Science Isn't Dead, But It Is Ailing - Part 8<br><i>by Your <s>Raving</s> Roving Science Correspondent</i> [Jay Guevara]

Science Isn't Dead, But It Is Ailing - Part 8
by Your Raving Roving Science Correspondent [Jay Guevara]

Consider the following assertions:

Tanning bed use linked to higher risk for endometriosis in study

Vitamin C infusion may reduce sepsis death risk

Obesity may exacerbate the effects of Alzheimer's disease, new study shows.

Bacteria in the gut may influence COVID-19 severity, study says.

Scientists identify nutrient that helps prevent bacterial infection

Aspirin: Quitting cold turkey could be dangerous. "Studies have linked [emphasis mine] aspirin withdrawal to heart attacks."

The Pandemic Could Be Harming Kids' Eyesight, But It Isn't The Virus to Blame.

Researchers identify bacteria that promote metabolic and mental health.

Regular aspirin use can lower risk for death in bladder, breast cancers.

NSAIDs might exacerbate or suppress COVID-19 depending on timing, mouse study suggests.

Hydrogel injection may change the way the heart muscle heals after a heart attack.

Exercise may help curb migraines for people with certain triggers.

Neanderthal-derived protein may reduce the severity of COVID-19.

Higher pollen count may increase risk for COVID-19, study says. Some doctors in my area have been speculating that the high pollen levels here may account for the relative non-severity of cases in the region. But of course, reducing the immune response might both make you more likely to catch it, and also less likely to get the deadly immune overreaction we see in severe cases.

Bone marrow treatments may reverse brain damage caused by stroke.

Electricity could help speed wound healing, new study shows.

Notice the highlighted language in these assertions:"may," "could," "might," "help," "promote," "linked," all terms that appear so often in pop sci articles on biomedical research. What is the evidentiary value of these assertions? I'd say, it's nil, because if something may have some effect, then it also may not have that effect. In other words, they don't know for sure.

Suppose the weather forecast read: "It may rain tomorrow, although it could besunny, it might snow, and there could be a heat wave. That's the wrap-up for tomorrow's weather."

That clears that up, huh?

The obvious rejoinder to all such hedged statements is "Thank you for pointing out that various possibilities exist. We knew that before you started. Get back to us when you know, and don't just suspect or hope or have a hunch, OK?"

The assertions cited above result from the unholy confluence of biomedical research with "journalism," and clearly reflect the influence of "weasel words" taken from the marketer's art. Marketers use such hedged language to avoid legal liability, so that if litigation should ensue, they can protect themselves by pointing out that they didn't say the product did something, only that it helps to do something. Implicit in that statement is the possibility that the help afforded may be nugatory. (See, I'm catching on!)

Now anyone who takes such assertions at face value is, in my opinion, a fool, since even those making the assertion clearly don't repose much credence in it.

For some reason, however, some such hedged assertions are taken as gospel in some quarters. This is because the true religion of the 21st century is not any monotheistic belief, but rather health and nutrition fads. You can insult a man's nominal religion and he may shrug it off, but insult his dietary beliefs, and the matter will be settled on the field of honor. (In this contest, I've considered teeing off on the risible high fructose corn syrup cult, but decided against it because I don't want to join Salman Rushdie in witness protection.)

So far these types of health-based assertions are generally fairly harmless scaremongering to the neurotically health-obsessed, but a more pernicious variant is now extant in our race-obsessed culture.

Consider this one: Study: Racist 'redlining' policies increased stroke risk for Black people.

Discriminatory housing practices from nearly a century ago continue to influence a person's risk of suffering a stroke, claims a new study that reveals the legacy of structural racism in the United States.

Researchers found a 1.5% higher rate of stroke within census tracts in Columbus, Ohio, most heavily marked for "redlining," compared to neighborhoods in the city least affected by housing discrimination.

Now purer, more crystalline horseshit would be difficult to find. As a voice crying out in the wilderness I shout - apparently to no purpose - first, that correlation is not necessarily causation. Second, how else might the two neighborhoods differ, perchance? Incidence of smoking? Of obesity? Of diabetes? Age distribution? Are these things not relevant to incidence of stroke? Third, what are the confidence levels on the 1.5% higher incidence? Is that significant?Assuming that the neighborhoods had the same population, that meant that if one neighborhood had 200 stroke victims, the other had 203. Seems to me that there's a lot of fuzz on that tennis ball. What was the year-to-year variance in each neighborhood? I'm guessing it's more than 1.5%. And to go out on a limb, I'm further guessing by suitable choice of years, you could find data supporting the exact opposite contention.

But that would not serve the purpose of the study's "researchers," which clearly was to use this study as a vehicle to advance a racial narrative.

As always, I denounce myself, of course. And to remind all and sundry that I long ago called "top bunk."

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Past entries in the series:

Science isn't dead, but it is ailing - part 7
Science isn't dead, but it is ailing - part 6
Science isn't dead, but it is ailing - part 5
Science isn't dead, but it is ailing - part 4
Science isn't dead, but it is ailing - part 3
Science isn't dead, but it is ailing - part 2
Science isn't dead, but it is ailing - part 1

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1 There was a reason we called them weather guessers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 06:35 PM (oHd/0)

2 Wow, and I even read the content!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 06:35 PM (oHd/0)

3 Read the content.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2021 06:36 PM (DMUuz)

4 2 Wow, and I even read the content!
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 06:35 PM (oHd/0)

That was your first mistake!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:36 PM (YqDXo)

5 3 Read the content.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2021 06:36 PM (DMUuz)

I am a graduate of the Evlyn Wood Sped Reddin course.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 06:36 PM (oHd/0)

6 I told the others, swearsies.

Posted by: April at April 03, 2021 06:40 PM (OX9vb)

7 It's all sciencey up in here.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 06:41 PM (bB2I6)

8 Evening Horde, I am happy to report that "Nobody" is Sven approved.

Odenkirk does a good job, and the action is good.

3 thumbs up.

Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 06:41 PM (Lzpvj)

9 That was your first mistake!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:36 PM

ace hisself done let us know this week that he don't appreciate the content not getting read. We just trying to reform our cispatriarchal privileged cultural mores.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2021 06:42 PM (DMUuz)

10 wa gwan

Posted by: Jamaica nyc at April 03, 2021 06:42 PM (b+v9B)

11
it could be lupus, maybe

Posted by: Dr.House at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM (DUIap)

12 Hi Duncanthrax, not only did you read the content, you understood it.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM (bB2I6)

13 You need to host more threads senor.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * el Lobo solitario at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM (Bp+QX)

14 Deplorable Jay Guevara

Thank you for this. Much appreciated.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM (u82oZ)

15 Evening Horde, I am happy to report that "Nobody" is Sven approved.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 06:41 PM

Thank you, sven. I try.

Posted by: Nobody at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM (DMUuz)

16 Science is doomed by the same thing that has likely doomed the organized churches.

Politics, the practitioners of these vital disciplines crave public approval and the gatekeepers are all insane these days.

Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 06:44 PM (Lzpvj)

17 15 Posted by: Nobody at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM (DMUuz)

I was deeply impressed with your ethics.

Hats off.

Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 06:44 PM (Lzpvj)

18 13 You need to host more threads senor.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * el Lobo solitario at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM (Bp+QX)

14 Deplorable Jay Guevara

Thank you for this. Much appreciated.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM (u82oZ)

Thanks, gang. I appreciate it. I worry about getting too sciency/curmudgeonly.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:44 PM (YqDXo)

19 All this is because popular culture--what most people swim in--has decided that "feelings" are way more important than "facts." Hell, pop culture is hell-bend on promoting mental illness as normal. It's because otherwise people (the right sort of people, naturally) might feel bad, and we can't have that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2021 06:45 PM (OU+8W)

20 18 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:44 PM (YqDXo)

Don't it is a good series, we are witnessing the death of critical analysis of ideas, this cross x is the cornerstone of ethics.

Ethics must survive or western civ will not.

Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 06:46 PM (Lzpvj)

21 Weird Science wasn't one of John Hughes better films. Kelly LeBrock was pretty hot though.

Posted by: lowandslow at April 03, 2021 06:46 PM (4thlk)

22 Deplorable Jay Guevara

I have an energybalance question.

We both know that drawing the correct thermodynamic box is the key to eneergy transfers.

How is Man-made climate change possiblewhen the energy mankind generates is 74,000 (or so) times less powerful than solar energy from the sun?

And CO₂ does not count. Because the earths green areas have grown 17% in some specific time according to satellite reports.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 06:46 PM (u82oZ)

23 Content I got, links now could take rest of the night

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 06:46 PM (Cxk7w)

24 If you set up a science industrial complex, with the main purpose of learning what we do not already know, it would look very little like what we have now.

Instead we have a SIC that is dedicated to advancing careers, and if you embark on a "study" that doesn't really say anything, that's a lot less important than that you are capable of having it published. And that you can bring in grants. And prestige.

It isn't ALWAYS anti-science, but sometimes it is.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 03, 2021 06:46 PM (qPu/Y)

25 19 Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2021 06:45 PM (OU+8W)

I have looked intelligence people in the eyes and told them, the cult of feelings is destroying western competitiveness.

Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 06:47 PM (Lzpvj)

26 We do live in an amazing time. Went to the doc the other day for a grapefruit growing out the side of my leg. He shot it up, cut it up, used a drill thing, squeezed out the rest of the pus then after I was done bleeding on the floor bandaged it up and off I went with antibiotics and pain meds. Nice .38 size hole in my right thigh.

100 years ago I prolly would be dead. Oh look! Another manhattan. One cherry only please.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 03, 2021 06:47 PM (R/m4+)

27 At least you are not trying to foist mathematics upon an unsuspecting Horde!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 06:47 PM (hOUT3)

28 A lot of snake oil going around now a days

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 03, 2021 06:48 PM (85Gof)

29 too sciency/curmudgeonly.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Never! In my weird little monkey mind , I will now always visualize you as Doc Brown wearing a beret.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * el Lobo solitario at April 03, 2021 06:48 PM (Bp+QX)

30 Hi Duncanthrax, not only did you read the content, you understood it.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM

Courtesy of a mis-spent youth.

How are you, Ben Had? I believe I've found a small pile of hog spoor on property, but no other hog sign. OTOH, saw a huge armadillo this morning, and since I don't know what armadillo spoor looks like, it might have been him. Nonetheless, the hogs are in the area, and it's just a matter of time.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2021 06:48 PM (DMUuz)

31 Hairyback Guy

Glad to hear you are much better. But you are really a grapefruit tree? Or just identify as one?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 06:49 PM (u82oZ)

32 the thing I always notice, is that it takes a lot of wind and notations to discredit the bumper sticker bullshit that passes for science. And that is enough to bore the idiots into waving a pasty pink hand in dismissal.

As one of my wiser writing teachers in college told us, you could tape an essay to your rear bumper, but it would not help to discredit the simplistic bumper sticker slogans out there.

He hated bumper sticker wisdom.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, On Location in Montana at April 03, 2021 06:49 PM (4l77G)

33 Also, there is selection bias. The tanning beds / endometriosis may (weasle word alert!) be because the largest percentage of clients of tanning beds is pre-menopausal women (the kind with a uterus and ovaries, not the kind like then PA Angel of Death working for Biden), aka the only people who might have endometriosis.

Posted by: legion of boom at April 03, 2021 06:50 PM (HDtB/)

34 Since I'd owned a tanning salon in the mid-nineties, I have been acutely aware of the Weasel Words and the effect they had on people.

Even before that, when those words were broadcast, I would say, "...and Aunt Nancy might have a dick.", much to the chagrin of my parents and my Aunt Nancy.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 06:50 PM (Ckg4U)

35
Thanks, gang. I appreciate it. I worry about getting too sciency/curmudgeonly.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I don't think any of the above thanks ruled those out.

I appreciated the articles on aspirin use and taurine's effect on infection control.
I might do a bit of research on common sources of taurine.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 03, 2021 06:50 PM (gtatv)

36 Science began to die when the right proposal generated an inside track to a government (or NGO) study grant!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 06:50 PM (hOUT3)

37 I can predict, with certainty, that there might be something important happening to you, in the next couple days, or weeks, depending on your particular desperation as to what that something might be.

That'll be $5.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at April 03, 2021 06:51 PM (3H9h1)

38 Glad to hear you are much better. But you are really a grapefruit tree? Or just identify as one?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 06:49 PM (u82oZ)

Hahaha...yup. Ruby Red.

Thanks NcCly Dog!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 03, 2021 06:51 PM (R/m4+)

39 How is Man-made climate change possiblewhen the energy mankind generates is 74,000 (or so) times less powerful than solar energy from the sun?

And CO2 does not count. Because the earths green areas have grown 17% in some specific time according to satellite reports.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 06:46 PM (u82oZ)

Nice try, NaCly Dog. But you're still not getting top bunk.

(How did you get a subscript? Is that a perk of platinum membership? I think I just figured it when Pixy burped back my attempt to quote this. HTML, FTW, amirite?)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:51 PM (YqDXo)

40 "Thanks, gang. I appreciate it. I worry about getting too sciency/curmudgeonly."
-Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:44 PM (YqDXo)

Let it fly. My dumb ass just might learn something. ...studies show.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 06:52 PM (Ckg4U)

41 "100 years ago I prolly would be dead."

I hope that in a hundred years medical science will look back at our practices now as barbaric. The way things are going I'm worried we're going stop progressing.

Posted by: lowandslow at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (4thlk)

42
ruby red grapefruit are the bestest grapefruit ever, it is known

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (DUIap)

43 Yall should watch that dr on the sidebar. He is lit AF.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (rFkTI)

44 Even before that, when those words were broadcast, I would say, "...and Aunt Nancy might have a dick.", much to the chagrin of my parents and my Aunt Nancy.
Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 06:50 PM (Ckg4U)

I used to say, "... and the Pope might be an atheist," but nowadays people stop and ponder that at some length, so I don't say it anymore.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (YqDXo)

45 "Bat guano increases in Madagascar may lead to increases in brain cancer."

Posted by: Javems at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (8SSHh)

46 So very cool to be here!!
I hope I see many of you oh-so-ONT!
Damn! Ilove this place!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (HC+O2)

47 I love the part in the Ten Commandments where Moses is facing off against the Balrog and then he breaks the bridge with his staff and shouts, Tell Your Uncle I have his Fish!!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (HvW4E)

48 4 2 Wow, and I even read the content!
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 06:35 PM (oHd/0)

That was your first mistake!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:36 PM (YqDXo)

Next up, getting involved in a land war in Asia.

Posted by: Bete at April 03, 2021 06:54 PM (Ojki1)

49 "I used to say, '... and the Pope might be an atheist,' but nowadays people stop and ponder that at some length, so I don't say it anymore."
-Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (YqDXo)

Yes.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 06:54 PM (Ckg4U)

50 Wow, that Dr. Ryan link on the sidebar is something.

Confirms everything I and others have been saying for over a year.

I love when he talks about the vaccines and use air quotes.

Priceless.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 06:54 PM (HvW4E)

51 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 06:46 PM (u82oZ)

Come on NaCly, the sun is 93 MILLION miles away from the earth and on the average only visible 50% of the time, how can it possibly have an impact on the earth's climate?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 06:54 PM (hOUT3)

52 100 years ago I prolly would be dead. Oh look! Another manhattan. One cherry only please.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Glad to hear you got that taken care of: I had to put vacuum dressings on some rather large areas due to that type of infection.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 03, 2021 06:55 PM (gtatv)

53 The Science Gods are angry!

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 06:55 PM (MVjcR)

54 Holy crazycow! Now this here is a giant pile of content!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 03, 2021 06:55 PM (HC+O2)

55 Damn.
I feel dumb compared to y'all.
Thank you, deplorable Jay. A lot to chew on here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 06:55 PM (U2p+3)

56 I hope that in a hundred years medical science will look back at our practices now as barbaric. The way things are going I'm worried we're going stop progressing.
Posted by: lowandslow

If we all don't do our part and mask up, we'll never know!!!

Oh, wait. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2021 06:55 PM (5e34N)

57 There is one thing I am sure of....a hundred years from now, i probably will not look so good

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 03, 2021 06:55 PM (85Gof)

58 AZ deplorable moron, shrimp, sardines and red meat.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 06:55 PM (bB2I6)

59 ruby red grapefruit are the bestest grapefruit ever, it is known
Posted by: AltonJackson

Unless ya swallow wrong and it ends up in your leg.

Posted by: JT at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM (arJlL)

60 Also, there is selection bias. The tanning beds / endometriosis may (weasle word alert!) be because the largest percentage of clients of tanning beds is pre-menopausal women (the kind with a uterus and ovaries, not the kind like then PA Angel of Death working for Biden), aka the only people who might have endometriosis.
Posted by: legion of boom at April 03, 2021 06:50 PM (HDtB/)

This just in: Tin Woodmen less prone to heart disease.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM (mzC78)

61 I just put adblocker on my computer...lol...love it and some sites are flipping out

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM (85Gof)

62 I had not been able to connect to aos for a couple of hours. Was it just me? Are y'all trying to tell me something?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM (2DOZq)

63 Is anyone else watching this Miley Cyrus garbage?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM (PUmDY)

64 Off to the in laws to watch a beautiful demonstration of the game of basketball otherwise known as the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Science (real science) rocks.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * el Lobo solitario at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM (Bp+QX)

65 There is one thing I am sure of....a hundred years from now, i probably will not look so good
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Hopefully, you'll be in a better mood.

Posted by: JT at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM (arJlL)

66 23 Content I got, links now could take rest of the night
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 06:46 PM (Cxk7w)

I wouldn't waste time on the links, any more than I would recommend reading up on astrology. And for the same reason.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:57 PM (YqDXo)

67 ruby red grapefruit are the bestest grapefruit ever, it is known
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (DUIap)

If you can find them, try Cara Cara Oranges!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 06:57 PM (hOUT3)

68 Also, there is selection bias. The tanning beds / endometriosis may (weasle word alert!) be because the largest percentage of clients of tanning beds is pre-menopausal women (the kind with a uterus and ovaries, not the kind like then PA Angel of Death working for Biden), aka the only people who might have endometriosis.
Posted by: legion of boom at April 03, 2021 06:50 PM (HDtB/)

Uh ... just exactly what ARE they tanning, anyway? Or do I not want to know?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:58 PM (YqDXo)

69
I had not been able to connect to aos for a couple of hours. Was it just me? Are y'all trying to tell me something?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM

it's been kinda hit-n-miss all afternoon...timeouts, not responding, etc

seems better now

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2021 06:58 PM (DUIap)

70 We may be looking at a 4th wave or spike in COVID-19 cases in the fall, which may be deadlier than the previous 3 outbreaks, and which may not be stopped by the vaccine.

Posted by: Infielder extraordinaire Fauci at April 03, 2021 06:58 PM (OQSp+)

71 Was going to guess kids eyesight loss during Covid was computer viewing for long hours

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 06:58 PM (Cxk7w)

72 Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 03, 2021 06:55 PM (85Gof)

NGU: Hope you have cornered the Navy Challenge Coin market.
From WZ
shorturl.at/swyHJ

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 06:59 PM (hOUT3)

73 This post ties in neatly with the CS Lewis Screwtape Letters post. The seductiveness of Equality and No Consequences for bad behavior goes back to the Garden. Eat this and you will be like God.

Posted by: Jmel at April 03, 2021 06:59 PM (bVhJi)

74 Sock Monkey * el Lobo solitario

If Deplorable Jay Guevara drives a DeLorean, can he go back in time and (continued in Part 2)

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 06:59 PM (u82oZ)

75 @70

Poppycock.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 06:59 PM (HvW4E)

76 Mostly sunny tomorrow but it might rain. Chance of showers Monday but it might be sunny.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at April 03, 2021 06:59 PM (6Pqz7)

77 shrimp, sardines and red meat.
Posted by: Ben Had

Thanks BH, I'm getting plenty of taurine based on that list.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 03, 2021 06:59 PM (gtatv)

78 70 Posted by: Infielder extraordinaire Fauci at April 03, 2021 06:58 PM (OQSp+)

May is a powerful word, we also may be looking at continued infringements on liberty and economic mobility.

If the vaccine is so effective is does nothing why are we compelled to take it again?

Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 06:59 PM (Lzpvj)

79 Hopefully, you'll be in a better mood.
Posted by: JT at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM (arJlL)

Don't count on it. And some piss ant OIC just got me mad and I had to shoot out an angry Email

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 03, 2021 07:00 PM (85Gof)

80 Part 2

end *Flourishes list*

LBJ
Saul Alinsky
Pelosi
Give pbho's mom a supply of birth controls &
pbho's dad some condoms
OBL
Soros

(Cont in Part 3)

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:00 PM (u82oZ)

81 Part 3

Every Media executive since Disney
Schumer
All the other Dems in Congress since 1960, except for Zell Miller, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Scoop Jackson
All the Rinos in Congress since 1960
Please give Joe Biden a happy career as a coal miner.

And other that will not be missed.

But leave Shirley MacLean alone. She is to be mine, for a short time, until she talks about issues.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:00 PM (u82oZ)

82 73 This post ties in neatly with the CS Lewis Screwtape Letters post. The seductiveness of Equality and No Consequences for bad behavior goes back to the Garden. Eat this and you will be like God.
Posted by: Jmel at April 03, 2021 06:59 PM (bVhJi)

It's silly, isn't it? Especially when everybody knows the secret to health is a strategically-placed yam.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:00 PM (YqDXo)

83 63 Is anyone else watching this Miley Cyrus garbage?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at April 03, 2021 06:56 PM (PUmDY)

sorry Miley, you aren't Freddy Mercury.
Singing talent, anyway, but you continue to try to out freak him as best you can. Whatever.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 03, 2021 07:00 PM (sy5kK)

84 The largest clientele for tanning beds is high school girls before the prom and homecoming. Second would be middle-class, vacationing women. Third would be pre-menopausal women at or near retirement.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:01 PM (Ckg4U)

85 47 I love the part in the Ten Commandments where Moses is facing off against the Balrog and then he breaks the bridge with his staff and shouts, Tell Your Uncle I have his Fish!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (HvW4E)

Honestly, how did the studio releasing this one 4K not get it out last Tuesday, and instead scheduled it for the end of the month?

Posted by: Bete at April 03, 2021 07:01 PM (Ojki1)

86 I used to say, "... and the Pope might be an atheist," but nowadays people stop and ponder that at some length, so I don't say it anymore.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM

I was inching northward on 101 near Santa Rosa (CA) in 2008 when a local radio jock asked "Would you vote for Hillary or Satan?"

"Tough choice", I thought, and began to ponder it. 5 seconds or so later, he broke in with "That's a joke." "No, it isn't I thought."

Some questions need pondering.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2021 07:02 PM (DMUuz)

87 Secretary Buttplug has backed down from the idea of taxing by the mile. He realized it would hurt Prius and Tesla drivers the most.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:02 PM (wyszq)

88 Yep. That sidebar-linked video is pure gold. I'd trust that doctor's wisdom and experience far more than a governmental apparatchik like Fauci. GO OUT AND GET YOU SOME VITAMIN D! (natural or otherwise)
Scientific articles--especially those on masking--are chock full of weasel words (no offense to our resident Weasel!) to obfuscate and mislead the masses.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at April 03, 2021 07:03 PM (hQrcu)

89 NaCly, I commend you for your focus on the truly undesirables amongst us!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:03 PM (hOUT3)

90 The largest clientele for tanning beds is high school girls before the prom and homecoming. Second would be middle-class, vacationing women. Third would be pre-menopausal women at or near retirement.
Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:01 PM (Ckg4U)

Strippers. They love them some tanning beds as they sleep days and work nights.

A few minutes before showtime and off they go....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 03, 2021 07:04 PM (R/m4+)

91 Deplorable Jay Guevara

₂ (subscript 2) is( & # 8322 ) [close spaces, no parens.]

CO & # 8322 = CO₂

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:04 PM (u82oZ)

92 87 Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:02 PM (wyszq)

Eh, state highway patrolmen were telling "urban demographic" drivers how much it would cost.....

I saw it.

Donkey voter wants government to be the folks who hand them money and punish their enemies not tax them.

Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 07:04 PM (Lzpvj)

93 I as this in all seriousness. We are on the verge of a 4th wave supposedly. When was Wave 3? I missed it I guess.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:04 PM (wyszq)

94 When was Wave 3? I missed it I guess.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:04 PM (wyszq)

You were probably working, earning a living, supporting your family, and building a Country

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 03, 2021 07:05 PM (85Gof)

95 "The Undead" is on Svengoolie. In the future, Roger Corman may be regarded as the greatest filmmaker ever.

Posted by: f'd at April 03, 2021 07:06 PM (UDINW)

96
Uh ... just exactly what ARE they tanning, anyway? Or do I not want to know?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

A clam shell of UV light used to get a "tan".

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 03, 2021 07:06 PM (gtatv)

97 @78

Let's say for arguments sake that the vaccines are real and they are more effective than the flu vaccine, with 30 pct of the US vaccinated with a single dose and almost 20 pct with a single dose, we have roughly than 3/4s of the country either vaccinated, recovered from COVID or of a population that is virtually immune from the virus.

So why do we still have to wear masks, socially distance and not fully open up?

Or alternatively, this has all been bullshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 07:06 PM (HvW4E)

98 I had not been able to connect to aos for a couple of hours. Was it just me? Are y'all trying to tell me something?
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No, seems like a lot of people were having problems.

Posted by: dartist at April 03, 2021 07:06 PM (+ya+t)

99 Some questions need pondering.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2021 07:02 PM (DMUuz)

Dominion Voting Systems tabulators knows the answer to that question!

Posted by: Dominion ~~Voting~~ Selection Systems (with Auto-Correct) Chairman Hrothgar at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (hOUT3)

100 "Strippers. They love them some tanning beds as they sleep days and work nights."
-A few minutes before showtime and off they go....
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 03, 2021 07:04 PM (R/m4+)

They're the reason I decided to get a stand-up unit. I handed-out free tanning cards at "Thu Klub" and knew they would pay extra to use The Big Machine.

...but the largest segments of clientele are as I had mentioned.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (Ckg4U)

101 Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules!

You and your hazmat suit can take the pop star Madonna and teach her better ways.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (u82oZ)

102 93 Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:04 PM (wyszq)

The states with the most enforced mask wearing have the biggest caseload spikes.

These increases in cases are not matched by an increase in hospitalization rates or death rate.

At peak "the worst" if you had 1000 pennies we were losing 3. With the geometric expansion of alleged infections I would contend it is really 3 out of 5 or 10,000. They are using this to ram through as much wishlist shit as they can period.

Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (Lzpvj)

103 I had not been able to connect to aos for a couple of hours. Was it just me? Are y'all trying to tell me something?
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No, seems like a lot of people were having problems.
Posted by: dartist at April 03, 2021 07:06 PM (+ya+t)

aos?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (85Gof)

104 Suppose the weather forecast read: "It may rain tomorrow, although it could besunny, it might snow, and there could be a heat wave. That's the wrap-up for tomorrow's weather."
---------
Shoulda, coulda, woulda is the new WOKE science.

Besides, we can all forget STEM classes, because they are racciss, or something.

I've concluded the new meaning of racciss is that you have to make someone think by themselves and derive an answer to a question that isn't emotional.

These days in our urban-internet culture? Good luck with that.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (sy5kK)

105 I assume a tanning bed would be good for winter depression or do you need those artificial plant lights for that ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (2DOZq)

106
Tanning beds?

Not for you, Whitey!
Blue-haired internent goblin "explains" her scientific reasoning here:

https://youtu.be/M1o6mGMOT0E?t=14837

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 07:08 PM (BnGJM)

107 94

In America 2.0 doing all those things is a sign of white supremacy I believe.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:08 PM (wyszq)

108 Every time you see "may" in a scientific study, amend it with "or may not".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2021 07:08 PM (0UNjH)

109 Clams got tans?

Posted by: f'd at April 03, 2021 07:08 PM (UDINW)

110 A clam shell of UV light used to get a "tan".
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 03, 2021 07:06 PM (gtatv)

A ... clam shell?

No, no. Not going there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:08 PM (YqDXo)

111
NO MELANIN FOR YOU!

Posted by: Blue Haired Nazi Goblin at April 03, 2021 07:09 PM (BnGJM)

112 108 Every time you see "may" in a scientific study, amend it with "or may not".
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2021 07:08 PM (0UNjH)

Exactly.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:10 PM (YqDXo)

113 They're the reason I decided to get a stand-up unit. I handed-out free tanning cards at "Thu Klub" and knew they would pay extra to use The Big Machine.
...but the largest segments of clientele are as I had mentioned.
Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (Ckg4U)

You are a wise business man.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 03, 2021 07:10 PM (R/m4+)

114 Remember when every year a study would say eggs are good then bad then good for you?

SCIENCE!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:10 PM (wyszq)

115 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (u82oZ)

I have a "Madonna specific" training regimen draft proposal in preparation!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:11 PM (hOUT3)

116 "I assume a tanning bed would be good for winter depression or do you need those artificial plant lights for that?"
-Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 07:07 PM (2DOZq)

I used it as a selling point because the "off-season" is really, really off. I have no idea if "Seasonal Affective Disorder" can be verified or not. Nor do I know if the ultraviolet radiation would have anything to offer, as far as a remedy.

I'd have tried vitamin D and some open blinds.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:11 PM (Ckg4U)

117 Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules!

Say no more. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:11 PM (u82oZ)

118 I see that former Speaker of the House, notorious lush and frequent crybaby, John Boehner, states in his upcoming memoir that "a total moron" could be elected to the House in 2010.

Weepy John's irony vaccine was obviously a great success.

Posted by: Paco at April 03, 2021 07:11 PM (1Jm+u)

119
Re: the eyesight link

I can tell by the link description what it's gonna be about.

The Internet is destroying our bodies, soul, and society.

Posted by: Blue Haired Nazi Goblin at April 03, 2021 07:12 PM (BnGJM)

120 What does a Miley concert have to do with the Final Four men's bb tournament? Before a game, no less?

It isn't the Super Bowl or anything.

I'd rather be watching Chuck, Kenny, and Spike ramble on about stuff. At least it is bb-related.

And Chuck, for the millionth time, it's GonZAGa, not GonZOGa. You make too much money to be that thick. Are you trying to be a racciss?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 03, 2021 07:12 PM (sy5kK)

121 @114

The most dangerous substance known to man is dihydrogen monoxide and yet we allow it to virtually surround us.

Incredible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 07:12 PM (HvW4E)

122 I've been in Montana for 10 days. I have yet to don the mouth beanie. Walmart, McDs, a few other places force the employees to don the mask, but I've never gotten flak from anyone.

Kind of makes me want to not go back to CO. But, you know, my bride and home and all. Oh, and a whole stack of movies that arrived while I've been gone.

but, wife.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, On Location in Montana at April 03, 2021 07:12 PM (4l77G)

123 Secretary Buttplug has backed down from the idea of taxing by the mile. He realized it would hurt Prius and Tesla drivers the most.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:02 PM (wyszq)

Actually Buttjizz is wrong. Tesla drivers are mostly wealthy, and drive the cars mainly to signal their virtue. They likely drive relatively few miles. And many Priuses are used as cabs or for ride-shares, and the tax burden will get passed on the paying customers.

Worst hurt? Self-employed tradesmen who use their F250's to haul trailers to the jobsite, and who don't get a mileage stipend, nor can they charge mileage to the client.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:13 PM (mzC78)

124 Tried to get Gibson's Passion of the Christ on Comcast's On Demand and it's not listed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 07:13 PM (2DOZq)

125 Vitamin D is free to any and all.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 07:13 PM (bB2I6)

126 The most dangerous substance known to man is dihydrogen monoxide and yet we allow it to virtually surround us.

Incredible.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

That theory is all wet.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2021 07:13 PM (5e34N)

127 Evening Horde.

Trust the science.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 03, 2021 07:15 PM (jvt6t)

128 They did have Legos The Passion .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 07:15 PM (2DOZq)

129 Watching the Ten Commandments on ABC.

Coincidentally March 1 I started a reading plan cover to cover in the Bible.

We just finished up Exodus. It is amazing to me how much of our cultural concept of Exodus comes from this movie.

And yet not much of the film comes from The Bible.

Posted by: blaster at April 03, 2021 07:16 PM (ZfRYq)

130 44 Even before that, when those words were broadcast, I would say, "...and Aunt Nancy might have a dick.", much to the chagrin of my parents and my Aunt Nancy.
Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 06:50 PM (Ckg4U)

I used to say, "... and the Pope might be an atheist," but nowadays people stop and ponder that at some length, so I don't say it anymore.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (YqDXo)

Excuse me, I have to go *hit in the woods.

Posted by: a Bear, something you can still depend on. at April 03, 2021 07:16 PM (sy5kK)

131 125 Vitamin D is free to any and all.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 07:13 PM (bB2I6)

I was about to post something about Eskimos, but I think that word is now considered RAAAAAcist.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 07:17 PM (oHd/0)

132 The most dangerous substance known to man is dihydrogen monoxide and yet we allow it to virtually surround us.

You know the very most toxic substance around us every day?

Oxygen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:17 PM (YqDXo)

133 Rivers would not be polluted, were it not for dihydrogen monoxide. It is also found in every river on Earth.

No Weasel Words there. That is 100% True.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:17 PM (Ckg4U)

134 Vitamin D is free to any and all.
Posted by: Ben Had

An even tan brings the risk of skin cancer.

When I was in the Med, at beaches with Scandinavian women without a large clothing budget, I longed to spread sun tan lotion on them so they would live a long life.

But they all could run faster than I could.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:17 PM (u82oZ)

135 Excuse me, I have to go *hit in the woods.
Posted by: a Bear, something you can still depend on. at April 03, 2021 07:16 PM (sy5kK)

Keep it off the trails, Big Guy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:18 PM (mzC78)

136 Those tradesmen with f250s pay gas tax now. Charging by the mile instead will not change much. For most people it will be a wash.

But for EV owners and super high MPG cars like a Prius it will be a big increase. Right now EV drivers pay no gas tax and Prius owners pay very little. Under the Buttplug plan they would pay as much as someone driving a regular car.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:18 PM (wyszq)

137 126 The most dangerous substance known to man is dihydrogen monoxide and yet we allow it to virtually surround us.

Incredible.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

That theory is all wet.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2021 07:13 PM (5e34N)

Doesn't hold water.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 07:18 PM (oHd/0)

138 Rivers would not be polluted, were it not for dihydrogen monoxide. It is also found in every river on Earth.

No Weasel Words there. That is 100% True.
Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:17 PM (Ckg4U)

*rubs face*

the horror. the horror.

Will mankind EVAR learn?!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, On Location in Montana at April 03, 2021 07:18 PM (4l77G)

139 Notsothoreau, I saw your counterpoint in the last thread, and thanks for the links! Darn, that one is membership only...I am considering it.

I will forthwith cease and desist with my assertion that corsets deformed women, at least until I've researched your links. The truth might be somewhere between. After all, even the youtube link says this:

"BTW - one other thing I forgot to mention in the video is how small people where back then. When you hear someone's waist was 18 in (47 cm), it sounds impossible, but is less impressive when the person was 5 ft (150 cm) tall and wearing a corset since her teen years."

Posted by: April at April 03, 2021 07:18 PM (OX9vb)

140 Search for Aspirin, the Flu Pandemic and WW1.

Taking aspirin could induce a cytokine storm that killed healthy young sailors and soldiers.

2 results seen

A "post-mortem wet look"

or thin watery liquid in the lungs referred to as a "superinfection".

The same type of problems as with Covid-19.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 03, 2021 07:18 PM (EMi53)

141 137 126 The most dangerous substance known to man is dihydrogen monoxide and yet we allow it to virtually surround us.

Incredible.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

That theory is all wet.
Posted by: Tonypete

Doesn't hold water.
Posted by: Romeo13

I'm getting steamed!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2021 07:19 PM (5e34N)

142 That is why the studies of Globull Warming...oops, Climate Change are straight up scientificy!!

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2021 07:19 PM (vd8XM)

143 Sebastion, I have the DVD and watched it Friday. I will watch "Risen" tomorrow.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 07:19 PM (bB2I6)

144 ..."But they all could run faster than I could."
-Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:17 PM (u82oZ)

"There were two sets of footprints in the sand..."

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:20 PM (Ckg4U)

145 When I was in the Med, at beaches with Scandinavian women without a large clothing budget, I longed to spread sun tan lotion on them so they would live a long life.

But they all could run faster than I could.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:17 PM (u82oZ)

You're a great humanitarian!

The funny part is that a lot of blonde/Scandi types actually tan quite well, certainly compared to the freckled strawberry blondes, who can get skin cancer from a flash bulb. If those even exist any more.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:20 PM (YqDXo)

146 My in-laws got ebikes. Pretty cool gadgets, can get up to 25 mph on full power.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:20 PM (wyszq)

147 "BTW - one other thing I forgot to mention in the video is how small people where back then. When you hear someone's waist was 18 in (47 cm), it sounds impossible, but is less impressive when the person was 5 ft (150 cm) tall and wearing a corset since her teen years."
Posted by: April at April 03, 2021 07:18 PM (OX9vb)

Yup, wandering around Castles in Europe, as a 6ft tall American, was enlightening.

Let alone running around the Holy Land.

Damn, those folks were SMALL.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 07:20 PM (oHd/0)

148 Blame it on the lawyers.

"Talcum powder has been linked to ovarian cancer."

"Roundup has been linked to cancer."

Join our class-action lawsuit and help us get millions in legal fees. A few of you might get millions, and the rest might get a few bucks in a decade or so.

Posted by: Toad-O at April 03, 2021 07:20 PM (cct0t)

149 Those tradesmen with f250s pay gas tax now. Charging by the mile instead will not change much. For most people it will be a wash.

But for EV owners and super high MPG cars like a Prius it will be a big increase. Right now EV drivers pay no gas tax and Prius owners pay very little. Under the Buttplug plan they would pay as much as someone driving a regular car.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:18 PM (wyszq)

Bwhahaha! You think they would drop the gas tax if a mileage tax were instituted? Pull, the other one, it's got bells on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:20 PM (mzC78)

150 141 137 126 The most dangerous substance known to man is dihydrogen monoxide and yet we allow it to virtually surround us.
Incredible.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
That theory is all wet.
Posted by: Tonypete
Doesn't hold water.
Posted by: Romeo13
I'm getting steamed!

It will come out in the wash

Posted by: wringer at April 03, 2021 07:21 PM (u82oZ)

151 certainly compared to the freckled strawberry blondes, who can get skin cancer from a flash bulb. If those even exist any more.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Oh, the freckled strawberry blondes certainly still exist.

Oh, wait. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2021 07:21 PM (5e34N)

152
Chocolate ice cream and pizza may influence mental health, weight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 03, 2021 07:21 PM (mht8P)

153 The most dangerous substance known to man is dihydrogen monoxide and yet we allow it to virtually surround us.

Incredible.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Is the cause of all drownings in POC and some whites

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2021 07:21 PM (vd8XM)

154 @129

Cecil B. DeMille had a better sense of pacing and Cinematic Theatrical flair than G-d, also had better copy editors.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 07:22 PM (HvW4E)

155 Posted by: wringer at April 03, 2021 07:21 PM (u82oZ)

Well shit.

Posted by: Unobtanium at April 03, 2021 07:22 PM (jvt6t)

156 Yup, wandering around Castles in Europe, as a 6ft tall American, was enlightening.

Let alone running around the Holy Land.

Damn, those folks were SMALL.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 07:20 PM (oHd/0)

This.

When I lived in Europe, I used to have to duck to enter my flat, and I'm only 6'1".

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:22 PM (YqDXo)

157 Not only do those weasel words "might", "could", "indicates", etc. avoid legal liability, they are also a sure sign that someone is pushing an agenda. If A "might" lead to B, then it also "might not" lead to B. That this second version is seldom, if ever, considered means that the author is prejudicing for A.

If the author has to prejudice the outcome, there is no reason to bother with even examining the veracity of it: it's fraudulent. The only way around it is if both (or other) outcomes are considered, and without the lame caveats.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 03, 2021 07:22 PM (K58O6)

158 I still want to know what joker came up with the 8-10 glasses of water a day nonsense.

Plastic bottle makers I think.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 03, 2021 07:23 PM (R/m4+)

159 There are lots of advice in Alaska in winter with more darkness than light that light therapy is helpful.

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 07:23 PM (Cxk7w)

160 143 Sebastion, I have the DVD and watched it Friday. I will watch "Risen" tomorrow.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 07:19 PM (bB2I6)

I also have the DVD but I was curious whether it would be offered as it was ' controversial' to the usual woke crowd. That said , my DVD is still wrapped in plastic. I decided I was going to finally watch it tonight.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 07:23 PM (2DOZq)

161 Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) Baseball Nut

I trust life is good for you and yours, my brother.
Good to read your posts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:23 PM (u82oZ)

162 Blame it on the lawyers.

"Talcum powder has been linked to ovarian cancer."

"Roundup has been linked to cancer."

Join our class-action lawsuit and help us get millions in legal fees. A few of you might get millions, and the rest might get a few bucks in a decade or so.
Posted by: Toad-O at April 03, 2021 07:20 PM (cct0t)

This.

"Potatoes have been linked to death. Everyone who's ever eaten died, sooner or later."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:24 PM (YqDXo)

163 158 I still want to know what joker came up with the 8-10 glasses of water a day nonsense.

Plastic bottle makers I think.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

And 6-10 servings of grains a day.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2021 07:24 PM (5e34N)

164 I still want to know what joker came up with the 8-10 glasses of water a day nonsense.

Manufacturers of urinals would be my guess.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:24 PM (YqDXo)

165 Inbreeding produces smaller offspring.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 07:24 PM (bB2I6)

166
I know that walking 10000 steps a day isn't the key to health, wealth and beautiful babes but if I keep that goal in mind at least I'm getting off my fat ass and doing something.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 03, 2021 07:24 PM (mht8P)

167 "I trust life is good for you and yours, my brother.
Good to read your posts."
-Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:23 PM (u82oZ)

*fist-bump*

I'm here on a Good Night! Much love and hope you are well, as well.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:25 PM (Ckg4U)

168 I was about to post something about Eskimos, but I think that word is now considered RAAAAAcist.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 07:17 PM (oHd/0)

I think Inuit is still ok because it confers grievance status!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:25 PM (hOUT3)

169
"Potatoes have been linked to death. Everyone who's ever eaten died, sooner or later."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:24 PM (YqDXo)

----------

So has the lack of potatoes. Ask the Irish.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 03, 2021 07:25 PM (mht8P)

170 All the other Dems in Congress since 1960, except for Zell Miller, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Scoop Jackson

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:00 PM (u82oZ)

Excellent job, Salty, for correctly identifying the last 3 Senators that were Americans in the last half of the 20th century, and not hopelessly, yet proudly UniParty members. Maybe toss in Sam Dunn. That's about it.

Which tells us pretty much why we are where we are today.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 03, 2021 07:26 PM (sy5kK)

171 And 6-10 servings of grains a day.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2021 07:24 PM (5e34N)

Sheesh...I don't eat six to ten servings of any particular thing in a day.

Posted by: April at April 03, 2021 07:26 PM (OX9vb)

172 Sam Nunn, frigging fingers.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 03, 2021 07:26 PM (sy5kK)

173
Sorry, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was another drunken Irishman who talked reasonably and always voted the Dem line.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 03, 2021 07:27 PM (mht8P)

174 It's SCIENCE!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 03, 2021 07:27 PM (fLVm1)

175 Hey, will Pelosi allow the Capitol police officer that Noah Green killed to lie in state in the Capitol like Sicknick did? Seems to me that Billy Evans has a better claim to have been killed in the line of duty then Sicknick ever did.

Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at April 03, 2021 07:27 PM (FWn1L)

176 LeftCoast Dawg

I did the AoSHQ translation thing. We're good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:28 PM (u82oZ)

177 It's SCIENCE!!!
Posted by: Cicero

Can't argue with that

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2021 07:28 PM (vd8XM)

178 Anyone that has ever had a glass of water will eventually die.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 07:28 PM (bB2I6)

179 171 And 6-10 servings of grains a day.
Posted by: Tonypete

Sheesh...I don't eat six to ten servings of any particular thing in a day.
Posted by: April

I'm curious when, if ever, our govt switched from being usually right/correct to usually wrong/incorrect - no matter the subject.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2021 07:28 PM (5e34N)

180 Hadrian the Seventh

He gave good advice, which if taken, would have solved much of out problems.

Dads are very important, as are intact marriages.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:29 PM (u82oZ)

181 Scientists say sitting MAY be bad for you.

So you must buy a standing desk ASAP!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:29 PM (wyszq)

182 Not only do those weasel words "might", "could", "indicates", etc. avoid legal liability, they are also a sure sign that someone is pushing an agenda. If A "might" lead to B, then it also "might not" lead to B. That this second version is seldom, if ever, considered means that the author is prejudicing for A.

This also.

Here's how it happens. "A" suggests something in a paper. "B" in his paper cites "A." "C" then cites "A" and "B." "D" then cites "C" as received truth proving the original speculation.

Eventually "A" is totally forgotten, as is "B." The now gospel truth is referred to as "C's" contribution, and taught in lectures.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:29 PM (YqDXo)

183 "Under the Buttplug plan"

*sigh* Only in a stolen Commiecrat administration.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 03, 2021 07:30 PM (slg0w)

184 Pandemic ruining kid's eyesight? Oh no, not the boys anyway.

Posted by: Eromero at April 03, 2021 07:30 PM (0OP+5)

185 Clams got tans?
Posted by: f'd at April 03, 2021 07:08 PM

I need to do better marketing, I see.

Posted by: Gwenyth P. at April 03, 2021 07:30 PM (DMUuz)

186 I'm curious when, if ever, our govt switched from being usually right/correct to usually wrong/incorrect - no matter the subject.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2021 07:28 PM (5e34N)

Shortly after the Constitutional Convention!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:30 PM (hOUT3)

187 "It's SCIENCE!!!"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 03, 2021 07:27 PM (fLVm1)

"Psy-ence".

See what I did, there? ...all crafty and shit, like that? The answer is "no". I'm not very proud of it. No charge, though.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:30 PM (Ckg4U)

188 Deploarable Jay, that sounds a lot like an AoS comment.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 07:31 PM (bB2I6)

189 Scientists said the earth would freeze in the 70s. Then in the 90s the earth was about to boil over.

SCIENCE bitches.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:31 PM (wyszq)

190
I'd have tried vitamin D and some open blinds.
Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:11 PM (Ckg4U)

Don't listen to this man!
We will be sorry!

Posted by: Big Pharma, doing a great job using media surrogates to shame HCQ, Vitamin D, and Zinc out of the pi at April 03, 2021 07:31 PM (sy5kK)

191 185 Whatever happened with that hoax about sunbathing your taint?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 07:32 PM (BMmaB)

192 Scientists said the earth would freeze in the 70s. Then in the 90s the earth was about to boil over.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:31 PM (wyszq)

But on average ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:32 PM (YqDXo)

193
He gave good advice, which if taken, would have solved much of out problems.

Dads are very important, as are intact marriages.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:29 PM (u82oZ)

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As Oscar Levant said of Leonard Bernstein, "He revealed secrets that were already common knowledge."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 03, 2021 07:32 PM (mht8P)

194 Scientists said the earth would freeze in the 70s. Then in the 90s the earth was about to boil over.
SCIENCE bitches.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:31 PM (wyszq)

A foolish desire for consistency is the hobgoblin of non-scientific minds!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:33 PM (hOUT3)

195 Damn. No movie thread.

Well, I watched Gojira vs. King Kong, and was thoroughly underwhelmed. I promised to inflict maths upon the Horde in the form of trying to figure out whether the epic battle the two Titans had on the deck of what I assume was a Nimitz class aircraft carrier was even possible.

So: A Nimitz class carrier displaces 100K tons fully loaded and about 79K tons empty. For purposes of this silly exercise I assume the carrier is empty during the fight. Said carrier is also about 1032 feet long.

According to Wiki (never to be doubted!) Kong in this film was 337 feet tall and weighed 50K tons. And Gojira was 508 feet tall and weighed in at a Brian Dennehy-like 90K tons.

I conclude that the addition of 140K tons of actively battling critter to the flight deck of a 79K ton empty carrier would either instantly cause the Nimitz-class ship to capsize or would drive the ship immediately below the waves.

This is not to conclude, however, that either monster might not individually be able to surf using the ship, if a sufficiently yuge wave could be found. This possibility is discounted because we know that, like "Charlie", Kong and Gojira "don't surf."

Posted by: Sharkman at April 03, 2021 07:33 PM (i4CI5)

196 178 Anyone that has ever had a glass of water will eventually die.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 07:28 PM (bB2I6)

Switching from water to wine.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, hope I'm not too late. at April 03, 2021 07:33 PM (sy5kK)

197 Switching from water to wine.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, hope I'm not too late. at April 03, 2021 07:33 PM (sy5kK)

Too close to Easter, I am not going to riff on that!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:34 PM (hOUT3)

198 Sharkman

Good analysis. That metacentric height and righting arm can only do so muck.

Lots of weight topside --badj u-ju.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:35 PM (u82oZ)

199
Scientists said the earth would freeze in the 70s. Then in the 90s the earth was about to boil over.

SCIENCE bitches.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:31 PM

and remarkably, their proscription for preventing either catastrophe was exactly the same thing

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2021 07:35 PM (DUIap)

200 @Chillary, I'm waiting for the investigative apparatus of the DOJ and FBI to go after the Nation of Islam. After all, they've killed more Capitol Police than the Oath Keepers ever did.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 07:36 PM (BMmaB)

201 5 Evening Horde, I am happy to report that "Nobody" is Sven approved.
Posted by: sven at April 03, 2021 06:41 PM

Thank you, sven. I try.
Posted by: Nobody at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM (DMUu

Dude, who are you?

Posted by: Nobody at April 03, 2021 07:36 PM (TYfxd)

202 Potatoes have been linked to death.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:24 PM

D*mnit, DJG, my ratings are already bad enough!

Posted by: Brian Stelter at April 03, 2021 07:36 PM (DMUuz)

203 New Zealand has enacted a law that forced employers to give paid leave to women who have a miscarriage. Cuz science and shit.

This law will be used to take a few weeks vacay by every woman of child bearing age. Anyone can claim to have had one after all. Prove Susie Smith did NOT have one you heartless corporation. Go ahead and dispute her claim. I double dare you.

The awesome part will be when a man pretending to be a woman takes the time off. And everyone will have to go along with it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:36 PM (wyszq)

204 I just started watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. They had a 2013 episode on quarantining because of the flu. They didn't realize at the time about how much it was a very funny indictment of the Covid lockdown.

Everyone should watch that episode. It's sadly hilarious.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 07:37 PM (2DOZq)

205 Hrothgar, Well done!

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 07:37 PM (bB2I6)

206 AltonJackson

Give me more power and money supposedly solved every problem.

Instead, it is the temporary solution of feckless grifters.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:37 PM (u82oZ)

207 Death has been linked to death.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (jvt6t)

208 and remarkably, their proscription for preventing either catastrophe was exactly the same thing
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2021 07:35 PM (DUIap)

(consults seers)

To end drought: throw a virgin into the volcano.

To end the flood: throw a virgin into the volcano.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (mzC78)

209 Science isn't settled until a Leftist says it is

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (Cxk7w)

210 @200

I'm still waiting for them to go after Louis Farhakan for the murder of Malcom X.

Dude straight up admitted he whacked him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (HvW4E)

211

Broke the law today

went to Kroger, Home Depot and Bed Bath and Beyond with out obedience face coverings

not a peep,

Posted by: will choose a nic later at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (r4bSV)

212 Just received a stern looking at by a karen in the parking lot. Her $50K jeep had a Bai-Den sticker and another that said "Science doesn't care what you believe in!"
I was apparently laughing at it while maskless.

Posted by: Former Prof at April 03, 2021 07:39 PM (axyOa)

213 No matter the problem higher taxes and less freedom will solve it.
- Democrats

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 03, 2021 07:39 PM (wyszq)

214 How about company's like Balance of Nature that puts all you need from fruits and veggies in capsules.

Posted by: dartist at April 03, 2021 07:39 PM (+ya+t)

215 life is terminal

Posted by: REDACTED at April 03, 2021 07:40 PM (6iURM)

216 The real tragedy of Science is the death of a beautiful theory by an inconsiderate fact.

Data matters.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:41 PM (u82oZ)

217 As we move through the universe and our distance from the sun goes through it's cycle , our weather will fluctuate between warmer and colder. All astrophysicists know this but they are strangely silent.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 07:41 PM (2DOZq)

218 REDACTED

So let's have fun when the living is good!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:41 PM (u82oZ)

219
To end drought: throw a virgin into the volcano.
To end the flood: throw a virgin into the volcano.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (mzC7

Hmm, seems like there's a subtext there that would result in fewer virgins...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:42 PM (hOUT3)

220 @blaster, my wife is a PK (preacher's kid) and had never seen the movie because they wouldn't watch it in their house due to its un-Biblicality.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 07:42 PM (BMmaB)

221

DJG is most cromulent, and no doubt makes virginal ladies faint dead away...

Posted by: Candied Bacon at April 03, 2021 07:43 PM (qul7b)

222 156 Yup, wandering around Castles in Europe, as a 6ft tall American, was enlightening.

Let alone running around the Holy Land.

Damn, those folks were SMALL.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 07:20 PM (oHd/0)

This.

When I lived in Europe, I used to have to duck to enter my flat, and I'm only 6'1".
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Visiting Hadrien's Wall and simply looked over it. It's not that tall. The gates, you had to duck to get through them. Horatio Nelson's favorite pub, you had to duck to get in it and I'm 5'10. They weren't very tall back then.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 03, 2021 07:43 PM (4POC7)

223 Ben Had, I keep trying!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:43 PM (hOUT3)

224 Science is totally underrated by today's youth. They do not understand what the water table is, for example.
What exactly are we paying teachers for, anyways?

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 03, 2021 07:43 PM (oUcR5)

225 To end drought: throw a virgin into the volcano.
To end the flood: throw a virgin into the volcano.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (mzC7

Hmm, seems like there's a subtext there that would result in fewer virgins...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:42 PM (hOUT3)

Guys! I'm getting tired of these ugly fifth graders.

Posted by: The Volcano at April 03, 2021 07:43 PM (axyOa)

226
On the sewer known as twitter now, there is a "funny" (not funny) prank video up about a fake cop at a mall beating people* with his night-stick (it's in the UK) who aren't wearing a mask.

What's supposedly "funny" about this prank video, according to twitter, is seeing how "all the other anti-maskers scramble to comply" and quickly put on masks as they walk past the fake cop in fear after witnessing the fake cop assault and batter other passers-by.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 07:44 PM (BnGJM)

227 Hmm, seems like there's a subtext there that would result in fewer virgins...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:42 PM (hOUT3)

The de-virginizing services would do a land-office business.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:44 PM (mzC78)

228 Sebastian Melmoth

The annual fluctuation of solar energy received in one year is 7%. Now add the solar cycle.

Solar cycle so far: https://tinyurl.com/9749wt6b

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:44 PM (u82oZ)

229 I'm still waiting for them to go after Louis Farhakan for the murder of Malcom X.
Dude straight up admitted he whacked him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (HvW4E)

He was known as "The Charmer" back in the day and had a minor hit with "Brown Skin Gal".

How ironic.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 03, 2021 07:45 PM (R/m4+)

230 @Bender, I think that was Elijah Muhammad. Farrakhan was still singing calypso songs back then.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 07:45 PM (BMmaB)

231 They weren't very tall back then.
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I read it was because they all smoked and drank coffee.

Posted by: dartist at April 03, 2021 07:45 PM (+ya+t)

232
Science is totally underrated by today's youth. They do not understand what the water table is, for example.
What exactly are we paying teachers for, anyways?
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 03, 2021 07:43 PM (oUcR5)

Come on, you can't make a table out of water, but it would make washing dishes easier!!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:46 PM (hOUT3)

233 100% of people will die at some point in their lives

Posted by: DB- just DB at April 03, 2021 07:47 PM (iTXRQ)

234 Science is totally underrated by today's youth. They do not understand what the water table is, for example.
What exactly are we paying teachers for, anyways?
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 03, 2021 07:43 PM (oUcR5)

Duh. The blackjack table reserved for Mormons?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:47 PM (mzC78)

235 DJG is most cromulent, and no doubt makes virginal ladies faint dead away...
Posted by: Candied Bacon at April 03, 2021 07:43 PM (qul7b)

I live in California, which would explain why no one has fainted dead away.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:47 PM (YqDXo)

236 To end drought: throw a virgin into the volcano.
To end the flood: throw a virgin into the volcano.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (mzC7

Idea: we convince people that the secret is to throw a liberal - or preferably a whole bunch of liberals - into the volcano

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:48 PM (YqDXo)

237 The de-virginizing services would do a land-office business.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:44 PM (mzC7

Are you familiar with incorporation procedures in Canada?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:48 PM (hOUT3)

238 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:44 PM (u82oZ)

Yes, Milankovitch cycles.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 07:49 PM (2DOZq)

239
Broke the law today

went to Kroger, Home Depot and Bed Bath and Beyond with out obedience face coverings

not a peep,
Posted by: will choose a nic later

They sold out of Peeps for Easter?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2021 07:49 PM (63Dwl)

240 Good new willowed:

280 Extremely pleased to report the rotator cuff operation on my wife has been a resounding success thus far. The pain level (according to her) has been quite tolerable, although she's a stoic and fairly likely not to admit the degree.

Only downside is that abomination they call a sling. She mentioned that they had a bunch of fun strapping her into it and I see why. Just a screwed up mess.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 03, 2021 07:40 PM (KATBx)

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:49 PM (u82oZ)

241 "They weren't very tall back then."--Hotel in Japan, my feet stuck over the end of the bed. Plus clobbered the bejzus out of my forehead coming out of a teahouse and forgot to duck.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 03, 2021 07:50 PM (HBlzO)

242 Speaking of science, am reading "The Return of the God Hypothesis" by Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, who previously penned "Signature in the Cell" and "Darwin's Doubt".

His latest is quite a science history lesson as well as a thorough flensing of "scientific materialism". He uses 3 recent discoveries: that the universe had a beginning, that it was incredibly fine-tuned to be able to support life from that beginning, and the sheer magnitude of digital information needed to create the simplest organism, to argue that there must have been a designing intelligence.

Highly recommended.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 03, 2021 07:50 PM (i4CI5)

243 Solar cycle so far: https://tinyurl.com/9749wt6b
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:44 PM (u82oZ)

They seem to take pains to avoid any suggestion that the solar cycle has any effect on Earth's climate, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:51 PM (mzC78)

244 AshevilleRobert

With modern farming and distribution practices, people are getting more good food than at any time in the past. Before, it was the aristos that got enough calories.

Now, anyone could eat right, and grow. Look at Japan and height by year since 1946.

Naturally the Left wants to end all that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:53 PM (u82oZ)

245 They seem to take pains to avoid any suggestion that the solar cycle has any effect on Earth's climate, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:51 PM (mzC7

For the real science!

See 51

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 07:53 PM (hOUT3)

246 @Bender 230 I just looked it up and I was wrong. Louis X was imam of a mosque in Newark at the time Malcolm was assassinated, and the assassins went to his mosque.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 07:53 PM (BMmaB)

247 Idea: we convince people that the secret is to throw a liberal - or preferably a whole bunch of liberals - into the volcano
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:48 PM (YqDXo)

We got to build a volcano, first. Our dormant ones seem to be a little too dormant to be of use.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:53 PM (mzC78)

248 Weasel words. You read enough scientific papers and you get especially sensitized to them.

Posted by: West at April 03, 2021 07:54 PM (QY+6a)

249 Alberta Oil Peon

Because that would kill their grasping for power through "global warming."

Let me add to the list.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:54 PM (u82oZ)

250 Alberta Oil Peon

We need a travel office for Leftists to visit sunny Italy and Mt. Etna.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:55 PM (u82oZ)

251 Because that would kill their grasping for power through "global warming."

Let me add to the list.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:54 PM (u82oZ)

Of course, I know that. If the government body publishing the solar cycle dat were honest, they would say there is linkage to natural climate change. Just another example about how the climate change cult is perverting good science.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:56 PM (mzC78)

252 @NaclyDog, same with the Koreans. When I served there in the 80s, there were some big KATUSAs who all came from seacoast villages where they got regular protein growing up. 30 years later, protein deficiency is much less common.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 07:56 PM (BMmaB)

253 One way trip to Nork Land

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 07:56 PM (Cxk7w)

254 Musta fell into a hot tub time machine

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 03, 2021 07:57 PM (slg0w)

255
Incidentally, maybe some Saturday we can have a Science, Tech, and Privacy post.

I really wanna break my tether to google and microsoft and shall soon commence trying to install Linux on a used laptop I just bought off ebay.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 07:57 PM (BnGJM)

256 The UCLA-Gonzaga game is the first bb game of the season that I've seen. OK, a half dozen 3 or 5 minute clips of some others, but this will be the first game.

A 1990's LCD would be stunned at this fact. That LCD simply wouldn't believe it. That LCD would take days off to watch the tournament back them. Of course, a lot of things have happened in the USA the last few years that that LCD simply wouldn't believe.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 03, 2021 07:58 PM (sy5kK)

257 We need a travel office for Leftists to visit sunny Italy and Mt. Etna.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:55 PM (u82oZ)

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Kilauea at April 03, 2021 07:58 PM (mzC78)

258 "100 years ago I prolly would be dead."

I hope that in a hundred years medical science will look back at our practices now as barbaric. The way things are going I'm worried we're going stop progressing.
Posted by: lowandslow at April 03, 2021 06:53 PM (4thlk)

I dunno. They have dug up skulls from the stone age where parts of the skull have been cut away for whatever reason, likely to relieve pressure from a head injury. Many of them show healing, showing that the patient survived the surgery.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2021 07:58 PM (eoQWY)

259 @AOP, I don't have a problem with throwing them into dormant ones.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 07:58 PM (BMmaB)

260 Kilauea

Have to hibernate for 14 days. Too slow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:58 PM (u82oZ)

261 @246

I remember seeing some tape of him admitting he killed him back in the late 90's or early aughts.

My theory is that Farhakkan is an IC/LE asset and that's why they never pinched him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2021 07:59 PM (HvW4E)

262 236 To end drought: throw a virgin into the volcano.
To end the flood: throw a virgin into the volcano.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:38 PM (mzC7

Idea: we convince people that the secret is to throw a liberal - or preferably a whole bunch of liberals - into the volcano
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:48 PM (YqDXo)

Celts and Picts would Sacrifice their own KING, if they had a bad enough year. I suggest bringing back some ole time religion.

/looks towards DC.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 07:59 PM (oHd/0)

263 Just another example about how the climate change cult is perverting good science.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 07:56 PM (mzC7

Good science = skepticism. Also admitting uncertainty, confusion, and the possibility of being wrong.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:59 PM (YqDXo)

264 Deplorable Jay Guevara

Preach it! So true.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 08:00 PM (u82oZ)

265 Have to hibernate for 14 days. Too slow.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 07:58 PM (u82oZ)

Trebuchet plus lava lake. Some assembly required.

Posted by: Kilauea at April 03, 2021 08:00 PM (mzC78)

266 Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 07:25 PM (Ckg4U)
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'Sup, cuz?!

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (MVjcR)

267
Hotel in Japan, my feet stuck over the end of the bed. Plus clobbered the bejzus out of my forehead coming out of a teahouse and forgot to duck.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert

There's a hilarious 2-part episode of the King Of The Hill when Hank takes his family to Japan. They spend the whole time in their tiny, cramped hotel room without realizing until the last moment that they spent all their time in the front entry without ever opening the door to the actual room.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (BnGJM)

268 I hope that in a hundred years medical science will look back at our practices now as barbaric. The way things are going I'm worried we're going stop progressing.
Posted by: lowandslow

The fact that there are even abortionists or "gender reassignment" quacks tells you we're doomed.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (slg0w)

269 Kilauea

My, you are as hungry as the barrel!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (u82oZ)

270 Visiting Hadrien's Wall and simply looked over it. It's not that tall. The gates, you had to duck to get through them. Horatio Nelson's favorite pub, you had to duck to get in it and I'm 5'10. They weren't very tall back then.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 03, 2021 07:43 PM (4POC7)

The idea of Roman palisades and walls wasn't so much to keep one guy from climbing over, but to keep a raiding force from getting over, with their horses and especially to keep that force from getting BACK over with men, horses and loot before the reaction force could intercept them.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (eoQWY)

271 The name of Trump will be stricken from the record
Never to be spoken again
Ramses has spoken

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (Cxk7w)

272
Where's logprof?

He likes science.
And he's a big fan of King of the Hill.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (BnGJM)

273 Good science = skepticism. Also admitting uncertainty, confusion, and the possibility of being wrong.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 07:59 PM (YqDXo)

Yup, did you know the E does NOT equal MC Squared? Its a close approximation, but not completely accurate.

Yet EVERYONE knows that equation.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (oHd/0)

274 A 1990's LCD would be stunned at this fact. That LCD simply wouldn't believe it. That LCD would take days off to watch the tournament back them.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

I quit my job back in 1987 when I realized that I had been working so much that I had completely missed the entire college basketball season and tournament. That job was killing me and keeping me from my favorite sport.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 03, 2021 08:02 PM (i4CI5)

275 Our Solar System is moving around the Milky Way at 450,000 mph. The Milky Way is moving through the universe at 1.3 million mph. Gravity influence from other celestial bodies is constantly changing which changes our climate.

Man made anything seems insignificant.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 08:02 PM (2DOZq)

276 Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 07:57 PM (BnGJM)

Easier than you think. Distrowatch.com is a valuable resource.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 08:02 PM (hOUT3)

277 Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (Cxk7w)

Damn, was gonna go watch Ben Hur tonight...

May have to flip to the 10 Commandments now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 08:02 PM (oHd/0)

278 Now purer, more crystalline horseshit would be difficult to find.

This man has a way with words.
Now, a book co-authored by him and Muldoon...

Posted by: Braenyard, T -584 days at April 03, 2021 08:02 PM (PHq7v)

279 @Soothsayer, there is a KOH episode that can be cited for almost any situation in life. Judge should get more respect.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 08:03 PM (BMmaB)

280
Our Solar System is moving around the Milky Way at 450,000 mph. The Milky Way is moving through the universe at 1.3 million mph. Gravity influence from other celestial bodies is constantly changing which changes our climate.

Man made anything seems insignificant.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 08:02 PM

obligatory: youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2021 08:03 PM (DUIap)

281 Nefirtiti. What a slut.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 03, 2021 08:04 PM (jvt6t)

282 275 Our Solar System is moving around the Milky Way at 450,000 mph. The Milky Way is moving through the universe at 1.3 million mph. Gravity influence from other celestial bodies is constantly changing which changes our climate.

Man made anything seems insignificant.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 08:02 PM (2DOZq)
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Ha! And the cop said he had me on radar doing 85!

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:05 PM (MVjcR)

283
May have to flip to the 10 Commandments now.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 08:02 PM (oHd/0)
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We're going to change that to 2 Commandments and 8 suggestions.

Posted by: Progda press, dumber than a rock at April 03, 2021 08:05 PM (sy5kK)

284 Heck, Jay. They only look at the pitchers on my threads.

Anyway, science is racist. Especially that stroke study. Math is racist, too.

Posted by: KT at April 03, 2021 08:05 PM (BVQ+1)

285 Sebastion, Thank You. That is perspective.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 08:06 PM (bB2I6)

286 Yet EVERYONE knows that equation.

Posted by: Romeo13

Hardly anyone realizes as well that Einstein created a bullshit "cosmological constant" to plug into his general relativity field equations to avoid the possibility that those formulas could be solved to have universe have a finite beginning.

He did have the balls to admit that he was wrong publicly, but only after it was proved that the universe is expanding and has background radiation consistent with the Big Bang.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 03, 2021 08:06 PM (i4CI5)

287 Nefertiti. I always like her neck. Bet her throat was .....deep.

Posted by: Eromero at April 03, 2021 08:07 PM (0OP+5)

288 Weasel, how was the fudge?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 08:08 PM (bB2I6)

289 On now 1938 Stooges episode "women haters" has teh hawt jazz moosik.

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at April 03, 2021 08:08 PM (IlbJe)

290 Yeah, statistics can be really useful, or they can be abused to convince the confused. I had one statistics class .. just felt it would be good for me or something. But working night shift and helping run fellowships .. I had zero time to really study. ... I did learn enough to know it is more complicated than "Studies Show".

.. A guy I chatted with (online, a decade ago) in lil' Quincy, IL (he actually went to my same grade school) .. told of his adventure in the military, where he discovered some incredible stuff via statistical analysis ... one of those silent heroes in the shadows. ... But that is not what we get now ... we get lies or "pure crystalline horseshit" as ProfJay puts it.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2021 08:08 PM (Cus5s)

291 Spiffy app for tracking satellites in the night sky. The creatively named "Satellite Tracker"

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:08 PM (MVjcR)

292 I really wanna break my tether to google and microsoft and shall soon commence trying to install Linux on a used laptop I just bought off ebay.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 07:57 PM (BnGJM)

Just get the latest version for Linux Mint, load it onto a bootable thumb drive, and boot the laptop off the thumb drive. If you like it, you can instruct it to wipe the laptop's hard drive, and do a clean install of Mint. Probably no reason, on a freshly-bought used computer, to partition the HD and keep Windoze in a partition.

There may be other Linux distros that are equally easy for a Windows user to get used to, but I doubt there any that are much easier.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 08:08 PM (mzC78)

293 Motherfuckinghamsterfucker
SHARKMAN ANSWER YOUR PHONE

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:09 PM (U2p+3)

294 276 Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 07:57 PM (BnGJM)
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I'm separating incrementally.

Bought an iPad and now that At&t is shutting down 3G I'm in the process of figuring out how to transfer my contacts etc to a just purchased iPhone 8.

Posted by: Braenyard, T -584 days at April 03, 2021 08:09 PM (PHq7v)

295 Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2021 08:03 PM (DUIap)

Hah, I swear I have not seen that before. It's just shows that it is obvious to even morons like me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 08:10 PM (2DOZq)

296 293 ...
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:09 PM (U2p+3)
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Knew that was you before I finished the first word.
_ getting to know folks around here.

Posted by: Braenyard, T -584 days at April 03, 2021 08:11 PM (PHq7v)

297 KT, not true. You always bring thoughtful topics to your threads. I appreciate your hard work and always feel better informed.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 08:11 PM (bB2I6)

298 Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 03, 2021 07:50 PM (HBlzO)

Robert,
How goes life these days?
All is well I trust...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 03, 2021 08:11 PM (BgMrQ)

299 288 Weasel, how was the fudge?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 08:08 PM (bB2I6)
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Delightful!
I have also come up with a fudge scam. WW made the fudge for her family for Easter, portioning it into several separate bags with a small container containing a few pieces for us. It's all in the fridge staying cool, but she neglected to seal the bags!! Every so often I go in and skim a few pieces from the bags.

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:12 PM (MVjcR)

300 The whole trial of Moses and his banishment. Hollywood crap.

Moses killed a guy, then heard someone say that they found a dead body, so he took off to the desert. That's pretty much all The Bible has to say.

Posted by: blaster at April 03, 2021 08:12 PM (ZfRYq)

301 286 created a bullshit "cosmological constant"

Hey, constants are good, I love my G spot

Posted by: Newton at April 03, 2021 08:12 PM (RJCvt)

302
Easier than you think. Distrowatch.com is a valuable resource.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

It's gonna take me an hour to figure what the hell is on that front page.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 08:13 PM (BnGJM)

303 279 @Soothsayer, there is a KOH episode that can be cited for almost any situation in life. Judge should get more respect.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 08:03 PM (BMmaB)

I've been saying that here for years. Every time we have a discussion on a subject I note there is a KotH episode that covers it. Glad others notice that. I tell ya what .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 08:14 PM (2DOZq)

304 KT your wrong, your Saturday threads are tops

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 08:14 PM (Cxk7w)

305 Weasel,
Make sure you take one from every bag...

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:14 PM (U2p+3)

306 Have a great night, everyone.

May you be healed by a divine power that allows you to escape mankind's original sin.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2021 08:14 PM (u82oZ)

307 Ben Had at April 03, 2021 08:11 PM
Thanks. Just joking. I know not everyone gardens.

Posted by: KT at April 03, 2021 08:14 PM (BVQ+1)

308 297 KT, not true. You always bring thoughtful topics to your threads. I appreciate your hard work and always feel better informed.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 08:11 PM (bB2I6)
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True Story: when I started doing the Gun Thread, I decided I wanted it to be equal parts Garden Thread and Pet Thread.

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:14 PM (MVjcR)

309 If I only picked one bb game this season, which I did, at least I chose the correct one.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 03, 2021 08:15 PM (sy5kK)

310 Yvonne DeCarlo....grrr baby.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 03, 2021 08:15 PM (jvt6t)

311
Just get the latest version for Linux Mint, load it onto a bootable thumb drive, and boot the laptop off the thumb drive. If you like it, you can instruct it to wipe the laptop's hard drive, and do a clean install of Mint. Probably no reason, on a freshly-bought used computer, to partition the HD and keep Windoze in a partition.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I'll try this. The laptop I bought has no O/S.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 08:15 PM (BnGJM)

312 Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:14 PM (U2p+3)
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I am! So far two pieces from each!!

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:15 PM (MVjcR)

313 Every so often I go in and skim a few pieces from the bags.
Posted by: Weasel

I see this not ending well.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 03, 2021 08:16 PM (gtatv)

314 if you order from walmart do they have bottles of piss in their warehouses like amazon?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at April 03, 2021 08:16 PM (r4bSV)

315 Still, science is racist. According to Scientific American and some other journals now. Ugh.

Posted by: KT at April 03, 2021 08:16 PM (BVQ+1)

316 Weasel,
Make sure you take one from every bag...
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:14 PM (U2p+3)
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Weak, I can help with that. I'm good at subterfudge.

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:16 PM (/669Q)

317 KT,
I enjoy your gardening thread every Saturday.

I just don't have much to add. Don't have a single pot to put a plant in these days.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:16 PM (U2p+3)

318 As I have pointed out before, the Snake Oil guy was busted by the Feds, not for selling an ineffective or dangerous nostrum, but rather because it did not *actually* contain any snake oil.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2021 08:17 PM (CTJwJ)

319 Science isn't dead, but MLB is. To me, anyway.

Posted by: Orange Man Bad (Rhees Be Upon Him) at April 03, 2021 08:17 PM (jV+aN)

320 Weasel, not "weak!" Stupid phone! Stupid phone!

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:17 PM (/669Q)

321 "Gravity influence from other celestial bodies is constantly changing which changes our climate."

hmmm, I don't think so ... there is negligible "gravity influence" from those other celestial bodies. Not sure if distance squared is in denominator or what ... but if our sun became a black hole tonight, we'd keep orbiting the same. BUT we would get cold quickly.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2021 08:17 PM (Cus5s)

322 And before I got kicked off the pet thread I wanted to post that I would have seriously named that cat Deez if he was mine.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2021 08:17 PM (2DOZq)

323
I see this not ending well.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 03, 2021 08:16 PM (gtatv)
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As long as I don't get greedy, this will work!

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:17 PM (MVjcR)

324 Sand Moses has game.

Posted by: blaster at April 03, 2021 08:18 PM (ZfRYq)

325 Weasel, not "weak!" Stupid phone! Stupid phone!
Posted by: bluebell
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[reels from shiv wound]

Posted by: The Phone at April 03, 2021 08:18 PM (9Fwwf)

326 320 Weasel, not "weak!" Stupid phone! Stupid phone!
Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:17 PM (/669Q)
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We'll need to create a diversion. Can you crash you car into the front of the house?

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:19 PM (MVjcR)

327 True Story: when I started doing the Gun Thread, I decided I wanted it to be equal parts Garden Thread and Pet Thread.
Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:14 PM (MVjcR)

Yeah, still waiting for that.

Posted by: The mysterious WeaselDog, more of a rumor than a movie star at this point at April 03, 2021 08:19 PM (sy5kK)

328 I'll try this. The laptop I bought has no O/S.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2021 08:15 PM (BnGJM)

Use your current computer to download Mint, do the file integrity test, and load a bootable copy onto a thumb drive. All you need to learn to do this should available on Linux distro sites, with "cookbook simple" instructions.

You might have to go into the Bios editor of the laptop to change the boot sequence if it does not have USB boot enabled.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 08:19 PM (mzC78)

329 Sand Moses?

Dang Moses.

But still works.

Posted by: blaster at April 03, 2021 08:19 PM (ZfRYq)

330 We'll need to create a diversion. Can you crash you car into the front of the house?
Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:19 PM (MVjcR)
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Can't we just get your neighbor to do that? He's had practice.

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:19 PM (/669Q)

331 Still, science is racist. According to Scientific American and some other journals now. Ugh.
Posted by: KT
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Well, that would follow

Posted by: Math at April 03, 2021 08:20 PM (9Fwwf)

332 As long as I don't get greedy, this will work!
Posted by: Weasel

In your dreams... WW *will* know and you'll be banished to the WD house!
Of course it will have been worth it because you'll have eaten the fudge!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 03, 2021 08:20 PM (gtatv)

333 >
Can't we just get your neighbor to do that? He's had practice.
Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:19 PM (/669Q)

Hey you!

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 03, 2021 08:20 PM (P36RO)

334 Would love to see the plagues and Red Sea part again but know I would just lose sleep.
Have a good night everyone.

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2021 08:20 PM (Cxk7w)

335
Yeah, still waiting for that.
Posted by: The mysterious WeaselDog, more of a rumor than a movie star at this point at April 03, 2021 08:19 PM (sy5kK)
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I got some exciting WD and FSJ footage today. I'll try and put something into the thread tomorrow.

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:21 PM (MVjcR)

336 Hey you!
Posted by: Muad'dib at April 03, 2021 08:20 PM (P36RO)
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Bro! Happy Easter!

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:21 PM (/669Q)

337
Can't we just get your neighbor to do that? He's had practice.
Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:19 PM (/669Q)
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No kidding.

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:21 PM (MVjcR)

338 As long as I don't get greedy, this will work!
Posted by: Weasel

Bags-o-fudge?

What bags-o-fudge?

Posted by: The Volcano at April 03, 2021 08:22 PM (axyOa)

339 AZ deplorable, Weasel Dog's house is the king sized bed.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2021 08:22 PM (bB2I6)

340 Garden Thread and Pet Thread.
Posted by: Weasel
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Tanned, rested, and ready.

Posted by: Snapdragon at April 03, 2021 08:23 PM (9Fwwf)

341 >Bro! Happy Easter!
Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:21 PM (/669Q)

Happy Easter! Are you inundated with Tide Pods?

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 03, 2021 08:23 PM (P36RO)

342 271 - I also was thinking that.
Does anyone know where I can find the legit Trump website?

Posted by: vivi at April 03, 2021 08:23 PM (USW1s)

343 Well, I can say I've watched all 3 Expendables movies. Moose wasn't a fan but he hung in there with me. Too much splody stuff for him.

Posted by: Jewells45 Founder and President of Team Gizzards *plants flag* at April 03, 2021 08:23 PM (nxdel)

344 That Doctor's lecture on Covid (video in the margins) is brilliant, highly recommended.

Posted by: Homo Viator at April 03, 2021 08:24 PM (H8QX8)

345 As I have pointed out before, the Snake Oil guy was busted by the Feds, not for selling an ineffective or dangerous nostrum, but rather because it did not *actually* contain any snake oil.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2021 08:17 PM (CTJwJ)

Hadacol was the good stuff, anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_47QrDUneD0

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 08:24 PM (mzC78)

346 "'Sup, cuz?!"
-Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:01 PM (MVjcR)

*HAH!*

*fist-bump*

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 08:24 PM (Ckg4U)

347 Off damn virginal volcano sock.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2021 08:24 PM (axyOa)

348 Happy Easter! Are you inundated with Tide Pods?
Posted by: Muad'dib at April 03, 2021 08:23 PM (P36RO)
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Four out of five! I'll take it. The fifth got her big box I sent yesterday.

Any news on your end?

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:25 PM (/669Q)

349 Hi bluebell.

I see what you did there.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:25 PM (U2p+3)

350 348 Happy Easter! Are you inundated with Tide Pods?
Posted by: Muad'dib at April 03, 2021 08:23 PM (P36RO)
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Four out of five! I'll take it. The fifth got her big box I sent yesterday.

Any news on your end?
Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:25 PM (/669Q)
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Uh oh. I've seen this before. They're speaking in code!!

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:26 PM (MVjcR)

351 KT your wrong, your Saturday threads are tops
Posted by: Skip

Yep !

Posted by: JT at April 03, 2021 08:26 PM (arJlL)

352 >Any news on your end?
Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:25 PM (/669Q)

Not yet. It's excruciating. The youngest is home this weekend.

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 03, 2021 08:26 PM (P36RO)

353 Do they still sale Geritol?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 03, 2021 08:27 PM (R/m4+)

354 I see what you did there.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:25 PM (U2p+3)
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I think you're the only one! Muldoon would have gotten it if he were here.

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:27 PM (/669Q)

355 344 That Doctor's lecture on Covid (video in the margins) is brilliant, highly recommended.
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We're on it. The Doctor will be Doxxed, slandered, and disappered by week's end.

Posted by: Progda, Twitter, and YouTube at April 03, 2021 08:27 PM (sy5kK)

356 Luke 24:1 Now the first day of the week early in the morning they came unto the sepulcher and brought the odors which they had prepared and certain women with them, 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher. 3 And went in but found not the body of Jesus.
New Geneva Bible year 1599

Posted by: Eromero at April 03, 2021 08:28 PM (0OP+5)

357 The wiki entry is amusing. Excerpt:

"LeBlanc created the name "Hadacol" from his former business, the Happy Day Company, maker of Happy Day Headache Powders"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2021 08:28 PM (ELgVT)

358 Not yet. It's excruciating. The youngest is home this weekend.
Posted by: Muad'dib at April 03, 2021 08:26 PM (P36RO)
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That's good! The other will come, I just know it.

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:28 PM (/669Q)

359 Do they still sale Geritol?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy
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Carter's Little Liver Pills?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2021 08:29 PM (1vynn)

360 Dancing virgins!! Maybe.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 03, 2021 08:29 PM (jvt6t)

361 Maalox?

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 03, 2021 08:30 PM (jvt6t)

362 Oh bluebell,
Check your proton acct when you get a chance.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:31 PM (U2p+3)

363 Dinner beckons all. Have a good night!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 03, 2021 08:32 PM (YqDXo)

364 I will, nurse! I have to look up the password. I forgot it.

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:32 PM (/669Q)

365 Good night, Jay! Thanks for the snake oil.

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 08:33 PM (/669Q)

366 Thanks for a good thread, Jay.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2021 08:33 PM (mzC78)

367 Strength and Honor are our clothing.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 03, 2021 08:33 PM (jvt6t)

368 The "Problem" with KTs early Saturday thread, is it is so full of awesome, that it is hard to digest and also find anything deep/useful/"heavy" to contribute. She packs a punch. ... AND midday ... usually the time to be out doing the "git'er done" work outside. ... But the early thread is awesome .. and the garden thread also ... where KT excels, and then ... she knows music as well. .. Whatever the American Patriot version of "Soviet Man" ideal is ... that is KT. ...

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2021 08:35 PM (Cus5s)

369
he discovered some incredible stuff via statistical analysis ... one of those silent heroes in the shadows. ...

Hidden figures?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2021 08:36 PM (63Dwl)

370 Celts and Picts would Sacrifice their own KING, if they had a bad enough year. I suggest bringing back some ole time religion.

/looks towards DC.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2021 07:59 PM (oHd/0)

Superstitions are the result of bad scientific studies. I'd say we're headed in that direction now whether we like it or not.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2021 08:37 PM (jBRLB)

371 MOUSE study ? When the fuck did mice get so uppity ?

Posted by: deadrody at April 03, 2021 08:38 PM (V9901)

372 G'Night, Deplorable Jay Guevara.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 08:39 PM (Ckg4U)

373 Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2021 08:35 PM (Cus5s)

I love the garden thread. So many beautiful pictures and I always seem to learn something new. I don't contribute much but it's always fun. Same for the pet thread. Although I do get chatty on the pet thread.

Posted by: Jewells45 Founder and President of Team Gizzards *plants flag* at April 03, 2021 08:41 PM (nxdel)

374

Having read the content and skimmed the comments, I must say; Well done, Mr Guevara, sir!

Science!

Posted by: Zettai at April 03, 2021 08:42 PM (KZNTz)

375 Good evening, Horde.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at April 03, 2021 08:42 PM (TdMsT)

376 Hello lovely Ladyl.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2021 08:43 PM (jBRLB)

377 I thought Robitussin cured everything. And Nyquil.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 03, 2021 08:44 PM (BMmaB)

378 Ladyl!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2021 08:44 PM (U2p+3)

379 {{Ladyl}}!!!

Posted by: Jewells45 Founder and President of Team Gizzards *plants flag* at April 03, 2021 08:44 PM (nxdel)

380 {{{Ladyl}}}
and a Good Evening to you!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 08:44 PM (hOUT3)

381 Everybody must be ready to pounce on the ONT.

Posted by: Jewells45 Founder and President of Team Gizzards *plants flag* at April 03, 2021 08:49 PM (nxdel)

382 So I was right the barrier-breaching driver at the Capitol the other day was a standard issue paranoid schizophenic with long standing thought insertion delusions, being followed, etc.

It's not the name, the color, the ideology - it's the crazy.

I wish his high demented puppethuck of the United States would spend 10% of his infrastructure bucks on mental institutions. This country would cheer right up.

Posted by: SarahW at April 03, 2021 08:49 PM (g1vnC)

383 {{{Hrothgar, Jewells, Nurse, April, Bluebell and entire Horde}}}

Blessed Easter, everyone.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at April 03, 2021 08:49 PM (TdMsT)

384 Everybody must be ready to pounce on the ONT.
Posted by: Jewells45 Founder and President of Team Gizzards *plants flag* at April 03, 2021 08:49 PM (nxdel)

{{{Jewells}}} you can't be serious!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 08:50 PM (hOUT3)

385 My understanding of the ideal Soviet Man, was it was their ideal iconic man, well informed, industrious, perfect citizen. So I just meant KT is so well informed and offers her contributions freely, that it fits the American Patriot version of that icon ... free will giving, not a state raised robot. ... The Soviet state constrains ... Liberty promotes the individual that excels.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2021 08:50 PM (Cus5s)

386 {{{Three dots}}}

I called you "April!"

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at April 03, 2021 08:51 PM (TdMsT)

387 I wish his high demented puppethuck of the United States would spend 10% of his infrastructure bucks on mental institutions.

Posted by: SarahW at April 03, 2021 08:49 PM (g1vnC)

Take the loons off the streets and commit them. It is long overdue.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2021 08:51 PM (Q9lwr)

388 Blessed Easter, everyone.
Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at April 03, 2021 08:49 PM (TdMsT)

^^^^^
THIS!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 08:51 PM (hOUT3)

389 Take the loons off the streets and commit them. It is long overdue.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2021 08:51 PM (Q9lwr)

But that would be discriminating against the mentally ill and/or criminally insane!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -Your Rulers Have, and Deserve, Different Rules! - at April 03, 2021 08:53 PM (hOUT3)

390 "Everybody must be ready to pounce on the ONT."
-Posted by: Jewells45 Founder and President of Team Gizzards *plants flag* at April 03, 2021 08:49 PM (nxdel)

Howdy, Jewells45!

No worries that I'm in contention. I refuse to do Friday-Monday because it just isn't that sporting.

Have at it, Also-Rans!

I'm mostly kidding.

...mostly.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 08:53 PM (Ckg4U)

391 Think I'll hit the hay before the dogs and cat stake out my ever shrinking part of the bed.

Nite y'all. Happy Easter!

Posted by: Weasel at April 03, 2021 08:54 PM (MVjcR)

392 from thenationalpulse.com:
Former Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen said the quiet part out loud on CNN this week, admitting she wants to dangle people's freedoms in front of them as a "carrot" by which to force them to get vaccinated.
Wen, speaking with disgraced anchor Chris Cuomo, said: "If everything is reopened, then what's the carrot going to be? How are we going to incentivize people to actually get the vaccine?"

"So that's why I think the CDC and Biden administration needs to come out a lot bolder and say, 'If you are vaccinated, you can do all these things. Here are all these freedoms you have'."
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I'm holding my response back until the Monday ONT, because this is supposed to be an introspective and peaceful weekend.
Happy Easter to all.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 03, 2021 08:54 PM (sy5kK)

393 Happy Easter and G'Night, Weasel.

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 08:54 PM (Ckg4U)

394 it could be lupus, maybe
Posted by: Dr.House at April 03, 2021 06:43 PM

It's NEVER Lupus!

Posted by: Hal Dall at April 03, 2021 08:54 PM (cwU6p)

395 Hi Slap.. good to see you.

Posted by: Jewells45 Founder and President of Team Gizzards *plants flag* at April 03, 2021 08:55 PM (nxdel)

396 Night Weasel!

Posted by: Jewells45 Founder and President of Team Gizzards *plants flag* at April 03, 2021 08:55 PM (nxdel)

397 Poke poke...

Posted by: Hamster Wrangler at April 03, 2021 08:56 PM (MqQvv)

398 Let my people go.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 03, 2021 08:57 PM (jvt6t)

399 Epidemiology 1st term med school:

Just because pencils disappear and coat hangers accumulate, that doesn't prove that pencils are larval forms of coat hangers.

Posted by: Hal Dall at April 03, 2021 08:57 PM (cwU6p)

400 Anyone here not able to get the site to load?

Posted by: Hamster Wrangler at April 03, 2021 08:58 PM (MqQvv)

401 #399 Hal Dall

Because paperclips are the larval form of coat hangers.

Posted by: Hamster Wrangler at April 03, 2021 08:59 PM (MqQvv)

402 {{{SLAP}}}
{{{Weasel}}}

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at April 03, 2021 08:59 PM (TdMsT)

403 Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at April 03, 2021 08:51 PM (TdMsT)

LOL I think I've also had "at" at times.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2021 08:59 PM (jBRLB)

404 LOL I think I've also had "at" at times.
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2021 08:59 PM (jBRLB)

How are you, dear?

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at April 03, 2021 09:00 PM (TdMsT)

405 Much love, {{{Ladyl}}}

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 09:00 PM (Ckg4U)

406 ONT is Nood!

Posted by: Slapweasel at April 03, 2021 09:01 PM (Ckg4U)

407 Darling, darling Slap.

Much love...

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at April 03, 2021 09:01 PM (TdMsT)

408 Is that you, Pixy? Happy Easter! Also, our blog doesn't know what time it is.

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 09:01 PM (/669Q)

409 April,
Foundations Revealed used to have some free articles, so you could see if you wanted to join. It's full of extremely knowledgable people. Also check out Prior Attire's You Tube videos. If you are interested in historical dress, they are worth watching.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at April 03, 2021 09:04 PM (YynYJ)

410 Following the Bible timeline, JC arose at sunset Saturday night (the beginning of the three 24 hour days after "it is finished") ... the risen Christ Jesus then went and preached to the imprisoned spirts (or some such) ... outer darkness? ... the place the worst of those (pre-flood?) spirits (under Lucifer) were exiled to.

Sunday morning Christ Jesus had already had a busy night ... was long gone from the tomb. 40 days (40 some significant number) ... the beginning of the church, or at least the first "Christ-Ins" ... the twelve apostles on Pentecost, received the holy spirit from above, and spoke in tongues, the wonderful works of God. ...

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2021 09:05 PM (Cus5s)

411 #408 bluebell

Not sure what time it is myself... Once I find out I'll tell the blog.

Posted by: Hamster Wrangler at April 03, 2021 09:06 PM (MqQvv)

412 How are you, dear?

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at April 03, 2021 09:00 PM (TdMsT)

Health is getting better after a long slog. Not where I want to be but definitely better than where I was a month ago.

And I just got a fairly substantial promotion at work. So all in all very well! Thanks!!!

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2021 09:07 PM (jBRLB)

413 Not sure what time it is myself... Once I find out I'll tell the blog.
Posted by: Hamster Wrangler at April 03, 2021 09:06 PM (MqQvv)
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Well, that's understandable. Your clocks are probably upside down.

Posted by: bluebell at April 03, 2021 09:08 PM (/669Q)

414 illiniwek 08:35 PM

Aw, gosh geee

Thanks.

Posted by: KT at April 03, 2021 09:13 PM (BVQ+1)

415 CO#8322

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2021 09:17 AM (Q9lwr)

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Science Isn't Dead, But It Is Ailing - Part 8by Your Raving Roving Science Correspondent [Jay Guevara]

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Science Isn't Dead, But It Is Ailing - Part 8
by Your Raving Roving Science Correspondent [Jay Guevara]