The Morning Rant

GRATITUDE 2021
The sermon I heard in church last week was about our duty to thank God not only for the good things, but for adversity and very unpleasant things. Last year, my gratitude list was for pleasant things. But this year, I am trying to thank God, and be grateful, for unpleasant things:

I am grateful that my enemies are deranged lunatics. I would be very unsettled if they were calm, sensible, rational, and sober.

I am grateful that the crazies are getting more obviously crazier, because they are just making themselves easier to identify.

I am grateful that evil cannot stand on its own, but needs good to prop it up. Because one day the good will stop propping it up. Or the evil will become so deluded it will divorce itself completely from good and will not be able to keep from collapsing.

(I see this play out every time antifa scum gets into a jam and, forgetting all their rhetoric about 'ACAB', start hollering for the cops to come help them. I think it's hilarious every time I see this. The brave anarchists need the support of the law in order to carry out their lawlessness. Kind of ironic, no?)

I am grateful for the traitors in our midst:

Jonah Goldberg
Stephen Hayes
David French
Bill Kristol
Steve Schmidt
Tom Nichols
Max Boot
the Dispatch child molesters.
etc.

I am grateful that even though I didn't know who they were before, but now I do. I am grateful that events of the last four years ripped off their cloaks of respectability like the climax of a Scooby-Doo cartoon where they tear off the bad guy's mask.

(My only question about them now is, do they still think they're going to one day assume their rightful titles of Big Time Influential Conservatives? I remember one of these clowns, I think it was either Nichols or Schmidt, who wrote a big tweet storm that went like this: "Ooooh, you dirty Trumpists. Oooooh, I hate you! Your day is coming. Not long from now, Trump will be gone. Then what will you do? Oooooh, I can't wait. Because you'll be asking me, begging me to be let back in, and I'll say 'no'! HAHAHAHAHA!!! Suck on it, you awful Trumpists! You disgust me! Ooooooh!" It was a completely delusional screed of revenge fantasy/porn, and it was actually quite pathetic. I think perhaps he had been drinking.

I'm still waiting for them to build their big, bold, sexy, Trump-free conservatism. But from what I can tell so far, they haven't done squat.)

I am grateful that they are such miserable failures, and that the only way they can survive is by being somebody else's tool.

I am grateful that we know who they are, but they apparently have no idea who we are.

Oh, and I am unironically grateful to all of you 'rons and 'ettes who visit my threads regularly with your insightful, witty, and often hilarious comments. I've learned a lot from them and I use some of them as fodder for subsequent rants. You all make this blog the special place that it is. Other conservative sites have had to severely limit or shut down their comment sections because they had become so toxic and useless for any kind of discussion, but by the grace of God, we have managed to avoid that here.

So my heartfelt thanks to you all. And may tomorrow evening find you passed out in front of the TV with a turkey leg in one hand and a piece of pumpkin pie in the other.

As I posted last year, here is a good, 2-minute video on gratitude from PragerU:

Unfortunately, most people don’t learn how important gratitude is until it’s too late. pic.twitter.com/SHLDtURzDF
— PragerU (@prageru) November 23, 2020

Thanksgiving 2021:

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Prayer Requests:
9/18 – Homer’s Donuts needs prayers for hope, healing, health, support, and strength as his wife has chosen to divorce him. They have a young son. Clinical depression and panic attacks, a constant in his life, are hitting him hard. He says he has such low energy that Jeb Bush looks down on him. The divorce is making things worse, and he feels completely obsolete and alone, without anyone on his side.
10/28 Update – Homer’s Donuts says he is undergoing more frequent panic attacks and fears that the frequency and severity will ultimately lead him to be declared “unfit” to have custody of his son. He has an exit plan in place and will move out soon, but life with the ex-wife is simply unbearable.
10/13 – Aelfheld asks for prayers for her former co-worker, KV, who lost her mother on 9/21 and her grandmother a week later, all while her husband was sick with pneumonia. Prayers for her and her sisters in their time of loss and mourning.
10/13 – Sassy has 2 prayer requests. First is a thank you and praise report. She has made it through the gauntlet of breast cancer. (Double mastectomy and rebuild in Feb, Mar-May chemo, June-July radiation, Sept hysterectomy). She is now free to look towards the future, and thanks the horde for their prayers. Second is a prayer for the Repose of the soul of Gilbert, who died of Covid. He leaves a distraught wife and 3 teen sons. They are strong Chinese Catholics, but fear and anxiety are strong. May the Lord give them peace.
10/13 – Grannysaurus Rex requests prayers for her father-in-law who has entered hospice care. He is a much-loved WWII Marine vet, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Please pray for a peaceful passing and for God’s grace as a comfort for the family.
10/21 Update – Her father-in-law has peacefully passed away. Thanks to all for their prayers.
10/17 – Pollywog the ‘Ette passes along a prayer request for Brother Tim, who was admitted to the hospital Sunday for kidney stones and UTI. He needs both full healing, since this isn’t the first time he’s had these problems, and financial blessings. Prayer that he be able to have rest and peace, not something hospitals are known for, would be helpful as well.
11/16 Update – Brother Tim is healing, but still needs prayers for his job situation.
10/20 – Dr_No sends an update on his daughter, Megan, who we have prayed for while she was going through Stage III[c] cancer of the sigmoid colon. She has been done with chemo for a while and has received her ‘N.E.D’ diagnosis: ‘No Evidence of Disease’. Her doctors and caregivers were outstanding, and it means everything to see her able to live a normal life again. Yes, there’s always the unspoken fear that she may in future get a diagnosis of cancer’s return, but for now we enjoy that she’s healthy again and no longer in pain. After reading the prayer list, and understanding what others are faced with Do_No says he can only wish for them the joy and relief that he and the rest of the family have at Megan’s successful treatment, and sends his thanks to all for their words up.
10/22 - Pookysgirl asks for prayers for Pooky, as he is going in for extensive neuropsychological testing for 4-8 hours on Oct 27, so he could really use prayers today. He’s had issues with similar testing in the past, so prayers for calming and peace would be appreciated.
10/27 – R asks for prayers for himself and the woman he loves. He broke her heart with foolish decisions and now they are both brokenhearted. He is facing a future that will be filled with problems that might break him. He is trying not to fall into despair and could use a boost from everyone.
11/5 – Eeyore mood has an update:
I wrote you a couple of times about my friend's 4 year old grandson who was killed by the child's mother's boyfriend. He got out on bail because he was only charged with Negligence Resulting in Death. The autopsy report has not been formally released. The results could bring an increase in charges. The man is due back in court for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 15th. I would ask for prayer that the man who killed my friend's grandson be charged for the crimes he committed and justice be done. Also that God's peace be for the child's father, siblings and grandmother so they know He cares for them. Understandably, they are still devastated by this tragedy. Compounding this is that the child's mother is still defending her son's killer, saying it was an accident. If you are on Facebook and want more information, you can go to the Justice for Brantley page or go to the justiceforbrantley.com Thank you for your assistance.
11/18 Update – The mother’s boyfriend is still out on bond. No new charges were added. The tentative trial date is June 22.
11/8 – 496 requests prayers for strength and wisdom for him and his entire family.
11/9 – Weak Geek asks for prayers for his father, who is recovering from surgery. He is out of intensive care but drops into bouts of defeatism. Also prayers for WG’s sister, who is on site and therefore shoulders the brunt of this burden.
11/9 – Krebs v Carnot has 2 requests: First, that his father-in-law William, find peace and blessings in the presence of the Lord, having passed away Saturday after a brief illness, and hat members of his family be comforted and strengthened with the knowledge that their beloved Bill has found eternal and joyous peace at last. And second, that his mother, 3 siblings, and he be granted patience, strength, and wisdom, as they work through getting Mom to a state where she is able to continue to live her life as independently as possible in the place of her choosing, and that all those in the elder care community working with her continue to help Mom see and do what she much through their kind and loving teachings and that Mom’s eyes be opened so as to understand that they, too, will rejoice as she progresses toward her goal.
11/16 – Inspector’s best friend Tom was diagnosed with Covid last week. It’s been like a nasty flu, but he is recovering. Prayers for his continued recovery, that it not affect his job.
11/16 – Inspector’s co-worker Marie was diagnosed last week with uterine cancer. It was caught early, so they’re hopeful for the prognosis, but prayer for healing, and strength for her and her family would be very appreciated.

For Healing:
10/20 – Nancy at 7000 ft is asking for prayers for her friend Timothy, who just had a quadruple bypass yesterday. Tim owns and runs a small business repairing industrial machines, and has recently purchased an old church with his wife Gabrielle, and was in the process of moving when he experienced a minor heart attack. Further investigation revealed he had an aneurismic section of his aorta, a genetic condition, and required multiple bypasses. Pray for an easing of his post-surgical pain and a full recovery.
10/27 – J asks for prayers for his nephew, Tim, who has throat and tongue cancer. Tim is in his mid-30s, married, and has 5 kids.
11/3 – MammaB is asking for prayers for her father who is 84 and having kidney failure.
11/4 – Tonypete asks for prayers for his dear friend Beth’s daughter Dominique who is 36 years old and has been diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. It has already spread to her liver and appears to be very aggressive. Please pray for a remission and for her doctors’ skill. Failing that, prayers for a Holy Death.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com

If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her.

Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after five weeks or so unless we receive an update.

Romans 8:26-27
[26] In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. [27] And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

Who Dis:

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For the 'Ettes:

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Monday Who Dis: According to Imdb.com, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 18-year-old Cliff Robertson,then serving on a merchant ship in the Pacific Ocean, was reported dead to his family in California. You have to wonder how they found out he was still alive. He starred in The Big Show in 1961 along with former Miss California Margia Dean, who left Hollywood a few years later. Ms. Dean went on to become the vice-president of a major real estate firm, a Beverly Hills restaurateur and a Brentwood dress shop owner.

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Mashed Potatoes & Gravy: mashed potatos and gravy 01.jpg

Gravy recipe available here.

Bonus Pirate TV:

On this date in 1987, PBS station #WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago is interrupted for 88 seconds by a pirate television transmitter overriding the station's transmission to broadcast a video of himself in a #MaxHeadroom mask being spanked. (Subtitles added) pic.twitter.com/72cExI7sB0
— Silver Age Television 📺 (@SilverAgeTV) November 22, 2021

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:12 AM

Comments

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1 First?

Posted by: 496 at November 24, 2021 11:14 AM (rtqtT)

2 Wow.

Posted by: Wow at November 24, 2021 11:14 AM (wFQsY)

3 I never did understand that "first!" faggotry.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 24, 2021 11:14 AM (vuisn)

4 I am grateful that my enemies are deranged lunatics. I would be very unsettled if they were calm, sensible, rational, and sober.

If they were those things, they wouldn't be enemies.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2021 11:14 AM (p+1gI)

5 I'm guessing he is Steve Reeves?

Don't know her, but she looks to be from the '60s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:14 AM (txdEq)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Great full the traitors are showing their hands these last 4 years

Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 24, 2021 11:15 AM (bHEHY)

8 The who dis lady is quite lovely.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2021 11:15 AM (csEWM)

9 Who Dis: A woman of many looks and Steve Reeves.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 24, 2021 11:15 AM (TNyrE)

10 Also, I had forgotten about the Dispatch. How are they distinct from the Lincoln Project?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2021 11:15 AM (csEWM)

11 Oh, and I am unironically grateful to all of you 'rons and 'ettes who visit my threads regularly with your insightful, witty, and often hilarious comments.

Aw crap! That lets me out. (kicks dirt)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2021 11:15 AM (7bRMQ)

12 Paul Harvey had a great series of broadcasts where he pretended he was covering early even from the American Revolution as a modern news broadcaster.

It was really eye opening, that even in that time we'd moved so far from the brave, free men that built this country.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021 11:16 AM (ESjRY)

13 Oh, right. The Dispatch was that newsletter started with Jonah, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2021 11:16 AM (csEWM)

14 Boy, would I love some mashed potatoes and gravy right now.

And my 'who dis' mojo is severely off. I haven't been able to identify most of the ladies in a while.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 11:16 AM (2JVJo)

15 Willowed - so reposting.

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That's the reality millions are facing with this decision. Companies are banking on people not having the will - or the time and $ - to stand up to this. And they're right. 99% of people don't have the will, time or $ to do so. So the path of least resistance is to go through the religious exemption request process.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton

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I don't know what the right answer is for you. Everyone is in a different situation. I'm guessing most companies don't really want to be doing this - their HR department probably does - but even the company CEO's would probably rather not have to deal with all this. My guess is many companies will not fall through with the terminations after receiving "new advice" and some will end up hiring people back when they realize they need people.

I'd say this - if you are truly someone who has value - you will likely be fine whether at current company or a new one.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM (sX1BW)

16 Pirate TV > Network TV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM (BFigT)

17 I am thankful for "Who Dis (Busty)".

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM (j40lz)

18 I never did understand that "first!" faggotry.

Its an acquired taste

Posted by: Tony Fauci wiping his chin at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM (ESjRY)

19 Thank YOU, OregonMuse, for your always insightful and pithy commentary. Along with all of the other content that you and the cobs put together on a daily basis for our amusement. Life for me would be much drearier without you all to spice it up!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM (YIVH2)

20 Suck on it, you awful Trumpists! You disgust me! Ooooooh!
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I hate the Colonel, with his smug smile and wee, beady eyes. Ooooh, you're gonna buy my chicken. Ooooh!

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM (XrT7O)

21 My job was generous with exemptions. Gave free PCR machines and 3 months of test kits. Required us to test twice weekly and self report the results. 140 exemptees sued the company for religious persecution over the testing requirements. Couldn't just take the W and walk away.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (9HRiP)

22 i am grateful for the eternal battle between the noble hamster and the dastardly ampersand.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (oY6Yp)

23 That Max Headroom hijack is the perfect symbol of the 1980s

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (DJFLF)

24 I hate the Colonel, with his smug smile and wee, beady eyes. Ooooh, you're gonna buy my chicken. Ooooh!
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM (XrT7O)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (csEWM)

25 On the flipside, I'm grateful for the honest liberals who don't lie to my face.

I often don't agree with Glenn Greenwald, Jimmy Dore, Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi and the like, but they were all right on RussiaGate, they are all right on Covid, and on other issues I've gone back and read their old stuff that I once mocked out of hand and learned that the honest libs are better journalists than the GOP grifter class provides.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM (Bmy3R)

26 I nooded like a good girl.

I'm thankful for the HQ because I'm not stuck reading MSN or other pushed stories.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM (/+bwe)

27 Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a National Holiday. Needless to say it took a second for the South to embrace it.

Posted by: Just a side note at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM (wp7uW)

28 I'd say this - if you are truly someone who has value - you will likely be fine whether at current company or a new one.

One other thing to note - if they succeed with the clot shot mandate it will NOT be just take your double tap and if you make it through you are fine.

They will force you to get a new jab every 3-6 months. And you won't be able to claim a religious exemption then.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM (ESjRY)

29 9 Who Dis: A woman of many looks and Steve Reeves.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 24, 2021 11:15 AM (TNyrE)

Steve Reeves, the cheesy Hercules guy?

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM (cSyAR)

30 3 I never did understand that "first!" faggotry.

sounds like sour grapes

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM (oY6Yp)

31 >>>But this year, I am trying to thank God, and be grateful, for unpleasant things:

. . .

>>>Oh, and I am unironically grateful to all of you 'rons and 'ettes who visit my threads regularly with your insightful, witty, and often hilarious comments.

ISWYDT.

*side-eyes OregonMuse*

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM (SH2Zi)

32 Couldn't just take the W and walk away.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (9HRiP)

If they prevail in court though it's a good precedent for other litigators.

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:20 AM (DJFLF)

33 Required us to test twice weekly and self report the results. 140 exemptees sued the company for religious persecution over the testing requirements. Couldn't just take the W and walk away.

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Honestly, I think the testing accommodation is BS. That's not freedom, even if all you really had to do was self-report you were fine whether you tested or not. Still, I side with the 140.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 24, 2021 11:20 AM (sX1BW)

34

That video had more viewers and made more sense than Joy Reid.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2021 11:20 AM (s2VJv)

35 Ahmaud Arbery is probably the least thuggish of the recent high profile cases of black men shot while just supposedly minding their own business. Still, any decent investigation would probably show he was a petty criminal and almost undoubtedly was currently engaged in or planning some theft. Maybe he didn't deserve to die but sure as hell was not out for a jog.

If only there was some organization that could dig into the facts and history of this young man by actually doing some research and talk to numerous people (besides family) that new him and report back to the public

Posted by: Ripley at November 24, 2021 11:20 AM (MxEKc)

36 I've learned a lot from them and I use some of them as fodder for subsequent rants.

******

His fodder was a mutterer, and HIS fodder was also a mutterer!

(Thanks for all your interesting posts through the years, OM.)

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 11:20 AM (m45I2)

37 I...I'm pretty sure the guy getting spanked is a young Jonah Goldberg. He seems to like that kind of stuff.

Posted by: pep at November 24, 2021 11:20 AM (ZsR3z)

38 Pumpkin pie thing reminds me of this Frank Zappa album cover...

https://i.redd.it/nf3kyyzl9fcx.jpg

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2021 11:20 AM (mZUr4)

39 Biden appears to read instruction off teleprompter: 'End of quote'
By Joe Tacopino; November 23, 2021 9:28pm; Updated
President Biden appeared to have a "Ron Burgundy" moment Tuesday while reading a speech about gas prices off a Teleprompter.

Biden was compared to the fictional newscaster from the movie "Anchorman" when he recited the words "end of quote" after referencing a statement from the CEO of Walmart.

"And, by the way, you may have heard the CEO of Walmart yesterday on the steps we've taken. He said, and I quote, 'The combination of private enterprise and government working together has been really successful,'" Biden said in the speech.

"He went on to say, 'All the way through the supply chain, there's ... a lot of innovation.' Because of the actions we've taken, things have begun to change. End of quote."

The president then moved on to the next sentence.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:21 AM (UHVv4)

40 #QOTD

Useful for teacher's unions:

"Never have so many been paid so much for so little."

-Robert A. Heinlein

Posted by: Oswald Thatendswald at November 24, 2021 11:21 AM (fBtlL)

41 Thanks to you, OM, for the many excellent morning rants. I am grateful we have a poignant, studious, and witty oracle (in ape form) that puts forth excellent content throughout the week.

I just wish I had a better track record with Who Dis guesses.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 24, 2021 11:21 AM (TNyrE)

42 Photo #5. Damn.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 24, 2021 11:22 AM (SjKZp)

43 I...I'm pretty sure the guy getting spanked is a young Jonah Goldberg. He seems to like that kind of stuff.

You would not believe how the whiny he is. I tell him, the Ms Jonah and I will be done in a few hours, go eat your hotdogs. And yet, every five minutes he knocks on the door. It is the pathetic!

Posted by: The Paulo at November 24, 2021 11:22 AM (ESjRY)

44 And we are grateful for you OM. Thanks for everything.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2021 11:22 AM (mD/uy)

45 Steve Reeves, the cheesy Hercules guy?

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM (cSyAR)

Yes.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 11:22 AM (kSSxT)

46 Didn't Hildebeeste once read "Smile now" or something like that, off the prompter?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at November 24, 2021 11:22 AM (Bmy3R)

47 I never did understand that "first!" faggotry.

Are you saying people that are first are from Kansas City ?

Posted by: JT at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (arJlL)

48 Honestly, I think the testing accommodation is BS. That's not freedom, even if all you really had to do was self-report you were fine whether you tested or not. Still, I side with the 140.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 24, 2021

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I've been ignoring and deleting the emails with QR code about testing. So far nobody has said anything, any more than they did all summer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (txdEq)

49 Update on Inspector's friend Tom. He ended up in the hospital. Not from covid per se, but from dehydration because of the loss of taste and smell (or rather, near loss because everything tastes and smells like moldy cardboard to him) caused severe dehydration. He's out of the hospital and Inspector is doing what he can, from a couple hundred miles away, to make sure he takes care of himself.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (MXdMt)

50 Steve Reeves paved the way for Arnold.

Posted by: Just a side note at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (wp7uW)

51 Grateful that I'm not vaccinated.
Grateful that l'm no longer a tool of the tyrants, pretending to be a representative of God and Freedom.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (juH8z)

52 "Never have so many been paid so much for so little."

-Robert A. Heinlein
Posted by: Oswald Thatendswald at November 24, 2021 11:21 AM (fBtlL)
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That's a good quote for a lot of people today. Including myself to some degree. There is NOTHING going on in the office today, but I came in to "man the phones." And avoid using up precious vacation time...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (YIVH2)

53 President Marionette's handlers should put up Max Headroom-like backgrounds when he gives those phony speeches from the phony White House studio.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (TNyrE)

54 My job was generous with exemptions. Gave free PCR machines and 3 months of test kits. Required us to test twice weekly and self report the results. 140 exemptees sued the company for religious persecution over the testing requirements. Couldn't just take the W and walk away.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (9HRiP)

Well, given that the PCR test is basically worthless, and a PITA (or nose, as the case may be), I can see their point.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (P3gRi)

55 I'd say this - if you are truly someone who has value - you will likely be fine whether at current company or a new one.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM (sX1BW)
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I'm on the verge of losing a gig that paid me $164K last year. It's very difficult to find a matching gig that doesn't already have a jab requirement, especially where I currently live, but we are determined to stay in a Free State.

I'm prepared to take a 15 - 20K hit. We could cut back a bit and be fine. Luckily, my wife supports me absolutely holding out - no jab, no mask, no testing, even of they fire me. We'll just sell the house, declare bankruptcy, and I'll wash dishes or start robbing banks. Who can say?

I kind of hope it goes to SCOTUS and it's upheld. The last shreds of the Republic swept away. A deathspiral for the economy as companies bleed brainpower like crazy, and guys like me with expensive hobbies no longer buy anything but the bare essentials. Reap the whirlwind, motherfuckers.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 24, 2021 11:24 AM (XrT7O)

56 I remember P.J. O'Rourke writing in the National Lampoon Thanksgiving issue many years ago:

"I am thankful that that I have a gun. Because I have some money and would be crazy not to."

"I am thankful that I am white. Because it's never good to be something you can't pretend you're not."

Posted by: Miklos so recalls at November 24, 2021 11:24 AM (QzkSJ)

57 One other thing to note - if they succeed with the clot shot mandate it will NOT be just take your double tap and if you make it through you are fine.

They will force you to get a new jab every 3-6 months. And you won't be able to claim a religious exemption then.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021

***
Exactly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:24 AM (txdEq)

58 Our online phone system is down at work at the moment. Giving me extra goof-off time

Posted by: Guy Smiley at November 24, 2021 11:24 AM (Bmy3R)

59 The pie slice is hysterical.

I moved from Chitcago before the hackening, but that's pretty funny too.

Pointless, but funny.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:24 AM (Zz0t1)

60 I don't remember the details but Cliff Robertson was unpersoned in Hollywood because he complained about one of the elite forging checks on his account. He was supposed to shut up and take it like a man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 24, 2021 11:24 AM (FVME7)

61 Never have so many been paid so much for so little."

-Robert A. Heinlein
Posted by: Oswald Thatendswald at November 24, 2021 11:21 AM (fBtlL)

News Readers

Posted by: Just a side note at November 24, 2021 11:24 AM (wp7uW)

62 OM -

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yourn !

Posted by: JT at November 24, 2021 11:25 AM (arJlL)

63 I wish I could give all of you a couple slices of my TD pasta roll

a pasta jelly roll layered with spinach, ricotta and other cheeses

then boiled to firmness

1 inch slices are then baked with butter and parm on top

topped with a rich Sunday gravy

Posted by: REDACTED at November 24, 2021 11:25 AM (us2H3)

64 YOU S-S-S-S-SHIT MY P-P-PANTS!

Posted by: Biden Headroom at November 24, 2021 11:25 AM (SjKZp)

65 accommodation is BS. That's not freedom

Posted by: SH

Edited for pithyness

Posted by: Miklos so considers at November 24, 2021 11:25 AM (QzkSJ)

66 Steve Reeves was Mr Universe 1950 You can see the standards of physique have changed since then

Posted by: steevy at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (CYnTg)

67 Saw about half a dozen SF Bay Area smash and grab videos this morning. A couple being small boutiques being absolutely destroyed by mobs. They still seem clueless as to how it's all happening.

Then one did a report that the financial district is sinking. Got me all excited except it's 3" in the past century. Not fast enough. Of course they're saying it's a big deal because ocean levels are climbing at such an alarming rate. Strange how they never site proof or how much. Too bad Bezos didn't know this before he spent $27M on an oceanfront compound on Maui. He'll be underwater in 23,000 years.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (wAnMi)

68 Photo #5. Damn.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 24, 2021 11:22 AM (SjKZp)

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My thought exactly.

Out: Fred Flintstone
In: Freida Flintstone

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (TNyrE)

69 JP Morgan CEO apologizes for comment about the CCP.
---------------------------------
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon joked that his bank would outlast the CCP
"I regret and should not have made that comment," Dimon said in a statement from the bank Wednesday.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (UHVv4)

70 I make it a practice to thank God for my life on a regular basis. I thank Him for my entire life - the good things and the bad - the easy and the hard.

I make sure it is a part of every prayer I send Him.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (gmo/4)

71 JT

Posted by: Thanksgiving in General at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (QzkSJ)

72
"I am thankful that I am white. Because it's never good to be something you can't pretend you're not."
Posted by: Miklos so recalls at November 24, 2021 11:24 AM (QzkSJ)

Wait.....what?!?

- Talcum X

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

73 That's a good quote for a lot of people today. Including myself to some degree. There is NOTHING going on in the office today, but I came in to "man the phones." And avoid using up precious vacation time...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (YIVH2)

Same. I'm the only one here.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (Ez6QX)

74 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (arJlL)

75 Yes am very grateful to Ace,the Cobs, and all of the horde

Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 24, 2021 11:27 AM (bHEHY)

76 I'm thankful for the internet. Not only does it put all the greatest products of civilization at our fingertips, it also is the best way we can dredge some tatters of truth from a world of deceit, spin and FUD. At the very least, it lets us easily locate the spin and lies we choose to believe and endorse.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at November 24, 2021 11:27 AM (qpX6U)

77 Who dis girl photo 5 looks like it's from a Dean Martin movie....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2021 11:27 AM (7bRMQ)

78 If it weren't for 17 year olds with guns, we'd still be British, and if we were still British, we'd be speaking German.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 24, 2021 11:27 AM (KAi1n)

79 What does it say about me that I can tell you the Dr Who episode that was interrupted by the pirate just by the few seconds they show of it before the interruption?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 24, 2021 11:27 AM (ezpv1)

80 When the Boss goes Vaycay, da monkey get Funky

Posted by: It's almost like its own thread at November 24, 2021 11:27 AM (QzkSJ)

81 I started watching one of those old Reeves Hercules recently. I couldn't do it.

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:28 AM (cSyAR)

82 I never did understand that "first!" faggotry.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 24, 2021 11:14 AM (vuisn)

I will smack you with a leather glove and DEMAND satisfaction.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

83 23 That Max Headroom hijack is the perfect symbol of the 1980s
Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (DJFLF)

I just saw the video. The guy in the mask was humming the theme to Clutch Cargo...

Mystery solved?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 24, 2021 11:29 AM (mdjgu)

84 And, by the way, you may have heard the CEO of Walmart yesterday on the steps we've taken. He said, and I quote, 'The combination of private enterprise and government working together has been really successful,'" Biden said in the speech.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:21 AM (UHVv4)

I endorse this approach of govt and business working hand in glove!

Posted by: Austrian painter running for German Chancellor 1932 at November 24, 2021 11:29 AM (Ojki1)

85 OM, I'm grateful for your threads that are insightful, witty, and hilarious.

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 24, 2021 11:29 AM (sjdRT)

86 I hate the Colonel, with his smug smile and wee, beady eyes. Ooooh, you're gonna buy my chicken. Ooooh!
Posted by: insurgens ad opus

I do not, ah say, I do not trust that man.

Not a joke, son.

Posted by: Sen. Foghorn Leghorn at November 24, 2021 11:29 AM (QzkSJ)

87 Was who 'dis girl in one of those Hercules movies wearing a wee little tunic?

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (cSyAR)

88 better journalists than the GOP grifter class provides.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM (Bmy3R)

Ha! I read that as the GOP glitter class! Well, that probably describes them too....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (7bRMQ)

89 That's a good quote for a lot of people today. Including myself to some degree. There is NOTHING going on in the office today, but I came in to "man the phones." And avoid using up precious vacation time...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2021
*
Same. I'm the only one here.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021

***
One of my colleagues and my boss are here, but we're all in separate offices. Our employer is closing at 2 pm for the holiday, so my leaving at 11:30 is not too big a deal. Still, I have errands to run and a nap at home with my name on it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (txdEq)

90 OM: Honestly, thank you. You, ace and all the cobs. This place is an oasis, academy (the good kind) and meeting hall.

Thanks to all the commenters too. You guys and gals are aces.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (csEWM)

91 JP Morgan CEO apologizes for comment about the CCP.
---------------------------------
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon joked that his bank would outlast the CCP
"I regret and should not have made that comment," Dimon said in a statement from the bank Wednesday.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (UHVv4)

What it looks like when China reaches out and touches someone after the fact........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

92 JP Morgan CEO apologizes for comment about the CCP.
---------------------------------
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon joked that his bank would outlast the CCP
"I regret and should not have made that comment," Dimon said in a statement from the bank Wednesday.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (UHVv4)

lol, How's Chinese ass taste, Dimon? The problem with eating Chinese ass is that two hours later, you are hungry for more.

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (SH2Zi)

93 I watched the WGN TV hijacking by Max Headroom back then live. It was during the 9 pm news sports segment. Freaked me out actually.

Posted by: Roy at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (Ti+Tv)

94 "I regret and should not have made that comment,"

Why not?

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (B0mGw)

95 Secksie

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (flINI)

96 Are you saying people that are first are from Kansas City ?
Posted by: JT a

You show those dummies, granpa!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 24, 2021 11:31 AM (1t5dY)

97 I am thankful for the ace the HQ and all of you. Keeps me sane to vent here and have a good laugh

Posted by: steevy at November 24, 2021 11:31 AM (CYnTg)

98 I'm still waiting for them to build their big, bold, sexy, Trump-free conservatism. But from what I can tell so far, they haven't done squat.)

--------

"Coincidentally, that's what we've named the only thing we have built -- a luxury cuckshed on a luxury cruise ship! Reserve your spots now ... prepubescent boys are free ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at November 24, 2021 11:31 AM (LXxM7)

99 topped with a rich Sunday gravy
Posted by: REDACTED

Just when I got to drinking, now I'm hungry

Posted by: Miklos, with a very mild form of "damn you" at November 24, 2021 11:31 AM (QzkSJ)

100 One thing I gotta get off my chest: unless I've completely missed it, I'm surprised nobody I've read has brought up about the Waukasha DA John Chisholm ordering the John Doe Raids back in 2011. Anarcho-tyranny anyone?

https://tinyurl.com/pzjx3rsw

Posted by: Armando at November 24, 2021 11:31 AM (nH9uD)

101 lol, How's Chinese ass taste, Dimon? The problem with eating Chinese ass is that two hours later, you are hungry for more.

Quoted for truth.

Posted by: LeBron James at November 24, 2021 11:32 AM (ESjRY)

102 Nordstrom and the GAP being hurt by the Bidenconomy.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:32 AM (UHVv4)

103 Germany has a new Chancellor. Sholz.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2021 11:32 AM (KOlLu)

104 I started watching one of those old Reeves Hercules recently. I couldn't do it.

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:28 AM (cSyAR)

----------------
The only way I've watched is Hercules or other Greek related movies was by way of MST3K.

However, the female form is also well displayed in these movies, so that helps with focus too.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 24, 2021 11:32 AM (TNyrE)

105 there was another imperial Roman daughter, can't recall her name, but quite a few tall tales sprung up around her antics too

then her dad had her killed.

Somewhere in China there's an enormous American testicle repository.

Posted by: pep at November 24, 2021 11:33 AM (ZsR3z)

106 How's Chinese ass taste, Dimon?

Like bad chicken chow mein
Lebron James

Posted by: steevy at November 24, 2021 11:33 AM (CYnTg)

107 That Max Headroom hijack is the perfect symbol of the 1980s
Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (DJFLF)

I just saw the video. The guy in the mask was humming the theme to Clutch Cargo...

Mystery solved?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 24, 2021 11:29 AM (mdjgu)

Exactly how was the piracy accomplished? A TV transmitter powerful enough to blank out the legit signal over a wide area would be extremely expensive, not to mention the antenna. OTOH, tapping into the cable between the studio and transmitter could be pretty easy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:33 AM (P3gRi)

108 Are you saying people that are first are from Kansas City ?

Posted by: JT at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (arJlL)

Kansas City, Kansas City here I come!

Posted by: Wilburt "Don" Lemon at November 24, 2021 11:33 AM (7bRMQ)

109 One thing I gotta get off my chest: unless I've completely missed it, I'm surprised nobody I've read has brought up about the Waukasha DA John Chisholm ordering the John Doe Raids back in 2011. Anarcho-tyranny anyone?

https://tinyurl.com/pzjx3rsw

Posted by: Armando at November 24, 2021 11:31 AM (nH9uD)

I mentioned it in a sock. I think it passed by the horde uncommented.

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 11:33 AM (SH2Zi)

110 If only there was some organization that could dig into the facts and history of this young man by actually doing some research and talk to numerous people (besides family) that new him and report back to the public Posted by: Ripley

There aren't organizations per se that seek the truth about current matters but you can find 'news' by reporters via the Internet. Plus, foreign sources for US news are less likely to shill for the Dems. So start reading the Daily Mail, the Jerusalem Post, etc. via the internet to find out what is not covered in the US. Ignore your phone pushed news, ignore the tv, ignore places like the WSJ, NYT, etc. JJ and a few others can also serve you up curated links to current events.
Essentially, understand, on current events, you are on your own. Politicians lie to you at all levels, US media lies to you on all levels, and other institutional and societal leaders may lie to you at all levels. Think of yourself as a Soviet citizen back in the day where airbrushed photos told you of leadership shakeups, figuring that conditions were the opposite of what the leaders were saying generally and if the leaders admit a crisis then it was worse than thought.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2021 11:33 AM (9hXN1)

111 84 And, by the way, you may have heard the CEO of Walmart yesterday on the steps we've taken. He said, and I quote, 'The combination of private enterprise and government working together has been really successful,'" Biden said in the speech.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:21 AM (UHVv4)

I endorse this approach of govt and business working hand in glove!
Posted by: Austrian painter running for German Chancellor 1932 at November 24, 2021 11:29 AM (Ojki1)

I second this endorsement and I hope to one day be able to implement it.

Posted by: Italian journalist and union official at November 24, 2021 11:34 AM (kSSxT)

112 @105
Well damn, that didn't go as planned.

Posted by: pep at November 24, 2021 11:34 AM (ZsR3z)

113 One thing I gotta get off my chest: unless I've completely missed it, I'm surprised nobody I've read has brought up about the Waukasha DA John Chisholm ordering the John Doe Raids back in 2011. Anarcho-tyranny anyone?

There are consequences to letting leftist criminals off the hook.

Someone should go drag Scott Walker to the funerals and make him apologize.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021 11:34 AM (ESjRY)

114 Somewhere in China there's an enormous American testicle repository.

LIES ALL LIES!

Posted by: The government of China at November 24, 2021 11:35 AM (ESjRY)

115 His fodder was a mutterer, and HIS fodder was also a mutterer!

(Thanks for all your interesting posts through the years, OM.)
Posted by: Muldoon

Sent from Camp Granada?

Posted by: The MiklosStatesItemNewsPicayune at November 24, 2021 11:35 AM (QzkSJ)

116 OregonMuse

It sounds like you have a thoughtful, interesting and grounded pastor in giving that sermon
. I hope you are thankful for him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2021 11:35 AM (poMoX)

117 Somewhere in China there's an enormous American testicle repository.

LIES ALL LIES!

Posted by: The government of China at November 24, 2021 11:35 AM

And the fact is this is a bunch of lies! We have proof - see the Chinese government said it was lies!

Posted by: The FNM at November 24, 2021 11:36 AM (ESjRY)

118 The bit about the sailor wrongly reported dead reminds me of something I heard a while back. A TV documentary mini-series about World War 2 (did Ken Burns do one?) had a guy who was captured by the Japanese during the war. Meanwhile, his family had been told that he was dead. When he got released, he called home. His mother answered the phone. When he identified himself, she fainted. His sister wandered into the room, spotted the phone, and answered. He identified himself again, and she also fainted. Finally his father came into the room, saw the phone, and answered. The former POW identified himself, and got to talk to his father, who mentioned what had happened to the women.

Posted by: junior at November 24, 2021 11:36 AM (uLEfc)

119 Well damn, that didn't go as planned.
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Especially for JFK!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:36 AM (UHVv4)

120 We still hav e to pay to get things from stores here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2021 11:36 AM (KOlLu)

121 Exactly how was the piracy accomplished? A TV transmitter powerful enough to blank out the legit signal over a wide area would be extremely expensive, not to mention the antenna. OTOH, tapping into the cable between the studio and transmitter could be pretty easy.

Overpowering a microwave link is even easier.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at November 24, 2021 11:37 AM (SchxB)

122 The president then moved on to the next sentence.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:21 AM (UHVv4)

Salute the Marines!

We're going to be seeing a lot more of this - at least as long as he can still read - and those days are numbered. They're lucky the media are doing everything they can to run interference for him and his sociopathic handlers.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 11:37 AM (wAnMi)

123 And the fact is this is a bunch of lies! We have proof - see the Chinese government said it was lies!

Posted by: The FNM at November 24, 2021 11:36 AM

This job is soooooo boring. Oh well, beats putting those chemicals in the baby formula. Also, what is wrong with those Americans?

Posted by: The guard at the Chinese testicle repository. at November 24, 2021 11:37 AM (ESjRY)

124 Ha! I read that as the GOP glitter class! Well, that probably describes them too....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (7bRMQ)

*preens*

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at November 24, 2021 11:37 AM (Ojki1)

125 I am thankful for your many blessings, Lord!

Including, oddly enough, this place. Hard to imagine that this is one of God's blessings but it is.

I am an OG, been here since it was on blogspot and 80 comments was a LOT. But its a cool place, and have made IRL friends here too.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2021 11:38 AM (mbFEM)

126 Overpowering a microwave link is even easier.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at November 24, 2021 11:37 AM (SchxB)

Makes you wonder if it was an inside job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:38 AM (P3gRi)

127 My guess is many companies will not fall through with the terminations after receiving "new advice" and some will end up hiring people back when they realize they need people. I'd say this - if you are truly someone who has value - you will likely be fine whether at current company or a new one.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM

I shall be filling out and submitting the religious exemption. I am hoping that my employer is just doing this for legal reasons and will treat this the same way they do our performance reviews. Which is to say that no matter what we put in the reviews, we all get the same rating regardless. Hopefully they will blindly accept all the exemption requests so long as there is at least an attempt to answer the questions.

I have been an exemplary employee since I started 11 years ago. I have the most seniority in my group than anyone, even more seniority than my current supervisor and dept manager. Can't easily replace either my experience, knowledge or my work ethic of going the extra mile. My colleagues and managers know this. But HR has final say.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2021 11:38 AM (Do5/p)

128 I am thankful for the 'Ettes edition of Who dis? for today. Usually the retro dudes are kind of meh, but today's was a strong entry. Don't know who it is, but thanks OM.

Posted by: She Hobbit at November 24, 2021 11:38 AM (ftFVW)

129 Anarcho-tyranny anyone?

https://tinyurl.com/pzjx3rsw

Posted by: Armando at November 24, 2021 11:31 AM (nH9uD)
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Only one way to fix that.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (juH8z)

130 Sylva Koscina was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (195

.

Didn't use google image search, nope, not at all.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (w9Wax)

131 We at least have electricity in America.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (KOlLu)

132 It sounds like you have a thoughtful, interesting and grounded pastor in giving that sermon
. I hope you are thankful for him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2021 11:35 AM (poMoX)

Yes I do, and believe me, I am *very* thankful for him.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (kSSxT)

133 Anyone get the Who Dis yet?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

134 Kansas City, Kansas City here I come!
Posted by: Wilburt "Don" Lemon

They got some crazy little women
And I won't get me none

Posted by: Willie "Miklos" Harrison at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (QzkSJ)

135 We at least have electricity in America.

For now pig dog, for now.

Posted by: The guard at the Chinese testicle repository. at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (ESjRY)

136 133 Anyone get the Who Dis yet?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

========

Like, for Christmas?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (3EWns)

137 87 Was who 'dis girl in one of those Hercules movies wearing a wee little tunic?

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:30 AM (cSyAR)

Well, so was he.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (kSSxT)

138 Exactly how was the piracy accomplished?
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They won't allow the public to really know. Don't want people doing it.
I suspect a few broadcast engineers/techs could tell you how

Posted by: Lrrr at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (IH5vN)

139 Sponge can I second this duel?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (bHEHY)

140 That's It!

I'm leaving the Republican Party!

Again.

Posted by: Max Boot! at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (I2/tG)

141 Just when I got to drinking, now I'm hungry
Posted by: Miklos, with a very mild form of "damn you" at November 24, 2021 11:31 AM (QzkSJ)

come by tomorrow

Posted by: REDACTED at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (us2H3)

142 I have a prayer request. A friend of mine who's a retired minister and attends our church fell and broke his hip and is having surgery today. His first initial is D. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (poMoX)

143 ========

Like, for Christmas?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (3EWns)

I don't get it......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

144 *preens*
Posted by: Lindsey Graham

Settle back down in them fancy loafers

Posted by: Dick Harpootlian at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (QzkSJ)

145 Required us to test twice weekly and self report the results. 140 exemptees sued the company for religious persecution over the testing requirements. Couldn't just take the W and walk away.

I wouldn't consider it a 'win' if you're still required to submit to the diktat of the state and twice-weekly submit yourself to being the government's guinea pig.

Good for the 140.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (2JVJo)

146 Everyone I know that has the vaccine still gets tested for the sniffles and usually tests positive. Thus, still propping up this fiasco and even 'quaranteening'. These are intelligent conservatives? Meanwhile, my wife will lose her job in March because unvaxxed and "dangerous". Is that what you mean by 'good propping up evil?'

Posted by: Stupid is as stupid does at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (wFQsY)

147 Steve Reeves - Sylvia Koscina - Hercules (195

& Hercules Unchained (1959)

Posted by: Zube at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (m+kht)

148 Makes you wonder if it was an inside job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:38 AM (P3gRi)

Of course it was! You can see it wasn't done outdoors!

Posted by: Blonde at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (7bRMQ)

149 Sponge can I second this duel?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (bHEHY)

Sure!

We'll have a festival!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

150 133 Anyone get the Who Dis yet?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

yes

not Hedy

Posted by: REDACTED at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (us2H3)

151 Exactly how was the piracy accomplished? A TV transmitter powerful enough to blank out the legit signal over a wide area would be extremely expensive, not to mention the antenna. OTOH, tapping into the cable between the studio and transmitter could be pretty easy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:33 AM

Wiki: "The broadcast intrusion was achieved by sending a more powerful microwave link transmission to the two stations' broadcast towers than the stations were sending themselves,... Experts have said that the intrusion required extensive technical expertise and "a significant amount of (transmitting) power" and that the pirate broadcast likely originated from somewhere in the line of sight of both stations' broadcast towers, which were atop tall buildings in downtown Chicago."

Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (EughT)

152 We at least have electricity in America.
Posted by: Boss Moss

For now

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (mD/uy)

153 For now pig dog, for now.
Posted by: The guard at the Chinese testicle repository. at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (ESjRY)

"Testicle repository" sounds pretty grim and forbidding. Couldn't you just say, "nut house"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (P3gRi)

154 His father was a mudder...

Obligatory Seinfeld clip:

https://youtu.be/9L3KU5eiEBo

Posted by: Kosmo Kramer at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (jYQlA)

155 105 Somewhere in China there's an enormous American testicle repository.

not affiliated with us.

Posted by: Atlanta Genital Institute at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (v3pYe)

156 My job was generous with exemptions. Gave free PCR machines and 3 months of test kits. Required us to test twice weekly and self report the results. 140 exemptees sued the company for religious persecution over the testing requirements. Couldn't just take the W and walk away.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (9HRiP)

Well, given that the PCR test is basically worthless, and a PITA (or nose, as the case may be), I can see their point.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (P3gRi)

I agree with AOP - I don't think frequent testing is a win. It's a PITA compromise but not enough. It is an infringement on liberty.

Posted by: Iris at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (DibdT)

157 Anarcho-tyranny anyone?

https://tinyurl.com/pzjx3rsw

Posted by: Armando at November 24, 2021 11:31 AM (nH9uD)
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Only one way to fix that.

So...damn...thirsty.

Posted by: Tree of Liberty at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (nH9uD)

158 " 'The combination of private enterprise and government working together has been really successful,'"

BigCorp did quite well as BigGov shut down their small business competition for the Plandemic, and now the legalized Looting (which probably kills small business more than BigBox store)

All entertainment and sales can be better tracked if it is mostly E-Commerce. Tax per mile on vehicles should help their coup advance as well. ... Stay home and live online, and the unvaxxed can never leave home by state dictate.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 24, 2021 11:42 AM (Cus5s)

159 "brave anarchists need the support of the law in order to carry out their lawlessness. "

Like Timothy McVeigh?

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at November 24, 2021 11:42 AM (juH8z)

160 147 Steve Reeves - Sylvia Koscina - Hercules (195 & Hercules Unchained (1959)

Posted by: Zube at November 24, 2021 11:40 AM (m+kht)

Very nice!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 11:42 AM (kSSxT)

161 Someone should go drag Scott Walker to the funerals and make him apologize.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021 11:34 AM (ESjRY)

Part of Walkers problems (though not all) came from the fact that many of the Reps in WI governance are GoPe in heart, if not yet big name enough to be noticed by the National GoPe. These cucks were happy when he was voted out so they could go whole hog for the Roadbuilders union in the hope they'd get more grift and fewer ads run against them in their attempt to stay in office.

WI has issues with the RINO party. Though Scott was amongst their numbers on most things that weren't Act 10.

Posted by: Bete at November 24, 2021 11:42 AM (Ojki1)

162 come by tomorrow
Posted by: REDACTED

Cool

Shortly after midnight is good for me.

Posted by: Miklos will arrive as expected at November 24, 2021 11:42 AM (QzkSJ)

163 I'm grateful that I haven't had to protect my husband from provocative pictures on the Chess Thread recently.

Posted by: Midwesterner at November 24, 2021 11:42 AM (3q5yY)

164 Didn't Hercules kill his wife in the legends?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021 11:42 AM (ESjRY)

165 I'm thankful for MoMe's.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

166 The Aussies are putting Aborigines in death camps apparently.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2021 11:43 AM (KOlLu)

167 Also, I am thankful that we were able to buy dirt this year. Got into Florida before it went totally insane. And now going through my Clarkson moments - we need permits for that? Okay, what else do I not know?

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2021 11:43 AM (mbFEM)

168 They got some crazy little women
And I won't get me none

Posted by: Willie "Miklos" Harrison at November 24, 2021 11:39 AM (QzkSJ)

Whew!!! (waves away the stink with his hat)

Posted by: Taggart at November 24, 2021 11:43 AM (7bRMQ)

169 That Bidwn cartoon is kind of disturbing. Is that fecal matter dripping off his fingers?

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:43 AM (cSyAR)

170 I have been an exemplary employee since I started 11 years ago. I have the most seniority in my group than anyone, even more seniority than my current supervisor and dept manager. Can't easily replace either my experience, knowledge or my work ethic of going the extra mile. My colleagues and managers know this. But HR has final say.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2021

***
In mine I mentioned my length of service and that I received an excellence award in 2016. Can't hurt to blow one's own horn in a case like this.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:44 AM (txdEq)

171 The Aussies are putting Aborigines in death camps apparently.

Its for their own good! That's why we sent the army to force them to do it.

Posted by: The Australia NAZI government at November 24, 2021 11:44 AM (ESjRY)

172 Ppppppppp-inch Ssssscold Bitch.

Posted by: Biden Headroom at November 24, 2021 11:44 AM (RjPlD)

173 Only one way to fix that.

So...damn...thirsty.
Posted by: Tree of Liberty at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM (nH9uD)

------
Id prefer peaceful involvement with community. Or even better...everyone leaving everyone alone.

Doesn't seem like many others are interested in that approach.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at November 24, 2021 11:44 AM (juH8z)

174 JP Morgan CEO apologizes for comment about the CCP.
---------------------------------
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon joked that his bank would outlast the CCP
"I regret and should not have made that comment," Dimon said in a statement from the bank Wednesday.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November

JPMorgan got booted from Louisiana state bond market due to their anti gun policies. Similar situation happened in Texas, so two states have told JPMorgan to pound sand.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 24, 2021 11:44 AM (KTaZ8)

175 Other conservative sites have had to severely limit or shut down their comment sections because they had become so toxic and useless for any kind of discussion, but by the grace of God, we have managed to avoid that here.

-------

Much gratitude to the wielders of the ban hammers -- even though I may have been a sacrificial nail now and then when my hyperbole gets out of control or comes out the wrong way.

I saw Wielders of the Band Hammers open for Nine Inch Nails at the Cleveland House of Blues in '01.

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at November 24, 2021 11:44 AM (4IPux)

176 One other thing to note - if they succeed with the clot shot mandate it will NOT be just take your double tap and if you make it through you are fine. They will force you to get a new jab every 3-6 months. And you won't be able to claim a religious exemption then.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021 11:19 AM

Yep, this is why I am going the religious exemption route now. They specifically stated in the documentation for this mandate that it does not include the "boosters". Only the 2-jab Moderna/Pfizer and the 1-jab J&J. I'm sure there are plenty of naive people who read that and thought "oh good, I can just get the 1-jab J&J and I'll be good". And I bet a lot of people read that and thought "what are they talking about 'boosters'?" as they are completely ignorant that the jabs don't work.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2021 11:44 AM (Do5/p)

177 Somewhere in ~~China~~ there's an enormous American ~~testicle~~ repository.

*****

Japan
tentacle

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (m45I2)

178 I hate the Colonel, with his smug smile and wee, beady eyes. Ooooh, you're gonna buy my chicken. Ooooh!
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 24, 2021 11:17 AM

Someone mentioned that the other day and I had to rewatch it. Never not funny for me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (m+jkK)

179 OTOH, tapping into the cable between the studio and transmitter could be pretty easy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:33 AM

Considering the statute of limitations has been up since 1992, I'm a bit surprised nobody has stepped forward in some way. Makes me think they're still connected in some way to the industry and simply can't.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (wAnMi)

180 I have had a wicked cold for the past few days - stuffed up head, sore throat and a bit achy.

Of course I didn't run and get tested. Why would I?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (mD/uy)

181 That Bidwn cartoon is kind of disturbing. Is that fecal matter dripping off his fingers?
Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:43 AM (cSyAR)

Looks like blood to me. Must have a significant hemorrhoid issue.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

182 Willowed phone update:

I doubt there is a SIM card. SIM cards all look similar, because they are brand-agnostic. They do come in different sizes. Just try a DDG search for "LG model XXXX SIM card".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I predict that they tell you there is nothing they can do and offer to set you up with getting a new phone.

Which really this week is probably the week you can't beat getting a new phone. Maybe can even get a flip phone too.
Posted by: Buzzion

Both of you are correct! No Sim card on this dinosaur flip and the only 'tech help' was to shop for a replacement. Verizon tech guy did say that the 3g takedown is all run by subcontractors and that Verizon has no control over it.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (4I/2K)

183 Didn't Hercules kill his wife in the legends?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021

***
Accidentally, or in a fit of madness induced by one of the Centaurs, I think.

Fun fact: Tawny Kitaen played Hercules' wife Deianeira (sp?) in the pilot or first episode of the Kevin Sorbo series.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (txdEq)

184 Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

41m
A Waukesha guy sitting home watching a football game didn't realize a Christmas massacre had just happened a mile away from his house and let the crazed suspect in and made him a sandwich bc he told him he was homeless

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (NpAcC)

185 I'm grateful for Allahpundit's increasing sense of panic:

Let me say this slowly so that it sinks in:

He
Absolutely
Can
Win
Again

This comes from an article entitled: For cripes sake: Never Trumpers should not be rooting for Trump to run again

Apparently he's too stupid to figure out that the whole NeverTrump movement is just a grift to extract money from gullible billionaires. Of course they want Trump to run again.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (I2/tG)

186 My work just sent out a COVID vaccine reporting system email. In the next two weeks, you have to report as either fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated, unvaccinated, or unwilling to report, in which case you'll be considered unvaccinated.

They're still trying to formulate what the office policy will be about vaccination. Hopefully enough people will declare either unvaccinated or unwilling to report that they will back off any large scale measures. We have a lot of subject matter experts, and it's not easy to recruit or replace a lot of people.

Still, a great email to receive right before Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (a/dOO)

187 I'm grateful for the morons here. Most of you, at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (V6f9+)

188 Japan
tentacle
Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM

"N-T". There's a big difference.

Posted by: Lane Meyer at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (m+jkK)

189 Whew!!! (waves away the stink with his hat)
Posted by: Taggart

Miklos is just pawn in game of Monkey Thread Life.

Posted by: Miklos, who has never knowingly punched a horse at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (QzkSJ)

190 They cut off all the gweilo balls
And put them in a Gweilo Ball Museum
You don't know what you've got till it's gone
Pave Paradise and put up a parking lot!

Posted by: joni mitcherr at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (UHVv4)

191 177 Somewhere in ~~China~~ there's an enormous American ~~testicle~~ repository.

*****

Japan
tentacle

i got yer tentacle right here

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, enormous American at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (oY6Yp)

192 Mmm. Punkin Pi

Posted by: Nathan the Universe at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (tmNLh)

193 I was reading an aussie thread on the whole "concentration camps for the aboriginals" thing. The government's argument is that the aboriginals are living in overcrowded conditions giving each other wu flu.

Someone asked wouldn't it be cheaper/easier/better then to just send the army to build them new houses and otherwise leave them alone?

And the answer to that was "you don't understand they need us to HELP them".

So...yeah...they plan on killing a bunch of them.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (ESjRY)

194 so his mudder eats his fodder, and his mudder eats his fodder, and his mudder eats his fodder, and pretty soon there won't be any fodders left for fodders day!

Posted by: Lou Costello at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (Ynyl9)

195 Joan Collins?

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (p6BoR)

196 Shortly after midnight is good for me.
Posted by: Miklos will arrive as expected at November 24, 2021 11:42 AM

You gonna let it all hang down?

Posted by: J. J. Cale at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (3q5yY)

197 Japan
tentacle

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (m45I2)

Go on.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (kSSxT)

198 Other things I'm grateful for:
flush toilets
hot water showers
weatherproof roof
employment while stuck at home
modern firearms and ammo
dogs
.........yeah, especially dogs. They don't last forever, so enjoy them too, while you can.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (V6f9+)

199 If they prevail in court though it's a good precedent for other litigators.

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:20 AM

This is my first thought too.

My second thought, however, is... if they prove that the religious test is illegal, then do companies then... eliminate any exemptions and just force everyone to get the shots? Because proving the religious test is illegal wouldn't eliminate the mandate itself, right?

Or would the religious exemption stay in place and companies would be forced to automatically accept all requests and not be able to fire anyone for them.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (Do5/p)

200 @JackPosobiec

41m
A Waukesha guy sitting home watching a football game didn't realize a Christmas massacre had just happened a mile away from his house and let the crazed suspect in and made him a sandwich bc he told him he was homeless
Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (NpAcC)

Let me guess....he was a white guy being friendly because racism is largely a fabrication of the left and doesn't really exist in average America anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

201 118 The bit about the sailor wrongly reported dead reminds me of something I heard a while back. A TV documentary mini-series about World War 2 (did Ken Burns do one?) had a guy who was captured by the Japanese during the war. Meanwhile, his family had been told that he was dead. When he got released, he called home. His mother answered the phone. When he identified himself, she fainted. His sister wandered into the room, spotted the phone, and answered. He identified himself again, and she also fainted. Finally his father came into the room, saw the phone, and answered. The former POW identified himself, and got to talk to his father, who mentioned what had happened to the women.
Posted by: junior at November 24, 2021 11:36 AM (uLEfc)

A man who was supposed to be on a ship that sank in the Great Lakes ended up walking in on his own funeral. IIRC after missing the boat, he took a train from Michigan to the family home in Illinois. That was back when the deceased was "waked" at home.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (/+bwe)

202 Ordinarily you can't put a ) adjacent to an 8 without generating an emoji.

Unless you have Privilege

8)

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (m45I2)

203 So I am working perhaps 12-8 today. There are only two of us, and I have no idea how early doctors' offices are going to close, so I have no idea how much I will be typing today. I do have Friday and next Monday off, so I've got that going for me.

Went to the urgent care place nearby the other night to find out what is it with this cold I can't shake and swollen glands on the neck. No strep throat, no kung flu, no bacterial infection; it looks like it's just a viral thing that has to burn itself out. So, lots of tea for me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (2JVJo)

204 Yeah, Allahpundit. You won't be seein' him around here no more.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2021 11:48 AM (tmNLh)

205 Shortly after midnight is good for me.
Posted by: Miklos will arrive as expected at November 24, 2021 11:42 AM

You gonna let it all hang down?
Posted by: J. J. Cale at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (3q5yY)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/cWEu9Rn-PaE

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

206 I'm grateful for the morons here. Most of you, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (V6f9+)

Hey!!

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:48 AM (Ez6QX)

207 Hopefully enough people will declare either unvaccinated or unwilling to report that they will back off any large scale measures. We have a lot of subject matter experts, and it's not easy to recruit or replace a lot of people.

Still, a great email to receive right before Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021

***
Talk to your co-workers -- in person, not on email -- and gin up some resistance to this.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:48 AM (txdEq)

208 I endorse this approach of govt and business working hand in glove!
Posted by: Austrian painter running for German Chancellor 1932 at November 24, 2021 11:29 AM (Ojki1)

#meToo

!!!

Posted by: An Italian newspaper editor at November 24, 2021 11:49 AM (Ocv6A)

209 187 I'm grateful for the morons here. Most of you, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (V6f9+)

=========

*shakes fist*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:49 AM (3EWns)

210 Well...I'm thankful for all youse guys.
And Mrs D's apple pie.
Mostly the apple pie. But youse guys too.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 24, 2021 11:49 AM (axyOa)

211 177 Somewhere in ~~China~~ there's an enormous American ~~testicle~~ repository.

*****

Japan
tentacle
Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (m45I2)

*perks up*
*Checks to see if Japan is letting people travel there again*

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at November 24, 2021 11:49 AM (Ojki1)

212 A Waukesha guy sitting home watching a football game didn't realize a Christmas massacre had just happened a mile away from his house and let the crazed suspect in and made him a sandwich bc he told him he was homeless
Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (NpAcC)

Let me guess....he was a white guy being friendly because racism is largely a fabrication of the left and doesn't really exist in average America anymore.
Posted by: Sponge - Sayin

Yes , he is a white guy. A stupId white guy if you ask me.

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2021 11:49 AM (p6BoR)

213 My second thought, however, is... if they prove that the religious test is illegal, then do companies then... eliminate any exemptions and just force everyone to get the shots?

The right to free of religion is a pretty important one.

The Junta is lawless, but it would be another clear line they'd be crossing. Also it would let companies for employees to do all sorts of things against say the Muslim religion that the Junta doesn't want them to be able to do.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021 11:49 AM (ESjRY)

214 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (2JVJo)

I was going to ask you about that. Are you still having that pain in your jaw?

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:49 AM (Ez6QX)

215 That POS could have killed him and his white wife.

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (p6BoR)

216 Shall I work today, or just hang out at my desk trying to look busy?

Hmmm.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (tmNLh)

217 And I bet a lot of people read that and thought "what are they talking about 'boosters'?" as they are completely ignorant that the jabs don't work.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2021 11:44 AM (Do5/p)

The drugs don't work!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (V6f9+)

218 Speaking of traitors... we didn't even make the list?

Posted by: Black Rifle Coffee at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (1M1pd)

219 Talk to your co-workers -- in person, not on email -- and gin up some resistance to this.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:48 AM (txdEq)

That's what I'm trying to do. Our company hasn't even brought it up yet, but I want to be ready just in case.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (Ez6QX)

220 Gospel of Luke:
11 While He was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing [l]between Samaria and Galilee. 12 And as He entered a village, ten men with leprosy who stood at a distance met Him; 13 and they raised their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" 14 When He saw them, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they were going, they were cleansed. 15 Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice, 16 and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan. 17 But Jesus responded and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine, where are they? 18 Was no one found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?" 19 And He said to him, "Stand up and go; your faith has made you well."

Posted by: Flyover at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (Rbu5d)

221 and by the way, since the vaxxinated can still catch and spread the woohoo flu, shouldn't they also be required to undergo regular testing?

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (Ynyl9)

222 Went to the urgent care place nearby the other night to find out what is it with this cold I can't shake and swollen glands on the neck. No strep throat, no kung flu, no bacterial infection; it looks like it's just a viral thing that has to burn itself out. So, lots of tea for me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM

Same here going on week three, cough, sinus issues and shortness of breath. Not covid, not the flu just something that won't let go. I finish the first course of antibiotics tomorrow and I suspect the Doctor will order another course of something more powerful next week if I don't get better. My worry is it might turn into pneumonia.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (bVYXr)

223 Dang Muse,
Top drawer post. Top drawer.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (eJn7u)

224 I'm grateful for the morons here. Most of you, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (V6f9+)

*waves, sheepishly, just in case*

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

225 I've never tried Rittenhouse Bourbon. I suppose there's no need to.

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (cSyAR)

226 You gonna let it all hang down?
Posted by: J. J. Cale at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (3q5yY)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/cWEu9Rn-PaE
Posted by: Sponge

Actually, I was thinking the Wicked Wilson Pickett

Posted by: Miklos, silly me at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (QzkSJ)

227 Link from Bad Blue 20 Tweets a Australian couple comes along new prison compound next to airport,
Double electric fence

Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (bHEHY)

228 and by the way, since the vaxxinated can still catch and spread the woohoo flu, shouldn't they also be required to undergo regular testing?
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (Ynyl9)

In a sane world, yes.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:52 AM (Ez6QX)

229 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (Do5/p)

It is such a free-for all out there, with each workplace coming up with its own workarounds, if so inclined.

This won't end until SCOTUS decides it one way or the other

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:52 AM (DJFLF)

230 I caught a bad case of hercules simplex in college. Painful AND stigmatizing at the same time.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 11:52 AM (m45I2)

231 I zee nuthink! I know nuthink!

Posted by: Chancellor Scholz at November 24, 2021 11:52 AM (UHVv4)

232 Speaking of traitors... we didn't even make the list?
Posted by: Black Rifle Coffee at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (1M1pd)

Don't forget about us!

Posted by: Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey Company at November 24, 2021 11:52 AM (KTaZ8)

233 215 That POS could have killed him and his white wife.
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM (p6BoR)

Doubtful he could've fit his car into their living room.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (kSSxT)

234 *shakes fist*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

*shakes fist back*

Posted by: the Sky at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (QzkSJ)

235 Australia has gone full-on Reichstag Fire totalitarianism in record time. I thought Aussies were tough.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (tmNLh)

236 My worry is it might turn into pneumonia.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (bVYXr)

ISTR there are deep breathing exercises you can do to try to ward that off. I've been doing them a lot while I've been sick the last couple of weeks.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (Ez6QX)

237 I was going to ask you about that. Are you still having that pain in your jaw?
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:49 AM (Ez6QX)

It isn't as bad as it was earlier in the week, though there is still a little tenderness. I've been taking Alleve twice a day to help with the pain, and it all seems to be fading away. So perhaps by the weekend it will be a distant memory.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (2JVJo)

238 Id prefer peaceful involvement with community. Or even better...everyone leaving everyone alone.

Doesn't seem like many others are interested in that approach.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at November 24, 2021 11:44 AM (juH8z)

--------

With all due respect -- I like and agree with some of your commentary -- but anarcho-capitalist libertarianism can only work in the world where everybody is as wonderful as we are. Pro tip: that world has never and will never exist.

Historically, anarchy ALWAYS leads to tribalism, which ALWAYS leads to one or more battling authoritarian warlords -- with concomitant destruction, desk, and slavery/tyranny. And I believe you are smart enough to know this ...

[Spoken as somebody who once believed very much as you do, but since been bitch-slapped hard out of my fantasy world and into reality. I know this comes off as condescending, but not intended that way -- more of a sympathetic understanding and attempted slap of my own.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (Z8hN4)

239 Talk to your co-workers -- in person, not on email -- and gin up some resistance to this.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:48 AM (txdEq)

We're still 97% teleworking. A lot of this is trying to prepare to have people come back into the office, though a lot of the head people are indicating that they are trying to figure how if full-time telework can be allowed for a significant portion of the employees.

And since we are teleworking, it's hard to get a read on some people's attitude toward the jab. Some people who you think would be allies turn out to be big jab proponents, and then there are others whom you think got the jab on day 1 turn out to be very skeptical.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (a/dOO)

240 Shall I work today, or just hang out at my desk trying to look busy?

Hmmm.
---------------------------
Try looking angry at your desk all the time. It'll look like you're busy. Ask George Costanza.

Posted by: Chancellor Scholz at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (UHVv4)

241 The Morning Rant is such a treat.

I don't have the words.

I'm being serious. OregonMuse just fucking rocks.

Posted by: SSBN626 at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM (NZbhV)

242 Doubtful he could've fit his car into their living room.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancin

Kitchen knife....

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM (p6BoR)

243 I'm a strong advocate for the homeless, but I would never let a homeless person into my residence sight unseen.

no way

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM (DJFLF)

244 I'm grateful for the morons here. Most of you, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (V6f9+)

Hey!!

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:48 AM (Ez6QX)

*pulls out lapels*

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM (SH2Zi)

245 200 @JackPosobiec

41m
A Waukesha guy sitting home watching a football game didn't realize a Christmas massacre had just happened a mile away from his house and let the crazed suspect in and made him a sandwich bc he told him he was homeless
Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (NpAcC)

Let me guess....he was a white guy being friendly because racism is largely a fabrication of the left and doesn't really exist in average America anymore.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

Odds on the house owner having a "Hat has no home here" or "We believe" sign in the front yard? Gonna guess 100%.

Posted by: Bete at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM (Ojki1)

246 I'm a strong advocate for the homeless, but I would never let a homeless person into my residence sight unseen.

no way

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM (DJFLF)

You advocate being homeless?

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (SH2Zi)

247 *death, not desk

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (YCeEB)

248 Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

41m
A Waukesha guy sitting home watching a football game didn't realize a Christmas massacre had just happened a mile away from his house and let the crazed suspect in and made him a sandwich bc he told him he was homeless
Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (NpAcC)

Was the guy's name Mudd?

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (AiZBA)

249
It isn't as bad as it was earlier in the week, though there is still a little tenderness. I've been taking Alleve twice a day to help with the pain, and it all seems to be fading away. So perhaps by the weekend it will be a distant memory.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (2JVJo)

It's a tumor.

Posted by: That Kid From That Movie at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

250 225 I've never tried Rittenhouse Bourbon. I suppose there's no need to.
Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (cSyAR)

Rekieta was drinking it throughout the Trial. He was saying it was good and inexpensive. I am betting that is the source of both their new customers and lefty's going after them for being the drink of white supremacy.

This is the problem with companies taking customer complaints at face value without also looking at their surging sales. Cutting off your nose to spite your face. The leftists you just bowed to are never going to drink your product BECAUSE it has the name of one of their enemies. And you just said fuck you to the others who WERE buying your product.

FUCKING HR DEPTS RUIN BUSINESSES.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (csEWM)

251 "concentration camps for the aboriginals" thing. The government's argument is that the aboriginals are living in overcrowded conditions giving each other wu flu."

Let it run its course and they would have natural immunity in two months. But that can't be allowed, better to pack them in a prison camp and force the clot shot on them ... and they'll still get Covid.

Hey, give them all ivermectin or other protocols, a great test case since they don't want the jab. ... But no, "they" have a more final solution in mind, for all free peoples.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (Cus5s)

252 Holy Moly, I'm getting alot of Deja Vu from this thread including that Steve Reeves has been posted before. Also the Jamie Dimon comment, and "my phone system is down"...it's just weird. Yikes.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (fMhOl)

253 I saw Ten Men With Leprosy open for Men Without Hats at the Coconut Teaszer in '87.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (tmNLh)

254 Grabbed car keys - getaway vehicle.

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (p6BoR)

255 Double electric fence
Posted by: Skip's Phone

Hope Skip is not looking for work

Posted by: Free range Miklos at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (QzkSJ)

256
Was the guy's name Mudd?
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (AiZBA)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/953PkxFNiko

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

257 Lol. Media hijacking.

Moer, please!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (TRGyz)

258 Max Boot just published an article saying that those evil Republican insurrectionists are likely to coalesce into a terrorist organization, like the IRA.

Yeah, who knows - maybe they'll start rioting, doing billions of dollars of damage, and resulting in the deaths of more than thirty people.

You know, terrorism.

Er, Max - you might want to stay away from that IRA analogy. Joe Biden, like a lot of old-line Democratic Irish pols, is pro-IRA. Biden met with Gerry Adams and Rita O'Hare, two senior IRA leaders, in 2017. They took a picture showing them happily smiling. In 1985, Biden opposed extraditing IRA terrorists from the United States.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (I2/tG)

259 Good news in the #Woke wars...WSJ, under pressure from Change.org to stop their annual Thanksgiving Day essay...told the commies to pound sand.

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (DJFLF)

260 I'm grateful for the morons here. Most of you, at least.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:46 AM (V6f9+)

*waves, sheepishly, just in case*
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

Yes, I'm grateful for Sponge and his eternal optimism to be first

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (V6f9+)

261 35 Ahmaud Arbery is probably the least thuggish of the recent high profile cases of black men shot while just supposedly minding their own business. Still, any decent investigation would probably show he was a petty criminal and almost undoubtedly was currently engaged in or planning some theft. Maybe he didn't deserve to die but sure as hell was not out for a jog.
____________

We know a little about Arbery. He did have a criminal record. I don't recall all the details, but he'd been arrested multiple times, including for shoplifting flat-screens (I think there was video of that). Of course, his criminal record was not allowed to be mentioned in front of the jury.

The thing about one of the defense attorneys bringing up the condition of Arbery's feet (not wearing socks, had long and dirty toenails, according to the ME) was that it contradicted the prosecution's story that Arbery was only in the neighborhood because he was a regular jogger there. People who jog regularly tend to keep their toenails cut short, because running with long toenails can cause pain and injury (the nails break off, get infected, become ingrown, etc.). Joggers also almost always wear socks too.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (k4dH2)

262 *pulls out lapels*
Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM (SH2Zi)

I am especially thankful for you, Flounder. No bullshit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (Ez6QX)

263 Doubtful he could've fit his car into their living room.
Posted by: OregonMuse,

******

He could've used the Drive-Thru Window. Duh.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (m45I2)

264 We are putting them in concentration camps for their own good.

Fuck. This shit is insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2021 11:57 AM (csEWM)

265 261 Yes, I'm grateful for Sponge and his eternal optimism to be first
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (V6f9+)

========

Optimism?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:57 AM (3EWns)

266 And since we are teleworking, it's hard to get a read on some people's attitude toward the jab. Some people who you think would be allies turn out to be big jab proponents, and then there are others whom you think got the jab on day 1 turn out to be very skeptical.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (a/dOO)

You know, if "self-testing" with a PCR test kit was valid, wouldn't it make more sense for all employees to test weekly? We know the jab is not fully effective, they even admit that. And if all employees did the test, it would not be so stigmatizing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:57 AM (P3gRi)

267 I'm grateful TJM has kept the Thread Prometheus-free up until now.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2021 11:57 AM (3q5yY)

268
Yes, I'm grateful for Sponge and his eternal optimism to be first
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (V6f9+)

*fistbump*

I knew it.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

269 "A Waukesha guy sitting home watching a football game didn't realize a Christmas massacre had just happened a mile away from his house and let the crazed suspect in and made him a sandwich bc he told him he was homeless"

What's the point of having a Ring doorbell cam if you're going to let sketchy 'homeless' people walk in anyway? Guy is lucky to be alive.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (qpX6U)

270 I'm a strong advocate for the homeless, but I would never let a homeless person into my residence sight unseen.

no way
Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM

I let the Salvation Army be the middle-man

Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (EughT)

271 Odds on the house owner having a "Hat has no home here" sign in the front yard?
Posted by: Bete at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM (Ojki1)

We do not like a sign like that.

Posted by: Max Boot and Matt Drudge at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (kSSxT)

272 This won't end until SCOTUS decides it one way or the other

Posted by: kallisto

Actually, there is a pretty good chance that Scotus won't take the case if the 6th Circuit's opinion is good enough for them--narrowly written on just the OSHA power of issuing emergency rules. There is a court doctrine to avoid constitutional questions if adequate other grounds exist to overturn a government action.

Denial of cert is one way that the Court can avoid ruling directly on the constitutionality of mandates or overturning Jacobsen v. Mass.

Course, without any federal legal backing for employer mandates, employers are at risk for giant class action lawsuits should the vaccine not be safe causing side effects. Including the fed gov as well as state and local.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (9hXN1)

273 Happy Thanksgiving, though, all. I'm grateful to be a mostly lurker since I can't contribute nearly as well as the others.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (a/dOO)

274 268 I'm grateful TJM has kept the Thread Prometheus-free up until now.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2021 11:57 AM (3q5yY)

===========

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:59 AM (3EWns)

275 Doubtful he could've fit his car into their living room.
Posted by: OregonMuse,

******

He could've used the Drive-Thru Window. Duh.
Posted by: Muldoon

No.

"Nuggets" were not invented until 1987

Posted by: Fact-based Miklos at November 24, 2021 11:59 AM (QzkSJ)

276 Yes, I'm grateful for Sponge and his eternal optimism to be first
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (V6f9+)

---------

His delusional hopefulness is a model for us all.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2021 11:59 AM (tmNLh)

277 274 Happy Thanksgiving, though, all. I'm grateful to be a mostly lurker since I can't contribute nearly as well as the others.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (a/dOO)

=========

That's never stopped me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:59 AM (3EWns)

278 278 274 Happy Thanksgiving, though, all. I'm grateful to be a mostly lurker since I can't contribute nearly as well as the others.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (a/dOO)

=========

That's never stopped me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:59 AM (3EWns)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2021 12:00 PM (csEWM)

279 by the way, did anyone mention that Sen Warren wants the gov to investigate Big Poultry over rising turkey prices? (seen at twitchy)

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 24, 2021 12:00 PM (Ynyl9)

280 Was the guy's name Mudd?
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (AiZBA)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/953PkxFNiko
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

WTF? Sorry Bub, I really didn't ask for that.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2021 12:00 PM (AiZBA)

281 Happy Thanksgiving, though, all. I'm grateful to be a mostly lurker since I can't contribute nearly as well as the others.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (a/dOO)

---------

How are you on the drums?

Posted by: Baby Jesus at November 24, 2021 12:01 PM (tmNLh)

282 253 Holy Moly, I'm getting alot of Deja Vu from this thread including that Steve Reeves has been posted before. Also the Jamie Dimon comment, and "my phone system is down"...it's just weird. Yikes.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at November 24, 2021 11:55 AM (fMhOl)

Steve Reeves has never been a 'who dis' until today. Fight me.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 12:01 PM (kSSxT)

283 *pulls out lapels*
Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 11:54 AM (SH2Zi)

I am especially thankful for you, Flounder. No bullshit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 11:56 AM (Ez6QX)

Ahhh. The feelings are mutual. If you are well and sticking around, perhaps we can get something together this weekend, unless you want to avoid Black Friday crowds.

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 12:01 PM (SH2Zi)

284 That's never stopped me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:59 AM (3EWns)

Me neither.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 12:01 PM (Ez6QX)

285 Was the guy's name Mudd?
Posted by: Napoleon XIV

Only Rich Pppl Houses got Mudd Rooms

Posted by: Community-based Miklos at November 24, 2021 12:02 PM (QzkSJ)

286 Prayers up for those on the list, as always, even if I don't always say so.

and that's Hercules and Delilah.
or Jezebel and Samson?
err...how about Helen of Troy and Iron Man...?

Posted by: Flyover at November 24, 2021 12:02 PM (Rbu5d)

287
WTF? Sorry Bub, I really didn't ask for that.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2021 12:00 PM (AiZBA)

In a round about way, you really did.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

288 On a hot sunny day, I am grateful for the shade that Jonah Goldbrick's moobs provide.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (iDcra)

289 This job site is slowly emptying out of workers, going to do 1 more then clean up and take lunch on the way home.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (bHEHY)

290 "Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty and the worst I ever had was wonderful."
-Brother Dave Gardner

Posted by: fringe at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (FPur3)

291 Well, given that the PCR test is basically worthless, and a PITA (or nose, as the case may be), I can see their point.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM

I agree with AOP - I don't think frequent testing is a win. It's a PITA compromise but not enough. It is an infringement on liberty.

Posted by: Iris at November 24, 2021 11:41 AM

Yep, this will be my prize if my religious exemption is approved. Weekly testing. I am going to try ignoring it like Wolfus Aurelius and see if that works. Not interested in getting weekly tests with high false positives. But first... need the exemption approved.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (Do5/p)

292 Did the makers of Rittenhouse Rye cave in?

Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (EughT)

293 I don't know its significance, but chyron here reporting, "Jury asks to have cellphone video of Ahmuad Arbery being fatally shot played back three times today."

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (UHVv4)

294 Ahhh. The feelings are mutual. If you are well and sticking around, perhaps we can get something together this weekend, unless you want to avoid Black Friday crowds.
Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 12:01 PM (SH2Zi)

Definitely!!

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (Ez6QX)

295 I'm grateful TJM has kept the Thread Prometheus-free up until now.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2021 11:57 AM (3q5yY)
===========
*considers mentioning Prometheus*
*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*
*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:59 AM (3EWns)

*Puts the hose away*
*but not too far away*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (V6f9+)

296 the great thing about the trump era: all the masks are off now...

Posted by: sound awake at November 24, 2021 12:04 PM (BQ5+M)

297
*Puts the hose away*
*but not too far away*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (V6f9+)

*girls everywhere faint*

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

298 by the way, did anyone mention that Sen Warren wants the gov to investigate Big Poultry over rising turkey prices? (seen at twitchy)

It's amazing that Big Poultry and Big Oil and other Big Companies are raising their prices for no reason other than their unmitigated greed, isn't it?

Has Biden explained why these big evil companies were less greedy under the Trump Administration? Why weren't they jacking up their prices then?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 24, 2021 12:04 PM (I2/tG)

299 Since we're on the topic of gratefulness for the "bad" as well as the good, I'm glad Ace hasn't updated the blog format and "updated" the comment section to use Discuss or even worse, Facebook.

Sure, it can be a challenge to find replies sometimes, but comment sections on other websites turn into the same stupid back and forth between 3-4 commenters, and since they keep replying to each other, those comment threads are always at the top.

So, Pixy's Australian hamsters and all, I'm grateful for this site.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 12:04 PM (a/dOO)

300 Did the makers of Rittenhouse Rye cave in?
Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (EughT)

Have they (Heaven Hill distillery) been pressured??

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2021 12:04 PM (mZUr4)

301 Did the makers of Rittenhouse Rye cave in?
Posted by: Chuck C

To the Barrel!

Posted by: currently almost error-free Miklos at November 24, 2021 12:04 PM (QzkSJ)

302 Did the makers of Rittenhouse Rye cave in?

Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (EughT)

Disarmed like a gun bringing a pistol to a rifle fight.

Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM (SH2Zi)

303 Happy Thanksgiving, though, all. I'm grateful to be a mostly lurker since I can't contribute nearly as well as the others.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (a/dOO)

Pro tip - find a niche interest which entertains no one but you and bring it up in any thread, no matter the topic.

Have I ever told you the story of Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson and the monkey in Sunset Boulevard?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM (2JVJo)

304 and that's Hercules and Delilah.
or Jezebel and Samson?
err...how about Helen of Troy and Iron Man...?
Posted by: Flyover at November 24, 2021 12:02 PM (Rbu5d)

Miss Hathaway and Jethro Bodine.

And I am grateful for the entirety of AoSHQ -- COBs as well as all Morons in good standing. God bless us every one.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM (PiwSw)

305 48
I've been ignoring and deleting the emails with QR code about testing. So far nobody has said anything, any more than they did all summer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (txdEq)

Sounds like you are being cautious and correctly deleting potentially malicious phishing emails before they can pose a threat to your employer.

Good Job !

Posted by: Probably not your IT department at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM (tu3iY)

306 ' doesn't really exist in average America anymore'
Racism exists in the mind of that killer as the reason for his crime.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM (a1ycR)

307 Only Rich Pppl Houses got Mudd Rooms

This ain't no Mudd Club!

Posted by: Talking Heads! at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM (I2/tG)

308 by the way, did anyone mention that Sen Warren wants the gov to investigate Big Poultry over rising turkey prices? (seen at twitchy)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 24, 2021 12:00 PM

Economics lesson from Fr. Guido Sargucci's "Two-Minute University" comedy album:

"Economics: Supply. Demand. That's it"

Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM (EughT)

309 Is there a suppository manufacturer named Biden?

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 12:06 PM (cSyAR)

310 Got the Butterball turkey rolls in the freezer ready to be baked tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving to y'all

Posted by: Capital Eff believes #RonnaMustGo #McCarthyMustGo #McConnellMustGo at November 24, 2021 12:06 PM (DiVy8)

311 *Puts the hose away*
*but not too far away*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (V6f9+)

*girls everywhere faint*
Posted by: Sponge

Paid shill of Big Bobbysox

Posted by: unfooled Miklos at November 24, 2021 12:06 PM (QzkSJ)

312 Warren has demanded that the Strategic Poultry-Fucker Reserve be opened before the holiday.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:06 PM (UHVv4)

313 Optimism?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:57 AM (3EWns)

I'm trying to be a better person.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 12:06 PM (V6f9+)

314 "Pumpkin pie thing reminds me of this Frank Zappa album cover...
https://i.redd.it/nf3kyyzl9fcx.jpg
Posted by: Doof"

That cover was based on a 50's cartoon called "Droodles". You can look 'em up on the internetss.

Posted by: f'd at November 24, 2021 12:06 PM (Tnijr)

315 278 274 Happy Thanksgiving, though, all. I'm grateful to be a mostly lurker since I can't contribute nearly as well as the others.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 11:58 AM (a/dOO)

=========

That's never stopped me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at November 24, 2021 11:59 AM (3EWns)

We don't even read the posts or the previous comments. In the end, Quality Control is about control and thus violates my right to free expression. Plus, I accept the label "moron" just for commenting. Sometimes I excel at being a moron. What kind of person wouldn't share that with the world?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 24, 2021 12:06 PM (cupoy)

316 Only Rich Pppl Houses got Mudd Rooms

Rooms? Feh, luxury.

Posted by: Capital Eff believes #RonnaMustGo #McCarthyMustGo #McConnellMustGo at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (DiVy8)

317 So, Pixy's Australian hamsters and all, I'm grateful for this site.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 12:04 PM (a/dOO)

Agreed. Threaded comments are of the Devil. Also nice that pictures, gifs, and video cannot be embedded in comments, which really morks up loading times.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (P3gRi)

318 Regarding the Arberry trial, the defense closing summarization by Andrew Branca at Legal Insurrection of evidence gives the readers some details as to information NOT covered by the national media.

Link.
https://tinyurl.com/yjhftde4

One of the issues least reported is that Arberry was caught on surveillance video repeatedly at times and dates coinciding with thefts of thousands of dollars from the home site. In addition, one of the McMichaels had actually caught Arberry at the site previously and could identify him because one of them saw him in their vehicle's headlights when checking out the home site. The whole neighborhood had a rash of property crimes very recently so they set up a neighborhood watch (informal or formal, I do not know).

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (9hXN1)

319 Okay! The two big turkey breasts are into the hypertonic saline-based cell plumping bath until tomorrow.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (m45I2)

320 54 My job was generous with exemptions. Gave free PCR machines and 3 months of test kits. Required us to test twice weekly and self report the results. 140 exemptees sued the company for religious persecution over the testing requirements. Couldn't just take the W and walk away.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 24, 2021 11:18 AM (9HRiP)

Well, given that the PCR test is basically worthless, and a PITA (or nose, as the case may be), I can see their point.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:23 AM (P3gRi)

If that were me, my dog would be getting tired of getting tested for COVID.

Posted by: a.moron at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (tu3iY)

321 70 I make it a practice to thank God for my life on a regular basis. I thank Him for my entire life - the good things and the bad - the easy and the hard.

I make sure it is a part of every prayer I send Him.
Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2021 11:26 AM (gmo/4)

yes. Every morning I thank Hi\m I woke up breathing that day.

Posted by: Flyover at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (Rbu5d)

322 This ain't no Mudd Club!
Posted by: Talking Heads!

Got comments for a couple of days....

Posted by: Miklos who was at CBGB one (1) time at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (QzkSJ)

323 Warren has demanded that the Strategic Poultry-Fucker Reserve be opened before the holiday.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:06 PM (UHVv4)

Not again.

Posted by: The Chicken at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (AiZBA)

324 If OM would feature Orson Wells on the Who Dis, we could have a busty tag on a guy's photo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (FVME7)

325 313 Warren has demanded that the Strategic Poultry-Fucker Reserve be opened before the holiday.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:06 PM (UHVv4)

Lol! I'm stealing that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (UuD2k)

326 Both of you are correct! No Sim card on this dinosaur flip and the only 'tech help' was to shop for a replacement. Verizon tech guy did say that the 3g takedown is all run by subcontractors and that Verizon has no control over it.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (4I/2K)

I don't think it's. a 3G issue though since it usually doesn't look for a network until it is all booted up. It should still fully load and then say no signal if it was because of 3 G

Posted by: Buzzion at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (fiH+I)

327 How are you on the drums?
Posted by: Baby Jesus at November 24, 2021 12:01 PM (tmNLh)

I have about as much rhythm as Bob Dole, George Bush (either one), and Mitch McConnell on their worst days. In other words, only marginally better than FJB.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (a/dOO)

328 KR and DJT

https://tinyurl.com/n5fap76e

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (DJFLF)

329 Steve Reeves has never been a 'who dis' until today. Fight me.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 12:01 PM

Maybe we can take in an old Steve Reeves movie on the movie thread soon?

Posted by: Frank N. Furter at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (3q5yY)

330 Have I ever told you the story of Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson and the monkey in Sunset Boulevard?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM

Hmm...tell us the story about Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson and the monkey in Sunset Boulevard. Seems appropriate for the big aip thread.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (m+jkK)

331 I've been following the Arbery case a little.
I listened to Nate the Lawyer cover it, according to him, the 3 defendants lost the "citizens arrest" argument, which is important.
Remarkable how both Kyle's trial and Arbery's defendants trials have the "he shouldn't have been there" angle, but 180 degrees opposite from one case to the other.

Posted by: casual observer 1124 at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (jTmQV)

332 Wreckers!

Wreckers and saboteurs!

Shoot the mad dogs!

Posted by: Lizzy "Stalin" Warren! at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (I2/tG)

333 I've been ignoring and deleting the emails with QR code about testing. So far nobody has said anything, any more than they did all summer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021
*
Sounds like you are being cautious and correctly deleting potentially malicious phishing emails before they can pose a threat to your employer.

Good Job !
Posted by: Probably not your IT department at November 24, 2021

***
Creative response noted for future use

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (txdEq)

334 297 the great thing about the trump era: all the masks are off now...

Posted by: sound awake at November 24, 2021 12:04 PM (BQ5+M)

I don't know that they're *all* off.

But many of them are, I'll agree.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM (kSSxT)

335 294 I don't know its significance, but chyron here reporting, "Jury asks to have cellphone video of Ahmuad Arbery being fatally shot played back three times today."

Posted by: andycanuck

And the 911 call by one of the McMichaels.

Legal Insurrection's Andrew Branca is liveblogging the Verdict Watch.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM (9hXN1)

336 Let me guess....he was a white guy being friendly because racism is largely a fabrication of the left and doesn't really exist in average America anymore.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

That's what it looked like. Picture of the guy and his wife in front of a rainbow flag - he's a good little drone. He said he didn't want to be perceived as rayciss - so he not only opened the door (endangering his wife) but fixes the guy a sandwich and gives him his jacket because it's cold.

Question: Who exactly would be judging you as rayciss? Your wife? The terrorist sicko outside? All the cops? Or would you be forced to confess it in your next HR CRT seminar? The whole idea of a ring doorbell is so you don't answer the door for homeless freaks claiming uber isn't coming.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM (wAnMi)

337 Been reading the prayer list more and more.
Sayin' em too.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM (B+Ldc)

338 Ivermectin works pretty well on viral infections. It cleared up a sinus infection for me. Wish I could get an actual prescription for it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM (5HBd1)

339 A shame the whodis isn't Alan Steele. I had a whole bunch of MST3K jokes teed up.

"Watch me flex my pecs!"

-ABA, formerly known as Vic Kevlar

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM (ZSK0i)

340 Did the makers of Rittenhouse Rye cave in?

Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (EughT)

Disarmed like a gun bringing a pistol to a rifle fight.
Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM

Already opened the bottle, so I can't return it.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM (EughT)

341 Holy shit! I don't know what Zolucky Soft Clouds are but I'll take a dozen.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 24, 2021 12:10 PM (UuD2k)

342 Fun fact. The creator of "Droodles", Roger Price, also created Mad Libs.

Posted by: f'd at November 24, 2021 12:10 PM (Tnijr)

343 On the plus side Count Verizon does apparently still flip phone that are 4G. I'm looking at one right now for $80 on their site.

Posted by: Buzzion at November 24, 2021 12:10 PM (fiH+I)

344 Okay! The two big turkey breasts are into the hypertonic saline-based cell plumping bath until tomorrow.
Posted by: Muldoon

As funded and per spec

Posted by: Jet Turkey Propulsion Laboratory at November 24, 2021 12:10 PM (QzkSJ)

345 "265 We are putting them in concentration camps for their own good.

Fuck. This shit is insane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2021 11:57 AM (csEWM)"

It's always initially presented as being for their own good. C'mon people, this is a well worn playbook full of dogears and post-it note bookmarks.

On the topic of being thankful... I keep telling the spouse we are incredibly lucky to have made it through this with well paying jobs, and without getting purged. We got caught out in the middle of wrapping up our escape plan when this all kicked off and it's been touch and go.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at November 24, 2021 12:10 PM (CtltA)

346 Pro tip - find a niche interest which entertains no one but you and bring it up in any thread, no matter the topic.

*****

This is the Moron way.

(However, wait until at least 50 comments on The Art Thread)

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:11 PM (m45I2)

347 Has Biden explained why these big evil companies were less greedy under the Trump Administration? Why weren't they jacking up their prices then?

Because, being evil greedy companies, they are natural allies of Trump and the GOP. They want to make Trump look good and Biden bad. That's why the economy is always horrible during a Democrat administration.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 12:11 PM (2JVJo)

348 Maybe we can take in an old Steve Reeves movie on the movie thread soon?
Posted by: Frank N. Furter at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM

And Duncanthrax with the win! 330 comments it took? It's like I don't even know you people.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2021 12:11 PM (m+jkK)

349 Making a sandwich for a crazed black killer is racist, isn't it?

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 12:11 PM (cSyAR)

350 Happy Thanksgiving, though, all. I'm grateful to be a mostly lurker since I can't contribute nearly as well as the others.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon

That's never stopped me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s

Yeah, the posting standards are pretty low. See, e.g., my busty Orson Wells post.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 24, 2021 12:11 PM (FVME7)

351 "So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness."

Colossians 2:6

Posted by: Marcus T at November 24, 2021 12:11 PM (VpIIl)

352 Went online to renew the tags for my car. I discovered that my driver's license was expired. I guess they no longer send a postcard warning you of expiration. And they have my email address too. They let me renew both online so I'm legal again.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (5HBd1)

353 Pro tip - find a niche interest which entertains no one but you and bring it up in any thread, no matter the topic.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM (2JVJo)

In other words, annoy Ace by doing this in the comment threads until he offers you a 3am Weekend blog slot?

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (a/dOO)

354 I don't know its significance, but chyron here reporting, "Jury asks to have cellphone video of Ahmuad Arbery being fatally shot played back three times today."

Posted by: andycanuck

And the 911 call by one of the McMichaels.

Legal Insurrection's Andrew Branca is liveblogging the Verdict Watch.
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM (9hXN1)

Did cheering erupt in the jury room at the conclusion of each replay of the video?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (P3gRi)

355 I have about as much rhythm as Bob Dole, George Bush (either one), and Mitch McConnell on their worst days. In other words, only marginally better than FJB.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM

tambourine it is, then

Posted by: Stevie Nicks at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (DUIap)

356 Have I ever told you the story of Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson and the monkey in Sunset Boulevard?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM (2JVJo)

so weird you brought this up!

Last nite I had an impulse to look up Sunset Blvd, and just from the few clips I viewed on YT I realized I was much too young when I saw it the first two times and really should revisit it.

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (DJFLF)

357 "That's what it looked like. Picture of the guy and his wife in front of a rainbow flag - he's a good little drone. He said he didn't want to be perceived as rayciss - so he not only opened the door (endangering his wife) but fixes the guy a sandwich and gives him his jacket because it's cold.

Question: Who exactly would be judging you as rayciss? Your wife? The terrorist sicko outside? All the cops? Or would you be forced to confess it in your next HR CRT seminar? The whole idea of a ring doorbell is so you don't answer the door for homeless freaks claiming uber isn't coming.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM (wAnMi)"

This is why you need to know where your neighbors stand. Idiots like this will get you killed, assuming they don't turn you in outright. Collaborators acting because they think it's the "nice" thing to do are arguably worse than outright enemies.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (CtltA)

358 Did the makers of Rittenhouse Rye cave in?

Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 12:03 PM (EughT)

Disarmed like a gun bringing a pistol to a rifle fight.
Posted by: flounder at November 24, 2021 12:05 PM

Already opened the bottle, so I can't return it.
Posted by: Chuck C at November 24, 2021 12:09 PM

Go on...take a shot.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (m+jkK)

359 Fun fact. The creator of "Droodles", Roger Price, also created Mad Libs.
Posted by: f'd

Inspiring story of how he overcame dyslexia and the initial market failure of Lad Mibs.

Posted by: Miklosian Case Studies at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (QzkSJ)

360 Louise Jameson's Leela is super sexy even all Victorian-style dressed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (p+1gI)

361 Serious question. Why do we cut pie in the individual slices, yeah we got a pizza all the way across?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2021 12:13 PM (9+03v)

362 If turkey prices are too high, couldn't Uncle Joe just make a release from the Strategic Poultry-um Reserve?

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:13 PM (m45I2)

363 I'm thankful for the Horde

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 24, 2021 12:13 PM (FcPY7)

364 120 We still hav e to pay to get things from stores here.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2021 11:36 AM (KOlLu)

now THAT's White Privilege!

Posted by: Flyover at November 24, 2021 12:13 PM (Rbu5d)

365 I am thankful to Annie's Stew for maintaining the Prayer List and OM for publishing. Prayer WORKS.

Point of fact, the Horde's prayer has helped me on three occasions that I know of.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2021 12:14 PM (fIKfQ)

366
If that were me, my dog would be getting tired of getting tested for COVID.

If I recall some African politicial leader sent in samples from animals, vegetables, and minerals and they all came back COVID positive.

Of course then he died unexpectedly and his successor is going along with COVID mania...unexpectedly.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2021 12:14 PM (ESjRY)

367 Serious question. Why do we cut pie

Who cuts pie?

- Guy who takes the whole cake, but only has pie.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2021 12:14 PM (gmo/4)

368 I believe that God is only, always, and continually good. And we need to accept what He gives us with Thanksgiving.

When I got a soft tissue sarcoma in my right cheek, I lost all the things besides God that I was leaning on. But He carried me through some deep water.

Trust God. Call on Him to save you from your sin. Face trials with joy because, as Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 4:16, it is building in us a greater weight of glory for Heaven.

Posted by: setnaffa at November 24, 2021 12:14 PM (lRD9v)

369 Yes , he is a white guy. A stupId white guy if you ask me.

No argument from me. You knock on my door claiming to be homeless, I am not letting you in.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 24, 2021 12:14 PM (p5IVz)

370 Im grateful for y'all.

Homers Donuts prayer request hit me in the gut. We've all been in a similar place and even without clinical depression its horrible. When you've survived it, its hard to remember how devastating it feels and when youre in it, its hard to believe you'll ever escape.
It may sound trite, but I think he should watch The Chosen and the Last Temptation of Christ. It might help put things in perspective and let him know he's loved.

Posted by: LASue at November 24, 2021 12:15 PM (Ed8Zd)

371 Louise Jameson's Leela is super sexy even all Victorian-style dressed.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM

Yes. This is a Known Thing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (m+jkK)

372 Serious question. Why do we cut pie in the individual slices, yeah we got a pizza all the way across?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2021 12:13 PM (9+03v)

Because it's larger and done with a wheel? Because pies are not always cut in equal measure?

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (fIKfQ)

373 also created Mad Libs.

*******

Mad Lib-merick

There once was a [gender] from [place]
Whose [body part] was as big as a [nautical term]
By the end of the [unit of time]
It was found to be [colorful adjective]
And as for the [farm animal], [ famous person] [pun].

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (m45I2)

374 Hmm...tell us the story about Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson and the monkey in Sunset Boulevard. Seems appropriate for the big aip thread.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2021 12:08 PM (m+jkK)

If you've seen the movie, you know that when Joe Gillis enters the house on Sunset, he is mistaken as the undertaker for Norma Desmond's pet chimp. Director Billy Wilder, who was a bastard at the best of times, made snide remarks during rehearsals and filming as to exactly how fond Norma might have been of the pet, until finally, before one take, said, "Remember, Gloria, Norma was fucking the monkey."

Swanson immediately walked off the set and would not return until Wilder apologized in front of the entire cast and crew.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (2JVJo)

375 "362 Serious question. Why do we cut pie in the individual slices, yeah we got a pizza all the way across?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2021 12:13 PM (9+03v)"

Piercing the crust elements during cutting lets the filling in and it starts getting soggy at those points.

Pizza is greasy, not wet, and usually is eaten in one go, or at least refrigerated (congealing the grease and slowing it) and not kept around as long as a pie might be.

Not uncommon to keep a pie around for a week.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (CtltA)

376 and by the way, since the vaxxinated can still catch and spread the woohoo flu, shouldn't they also be required to undergo regular testing?

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 24, 2021 11:50 AM

Bingo. But that would be logical. The Plandemic doesn't follow logic, it follows "the science".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (Do5/p)

377 No argument from me. You knock on my door claiming to be homeless, I am not letting you in.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 24, 2021 12:14 PM (p5IVz)

Same here. No fracking way you're getting through the threshold alive.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2021 12:17 PM (gmo/4)

378 Louise Jameson's Leela is super sexy even all Victorian-style dressed.
-------------------------------
And a second coincidence, I noted a picture of her as Leela saved to my Pictures folder while I was looking for a George Floyd cartoon just this morning!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:17 PM (UHVv4)

379 And as for the [farm animal], [ famous person] [pun].
Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (m45I2)

You can now get customized limericks from Amazon Prhyme!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 12:17 PM (P3gRi)

380 If turkey prices are too high, couldn't Uncle Joe just make a release from the Strategic Poultry-um Reserve?
Posted by: Muldoon

That would fry the vegetable oil market

Posted by: Miklos with Big Pots and Propane at November 24, 2021 12:18 PM (QzkSJ)

381 294 I don't know its significance, but chyron here reporting, "Jury asks to have cellphone video of Ahmuad Arbery being fatally shot played back three times today."
_____________

They've seen it multiple times already during trial, but maybe they just wanted to watch it again without the lawyers yammering away in the background.

If I was on the jury, I would have no problem acquitting the Bryan defendant. That guy appears to have done nothing that merits convicting him of a felony, let alone felony murder. He got in his truck to follow the burglar who'd been spotted running out of the neighbor's house. Bryan didn't have a gun on him, he had his cell phone. He was just going to follow the burglar so he could tell the cops which way he went. Arbery saw Bryan following him, jumped up on the side of his truck, tried to open the driver's side door (that shows you how "fearful" Arbery was). Bryan was scared and shaking. He didn't coordinate with the McMichaels; he didn't even know who they were. When he saw Arbery running at them, he taped it on his phone, but he didn't know they had guns until right before Arbery was shot.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 24, 2021 12:18 PM (k4dH2)

382 "Jonah Goldberg, Stephen Hayes, David French, Bill Kristol, Steve Schmidt, Tom Nichols, Max Boot"

Ladies and Gents, the NeverTrump Human Centipede!

Posted by: Sharkman at November 24, 2021 12:18 PM (ZH/2w)

383 I'm thankful for the Horde
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 24, 2021 12:13 PM

^^^^ This. Being deep behind the Tofu Curtain, I'm grateful for this little sane corner of the world.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2021 12:18 PM (m+jkK)

384
...and not kept around as long as a pie might be.

Not uncommon to keep a pie around for a week.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (CtltA)

I recognize this as English, but I do not understand those words in that order

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 24, 2021 12:18 PM (DUIap)

385 I've never tried Rittenhouse Bourbon. I suppose there's no need to.

Posted by: Northernlurker at November 24, 2021 11:51 AM (cSyAR)

Well...since it's Rye...

Posted by: BignJames at November 24, 2021 12:18 PM (AwYPR)

386 Not uncommon to keep a pie around for a week.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (CtltA)

You don't have 10 people in your household. Nothing lasts for a week around here.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 12:18 PM (a/dOO)

387 376 "362 Serious question. Why do we cut pie in the individual slices, yeah we got a pizza all the way across?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2021 12:13 PM (9+03v)"
Piercing the crust elements during cutting lets the filling in and it starts getting soggy at those points.
Pizza is greasy, not wet, and usually is eaten in one go, or at least refrigerated (congealing the grease and slowing it) and not kept around as long as a pie might be.
Not uncommon to keep a pie around for a week.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (CtltA)

And usually it seems that people cut pizza with a pizza slicer so it make sense to run it all the way through. Pie cutting at least for me has always just been with a knife.

Posted by: Buzzion at November 24, 2021 12:19 PM (fiH+I)

388 whodis femme pic, no improvement on pic #1, even the leggy/busty ones pale.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 24, 2021 12:19 PM (fs1hN)

389 This is why you need to know where your neighbors stand. Idiots like this will get you killed, assuming they don't turn you in outright. Collaborators acting because they think it's the "nice" thing to do are arguably worse than outright enemies.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at November 24, 2021 12:12 PM (CtltA)

Indeed, had the timing been just a bit different, this guy might have sent this murderer toddling off on his way in an uber, nice and warm with a full belly. If the cops hadn't shown up when they did, this clown might have been another statistic when the freak decided he was getting cold and whitey inside needed to die.

I know my neighbor on one side is 100% useless and is far more concerned with feeling good about himself than any possible ramifications of his actions. I won't miss the virtue signaling assholes one bit.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:19 PM (wAnMi)

390 If you've seen the movie, you know that when Joe Gillis enters the house on Sunset, he is mistaken as the undertaker for Norma Desmond's pet chimp. Director Billy Wilder, who was a bastard at the best of times, made snide remarks during rehearsals and filming as to exactly how fond Norma might have been of the pet, until finally, before one take, said, "Remember, Gloria, Norma was fucking the monkey."

Swanson immediately walked off the set and would not return until Wilder apologized in front of the entire cast and crew.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM

LMAO!

Good thing it wasn't a chicken.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2021 12:19 PM (m+jkK)

391 Mad Lib-merick

There once was a [gender] from [place]
Whose [body part] was as big as a [nautical term]
By the end of the [unit of time]
It was found to be [colorful adjective]
And as for the [farm animal], [ famous person] [pun].
Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (m45I2)

Cool! A limrick construction kit.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2021 12:20 PM (AiZBA)

392 Prayers up for all the Horde and their loved ones.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 24, 2021 12:20 PM (ZH/2w)

393 ...The president then moved on to the next sentence.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 11:21 AM (UHVv4)

I was with you until you got to "the president."

Posted by: LASue at November 24, 2021 12:20 PM (Ed8Zd)

394 Here is some detail on the Robertson forgery.

Columbia Pictures scandal Edit
In 1977, Robertson discovered that his signature had been forged on a $10,000 check payable to him, although it was for work he had not performed. He also learned that the forgery had been carried out by then-Columbia Pictures head David Begelman, and on reporting it he inadvertently triggered one of the biggest Hollywood scandals of the 1970s.[23] Begelman was charged with embezzlement, convicted, and later fired from Columbia. Despite pressure to remain quiet, Robertson and his wife Dina Merrill spoke to the press. As a result, Hollywood producers blacklisted him.[24]

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So Hollywood was every bit as glamorous then as today.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 24, 2021 12:20 PM (FVME7)

395 Yippee! It's snowing here!

But the forecast is 68 F by Sunday.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2021 12:21 PM (gmo/4)

396 Considering the statute of limitations has been up since 1992, I'm a bit surprised nobody has stepped forward in some way. Makes me think they're still connected in some way to the industry and simply can't.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 11:45 AM (wAnMi)

See comment 83.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 24, 2021 12:21 PM (mdjgu)

397 383 "Jonah Goldberg, Stephen Hayes, David French, Bill Kristol, Steve Schmidt, Tom Nichols, Max Boot"

Ladies and Gents, the NeverTrump Human Centipede!

Posted by: Sharkman at November 24, 2021 12:18 PM (ZH/2w)

-------

Connected together in a giant circle around the cuckshed so that nobody misses out -- and so that the same shit keeps getting recycled through each of them, over and over ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at November 24, 2021 12:22 PM (YCeEB)

398 There once was a man from Queens
Whose hair was as big as a girl's dream
By the end of the term
It was found to be natural, not permed
And as for the Donks, Trump made them scream

Posted by: Miklos Attemptations LLC at November 24, 2021 12:22 PM (QzkSJ)

399 If you've seen the movie, you know that when Joe Gillis enters the house on Sunset, he is mistaken as the undertaker for Norma Desmond's pet chimp. Director Billy Wilder, who was a bastard at the best of times, made snide remarks during rehearsals and filming as to exactly how fond Norma might have been of the pet, until finally, before one take, said, "Remember, Gloria, Norma was fucking the monkey."

Swanson immediately walked off the set and would not return until Wilder apologized in front of the entire cast and crew.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (2JVJo)

WUT?!?!?

I thought I'd heard it all, till now...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at November 24, 2021 12:22 PM (BgMrQ)

400 I love Heaven Hill Distilleries products , Larceny, Mello corn and of course Rittenhouse Rye.
It pains me to here them knuckle under to the Twittersphere and as such i will no longer drink Rittenhouse Rye in any more Cocktails.
It's strictly Shooters for me from here on out!!!

Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:22 PM (1lOfI)

401 Same here. No fracking way you're getting through the threshold alive.
Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2021 12:17 PM (gmo/4)

I'd even be wary of making him food. From a Christian perspective I get it. But I live out in the sticks. You make the long walk up my driveway, I make bad assumptions about you.

Now regarding Heaven Hill: They simply should have stayed out of it. No comment, no nothing. Just a thank you for the business and move on. But they were probably worried that Burn Loot Murder would pay them a visit and threaten boycotts or arson. But mostly arson.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 24, 2021 12:22 PM (p5IVz)

402 Serious question. Why do we cut pie in the individual slices, yeah we got a pizza all the way across?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 24, 2021 12:13 PM (9+03v)"
Piercing the crust elements during cutting lets the filling in and it starts getting soggy at those points.
Pizza is greasy, not wet, and usually is eaten in one go, or at least refrigerated (congealing the grease and slowing it) and not kept around as long as a pie might be.
Not uncommon to keep a pie around for a week.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (CtltA)

And usually it seems that people cut pizza with a pizza slicer so it make sense to run it all the way through. Pie cutting at least for me has always just been with a knife.
Posted by: Buzzion at November 24, 2021 12:19 PM (fiH+I)

When doing large gatherings I'd cut up pumpkin/pecan pies for sure like a pizza - gone in 30 seconds. Fruit pies far less likely even with a crowd.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:22 PM (wAnMi)

403 Everyone is so smart and perfect about every situation they're not in.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2021 12:23 PM (fIKfQ)

404 Anonosaurus, so how big of a cut did Robertson want to be quiet? Because I'm pretty sure he didn't go public because of morals.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 12:23 PM (a/dOO)

405
When doing large gatherings I'd cut up pumpkin/pecan pies for sure like a pizza - gone in 30 seconds. Fruit pies far less likely even with a crowd.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:22 PM (wAnMi)

I like pizza cut in squares.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

406 It's strictly Shooters for me from here on out!!!
------------------
Followed by a chaser!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:23 PM (UHVv4)

407 See comment 83.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 24, 2021 12:21 PM (mdjgu)

It was Paddlefoot, wasn't it? I knew that little piece of shit would rat me out.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:24 PM (wAnMi)

408 Cool! A limrick construction kit.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV

A friend of mine in college got drunk at a party and stood up on a table and shouted:

"There once was a man from Nantucket!
Who said that there's one thing I know!
He went to a party and didn't get to dance!
So he took off all of his clothes!"

Then he fell off the table.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 24, 2021 12:24 PM (ZH/2w)

409 CHARLIE
Dad, what are you doing to Tony now? Why do you abuse his mind like this?

STUART
That's the latest report from Lyndon H. LaRouche, outlining how the Queen and the Rothschilds masterminded the Soviet overthrow, so that they could reclaim lands they had annexed during the Holy Roman Empire.

TONY
(goading Charlie)
You know a lot of this makes sense.

CHARLIE
I think you're suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome, where the hostages start to relate to their captors.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 24, 2021 12:24 PM (aO361)

410 Billy Wilder, who was a bastard at the best of times, made snide remarks during rehearsals and filming as to exactly how fond Norma might have been of the pet, until finally, before one take, said, "Remember, Gloria, Norma was fucking the monkey."

Swanson immediately walked off the set and would not return until Wilder apologized in front of the entire cast and crew.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 24, 2021

***
Much as I admire Wilder's work, I wonder why any actor would work with him more than once.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 24, 2021 12:24 PM (txdEq)

411 Posted by: Miklos Attemptations LLC

*****

That's the way to do it!

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:24 PM (m45I2)

412 374
Mad Lib-merick

There once was a [gender] from [place]
Whose [body part] was as big as a [nautical term]
By the end of the [unit of time]
It was found to be [colorful adjective]
And as for the [farm animal], [ famous person] [pun].

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (m45I2)

This is crying out for someone to write a little parsing script to fill in the "[]" tokens with randomly chosen dictionary words, thereby unleashing the MuldoonAutoLimBot2021 on an unsuspecting world.

Posted by: a.moron at November 24, 2021 12:24 PM (tu3iY)

413 STUART
Listen, Sonny Jim, it's a known fact there's a society of the five wealthiest people in the world, called the Pentaverate, who run everything and meet three times a year at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as "The Meadows."

CHARLIE
(sarcastic)
And that's obviously why we haven't heard about it in the newspapers.

STUART
(inappropriately angry & loud)
That's right. They fuckin' own the papers, smartass. And everything else. Why do you think Scotland's not been able to get independence? Because the Queen the Pentavirate and those English dome heads in West Minster won't have it.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 24, 2021 12:25 PM (aO361)

414 320 Okay! The two big turkey breasts are into the hypertonic saline-based cell plumping bath until tomorrow.
Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:07 PM (m45I2)

Oh, so that's what you 29-year-olds are calling it these days.

Posted by: NaughtyPine - now with extra holiday naughtiness! at November 24, 2021 12:25 PM (/+bwe)

415
CHARLIE
I think you're suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome, where the hostages start to relate to their captors.
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 24, 2021 12:24 PM (aO361)

That's Finland.

Posted by: News Guy in Die Hard at November 24, 2021 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

416 Mad Lib-merick

There once was a [gender] from [place]
Whose [body part] was as big as a [nautical term]
By the end of the [unit of time]
It was found to be [colorful adjective]
And as for the [farm animal], [ famous person] [pun].

Posted by: Muldoon at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (m45I2)

--------

There should be an app and a website for that ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at November 24, 2021 12:25 PM (YCeEB)

417 332 I've been following the Arbery case a little.
I listened to Nate the Lawyer cover it, according to him, the 3 defendants lost the "citizens arrest" argument, which is important.
Remarkable how both Kyle's trial and Arbery's defendants trials have the "he shouldn't have been there" angle, but 180 degrees opposite from one case to the other.

Posted by: casual observer 1124

Nate the Lawyer doesn't apparently know about GA Constitution Article I, Paragraph XI. The Jury in GA is entitled to rule on both law and facts which is contrary to many states. The legal fight was over the Judge's instructions to the jury and the jury apparently gets to decide whether the instructions are apt. See Andrew Branca's parsing of the statute in question as a counter to Nate's and the covering of the statutory requirements in closings by prosecution and defense. Defense is arguing totality of circumstances, prosecution is arguing that a higher std. applies, final judge's instructions to jury are muddled. BTW, GA courts use textualism and originalism to interpret the state's Constitution and statutes so this might be an appellate issue going forward if convictions are obtained.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2021 12:25 PM (9hXN1)

418 A friend of mine in college got drunk at a party and stood up on a table and shouted:
"There once was a man from Nantucket!
Who said that there's one thing I know!
He went to a party and didn't get to dance!
So he took off all of his clothes!"
Then he fell off the table.
Posted by: Sharkman at November 24, 2021 12:24 PM (ZH/2w)

At least he didn't start stripping.

Posted by: Buzzion at November 24, 2021 12:25 PM (fiH+I)

419 Fruit pies far less likely [...] even with a crowd.
or
Fruit pies far less likely even [...] with a crowd.
as we discuss pie-cutting??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:25 PM (UHVv4)

420 A friend of mine in college got drunk at a party and stood up on a table and shouted:

"There once was a man from Nantucket!
Who said that there's one thing I know!
He went to a party and didn't get to dance!
So he took off all of his clothes!"

Then he fell off the table.
Posted by: Sharkman at November 24, 2021 12:24 PM (ZH/2w)

*wipes tear*

That was pure poetry man.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2021 12:26 PM (AiZBA)

421 CHARLIE
Who are the other members of this pentaverate?

STUART
The Queen, the Rothchilds, the Gettys, the Vatican, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with his wee beady eyes. And that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"

CHARLIE
Dad how can you hate "the Colonel?"

STUART
Because the Colonel puts an addictive chemical in it that makes you crave it fortnightly, smartass!

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 24, 2021 12:26 PM (aO361)

422 I like pizza cut in squares.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

I like mine cut in 6 slices instead of 8...I can't eat 8.

Posted by: BignJames at November 24, 2021 12:26 PM (AwYPR)

423 Everyone is so smart and perfect about every situation they're not in.
Posted by: ...

hey

I resemble that remark!

Posted by: Miklos, neglected Sixth Stooge at November 24, 2021 12:26 PM (QzkSJ)

424 I love Heaven Hill Distilleries products , Larceny, Mello corn and of course Rittenhouse Rye.
It pains me to here them knuckle under to the Twittersphere and as such i will no longer drink Rittenhouse Rye in any more Cocktails.
It's strictly Shooters for me from here on out!!!
Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:22 PM (1lOfI)

Have they announced something??

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2021 12:26 PM (mZUr4)

425
I like mine cut in 6 slices instead of 8...I can't eat 8.
Posted by: BignJames at November 24, 2021 12:26 PM (AwYPR)

This reminded me of a Bazooka Joe comic for some reason.

"Sometimes I snore so loud, I wake myself up."

"Why don't you sleep in another room?"

Posted by: News Guy in Die Hard at November 24, 2021 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

426 I like pizza cut in squares.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

You're weird.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 12:27 PM (5bO5K)

427 I broke down and bought a turkey even though it's just me. And then I realize the ex has my roasting pan/rack, not me. Ugh. So, I either brave going out into the throbbing mass of humanity to hunt down a POS aluminum alzheimer's special, or smoke it. Somehow smoking doesn't seem quite as Thanksgiving-y. Also makes the whole gravy and stuffing thing kind of questionable. My planning needs a bit of polish and updating.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:27 PM (wAnMi)

428 Kyle Rittenhouse School of Self Defense is gonna be lit af! Put your appliIcations in NOW!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at November 24, 2021 12:27 PM (TRGyz)

429 damn sock......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

430 "Jonah Goldberg
Stephen Hayes
David French
Bill Kristol
Steve Schmidt
Tom Nichols
Max Boot
the Dispatch child molesters.
etc."

Seeing that list of losers, I went to their old sites. Surprisingly, National Review wasn't plastered with Anti-Trump garbage, mostly just standard RINO kabuki opposition stuff.

The Weekly Standard was weird, with some Anti-Trump things, but the headlines were wrong. I opened up an article, and realized it was from 2018 lol! They got schlonged.

Posted by: Grimmy at November 24, 2021 12:27 PM (Q93AK)

431 376

Pizza is greasy, not wet, and usually is eaten in one go, or at least refrigerated (congealing the grease and slowing it) and not kept around as long as a pie might be.

Not uncommon to keep a pie around for a week.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at November 24, 2021 12:16 PM (CtltA)

Maybe at your house . . .

Posted by: a.moron at November 24, 2021 12:28 PM (tu3iY)

432
You're weird.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 12:27 PM (5bO5K)

You're just now figuring this out? I worry about you sometimes.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)

433 There should be an app and a website for that ...
Posted by: ShainS

Sold together with the Fun for all the Family game of Moronopoly!

And Rock 'em Sock 'em Trollbots!

Posted by: Hasmiklosbro at November 24, 2021 12:29 PM (QzkSJ)

434 I like pizza cut in squares.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)

You're weird.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 12:27 PM (5bO5K)

Nah, proly just from St. Louis.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2021 12:29 PM (gmo/4)

435 You know, if "self-testing" with a PCR test kit was valid, wouldn't it make more sense for all employees to test weekly? We know the jab is not fully effective, they even admit that. And if all employees did the test, it would not be so stigmatizing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2021 11:57 AM

Yep, which is why anyone thinking logical about this would realize that the "weekly testing" is being done as punishment, not as following "the science". And HR is counting on people thinking that it will be easier to get 1 or 2 jabs and be done with it than to go through the hassle of weekly testing.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2021 12:29 PM (Do5/p)

436 Is the CHARLIE - STUART stuff from this Prometheus movie??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:29 PM (UHVv4)

437

Nah, proly just from St. Louis.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2021 12:29 PM (gmo/4)

Originally, Chitcago actually.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

438 I saw the Hypertonic Saline-Based Cell-Plumping Bath open for Nervous Turkey at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa around '90.

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at November 24, 2021 12:30 PM (YCeEB)

439 I love Heaven Hill Distilleries products , Larceny, Mello corn and of course Rittenhouse Rye.
It pains me to here them knuckle under to the Twittersphere and as such i will no longer drink Rittenhouse Rye in any more Cocktails.
It's strictly Shooters for me from here on out!!!
Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:22 PM (1lOfI)

Have they announced something??
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2021 12:26 PM (mZUr4)

I checked twatter and saw a completely inactive account even though opened in 2015. So I dunno. Maybe FB/IG? Or they have an alternative account besides Heaven Hill on twatter. At any rate, if true they've totally blown it. But not I assume, in the eyes of the leftist CEO who'd rather go broke than take money from knuckle dragging MAGA mouth breathers.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:30 PM (wAnMi)

440 I like pizza cut in squares.
Posted by: Sponge

Pool...and a pond.

Pond would be good for you.

Posted by: Caddy Mikloshack at November 24, 2021 12:30 PM (QzkSJ)

441 I hate pie. That stuff is gross.

Now a good creme filled eclair? I could suck on one of those all day

Posted by: Barack Obama at November 24, 2021 12:30 PM (ESjRY)

442
Sold together with the Fun for all the Family game of Moronopoly!

And Rock 'em Sock 'em Trollbots!
Posted by: Hasmiklosbro at November 24, 2021 12:29 PM (QzkSJ)

where the answer to every question begins with "but you will blow me first!"

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

443 Connected together in a giant circle around the cuckshed so that nobody misses out -- and so that the same shit keeps getting recycled through each of them, over and over ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus)

I like to think that they are a Mobius strip in addition to being a human Centipede.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 24, 2021 12:30 PM (ZH/2w)

444 405 Anonosaurus, so how big of a cut did Robertson want to be quiet? Because I'm pretty sure he didn't go public because of morals.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at November 24, 2021 12:23 PM (a/dOO)

There was likely already bad blood between CR and Begelman, and the studio boss had probably already ripped him off but Cliff couldn't prove it.

Also, CR was in a unique class of Hollyweirdos: His wife was richer than God so they really didn't GAF about what the ramifications were. To Dina Merrill, Begelman and all the rest of the bosses were simply peasants or hired help, at best.

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 12:30 PM (DJFLF)

445 426 I like pizza cut in squares.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)
You're weird.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 12:27 PM (5bO5K)

It depends on the pizza for me. Chains or frozen pizza get cut into the triangle slices. Local restaurant/bar almost always cut into squares.

Posted by: Buzzion at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (fiH+I)

446 Originally, Chitcago actually.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

Where they eat pizza w/a spoon.

Posted by: BignJames at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (AwYPR)

447 Somehow smoking doesn't seem quite as Thanksgiving-y

Once you smoke a Thanksgiving turkey , you won't want it any other way.

Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (1lOfI)

448 Jourdan it's hard to cut a Sicilian pizza in triangles

Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (bHEHY)

449
Where they eat pizza w/a spoon.
Posted by: BignJames at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (AwYPR)

Only if you order deep dish.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

450 The alleged oldest person in the world has died at age 124, having lived through three different centuries, two major pandemics, three eras of Russian history, and the invention of cotton candy

https://bit.ly/30PIqI9

-
She was an adult during WWI.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 24, 2021 12:32 PM (FVME7)

451 T-minus two more business days until I retire from ACME Woke Defense Contractor, Inc... A time for thanksgiving, indeed. I can never post here on my iphone. I'm sure related to my slow cellular based data connection...

Posted by: cooldawg at November 24, 2021 12:33 PM (2Qj/e)

452 I'm from NY so I eat slices folded in half with grease running down your arm the way God intended.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2021 12:33 PM (5bO5K)

453 448 Jourdan it's hard to cut a Sicilian pizza in triangles
Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (bHEHY)

*nods*
They carry knives.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at November 24, 2021 12:33 PM (V6f9+)

454 Also, CR was in a unique class of Hollyweirdos: His wife was richer than God so they really didn't GAF about what the ramifications were. To Dina Merrill, Begelman and all the rest of the bosses were simply peasants or hired help, at best.
Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2021 12:30 PM (DJFLF)

I believe I've said this before, but Dina Merrill is Who Dis worthy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 24, 2021 12:33 PM (mdjgu)

455 where the answer to every question begins with "but you will blow me first!"
Posted by: Sponge

And the Special Sponge Edition, where everybody is First!

Posted by: MiklosCorp, re-conceptualizing at November 24, 2021 12:34 PM (QzkSJ)

456 Exactly how was the piracy accomplished?

Without radio.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 24, 2021 12:34 PM (1t5dY)

457 Somehow smoking doesn't seem quite as Thanksgiving-y

Once you smoke a Thanksgiving turkey , you won't want it any other way.

Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (1lOfI)

Dry brined in kosher salt for 5 days. Stuffed with fresh sage and thyme. Shout out to CBD, my brother is sous vide-ing a spatchcocked turkey this year.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at November 24, 2021 12:34 PM (CjHGv)

458 I checked twatter and saw a completely inactive account even though opened in 2015. So I dunno. Maybe FB/IG? Or they have an alternative account besides Heaven Hill on twatter. At any rate, if true they've totally blown it. But not I assume, in the eyes of the leftist CEO who'd rather go broke than take money from knuckle dragging MAGA mouth breathers.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:30 PM (wAnMi)

Found it. @heavenhill 3-part tweet yesterday saying the verdict is no cause for celebration because 2 lives were lost

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2021 12:35 PM (mZUr4)

459 Nood. Polls, though not the stripper kind.

Posted by: Bete at November 24, 2021 12:35 PM (Ojki1)

460
And the Special Sponge Edition, where everybody is First!
Posted by: MiklosCorp, re-conceptualizing at November 24, 2021 12:34 PM (QzkSJ)

Endorsed.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 24, 2021 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

461 where the answer to every question begins with "but you will blow me first!"
Posted by: Sponge

And the Special Sponge Edition, where everybody is First!
Posted by: MiklosCorp, re-conceptualizing at November 24, 2021 12:34 PM (QzkSJ)

"First! but you will blow me" or "But you will blow me Sponge!" ??

Posted by: NaughtyPine - now with extra holiday naughtiness! at November 24, 2021 12:35 PM (/+bwe)

462 I am thankful that we have such a coherent, smart and eloquent president that the whole world is in awe of.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2021 12:35 PM (v0R5T)

463 Jourdan it's hard to cut a Sicilian pizza in triangles
Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (bHEHY)

*nods*
They carry knives.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

*glare*

Posted by: La Pizza Nostra at November 24, 2021 12:36 PM (QzkSJ)

464 Did cheering erupt in the jury room at the conclusion of each replay of the video?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Nah brah, the jury seems to be taking their charge seriously unlike the media rooting for unrest.

Gell Mann theorem applies here. Reporting on legal matters has always been shoddy and sensationalized by media. It is more the heroes and villains trope in coverage rather than the musty old rule of law. Only difference is who is society's villains versus heroes today.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2021 12:36 PM (9hXN1)

465 I'm doing a turkey for just me, but I do have a big pan to cook it in. Haven't decided if I want to brine it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at November 24, 2021 12:36 PM (5HBd1)

466 Once you smoke a Thanksgiving turkey , you won't want it any other way.
Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (1lOfI)

Well, it looks like that's what's happening. I'm not going to go out to the market today of all days.

I just don't see smoky flavor gravy being any good (much less, how would I get the drippings?) so I'll brine the sucker overnight and throw it on the smoker first thing in the morning. Skip the gravy and stuffing, and do an au gratin potato thing instead. Luckily I have a nice Traeger hardwood blend on hand - I've been doing mostly beef so it's been oak or mesquite. Think that might be a bit much for a turkey.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:36 PM (wAnMi)

467 Found it. @heavenhill 3-part tweet yesterday saying the verdict is no cause for celebration because 2 lives were lost
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2021 12:35 PM (mZUr4)
------

That's the second greatest cause for celebration. The first being 12 randos from Communistconsin posses a 0.25 oz of common sense.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 24, 2021 12:37 PM (XrT7O)

468 Benny @bennyjohnson; 4h
Looks like Hillary still has that pneumonia from 2016.

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/
1463500925818085380

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:37 PM (UHVv4)

469 I remember P.J. O'Rourke writing in the National Lampoon Thanksgiving issue many years ago:

"I am thankful that that I have a gun. Because I have some money and would be crazy not to."

"I am thankful that I am white. Because it's never good to be something you can't pretend you're not."
Posted by: Miklos so recalls at November 24, 2021 11:24 AM (QzkSJ)
----------
"I am thankful that I don't have a weird-looking dick. Though I wouldn't mind having a normal-looking dick that was a little bigger, and well as having a better idea of what it wanted to do, though it hasn't been acting up lately as much as it has in the past but I'm not sure that I should be thankful for that or not."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 24, 2021 12:38 PM (AlkyK)

470 Once you smoke a Thanksgiving turkey , you won't want it any other way.
-------------------------------
Cooking With SF Goth??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:39 PM (UHVv4)

471 Remarkable how both Kyle's trial and Arbery's defendants trials have the "he shouldn't have been there" angle, but 180 degrees opposite from one case to the other.
___________

Both cases also involve somebody who got shot dead after he decided to attack a person holding a shotgun pointed at him. Never a smart move.

I'm still amazed at the fix this poor Bryan guy is in. He's probably had to spend his life savings on his defense, and he's looking at the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison on a felony murder conviction, all because he followed somebody in his truck. He is a great example of why people who've been involved in a shooting, even just minimally, should NEVER talk to cops without their lawyer present. The prosecutors knew Bryan didn't really do anything, but they massively over-charged him as a means of trying to force him to flip on the McMichaels. It didn't work, but Bryan's life is still ruined.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 24, 2021 12:39 PM (k4dH2)

472 I listened to Nate the Lawyer cover it, according to him, the 3 defendants lost the "citizens arrest" argument, which is important.
=====

Yeah. After that, I don't see how a jury could conclude that the McM's aren't guilty.

Their defense was that it was an attempted citizen's arrest. The judge said that it could not have been a legal citizen's arrest, because the suspected felonies had been much earlier. And if it's wasn't a legal arrest, then they must be guilty of the attempted unlawful detention or false imprisonment or whatever it was.

And that I think implies that they're also guilty of the associated felony murder count. (Unless you think that Arbery's attempt to rush him wasn't a reasonable reaction to being followed by a guy who pops out of his truck holding a shotgun.)

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at November 24, 2021 12:39 PM (sGnvY)

473 Found it. @heavenhill 3-part tweet yesterday saying the verdict is no cause for celebration because 2 lives were lost
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2021 12:35 PM (mZUr4)

Thanks, they do have another account! Glad to see Rekieta chiming in to set them straight - if that sort of thing is possible. It's also possible the idiots only watch CNN/MSNBC and think they're informed of the facts - nothing truly malicious.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:40 PM (wAnMi)

474 The Milwaukee DA is the one who let the SUV driver out on minimal bail and allowed the John Doe raids. The Waukesha DA handled court yesterday. Two different counties. One blue and one red.

Posted by: Mrs. JTB at November 24, 2021 12:40 PM (7EjX1)

475 I like pizza spiced with pain
Pizza is my aero-plane
Izza my aero-plane

Red Hot Chili Peppers, extra topping $1.50

Posted by: Red Hot Chili Peppers, extra topping $1.50 at November 24, 2021 12:40 PM (w9Wax)

476 I believe I've said this before, but Dina Merrill is Who Dis worthy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 24, 2021 12:33 PM (mdjgu)

( *looks up pics of Dina Merrill* )
( *adds Dina Merrill to 'who dis' queue* )

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 12:40 PM (kSSxT)

477 Dry brined

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at November 24, 2021 12:34 PM (CjHGv)

That's gotta be tough.

Posted by: BignJames at November 24, 2021 12:41 PM (AwYPR)

478 "I just don't see smoky flavor gravy being any good (much less, how would I get the drippings?) so I'll brine the sucker overnight and throw it on the smoker first thing in the morning. "

I put lots of seasoned butter under the skin with Rosemary .
I also stuff the cavity with halved Lemons and Oranges + more Butter.

Coolered for the three hour drive to the fam and when i open that cooler the smell is amazing.

Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:42 PM (1lOfI)

479 Cooking With SF Goth??
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 24, 2021 12:39 PM (UHVv4)

She's probably just an hour and change away from where I'm at. We really need to do a bay area MoMe sometime. Then again, the FBI is probably champing at the bit for us to all be in the same place at the same time.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:42 PM (wAnMi)

480 Once you smoke a Thanksgiving turkey , you won't want it any other way.

Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM (1lOfI)

How can you smoke a turkey? I'd think they'd be soggy and hard to light.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at November 24, 2021 12:43 PM (kSSxT)

481 Dana Merrill is the only child of Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband, Wall Street stockbroker Edward Francis Hutton, founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.

Talk about your white privilege!

Posted by: Red Hot Chili Peppers, extra topping $1.50 at November 24, 2021 12:44 PM (w9Wax)

482 I put lots of seasoned butter under the skin with Rosemary .
I also stuff the cavity with halved Lemons and Oranges + more Butter.
Coolered for the three hour drive to the fam and when i open that cooler the smell is amazing.
Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:42 PM (1lOfI)

I have no shortage of any herbs, rosemary, thyme, marjoram, oregano(s), parsley, basil... but citrus is another matter. Preferably I'd put some into my brine - I've never *not* had citrus trees in the yard until now. Weird. Oh well, at least the weather is nice so the smoker's an option, and I got a brand new unopened bag of pellets (I usually wind down a bit this time of year).

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 24, 2021 12:45 PM (wAnMi)

483 Because the Colonel puts an addictive chemical in it that makes you crave it fortnightly, smartass!

Posted by: insurgens ad opus

I love that movie.

https://youtu.be/y5Q8SRwIo3E

Posted by: Sharkman at November 24, 2021 12:47 PM (ZH/2w)

484 "How can you smoke a turkey? I'd think they'd be soggy and hard to light."
Posted by: OregonMuse,

Good Lord,
I was beginning to think that no one would make that joke.

Thanks.

Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:49 PM (1lOfI)

485 Racine County GOP Audits Clerk Election Rolls

23,000 voters registered using the same phone number

4,120 people registered using the date 1/1/1918

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2021 12:50 PM (yrol0)

486 Once you smoke a Thanksgiving turkey , you won't want it any other way.

Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:31 PM

Where do you get rolling papers for that?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2021 12:53 PM (m+jkK)

487 (Unless you think that Arbery's attempt to rush him wasn't a reasonable reaction to being followed by a guy who pops out of his truck holding a shotgun.)
__________

Yeah, that's not exactly how it happened, according to the testimony. The McMichaels lost sight of Arbery, so they parked their truck on the road at a point where it's elevated, and they could see the neighborhood, including their house. Travis McMichael is standing outside his truck, looking around to see if he can see Arbery. His gun is still in the truck cab. He sees Arbery running toward them, and he yells at Arbery to stop. Arbery keeps running toward him. At that point, Travis McMichael reaches into the truck and gets the gun. Arbery sees that, so he runs around the back side of the truck, then jumps McMichael and tries to take the gun from him.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 24, 2021 12:54 PM (k4dH2)

488 Saw the photo of Brantley in the hospital... Terrible. Praying for his killer to face justice.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2021 12:56 PM (xUca6)

489 "Where do you get rolling papers for that?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState"

Well, it's an edible , so there's that.

Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2021 12:57 PM (1lOfI)

490 I pretty much everyday say 'Thank you God for letting me wake up above ground today"

Posted by: Uncle Joe at November 24, 2021 01:01 PM (nELcL)

491 Re Cliff Robertson, the writer of Indecent Exposure, the book about this mess, is a lifetime friend. Dave McClintick. He said Robertson was your basic New England Protestant to the bone. He absolutely couldn't comprehend what was happening. In the beginning he assumed it was a mistake to be corrected. When he found someone was actually being DisHonest, he dug in his heels. Hollywood couldn't believe anyone would do that, so they kept pushing.

And yes, the Merrill in his wife's name was from one founder of Merrill Lynch and her mother was a Post, as in Post cereals. So money was not a problem.

Posted by: Wenda at November 24, 2021 01:19 PM (tHGM4)

492 With all due respect -- I like and agree with some of your commentary -- but anarcho-capitalist libertarianism can only work in the world where everybody is as wonderful as we are. Pro tip: that world has never and will never exist.

Historically, anarchy ALWAYS leads to tribalism, which ALWAYS leads to one or more battling authoritarian warlords -- with concomitant destruction, desk, and slavery/tyranny. And I believe you are smart enough to know this
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at November 24, 2021 11:53 AM (Z8hN4)
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"Fantasy?"

One or more battling warlords isnt what we're living right now?

Also.... The overwhelming majority of human existence has been spent in anarchy.

Also.... Just because there MIGHT BE negative associated with anarchy, doesn't mean that it shouldn't be the mark - there are negatives associated with EVERY social and governmental idea but people still support those... Slavery? Like in China or for profit prisons?

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at November 24, 2021 01:25 PM (juH8z)

493 Ahmaud Arbery Trial Verdict is in. Jury will report soon!

Posted by: rd at November 24, 2021 01:35 PM (Z32m1)

494 Guilty on all counts of murder for Travis McMichael

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2021 01:39 PM (NpAcC)

495 Greg McMichael Guilty on all counts accept 1

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2021 01:40 PM (NpAcC)

496 William R Bryan Guilty on accounts but 3

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2021 01:42 PM (NpAcC)

497 I am grateful that the leftists hate/despise/loathe me for all the following reasons: Because God blessed me with U.S. citizenship by birth. Because I am a native of the deep red state of Wyoming. Because my ancestors were white people that left Europe more than 250 years ago. Because my family and I are Christian and attend church regularly. Because God made me male. Because God made me over 6' tall. Because God gave me an IQ that is higher than the median value. Because I am well educated (BSME UW, MSME Purdue, PhD Stanford). Because I am married to a woman of color. Because my children are well-behaved, healthy, athletic, bright, talented, attractive, and of mixed race. Because my family and I are debt free.

I could go on. What's the point? The point is that left hates me in the same way that Cain hated Abel.
Abel had done nothing wrong.
This hatred of good/virtue/merit dates all the way back to the very beginning of the human race.
It is primal attribute of human nature.
Is there any wonder why our situation continues to deteriorate?

Posted by: CyberCipher at November 24, 2021 02:20 PM (++/pX)

498 Sassy, please give Gilbert's wife my e-mail (in my sig) if she'd like rosaries for herself and her kids. They've got my prayers, but maybe something material would help, too.

Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at November 24, 2021 02:58 PM (JJatH)

499 Greetings:

My father taught me this. "It's when the pie comes to the table that the knives come out."

Happy Thanksgiving all.

Posted by: 11B40 at November 24, 2021 03:21 PM (uuklp)

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