Monday Overnight Open Thread (7/12/21)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
“We do not have racism in our DNA in this country. We love each other,” Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD)

Quote II
“It is time we come together and we unite behind reducing gun violence in the city of Oakland. There are people in our community who don’t feel safe. There are seniors in our community who cannot come out at night. There are young, African-American men and Latino men that are at risk in our city. We have to come together; this is not about politics, this is about saving lives.” Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong

Quote III
“A lot of artists now are writing songs at home, recording them at home and putting them out within weeks. But our process is the old-fashioned way, and it does take a lot of time. So I don't know, but I am optimistic. And I'm certainly full of ideas.”Who guitarist Pete Townshend

Did he think he would make it to 76?

Quote IV
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. Oscar Wilde

Quote V
“I’m here because of hunger, because there’s no medicine, because of power cuts—because there’s a lack of everything. I want a total change: a change of government, multiparty elections, and the end of communism,”Unidentified Cuban resident

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I'm not a carpenter. But, I do enjoy building projects. However, recently instead of building shelves I purchased a heavy-duty plastic unit. Why? I refuse to pay $1.00+ per foot for a 2"x4" and $100 a sheet for 1/2"OSB.

It's been a roller-coaster ride for lumber prices over the last year – and it's drawn outsize attention from the aisles of Home Depot to the Federal Reserve.
Lumber prices surged to record highs this year on the back of booming demand from homebuilders and do-it-yourselfers with plenty of time on their hands. The price surge was so big and sudden, it became a symbol of what some economists feared: rampant inflation.
But over the past two months, lumber prices have been dropping equally fast, giving weight to the central bank's argument that pandemic price spikes for many products are likely to be temporary.
That's not the end of the story, however. Lumber prices may have fallen, but they are still elevated, creating new headaches for the critical housing sector. And companies in the lumber industry are wrestling with a new pandemic problem: a shortage of workers.
Here are three things that the rise, fall and now volatility of lumber prices tell us about the pandemic economy.

Unfortunately I have to purchase 3 treated 2"x4"x8' in the very near future. Wonder if I need a loan?

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Following up on Quote V, Why won't The Sunsetting Paste Eater denounce communism?

As Americans, we should be cheering on Cuba as a country, so it’s a bit odd to see Democrats and our own media twisting the situation in various ways to make it seem less like a desire for freedom and more about anything else.
Let’s get one thing straight about the Cuban protests. This is 110 percent about an end to communism. They don’t like it. They don’t want it. They want something better, and the fact that you see a few American flags being waved during these protests gives you a pretty solid idea as to what they want.

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Legos are "evidence" of dastardly evil.

Legos an evil? Not really. But then again the DOJ is an evil den of vipers.

However a shitton of emails between Anthony ~~Fauci~~Fraudster is "Yawn" worthy.

Judicial Watch announced today that it received 301 pages of emails and other records from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials in connection with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, revealing significant collaborations and funding that began in 2014. These new records reveal that NIAID gave nine China-related grants to EcoHealth Alliance to research coronavirus emergence in bats and was the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) top issuer of grants to the Wuhan lab itself.
These records also include an email from the Vice Director of the Wuhan Lab asking an NIH official for help finding disinfectants for decontamination of airtight suits and indoor surfaces.
Additionally, a World Health Day announcement lists “successful activities” of the US-China collaboration that included “detailed surveillance throughout China and in other countries on the emergence of coronaviruses” and NIH’s receipt of influenza samples from China to “assess risks associated with emerging variants for pandemic and zoonotic threat.”
The records further show that, in 2018, Dr. Ping Chen, the NIAID Representative in China, learned of a “type of new flu vaccine using nano-technology from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology” and discovered that the Chinese had blocked all Internet links to reports on the new technology. This led Chen to write an urgent “night note” to US Government officials. The note said, “The intranasal nano-vaccine can target broad-spectrum flu viruses and induces robust immune responses.”
The documents also include a picture of the Wuhan facility building taken by Dr. Chen.
The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records of communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:21-cv-00696)). The lawsuit specifically sought records about NIH grants that benefitted the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The agency is only processing 300 pages records per month, which means it will take until the end of November for the records to be fully reviewed and released under FOIA.

And nothing will happen to that worthless Piece of Shit.

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Karma or just an odd coincidence?

And one other thing. If you are going to pull a gun be prepared to use it. Oh you pulled a BB gun. Genius Award Winner worthy.

A New York man was arrested over the weekend for fatally shooting woman who made headlines for a quirky courtroom romance in 2012. That woman served on a jury and fell in love with the defendant then orchestrated a mistrial so the two could be together, an episode local news outlets noted when reporting the latest development on Monday.
Jonathan Rosario, 24, was taken into custody on Sunday afternoon by the NYPD Public Safety Unit for allegedly killing 29-year-old Katherine Diop and injuring her brother, 31-year-old Maurice Diop, last month following a June 16 argument in a Bronx deli.
According to a report from the New York Daily News, Diop and her brother were planning a cookout to celebrate their younger sister’s graduation and went out to purchase lighter fluid when the altercation occurred. Friends of Diop told the outlet that Maurice got into a fight with Rosario at the deli at approximately 9:30 p.m. During the dispute, Katherine allegedly pulled out a BB gun and started waiving it in the air before walking away. Moments later, Rosario allegedly fired, striking both siblings, the NYPD said. Maurice was hit in the arm and leg while Katherine was hit in the torso.

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I don't see a problem. I see an opportunity for a gifted engineering team. 'Trouble in Alaska? Massive oil pipeline is threatened by thawing permafrost'

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, one of the world’s largest oil pipelines, could be in danger.
Thawing permafrost threatens to undermine the supports holding up an elevated section of the pipeline, jeopardizing its structural integrity and raising the potential of an oil spill in a delicate and remote landscape.
The slope of permafrost where an 810-foot section of the pipeline is secured has started to shift as it thaws, causing several of the braces holding up the pipeline to twist and bend.
This appears to be the first instance that pipeline supports have been damaged by “slope creep” caused by thawing permafrost, records and interviews with officials involved with managing the pipeline show.
In response, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources has approved the use of about 100 thermosyphons — tubes that suck heat out of permafrost — to keep the frozen slope in place and prevent further damage to the pipeline’s support structure.

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The Greenies will howl get rid of fossil fuel. Bring on the lithium batteries!!!

One of the United States' first major forays into lithium mining seems like it's going to be in the Salton Sea—one of the most polluted places in the country—after General Motors struck a deal with a mining company called Controlled Thermal Resources.
This is a big, and potentially very complicated, deal for anyone who cares about the planet. Many experts believe that in order to have any hope of staving off climate change, we have to electrify cars and essentially everything else as soon as possible (ideally, yesterday).
Lithium-ion batteries are key to this process, and global demand is expected to increase between 5 and 18 times over the next several years. Put simply, we will need a lot of lithium, and the overwhelming majority of lithium in today's batteries comes from Australia, Chile, China, and Argentina. But the American southwest has huge stores of lithium as well.
General Motors is hoping that a CTR mine in the Salton Sea can supply “a significant portion” of the lithium needed for its electric cars. It’s a step toward GM’s first-in-the-nation commitment to phasing gasoline-powered cars out of its production line by 2035—CTR is slated to start delivering lithium to the company by 2024, at which point the company will be well-poised to achieve this goal.
This is, potentially, a very good thing. But it's also complicated: Mining, broadly speaking, is environmentally destructive. Lithium mining is usually—but not always—less destructive than, say, strip mining. And the Salton Sea, an accidental reservoir near California vacation mainstays like Joshua Tree and Palm Springs, is one of the most polluted places on the planet due to decades of agricultural runoff. Environmentalists there worry that if the lake continues to dry up, toxic dust on its floor could go airborne and pollute the air between Phoenix and Los Angeles. The lake is understood to hold one of the nation’s largest lithium brine stores, capable of supplying up to 40 percent of global demand for the mineral, according to the California Energy Commission (CEC).

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Well, this camping trip sucked.

More than 180 people will undergo treatment for rabies after potentially coming into contact with a rabid bat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.
Last weekend, the zoo hosted multiple overnight campouts in the Scott Aquarium. On Sunday, a camper woke up to a wild bat near her head, according to a press release from the zoo.
The camper was examined by one of the zoo’s EMTs, who was unable to find any scratches or bite marks. An on-call vet advised that the camper contact her primary care physician to discuss the risk of possible rabies exposure because the bat flew away and could not be identified for testing.

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Bill Cosby is an old man. He needs to walk into the sunset with Fat Albert. It appears that comedy establishments want him to enter permanent retirement.

Last week we reported that Bill Cosby, who was recently released from prison after his indecent assault conviction was overturned on a technicality, is planning a stand-up comedy tour. Cosby’s publicist Andrew Wyatt claimed that several comedy clubs and promotors “are open to the idea,” but today we know of at least one that isn’t: according to the New York Post, Cosby is not welcome at New York’s legendary Comedy Cellar.
Comedy Cellar owner Noam Dworman told the publication that he won’t allow Cosby to perform at his venue because “audiences wouldn’t support it.” Interestingly, however, Dworman has allowed other disgraced comedians to grace the stage after their own sexual misconduct scandals. In 2018, he allowed Aziz Ansari and Louis C.K. to perform at the Cellar. (He reportedly received death threats after allowing the latter to perform.)

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I call Bull Shit. He needs a white sport coat with long sleeves and not a "support reptile".

Joie Henney and Wally the emotional support alligator

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When I did this to a younger brother I got in trouble. I wonder if American Airlines will be. Woman is duct taped to seat by American Airlines.

A TikTok video shows a woman duct-taped to her seat on an American Airlines flight after she reportedly attacked flight attendants and attempted to open the plane's front door.
The incident happened on American Airlines Flight 1774 that was traveling from Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas to Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday.
In the video, filmed by TikTok user @lol.ariee, an unidentified woman in first class can be seen with duct tape around her chest and mouth as she attempts to scream at passengers who are departing the plane after it landed.

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One advantage of a 1998 Chevy 1500 SilveradoSimple repairs. Unlike Teslas.

The problem started after the rear-wheel-drive Tesla Model 3 struck some road debris which damaged the electric vehicle's cooling system. Underneath the car, a coolant line runs sideways along the tunnel where the front drive unit would normally sit and attaches to a nipple located on the battery pack. The debris struck the part and cracked the flange, resulting in coolant leaking from the battery pack.
After the vehicle was towed to a Tesla service center and inspected, the driver was told that he would need a completely new pack since the cracked part was molded into the existing one's outer shell. And because a Model 3's pack isn't serviceable at a standard Tesla service center, it can only be swapped out for another unit rather than be repaired.
To make matters worse, the owner's insurance policy didn't cover comprehensive claims from road debris, meaning he would be on his own to foot the five-figure repair bill.

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WOW! That will show them! And they continue to be The Party of Stupid.

RNC to air ad during MLB All-Star Game saying Dems 'stole' it from Atlanta
Game was set to take place at Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, but MLB moved it Colorado
The Republican National Committee will air an ad during Tuesday night's Major League Baseball All-Star Game that claims political figures and corporations "lied" about Georgia's new voting law, which led to MLB moving the game from Atlanta to Denver.
The game was originally set to take place at Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, but MLB moved it to the Colorado Rockies' Coors Field after Democrats, including President Biden, likened the law to Jim Crow. The RNC said it is putting seven figures into the ad buy.

MLB decided to move the game on April 2, 2021. Now the RNC comes out with their swinging for the fences ads on July 13th. Nice job fellas. Stop sending me your damn begging pleas.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

Born on this day:12 Jul 1943
Christine McVie, keyboards, vocals, Chicken Shack, and then Fleetwood Mac, who scored the US No.1 single 'Dreams' taken from their worldwide No.1 album Rumours which spent 31 weeks on the US chart. Eight of her songs appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Born on this day:12 Jul 1962
American musician Dan Murphy, guitarist with American alternative rock band Soul Asylum, who had the 1993 US No.5 and UK No.7 single 'Runaway Train'. via thisdayinmusic.com

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To be honest with you, I'm surprised Campbell's Tomato Soup wasn't involved. Genius Award Winner.

WEST PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WOLF) — One man is behind bars after police say he choked and tried to drown his wife over chips in a sink.
According to our news gathering partners at the Times Leader, 62-year-old Timothy Depetro admitted to police he assaulted his wife who began bothering him after eating a grilled cheese sandwich and chips had fallen into a sink.
Depetro allegedly told police his wife belittled him about his family and how she makes more money than he does.

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Everybody enjoys flowers. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

This Doctor Has Been Showing Up After Weddings To Bring Back Flowers To Patients

A medical student at VCU School of Medicine founded The Simple Sunflower, a service that delivers flowers - regifted from weddings - to patients at VCU Medical Center.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:00 PM

Comments

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最初!

Posted by: Zettai at July 12, 2021 09:00 PM (ssrg6)

2 Mistakes were made!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 12, 2021 09:00 PM (hOUT3)

3 Flags plants!

Wait...

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 09:00 PM (Ojki1)

4 Foistest.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:00 PM (OssQ4)

5 Arf arf arf!

Posted by: Sandy at July 12, 2021 09:00 PM (VxC1e)

6 Fist

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah (sJHOI) at July 12, 2021 09:00 PM (sJHOI)

7 good evening

Posted by: wing at July 12, 2021 09:00 PM (JFzNN)

8 Foith-est, that is. Foiled again.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:01 PM (OssQ4)

9 Oh look, Noem is trying to dig herself out of a hole to run for Federal office.

Nope.

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 09:01 PM (Ojki1)

10 Stunning top picture MisHum. Wow.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 12, 2021 09:01 PM (nxdel)

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Posted by: Zettai at July 12, 2021 09:00 PM (ssrg6)

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Hey, we don't allow their type in here.

Posted by: Mos Eisley Cantina Bartender at July 12, 2021 09:02 PM (VxC1e)

12 9 Oh look, Noem is trying to dig herself out of a hole to run for Federal office.

Nope.
Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 09:01 PM (Ojki1)

It's one thing to talk conservative at CPAC
But when she folds in office, F her.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:02 PM (aA3+G)

13 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 12, 2021 09:02 PM (arJlL)

14 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - On my phone, identifiers may vary at July 12, 2021 09:04 PM (Blm4C)

15 Present.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 12, 2021 09:04 PM (wAcdS)

16 Buen noche morons and thanks mh

Whatever, Chief LaRonne. Resign!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2021 09:05 PM (EZebt)

17 I do not love Noem.

Posted by: sven at July 12, 2021 09:05 PM (Lzpvj)

18 Awesome pic!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 12, 2021 09:05 PM (wAcdS)

19 It is time we come together and we unite behind reducing gun violence in the city of Oakland...

And I want a pony, and World Peace, and everyone to Love Each Other, abolish hunger, no one ever gets sick...

I swear, Leftists think that it is just a matter of looking under the correct rock to find the secret switch or dial to control the weather, human nature, disease and economies.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:05 PM (+LCoQ)

20 Thanks for another dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

That top photo is breathtaking. Cool song behind the photo too. Yet another lesson in musicality!

And to those who wonder why I prefer to use my stand mixer, I submit the final photo! Good Lord, poor woman...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at July 12, 2021 09:05 PM (rwusL)

21 It's one thing to talk conservative at CPAC

But when she folds in office, F her.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:02 PM (aA3+G)
Talk is cheap, but sleazy political talk is even cheaper and rarely costs those who speak it anything at all, when by all rights, it should cost them their chance at a political future!!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 12, 2021 09:06 PM (hOUT3)

22 Had a very nice vacation at the lake in Arkansas. Got sunburned out on the boat, was swarmed with flies every meal, kept up the first night by a dog our trashy neighbor was neglecting, and my cousin's kid was being his usual hellion self. Still an awesome weekend.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 12, 2021 09:06 PM (Vgw1E)

23 This Doctor Has Been Showing Up After Weddings To Bring Back Flowers To Patients

A medical student at VCU School of Medicine founded The Simple Sunflower, a service that delivers flowers - regifted from weddings - to patients at VCU Medical Center.

Funeral homes have been doing this for years.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (+LCoQ)

24 Defund the U.S. Olympic whatever.

Posted by: klaftern at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (r4sI4)

25 top picture... no, just no way I'm climbing up to that peak...nope, ain't happening!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (UUBmN)

26 That Dr. Feelgood guitarist, who is he? Very interesting playing hand style. Never heard of this band, and I don't know why.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (OssQ4)

27 thevtop pic is Skull Island

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (oEn12)

28 Good evening everyone.

Found today three of my nieces, all sisters, are all due around early December. The extended family is just thrilled.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (mD/uy)

29 Talk is cheap, but sleazy political talk is even cheaper and rarely costs those who speak it anything at all, when by all rights, it should cost them their chance at a political future!!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 12, 2021 09:06 PM (hOUT3)

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BURN THE WITCH

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:08 PM (VxC1e)

30 top picture... no, just no way I'm climbing up to that peak...nope, ain't happening!!!
Posted by: lin-duh

Awww.....go ahead !

Posted by: JT at July 12, 2021 09:08 PM (arJlL)

31 >>>It is time we come together and we unite behind reducing gun violence in the city of Oakland...

Oh cool, are we nuking Oakland?

Posted by: Dr. T at July 12, 2021 09:08 PM (Vgw1E)

32 24 Defund the U.S. Olympic whatever.
Posted by: klaftern at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (r4sI4)

But comrade klaftern:

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:08 PM (hOUT3)

33 Defund the U.S. Olympic whatever.
Posted by: klaftern at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (r4sI4)

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I can't wait to not watch the Olympics next year.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:09 PM (VxC1e)

34 Found today three of my nieces, all sisters, are all due around early December. The extended family is just thrilled.

Musts have been one hell of a family reunion back in April.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:09 PM (+LCoQ)

35 BURN THE WITCH
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:08 PM (VxC1e)

That's harsh bro'!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:09 PM (hOUT3)

36 That "wife" sounds like a real prize. No doubt been needling him for years.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at July 12, 2021 09:09 PM (z5Vrg)

37 Good evening everyone.

Found today three of my nieces, all sisters, are all due around early December. The extended family is just thrilled.
Posted by: Tonypete

NICE !

Congrats !

Posted by: JT at July 12, 2021 09:09 PM (arJlL)

38 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. Oscar Wilde

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Do the old believe everything?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 09:10 PM (oEn12)

39 Summoning good and evil spirits.

Posted by: Fastly Strokewater at July 12, 2021 09:10 PM (gWAUD)

40 25 top picture... no, just no way I'm climbing up to that peak...nope, ain't happening!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (UUBmN)

Bottom photo?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:10 PM (aA3+G)

41 17 I do not love Noem.
Posted by: sven at July 12, 2021 09:05 PM (Lzpvj)

I could.

For 5, or maybe even 10 minutes.

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 09:10 PM (Ojki1)

42 Is....is that the base of a beater? How did she manage to get her chesticular region caught in that?

Posted by: pep at July 12, 2021 09:10 PM (ZsR3z)

43 Found today three of my nieces, all sisters, are all due around early December. The extended family is just thrilled.
Posted by: Tonypete

First their periods sync up then ...

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 09:11 PM (oEn12)

44 31 >>>It is time we come together and we unite behind reducing gun violence in the city of Oakland...

Oh cool, are we nuking Oakland?
Posted by: Dr. T at July 12, 2021 09:08 PM (Vgw1E)

Could it make things much worse?

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 09:11 PM (Ojki1)

45 The Democrats always say they want to reduce gun violence. This implies they are OK with other types of violence.

Posted by: zmdavid at July 12, 2021 09:11 PM (xqRaG)

46 I could.

For 5, or maybe even 10 minutes.
Posted by: Bete

Show off!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2021 09:11 PM (mD/uy)

47 "It is time we come together and we unite behind reducing gun violence in the city of Oakland..."

The gun is the only violence they see, never mind the constant "random" beatings, lootings, and mayhem having nothing whatsoever to do with guns, and everything to do with something we're not allowed to even notice, let alone talk about.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:12 PM (OssQ4)

48 45 The Democrats always say they want to reduce gun violence. This implies they are OK with other types of violence.
Posted by: zmdavid at July 12, 2021 09:11 PM (xqRaG)

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If it's directed at Republicans...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 12, 2021 09:12 PM (CAJOC)

49 It's unfortunate that Noem committed political hara-kiri, but the most important contribution she can make now is as an example to encourage the others.

Posted by: pep at July 12, 2021 09:12 PM (ZsR3z)

50 26 That Dr. Feelgood guitarist, who is he? Very interesting playing hand style. Never heard of this band, and I don't know why.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (OssQ4)

Wilko Johnson

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:12 PM (aA3+G)

51 EL OH EL
*wipes tears*
LMAOoooooooooooo

@mintsince95
My ex used to use silent treatment as a way to punish me. He knew how bad my anxiety was and wouldn't respond to me for days at a time. So now when people don't answer or avoid me, I immediately panic in fear. Emotionally abusive relationships really mess u up. Even years later

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 12, 2021 09:12 PM (truEc)

52 Every time I lie back, somebody else enjoys it. Not exactly what I want to convey, but I'm busy watching Venus and Mars conjunctivating. Moon's pretty, too.

And, I feel that Venus is enjoying it.

Posted by: klaftern at July 12, 2021 09:13 PM (r4sI4)

53 49 It's unfortunate that Noem committed political hara-kiri, but the most important contribution she can make now is ~~as an example to encourage the~~shut her pie hole and make sammiches for others.
Posted by: pep at July 12, 2021 09:12 PM (ZsR3z)

FIFY

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:13 PM (aA3+G)

54 It is time we come together and we unite behind reducing gun violence in the city of Oakland...

Oh cool, are we nuking Oakland?

Knowing Leftists, they will just reincorporate the property tax revenue generating part of the current Oakland and call what remains something creative like "New Oakland" or "St George Floyd"

Same death count and overworked trauma centers, but the gun violence and poverty in "Oakland" will be greatly reduced by their Stunning and Brave governance.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:14 PM (+LCoQ)

55 Thanks for the ONT.

I dunno Kristi, there are some pretty big assholes around these parts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:14 PM (csEWM)

56 If you run out of juice in your EV...do you hitch a ride to the nearest outlet and get a can of electricity?

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:14 PM (AwYPR)

57 $1/ft for a 8 ft 2x4 wasn't too bad even before the spikes Ground contact rated 2x4s are a little less than $2/ft at local HD a couple of weeks ago. $100 for a sheet of OSB is outrageous.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2021 09:14 PM (DMUuz)

58 Did he think he would make it to 76?

" If I'd thought I'd live this long, I woulda taken better care of myself"

Hank Williams Jr. AKA Bocephus

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:14 PM (QzkSJ)

59 43 Found today three of my nieces, all sisters, are all due around early December. The extended family is just thrilled.
Posted by: Tonypete

First their periods sync up then ...
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

The timeliness of the births within my brother's nuclear family has always been the source of ridicule by us, his 7 sibs. He has a granddaughter that is older than her Aunt.

(His daughter's daughter is a month older than his youngest daughter.)

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2021 09:15 PM (mD/uy)

60 "...a woman duct-taped to her seat..."

AP: In a move decried as 'blatant kidnapping' by the ACLU, American Airlines has chosen to keep Ms. Smith duct-taped to her economy-plus airplane seat as a deterrent to other potential flying troublemakers.

Posted by: ZOD at July 12, 2021 09:15 PM (xK9An)

61 I will admit, seeing American flags in Cuba did choke me up a bit, even with everything going on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:15 PM (csEWM)

62 Soul Asylum is a big league 12 to 6 curve ball coming from MisHum.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 12, 2021 09:16 PM (truEc)

63 I saw a meme, might have been here, showing a dusty old garage with a porsche half-covered by a car cover. The caption said something to the effect of "You won't believe what I found in this old garage. Two sheets of 4x8 OSB!"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 12, 2021 09:16 PM (CAJOC)

64 That's harsh bro'!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:09 PM (hOUT3)

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But fair.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:16 PM (VxC1e)

65 If you run out of juice in your EV, report it stolen. The insurance company will buy you a new one. Just tell them you parked it out back.

Posted by: klaftern at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (r4sI4)

66 shut her pie hole and make sammiches for others.
Posted by: pep at July 12, 2021 09:12 PM (ZsR3z)

FIFY
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

In a French Maid outfit

FIFY Moar Better

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (QzkSJ)

67 I will admit, seeing American flags in Cuba did choke me up a bit, even with everything going on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
___

Yep.

Posted by: SMH at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (otDZX)

68 Good evening all!
Update on the boy's championship game: We lost 6-1. Lots of errors. Oh well. Anyway, during the game one of the parents on our team made a complete buffoon of himself screaming at the umps and at the boys themselves! They're sixteen-year-olds!! It was mortifying. He made his son quit that day. My son was sad because he liked the boy's bat! LOL. He is nothing if not practical!

Posted by: jmel at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (bVhJi)

69 By Kitchen Appliances

And right after she got untangled, she attacked her husband who was photographing and laughing.

No jury would convict her.

Yes, I perused the content first, and I'm not ashamed.

Posted by: mindful webworker - still in pain at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (xdNUT)

70 "I want a total change: a change of government, multiparty elections, and the end of communism...�

And what will he get...courtesy of the scumbag American liberals who have fellated the Castros for 6o years?

A bullet in the head.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (Q9lwr)

71 60 "...a woman duct-taped to her seat..."

AP: In a move decried as 'blatant kidnapping' by the ACLU, American Airlines has chosen to keep Ms. Smith duct-taped to her economy-plus airplane seat as a deterrent to other potential flying troublemakers.
Posted by: ZOD at July 12, 2021 09:15 PM (xK9An)

Tell the ACLU she voted for Trump and was in DC on Jan 6. You'll never hear a peep about it again.

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (Ojki1)

72 Yep.
Posted by: SMH at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (otDZX)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:18 PM (csEWM)

73 How does that last pic happen?

Posted by: SMH at July 12, 2021 09:18 PM (otDZX)

74 Present.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 12, 2021 09:04 PM

My favorite vote, too!

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at July 12, 2021 09:18 PM (DMUuz)

75 Oscar does not apply today. The old believe nothing. And trust no one.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2021 09:18 PM (axyOa)

76 Hey everybody. Hey ONT! Hey MisHum!

Re Bill Cosby... I wouldn't mind if he just retired. But I admit I love his comedy and am addicted to listening to a lot of his early stuff from 1963 to 67; it's just brilliant.

If he just has to continue with comedy, I'd recommend he hire some pros to help him do a podcast. God knows he's still got the money.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 09:19 PM (L2ZTs)

77 " If I'd thought I'd live this long, I woulda taken better care of myself"

Hank Williams Jr. AKA Bocephus
Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:14 PM (QzkSJ)
* * * *
I sent that joking sentiment on a birthday card to a relative. Took almost a month for her to speak to me again... I thought it was hilarious because she in no way resembled that remark!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at July 12, 2021 09:19 PM (rwusL)

78 67 I will admit, seeing American flags in Cuba did choke me up a bit, even with everything going on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Yep.
Posted by: SMH at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (otDZX)

Sad that so many here have forgotten, but the fact that so many in the world have NOT forgotten is truly remarkable!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:19 PM (hOUT3)

79 If you run out of juice in your EV, report it stolen. The insurance company will buy you a new one. Just tell them you parked it out back.

Posted by: klaftern at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM (r4sI4)

Hmmm....

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:19 PM (AwYPR)

80 Well got everything finalized for our trip to AZ! Dayum.. airline prices are through the roof! Got a nice deal on the condo rental though. Can't wait to see my BIL and his sweet wife.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 12, 2021 09:20 PM (nxdel)

81 In a move decried as 'blatant kidnapping' by the ACLU, American Airlines has chosen to keep Ms. Smith duct-taped to her economy-plus airplane seat as a deterrent to other potential flying troublemakers.

I'm still trying to figure that one out. Apparently Ms Smith is accused of attempting to open the aircraft's outer door. Given that it is physically impossible to overcome the massive pressure differences that keep that door tightly shut, did the airline staff really believe someone with that Herculean strength would be confined with duct tape?

Or was that tape laced with Kryptonite?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:20 PM (+LCoQ)

82 Yes, I perused the content first, and I'm not ashamed.

Content?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - On my phone, identifiers may vary at July 12, 2021 09:20 PM (Blm4C)

83 AP: In a move decried as 'blatant kidnapping' by the ACLU, American Airlines has chosen to keep Ms. Smith duct-taped to her economy-plus airplane seat as a deterrent to other potential flying troublemakers.
Posted by: ZOD

"At low humidity levels as are standard on all our flights, the mummification should be complete before the busy Labor Day travel period"

Posted by: Norfolk Bug from AA PR at July 12, 2021 09:20 PM (QzkSJ)

84 Bill Cosby 1967, "Two Daughters."

https://youtu.be/Q-_OlkLwvYg

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 09:20 PM (L2ZTs)

85 I will admit, seeing American flags in Cuba did choke me up a bit, even with everything going on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

--------

If they only knew the truth.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:20 PM (VxC1e)

86 Lumber prices for 2x4s are decreasing a bit. Paid about 7 bucks and change for a std prime 8 ft 2x4 and PT was going for a couple of dollars more. Plywood is still sky high. Last week was about 74 bucks for 3/4 inch 4x8. Even the 1/2 plywood was about 60.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 09:21 PM (pO7gM)

87 i think the Cubans have done this before. But since they have no rights, I wonder how this will turn out. I doubt this administration will do anything. I checked the lefty sites, and they are not saying a word about it.

Posted by: Quint at July 12, 2021 09:21 PM (F2/Ok)

88 In a move decried as 'blatant kidnapping' by the ACLU, American Airlines has chosen to keep Ms. Smith duct-taped to her economy-plus airplane seat as a deterrent to other potential flying troublemakers.
___

Who knew that acting like a deranged lunatic at 32,000 feet in a pressurized tube is a civil right?

Posted by: SMH at July 12, 2021 09:21 PM (otDZX)

89 I'm all for sending BLM members to Haiti and Cuba to fight the good fight.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 12, 2021 09:21 PM (ppQ4r)

90 Another great ONT!!!

Good evening, Horde!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at July 12, 2021 09:21 PM (+4oV5)

91 77 " If I'd thought I'd live this long, I woulda taken better care of myself"

Hank Williams Jr. AKA Bocephus
Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:14 PM (QzkSJ)
* * * *
I sent that joking sentiment on a birthday card to a relative. Took almost a month for her to speak to me again... I thought it was hilarious because she in no way resembled that remark!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at July 12, 2021 09:19 PM (rwusL)

Uppity Yute

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM (aA3+G)

92 How does that last pic happen?

Posted by: SMH at July 12, 2021 09:18 PM (otDZX)

I don't know about the mixer, but I can tell you a story about my aunt and a wringer washing machine.

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM (AwYPR)

93 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. Oscar Wilde
-----

As an adjunct:

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. - Oscar Wilde

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM (DMQdU)

94 Present.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 12, 2021 09:04 PM

My favorite vote, too!

I had voted Present in the Past.

It was Perfect

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM (QzkSJ)

95 However, recently instead of building shelves I purchased a heavy-duty plastic unit.

I know you're playing the odds here, Mr. Humanitarian, but the boss does occasionally pop into The ONT.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM (DMUuz)

96 I don't know about the mixer, but I can tell you a story about my aunt and a wringer washing machine.
Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM (AwYPR)

So that's a true story...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (hOUT3)

97 80 Well got everything finalized for our trip to AZ! Dayum.. airline prices are through the roof! Got a nice deal on the condo rental though. Can't wait to see my BIL and his sweet wife.
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 12, 2021 09:20 PM (nxdel)

I hope you have a great time, Jewells!

Posted by: Ladyl at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (+4oV5)

98 It is time we come together and we unite behind reducing gun violence in the city of Oakland...

Has he told all the baby daddies in Oakland to grow up, act like responsible adult men, marry the mothers of their children, and be full time fathers to their children?

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (+lVUW)

99 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (8CMuu)

100 You need to reduce the thugs to reduce the violence.

Posted by: Just a side note at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (2DOZq)

101 We steal an American flag. Guess what happens next!

Posted by: Death Valley Germans at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (8uddF)

102 Sad that so many here have forgotten, but the fact that so many in the world have NOT forgotten is truly remarkable!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:19 PM (hOUT3)

With everything, it is easy to forget that this country has one legacy beyond any other: Freedom. The liberals have tried to tell us for 80 years that we contributed nothing to the world but stole everything, but we had something that without, the rest of it don't mean shit: a belief and love of Freedom.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (csEWM)

103 Soul Asylum is a big league 12 to 6 curve ball coming from MisHum.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 12, 2021 09:16 PM (truEc)

Agree! Clayton Kershaw type of curve ball. Way to shake things up, Mis Hum!

Oh yeah - Howdy Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (mZUr4)

104 Uppity Yute
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM (aA3+G)

--------

Did you say, "yute"?

Posted by: Judge Chamberlain Haller at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (VxC1e)

105 I don't know about the mixer, but I can tell you a story about my aunt and a wringer washing machine.

So your aunt is the origin of that saying.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (+LCoQ)

106 That quote from the Unidentified Cuban Resident that Pixy won't let me copy and paste... That is why the US Gangster Government is handing out trillions of dollars. There are no rebellions/revolutions without empty bellies.

Posted by: davidt at July 12, 2021 09:24 PM (ronUI)

107 Buddy has a fussy wife who had him pull up a treated deck behind the house and around his pool. I took it all, built a back porch and still have a nice stack of treated boards. Sure glad he did that.

Posted by: dartist (+ya+t) at July 12, 2021 09:24 PM (+ya+t)

108 ...It was Perfect

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM

Normal for Norfolk?

Posted by: Zettai at July 12, 2021 09:24 PM (ssrg6)

109 Another great ONT!!!
Good evening, Horde!!!
Posted by: Ladyl at July 12, 2021 09:21 PM (+4oV5)

So {{{Ladyl}}}, another content reader, eh?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:24 PM (hOUT3)

110 Bottom photo?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Nah, I have a stand mixer and have never had an issue with getting my shirt caught in it.

Posted by: lin-duh at July 12, 2021 09:24 PM (UUBmN)

111 How does that last pic happen?
Posted by: SMH at July 12, 2021 09:18 PM (otDZX)

so...mixers are 'rons!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2021 09:24 PM (axyOa)

112 95 However, recently instead of building shelves I purchased a heavy-duty plastic unit.

I know you're playing the odds here, Mr. Humanitarian, but the boss does occasionally pop into The ONT.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM (DMUuz)

That he does. But, he'll understand because of the sky rocketing dental premiums to the Dynamic Dental Insurance Company & Likker Emporium.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:24 PM (aA3+G)

113 {{{Ladyl}}} evening Ladyl

Posted by: wing at July 12, 2021 09:25 PM (JFzNN)

114 With everything, it is easy to forget that this country has one legacy beyond any other: Freedom. The liberals have tried to tell us for 80 years that we contributed nothing to the world but stole everything, but we had something that without, the rest of it don't mean shit: a belief and love of Freedom.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (csEWM)

You spelled FWEEDOM wrong.

- Kamala

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2021 09:25 PM (mZUr4)

115 I will Ladyl! Can't wait to see my beautiful mountains and saquaro cactus. It's been too long.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 12, 2021 09:25 PM (nxdel)

116 Nah, I have a stand mixer and have never had an issue with getting my shirt caught in it.
Posted by: lin-duh

You mix topless? Isn't that, err, dangerous?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2021 09:25 PM (mD/uy)

117 I have two grand-nieces and two grand-nephews who are older than two nephews and a niece (plus another niece due in October).

My baby brother and sister are only six years older than my older son.

why yes, we are Catholic. Why do you ask. Also, no mixed family. Mom and Dad had no divorces or widow(er) situations.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, (x8Wzq) Unassuming Gentleman at July 12, 2021 09:25 PM (x8Wzq)

118 Well got everything finalized for our trip to AZ! Dayum.. airline prices are through the roof! Got a nice deal on the condo rental though. Can't wait to see my BIL and his sweet wife.

You staying in the valley the whole trip? Or taking some to head for the hills?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - On my phone, identifiers may vary at July 12, 2021 09:25 PM (Blm4C)

119 That last photo needs to be in the dictionary as the very definition of "Titty Twister!"

*pours bourbon* (did emergency cleaning of entire fleet today, because surprise Port of Galveston inspections at 0900 tomorrow) Yeah, sore, tired, dirty. Been that kinda day. ONT Greetings, Horde!

CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 09:25 PM (QzJWU)

120 103 Soul Asylum is a big league 12 to 6 curve ball coming from MisHum.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 12, 2021 09:16 PM (truEc)

Agree! Clayton Kershaw type of curve ball. Way to shake things up, Mis Hum!

Oh yeah - Howdy Hordelings!
Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (mZUr4)

***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (aA3+G)

121 102, Aetius451AD No country can tolerate elites that hate their own country for very long nor their institutions.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (pO7gM)

122 Tell the Cuban man to skip California. It's getting pretty bad here too.

Posted by: pj at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (G1dq6)

123 So your aunt is the origin of that saying. Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (+LCoQ
I thought it was Martha Graham.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (BMmaB)

124 I don't know about the mixer, but I can tell you a story about my aunt and a wringer washing machine.
-----------
Actually happened to my aunt, lol.

Posted by: dartist (+ya+t) at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (+ya+t)

125 $46 in eastern NC.

*looks at all the pine tree farms*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (O2e7O)

126 Fun fact:

The earths climate is always changing has been for 4.5 billion years and man has played no role in this change.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (IEysS)

127 'Perfect', dammit, it's Christine Perfect !

Posted by: Christine Perfect at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (DMQdU)

128 AP: In a move decried as 'blatant kidnapping' by the ACLU, American Airlines has chosen to keep Ms. Smith duct-taped to her economy-plus airplane seat as a deterrent to other potential flying troublemakers.
Posted by: ZOD at July 12, 2021 09:15 PM (xK9An)
---------
If they'd just let her open the door mid-flight like she wanted, the problem would have taken care of itself.

Posted by: zmdavid at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (xqRaG)

129 so if Venus and Mars are conjunctivating in the west tonight, is that Saturn riding high and bright? (currently at 12 o clock high) And that would be Jupiter bringing up the rear, rising in the east.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (rfYv5)

130 Uppity Yute
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:22 PM (aA3+G)
* * * *
*SNORT*

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (rwusL)

131 Darling {{{Wing}}}!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (+4oV5)

132 Day 2 of home alone w/o adult supervision...

woke up about 1:30. deciding what to have for dinner naow.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (8CMuu)

133 You spelled FWEEDOM wrong.

- Kamala
Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2021 09:25 PM (mZUr4)

Saw a great bumper sticker today

Fuck Joe & The Hoe with long guns as the lettering.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (aA3+G)

134 Has he told all the baby daddies in Oakland to grow up, act like responsible adult men, marry the mothers of their children, and be full time fathers to their children?
Posted by: nerdygirl

See? This is exactly what needs said, and exactly what's not allowed to be said. Soon as someone says something like that, they get 66 women and Gloria Allred on their ass.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (OssQ4)

135 After wiping almost the whole native population out, the Spanish imported about a million black slaves to Cuba.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (1+v7y)

136 Do the old believe everything?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

I'm old, and i don't believe what's reported in the mainstream media.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (+lVUW)

137 You staying in the valley the whole trip? Or taking some to head for the hills?

Hill country. With a Fountain.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 12, 2021 09:28 PM (nxdel)

138 Gloria Allred on their ass.

Is their an ointment for that?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:28 PM (1+v7y)

139 . There are no rebellions/revolutions without empty bellies.
Posted by: davidt
-----

Bread and circuses.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2021 09:28 PM (ELgVT)

140 I don't know about the mixer, but I can tell you a story about my aunt and a wringer washing machine.
-----------
Actually happened to my aunt, lol.
Posted by: dartist (+ya+t) at July 12, 2021 09:26 PM (+ya+t)

I would imagine it was somewhat common back in the day...Ralph Nader missed his calling.

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:28 PM (AwYPR)

141 106 davidt, the international food organization FAO indicates that their food index cost is about 33 percent more expensive this year across the globe.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 09:29 PM (pO7gM)

142 Has he told all the baby daddies in Oakland to grow up, act like responsible adult men, marry the mothers of their children, and be full time fathers to their children?
Posted by: nerdygirl
___

If those young men married their babies momma's, they'd be polygamists.

Posted by: SMH at July 12, 2021 09:29 PM (otDZX)

143 Props to the woman who got herself a titty twister from her own hand mixer.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at July 12, 2021 09:29 PM (DXFDM)

144 138 Gloria Allred on their ass.

Is their an ointment for that?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:28 PM (1+v7y)

--------

Bummer of a birthmark, Hal.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:29 PM (VxC1e)

145 138 Gloria Allred on their ass.

Is their an ointment for that?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:28 PM (1+v7y)

***SNORT***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:29 PM (aA3+G)

146 There are no rebellions/revolutions without empty bellies.
Posted by: davidt at July 12, 2021 09:24 PM (ronUI)

Talk to an independent contractor or two, there aren't any workers around either because they're on the dole with full stomachs and high speed internet!
Sadly, the progs know what they are doing, they have gamed this out very carefully, while the establishment Republicans sit back and cash their CoC checks!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (hOUT3)

147 Saw a great bumper sticker today

Fuck Joe & The Hoe with long guns as the lettering.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (aA3+G)

Did you get a photo to share with your ONT class, Professor??

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (mZUr4)

148 135 After wiping almost the whole native population out, the Spanish imported about a million black slaves to Cuba.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:27 PM (1+v7y)

Black Legend. Native populations were hit pretty damn hard by disease from the old world (small pox, measles, etc.) The Spanish did not really have to do much (not that they could have given the technology.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (csEWM)

149 My baby brother and sister are only six years older than my older son.

why yes, we are Catholic. Why do you ask. Also, no mixed family. Mom and Dad had no divorces or widow(er) situations.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Of course. We are too. My brother is an Ordained Deacon. My favorite story to describe him and my sil is that when folks give them shit about having 8 (which happens more often than it should), he or she will say, Two are adopted - I forget which two.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (mD/uy)

150 (did emergency cleaning of entire fleet today, because surprise Port of Galveston inspections at 0900 tomorrow)

Jim NSD
---
if it's a "surprise" inspection, how did y'all know to prepare?

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (8CMuu)

151 Uppity Yute
Posted by: Misanthropic

Are there Uppity Yooper Yutes?

Wouldn't all Yooper Yutes be Uppity?

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (QzkSJ)

152 Did you get a photo to share with your ONT class, Professor??
Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (mZUr4)

Unfortunately not was on major highway today.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (aA3+G)

153 139 . There are no rebellions/revolutions without empty bellies.
Posted by: davidt
-----

Bread and circuses.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2021 09:28 PM (ELgVT)

Rome knew it: hence the free grain dole. A big city is only three meals from ripping itself apart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (csEWM)

154 Our ONT cup runneth over -- thanks, MisHum, and good evening, 'rons and 'ettes

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy Agr8U at July 12, 2021 09:31 PM (Agr8U)

155 New York City, about four hours after the power fails.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:31 PM (1+v7y)

156 Props to the woman who got herself a titty twister from her own hand mixer.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at July 12, 2021 09:29 PM (DXFDM)

Somewhere there's a dude trying to figure out how to attach his Flesh-light instead of a mixing paddle

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2021 09:32 PM (mZUr4)

157 It's not up here either honey.

Posted by: Man in Top Pic at July 12, 2021 09:32 PM (ronUI)

158 Talk to an independent contractor or two, there aren't any workers around either because they're on the dole with full stomachs and high speed internet!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

bread and tiktok circuses

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 09:32 PM (oEn12)

159 Somewhere there's a dude trying to figure out how to attach his Flesh-light instead of a mixing paddle
Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2021 09:32 PM (mZUr4)

Might need to tell that guy about the concept of a fire bow.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:33 PM (csEWM)

160 did the airline staff really believe someone with that Herculean strength would be confined with duct tape?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:20 PM (+LCoQ)

So you are on her side? Wow. That's not very bright. Try to think this one through.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:33 PM (Q9lwr)

161 Hill country. With a Fountain.

Nice neighborhood. Low, but nice.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - On my phone, identifiers may vary at July 12, 2021 09:33 PM (Blm4C)

162 Somewhere there's a dude trying to figure out how to attach his Flesh-light instead of a mixing paddle
Posted by: Doof

The Sawz-All wasn't good enough?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:33 PM (OssQ4)

163 157 It's not up here either honey.
Posted by: Man in Top Pic at July 12, 2021 09:32 PM (ronUI)

Dammit! I forgot the camera!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:33 PM (csEWM)

164 "This is a big deal for anyone who cares about the planet."

No true Scotsman would deny it.

As for the rest of you out there who obviously don't "care" about the planet you live on...why, I can't even!

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 12, 2021 09:33 PM (49Exr)

165 Love the picture Mis Hum, but it's triggering my Acrophobia.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2021 09:33 PM (NpAcC)

166 135 After wiping almost the whole native population out,
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Like with a cloth?

Posted by: Hillary at July 12, 2021 09:34 PM (xqRaG)

167 Liber-tay, Egali-tay, Fraterni-tay

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:34 PM (VxC1e)

168 Wait, now there's nanotechnology in the mix? So, shady global/US government folks and evil plutocrats pursue an agenda of totalitarian population control by means of an engineered virus and an engineered cure, both created in China, and something something nanotechnology.

Deus Ex was a warning, not a manual!

Posted by: perilisk at July 12, 2021 09:34 PM (BuJoJ)

169 It's not up here either honey.
Posted by: Man in Top Pic

LOL

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:34 PM (OssQ4)

170 I understand why an internal combustion engine needs cooling. What needs to be cooled on an electric vehicle?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (63Dwl)

171 I'm just surprised that American liberals aren't accusing the Cuban protesters carrying American flags of being racists.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (+lVUW)

172 Liber-tay, Egali-tay, Fraterni-tay
Posted by: Cicero

I read the first part as Liberace

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (QzkSJ)

173 Oscar Wilde, that dude knew his shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (VxC1e)

174 "Might need to tell that guy about the concept of a fire bow."

Please. No.

Posted by: Hoyt's Midnight ER Staff at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (49Exr)

175 171 I'm just surprised that American liberals aren't accusing the Cuban protesters carrying American flags of being racists.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (+lVUW)

You forgot the "yet"!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (hOUT3)

176 162 Somewhere there's a dude trying to figure out how to attach his Flesh-light instead of a mixing paddle
Posted by: Doof

The Sawz-All wasn't good enough?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:33 PM (OssQ4)

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

I read an article involving a Sawz-All a while back. Could have qualified for a Genius Award winner (and maybe a Darwin Award winner. I don't quite remember all the details).

Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (CAJOC)

177 Black Legend. Native populations were hit pretty damn hard by disease from the old world (small pox, measles, etc.) The Spanish did not really have to do much (not that they could have given the technology.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (csEWM)

Disease got a lot, but the Spanish also first tried working the native population on their plantations. Why go to all the trouble of importing people when you've already got a captive population? But they didn't have the physical stamina to survive that type of life. On Puerto Rico, for example, every last native American was dead within 50 years of its discovery. The Spaniards were the ones who started black slavery in the New World; they determined that they had the most useful combination of physical stamina and heat tolerance, which is why they imported so many.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2021 09:36 PM (rfYv5)

178 I'm just surprised that American liberals aren't accusing the Cuban protesters carrying American flags of being racists.

Posted by: nerdygirl

White Hispanics!

Posted by: Liberals at July 12, 2021 09:36 PM (ronUI)

179 Oscar Wilde, that dude knew his shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM

ISWYDT...

Posted by: Zettai at July 12, 2021 09:36 PM (ssrg6)

180 Wait, Wally Gator is now an emotional support animal?

Stop messing with the natural order!

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:36 PM (1+v7y)

181 170 I understand why an internal combustion engine needs cooling. What needs to be cooled on an electric vehicle?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (63Dwl)

Batteries themselves can generate a lot of heat as they discharge or charge. The electric motors themselves.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:36 PM (csEWM)

182 It's not up here either honey.
Posted by: Man in Top Pic at July 12, 2021 09:32 PM (ronUI)

Dammit! I forgot the camera!
Posted by: Aetius451AD

And the car keys!

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:36 PM (QzkSJ)

183 What needs to be cooled on an electric vehicle?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (63Dwl)

The people inside!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:37 PM (Q9lwr)

184 First! World Problem: Amazon says they delivered two packages this evening, about 1845ish... problem is, the UPS store closed @ 1800.

late report, or did some lazy asshoe drop off a bunch of stuff outside it to be stolen? tune in tomorrow for the answer.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 12, 2021 09:37 PM (8CMuu)

185 What needs to be cooled on an electric vehicle?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Lots of heat is generated. Heck, my PC has six fans.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 12, 2021 09:37 PM (OssQ4)

186 If I didn't know better I'd guess everyone retired at 25 by how bad the traffic is on a weekday .

Posted by: Just a side note at July 12, 2021 09:37 PM (2DOZq)

187 167 Liber-tay, Egali-tay, Fraterni-tay
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:34 PM (VxC1e)

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Authori-tah

Posted by: Eric Cartman at July 12, 2021 09:37 PM (CAJOC)

188 100 thermosyphons -tubes that suck heat out of permafrost
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What about reinforcing the pipeline structure?
What about the mating mooses and caribou?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 09:37 PM (vW9Vw)

189 I'm just surprised that American liberals aren't accusing the Cuban protesters carrying American flags of being racists.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (+lVUW)
* * * *
Shhhhhh... don't give them any ideas!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at July 12, 2021 09:38 PM (rwusL)

190 Good evening everyone. Found today three of my nieces, all sisters, are all due around early December. The extended family is just thrilled.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2021 09:07 PM (mD/uy)

Congrats!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy Agr8U at July 12, 2021 09:38 PM (Agr8U)

191 I sent that joking sentiment on a birthday card to a relative. Took almost a month for her to speak to me again... I thought it was hilarious because she in no way resembled that remark!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America

That's odd because most of the humorous birthday cards make fun of aging. Some people are thin skinned.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:38 PM (+lVUW)

192 What about the mating mooses and caribou?
Posted by: Braenyard

You gonna end up with little Cariooses or Moosibou.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2021 09:39 PM (mD/uy)

193 Found today three of my nieces, all sisters, are all due around early December. The extended family is just thrilled.

Posted by: Tonypete

heh

Posted by: Hunter at July 12, 2021 09:39 PM (ronUI)

194 The Spaniards were the ones who started black slavery in the New World; they determined that they had the most useful combination of physical stamina and heat tolerance, which is why they imported so many.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2021 09:36 PM (rfYv5)

Not arguing on the slavery angle, just pointing out that the Spaniards did not have complete genocide (Black Legend) as their top priority. What happened was bad enough without dragging in more modern concepts.

Although History of Rome podcast throws around the term 'genocide' quite a bit, but I am not sure his usage is correct.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:39 PM (csEWM)

195 Tony Pete

Noel works for either gender. Just saying.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:39 PM (1+v7y)

196 @170

Electric engines produce heat, heat robs performance and efficiency, cooler motors are more efficient, you can also use smaller motors to produce the same work.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 12, 2021 09:39 PM (IEysS)

197 I understand why an internal combustion engine needs cooling. What needs to be cooled on an electric vehicle?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (63Dwl)

Most large electric motors have a fan attached to the rotor shaft...What I'm wondering is how much range you lose if you need heat in the winter.

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:40 PM (AwYPR)

198 89 I'm all for sending BLM members to Haiti and Cuba to fight the good fight.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe

Or China. All of the environmentalists should go there and hold massive protests.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:40 PM (+lVUW)

199 186 If I didn't know better I'd guess everyone retired at 25 by how bad the traffic is on a weekday .
Posted by: Just a side note at July 12, 2021 09:37 PM (2DOZq)

Traffic was bad both here and in Louisville today. No idea why (although in Louisville it was an accident in a construction zone.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:41 PM (csEWM)

200 did the airline staff really believe someone with that Herculean strength would be confined with duct tape?
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So you are on her side? Wow. That's not very bright. Try to think this one through.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:33 PM (Q9lwr)

We are living with average Russian Years. 2021 is worse than last year but will be better than next year.

She is a casualty of that. Have some damned compassion. It isn't like everyone is going to see her working the door and start thinking that maybe they should be hammering away on the windows with shoes to get out.

Why are we reading about it if it is so common?
Furthermore, this doesn't make the airline look good. I don't know if you are in the camp that any news is good, just get the name spelled right, but most people who will move on, but there is also a camp of people who have more reason to hate American Airlines, the reason doesn't have to be rational - remember, we are in post rational times.

Having the ACLU and a bunch of people trashing your brand isn't good marketing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:41 PM (+LCoQ)

201

I'd read the Spaniards brought in Africans when the Aztecs proved too difficult to manage in captivity...

Posted by: Zettai at July 12, 2021 09:41 PM (ssrg6)

202 Tonypete, me and two of my SIL's all got pregnant within a month of each other. Nephew, my son and another nephew. Sept, Oct and Nov. We kept MIL busy with baby showers.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 12, 2021 09:41 PM (nxdel)

203
Most large electric motors have a fan attached to the rotor shaft...What I'm wondering is how much range you lose if you need heat in the winter.
Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:40 PM (AwYPR)

Towing a cargo trailer with say 4 snowmobiles from the Upper Midwest to Yellow Stone..........

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:42 PM (aA3+G)

204 Genocide is a modern word coined to describe the deliberate extermination of a specific group.

Romans and Spanish weren't in the same league as the Nazis or the Turks. The best the Romans came up with was 'decimate' and 'going full Carthage.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:42 PM (1+v7y)

205 Not arguing on the slavery angle, just pointing out that the Spaniards did not have complete genocide (Black Legend) as their top priority. What happened was bad enough without dragging in more modern concepts."

Oh I agree on that, I imagine that they were a bit surprised and put out when everyone already there died under their treatment. It's no good doing all the work taking over a country and then right off everyone there croaks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2021 09:42 PM (rfYv5)

206 Nephew, my son and another nephew. Sept, Oct and Nov. We kept MIL busy with baby showers.
Posted by: Jewells45

That's great - family can be terrific!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2021 09:43 PM (mD/uy)

207 I relate to that woman with the hand mixer. I can't use an Osterizer to make frozen margaritas without creating a Johnstown flood in the kitchen.

Posted by: mnw at July 12, 2021 09:43 PM (Cssks)

208 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2021 09:36 PM (rfYv5)

I assume Portugal was bad too . Brazil imported 10x more slaves than did the USA and didn't ban slavery until 1888.

Posted by: Just a side note at July 12, 2021 09:43 PM (2DOZq)

209 So, if the Spanish instituted African slavery in the New World, shouldn't the Spanish language be canceled over here? It's not as if there isn't a major Latin American country that doesn't speak Spanish....

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (KAi1n)

210 Romans and Spanish weren't in the same league as the Nazis or the Turks. The best the Romans came up with was 'decimate' and 'going full Carthage.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:42 PM (1+v7y)

Agreed, but the term also has to do with intent. In most cases, the Romans did not care if a tribe survived- just that they were in no position to make war on Rome again. If they moved off or were sold into slavery, it made no difference. Death was not the end goal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (csEWM)

211 It's trying to open her cans!

Posted by: banana Dream at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (l6b3d)

212 "A TikTok video shows a woman duct-taped to her seat"

Her name is KAREN.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (vW9Vw)

213 Or China. All of the environmentalists should go there and hold massive protests.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:40 PM (+lVUW)

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Any society that eats bird feet and baby frogs should be relentlessly shunned.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (VxC1e)

214 I relate to that woman with the hand mixer. I can't use an Osterizer to make frozen margaritas without creating a Johnstown flood in the kitchen.
Posted by: mnw
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Did it actually try to eat you, as opposed to making a mess?

Posted by: SMH at July 12, 2021 09:45 PM (otDZX)

215 209 So, if the Spanish instituted African slavery in the New World, shouldn't the Spanish language be canceled over here? It's not as if there isn't a major Latin American country that doesn't speak Spanish....
Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (KAi1n)

There ya go again making sense.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 09:45 PM (aA3+G)

216 Cuba? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at July 12, 2021 09:45 PM (786Ro)

217 204 Anna, You left out the Mongols.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 09:45 PM (pO7gM)

218 "A TikTok video shows a woman duct-taped to her seat"

Her name is KAREN.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (vW9Vw)
* * * *
I totally believe that!!!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at July 12, 2021 09:45 PM (rwusL)

219 Second look at reviving native languages???

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 09:46 PM (KAi1n)

220 Have some damned compassion. It isn't like
everyone is going to see her working the door and start thinking that
maybe they should be hammering away on the windows with shoes to get
out.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:41 PM (+LCoQ)

Are you stoned? Anybody on a plane I am flying in who gets out of his seat and starts fucking with the flight attendants and the equipment is going to get a beat-down from me if I have anything to say about it.

Who gives a shit about the optics?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:46 PM (Q9lwr)

221 Any society that eats bird feet and baby frogs should be relentlessly shunned.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (VxC1e)

mmm...tadpoles and bird nest soup.

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:46 PM (AwYPR)

222 Who gives a shit about the optics?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:46 PM (Q9lwr)

99% of the world.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:47 PM (+LCoQ)

223 ..if it's a "surprise" inspection, how did y'all know to prepare? Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (8CMuu)

Official from the Port of Galveston phoned the owner today, 'bout noontime. "Surprise, we're gonna inspect your fleet tomorrow at 0900 at your facility!". Previous years, we always had to staff every vehicle and drive 'em all over to the Port's offices. Which was an appointment set a week or two in advance.

Today though? Oops! Oopsie!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 09:47 PM (QzJWU)

224 Brazil imported 10x more slaves than did the USA and didn't ban slavery until 1888.

Posted by: Just a side note at July 12, 2021 09:43 PM (2DOZq)

But they all worked on Donald Trump's sugar cane plantations.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:47 PM (Q9lwr)

225 Electrical current flow through resistance creates heat. Barring superconductors, copper, batteries, electric motors, etc., etc., have resistance. Also motion through bearings, transmissions, etc., etc., creates frictional heat. Add in hysteresis and other crap I can't think of, and cooling can be quite handy.

Posted by: irright at July 12, 2021 09:47 PM (BB7pQ)

226 Any society that eats bird feet and baby frogs should be relentlessly shunned.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (VxC1e)
mmm...tadpoles and bird nest soup.
Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:46 PM (AwYPR)

You must admit that baby octopi are quite tasty!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:47 PM (hOUT3)

227 217 204 Anna, You left out the Mongols.
Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 09:45 PM (pO7gM)

Even the Mongols did not engage in genocide (and this is really where you get into: what is the definition?) They engaged in brutal, massive object lessons. By the same token, I guess one could call the sacking of Carthage or Corinth the same thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (csEWM)

228 In the Vatican archives there is a letter from a relative of Genghis Khan telling the Pope that if he merely submits to them then everything will be all right.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (1+v7y)

229 181 Heat created by the flow of current is described by the formula IsquaredR where I is the current and R is the resistance

Posted by: MAxIE at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (dVkJu)

230 I remember the first time hearing Christine McVie when I was a wee young-un assuming she was as hot her voice, just like getting suckered into a sexy DJ voice I was disappointed when I saw a picture of her. She seemed hotter in her 40"s though.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (qH6FZ)

231 She is a casualty of that. Have some damned compassion. It isn't like everyone is going to see her working the door and start thinking that maybe they should be hammering away on the windows with shoes to get out.
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She tried to open the fucking door. Should someone have knocked her out? Tape was compassion imho.

Posted by: dartist (+ya+t) at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (+ya+t)

232 There ya go again making sense.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Will you accept service of my complaint for defamation or do I have to track your ass down?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (KAi1n)

233 205 Not arguing on the slavery angle, just pointing out that the Spaniards did not have complete genocide (Black Legend) as their top priority. What happened was bad enough without dragging in more modern concepts."

Oh I agree on that, I imagine that they were a bit surprised and put out when everyone already there died under their treatment. It's no good doing all the work taking over a country and then right off everyone there croaks.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2021 09:42 PM (rfYv5)

A major cause of what prompted the slave trade was the natives (what they were hoping would be the labor force) dying off. Spanish Crown made some laws to try and limit the damage but you can't legislate away disease.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (z5Vrg)

234 The Republican National Committee will air an ad during Tuesday night's Major League Baseball All-Star Game that claims political figures and corporations "lied" about Georgia's new voting law, which led to MLB moving the game from Atlanta to Denver.

Unless the ad shows the racial makeup of Atlanta vs Denver, or say list the voting laws in liberal states that are even more strict than Georgia's new law it is even less than useless.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (vMCab)

235 99% of the world.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:47 PM (+LCoQ)

None of whom are on the plane. You are tediously contrarian.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (Q9lwr)

236 "We do not have racism in our DNA in this country. We love each other" Gov. Kristi Noem

She cratered on the trans sports thing ... guys beating up women is OK, destroying the whole point of women's categories ... BUT, I don't want to trash talk her just for yielding to pressure (from her donors?) ... it might remove her from hopes of higher office (for now), and maybe she will learn a lesson ... but ... no point in trashing her, give her a chance to grow into "being better".

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2021 09:49 PM (Cus5s)

237 Agree! Clayton Kershaw type of curve ball.

Bert Blyleven, best 12-6 curve. Hundreds (242) of complete games

Posted by: free tibet at July 12, 2021 09:49 PM (CL76w)

238 "Dworman"?

That sounds like one of those new "alternative genders".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 12, 2021 09:49 PM (XGAZE)

239 @197

Some studies have shown a range loss of up to 50 pct in harsh winter weather and conditions.

The average seems to be about 40 pct.

Bottom line, EVs are largely a scam and boondoggle.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 12, 2021 09:49 PM (IEysS)

240
None of whom are on the plane. You are tediously contrarian.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (Q9lwr)

Agreed!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at July 12, 2021 09:49 PM (+4oV5)

241 Add in hysteresis and other crap I can't think of, and cooling can be quite handy.
Posted by: irright at July 12, 2021 09:47 PM (BB7pQ)

You must be wrong, the political scientists have assured me that electric motors will not contribute to global warming in any way, shape, or form!!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (hOUT3)

242 Add in hysteresis and other crap I can't think of, and cooling can be quite handy.
Posted by: irright at July 12, 2021 09:47 PM (BB7pQ)

Had to look up 'hysteresis'. Thanks. I either forgot or never encountered the term (or more likely forgot) from college.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (csEWM)

243 hola chamucos y chamucas. I'll have to find my own music for tonight.

Posted by: jeet at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (g741k)

244 "Christine McVie, keyboards, vocals, Chicken Shack, and then Fleetwood Mac,"

She doesn't mumble, she doesn't sing through her nose, this girl's got problems.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (vW9Vw)

245 The destruction of Carthage was an object lesson to the rest of the known world. Carthage waged war three times on Rome and Rome said 'we are tired of this sh1t.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (1+v7y)

246 Noem needs to learn when to stop digging.

Posted by: Your Eminence at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (8iyB1)

247 "Emotionally abusive relationships really mess u up. Even years later"

Yup, as a child of two alcoholics, I can attest to that. Worst part was that even as a kid I could sense it was handicapping me for life, changing what I was meant to become, and I was helpless to do anything but endure it. Sorry you had to go through something like that.

My wife has a big guilt complex, so I never use it against her, even when she screws up.

Posted by: Hoyt's Midnight ER Staff at July 12, 2021 09:51 PM (49Exr)

248 Good evening y'all!

Colorado Morondevous Saturday August 21!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at July 12, 2021 09:51 PM (/UQ/R)

249
It isn't like
everyone is going to see her working the door and start thinking that
maybe they should be hammering away on the windows with shoes to get
out.

There's a man on the wing!!

Posted by: Twilight Zone Shatner at July 12, 2021 09:51 PM (63Dwl)

250 222 Who gives a shit about the optics?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:46 PM (Q9lwr)

99% of the world.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:47 PM (+LCoQ)

Yea I'm a one percenter !!

Posted by: Just a side note at July 12, 2021 09:51 PM (2DOZq)

251 Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (KAi1n)

Speaking of nothing...what the hell happened to La Folie? That was my favorite restaurant in San Francisco!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:51 PM (Q9lwr)

252 Top photo is cool. Is that dude taking a pee? I mean really, if I made it up there I would definitely pee right off the top. He should be taking a pee.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 09:51 PM (VwHCD)

253 None of whom are on the plane. You are tediously contrarian.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:48 PM (Q9lwr)

Agreed!!!
Posted by: Ladyl at July 12, 2021 09:49 PM (+4oV5)

I think you're wrong!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:51 PM (csEWM)

254 246 Noem needs to learn when to stop digging.
Posted by: Your Eminence at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (8iyB1)

Just another turn coat, changing coats once again.

Posted by: Ladyl at July 12, 2021 09:52 PM (+4oV5)

255 The destruction of Carthage was an object lesson to the rest of the known world. Carthage waged war three times on Rome and Rome said 'we are tired of this sh1t.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (1+v7y)

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One and two were all the Romans' doing. Bastards.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:52 PM (VxC1e)

256 Are you stoned? Anybody on a plane I am flying in who gets out of his seat and starts fucking with the flight attendants and the equipment is going to get a beat-down from me if I have anything to say about it.

Who gives a shit about the optics?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

the thing is, these days, watching the flight attendants fight the passengers is the same as watching the iranians fight the iraqis, they are both bad actors.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 09:52 PM (4Jold)

257 I've entertained myself by watching youtubes of out of control people on airplane flights. I do not want to be in an airplane with some out of control lunatic. Duct tape the bitch.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:52 PM (+lVUW)

258 Bert Blyleven, best 12-6 curve.

Posted by: free tibet at July 12, 2021 09:49 PM (CL76w)

Pedro Martinez had one that should have been illegal!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:52 PM (Q9lwr)

259 245 The destruction of Carthage was an object lesson to the rest of the known world. Carthage waged war three times on Rome and Rome said 'we are tired of this sh1t.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (1+v7y)

Let's be honest: twice. The last time they just looked at Rome sideways while trying to raise an army against Numidia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:53 PM (csEWM)

260 252
Yo Bers.
Somethings you will only get to do once in your lifetime, right?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:53 PM (hOUT3)

261 The Spanish, to their, umm, "credit", would let you convert to Catholicism or GTFO (which is why, apparently, ancestors of mine left Spain circa 1492 and moved to Germany, which 450 years later didn't allow them to convert or GTFO).

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 09:53 PM (KAi1n)

262
I think you're wrong!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:51 PM (csEWM)

Oh for PETE'S sake!

Posted by: Ladyl at July 12, 2021 09:53 PM (+4oV5)

263
Do the old believe everything?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 09:10 PM (oEn12)

Who do you think is still watching Fox News?

Posted by: Commander Tacticool at July 12, 2021 09:53 PM (Uzh5E)

264 Kirsten Powers does not look good as a brunette.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2021 09:53 PM (NpAcC)

265 Oh, my, a real tit in the wringer.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 09:54 PM (vW9Vw)

266 I'll bet the man on the silver mountain got there by chopper.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 09:54 PM (63Dwl)

267 they are both bad actors.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 09:52 PM (4Jold)

I find most flight attendants to be officious fascists, but anyone who fucks with the equipment on an airplane needs to be beaten and hog-tied.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 09:54 PM (Q9lwr)

268 Just another turn coat, changing coats once again.
Posted by: Ladyl at July 12, 2021 09:52 PM (+4oV5)

A great turn of phrase, Ladyl!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 09:54 PM (hOUT3)

269 Kirsten Powers does not look good as a brunette.
Posted by: r

she was not that hot as a blonde

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 09:54 PM (4Jold)

270 Emotional support ducks > duck tape

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 12, 2021 09:54 PM (QU5/8)

271 Aetius, Look up the defunct Tangut people, the Mongols took them out for not supplying horses for the Mongols.

Depressing reading by an excellent political scientist, RJ Rummel, Chapter 3 of Power Kills deal with pre modern genocide. https://tinyurl.com/7e759v75

Rummel also has an excellent book on applied factor analysis which is now out of print.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (pO7gM)

272 I think you're wrong!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:51 PM (csEWM)

Nuh-unhhh!

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (AwYPR)

273 Has he told all the baby daddies in Oakland to grow up, act like responsible adult men, marry the mothers of their children, and be full time fathers to their children?
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (+lVUW)

I think the bigamy law might preclude that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (M4l6E)

274 "Noem needs to learn when to stop digging."

She's running for a cabinet position. I wish we would do away that shit.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (qH6FZ)

275 I find most flight attendants to be officious fascists, but anyone who fucks with the equipment on an airplane needs to be beaten and hog-tied.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDild

I agree with somebody fucking with the equipment.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (4Jold)

276 That photo was taken just seconds before the IMF helicopter flew in to give Ethan some self-destructing sunglasses.

Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (EA07m)

277 I have racism in my DNA because I'm white. That's the current leftist orthodoxy, yes?

Posted by: Insomniac at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (II3Gr)

278 One and two were all the Romans' doing. Bastards.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 09:52 PM (VxC1e)

Eh *waves hand sideways*

One, absolutely.

The second, ehhhhhh. They broke the treaty, sure. However, Hannibal was kind of poking them in the chest over and over to try to get a rise out of them. If they hadn't, he would have found a way to get his war, no question.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:56 PM (csEWM)

279 Happy Monday evening everyone.

Tit in a wringer. We've all shivered at the thought

Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at July 12, 2021 09:56 PM (5NC6n)

280 Rummel also has an excellent book on applied factor analysis which is now out of print.
Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (pO7gM)

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Magnificent bastard. I read his book.

Posted by: Gen. George Patton at July 12, 2021 09:56 PM (VxC1e)

281 > Rummel also has an excellent book on applied factor analysis which is now out of print.

It's always fun watching a communist attempting to refute Rummel's work.

Generally the "argument" boils down to "He wasn't a communist, therefore he is wrong.", only with a lot more words and misdirection.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 12, 2021 09:57 PM (XGAZE)

282 I have racism in my DNA because I'm white.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (II3Gr)

You are holding the Black man down!

Posted by: LeBron James at July 12, 2021 09:57 PM (Q9lwr)

283 Hi everyone. Hope you're all doing well.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 12, 2021 09:57 PM (OU+8W)

284 277 I have racism in my DNA because I'm white. That's the current leftist orthodoxy, yes?
Posted by: Insomniac at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (II3Gr)

*checks to make sure the day of the week ends in 'y'*

Yep!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:57 PM (csEWM)

285 C5!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at July 12, 2021 09:58 PM (/UQ/R)

286 WDS!

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 09:58 PM (a2PEI)

287 I don't think they should have taped her to the seat, that's a passive-aggressive approach to the problem. They need to have a blackjack on board and just have the biggest attendant whap her over the head with it till she stops making noises or moving. Repeat as necessary.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2021 09:58 PM (rfYv5)

288 I don't think they should have taped her to the seat, that's a passive-aggressive approach to the problem. They need to have a blackjack on board and just have the biggest attendant whap her over the head with it till she stops making noises or moving. Repeat as necessary.
Posted by: Tom Servo

sock full of change

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 09:59 PM (a2PEI)

289 Kirsten Powers does not look good as a brunette.

Posted by: r

she was not that hot as a blonde

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 09:54 PM (4Jold)

Kinda right in the zone where you wouldn't kick her out of bed, but you might not help her back in if she fell out.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 09:59 PM (VwHCD)

290 Kirsten Powers does not look good as a brunette.
Posted by: redridinghood

One wonders about the drapes/carpet situation.

But not much.

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 09:59 PM (QzkSJ)

291 They could have duct-taped her mummy style and then stuffed her in the overhead luggage compartment..

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:59 PM (1+v7y)

292 259 245 The destruction of Carthage was an object lesson to the rest of the known world. Carthage waged war three times on Rome and Rome said 'we are tired of this sh1t.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 09:50 PM (1+v7y)

Let's be honest: twice. The last time they just looked at Rome sideways while trying to raise an army against Numidia.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 09:53 PM (csEWM)

You sure you want to say twice? Might want to look at who started that First Punic War. Even though Rome likes to say they were always fighting a defensive war.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 09:59 PM (vMCab)

293 Kinda right in the zone where you wouldn't kick her out of bed, but you might not help her back in if she fell out.
Posted by: B

yes

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:00 PM (a2PEI)

294 Doing what the woman did was a federal crime. It is not for the flight attendants to determine whether or not the person is mentally ill; that is for a court. If she was high etc, then that is a mitigating factor in sentencing but not enough to prevent punishment.

So, the question is whether the restraint was designed to punish or whether it was to prevent a recurrence of the violent actions that disrupted the flight. Given that duct tape is not life threatening, available, and could restrain the passenger in the close quarters of the aircraft seating, I would argue that it was reasonable. Zip ties could cut off circulation or be worked loose and apparently no air marshal was on the flight to conduct an arrest.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:00 PM (pO7gM)

295 Kinda right in the zone where you wouldn't kick her out of bed, but you might not help her back in if she fell out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

Maybe two (2) crackers in bed.

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:00 PM (QzkSJ)

296 Sup

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 12, 2021 10:01 PM (IYHxL)

297 Kinda right in the zone where you wouldn't kick her out of bed, but you might not help her back in if she fell out.

Posted by: B

And don't even think about bringing any crackers.

Posted by: davidt at July 12, 2021 10:01 PM (ronUI)

298 You sure you want to say twice? Might want to look at who started that First Punic War. Even though Rome likes to say they were always fighting a defensive war.
Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 09:59 PM (vMCab)

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Rome intentionally provoked it. Carthage was a patsy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 10:01 PM (VxC1e)

299 I understand why an internal combustion engine needs cooling. What needs to be cooled on an electric vehicle?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 09:35 PM (63Dwl)

The batteries, which are so efficient, they throw off kilowatts of heat when working hard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2021 10:01 PM (M4l6E)

300
They need to have a blackjack on board and just have the biggest attendant whap her over the head with it till she stops making noises or moving.

Vulcan neck pinch

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 10:02 PM (63Dwl)

301 Rome is asshoe!

Posted by: Carthage at July 12, 2021 10:02 PM (ronUI)

302 Rome intentionally provoked it. Carthage was a patsy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 10:01 PM (VxC1e)

Them's fightin' words.

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 10:02 PM (AwYPR)

303 Given that duct tape is not life threatening, available, and could restrain the passenger in the close quarters of the aircraft seating, I would argue that it was reasonable.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:00 PM (pO7gM)

But think of the optics!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 10:02 PM (Q9lwr)

304 277 I have racism in my DNA because I'm white. That's the current leftist orthodoxy, yes?
Posted by: Insomniac at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM (II3Gr)

No the current liberal orthodoxy is that you are the only one with racism in your DNA because you're white.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:02 PM (vMCab)

305 >>> Given that it is physically impossible to overcome the massive pressure differences that keep that door tightly shut, did the airline staff really believe someone with that Herculean strength would be confined with duct tape?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 12, 2021 09:20 PM (+LCoQ)

It isn't specifically the pressure but the door is designed that after positive detent and altitude they can't be opened, yes it uses the pressure delta to do this, mostly. But trying to cycle it will screw majorly with the fitment and seals and have an effect on the door's future safety.

Aircraft mechanisms are made to work in a specific way. And there isn't a super effort to design to levels in great excess of standard handling/abuse loads. I'd predict loads for military aircraft where I'd assume the flight crew were jumping off the wing and doing monkey bar gymnastic maneuvers on the antenna. Because that's how you do it and for all I know they were doing awesome dismounts off the antennas. Commercial aviation doesn't go that far. To the reg, not much more. Unless a more conservative number is easier and it's a standard part, overdesigned, yada yada.

Never make these assumptions.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 12, 2021 10:02 PM (l6b3d)

306 Pedro Martinez had one that should have been illegal!

ANY complete games?

Posted by: free tibet at July 12, 2021 10:02 PM (CL76w)

307 281 Rummel was a decent sort and Univ. of Hawaii has kept his Power Kills book online. His factor analysis book includes methodology to do time series factor analysis as well as Q factor analysis which was hot stuff before more modern computers allowed more computationally demanding statistical solutions.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:03 PM (pO7gM)

308 You sure you want to say twice? Might want to look at who started that First Punic War. Even though Rome likes to say they were always fighting a defensive war.
Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 09:59 PM (vMCab)

Ok, perhaps I should say: the Carthaginians were ok with going to war with the Romans twice.*

*although the second makes me wonder. In a lot of ways it was a personal vendetta against the romans for him. You have to figure after the list of battles topped off with Cannae, and then the Romans would still not give up, whether some in the Carthaginian government did not at that moment go 'If these guys ever get off the mat, we are completely fucked.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:03 PM (csEWM)

309 IIRC the First Punic was a misunderstanding about Roman protection and a city in Iberia. Carthage figured Rome would not stir and snagged the city. And it went down hill from there with the Roman delegation in Carthage saying "If it is war you want, war you will get."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:03 PM (1+v7y)

310 287 I don't think they should have taped her to the seat, that's a passive-aggressive approach to the problem. They need to have a blackjack on board and just have the biggest attendant whap her over the head with it till she stops making noises or moving. Repeat as necessary.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 12, 2021 09:58 PM (rfYv5)

The kinder, gentler version.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 12, 2021 10:03 PM (SDdx5)

311 "She's running for a cabinet position"

The Tidy Bowl Lady position is open.

Posted by: Your Eminence at July 12, 2021 10:04 PM (8iyB1)

312 American military has abandoned thousands of vehicles in Afghanistan. Maybe could have sold them to locals?

Posted by: I can see the communism in your eyes at July 12, 2021 10:04 PM (g1NVy)

313 You sure you want to say twice? Might want to look at who started that First Punic War. Even though Rome likes to say they were always fighting a defensive war.
Posted by: buzzion

Romans-longbows

Carthaginians-crossbows

Shit was gonna happen

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:04 PM (QzkSJ)

314 I personally approve of stewardesses carrying handcuffs.

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2021 10:04 PM (Xih1H)

315 "She's running for a cabinet position"

see her as more of a bent over the chair than a cabinet girl

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:05 PM (a2PEI)

316 I personally approve of stewardesses carrying handcuffs.
Posted by: J

what is no fucking way for $100.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:05 PM (a2PEI)

317 -"Noem needs to learn when to stop digging."
--
She's running for a cabinet position. I wish we would do away that shit.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2021 09:55 PM----
Whose cabinet? When she pulled the empower-fake-women bs, I figured she was angling for an appointment by the Biden admin. (which almost certainly does not have any Bidens even close to any important decision loops)

Posted by: irright at July 12, 2021 10:05 PM (BB7pQ)

318 I personally approve of stewardesses carrying handcuffs.

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2021 10:04 PM (Xih1H)

...and knauts.

Posted by: BignJames at July 12, 2021 10:05 PM (AwYPR)

319 Punic Two Hannibal's Cannae Bouglaoo was all personal

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:05 PM (1+v7y)

320 American military has abandoned thousands of vehicles in Afghanistan. Maybe could have sold them to locals?
Posted by: I can see

K-A-R-S

Kars for Korans

Kars for Korans

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:06 PM (QzkSJ)

321 ANY complete games?

Posted by: free tibet at July 12, 2021 10:02 PM (CL76w)

I remember one against the Yankees...so...yes!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 10:06 PM (Q9lwr)

322
"She's running for a cabinet position"

see her as more of a bent over the chair than a cabinet girl

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:05 PM (a2PEI)

or desk.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 10:06 PM (VwHCD)

323 The Romans had staying power. They absorbed incredible, devastating defeats, regrouped, and attacked again.

It was an enduring quality of a society with massive self-confidence.

Unlike us.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 10:06 PM (VxC1e)

324 I personally approve of stewardesses carrying handcuffs.
Posted by: Jean

rabbit fur lined in First Class

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:07 PM (QzkSJ)

325 303 CBD,
Policing is hard work and brutal at times to prevent brutality but it is one of those things where on the spot judgment involves tradeoffs. Generally, the police and society have put the onus on the person acting up and forcing others to stop that action and its repetition.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:07 PM (pO7gM)

326 309 IIRC the First Punic was a misunderstanding about Roman protection and a city in Iberia. Carthage figured Rome would not stir and snagged the city. And it went down hill from there with the Roman delegation in Carthage saying "If it is war you want, war you will get."
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:03 PM (1+v7y)

Sicily. Rome got Iberia in the victory.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:07 PM (vMCab)

327 309 IIRC the First Punic was a misunderstanding about Roman protection and a city in Iberia. Carthage figured Rome would not stir and snagged the city. And it went down hill from there with the Roman delegation in Carthage saying "If it is war you want, war you will get."
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:03 PM (1+v7y)

First Punic is Sicily. A city that was captured by a group of mercs(?) Who had first asked for a Carthaginian garrison and then asked Rome for help after they got tired of the Carthaginians? Rome wanted a foothold on Sicily (they had just gone through a century of grain famines) and even though they had publicly put down a very similar rebellion (a merc band had seized a city on the peninsula- Rome marched in, crushed them, then had them publicly executed back at the city) they jumped in with both feet to help the guys on Sicily. What the hell was the name of the band?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:07 PM (csEWM)

328 American military has abandoned thousands of vehicles in Afghanistan. Maybe could have sold them to locals?
Posted by: I can see the communism in your eyes at July 12, 2021 10:04 PM (g1NVy)

Damn good thing pResident Bidung has a carefully thought out exit strategy!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 10:07 PM (hOUT3)

329 If the vehicles were turned over to the Afghan National Army and they surrendered them, then no the US did not abandon vehicles.

It seems in the current scuffle the ANA is going a very good impression of the French.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:07 PM (1+v7y)

330 If we defunded flight attendants and replaced them with social workers all this sky violence would stop.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 12, 2021 10:08 PM (QU5/8)

331 they do not bring lots of shit back, especially from afghanistan since most of it would have to go by air.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:08 PM (a2PEI)

332 Fulfill Duct Tape Girl's wishes.

Book her next flight on Aero Pinochet.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 10:09 PM (QzJWU)

333
American military has abandoned thousands of vehicles in Afghanistan. Maybe could have sold them to locals?

Posted by: I can see the communism in your eyes at July 12, 2021 10:04 PM (g1NVy)

Thats bullshit, we (taxpayer) paid for the damn things. They should have brought them back and let the americans have them. They were wasteful mofos after WWII too. Pushing planes into the ocean, etc.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 10:09 PM (VwHCD)

334 It seems in the current scuffle the ANA is going a very good impression of the French.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The French buggered out.

The Afghans just bugger.

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:09 PM (QzkSJ)

335 What the hell was the name of the band?

But did they open at the Cow Palace in Rome for the Punic Patsies?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:09 PM (1+v7y)

336 But think of the optics!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 10:02 PM (Q9lwr)
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Yeah, they could have used more tape around the mid-section.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:09 PM (vW9Vw)

337 Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:07 PM (pO7gM)

I was making fun of another commenter...

The issue on the plane is not the behavior; it is the possibility that the behavior can cause a cascade of events that may get lots of people killed.

The same behavior in a bar is irritating but not really a problem.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 10:10 PM (Q9lwr)

338 "Has he told all the baby daddies in Oakland to grow up, act like responsible adult men, marry the mothers of their children, and be full time fathers to their children?"

Check the link, Antifa Nazis came and heckled blacks lamenting their dead kids.

One day soon, Andy Tifa will be a bar with co-workers. A little drunk and feeling safe, he will boast that he use to beat up Deplorables at protests. And Fen will just nod and laugh and order another round for the table.

"No idea Boss. We saw him get in his car and drive out of the lot. Said he had too much to drink and was headed home. Probably sleeping it off. I'm sure he'll call in later."

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 12, 2021 10:10 PM (49Exr)

339 The Carthaginians supposed delight in sacrificing children to their deities kind of mars the idea that they were so wrongfully treated. This practice included the repulsive adopting of children by elites just so they could send them as their sacrifice contribution.

The Romans come of looking a bit better. Of course, history is written by the victors.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:10 PM (pO7gM)

340 Rest in peace, Charlie Robinson, after 75 years.

Best known as clerk Mac Robinson on NBC's Night Court.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:10 PM (+WWsf)

341 Friend is trying to get me to invest in a sure fire money making enterprise. He wanted to create and publish the Hunter Biden Paint By Numbers Masterpiece Series.

I told him the FBI and DoJ would be all over him for copyright violations!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ hOUT3 at July 12, 2021 10:11 PM (hOUT3)

342 Those little demo kits for how the seat belt works should be enough. I bet the cops were surprised by the duct tape.

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2021 10:11 PM (Xih1H)

343 The last row on airplanes should have iron maidens instead of seats.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 10:11 PM (KAi1n)

344 @339: "The Romans come of looking a bit better."

I'm guessing life in those Roman temples wasn't all milk and honey.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:11 PM (+WWsf)

345 pretty good interview of Sidney Powell ... she is fighting the good fight, getting attacked relentlessly. At one point she states that apparently the word had gone out (from above) for none of these judges to (dare to) take up any of the election fraud cases, despite a ton of evidence.

Rumble link
https://tinyurl.com/j4nefffb

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2021 10:12 PM (Cus5s)

346 Those little demo kits for how the seat belt works should be enough.

Sure that works until one is used as a neck tourniquet

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:12 PM (1+v7y)

347 Watching a Columbo with Jose Ferrer and Jessica Walters .

They already did the 'Columbo, it's for you' routine.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 12, 2021 10:12 PM (ufFY8)

348 Last row on airplanes should be standing room only.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:12 PM (+WWsf)

349 Friend is trying to get me to invest in a sure fire money making enterprise. He wanted to create and publish the Hunter Biden Paint By Numbers Masterpiece Series.

--------

Would he consider exclusive porcelain Collectors Plates rimmed in shimmering 14 kt gold leaf?

Posted by: The Bradford Exchange at July 12, 2021 10:12 PM (VxC1e)

350 Everyone says you shouldn't sleep with a gun under your pillow, because of the risk of accidental discharge. But what if you had a pillow with a nice, safe holster sewn into it? I'll call it the MyKillow. Or maybe the DiePillow.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2021 10:12 PM (7Ttpp)

351 The last row on airplanes should have iron maidens instead of seats.
Posted by: SFGoth

For Trumpers?

Done!

-Delta Err Lines

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:13 PM (QzkSJ)

352 somebody would be well advised to mentin that when your community invents a new phrase for the mother to describe the father of her child that indicates he fucked her good and hard but does not reside with and support her and her child some introspectin might be necessary.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:13 PM (a2PEI)

353 Everyone says you shouldn't sleep with a gun under
your pillow, because of the risk of accidental discharge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2021 10:12 PM (7Ttpp)

That's what the drawer in the nightstand is for.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 10:13 PM (Q9lwr)

354 Friend is trying to get me to invest in a sure fire money making enterprise. He wanted to create and publish the Hunter Biden Paint By Numbers Masterpiece Series.

that is an obvious fraud, everybody knows that counting is something hunter doe not know how to do

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:14 PM (a2PEI)

355 That's what the drawer in the nightstand is for.

"Dear, there's a policeman in my drawers."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:14 PM (1+v7y)

356 337 CBD, I know, I read the whole thread. I try to avoid internet humor and play it straight because people get upset sometimes when they do not suspect sarcasm at play or irony.

Use of Force matrix are difficult decisions to make with perfect proportionality. Generally, at a bar, restraining someone like that is not a good idea because of false imprisonment torts. However, in the sky, a bus, or on a ship, the issues are very different when someone goes nuts because you have to weigh the potential for something catastrophic happening.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:14 PM (pO7gM)

357 @341: "... sure fire money making enterprise."

I'd tell your friend to try being a paid liaison between Hunter Biden and whoever designs those library sex mascot costumes in the UK.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:15 PM (+WWsf)

358 Everyone says you shouldn't sleep with a gun under
your pillow, because of the risk of accidental discharge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

That's what the drawer in the nightstand is for.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

That's why I leave my drawers on the nightstand.

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:15 PM (QzkSJ)

359 339 The Carthaginians

Carthaginians were Canaanite descendants.
Baal worshipers.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:16 PM (vW9Vw)

360 library sex mascot costumes in the UK

Nyah?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:16 PM (1+v7y)

361 359 339 The Carthaginians

Carthaginians were Canaanite descendants.
Baal worshipers.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:16 PM (vW9Vw)

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The Romans
Had no Baal
At all

Posted by: The Bradford Exchange at July 12, 2021 10:16 PM (VxC1e)

362 library sex mascot costumes in the UK

Nyah?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Nyeah?

You first

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:17 PM (QzkSJ)

363 However, in the sky, a bus, or on a ship, the
issues are very different when someone goes nuts because you have to
weigh the potential for something catastrophic happening.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:14 PM (pO7gM)

Exactly. It's not complicated. If some jerkoff wants to be an asshole in a bar, I have the choice of simply walking out. On a plane it is a bit more difficult, so society has to examine the worst-case...however unlikely it may be.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 10:17 PM (Q9lwr)

364 359 339 The Carthaginians

Carthaginians were Canaanite descendants.
Baal worshipers.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:16 PM (vW9Vw)

Huh. Moloch. Baal. Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:17 PM (csEWM)

365 Poetry in Motion ONT Compliance GIFs

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at July 12, 2021 10:17 PM (qAR6u)

366 Walter,
Even the Romans were sickened by Carthaginian practices supposedly if you read their accounts. The Druids were another group that made the Romans look better by their practices.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:17 PM (pO7gM)

367 The Romans
Had no Baal
At all
Posted by: The Bradford Exchange at July 12, 2021 10:16 PM (VxC1e)

Definitely not at Cannae.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:17 PM (csEWM)

368 That's what the drawer in the nightstand is for.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2021 10:13 PM (Q9lwr)

This is entirely too simple, and non-conducive to killow sales. Be Better, CBD. Be Better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2021 10:18 PM (7Ttpp)

369 353 Everyone says you shouldn't sleep with a gun under
your pillow, because of the risk of accidental discharge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2021 10:12 PM (7Ttpp)
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They make holsters that affix to the side of the bed.
Or if you don't like drawers just set it on top.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:18 PM (vW9Vw)

370 I've got a technical question for the gearheads here.

My 2003 F350 6.7L automatic diesel has started to vibrating, a lot, at 45-55 mph. Online boards say this is a known issue but solutions range from new shocks to frame stiffeners.

Any one here have a recommended fix?

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:18 PM (VqySH)

371 Poetry in Motion ONT Compliance GIFs

Gravity...has its uses

Posted by: Norfolk Newton-Bug at July 12, 2021 10:19 PM (QzkSJ)

372 Yeah the Celts and their 'thrice murdered' sacrifices.

Lovely people, let's be friends. Not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:19 PM (1+v7y)

373 339 The Carthaginians supposed delight in sacrificing children to their deities kind of mars the idea that they were so wrongfully treated. This practice included the repulsive adopting of children by elites just so they could send them as their sacrifice contribution.
The Romans come of looking a bit better. Of course, history is written by the victors.
Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:10 PM (pO7gM)

Of course the bible talks about the Canaanite religion engaging in child sacrifice too. So not just the Romans but the Hebrews talking about it.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:19 PM (vMCab)

374 Everyone says you shouldn't sleep with a gun under
your pillow, because of the risk of accidental discharge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2021 10:12 PM (7Ttpp)
---------

They make holsters that affix to the side of the bed.
Or if you don't like drawers just set it on top.
Posted by: B

flannel chest rig

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:19 PM (a2PEI)

375 Rest in peace, Charlie Robinson, after 75 years.

Best known as clerk Mac Robinson on NBC's Night Court.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:10 PM (+WWsf)

Underrated show

Posted by: Doof at July 12, 2021 10:19 PM (mZUr4)

376 many think of America as a new Rome, but with our
flagrant child sacrifices, perhaps we wre now Carthage

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 10:19 PM (oEn12)

377 You know, I have no idea what my racial makeup is. Because I don't care. Because all that is in the past, and the past is not what is important to me.

I have relatives who are proud of their Irish stock. And they hate the British. Because of what the British did the the Irish...decades ago. Not to any of them, personally, but to the Irish in some distant past. And that is the problem.

Ancestral Hatred. Hatred because of what happened decades, perhaps centuries before you were born. That's what has to define you, or you're not a real [insert ethnic identity].
1/1

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 12, 2021 10:20 PM (OU+8W)

378 Christine McVie had a very sexy voice

Yet goat voiced Stevie Nicks got all the attention

Posted by: kbdabear at July 12, 2021 10:20 PM (qAR6u)

379 They make holsters that affix to the side of the bed.
Or if you don't like drawers just set it on top.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:18 PM (vW9Vw

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I have a biometric safe bolted to the side if the bed stand. I open it at night, close it in the morning. It's the perfect solution, the housekeeper has no access to the gun.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 10:20 PM (VxC1e)

380 @370: "Any one here have a recommended fix?"

One of those 40k pound "full ship shock trial" bombs should do the trick.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:20 PM (+WWsf)

381 To be honest, I always thought that hysteresis would be a better term for "that time of life" for women than "menopause" was. It kind of sounds like egg releasing has sort of ground to a halt as of it's own momentum, rather than just pausing.

Posted by: irright at July 12, 2021 10:20 PM (BB7pQ)

382 288 I don't think they should have taped her to the seat, that's a passive-aggressive approach to the problem. They need to have a blackjack on board and just have the biggest attendant whap her over the head with it till she stops making noises or moving. Repeat as necessary.
Posted by: Tom Servo

sock full of change
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 09:59 PM (a2PEI)

Nice

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 12, 2021 10:20 PM (aA3+G)

383 the housekeeper has no access to the gun.
Posted by: Cicero

smart tell to get her own gun.

besides she needs something small and easy to carry in her french maid outfit.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:21 PM (a2PEI)

384 366 Walter,
Even the Romans were sickened by Carthaginian practices supposedly if you read their accounts. The Druids were another group that made the Romans look better by their practices.
Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:17 PM (pO7gM)

It is interesting, but human sacrifice was pretty common everywhere. Somewhere along the line, the Romans stopped doing it or it was never a big thing to begin with (I seem to recall that one of their temples was consecrated by human sacrifice, but I cannot remember which. Jupiter Best and Greatest, maybe?)

The Romans were the ne plus ultra of 'Chauvinism.' Their way or the highway. So, if they did not like a practice, they started stamping it out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:21 PM (csEWM)

385 364 Aetius,
And Planned Parenthood selling baby parts resembles what the Carthaginians allegedly did. Sacrifice the child for the good of the whole group. Unfortunately, that is what utilitarianism analysis gets you if you ignore moral values.

Good example of how mankind is still quite savage at heart and progressive values usually mean in reality applying what some group did in the past, usually to horrendous results.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:22 PM (pO7gM)

386 I don't care about my past because I am looking toward my future. I don't do artwork or animation based on my racial backing because I don't care about that, I want my imagination to be unfettered by the past. I don't want to be defined by past hatreds and tribal feuds. I want my own imagination to be my own. I am not interested in who did what to whom hundreds of years ago. That is the past.

I want to be my own future.

Sorry for rant, been drinking.
2/2

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 12, 2021 10:22 PM (OU+8W)

387 sock full of change
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 09:59 PM (a2PEI)

Nice
Posted by: M

goes right through security

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:22 PM (a2PEI)

388 library sex mascot costumes in the UK

Nyah?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:16 PM

"Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey"?

Posted by: Zettai at July 12, 2021 10:22 PM (ssrg6)

389 Knouts, guys. Knouts are the cudgels for you.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2021 10:23 PM (7Ttpp)

390 And they were good at stomping.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:23 PM (csEWM)

391 Oh wow Picard season two will bring back Q.

Sorry but even that intergalactic and interdimensional busy-body can't save this turd of a show. So this time around Q will steal from Picard the android girl?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:23 PM (1+v7y)

392 @288: "sock full of change"

Only if the benzos in her first complimentary drink don't do the trick.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:23 PM (+WWsf)

393 "Christine McVie had a very sexy voice. Yet goat voiced Stevie Nicks got all the attention"

From here it seemed like just another case of "Trophy Wife "replaces older model"

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 12, 2021 10:24 PM (49Exr)

394 "Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey"?
Posted by: Zettai

Avec fromage

Posted by: Norfolk Bug vacationing in France at July 12, 2021 10:25 PM (QzkSJ)

395 If you run out of juice in your EV, report it stolen. The insurance company will buy you a new one. Just tell them you parked it out back.

Posted by: klaftern at July 12, 2021 09:17 PM

"I'll tell you what. I'll swear you were doing a great job taking care of his car, but, you parked it out back last night and this morning, it was gone. D-Day takes care of the wreck. We report it to the police. Your brother's insurance company buys him a new car."

Posted by: Otter at July 12, 2021 10:25 PM (EughT)

396 "So this time around Q will steal from Picard the android girl?"

No, Q is going to lecture us about transphobia and why it's okay for 6 year old kids to have sex with adults.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 12, 2021 10:25 PM (49Exr)

397 Knouts give you the dexterity of the whip, with the crushing blow of the nightstick. Accept no substitutes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2021 10:25 PM (7Ttpp)

398 @388: "Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey?"

https://bit.ly/3r3QSwB

Gotta admit the painting linked above is similarly, umm, colorful.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:26 PM (+WWsf)

399 It is interesting, but human sacrifice was pretty common everywhere. Somewhere along the line, the Romans stopped doing it or it was never a big thing to begin with (I seem to recall that one of their temples was consecrated by human sacrifice, but I cannot remember which. Jupiter Best and Greatest, maybe?)
The Romans were the ne plus ultra of 'Chauvinism.' Their way or the highway. So, if they did not like a practice, they started stamping it out.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:21 PM (csEWM)

Some kind of argue about if the Romans really did stop the human sacrifice or whether they just changed how it was done. You know, like the ritual strangling of the prisoners that were all just displayed in the Triumph they just held.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:26 PM (vMCab)

400 ..Any one here have a recommended fix?
Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:18 PM (VqySH)

What's the mileage on the odometer?

Best guess from my Ford sellin' days, which includes your truck's vintage? Center carrier driveshaft bearing. I had the same problem on a '91 BMW 735il. And yes, it's a very speed-specific vibration, cause everything aft of the transmission's output shaft is directly related to the RPMs of the rear wheels, i.e. "speed."

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 10:26 PM (QzJWU)

401 Sorry for rant, been drinking.
2/2
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

In Vino Veritas

Posted by: Norfolkus Bugensius at July 12, 2021 10:26 PM (QzkSJ)

402 Huh. Moloch. Baal. Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:17 PM (csEWM)

What's old is new again!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Fearless Leaders Have, and Deserve, Special Privileges! at July 12, 2021 10:27 PM (hOUT3)

403 "has started to vibrating, a lot, at 45-55 mph."

Tire. Most all the vibration issues I ever had were the result of tire bulge somewhere. Other times a wheel bearing, u-joint, that's about it.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2021 10:27 PM (qH6FZ)

404 Probably Zettai which is totemo kowai ne?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 12, 2021 10:27 PM (1+v7y)

405 Invicta "How They Did it -The Religion of Ancient Carthage"

https://youtu.be/ROY_WJj6b9k

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:27 PM (vMCab)

406
Got an assignment finished today and will be starting on a new one on Wednesday. They keep sending them to me, so they must not be unhappy with me yet. 9 to 10 hours each at $60 an hour.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2021 10:27 PM (mht8P)

407 Oxford Univ researchers conclude that it is true that Carthaginians sacrificed children as part of the cult of Baal spread from its origins as a Phoenician colony.
https://tinyurl.com/4zm6yezm

Numbers found so far were in the thousands.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:28 PM (pO7gM)

408 @386: "Sorry for rant, been drinking. 2/2"

If you can accurately post number your thread, then you haven't been drinking enough.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:28 PM (+WWsf)

409 Romans were professional killers and torturers but it was always a punitive thing.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:28 PM (vW9Vw)

410 which is totemo kowai ne?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Jockamo fi-na ne

Posted by: Norfolk Bug, vacationing in New Orleans at July 12, 2021 10:29 PM (QzkSJ)

411 So in 50 years will Afghans be driving beat up Hummers like the Cubans did with 50's Chevys?

Posted by: Just a side note at July 12, 2021 10:30 PM (2DOZq)

412 The Romans certainly did some ritualistic sacrifices but generally not of children as particular victims. That seems to be a Phoenician derived practice. It is kind of like trying to compare the Mafia and its killing practices with MS 13

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:30 PM (pO7gM)

413 Speaking of nothing...what the hell happened to La Folie? That was my favorite restaurant in San Francisco!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I can't even afford to get a pint of good potato salad at the local deli and you're complaining about restaurants?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 10:30 PM (KAi1n)

414 Rome totally had human sacrifice, too--they called it gladiators. No, seriously, the mighty munus has its origins in an ancient funeral ritual which ultimately evolved into the pomp and pageantry we all know and love.

Posted by: CppThis, who watches movies about gladiators at July 12, 2021 10:30 PM (8h1h1)

415 In fifty years, the Afghans will be driving whatever the Chinese or Russians will have left behind in 2050.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:31 PM (+WWsf)

416 Meant to share this with y'all:

There's a liquor emporium not far from me, called Emilio's Beverage Warehouse. They seem to specialize in all the really skanky drinks.

Forever the had huge banners advertising Skrewball, the peanut butter-flavored whiskey. Now they're advertising this "banana-infused" whiskey called Howler Head:

https://howlerhead.com/

If you mix together the Skrewball with this, wouldn't you get a drink that should be called the Elvis?

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 10:31 PM (L2ZTs)

417 besides she needs something small and easy to carry in her french maid outfit.
Posted by: confederatefifth

thigh holster attached to stocking garter

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 10:31 PM (oEn12)

418 I was gonna mentions gladiators too, but I didn't wanna get teased about being in Turkish prisons, or seeing grown men naked.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:32 PM (+WWsf)

419 So in 50 years will Afghans be driving beat up Hummers like the Cubans did with 50's Chevys?
Posted by: Just a side note at July 12, 2021 10:30 PM (2DOZq)

No.

The Cubans have better mechanics.

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:32 PM (VqySH)

420 Actually, while I loved STNG, I found Q episodes to be shark-jumping. They all felt like no action really mattered because Q could just reset anything that went wrong. Like Marvel is today with Time Travel.

So I wonder if they are bringing Q back in because they had a meeting about the show failing and just threw ideas at the wall. Guess it never occurs to these evangelicals to stop being so preachy because platforming PCBS is the primary goal, not entertainment. Like coating a horse pill with chocolate.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 12, 2021 10:32 PM (49Exr)

421 I*m NOT your uncle, damnit!

Posted by: Bob at July 12, 2021 10:32 PM (huVcI)

422 My grandma told your grandma I'ma set your flag on fire.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2021 10:32 PM (7Ttpp)

423 @416: "If you mix together the Skrewball with this, wouldn't you get a drink that should be called the Elvis?"

Sure, so long as you include a real bacon swizzle stick.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:33 PM (+WWsf)

424 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2021 10:27 PM (mht8P)

yay!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 10:33 PM (oEn12)

425 I suspect that the Democrats haven't actually won a presidential election since FDR. Perhaps Jimmy Carter in 1976 is an exception, but certainly the fraud since Kennedy's win in 1960 has been on the rise every year.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 12, 2021 10:33 PM (w3JoE)

426 412 The Romans certainly did some ritualistic sacrifices but generally not of children as particular victims. That seems to be a Phoenician derived practice. It is kind of like trying to compare the Mafia and its killing practices with MS 13
Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:30 PM (pO7gM)

Well yeah they weren't engaging in child sacrifice. But just talking about human sacrifice in the world vs. the "lack" of it in Rome.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:33 PM (vMCab)

427 Some kind of argue about if the Romans really did stop the human sacrifice or whether they just changed how it was done. You know, like the ritual strangling of the prisoners that were all just displayed in the Triumph they just held.
Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:26 PM (vMCab)

Interesting idea. Maybe. That practice actually completely lost steam in the later years. Triumphs were still held, of course, but often they started settling the germanic/gothic/whatever tribes they defeated in depopulated border provinces (depopulated by disease or war. LOT of disease in the late empire.) You might still have executions, but it was usually symbolic or political (Diocletian personally executing the ringleader of the plot to kill... Aurelian? Decius? It is hard to keep them all straight. He did that one in front of the assembled legions.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:33 PM (csEWM)

428 So in 50 years will Afghans be driving beat up Hummers like the Cubans did with 50's Chevys?
Posted by: Just a side note

Cuba has Chevys? I love their fajitas.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 10:33 PM (KAi1n)

429 thigh holster attached to stocking garter
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 10:31 PM (oEn12)

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If my housekeeper was Sophie Marceau, this would be awesome.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 10:34 PM (VxC1e)

430 Recent Cuban immigrants, Yoel and Mari, discuss what's really happening in Cuba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL5s8YUJxxI

Important and interesting. #SOSCUBA

Posted by: Smarty Skirt at July 12, 2021 10:34 PM (5Ds9u)

431 Vibration: stopped up injector, broken motor mount, unbalanced tire, transmission support, drive shaft support, bent wheel.

Drive it with the windows down and radio off. Listen for the area the sound is coming from.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:34 PM (vW9Vw)

432
watched Falling Down recently

It prob was some political film about angry white men voting

but compared to 1993 or when ever it was made there are some interesting tie ins to 2021

Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 12, 2021 10:35 PM (bTQ72)

433
I've got a technical question for the gearheads here.

My 2003 F350 6.7L automatic diesel has started to vibrating, a lot,
at 45-55 mph. Online boards say this is a known issue but solutions
range from new shocks to frame stiffeners.

Any one here have a recommended fix?

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:18 PM (VqySH)

Could be a shit ton of things. Do you feel it in the steering wheel? Does it change when you're on the gas or when you let off? Does it get worse after 55?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 10:35 PM (VwHCD)

434 I did like the scene in "13 Hours" where the teenage Libyan kids ask the Americans for their car and they toss them the keys.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2021 10:35 PM (qH6FZ)

435 Man's inhumanity to each other is a recurrent and depressing theme. Bad enough for individuals to treat each other so, worse for it to be a formal practice endorsed by the society and government.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:35 PM (pO7gM)

436 If my housekeeper was Sophie Marceau, this would be awesome.

Posted by: Cicero

if she was my maid the house would be a mess and whe would not remember what her feet were for.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:36 PM (a2PEI)

437 I suspect that the Democrats haven't actually won a presidential election since FDR. Perhaps Jimmy Carter in 1976 is an exception, but certainly the fraud since Kennedy's win in 1960 has been on the rise every year.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president

My mother still gripes about Ford pardoning Nixon, blaming Carter's victory on that. Also, Clinton's victory in 1992 was Bush's fault; if "wouldn't be prudent" had gotten out of the race, Perot would have won.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 10:36 PM (KAi1n)

438 429 thigh holster attached to stocking garter
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 10:31 PM (oEn12)
-----------------

What caliber pistol do you comfortably carry?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:36 PM (vW9Vw)

439 414 Rome totally had human sacrifice, too--they called it gladiators. No, seriously, the mighty munus has its origins in an ancient funeral ritual which ultimately evolved into the pomp and pageantry we all know and love.
Posted by: CppThis, who watches movies about gladiators at July 12, 2021 10:30 PM (8h1h1)

Now that is interesting. The question is, how many actual gladiators died in the arenas? A gladiator had to be trained and fed. Skilled ones had fan clubs. My guess is that while some obviously died, most of the deaths were animals or convicted criminals. Still not great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:36 PM (csEWM)

440 watched Falling Down recently

is that the sequel?

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:36 PM (a2PEI)

441 PP rebrands as the Church of Baal ? Two weeks

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2021 10:37 PM (Xih1H)

442 Twisted titster.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Free Agent (4I/2K) at July 12, 2021 10:38 PM (4I/2K)

443 if you met my neighbor's kids you might not be so anti human sacrifice.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:38 PM (a2PEI)

444 Remember the kids' "mobile" over the bed? Buncha sparklies or baubles suspended from lengths of wire and string?

Yeah, let's upgrade that to the "Moronbile". About five assorted pistols n' revolvers hanging from lengths of 1/8" stainless rod and braided steel lines with breakaway clips to the guns trigger guards.

Horde has all da bestest toys!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 10:38 PM (QzJWU)

445 My guess is that while some obviously died, most of the deaths were animals or convicted criminals. Still not great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I'm for allowing the victims to execute a criminal

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2021 10:38 PM (Xih1H)

446 Interesting idea. Maybe. That practice actually completely lost steam in the later years. Triumphs were still held, of course, but often they started settling the germanic/gothic/whatever tribes they defeated in depopulated border provinces (depopulated by disease or war. LOT of disease in the late empire.) You might still have executions, but it was usually symbolic or political (Diocletian personally executing the ringleader of the plot to kill... Aurelian? Decius? It is hard to keep them all straight. He did that one in front of the assembled legions.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:33 PM (csEWM)

Yeah later on I imagine the later years it certainly had died out, but probably not as early as the Romans like to act like it did. I want to say that I heard the theory about the strangling of their beaten enemies had become their human sacrifices to the gods on a youtube channel like Invicta.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:39 PM (vMCab)

447 Dog's up from her nap. Gotta go pander to her. Night.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 10:39 PM (+lVUW)

448 @432: "watched Falling Down recently ... some interesting tie ins to 2021"

Pretty sure a crewcut and browline glasses are one of the quickest ways for a white man to end up on a domestic terror watchlist these days.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 12, 2021 10:39 PM (+WWsf)

449 Best guess from my Ford sellin' days, which includes your truck's vintage? Center carrier driveshaft bearing. I had the same problem on a '91 BMW 735il. And yes, it's a very speed-specific vibration, cause everything aft of the transmission's output shaft is directly related to the RPMs of the rear wheels, i.e. "speed."

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 10:26 PM (QzJWU)

U-joint in drive shaft was replaced about 10k miles / 2 months ago. This vibration just started 2 days ago.

Does that give you better information?

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:39 PM (VqySH)

450 That fatigue is real.

@Deninard1
Replying to
@HarmlessYardDog
At this point in SA its Blacks vs Everyone. Hell local Imams are organizing defense alongside white Priests. You know shit hit the fan, when there is joint coalition of Whites and Hindus and Muslims against Kangs

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 12, 2021 10:39 PM (yKRA+)

451 I know the horde mind, no way was I going to gladiators as a subject.

Just finished a depressing read of the Thirty Years War as background for a project. Before that, the English Civil War including suppression of Irish revolts.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:40 PM (pO7gM)

452 Horde has all da bestest toys!

Jim

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Trollbots!

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:40 PM (QzkSJ)

453 @370
Same pickup, have your tires balanced, then replace the carrier bearing, then shocks, then true the driveline.
All in descending order with test drives between.

Posted by: Your Eminence at July 12, 2021 10:40 PM (8iyB1)

454 My 2003 F350 6.7L automatic diesel has started to vibrating, a lot, at 45-55 mph. Online boards say this is a known issue but solutions range from new shocks to frame stiffeners.

Any one here have a recommended fix?
Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:18 PM (VqySH)

Well, you could monetize it by bolting on an array of dildos.

Seriously, does the vibration occur at all times in that speed range? Like when coasting down hill in Neutral? Does it occur in lower gears at the same engine RPM range at which it occurs in Drive?

You have to try to determine if the vibration is engine-related, driveline-related, or chassis related. Then proceed accordingly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2021 10:40 PM (XGAE3)

455 Falling Down was interesting...IIRC the only guy he actually kills was the neo-Nazi, and it was self defense. The rest was just threats mixed with vaguely nihilist* pontification on late 20th century social dysfunction. Fight Club did it better, though.

*back when nihilism was kind of adorably edgy, before the cute goth girl transmogrified into Trigglypuff

Posted by: CppThis at July 12, 2021 10:41 PM (8h1h1)

456 "watched Falling Down recently"

Reminds me - have a surplus of surface-to-air missiles. Need to clear inventory so we are offering them for the discounted steal of $19.95! ACT NOW and will throw in a Claymore Mine for FREE!

And we are totally not FBI Agents. Pinkie swears.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 12, 2021 10:41 PM (49Exr)

457 If Perot had not pursued his vendetta against the Bushes using the nation as a cudgel Prudence would have won.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:41 PM (vW9Vw)

458 Just finished a depressing read of the Thirty Years War as background for a project.

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Describe how a succession crisis in Bohemia set off an entire pan-European conflict. Show your work.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 10:42 PM (VxC1e)

459 ..Could be a shit ton of things. Do you feel it in the steering wheel? Does it change when you're on the gas or when you let off? Does it get worse after 55?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 10:35 PM (VwHCD)

His truck has gone middle age crazy, and now identifies as a Corvette. It's going in for VIN surgery and to have it's Truck Nutz amputated, next week, in fact.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 10:42 PM (QzJWU)

460 Aetius, did you ever see that movie The First King (Il Primo Re)

imdb.com/title/tt7278824/

takes on the story of Romulus & Remus
the dialogue is in Old Latin (suposedly - I can't tell)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 10:42 PM (oEn12)

461 42 Is....is that the base of a beater? How did she manage to get her chesticular region caught in that?
Posted by: pep at July 12, 2021 09:10 PM (ZsR3z)

It's a wife beater!

Posted by: Bonnie Blue says the election was stolen by commie rat bastards at July 12, 2021 10:43 PM (hlxe7)

462 Describe how a succession crisis in Bohemia set off an entire pan-European conflict. Show your work.
Posted by: Cicero

The War of the Spanish Succession was a limited success at best.

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:43 PM (QzkSJ)

463 I'm more of a Falling Up guy, myself.

Posted by: Joe B. at July 12, 2021 10:43 PM (7Ttpp)

464 I'm not your uncle either!

Posted by: Your monkey at July 12, 2021 10:43 PM (+ya+t)

465 Evening.

Rainbow Dildo Monkey is still making me laugh.

Jesus fucking Christ, our civilization may be doomed but goddammit I am having a good time while it's coming down around our ears.

So how is everyone doing tonight?

Posted by: Robert at July 12, 2021 10:44 PM (1Yy3c)

466 Greetings:

When I got deported to California back in the '80s, I lived in Alameda which I describe affectionately as a small island off the coast of Oakland.

Our Coast Guard calls the body of water separating the two the Estuary. The locals call it the Moat.

Posted by: 11B40 at July 12, 2021 10:44 PM (evgyj)

467 *back when nihilism was kind of adorably edgy, before the cute goth girl transmogrified into Trigglypuff
Posted by: CppThis at July 12, 2021 10:41 PM (8h1h1)

Nihilism was never more than a black pilled version of edgelord chic. Are you still depressed, Freidrich? Yes? Here, have a chocolate chip cookie? Life still meaningless? Here's a busty redhead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:45 PM (csEWM)

468 458 Cicero, these damn gray boxes don't give you much to work with. The major problem though was the alliance system suffused with religion and proto nationalism.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:45 PM (pO7gM)

469 Truck that size, just stay under 45 and crank some patsy cline

Posted by: Jean at July 12, 2021 10:45 PM (Xih1H)

470 If Perot had not pursued his vendetta against the Bushes using the nation as a cudgel Prudence would have won.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:41 PM (vW9Vw)
Yup, absolutely. He didn't want to win anyway. His wife didn't want to move to a smaller house in a shit neighborhood.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 10:46 PM (VwHCD)

471 So, JSD and Your Eminence. Forgive my lack of knowledge, you both mentioned the carrier bearing. I assume that is a drive shaft u-joint but I do not really know if that is correct. I had the u-joint replaced 2 months ago. Should I be doing something else?

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:46 PM (VqySH)

472 our civilization may be doomed but goddammit I am having a good time while it's coming down around our ears.

Eunuchs.

Need lotsa eunuchs.

Oh.

Sorry

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:46 PM (QzkSJ)

473 451 I know the horde mind, no way was I going to gladiators as a subject.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:40 PM (pO7gM)

Well, I've been saying for years that America would be better with gladiators and dueling so this arrangement worked out rather well, I think.

Also, wine gods. The trouble with fascism isn't that they tried to revive Roman traditions, but that they chose the wrong set of traditions to revive. Gladiators and wine gods > geopolitical piracy and ethnic cleansing.

Posted by: CppThis at July 12, 2021 10:46 PM (8h1h1)

474 My 2003 F350 6.7L automatic diesel has started to vibrating, a lot, at 45-55 mph. Online boards say this is a known issue but solutions range from new shocks to frame stiffeners.

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might also be wheel alignment or unbalanced wheels

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 10:46 PM (oEn12)

475 So in 50 years will Afghans be driving beat up Hummers like the Cubans did with 50's Chevys?
Posted by: Just a side note at July 12, 2021 10:30 PM (2DOZq)

My guess is, "No". Dumber people, much more complicated vehicles.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2021 10:46 PM (XGAE3)

476 I think ten percent of the morons here know more about war then they teach at West Point. When I become Emperor and Ruler of America 2.0 you can all be in my War Dept.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2021 10:47 PM (qH6FZ)

477 Here's a busty redhead.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Well butter my biscuit and call me Friedrich

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:47 PM (QzkSJ)

478 more cubans can read than afghans

plus islam is not a usefull structure to build a society on

Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 12, 2021 10:47 PM (bTQ72)

479 Evening.

Rainbow Dildo Monkey is still making me laugh.

Jesus fucking Christ, our civilization may be doomed but goddammit I
am having a good time while it's coming down around our ears.

So how is everyone doing tonight?

Posted by: Robert at July 12, 2021 10:44 PM (1Yy3c)
I'm glad you're fucking amused. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 10:47 PM (VwHCD)

480 -I think ten percent of the morons here know more about war then they teach at West Point.

dat's called Smart Military Bloggin .....

Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 12, 2021 10:48 PM (bTQ72)

481 suspect that the Democrats haven't actually won a presidential election since FDR. Perhaps Jimmy Carter in 1976 is an exception, but certainly the fraud since Kennedy's win in 1960 has been on the rise every year.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 12, 2021 10:33 PM (w3JoE

Thats an interesting thought It could explain a lot in terms of the Dems boldness, assholiness, and undeserved confidence.

Also Fatima was told to reveal the last secret in 1960 but the church refused because it would be too controversial. Coincidence? Maybe the connection is Worth considering .

Posted by: LASue at July 12, 2021 10:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

482 ==

might also be wheel alignment or unbalanced wheels
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 10:46 PM (oEn12)
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or that street protester the other day

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 10:48 PM (vW9Vw)

483 ..U-joint in drive shaft was replaced about 10k miles / 2 months ago. This vibration just started 2 days ago.
Does that give you better information? Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:39 PM (VqySH)

Yes, it does. It tells me the mechanic or shop are hack bastard(s) who likely failed to replace the Center Bearing while the shaft was out, 'cause it would've been dirt cheap n' easy to do so THEN, on a common failure part, even.

Yeah, full tire inspection (looking for tread separation, sidewall bubble, other damage), re-balance and rotate, and then it's strong odds that 1. the Carrier Bearing is Borked, or 2. Driveshaft needs to be re-aligned and balanced by ONLY a true Driveshaft Shop. Speed-Range Specific vibrations really do reduce down to a very few likelihoods.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 10:48 PM (QzJWU)

484 takes on the story of Romulus & Remus
the dialogue is in Old Latin (suposedly - I can't tell)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 10:42 PM (oEn12)

I remember someone remarking: The Romans are one of the few people's in all of history who do not make a sympathetic, heroic and stirring legend for their founding mythos.

Romulus and his brother decide to found a city (after some beginning wackiness of their mother being murdered and them being left to die before being taken in by a farmer and his wife- who may have been a whore.)

Romulus kills his brother over the naming of said city.

Romulus throws open the doors of his new city to populate it with every castoff, criminal or psychotic who could find no where on the peninsula to live.

Romulus decides to steal women for his new city. Then fights a war against the nation they stole the women from.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:48 PM (csEWM)

485 As corrupt as we know the FBI is, I'm even suspicious of news reports claiming they collared some domestic terrorist cell or Al Queda plot. We now know their primary mission goal was to be "seen" as waging a successful counter-terrorism campaign, so why not just make it up? (since they were willing to forge 302s, that kinda thing isn't a one-off)

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 12, 2021 10:48 PM (49Exr)

486 -@Deninard1

Replying to

@HarmlessYardDog

At this point in SA its Blacks vs Everyone. Hell local Imams are
organizing defense alongside white Priests. You know shit hit the fan,
when there is joint coalition of Whites and Hindus and Muslims against
Kangs

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 12, 2021 10:39 PM----
Real question is: What is it like OUTSIDE of the Sesame Street set?

Posted by: irright at July 12, 2021 10:49 PM (BB7pQ)

487 A white sport coat but not a pink crustacean?

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at July 12, 2021 10:50 PM (cZhFz)

488 Romulus throws open the doors of his new city to populate it with every castoff, criminal or psychotic who could find no where on the peninsula to live.

Romulus decides to steal women for his new city. Then fights a war against the nation they stole the women from.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

RoMoMe

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:50 PM (QzkSJ)

489 Greetings:

In watching today's news, those American flags in the Cuban protest (in Cuba) didn't seem to show up as much in the mainer stream TV coverage.

Also, the South Africa tribal warfare and looting didn't get much coverage especially former President Zuma's showing up two days late at the jailhouse. Same-same with his wifely harem.

Posted by: 11B40 at July 12, 2021 10:50 PM (evgyj)

490 Well butter my biscuit and call me Friedrich
Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 10:47 PM (QzkSJ)

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*scowls*

Posted by: Emperor Ferdinand at July 12, 2021 10:50 PM (VxC1e)

491 Picard can make Q go back to his own dimension by tricking him into saying his name backwards.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 10:50 PM (63Dwl)

492 their mother being raped (she was a Vestal Virgin.) NOT murdered. Think she was thrown in jail.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:50 PM (csEWM)

493 WDS!!

Hahahahahahahaha

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 12, 2021 10:51 PM (U2p+3)

494 476, yup. I am more a law, society, politics guy. But, often decisions on the battlefield resonate through what I am interested in studying.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:51 PM (pO7gM)

495 Well, you could monetize it by bolting on an array of dildos.

Heh

Seriously, does the vibration occur at all times in that speed range?
Vibration is more pronounced in 3rd gear when accelerating. It is present at speed but less pronounced at varrious RPM's.

Like when coasting down hill in Neutral? Does it occur in lower gears at the same engine RPM range at which it occurs in Drive?

You have to try to determine if the vibration is engine-related, driveline-related, or chassis related. Then proceed accordingly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2021 10:40 PM (XGAE3)

My current guess is bad shocks or bad engine mount. But guessing is not my forte.

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:51 PM (VqySH)

496 *scowls*
Posted by: Emperor Ferdinand

Like from the band Franz Ferdinand, rite? kewl

Posted by: Norfolk Bug, Millennnial in all millenia at July 12, 2021 10:52 PM (QzkSJ)

497 439 Now that is interesting. The question is, how many actual gladiators died in the arenas? A gladiator had to be trained and fed. Skilled ones had fan clubs. My guess is that while some obviously died, most of the deaths were animals or convicted criminals. Still not great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:36 PM (csEWM)

If memory serves it was something like one in three, over the course of many games. Not great odds, but not terrible compared to the typical ancient peasant experience. As you say, proper gladiators were expensive and valuable, not to mention very skilled in the art of combat. If they just wanted a bloodbath, well, that's what the halftime public execution show was for.

Most did it willingly.

Posted by: CppThis at July 12, 2021 10:52 PM (8h1h1)

498 So, JSD and Your Eminence. Forgive my lack of knowledge, you both mentioned the carrier bearing. I assume that is a drive shaft u-joint but I do not really know if that is correct. I had the u-joint replaced 2 months ago. Should I be doing something else?

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:46 PM (VqySH)

"Carrier bearing" is the center hanger bearing found on vehicles with a two-piece driveshaft. Not all pickups have a two-piece driveshaft, but an F350 probably does.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2021 10:53 PM (XGAE3)

499 Look at the the inside side of your tires for a bubble. I've had it happen a couple of times and it doesn't take much for a noticeable wobble.

Posted by: dartist (+ya+t) at July 12, 2021 10:53 PM (+ya+t)

500 has the eff bee eye shown pics of the bad guys? I know if going to do that, Im going to make sure to lay the aresenal out on the bed, and just go to the pool for a few hours. Couple stacks o cash on the dresser too

Posted by: a dude in MI at July 12, 2021 10:53 PM (+I6Y/)

501 Seriously, does the vibration occur at all times in that speed range?
Vibration is more pronounced in 3rd gear when accelerating. It is present at speed but less pronounced at varrious RPM's.

Like when coasting down hill in Neutral? Does it occur in lower gears at the same engine RPM range at which it occurs in Drive?

You have to try to determine if the vibration is engine-related, driveline-related, or chassis related. Then proceed accordingly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2021 10:40 PM (XGAE3)

My current guess is bad shocks or bad engine mount. But guessing is not my forte.
Posted by: t

either it is the flux capacitor or the magnetohydrodynamicdrive or both

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:54 PM (a2PEI)

502 ..I had the u-joint replaced 2 months ago. Should I be doing something else? Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 10:46 PM (VqySH)

Look under the truck, at that U joint they replaced. See that stamped, kinda flat lookin' plate of steel hanging down from the frame crossmember? The driveshaft runs through it at the bottom, usually just in front of that U joint. It has a bearing in it that supports the weight of the back-half of the front half of the driveshaft assembly. Front half is connected to the output shaft of the tranny. Rear half of the assembly moves with the rear axle, hence, the U joint. That support is the Center Carrier. And they should've replaced that bearing while they were in there.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 10:54 PM (QzJWU)

503 I remember someone remarking: The Romans are one of the few people's in all of history who do not make a sympathetic, heroic and stirring legend for their founding mythos.

I wonder if this story would still be that if Rome hadn't burned, like 350 BC or something? and so they lost a lot of earlier records.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:54 PM (vMCab)

504 I'm telling you tbodie, check your tires first. Even if they're almost new, all it takes is one stupid bulge.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2021 10:55 PM (qH6FZ)

505 I*m NOT your uncle, damnit!
Posted by: Bob

Technically you're my great uncle. Also, you've been dead at least 35 years. So, anyways, this has been real awkward.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - On my phone, identifiers may vary at July 12, 2021 10:55 PM (Blm4C)

506 Look under the truck, at that U joint they replaced. See that stamped, kinda flat lookin' plate of steel hanging down from the frame crossmember? The driveshaft runs through it at the bottom, usually just in front of that U joint. It has a bearing in it that supports the weight of the back-half of the front half of the driveshaft assembly. Front half is connected to the output shaft of the tranny. Rear half of the assembly moves with the rear axle, hence, the U joint. That support is the Center Carrier. And they should've replaced that bearing while they were in there.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

I would not ever look under the truck.

if he looks under the truck and finds some guy wedged in the axl he is going to now what the noise is but then he has another issue to deal with.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:56 PM (a2PEI)

507 Cppthis,
Cultures of honor generally go with monarchy. Democracy is generally associated with equality which tends to deprecate honor. Republics can go either way based on how aristocratic it is.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 10:56 PM (pO7gM)

508 If memory serves it was something like one in three, over the course of many games. Not great odds, but not terrible compared to the typical ancient peasant experience. As you say, proper gladiators were expensive and valuable, not to mention very skilled in the art of combat. If they just wanted a bloodbath, well, that's what the halftime public execution show was for.

Most did it willingly.
Posted by: CppThis at July 12, 2021 10:52 PM (8h1h1)

You know, that is another bit of interesting anecdotes. A couple morons in Roman history tried to use gladiators to take over Rome the city (I can think of it happening twice, Marius and a late empire one. Nepotius? Nepot-something.) They did great against citizen or minor militia. In both cases, the legions were used and stomped them like a narc at a biker rally. Sulla and later... Constantius? Or Magnentius?

Shut up spell check, those are spelled right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:57 PM (csEWM)

509 I*m NOT your uncle, damnit!
Posted by: Bob

Technically you're my great uncle. Also, you've been dead at least 35 years. So, anyways, this has been real awkward.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Bob from NSA is, however, Big Brother.

Whom we Love.

Posted by: Norfolk Bug, as that nice O'Brien explained at July 12, 2021 10:57 PM (QzkSJ)

510 503 I remember someone remarking: The Romans are one of the few people's in all of history who do not make a sympathetic, heroic and stirring legend for their founding mythos.

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Romulus and Remus was a pretty good story, until Romulus murdered Remus that is.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 10:58 PM (VxC1e)

511 I wonder if this story would still be that if Rome hadn't burned, like 350 BC or something? and so they lost a lot of earlier records.
Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 10:54 PM (vMCab)

I don't know. It was an oral tradition (at least up to the barbarian sack) that they were using, and no one made it more sympathetic in the retelling? Augustus and Virgil (of the Aeneid) did not even try to touch the Romulus parts.

Kind of makes you wonder if it was the truth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:59 PM (csEWM)

512 all it takes is one stupid bulge.
Posted by: lowandslow

*glarenskeit*

Posted by: Norfolk Bug, not humming "Wacht am Rhein" at July 12, 2021 11:00 PM (QzkSJ)

513 Romans were always a little too stabby for their own good...

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:00 PM (L2ZTs)

514 Bob from NSA is, however, Big Brother.

Whom we Love.

That explains the uptick in hottie pics lately. Gotta stay on his good side.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - On my phone, identifiers may vary at July 12, 2021 11:00 PM (Blm4C)

515 Romulus and Remus was a pretty good story, until Romulus murdered Remus that is.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 10:58 PM (VxC1e)

What do you mean, 'Murder'?

Posted by: Roman Wadsworth at July 12, 2021 11:00 PM (csEWM)

516 all it takes is one stupid bulge.
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That's what she said.

Posted by: dartist (+ya+t) at July 12, 2021 11:01 PM (+ya+t)

517 just imagine how chicago would look every monday if they had swords instead of guns

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 11:01 PM (a2PEI)

518 ..if he looks under the truck and finds some guy wedged in the axl he is going to now what the noise is but then he has another issue to deal with. Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 10:56 PM (a2PEI)

Would a guy wound 'round the Axl mean that the bloom is off the Rose?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 11:01 PM (QzJWU)

519 Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:36 PM (csEWM)

We took a guided tour of the coloseum with an Italian professor who claimed the gladiators were actors like WWE wrestlers. There were crucifixions there of convicts, but no fights to the death.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 12, 2021 11:01 PM (/aiGx)

520 513 Romans were always a little too stabby for their own good...
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:00 PM (L2ZTs)

Certainly in the later years (which is a big part of why they are the later years.) They were very big on getting even first throughout their history.

Seemed to work for them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 11:01 PM (csEWM)

521 all it takes is one stupid bulge.
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That's what she said.
Posted by: dartist

*Dance*

Posted by: The Festrunk Brothers from Bratislava at July 12, 2021 11:02 PM (QzkSJ)

522 if it's a "surprise" inspection, how did y'all know to prepare?
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 12, 2021 09:30 PM (8CMuu)

Unscheduled KC-135 declaring an emergency and requesting a straight in approach. The ORI started five minutes ago.

Posted by: Fox2! at July 12, 2021 11:03 PM (qyH+l)

523 Legos an evil?
Legolas an elv?

Posted by: GWB at July 12, 2021 11:03 PM (IVYWX)

524 We took a guided tour of the coloseum with an Italian professor who claimed the gladiators were actors like WWE wrestlers. There were crucifixions there of convicts, but no fights to the death.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 12, 2021 11:01 PM (/aiGx)

That I don't buy. Death would have been unavoidable all the time, certainly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 11:03 PM (csEWM)

525 Would a guy wound 'round the Axl mean that the bloom is off the Rose?

Jim

He's a loser, baby

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 11:03 PM (QzkSJ)

526 Remus wasn't murdered; just canceled by Disney.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 12, 2021 11:03 PM (XGAE3)

527 ***modern-day name***......***Roman name***

Misanthropic Humanitarian ...... Cobus Maximus
ace ...... Cobus Foundus
Weird Dave ...... Cobus Replacemus
TheJamesMadison ... Cobus Picturus Motionus
Miklos ...... Hordus Nombrus Multitudinus
Ben Had ...... Hordus Texus Hospitalus
Jim in TX ...... Hordus Texus Rootin' Tootin'us
qdpsteve ...... Hordus Comedius

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:04 PM (L2ZTs)

528 Could South Africa make other nations tip?

biden will fook up cuba, just like barkey did with Iran

Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 12, 2021 11:04 PM (bTQ72)

529 513 Romans were always a little too stabby for their own good...
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:00 PM (L2ZTs)

unpossible

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 11:04 PM (oEn12)

530 Legolas an elv?
Posted by: GWB

Elv was I, elv I saw Elva

Posted by: Norfolk Bug, merely attempting at July 12, 2021 11:05 PM (QzkSJ)

531 Why would anyone in that era bother trying to make the tradition more sympathetic? Rome was an ultra chauvinistic, might-makes-right sort of deal--any story in which the Romans had the appearance of weakness wasn't gonna get very much mindshare.

Posted by: CppThis at July 12, 2021 11:05 PM (8h1h1)

532 BREAKING NEWS: Cuba invaded by China.
"Meh, seems legit," President is quoted.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:06 PM (L2ZTs)

533 Yeah, full tire inspection (looking for tread separation, sidewall bubble, other damage), re-balance and rotate,
Yesterday I had tires rotated and balanced. I did not specifically ask about tire inspection. I will check that.

and then it's strong odds that 1. the Carrier Bearing is Borked, or 2. Driveshaft needs to be re-aligned and balanced by ONLY a true Driveshaft Shop. Speed-Range Specific vibrations really do reduce down to a very few likelihoods.

carrier bearing and driveshaft alignment and balance will be next on the ToDo list.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 12, 2021 10:48 PM (QzJWU)

Thanks, JSD.

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 11:06 PM (VqySH)

534 Romans were always a little too stabby for their own good...
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:00 PM (L2ZTs)

unpossible
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 11:04 PM (oEn12)

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Is that a dagger in your toga or are you just gladius to see me?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 11:06 PM (VxC1e)

535 I'm glad you're fucking amused. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 10:47 PM (VwHCD)

How can anyone not? It's hilarious. Think back to thousands of years when the first civilizations were just taking hold. Small, fragile things that failed under the slightest strain or simplest challenge. And now here we are. Bigger, stronger, infinitely more complex. Are we under threat by famine, plague or war? Nyet! But it is coming down and the causes are many and Rainbow Dildo Monkey is the perfect poster child embodying all our failures. God bless that crazy degenerate freak.

Oh, by the way, but if you haven't heard the new Helloween? Duuuuuuude...it is *the shit*. The! Shit! Best thing they've done in over 20 years. HIGHLY recommended!

Posted by: Robert at July 12, 2021 11:06 PM (1Yy3c)

536 531 Why would anyone in that era bother trying to make the tradition more sympathetic? Rome was an ultra chauvinistic, might-makes-right sort of deal--any story in which the Romans had the appearance of weakness wasn't gonna get very much mindshare.
Posted by: CppThis at July 12, 2021 11:05 PM (8h1h1)

Yeah, but they could have made it bad ass, but also more sympathetic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 11:06 PM (csEWM)

537 Christine McVie, keyboards, vocals, Chicken Shack, and then Fleetwood Mac, who scored the US No.1 single 'Dreams' [...]

++++

Heh. thisdayinmusic celebrates McVie's birthday with a Stevie Nicks song. Kudos to MisHum for finding a McVie clip to stand in its place.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 12, 2021 11:06 PM (hVqGz)

538 Could South Africa make other nations tip?

biden will fook up cuba, just like barkey did with Iran
Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 12, 2021 11:04 PM (bTQ72)

Only if the service is exceptionally good.

Posted by: Belgium at July 12, 2021 11:06 PM (XGAE3)

539 Melatonin's kicking in. Eyelids getting heavy. I gotta be up early.

Night!

Posted by: Robert at July 12, 2021 11:07 PM (1Yy3c)

540 Remus wasn't murdered; just canceled by Disney.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They just threw some characters right into the briar patch.

Posted by: Uncle Norfolk Bug at July 12, 2021 11:07 PM (QzkSJ)

541 Legolas an elv?
Posted by: GWB

Elv was I, elv I saw Elva
Posted by: Norfolk Bug, merely attempting at July 12, 2021 11:05 PM (QzkSJ)

Thankyou. Thankyouverymuch.

Posted by: Big E at July 12, 2021 11:07 PM (4I/2K)

542 I don't know. It was an oral tradition (at least up to the barbarian sack) that they were using, and no one made it more sympathetic in the retelling? Augustus and Virgil (of the Aeneid) did not even try to touch the Romulus parts.

Kind of makes you wonder if it was the truth.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 10:59 PM (csEWM)

Having stronger information about the Etruscans could possibly help too. But then for instance just look at the Greek heroes which you know based on Rome's myth they originate from via Troy. And the Greek heroes like Heracles are almost always flawed individuals. And you have much of Greece conquered by Heracles descendants.

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 11:07 PM (vMCab)

543 Is that a dagger in your toga or are you just gladius to see me?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2021 11:06 PM (VxC1e)

And this is why Marc Anthony wanted him dead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 11:07 PM (csEWM)

544 Is that a dagger in your toga or are you just gladius to see me?
Posted by: Cicero

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 12, 2021 11:08 PM (oEn12)

545 biden will fook up cuba, just like barkey did with Iran
Posted by: will choose a nic later at July 12, 2021 11:04 PM (bTQ72)

Only if the service is exceptionally good.
Posted by: Belgium

10% for the Big Guy

Posted by: Norfolk Bug will be Your Server this evening at July 12, 2021 11:08 PM (QzkSJ)

546 Could be a shit ton of things. Do you feel it in the steering wheel? Does it change when you're on the gas or when you let off? Does it get worse after 55?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 10:35 PM (VwHCD)

So, commenting from my phone and struggling to keep up.

Yes, I feel the vibration in the steering wheel and the vibration eases off above 55 mph.

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 11:08 PM (VqySH)

547 Having stronger information about the Etruscans could possibly help too. But then for instance just look at the Greek heroes which you know based on Rome's myth they originate from via Troy. And the Greek heroes like Heracles are almost always flawed individuals. And you have much of Greece conquered by Heracles descendants.
Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2021 11:07 PM (vMCab)

That's a good point. The Odyssey is not very sympathetic to the Greeks either.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 11:09 PM (csEWM)

548
if it's a "surprise" inspection, how did y'all know to prepare?
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it.

Unscheduled KC-135 declaring an emergency and requesting a straight in approach. The ORI started five minutes ago.
Posted by: Fox2!

Gathering of Eagles?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 11:10 PM (63Dwl)

549 The Cubans have turned off the internet?!

Can we get Biden to do that here? Mass hysteria!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 11:11 PM (csEWM)

550 Gathering of Eagles?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2021 11:10 PM (63Dwl)

"Where's my fat check???" Don Henley with his guitar

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:12 PM (L2ZTs)

551 And then I had to scroll down and see the guy who is trying to make himself Korean.

Why does everyone look like a drag queen version of what they want to be?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 12, 2021 11:12 PM (csEWM)

552 209 So, if the Spanish instituted African slavery in the New World,
shouldn't the Spanish language be canceled over here? It's not as if
there isn't a major Latin American country that doesn't speak
Spanish....
*pouts*

Posted by: Brazil at July 12, 2021 11:13 PM (BGdiD)

553 Man, those Etruscans are a surly bunch.

Posted by: Margaretia Meadicae at July 12, 2021 11:13 PM (EA07m)

554 Cuban communists: "Fcuk you rebels!! We'll turn off the internet!!"

Biden admin: "You can do that?!?"

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:13 PM (L2ZTs)

555 We took a guided tour of the coloseum with an
Italian professor who claimed the gladiators were actors like WWE
wrestlers. There were crucifixions there of convicts, but no fights to
the death.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 12, 2021 11:01 PM (/aiGx)

That was frigging creepy. When I walked through the entrance the condemned were brought in I looked up, looked all around the massive colosseum seating, and just imagined what it was like having a colosseum full of fucking maniacs there to enjoy seeing you die. I think I cursed my ancestors that day.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 12, 2021 11:13 PM (VwHCD)

556 _Biden will remove Trump's sanctions.
_Biden will send aid to Cuba to help restore order.
_Biden will help install a new dictator.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2021 11:17 PM (vW9Vw)

557 And then I had to scroll down and see the guy who is trying to make himself Korean.

Sung to the tune of "Somethin' Stupid".

Posted by: How Weird Al Yankovic gets ideas at July 12, 2021 11:17 PM (EA07m)

558 519 We took a guided tour of the coloseum with an Italian professor who claimed the gladiators were actors like WWE wrestlers. There were crucifixions there of convicts, but no fights to the death.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 12, 2021 11:01 PM (/aiGx)

That's a bit rich I'd say, though if the guy was Italian maybe he thinks WWE fights aren't staged. The fighting was legit but it was typically until submission, not death, and while it's certainly possible that a gladiator troupe might throw a fight for some reason or other it does not appear to be the norm. Of course, when two scantily clad guys are having a sword fight the threat of death is very real, but it wasn't the goal.

Also, there were referees with long sticks to ensure that thing stayed fair and to intervene if the fight starts going too badly.

Posted by: CppThis at July 12, 2021 11:18 PM (8h1h1)

559 I'm telling you tbodie, check your tires first. Even if they're almost new, all it takes is one stupid bulge.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2021 10:55 PM (qH6FZ)

Thank-you lowandslow. I failed to report that I had the truck in a tire shop yesterday. They did not mention tire problems.

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 11:19 PM (VqySH)

560 "biden will fook up cuba, just like barkey did with Iran"

And Libya and Ukraine and Honduras.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 12, 2021 11:19 PM (qH6FZ)

561
What's your risk of dying from the Covids? Johns Hopkins risk calculator:

https://covid19risktools.com:8443/riskcalculator

My risk is 1.3 out of a million (range 0.5 - 3.5 per million 95% CI). I'm 1.17 times as likely to die as the population wide mean risk.

That tool will infuriate you as it asks what sex you were assigned at birth. Can't offend the trannies.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2021 11:22 PM (Mzdiz)

562 Thas a major titty twister.

Now you know why I cook in the nude. Safety first.

Posted by: GnuBreed (FoYaR) at July 12, 2021 11:22 PM (F0YaR)

563 Now you know why I cook in the nude. Safety first.
Posted by: GnuBreed
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Heh. Fry some bacon.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2021 11:28 PM (9Fwwf)

564 So, bed time for tbodie.

Thank-you all for the help with the truck!

Posted by: tbodie at July 12, 2021 11:28 PM (VqySH)

565 @tbodie

Even lightly worn tires will create an out of balance condition.
I have my tires rotated and spin balanced quarterly.
Also, my mechanic recommended only Ford parts. He's a privateer and the best I've ever met. Trained by Ford.
The weight of these heavy vehicles create exponential wear on most running gear.
I also recommend your new mechanic torque the exhaust manifold bolts with every oil change. They are a chronic issue with these motors.

I have yet to balance my driveline as spin balancing the tires has always cleared the problem.

That being said, every truck is different.

Posted by: Your Eminence at July 12, 2021 11:30 PM (8iyB1)

566 Has he told all the baby daddies in Oakland to grow up, act like responsible adult men, marry the mothers of their children, and be full time fathers to their children?
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2021 09:23 PM (+lVUW)

Given how many different people father how many different children by how many different women, as well as how many different women have how many different children by how many different men, that'd create a Gordian knot for which there is no Alexander the Great solution to.

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 11:32 PM (Ojki1)

567 Heh. Fry some bacon.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 12, 2021 11:28 PM (9Fwwf)

I have long arms... and an excellent set of tongs.

Posted by: GnuBreed (FoYaR) at July 12, 2021 11:32 PM (F0YaR)

568 Addition@tbodie
If the steering wheel wobbles after spin balancing the tires, you have drive link/front suspension problems.

Posted by: Your Eminence at July 12, 2021 11:33 PM (8iyB1)

569 561That tool will infuriate you as it asks what sex you were assigned at birth. Can't offend the trannies.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2021 11:22 PM (Mzdiz)

So if you get the Rona, can you sue someone for it not checking your birth certificate to find the sex assigned at birth?

And what happens if you weren't assigned a gender cause your parents are woke like that, but you get it anyway?

Stupid questions for a stupid age.

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 11:35 PM (Ojki1)

570 My risk is 1.3 out of a million (range 0.5 - 3.5 per million 95% CI).
I'm 1.17 times as likely to die as the population wide mean risk.

Weird. It calculates me as 2.3 out of a million (no, no one gets my stuff, I want it buried with me like a pharaoh), but a svelte, fetching 0.14 times as likely as the mean risk.

Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2021 11:36 PM (EA07m)

571
Bob@NSA most certainly has the largest collection of nekkid selfies and texts ever even conceived of being amassed in his massive zettabytes of data.

How much you wanna bet ol' Bob likes to "unmask" those for his own edification in his spare time?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2021 11:36 PM (Mzdiz)

572 >> but a svelte, fetching 0.14 times as likely as the mean risk.

That makes no sense, and what I think that means is your ratio above the mean risk. That is (1 + x). So that would mean you're 1.14 times the mean risk. Me, I'm 1.17.

That is worded very poorly.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2021 11:37 PM (Mzdiz)

573 How much you wanna bet ol' Bob likes to "unmask" those for his own edification in his spare time?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2021 11:36 PM (Mzdiz)

And on occasion knows a level of regret only the "Hold my beer" and "Sure, open another bottle, why not" crowd ever know.

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 11:37 PM (Ojki1)

574 572 >> but a svelte, fetching 0.14 times as likely as the mean risk.

That makes no sense, and what I think that means is your ratio above the mean risk. That is (1 + x). So that would mean you're 1.14 times the mean risk. Me, I'm 1.17.

That is worded very poorly.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2021 11:37 PM (Mzdiz)

Weird, so despite needing some gains in a big way and having blood cancer and being a bit seasoned 29 I am not at much more risk than average.

If I were cynical, I'd say that means the media/govt officials have some 'splaining to do on their crying wolf.

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 11:42 PM (Ojki1)

575 I really feel like I am being treated unfairly.
No one understands me.
Please elect me to Governor of California.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner's mangina at July 12, 2021 11:44 PM (aAP3z)

576 I am more a law, society, politics guy. But, often decisions on the battlefield resonate through what I am interested in studying.
Posted by: whig

Pffft. Shoulda gone combat JAG like I did. (j/k) I'm a law/society/politics guy too, but I adhere to the Clausewitz model that war is politics by other means. (It can also provide fascinating insights into law/politics/society.)

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 11:44 PM (KAi1n)

577 Kristi Noem, another bought and paid for Conservative Inc Rino. Don't and won't trust her one bit. She's dead to me.

Posted by: broderman at July 12, 2021 11:47 PM (XBQSC)

578
Using that tool for a fatty at my height (5' 8", but weighing 230 lbs and 75 years old, and with controlled diabetes and hypertension, the risk is 2 out of 100,000.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2021 11:48 PM (Mzdiz)

579 Shoulda gone combat JAG like I did. (j/k) I'm a law/society/politics guy too, but I adhere to the Clausewitz model that war is politics by other means. (It can also provide fascinating insights into law/politics/society.)
Posted by: S

cross examination with a .45 101?

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 11:48 PM (a2PEI)

580 Before I had my dangling bits removed, I tried on my daughter's undergarments.
I can palm a basketball with my very large male hands.
But I am a woman.
Elect me to Governor of California.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner's mangina at July 12, 2021 11:49 PM (aAP3z)

581 somebody needs to do some aoshq moral patches, in ir

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 11:49 PM (a2PEI)

582 Before I had my dangling bits removed, I tried on my daughter's undergarments.
I can palm a basketball with my very large male hands.
But I am a woman.
Elect me to Governor of California.
Posted by: B

in fairness, her panties were too big for him.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 11:50 PM (a2PEI)

583 and another thing, that kim kardashian girl, she was pretty when she was in hs, before her mom got her into hardcore and she had that stuff put in her ass.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 11:51 PM (a2PEI)

584 Using that tool for a fatty at my height (5' 8", but weighing 230 lbs
and 75 years old, and with controlled diabetes and hypertension, the
risk is 2 out of 100,000.

Clearly we need to shut everything down immediately, and make children wear masks.

Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2021 11:51 PM (EA07m)

585 Please tell me why taxpayers keep bailing out this flying clusterfuck...

Bodybuilder accuses American Airlines of banning her from flight over attire

https://tinyurl.com/3baxfds5

I would have driven her to her destination and even offered her a room

Posted by: kbdabear at July 12, 2021 11:53 PM (qAR6u)

586 I want to establish a commission to determine whether boys are really boys, if you know what I mean.
I have a list of people I want on that committee.
We will all sit at a long table, kind of like "America's Got Talent"
You will drop trou.
And then we will decide whether you boys are really a boy or a girl.
It will be a real hoot.
Vote for me for Governor of California!

Posted by: Bruce Jenner's mangina at July 12, 2021 11:53 PM (aAP3z)

587 One of the strangest songs ever to make the Top 40 IMHO:

https://youtu.be/8-hJFoSgXfM

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:55 PM (L2ZTs)

588 Bodybuilder accuses American Airlines of banning her from flight over attire

https://tinyurl.com/3baxfds5

I would have driven her to her destination and even offered her a room

in that sit, you would be the party more in danger of murdered and raped.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 12, 2021 11:55 PM (a2PEI)

589 576, Sfgoth, Different service but not jag. Engineering.
I am currently working on and off on development of law interest after formerly doing quant analysis.

Posted by: whig at July 12, 2021 11:55 PM (pO7gM)

590 585 Please tell me why taxpayers keep bailing out this flying clusterfuck...

Bodybuilder accuses American Airlines of banning her from flight over attire

https://tinyurl.com/3baxfds5

I would have driven her to her destination and even offered her a room
Posted by: kbdabear at July 12, 2021 11:53 PM (qAR6u)

I saw that. I'm not a prude and a plane ain't church or a fancy shindig, so no idea why Karen got upset.

Oh wait, airlines ditched the weight restrictions on attendants, so I guess I might have a guess why Karen got upset.

Posted by: Bete at July 12, 2021 11:56 PM (Ojki1)

591 I got 1.5 out of 1,000,000. That means I'm more likely to do die at the hand or foot (hit and run) of a career criminal that Chesa Boudin has declined to prosecute than I am of the 'rona. Or, put it another way, I'm more likely to get fvcked in some serious or permanent way by The Jab than I am from Fauci's Experiment. Frankly, I'm more like to get run over by a millenial texting and driving.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 11:56 PM (KAi1n)

592 >> I would have driven her to her destination and even offered her a room

Well to be fair, you've got to think of the pilots. I mean, with that specimen in the back, they could be quite distracted. They'd probably offer to let her ride up front and sit in their laps and let her try to fly the plane or something.

It could be a disaster.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2021 11:57 PM (Mzdiz)

593 That's a man baby!

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 12, 2021 11:57 PM (L2ZTs)

594 Even though I am nearly 70 years old I want men to penetrate me through my gaping wound which I call "my pretty".
Elect me Governor of California!

Posted by: Bruce Jenner's mangina at July 12, 2021 11:58 PM (aAP3z)

595 215 209 So, if the Spanish instituted African slavery in the New World, shouldn't the Spanish language be canceled over here? It's not as if there isn't a major Latin American country that doesn't speak Spanish....
Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 09:44 PM (KAi1n)

There ya go again making sense.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

It is never about the Issue comrade, it is always about the Revolution

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at July 12, 2021 11:58 PM (rt0xh)

596 Different service but not jag. Engineering.
I am currently working on and off on development of law interest after formerly doing quant analysis.
Posted by: whig

Wait, you just play a lawyer on TV? Hmmm.... I love reading your analyses of things so if you're not "bona fide" (movie reference), then why not?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 12, 2021 11:59 PM (KAi1n)

597 I bet she grunts in a sexy way while lifting.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Free Agent (4I/2K) at July 12, 2021 11:59 PM (4I/2K)

598 I bet she grunts in a sexy way while lifting.

I bet she grunts during sex

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:00 AM (a2PEI)

599 Duck all y'all!
I'm
Cooler than you are because I'm going to the Colorado morondesvouz

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2021 12:01 AM (U2p+3)

600 cross examination with a .45 101?
Posted by: confederatefifth

Subpoenas are best served from a 155, charge 7.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 13, 2021 12:02 AM (KAi1n)

601
I'm about 1.3ish out of million. Note the games you can play with relative risk vs absolute risk. Aieeee, I'm 17% more likely die than average! True, but the absolute risk is only 1.3 out of a million.

If I took the shot, assuming it truly is 90% effective, I would drop that risk to 1.3 out of 10 million. BFD.

That's an absolute risk reduction of about 1.2 out of a million.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2021 12:02 AM (Mzdiz)

602 I am as feminine as a lilac.
No, really!
Elect me Governor of California!

Posted by: Bruce Jenner's mangina at July 13, 2021 12:02 AM (aAP3z)

603 Duck all y'all!
I'm
Cooler than you are because I'm going to the Colorado morondesvouz
Posted by: nurse ratched

in fairness, the only good thing about co is wds, otherwise, block the exits and bomb it from orbit.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:02 AM (a2PEI)

604 Subpoenas are best served from a 155, charge 7.

Posted by: S

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:03 AM (a2PEI)

605 601
I'm about 1.3ish out of million. Note the games you can play with relative risk vs absolute risk. Aieeee, I'm 17% more likely die than average! True, but the absolute risk is only 1.3 out of a million.

If I took the shot, assuming it truly is 90% effective, I would drop that risk to 1.3 out of 10 million. BFD.

That's an absolute risk reduction of about 1.2 out of a million.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2021 12:02 AM (Mzdiz)

Never tell me the odds.

Posted by: Han Solo at July 13, 2021 12:03 AM (Ojki1)

606 Wds is the BOMB!

Hahahahhahahahaha

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2021 12:03 AM (U2p+3)

607
The CDC puts the risk of being struck by lighting at about 1/500K per year (this varies wildly with several other factors, including geography and so an average figure isn't really that meaningful).

So, I'm more thn twice as likely to be struck by lightning as to die of Covid.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2021 12:04 AM (Mzdiz)

608 Wds is the BOMB!

Hahahahhahahahaha
Posted by: nurse ratched

that was not your best writing

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:04 AM (a2PEI)

609 We may just level Colorado

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2021 12:04 AM (U2p+3)

610 C5
I dare you to show up.

I'll buy you a drink and give you a

HUG.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2021 12:05 AM (U2p+3)

611 I am currently working on and off on development of law interest after formerly doing quant analysis.
Posted by: whig
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Have you constructed simplifying model?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 13, 2021 12:06 AM (9Fwwf)

612 Yeah, it looks like they calculate your mortality based on your subgroup, but don't tell you what that subgroup is, or how it compares with overall mortality.

Oh well, some kid at Johns Hopkins finished his/her/its thesis project. Prost!

Posted by: spindrift at July 13, 2021 12:07 AM (EA07m)

613 C5
I dare you to show up.
I'll buy you a drink and give you a
HUG.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I did my time in co, thanks.
however, if you are ever nearby happy to buy you dinner and drinks.
the good stuff.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:07 AM (a2PEI)

614 So, I'm more thn twice as likely to be struck by lightning as to die of Covid.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2021 12:04 AM (Mzdiz)

Go ahead and get a round in. The heavy stuff won't come down for a while.

Posted by: Carl Spackler at July 13, 2021 12:07 AM (4I/2K)

615 Btw, fine with hugs just hate the {}

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:08 AM (a2PEI)

616 We may just level Colorado
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2021 12:04 AM (U2p+3)

That would make climbing the mountains easier, for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 13, 2021 12:08 AM (XGAE3)

617 596, sfgoth, my current occupation in a deep blue industry is law related and my focus is narrow on particular sub fields within law. Had a rather eclectic career path to where I am now. Worked in pol and biz for then af service,, then current job.

Posted by: whig at July 13, 2021 12:10 AM (pO7gM)

618 That would make climbing the mountains easier, for sure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 13, 2021 12:08 AM (XGAE3)

Probably never hear Rocky Mountain High again, and Rocky Mountain plains just ain't got the same ring.

This is acceptable.

Posted by: Han Solo at July 13, 2021 12:11 AM (Ojki1)

619 Off rogue sock.

Posted by: Bete at July 13, 2021 12:12 AM (Ojki1)

620 We may just level Colorado

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2021 12:04 AM (U2p+3)

There you go. Give the rockies a haircut, take a little off the top.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 13, 2021 12:12 AM (VwHCD)

621 Since I am rather a large person, my hands are massive, I can palm a basketball, and I am tall, so I am going to need a "real man" to satisfy my needs, if you know what I mean.
Someone who will be attracted to my 70 year old gaping wound. I have the best surgeons. I can refer.
Come on fellas!
Elect me Governor of California!

Posted by: Bruce Jenner's mangina at July 13, 2021 12:13 AM (aAP3z)

622 611 lol, mh. legal development across history is a very difficult field to quantify. But, have done so on patterns on legal innovation among courts. Used to do election related analysis that was quant stuff primarily.

Posted by: whig at July 13, 2021 12:15 AM (pO7gM)

623
Speaking of the lightning strike risk, note that 1/500K figure is per year. Over a lifetime, and in the geographically more lightning prone areas, IIRC, that risk rises to as high as 1/20K.

Men are more likely to be struck as well as as younger people. Outdoors more, and more risk taking most likely.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2021 12:16 AM (Mzdiz)

624 it is unbelivabl how the internets are as big as they are and there is hardly anything useful to watch

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:17 AM (a2PEI)

625 AOP!

Come to a Colorado!

You know you'll get that Rocky Mountain High.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2021 12:19 AM (U2p+3)

626 BerserkerDragonheads
Come on

Has the wife been to Colorado?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2021 12:20 AM (U2p+3)

627 Well to be fair, you've got to think of the pilots. I mean, with that specimen in the back, they could be quite distracted. They'd probably offer to let her ride up front and sit in their laps and let her try to fly the plane or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2021 11:57 PM (Mzdiz)

That would have been true years ago. Now the pilots are just as likely to be women, trannies, gheys, or other affirmative action hires

A few weeks ago American was forced to cancel over 300 flights due to pilot shortages, pilot sick-outs, and maintenance issues.

Last week all the passengers on an American Airlines flight from LAX to Miami were forced to spend the last hour of the flight with their hands on their heads, told not to take pictures or video because one male passenger was deemed a "security threat" (probably visited DC in January). The passengers were herded to a terminal and detained until the plane was inspected by authorities.

"United Airlines totally sucks"
American Airlines: Hold my beer....

Posted by: kbdabear at July 13, 2021 12:21 AM (qAR6u)

628
You know, my red-pilling is continuing and accelerating. I'm just about the "Everything is a lie" stage. All the major institutions are a bunch of lying liars what tell lies, and for their own profit.

I posted this earlier today, but I'll post it again for the ONT crowd, my peeps:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
32120383/

Flu Shots? Worthless. And one of the authors of that is from Clempson. They looked at NIH data over 14 years which was a YUGE data set.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2021 12:21 AM (Mzdiz)

629 Is this something

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

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:27 AM (a2PEI)

630 publius.

2nd worst sick I ever sickced was a flu shot 'bout mid '90s.

1st sick was actual pneumonia, 11th grade. Decked me for two solid weeks during the school year, and no way I could do the "sent home" work. Not as sick, but similar fatigue? Covid, April. Got the HCQ, Ivermectin and Zpak. Turned all symptoms but one around, in a day. The one not turned around was two weeks of horizontal fatigue. I could not sit in a recliner and watch TV. Layed down, head on a pillow, I could. It was like that.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2021 12:29 AM (QzJWU)

631 Come to a Colorado!

You know you'll get that Rocky Mountain High.
Posted by: nurse ratched

have you been to colorado?

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:29 AM (a2PEI)

632 Thought that study of flu vax was using british NHS data but I only skimmed it. Nonetheless, when the west decided to make objective truth obsolete in favor of relativism, it eventually destroys trust in a society.

Posted by: whig at July 13, 2021 12:32 AM (pO7gM)

633 Well, I am tired, and I am going to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 13, 2021 12:35 AM (pSnsF)

634 night

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:36 AM (a2PEI)

635 'Nite, AOP.

Repair now to your sleep, amigo.

Pun, intended.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2021 12:36 AM (QzJWU)

636 Aagghh! There's a person on top of that rock!

Posted by: m at July 13, 2021 12:37 AM (cME97)

637 Aagghh! There's a person on top of that rock!

he has his dog with him too.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:39 AM (a2PEI)

638 Confederate, come back, my gaping wound longs for you!
The pus is mostly gone now!
Nevermind, it's slippery!

Posted by: Bruce Jenner's mangina at July 13, 2021 12:40 AM (aAP3z)

639 where do we submit complaints about troll quality?

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:42 AM (a2PEI)

640 I am not anti troll, but I do have some quality expectatins.

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:42 AM (a2PEI)

641 Horde, just to be honest, I have consumed two fairly strong vodka and lemonade with a wedge of lime beverages, I am currently sipping on a much weaker third drink. Just kind of needed it tonight, what's happening?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 12:43 AM (a4EWo)

642 >> Thought that study of flu vax was using british NHS data

Yes. I typed NIH when I meant NHS. The problem with a lot of the observational studies that show benefit from the flu shots in the elderly is bias and confounding, which is hard to pin down and eliminate.

The NHS data provided a perfect opportuning for "discontinuity regression". The NHS prioritizes flu shots for the 65+ crowd, and starts giving them out routinely at that age. So that makes for a big jump in vaccination rates at age 65. And since the NHS is socialized single provider, they have the data for everybody in one place. You don't miss too many.

So, you look at those just under the cut-off vs those just over. If the flu shots were effective, you'd expect to see an effect right there. A dip in hospitalizations and deaths. A little discontinuity there to match the vaccination discontinuity.

That effect isn't seen at all. And that's a pretty big data set they have there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2021 12:43 AM (Mzdiz)

643 Heh. Fry some bacon.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

But First, you will fry me some bacon

Posted by: Norfolk Bug, paraphrasing some actor type person at July 13, 2021 12:45 AM (QzkSJ)

644 Very surprised and saddened to hear that naval historian James Hornfischer has passed away (sometime fairly recently). He wasn't very old.

Years back a Moron in TX whose nic I forget recounted how he'd emailed Hornfischer about one of his books, which resulted in having lunch with the author when he was in his AO.

For those with an interest in WWII naval history, highly recommend Neptune's Inferno (about the naval engagements around Guadalcanal), and Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (about the epic engagement with a vastly superior Japanese formation off Samar Island in the Philippines).

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 13, 2021 12:45 AM (OTzUX)

645 So, I'm more thn twice as likely to be struck by lightning as to die of Covid.
Posted by: publius

And three times less likely to be struck by Miley

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 13, 2021 12:47 AM (QzkSJ)

646 ..where do we submit complaints about troll quality?
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:42 AM (a2PEI)

One Eight Seven Trolls for Kids. Report your Troll Today!

/earworm

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2021 12:47 AM (QzJWU)

647 /earworm

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: J

Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:48 AM (a2PEI)

648 where do we submit complaints about troll quality?
Posted by: confederatefifth

One time or monthly subscription (savings up to 70%!)

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 13, 2021 12:48 AM (QzkSJ)

649 I thought I saw reference to more than one study casting serious doubt on the efficacy of flu shots, based on many years and mountains of data that had accumulated. It was alluded to by some analysts I was following for C19 purposes. I thought I recalled that as the data had grown over time, the apparent value of the flu shot had steadily eroded.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 13, 2021 12:49 AM (OTzUX)

650 I enjoyed reading Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors very much because so many of the Horde had recommended it. Some of my favorite WW2 movies are about the naval victories in the Pacific (ok I almost typed specific) theater.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 12:51 AM (a4EWo)

651 Miklos, I am glad that you are about, I'd imagine that the time betwixt now and the end of Darleen's shift at the diner are the empty hours for you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 12:55 AM (a4EWo)

652 rhomboid.

My next door neighbor just made USCG Chief. Won't disclose rating, too easy to doxx.

But did lend him my copy of Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. Galveston's Seawolf Naval War Museum has a ship of the class of the Taffy 3 DEs, preserved. Once he reads the book, I'm organizing a Ship's Tour with HISTORY of from the Museum Docents, with neighbor and his Section subordinates, aboard the Museum Ship.

Gonna teach some history, and some selflessness, sacrifice and devotion to duty, too. Promise you all this. I'll do the Horde proud in the doing. It is the Moron Way.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2021 12:56 AM (QzJWU)

653 Subpoenas are best served from a 155, charge 7.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 13, 2021 12:02 AM (KAi1n)

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8 inch: much moar accurate, making sure the right person is serviced.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 12:56 AM (8CMuu)

654 add dropping the 8" howitzers to the list of stupid Fing things the Army did during my "career"...

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:01 AM (8CMuu)

655 Jim, sounds great. So, another museum to add to my list. Not sure there are many DEs preserved.

And Debbie, just imagine the movie that could be made with the real story told in that book. No stupid fake drama or idiotic romantic side-story needed.

One of the first episodes I think of to illustrate how much better real history is than almost all fiction.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 13, 2021 01:02 AM (OTzUX)

656 changing enlisted MOS prefixes to match ossifer CMF numbers is another. they had to issue orders for each SM in question, so 100's of thousands of orders vs 10's of thousands. and *everyone* knew what the enlisted numbers meant, but only ossifers knew what their CMF number meant.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:03 AM (8CMuu)

657 Jim, that's beautiful, I think that Anna Puma kind of dismissed the book because it wasn't one hundred percent authentic while you encouraged me to read it because I told you about the tin can sailor who went to my local diner and also my personal liberty bar here behind enemy lines. I have not seen my sailor since before the pandemic, his name was Don, and I miss him. I did buy him lunch more than once though.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 01:03 AM (a4EWo)

658 redc, just happened to stumble across some guys playing around with a T-152 artillery piece on UToob tonight. Demolition Ranch. Who the hell has such stuff, and ammo for it? I mean private ownership. Yowzah.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 13, 2021 01:04 AM (OTzUX)

659 eliminating SP5-8 ranks is another: most anyone can become an expert in their field, but not everyone can be a leader, no matter how many times you send them to school or sit them in an NCODP session.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:05 AM (8CMuu)

660 rhomboid.

I have stood alone in the armored bridge of that ship, and quietly wept. It is to those who know, a Temple.

Those who do not know, it is but an old hulk from another age.

As are we.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2021 01:06 AM (QzJWU)

661 changing enlisted MOS prefixes to match ossifer CMF numbers is another. they had to issue orders for each SM in question, so 100's of thousands of orders vs 10's of thousands. and *everyone* knew what the enlisted numbers meant, but only ossifers knew what their CMF number meant.
Posted by: redc1c4
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As an EM, it is my tendency to ask Army vets what their MOS was. Not once, but twice in the last two days I have done so, only to discover the one is a retired full-bird, and the other an Air Defense officer. I need to find a different way to ask the question.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 13, 2021 01:08 AM (ELgVT)

662 people with LOTS of money, would be my first guess... and WTF is a T-152?

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:08 AM (8CMuu)

663 As an EM, it is my tendency to ask Army vets what
their MOS was. Not once, but twice in the last two days I have done so,
only to discover the one is a retired full-bird, and the other an Air
Defense officer. I need to find a different way to ask the question.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 13, 2021 01:08 AM (ELgVT)

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that just means they were paper pushers: the Army has officers, so there is someone around to attend meetings and sign for shit, while the w*rk gets done.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:10 AM (8CMuu)

664 any time naow

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:10 AM (8CMuu)

665 .

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:11 AM (8CMuu)

666 !

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:11 AM (8CMuu)

667 nailed it... let the sewrious drinking commence.

AFTER i set a timer so as to make my chiro appt in the AM.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:12 AM (8CMuu)

668 I said it late last week, red, you devil, you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 01:12 AM (a4EWo)

669 DDS. Do give your best efforts now to track down your Don from the diner?

If he's still around, we'll Honor Flight him here to Galveston, for the tour. Out of my own pocket, if need be. I'll tell my neighbor to read fast, too. We'd be honored to host your Don.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2021 01:12 AM (QzJWU)

670 I said it late last week, red, you devil, you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 01:12 AM (a4EWo)

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better the devil you know...

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:14 AM (8CMuu)

671 that just means they were paper pushers: the Army has officers, so there is someone around to attend meetings and sign for shit, while the w*rk gets done.
Posted by: redc1c4
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Heh. I have a photo of a major General handing a unit citation to a one-star. In the background are 5 enlisted men. I've pointed out to others that the people who actually did the work were *those* four guys. I know that, because they worked for me, the fifth guy.

Posted by: Anon at July 13, 2021 01:16 AM (2YhrB)

672 Jim, so very kind of you, Don told me that he is a post WW2 Tin Can Sailor, served during the Korean War, it never lessened my appreciation of him. I'll still redouble my efforts to find him as he is a very nice man. a patriot and a link to all that is being lost.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 01:17 AM (a4EWo)

673 red, hahaha, so very true.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 01:19 AM (a4EWo)

674 ..Don told me that he is a post WW2 Tin Can Sailor, served during the Korean War, it never lessened my appreciation of him. I'll still redouble my efforts to find him as he is a very nice man. a patriot and a link to all that is being lost. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 01:17 AM (a4EWo)

I mean this with all urgency. DO THIS.

Should you succeed, I'll have more things in motion to bring this about than you could ever imagine. He'll need an escort to a Houston Airport, and I'll ensure the ground transportations from there. Pro tip. You're likely to be his Air Escort from there to here and back.

Four Star Hotel lodgings are not a question. DONE. My AoS record of doing things posted, is damn good, I think?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2021 01:26 AM (QzJWU)

675 When I was a relatively new butter bar taking over my first platoon (Mass Nash Guard, signal corps), I made it very clear to my senior NCOs that it was my platoon and I expected them to run it properly. They did. As I saw it, *my* job was to interact with the company commander and the battalion S-3* so that my NCOs could run my platoon properly. (*We did NOT get along, compounded by the fact that after he was an ass to me one time, when we were doing our 2 weeks in the field, I made him authenticate when he radio'd me. Perfectly proper demand.)

Posted by: SFGoth at July 13, 2021 01:33 AM (KAi1n)

676 Jim, no doubts about all of this, I would love to be his air escort more than anything, but that will not comply with the demands I am facing right now. I'll find him, by God, I will find him and work with you from there. I will pitch in financially as needed, this would be wonderful for him.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 01:33 AM (a4EWo)

677 red, hahaha, so very true.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 01:19 AM (a4EWo)|
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how are things in your world these days?

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:33 AM (8CMuu)

678 Let it be known that I actually did have an actual MOS at one point: 71 Delta. : - >

Posted by: SFGoth at July 13, 2021 01:34 AM (KAi1n)

679
Sorry, but I was dead wrong about the meaning of that relative risk number. I go to plugging in numbers for really low risk groups (ie 20 yrs old, lean mean sex machine). That is the ratio of your risk to the general population average.

What threw me was I assuming that my risk had to be higher (RA, less than ideal BMI, smoking history) than the average. Well, that mean risk is skewed heavily by the elderly, lard asses, etc.

My risk, even with all those factors is still only 17% of the population wide mean.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2021 01:35 AM (Mzdiz)

680 in other news, Herself did NOT start her new j*b today... they suddenly came up with a ChiCom Crud vaccine requirement, which she can document, but that will take time. meanwhile she *isn't* getting paid. fustercluck of the 1st order. it's a tad warm in the High Desert this time of year as well...

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:39 AM (8CMuu)

681 SF Goth.

You done right. One night, my patrol partner made a certain Major General do a whole roadside DWI drill, which he failed. As it was, our Flight NCOIC drove out and hauled his ass homeward. No paperwork ensued.

Point being. You did the right thing.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2021 01:40 AM (QzJWU)

682 I'm pleased to say that I never interacted with any 71D's

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 13, 2021 01:40 AM (pK7cg)

683 Hearing thunder, no rain yet

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 01:41 AM (Cxk7w)

684 May not get any, storm moving west to east north of me.

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 01:43 AM (Cxk7w)

685 DDS.

My email is in my nic. You know what to do from there.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 13, 2021 01:44 AM (QzJWU)

686 Well the third somewhat 'weakened drink' is gone and I guess so am I. Hubs should be comfy for a few hours and I shall endeavor to sleep my self, good night, good people.

P.S. When I go to sleep I often turn on a transistor radio and about the only thing to listen to is Coast to Coast, remind me to never sign up for paranormal partners no matter how desperate I may sound a decade from now.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 13, 2021 01:48 AM (a4EWo)

687 I'm pleased to say that I never interacted with any 71D's

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 13, 2021 01:40 AM (pK7cg)

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neither did i, not that some didn't try to make such an event happen. i had a JAG O3 @ Ft Sam try to convince me to take an ART-15 (he said it was just like a "letter of reprimand" and no big deal. he also told me he knew all about my case, as he had talked to my DSG about the incident, and counseled him on what to charge me with. this was the local *defense* JAG for the two battalions in the barracks.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:49 AM (8CMuu)

688 i went to the school JAG, O-6 SF type, told him the whole story, starting with the "chargeable" event. he said what i didn't wasn't the wisest move, but not a UCMJ offense, and was MOST interested in the defense JAG assisting the DSGs in charging people, then telling the victims to take the 15, screwing the n00bs before they even got out of AIT. i heard nothing more about my "offense" and we had a new JAG most ricky tick. i hope that POS got shipped off to some garden spot like Eniwetok

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:52 AM (8CMuu)

689 During ROTC, my "people" (aka, political) skills were, umm, lacking. I wasn't an ass to people, but I learned the rules/standards and knew everything I needed to know forward and back (like teaching myself the polar shift artillery method), and I had an expectation that others would likewise. BUT, I was a team player and when one cadet -- who was an utter dick to me -- had his turn to lead our platoon during advanced camp field maneuvers and had never given an operations order before, as the platoon sergeant, I talked him through it and he did a fine job (though he never thanked me). During evals, the MAJ in charge of my platoon told me that I'd make a better NCO than officer. I took that as a compliment actually. For better or worse, I was rated average and did not receive an active duty commission. I did get jump wings though (Saddam invaded Kuwait while i was at airborne school), which looked hella spiffy when I got back from Summer break for my 4th year.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 13, 2021 01:53 AM (KAi1n)

690
Heh. Abbott says he's gonna arrest every single one of those fleeing TX Dems when they get back in Texas.

The pussies fled to D.C. a very friendly place, which wouldn't cooperate with any extradition requests.

If they were in more friendly states, I'm sure the governors there would be more than happy to arrest them and turn them over to Texas officials.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 13, 2021 01:54 AM (Mzdiz)

691 Abbot should eminent domain their houses. That might get them back.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 13, 2021 01:56 AM (KAi1n)

692 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 02:00 AM (lFFxq)

693 666 !
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 01:11 AM (8CMuu)

heh

Posted by: m at July 13, 2021 02:00 AM (6dJKT)

694 I should have more sympathy for Cuba. But it was the current generation's grandfathers and grandmothers that bought into the Communism shit.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at July 13, 2021 02:10 AM (xopIz)

695 polar plot is simple, assuming you know where you are... of course, if you have a map, and can read it accurately, there's no reason you can't generate a fairly good grid for your target... unless you're on an oversized pool table piece of land.

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 02:15 AM (8CMuu)

696 well, looks like i killed the thread, or at least put it into a coma...

hasta, y'all!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at July 13, 2021 02:30 AM (8CMuu)

697 653 Subpoenas are best served from a 155, charge 7.

The best subpoenas, like revenge, are served cold.

Posted by: Norfolk Bug at July 13, 2021 02:31 AM (QzkSJ)

698 666 !
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou

But wait! There's Moar!

Posted by: Norfolk Ron Popeil-Bug at July 13, 2021 02:34 AM (QzkSJ)

699 Hiya MLii !

Posted by: JT at July 13, 2021 02:37 AM (arJlL)

700 Hello fine Peoples

Is much bad tings.

For to send moneys pls

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 13, 2021 02:38 AM (QzkSJ)

701 I can't seem to wake up. Been just dozing on and off since midnight

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 02:40 AM (lFFxq)

702 Hiya MLii !
Posted by: JT

*smiles for General Purposes, prepares Coffee with chicory*

Posted by: Norwich Bug at July 13, 2021 02:41 AM (QzkSJ)

703 Mornin' JT and Miklos!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 02:46 AM (lFFxq)

704 I wonder whatever happened to Calm Mentor

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 02:47 AM (lFFxq)

705 Not a wink since 684

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 02:47 AM (Cxk7w)

706 Earlier my wifi kept cutting out.

Skip, did you figure out your phone lock?

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 02:50 AM (lFFxq)

707 Have a good chance to see the space station at 4:45 but with the T-storms rolling around doubt weather is going to cooperate.

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 02:52 AM (Cxk7w)

708 I wonder whatever happened to Calm Mentor
Posted by: My Life is Insanity a

Liar and thief

He lied and therefore taunted the Happy Fun Norwich Bug.

Posted by: Norwich Bug at July 13, 2021 02:53 AM (QzkSJ)

709 >>>Liar and thief

Yes. Disgraceful

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 02:54 AM (lFFxq)

710 Most aviators of all stripes are officers. The Army has Warrant
Officers that fly helicopters as well, but other than that, in the Air
Force, Navy, and Marines, the pilots are officers.

For
sure there are officers that push paper, in the end they all end up
doing that unless they are of a very few who retain direct command. But a
Lieutenant or Captain in the Infantry is mostly on the ground leading
men. Wars change as the technology of war changes. I would say if you
were on the front lines in the Civil War, the last thing you would want
to be is an officer if you didn't want to get shot. That goes even more
for the Confederates as their culture demanded the officer leads the
attack.

Posted by: Quint at July 13, 2021 02:56 AM (F2/Ok)

711 No, it seems can get calls but can't call out or get messages.

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 02:58 AM (Cxk7w)

712 Not a wink since 684
Posted by: Skip

*wink*

Posted by: Norwich Bug, at Mammy's Kitchen in Myrtle beach at July 13, 2021 03:00 AM (QzkSJ)

713 Yes. Disgraceful
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Raised about $17,000 before the various GoFundMes got un-funded

Posted by: Norwich Bug, Enforcer of Honesty at July 13, 2021 03:03 AM (QzkSJ)

714 It's clear outside now, so will pack lunch and maybe take a look up in 40 minutes

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 03:05 AM (Cxk7w)

715 Yes. Disgraceful
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Tim O'Brien

Posted by: Norwich Bug, now recalling at July 13, 2021 03:06 AM (QzkSJ)

716 BREAKING

Atlanta Fed predicts improved Q3 numbers , based on key Skip Sector

Posted by: Norwich Bug, now economist at July 13, 2021 03:08 AM (QzkSJ)

717 The Trump stock market went up because it had to. The Biden Market goes up because the people that run it all supported Biden. Inflation doesn't hurt, it actually helps the market. If that $60 stock is actually worth $50, who cares, it says $60.

Posted by: Quint at July 13, 2021 03:13 AM (F2/Ok)

718 637 Aagghh! There's a person on top of that rock!

he has his dog with him too.
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:39 AM (a2PEI)

I hope this isn't true.

Posted by: m at July 13, 2021 03:13 AM (6dJKT)

719 There's a person on top of that rock!

he has his dog with him too.
Posted by: confederatefifth at July 13, 2021 12:39 AM (a2PEI)

I hope this isn't true.
Posted by: m

S'okay

It's on Mars. Or was.

Posted by: Norwich Bug, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist saying YES at July 13, 2021 03:17 AM (QzkSJ)

720 quint - if you can find them, casualty lists from Iraq and Afghanistan (as well as Viet Nam) show a heavy preponderance of 2nd/1st Lt. and Captain KIA. Infantry officers leading from the front.

Posted by: Lurking Cynic at July 13, 2021 03:21 AM (RS9ZG)

721 Made a twice toasted English muffin with ham egg and cheese

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 03:25 AM (Cxk7w)

722 That sounds good Skip. My appetite is coming back

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 03:26 AM (lFFxq)

723 Well that's good MLii, not Covid you think?

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 03:29 AM (Cxk7w)

724 Space station viewing says at 4:46, starting 10 degrees W, rise to 68 degrees end 10 degrees ENE for 7 minutes duration.

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 03:34 AM (Cxk7w)

725 overcast here, but thanks

Posted by: JT at July 13, 2021 03:39 AM (arJlL)

726 I dont think so. Maybe food poisoning? No one else i've been around got it. I think the initial bug depleted my good gut bacteria and it just snowballed from there. Didn't help i got dehydrated

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 03:40 AM (lFFxq)

727 JT 1/2 hour ago say stars out, need to go put stuff in my truck anyway so going to venture out.

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 03:40 AM (Cxk7w)

728 And here's some good news: I just got the email that my test results for cancer markers were in.

The # went down!

I admit I've been worried as it's been slowly rising and last year it took a bigger jump than previous years.

I'm attributing it's decline to being pushed to eat healthier and exercise

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 03:43 AM (lFFxq)

729 osted by: Lurking Cynic at July 13, 2021 03:21 AM (RS9ZG)

I will look into it but I don't doubt it. Most officers and historians will tell you that an army relies mostly on NCO's. But this can go too far. Anyone who thinks officers have not paid a price, is wrong.

Posted by: Quint at July 13, 2021 03:45 AM (F2/Ok)

730 Eating healthier is a good start, I try.

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 03:47 AM (Cxk7w)

731 Clouded up, was probably clear at 4am from T-storm that didn't hit me clearing out weather.
Haven't had rain since Saturday morning.

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 03:49 AM (Cxk7w)

732 We've been getting small pop up showers. Just enough to keep me from getting the grass cut

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 03:50 AM (lFFxq)

733 I dont think so. Maybe food poisoning? No one else
i've been around got it. I think the initial bug depleted my good gut
bacteria and it just snowballed from there. Didn't help i got
dehydrated

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 03:40 AM (lFFxq)

so i had a serious issue the other day that involved the bathroom. I didn't feel sick, but something was seriously off. It was about as bad as you can imagine other than I didn't feel that bad. I thought that is might be food poisoning and wondered about what I ate. I kept wondering about it and finally a light bulb popped over my head. I had purchased a box of chewing gum, flavored with Xylitol and to be honest, I chewed about 20 pieces that day.

I was happy to learn I did not have food poisoning, and it you take a too much Xylitol, well, the result is not rare.

Posted by: Quint at July 13, 2021 03:51 AM (F2/Ok)

734 That stuff can have that effect Quint!
Glad it wasnt something more serious

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 03:54 AM (lFFxq)

735 Better head out.

Make it a good day, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 03:57 AM (lFFxq)

736 That stuff can have that effect Quint!

Glad it wasnt something more serious

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 13, 2021 03:54 AM (lFFxq)

I normally use dip. That is what I get for being healthy.

Posted by: Quint at July 13, 2021 03:59 AM (F2/Ok)

737 No Pixy yet
I'm outta here
Stay cool, hydrated and have a great day

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2021 04:14 AM (Cxk7w)

738 Pixy's up at his main blog:

https://ai.mee.nu

so should be up here soon.

Posted by: m at July 13, 2021 04:17 AM (6dJKT)

739 I'm not watching baseball anymore but still just do a quick check of the standings. I failed to notice the All Star break has kicked in which I never watched anyway. Boy, I bet it's going to be woke, woke, woke.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 13, 2021 04:18 AM (I58tH)

740 No, that's Pixy's entry from yesterday. Sorry.

Posted by: m at July 13, 2021 04:18 AM (6dJKT)

741 Pixy may have stepped out for something deemed non essential and the NSW cops grabbed him.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 13, 2021 04:21 AM (I58tH)

742 739 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 13, 2021 04:18 AM (I58tH)

Wokeball.

Posted by: sven at July 13, 2021 04:22 AM (Lzpvj)

743 741 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 13, 2021 04:21 AM (I58tH)

Could be, the NSW cops are busy saving the world from the superflu after all.

Posted by: sven at July 13, 2021 04:23 AM (Lzpvj)

744 742 They'll kick things off with the Black National Anthem, something for the 'Ricans, might as well throw in something for the Dominicans, and finally a couple bars of something a white guy wrote in Baltimore glorifying war and racism. First homer is for George Floyd.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 13, 2021 04:26 AM (I58tH)

745 741 Pixy may have stepped out for something deemed non essential and the NSW cops grabbed him.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 13, 2021 04:21 AM (I58tH)

Oh, noooooo!

Posted by: m at July 13, 2021 04:28 AM (6dJKT)

746 >>>NSW cops grabbed him

https://tinyurl.com/kewepyzv

Posted by: m at July 13, 2021 04:31 AM (6dJKT)

747 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 13, 2021 04:33 AM (6dJKT)

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