 That first picture of the Lady In Beige with the hat came off a pattern envelope. Bet money on it.

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2020 07:14 PM (UUkQp)

323 Give three pieces of evidence that Mitt is conservative.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 01, 2020 07:14 PM (Uu+Jp)

324 Eromero, hugs, Dear. How's the hog hunting?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:15 PM (/f7eN)

325
That first picture of the Lady In Beige with the hat came off a pattern envelope. Bet money on it.

She has a wide stance.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 01, 2020 07:16 PM (oVJmc)

326 It's amazing to me how many dolts on Twitter are running around saying that Trump needs to submit witnesses and evidence to prove his innocence.

-
Corny Hirohito explains that.

Hirono: 'I Don't Care What Nice, Little, Legal, Constitutional Defenses That They Came Up With On Impeachment'

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Yeah, constitutional rights. Who needs that shit? Constitutional rights are why we don't have a socialist utopia!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 01, 2020 07:16 PM (+y/Ru)

327

Songs you didn't know were covers:

-Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Lauper
-The First Cut is the Deepest (Rod Stewart, but Cat Stevens did it originally, and I think someone did it after Rod Stewart).
-Gloria by Laura Brannigan
-Betty Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes
-Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack is a cover, so is Fugees
-I'm A Believer by Monkees, original by Neil Diamond
-Tide Is High, by Blondie
- (Can't Live If Living Is) Without You, by Nilson, original is by Badfinger

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 07:18 PM (ZeM6O)

328 Corny Hirohito explains that.

Did not her parents own and run a cat house?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 07:18 PM (v5pgh)

329 312
Posted by: civil truth

A very inciteful comment. Short and to the point. Nicely done.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 01, 2020 07:19 PM (WBtPt)

330 even the president of that country, said in that phone call or publicly at other times, because trust them that they could read all of those people's minds.
Posted by: Vendette at February 01, 2020 07:14 PM (SL4lK)
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If there has been one annoyance that preceded most other about liberals/progressives/upheavalists, it was mind-reading.

Their favorite straw man argument is that they can read your mind and tell *you* want you really think.

Mind-reading is a central claim in most Democrat arguments. It's why Nadler knew that the Senate was equally on trial--not knowing something about the theory that founded the country, just knowing the evil that dwells in the heart of Republicans.

There are so many times during the House proceedings that I turned to my wife and said a
majority of the last diatribe was condemning other people for having any other opinion.

A rise of the Democrats is a rise of the 21st-century re-birth of Jacobins.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:19 PM (Eicbe)

331 329 312
Posted by: civil truth

A very inciteful comment. Short and to the point. Nicely done.
Posted by: Puddleglum

----

I don't know Puddleglum. I can see right through it.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2020 07:20 PM (Y4EXg)

332 here is an interesting and calming post from someone who claims to be working on the statistical side of the coronavirus response

https://preview.tinyurl.com/tcwpwft

Posted by: vmom 2020 at February 01, 2020 07:21 PM (G546f)

333 There are a whole lot of people in Congress that have never read the Constitution.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:21 PM (/f7eN)

334 Hirono: 'I Don't Care What Nice, Little, Legal, Constitutional Defenses That They Came Up With"

Which is exactly what every Jim Crow Democrat Sheriff said whenever he got hold of some black boy he didn't like, back in the day.

see: The Scotsboro Boys.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 07:21 PM (V2Yro)

335 - (Can't Live If Living Is) Without You, by Nilson, original is by Badfinger
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at February 01, 2020 07:18 PM (ZeM6O)
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Postman by Captain and Tenielle (another Neil Sedaka tune, IIRC)

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:21 PM (Eicbe)

336 Their favorite straw man argument is that they can read your mind and tell *you* want you really think.
Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:19 PM (Eicbe)

The punch line is that everything they say or think about anyone else's motives, ever, is textbook projection.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 07:22 PM (t+qrx)

337 I'm not a conservative, but I play one on TV....

Posted by: Jen Rubin at February 01, 2020 07:22 PM (Eicbe)

338 There are a whole lot of people in Congress that have never read the Constitution.
Posted by: Ben Had

---

Even entertaining the possibility they had, they don't give two shits about it.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2020 07:22 PM (Y4EXg)

339 He/She was one of the ones doing that It is getting REALLY REALLY FUCKING TIRESOME

Scroll wheels are useful.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 07:22 PM (q0qV7)

340 322 That first picture of the Lady In Beige with the hat came off a pattern envelope. Bet money on it.
Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2020 07:14 PM (UUkQp)"

I was wondering about the odd stance - you're exactly right! I remember my mom having a little wicker basket full of those things.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2020 07:23 PM (V2Yro)

341 Posted by: Bujeezis at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM

Please do not take offence, its you.
Its alright if you don't like pets, just forget its there.

Mohammed never was allowed a puppy as a kid either so don't feel bad

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:23 PM (ZCEU2)

342
The nice thing about the Pet Thread is that it's about pets. It's pleasant and calming. If someone loses one, we all commiserate because we've lost one too at some point. And folks take a justifiable pride in their pets. To be a Moron Pet is the highest state of pet existence.

Thanks to MisHum for putting it together.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 07:23 PM (7rVsF)

343 How much lethal aid Fredo gave to Ukraine. Zippo

Did PDT release all lethal aid to Uktaine. YES

Did Ukraine investigate anything. NO

case closed

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 07:23 PM (v5pgh)

344 cdc reports there are 19 million flu cases and 10,000 deaths currently in the u.s.

wow. i have the flu and it's serious, but i haven't seen much in the news about this flu season. those are shocking numbers.

Posted by: mjc at February 01, 2020 07:23 PM (Pg+x7)

345 ... per fox news.

Posted by: mjc at February 01, 2020 07:23 PM (Pg+x7)

346 Alexander's statement that the Dems had proven their contention that Trump had linked aid to investigations was absurd.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 07:23 PM (El6T/)

347 hogmartin, please consider yourself hugged from at least two thread ago. I was lax.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:24 PM (/f7eN)

348 Democrats aren't looking for justice they are looking for sound bites.

On the other hand, vacuous Romney is just looking he doesn't know what he wants; Collins wants to be re-elected, MerCowski wants all she can get, and Alexander is, in reality, a Democrat POS.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2020 07:24 PM (/jZjK)

349 #242, After playing out the positions on a chess board, I agree that Black cannot hold his position in the variations after his rook is trapped at h8 (following 1. Rxg5 hxg5, 2. h6 etc), whether he goes for the quick exchange back or if he instead tries to hold on to his g pawn (in which case he loses a critical tempo because white's bishop controls the e6 and f7 squares and his pawn is on e7).

Posted by: civil truth at February 01, 2020 07:24 PM (ymrPC)

350 To you as well, Ben Had.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 07:24 PM (t+qrx)

351 342
The nice thing about the Pet Thread is that it's about pets. It's pleasant and calming. If someone loses one, we all commiserate because we've lost one too at some point. And folks take a justifiable pride in their pets. To be a Moron Pet is the highest state of pet existence.

Thanks to MisHum for putting it together.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 07:23 PM (7rVsF

And even I never dirty the pet thread with politics

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 01, 2020 07:24 PM (v5pgh)

352 What lawfare group has done is given the patina of legalism to cover raw political actions to reverse an election outcome that they hate.

The result is a banana republic ensues where corrupt oligarchs oppress the people like the Sandistas or you end up with a caudillo who oppresses the people. Rarely will you get a caudillo with limited appetites like Franco, Pinochet, or Salazar. Oligarchies often resemble something like Mexico under the PRI or El Salvador with its twelve families.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2020 07:25 PM (EUDB2)

353 The nice thing about the Pet Thread is that it's about pets. It's pleasant and calming. If someone loses one, we all commiserate because we've lost one too at some point. And folks take a justifiable pride in their pets. To be a Moron Pet is the highest state of pet existence.
Thanks to MisHum for putting it together.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 07:23 PM (7rVsF)

Seconded. Keep up the good work MH.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 01, 2020 07:25 PM (Z+IKu)

354 Not been back hog hunting, Ben Had. Mrs. E, Pepper, and I went to Galveston this past week. I tried to eat all the oysters they had but only ate about 3 dozen among other saltwater things. I really like Galveston and Pepper got to walk on the beach and the seawall.

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2020 07:25 PM (UUkQp)

355 Songs you didn't know were covers:

-Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Lauper
-The First Cut is the Deepest (Rod Stewart, but Cat Stevens did it originally, and I think someone did it after Rod Stewart).
-Gloria by Laura Brannigan
-Betty Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes
-Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack is a cover, so is Fugees
-I'm A Believer by Monkees, original by Neil Diamond
-Tide Is High, by Blondie
- (Can't Live If Living Is) Without You, by Nilson, original is by Badfinger
Wiid World - Mr. Big & Maxi Preist

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at February 01, 2020 07:26 PM (BqBId)

356 ... i'm trying to check those flu numbers. they sound way too high.

Posted by: mjc at February 01, 2020 07:26 PM (Pg+x7)

357 348. Romney does know what he wants--revenge on DJT in whatever way he can achieve it. He might also want cover for his various cronies like Bolton, his son, and his policy advisor that was on the board of Burisma too with Hunter.

Posted by: whig at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (EUDB2)

358 what happened???

Posted by: lin-duh at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (UUBmN)

359 Songs you didn't know were covers:

-Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Lauper

-The First Cut is the Deepest (Rod Stewart, but Cat Stevens did it originally, and I think someone did it after Rod Stewart).

-Gloria by Laura Brannigan

-Betty Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes

-Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack is a cover, so is Fugees

-I'm A Believer by Monkees, original by Neil Diamond

-Tide Is High, by Blondie

- (Can't Live If Living Is) Without You, by Nilson, original is by Badfinger

Wiid World - Mr. Big Maxi Preist

I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton wrote it too)

Posted by: Vendette at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (SL4lK)

360 Ooooo freebee

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (ZCEU2)

361 Their favorite straw man argument is that they can read your mind and tell *you* want you really think.

-
I saw Scott Adams on CSPN hawking his book How To Be Loser or something like that. He said one way to be a loser is to be a mind reader.

Husband: Boy, those eggs are good!

Wife: You sumbitch! What you mean is you didn't like the pancakes!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (+y/Ru)

362 343 How much lethal aid Fredo gave to Ukraine. Zippo

But, but I gave mosquito nets to Africa.
_Save the mosquitoes._

Posted by: Georgie Boy at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (/jZjK)

363 We're back!

Posted by: IrishEi at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (sGotD)

364 Solutions up.

Movie thread up in about a half an hour.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (LaORH)

365
[iAlexander is basing his argument on a principle of English Common Law that has been around for several hundredyears. If the Prosecution fails to prove a crime, there is no need for a defense.

"It
was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to
investigate his political opponent and to withhold United States aid to
encourage that investigation. When elected officials inappropriately
interfere with such investigations, it undermines the principle of equal
justice under the law. But the Constitution does not give the Senate
the power to remove the president from office and ban him from this
year's ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate."
-Don't give me "reasonably disagree".
Senator Lamar Alexander has a case of TDS.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 07:28 PM (q0qV7)

366 Ooh, cool.

Thread disappeared, then re-appeared.

Was gonna grab an Alternative Universe "First", but hesitated, and lost the chance.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 07:28 PM (El6T/)

367 OM was updating so we get a blank comment

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:28 PM (ZCEU2)

368 Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 07:22 PM (q0qV7)
******
So is knowing when to STFU & Paxil

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at February 01, 2020 07:28 PM (BqBId)

369 358
what happened???

Posted by: lin-duh at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (UUBmN)

That will be the glitch in the matrix when OM posts the solutions to the chess puzzles.

Posted by: Off the reservation at February 01, 2020 07:28 PM (XzVUd)

370 what happened???
Posted by: lin-duh at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (UUBmN)
~~~~~

Aliens.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 01, 2020 07:28 PM (sGotD)

371 lin-duh, hell if I know?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:28 PM (/f7eN)

372 10,000 flu deaths?

OMG, we need common sense flu control! EleVeNtY!!!111!!1!

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2020 07:28 PM (gP/Z3)

373 There are a whole lot of people in Congress that have never read the Constitution.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:21 PM (/f7eN)
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I would rather they read the Federalist Papers--and the Antifederalist writers like Federal Farmer and Brutus.

The isolated *words* of the Constitution have been too abused. But when you see the principle applied in a conversation, as in the FP, you get a sense of how those words are to be taken.

You won't probably be 100% correct, but at least you'll have a rationale more than "because I want that".

Keep in mind that the progressives reject "originalims" for such studied academics as judges. One of the criticisms of "originalism" is that it is impossible to "read the mind" of someone 200 years ago.

Yet, when they need to they can stand before the Senate and channel the founders (however not in a way that convinces many who have actually read much of the founders).

Now, they tell us they can read the minds of posterity--when we only have 10 years to live, though, and the emanations they are getting from the future are the the Republicans will be scorned.

I would hope that we can develop a pattern of busting out in uproarious laughter when we get somebody mind-reading future generations.

Posted by: Jen Rubin at February 01, 2020 07:28 PM (Eicbe)

374 I can't wait for PDT unleashed in 2021.

Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 06:55 PM (MVjcR)

Yup, the fully armed and operational deathstar. Hopefully he starts disappearing these motherfuckers. Real quiet like.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2020 07:29 PM (9Om/r)

375 358 what happened???
Posted by: lin-duh at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (UUBmN)

Updating thread content sometimes causes a glitch in the Matrix.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 07:29 PM (LaORH)

376 Happy birthday hogmartin! I'm a day late but the best wishes are the same!

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 01, 2020 07:29 PM (dUJdY)

377
what happened???
Posted by: lin-duh at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (UUBmN)

Nothing. Really. Don't ask. You don't want to know. It's all under control now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 07:30 PM (7rVsF)

378 Movie thread up in about a half an hour.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (LaORH)
~~~~~

Since we're thanking and praising MisHum, I think you deserve lots of thanks and praise too. So...

Thanks! You're great!

Posted by: IrishEi at February 01, 2020 07:30 PM (sGotD)

379 When I started writing the Gun Thread I wanted it to be like the Pet Thread. Only with guns instead of pets.

Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 07:31 PM (MVjcR)

380 Aw, thank you Jewells.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 07:31 PM (t+qrx)

381 So is knowing when to STFU Paxil

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani

Is that directed at me ?

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 07:31 PM (q0qV7)

382 ok. checked around and an article in "time" states as of january 4 the cdc reported 6 million cases and 3,000 deaths.

still pretty high numbers.

Posted by: mjc at February 01, 2020 07:31 PM (Pg+x7)

383
When I started writing the Gun Thread I wanted it to be like the Pet Thread. Only with guns instead of pets.
Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 07:31 PM (MVjcR)

Ask WeaselDog for advice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2020 07:32 PM (7rVsF)

384 Weasel and it is, my 1911 is as much as a loved pet as my cat Cinnamon

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:32 PM (ZCEU2)

385 When I started writing the Gun Thread I wanted it to be like the Pet Thread. Only with guns instead of pets.
Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 07:31 PM (MVjcR)

*begins to speak, hesitates*

*shuts mouth*

*pets gun*

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 07:32 PM (t+qrx)

386 Weasel, you have achieved success.

This is the best place, EVER.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:33 PM (/f7eN)

387 The Korean model is about as cute as two black and white puppies in a little red wagon.

BYW, posted a pic at the bottom of the pet thread, goats on the roof of the pub in Coombs, B.C.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2020 07:33 PM (LxWV7)

388 I haven't seen a thread form the netherworld in a long time now, there fun.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:33 PM (ZCEU2)

389 Weasel, I just can't send you a horse picture.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:34 PM (/f7eN)

390 Alexander is wrong about the facts - that was his absurd statement.

His statement about the alleged action being inappropriate was particularly stupid, as he even unwittingly included the, well - absurd - premise that is normally left implicit and which of course renders the whole position untenable.

"to investigate his political opponent"

WTF? "Political opponent" is not a meaningful concept or formal status under US law. And granting this imaginary protected class de facto immunity from investigation would be, obviously, outrageous, the essence of politicized law enforcement.

Alexander and the rest of the sub-mediocrities vomiting up this lazy, stupid line have had many chances to say more intelligent things, that take into context actually important things: the actual factual context in which an investigation occurs - whether it is well-founded or "out of the blue", and the need, as in all cases, for care and due diligence in launching them.

But they haven't.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 07:34 PM (El6T/)

391 Democrats aren't looking for justice they are looking for sound bites..

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2020 07:24 PM (/jZjK)
---
That is a solid and succinct summation.

my observation from quarrel shows--where they actually have to compete against conservatives--so, Fox--that they just need to have a "side". When they get caught in an error they can "agree to disagree"

Posted by: Jen Rubin at February 01, 2020 07:35 PM (Eicbe)

392 I'm at my in laws house. For dinner they are doing an Australian theme. Very odd.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:36 PM (oI8/P)

393 Happiness is a warm gub, Weasel.

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2020 07:36 PM (UUkQp)

394 I'm at my in laws house. For dinner they are doing an Australian theme. Very odd.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:36 PM (oI8/P

Vegemite sammich??

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2020 07:37 PM (Idlcg)

395 Damn pseudo-conservative sock.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:37 PM (Eicbe)

396 huh, I learned something.
Paroxetine, sold under the brand names
Paxil and Seroxat among others, is an antidepressant of the selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitor class. It is used to treat major depressive
disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety
disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder
and premenstrual dysphoric disorder

I don't menstruate because "no uterus". I guess the rest is all still in play.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 07:37 PM (q0qV7)

397 Runner, that was an appetizer, yep. And some marmite potato chips.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:37 PM (oI8/P)

398 Amended Eromero, And a cigar!

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:38 PM (/f7eN)

399 Kangaroo steaks? Weird beer?

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2020 07:38 PM (Idlcg)

400 Dad just sent me a link, looks like there's a gofundme to buy Colin Kaepernick a helicopter.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 07:38 PM (t+qrx)

401 Oh Weasel you could have the gun owners put little outfits on their favorite piece.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 01, 2020 07:38 PM (dUJdY)

402 How come we can't see that lady's chess?

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:38 PM (Eicbe)

403 Marmite? This is how Coronavirus starts..,

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2020 07:39 PM (Idlcg)

404 Dad just sent me a link, looks like there's a gofundme to buy Colin Kaepernick a helicopter.

LMAO!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 01, 2020 07:39 PM (dUJdY)

405 No kangaroo that I could tell. Meat pies and potato cake patty things.

I'd rather go to Outback.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:39 PM (oI8/P)

406 401 Oh Weasel you could have the gun owners put little outfits on their favorite piece.
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 01, 2020 07:38 PM (dUJdY)
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Now there's an idea!

Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 07:39 PM (MVjcR)

407 Trump unleashed will probably not be so unleashed (Congress and the constitution, properly, remain the leash).

O-care and "amnesty" lawlessness. Two huge things that it is easy to see remaining completely untouched. Because Trump understands a "pen and a phone" are not the proper approach to many issues. And the voters mostly still don't care to enforce their will on those they elect.

Restoring even a bit of constitutional balance with the judiciary (beyond trying to temper the judicial rampage by changing personnel) - doubt we'll see any of that.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 07:40 PM (El6T/)

408 ... those fox news numbers (10 mill cases & 10,000 deaths) may have been projections for the flu season.

Posted by: mjc at February 01, 2020 07:40 PM (Pg+x7)

409 Weasel,
I have had the idea for a short essay on the Constitution, militia, and the Second amendment gestating for awhile, do you have an email addy for your thread if I ever get around to fleshing it out? I would love some feedback.

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 07:40 PM (0x00j)

410 I'm at my in laws house. For dinner they are doing an Australian theme. Very odd.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:36 PM (oI8/P

Vegemite sammich??
Posted by: runner at February 01, 2020 07:37 PM (Idlcg)
---
Koalas?

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:40 PM (Eicbe)

411 Dad just sent me a link, looks like there's a gofundme to buy Colin Kaepernick a helicopter.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 07:38 PM (t+qrx)

Hahahaha.....love it!

Tell your Dad good one!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 01, 2020 07:40 PM (Z+IKu)

412 Hogmarten laughing so hard I'm crying

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:40 PM (ZCEU2)

413 hogmartin, I would almost break my rule for that.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:40 PM (/f7eN)

414 Oh Weasel you could have the gun owners put little outfits on their favorite piece.
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 01, 2020 07:38 PM (dUJdY)

Ha! Yeah. That would be a silly and novel thing that we certainly don't do already.

( ⚆ _ ⚆ )

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 07:40 PM (t+qrx)

415 of course Outback is better, conceived by Americans.

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2020 07:41 PM (Idlcg)

416 And as the Lord is my witness, they are playing Men At Work.

Sigh.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:41 PM (oI8/P)

417
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson
Oh, I can't forget this evening
or your face as you were leaving
but I gues at February 01, 2020 07:41 PM (+4h9R)

418 Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 07:31 PM (q0qV7)
******
By the way Back again Scoggdogg ? for someone who said they didn't need this place you sure can't quit it

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at February 01, 2020 07:41 PM (BqBId)

419 "Australian" theme??

Wildfires?

Heavy drinking?

Posted by: rhomboid at February 01, 2020 07:41 PM (El6T/)

420 How come we can't see that lady's chess?

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:38 PM (Eicbe)

She's pawned it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 01, 2020 07:41 PM (iiQCS)

421 Hey AltonJackson

Posted by: hogmartin at February 01, 2020 07:42 PM (t+qrx)

422 Hello Alton!

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 01, 2020 07:42 PM (dUJdY)

423
Dad just sent me a link, looks like there's a gofundme to buy Colin Kaepernick a helicopter.

LMAO!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 01, 2020 07:39 PM (dUJdY)

He should go sit in a Pinochet model, see how it fits.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 01, 2020 07:42 PM (9Om/r)

424 409 Weasel,
I have had the idea for a short essay on the Constitution, militia, and the Second amendment gestating for awhile, do you have an email addy for your thread if I ever get around to fleshing it out? I would love some feedback.
Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 07:40 PM (0x00j)
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Sure - it's in my nic and at the end of each gun thread if that doesn't work. I'd be happy to read it!

Posted by: Weasel at February 01, 2020 07:42 PM (MVjcR)

425 Hah, a pistol with one of those little drink umbrellas in the sights.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:42 PM (/f7eN)

426 I excused myself before someone decided to put on Crocodile Dundee.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:42 PM (oI8/P)

427 Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani

ooh no, sorry.

But thanks for playing.
Do I know you? You seem to be an expert on psychoactive meds.

Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 07:42 PM (q0qV7)

428 Hi Ya Alton!

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:44 PM (/f7eN)

429 And as the Lord is my witness, they are playing Men At Work.
Sigh.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:41 PM (oI8/P)

Request "Cane Toad Blues" by Tim Finn.

https://tinyurl.com/y5gefbh3

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 01, 2020 07:44 PM (Z+IKu)

430
hey, hogmartin. Happy Birthday

hey Jewells

Posted by: AltonJackson
you always smile but in your eyes
your sorrow shows
at February 01, 2020 07:44 PM (+4h9R)

431 I excused myself before someone decided to put on Crocodile Dundee.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:42

Crocodile Dundee would be cruel and unusual.

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2020 07:44 PM (Idlcg)

432
hey, Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson
you always smile but in your eyes
your sorrow shows
at February 01, 2020 07:44 PM (+4h9R)

433 runner, Marmite is the poor man's Vegemite. I just opened a jar of Marmite this past week that's been in my go bag for probably 4 years. It was still good. Marmite nor Vegemite is for parade ground soldiers.

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2020 07:45 PM (UUkQp)

434 Could be worse, Olivia Newton John

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:45 PM (ZCEU2)

435 Damn you Hogmartin, Mrs. Kazi is mightily pissed that I laughed so loud at the Kapernick joke she woke up from a nap.

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 07:46 PM (0x00j)

436 Did you have fried chazzwassers?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 01, 2020 07:47 PM (8znVc)

437 "For dinner they are doing an Australian theme. Very odd. "

Watch out if they want to tie you down.

Posted by: the kangaroo at February 01, 2020 07:47 PM (Tnijr)

438 I have Vegemite in my cupboard
everything's better when it sits on a Ritz

Posted by: DB- just DB at February 01, 2020 07:47 PM (iTXRQ)

439 witchdoktor, when they bring out the snakes, spiders, and crocs, RUN!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 07:48 PM (KP5rU)

440
Watch out if they want to tie you down.

Posted by: the kangaroo at February 01, 2020 07:47 PM

it's just for sport

Posted by: Rolf Harris at February 01, 2020 07:48 PM (+4h9R)

441 There has to be a rule about impure thougths toward a First Lady.

Posted by: rammajamma at February 01, 2020 07:49 PM (SwWMX)

442

What happens when a Federalist shakes hands with an anti-Federalist?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2020 07:49 PM (aKsyK)

443 Hah, will do Chavez.

A very odd meal. They put up Australian flags.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:49 PM (oI8/P)

444 My Australian Uncle loves Vegemite,
I never had it

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:49 PM (ZCEU2)

445 DB, you really need a different menu plan.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:50 PM (/f7eN)

446 What happens when a Federalist shakes hands with an anti-Federalist?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 01, 2020 07:49 PM (aKsyK)
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That's the plot of National Treasure III.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:50 PM (Eicbe)

447 423: berserker when i wear my pinochet helicopter tours hoodie, i have to explain to many people they don't operate in vegas. the people that know what it means look at me with disgust. ha! fuck 'em.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 07:51 PM (KP5rU)

448 But the fact that girlie waited until the *next day* for ($3k worth of) medical services... stinks of legal intervention, especially since she said she was "fine, no problem" at the scene.

Should I expect to see a whiplash claim at the day-before-two-years from accident date? "Pain and suffering?" "Lost wages/enjoyment of life?" Bullshit!
Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2020 06:42 PM (gP/Z3)

Eh, she probably got advice from friends and family, and maybe her insurer, to get herself checked out. Sometimes the results of whiplash don't manifest until some time has passed. If it were you that got rear-ended, we here would be giving you the same advice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2020 07:51 PM (LxWV7)

449 AltonJackson, I'm worried about the rest of your nic.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:51 PM (/f7eN)

450 Posted by: deplorable unperson at February 01, 2020 07:42 PM (q0qV7)
*****
Right You aren't Scoggdogg, & familiar with Psychos

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at February 01, 2020 07:51 PM (BqBId)

451 Violets are wilting
Roses are dead
Marmite we serving
Stuffed Kangaroo head

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2020 07:52 PM (Idlcg)

452 My daughters friend is fighting breast cancer. After 2 chemo treatments her beautiful hair was falling out. Today she went to get her head shaved. My daughter went with her and did the same. I'm so proud of her.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 01, 2020 07:52 PM (dUJdY)

453 everything in austrailia wants and can, kill you.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 07:52 PM (KP5rU)

454 I don't know any backstory but I'm not shy in saying I need The Horde. You all are great.

Ok, done being sappy.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:52 PM (oI8/P)

455 Rush used to talk about people on psychoactive drugs;
said they were easily discernible; intimated they were easily led/malleable.

Maybe that's what's happened to the electorate.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 01, 2020 07:52 PM (/jZjK)

456 Thanks weasel!

Posted by: Kazi at February 01, 2020 07:52 PM (0x00j)

457 This place is a laugh a minute tonight

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:53 PM (ZCEU2)

458 Posted by: Bujeezis at February 01, 2020 06:52 PM (9WPL0)

You seem lonely. Have you considered acquiring a goat to blow?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2020 07:54 PM (LxWV7)

459 Jewells, what a beautiful thing to have done. You raised 'em good, Lady.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:54 PM (/f7eN)

460 -I'm A Believer by Monkees, original by Neil Diamond

Diamond wrote it, the Monkees recorded it first in '66. Diamond did it in '67.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 01, 2020 07:54 PM (oVJmc)

461 I also put sweet pickle relish in tuna salad

Posted by: DB- just DB at February 01, 2020 07:55 PM (iTXRQ)

462 Goat has to be aged, just like beef. If you do, it's tasty. If you don't, it's like eating rubber. Best ai had was cooked in one of those green egg style cookers.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 01, 2020 07:55 PM (Lqy/e)

463 Is it true Prince Harry went to get counseling from the Vancouver Canucks to understand what it's like to live in Canada without a title?

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:55 PM (oI8/P)

464 I also put sweet pickle relish in tuna salad
Posted by: DB- just DB a

Is that wrong ? I do that. I don't want to be wrong.

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2020 07:56 PM (Idlcg)

465 If relish in tuna salad is wrong, I don't care to be right.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:56 PM (oI8/P)

466 everything in austrailia wants and can, kill you.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 01, 2020 07:52 PM (KP5rU)
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The kangaroos are cute and suck you in.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:57 PM (Eicbe)

467 >Is that wrong ? I do that. I don't want to be wrong.
Posted by: runner

not wrong
enjoy

Posted by: DB- just DB at February 01, 2020 07:57 PM (iTXRQ)

468 Notsothoreau, the one we had at the MoMe was fantastic. The marinade was perfect.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 07:58 PM (/f7eN)

469 If relish in tuna salad is wrong, I don't care to be right.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:56 PM (oI8/P)
---
I agree, although I only do dill relish these days. Which is basically diced pickle.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 07:58 PM (Eicbe)

470 Koala bears suck you in, Kangaroos stomp you to death if they can

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2020 07:58 PM (ZCEU2)

471 Never put your hand in a kangaroo's pouch. Hot and sweaty in there.

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2020 07:59 PM (UUkQp)

472 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2020 07:51 PM

Thanks, AOP.

But, really, the cars barely bumped! We're talking less than 5mph! Cracked plastic, no dents...

ffs

Posted by: JQ at February 01, 2020 08:00 PM (gP/Z3)

473 Never put your hand in a kangaroo's pouch. Hot and sweaty in there.

Posted by: Eromero at February 01, 2020 07:59 PM (UUkQp)
---
I think that's a #MeToo violation.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 08:00 PM (Eicbe)

474 Sven's movie tonight is The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, the top of the Don Knotts and Vic Mizzy Oveure.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 01, 2020 08:01 PM (oVJmc)

475 WE GOT MOVIE SIGN!!!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at February 01, 2020 08:03 PM (LaORH)

476 I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton wrote it too)
Posted by: Vendette at February 01, 2020 07:27 PM (SL4lK)

Dolly is supposed to have said that she made more money off of Whitney's version than when she sang it.

Posted by: Fox2! at February 01, 2020 08:03 PM (qyH+l)

477
Ben Had, it's just Badfinger lyrics

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 01, 2020 08:03 PM (+4h9R)

478 Is it true Prince Harry went to get counseling from the Vancouver Canucks to understand what it's like to live in Canada without a title?
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at February 01, 2020 07:55 PM (oI8/P)

Bwahaha!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 01, 2020 08:07 PM (LxWV7)

479 And, it's not stylish but the thermal dresses from Vermont Country store are cozy and warm. Especially if you wear leggings.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 01, 2020 08:09 PM (Lqy/e)

480 Alton, OK. Don't want no sorrow for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 01, 2020 08:11 PM (/f7eN)

481 437 "For dinner they are doing an Australian theme. Very odd. "

Watch out if they want to tie you down.
Posted by: the kangaroo at February 01, 2020 07:47 PM (Tnijr)

"Tan my hide" has a different connotation.

Posted by: Fox2! at February 01, 2020 08:13 PM (qyH+l)

482 Posted by: Jewells45 at February 01, 2020 07:52 PM (dUJdY)

Jewells, blessings on your beautiful daughter. That hit me so hard it almost took my breath away!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 01, 2020 08:38 PM (BiNEL)

483 Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 05:28 PM

A close friend of mine had that exact prostrate reduction procedure this Thursday, and he's almost back to normal today. Just slight discomfort when urinating. The latest plasma/laser approach is much less painful and much faster recovery than the old TURP procedure where they extracted the removed tissue through the urethra.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 01, 2020 08:41 PM (G/mW5)

484 There's the effect in movies that I associate more with Gary Ross (who did Seabiscuit) of pulling back and bringing up the music in the most emotional scenes.

A good director knows how to make that effective.

Posted by: Axeman at February 01, 2020 08:41 PM (Eicbe)

485 >>>WTF? "Political opponent" is not a meaningful concept or formal status under US law. And granting this imaginary protected class de facto immunity from investigation would be, obviously, outrageous, the essence of politicized law enforcement.

Prolly dead thread...

Dead On - unspoken underlying premise is morally bankrupt.
Closest anyone has come close to admitting it is claiming that "impeachment is a political process". Bullshit, it's how you get rid of a bona fide criminal president (who is otherwise immune from criminal prosecution).

Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 01, 2020 08:46 PM (1g7ch)

486 (145)
Hogmartin, we play PC. They are not working on cross-platform play yet.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at February 01, 2020 08:47 PM (uquGJ)

487 Bigsmith at February 01, 2020 08:41 PM (G/mW5)

That's good news for your friend and for me.

Posted by: Ronster at February 01, 2020 09:33 PM (qeYd6)

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