Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (5/12/20)

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Quote I

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. Ronald Reagan

Quote II

“In the back of their minds, they saw us as dumb animals – incapable of facing a pandemic head-on. To buy everyone time – so hopefully, we might become psychologically ready – they said a few things that were false.”Greg Gutfeld

Quote III

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” Hannah Arendt

Quote IV

"The state park police reported an inordinate amount of urine and feces being left behind in the parks in water bottles," State Police Superintendent Pat Callahan

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If Bill Kristol isn't sitting around and masturbating. He's completing the circle jerk on Twitter.

* President Trump has to self-quarantine due to possible exposure to coronavirus, can’t fulfill duties of presidency in quarantine, steps down.
* VP Pence has to self-quarantine, can’t fulfill duties of vice presidency, steps down.
* President Pelosi. ��

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Nothing to see here. Move along. NOW!!!

A California elections watchdog group has warned state officials and Gov. Gavin Newsom that hundreds of people have likely been mailed duplicate ballots ahead of a special election Tuesday, which makes conditions ripe for voter fraud.
According to data obtained by California’s Election Integrity Project, more than 770 duplicate voter registrants have received two or more ballots for a pair of special elections — one for former U.S. Rep. Katie Hill’s seat and the other for an open Senate seat in the state legislature.
Hill, readers may recall, is a Democrat who resigned in disgrace after having an affair with a congressional staffer, against House rules.

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I can hear Maxwell Smart saying, "Missed it by that much. Large rocket of ~~Kaos~~ China barely misses NY.

Large chunks of a Chinese rocket missed New York City by about 15 minutes
China's Long March 5B rocket launched without a second stage.
A week ago, China launched the newest version of its largest rocket, the Long March 5B, from its southernmost spaceport. The launch proceeded normally and represented another success for China as it seeks to build a robust human spaceflight program. Over the next few years, this rocket will launch components of a modular space station.
Notably, because of this rocket's design, its large core stage reached orbit after the launch. Typically during a launch, a rocket's large first stage will provide the majority of thrust during the first minutes of launch and then drop away before reaching an orbital velocity, falling back into the ocean. Then, a smaller second stage takes over and pushes the rocket's payload into orbit.

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So carriers of Anal Flu can go about with their daily lives without tracking. But patrons at restaurants in Seatle can't?

On Monday night, Gov. Jay Inslee released a list of detailed guidelines that restaurants must adopt before resuming dine-in services during “phase two” of Washington’s reopening plan during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As announced previously, dining rooms can reopen at 50 percent capacity in this phase, with no more than five people at a table. But now there are several other strict requirements, including eliminating bar seating, distributing single-use menus, and logging diners’ personal info to facilitate contact tracing, a rigorous method of tracking and monitoring those who may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus.
That last requirement is one that perhaps may generate the most discussion. According to the state’s phase two playbook, restaurants that offer table service must plan to keep a daily log of phone numbers, emails, and arrival times for everybody who comes in to eat. Diners are already used to giving restaurants such details to make a reservation, but Washington’s rules state that all customers must be logged, not just one per party.

Mike Hunt, (111) 555-1212, mikehunt@blowme.com. Now bring me the damn menu.

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Not only is the US government law enforcement corrupt. It is also inept.

The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a cyberattack that exposed the personal information of approximately 387,000 current and former prisoners at the end of last year, according to an agency official.
“The attackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in the system to extract sensitive personally identifiable information on approximately 387,000 individuals,” a Marshals Service spokesperson told Nextgov.
The spokesperson was referring to a system called DSNet, which is designed to house and transport prisoners within the agency, the federal courts and the Bureau of Prisons. Information extracted included names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers.
Reports of the breach first surfaced on Friday, and cited notification letters the Marshals Service sent to the affected individuals. ZDNet published a copy of the letter, dated May 1, and linked to comments from concerned parties on Twitter.

Let's blame it on Putin and Russia.

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Facebook is out a few bucks. Facebook moderators made a few bucks. And Facebook moderator attorneys laughed all the way to the bank.

Facebook reportedly agreed to pay $52 million to moderators who developed PTSD while helping the company police toxic content on its platform
Facebook will pay $52 million to current and former content moderators who developed PTSD on the job, The Verge reported Tuesday.
The agreement, part of a proposed settlement filed in a California court on Friday, covers more than 11,000 Facebook contractors who will be eligible for at least $1,000 each, according to The Verge.
The company came under fire last year regarding the working conditions for its content moderators, who were required to repeatedly look at images and video of rape, murder, and suicide.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to content moderators who developed mental health conditions while helping the company review toxic content on its platform, The Verge reported on Tuesday.
In a preliminary settlement filed Friday in San Mateo Superior Court, Facebook will compensate 11,250 current and former US-based moderators $1,000 each, according to The Verge. Some moderators diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder or similar conditions may receive additional compensation ranging from $1,500 to $6,000 to cover treatment costs. The company also agreed to provide more mental health support to moderators as part of the agreement.
Some moderators with certain diagnoses could also be eligible to receive up to $50,000 in damages if they're able to show evidence of other injuries sustained while working for Facebook, though their payment amounts will depend on how many people apply and end up being eligible for compensation, The Verge reported.

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NSFW - LANGUAGE VIDEO LINK Law and order, slowly but surely, is losing the support of "the good guys".

After nearly two months of a total lockdown, the frustrations of the American people are beginning to boil over.
Protests are breaking out almost daily urging officials to reopen the economy and let people get back to work earning paychecks, even as some authorities actually extend restrictions brought on by a virus that appears to have originated in Wuhan, China.
Caught in the middle of all this are police officers.
With images of hair stylists and tattoo artists being led away in handcuffs for a crime of opening the doors for business to pay the rent and feed their children, a viral video captured the frustration from all sides.
The double-edged video reminds us that freedom can sometimes be messy as a man dresses down what appears to be a Laguna Beach, Calif., police officer for asking him for his identification.

The ONT is neither condoning or condemning the actions of this citizen. However, every contact with a LEO should be recorded.

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Good old duct tape. The Handyman's secret weapon.

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Do you think her name is Karen?

It's still funny after all these years and views.................

The ONT Musical Interlude

On this day: 12 May 2008
Singer-songwriter Neil Young had a spider named after him. US university biologist Jason Bond discovered a new species of trapdoor spider and decided to name it after his favourite musician. Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi was found in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 2007. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Born on this day: 12 May 1948
English musician Steve Winwood, who with the Spencer Davis Group had the 1966 UK No.1 single 'Keep On Running', with Traffic the 1967 UK No.2 single 'Hole In My Shoe', Blind Faith, (with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech), 1969 UK & US No.1 album. Winwood played Hammond organ on the Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland album track 'Voodoo Chile'. He also had a successful solo career with hits including 'While You See a Chance', 'Valerie', 'Back in the High Life Again' and during the late 80s two US No.1 hits 'Higher Love' and 'Roll with It'. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Hand gun > Flare gun. Genius Award Winners.

MONROE COUNTY, Fla. - A man was arrested Friday night after he shot a flare gun multiple times at two people, who were trying to serve civil process/legal papers.
A 75-year-old woman, Carole Harwood, was also arrested for resisting arrest along with William Nash, 79, according to Monroe County deputies. No injuries were reported.
Deputies responded to a home on the 200 block of Colson Drive in Monroe County at about 8:20 p.m about a shots fired call. Monroe County deputies said they arrived and found Harwood yelling at a man who said he and another woman were trying to serve legal papers at the home.

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Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Hita Gupta says she was heartbroken upon learning her regular visits to nursing homes were put on hold because of Coronavirus.
Gupta, 15, had been volunteering at a nursing home near her home in Paoli for more than a year. She organized activities like trivia and bingo for the residents.
Due to coronavirus, the nursing home is refusing visitors in an effort to keep residents safe.
"The seniors aren't able to see their families, so that's causing loneliness, boredom and anxiety," she said.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Dibs on the Barcalounger

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:00 PM (iTXRQ)

2 Forth!

Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 12, 2020 10:00 PM (HuH1F)

3 Sniper got him

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2020 10:01 PM (CPk08)

4 st

Posted by: Bjorn at May 12, 2020 10:01 PM (AHq56)

5 Heck.

Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 12, 2020 10:01 PM (HuH1F)

6
top ten!!!

Posted by: Gooshy at May 12, 2020 10:01 PM (taKIf)

7 Ate

Posted by: jsg at May 12, 2020 10:01 PM (dTvzp)

8 LIBERATE UPSTATE NY!!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 12, 2020 10:01 PM (7WaWV)

9 Well,poop

Posted by: jsg at May 12, 2020 10:01 PM (dTvzp)

10 top tenth!

Posted by: mallfly the peach of Hoboken at May 12, 2020 10:02 PM (4a9Vv)

11 So how much is a lid these days?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 12, 2020 10:02 PM (Dc2NZ)

12 In early, but still reading old threads.

Posted by: Dave in Fla (Suck it Karens, I'm going out for drinks) at May 12, 2020 10:02 PM (5p7BC)

13 Good Evening

Posted by: wing at May 12, 2020 10:03 PM (JFzNN)

14 Hello Dear, how was your day?

Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:03 PM (Lhcx9)

15 If it wasn't for the fact that I hate the cold, I could see myself lying on my back watching the stars.

With some Vaughan Williams playing somewhere.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2020 10:04 PM (2JVJo)

16 Caption for top photo: "Deep space gamma ray burst claims another victim".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 10:04 PM (LZcDP)

17 Top 20?

Posted by: DynamiteDan at May 12, 2020 10:04 PM (JZD4p)

18 That guy in the top pic must be having a very bad day.

Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:04 PM (Lhcx9)

19 Betelgeuse may have the 'ronavirus

Posted by: jsg at May 12, 2020 10:05 PM (dTvzp)

20 I take it people are pooping and peeing in water bottles because all the park restrooms are closed. What does the gov expect people to do - wear Depends to the park?

The need to visit a gas station bathroom has cut some of my walks short.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:05 PM (HabA/)

21 Can't remember where I heard this:

Q. Why is it called the "Long March" rocket?
A. Because it goes into the mountains and a whole lot of people die.

https://tinyurl.com/y8s2p8be

Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:05 PM (t+qrx)

22 With 67% of the vote in, Tiffany up by 15%...

https://tinyurl.com/yb4p5xtp

Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2020 10:05 PM (l3+k2)

23 Top o' the evening, Guv'na.

Well actually, bottom of the evening to certain Guv'nas.

Posted by: stumck at May 12, 2020 10:05 PM (uksaT)

24 We've talked about this before but I haven't seen a starry sky in over a decade. Another disadvantage of living in the big city.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at May 12, 2020 10:06 PM (2DOZq)

25 Hey everybody.

MisHum, I posted this already but late last night, so here it is again. New Zappa box set I thought you might like.

Frank Zappa: The Mothers 1970

https://tinyurl.com/y6uqadfs

Posted by: qdpsteve at May 12, 2020 10:07 PM (L2ZTs)

26 That top picture represents all of us exhausted by all this nonsense. That bottom picture was stolen from my homeschool photo album and I want to know how you got it.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2020 10:07 PM (/669Q)

27 The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a cyberattack that exposed the personal information of approximately 387,000 current and former prisoners at the end of last year, according to an agency official.

The Marshals also do Witness Protection. I wonder if that data was compromised as well.

Posted by: Ace's liver at May 12, 2020 10:07 PM (wGeit)

28 so did the bear stop or what

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:07 PM (iTXRQ)

29 Fantastic photo up top, Mis Hum! Love the song behind the photo also. Thanks for the fabulous ONT!

I think the kid in the bottom photo found my plastic dish stash...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 12, 2020 10:07 PM (WFcrO)

30 Karen's whine made me want to cheer for the bear to eat that girl.

Posted by: jmel at May 12, 2020 10:07 PM (OeWgo)

31 I'm agonna harsh the ONT mellow.
It Is Now On.

Posted by: RI Red at May 12, 2020 10:08 PM (0218Z)

32 Bear please stop.

It's not just the whiny woman and her "go away, bear - come here, bear, leave the kayak alone, bear" that's the funnies bit about that vid, but the imbecile's fervent belief that IF YOU JUST YELL LOUDLY, THE BEAR WILL SUDDENLY UNDERSTAND ENGLISH AND GO AWAY!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2020 10:08 PM (2JVJo)

33 coulda been a contender

Posted by: boomers remember stuff at May 12, 2020 10:08 PM (+U5Yr)

34 And what I find truly magnificent is we are paying these totalitarian bastards with our tax dollars...

and, better yet, funding their pensions!!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:08 PM (jnM20)

35 If it wasn't for the fact that I hate the cold, I could see myself lying on my back watching the stars.

Yep. Replace the snow with grass and I'm in.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 12, 2020 10:08 PM (dUJdY)

36 Mis Hum is doing snow angels in the top photo!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 12, 2020 10:09 PM (WFcrO)

37 It's not just the whiny woman and her "go away, bear - come here, bear, leave the kayak alone, bear" that's the funnies bit about that vid, but the imbecile's fervent belief that IF YOU JUST YELL LOUDLY, THE BEAR WILL SUDDENLY UNDERSTAND ENGLISH AND GO AWAY!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2020 10:08 PM (2JVJo)

Well, they do in the Cartoons, right Mr. Ranger?

Posted by: Yogi at May 12, 2020 10:09 PM (NgKpN)

38 26 That top picture represents all of us exhausted by all this nonsense. That bottom picture was stolen from my homeschool photo album and I want to know how you got it.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2020 10:07 PM (/669Q)

If i tell you. You never know when or where or what, but something will strike you.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:09 PM (aA3+G)

39 The way you match those lids is to throw the lot away and go get one of those organizer Rubbermaid sets at Wal-Mart. The lids snap together and all the containers fit inside each other.

That's my Household Hint of the Day.

Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:09 PM (Lhcx9)

40 That's Sam McGee, right?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (CjFDo)

41 BTW, can some 'ron help me with this puzzle?

I was walking this lovely afternoon on a path right next to Lake Michigan. It looked there were 10 or 12 sailboats out there, within the breakwater, but when I got closer to them, I saw they were large yellow plastic triangles, which had been inflated and placed near the shore. They were anchored in place, not drifting around. I've never seen them before and have no idea what their purpose might be.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (HabA/)

42 I'll bet she's a joy to be married to.

Please stop watching TV, BAMA. Please stop. BAMA! Stop! Please stop. Why are you watching TV? I want to talk. Please stop.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (9oAtN)

43 Special election to replace US House Rep Duffy called for Tiffany(R).

Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (l3+k2)

44 The FBI f'ed up again.
https://tinyurl.com/y78yvldf

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (r+sAi)

45 Not drunk enough. Can still lie down without holding on.

Posted by: hold on, banned at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (j2E35)

46 You never know when or where or what, but something will strike you.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:09 PM (aA3+G)
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I think that's supposed to be my line.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (/669Q)

47 I shouldn't have watched that police confrontation video right before I try to get some sleep. That was a bad idea.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (t+qrx)

48 On Monday night, Gov. Jay Inslee released a list of detailed guidelines that restaurants must adopt before resuming dine-in services during "phase two" of Washington's reopening plan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use 360-902-4111 - the phone number to Warden Inslee's office.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (I2/tG)

49 24 We've talked about this before but I haven't seen a starry sky in over a decade. Another disadvantage of living in the big city.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at May 12, 2020 10:06 PM (2DOZq)

You need to get out more.

Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:11 PM (Lhcx9)

50 We've talked about this before but I haven't seen a starry sky in over a decade. Another disadvantage of living in the big city.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at May 12, 2020 10:06 PM (2DOZq)

Went down to the river in a remote part of Virginia. Lay on the pier and looked up at the sky. I simply could not believe the beauty of the night sky!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:11 PM (jnM20)

51 Willowed in the Cafe, it Pelosi's 3 Trillion dollar set dream is apparently done. Every liberal pork you can think of.

Evil woman.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:11 PM (9oAtN)

52 It's snowing right now at teh Zettaibunker... Might get half an inch...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 12, 2020 10:11 PM (7WaWV)

53 Top photo:

On the frozen surface of Lake Marie
The police had found two bodies
Nay, naked bodies!
Their faces had been horribly disfigured by some sharp object
Saw it on the news
On the TV news
In a black and white video
You know what blood looks like in a black and white video?
Shadows, SHADOWS!!!

(RIP John Prine)

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 10:11 PM (Fc5rx)

54 Time for Revolutionary War 2.0 against these petty tyrants. Where do they get the power? We did not give it to them.

Posted by: iandeal at May 12, 2020 10:11 PM (vgGyZ)

55 in the stars pic I see Orion, the Hyades, the Pleiades, Canis Major
the bright object at center left must be a planet

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:12 PM (iTXRQ)

56 One of the Super Ordinate Principles of the Universe is, for any given quantity, tupperware bowls will always out number tupperware lids.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 12, 2020 10:12 PM (xXJfx)

57 I wonder what the lady left behind in the kayak to attract the bear.

Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:12 PM (Lhcx9)

58 43 Special election to replace US House Rep Duffy called for Tiffany(R).
Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (l3+k2)

Oh yeah, another c*cksucking career politician.
State fucking loser now in Washington DC to suck the c*ck of Kevin McCarthy and pine for the days of Paul Ryan, yup we got it good here in N WI

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:12 PM (aA3+G)

59
The state park police reported an inordinate amount of urine and feces being left behind in the parks in water bottles," Callahan said.

"We understand that the restrooms and public restrooms are closed but people should plan accordingly," he added.

The did plan accordingly.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2020 10:12 PM (aKsyK)

60 >>>The ONT is neither condoning or condemning the actions of this citizen....

Ooh, I know the answer.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 12, 2020 10:12 PM (pxDdN)

61 TuCa made the mistake of dissing The Lord Our God Fauci while my sister was in the room. My sister is generally sensible and prides herself on being an "independent" - but Thou Shalt Not Say a Bad Word About Fauci in her presence. Because "He's an Expert!!!!!"

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:13 PM (HabA/)

62 Pelosi is always pushing the envelope. She persists.

Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:13 PM (Lhcx9)

63 Beautiful top picture. I do miss the starry skies of MI. Right now the only thing I miss about selling our cottage.
Thanks MisHum

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 12, 2020 10:13 PM (JVgnl)

64 Pixy hates me.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (axyOa)

65 My sister is generally sensible and prides herself on being an "independent" - but Thou Shalt Not Say a Bad Word About Fauci in her presence. Because "He's an Expert!!!!!"
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:13 PM (HabA/)
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You need to strap her down and make her watch that Plandemic movie clip.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (/669Q)

66 The FBI f'ed up again.
https://tinyurl.com/y78yvldf
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (r+sAi)

It is good to know that we have TOP.MEN protecting the US citizens that pay their effing salaries and fund their sweet pensions!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (jnM20)

67 That freedom rant against Laguna beach pigs was epic...good on him.

Posted by: Pliney at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (nzKWW)

68 That comet should be showing up soon.

Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (l3+k2)

69 OK so, question. Drink water, don't want to use a tree, piss in a bottle. Weird, and I don't see how that's any more sanitary or less public than a tree... but, OK.

How do you shit in a water bottle. I never learned that trick.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (t+qrx)

70 More Neil Young! Thanks MisHum.

Posted by: qdpsteve at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (L2ZTs)

71 A southern man don't need him around anyhow.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (9oAtN)

72 NSFW - LANGUAGE VIDEO LINK Law and order, slowly but surely, is losing the support of "the good guys".
__________

I am really sick of Ace and the cobs buying into the left's definition of "law and order". Sorry, that's not what we have when we see arbitrary and irresponsible (in both senses) government action. But you guys seem to think that power = law and order.

That's just stupid.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (ZbwAu)

73 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 12, 2020 10:13 PM (JVgnl)

You're welcome I think

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (aA3+G)

74 and in the night, the ice-weasles come

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (WyVLE)

75 and in the night, the ice-weasles come
Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (WyVLE)

Mostly.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (t+qrx)

76 71 A southern man don't need him around anyhow.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (9oAtN)

Turn it up

Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (Lhcx9)

77 Howdy roonz and roonettez, what's happening.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (CcOog)

78 I'm agonna harsh the ONT mellow.

It Is Now On.

What is...?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (7s3Gx)

79 Willowed in the Cafe, it Pelosi's 3 Trillion dollar set dream is apparently done. Every liberal pork you can think of.
Evil woman.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:11 PM (9oAtN)

Never miss a chance to turn a crisis into a tragedy!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (jnM20)

80 My sister is generally sensible and prides herself on being an "independent" - but Thou Shalt Not Say a Bad Word About Fauci in her presence. Because "He's an Expert!!!!!"
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:13 PM (HabA/)

Yes, the expert who up through early March was telling everyone "move along, nothing to see here." Smarmy prick.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (pxDdN)

81 I could not watch the entire girl, bear, kayak video. Her voice is repellent.

Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (9UmRs)

82 Inslee's plan promises the data collected will only be used by state medical officials.
Yeah.
Right.
The same data collected by the non-state workers who work at the restaurant and now have a shitload of marketable data.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (axyOa)

83 in the stars pic I see Orion, the Hyades, the Pleiades, Canis Major
the bright object at center left must be a planet

Jupiter, most likely.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (7s3Gx)

84 69 OK so, question. Drink water, don't want to use a tree, piss in a bottle. Weird, and I don't see how that's any more sanitary or less public than a tree... but, OK.

How do you shit in a water bottle. I never learned that trick.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (t+qrx)

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There's an instructional video by a couple of gals... or so I've been told.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (CAJOC)

85 Mis Hum you mad at Duffy or Tiffany.?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (lwiT4)

86 If Bill Kristol isn't sitting around and masturbating.

He's more likely the type to be giving Progressives blow jobs, without any expectation of a reciprocal reacharound.

No need. I doubt his dick works any more.

I just wonder, how does he shave? To do that, he must look at himself in the mirror.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (Z4rgH)

87 I could not watch the entire girl, bear, kayak video. Her voice is repellent.
Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (9UmRs)

I'll do a dramatic reading of the transcript at the next MIMoMe.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM (t+qrx)

88 MisHum. Definitely a thank you. My sentence structure was poor.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM (JVgnl)

89 The Kid With the Lid.

Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM (Qf83p)

90 You need to strap her down and make her watch that Plandemic movie clip.
Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (/669Q)

I would have to strap her down and sedate her. She couldn't listen to 5 seconds of Tucker's rant - she had to go outside she was so upset. I knew already I can't criticize anything the guy says.

I swear to God many Americans would happily elect the guy to be Dictator.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM (HabA/)

91 76 71 A southern man don't need him around anyhow.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (9oAtN)

Turn it up
Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (Lhcx9

Every time.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM (9oAtN)

92 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM (mn7hj)

93 The did plan accordingly.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2020 10:12 PM (aKsyK)

And, somewhere in the park, a soiled, pissed-off rabbit plots its revenge.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 10:18 PM (LZcDP)

94 How do you shit in a water bottle. I never learned that trick.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (t+qrx)

Constant, and careful, practice!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:18 PM (jnM20)

95 >>> With 67% of the vote in, Tiffany up by 15%...

https://tinyurl.com/yb4p5xtp
Posted by: davidt

I call bullshit!

Posted by: Debbie Gibson at May 12, 2020 10:18 PM (rKsgt)

96 Great ONT, MisHum. I don't know how many hours per week you spend compiling all of the stuff you present each night, but it sure is appreciated.

Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:18 PM (Lhcx9)

97
A man was arrested Friday night after he shot a flare gun multiple times at two people, who were trying to serve civil process/legal papers.

Smoooooooooooke on the water...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2020 10:18 PM (aKsyK)

98 I would have to strap her down and sedate her.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM (HabA/)
-----------

Well, okay!

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2020 10:18 PM (/669Q)

99 66 The FBI f'ed up again.
https://tinyurl.com/y78yvldf
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (r+sAi)

It is good to know that we have TOP.MEN protecting the US citizens that pay their effing salaries and fund their sweet pensions!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (jnM20)

Bigger question, why is this a secret 19 years later?

Any source or method used to get this would be so antiquated as to be useless.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 12, 2020 10:19 PM (NgKpN)

100 Stevie Winwood, Eric Clapton. good stuff.

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2020 10:19 PM (XhWtx)

101 Inslee needs to do us all a favor and drink a gallon of bleach.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 12, 2020 10:19 PM (NWiLs)

102 The top pic should be titled:

"The Universe and Shit"

Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:19 PM (Qf83p)

103
Homeschooling parents should buy their children educational toys: buckets, mops, sponges, lawn mowers, etc. The pedogogical model Wackford Squeers used at Dotheboys Hall.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2020 10:19 PM (mht8P)

104 "Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to content moderators ... Facebook will compensate 11,250 current and former US-based moderators $1,000 each"

I'm no mathematician, but I'm pretty sure $1,000 x $11,000 is a whole lot less than $52 million.

Class action lawyers are scum of the earth.

Posted by: egd at May 12, 2020 10:19 PM (v9lde)

105 >>>I am really sick of Ace and the cobs buying into the left's definition of "law and order

Please share with us your web address so we can get your take on the world.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:19 PM (aA3+G)

106 {{{{Horde}}}}

Ladyl approved social distancing

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 12, 2020 10:19 PM (/UQ/R)

107 How do you shit in a water bottle. I never learned that trick.
Posted by: hogmartin

**********

The hardest part is getting your hiking companion to hold the darned thing steady.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 10:20 PM (Fc5rx)

108 My name eet ees Jose Jiminez!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:20 PM (jnM20)

109 What I'm getting from this thread is basically, "Strap her down".

Bawdy.

Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:20 PM (Qf83p)

110 95 >>> With 67% of the vote in, Tiffany up by 15%...

https://tinyurl.com/yb4p5xtp
Posted by: davidt

I call bullshit!
Posted by: Debbie Gibson at May 12, 2020 10:18 PM (rKsgt)

----------------------------

Have you seen Tiffany lately? Yowza!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 12, 2020 10:20 PM (CAJOC)

111 Maybe his name isn't "Bear!"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2020 10:20 PM (aKsyK)

112 I'll do a dramatic reading of the transcript at the next MIMoMe.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM (t+qrx)
--
With bongos.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 12, 2020 10:20 PM (Dc2NZ)

113 {{{{WDS}}}}

I think we're getting the hang of this!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:20 PM (jnM20)

114 What happened to digging a hole and burying your poop??? I can't even figure out the logistics of pooping into a plastic water bottle...
What the hell is wrong with people???

Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at May 12, 2020 10:21 PM (UUBmN)

115 57 I wonder what the lady left behind in the kayak to attract the bear.
Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:12 PM (Lhcx9)

Her scent.

Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2020 10:21 PM (9UmRs)

116 Law and order, slowly but surely, is losing the support of "the good guys".

To the Left, that's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 10:21 PM (I2/tG)

117 President Trump has to self-quarantine due to possible exposure to coronavirus, can't fulfill duties of presidency in quarantine, steps down.
* VP Pence has to self-quarantine, can't fulfill duties of vice presidency, steps down.
* President Pelosi.

Civil War 2.0 + French Revolution 2.0 + Angel of Death 2.0

They really don't want to open that can of Kick Ass.

Posted by: 🐧 at May 12, 2020 10:21 PM (C+evo)

118 Good night, folks. I want to get some sleep so I can write and play a little golf tomorrow.

Hope you all have a lovely night.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2020 10:21 PM (2JVJo)

119 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2020 10:19 PM (mht8P)

Fundamental skills never go out of fashion!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:22 PM (jnM20)

120 Hadrian the Seventh

Good evening! I just received the thumb drive. Music is uploaded and streaming away.

Thank you again. It shall be shared with others.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at May 12, 2020 10:22 PM (WFAUg)

121 85 Mis Hum you mad at Duffy or Tiffany.?
Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (lwiT4)

Duffy didn't have to leave early.
He could have stuck it out until Nov.
Tiffany is a light weight.

He'll fit in well in the swamp.
Right next to that swamp weasel Gallagher of Green Bay

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:22 PM (aA3+G)

122
If I could put poop in a bottle
I could sell it as Budweiser to you.

Posted by: Jim Crotche at May 12, 2020 10:22 PM (Tnijr)

123 Good night, folks. I want to get some sleep so I can write and play a little golf tomorrow.

Hope you all have a lovely night.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2020 10:21 PM (2JVJo)

I got to drive past my local course.
Greens are about 4" deep.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2020 10:22 PM (axyOa)

124 Peed in a gatorade bottle while driving a semi, adventuresome I was back mumblemumble years ago.

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2020 10:23 PM (XhWtx)

125 The ONT is neither condoning or condemning the actions of this citizen. However, every contact with a LEO should be recorded.

Name rank and serial number.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 12, 2020 10:23 PM (Z4rgH)

126 I shit perfectly fine in a water bottle.

Posted by: Rajesh Patel at May 12, 2020 10:23 PM (zGLW8)

127 Class action lawyers are scum of the earth.

We'll collect $25 million in legal fees, and you get a $25 off coupon on your next purchase from the evil corporation that we sued!

Such a deal!

Posted by: Class Action Lawyers! at May 12, 2020 10:23 PM (I2/tG)

128
* President Trump has to self-quarantine due to possible exposure to coronavirus, can't fulfill duties of presidency in quarantine, steps down.
* VP Pence has to self-quarantine, can't fulfill duties of vice presidency, steps down.
* President Pelosi.

You have to go to Harvard like Bill Kristol to come up with nonsense like this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (mht8P)

129 >>> ----------------------------

Have you seen Tiffany lately? Yowza!
Posted by: No One of Consequence

She could give AtC's victory bewbs a run for their money.

Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (rKsgt)

130 What happened to digging a hole and burying your poop??? I can't even figure out the logistics of pooping into a plastic water bottle...
What the hell is wrong with people???
Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at May 12, 2020 10:21 PM (UUBmN)

Maybe they shit on the ground, and then used a twig broken off a tree to push the turd into the water bottle?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (LZcDP)

131 115 57 I wonder what the lady left behind in the kayak to attract the bear.
Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:12 PM (Lhcx9)

Her scent.
Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2020 10:21 PM (9UmRs)

Old wives tale was bears are attracted to menstration.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (9oAtN)

132 With bongos.

*******

In iambic pentameter.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (Fc5rx)

133 hang on there... next we'll be servin up a side of horseface kerry to go along with young.
yeah, i was a fan in 70's
Neil can kiss the brown donut now

Posted by: LaRro at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (10GNe)

134 pooping in the field can be problematic

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (iTXRQ)

135 129 >>> ----------------------------

Have you seen Tiffany lately? Yowza!
Posted by: No One of Consequence

She could give AtC's victory bewbs a run for their money.
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (rKsgt)

Nice know you. I hope AtC makes it quick and painless.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (9oAtN)

136 With bongos.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 12, 2020 10:20 PM (Dc2NZ)

BEAR

BEAR YOU'RE BREAKING MY

*patapatapatapat*

...kayak

Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (t+qrx)

137 A man was arrested Friday night after he shot a flare gun multiple
times at two people, who were trying to serve civil process/legal
papers.
___

Shoulda used a shotgun

Posted by: Sherrif Joe at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (WdocV)

138 Would you like some cheese with that whine?

Posted by: Bear at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (dTvzp)

139
I'll do a dramatic reading of the transcript at the next MIMoMe.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM

Not after a meal, please.

Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (9UmRs)

140 He'll fit in well in the swamp.
Right next to that swamp weasel Gallagher of Green Bay
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:22 PM (aA3+G)

Our GOP state legislators have sure been quiet about Evers trampling all over our rights.

The GOP - forever afraid they'll either be called racists or granny murderers.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (HabA/)

141 Homeschooling parents should have a boy at that age, doing field strips and reassembly drills on every weapons system in the house.

Kid should already be at the "one minute, blindfolded" mark on the AR-15.

By time he's a High School Freshman, he ought to have completed Armorer's School on the AR-15 and their preferred handgun system.

Higher education at it's finest!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (QzJWU)

142 Tiffany > Debbie Gibson > Debbie Boone

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (axyOa)

143 With bongos.

*******

In iambic pentameter.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (Fc5rx)
-----------

Wearing a grass skirt and a Viking helmet.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (/669Q)

144 {{{{Hrothgar}}}}

How are you this fine evening?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (/UQ/R)

145 The GOP - forever afraid they'll either be called racists or granny murderers.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (HabA/)

Not all grannies are good people. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (NWiLs)

146

Nice know you. I hope AtC makes it quick and painless.

___

I'm not saying having a big, hairy spider for a pet would save your life right now....but I'm also not saying it won't.

Posted by: Your Local Spider Salesman at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (WdocV)

147 >Jupiter, most likely.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

in Gemini

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (iTXRQ)

148 I am really sick of Ace and the cobs buying into the left's definition of "law and order". Sorry, that's not what we have when we see arbitrary and irresponsible (in both senses) government action. But you guys seem to think that power = law and order.

That's just stupid.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (ZbwAu)
* * * *

I believe you have it backward. My take on Ace and the Cobs is that they see power wielded by LEOs in an arbitrary and irresponsible manner as being the antithesis of law and order.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (WFcrO)

149 >>>
She could give AtC's victory bewbs a run for their money.
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (rKsgt)

Nice know you. I hope AtC makes it quick and painless.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Crap, did that not come out as a compliment?

Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (rKsgt)

150 139
I'll do a dramatic reading of the transcript at the next MIMoMe.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:17 PM

Not after a meal, please.
Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (9UmRs)

Maybe he'll sign it instead? Kind of like those goofy signers at the leftie speeches.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (aA3+G)

151 22 With 67% of the vote in, Tiffany up by 15%...

I saw that and thought "Tiffany" was like a "Karen" running for office.
Thankfully, no.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (+lVUW)

152 Facebook moderators can sue because the job drove them crazy?

I figured "crazy" was a job requirement, and they all started that way.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (P1f+c)

153 128
* President Trump has to self-quarantine due to possible exposure to coronavirus, can't fulfill duties of presidency in quarantine, steps down.
* VP Pence has to self-quarantine, can't fulfill duties of vice presidency, steps down.
* President Pelosi."

I note that Boris Johnson actually had the Kung Flu and he's still PM.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (HabA/)

154 {{{chupacabra}}}

Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (Qf83p)

155 The GOP - forever afraid they'll either be called racists or granny murderers.

Meh, gotta crack a few grannies to make a cannoli, know what I mean?

Posted by: Gov Nipple Piercings at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (WdocV)

156 Debbie Gibson blossomed into quite the MILF.

Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (Qf83p)

157 Laugh if you must but this is perhaps my favorite music video of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOTjkQMdF6o

I might be a headbanger and all but I was brought up in the 1980s.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 10:28 PM (ejsiI)

158 Bongo drum boobs.

Posted by: rhythm banned at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (cUYQy)

159 We've talked about this before but I haven't seen a starry sky in over a decade. Another disadvantage of living in the big city.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at May 12, 2020 10:06 PM (2DOZq)

You need to get out more.
Posted by: ALH at May 12, 2020 10:11 PM (Lhcx9)

I get out plenty but it's always places with light pollution apparently.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (2DOZq)

160 Crap, did that not come out as a compliment?
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (rKsgt)

Can I have your stuff? Put me in your will please.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (9oAtN)

161 the top picture looks cold AF....

i hate the cold: it makes my body hurt more.

cool is fine, but, at a certain point, my hands don't w*rk right, and my damaged joints ache.

FTS.

to quote my late Dad, when the bitch said she wanted to move back to Portland; "i'll buy you a house. i'm never going to be cold again."

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (mn7hj)

162 Maybe they shit on the ground, and then used a twig broken off a tree to push the turd into the water bottle?

Wide-neck Gatorade bottle for the win!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (7s3Gx)

163 {{{{westminsterdogshow}}}}

I am doing well, really nice day here, but I failed to complete all my assigned tasks. But Conor and I got in TWO walks, so it's all good.

Did you have a nice day?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (jnM20)

164 156 Debbie Gibson blossomed into quite the MILF.
Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (Qf83p)

-------------------------------

Last I saw her (in a cheesy SyFy movie with Tiffany as a matter of fact), she was looking kinda skeletal. Hopefully, that was just a temporary thing.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (CAJOC)

165 Neil Young.

Yrrchh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Clown Prince of Dumbness at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (x8Wzq)

166 Snort.

Please share with us your web address so we can get your take on the world.

Don't do it, dumbass.

Posted by: BifBewalski - sinis est culus at May 12, 2020 10:30 PM (VcFUs)

167 I note that Boris Johnson actually had the Kung Flu and he's still PM.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (HabA/)

I wish to Hell he'd come to Canada and cough all over the little turd Justin.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 10:30 PM (LZcDP)

168 I couldn't watch the "bear" video for more than 30 seconds. Geez, shut up and be glad the animal isn't eating you. Her voice alone is enough to make you cheer for the bear.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 10:31 PM (+lVUW)

169 Skinny MILFs are MILFs.

Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:31 PM (Qf83p)

170 Bill Kristol really is a boogerfucker of the highest order.

Posted by: Bear at May 12, 2020 10:31 PM (dTvzp)

171
I believe you have it backward. My take on Ace and the Cobs is that they see power wielded by LEOs in an arbitrary and irresponsible manner as being the antithesis of law and order.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (WFcrO)

This is exactly correct.

And, as we have seen the past few years, there really is no rule of law.

(And if you think this is bad, wait until the police are charged with the duty of plugging in budget holes. Not that they aren't already doing that, and haven't already been doing that for decades.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 10:31 PM (ejsiI)

172
Good evening! I just received the thumb drive. Music is uploaded and streaming away.

You're the second person today who told me they just received it. And I thought I sent them out first-class mail.

Well, enjoy!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2020 10:31 PM (mht8P)

173 Seems to me Pelosi is rather more at risk from Kung Flu then Trump is. I know the risks go up as you get older and she's what 29....decades or so?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 10:32 PM (WdocV)

174
{{{{Horde}}}}

OMG!!!
This is not proper social distancing.

You MUST maintain a separation of 6 curley brackets.

According to CDC guidelines, a 5 Curley bracket separation is insufficient and frankly, dangerous.

Posted by: Punctual Karen at May 12, 2020 10:32 PM (uksaT)

175 173 Seems to me Pelosi is rather more at risk from Kung Flu then Trump is. I know the risks go up as you get older and she's what 29....decades or so?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 10:32 PM (WdocV)

Like Hillary, that much vodka in your system tends to kill most bugs.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:33 PM (9oAtN)

176 So how much is a lid these days?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 12, 2020 10:02 PM

Twenty bucks, same as in town.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2020 10:33 PM (DMUuz)

177 Match the lids? Then there is Advanced Placement Floor Mopping.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2020 10:33 PM (dT9VH)

178 I get out plenty but it's always places with light pollution apparently.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (2DOZq)

I live in a place where you can see decent starlight even in the suburbs. But I am only a half day drive from the Bighorns and Grand Mesa (different directions). When I am camping I go to bed long after the campfire dies because of the night sky.

Seeing the galaxy makes me feel huge and significant.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Clown Prince of Dumbness at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (x8Wzq)

179 I got to drive past my local course.
Greens are about 4" deep.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2020 10:22 PM (axyOa)

Was the bottom rocky?

I played Monday with a best bud. The course is kinda crappy, but the price was reasonable and the beer was plentiful. And NO masks in evidence.

The casino courses (nice) are all closed so far, but the gubner never forced any courses to close.

Our MS casinos are opening up after Memorial Day.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (Z4rgH)

180 39 The way you match those lids is to throw the lot away and go get one of those organizer Rubbermaid sets at Wal-Mart. The lids snap together and all the containers fit inside each other.

That's my Household Hint of the Day.
Posted by: ALH

Good advice, but difficult for those of us to throw away anything that is "still good". I might need it some day. I have managed to limit myself to 5 CoolWhip containers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (+lVUW)

181 You know those silly "Heroes Work Here" banners that are popping up in front of schools, nursing homes, etc? I saw one a couple of days ago in front of.... wait for it.... a funeral home.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (qc+VF)

182 >>> Crap, did that not come out as a compliment?
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (rKsgt)

Can I have your stuff? Put me in your will please.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Well, f*ck me. Fine. But FYI, the wifey will keep the dog and expect you to take this kids. She's very maternal that way.

Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (rKsgt)

183 OMG!!!
This is not proper social distancing.

You MUST maintain a separation of 6 curley brackets.

According to CDC guidelines, a 5 Curley bracket separation is insufficient and frankly, dangerous.
Posted by: Punctual Karen at May 12, 2020 10:32 PM (uksaT

Hi Karen! Tell me, do you like surprises?

Posted by: Otter at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (9oAtN)

184 Duplicate ballots are a feature, not a bug, of mail in voting. Which is why all of these blue states are pushing this out as far as they can.

Posted by: jsg at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (dTvzp)

185 Good Lord I was rooting for the bear to full charge at her and bite her head off.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 12, 2020 10:35 PM (dUJdY)

186 After Illinois Governor Pritzker imposed his lockdown orders on Illinois, his wife fled to Florida by private jet to Pritzker's mansion there to avoid the lockdown.

Now, the Second City Cop blog is reporting that a team of Illinois State Police troopers has been seen in Florida, guarding Pritzker's wife.

Pritzker flies into a rage when anyone questions him about the whereabouts of his wife. It's a private matter, you see.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 10:35 PM (I2/tG)

187 174
{{{{Horde}}}}

OMG!!!
This is not proper social distancing.

You MUST maintain a separation of 6 curley brackets.

According to CDC guidelines, a 5 Curley bracket separation is insufficient and frankly, dangerous.
Posted by: Punctual Karen at May 12, 2020 10:32 PM (uksaT)

------------------------------

Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!

Posted by: The 6 Curlys at May 12, 2020 10:35 PM (CAJOC)

188 >>> Seems to me Pelosi is rather more at risk from Kung Flu then Trump is. I know the risks go up as you get older and she's what 29....decades or so?
Posted by: 18-1 at May

Maybe why she won't call the House back. She knows she's high risk?

Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:35 PM (rKsgt)

189
Can I have your stuff? Put me in your will please.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Well, f*ck me. Fine. But FYI, the wifey will keep the dog and expect you to take this kids. She's very maternal that way.
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (rKsgt)

Can they paint? How are they with power tools?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM (9oAtN)

190 You know, if we're supposed to register and track people who have the Wuhan Flu, wouldn't it be a good idea to also register and track people who have HIV? Just to be safe and all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM (l9m7l)

191 Good evening, Horde!

GREAT ONT, MisHum! I got through most of it, and laughed like a hyena at the last picture.

Glad you had a good day, Hrothgar!

Posted by: Ladyl at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM (TdMsT)

192 141 Homeschooling parents should have a boy at that age, doing field strips and reassembly drills on every weapons system in the house.

Jim is tough, but fair.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM (Z4rgH)

193 Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:10 PM (HabA/)

Racing buoys.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM (dLLD6)

194 Pritzker flies into a rage when anyone questions him about the whereabouts of his wife. It's a private matter, you see.
***

Didn't the FNM spend a few weeks last year complaining Melania wasn't making enough public appearances and must have split up with Trump?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 10:37 PM (WdocV)

195
Mike Hunt, (111) 555-1212, mikehunt@blowme.com. Now bring me the damn menu.

Mike Hunt, party of 5!

Mike Hunt, party of 5!

Posted by: Pronhub gangbang director at May 12, 2020 10:37 PM (sy5kK)

196 You MUST maintain a separation of 6 curley brackets.

According to CDC guidelines, a 5 Curley bracket separation is insufficient and frankly, dangerous.
Posted by: Punctual Karen at May 12, 2020 10:32 PM (uksaT)
* * * *

Bless your heart...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 12, 2020 10:37 PM (WFcrO)

197 MH.....didn't Duffy leave early because of a special need child? That's a little harsh.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 12, 2020 10:37 PM (/UQ/R)

198
You know, if we're supposed to register and track people who have the
Wuhan Flu, wouldn't it be a good idea to also register and track people
who have HIV? Just to be safe and all.

***

Also....illegals.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 10:37 PM (WdocV)

199 I hope that bear shit on what was left of the kayak.

Posted by: Aviator at May 12, 2020 10:37 PM (0FTCx)

200 On Monday night, Gov. Jay Inslee released a list of detailed guidelines that restaurants must adopt before resuming dine-in services during "phase two" of Washington's reopening plan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

My takeaway from that is ultra liberal Washington is ahead of Michigan in reopening the economy.
*nerdygirl mumbles something about that bitch in Lansing*

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 10:37 PM (+lVUW)

201
If I Could Talk With The Animals - a limerick

Bear please stop, oh please stop it Bear
Oh Bear! Don't eat my kayak, please Bear!
I hate to be rude
But it's not even food
Oh stop it, please stop it please, Bear!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 10:37 PM (Fc5rx)

202 I knew this girl once about 40 years ago had crabs. Will CDC be talking with her? Cause I'd rather they not stir up old problems.

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2020 10:38 PM (XhWtx)

203 Dis is Major Wong to Ground Patrore,
I'm stepping through the door,
And I'm froating in da most percuriar way,
And Da staws rook vewy diffewent, today

For heew am I froating in my tin can
Faw above da moon,
Pranet Earth is brue, and dares nothing I can do

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2020 10:39 PM (jlCAJ)

204 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM (dLLD6)

Thanks! I was puzzled.....

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:39 PM (HabA/)

205 >>>Can they paint? How are they with power tools?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at

Well, f*ck me twice. You get free labor and the wife gets the dog. Boy this night went shit-sideways me damn quick.

Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:39 PM (rKsgt)

206 182 >>> Crap, did that not come out as a compliment?
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (rKsgt)

Can I have your stuff? Put me in your will please.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Well, f*ck me. Fine. But FYI, the wifey will keep the dog and expect you to take this kids. She's very maternal that way.
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (rKsgt)

---------------------------

So, about this wifey...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 12, 2020 10:39 PM (CAJOC)

207 >Jupiter, most likely.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

in Gemini

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (iTXRQ)

Keerekt!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 12, 2020 10:39 PM (7s3Gx)

208 I'd love to see someone with some clout ask Kristol what he thinks Step 4 would be in his little fever dream.

I think he should consider what that might be, nice and hard. He may think that the American people will roll over and accept such a thing, but he's mistaken. The consequences will find their way to his door.

Posted by: grognard at May 12, 2020 10:39 PM (sb+Cg)

209 Can they paint? How are they with power tools?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM

You planning on renting them out to ace?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2020 10:40 PM (DMUuz)

210 Well, f*ck me. Fine. But FYI, the wifey will keep the dog and expect you to take this kids. She's very maternal that way.
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:34 PM (rKsgt)
* * * *

Remind me NOT to take a drink before reading your posts!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 12, 2020 10:40 PM (WFcrO)

211 Barkeep! I'll have what the gentleman at #203 is having...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (7WaWV)

212 192 141 Homeschooling parents should have a boy at that age, doing field strips and reassembly drills on every weapons system in the house.

Jim is tough, but fair.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM (Z4rgH)

You will not like Jim, but the more you hate Jim, the more you will learn!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (ejsiI)

213 Damn. Are we planning TurnTwo's funeral yet or are we just gonna let him lie out there for the polar bears like the guy in the first picture?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (CcOog)

214 Whiney Mandela

Posted by: jsg at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (dTvzp)

215 Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (ZbwAu)�

I don't think that you have been paying attention. In general, we are reflexively anti-government-power, no matter how you define it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (dLLD6)

216
NSFW - LANGUAGE VIDEO LINK Law and order, slowly but surely, is losing the support of "the good guys".

EXACTLY according to plan.

Posted by: Chinese overlords and their Xi-NN tools at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (sy5kK)

217 197 MH.....didn't Duffy leave early because of a special need child? That's a little harsh.
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 12, 2020 10:37 PM (/UQ/R)

Yeah like he spent 24/7/365 in DC.

NOT

He was well liked and could have pulled off the part-time legislator until Nov. 2020. We've been without a congress critter since late last fall.

We get one now until the November election. Excuse me if I'm cold and callous.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (aA3+G)

218 The Grognard Civil War II Doomsday Clock is now at 23:55:00

Unlike the Atomic Scientists, I think that pausing the clock in the last 10 seconds of the hour for years on end is disingenuous.

Posted by: grognard at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (sb+Cg)

219 209 Can they paint? How are they with power tools?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM

You planning on renting them out to ace?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2020 10:40 PM (DMUuz)

Maybe. There's always a buck to be made.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (9oAtN)

220 My takeaway from that is ultra liberal Washington is ahead of Michigan in reopening the economy.

Washington is actually allowing a number of rural counties to partially reopen.

Apparently Inslee doesn't believe, as Gruppenfuhrer Whitmer does, that the Upper Peninsula needs to be punished if there are a lot of CCP virus cases in Detroit.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (I2/tG)

221 Here, fill this water bottle.

Posted by: Dr. Fauci at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (EgshT)

222 209 Can they paint? How are they with power tools?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM

You planning on renting them out to ace?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2020 10:40 PM (DMUuz)

Ahem. It's called "subcontracting."

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (NWiLs)

223 EXACTLY according to plan.

Posted by: Chinese overlords and their Xi-NN tools at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (sy5kK)

Seems to me that a little blue-line revolt might be in order instead of "just following orders to collect my public-bankrupting pension"

Posted by: grognard at May 12, 2020 10:43 PM (sb+Cg)

224 Barkeep! I'll have what the gentleman at #203 is having...

**Pours shot of Fernet Branca into USB port**

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2020 10:43 PM (jlCAJ)

225 Hrothgar....nice day and lots of work. Unfortunately, we share an office suite with another and they have the thermostat. Had to wear a winter coat all day and have the heater turned on

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 12, 2020 10:43 PM (/UQ/R)

226 205 >>>Can they paint? How are they with power tools?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at

Well, f*ck me twice. You get free labor and the wife gets the dog. Boy this night went shit-sideways me damn quick.
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 10:39 PM (rKsgt)

Do you have a lawnmower?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 10:43 PM (9oAtN)

227 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (aA3+G)

Well, consider my situation. I'm "represented" by Supreme Solar Allah's momma.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:44 PM (HabA/)

228 You can always tell when Captain Bill Kristol is drunk tweeting......or maybe not. Come to think of it... is there a difference?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 12, 2020 10:44 PM (9dzlp)

229 Seems to me that a little blue-line revolt might be in order instead of "just following orders to collect my public-bankrupting pension"

Police unions need to follow the lead of the Houston police union and announce that their members aren't going to enforce illegal orders.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 10:44 PM (I2/tG)

230 NSFW - LANGUAGE VIDEO LINK Law and order, slowly but surely, is losing the support of "the good guys".

They hadn't exactly been covering themselves in glory before this fascist panic-based in-your-face police state bullshit started.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 12, 2020 10:44 PM (NWiLs)

231 Maybe they shit on the ground, and then used a twig broken off a tree to push the turd into the water bottle?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 10:24 PM (LZcDP)

-----

Wouldn't a cat hole be easier?
Or how about plastic bags like you use for your doggie?
Although I would want more than a single layer of plastic.

Posted by: rd at May 12, 2020 10:44 PM (+0uDE)

232 ..I knew this girl once about 40 years ago had crabs. Will CDC be talking with her? Cause I'd rather they not stir up old problems.

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2020 10:38 PM (XhWtx)

*Mike Rowe voice*

"..and now, on this episode of Deadliest Snatch. Crab fishing, the most dangerous of Man's pursuits."

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 12, 2020 10:44 PM (QzJWU)

233 Just read all that crap re Judge Sullivan. This is what you get with a democrat government - you're fucked both coming and going. They play fast and loose with the laws to get you convicted, then suddenly become sticklers for law and procedure to keep you there.

Posted by: Clint S at May 12, 2020 10:45 PM (avagT)

234 I went to Safeway. It may be my last trip. Signs outside limiting occupancy to something like 368. Directional arrows on the floor. I did get a few rolls of Charmin but could only get one pack.

But I wish someone would sue about disability parking. I had to walk from the other end of the store to get to my truck, because you could only go in one door and out the other. Sort of negates the point of handicapped parking.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 12, 2020 10:45 PM (Lqy/e)

235
Well, good night, Hordians. Her Majesty and I are taking six dogs (in two batches) to the vet tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2020 10:46 PM (mht8P)

236 These store contact tracing things are stupid. They could just cut a deal with Lifelock and the cc companies to provide notification alerts. "please notify everyone that was in location X on date Y" Boom, done. And churches. I think churches can just blast notify every congregant if they get a notice that member Jane Doe has tested positive for the 'rona. Having the government pay people to do contacting guarantees poor results for big bucks aside from the ick, big brother knowing every place I've been.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 12, 2020 10:46 PM (T9Hmo)

237 227 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (aA3+G)

Well, consider my situation. I'm "represented" by Supreme Solar Allah's momma.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:44 PM (HabA/)

She's a real go-getter isn't she? Bred like a rat.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:46 PM (aA3+G)

238
How do you shit in a water bottle. I never learned that trick.

Posted by: hogmartin

**********

The hardest part is getting your hiking companion to hold the darned thing steady.Posted by: Muldoon

That's what the threaded opening is for.

Posted by: butch at May 12, 2020 10:47 PM (hXu8T)

239 Having the government pay people to do contacting
guarantees poor results for big bucks aside from the ick, big brother
knowing every place I've been.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 12, 2020 10:46 PM (T9Hmo)

Also guarantees a data breach in the near future as well.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 12, 2020 10:47 PM (CcOog)

240 I knew this girl once about 40 years ago had crabs.

Occupational hazard.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 12, 2020 10:47 PM (EgshT)

241 212 192 141 Homeschooling parents should have a boy at that age, doing field strips and reassembly drills on every weapons system in the house.

Jim is tough, but fair.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 12, 2020 10:36 PM (Z4rgH)

You will not like Jim, but the more you hate Jim, the more you will learn!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (ejsiI)

Thing is, that Jim-trained boy will be an asset NOT a liability in the burning times which most assuredly are coming round the bend!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:47 PM (jnM20)

242 Watching the kayak video reminds me that a person can only "Bear!" so much.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 10:48 PM (Fc5rx)

243 232 ..I knew this girl once about 40 years ago had crabs. Will CDC be talking with her? Cause I'd rather they not stir up old problems.

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2020 10:38 PM (XhWtx)

*Mike Rowe voice*

"..and now, on this episode of Deadliest Snatch. Crab fishing, the most dangerous of Man's pursuits."

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 12, 2020 10:44 PM (QzJWU)

Why does it hurt when I pee?

Posted by: Joe from Joe's Garage at May 12, 2020 10:48 PM (aA3+G)

244 Mitt Romney
45s

While Americans across this great nation remain sheltered in place and under lockdown , the president is getting caught up with settling scores with the previous administration and exchanging barbs with members of the media While sparring with the press may seem to this president to be fine sport, such diversion won't hide the fact that this administration was caught flat-footed and under prepared for this Covid-19 pandemic.
In the future, we should take steps to ensure that this won't occur again and I would advise this president to keep his eye on the ball and disengage from petty partisan squabbles.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 10:48 PM (o1fzk)

245 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (aA3+G)

Is anyone primarying Tiffany Haddish in November?

Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2020 10:49 PM (9UmRs)

246 Ah say boy ah say boy, that article about NJ citizens being able to shit in a water bottle, ah say boy, ain't that the truth.
Ima bettin theysa mighty proud, too.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at May 12, 2020 10:49 PM (6hLK2)

247 Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 12, 2020 10:46 PM (T9Hmo)

....

Weaponize that contract tracing stuff. Lie and tell them every liberal business in town.

"Where have you been today sir?"

"Starbuck's. Like three different ones."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2020 10:50 PM (jlCAJ)

248 big brother knowing every place I've been.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 12, 2020 10:46 PM (T9Hmo)

Comrade citizen, we would never abuse our comprehensive data bases, we have a sacred duty to act only in the best interests of the citizens...

as we define best interests.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:50 PM (jnM20)

249 wtf is Romney's problem

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:50 PM (iTXRQ)

250 JimNSD @ 232- It ain't the crabs. It's the shave, the kerosene, and the fire.

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2020 10:50 PM (XhWtx)

251 134 pooping in the field can be problematic
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:25 PM (iTXRQ)

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MRE bag, ftw.

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2020 10:50 PM (RU4sa)

252 Ok MH.....he was a good rep. Funny, I remember many years back when he and his wife Rachel met on MTV

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 12, 2020 10:51 PM (/UQ/R)

253 Oh, JoeF.!

Posted by: filbert at May 12, 2020 10:51 PM (NiXyF)

254 200 On Monday night, Gov. Jay Inslee released a list of detailed guidelines that restaurants must adopt before resuming dine-in services during "phase two" of Washington's reopening plan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

My takeaway from that is ultra liberal Washington is ahead of Michigan in reopening the economy.
*nerdygirl mumbles something about that bitch in Lansing*
-------------------

In my WA state, Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks corporate, and any other big corporate name that is based here have never closed. Keep them working and paid!

All are led by bigtime Democrat supporters.

All Gubbermint workers, many of which are doing nothing, are still getting paid. That includes everyone that is around Guv Jay Insless.

No, only small businesses have been locked down and told to starve.

And phone calls to Olympia are ignored.

F*ck you, peasants, say Jay's human tools.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 10:51 PM (sy5kK)

255 The kayak probably smells of fish.

A lot of bleach or ammonia after the last use would correct that problem.

Loud noises like 12 gauge slugs being fired in the direction of the the bear may frighten it also.

Posted by: rd at May 12, 2020 10:51 PM (+0uDE)

256 MRE bag, ftw.

There's a certain symmetry there.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (7s3Gx)

257 Just watching Waco on Netflix. The FBI/ATF is not getting a lot of good press these days on multiple fronts. In fact law enforcement all over is not looking too good. They cal I'll afford to lose the support of those who have been staunchly behind them for a long time.

Not a good situation

Posted by: Pete Seria at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (sJi+I)

258 Regarding the contact tracing, are the restaurant employees supposed to check your ID and copy the info? Hell, that's more info than you have to provide in order to vote!

Everybody should give a fake name, like Carlos Danger or Pierre DeLoser or Sandra Flook.

Posted by: Boots at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (oGBso)

259 249. Ahem, that is a JoeF post. probably a good impersonation of something Romney would tweet but not an actual tweet.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (T9Hmo)

260 1 85 Mis Hum you mad at Duffy or Tiffany.?
Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2020 10:16 PM (lwiT4)

Duffy didn't have to leave early.
He could have stuck it out until Nov.
Tiffany is a light weight.

He'll fit in well in the swamp.
Right next to that swamp weasel Gallagher of Green Bay
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:22 PM (aA3+G)
************
Sean Duffy and his wife have such a wonderful family and maybe with the birth of his newborn daughter who has Down Syndrome and heart issues he panicked and made a hasty decision.

Really sad, but even if he held off till November wouldn't Tiffany have run after November?

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (wiXsO)

261 Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 10:48 PM (o1fzk)

I regret my vote for Mittens so much.

In fairness, none of us realized what a viper he was.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (HabA/)

262 Ugh. Safeway - an exercise in stupidity. Here in Scottsdale our local Safeway has closed three entry/exit doors in favor of funneling EVERYONE coming and going into ONE set of sliding doors. So rather than allowing customers to get in and out spread out, we are forced to pass each other within a foot or less, bumping into each ot hgv er as people suddenly appear from nowhere at blind corners, etc. Society - Dumb

Posted by: Clint S at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (avagT)

263 I shit in the toilet and then submerge the bottle. Poop sucks right on down.

Posted by: Jersey Joe Walcott at May 12, 2020 10:53 PM (6hLK2)

264 22
With 67% of the vote in, Tiffany up by 15%...

https://tinyurl.com/yb4p5xtp

Posted by: davidt at May 12, 2020 10:05 PM (l3+k2)
Had to check to make sure you weren't talking about BBF at The Hostages.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2020 10:53 PM (CPk08)

265
How do you shit in a water bottle. I never learned that trick.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (t+qrx)

But I thought you went to Harvard.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 10:53 PM (sy5kK)

266 Someone mentioned me? I felt my nether regions burning.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 12, 2020 10:53 PM (EgshT)

267 245 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:42 PM (aA3+G)

Is anyone primarying Tiffany Haddish in November?
Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2020 10:49 PM (9UmRs)

Nope,
He was just elected to fill Duffy's seat.
He won a primary back in Feb.

Nov is for a 2 year seat
Not sure who or what the Dems will throw at him

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 10:53 PM (aA3+G)

268 Had a good day today. I got the windshield wiper motor back in the poor wretched Panhard. Had to build hubs for the wiper arm spindles, but got 'er done. The motor runs, very quietly too, and the spindle hubs do their quarter-turn gyrations.

Then I decided to do some outdoor stuff, as it was warming up a little. Picked up a little Homelite XL Mini chainsaw, fueled it, and it started right up. got part way through a tree I wanted to fell, but it kept running out of fuel at wide-open throttle. Needs a carb kit, and maybe a fuel pickup hose. Damned gasohol! OK, let's try the Homelite XL12. It started right right up, but ignition kept cutting in and out, and I could not get the manual pump chain oiler to work. Put that one away, too. Picked up the ancient Skil chainsaw that I have owned for 40 years; and damn! There's a hole in the fuel filler cap. Something struck the cap on the outside, and made a small hole, and spalled off a big flake on the inside. Going to need some JB Weld for that; the cap is bakelite.

So, I picked up the newest pony in the corral, a little John Deere saw, made by Kioritz in Japan. I had done the fuel lines on it last Fall. It started right up, and kept running smoothly, and I finished falling the first tree with it, but it was not cutting good chips, although the cutter teeth were sharp. The rakers needed to be taken down. So I got my little Dremel tool, and ground each raker tooth down a little, and that did the trick.

On to the next tree. This one had chafed through the bare ground wire of the twisted pair feeding juice to my barn. Barn lights would light, weakly, with the ground return through, well, the ground. I threw the breaker, and de-energized the line, and put a ladder up the pole (only ten feet), and clipped through the hot wire, and let the cable fall away. That enabled me to cut the offending tree at about chest level, while standing on the ground, instead of trying to lop limbs off while up a ladder. The tree dropped real nice, and I cut some limbs off it. There was one more leaner, and I dropped it, too, since the warmed-up chainsaw was in my hand. One remaining tree has some limbs that should be lopped, but I will wait until I can have a spotter to steady the ladder for me.

Now I have a bunch of Manitoba Maple on the ground to buck up. The trunks could be firewood, I guess, but the limbs will go on the burn pile. And now I can splice the line, and have good lights in my barn again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 10:54 PM (LZcDP)

269 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (ejsiI)

Thing is, that Jim-trained boy will be an asset NOT a liability in the burning times which most assuredly are coming round the bend!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:47 PM (jnM20)

Absolutely!

And if The Burning Times ARE averted?

Jim-trained boy is going to simultaneously make CATM proud and piss them off.

"Now, as we take apart the M4, please do NOT get ahead of us --"

(notes an Airman who has already broken down his M4 perfectly)

"Damnit, there's always one out there..."

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 10:54 PM (ejsiI)

270 There are things, you see, they have a large opening and then gravity pulls whatever is in that opening in to a small aperture.

Funnels.

Posted by: attilla the thrilla at May 12, 2020 10:55 PM (w7KSn)

271 Homeschool Project: Match the lids.

... and that little boy was me.

Seriously I have been known to throw out perfectly good containers just to have everything matchy-matchy. Buy that shit, that shit is cheap. It is worth your labor and your effort, you cheap fuck.

I have a big set of 20 cheap containers that warp and shrink in the dishwasher. They will be replaced, and I will have a totally compatible set. Matchy Matchy because I am not a fucking bum.

I bet my parents have 20 types like the photo here. It means you have given up control of your life. This is actually pissing me off.

Posted by: BourbonChicken with a Face Colander at May 12, 2020 10:55 PM (LxTcq)

272 How do you shit in a water bottle. I never learned that trick.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (t+qrx)

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Cut the top off.

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2020 10:55 PM (RU4sa)

273 You pic is the new norm planned for us:

Sustainably freezing to death but we can see the Milky Way.

Posted by: Ripley at May 12, 2020 10:55 PM (sGobE)

274 117 President Trump has to self-quarantine due to possible exposure to coronavirus, can't fulfill duties of presidency in quarantine, steps down.
* VP Pence has to self-quarantine, can't fulfill duties of vice presidency, steps down.
* President Pelosi.

I think Trump should show his contempt for this shit by flying off to Florida to golf at the golf course that he owns.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 10:55 PM (+lVUW)

275 I'm really enjoying the way some of our local bars are dealing with the "Phase 1 Opening" rules in Tennessee.

I've snapped a few pictures and thought about writing a little essay describing what they are doing to submit to CBD for the Food Thread, but I know they like to keep the COVID talk out of the specialty threads.

Still, some of it is pretty funny, in my opinion.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 12, 2020 10:55 PM (jlCAJ)

276 So how much is a lid these days?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 12, 2020 10:02 PM

---
my buddy grows, so i get a Mason jar full, for free, if i want it.

with an FFL, etc, i'm not indulging.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (mn7hj)

277 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 10:54 PM (LZcDP)

A day well-spent!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - YOU are all in it together! - at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (jnM20)

278 I don't think any congressman really matters. We can't fix what's wrong with this country through the government at this point. It's hopelessly compromised and self-serving. A majority of the electorate or close to it is in the bread and circuses phase of a republic. You can't vote your way out of this mess.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (H5knJ)

279 249 wtf is Romney's problem
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:50 PM (iTXRQ)

Dunno, but my first guess, for people who are crazy Left, or kissing the Crazy Left's butt, is always Daddy issues.

Posted by: Splunge at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (dOV9E)

280 Seeing the galaxy makes me feel huge and significant.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Clown Prince of Dumbness

I've seen the Milky Way two or three times.

The idea that the Universe is an accident seems silly.

Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (Qf83p)

281 259 249. Ahem, that is a JoeF post. probably a good impersonation of something Romney would tweet but not an actual tweet.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (T9Hmo)

JoeF. Romney posts are almost as good as Tom Schillue's Senile Joe and Adam Schiff's parodies on Greg Gutfeld.

To be fair, Schillue has the visual power of TV, JoeF has Pixie.

Which really isn't fair at all.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (sy5kK)

282 wtf is Romney's problem
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 10:50 PM (iTXRQ)
*********
45s/ JoeF should be the clue it's not from Romney, although JoeF has him pegged.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (wiXsO)

283 >>> 164 156 Debbie Gibson blossomed into quite the MILF.
Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (Qf83p)

-------------------------------

Last I saw her (in a cheesy SyFy movie with Tiffany as a matter of fact), she was looking kinda skeletal. Hopefully, that was just a temporary thing.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (CAJOC)

Umm....
https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Mega_Python_vs._Gatoroid

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (0ReGO)

284 Horst Wessel lied!

Posted by: Gov. Jay Inslee at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (EgshT)

285 For future reference if contact info is required at any Washington fine dining establishment or any other absurd pronouncement yet to be established:

Name: Jay Inslee
Phone no.: 360-902-4111
Email address: Gov.Inslee@wa.gov

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (Pbow6)

286 244 Mitt Romney
45s
While Americans across this great nation remain sheltered in place and under lockdown , I HAVE OBAMA'S COCK IN MY MOUTH AND SCHUMER'S DICK IN MY ASS. I HATE AMERICA AND AMERICANS WHO VOTED FOR BADORANGEMAN. WE HAVE SCORES TO SETTLE WITH THEM. WE SHOULD TAKE GOOSE STEPS TO ENSURE A DEMOCRAT PARTY PRESIDENT FOR LIFE FOR EVER.

Posted by: mitty mitty mitty at May 12, 2020 10:57 PM (zTLB9)

287 262 Ugh. Safeway - an exercise in stupidity. Here in Scottsdale our local Safeway has closed three entry/exit doors in favor of funneling EVERYONE coming and going into ONE set of sliding doors. So rather than allowing customers to get in and out spread out, we are forced to pass each other within a foot or less, bumping into each ot hgv er as people suddenly appear from nowhere at blind corners, etc. Society - Dumb
Posted by: Clint S at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (avagT)

They're doing that here too.

Another stupidity: The Blob That Ate Chicago made a rule that while the peons can take their motorboats on the lake, only 2 people on a boat at one time are allowed. So if you're a couple with 2 kids? Nope, sorry only 2. The family shares the same house, but will get the magical Wuhan flu if they get on a boat together.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:57 PM (HabA/)

288
I've seen the Milky Way two or three times.

The idea that the Universe is an accident seems silly.

Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (Qf83p)To be fair, it thinks that anyone who thinks it is working with a plan doesn't know half the shit that goes down. I mean, it's just trying to get by.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2020 10:57 PM (CPk08)

289 Thanks for the Steve Winwood clip. Incredible.

His voice is transcendant.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2020 10:58 PM (EZebt)

290 > "We understand that the restrooms and public restrooms are closed but people should plan accordingly," he added.

Maybe you should "plan accordingly" by opening the fucking restrooms.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 12, 2020 10:58 PM (mNq/0)

291 283 >>> 164 156 Debbie Gibson blossomed into quite the MILF.
Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:27 PM (Qf83p)

-------------------------------

Last I saw her (in a cheesy SyFy movie with Tiffany as a matter of fact), she was looking kinda skeletal. Hopefully, that was just a temporary thing.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 12, 2020 10:29 PM (CAJOC)

Umm....
https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Mega_Python_vs._Gatoroid
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (0ReGO)

-------------------------

That's the one.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 12, 2020 10:59 PM (CAJOC)

292 A lawsuit is brewing in Oregon - some conservative churches, businesses, and local officials in Eastern Oregon have noticed that the Governor can only declare a state of emergency for thirty days. The thirty days expired on April 7th, so the lawsuit notes that the Governor needs to get legislative approval for her orders.

Of course, Democrats in the legislature desperately don't want to have to approve the Governor's policies, since the Governor intends to continue the lockdown for at least the rest of the summer, and the voters will be mighty POed once the November elections come around.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 10:59 PM (I2/tG)

293 I regret my vote for Mittens so much.

In fairness, none of us realized what a viper he was.

***

Not to be that guy....but....I told y'all he was a corporatist ass in 2012 and to not vote for him.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:00 PM (WdocV)

294 Seems to me that those parkgoers did plan accordingly.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2020 11:00 PM (H5knJ)

295
Maybe you should "plan accordingly" by opening the fucking restrooms.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 12, 2020 10:58 PM (mNq/0)

I dunno. I'm pretty sure that he actually wants people to package up their poop and urine and send it to him in the mail. We should oblige.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2020 11:00 PM (CPk08)

296 Well, good night, Hordians. Her Majesty and I are taking six dogs (in two batches) to the vet tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2020 10:46 PM (mht8P)

phrasing.

Serious, puppy blender phrasing.

Ah well.

Posted by: Adriane the Media Panic Critic ... at May 12, 2020 11:00 PM (LPnfS)

297 Mr. Hiker: Here's the trailhead, Honey. Do you want to take Upper Trout Lake Trail #1 or Upper Trout Lake Trail #2.

Mrs. Hiker: I didn't go before left the house, we'd better do both.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 11:01 PM (Fc5rx)

298 Gatoroid > Haemorrhoid?

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 12, 2020 11:01 PM (7WaWV)

299 Another stupidity: The Blob That Ate Chicago made a rule that while the peons can take their motorboats on the lake, only 2 people on a boat at one time are allowed. So if you're a couple with 2 kids? Nope, sorry only 2. The family shares the same house, but will get the magical Wuhan flu if they get on a boat together.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 10:57 PM (HabA/)
-----------------------------------

That fat slob who's wasting my oxygen has several boats up on Lake Geneva, very large (of course) expensive boats. Whaddya wanna bet he puts his entire fat family into the boat when he feels like it?

Posted by: Boots at May 12, 2020 11:01 PM (oGBso)

300 "although JoeF. has him pegged."

PHRASING!

Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 11:01 PM (o1fzk)

301 I've seen the Milky Way two or three times.
Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (Qf83p)

I see it pretty much daily, but I live there.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 12, 2020 11:01 PM (t+qrx)

302 We'll collect $25 million in legal fees, and you get a $25 off coupon on your next purchase from the evil corporation that we sued!

Such a deal!
Posted by: Class Action Lawyers!

That's not an exaggeration. There have been something like 4 or 5 class action suits that I benefited from that I never asked to be brought. One memorable suit was brought against Apple. Know what I got? A cheap ass set of earbuds. I already have at least 5 sets of earbuds laying around, so, yea. There were a couple that I got something like $20 from.

These class action suits are like business taxes, it's the consumers who pay them.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 11:01 PM (+lVUW)

303 The left in the 40s: The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.

Then left in the 20s: THE VIRUS IS DEATH.

Note in the 40s Europe and Japan were doing their damnedest to find ways to kill us.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:02 PM (WdocV)

304 Andromeda rulez.

Milky Way droolz.

Posted by: eleven at May 12, 2020 11:02 PM (Qf83p)

305 Winwood and Clapton are always great together.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 11:02 PM (o1fzk)

306

Statistics.

Damn Lies.

For two months now, we hear of "how many died". We do not hear "how many got over Chinavirus and are fine".

Because that would immediately prove this virus to be what it is, an attack on the US economic system, and the following failure of many elected officials to follow their oath of office "to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and my State of ______"

Total failures.

See: Blue Coast communist ass-eating Guvnors.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:03 PM (sy5kK)

307 You can't vote your way out of this mess.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (H5knJ)

===

Voting hasn't mattered in my CD for at least 20 years.

How many times did California vote against benefits for illegals? Got that, voting rights, and 20,000,000 more.
Against gay marriage? Got that too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2020 11:03 PM (EZebt)

308 The feel-good story --- that girl shows us what people who genuinely care may do.
And it ain't playing neighborhood nanny and snitch.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 12, 2020 11:03 PM (M/9m0)

309 Bear @ 278 - We are rapidly moving out of Claire Wolfe's awkward phase.

Posted by: butch at May 12, 2020 11:03 PM (hXu8T)

310 >>> Thanks for the Steve Winwood clip. Incredible.

His voice is transcendant.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Someone has a cover of Winwood's Higher Love out now on top 40 (don't judge. I have teens, well, until Alabama inherits 'em) It's not bad, but I like that it reminds me of his version. Makes me appreciate it more.

Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 11:03 PM (rKsgt)

311 Cut the top off.
Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2020 10:55 PM

Voice of experience, right here.

Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2020 11:03 PM (9UmRs)

312 Andromeda rulez.

___

You know it!

Posted by: Trance Gemini at May 12, 2020 11:03 PM (WdocV)

313 >Not to be that guy....but....I told y'all he was a corporatist ass in 2012 and to not vote for him.

just wanted to cancel my mother's other son's 0bama vote

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 11:04 PM (iTXRQ)

314 15 If it wasn't for the fact that I hate the cold, I could see myself lying on my back watching the stars.

With some Vaughan Williams playing somewhere.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2020 10:04 PM (2JVJo)

*****

Off topic, and apropos of nothing, can you explain your nic and how it came about?

I suspect there is an interesting story, or pun, or inventive word play behind it.

Thanks.

Posted by: El Jefe at May 12, 2020 11:04 PM (Ae67h)

315 YO! Late. Was watching dumb tv. Then read post.

Immediate thoughts:

Duct Tape Plane - Fantastic work

Bear please stop -- Watched the whole thing, for the first time in a long time. Breathless from laughter.

You f'ing sprayed me in the face, Karen!!!

Karen just needed duct tape.

If I post this now, it will interrupt playing Can't Find My Way Home

the choice meme.
Button 1: Post comment, interrupt song
Button 2: Delay posting
Spaceman sweats

Hit button 2.

Posted by: mindful webworker - radically inclined
at May 12, 2020 11:04 PM (ATv6t)

316 my buddy grows, so i get a Mason jar full, for free, if i want it. with an FFL, etc, i'm not indulging.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 12, 2020 10:56 PM (mn7hj)

Visiting a gun store just before the "assault ban" buying rush, SOMEBODY in line had teh strong skunky medicine on them. Uniformed cop in line giving serious looks at a few people. Strange times.

Posted by: getting the cab calloway banned back together doing "reefer man" at May 12, 2020 11:04 PM (zTLB9)

317 Mabe Galor on the Flynn situation...
https://twitter.com/physicsgeek/status/
1260325640345133059

Posted by: andycanuck at May 12, 2020 11:04 PM (TQ/zJ)

318 Speaking of female celebrities who are skeletal, how bout that Celine Dion? She looks like death warmed over as my grandma used to say.

Posted by: Boots at May 12, 2020 11:05 PM (oGBso)

319 Blue Coast communist ass-eating Guvnors.

Do they prefer Sriracha, Frank's Hot Sauce, or Tabasco sauce when they eat their Chinese ass?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:05 PM (sy5kK)

320 These class action suits are like business taxes, it's the consumers who pay them.

I used to play poker with a hardcore Leftist corporate securities lawyer, and even he refused to do class action lawsuits.

He had the quaint belief that if he won a case, his clients should enjoy some significant material benefit from his victory.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:06 PM (I2/tG)

321 Well, here is a cheerful article for all of you who need cheering up.

"Trump's Methodical Destruction of Obama's Legacy."

https://tinyurl.com/y7e6jxa8

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:06 PM (HabA/)

322 We are rapidly moving out of Claire Wolfe's awkward phase.
***

Back when she had most of her success government over reach was nothing compared to what it is now.

Imagine trying to convince someone in the early 90s that the government would claim the right to sentence most of the population to house arrest with no trial because of a flu.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:06 PM (WdocV)

323 318
Speaking of female celebrities who are skeletal, how bout that Celine
Dion? She looks like death warmed over as my grandma used to say.

Posted by: Boots at May 12, 2020 11:05 PM (oGBso)
There used to be a Canadian magazine that called her "Alien Stick Insect".

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2020 11:06 PM (CPk08)

324
Fuck CVS with a rusty chainsaw attachment on AR-15. Sideways. And coated with Coronavirus.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 12, 2020 11:07 PM (rCwaK)

325 This WuFlu really brought the commies out of the woodwork, eh?

Posted by: Gov. Jay Inslee at May 12, 2020 11:07 PM (EgshT)

326 244 Mitt Romney
45s

While Americans across this great nation remain sheltered in place and under lockdown , the president is getting caught up with settling scores with the previous administration and exchanging barbs with members of the media While sparring with the press may seem to this president to be fine sport, such diversion won't hide the fact that this administration was caught flat-footed and under prepared for this Covid-19 pandemic.
In the future, we should take steps to ensure that this won't occur again and I would advise this president to keep his eye on the ball and disengage from petty partisan squabbles.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 10:48 PM (o1fzk)

Just shut up, Mitt, and join the Socialist Party. You know you want to.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 11:07 PM (ejsiI)

327 Such a natural for a soda pop jingle, " Bring me a Hires, love".

Posted by: root beer banned at May 12, 2020 11:08 PM (zTLB9)

328 Just trying to stay irrelevant here, folks.

Posted by: Mittens Rombley at May 12, 2020 11:09 PM (EgshT)

329 Fuck CVS with a rusty chainsaw attachment on AR-15. Sideways. And coated with Coronavirus.

***

Or you could just hang them with their own 9 foot long receipts.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:09 PM (WdocV)

330 El Jefe to MP4: "can you explain your nic and how it came about?
I suspect there is an interesting story, or pun, or inventive word play behind it."

I asked once. There wasn't.

Posted by: mindful webworker - radically inclined
at May 12, 2020 11:09 PM (ATv6t)

331 This WuFlu really brought the commies out of the woodwork, eh?

They have big plans. Once they've established the framework for tracking everyone's movements, then they can start imposing restrictions on auto use and a host of other things that they don't approve of.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:09 PM (I2/tG)

332 Did I miss something on CVS?

Posted by: Boots at May 12, 2020 11:09 PM (oGBso)

333 318 Speaking of female celebrities who are skeletal, how bout that Celine Dion? She looks like death warmed over as my grandma used to say.

Posted by: Boots at May 12, 2020 11:05 PM (oGBso)

The fact that she recorded albums that were sold in the United States and that her songs are played on American airwaves is a sufficient casus belli, IMO. Maybe she's how Quebec gets back at the world for having failed separatist movements?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 11:09 PM (ejsiI)

334 Just trying to stay irrelevant here, folks.

___

Hey Mittens. What that mouth do?

Posted by: Xi Jinping at May 12, 2020 11:10 PM (WdocV)

335 I'm here in NJ and it's starting to feel like Chinese Whooping Cough Panic is petering out-- I see more cars on the road, less people masked than only a few days ago and I don't know--a subtle shift in attitud.
But off course King Murphy is dragging his feet. He's set up a Task Force--but no one knows who is on it or when they meet--meetings are not recorded --and all we have is vague talk of slow-walking phases.... Yeah, his poll numbers, inexplicably good,won't last.
Democrats always overdo it.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 11:10 PM (o1fzk)

336 319 Blue Coast communist ass-eating Guvnors.

Do they prefer Sriracha, Frank's Hot Sauce, or Tabasco sauce when they eat their Chinese ass?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:05 PM (sy5kK)

None. Just lots of RMBs.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 11:10 PM (ejsiI)

337 303 The left in the 40s: The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.

Then left in the 20s: THE VIRUS IS DEATH."

Actually, the left (FDR) said that in the '30's about the Depression, but your point is made.

There's an earlier one:

The left (Wilson) in the '10's: Spanish flu? What flu?

Wilson completely ignored the flu outbreak in Army camps and sent boatloads of infected men to Europe, where more men died in the trenches of the flu than were killed by the Krauts. The flu ravaged America and the world - and Wilson never once even made a public statement about it.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:10 PM (HabA/)

338 >> Or you could just hang them with their own 9 foot long receipts.

Or disembowel them, hang with their intestines, and stuff the empty abdominal cavity with wads of those 9' long receipts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 12, 2020 11:11 PM (rCwaK)

339 In these challenging times, I thank God that I found the AoSHQ.

Goodnight yall.

Posted by: freaked at May 12, 2020 11:11 PM (Tnijr)

340 Wow GOPs gonna win Throuples seat.

Posted by: Ha at May 12, 2020 11:12 PM (4Q1w7)

341 >>> The left (Wilson) in the '10's: Spanish flu? Wilson completely ignored the flu outbreak in Army camps and sent boatloads of infected men to Europe, where more men died in the trenches of the flu than were killed by the Krauts. The flu ravaged America and the world - and Wilson never once even made a public statement about it.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V

So, it did begin in Kansas?

Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 11:12 PM (rKsgt)

342 Mayor Lori Lightfoot criticized a Chicago church for reopening its

doors over the weekend, tweeting: "It doesn't matter who you are or what
you're doing. When you gather like this, you are putting yourself and

your loved ones in serious danger."

In other news
from Chicago, 72 people on a City bus were injured when the driver
slammed on the breaks to avoid hitting what was thought to be a large
dog, but later was shown to be a medium sized wharf rat.

Posted by: An Observation at May 12, 2020 11:12 PM (YFue0)

343 Perhaps she has a cancer or an eating disorder? Please don't waste a minute of life thinking ill of anyone that you do not know.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2020 11:12 PM (dT9VH)

344 The flu ravaged America and the world - and Wilson never once even made a public statement about it.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:10 PM (HabA/)
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Mrs. Wilson was too busy to be making public statements.

Posted by: Boots at May 12, 2020 11:12 PM (oGBso)

345 Outlook has flagged e-mails from Windows as spam. Idiots.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 12, 2020 11:13 PM (+0AKE)

346 There is a special place in the lowest ring of Hell. It is named "the Woodrow Wilson wing."

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2020 11:14 PM (dT9VH)

347 Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/y7zxq6cr

https://tinyurl.com/y7j9bzo8

https://tinyurl.com/y8g2zmvv

https://tinyurl.com/yc62ngne

https://tinyurl.com/y8b2lvtq

Posted by: kbdabear at May 12, 2020 11:14 PM (qAR6u)

348 Donald J. Trump
Big News: Tom Tiffany of the Great State of Wisconsin has just become Congressman Tom Tiffany. He will do a FANTASTIC job for the people of Wisconsin, and the United States. Congratulations!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 12, 2020 11:14 PM (TQ/zJ)

349 For two months now, we hear of "how many died". We do not hear "how many got over Chinavirus and are fine".

Here in NC roughly 9000 out of 15000 have recovered, about 550 have died and the rest are active cases. Or so I heard on the radio today.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 12, 2020 11:14 PM (CcOog)

350 I also think Trump is playing the game the right way--gently nudging the governors to start opening--SAFELY--and not calling any of them out by name--yet--because you know he thinks Cuomo, Wolf and Murphy are asshats.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 11:15 PM (o1fzk)

351 "...shown to be a medium sized wharf rat."
That was wise.
The rat could have taken out the bus.

Posted by: attilla the thrilla at May 12, 2020 11:15 PM (w7KSn)

352 320 These class action suits are like business taxes, it's the consumers who pay them.

I used to play poker with a hardcore Leftist corporate securities lawyer, and even he refused to do class action lawsuits.

He had the quaint belief that if he won a case, his clients should enjoy some significant material benefit from his victory.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:06 PM (I2/tG)

Class action lawyers are the scum de la scum of the attorney world.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 12, 2020 11:15 PM (NWiLs)

353 Perhaps she has a cancer or an eating disorder? Please don't waste a minute of life thinking ill of anyone that you do not know.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2020 11:12 PM (dT9VH)
--------------------

I'm fairly certain she is not ill, she is quite happy with how she looks. She dresses to emphasize her thinness. It could be an eating disorder, those who suffer see themselves as fat even when painfully thin, but she claims not.

Posted by: Boots at May 12, 2020 11:15 PM (oGBso)

354 A few miles away, in a shall we call it, a "spotty" neighborhood, there is a Safeway I went to last night, around 11pm.

Not going to call a quarter of the shoppers there gangbangers, but then again, I wouldn't want to find out. There have been shot-out windows in the past.

Anyway, hardly none of them were wearing masks. And none of them were being hassled.

There is a lesson there, somewhere.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:15 PM (sy5kK)

355 Then left in the 20s: THE VIRUS IS DEATH."

Obamacare, 2008: It is necessary to ration health care to old people, so that all young people can receive adequate medical care.

Democrats, 2020: We need to keep the country shut down, so long as people are continuing to die in nursing homes.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:15 PM (I2/tG)

356 Oh look. I am a hypocrite.

Public figures are an exception.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2020 11:15 PM (dT9VH)

357 The flu ravaged America and the world - and Wilson never once even made a public statement about it.
***

My memory is that the internal notes that came out later said he talked about it with his generals and they agreed that the deaths were worth it for advancing the war effort.

The Spanish Flu killed 1-6% of the world population. That would be 80M-480M deaths if it happened now.

There were some efforts to stop social gathering in response to it, but NOTHING like what we are doing now.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:16 PM (WdocV)

358 Been that guy. There are still a few good places to watch the skies at night: In the middle of the ocean after Darken Ship and on a tropical beach were best for me. Never really knew what the Milky Way was until I sat under the stars in the Pacific Ocean. Saw a moonbow on my last night in Hawaii (it was goodbye forever).
These days I relax and look into a campfire. The stars are still there, but trees are in the way.

Posted by: Cluebat at May 12, 2020 11:16 PM (S8ld5)

359 Garcia leading bigly in CA-25...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 12, 2020 11:16 PM (7WaWV)

360 GOP flipping blue seat in CA!

Posted by: Ha at May 12, 2020 11:16 PM (4Q1w7)

361 Has Catherine Herridge complained about out of context Chuck Todd bs?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2020 11:16 PM (PUmDY)

362 If it wasn't for the fact that I hate the cold, I could see myself lying on my back watching the stars.

With some Vaughan Williams playing somewhere.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
------

Periodically, I cue up this video of 'The Lark Ascending'. It's only stills of English countryside, which are pretty nice. Iona Brown playing the violin is, for me, the ultimate:

https://tinyurl.com/kuf4nux

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2020 11:17 PM (X22L5)

363 For two months now, we hear of "how many died". We do not hear "how many got over Chinavirus and are fine".

***

The antibody studies show that 10-20% of the population already had it, most experience no or mild symptoms.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:17 PM (WdocV)

364 And I think the obamagate declassifications and all are planned to peak at the most convenient political time....

Orange man not dumb.

Posted by: Pliney at May 12, 2020 11:17 PM (nzKWW)

365
There was a hell of a lot of statist shit that started under Woodrow Wilson. He started this business of govt. by experts and credentialism and all that shit.

Fuck his corpse with rusty chain saw attachment as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 12, 2020 11:17 PM (rCwaK)

366 The Spanish Flu virus is still alive in a lab somewhere.
Cue the overture.

Posted by: attilla the thrilla at May 12, 2020 11:17 PM (w7KSn)

367 354 - The law hassles the law-abiding. Gangbangers? There could be violence. Muslims? There will be violence. There's a lesson there, alright.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2020 11:17 PM (H5knJ)

368 335 I'm here in NJ and it's starting to feel like Chinese Whooping Cough Panic is petering out-- I see more cars on the road, less people masked than only a few days ago and I don't know--a subtle shift in attitud."

It's warming up. In cold-weather states, people might be content to sit on their asses and watch Netflix all day in March but damned if they're going to do it in May and June.

Another huge backfire - school closings for next fall. After 6 months around their kids 24/7, both parents and kids will be clamoring to get back to school. Many parents won't have childcare options and will be angry about that. Alternately, some families might be discovering that their kids are learning a lot more via homeschooling and might say, we don't need the government indoctrination camps - and they'll be much less inclined to vote for school tax increases.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:18 PM (HabA/)

369 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 12, 2020 11:17 PM (rCwaK)

He was truly one of our very worst presidents.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:19 PM (HabA/)

370 Woodrow Wilson was a racist fascist elitist asshole, but no countries involved in the then ongoing WW1 spoke of the Spanish Flu for fear it would lower morale at home.
That Wilson didn't speak of it was a feature not a bug.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 11:19 PM (o1fzk)

371 I wonder if Kayak girl ever figured out "ah, so THAT's what guns are for!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2020 11:19 PM (V2Yro)

372 I just read that if you sous vide your ground beef, you can enjoy safe e.coli-free burgers that are only cooked medium...

Posted by: qdpsteve at May 12, 2020 11:19 PM (L2ZTs)

373 Outlook has flagged e-mails from Windows as spam. Idiots.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 12, 2020 11:13 PM (+0AKE)

Who should know better?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 11:19 PM (LZcDP)

374 There were some efforts to stop social gathering in response to it, but NOTHING like what we are doing now.

During the Spanish Flu, Portland required what now would be called "social distancing" in restaurants and on streetcars, and banned large gatherings.

The idea that Portland would have tried to lock the population up would have been viewed as insane.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:19 PM (I2/tG)

375 ...we are forced to pass each other within a foot or less, bumping into each ot hgv er as people suddenly appear from nowhere at blind corners, etc.

Society - Dumb
Posted by: Clint S at May 12, 2020 10:52 PM (avagT)

This is my invention. The butt funnel!

Posted by: John Taffer at May 12, 2020 11:20 PM (dH/BH)

376 All over the country leftist mayors have been closing down churches while continuing to run City buses and trains. Tell me how to socially distance on a bus or in a rail car.

Posted by: An Observation at May 12, 2020 11:20 PM (YFue0)

377 More Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/y8dfbr6g

https://tinyurl.com/y9zjx477

https://tinyurl.com/ya85caqp

https://tinyurl.com/ybt2bqpo

https://tinyurl.com/yclodghp

Posted by: kbdabear at May 12, 2020 11:20 PM (qAR6u)

378

"Jack Hoff, table for 2!"

Posted by: WA and OR waitstaff, serving the next party up at May 12, 2020 11:21 PM (sy5kK)

379 376 All over the country leftist mayors have been closing down churches while continuing to run City buses and trains. Tell me how to socially distance on a bus or in a rail car.
Posted by: An Observation at May 12, 2020 11:20 PM (YFue0)

the same way that NYC does it for subways.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:22 PM (sy5kK)

380 I'm thinking it might be time for a little nap. I'll be back later though, I have to be up tonight so I can sleep tomorrow and work tomorrow night.

Later roonz and roonettez, fear no evil!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 12, 2020 11:23 PM (CcOog)

381 "My memory is that the internal notes that came out later said he talked about it with his generals and they agreed that the deaths were worth it for advancing the war effort."

"worth it"

The infected troops were first shipped over in March and April 1918. The war ended in November 1918.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:23 PM (HabA/)

382 The antibody studies show that 10-20% of the population already had it, most experience no or mild symptoms.

How on Earth do you contact tracing with a disease where most cases are asymptomatic?

Answer: you don't - demanding contract tracing is just an excuse to keep everything locked down.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:23 PM (I2/tG)

383 most spectacular night sky I have seen was way the hell out in Utah in a place called Cathedral Valley

moonless night, stars were like diamond dust on black velvet

the only place I've ever experienced starlight, which is a real thing in the right conditions

Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 12, 2020 11:24 PM (iTXRQ)

384 The flu ravaged America and the world - and Wilson never once even made a public statement about it.

In those days people died from all manner of communicable diseases, and that was just an everyday fact of life. Why would you focus on the flu when people around you are dying of syphilis, tuberculosis, staph infections, strep infections, tetanus, rubella, cholera, malaria, smallpox, and more?

Posted by: Ace's liver at May 12, 2020 11:24 PM (wGeit)

385 326 244 Mitt Romney
45s

While Americans across this great nation remain sheltered in place and under lockdown , the president is getting caught up with settling scores with the previous administration and exchanging barbs with members of the media While sparring with the press may seem to this president to be fine sport, such diversion won't hide the fact that this administration was caught flat-footed and under prepared for this Covid-19 pandemic.
In the future, we should take steps to ensure that this won't occur again and I would advise this president to keep his eye on the ball and disengage from petty partisan squabbles.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 10:48 PM (o1fzk)

Just shut up, Mitt, and join the Socialist Party. You know you want to.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

What I love about Trump is that he can dismantle Obama's legacy, mock the dirtbags in the press, and run the country, all at the same time.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 11:25 PM (+lVUW)

386 Just saw the video of the police confrontation.

The cops should be addressed that way. Too many cops hate us and hold us in contempt. It's about time people return them the favor.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2020 11:25 PM (ejsiI)

387 Ha> Wow GOPs gonna win Throuples seat.

THat would be nice.

___

Status report from NE Okla today. Went to town this evening. Grocery store was not very busy, but it was close to closing. Too many masks, as if as it's winding down folks are more masked - huh? Those people scare me.

My singing, alternately, "Don't stand so close to me" and "You're so far away from me" did not seem to affect many, but did get a big smile from a mom with two pre-teen kids, none of whom had masks! DAMNIT! I'm a free-lance street (or aisle) comedian. I can't see if I'm getting through if folks are wearing these mini-burkas!

At least Braum's (all beef and dairy products grown right here in Oklahoma) was majorly busy in the drive-through, nobody inside but it was late - the dining area has been open for a while. We ordered some burgers inside, to go. Everything, everyone, seemed absolutely as if none of the crap had happened. Sad that that's notable.

As I was leaving, I (in my annoying Moron way) was talking about how what the store needed was some stickers on the floor telling you which way to walk. I saw some 6'-apart small "distancing" circles stuck on the floor near the checkout. Oh, okay, there's some stickers. We're safe!

It is a good thing they don't let me out often.

Posted by: mindful webworker - radically inclined
at May 12, 2020 11:25 PM (ATv6t)

388 GOP flipping blue seat in CA!
Posted by: Ha at May 12, 2020 11:16 PM (4Q1w7)

Hark, is that the postman at the door?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 12, 2020 11:26 PM (jnM20)

389 JoeF

Is that Joey Fingers?
Speaking of which, with Joey Fingers having trouble keeping his hands off little girls, it might be a good time to rewatch the movie "Wag the Dog".

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 11:26 PM (+lVUW)

390 382 The antibody studies show that 10-20% of the population already had it, most experience no or mild symptoms.

How on Earth do you contact tracing with a disease where most cases are asymptomatic?

Answer: you don't - demanding contract tracing is just an excuse to keep everything locked down.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:23 PM (I2/tG)

There's no real point in doing contact tracing on a disease this communicable. There was a story yesterday about a guy in Korea who infected 20 strangers in one night of clubbing.

Posted by: Ace's liver at May 12, 2020 11:27 PM (wGeit)

391 Just watched that Plandemic short doc. Not quite sure how to take it. Seems like bunk but also not.

Weird though how massive the attempt to censor it is.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 11:27 PM (9oAtN)

392 I'm happy to say that finally NYC is a competitor in the' most piss and shit on the sidewalk' contest. Although my City by the Bay has fewer people we have a head start and have trained thousands to do their business on the sidewalks. Thank You all! Keep on pooping.

Posted by: Nanxi Pelosi at May 12, 2020 11:28 PM (Y274z)

393 She looks and sounds like she's trying to crap a large pine cone

Posted by: Lord Percy etc && at May 12, 2020 11:28 PM (OB4KJ)

394 370 Woodrow Wilson was a racist fascist elitist asshole, but no countries involved in the then ongoing WW1 spoke of the Spanish Flu for fear it would lower morale at home.
That Wilson didn't speak of it was a feature not a bug.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2020 11:19 PM (o1fzk)

Some interesting speculation in John Barry's book, "the Great Influenza", that the Spanish Flu was what wrecked the end of Wilson's Presidency, and the after effects killed him. He had traveled to the great Armistice conference at the end of 1918 in Europe, to press the US position for a United Nations, among other things. But halfway through the conference he fell ill due to a high fever and other flu like symptoms, and his participation fell off until he simply was returned to the US, having accomplished little.

He was said to have recovered, but from that point on he appears to have been in a semi-paralyzed, almost catatonic state. He made no big public appearances or speeches in the last 18 months of his Presidency, and it's widely believed that his wife and his top advisors were running everything while keeping him carefully hidden. He lived until February, 1924, but after that trip to Europe he was never more than a shadow of his former self.

Barry reported that this was documented among quite a few "survivors" of the Spanish Flu - many that recovered would only get to a very diminished and damaged level.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2020 11:28 PM (V2Yro)

395 So, it did begin in Kansas?
Posted by: Turn Two at May 12, 2020 11:12 PM (rKsgt)

I think there are different theories about where it originated. Kansas is one place.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:28 PM (HabA/)

396 While Americans across this great nation remain sheltered in place and under lockdown , the president is getting caught up with settling scores with the previous administration...

That's a pretty disingenuous description of the situation. The effort to unseat Trump by an entrenched bureaucracy is a much more serious issue in the long run than COVID-19.

Posted by: Ace's liver at May 12, 2020 11:29 PM (wGeit)

397 banned.video

for banned video....not Rule 34 stuff

Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2020 11:29 PM (Y274z)

398 Man, there are days when I wish I had the power to unleash the Moron Horde on some of the lefty assholes I have to deal with every day. I am forced to hold my tongue since I'm in the media and am supposed to be "impartial."

There's this one asshole -- I've dealt with him before, but today he was about to get on my last effing nerve. His basic schtick is to claim "conservatives are weak; they can't handle true freedom. Conservatives are cowards. Freedom is only for the strong."

And from that he somehow concludes that we need to raise taxes everywhere and institute mandatory single-payer health care and yadda yadda yadda. Socialism, basically, though he insists he's not a socialist. He says "I'm just a guy who understands the iron laws of economics."

Yeah, don't ask me to explain it -- I can't follow his pretzel logic, either. I dearly wish I could have brought you guys in and watched you tear the bark off him.

Thanks for being my refuge of sanity, guys.

Posted by: Ex-liberal at May 12, 2020 11:29 PM (R1mDg)

399 258 Regarding the contact tracing, are the restaurant employees supposed to check your ID and copy the info? Hell, that's more info than you have to provide in order to vote!

Damn, Boots, you are absolutely correct.

And also collect private information including your email address.

I can't even.............

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:30 PM (sy5kK)

400 There were some efforts to stop social gathering in response to it, but NOTHING like what we are doing now.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:16 PM (WdocV)

The diocese of Mobile (now the archdiocese of Mobile, the diocese of Birmingham in Alabama (and two others)) dispensed the requirement to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days during the pandemic.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 12, 2020 11:30 PM (qyH+l)

401 340 Wow GOPs gonna win Throuples seat.
Posted by: Ha at May 12, 2020 11:12 PM (4Q1w7)\\

You wish.

Posted by: Ballot Harvesting at May 12, 2020 11:31 PM (ejsiI)

402 CA seat if it beats the margin of fraud esp. after announcing the GOP vote count...
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/
1260408744019722240

Posted by: andycanuck at May 12, 2020 11:31 PM (TQ/zJ)

403 I used to play poker with a hardcore Leftist corporate securities lawyer, and even he refused to do class action lawsuits.

He had the quaint belief that if he won a case, his clients should enjoy some significant material benefit from his victory.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:06 PM (I2/tG)

someone explained to me the reason there are class action suits is because far too many lawyers realize that without them they wind up in a crappy strip mall defending DUII cases and restraining orders.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2020 11:32 PM (WyVLE)

404 The Flynn case is really how progs operate. No discretion for anybody but them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 12, 2020 11:32 PM (Eicbe)

405 At least Braum's (all beef and dairy products grown right here in Oklahoma) was majorly busy in the drive-through, nobody inside but it was late - the dining area has been open for a while."

my go-to favorite at the Braun's drive thru here - Hot Fudge Sundae with 2 scoops of Mint Chocolate Chip! Wife goes for the Frozen Yogurt Twist Cone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2020 11:32 PM (V2Yro)

406 Regarding the contact tracing, are the restaurant employees supposed to check your ID and copy the info?

Asking for people's names and addresses is designed to fail.

Then Inslee will have his excuse for unleashing Chinese-style surveillance on the population.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:33 PM (I2/tG)

407 An Observation: "In other news from Chicago, 72 people on a City bus were injured when the driver slammed on the breaks to avoid hitting what was thought to be a large dog, but later was shown to be a medium sized wharf rat."

Wow, I really miss living in Chicago, for stories like that. We just don't have stories like that 'round here.

And the mayors. We lived there from under Byrne and Washington - a brilliant political genius who would have been a Daley if he hadn't consumed two whole fried chicken a day. A couple of nobodies. Then Daley, Jr.

Big cities can be amazingly cool. They are Gotham when they're not.

Posted by: mindful webworker - radically inclined
at May 12, 2020 11:33 PM (ATv6t)

408
And from that he somehow concludes that we need to raise taxes everywhere and institute mandatory single-payer health care and yadda yadda yadda. Socialism, basically, though he insists he's not a socialist. He says "I'm just a guy who understands the iron laws of economics."

Yeah, don't ask me to explain it -- I can't follow his pretzel logic, either. I dearly wish I could have brought you guys in and watched you tear the bark off him.

Thanks for being my refuge of sanity, guys.
Posted by: Ex-liberal at May 12, 2020 11:29 PM (R1mDg)

So, he understands the iron laws of economics but he well and truly believes that the world of medicine is completely exempted from the laws of economics?

Posted by: Ballot Harvesting at May 12, 2020 11:33 PM (ejsiI)

409 I'm off for a nap. Expect my bladder will wake me up in a few hrs. See you then.

We had a nice ham steak, I'm looking forward to the leftovers. G' night Slap if you are around. Give me a call tomorrow night, if you feel like it.

Posted by: Farmer at May 12, 2020 11:33 PM (BPHer)

410 Another stupidity: The Blob That Ate Chicago made a rule that while the peons can take their motorboats on the lake, only 2 people on a boat at one time are allowed. So if you're a couple with 2 kids? Nope, sorry only 2. The family shares the same house, but will get the magical Wuhan flu if they get on a boat together.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V

Is the Blob the mayor of Chicago or the governor if Ill? The mayor of Chicago has been taking it up the butt because she got her hair done.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 11:33 PM (+lVUW)

411 Out Of Touch - Kevin James Short Film

https://tinyurl.com/ybah97ax

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2020 11:34 PM (RU4sa)

412 367 354 - The law hassles the law-abiding. Gangbangers? There could be violence. Muslims? There will be violence. There's a lesson there, alright.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2020 11:17 PM (H5knJ)

I thought there was.

And it doesn't like a good trend for those elected clowns that derive their power from a passive majority willing to blindly follow their orders.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:34 PM (sy5kK)

413 Well, the nets have worked to take down Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine.

Their page is gone and their Facebook page is predictably removed.

Auntie Fascism rages.

Posted by: Axeman at May 12, 2020 11:34 PM (Eicbe)

414 Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 11:33 PM (+lVUW)

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Mental image I could have done without.

Posted by: SMH at May 12, 2020 11:35 PM (RU4sa)

415 The mayor of Chicago has been taking it up the butt because she got her hair done.

Also because she got slapped down by some ghetto kid when she told him to stop playing basketball.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:35 PM (I2/tG)

416 Hopefully the bear tore out the stupid bitch's throat and made some family's lives much easier.

Posted by: DBCooper at May 12, 2020 11:36 PM (y1Mvi)

417 Wisconsin and California elections?

Posted by: Floridachick at May 12, 2020 11:36 PM (WImJc)

418 Just watched that Plandemic short doc. Not quite sure how to take it. Seems like bunk but also not.

Weird though how massive the attempt to censor it is.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 11:27 PM (9oAtN)

The censoring part tells you all you need to know.

Just remember, the only porn that is censored is the under 18 kind; everything else is wide open (pun intended). But when it comes to ideas, nope, can't have that. Cabal must control the approved narrative and shut everyone else up. Science has now been warped by that fucking narrative as guys who dress up like girls and play girls' sports and set records as 'girls' are to be called girls and the Twits and Farcebook and Gargle people will ban you for saying anything against that.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2020 11:37 PM (Y8PSl)

419 DBCooper, LOL.

"My wife's dead??!! Oh my God no!!! How will I go on, dealing with all this horrid... FREEDOM???!!???!!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at May 12, 2020 11:37 PM (L2ZTs)

420 If 2020 isn't a landslide historic victory for real conservative candidates, I may give up on this country for good.

People have gotten just a small taste of just how bad things can get with our governments.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 12, 2020 11:37 PM (9oAtN)

421 357 The flu ravaged America and the world - and Wilson never once even made a public statement about it.
***

As I attempted to convey above, Woodrow Wilson was basically a vegetable after December 1918, when the world was just starting to wake up to the severity of the Spanish Flu (1919 was actually the worst year of it) If there had been a 25th amendment at the time (it didn't pass until 1965) he would have been a candidate for it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2020 11:38 PM (V2Yro)

422 Just remember, the only porn that is censored is the
under 18 kind; everything else is wide open (pun intended). But when
it comes to ideas, nope, can't have that. Cabal must control the
approved narrative and shut everyone else up. Science has now been
warped by that fucking narrative as guys who dress up like girls and
play girls' sports and set records as 'girls' are to be called girls and
the Twits and Farcebook and Gargle people will ban you for saying
anything against that.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2020 11:37 PM (Y8PSl)
On the other hand, plandemic IS actually bullshit. Shouldn't be censored, I agree.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2020 11:38 PM (CPk08)

423 Just a reminder, after all of this COVID19 is in the rear view mirror, (if ever) and we are thinking we are done with it, there will be another Gigantic Scheduled Crisis.
Why?
Because there always is.
"Barak isn't going to let you go on living like you were"
Michelle O.
They want us dead.

Posted by: attilla the thrilla at May 12, 2020 11:38 PM (w7KSn)

424 337 303 The left in the 40s: The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.

Then left in the 20s: THE VIRUS IS DEATH."

Actually, the left (FDR) said that in the '30's about the Depression, but your point is made.

There's an earlier one:

The left (Wilson) in the '10's: Spanish flu? What flu?

Wilson completely ignored the flu outbreak in Army camps and sent boatloads of infected men to Europe, where more men died in the trenches of the flu than were killed by the Krauts. The flu ravaged America and the world - and Wilson never once even made a public statement about it.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:10 PM (HabA/)

So Wilson was the Obama of his day.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:39 PM (sy5kK)

425 419- qdpsteve
Exactly. I'd have some major relief over that..

Posted by: DBCooper at May 12, 2020 11:39 PM (y1Mvi)

426 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2020 11:28 PM (V2Yro)

There was a very interesting article posted on Quillette about a month ago about the political aftereffects of the Spanish flu. The author noted that governments worldwide swung to the right - we elected Harding, and the conservative parties won big in both the UK and France (he listed a bunch of other countries but I don't recall the specifics.)

Yes, of course the reaction to the slaughter of WWI was a big factor - but his point was that the flu didn't change trends that were already apparent, it intensified them. Both Americans and Euros were sick of Wilson-style "make the world safe for democracy" internationalism. Nationalism made a big comeback (in both good and bad ways, as in Japan).

The author said that global trends now are similar - nationalism, closed borders and a revulsion against globalism was growing before Wuhan flu (beginning with Brexit and Trump's election) and this will increase the trend. Note - the author is left-leaning. He wasn't happy about that at all. I found it reassuring, particularly coming from a lefty who was pointing out something he doesn't personally favor.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:40 PM (HabA/)

427 I think there are different theories about where it originated. Kansas is one place.
***

China is another. The Chinese government documented a flu outbreak before it was in Europe....sent laborer to the Allied countries....and then commented that the Spanish flu looked like the flu they had experienced as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:41 PM (WdocV)

428 Grandfather was named after Woodrow Wilson. My family is seeded with lefty asshats. The only veteran, was from my mother's side (1st cousin to Bonnie Parker). He jumped into france, and died in the '60s of type 2 diabetes.

Observation:
father's side lefty shit heads.
Mother's side: rebellious halfwits.

Given I'm a failed technical army warrant officer since I couldn't make cw3....I'm a chip off me mum's arse.

Fuck authority. Fuck dems. And fuck Barney Fife in particular.

Let's roll.

Posted by: BifBewalski - sinis est culus at May 12, 2020 11:41 PM (VcFUs)

429 Shhhhhhhh. Only as approved public opinions.

Posted by: Covidnacth at May 12, 2020 11:41 PM (9dzlp)

430 Helena...I sent you an email last week......did you get it?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 12, 2020 11:42 PM (/UQ/R)

431 So Wilson was the Obama of his day.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:39 PM (sy5kK)

The first Progressive President. Former president of Princeton with all the right creds and a great belief in "experts."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:42 PM (HabA/)

432 County adjacent to us has instituted mandatory face covering at all times when outside your home.

A county with 3 confirmed cases of COVID and zero deaths.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 11:42 PM (Fc5rx)

433 >>> 430 Helena...I sent you an email last week......did you get it?
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 12, 2020 11:42 PM (/UQ/R)

I did thanks! Hope you are doing as well as can be...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 12, 2020 11:43 PM (0ReGO)

434 Not sure which was more whiney: kayak girl or Neil Young.

Posted by: Cosda at May 12, 2020 11:44 PM (6bW5V)

435 Headline photo.... "Find the sniper?"

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 12, 2020 11:44 PM (ABuva)

436 374 There were some efforts to stop social gathering in response to it, but NOTHING like what we are doing now.

During the Spanish Flu, Portland required what now would be called "social distancing" in restaurants and on streetcars, and banned large gatherings.

The idea that Portland would have tried to lock the population up would have been viewed as insane.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 12, 2020 11:19 PM (I2/tG)

Nah, WalMart and Amazon would still have been open.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:44 PM (sy5kK)

437 Conservatives are cowards. Freedom is only for the strong."

***

Did he crib that from a movie villain or something....because I swear I've heard that before right as the hero recovers enough to restart the fight with the monologuing villain....

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:44 PM (WdocV)

438 432 County adjacent to us has instituted mandatory face covering at all times when outside your home.

A county with 3 confirmed cases of COVID and zero deaths.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 11:42 PM (Fc5rx)
----
I wish they would do that here just for my own entertainment, and litigation.

Posted by: Menack at May 12, 2020 11:44 PM (buTO7)

439
"My wife's dead??!! Oh my God no!!! How will I go on, dealing with all this horrid... FREEDOM???!!???!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve

First thing he can do is throw away the earplugs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 11:45 PM (+lVUW)

440 417 Wisconsin and California elections?
Posted by: Floridachick at May 12, 2020 11:36 PM (WImJc)

Various moron reportings say Yes and Yes.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:46 PM (sy5kK)

441 The first Progressive President. Former president of Princeton with all the right creds and a great belief in "experts."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:42 PM (HabA/)

Don't forget that progressive Republican, Teddy Roosevelt. Different party, same shit, just like today.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2020 11:46 PM (Y8PSl)

442 What a bunch of effing pansies. PTSD due to looking a videos? Really? They should try what I did for about 10 years...going out and trying to piece together the results of explosions and plane crashes. That's not video...there are smells and offal and drips and drops and parts and torsos....

They are paying these little flowers because they got upset looking at videos. Hopeless generation...absolutely fucking hopeless.

Posted by: Orson at May 12, 2020 11:46 PM (Wucxw)

443 The left (Wilson) in the '10's: Spanish flu? What flu?

Wilson completely ignored the flu outbreak in Army camps and sent boatloads of infected men to Europe, where more men died in the trenches of the flu than were killed by the Krauts. The flu ravaged America and the world - and Wilson never once even made a public statement about it.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:10 PM (HabA/)

So Wilson was the Obama of his day.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:39 PM (sy5kK)

We forget now that attitudes towards disease were much different in the past, and disease was simply accepted as a cost of war. The worst example of a bad ratio was the Spanish-American War, in which the US Army had only 385 men killed in actual combat, but lost over 5,000 dead to typhus, yellow fever, and other communicable diseases.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2020 11:46 PM (V2Yro)

444 Spanish flu was actually born in northern China. Chinese laborers needed by UK and France were sent to Europe via boats and trains by way of Canada.

So many plagues affecting the world through the centuries: fucking China.

They suck.

Posted by: Floridachick at May 12, 2020 11:47 PM (WImJc)

445 Is the Blob the mayor of Chicago or the governor if Ill? The mayor of Chicago has been taking it up the butt because she got her hair done.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 11:33 PM (+lVUW)

Nope, talking about the obese governor. He might as well be called the governor of Chicago because that's the only part of the state he gives 2 shits about.

Downstate Illinois people are so screwed. (As are upstate New Yorkers and non-coastal Californians.)

I'm glad Milwaukee and Madison are not so large they are able to swamp the votes of all other Wisconsinites every election (although the Dems do their best to cheat).

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:48 PM (HabA/)

446 Wish they would contact trace me.
Whats you're address?
Homeless
Email address?
None

Posted by: Menack at May 12, 2020 11:48 PM (buTO7)

447 I am
Sure CNN and MSNBC will be all
Over the Republican wins tonight.

And that Trump supports them both.

Posted by: Czech Chick at May 12, 2020 11:49 PM (haWye)

448 On the other hand, plandemic IS actually bullshit. Shouldn't be censored, I agree.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2020 11:38 PM (CPk0

Ya know, I don't want Alex Jones banned from anything. What was batshit crazy bullshit 10 or 20 years ago is reality now. So who's to say batshit crazy bullshit today isn't tomorrow's reality?

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2020 11:49 PM (Y8PSl)

449 CA-25 special:

Looks like GOP flips the seat.

Thanks to cheat-by-mail coming in November, it will probably be a 5-month rental, though.

Still... when was the last time you read, "GOP flips CD in LA suburbs from blue to red"?

(This was the Katie ("Throuple") Hill (D) seat.)

Posted by: mnw at May 12, 2020 11:49 PM (Cssks)

450 431 So Wilson was the Obama of his day.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:39 PM (sy5kK)

The first Progressive President. Former president of Princeton with all the right creds and a great belief in "experts."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V

Also, a proponent of eugenics, along with Planned Parenthood founder St. Margaret Sanger.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 11:49 PM (+lVUW)

451 440�417 Wisconsin and California elections?�
Posted by: Floridachick at May 12, 2020 11:36 PM (WImJc)�

Various moron reportings say Yes and Yes.

Good to hear. I'll wait till the fat lady sings to celebrate though.�

Posted by: Floridachick at May 12, 2020 11:49 PM (WImJc)

452 There was a very interesting article posted on Quillette about a month ago about the political aftereffects of the Spanish flu.
***

There are some studies that shows conservatives have a lower tolerance for disgust and there is a whole argument that comes out of it that part of the social benefit of conservativism is a protection against disease.

And it is hard to argue with - imagine Trump with a majority of Trumpists in both houses of congress in 2012 starting a trade war with China then and breaking most of our economic links with them. We might have never heard of the Wuhan flu in 2019/20....

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:50 PM (WdocV)

453 Weird thing about the Spanish Flu was relatively few famous people died of it. Less than 90 worldwide . At least according to a list on Wiki.

Most famous to me was one of the Dodge brothers.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at May 12, 2020 11:50 PM (2DOZq)

454 Just watched that Plandemic short doc. Not quite sure how to take it. Seems like bunk but also not.

Weird though how massive the attempt to censor it is.

---

It's a single source and the interviewee has a bit of an off vibe IMHO, but I suspect a lot of the stuff about Fauci is on target, and the media needs his credibility to keep the scam going.

Posted by: Methos at May 12, 2020 11:51 PM (kOpft)

455 County adjacent to us has instituted mandatory face covering at all times when outside your home.

A county with 3 confirmed cases of COVID and zero deaths.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2020 11:42 PM (Fc5rx)

Cover your face with black grease paint.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 11:52 PM (LZcDP)

456 Who was the Dem that lost that seat?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2020 11:52 PM (PUmDY)

457 Ya know, I don't want Alex Jones banned from
anything. What was batshit crazy bullshit 10 or 20 years ago is reality
now. So who's to say batshit crazy bullshit today isn't tomorrow's
reality?

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2020 11:49 PM (Y8PSl)
I don't mind crazy, and I agree Alex Jones shouldn't be banned from anything. Plandemic actually gets basic scientific facts wrong AND she's nuts. But whatever. Shouldn't "suppress" it.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2020 11:53 PM (CPk08)

458 Face mask made of fish net stockings...

Posted by: Pliney at May 12, 2020 11:53 PM (nzKWW)

459 Neil Young can kiss my ass.

Posted by: ChupaMe at May 12, 2020 11:53 PM (E+Gd/)

460 I haven't read all the comments. Did the subject of Wilson come up because he had contracted and survived the Spanish Flu?

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at May 12, 2020 11:53 PM (2DOZq)

461 Ya know, I don't want Alex Jones banned from anything
***

When Alex Jones was pushing conspiracy theories about the WoT the left loved him. Hell, they put him in the movie A Scanner Darkly as a truth telling rebel.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:54 PM (WdocV)

462 "Diners are already used to giving restaurants such details to make a reservation"

Who the hell gives a restaurant their email and phone number for a reservation? *Maybe* the phone number. Heck, I don't even give them two names, just first or last, with maybe an initial.

Posted by: GWB at May 12, 2020 11:54 PM (QHHuJ)

463 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2020 11:46 PM (V2Yro)

Well, what about the flu sweeping though America? It killed a hell of a lot of civilians. The second wave hit in the fall of 1918. Philadelphia, which had a Liberty Bond parade, suffered huge losses.

Wilson wasn't incapacitated then. The shit just didn't want to take any attention away from the war effort.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:54 PM (HabA/)

464 Still... when was the last time you read, "GOP flips CD in LA suburbs from blue to red"?

(This was the Katie ("Throuple") Hill (D) seat.)
Posted by: mnw at May 12, 2020 11:49 PM (Cssks)

It was a GOP seat before the whore stole it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2020 11:55 PM (LZcDP)

465 They are paying these little flowers because they got upset looking at videos. Hopeless generation...absolutely fucking hopeless.
Posted by: Orson

If they were that traumatized, they could have quit their jobs and sought other employment. I didn't watch "Law & Order SVU" because the sexual violence bothered me. It's a free country. If your job requires you to look at videos or photos that traumatize you, leave.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 12, 2020 11:55 PM (+lVUW)

466 Weird thing about the Spanish Flu was relatively few famous people died of it. Less than 90 worldwide

***

Better healthcare? Less lung damage from pollution? Fewer aspirin overdoses (a common killer at the time).

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:56 PM (WdocV)

467 The Spanish Flu of 1917-1918
Death certificate would have said "natural causes".

Posted by: attilla the thrilla at May 12, 2020 11:56 PM (w7KSn)

468 456 Who was the Dem that lost that seat?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2020 11:52 PM (PUmDY)

CA was that Katie gal that was banging away and got caught; WI was a replacement for R Sean Duffy's seat, who retired recently after his wife, Rachel Campost-Duffy had their 9th (?) kid.

Not between them, I think they both brought 3 or 4 kids each to their marriage.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 12, 2020 11:57 PM (sy5kK)

469 I've got a mask coming made of luxurious Canadian leather with spikes, grommets, and fake blood spatter...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 12, 2020 11:57 PM (7WaWV)

470 How do you pass the standard of "reasonable doubt" if people submit "theories" on legal misconduct?

I wondered that back with the Weismann 10 Theories of Possible Obstruction. Are you saying there *was* Obstruction or are you saying it was possible . As far as I know, we don't convict people of "possible crimes" but established crimes.

The bewildered mind of progs will bring us all down the toilet bowl.

Posted by: Axeman at May 12, 2020 11:57 PM (Eicbe)

471 442 What a bunch of effing pansies. PTSD due to looking a videos? Really? They should try what I did for about 10 years...going out and trying to piece together the results of explosions and plane crashes. That's not video...there are smells and offal and drips and drops and parts and torsos....

They are paying these little flowers because they got upset looking at videos. Hopeless generation...absolutely fucking hopeless.
Posted by: Orson at May 12, 2020 11:46 PM (Wucxw)

Well there goes the Cob Dental plan ...........

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 12, 2020 11:57 PM (aA3+G)

472 mandatory face covering at all times when outside your home.

Saddens me to see so many different people around here who seem to think this is some kinda law o teh land, wearing masks walking alone, giving me the karen stinkeye.
They know not from being called karen, so it's "fuck you too, go home" for masked stinkeye. Cry harder, bitchtits.

Posted by: the veil is off the banned at May 12, 2020 11:57 PM (toACv)

473 Still... when was the last time you read, "GOP flips CD in LA suburbs from blue to red"?

___

Combing that little slut's hair was worth it. Well, ok, the mouth stuff really, but the hair combing was fun too.

Posted by: Katie Hill at May 12, 2020 11:57 PM (WdocV)

474 "There are some studies that shows conservatives have a lower tolerance for disgust"

That's why we didn't vote for Hillary.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 12, 2020 11:58 PM (HabA/)

475 I mean who did the Dems run to keep the seat?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2020 11:59 PM (PUmDY)

476 I was the only one in my local grocery store without a mask. Surprisingly no one gave me the stink eye.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at May 13, 2020 12:00 AM (2DOZq)

477 Heck, I don't even give them two names, just first or last, with maybe an initial.
Posted by: GWB at May 12, 2020 11:54 PM (QHHuJ)

Donner, party of six?

Donner, party of five?

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 13, 2020 12:00 AM (e1mEI)

478

"Dick Gozinya, party of 4!"

"Dick Gozinya, party of 4!"

Posted by: Jay's Happy Place Diner at May 13, 2020 12:00 AM (sy5kK)

479 CA-25 is now the only seat with a GOP congressperson in the U.S., in a district which Hillary carried by more than 50%.

Good morale builder!

Posted by: mnw at May 13, 2020 12:01 AM (Cssks)

480 For those interested, the Alex Jones scene from A Scanner Darkly

https://tinyurl.com/zckkukb

Posted by: 18-1 at May 13, 2020 12:02 AM (WdocV)

481 Ya know, I don't want Alex Jones banned from anything
***

When Alex Jones was pushing conspiracy theories about the WoT the left loved him. Hell, they put him in the movie A Scanner Darkly as a truth telling rebel.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:54 PM (WdocV)
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And I think I prefer not to select people out for "Holocaust denial" either. On the balance, it's started a foothold in the justification for squelching speech all over Europe.

The squelching of "holocaust deniers" has justified the expansion into "x-deniers" and a lot of things filling that x are on their way to squelching.

Decades ago, I saw the convergence of "Republicans say a lot of hateful things in their speech" and "Hatespeech does not have Constitutional protections", which is definitely closer now, but still not directly upon us, outside of internet providers. But you can feel the breath of the convergence on your neck.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:03 AM (Eicbe)

482 My act of rebellion today was walking down to the mail box without my 'submission mask' on!

I'm such a rebel...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 13, 2020 12:03 AM (7WaWV)

483 Masks impede my ability to tell Karens to GFY.

It's a free speech issue.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 13, 2020 12:03 AM (9oAtN)

484 Just had homemade bbq ribs tonight for dinner, made by my sister.

OMG they were delicious...

Posted by: qdpsteve at May 13, 2020 12:04 AM (L2ZTs)

485 More Neil Young! Thanks MisHum.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (L2ZTs)
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I see a stark lack of Zappa appreciation there.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:05 AM (Eicbe)

486 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at May 13, 2020 12:07 AM (cuKeo)

487 485 More Neil Young! Thanks MisHum.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (L2ZTs)
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I see a stark lack of Zappa appreciation there.
Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:05 AM (Eicbe)

Nice try.
God willing & the creeks don't rise Zappa month returns in 2021

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 13, 2020 12:09 AM (aA3+G)

488 Well, I am going to call it a night. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2020 12:10 AM (LZcDP)

489 > There have been something like 4 or 5 class action suits that I benefited from that I never asked to be brought.

I got a $0.13 cent settlement check from Google once.

I still have no idea what they did to me to make me deserving of this rich reward.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 12:10 AM (mNq/0)

490 > the president is getting caught up with settling scores with the previous administration and exchanging barbs with members of the media

Oh, he's got some scores to settle with you, too, Mutt.

As do the rest of us.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 12:11 AM (mNq/0)

491 I hope they placed the shit filled bottle in the proper recycling bin.

Posted by: pawn at May 13, 2020 12:13 AM (PveK5)

492 > "Dick Gozinya, party of 4!"

Easier to get away with if you spell it out for them as "G-a-z-i-n-i-a".

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 12:13 AM (mNq/0)

493 Anybody else have trouble reloading the page just now?

I only came back to say goodnight, horde.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at May 13, 2020 12:13 AM (HabA/)

494 Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:03 AM (Eicbe)

I'm with you on this. Although, and I may be wrong, it's weird seeing Michelle Malkin throw in with the likes of Nick Fuentas who I believe is a denier.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at May 13, 2020 12:14 AM (IYHxL)

495 Maybe I can help others to sleep with some more Arendt. From "Truth and Politics." My text breaks.

It has frequently been noticed that the surest long-term result of brainwashing is a peculiar kind of cynicism -- an absolute refusal to believe in the truth of anything, no matter how well this truth may be established. In other words, the result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lies will now be accepted as truth, and the truth be defamed as lies, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world -- and the category of truth vs. falsehood is among the mental means to this end -- is being destroyed.

And for this trouble there is no remedy. It is but the other side of the disturbing contingency of all factual reality. Since everything that has actually happened in the realm of human affairs could just as well have been otherwise, the possibilities for lying are boundless, and this boundlessness makes for self-defeat.

Only the occasional liar will find it possible to stick to a particular falsehood with unwavering consistency; those who adjust images and stories to ever-changing circumstances will find themselves floating on the wide-open horizon of potentiality, drifting from one possibility to the next, unable to hold on to any one of their own fabrications.

Far from achieving an adequate substitute for reality and factuality, they have transformed facts and events back into the potentiality out of which they originally appeared.

And the surest sign of the factuality of facts and events is precisely this stubborn thereness, whose inherent contingency ultimately defies all attempts at conclusive explanation. The image, on the contrary, can always be explained and made plausible -- this gives them their momentary advantage over factual truth -- but they can never compete in stability with that which simply is because it happens to be thus and not otherwise. This is the reason that consistent lying, metaphorically speaking, pulls the ground from under our feet and provides no other ground on which to stand.

(In the words of Montaigne, "If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we should know better where we are, for we should then take for certain the opposite of what the liar tells us. But the reverse of truth has a thousand shapes and a boundless field.") The experience of a trembling wobbling motion of everything we rely on for our sense of direction and reality is among the most common and most vivid experiences of men under totalitarian rule.

Posted by: geoffb at May 13, 2020 12:14 AM (zOpu5)

496 There are some studies that shows conservatives have a lower tolerance for disgust and there is a whole argument that comes out of it that part of the social benefit of conservativism is a protection against disease.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2020 11:50 PM (WdocV)
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Well, gage the relative reaction to the idea that Trump let hookers pee on him and Trump's actual reaction as a lifelong germaphobe. (Urine is antiseptic, however). Of course, the initial email from Steele to his handler mentioned "coprophilia", rather than golden showers. (Profoundly septic!)

One group finds it a reasonable projection. Another group needs hard justification for it.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:15 AM (Eicbe)

497 Someone posted an article by Dov Fischer at the spectator earlier today. Seems the rabbi is ready to go HL Menken and hoist the black flag. I'm right there with him. My patience has run out. All I'm waiting for is the balloon to go up.

Posted by: Drc at May 13, 2020 12:16 AM (5UfE7)

498 Odd, isn't it?

Apparently, the seasonal flu hasn't killed anyone this year.

Otoh, covid deaths are within normal for the seasonal flu.

Posted by: The Knave at May 13, 2020 12:16 AM (0xRBd)

499 The only citation for the Kansas origin of the Spanish flu is that Great Contagion book by a historian who isn't a epidemiologist or geneticist.

Does anyone know of any other references for the Kansas origin?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 13, 2020 12:17 AM (UdCe2)

500 Mrs. Sock just threatened to start talking to me in the same tone of voice Karen was using on the bear. Must have done something slightly annoying. Don't have a clue.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 12:17 AM (Pbow6)

501 To clarify, the dumb sociopathic criminal, er, former FLOTUS and SecState, carried CA-25 by 7 points in 2016.

Garcia up by 12 right now. IIRC this district was actually GOP prior to 2016, and is probably a "new-ish" district (redistricting).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 12:18 AM (El6T/)

502 I'm with you on this. Although, and I may be wrong, it's weird seeing Michelle Malkin throw in with the likes of Nick Fuentas who I believe is a denier.
Posted by: thathalfrican

Never heard of him.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 13, 2020 12:19 AM (UdCe2)

503 I've said for a while - and gee what an insight, duh - that these governors at war with their own states (IL, WI, PA, WA, to a lesser extent CA), I can see this all creating a significant backlash, against them, incumbents, incumbents of their party, etc. And on the prez level, making it more likely Trump will add more than 2 states to his '16 total.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 12:21 AM (El6T/)

504 500 Mrs. Sock just threatened to start talking to me in the same tone of voice Karen was using on the bear. Must have done something slightly annoying. Don't have a clue.
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 12:17 AM (Pbow6)

Repeat after me.

I'm a man
But I can change.
If I have to.
I guess.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 13, 2020 12:21 AM (aA3+G)

505 err, The Great Influenza rather.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 13, 2020 12:21 AM (UdCe2)

506 A song for tonight,
not what you would expect from me horde....

sorry Jim

Foo Fighters

It's Times Like These....

I'm trying to process 2 more months.......just Effin dang. and this song was playing.....

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 12:22 AM (kFkpX)

507 People are going to riot in LA. Shut down until August.

Just insane. Ulterior motives here, no doubt.

And in August, it will be November.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 13, 2020 12:22 AM (9oAtN)

508 >>> 500 Mrs. Sock just threatened to start talking to me in the same tone of voice Karen was using on the bear. Must have done something slightly annoying. Don't have a clue.
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 12:17 AM (Pbow6)

Well, did you eat her kayak?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 13, 2020 12:22 AM (0ReGO)

509 468. The Duffys 9 children are theirs. Neither had prior marriages or kids. # 9 was born with Down syndrome and a heart defect.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 13, 2020 12:24 AM (8npzI)

510 I'll go out on a limb, and say the Plandemic piece is complete bullshit. Fist off, the lady comes off as bat shit crazy. Like, having you swatted, crazy, or at least keying your car. The only thing she said that made sense was, the more you quarantine, the weaker your immune system gets.

Posted by: Menack at May 13, 2020 12:24 AM (buTO7)

511 And on the prez level, making it more likely Trump will add more than 2 states to his '16 total.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 12:21 AM

I hope you're right, and I suspect you are...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 13, 2020 12:24 AM (7WaWV)

512 Well, did you eat her kayak?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 13, 2020 12:22 AM (0ReGO)

The sexual euphemisms that abound around here are amazing.

Old joke:

You f'om Ism?

I's f'om Nawfuck.

Posted by: RickZ at May 13, 2020 12:25 AM (Y8PSl)

513 I think we need to horde source an amicus brief to advise Sullivan just how big of an asshoe he is being.

Posted by: Simplemind at May 13, 2020 12:25 AM (yshFD)

514 495---Posted by: geoffb at May 13, 2020 12:14 AM (zOpu5)
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That's good stuff.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 13, 2020 12:27 AM (M/9m0)

515 513 I think we need to horde source an amicus brief to advise Sullivan just how big of an asshoe he is being.
Posted by: Simplemind at May 13, 2020 12:25 AM (yshFD)
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File a freind of the court with the Flynn judge like he's asking just for the fuck of it. Then say we wish the charges dropped.

Posted by: Menack at May 13, 2020 12:28 AM (buTO7)

516 506- Nightwatch
I helped bury two Firefighting tanker pilots that crashed to 'Learning to Fly' so sometimes the Foo has a word for us when we don't have one ourselves.

Posted by: DBCooper at May 13, 2020 12:30 AM (y1Mvi)

517 People are going to riot in LA. Shut down until August.

Just insane. Ulterior motives here, no doubt.

---

Dang it, that means the rest of us can't hire rooftop koreans.

Posted by: Methos at May 13, 2020 12:31 AM (kOpft)

518 > People are going to riot in LA. Shut down until August.

If this shit keeps up, Trump is going to carry all 50 states.

Including California.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 12:31 AM (mNq/0)

519 Since February 1, today's CDC scoreboard shows 51,495 "presumed or confirmed" C-19 deaths, and 6,083 influenza deaths.

That "presumed" thing, yeah.

I am not familiar enough with the minutiae and history of this kind of accounting to know whether adding in a "presumed" factor is normal, unprecedented, or what. And I used to read (well, mostly skim) the MMWR (CDC weekly pub - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - how's that for an exciting and uplifting publication title?).

Same table shows US still at 97% of "expected deaths" for this period. This compares deaths since 2/1 with the same period in the last 3 years.

There are lags in death reporting. And then there's the definitional question. So, at this point, messy, incomplete data.

But I don't think it's too early to make high-confidence broad observations about fatality rate and demographics thereof, or hospitalization rate and similar. But I don't see any public health officials doing so, or even being asked about it.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 12:32 AM (El6T/)

520 MH,
Thanks for that glorious top photo.

If that broad in the bear video is fake, I want her banned from any more voice overs. I've heard more attractive air raid sirens. If it isn't faked, she is too stupid and irritating. I've long thought we need more aggressive bears. And any bear repellent she has won't be nearly as effective as that alleged voice.

Posted by: JTB at May 13, 2020 12:33 AM (7EjX1)

521 I'm with you on this. Although, and I may be wrong, it's weird seeing Michelle Malkin throw in with the likes of Nick Fuentas who I believe is a denier.
Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at May 13, 2020 12:14 AM (IYHxL)
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I think people have to stop panicking at the instance of an undesired way of thinking. If that dangerous idea is actually that close to spreading and becoming a significant faction from the fringe faction it now is.

As long as fallacy-driven ideology is held in check by its lack of popularity, the idea that a majority of people could find a guiding principle within it is an argument for the restraint of public decision-making.

If it so popular and you have no hope that it won't become so popular, you have no hope in your public, and as a result you only have a tenuous hold on representationalism.

The Dems want to do ALL SORTS of disenfranchisement, except that they want voters to entertain that they are franchised by casting a vote that the "elites" and "experts" "are right" in ignoring.

They've given up on an informed public because they think that if there was a chance that Joe Biden did something wrong in Ukraine, *that the information comes from Ukraine* shows it could only be cheating if Trump sources Ukraine sources if the media relents in reporting it. They don't think you should *know* the fact that the DNC and the Clinton campaign conspired against Bernie's campaign if the means by which those emails were procured isn't 100% legal.

They now regularly conspire against an "informed public" which is what sustains the republic our founders created. They sneer on the "moral" citizens it is only suitable for.

And to top it all off, they have substituted ideological "we're all in this" abstractions of causes for Madison's perception of how enlightened interests would balance each other out.

Like anything else the Gramscian virus infects and kills, they wear the corpse and ask us to regard them as we did the living host.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:33 AM (Eicbe)

522 > People are going to riot in LA. Shut down until August.

If this shit keeps up, Trump is going to carry all 50 states.

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There may not be much left to win if it comes to that.

Posted by: Methos at May 13, 2020 12:33 AM (kOpft)

523 Talk about hypocrisy:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yc2halcm

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 13, 2020 12:34 AM (7WaWV)

524 Nah, not 50 states. Trump picking up 5 more will be the 2020 equivalent of a 1972 or 1984 landslide. NH, MN, NV, NM, VA. First two seem fairly likely, last 3 in decreasing order of probability. But all quite doable.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 12:34 AM (El6T/)

525 Big cities can be amazingly cool. They are Gotham when they're not.
Posted by: mindful webworker - radically inclined

I remember Chicago being amazingly cool... round 'bout January.

Posted by: Average Guy at May 13, 2020 12:35 AM (BaHwF)

526 Doubt it will get to riots in LA.

Pattern has been less insane/inflexible in CA than MI or PA, oddly enough. There have been county variations, even "revolts", before now - all were accommodated, save for one: OC beach openings.

Idiot Newsom has avoided picking fights, generally, and county discretion has been emphasized all along.

Though I think today's restaurant/hospitality guidelines are non-starters, and will give Sacramento another chance to retreat soon.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 12:37 AM (El6T/)

527 If this shit keeps up, Trump is going to carry all 50 states.

Including California.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 12:31 AM (mNq/0)
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People who don't like the way their leaders are treating them should find a way to vehemently express that a stated "Emergency" is not the time to change how we select our leaders.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:37 AM (Eicbe)

528 497Someone posted an article by Dov Fischer at the spectator earlier today. Seems the rabbi is ready to go HL Menken and hoist the black flag. I'm right there with him. My patience has run out. All I'm waiting for is the balloon to go up

Yup. I am there now too.

Posted by: Floridachick at May 13, 2020 12:40 AM (WImJc)

529 Stevie Winwood Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 12:41 AM (Pbow6)

530 > The Dems want to do ALL SORTS of disenfranchisement

As Weill put it, they want to dissolve the people and elect another.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 12:41 AM (mNq/0)

531 516

I am angry that I even shed tears...I have never shed tears..NEVER!!! even with my son in the shit in AFGAN ..never....what the hell.....this is bullshit...we are wait ....said this before...so now we are sheepiles .....should I just wear floured sack cloth and shave my head? Shuffle up to the local GOVT office for my monthly HANDOUT???

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!!

THIS WILL NOT STAND!!!

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 12:44 AM (kFkpX)

532 Apparent loser Dem in CA-25 is not bad looking. However I doubt she has the same "interesting" lifestyle of the district's former congresswoman.

Apparent GOP victor was a fighter pilot. Which is great, and of zero interest.

Job. Job is to vote like we want you to, behave yourself, if you can do more than that - in the correct direction - fine.

You can be a mincing, crystal-worshipping UToob "influencer" with purple hair who believes in weekly reincarnation - I don't care, it bores me. Just vote like I want you to. It's just a job you're being hired to do.

I don't need a fighter pilot or a decorated military veteran or an astronaut to trim the hedge. Just trim the hedge like I tell you to. We clear?

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 12:45 AM (El6T/)

533
Someone posted an article by Dov Fischer at the spectator earlier today. Seems the rabbi is ready to go HL Menken and hoist the black flag. I'm right there with him. My patience has run out. All I'm waiting for is the balloon to go up.
Posted by: Drc

Quite an article it is.

spectator.org/a-time-to-hate

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2020 12:45 AM (aKsyK)

534 When we finally wrest our freedoms back from the fascists who currently have their boots on our necks, the one upside just might be that in our lifetimes nobody will fall for that "we just need everybody to stay home for 2 weeks" nonsense.

Once the fascists got that taste of totalitarianism they just had to keep at it. Two weeks, four weeks, six weeks, and on and on.....

Never trust them again.

Posted by: Boots at May 13, 2020 12:45 AM (oGBso)

535 Alexandria Chiquita Bananas has failed to garner enough signatories to make the November ballot for the Working Families Party:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yap5w8d3

The good news just keeps trickling in!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at May 13, 2020 12:46 AM (7WaWV)

536 MAIL IN BALLOTS
DEM/COMMIE construct

Like you thought otherwise?

GET A FUCKING CLUE!!

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 12:47 AM (kFkpX)

537 Repeat after me

I'm a man
But I can change.
If I have to.
I guess.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Nope, besides that would only result in an eyeroll and an under her breath comment about me only having one stable chromosome.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 12:47 AM (Pbow6)

538 CA Senate special election / Riverside???

District 28
Reporting 27.6%

R = 55.9
D = 44.1

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 13, 2020 12:48 AM (UdCe2)

539 ANGRY ME

but you all knew that....

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 12:48 AM (kFkpX)

540 Did you know that the "vast right wing" repeating that the transcripts do not show that anybody was in possession of proof that Russia helped Trump or that Russia hacked the DNC computers is a "distraction"?

Know who your enemy is. They will dissemble at all times.

I find it hard to believe that the progs aren't full of disgust for us as they began by calling us "deplorables".

Meanwhile we simply described their stance as "anti-American". They rankled enough at us attributing any description that they did not approve, however, we found it.

They simply plopped "deplorable" and the similarly detesting label "racist" on us. We did not agree to this characterization but simply embraced it (like "moron") as a middle-finger to the willful progs.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:48 AM (Eicbe)

541 Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 12:47 AM (kFkpX)

Lighten up

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 13, 2020 12:49 AM (aA3+G)

542 Nope, besides that would only result in an eyeroll and an under her breath comment about me only having one stable chromosome.
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 12:47 AM (Pbow6)

I tried

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 13, 2020 12:50 AM (aA3+G)

543 > Garcia leading bigly in CA-25...

R win in WI-07 also.

Not a pickup, though. The Rs flipped it in 2011 after 40 years of D, and it will remain R.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 12:50 AM (mNq/0)

544 @RyanGirdusky 17m

Right now it looks like Republicans won 3 races in California tonight, #CA25, SD 28, and AD38. Two of them will flip from D to R.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 13, 2020 12:51 AM (UdCe2)

545 Nope, besides that would only result in an eyeroll and an under her breath comment about me only having one stable chromosome.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 12:47 AM (Pbow6)
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I don't think I have any stables in my family tree.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:52 AM (Eicbe)

546
Dang it, that means the rest of us can't hire rooftop koreans.
Posted by: Methos

There are plenty of rooftop Karens to go around.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2020 12:54 AM (aKsyK)

547 There are plenty of rooftop Karens to go around.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2020 12:54 AM (aKsyK)
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They're the ones depleting Amazon stock of spy gear.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:55 AM (Eicbe)

548 Red Green was a funny show. I like that quote Sock Monkey

Posted by: Case at May 13, 2020 12:56 AM (tWAkG)

549 > Idiot Newsom has avoided picking fights

I loved hearing Newsom publicly sucking Elon Musk's dick at his presser yesterday.

Twatter is also leaving California, it looks like, or effectively so.

They're putting all their people on PERMANENT work from home status. If that's the case, why the hell would they pay California taxes, California rents, and endure California commutes?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 12:56 AM (mNq/0)

550 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2020 12:45 AM (aKsyK)
Damn. Dude is PISSED.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at May 13, 2020 12:58 AM (IYHxL)

551 541
Sorry, been a balls to the walls 5 weeks.

"lighten up?"

not in the current vocabulary as is my position

and you fucking know that.....

seriously?

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 12:58 AM (kFkpX)

552 SNL did such a light tap on Witchmer this week.

About the only thing they made fun of is that she's a bumpkin from outside of New York.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 12:59 AM (Eicbe)

553 509 468. The Duffys 9 children are theirs. Neither had prior marriages or kids. # 9 was born with Down syndrome and a heart defect.
Posted by: Jen the original at May 13, 2020 12:24 AM (8npzI)

I stand corrected and humbled.

Actually I am sitting down.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 13, 2020 01:02 AM (sy5kK)

554 Red Green was a funny show. I like that quote Sock Monkey
Posted by: Case

Thanks goes to Mishum. He was just passing along some COBerly advice.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 01:04 AM (Pbow6)

555 And yes Red Green show was epitome of horde ethos.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 01:05 AM (Pbow6)

556 People are going to riot in LA. Shut down until August.
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If this shit keeps up, Trump is going to carry all 50 states.

Including California.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 12:31 AM (mNq/0)

Not if we have something to say about it.

Posted by: Mailed In Ballots From Outer Mongolia at May 13, 2020 01:06 AM (Y8PSl)

557 Rodrigo, probably the usual reasons to not flee CA - inertia (many forms), and if they are surfers, or into the ocean otherwise, or active in all the great outdoor stuff, and like weather that's usable 10 months a year (well, NorCal, so, maybe 8 months).

Of course if they're into other stuff elsewhere, than virtual commuting, why not.

Don't want to disparage any place (I find things to like everywhere I've ever been), but obviously if CA were, otherwise, like several other states with less natural wealth and other things, it could never do what's it done to itself. It would have depopulated long ago.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 01:06 AM (El6T/)

558 I love my church. But there are churches in my state that are going to open in defiance of Wretched Gretchen this Sunday, and if we can find one, we'll be going there this weekend. If my church opens up, I'll go there.

I get what my pastor is doing. But he's always teaching boldness for Christ. And I can't say that our compliance hasn't seemed out of whack with the teaching.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:07 AM (Eicbe)

559 Margarita DeVille

Thank you. The whole piece is a favorite of mine.

Posted by: geoffb at May 13, 2020 01:07 AM (zOpu5)

560 526 Doubt it will get to riots in LA.

Pattern has been less insane/inflexible in CA than MI or PA, oddly enough. There have been county variations, even "revolts", before now - all were accommodated, save for one: OC beach openings.

Idiot Newsom has avoided picking fights, generally, and county discretion has been emphasized all along.

Though I think today's restaurant/hospitality guidelines are non-starters, and will give Sacramento another chance to retreat soon.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 12:37 AM (El6T/)

Riots in L.A.?

Of course not. Nobody walks in L.A.

Posted by: Missing Persons at May 13, 2020 01:07 AM (ejsiI)

561 I stand with The Nightwatch.

But I'm not a rabble rouser.

I enjoy the rabble, being 'roused, of course.

Roused rabble is some perfect cover for a skilled and motivated ..um.. activist?

Yeah, that's the word. "Activist".

Reduce that to what you will.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 13, 2020 01:08 AM (QzJWU)

562 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAexejH9AKA

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 13, 2020 01:09 AM (ejsiI)

563 That "presumed" thing, yeah.

I am not familiar enough with the minutiae and history of this kind of accounting to know whether adding in a "presumed" factor is normal, unprecedented, or what. And I used to read (well, mostly skim) the MMWR (CDC weekly pub - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - how's that for an exciting and uplifting publication title?).

Earlier I heard a man in Baltimore had tested positive for Covid, and then he was shot 5 times.

So it is presumed he died of the Covid.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 13, 2020 01:09 AM (V2Yro)

564 Misanthropic Humanitarian
you know I love you....but the rage is starting to look for

firearms......they want the big caliber....and are buying up boxes of bullets....

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 01:11 AM (kFkpX)

565 > Rodrigo, probably the usual reasons to not flee CA - inertia (many forms)

Most of these guys are code monkeys who are paying $2k/month for a studio apartment in the middle of a vast wasteland of cookie-cutter subdivisions, with 80 minutes of commute per day.

They're only there because that's where the code monkey jobs are.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 01:11 AM (mNq/0)

566 It's actually hard, I think, to act in submission to a governor that looked throughout the history of Michigan law and pulled out a WWII statute, to empower her extension without regard to the legislature that declared and the court who ruled that Wretched Gretchen's unilateral power to shut down Michigan elapsed on the 30th of April.

Regardless the legislature has declared that Witchmer has no power to act against businesses opening up on the 15th of May.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:11 AM (Eicbe)

567 I stand with The Nightwatch.

But I'm not a rabble rouser.

I enjoy the rabble, being 'roused, of course.

Roused rabble is some perfect cover for a skilled and motivated ..um.. activist?

Yeah, that's the word. "Activist".

Reduce that to what you will.

Posted by: Jim at May 13, 2020 01:08 AM (QzJWU)

Right here on this blog, we're just a community organizing.

Posted by: Ricka at May 13, 2020 01:14 AM (Y8PSl)

568 Fuck me dry. I can't even get my nick correct.

Posted by: RickZ at May 13, 2020 01:15 AM (Y8PSl)

569 561

Dammn Jim...a BBQ with you and my Fam would be a bucket list Gold punch ticket....if ever the day...wish you the sleep of Kings good sir...

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 01:15 AM (kFkpX)

570 I love my church. But there are churches in my state that are going to open in defiance of Wretched Gretchen this Sunday, and if we can find one, we'll be going there this weekend. If my church opens up, I'll go there.

I get what my pastor is doing. But he's always teaching boldness for Christ. And I can't say that our compliance hasn't seemed out of whack with the teaching.
Posted by: Axeman

Freedom of speech and freedom to worship are not first in order of rights by happenstance. We could discuss the wisdom and intent of our founding fathers but in my opinion, they were merely instruments in this. Our Lord and Saviour is the author. They were given to us as a gift so that His church might prosper for awhile. To my sorrow, too many church leaders and members of the body are treating that gift as a mere trinket.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 01:16 AM (Pbow6)

571 Regardless the legislature has declared that Witchmer has no power to act against businesses opening up on the 15th of May.
Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:11 AM (Eicbe)

So, as in all power struggles, it comes down to - who do the men with the guns (the police) obey? The Governor? Or the Legislature?

If Whitmer can't get the guns behind her, she's finished. On the other hand, if she does....

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 13, 2020 01:16 AM (V2Yro)

572 Remember a couple of years back when the progs were so generous to say that "Hey, we let you go to church. You have your freedom of religion because we let you go. As long as we let you go, paying the taxes to fund the stuff that you object to is your duty."

I think now it will be the largesse of not storming into our homes and slapping the Bibles out of our hands.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:16 AM (Eicbe)

573 If Whitmer can't get the guns behind her, she's finished. On the other hand, if she does....
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 13, 2020 01:16 AM (V2Yro)
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They sang a song about "Four dead in Ohio"

Of course, consistent with prog inconsistency, get ready for the new hit "Stack 'em like Cord Wood".

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:18 AM (Eicbe)

574
Well, I just got through writing a couple of nasty letters to the local CVS store and CVS corporate HQ telling them what I think of them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 01:18 AM (rCwaK)

575 To my sorrow, too many church leaders and members of the body are treating that gift as a mere trinket.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 01:16 AM (Pbow6)

Too many people think the Constitution's Bill of Rights come from Government, that the Government grants us those first 10 Amendments. I blame proggies and them taking Civics out of the classroom.

An old saw is true now more than ever: A Right not fought for is a right soon lost forever.

Posted by: RickZ at May 13, 2020 01:19 AM (Y8PSl)

576 It's half thru May, God knows how far into Chinabug Hell, and I've spoken to folks I only know over the Internet more than I have people I share a last name with.

On the plus side, I couldn't ask for a more awesome Internet family.

On the minus side, I'm about ready to lay into my absentee "actual" family. What sort of idiots make no effort to check on a "family member" who they know struggles with depression, has had serious fiscal efforts since at least late last year, and is now stuck with possibly the worst conceivable circumstances for overcoming both those issues?

Plus the last time I tried to call the brother in question apparently has a new phone and hasn't set up his voice mail yet. And when I did a non-identifying post on teh Disgracebook apparently did not take the hint. And also apparently had no idea I'd even called.

I'll try calling again tomorrow, but damn, I'm not well pleased with this shit.

Posted by: Brother ~~Cavil~~ Tim at May 13, 2020 01:20 AM (CUU+W)

577 Rodrigo, sounds about right. But my points stand. Don't anyone in the entire Bay Area who'd stay there if it didn't have the things I'm talking about. And all of them have weighed, and are weighing, moving elsewhere due to the things you mention (and crowding/traffic). They'd have been gone loooooong ago without the interests they pursue there outside of work.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 01:21 AM (El6T/)

578 ..Dammn Jim...a BBQ with you and my Fam would be a bucket list Gold punch ticket....if ever the day...wish you the sleep of Kings good sir...

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 01:15 AM (kFkpX)

Agreed. Accepted. Let's organize it.

But I'll edumakte'cha away from that large caliber stuff.

Sub sonic .22 LR from a tight, scoped boltie, is your friend.

One ~~ping~~, shot, Vasily. One ~~ping~~, shot, only.

Comprende, amigo?

And then you break it, case it, and stroll away as casually as a tourist in Turin.

Big Iron brings the Big Attention.

Don't BE the Center of Attention.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 13, 2020 01:22 AM (QzJWU)

579 Gosh I hope the MI situation comes to blows, legally/constitutionally speaking. And I hope the idiotic, bizarre Gauleiter Whitmer fights like a Hitlerjugend teenager with a Panzerfaust in a Berlin rubble pile - and loses like one, ensuring greater destruction on her side.

I think other political nerve endings already have most of the dead-enders wary of sticking with their baseless lockdown measures, but I wonder if the CA results tonight will further scare Newsom into wimping out.

Great twatters headline from the rogue former NYT reporter @AlexBerenson: "Los Angeles to Los Angeles: Drop Dead" (over 29 required for full appreciation).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 01:25 AM (El6T/)

580 Big Iron brings the Big Attention.

Don't BE the Center of Attention.

Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 13, 2020 01:22 AM (QzJWU)

Yeah, except for when shit hits the fan. At that point I would think you would want to be able to shoot through the blocks of the great pyramid. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 13, 2020 01:26 AM (9Om/r)

581 I'm so sorry....

we do not need my flame....

night horde..

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 01:27 AM (kFkpX)

582 Freedom of speech and freedom to worship are not first in order of rights by happenstance. We could discuss the wisdom and intent of our founding fathers but in my opinion, they were merely instruments in this. Our Lord and Saviour is the author. They were given to us as a gift so that His church might prosper for awhile. To my sorrow, too many church leaders and members of the body are treating that gift as a mere trinket.
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 01:16 AM (Pbow6)
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Indeed. And while the Christian practice is to "submit to our rulers" we have the curious situation of We the People as "rulers" in a self-governed country. Paul did not say submit to any authority which imposes itself on you.

I've wrestled with that and that is the resolution I come to. As long as this country will assent to the principle that we the people govern ourselves through representatives--which is not solely through the role of an elected executive--Christians have a right to reject the arbitrary assertions of authority which make the equality-preserving qualities of Christianity more manifest as a civic good.

I was patient and accepting of the emergency executive principle. Until I found that many blue-state governors violated the entire terms on the stay-at-home orders by sending COVID-positive patients as torpedoes with a dead-on hit to nursing homes.

That invalidated the entire public stated rationale for the lockdown. And Witchmer--like a number of other Dem governors--was one who did that, herself.

I would have to do an awful lot of granny-killing to catch up to Killmo or Witchmer.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:29 AM (Eicbe)

583 So, as in all power struggles, it comes down to - who do the men with the guns (the police) obey? The Governor? Or the Legislature?

If Whitmer can't get the guns behind her, she's finished. On the other hand, if she does....
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 13, 2020 01:16 AM (V2Yro)

Isn't Michigan a huge deer-hunting state?

I was thinking more about the current supply of equipment in the field, that's all.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 13, 2020 01:29 AM (sy5kK)

584 Are there any public health people or epidemiologists of stature who are going to step forward to stop the damage to their influence and legitimacy by calling out the puzzling "strategies" now being pursued?

Extraordinary mitigation measures for a bug with flu-like - or below - fatality rates? With sub-flu rates outside a narrow demo?

Mass testing and tracing for a bug that's already widespread? What?

They're (hopefully) generating suspicion and distrust among thinking people.

If a *truly* apocalyptic bug comes along, this will be a very bad thing (and entirely borrowed trouble).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 01:30 AM (El6T/)

585 "Winwood played Hammond organ on the Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland album track 'Voodoo Chile'."

Truly inspired.

Songs of Experience.

Posted by: Khun Ty at May 13, 2020 01:30 AM (ZyUt+)

586 Isn't Michigan a huge deer-hunting state?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 13, 2020 01:29 AM (sy5kK)
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One of the deer-huntingest.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:32 AM (Eicbe)

587 ..
Yeah, except for when shit hits the fan. At that point I would think you would want to be able to shoot through the blocks of the great pyramid. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 13, 2020 01:26 AM (9Om/r)

If I'm shooting the quiet .22, I'm quite far away from my own locale.

Conversely. If I'm firing Raufous rounds to bust through block and then bust skulls on the other side?

Then the shit is now larger than my own personal fan.

I'm fucked.

Hopefully, I'll share that blessing as I go.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 13, 2020 01:34 AM (QzJWU)

588 So, as in all power struggles, it comes down to - who do the men with
the guns (the police) obey? The Governor? Or the Legislature?

If Whitmer can't get the guns behind her, she's finished. On the other hand, if she does....
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If Chicago cops are having discussions about whether they want to get sued over civil rights violations, you can bet the MI cops are having the same discussions.

Posted by: Methos at May 13, 2020 01:34 AM (kOpft)

589 Mass testing and tracing for a bug that's already widespread? What?

They're (hopefully) generating suspicion and distrust among thinking people.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 01:30 AM (El6T/)

The first sentence is another way for tyrant governors to continue their lockdowns. The more cases diagnosed, the more they will claim the need for their desired medicine: Total control.

The second sentence is wishful thinking. I can only hope I'm wrong on that.

Posted by: RickZ at May 13, 2020 01:35 AM (Y8PSl)

590 Are there waffles?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 13, 2020 01:36 AM (cuKeo)

591 Maybe someone has said this by now, but just in case:

If you go to one of these restaurants that require you to register, be sure to bring sufficient cash. A false name on the registry will do no good when the credit card receipt shows the true identity.

I'm working on aliases that look genuine but might have a subtle message. Reed Emmon Weep, for example.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 13, 2020 01:38 AM (u/nim)

592 It incenses me to think even a modicum of time about the term "granny-killer" to shame people who want to at least have some timeline of when they can come out of their homes, while they people shaming voted for and are even praising people who stacked a WHOLE lot more grannies by torpedoing nursing homes.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:38 AM (Eicbe)

593 I'm working on aliases that look genuine but might have a subtle message. Reed Emmon Weep, for example.
Posted by: Weak Geek at May 13, 2020 01:38 AM (u/nim)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: Heywood Jablome at May 13, 2020 01:39 AM (cuKeo)

594 I'm working on aliases that look genuine but might have a subtle message. Reed Emmon Weep, for example.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 13, 2020 01:38 AM (u/nim)
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Paging the party of Fuck, Whitmer. Fuck Whitmer, your table is ready.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:42 AM (Eicbe)

595 So, as in all power struggles, it comes down to - who do the men with
the guns (the police) obey? The Governor? Or the Legislature?

If Whitmer can't get the guns behind her, she's finished. On the other hand, if she does....
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Last week I posted the thought that if morons were considering emailing their representatives to reconsider. If you want to voice your concerns and anger, send them to your County Sheriff and Prosecuting Attorney. They are the enforcement the Governors have to rely on. Without them, their edicts start to loose their teeth.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 01:45 AM (Pbow6)

596 524 Nah, not 50 states. Trump picking up 5 more will be the 2020 equivalent of a 1972 or 1984 landslide. NH, MN, NV, NM, VA. First two seem fairly likely, last 3 in decreasing order of probability. But all quite doable.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 12:34 AM (El6T/)

If just MN flipped it would be a shock. That state hasn't voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 13, 2020 01:46 AM (ejsiI)

597 Rhomboid,

Yesterday or the day before, I had posted something about Neil Ferguson's WuFul model shitcode. You asked about, and when I saw your post, it was way too late to respond.

Ferguson's model wasn't any simple epidemiological model, ala the well-understood SIR and similar equations.

It's a stochastic, spatial model, much more complex. And it turned out it was non-deterministic. Give it the same input, and it will give different output. They slapped a "stochastic" label to try to cover this up, but nope, given the same random seed inputs, it should produce the same output.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 01:47 AM (f1Vqw)

598

So if you are a Guvnor of a Blue state, you can kill thousands of elderly people if you call it an emergency order.

And get away with the mass murders scot-free.

Why would any of these Guvnors ever want to move to China?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 13, 2020 01:49 AM (sy5kK)

599

wikipedia:

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought.

This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter.
Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of malice, brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity.

Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness.

So Cuomo, over five thousand cases of involuntary manslaughter. At a minimum.

Oh wait, blue state Guvnor. Never mind, plebes.

Now go wash your hands.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 13, 2020 01:54 AM (sy5kK)

600 hasn't happened here yet, but it's my Infliction Day here on the blog....

time to pour another drink to celebrate!

SKOAL!

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 01:54 AM (mn7hj)

601 It's a stochastic, spatial model, much more complex. And it turned out it was non-deterministic. Give it the same input, and it will give different output. They slapped a "stochastic" label to try to cover this up, but nope, given the same random seed inputs, it should produce the same output.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 01:47 AM (f1Vqw)
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Was it a GA? Lol.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:55 AM (Eicbe)

602 Greetings to the ONT Horde!

I just got done reading the Dov Fischer article. It lays out the reasons why so many of us are livid with rage at what is being done to us.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 01:57 AM (8HBLI)

603 And get away with the mass murders scot-free.

Why would any of these Guvnors ever want to move to China?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 13, 2020 01:49 AM (sy5kK)
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And get mobbed by fans, who think that Trump ought to hang at The Hangue for a death toll, but your numbers are explained by "shit happens, you know?"

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 01:57 AM (Eicbe)

604 The Left can't even let us unite against a common enemy. We should all be celebrating being let the fuck out of prison. Being able to see friends and family. Eat and travel.

The commies will never allow it. Divide, divide, divide. Keep inflaming people on each side so they never come together. Our whole life at this point is one great big mindfuck. And we pay them to do it.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 01:57 AM (yokAj)

605 I hate to even say this but mass shootings and terror attacks seem to be way the fuck down under Trump. I don't just mean this last couple months, neither.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 01:59 AM (yokAj)

606 Am I talking to myself? What am I, a mirage? A schmuck on wheels?

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 02:00 AM (yokAj)

607 I guess it's late.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 02:00 AM (yokAj)

608 I am very certain,

The Horde, et al, knows the lay of the land and are of infinite equilume to profess and engage and cross enforce those that now try to impede us...the Horde

Time to just BUST their asses......and send them running....

WAR

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 02:00 AM (kFkpX)

609 It's quiet in here.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 02:01 AM (yokAj)

610 Too quiet.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 02:01 AM (yokAj)

611 Karenz dela est.

Or some Latin to that effect.

Sharpen your knives.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 13, 2020 02:01 AM (QzJWU)

612
A movie at under 2 minutes, funny but scary, all about life today:

https://youtu.be/wfGAktuU93s

And I'm off to bed.

Posted by: Gooshy at May 13, 2020 02:03 AM (taKIf)

613 Good night, Jim. Pleasant dreams.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:03 AM (8HBLI)

614 Last week I posted the thought that if morons were
considering emailing their representatives to reconsider. If you want
to voice your concerns and anger, send them to your County Sheriff and
Prosecuting Attorney. They are the enforcement the Governors have to
rely on. Without them, their edicts start to loose their teeth.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 01:45 AM (Pbow6)

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this is @Failifornia: ain't none of them gonna do shit but stomp on citizens.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 02:03 AM (mn7hj)

615 It's quiet in here.
Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 02:01 AM (yokAj)
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Well, it is early in the morning. Everybody else in the house is asleep. Even the cats, thank the lord.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:06 AM (8HBLI)

616 It's a stochastic, spatial model, much more complex. And it turned out it was non-deterministic. Give it the same input, and it will give different output. They slapped a "stochastic" label to try to cover this up, but nope, given the same random seed inputs, it should produce the same output.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 01:47 AM (f1Vqw)

Reproducible results? What kind of science witchery is that?

Posted by: Michael Mann and His Global Warming Band at May 13, 2020 02:07 AM (Y8PSl)

617 PA's "transgender" Public Health chief, moved his mom out, while shoving ChiComCrud patients into facilities.

TGP, but still.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/pennsylvania
-secretary-health-moved-mother-senior-facility-
hotel-coronavirus-swept-nursing-homes-video/

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 02:08 AM (mn7hj)

618 Our county commssioners are actually doing a good job of defying Wolf. It's disgusting though, because they are playing by the rules, like our side always does, while Wolf and his accolytes do whatever they please with impunity. So we go through the process of using the courts, etc... while time is not on our side. It's so frustrating.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:11 AM (8HBLI)

619 I can't stop laughing at the Karen begs Yogi to not eat her kayak.

I'm dying here.

Posted by: SMH at May 13, 2020 02:11 AM (RU4sa)

620 Hey everybody again. Just wanted to share before signing off tonight... LA mayor Eric Garcetti is now doing damage control. He says that just because there's lockdown orders through August, that doesn't mean nothing will ever change.

Make of that what you will. At this stage I'm not really optimistic common sense will ever dawn on these leftist drones. And with that, goodnight all and thanks for the chat.

Posted by: qdpsteve at May 13, 2020 02:11 AM (ny4r3)

621 Good night qdpsteve. Pleasanr dreams.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:15 AM (8HBLI)

622 SMH, see my 419.

Posted by: qdpsteve at May 13, 2020 02:16 AM (ny4r3)

623 584 Are there any public health people or epidemiologists of stature who are going to step forward to stop the damage to their influence and legitimacy by calling out the puzzling "strategies" now being pursued?

Extraordinary mitigation measures for a bug with flu-like - or below - fatality rates? With sub-flu rates outside a narrow demo?

Mass testing and tracing for a bug that's already widespread? What?

They're (hopefully) generating suspicion and distrust among thinking people.

If a *truly* apocalyptic bug comes along, this will be a very bad thing (and entirely borrowed trouble).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 01:30 AM (El6T/)

****

I wish there were some sane men of medicine and science to apply the brakes here. However,they seem to be hiding underground to avoid mass numbers of zombie-like, virtue-signalling "shut-downers".

The use of a common sense approach of:

1) isolating seniors, particularly those with preexisting conditions (and all immuno-compromised individuals) and those in long term or nursing home facilities while;

2) everyone else takes common sense measures (wash your hands, disinfect common areas, everyone wear masks in cities on public transport) but do not isolate or shut down anything . . .

Was never even entertained - which is ridiculous. Instead the "spread the virus far and wide by not stopping travel or public transport in cities, then shut everybody in with each other while also forcing at-risk populations to take known cases into their midst" - was what was tried instead.

Further, the widespread panic caused by the media led to hospitals in cities to be choked with patients who had the virus but were never at any risk of either needing intensive care or of mortality. They were egged on by a bunch of urban medical professionals who were basking in the glow of pseudo hero status (not to mention an absurd fetish of making Tik-Tok videos). These medical professionals were more than content to treat a bunch of under 40 people for the virus and feel like heroes instead of doing the hard work of actually properly isolating and treating at-risk patients from nursing homes, who were, instead, left to die. Meanwhile healthcare professionals in suburban and rural areas all lost their jobs and/or income.

Yes - as the spring/summer weather progresses and it becomes clear that those areas where people go outside, get sun, get healthy are better off than the "shut-in" leftard cities (and also as it becomes evident that the "Swedish model" was a much more preferable approach to this outbreak than the "let's destroy the economy because orangemandbad" approach) - there will be a reckoning and that reckoning will have a casualty which is the belief in the public health authorities when the next actual pandemic occurs - especially one where large swaths of the healthy public and younger aged persons are at risk of horrible death. The general public will simply ignore then next time.

Although, in all fairness, as their current incompetence demonstrates, . . . perhaps that is a good thing?

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 13, 2020 02:17 AM (W0S9L)

624 this is @Failifornia: ain't none of them gonna do shit but stomp on citizens.
Posted by: redc1c4

Feel for you red. Are there no rural pockets of normal folk left in that disaster state? There is a reason a significant portion of Schlicter's Kelly Turnbull series takes place in Kalifornia. As blue as Washington is and Spokane on the east side is purple as can be, I live in a red county that couldn't get much redder.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 02:18 AM (Pbow6)

625 hysterical!

guerilla artists, not Sabo, but a sign on the 134 freeway here in SoCal, dragging Barry the Dimwitted.

priceless.

https://twitter.com/TheFaction1776/status/1260229391717502976

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 02:18 AM (mn7hj)

626 For real then....or are we still just posting maybes?

seems we are all out of maybes right now.....are you armed?

are you ready to go to ground for our Constitution?

Yeah...scary shit this......no coffee boy shit this.no garden thread this shit...no puppy dogs thread shit this..no reading rooms thread shit this ...no tits with chess threads shit no more tits ever this shit

Like the movie...."Shit jus got Real."

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 02:19 AM (kFkpX)

627 That story about Ms. Transylvania getting his mother to a safe house before unleashing the plague on everyone else's loved ones has got to be the most "malicious aforethought" action by a public health official ever. This state is already a powder keg. When the people wake up and hear this, I just don't know how it doesn't blow this place sky high.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:20 AM (8HBLI)

628 Thanks Penna you too. But i better not dream of going to eat out!! That's against corn teen!! ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at May 13, 2020 02:20 AM (ny4r3)

629 By the way the lefty playbook on Joe's dementia is the same as the one on his rapes. Deny it completely, and then finally say they "both" have it.

That's really what they're going with. Trump has dementia, too. Fucking shiteating commie fucking bastards.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 02:21 AM (yokAj)

630 Well, it is early in the morning. Everybody else in the house is asleep. Even the cats, thank the lord.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:06 AM (8HBLI)

It's just weird, is all.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 02:22 AM (yokAj)

631 Oh, and a stutter. They're going to redeploy that as soon as the low-fo's start to discover he is totally fucking demented.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 02:24 AM (yokAj)

632 "Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 02:18 AM (mn7hj)"

Margins?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at May 13, 2020 02:25 AM (7s3Gx)

633 627 That story about Ms. Transylvania getting his mother to a safe house before unleashing the plague on everyone else's loved ones has got to be the most "malicious aforethought" action by a public health official ever. This state is already a powder keg. When the people wake up and hear this, I just don't know how it doesn't blow this place sky high.
Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:20 AM (8HBLI)

***

what story was that?

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 13, 2020 02:30 AM (W0S9L)

634 Did you notice her hair?

Flayed out white...like from a a Paramount script.....

She is not even M.D.

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 02:30 AM (kFkpX)

635 From Dov Fischer:
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I accepted Obama. I never articulated his first name, and I never called him “president,”
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Well, I did. I called him "President Obama" on many, many occasions.

But since the time that people stood by idly and let him nationalize two auto companies and shake out senior investors like bugs out of a rug, giving one over to the union in a MASSIVE conflict of interest, I thought there was a case for him in an orange jumpsuit.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 02:32 AM (Eicbe)

636 War be coming.......................

Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 02:32 AM (kFkpX)

637 Dear captives of the People's Republic of Crimefornia, take comfort that Swalwell doesn't have the nukes.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 02:35 AM (Eicbe)

638 I know people who formerly paid no attention to politics and didn't even vote now commenting on how f'ed up the democrats are and that they registered to vote and they'll never vote for a dem. So, maybe this backfires spectacularly on these tyrants.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:38 AM (8HBLI)

639 War be coming.......................
Posted by: The Nightwatch

Pray that it doesn't NW. Pray harder every day. Pray unceasingly. It won't be war. It won't be some version of red dawn. It will be hundreds of Sarajevos. The difference is that no power boker will step into mitigate the horrors.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 02:38 AM (Pbow6)

640 publius - its over at GP. Link above at 617.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:40 AM (8HBLI)

641 The difference is that no power boker will step into mitigate the horrors.
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 02:38 AM (Pbow6)
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And you won't want them to anyway. No matter how reasonable it seems to let Xi restore order.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 02:41 AM (Eicbe)

642 Yes - just saw it! Thanks PennaLady!

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 13, 2020 02:41 AM (W0S9L)

643 Nightwatch - What have you been experiencing that leads you to think we're past the point of no return? I agree with sock. We can't know for sure how a violent uprising would go.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:45 AM (8HBLI)

644 I would hope, PennaLady, that this leftarded, psychiatric -challenged Secretary of Health becomes the face that starts the backlash that engulfs all of PA government and sweeps the "criminal conspiracy masquerading as a political party" known as the Democrats out of power at every level and everywhere!

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 13, 2020 02:45 AM (W0S9L)

645 So, maybe this backfires spectacularly on these tyrants.
Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:38 AM (8HBLI)
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That is my prayer. But I do not know what God will bring. Will it be the ultimate illustration of human sabotage? The freest, least-classed society done in by the "Good intentions" of men who did right in their own eyes?

We ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and those lessons keep coming.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 02:47 AM (Eicbe)

646 "Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 02:18 AM (mn7hj)"

Margins?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at May 13, 2020 02:25 AM (7s3Gx)
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what's a margin?

i broke the link up ito Pixy acceptable bits, with spaces and line breaks, or it wouldn't have poasted.

there shouldn't be a problem.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 02:48 AM (mn7hj)

647 And you won't want them to anyway. No matter how reasonable it seems to let Xi restore order.
Posted by: Axeman

Don't think mitigation would describe China's motives if they thought intervening was in their best interests. Even though we might be eating our own I'd like to think at least one Trident commander would be in position to say fuck that noise, park his boomer off the Chinese coast and rain some terror down on Beijing and a dozen other Chinese ant nests.

Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 13, 2020 02:48 AM (Pbow6)

648 Publius - His looks are so revolting and I could not have chosen anyone better to be the face of the democrats here in PA. Nightwatch is right about his lack of credentials for the cabinet post he occupies. He apparently was a psychologist or children's counselor. What a joke. What kind of parent would expose her child to THAT?

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:52 AM (8HBLI)

649 I haven't said it in a while: The Democrat party is a blight on the American representative republic.

Even if 20th-century liberal politics are somewhat palatable, it does nothing to curb the blight that the party structure was.

FDR is the closest that America ever came to a dictator. Even the low ranks of his party feared him cementing his hold over the 3rd branch of government by loading the Court and rebelled against his "hand-picked" Speaker and the leadership in the Senate.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 02:54 AM (Eicbe)

650 Hi. My name is Devin. I live down the hall. My mom's stereo is broken. Can I come in and play this tape?

*faints*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZuYS-9qaw

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 02:55 AM (Z4rgH)

651 i broke the link up ito Pixy acceptable bits, with spaces and line breaks, or it wouldn't have poasted.
there shouldn't be a problem.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 02:48 AM (mn7hj)
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Whew! Barrel thwarted.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:55 AM (8HBLI)

652 Publius, yes. Except .....

I question the need for *any* mitigative measures, any.

Isolating seniors, those medically vulnerable of any age, screening tests in support thereof - obviously.

But masks (whole separate issue in itself), or other "cautions" - why?

My assumption: we now know this bug will neither lead to apocalyptic death tolls, NOR overwhelm hospital capacity.

In other words - a flu-like situation. What do we do for flu? Apart from PSAs and free flu shots - nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Further: a viral epidemic is over when it's spread enough. Why would we even want to limit the spread of a virus with a flu-like IFR, and which doesn't over-tax medical capacity?

At most, we'd be (slightly) delaying things, pushing cases this week into cases in September.

This is my problem with *all* "cautious" or "careful" measures - why engage in them? Or, alternatively, why not do them for influenza starting every November?

In terms of epidemiology and public health strategy, I don't see the justification for *anything* other than protecting the (very narrow demo) vulnerable.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 02:56 AM (El6T/)

653 So, maybe this backfires spectacularly on these tyrants.
Posted by:
PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:38 AM (8HBLI)
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That is my prayer. But I do not know what God will bring ---------

Well think about it this way. God sent Trump for a reason. Given the context and circumstances, and the little we've confirmed about what we're really up against since, I call it an honest to goodness miracle.

So maybe it's not quite Lights Out for the last best hope on Earth.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 03:01 AM (uEbPt)

654 rhomboid - How is it that you can see this and I can see this, but the ones who got elected to governorships can't see this? Maybe the answer is that they do see this but don't care to see this crisis go to waste.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 03:03 AM (8HBLI)

655
Double Publius alert. Is the HQ big enough for the both us? :-) I think so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 03:03 AM (f1Vqw)

656 Whew! Barrel thwarted.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 02:55 AM (8HBLI)

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i'm crazy, not stupid.

it's an Infantry/Cav Scout thing.

you live longer that way.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 03:04 AM (mn7hj)

657

I'm just listening to the details of Pelosi's new "stimulus" package. It's basically an AOC far left dream come true. Lot's of pro-illegal immigration shit in there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 03:05 AM (f1Vqw)

658 I'm just listening to the details of Pelosi's new "stimulus" package. It's basically an AOC far left dream come true. Lot's of pro-illegal immigration shit in there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 03:05 AM (f1Vqw)

$3 trillion in Pelosi wet dreams.

That's a lotta flow for a dried up cooch.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:07 AM (Z4rgH)

659 This is my problem with *all* "cautious" or "careful" measures - why engage in them? Or, alternatively, why not do them for influenza starting every November?

In terms of epidemiology and public health strategy, I don't see the justification for *anything* other than protecting the (very narrow demo) vulnerable.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2020 02:56 AM (El6T/)
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This is the mental paralysis of progs. If they stare long enough at the potential deaths and have a large enough emotional reaction to it, they will insist that we stay in lockdown, despite deaths occurring, over the "deaths that could occur" until we have 100% vaccination rate with a vaccine that may or may not be developed.

Also, they could justify the privation occurring from a shutdown economy because that can be blamed on "Trump not doing what is necessary" to maintain their imagined idyllic perfection.

Their inability to deal with the predicted cost to the economy over the choice to lockdown has really been a study in denial and inability to process optimal outcomes out of a balance of jeopardies.

They want to tell you Trump is killing people for an economy, but then announce that Trump's economy is one of the worst ever.

But they are idiots and invalidated the communal rationale for shutting everything down by re-enacting Attila the Hun's throwing plague victims over the castle walls. (Because they are some mixture of nefarious or just that stupid.)

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 03:09 AM (Eicbe)

660 For $3 trillion, I can have a well stocked liquor cabinet.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:09 AM (Z4rgH)

661 Axeman is taking this shit serious.

Me? I'm striving for 666.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:10 AM (Z4rgH)

662 early

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:10 AM (Z4rgH)

663 Maybe the answer is that they do see this but don't care to see this crisis go to waste.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 03:03 AM (8HBLI)
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Like "price-gougers".

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 03:10 AM (Eicbe)

664 Closer to home

https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=g8MYsii4DZY

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:12 AM (Z4rgH)

665 Opportunism for me, but not for thee.

Posted by: DNC at May 13, 2020 03:12 AM (Eicbe)

666 Fuuuuuuck

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:12 AM (Z4rgH)

667 This is appropriate.

Posted by: DNC at May 13, 2020 03:13 AM (Eicbe)

668 Hah! Time to pass out.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:13 AM (Z4rgH)

669
Treasury is going to have borrow over $3T this year. US GDP is 20.5T roughly (may be less than that with depression level declines). 3/20.5 = 14.6%, which is WWII levels.

Imagine adding another $3T on top of that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 03:14 AM (f1Vqw)

670 So maybe it's not quite Lights Out for the last best hope on Earth.
Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 03:01 AM (uEbPt)
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I want so much for this to be true. I believe that this country was formed under the direction of Divine Providence and that He continues to work His will even when we elect diabolical evil to the presidency. I believe DJT truly wishes to MAGA and that he knows he has to do the will of the Lord in order for that to happen. It's just the principalities and powers arrayed against PDT and us are formidable and ruthless. Because the human enemies are abetted by fallen angels whose intelligence and cunning surpass any human ability, the outcome is uncertain in this battle against evil in this age. God has allowed his people to suffer great persecution and enslavement when they turned away from him. Are we due a chastisement or will we receive deliverance from the evil? I pray for an end to the vile corruption that permeates our society and I hope what we are living through will lead to that - and swiftly. I'm praying a lot.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 03:15 AM (8HBLI)

671 Imagine adding another $3T on top of that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 03:14 AM (f1Vqw)
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And let's get further in debt to China!

Posted by: DNC at May 13, 2020 03:16 AM (Eicbe)

672 Publius ---

What the dickens did CVS do to get you so worked up?

Spill, man!

Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at May 13, 2020 03:16 AM (QU+qf)

673 Nice, PennaLady.

The powers arrayed around PDT could definitely serve as an illustration of the "powers of the air".

Peter Strzok's wiggle-smirk says so much about the infernal condition of the Swamp of Washington.

Perhaps what the Lord wants to do right now is expose those powers as lifting up one root exposes the network or intertwined roots. Perhaps he'll give us enough of a boost to put the decision into our hands.

I am hopeful. I am also accepting the jeopardy we find ourselves in.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 03:23 AM (Eicbe)

674 What the dickens did CVS do to get you so worked up?

Spill, man!

Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at May 13, 2020 03:16 AM (QU+qf)

He got within 6 feet of another human.

The ultimate sin.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:24 AM (Z4rgH)

675 He got within 6 feet of another human.

The ultimate sin.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:24 AM (Z4rgH)
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Store Wars II: The Karens Strike Back.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 03:26 AM (Eicbe)

676 And let's get further in debt to China!
Posted by: DNC at May 13, 2020 03:16 AM (Eicbe)

Remember: We can be $900 nonillion in debt and as long as China holds none of it, it is WONDERFUL. If we have a $100 national debt and China holds one $50 EE Savings Bond, we must SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM, for it IS the END OF THE WORLD.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 13, 2020 03:28 AM (ejsiI)

677 Axeman - Strzok's antics made me think immediately of one of Screwtape's minions. I do not want to spend eternity with the likes of that. Add in Ms. Transylvania and you've got enough to populate all of my nightmares for a long while.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 03:28 AM (8HBLI)

678 The one determinant that the press never talks about:
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In our 26 red states, the average coronavirus death rate per million is about 82. In the 24 blue states, plus the District of Columbia, it’s about 235. On average, then, you are about 2.9 times more likely to die of COVID-19 if you live a blue state than if you live in a red state. But averages mean little in the real world. If you live in New York, your chance of dying of coronavirus is 11 times higher than if you live in Georgia. The numbers change depending on the relative states, of course, but the most predictive factor is whether you prefer blue or red.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 03:33 AM (Eicbe)

679 Axeman - Strzok's antics made me think immediately of one of Screwtape's minions.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 03:28 AM (8HBLI)
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I called him "Demon Lord Strzok" after seeing that and made jokes about him "assuming flame form". Also with a weird name like "Strzok", it's really easy to cast it as some arcane name, perhaps in Sword and Sorcery fiction.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 03:37 AM (Eicbe)

680 678 The one determinant that the press never talks about:
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In our 26 red states, the average coronavirus death rate per million is about 82. In the 24 blue states, plus the District of Columbia, it’s about 235. On average, then, you are about 2.9 times more likely to die of COVID-19 if you live a blue state than if you live in a red state. But averages mean little in the real world. If you live in New York, your chance of dying of coronavirus is 11 times higher than if you live in Georgia. The numbers change depending on the relative states, of course, but the most predictive factor is whether you prefer blue or red.
Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 03:33 AM (Eicbe)

What's not clear to me is whether people in red states aren't as likely to die of COVID-19 or whether the deaths are just delayed. With no vaccine and no effective treatment, I don't see how it doesn't make it through pretty much every population eventually.

Posted by: Ace's liver at May 13, 2020 03:39 AM (wGeit)

681 Get Ready --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yan9WilVmEg

22+ minutes you won't be asking if you can have back.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 03:40 AM (Z4rgH)

682 The red/blue phenomenon even holds when you get down to counties in PA. Our red counties are doing much better than the blue. I wonder if (outside of nursing homes) if the red/blue phenomenon holds for individuals? I would be suprised if it didn't.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 03:40 AM (8HBLI)

683 What's not clear to me is whether people in red states aren't as likely to die of COVID-19 or whether the deaths are just delayed. With no vaccine and no effective treatment, I don't see how it doesn't make it through pretty much every population eventually.
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 13, 2020 03:39 AM (wGeit)
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Well, it might turn out to be a wash. However, there might be some actual value in not sending COVID-19 patients directly into nursing homes.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 03:43 AM (Eicbe)

684 >>What the dickens did CVS do to get you so worked up?

Some Karen behind the counter at the Ft. Inn CVS went off on me for stepping over a red line. "Sir, step back behind the red line! Step back behind the red line!"

They had these (confusing) red taped lines and boxes on the floor. They had a boxed off rectangle in front of each register station. Then a series of red lines 6' apart behind that. One customer left and we all moved up. I assumed I was to step up to that red line of the box.

Nope, I was supposed to wait at the red line behind that box and not approach the box until the customer in the box had left. There was more than 6' between the front of the box at the register and the back off the box.

I had another item I was buying which I was carrying, and was going to pick up a script for my father. My impulse was to simply say it's obvious you don't want me as a customer, throw the item down, and walk out. But I needed that script, because he was going to be out, and it's important (Eliquis, for stroke prevention due to A-fib).

I didn't say anything. My manner when I'm mad is not to shout or say much, but simply get a steely eyed look that says, "I'm about to disembowel you". People tell me I can be quite scary.

I discombobulated the bitch pretty good with that look. My interaction at the register was nothing but short, curt responses, accompanied by a stare right into her ugly face.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 13, 2020 03:44 AM (f1Vqw)

685 God has allowed his people to suffer great persecution and enslavement when they turned away from him. Are we due a chastisement or will we receive deliverance from the evil? I pray for an end to the vile corruption that permeates our society and I hope what we are living through will lead to that - and swiftly. I'm praying a lot.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 03:15 AM (8HBLI)

I don't know if we get an end to it, but it is being exposed.

We were on a knife's edge with The Hag and her media all ready to lead us into a very dark age. Then God stepped in.

Devout Christians were on board with Trump before anyone, because they could see he had a mighty sword and a shield, and was unafraid to call out evil by its name.

If it was reckoning time for *us*, I don't think it would have gone this way. Prayer is good. Prayer works. I'm pretty sure I prayed Romney would defeat Obama. I just about died that cold November morning in 2012. If that isn't proof enough that He knows better than we do how to work for our good, then I don't know anything at all.

Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 03:47 AM (uEbPt)

686 564 Misanthropic Humanitarian
you know I love you....but the rage is starting to look for

firearms......they want the big caliber....and are buying up boxes of bullets....
Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 13, 2020 01:11 AM (kFkpX)

Humor me once in a while.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 13, 2020 03:50 AM (aA3+G)

687 That picture on top caption:

Here I am Lord, show me the way!

Mornin', all

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 04:00 AM (h7CAC)

688 To my way of thinking Andrew Killmo just okayed the practice of identifying where *your locality* got the New York Flu from.

Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 04:01 AM (Eicbe)

689 I just about died that cold November morning in 2012. If that isn't proof enough that He knows better than we do how to work for our good, then I don't know anything at all.
Posted by: ... at May 13, 2020 03:47 AM (uEbPt)
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I remember that morning after talking to a like-minded colleague and feeling such sadness while everyone else around us was giddy. God works all to the good, even bringing good out of evil. We probably would not have the possibility of eliminating the evil that is the democrat cabal if Pierre had won. I hope that you're right.

The doubt comes from knowing we deserve chastisement. Look at what we tolerate as a society. Fetal sacrifice is the most repugnant, but there is a lot more that offends God. I think, however, that there are more than 10 just men in America, and He was willing to refrain from destroying Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of 10 just men if Abraham could find them. Alas for those cities, there were not 10 just men. We probablly have 10 just men here among the Horde. We can hope for deliverance this time perhaps.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 04:05 AM (8HBLI)

690 Not sure if this is bad irongrandpa, or iron badgrandpa, but hey I'm flexible. Hold Your Head Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=FBnSWJHawQQ&t=4s

Always a good idea.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 13, 2020 04:11 AM (Z4rgH)

691 Ok.....here's my poop story.....
Back in the days before plastic water bottles.... I had been camping with 3 friends and since I had been working nights and my system was topsy turvy, I didn't shit for 5 days.
On the morning of the 5th day, I went up and sat in the outhouse, but it wasn't soup yet.
We broke camp and my buddy left by boat, and the 2 ladies and walked out, bout a little less than a mile.
After our goodbyes, I grabbed the TP roll and walked rapidly back into the woods, and half squatted, holding a sapling, and I kept going and going and going and when it finished, it made a noise like if you stood a wooden bat on end and let it fall.
I wiped, stood and turned around, and it was one continuous turd about 3 1/2 ft. long.
I went back to my car, I felt like I had given birth. Then, 2 buses pulled up and a bunch of cub scout aged boys ran into the woods, toward my masterpiece. I pictured on of them saying "Gee scoutmaster Dan, what kind of an animal shits like this ?"

Posted by: JT at May 13, 2020 04:13 AM (arJlL)

692 JT - Point of order. Isn't there a rule about pics or it didn't happen? I'm fairly new around here so an elder statesman may need to weigh in since it regards a stink skink and not beewbs.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 04:19 AM (8HBLI)

693 I don't have any pics, but I assure you, it did happen.

When I looked at it; I wished that I could've had it encased in plastic so i could hang it on my garage wall.

Posted by: JT at May 13, 2020 04:22 AM (arJlL)

694 Trying to remember - when did plastic water bottles become a thing? I don't recall using them as a teenager, so it must've been after the 70s...

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 04:22 AM (h7CAC)

695 Holy crap! That's quite a poop story, JT!

And no.. pics not necessary!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 13, 2020 04:23 AM (CjFDo)

696 Seriously, you must have been feeling pretty awful for a couple of days.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 04:24 AM (8HBLI)

697 Had work dreams all night, not real work just made up.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 04:24 AM (ZCEU2)

698 Had work dreams all night, not real work just made up.
Posted by: Skip

......

If you are talking about tonight, well I haven't been to bed yet!

I fell asleep in my recliner while wife was watching crap on Netflix..

I have no dreams at all in my recliner.. only when I finally make it to bed,

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 13, 2020 04:26 AM (CjFDo)

699 Had work dreams all night, not real work just made up.
Posted by: Skip

Didja dream that you built a trapeze and you could swing by the bee's nest 20 ft up and spray the nest with bee spray ?

Posted by: JT at May 13, 2020 04:27 AM (arJlL)

700 It all started when the propoganda spread about how municipal water was bad for you. Also, wasn't it chic to drink Evian from France - ooh la la - in the yuppiefied 80s? There was another, snobbier brand in a green bottle. Can't recall the name.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 04:29 AM (8HBLI)

701 Wohoo California! I still love you.

Posted by: Summer of Love at May 13, 2020 04:36 AM (FJrl0)

702

And Evian spelled backwards is...

Good morning

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 04:39 AM (l1wsb)

703 I'm finally falling asleep so I will have to check back later to resolve the question of when we started paying hugely inflated prices for water that comes from the municipal water supplies of places where we are not. Have a great morning all.

Posted by: PennaLady at May 13, 2020 04:39 AM (8HBLI)

704 >> There was another, snobbier brand in a green bottle. Can't recall the name.
Posted by: PennaLady

Oh yeah, Perrier. Carbonated I think.

Cracks me up that people will not bat an eye at the price of a bottle of water.
I

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 04:41 AM (h7CAC)

705 No, bolting steel together and other things that have no connection to realities.

Wi had its biggest 24 hour fatality count, 18, Pa 99, NY 478 and NJ 253.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 04:41 AM (ZCEU2)

706 'Nite, PennaLady, sleep well

Mornin', TeeJ!

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 04:42 AM (h7CAC)

707

Have a great sleep.
Btw, have one of your old baitcasters on a catfish rod.
Love it when the blues make the clicker sound like a chainsaw.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 04:43 AM (l1wsb)

708 The potential fraud in mail voting is baked into the cake, its supposed to happen on a large scale.
Hence killing thousands of lives to save hundreds and getting Pa to swing Democrat.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 04:43 AM (ZCEU2)

709 Skip, I appreciate your including WI #s every morning.

Saw a graphic somewhere yesterday that showed #s by county. Only about 6 counties had the highest #s

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 04:44 AM (h7CAC)

710

And good morning back Mlii

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 04:45 AM (l1wsb)

711 There was a huge police car procession through town yesterday for a policeman in IL who lived here in WI and apparently died from Covid. He was in his early 50s.

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 04:46 AM (h7CAC)

712

I think it's going to take awhile to get used to this new phone so please bear, uh, bare, uh, be patient with me.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 04:48 AM (l1wsb)

713

And if you ask someone "bare with me," are you asking them to get nekkid with you?

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 04:51 AM (l1wsb)

714 TeeJ, did you ever find the "refresh button"?
My screen on this phone has 3 vertical dots in the upper right corner. Hit that and there is a drop-down menu that gives me a bunch of choices. One is the little circular arrow thing-y that means refresh.

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 04:52 AM (h7CAC)

715

Thought I looked there Mlii but I'll give it another shot.
Next thing I need to find is how to attach pics to texts.
Last phone had paper clip right next to typing box.
But could they leave it that way?,,, sooo.
Too easy.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 04:56 AM (l1wsb)

716 Mothers day was telling my mom how 40 Pa counties had 5 or less deaths, I think she was shocked and didn't believe me. She only gets her news from TV.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 04:57 AM (ZCEU2)

717

And back to auto-c.
sooo = nooo

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 04:58 AM (l1wsb)

718 TeeJ
Well yeah, sure. But no. Thanks, though!

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at May 13, 2020 04:58 AM (YqED9)

719

News from TV.
Like probably 50% of the people in the bldg I work in.
And there's only about 50 there.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 05:00 AM (l1wsb)

720 >>Mothers day was telling my mom how 40 Pa counties had 5 or less deaths, I think she was shocked and didn't believe me. She only gets her news from TV.
Posted by: Skip

My mom used to be that way- got all her news from TV - now she just doesn't believe me because she doesn't have a clue about anything outside of her little world. (And even that is debatable.) I sure miss the days of being able to discuss and argue real world topics with her.

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 05:01 AM (h7CAC)

721

No problem HB.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 05:01 AM (l1wsb)

722 I just read that Michigan United for Liberty is planning another protest tomorrow in Lansing. I'm curious to see what the mood of this gathering will be. After observing the first peaceful demonstration, and how it was be portrayed in the media as a bunch of howling rubes defying Science and The Law, I have to think demonstrators are getting testier.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 13, 2020 05:02 AM (Dc2NZ)

723 Wohoo California! I still love you.

Posted by: Summer of Love at May 13, 2020 04:36 AM (FJrl0)

___
you'll get over it.

#Failifornia is now a shithole.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 13, 2020 05:03 AM (mn7hj)

724

And that really is a shame, redc1c4.
I've never really seen Ca outside of Ft Ord, Presidio at Monterrey and LAX.
Never will now.
My bucket list driving vacay will only go as far west as Montana.

Here's hoping my last words aren't "I would like to have seen Montana."

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 05:10 AM (l1wsb)

725 Prager says if it wasn't for the weather most would leave California

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:10 AM (ZCEU2)

726 >>Prager says if it wasn't for the weather most would leave California

Yikes! Country would tip over if too many left!

...who was it that said that about some island a few years back?

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 05:11 AM (h7CAC)

727 Ok, I gotta get going. Cold out there this morning, only 32. But maybe into the 50s this afternoon.

Have a good day, all. A flaming skull day would classify!

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 05:13 AM (h7CAC)

728

The weather here sucks probably 200+ days a year, at least for an old guy.
But leave Kansas for other than short trips?
Not. Likely.

Of course my plans don't count.
Looking at you, Big Guy.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 05:15 AM (l1wsb)

729 Have a good day, Mlii.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 05:16 AM (l1wsb)

730 This is brilliant.

https://twitter.com/savag3ap3/status/1260255585565585411?s=20

Posted by: The President reimagined at May 13, 2020 05:17 AM (xa3IG)

731

And time for me to go into check back in every 10 minutes or so mode.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 05:19 AM (l1wsb)

732 ...who was it that said that about some island a few years back?

Posted by: My life is insanity at May 13, 2020 05:11 AM (h7CAC)
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Hank Johnson?

I still remember the naval officer's studiously blank expression after Hank dropped that JT-level sinker.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 13, 2020 05:19 AM (Dc2NZ)

733 americanthinker.com/the wuhan virus lockdown is a colossal blunder
https://tinyurl.com/ydefx6fy

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:21 AM (ZCEU2)

734 TeeJ???

Posted by: Shopgirl #MVPatrickisMahomie at May 13, 2020 05:22 AM (ulcXq)

735 733 Heard Pa nursing homes are %67

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:22 AM (ZCEU2)

736 Morning, Horde

Posted by: fluffy at May 13, 2020 05:23 AM (NGm/n)

737 This is brilliant.

https://twitter.com/savag3ap3/status/1260255585565585411?s=20

Posted by: The President reimagined at May 13, 2020 05:17 AM (xa3IG)

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HAHAHAHA

I love that Democrats are willingly pointing out that the dumb elderly white man who told everyone to drink Lysol beat the smartest woman in the country in 2016 and has Obama attempting to pre-emptively avoid responsibility for a huge Soviet-level spy ring on not only the opposition but politicians in his own party.

Whoopsies.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 05:27 AM (ADuZP)

738 Buen dia queridas morons.

This quarantine is over, but our rulers haven't yet caught up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 13, 2020 05:28 AM (EZebt)

739 Today is last chilly day, 65 degrees later, 68 Thursday and glorious 80s Friday.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:29 AM (ZCEU2)

740 I thought saw California was dedicated to lockdown until July?
We are until after primarily vote date but that goalpost keeps moving like CalvinBall.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:31 AM (ZCEU2)

741 It might be no coincidence the warmer states deaths from Covid-19 have been passed by Pa.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:36 AM (ZCEU2)

742 I have never bought a bottle of water.
The idea just seems stupid to me.
(Unless you can't get any safe water to drink.)

And I refuse to buy a $5.00 cup of coffee.
Because that is just stupid.

But if people want to waste their money, more power to them.

Posted by: Case at May 13, 2020 05:37 AM (tWAkG)

743 Oh, and I forgot investigations by the smartest white woman and smartest black woman ever to serve in the House of Representatives.

Can't forget them.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 05:38 AM (ADuZP)

744

Hi there!

Posted by: Gooshy at May 13, 2020 05:39 AM (taKIf)

745 legalinsurrection.com/judge in michael flynn case may allow amicus briefs on whether to drop case is there reason for freak-out
https://tinyurl.com/y8gfatlt

Nothing makes my eyes gloss over like legalize but at least this makes sense to me.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:41 AM (ZCEU2)

746 Been few times I might have paid a very high price for a glass of water

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:43 AM (ZCEU2)

747 I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I will be back again

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:43 AM (ZCEU2)

748 746 Not strangely all involve being in desert situations

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:45 AM (ZCEU2)

749
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 13, 2020 05:46 AM (1Eq3p)

750 People can spend their money on what they want, but I hate I didn't come up with the idea of selling bottled water to rich people. That's badass. The only thing smarter* might be selling trust funders half of a new singlewide mobile home for $100K+ and by telling them it's saving the planet.

* Convincing blacks the parties decided to switch names in the 60s is up there, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 05:48 AM (ADuZP)

751 People can spend their money on what they want, but I hate I didn't come up with the idea of selling bottled water to rich people. That's badass. The only thing smarter* might be selling trust funders half of a new singlewide mobile home for $100K+ and by telling them it's saving the planet.

Consumer Reports had an article on how bad Desani water is because...they get a reduced water rate in Detroit, cheaper than private citizens pay, then bottle it and sell it for money.
The nerve of Desani fleecing the suckers!

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 05:50 AM (vd8XM)

752 legalinsurrection.com/judge in michael flynn case may allow amicus briefs on whether to drop case is there reason for freak-out
https://tinyurl.com/y8gfatlt

Nothing makes my eyes gloss over like legalize but at least this makes sense to me.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:41 AM (ZCEU2)

-

There's a great comment at that link:

"Judge Sullivan has already proven he is biased in this case. Now he is trying to prove he is corrupt."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 05:50 AM (ADuZP)

753 Ok, I am leaving but only in a truck so not gone that far away.
We really need flaming skulls, Brennen and Comey on top of my list.

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:52 AM (ZCEU2)

754 G'morning, Horde.

Went to bed early so did not see the news on Emmet Sullivan. Woke up to it and that was NOT a fun way to wake up.

But your ONT is so nice it takes a lot of the sting out of that, MisHum.

Nice to see Gerard dropped in. Sorry I missed him.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 05:53 AM (XxJt1)

755 I thought saw California was dedicated to lockdown until July?

Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:31 AM (ZCEU2)

===

Honestly, I've stopped paying attention.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 13, 2020 05:57 AM (EZebt)

756 Faxuci is asshowe.

Posted by: azalea city at May 13, 2020 06:03 AM (WX+x0)

757 Emmett the judge is biased , corrupt and now proves he is crazy.

Posted by: azalea city at May 13, 2020 06:04 AM (WX+x0)

758
Good morning, Hordians.

Another fine Trump day! Let's get out there and enrage the lunatics by living a good life today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2020 06:10 AM (mht8P)

759 'Morning, teej. How are your friend and her baby? Did I miss the vital stats?

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 06:11 AM (XxJt1)

760 747
I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I will be back again

Oh Skip, I hate to see you go.

Posted by: Hierominous Botch at May 13, 2020 06:11 AM (YqED9)

761 I know it is their plan to gain ultimate control, but how can the de facto amnesty in the Pelosi bill for 30 million illegals not enrage the majority of the electorate? Surely even hard core Dems can't believe this is a good idea in an election year?

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 13, 2020 06:15 AM (xceTB)

762 I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I will be back again

-

Remember to wear your Freedom Mask, because if you don't then the terrorists win.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 06:15 AM (ADuZP)

763 Have a good 'un, Skip.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 06:16 AM (XxJt1)

764 761 I know it is their plan to gain ultimate control, but how can the de facto amnesty in the Pelosi bill for 30 million illegals not enrage the majority of the electorate? Surely even hard core Dems can't believe this is a good idea in an election year?
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 13, 2020 06:15 AM (xceTB)

They know the media narrative will be "Trump/Republicans block COVID relief bill."

Posted by: Buzzion at May 13, 2020 06:18 AM (G2zl5)

765 Morning!

Wife and I were so naughty yesterday. Even though we were supposed to shelter in place and not even think about looking at them unless we were an "essential" worker, we drove about 40 miles to the parking lot of a big mall that is doing little business because of the WooHoo. Another 30 or so cars arrived, and we watched the Blue Angels flyover.
30 seconds, and they were gone. Blue sky day, and what a sight.

Fark you Governor Spanky and Mayor Buckwheat!

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 06:20 AM (vd8XM)

766 Vitamin D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fxw3nTZYlA

Posted by: The Otters at May 13, 2020 06:23 AM (AHq56)

767 I know it is their plan to gain ultimate control, but how can the de facto amnesty in the Pelosi bill for 30 million illegals not enrage the majority of the electorate? Surely even hard core Dems can't believe this is a good idea in an election year?

-

The people who think Trump told them to drink Lysol and believe people will do it?

Those folks?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 06:24 AM (ADuZP)

768 Speaking of stars, Betelgeuse is brightening again, after several months of fading.

https://tinyurl.com/ycf5g763

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 06:24 AM (XxJt1)

769 @761. Also in the Pelosi bill is handouts to political Lobbyists. And money to minority people who operate marijuana shops. Not to mention the bailout to states that do not balance their budgets. None of that crap has anything to do with the virus. And it should be DOA.

Posted by: Case at May 13, 2020 06:24 AM (tWAkG)

770
Look out! Otters!

Posted by: Gooshy at May 13, 2020 06:25 AM (taKIf)

771 > The Democrat party is a blight on the American representative republic.

The Democrat party is the longest continuously running criminal enterprise in the United States.

Every D official, right down to the city council level, should be brought up on RICO charges.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 06:25 AM (mNq/0)

772 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at May 13, 2020 06:25 AM (NeD6B)

773 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

774 Thank you Lord for another day.

And Rye toast. With butter and honey.

Posted by: jsg at May 13, 2020 06:27 AM (dTvzp)

775

1st Covid death in the Yukon ?

Posted by: saf at May 13, 2020 06:27 AM (5IHGB)

776 Not to mention the bailout to states that do not balance their budgets.

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I think that was a big part, if not the main driver (along with the final healthcare takeover), of this whole setup. Election year, massive unemployment, businesses closing, etc., and it's a great time to slip that in with stuff like unemployment benefit bills.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 06:28 AM (ADuZP)

777 Meeting up with our libby friends for cocktails that there house today.
She told my wife that they sanitized the outside chairs we'll be sitting in.

I guess you can get Covid thru your butt? It's like AIDS then?

Some people

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 06:29 AM (vd8XM)

778 1st Covid death in the Yukon ?

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Snowmobile driver with the the sniffles.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 06:29 AM (ADuZP)

779 1st Covid death in the Yukon ?

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Snowmobile driver with the the sniffles.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Got within 6 miles of another person

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 06:30 AM (vd8XM)

780 Now is the time for the Dems to create a permanent dependent class. They aren't going to give up that dream easily.

And the weeble wobbles on our side might go along if they get their cut.

Depressing.

Posted by: jsg at May 13, 2020 06:30 AM (dTvzp)

781 I guess you can get Covid thru your butt? It's like AIDS then?

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Yeah, I can't get any Smart People to explain to me how or why grocery store and healthcare workers don't have it on their clothes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 06:31 AM (ADuZP)

782 My colonoscopy prep diet was not as great as I though. Evidently, I'm not full of shit. Who knew?

I'm trying to think of something to make the Doc laugh. I'm sure he's heard a lot of lines.
Maybe "I need to get through this alive. My wife has my credit card. "

My first one was years early because my Mom was a colon cancer survivor. My older female gastroenterologist Doc patted my hand at the end and told me "You have a beautiful colon." Alrighty, then.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:31 AM (u82oZ)

783 Permanent MAJORITY dependent class, I should say. One that virtually guarantees them victory every election.

Posted by: jsg at May 13, 2020 06:32 AM (dTvzp)

784 My first one was years early because my Mom was a colon cancer survivor. My older female gastroenterologist Doc patted my hand at the end and told me "You have a beautiful colon." Alrighty, then.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

So you got that going for you!

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 06:32 AM (vd8XM)

785

Crap.
Gone for a lot longer and missed shopgirl, who I never get to see and creeper thinks I ignored her. Never happen.

Baby girl and name is all I know.
That and mom and baby are fine.
Thanks again for prayers folks and thank you Jesus for the yes answers.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 06:33 AM (l1wsb)

786 Bruce

She gave me pictures! Totally useless for the entire dating online process, but still classier than dick pics.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:33 AM (u82oZ)

787 Good morning creeper.

Any more stories? And is Wilbur alright?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:35 AM (u82oZ)

788 Mornin', folk,

Woke up early today, shaved even though it was an "off" day for me, swilled the felines and then myself. Going to do some writing this a.m. I'm disciplined in that department -- but getting started on a story I don't have a strong handle on yet means making notes in detail, hoping something will emerge from the murk.

Oh -- Infernal Revenue states on their site that my check is due to mail on Friday! I have the car's wheel painting to pay for, and I want to buy some new sheets and a blanket for my bed, so that's all to the good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2020 06:35 AM (rpbg1)

789 She gave me pictures! Totally useless for the entire dating online process, but still classier than dick pics.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

And you can always post them as a "Star In the Flabus Galaxy" taken by the Hubble

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 06:36 AM (vd8XM)

790 Has the shooting started yet?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 06:36 AM (NVYyb)

791 You did good, teej. Healthy baby and mom are what matter.

Must be something going around. We got a new baby across the back fence last night. I heard once that a baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. Seems right.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 06:37 AM (XxJt1)

792 Bruce

No. Because I have to overcome my shyness.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:37 AM (u82oZ)

793 If you live in New York, your chance of dying of coronavirus is 11 times higher than if you live in Georgia. The numbers change depending on the relative states, of course, but the most predictive factor is whether you prefer blue or red.
Posted by: Axeman at May 13, 2020 03:33 AM (Eicbe)

Even in NYS,there's a difference between upstate and. NYC and environs.

Posted by: Fox 2! at May 13, 2020 06:38 AM (qyH+l)

794 creeper

Babies are voting for the future, one conception and birth at a time. A good concept. I'm stealing it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:38 AM (u82oZ)

795 Fox 2!

We can use data and reason all we want. Power overcomes all that. For a while.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:39 AM (u82oZ)

796

Did good, creeper?

No. I was a self embarrassing wreck yesterday.
Glad no one saw it in person.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 06:41 AM (l1wsb)

797 G'mornin', Salty. Just the new baby across the fence story.

Wilbur's gone. Vet in Iowa could not overcome the osteomyelitis. The house is pigless and will stay so. Losing three pigs in three years has convinced me this is not to be.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 06:41 AM (XxJt1)

798 Stevie Winwood, Eric Clapton and about five other guitars (including Derek Trucks!) along with a few back up singers...good for whatever ails you!

Thanks MisHum. Wonderful video.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 06:42 AM (NVYyb)

799 mornin yall. There's a moose on Bing. if it sees it's shadow the country stays closed for six more months.

Posted by: freaked at May 13, 2020 06:42 AM (Tnijr)

800 {{{...... creeper......}}}

Please accept my condolences.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:43 AM (u82oZ)

801 'Memba when those dumb hicks in Florida and Georgia were going to lose 50 MILLION TRILLION BAZILLION people because they opened back up?

New cases in Florida: down 14%.
New cases in Georgia: down 12%.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 06:44 AM (mNq/0)

802 "Drag queen and Emmy-winning host RuPaul helped CBS's The Price Is Right raise nearly $100,000 for Planned Parenthood"

A day of reckoning is coming. Not soon enough.

Posted by: freaked at May 13, 2020 06:46 AM (Tnijr)

803 Rodrigo Borgia

Sunshine >>> Covid-19 Wuhan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

804 Drag queen and Emmy-winning host RuPaul helped CBS's The Price Is Right raise nearly $100,000 for Planned Parenthood

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Holy sh*t.

I'm old enough to remember when they just encouraged welfare recipients to spay and neuter their PETS.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fewer than 1,000 healthcare workers WORLDWIDE have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 06:48 AM (L+kF6)

805 Hard to believe Winwood has been a rock star since he was 17 years old. He might just be the only recorded instance of man to last that long without getting fatally hooked on drugs, busting up a hotel room or three along the way, getting arrested with a fifteen year old, or other such regular nonsense in the music star world.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 06:49 AM (NVYyb)

806 'Memba when those dumb hicks in Florida and Georgia were going to lose 50 MILLION TRILLION BAZILLION people because they opened back up?

New cases in Florida: down 14%.
New cases in Georgia: down 12%.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Damn rednecks can't even count. You gonna believe them?

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 06:50 AM (vd8XM)

807

Sorry about Wilbur, creeper.
Time for a good dog that can look after you?

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 06:51 AM (l1wsb)

808 I used to watch the Price is Right occasionally to catch a glimpse of Janice - so it's been a while. I don't think the PP thing hurts them in any way because I'm pretty sure their core audience is FSA anyway.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 13, 2020 06:52 AM (xceTB)

809 Thanks, Salty.

The neighbor who gave me Wilbur tried to talk me into raising an orphaned fawn the other day. I hung tough. A free-range guinea pig is one thing but I'm not up to a free-range deer.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 06:52 AM (XxJt1)

810 801 'Memba when those dumb hicks in Florida and Georgia were going to lose 50 MILLION TRILLION BAZILLION people because they opened back up?

New cases in Florida: down 14%.
New cases in Georgia: down 12%.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 06:44 AM (mNq/0)

We have other statistics. Government approved scientifically unchallangeable statistics, Grandma Killer.

Posted by: Blue State Governors at May 13, 2020 06:53 AM (dTvzp)

811 creeper

Very smart.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

812 I saw a report from Fidelity Investments yesterday saying all but eleven states have dramatic declines in new Chines Attack Flu Virus cases. Even the 11 states with higher than 1 R0 factors were barely above that number. That fact, combined with a new UK study highlighted by lefty Scott Gottleib yesterday, which says that herd immunity for this disease seems to be occurring at very unusually low rates (approx 20%, according to the researchers), suggests we ought to hear the blessed words "play ball!" pretty fucking soon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 06:53 AM (NVYyb)

813 Actually Winwood - who is awesome - joined Spencer Davis Group at 13 or 14 I believe.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 13, 2020 06:54 AM (xceTB)

814 creeper

May your life be filled with more blessings.

I do so look forward to seeing you in October.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

815 which says that herd immunity for this disease seems to be occurring at very unusually low rates (approx 20%, according to the researchers), suggests we ought to hear the blessed words "play ball!" pretty fucking soon.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Not without our blessings..

Gov Spanky and Mayor Buckwheat

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 06:55 AM (vd8XM)

816 Not to worry, TeeJ. I've been adopted by another cat, bringing the complement back up to four. Siamese sort...motor like a V8.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 06:56 AM (XxJt1)

817 Time to go.

Have a blessed day everyone. May the sun shine on you and kill any bad stuff on outdoor surfaces.
We are holding the lamp high for the rest of darkened America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2020 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

818 I love it when the commies start stabbing each other in the back.

Now Comrade Jared Polis in Colorado is publicly blowing Elon Musk on Twatter, attempting to poach the Tesla factory for his state.

The Karen screeching in the comments is a thing of beauty.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 06:57 AM (mNq/0)

819 "I'm old enough to remember when they just encouraged welfare recipients to spay and neuter their PETS."

In the picture on Breitbart, the woman with Ru Paul on the Price is Right has on a tshirt that says "Reading Is Fundamental".

Posted by: freaked at May 13, 2020 06:58 AM (Tnijr)

820 Me too thee, Salty.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 06:58 AM (XxJt1)

821 733 americanthinker.com/the wuhan virus lockdown is a colossal blunder
https://tinyurl.com/ydefx6fy
Posted by: Skip at May 13, 2020 05:21 AM (ZCEU2)

Good article. Gonna pass that link around today. Thanks.

Posted by: jsg at May 13, 2020 06:58 AM (dTvzp)

822 Now Comrade Jared Polis in Colorado is publicly blowing Elon Musk on Twatter, attempting to poach the Tesla factory for his state.

The factory that I worked at for the large multinational, would remind the union workers around contract time that the machinery was only bolted to the floor.
Easy enough to move

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 06:59 AM (vd8XM)

823 > Easy enough to move

Indeed it is.

I don't expect Musk to go to Colorado, though. As someone said, he's probably looking for less communism, not more.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 07:01 AM (mNq/0)

824 > I saw a report from Fidelity Investments yesterday saying all but eleven states have dramatic declines in new Chines Attack Flu Virus cases.

Insty posted something the other day about how, of the five states with the highest rates of ChiComCrud, all five were run by Dems.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 07:02 AM (mNq/0)

825 China declares war on Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW0QC8EQJ2A

Posted by: The Otters at May 13, 2020 07:03 AM (AHq56)

826 As someone said, he's probably looking for less communism, not more.

Posted by: Rodrigo

Where ever he winds up, I sincerely hope he leaves that Cali socialism in Cali.

'morning everyone.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 13, 2020 07:04 AM (VcFUs)

827
Where ever he winds up, I sincerely hope he leaves that Cali socialism in Cali.

'morning everyone.
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 13, 2020 07:04 AM (VcFUs)

Like how the rest of the people fleeing blue states never bring their shit to their new state.

Posted by: jsg at May 13, 2020 07:07 AM (dTvzp)

828 Now Comrade Jared Polis in Colorado is publicly blowing Elon Musk on Twatter, attempting to poach the Tesla factory for his state.

This time, we'll get this shit right!

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 07:08 AM (vd8XM)

829 824 > I saw a report from Fidelity Investments yesterday saying all but eleven states have dramatic declines in new Chines Attack Flu Virus cases.

Insty posted something the other day about how, of the five states with the highest rates of ChiComCrud, all five were run by Dems.
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Seems Blue States are very sickly.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 13, 2020 07:08 AM (t/lJk)

830

Out.
And sorry I missed you, Shopgirl.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 13, 2020 07:09 AM (l1wsb)

831 OMG! There's rain in our forecast every day for the next week. The hills haven't quit draining in months. On the up side, the trees have gone nuts with numbers and size of new leaves. It's beautiful up here.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 07:10 AM (XxJt1)

832 Not sure I want Tesla in Texas, but Musk should relocate his HQ to Austin which is already too liberal to save and his factory just up I35 to Kileen/Temple area - big railhead, a stone's throw to the Houston port and near Fort Hood re a labor pool.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 13, 2020 07:11 AM (xceTB)

833 That 'match the lids' thing is hysterical...and one we can all relate to.

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:12 AM (O+I8R)

834 Well, I just posted a comment at a site infested with lefties to ask them, given everything we now know about Kung Pao Sicken, what additional information would change their minds about the need for draconian measures? I'll check back later to see how much I've been flamed.

I was actually really measured and calm in the comment when what I really want to do is scream HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I'm getting really close to snapping at work because this is INSANE.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 13, 2020 07:12 AM (rWZ8Y)

835 In Nancy's Bill :

Student Loan Forgiveness, Environmental Justice Grants, Voiding Trump's Tax Cuts, Fraud By Mail, and LGBT Training.

What's not to love?

Posted by: jsg at May 13, 2020 07:13 AM (dTvzp)

836 and LGBT Training.

What are they gonna train them to do?

Fetch?

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 07:13 AM (vd8XM)

837 Morning all

Fuck all Sullivans ( just to be safe )

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2020 07:13 AM (85Gof)

838 > What's not to love?

Does it have the slogan "A $13 pint of ice cream in every $8,000 freezer"?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 07:14 AM (mNq/0)

839 I saw a report from Fidelity Investments yesterday saying all but eleven states have dramatic declines in new Chines Attack Flu Virus cases.

Insty posted something the other day about how, of the five states with the highest rates of ChiComCrud, all five were run by Dems.
-----------------------------
Seems Blue States are very sickly.

====

All the more funny remembering back to the beginning of this nightmare. Back when many Twatter Psychos were wishing mass death upon red states. Oopsie.

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:14 AM (O+I8R)

840 What are they gonna train them to do?

Fetch?
Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 07:13 AM (vd8XM)

How to Lesbian better and stuff.

Posted by: jsg at May 13, 2020 07:15 AM (dTvzp)

841 Pelosi delivering her plan was creepy - I don't think she can blink anymore and what is up with her eyebrows? They look like the Golden Arches.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 13, 2020 07:16 AM (xceTB)

842 Actually Winwood - who is awesome - joined Spencer Davis Group at 13 or 14 I believe.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 13, 2020 06:54 AM (xceTB)

================
Yes indeed. I was thinking of when he had his first chart topping recording. I remember him once saying he played Hammond organ on stage with BB King for the first time when he was around ten or eleven. He couldn't exactly recall, since he was playing lots of bars with lots of people by that time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 07:17 AM (NVYyb)

843 How to Lesbian better and stuff.
Posted by: jsg

I think I saw that video!

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 07:17 AM (vd8XM)

844 Maybe Trump will have some fun with Nancy's lefty-palooza $3Trillion bill. He should have a heyday on twatterz with it. Again, show people what she's focused on, vs. real help for Americans.

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:17 AM (O+I8R)

845 Apparently, Barack Obamas leaked call was a dog whistle for Judge Sullivan to act.
Or, maybe the two communicated by other means since last Thursday?

His actions are corrupt as hell.

There was a time I would have laughed at these conspiracy theories...not so much any more

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2020 07:19 AM (85Gof)

846 Looks like the results in CA-25 (the "throuple" chick's former district) are going to be:

Garcia (R): 55.7%
Smith (D): 44.3%

This is in California, mind you, after weeks of attempts at blaming the ChiComCrud on Trump.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 07:19 AM (mNq/0)

847 President hasn't tweeted anything this morning and it's after 7:00.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 13, 2020 07:20 AM (sGotD)

848 Poor J.J. He must be drowning in news articles to sort through.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 07:20 AM (XxJt1)

849 Bonjour, fappeurs!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 13, 2020 07:22 AM (NWiLs)

850 Wait, Skanky Katie's seat went R??

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:23 AM (O+I8R)

851 Porr JJ is right. Yesterday's news was a fricking torrent of crazy. I can't even imagine what his editorial rant will look like. For me, maybe (maybe!) short of calling for open violent assaults on the court, anything is possible.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 07:23 AM (NVYyb)

852 lesbian butter ?

some new product in the stores ?

g'mornin' everyone !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 13, 2020 07:24 AM (cqteU)

853 President hasn't tweeted anything this morning and it's after 7:00
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The President is waiting to see what JJS has to say.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 07:24 AM (NVYyb)

854 > Wait, Skanky Katie's seat went R??

Yes, it did, and in a near-landslide to boot.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 07:25 AM (mNq/0)

855 Yes, it did, and in a near-landslide to boot.

==

WOW! Somehow, I don't think that flip is going to make the news.

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:25 AM (O+I8R)

856 The seat Chunk Uglier thought he had a shot at went landslide R.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 13, 2020 07:26 AM (oVJmc)

857 WOW! Somehow, I don't think that flip is going to make the news.
Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:25 AM (O+I8R)

Well they asked biden about it and he said " Is it November already? How'd I do? "

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2020 07:27 AM (85Gof)

858 > The seat Chunk Uglier thought he had a shot at went landslide R.

I've been calling him Chunk "6%" Uglier lately. Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 07:27 AM (mNq/0)

859 'Morning, Insom. Your briefcase is by the door. Don't forget lunch money.

What? You're WFH? Surely that can't be the way you planned your re-employment.

Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 07:28 AM (XxJt1)

860 > Somehow, I don't think that flip is going to make the news.

It definitely will not be the lead story. :-)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 07:28 AM (mNq/0)

861
Is COLON sunbathing a thing now? Outside of a dog a book is a wonderful thing,Inside of a semi;Colon is an Oxford COMA?

Posted by: saf at May 13, 2020 07:28 AM (5IHGB)

862 Yeah, somebody should have some fun twatting Chunk today with those final R vs. D stats for that seat, just to needle him. Doesn't take much for him to blow his top.

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:29 AM (O+I8R)

863 855 Yes, it did, and in a near-landslide to boot.

==

WOW! Somehow, I don't think that flip is going to make the news.
Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:25 AM (O+I8R)

-------------------------------

Well, as far as I can tell, nobody has called it yet. Looks good for the R, but it's all mail-in voting, so the fraud may not have kicked in yet.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 13, 2020 07:29 AM (CAJOC)

864 and LGBT Training.

What are they gonna train them to do?

Fetch?

Posted by: Bruce at May 13, 2020 07:13 AM (vd8XM)

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Catch.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 07:30 AM (ADuZP)

865 Mornin'

One very cool Steve Winwood project that doesn't get nearly enough love is STOMU YAMASH'TA's "GO" album.

This mid-70s album featured loads of guests who wouldn't seem to belong on the same album together: a Japaenese percussionist, Al DiMeola, Santana drummer Michael Shrieve, German synth pioneer Klaus Shulze (and how the hell did HE get involved in this?) Pat Thrall, Traffic bassist Roscoe Gee...even Junior Marvin.

It's rock, it's jazz, it's space-rock weirdness all rolled into one, and it's all good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(Go_album)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2020 07:31 AM (+7yf7)

866 > Yeah, somebody should have some fun twatting Chunk today with those final R vs. D stats for that seat, just to needle him.

Oh, he's already fuming on Twatter about how "we" should've won because "we" had more people.

6% is not "more people", Chunk.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 07:31 AM (mNq/0)

867 My mom says that lots of women are perfectly happy with 6%.

Posted by: Chunk Uglier at May 13, 2020 07:32 AM (H5knJ)

868 859 'Morning, Insom. Your briefcase is by the door. Don't forget lunch money.

What? You're WFH? Surely that can't be the way you planned your re-employment.
Posted by: creeper at May 13, 2020 07:28 AM (XxJt1)

Heh. No, it wasn't. It's a little weird starting a new job without actually being at the office.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 13, 2020 07:32 AM (NWiLs)

869 > Looks good for the R, but it's all mail-in voting, so the fraud may not have kicked in yet.

The mail-in votes have already been counted.

Garcia's lead is widening further as the in-person votes are counted.

This is way outside the margin of fraud.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 13, 2020 07:32 AM (mNq/0)

870 how weird is that, I was thinking about Stomu Yamash'ta just the other day.

gotta look that album up

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 13, 2020 07:33 AM (cqteU)

871 Never even heard of "Go"! Just put it on. Let's see if my wife notices.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 07:34 AM (NVYyb)

872 Mornin' Horden, Fine photo of Orion.

Posted by: FrodoB-
cause I am at May 13, 2020 07:34 AM (dQF3z)

873 Article about Hill's district says they'll still be receiving votes (from LA county) until Friday due to the vote-by-mail BS.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 13, 2020 07:35 AM (oVJmc)

874 G'morning' all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 13, 2020 07:36 AM (3D/fK)

875 Looks like there are still 100 precincts to report.

A Winston Wolf quote seems prudent at this juncture

Posted by: jsg at May 13, 2020 07:36 AM (dTvzp)

876 A lot of seats in cali looked R in 2018, but by the time the ballot harvesting count was done they flipped D. It took days to get the count, the numbers will change, how much.. hard to say

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 13, 2020 07:37 AM (NI4rU)

877 870 how weird is that, I was thinking about Stomu Yamash'ta just the other day.

gotta look that album up

I really dig it. Hadn't heard it in years when it popped up in my YouTube recommendations. I found that I liked it a whole lot more now that I did back then.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2020 07:40 AM (+7yf7)

878 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2020 07:40 AM (xT+ue)

879 A lot of seats in cali looked R in 2018, but by the time the ballot harvesting count was done they flipped D. It took days to get the count, the numbers will change, how much.. hard to say

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I'll guess: 10.5%...for the Ds.

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:41 AM (O+I8R)

880 Chinese and Iranian hacking of biomedical facilities and universities working on a vaccine is an act of war.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2020 07:42 AM (VpIIl)

881 How to Lesbian better and stuff.

I remember when Ace "accidentally" posted that video.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 13, 2020 07:43 AM (6XLoz)

882 Wouldn't be shocked if the Dems mostly wrote off the special election. It's only going to be for what, 5 months and with this all happening Pelosi seems very happy to not be in DC if at all possible. So they might have just said to screw the special election and keep all the money and campaigning back for the actual election.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 13, 2020 07:43 AM (G2zl5)

883 the numbers will change, how much.. hard to say

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How much you need?

- Democrats

Posted by: Moron Robbie - only 1,000 healthcare workers worldwide have died from COVID-19 at May 13, 2020 07:43 AM (ADuZP)

884 Will no one rid us of this European virus???

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:43 AM (O+I8R)

885 The President is waiting to see what JJS has to say.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 07:24 AM (NVYyb)
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Of course! Why didn't I think of that?

Posted by: IrishEi at May 13, 2020 07:45 AM (sGotD)

886 "885 The President is waiting to see what JJS has to say.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 13, 2020 07:24 AM (NVYyb)
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Of course! Why didn't I think of that?

Posted by: IrishEi at May 13, 2020 07:45 AM (sGotD) "

Your keyboards to His ears !

If only !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 13, 2020 07:47 AM (cqteU)

887 the lesson for Trump - you just think you're going full throttle, everything you got on Obama and Co. needs to go public, fast! Burn it all down, let it all go. No limits, protect no one, not McCain, not Ryan, not even Lindsey Graham if he was in on it. Everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 13, 2020 07:47 AM (V2Yro)

888 Apparently, Barack Obamas leaked call was a dog whistle for Judge Sullivan to act.
Or, maybe the two communicated by other means since last Thursday?
His actions are corrupt as hell.
There was a time I would have laughed at these conspiracy theories...not so much any more
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2020 07:19 AM (85Gof)
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I have no doubt. Also, Sullivan and Holder are good friends and Holder piped up with his opinion yesterday too. Would not surprise me if Holder actually suggested this move to Sullivan.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 13, 2020 07:48 AM (sGotD)

889 148 I am really sick of Ace and the cobs buying into the left's definition of "law and order". Sorry, that's not what we have when we see arbitrary and irresponsible (in both senses) government action. But you guys seem to think that power = law and order.

That's just stupid.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (ZbwAu)
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I believe you have it backward. My take on Ace and the Cobs is that they see power wielded by LEOs in an arbitrary and irresponsible manner as being the antithesis of law and order.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 12, 2020 10:26 PM (WFcrO)
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That explicitly contradicts what Ace said recently and actually contradicts what is said in the OP, which I quoted.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 13, 2020 07:48 AM (ZbwAu)

890 nood !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 13, 2020 07:48 AM (cqteU)

891 Also, Sullivan and Holder are good friends

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You are kidding. Well, that seals it then in my mind.

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 13, 2020 07:49 AM (O+I8R)

892 JJ's awake!

Posted by: IrishEi at May 13, 2020 07:50 AM (sGotD)

893 215 Posted by: Eeyore at May 12, 2020 10:15 PM (ZbwAu)

I don't think that you have been paying attention. In general, we are reflexively anti-government-power, no matter how you define it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 12, 2020 10:41 PM (dLLD6)
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You know perfectly well I have been paying attention. And you confirm what I say. My vice, as many have pointed out, is being over-picky. (Although I do not believe Ace is as libertarian as you or most of the other cobs.)

1. Yes, you are reflexively anti-government power. That is the problem. It is clearly a gut-level reaction, not an intellectual one. That is a problem which has been growing on this site for the past couple of years.

2. If that were taken seriously, you would have to applaud the stand-downs of the police in places like Portland. Or - as I called you on in the Morning Rant - in LA in the Rodney King riots.

3. That position, if taken with any consistency, is a flat out denial of belief in the rule of law. Frankly, this should be too obvious to have to argue. But I guess it's necessary.

If the government does not enforce the law, you are left with only non-government agents for protection. Which is why your Rant statement that vigilantism has no place here. If neither governments nor private defense are permitted, you have the rule of power.

4. The extent to which Marxist and neo-Marxist views of power, class, and law underlie most of the posts here is dismaying. That road CANNOT lead to understanding.

5. All this is the product of something that I've seen here over the past 2 years. The site is less funny and much less thoughtful than it was. I cannot say how long it's been since - outside the book thread comments - I've seen something that made me stop and think. (The last I recall was Ace's very wise discussion on the difference between self-interest and self___ or respect. A view he seems to have been edging away from.)

The humor too, has suffered. Too many comments are just repeating the same taunts used for 3 years not. Sure Jonah is fat, drunk, and stupid. But there are just so many times you can mock the "sooper-expert" Nichols crap before it gets old.

The worst thing is that this is not new to me. I saw it about 20 years ago at NR, when Lowry took over. Less diversity of opinion led to less intelligent discussion. And it got down to only Florence King for a reliable laugh. Part of the reason is similar - just as most energy is spent on defending Trump, NR then was intent on defending Bush. OK, Trump is better. But while I cannot claim to prove the diagnosis is the same, the symptoms sure are similar.

I haven't yet decided to give up this site. But I've been thinking about it.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 13, 2020 08:06 AM (ZbwAu)

894 I so wanted that bear to eat her. Is that bad?

Posted by: Grizzly Adams's Razor at May 13, 2020 04:34 PM (iXK+X)

895 HE'S DEAD JIM

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 13, 2020 04:42 PM (FLiOE)

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