The Morning Rant

I probably should have included this as one of my proverbs last time:

There are three things that baffle me, yea four things I do not understand.

Because certain aspects of government and politics impress me as being completely dysfunctional and I just don't see why they need to be this way.

For example, why is it so difficult to pass a Covid relief bill? Not that I want one, all that we're doing is piling an another trillion dollars onto our our already ridiculously bloated national debt that will eventually have to be paid by some Chinese guy, but I don't understand all of the wrangling and fighting that's going on. It should be a no-brainer:

1. Determine how much money FedGov should put into the pot.
2. Find out from the IRS how many American citizens are eligible to receive relief money.
3. You might have to jiggle with (1) and (2) a bit to come up with reasonable numbers, but that's OK.
4. Divide (1) by (2) to get the per-person amount.
5. Send the per-person amount to everyone who is eligible.
6. The end.

There. Now, was that so hard? But I keep hearing about how the relief bill has to have things like $25 million to refurbish the Kennedy Center and $40 million to teach gender studies in Pakistan, and I think, why are these things in a Covid relief bill? What do they have to do with providing relief to Americans whose jobs or businesses have suffered losses due to the pandemic? And why is seemingly every member of congress trying to shoehorn his or her pet spending project into the bill? And I "seemingly" because I'm hearing *not one* voice in Washington complain about this. Oh, I've heard protests over this or that item, but I have yet to hear anyone say, "every dollar in this bill needs to go to American taxpayers and that's the end of it. Now, let's get busy and pass the bill and get the money sent out."

But it never happens that way. In order for things to get done in Washington DC, many palms must be greased (hey, another proverb!). I guess that's just how things are done. About the only thing we can do is complain about it. The only thing we can do is to point out how much money reaches the American taxpayer as a percentage of the total amount that is actually allocated. Kind of like how charities are evaluated, that is, how much of your donation will actually go to help starving children in third-world countries and how much goes to "administrative" costs. After a certain point, if the "administrative" costs climb pass 30%, 50% and higher, it's really not a charity any more, it's a scam.

As I said, I really don't want a Covid relief bill. But it looks like we're going to get one, anyway. If Trump were still president, there'd be a chance that the 'scam' spending might be minimized. But not now. With Sleepy Joe at the helm, all of the spigots have been cranked wide open.

America Right Now:

Well, This Instagram Certainly Did Not Age Well:

Who Dis:

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Photo 3 (leggy!)
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Photo 6 (leggy!)
Photo 7

For the 'Ettes:

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Wednesday Who Dis: British actors Elizabeth Hurley and Gregg Sulkin have appeared in the Marvel's Runaways TV series.

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Pinto Beans & Ham:

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Ham and bean recipe available here.

Also cornbread recipes.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:13 AM

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1 first

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:13 AM (8D42x)

2 and i'd love some beans and ham. good meal for todays weather

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:14 AM (8D42x)

3 Nope, no idea on the mystery guests today. Good choices, though!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 26, 2021 11:14 AM (yvr3o)

4 corgis called

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:14 AM (8D42x)

5 5th

Posted by: The msm at February 26, 2021 11:15 AM (JUOKG)

6 th

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2021 11:15 AM (H7O7Y)

7 Top 10 ish?

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at February 26, 2021 11:15 AM (QljLv)

8 The covid relief bill is NOT a covid relief bill. It's a way for government people to get money. The "covid relief" stuff is there as a fig leaf, because if Washington was honest and called the bills things like "The I Want More Money Act of 2021 and Plus My Family Wants Some Too" voters might go "Hmmm."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2021 11:16 AM (E+OcO)

9 Mark Spitz

Posted by: 80's music fan at February 26, 2021 11:16 AM (glGDV)

10 Happy Friday, Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2021 11:16 AM (a4EWo)

11 Myrna Loy & Ted Danson!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:16 AM (wyNrR)

12 You need a recipe for ham and beans?....ok.

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2021 11:17 AM (AwYPR)

13 Who Dis: ???

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 26, 2021 11:17 AM (ch6++)

14 who dis is lovely too. i'd let her feed me that meal.

and the ham and beans needs a bit of ketchup for extra flavor.

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (8D42x)

15 and i'd love some beans and ham. good meal for todays weather
Posted by: SturmToddler

Great Northern or Navy beans and ham with hot, buttered cornbread.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (wyNrR)

16 "God's will is no concern of this Congress." - Jerry Nadler

Posted by: Bastard Biden at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (3aI0K)

17 Don't know who she is but she is classy!

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (P7Iz+)

18 Congress hasn't even passed an actual budget in 20 years, you think they're even capable of passing a clean relief bill?

Posted by: brak at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (cG+eD)

19 Carb-a-rama

Posted by: Count de Monet in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (4I/2K)

20 That washer machine thingy is disturbing. Why do that?!

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (iDGpQ)

21 Our lady mystery guest has pretty nice hind paws.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 26, 2021 11:19 AM (yvr3o)

22 The covid relief bill is NOT a covid relief bill. It's a way for government people to get money. The "covid relief" stuff is there as a fig leaf, because if Washington was honest and called the bills things like "The I Want More Money Act of 2021 and Plus My Family Wants Some Too" voters might go "Hmmm."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2021 11:16 AM (E+OcO)

good point, once you realize the whole point is to make themselves and their friends richer, you start to see why these bills take forever to write, are longer than the bible, and less legible than the rantings of a 2 year old written down...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:19 AM (8D42x)

23 She's right out there on the fringes of oh-I've-seen-her-somewheres-before.

He seems to have picked up all the worst of the 70's.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 26, 2021 11:19 AM (dfRN6)

24 Joe Biden is an evil person and his brain is broken.

Posted by: Eli Cash at February 26, 2021 11:19 AM (SScvq)

25 Have no-eyed deer who SheDat is, but she gets two Hubbas from me.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:19 AM (HaL55)

26 and i'd love some beans and ham. good meal for todays weather
Posted by: SturmToddler

Great Northern or Navy beans and ham with hot, buttered cornbread.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (wyNrR)

slash of tobasco and a bit of ketchup and it's a perfect meal.

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:20 AM (8D42x)

27 That sub place has a real sense of humor.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 26, 2021 11:20 AM (Zm+LZ)

28 Mark Spitz?

Posted by: CN at February 26, 2021 11:20 AM (ONvIw)

29 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 26, 2021 11:20 AM (arJlL)

30
*Gorilla*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 26, 2021 11:20 AM (yKjsG)

31 Back to building the not yet released to the general public HK Models 1/48 B-17F "Memphis Belle."

Hoping to see resin/PE engines, wheels, and gun barrels either today or tomorrow. PE sets for radio compartment and waist area due Monday.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (ytRtA)

32 Pinto beans are only good for refried beans, borracho beans or ranch style beans.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (wyNrR)

33 Baksheesh for Turkmenistani Tribal Leaders: $50 million

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (nakwk)

34 She Who Dis #6 can crush me with those thighs whenever.

Posted by: Count de Monet in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (4I/2K)

35 Don't know who she is but she is classy!
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (P7Iz+)

i'm constantly amazed at how they always managed classy, even when the shot wasn't especially that way.

and todays women can't, even when the shoot is especially classy...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (8D42x)

36 Wolfus Aurelius

There must be a well hidden foot fiend here. Quinton T, what is your nic?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (u82oZ)

37 20 That washer machine thingy is disturbing. Why do that?!

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 26, 2021 11:18 AM (iDGpQ)

Out of fireworks.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (xfb67)

38 27

Tho many places now do a hair test... & the feather mite make 4 an awkward moment ... (!!)

Posted by: Buckaroo at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (T+o4n)

39 nope, not Hedy

Posted by: REDACTED at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (6iURM)

40 She dat is lovely.

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at February 26, 2021 11:22 AM (QljLv)

41 Gurpgork!

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 26, 2021 11:22 AM (nakwk)

42 That's Hedley...

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2021 11:22 AM (ytRtA)

43 Ham & Lima Beans are the undisputed champion!

Posted by: C-Rats at February 26, 2021 11:22 AM (DMUuz)

44 39 nope, not Hedy
Posted by: REDACTED at February 26, 2021 11:21 AM (6iURM)

=========

It's Hedly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:22 AM (LvTSG)

45 good point, once you realize the whole point is to make themselves and
their friends richer, you start to see why these bills take forever to
write, are longer than the bible, and less legible than the rantings of a
2 year old written down...
If anyone thinks that this pathetic mindset will ever change in District of Chyna, I have a nice bridge to sell you, cheap.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:22 AM (HaL55)

46 19 Carb-a-rama
Posted by: Count de Monet

That's just what I was thinking. Ooof.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (W2Pud)

47 He dat is Mark Spitz - so is that his mom?

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (QljLv)

48 because if Washington was honest and called the bills things like "The I Want More Money Act of 2021 and Plus My Family Wants Some Too" voters might go "Hmmm."

I don't believe they would based on their voting patterns. You could name this bill The George Floyd Memorial Fill Your Ass With As Much Fentanyl As You Can Buy Act or H.R. 1: A Bill To Gib Me Dat and the hundreds of millions of man-baby voters of this nation would just fart and go back to browsing porn.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (H5knJ)

49 Anna Puma

Are you an Alfa Testor?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (u82oZ)

50 Who Dis is Daryl Hall and John Oates. They were in a band together, but I forget the name of it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (E+OcO)

51 Man is Mark Spitz. No idea on woman.

Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (v16oJ)

52 Currency to be reissued with "in somebody or another we trust"

Posted by: Bastard Biden at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (3aI0K)

53 Dammit, he IS Mark Spitz! I'da said that first thing but I thought, "No, he must be an actor PLAYING Mark Spitz".

Clever Ol' GP.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (dfRN6)

54 Hey The James Madison...I mentioned in yesterday's thread that I saw the new Pitch Meeting for Prometheus.

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (iDGpQ)

55 28 Mark Spitz?
Posted by: CN at February 26, 2021 11:20 AM (ONvIw)

Yes, but late. See #8.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:24 AM (1eoWp)

56 That washing machine does exactly what ours does. Every time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 26, 2021 11:25 AM (3H9h1)

57 Re: the covid relief bill buffoonery and incompetence... made me think of that essay at medium that (I think) ace linked to a few weeks ago: Everything is Broken.

I can't think of a major institution in the country that isn't horribly dysfunctional: government, media, churches, corporations, sports, education... and on and on...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2021 11:25 AM (pcsoT)

58 @55 you mean See #9.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2021 11:25 AM (E+OcO)

59 Ham and bean recipe too complicated. It really much simpler to make good ham 'n beans.

I'll use my mom's recipe with some white vinegar at the table when served.

Posted by: Justsayin' at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (Fs5vw)

60 If that's Mark Spitz, she must be Esther Williams, his inspiration

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (m45I2)

61 The government shut the private economy down for over a year. No school teacher, cop or government employee of any type miss a paycheck during this time. Also, welfare payments of every program, federal, state and local, sent their checks out every week.

The rich seem to have weathered the shutdown well.

So, if the poor, the government and the rich all maintained or improved their position, who got totally fucked? It must have been us.

Of course there needs to be stimulus to bring the private economy (that pays for everything else) back. That is why I put forward a plan that sells off government assets and pays out money in the form of paying off the national debt, along with mortgage, consumer and student debt. This would pump the funds directly into the middle class where it's needed most.

Posted by: jwest at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (/BlEx)

62 46 19 Carb-a-rama
Posted by: Count de Monet

That's just what I was thinking. Ooof.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (W2P

Comfort food.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (1eoWp)

63 I can see why nobody got the Who Dis.

Hint: if you put the girl in a bathing suit, you would know.

I don't know who the fellow is.

**exits**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (2JVJo)

64 Peggy Fleming and Mark Spitz?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (y7DUB)

65 That washing machine does exactly what ours does. Every time.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Bitches about you never taking it out to dinner?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (wyNrR)

66 That washer machine thingy is disturbing. Why do that?!

Just guessing, but it was probably broken three days after the warranty expired.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not scanning your email to sell you stuff like Google does. at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (SchxB)

67 Man is Mark Spitz.

Posted by: pep at�

He shoulda swallowed!

Posted by: Andrew Dice Clay at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (DnCs/)

68 Nobody going to say Esther Williams and Mark Spitz, Olympic swimming.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (qH6FZ)

69 60 If that's Mark Spitz, she must be Esther Williams, his inspiration

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (m45I2)

Correctomundo, senor!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (1eoWp)

70 Government does not wish to solve problems. They wish to reward their favored patrons with our money. Every time I hear a government official speak they remind us how complex governing is. Which is a lie. Government is only complex because government officials have layered artificial, opaque and idiotic rules over the process and then pretend they cannot remove the artificial, opaque and idiotic rules they created.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (+Kpte)

71 Salty Dawg, nope. Simply lucky to find a South Korean seller on eBay who had it whilst everyone else is going 'hey you can pre-order it!'

All the after market stuff using is intended for either the Monogram or HK Models B-17G. But its a Flying Fortress so stuff am using will work.

Since the AFM installed the bolt on armor plates at the waist positions for the real Memphis Belle still need to make that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2021 11:27 AM (ytRtA)

72 Read my new book - Killing Grandma

Posted by: Bill O'Reilly at February 26, 2021 11:27 AM (63Dwl)

73 That sub place has a real sense of humor.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 26, 2021 11:20 AM (Zm+LZ)

And I would bet dollars to donuts that shot was taken on East Colfax in Denver, facing west.

Posted by: Old Blue - Round Headed Bald Kid at February 26, 2021 11:27 AM (VNmG1)

74 The covid relief bill is only difficult to pass because it's not really a covid relief bill; it's a full funding for leftist orgs bill. The minimum wage, the $2000 on Day 1! and all the other promised goodies are just cards to play in the negotiations.
They hate the American people. They don't care if you are hurting. I also think we don't need it but many folks did not prepare for a rainy day and counted on the Dems. Lesson learned?

Posted by: President-Elect pj at February 26, 2021 11:27 AM (G1dq6)

75 At some point they are going to print so much new money that the best thing you could do for the economy is collect as much as you can and have a bonfire.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 26, 2021 11:27 AM (xfb67)

76 She's very fetching. Pic 7 is great.

Can we get hidden hints, like on the salacious Chess Thread, for some of these more obscure actresses?

Posted by: spindrift at February 26, 2021 11:27 AM (h5TKJ)

77 Esther Williams

Posted by: REDACTED at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (6iURM)

78 @kaitlancollins

The White House gaggle aboard Air Force One is delayed because press secretary Jen Psaki says they need to do some prep for President Biden for his trip to Texas.

OY!

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (cF8AT)

79 I believe the best ham and beans recipe is:

1. Look at whatever recipe is at hand.

b. Grimace and lament that someone wanted to waste perfectly good ham in this fashion.

iii. Throw away recipe and make something else.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (H5knJ)

80 That washer machine thingy is disturbing. Why do that?!
Posted by: squeakywheel

To get it to tell where your sock went !

Posted by: JT at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (arJlL)

81 The washing machine lasted longer than I thought it would. The ham and beans look great. A little chopped onion and salsa on top would make them better.

Posted by: huerfano, culturally appropriating at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (DzhEB)

82 Not sure on the girl, but I think the guy is Mark Spitz?

Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (gmo/4)

83 Currency to be reissued with "in somebody or another we trust"
Posted by: Bastard Biden

In CNN We Trust.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (VVEnO)

84 Wow, she's gorgeous. Wyatt likey, Wyatt want wingy!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp, F Biden at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (bkUtD)

85 I can see why nobody got the Who Dis.

Hint: if you put the girl in a bathing suit, you would know.
Posted by: Mary Poppins'

If I put her in a bathing suit, I'd be pulling her right out of it.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (wyNrR)

86 I could tell it was Esther Williams by the wrinkly fingertips and the otitis externa.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (m45I2)

87 Of course there needs to be stimulus to bring the private economy (that pays for everything else) back. That is why I put forward a plan that sells off government assets and pays out money in the form of paying off the national debt, along with mortgage, consumer and student debt. This would pump the funds directly into the middle class where it's needed most.

Posted by: jwest at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (/BlEx)

That's just crazy talk.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (1eoWp)

88 Rick Wilson, yet another punchable face.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (ch6++)

89 The washing machine video-such a man thing-destruction.

Mark Spitz

Posted by: sidney at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (+fjIe)

90 When everyone who wants to enjoy pure Vermont maple syrup on their French Toast can, we will have achieved equality.

Posted by: Marion Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (DMUuz)

91
Who Dis? are Little Debbie and Gerard Depardieu

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (pNxlR)

92 Heh. I thought to myself, "Self, didn't Spitz do a guest appearance on a show like 'Emergency'?"

Looked it up. Damme if he didn't!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (dfRN6)

93 I always have Mark Spitz in my head with that epic 70s porn stache.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work phone at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (7faTs)

94 50 Who Dis is Daryl Hall and John Oates. They were in a band together, but I forget the name of it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (E+OcO)

Napalm Death

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (DTX3h)

95 86 I could tell it was Esther Williams by the wrinkly fingertips and the otitis externa.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (m45I2)

the green hair is a give away

Posted by: REDACTED at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (6iURM)

96 No idea who dis is, but I've noticed a pattern. As we go down the pics, the gal tends to age.. sometimes just a bit, sometimes a lot, and the one consistent pattern is, they go from "fresh faced" to "knowing."

Hollowood... churning up and spitting out starlets for over 100 years now!

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:30 AM (oQ94s)

97 If that's Mark Spitz, she must be Esther Williams, his inspiration
Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021

***

Esther was lovely. It's a shame that when her name is brought up, all anybody thinks of are the movies she did with swimming scenes. And there were plenty of those. But I recall some film she did with a young Ricardo Montalban where swimming was only a small part of the story, and she was quite believable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 26, 2021 11:30 AM (yvr3o)

98 Have you ever tried to bathe me, capitalist running dog?

Posted by: A Marxist at February 26, 2021 11:30 AM (vJCwr)

99 Hi all!
Happy weekend to everyone!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at February 26, 2021 11:30 AM (PoqRU)

100 Did Napalm Death ever open for Five Finger Death Punch?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2021 11:30 AM (ytRtA)

101 Anna Puma,

Are your models on display somewhere, or is there a site with pics?

I used to build, but haven't in many years. The last thing I did similar was build a couple dioramas using GHQ's 285th scale Micro Armor. Tiny things. Made out of pewter I believe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM (3H9h1)

102 Anna Puma

I will add to your extensive list of skills in your dossier. Impressive.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM (u82oZ)

103 Tucker Carlson is going full tilt after Liz Cheney

tinyurl.com/zhhsktnc

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM (y7DUB)

104 Cuomo looks like the mafia thug that never gets invited to dinner at the boss's house.

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM (lgiXo)

105 I like to go swimmin' with bowlegged women ...

Posted by: Count de Monet in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM (4I/2K)

106 Okay, I'm going to infringe on OM's turf, and offer a bonus round: What was Mark Spitz's original choice of a profession after swimming? What did (does) he actually do for a living? No cheating.

Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM (v16oJ)

107 76 She's very fetching. Pic 7 is great.

Can we get hidden hints, like on the salacious Chess Thread, for some of these more obscure actresses?

Posted by: spindrift at February 26, 2021 11:27 AM (h5TKJ)

The problem is, I don't know in advance which ones are going to be hard to guess. I've shown some that I've thought nobody would guess and I see the correct answer by comment 10. Or, like today, I thought she'd be guessed early, but many were stumped.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM (1eoWp)

108 That washing machine will be fine. Just.needs some Gorilla Glue.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 11:32 AM (VVEnO)

109 Who Dis is Daryl Hall and John Oates. They were in a band together, but I forget the name of it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Steely Dan.

* I kill me*

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2021 11:32 AM (Rvt88)

110 like on the salacious Chess Thread
Posted by: spindrift at February 26, 2021 11:27 AM

See?

Posted by: Midwesterner at February 26, 2021 11:32 AM (DMUuz)

111 Every time I see Cuomo I can't help but think we need to get a chromosome count on that guy.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 26, 2021 11:32 AM (xfb67)

112 Mark Spitz's original choice of a profession after swimming? What did (does) he actually do for a living? No cheating.
Posted by: pep

Dentist

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2021 11:32 AM (Rvt88)

113 The best stimulus would be to open the country while telling the truth about the faked-up Chyneez Lung-rot Bioweapon.

I'd have a better chance of getting my pony.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:33 AM (HaL55)

114 106 Okay, I'm going to infringe on OM's turf, and offer a bonus round: What was Mark Spitz's original choice of a profession after swimming? What did (does) he actually do for a living? No cheating.
Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM (v16oJ)

Oh, oh, I know this one, so I won't say, but I'll give a hint:

Smile.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:33 AM (1eoWp)

115
The White House gaggle aboard Air Force One is delayed because press
secretary Jen Psaki says they need to do some prep for President Biden
for his trip to Texas.
Embalming?

Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 11:33 AM (v16oJ)

116 Johnny Weissmuller > Mark Spitz.

Mark had two more gold medals, but Johnny was Tarzan!

Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 11:33 AM (gmo/4)

117 Napalm Death
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (DTX3h)

I like that song of theirs, from that movie where the guy is trying to blow up the little beaver.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:33 AM (oQ94s)

118 Sunflower seeds are sold under the brand name Spitz.

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 26, 2021 11:33 AM (lgiXo)

119 >>>Cuomo looks like the mafia thug that never gets invited to dinner at the boss's house.
Posted by: Northern lurker

Cuomo is Ralph Cifaretto .

Posted by: Wyatt Earp, F Biden at February 26, 2021 11:34 AM (bkUtD)

120 110 like on the salacious Chess Thread
Posted by: spindrift at February 26, 2021 11:27 AM

See?
Posted by: Midwesterner at February 26, 2021 11:32 AM (DMUuz)

Whaddya mean, "salacious"? The Chess thread is NOT "salacious"! Grrrr...

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:34 AM (1eoWp)

121
Darryl Hall has managed to keep himself semi-relevant, but what has John Oates been doing lately? Parking cars in Vegas?

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 26, 2021 11:34 AM (H7O7Y)

122 Is that actually a Biden quote on the Chinese Attack Virus? I looked online and couldn't find it attributed to him anywhere, but given how aggressive the Propaganda Press is in cleaning up his messes, I don't know what to believe sometimes.

In this case, though, he's so dumb I believe he might have said something like this sometime along the way. Anyone know for sure?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 26, 2021 11:34 AM (29q5W)

123 The White House gaggle aboard Air Force One is delayed because press

secretary Jen Psaki says they need to do some prep for President Biden

for his trip to Texas.
Embalming?

Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 11:33 AM (v16oJ)

Double depends and extra tapioca.

Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 11:34 AM (gmo/4)

124 Politics is the art of making the simple complex. That way the people responsible for the hiring and firing of politicians won't know what the hell is going on or who to blame.

That's reason enough to stop farming out our responsibilities out to them. They can't teach our kids and can barely manage the mail. Why give them a damn thing else to do?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 11:34 AM (49Dnm)

125 Napalm Death
GWAR

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (HaL55)

126 >>>For example, why is it so difficult to pass a Covid relief bill?
The traditional justification is logrolling.You have to buy off certain legislators to get their support.
Due to sytemic weaknesses such as lack of accountability for legislation, people's general disinterest with politics, and a completely dumbed-down electorate manipulable by even the most audaciously biased "news" reporting, certain voters - mainly legislators true constituents, donors - have figured out over 250 years that "they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury."

Posted by: 4 at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (KnJdm)

127 The problem is, I don't know in advance which ones are going to be hard to guess.

Yeah, now you mention it, that makes sense.

Posted by: spindrift at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (h5TKJ)

128 Okay, I'm going to infringe on OM's turf, and offer a bonus round: What was Mark Spitz's original choice of a profession after swimming? What did (does) he actually do for a living? No cheating.
Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM

Dentistry.

BTW, one of the regular commenters here worked out with me one summer.

Posted by: Dr. Spitz at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (DMUuz)

129 Mark Spitz's original choice of a profession after swimming? What did (does) he actually do for a living? No cheating.

Posted by: pep
Correct, that was his choice, but he didn't actually go to dental school because he could get buttloads of money just my being him.

Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (v16oJ)

130 Johnny Weissmuller > Mark Spitz.
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Mark had two more gold medals, but Johnny was Tarzan!
Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 11:33 AM (gmo/4)

Didn't Spitz go on to become a doctor?

Dude looked like the greatest porn actor of all time. I hope he didn't go into gynecology, I don't know how the ladies could keep their knickers on.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (oQ94s)

131 The White House gaggle aboard Air Force One is delayed because press
secretary Jen Psaki says they need to do some prep for President Biden
for his trip to Texas.

------

"Hookay, Mr. Prezdint, let's try it again. Here on the map....See this really big chunk down at the bottom with the squared off top and the pointed part on one side?"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (dfRN6)

132 That sub place has a real sense of humor.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead

It needs a third sign saying "no need to return it".

Posted by: mikeski's English teacher who hated people who used "borrow" for "have" at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (P1f+c)

133 The White House gaggle aboard Air Force One is delayed because press secretary Jen Psaki says they need to do some prep for President Biden

Don't know why he's coming. It's been 80 degrees and most every busted water pipe has been fixed.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (wyNrR)

134

INDIANAPOLIS - It's a gut-wrenching reality for many people right now: family members becoming strangers because of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

You've likely heard about QAnon and may think it's only affecting Americans on the fringe.

But 13News talked with everyday Hoosiers whose loved ones bought into the lies.

They wanted to share how it started, why it took hold and how QAnon is tearing families apart.

https://tinyurl.com/y9mlgfcl

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (63Dwl)

135 U.S withdraws opposition to digital tax at G20 meeting: official

The United States withdrew its opposition to the idea of global rules on taxing digital giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook at a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers of the world's top 20 economies on Friday, a G20 official said.
"U.S. Treasury Secretary (Janet) Yellen announced the withdrawal of (the U.S.) safe harbour proposal. It has been welcomed, it is certainly a positive signal," the official said.

Posted by: Bastard Biden at February 26, 2021 11:36 AM (3aI0K)

136
Didn't Spitz go on to become a doctor?

Dentist, I think.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2021 11:36 AM (pNxlR)

137 113 The best stimulus would be to open the country while telling the truth about the faked-up Chyneez Lung-rot Bioweapon.

I'd have a better chance of getting my pony.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:33 AM (HaL55)

===========

"It's not true! Covid is a death sentence!"
-Roughly a third of the nation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:36 AM (LvTSG)

138 100 Did Napalm Death ever open for Five Finger Death Punch?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2021 11:30 AM (ytRtA)

I don't believe so, but I did see them with Sic of it all and Sepultra at the Vic back in '93

Posted by: Inogame at February 26, 2021 11:36 AM (EILju)

139 Esther was lovely. It's a shame that when her name is brought up, all anybody thinks of are the movies she did with swimming scenes. And there were plenty of those. But I recall some film she did with a young Ricardo Montalban where swimming was only a small part of the story, and she was quite believable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 26, 2021 11:30 AM (yvr3o)

Maybe so, but her career basically was over when the public demand for her "aquamusicals" took a dive (heh).

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM (1eoWp)

140 Who Dis is Daryl Hall and John Oates. They were in a band together, but I forget the name of it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2021 11:23 AM (E+OcO)

Napalm Death
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM (DTX3h)

weren't they founding members of Dead Kennedys?

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM (8D42x)

141 secretary Jen Psaki says they need to do some prep for President Biden

I'm picturing Biden running up and down the length of the fuselage yelling, "Naked President!" "Naked President!" while his Secret Service detail tries corner him so that the Chief of Staff can put two Depends on him for the long flight.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM (H5knJ)

142 Darryl Hall has managed to keep himself semi-relevant, but what has John Oates been doing lately? Parking cars in Vegas?
He recently released a blues album.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM (HaL55)

143 The White House gaggle aboard Air Force One is delayed because press secretary Jen Psaki says they need to do some prep for President Biden for his trip to Texas.

A depends blowout.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM (y7DUB)

144 As to Wednesday, Elizabeth Hurley was just so bloody hot (and tall, which is such a nice bonus)...

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM (49Dnm)

145 Maybe so, but her career basically was over when the public demand for her "aquamusicals" took a dive (heh).
Posted by: OregonMuse

But before that, her career was going along swimmingly.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM (Rvt88)

146 The "America Right Now" video is hilarious, but sadly true.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2021 11:38 AM (NpAcC)

147 "$25 million to refurbish the Kennedy Center and $40 million to teach
gender studies in Pakistan, and I think, why are these things in a Covid
relief bill?"

that is easy to understand ... Our grifter congress does nothing good for America without getting a prime cut for their friends (only slightly disguised as some artsy/diversity benevolent cause).

Posted by: illiniwek at February 26, 2021 11:38 AM (Cus5s)

148 The difficulty with the Congress passing a rational intelligently constructed focused bill of any sort.is that if you do that, it is very hard to hide ALL the graft!

Continuing resolutions are the way to go because the graft was so successfully hidden way long time ago in that artificial unConstitutional illegal construct and everyone now just blithely accepts it as "normal", just like wearing masks forever!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at February 26, 2021 11:38 AM (87oRe)

149 Napalm Death
----------
GWAR
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (HaL55)

True story, unless it's been revealed fairly recently, nobody knows who The Residents are. One of the greater bizarro bands of the past few decades, I'm pretty sure even their live "performances" they were disguised in such a way that you just didn't know.

It is presumed, I think, that the makeup of the "band" changed quite a bit over the years, and I think they may still be more or less active, but man... talk about weird.

Is there a chance it's some guys who are otherwise famous? Yeah, could be. I guess.

Maybe others here know more than I do about them.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:39 AM (oQ94s)

150 Jesus, even when he was flipping over the tables to show the moneychangers what's what, was JUST all right.

Posted by: Doobie Brothers at February 26, 2021 11:39 AM (49Dnm)

151 Ricardo Montalban...to my surprise, saw him yesterday in the Prime movie Sayonara, 1957, which I'd missed before in my life somehow. He played a Japanese kabuki actor and was great. Marlon Brando was even okay; enjoyed the movie more than I'd have thought.

Posted by: skywch at February 26, 2021 11:39 AM (Y/Ps0)

152 $40 million to teach gender studies in Pakistan,

What insane Pakistani official asked for money for gender studies?
Don't they have starving people anymore?

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 26, 2021 11:40 AM (lgiXo)

153 Tarzan >>>> Dentist

Johnny swung from trees and got to kiss a half neekid Maureen O'Sullivan. Spitz stuck his fingers in a lot of wet mouths.

Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 11:40 AM (gmo/4)

154 152 $40 million to teach gender studies in Pakistan,

What insane Pakistani official asked for money for gender studies?
Don't they have starving people anymore?
Posted by: Northern lurker at February 26, 2021 11:40 AM (lgiXo)

===========

$38 million to admin costs.
$2 million to establishing an office that has semi-regular meetings with the Pakistani education officials where nothing gets even promised.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

155 "It's not true! Covid is a death sentence!"
-Roughly a third of the nation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:36 AM (LvTSG)

The 99.99+% survival rate is a sure sign of a deadly plague!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (87oRe)

156 Didn't Spitz go on to become a doctor?
----------------------
Dentist, I think.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2021 11:36 AM (pNxlR)

Close enough, they're both always trying to put things in the mouths of kids.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (oQ94s)

157 OK, new plan. We borrow and spend every yuan, renminbi, Euro, peso and dollar we can. Simultaneously open the border and give citizenship in four years to anyone who gets here. In 2024, we all leave. I think we can bum rush the Russians starting in the East. They aren't ready for 150 million or so of us.

We set up shop with a clean balance sheet and everybody keeps their big mouths shut when talking to the Democrats. They'll be left holding the bag.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (Wm5SB)

158 UPS keeps telling me it can't deliver my package in Tulsa due to "severe weather". It's been in the 60s all week. Is Joe going to go out to places long after the crisis is over?

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (5HBd1)

159 155 "It's not true! Covid is a death sentence!"
-Roughly a third of the nation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:36 AM (LvTSG)

The 99.99+% survival rate is a sure sign of a deadly plague!
Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (87oRe)

===========

"I know the friend of a friend who got it and said that she almost died! Like that time she got a really bad flu!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

160 Me have stuff posted online? Nope.

Anyway off to build a Fortress. As I am building finding little goofs because HK first made a G and then reused about 85% of the parts. Tokyo tanks is one example, early Fs like the Belle did not have them. Radio gunner aft bulkhead has the mount for the K-6 gun mount, this has to be removed for an F. Also fill in the G wing tip navigation lights, the F had two lights on each wing tip - top and bottom.

But HK also included but did not mention in the instructions the astrodome fairing and plexiglass. The nose halves even have an indentation to tell you where to cut the plastic to install the astrodome. If you are posing the hatches and F model waist positions open, remember to remove the molded in tabs HK provided so the parts fit flush when closed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (ytRtA)

161 134 - The best question is WTF is QAnon? Why do I think it is pure fiction designed so the media can have a boogeyman?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 11:42 AM (49Dnm)

162 161 134 - The best question is WTF is QAnon? Why do I think it is pure fiction designed so the media can have a boogeyman?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 11:42 AM (49Dnm)

==========

It is.

4% of Republican voters buy into it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:42 AM (LvTSG)

163 We set up shop with a clean balance sheet and everybody keeps their big mouths shut when talking to the Democrats. They'll be left holding the bag.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (Wm5SB)

I find this idea interesting... we could probably just buy the russians out...

Posted by: Inogame at February 26, 2021 11:42 AM (EILju)

164 Joe is against military action in the middle east.

Joe Biden
@JoeBiden

United States government official
Trump's erratic, impulsive actions are the last thing we need as Commander-in-Chief. No president should order a military strike without fully understanding the consequences. We don't need another war in the Middle East, but Trump's actions toward Iran only make that more likely.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 11:42 AM (VVEnO)

165 Darryl Hall has managed to keep himself semi-relevant, but what has John Oates been doing lately? Parking cars in Vegas?
--------
He recently released a blues album.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM (HaL55)

With all due respect, is there anything MORE white than Hall or Oates putting out a blues album?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:43 AM (oQ94s)

166 Is there a chance it's some guys who are otherwise famous? Yeah, could be. I guess.

Maybe others here know more than I do about them.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:39 AM (oQ94s)

I've been a Residents/Snakefinger fan since the mid 70's. Saw them many times up until the early 80's. They used to have garage sales, at a home/business in SF into the mid 80's. While they have had semi famous guests (at least back then) they were just a bunch of nut cases. I know I've talked with at least 2 at the garage sale, that Louisiana accent is hard to miss.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 26, 2021 11:43 AM (46GDR)

167 Spitz is now a stockbroker and motivational speaker. While I may be cynical about those jobs, he's probably well suited for them.

Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 11:43 AM (v16oJ)

168 But HK also included but did not mention in the instructions the astrodome fairing and plexiglass. The nose halves even have an indentation to tell you where to cut the plastic to install the astrodome. If you are posing the hatches and F model waist positions open, remember to remove the molded in tabs HK provided so the parts fit flush when closed.
Posted by: Anna Puma

You sure know how to sweet talk a fella!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2021 11:43 AM (Rvt88)

169 YUMMY BISCOFF COOKIES SHIT MY PANTS!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 26, 2021 11:43 AM (YHGTp)

170 $38 million to admin costs.
$2 million to establishing an office that has semi-regular meetings with the Pakistani education officials where nothing gets even promised.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

Please to note that the $38M admin costs will all be incurred in CONUS at government approved non-profit NGOs staffed by trusted employees!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at February 26, 2021 11:43 AM (87oRe)

171 What insane Pakistani official asked for money for gender studies?
Don't they have starving people anymore?
Posted by: Northern lurker at February 26, 2021 11:40 AM (lgiXo)

...

1. Move to Durkastan
2. Partner with local Durkastanian
3. Apply for US Federal Grants for current wokest issue "projects"
4. profit

Posted by: TexasDan at February 26, 2021 11:43 AM (ohOLP)

172 I've heard of The Residents, but never heard any of their music.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:44 AM (HaL55)

173 4% of Republican voters buy into it.

Yeah, but that 4% will not shut the fuck up about it. So it seems like more. Recall how full of Q bullshit some of the comment threads were here with the Trump Is About To Authorize Operation X and Usher In His Second Term talk?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 26, 2021 11:44 AM (H5knJ)

174 >>>Darryl Hall has managed to keep himself semi-relevant, but what has John Oates been doing lately? Parking cars in Vegas?
Posted by: AltonJackson

Mustache rides for a quarter.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp, F Biden at February 26, 2021 11:44 AM (bkUtD)

175 "I know the friend of a friend who got it and said that she almost died! Like that time she got a really bad flu!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

When hubs got the 'rona right around Thanksgiving, a bunch of Mom's friends couldn't believe he wasn't in the hospital on a ventilator. They really thought that's what happens to everyone who gets it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2021 11:44 AM (Ez6QX)

176 The ham, beans and cornbread look pretty good. Arkys seem to celebrate past, and some times present poverty, and on occasion you will see beans and cornbread advertised as the days special at diners. A person can feed a family of four with a one pound bag of pintos, an onion or two, a couple ham hocks, and cornbread fixings. With left overs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at February 26, 2021 11:44 AM (I58tH)

177 and i'd love some beans and ham. good meal for todays weather

Posted by: SturmToddler

We have a pot of stock ready for some pinto beans. It's snowing, and it would be perfect. Served with fresh chopped onion, jalapenos, cilantro, tobasco, and some corn bread. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Posted by: 4 at February 26, 2021 11:44 AM (KnJdm)

178 Gender studies in Pakistan:
Studying why fags make a bigger splat than lesbos when you toss them from the roofs of buildings. Science!

Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 11:44 AM (gmo/4)

179 >>>I've heard of The Residents, but never heard any of their music.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy

Cuomo killed them, too.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp, F Biden at February 26, 2021 11:45 AM (bkUtD)

180 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 11:42 AM (VVEnO)

Far too coherent to actually be written by Sniffer in Chief Biden!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at February 26, 2021 11:45 AM (87oRe)

181 @149 - one of the founding Residents, Hardy Fox, died a couple of years ago. Since then they've kind of come clean that the original four were Jay Clem, John Kennedy, Homer Flynn and Hardy Fox.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2021 11:45 AM (E+OcO)

182 Washing Machine: "America Today" would never admit to being a front-loader. I've spent enough late nights on the ONT to know how this goes.

The early ones, branded Bendix, were made to be bolted to the floor. They would walk all over if you didn't. Once you fasten them down, being out of balance doesn't bother them. Mom had one when I was little. Not much on TV in those days, and laundry is fun to monitor.

Much later, I had a White-Westinghouse that brought its own concrete blocks! It had two pretty massive cast-concrete counterweights inside the frame, mounted on levers and springs. That worked. Eventually, the clutch went out, probably from me overloading it but not with blocks.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 26, 2021 11:45 AM (zMFmR)

183 Maybe so, but her career basically was over when the public demand for her "aquamusicals" took a dive (heh).
Posted by: OregonMuse

But before that, her career was going along swimmingly.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2021

***

Awash in offers

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 26, 2021 11:46 AM (yvr3o)

184 We're putting the blame (well some of it is deserved) on the wrong people.
The folks actually responsible for our bills are not the Congressmen but the lobbyists.
These days all the bills are written by K street and the Congressmen just sign it and talk about it if necessary.
Most times they have no idea what's in these bills and don't care if they're told by their aides that it'll be good and there's stuff in there for their voters. (why bother? I don't know)
But we're not going to do anything about it whining about it. And that's a fact.

What we need to talk about how to get rid of the system but of course we can't do that.

Posted by: jakee308 at February 26, 2021 11:46 AM (z96ye)

185 Johnny swung from trees and got to kiss a half neekid Maureen O'Sullivan. Spitz stuck his fingers in a lot of wet mouths.
Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 11:40 AM (gmo/4)

He got to swim with a *totally* nekkid Maureen O'Sullivan. See the video clip is on YouTube.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:46 AM (1eoWp)

186 178 Gender studies in Pakistan:
Studying why fags make a bigger splat than lesbos when you toss them from the roofs of buildings. Science!
Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 11:44 AM (gmo/4)

We explode as well, if we have fuel.

Posted by: MiG-15s at February 26, 2021 11:46 AM (49Dnm)

187 INDIANAPOLIS - It's a gut-wrenching reality for many people right now: family members becoming strangers because of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

You've likely heard about QAnon and may think it's only affecting Americans on the fringe.

But 13News talked with everyday Hoosiers whose loved ones bought into the lies.

They wanted to share how it started, why it took hold and how QAnon is tearing families apart.

Now do the "Trump is a Russian operative" conspiracy theory. Or maybe the "COVID is a death miasma" conspiracy theory. Or maybe the "America is an irredeemably racist nation" conspiracy theory."

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (HK8/E)

188 But I recall some film she did with a young Ricardo Montalban where swimming was only a small part of the story, and she was quite believable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 26, 2021 11:30 AM (yvr3o)

**delurks again**

That was 1949s Neptune's Daughter, which, among other things, introduced Frank Loesser's song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" to the wider world.

https://tinyurl.com/db8y6c23

**exits again**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (2JVJo)

189 With all due respect, is there anything MORE white than Hall or Oates putting out a blues album?
You'd be surprised. Their sax player is a musical-type buddy of mine who's been doing gigs with my various blues bands for a couple of decades.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (HaL55)

190 >>>
Awash in offers
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Guest spot on Flipper.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp, F Biden at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (bkUtD)

191 178 Gender studies in Pakistan:
Studying why fags make a bigger splat than lesbos when you toss them from the roofs of buildings. Science!

This is easy - males are generally larger, so have more mass per unit of area of their plummeting cross sectional area, so they have a greater terminal velocity.

Posted by: Parker at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (hJWil)

192 22 The covid relief bill is NOT a covid relief bill. It's a way for government people to get money. The "covid relief" stuff is there as a fig leaf, because if Washington was honest and called the bills things like "The I Want More Money Act of 2021 and Plus My Family Wants Some Too" voters might go "Hmmm."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 26, 2021 11:16 AM (E+OcO)

good point, once you realize the whole point is to make themselves and their friends richer, you start to see why these bills take forever to write, are longer than the bible, and less legible than the rantings of a 2 year old written down...
Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:19 AM (8D42x)

This should be a corollary. Any name the government gives a bill does the exact opposite of what its name implies that it does.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (4tiP2)

193 157 OK, new plan. We borrow and spend every yuan, renminbi, Euro, peso and dollar we can. Simultaneously open the border and give citizenship in four years to anyone who gets here. In 2024, we all leave. I think we can bum rush the Russians starting in the East. They aren't ready for 150 million or so of us.

We set up shop with a clean balance sheet and everybody keeps their big mouths shut when talking to the Democrats. They'll be left holding the bag.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (Wm5SB)

I'd rather go to some place warmer. Like Panama or Costa Rica.

Posted by: Justsayin' at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (Fs5vw)

194 173 4% of Republican voters buy into it.

Yeah, but that 4% will not shut the fuck up about it. So it seems like more. Recall how full of Q bullshit some of the comment threads were here with the Trump Is About To Authorize Operation X and Usher In His Second Term talk?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 26, 2021 11:44 AM (H5knJ)

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The closest we had to a regular Q guy with any consistent voice was JackStraw, and he was relatively dismissive of Q. His sources were never Q, but there was some overlap in conclusions, though far from 100% agreement.

I remember a bunch of non-regular voices saying Q things very intermittently, but they were largely passed over or insulted.

Except for the Ghost of Salami guy, I guess, but he was mostly just an asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (LvTSG)

195 I'm sure the average Pakistani is pretty confident in his understanding of gender.

Posted by: Northern lurker at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (lgiXo)

196 141 secretary Jen Psaki says they need to do some prep for President Biden

I'm picturing Biden running up and down the length of the fuselage yelling, "Naked President!" "Naked President!" while his Secret Service detail tries corner him so that the Chief of Staff can put two Depends on him for the long flight.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM (H5knJ)

...

Would this be worse than Obama modeling a boner for the press crew?

Posted by: TexasDan at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (ohOLP)

197 Ethel Merman and Mark Spitz?

Did I win the office poo,l?

Posted by: stu-mich-o-sucks at February 26, 2021 11:48 AM (lSZIs)

198 Okay, I'm going to infringe on OM's turf, and offer a bonus round: What was Mark Spitz's original choice of a profession after swimming? What did (does) he actually do for a living? No cheating.
Posted by: pep

Real Estate, motivational speaker.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:48 AM (wyNrR)

199 157 OK, new plan. We borrow and spend every yuan, renminbi, Euro, peso and dollar we can. Simultaneously open the border and give citizenship in four years to anyone who gets here. In 2024, we all leave. I think we can bum rush the Russians starting in the East. They aren't ready for 150 million or so of us.

We set up shop with a clean balance sheet and everybody keeps their big mouths shut when talking to the Democrats. They'll be left holding the bag.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (Wm5SB)

Not a bad plan. The best part is that the Ds will do most of the heavy lifting.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 26, 2021 11:48 AM (Zm+LZ)

200 167 Spitz is now a stockbroker and motivational speaker. While I may be cynical about those jobs, he's probably well suited for them.
Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 11:43 AM (v16oJ)

If I'm not mistaken, his only Olympic appearance was in 1972 and then he moved on to other things?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 11:48 AM (49Dnm)

201 The closest we had to a regular Q guy with any consistent voice was JackStraw, and he was relatively dismissive of Q. His sources were never Q, but there was some overlap in conclusions, though far from 100% agreement.

I remember a bunch of non-regular voices saying Q things very intermittently, but they were largely passed over or insulted.

Except for the Ghost of Salami guy, I guess, but he was mostly just an asshole.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (LvTSG)

artemis was a Q fan. Literally just him though from my recollection. BiNo wouldn't shut up about Q so I guess he could count as a fan too.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM (Zm+LZ)

202 These days all the bills are written by K street and the Congressmen just sign it and talk about it if necessary.

The funniest part of House of Cards was a scene early on where Underwood meticulously goes through every page of some stupid education bill or something before approving it.

Posted by: spindrift at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM (h5TKJ)

203 They wanted to share how it started, why it took hold and how QAnon is tearing families apart.

https://tinyurl.com/y9mlgfcl
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (63Dwl)

The only reason I've heard about QAnon is because the media have pointed to it as a bogeyman. There have been a few comments here passing along some QAnon comments, and our general reaction is, "We'll see what happens." I can't imagine something like that would be "tearing apart families" unless those families were already unstable, in which case any number of things would tear them apart as well.

Posted by: Emmie: grubby, low-born, non-billionaire commenter at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM (ofYez)

204 Wheaties model.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone GAF. Talking to myself until I talk to nobody. at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM (Ve//x)

205 UPS keeps telling me it can't deliver my package in Tulsa due to "severe weather". It's been in the 60s all week. Is Joe going to go out to places long after the crisis is over?
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (5HBd1)

Last week Fedup was supposed to deliver a package, two-day, and it was over a week. So I called, after getting all the "severe weather" nonsense, and said "look, I don't care about all that, if it's not here by Monday, I'm cancelling the shipment, and you can send it back to where it came from." This was Saturday, the girl in Pakistan or wherever, tells me it looks like it'll be there Monday. They delivered it on Sunday.

Idiots. This was a package that originated in California, was sent to Memphis in the middle of a major storm, and then had to re-cross the Rockies to Colorado. And here I am on the phone, trying to explain geography to some girl in a hut in some third world shithole.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM (oQ94s)

206 I remember a bunch of non-regular voices saying Q things very intermittently

Our memories of this differ. I don't think it worth arguing over, and shaming some regulars by name over being goofballs seems pointless to me at this point.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM (H5knJ)

207 The best question is WTF is QAnon? Why do I think it is pure fiction designed so the media can have a boogeyman?

That is exactly what the term 'QAnon' is. Something they made up to hang things on. Probably like 'alt-right' was.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM (AytXr)

208 Except for the Ghost of Salami guy, I guess, but he was mostly just an asshole.

Posted by:�TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets�at February 26, 2021 11:47

AKA the deep state is in deep shit.

Funny how he completely disappeared after all his assurances never happened.

Posted by: Hmmm at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM (+F511)

209 206 I remember a bunch of non-regular voices saying Q things very intermittently

Our memories of this differ. I don't think it worth arguing over, and shaming some regulars by name over being goofballs seems pointless to me at this point.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM (H5knJ)

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This is not how the Internet works. I shall you destroy you for disgracing the Internet with poise and good behavior.

Pistols at dawn, good sir.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM (LvTSG)

210 174 Hey Wyatt, hows the Philly homicide rate doing? I imagine the aspiring rappers were all out shoveling snow for Granny, so it must have dropped. And the cocksucking DA is taking credit.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM (I58tH)

211 So jwest you would sell off the mortgage, etc., debt to private companies and let them collect? Or you would forgive the debt. Didn't quite get it.

Posted by: President-Elect pj at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM (G1dq6)

212 "I know the friend of a friend who got it and said that she almost died! Like that time she got a really bad flu!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

Yes, it rampaged through my son's family giving the Mother-in-Law, my Daughter-in-Law and Son some really really bad days. They even had to take Tylenol several times before it went away!

Their two young boys never had any problems, it was that deadly!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM (87oRe)

213 Re: Why the wrangling on COVID relief bill.

Simplicity would mean transparency, transparency would mean accountability, accountability would mean jail and/or losing elections.

Posted by: The Ghost of Pandemic Present at February 26, 2021 11:51 AM (dYe5S)

214 And here I am on the phone, trying to explain geography to some girl in a hut in some third world shithole.
Posted by: BurtTC

"Thees iss Peggy!"

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2021 11:51 AM (Rvt88)

215 Esther Williams was in the movie premiere of the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside." So you'd just as well consider her cancelled right now.

Funny, I have not heard any collegians petition about it this year. Too cold?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 26, 2021 11:51 AM (zMFmR)

216
The 99.99+% survival rate is a sure sign of a deadly plague!
Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at February 26, 2021

***

My employer is still insisting that we get the stupid test. I'm dodging it and will wait until they chase me down, individually, instead of sending a mass email. Then I'll cancel the test the day before and ask to reschedule. No telling how far I can push this.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 26, 2021 11:52 AM (yvr3o)

217 Spitz is a good dentist name.

He should write a book, Making a Splash With Mark Spitz!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 11:52 AM (VVEnO)

218 Cuomo looks like the mafia thug that never gets invited to dinner at the boss's house.
Posted by: Northern lurker at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM

Being invited over is over-rated.

Posted by: Tommy Simone at February 26, 2021 11:52 AM (awtm/)

219 . . . and shaming some regulars by name over being goofballs . . .
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

AoS has always been a big tent kind of place.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2021 11:53 AM (Rvt88)

220 >>>Hey Wyatt, hows the Philly homicide rate doing? I imagine the aspiring rappers were all out shoveling snow for Granny, so it must have dropped. And the cocksucking DA is taking credit.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

76 as of this moment. 36% higher than this time last year. I suspect we may hit 600 by NYE.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp, F Biden at February 26, 2021 11:53 AM (bkUtD)

221 Whew! The pandemic is over. Just in time for the end of respiratory season!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:53 AM (m45I2)

222 215 Esther Williams was in the movie premiere of the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside." So you'd just as well consider her cancelled right now.

Funny, I have not heard any collegians petition about it this year. Too cold?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 26, 2021 11:51 AM (zMFmR)

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"She was a victim of rape and would agree with all the platforms of our cause. Here's her granddaughter, that the family hasn't spoken to in a decade because she won't take her meds, to tell us the true feelings of Esther."
-The Women's March (anti-Semites)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:53 AM (LvTSG)

223 "I know the friend of a friend who got it and said that she almost died! Like that time she got a really bad flu!"

They used to make fun of it (because it was funny), and now they've shut down the world for a "man cold".

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2021 11:53 AM (CTJwJ)

224 Read my new book - Killing Grandma
Posted by: Bill O'Reilly
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Ah. Cuomo, the ne plus ultra of Granny dumpers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2021 11:53 AM (bk3Sg)

225 221 Whew! The pandemic is over. Just in time for the end of respiratory season!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:53 AM (m45I2)

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Weird coincidence, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

226 223 "I know the friend of a friend who got it and said that she almost died! Like that time she got a really bad flu!"

They used to make fun of it (because it was funny), and now they've shut down the world for a "man cold".
Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2021 11:53 AM (CTJwJ)

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And yet, it's the women doing it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

227 Governor Polis clings to the COVID like Linus with his blanket

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:54 AM (m45I2)

228 If I'm not mistaken, his only Olympic appearance was in 1972 and then he moved on to other things?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

He attempted a comeback in 1992, but missed Olympic qualifying times by 2 seconds.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:54 AM (wyNrR)

229 I've heard of The Residents, but never heard any of their music. Posted by: BackwardsBoy
Cuomo killed them, too. Posted by: Wyatt Earp, F Biden at February 26, 2021 11:45 AM (bkUtD)
LOL. The Residents are almost an entirely different group now, I think only one original member is still with them. They sort of lost me 35+ years ago. I still taste-test from time to time, but, meh. Half the fun was them deconstructing popular music, and using traditional instruments and sounds. Sort of like Martin Denny on Sterno and LSD. I'd recommend trying anything from Meet the Residents up to the Mole trilogy.

They, like a few other bands were a bit ahead of their time, and really wanted to be in on the multimedia aspect of things before the technology existed. So, they wasted a LOT of time trying to make a movie in 8mm, then video tape, then trashing the whole project. They've done video games and similar things since. I think the big blow to the band was losing Philip Lithman (Snakefinger) the guitarist. After he died, they went electronic almost entirely. Third Reich 'N Roll, Duck Stab, Eskimo and the Commercial Album would be good starting points.

https://youtu.be/AvJiyOPmsJs

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 26, 2021 11:54 AM (46GDR)

230
Whaddya mean, "salacious"? The Chess thread is NOT "salacious"! Grrrr...
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 11:34 AM (1eoWp)

It CAN be, if instead of dresses, it featured pencil skirts. Just sayin.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 11:55 AM (49Dnm)

231 And here I am on the phone, trying to explain geography to some girl in a hut in some third world shithole.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM

A canonical example of White Privilege!!!

Posted by: I. Omar at February 26, 2021 11:55 AM (DMUuz)

232 112 Mark Spitz's original choice of a profession after swimming? What did (does) he actually do for a living? No cheating.
Posted by: pep

Dentist
Posted by: Tonypete

______________

He had a real estate company in CA, then he got into the stock market for a while. Don't know what he's doing now.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 26, 2021 11:55 AM (k4dH2)

233 He attempted a comeback in 1992, but missed Olympic qualifying times by 2 seconds.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:54 AM (wyNrR)
did he get slower or did the competition get faster?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at February 26, 2021 11:55 AM (CqHIp)

234 The "covid relief" dollars are borrowed at interest from countries like China.

Given to Americans who will then buy things like flat screen televisions from ... China. They call it a "Stimulus Bill", they just don't tell you who is getting stimulated.

It won't be some Chinese guy paying it back.

Congress hasn't passed a budget in years. They just call them "spending packages" or "continuing resolutions". This will continue indefinitely (apparently) and will result in ever and higher distortions in the markets, interest rates, and monetary inflation. Soon, maybe sooner than we think, the national government will he unable to meet its interest payment obligations with the tax dollars coming in.

This is the economic equivalent of "TILT" or GAME OVER" I expect. Could be interesting.

Nobody could see this coming though, so there's that.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2021 11:55 AM (YtsCi)

235 I can't imagine something like that would be
"tearing apart families" unless those families were already unstable, in
which case any number of things would tear them apart as well.

Posted by: Emmie: grubby, low-born, non-billionaire commenter at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM (ofYez)

My IRL experience with Q fans have been that they are pretty much along the lines of buffalo helmet guy, predisposed to conspiracy theories like con trails and nanobots in vaccines sort of stuff. It's not Q, it's them.

Posted by: 4 at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (KnJdm)

236 test

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (87oRe)

237 I remember a bunch of non-regular voices saying Q things very intermittently, but they were largely passed over or insulted.

Except for the Ghost of Salami guy, I guess, but he was mostly just an asshole.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (LvTSG)

Who were the 4chan guys who pranked the enemedia with the ok sign being a white supremacy sign?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (y7DUB)

238 Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:39 AM (oQ94s)

I've been a Residents/Snakefinger fan since the mid 70's. Saw them many times up until the early 80's. They used to have garage sales, at a home/business in SF into the mid 80's. While they have had semi famous guests (at least back then) they were just a bunch of nut cases. I know I've talked with at least 2 at the garage sale, that Louisiana accent is hard to miss.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 26, 2021 11:43 AM (46GDR)

One of those things where the mystery is presumably a LOT more interesting that reality.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (oQ94s)

239 Cuomo looks like the mafia thug that never gets invited to dinner at the boss's house.
Posted by: Northern lurker at February 26, 2021 11:31 AM

Being invited over is over-rated.
Posted by: Tommy Simone
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It wasn't for dinner, just desserts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (bk3Sg)

240 Don't know why he's coming. It's been 80 degrees and most every busted water pipe has been fixed.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 11:35 AM (wyNrR)

Heh, speak for yourself. I booked him to replace my pool filter what with his experience and all. I hope he can find me a good pentair. All online retailers are sold out.

Posted by: Mishdog at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (sSHDY)

241 I feel silly. *Who* is Mark Spitz? I was born in the 70's but don't remember hearing that name before.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (1lKRm)

242 I thought Spitz became Vet

Posted by: REDACTED at February 26, 2021 11:57 AM (6iURM)

243 Governor Polis clings to the COVID like Linus with his blanket

It's the fashionable thing to do! *hic* Stay safe.

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at February 26, 2021 11:57 AM (W4eKo)

244 241 I feel silly. *Who* is Mark Spitz? I was born in the 70's but don't remember hearing that name before.
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Olympic swimmer. He was the winning-est ever, until Michael Phelps came along.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 26, 2021 11:57 AM (k4dH2)

245 I'd rather go to some place warmer. Like Panama or Costa Rica.
Posted by: Justsayin' at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (Fs5vw)
I was in Panama a couple years ago for work. would recommend. they take dollars, but give change in pesos. the exchange rate was decent though. most people understood english if they weren't super strong in it, and they didn't seem to hate americans, probably from the bases we used to have.

plus there were total smoke shows for women to be found...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (8D42x)

246
241 I feel silly. *Who* is Mark Spitz? I was born in the 70's but don't remember hearing that name before.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (1lKRm)

USA swimmer, Munich Olympics in '72. Won many medals.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (pNxlR)

247 Pistols at dawn, good sir.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM

Let's not be too hasty, here. We don't want to lose our spokesmodel.

Posted by: Prometheus & Covenant at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (DMUuz)

248 Pitkin County (Aspen) still locked down, due to the latest numbers. They reported 4 deaths this week.

Oh wait, did I say this week? I meant this month.

Oops, my bad. What I meant to say is they have had 4 deaths since March 2020. Total. For the entire year.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (m45I2)

249 241 I feel silly. *Who* is Mark Spitz? I was born in the 70's but don't remember hearing that name before.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (1lKRm)

I was born in the 70s but heard about him in school in the 80s.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (49Dnm)

250 I feel silly. *Who* is Mark Spitz?

The original Michael Phelps. Seven swimming gold medals in Munich in 1972.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (CTJwJ)

251 Funny how he completely disappeared after all his assurances never happened.

Posted by: Hmmm at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM (+F511)

A lot of that going on.

Posted by: 4 at February 26, 2021 11:59 AM (KnJdm)

252 Pitkin County (Aspen) still locked down, due to the latest numbers. They reported 4 deaths this week.

Oh wait, did I say this week? I meant this month.

Oops, my bad. What I meant to say is they have had 4 deaths since March 2020. Total. For the entire year.
Posted by: Muldoon

If it saves one life . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 11:59 AM (VVEnO)

253 My employer is still insisting that we get the stupid test. I'm dodging it and will wait until they chase me down, individually, instead of sending a mass email. Then I'll cancel the test the day before and ask to reschedule. No telling how far I can push this.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 26, 2021 11:52 AM (yvr3o)

I won't be getting the test or the vaccine. I'm waiting for the day when my very woke corporation "insists".... sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2021 12:00 PM (pcsoT)

254 Earlier this week the overall org work system to login was down.

My initial response was #%! if they would spend money on IT instead of their stupid grievance mongering clocked as diversity equity and inclusion.

After a bit I told myself that since a huge chunk of the overall org is the climate fraud group I should be happy if things are starting to fall apart there, even though my little group just provides one data input for short term weather models.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 26, 2021 12:00 PM (Aashi)

255 More ranting about what is actually tearing families apart: this stupid Covid production that we're all supposed to participate in. First, there's the friction between those who immerse themselves in the media-generated fear and those who think that maybe it's a bit over-blown. This is genuine friction, since one side thinks the other side is killing Grandma, and conversely, one side thinks the other side is surrendering our autonomy to nefarious forces.

Then there's the issue of family gatherings, with some willing to forego fellowship in the name of "safety" with others feeling that it's especially important to be with family during trying times.

The biggest threat to family cohesiveness is the concept of informing on others. Where is one's loyalty? To the family or the State?

Posted by: Emmie: grubby, low-born, non-billionaire commenter at February 26, 2021 12:00 PM (ofYez)

256 252 Oops, my bad. What I meant to say is they have had 4 deaths since March 2020. Total. For the entire year.
Posted by: Muldoon

If it saves one life . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 11:59 AM (VVEnO)

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"Yay! We bombed Syria!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 12:00 PM (LvTSG)

257 With all due respect, is there anything MORE white than Hall or Oates putting out a blues album?
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You'd be surprised. Their sax player is a musical-type buddy of mine who's been doing gigs with my various blues bands for a couple of decades.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 11:47 AM (HaL55)

Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (oQ94s)

258 The real pandemics is butthurt and wearing a mask won't help.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (VVEnO)

259 The original Michael Phelps. Seven swimming gold medals in Munich in 1972.
Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (CTJwJ)

Munich '72, where the USA Men's basketball team got SCREWED.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (49Dnm)

260 I still think all the Q plans were real.

And I think they all failed. Just like Rudy's, Lin Wood's, and Sidney Powell's plans were all real, too. And they also failed.

A plan, real as it is, is not a holy prophesy. The enemy also had plans. And theirs succeeded. Plain and simple. All of history's losers had plans. Theirs didn't work. Doesn't mean they were a bunch of made-up bullshit.

But the absence of Q would not have gotten Americans off their couches and into the streets, although I keep hearing variations of this idea. "If it wasn't for Q, we would have *Done Something*!!"

No, we wouldn't have.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (OssQ4)

261 Olympic swimmer. He was the winning-est ever, until Michael Phelps came along.
Spitz had charisma and was smart enough to cash in while he could. Phelps never seemed to catch the imagination the way Spitz did. Being a pot smoker didn't help.

Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (v16oJ)

262 157 Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (oQ94s)

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I heartily disagree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqwlLLm87xU

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (LvTSG)

263 I feel silly. *Who* is Mark Spitz?

The original Michael Phelps. Seven swimming gold medals in Munich in 1972.

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (CTJwJ)

Seven world records as well, iianm.

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (AwYPR)

264 My congressman swears up hill and down that the relief bill is just what it says it is. Lying SOB, yet I guess voters love him. I want to send him a nasty letter, but what good does that do, (nothing) Maybe a visit from the local FBI office.

Posted by: Colin at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (T+2tA)

265 Spitz became a veterinarian specializing in young canines' foot care.

Yep, a pediatric poodle podiatrist.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (m45I2)

266
I'm picturing Biden running up and down the length of the fuselage yelling, "Naked President!" "Naked President!" while his Secret Service detail tries corner him so that the Chief of Staff can put two Depends on him for the long flight.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 26, 2021 11:37 AM

And then 'ol Joe pulls out a pair of fingernail clippers and goes into the Errol Flynn sword fighting stance!
En Garde ye sniveling knaves, afore I run ya thru!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (axyOa)

267 Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (oQ94s)

Why not?

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (AwYPR)

268 I feel silly. *Who* is Mark Spitz? I was born in the 70's but don't remember hearing that name before.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 26, 2021 11:56 AM (1lKRm)

USA swimmer, Munich Olympics in '72. Won many medals.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
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Pic of Spitz & medals: https://tinyurl.com/y7wh9luw

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (pK7cg)

269 BurtTC,

mine is worse than that. It's been in Tulsa over two weeks. Just needs to go to a little town nearby. All during the bad weather, it would say it was loaded on the truck for delivery, then I'd get a notice that it wasn't delivered due to the weather. Right now, it says it was delivered on the 18th but is currently in transit to Tulsa as of the 22nd.

I called UPS. One rep told me to file a claim. I started to do that, but then they asked for my payment info to set up an account. Called back and was told I couldn't do a claim. I told them it was 70 there and she said I couldn't go by the weather where I lived. I explained that it was 70 that day in Tulsa, that the severe weather is over. Then she said there is something like 30 trailers to be processed in Tulsa. Monday, I will go to the UPS store, where I shipped it and tell them to set up a claim.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 26, 2021 12:03 PM (5HBd1)

270 Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (OssQ4)

Harsh, but fair.

Posted by: 4 at February 26, 2021 12:03 PM (KnJdm)

271 I feel silly. *Who* is Mark Spitz?

The original Michael Phelps. Seven swimming gold medals in Munich in 1972.
Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (CTJwJ)

He had a mustache back then that had its own apartment.

Millions of women were heartbroken when what some suspected finally got out - he was gay, and so was the mustache.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 26, 2021 12:03 PM (46GDR)

272 Governor Polis clings to the COVID like Linus with his blanket
Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:54 AM (m45I2)

Hey! [faux outrage]

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2021 12:03 PM (pcsoT)

273 Napalm Death
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2021 11:29 AM

Saw them at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio 93-ish.
"Utopia Banished"
Awesome stuff.

Posted by: Tree of Liberty Landscaping at February 26, 2021 12:04 PM (DB16e)

274 The original Michael Phelps. Seven swimming gold medals in Munich in 1972.
Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (CTJwJ)

Munich '72, where the USA Men's basketball team got SCREWED.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (49Dnm)

Small potatoes.

Posted by: Israeli athletes at February 26, 2021 12:04 PM (VFxHp)

275 If it weren't for white guys playing the blues, most of the black blues players would be less well known and have less money. The British invasion brought most of them into the limelight and they got a lot more gigs.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 26, 2021 12:04 PM (5HBd1)

276 Spitz became a veterinarian specializing in young canines' foot care.

Yep, a pediatric poodle podiatrist.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (m45I2)

A Quadruped Quack?

Posted by: 4 at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (KnJdm)

277 did he get slower or did the competition get faster?
Posted by: phoenixgirl

Probably him getting slower. He was 41 at the time.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (wyNrR)

278 I read the article someone above linked, about Q-anon. They never once quoted any of the volumes of messages from the actual source, the Q-anon logs. The few things they claim, from what I know, are false claims (odd, in an article exposing Q's "false theories"). -- They don't source anything they claim about "Qanon". ---
"A study from Indiana University shows 44% of Americans believe at least
some false stories started by QAnon, including that pedophiles and
cannibals currently serve in U.S. government positions." ... Well it is fact that pedophiles are in government, and I believe it. Did Q ever say there were cannibals? Not that I know of, but I mostly just followed a few people that did their own research (like on Fauci/Gates/WHO/China), sometimes branching off Q's mostly cryptic messages. -- --.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (Cus5s)

279 If it weren't for white guys playing the blues, most of the black blues players would be less well known and have less money. The British invasion brought most of them into the limelight and they got a lot more gigs.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 26, 2021 12:04 PM (5HBd1)

++

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (AwYPR)

280 So their study says ... 44% of Americans believe SOME "false"
stories, started by Q (Qanon is not even the right term). But Q did not
start the pedophile thing, that was in the news every time a pedo is
arrested or kicked out. Q (the LARP) mostly just hints at things that
are already "conspiracy theories". The things Q was most wrong about
were things like "Trust Sessions" or "Trust the Plan" (what plan?) or
other things that were actually favorable toward the DeepStaters. ...

Posted by: illiniwek at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (Cus5s)

281 242 I thought Spitz became Vet
______________

Remember Debbie Thomas, the black woman figure skater who was battling for Olympic god with Katarina Witt back in the 1980's? She wanted to become a doctor after the Olympics, and she did. She was an orthopedic surgeon for several years, then her life spiraled out of control. She kept getting fired, she kept getting divorced, she lost custody of her kid, and last I read she was living in a trailer in Appalachia, performing hypnotherapy for a living. Very sad.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (k4dH2)

282 Pics on Daily Mail of Biden arriving in TX.

He's wearing two masks.

Ridiculous.

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (iDGpQ)

283 Small potatoes.
Posted by: Israeli athletes at February 26, 2021 12:04 PM (VFxHp)

'Tis true.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (49Dnm)

284 Pistols at dawn, good sir.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM

Let's not be too hasty, here. We don't want to lose our spokesmodel.

Posted by: Prometheus & Covenant at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (DMUuz)

And what's with this dawn crap? Why is it always dawn? Can't a guy sleep in once and awhile?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2021 12:06 PM (axyOa)

285 Had a HS teacher in early 70's who hated the Kennedy family, and he used to say Teddy Kennedy deserved the Mark Spitz award, for swimming so well.

Posted by: skywch at February 26, 2021 12:06 PM (Y/Ps0)

286 He had a mustache back then that had its own apartment.

Millions of women were heartbroken when what some suspected finally got out - he was gay, and so was the mustache.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 26, 2021 12:03 PM (46GDR)

You might be confusing him with Louganis. Spitz is married with a couple kids.

Posted by: Wally at February 26, 2021 12:06 PM (FJYfm)

287 284 Pistols at dawn, good sir.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 11:50 AM

Let's not be too hasty, here. We don't want to lose our spokesmodel.

Posted by: Prometheus & Covenant at February 26, 2021 11:58 AM (DMUuz)

And what's with this dawn crap? Why is it always dawn? Can't a guy sleep in once and awhile?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2021 12:06 PM (axyOa)

High noon?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 26, 2021 12:06 PM (Zm+LZ)

288 Prager said only 9% of the "covid relief bill" is actually "covid relief."

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 26, 2021 12:06 PM (FMoYW)

289 Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.

Kind of a ridiculous sentiment, IMO.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 26, 2021 12:06 PM (W4eKo)

290 Spitz became a veterinarian specializing in young canines' foot care.

Yep, a pediatric poodle podiatrist.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (m45I2)

*golf clap*

well done. i lol'd

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 12:07 PM (8D42x)

291 Munich '72, where the USA Men's basketball team got SCREWED.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

The Israeli wrestling team didn't fair too well either.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2021 12:07 PM (Rvt88)

292 Munich '72, where the USA Men's basketball team got SCREWED.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM

I think the silver medals are still in a vault somewhere. The US team never accepted them.

Also, I just love that wiki mentions "controversary" but doesn't explain it

Posted by: Chuck C at February 26, 2021 12:07 PM (awtm/)

293 Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (oQ94s)

There's a book, Escaping the Delta by a guitarist, Elijah Wald, who studied juke box playlists from around the delta. One of his hypotheses is that the blues were mainly a record company concept where black musicians were pigeon holed and a lot of them wanted to play other types of music. For example Muddy Waters liked Gene Autrey songs. Furthermore, the electric blues of Alligator records, and similar labels, was even more a white boy need for guitar dexterity.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 26, 2021 12:07 PM (y7DUB)

294 I'm sure most like 91% of the "covid relief bill" is for blue state bail outs.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 26, 2021 12:07 PM (FMoYW)

295 Remember Debbie Thomas, the black woman figure skater who was battling for Olympic god with Katarina Witt back in the 1980's? She wanted to become a doctor after the Olympics, and she did. She was an orthopedic surgeon for several years, then her life spiraled out of control. She kept getting fired, she kept getting divorced, she lost custody of her kid, and last I read she was living in a trailer in Appalachia, performing hypnotherapy for a living. Very sad.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (k4dH2)

Yeah. There was a story about her that NBC put together for the 30th anniversary of that matchup and showed her doing some weird informercials for buying gold or some-such thing. It was kinda weird.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (49Dnm)

296 spitz is married, i never heard a ghey rumour about him....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (CqHIp)

297 Pics on Daily Mail of Biden arriving in TX.

He's wearing two masks.

Ridiculous.
Posted by: squeakywheel

Should be wearing two straight jackets.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (VVEnO)

298
Millions of women were heartbroken when what some suspected finally got out - he was gay, and so was the mustache.
Where did you get that. The man's been married since 1973, with two sons.

Posted by: pep at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (v16oJ)

299 Millions of women were heartbroken when what some suspected finally got out - he was gay, and so was the mustache.
______________

Spitz married a woman in the early 1970's. She was the daughter of one of his dad's business partners. They're still married. Have two sons.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (k4dH2)

300 290 Spitz became a veterinarian specializing in young canines' foot care.

Yep, a pediatric poodle podiatrist.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (m45I2)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A SPITZ IS A TYPE OF DOG BREED.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (nakwk)

301 Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.
I disagree heartily. Been playing blues for over two decades myself.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (HaL55)

302 294 I'm sure most like 91% of the "covid relief bill" is for blue state bail outs.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 26, 2021 12:07 PM (FMoYW)

=======

I need to bribe a Congressional staffer to earmark a couple million dollars to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (LvTSG)

303 Q and Jackstraw are brothers from other mothers. Q was a complacency op - convince you that send memes and linking to articles on police busting pedos linked to a grand Trump plan to crush the Deep State. They had The Faith this was happening behind the scenes, and would link to factual events, alleging it was part of the overall scheme. Basically, justice will Be Done. Jackstraw said the exact same shit, but from a more "mainstream" belief that the Justice System would punish the guilty. I, an others, asked both to Show. Me. The Money. Were are the plea deals, the arrests, charges, trials, convictions, etc.? Jackstraw said "criminal process takes time, trust the plan". Q believers took it all on faith that it was happening behind the scenes, never asked for an actual identified party to believe, and "rusted the plan".

Posted by: SaltyDonnie at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (i6shs)

304 Bai-Den stole it, Trump punked out, both Q and Jack were wrong, both
lost credibility, both ain't around no more. And when the Regime comes
to silence them, they'll both be "insurrectionists" no matter who was
more "credible", so spare me the virtual signalling on who's a whacko
and who ain't. There is no White Hat God. God helps those that help
themselves. I'll believe in miracles when I see one.

Posted by: SaltyDonnie at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (i6shs)

305 Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM

What about Good Time Charlie?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (DMUuz)

306 Spitz became a veterinarian specializing in young canines' foot care.

Yep, a pediatric poodle podiatrist.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 12:02 PM (m45I2)

A Quadruped Quack?

Posted by: 4 at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM

Canine chancre mechanic.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (axyOa)

307 Pistols at dawn, good sir.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Let's not be too hasty, here. We don't want to lose our spokesmodel.
Posted by: Prometheus & Covenant

And what's with this dawn crap? Why is it always dawn? Can't a guy sleep in once and awhile?
Posted by: Diogenes

Why? If you lose, you'll be sleeping for a long time.
If you win, you can go back to bed.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 12:09 PM (wyNrR)

308 296 spitz is married, i never heard a ghey rumour about him....
Posted by: phoenixgirl at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (CqHIp)

Greg Lougayness on the other hand...

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 26, 2021 12:09 PM (nakwk)

309 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A SPITZ IS A TYPE OF DOG BREED.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER

*****

Somebody 'gets' me.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 12:09 PM (m45I2)

310 Idiots. This was a package that originated in
California, was sent to Memphis in the middle of a major storm, and then
had to re-cross the Rockies to Colorado. And here I am on the phone,
trying to explain geography to some girl in a hut in some third world
shithole.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 11:49 AM (oQ94s)

Yeah! Just look what Fedup did to that Tom Hanks guy fer crying out loud!

Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 12:09 PM (gmo/4)

311 Munich '72, where the USA Men's basketball team got SCREWED.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

The Israeli wrestling team didn't fair too well either.

Ouch...

I would've followed that up with a #toosoon?

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 26, 2021 12:10 PM (WvoAE)

312 The best question is WTF is QAnon? Why do I think it is pure fiction designed so the media can have a boogeyman?
=====

My wild-ass take was it was an FBI operation playing their own version of 'white' conspiracy theorists set up as a political operation vs the 4-8 Chans. Just like any supposed 'kkk' or 'supremacist' or 'nationalist' group, the majority will be undercover LE attempting to play cops and robbers.

If those dangerous flyover people won't be violent, feds, state, and local LE will make sure they are.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 26, 2021 12:10 PM (MIKMs)

313 Remember Debbie Thomas, the black woman figure skater who was battling for Olympic god with Katarina Witt back in the 1980's? She wanted to become a doctor after the Olympics, and she did. She was an orthopedic surgeon for several years, then her life spiraled out of control. She kept getting fired, she kept getting divorced, she lost custody of her kid, and last I read she was living in a trailer in Appalachia, performing hypnotherapy for a living. Very sad.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 26, 2021 12:05 PM (k4dH2)

sorry, got distracted. was lost in memories of *THAT* slippage...

Witt always made me have second thoughts about german commies...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 12:10 PM (8D42x)

314 insomniac
truth

Posted by: phoenixgirl at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (CqHIp)

315 Covid relief bills are a great teachable moment for the fools that haven't figured out yet that the federal government is not their friend. Just note to them how much of the current economic devastation was due to heavy-handed government overreach and how little of the money in these bills goes to actual citizens.

Be sure to also note that since they're basing it on 2019 tax data, the waiter who's been out of work since last March has been getting the same amount of Trumpbux/Bidenbux as the corporate manager who's been phoning it in remotely while cashing in magnificent stock-plan checks.

Posted by: CppThis at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (zcf1k)

316 I think the silver medals are still in a vault somewhere. The US team never accepted them.

Also, I just love that wiki mentions "controversary" but doesn't explain it
Posted by: Chuck C at February 26, 2021 12:07 PM (awtm/)

Yep. They are still in a vault in Munich. And if I am not mistaken, the team didn't even come out for the medal ceremony. (And of course Wiki won't explain the controversy. It would only have been "controversial" to them had the USSR lost.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (49Dnm)

317
Pics on Daily Mail of Biden arriving in TX.
He's wearing two masks.

Ridiculous.

Should be wearing two straight jackets.

And two gay jackets.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (63Dwl)

318 What about Good Time Charlie?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (DMUuz)

Charlie's got the blues, he don't play 'em.

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (AwYPR)

319 Muddy Waters liked Gene Autrey songs.

-
Charlie "Bird" Parker listened to country music for fun. I don't know if Charlie Pride listened to jazz.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (VVEnO)

320 My wild-ass take was it was an FBI operation playing their own version of 'white' conspiracy theorists set up as a political operation vs the 4-8 Chans. Just like any supposed 'kkk' or 'supremacist' or 'nationalist' group, the majority will be undercover LE attempting to play cops and robbers.

------

FFS, like the FBI is that smart. No.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (FMoYW)

321 312 - Right, Q was a complacency op.

Posted by: SaltyDonnie at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (i6shs)

322 And what's with this dawn crap? Why is it always dawn? Can't a guy sleep in once and awhile?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2021 12:06 PM

Eight o'clock. I do my killing after breakfast.

Posted by: Marty "Clint Eastwood" McFly at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (awtm/)

323 A corgicardiologist

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (m45I2)

324 I never met Hall and Oates but after their concert at my university, a buddy of mine and I saw them at a bar downtown. We bought them a drink. They returned the favor. Very cool.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (axyOa)

325 Yeah. There was a story about her that NBC put together for the 30th anniversary of that matchup and showed her doing some weird informercials for buying gold or some-such thing. It was kinda weird.
_______________

Really? I missed that. She was diagnosed as bi-polar at some point, and she claims that is why she could never keep a job for very long. Her life has been a mess for a while. It's too bad, because she was smart and talented and looked to have a bright future in front of her back in the day.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (k4dH2)

326 NOOD airstrikes!

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (46GDR)

327 It was kinda weird.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:08 PM (49Dnm)

BPD.

Posted by: 4 at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (KnJdm)

328 Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.

Kind of a ridiculous sentiment, IMO.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Somewhat.

Posted by: Jeff Beck at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (WZ5i4)

329 Witt always made me have second thoughts about german commies...
Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 12:10 PM (8D42x)

Definitely beautiful, but it came out years later that she was a typical commie, ratting out people who weren't toeing the line.

Posted by: Wally at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (FJYfm)

330 Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM

----

"Fook off!"

- Jimmy Rabbitt, seeing where this is headed

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (dfRN6)

331 Witt always made me have second thoughts about german commies...
Posted by: SturmToddler at February 26, 2021 12:10 PM (8D42x)

I won't lie. Other than the fact she could use a visit to an orthodontist, she has aged rather well.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (49Dnm)

332 Nearly all of the the early Stones stuff was white guys playing the blues.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (WvoAE)

333 You know, I might just be able to stomach Biden if he'd just give in to temptation and start dressing like Napoleon.

Posted by: Archer at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (gmo/4)

334 spitz is married, i never heard a ghey rumour about him....
Posted by: phoenixgirl

To the same woman since 1973.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (wyNrR)

335 Finger on the pulse of a nation....

@SenBlumenthal

The furniture industry has been allowed to self-regulate for too long--& with tragic consequences, as a child is injured by tipped furniture every 17 minutes.
Passing the STURDY Act would enact strong furniture stability standards to prevent deadly tip-overs & protect children.

@SenBobCasey

Inadequate safety standards for furniture tip-overs put our Nation's children in danger of serious injury or even death. @SenAmyKlobuchar, @SenBlumenthal, @RepSchakowsky and I are intro'ing The STURDY Act to ensure we have stronger, mandatory stability standards to protect kids.

Da fuq?!

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2021 12:12 PM (cF8AT)

336 Greg Lougayness on the other hand...
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at February 26, 2021 12:09 PM (nakwk)

So I guess that joke was not just on Louisiana Jr highs, lol.

Posted by: Mishdog at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (cqAUI)

337 322 And what's with this dawn crap? Why is it always dawn? Can't a guy sleep in once and awhile?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2021 12:06 PM

Eight o'clock. I do my killing after breakfast.
Posted by: Marty "Clint Eastwood" McFly at February 26, 2021 12:11 PM (awtm/)

========

Showed that to Junior for the first time last weekend.

He loved it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

338 Munich '72, where the USA Men's basketball team got SCREWED.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM

I think the silver medals are still in a vault somewhere. The US team never accepted them.

Also, I just love that wiki mentions "controversary" but doesn't explain it
Posted by: Chuck C at February 26, 2021 12:07 PM (awtm/)

I was watching in an apartment by myself when it happened. I just paced around like a lunatic saying "this is fucked up and somebody has to fix it". Kind of like the elections.

I stopped watching the Olympics afterward. What's the point?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (y7DUB)

339 "But the absence of Q would not have gotten Americans off their couches
and into the streets, although I keep hearing variations of this idea.
"If it wasn't for Q, we would have *Done Something*!!"
--No, we wouldn't have."

right, I think those that got some encouragement from the Q movement (which became a lot of people with their own YouTube subscribers) showed up at rallies and were very active. I don't know who the "Oathkeepers" were, but I don't think Q (himself) ever advocated violence ... and those that joined in the WH "riots" were fools, likely led into it by Sullivan and others that hated Trump, and they were the ones smashing windows for the cameras. ... 'agent provocateurs' ... false flags, our DeepState was probably involved, but certainly some leftist radicals were involved.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (Cus5s)

340 The biggest threat to family cohesiveness is the concept of informing on others. Where is one's loyalty? To the family or the State?
Posted by: Emmie: grubby, low-born, non-billionaire commenter

---
I love my parents and siblings.

I also know where their loyalties lie.

I interact with them accordingly.

Sad, but there it is.

Posted by: SMH at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (Oglqz)

341 Saw a video the other day of Rufus Thomas singing "Walkin' the Dog". The band (looked like about 10-piece with bass, brass, blues guitarists) was entirely white dudes.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (m45I2)

342 Some may disagree, but my opinion is white guys shouldn't play the blues. Ever.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (oQ94s)

I heartily disagree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqwlLLm87xU
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 26, 2021 12:01 PM (LvTSG)

Heh, and here I thought you were going to send me to a Stevie Ray Vaughn video.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (oQ94s)

343 Bob Casey is a piece of shit asshole.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (VFxHp)

344 Johnny Weissmuller > Mark Spitz.

Mark had two more gold medals, but Johnny was Tarzan!
Posted by: Archer

And Jungle Jim !

Posted by: JT at February 26, 2021 12:14 PM (arJlL)

345 248 Pitkin County (Aspen) still locked down, due to the latest numbers. They reported 4 deaths this week.

Oh wait, did I say this week? I meant this month.

Oops, my bad. What I meant to say is they have had 4 deaths since March 2020. Total. For the entire year.
see? the lockdowns and mask mandates are working.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at February 26, 2021 12:14 PM (sGtp+)

346 Cool Mom Virtue Signalling Club:
Memberships now open! Free wine!

Posted by: Satans Retards at February 26, 2021 12:15 PM (rxR5g)

347 291 Munich '72, where the USA Men's basketball team got SCREWED.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

The Israeli wrestling team didn't fair too well either.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 26, 2021 12:07 PM (Rvt8

And people think I'M harsh...

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2021 12:15 PM (49Dnm)

348 I interact with them accordingly.

Sad, but there it is.
Posted by: SMH at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (Oglqz

Yes; same here. During the Obama years, it became clear who would be informing on the rest of us.

Posted by: Emmie: grubby, low-born, non-billionaire commenter at February 26, 2021 12:15 PM (ofYez)

349 ... a child is injured by tipped furniture every 17 minutes.

*****

He must be found and given a spanking and a time-out!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 12:15 PM (m45I2)

350 Millions of women were heartbroken when what some suspected finally got out - he was gay, and so was the mustache.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 26, 2021 12:03 PM (46GDR)

Heh. Spitz got married in 1973 and is still married to the same woman. They even have a couple of kids. If he's gay, she's one helluva beard.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 12:17 PM (1eoWp)

351 It's pistols for two, brandy for one. Bring back Code Duello.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at February 26, 2021 12:17 PM (I58tH)

352 I'd agree Limey Poofters oughtten not try to play American Blues.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 26, 2021 12:18 PM (YtsCi)

353 @JackPosobiec 7m

Biden refused to take a meeting with House Democrats on Syria this morning per WH official

Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2021 12:19 PM (cF8AT)

354 I won't be getting the test or the vaccine. I'm waiting for the day when my very woke corporation "insists".... sigh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2021

***

I'm gonna dodge that vaccine too. Maybe I can get my doctor, who wrote me the mask exception letter, to do me one for that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 26, 2021 12:20 PM (yvr3o)

355 I was watching in an apartment by myself when it happened. I just paced around like a lunatic saying "this is fucked up and somebody has to fix it". Kind of like the elections.

I stopped watching the Olympics afterward. What's the point?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 26, 2021 12:13 PM (y7DUB)

Comparing this election to what happened to the USA basketball team at Munich '72 is a great analogy. Because in both cases you keep thinking, "this is so obviously bogus, somebody is going to have to step in and fix it." But nobody ever does.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at February 26, 2021 12:20 PM (1eoWp)

356 The band (looked like about 10-piece with bass, brass, blues guitarists) was entirely white dudes.
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Late to thread, I know, but one of my all-time favorite vids is Don Cornelius introducing the Average White Band.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 26, 2021 12:24 PM (MIKMs)

357 I'll be dodging the vaccine. I'm thinking that I was so dosed in chloroquine, once a week times 54 weeks and the same times 38 weeks I may be invincible to this killer flu.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at February 26, 2021 12:32 PM (I58tH)

358 COVID relief is not for citizens. It is the means to spend on every dream project of the Democrats. But not one of the Republican projects, except perhaps that Utah bitch. She wanted this Syria thingy

Posted by: down with all politicans at February 26, 2021 12:38 PM (OM48N)

359 Ashli was unarmed and murdered by a black cop. and nothing. Black drug addict dies when apprehended by (not black) cops and the country goes to the shitter. there is an agenda here.

Posted by: justice for Ashli at February 26, 2021 12:41 PM (OM48N)

360 If that's Mark Spitz, she must be Esther Williams, his inspiration

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2021 11:26 AM (m45I2)

Correctomundo, senor!

Mark Spitz transitioned ?!?!? I never heard that? Thought Jenner was the 1st,

Posted by: Paladin at February 26, 2021 12:43 PM (KX5Wh)

361 78 @kaitlancollins

The White House gaggle aboard Air Force One is delayed because press secretary Jen Psaki says they need to do some prep for President Biden for his trip to Texas.

OY!
Posted by: Tami at February 26, 2021 11:28 AM (cF8AT)

The. Necromancer is taking longer than expected.

Posted by: Fox2! at February 26, 2021 12:53 PM (iqInZ)

362 To me the fascinating thing about Q Anon is why, if it wasn't associated with Trump, he didn't sink it? I am sure they were aware of it. All he would have had to do is say something at a rally like "it seems like these Q people are patriots, good people, but I have no idea who they are..do any of you? I don't.. they aren't us" and nobody would have gotten mad at him really..so what was it anyway?

Posted by: azjaeger at February 26, 2021 01:35 PM (3/XaG)

363 That's not Bradford Dilman?

Posted by: Paul at February 26, 2021 02:05 PM (LUn2N)

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