The Morning Rant

HISTORY LESSON
History teaches us:

The people who pull down statues are never the good guys.

The people who burn, loot, and murder are never the good guys.

The people who would compel you to wear certain things are never the good guys.

The people who would compel you put substances into your bodies over your objections are never the good guys.

The people who would restrict where you can travel, who you can visit are never the good guys.

The people who restrict what you can read are never the good guys.

The people who restrict what you can write and publish are never the good guys.

The people who would withhold information from you "for safety" are never the good guys.

The people who want to restrict or prohibit your access to food, water, employment, medical care, and other necessities of life are never the good guys.

The people who justify any and all excesses in the name of 'public health' or 'public safety' are never the good guys.

The people who impose restrictive rules on others they have no intention of keeping themselves are never the good guys.

And those who support, encourage, defend, and cheer on the people who would do these things are never the good guys, either.

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From Our 'Did Not Age Well' Files:

The Bear Necessities:

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.
10/17 – 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.
11/29 update – The results were not what they were hoping for. Pooky did not get any specific diagnoses but got put into 4 different “unspecified” categories. He sees his therapist and his med manager within the next month, and hopefully they can help them understand the diagnoses and any medication changes. This news has been very difficult to handle.
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.
11/24 – commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid requests prayers for healing and no surgery required (20% odds) for a medical problem he is experiencing.
11/28 - Ladyl asks for complete healing for Hattie, a 3 year old who is undergoing multiple complex surgeries for a congenital skin condition. Brad, a middle-aged man diagnosed with colon cancer who may end up with a colostomy bag needs prayers as well, that his physicians find the best possible solution and cure his condition. And DR, a 65 year old man who also requested prayers for an undisclosed situation.

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.

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.

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

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Who Dis:

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Monday Who Dis: Patricia Medina enjoyed an extensive career, finally retiring in 1978 after working in movies and television since the 1930s. She made a number of films with South African-born actor Louis Hayward: Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950), Captain Pirate (1952), Lady in the Iron Mask (1952), The Lady and the Bandit (1951). Hayward saw service in WWII. He was a United States Marine combat photographer, and his work during the invasion of the Japanese-held island of Tarawa earned him a Bronze Star for courage under fire.

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Lamb Stew:

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Stew recipe available here.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:13 AM

Comments

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1 First!!!

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 01, 2021 11:14 AM (RKLPC)

2 2nd...

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 01, 2021 11:14 AM (RKLPC)

3 And now for the content...

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 01, 2021 11:14 AM (RKLPC)

4 Jessica Chastain and Mark Straong

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

5 Strong, blech

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

6 She's a Jessica Something-or-Other, I think. Jessica Chastain? He looks familiar, but I can't dredge up a name.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:16 AM (txdEq)

7 Mmm... bear claws.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 01, 2021 11:16 AM (vuisn)

8 Grizzly Man saw that paw up close and personal!

Posted by: Jmel at December 01, 2021 11:16 AM (RWHIh)

9 Don't know who dis. Scary sort of face.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 01, 2021 11:17 AM (2JVJo)

10 Jessica Chastain and Mark Strong?

Posted by: Tuna at December 01, 2021 11:17 AM (gLRfa)

11 Mark Strong with hair just looks wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:18 AM (LvTSG)

12 Who Dis dame #5 is wonderful

Good morning

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (DU+/6)

13 I like Mark Strong, but Chastaine is a dud. She bores me, and any movie she's in is slightly worse.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Crossing state lines like a Boss at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (xPJvm)

14 Prayer request for the people of Oxford, Michigan, our adopted home town. Lived there for 12 years, moved away in Jan 2019. Our neighbor's high schoolers all made it out ok. Small-ish and very quiet town. We loved it there. It was the commute to Detroit that drained the life out of me.

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (RKLPC)

15 Too much chin butt.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (Y5qcH)

16 Carol Burnett and Yul Brynner. Though they look younger than I remember.

Posted by: Turn two at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (rPNPP)

17 11 Mark Strong with hair just looks wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:18 AM (LvTSG)

Evidently, Mr. Strong thought so, too.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (RGHRK)

18 >>>The people who would compel you to wear certain things are never the good guys.

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And yet pants are required for the book thread.

Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (VJsqe)

19 Oh man, that lamb stew looks good.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (W2Pud)

20 Love the history lesson

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:20 AM (ONvIw)

21 13 I like Mark Strong, but Chastaine is a dud. She bores me, and any movie she's in is slightly worse.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Crossing state lines like a Boss at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (xPJvm)

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She's wonderful in The Tree of Life.

Everything else...meh. She strikes me as the kind of actress who makes it very obvious she'll do anything to a producer to get a job.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:20 AM (LvTSG)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

23 19 Oh man, that lamb stew looks good.
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Where do you smear the mint jelly?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (fWTJL)

24 18 >>>The people who would compel you to wear certain things are never the good guys.

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And yet pants are required for the book thread.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (VJsqe)

Shut up, you.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (RGHRK)

25 The people who pull down statues are never the good guys.
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Not always. Sometimes they're pulling down statues of Lenin and Stalin. Totalitarian dictators having their monuments removed when their systems fail is a slightly different category, I think.

Removing monuments to the *current* culture and system is what we're seeing now, like we saw in places like Afghanistan when the Taliban destroyed all non-Muslim symbols. Those are acts of a conquering horde of barbarians destroying non-compliant history rather than the removal of dead and defunct personality cultists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (DU+/6)

26 Seems like over the thousand of years we've bred sheep we could have made the adults taste good by now.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (Y5qcH)

27 In fairness, the people who pulled down the tributes to communism in Eastern Europe were probably the good guys.

Posted by: AmericanHawkman at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (VfMhS)

28 Where do you smear the mint jelly?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (fWTJL)

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Zoom call me and I'll show you!

-Jeff Toobin

Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (VJsqe)

29 The people who pull down statues are never the good guys.

Ahem.

Posted by: The Guys Who Tore Down The Statue Of Dzerzhinsky In Front Of The Lubyanka! at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (I2/tG)

30 Scary sort of face.
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You have to look away from the cleft chin.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (sGnvY)

31 I could go with a bear claw this morning.

Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2021 11:22 AM (axyOa)

32 I liked her in zd 30, but shes become more insufferable with each other film,

Posted by: no 6 at December 01, 2021 11:22 AM (hMlTh)

33 Isn't a Parag Agrawal that whale that has a long single tooth (horn) growing from its head?

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 01, 2021 11:22 AM (AiZBA)

34
She's wonderful in The Tree of Life. . . .

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021

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Does she turn into a protector?

Posted by: Larry Niven at December 01, 2021 11:22 AM (txdEq)

35 I could go with a bear claw this morning.

Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2021 11:22 AM (axyOa)
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Back off, brother.

Posted by: Lt. Col. Vindman at December 01, 2021 11:22 AM (DU+/6)

36 Where do you smear the mint jelly?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (fWTJL)

There's a Dana Perino joke there.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 11:22 AM (Y5qcH)

37 Prayers up horde. God bless each and everyone.

Lovely thread, OM. Thank you!

Posted by: Moki at December 01, 2021 11:23 AM (JrN/x)

38 Bear paws are big, even bigger with forced perspective.

Posted by: Peter Jackson at December 01, 2021 11:23 AM (0hbQ6)

39 26 Seems like over the thousand of years we've bred sheep we could have made the adults taste good by now.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (Y5qcH)

I think we were more concerned with the wool.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 11:23 AM (trdmm)

40 She does....little for me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 01, 2021 11:23 AM (dfRN6)

41 Ooh, that bear paw is making me horny...

Posted by: Michelle at December 01, 2021 11:23 AM (l0Lgi)

42 Did you guys see Cramer is calling for Biden to force everyone to get the clot shot?

Meanwhile returning to the abortion arguments "MY BODY MY CHOICE!" well...except that vax thing!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 01, 2021 11:23 AM (ESjRY)

43 Photos #3 and #5 of the lady have settled the issue for me as to where to swipe my credit card.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 11:23 AM (mD/uy)

44 Oh God! The pro abortion lawyer is an uptalker. Fuck fuck fuck.

Posted by: Capital Eff believes #RonnaMustGo #McCarthyMustGo #McConnellMustGo at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (GYllL)

45 Oh Mr. OregonMuse, you simply don't understand how a modern government staffed with highly skilled scientists and bureaucrats can operate at such a high level and know with mathematical precision exactly what is best for you.

Obviously you didn't go to the proper schools and did not learn enough about the wonders of the modern bureaucratic state.

Posted by: Adolf Eichmann at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (Q9lwr)

46 Seems like over the thousand of years we've bred sheep we could have made the adults taste good by now.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021

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"Dr." Jill: Mutton dressed as lamb

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (txdEq)

47 33 Isn't a Parag Agrawal that whale that has a long single tooth (horn) growing from its head?
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 01, 2021 11:22 AM (AiZBA)

Do not besmirch the esteemed narwhal!

Posted by: Moki at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (JrN/x)

48 ACB: aren't time lines like 27 weeks, 15 weeks just arbitrary?

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (G0vdT)

49 Seems like over the thousand of years we've bred sheep we could have made the adults taste good by now.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM (Y5qcH)
++++
:: slobbers ::
:: chomps ::

Hunger is the best seasoning, mate.

:: smacks lips ::

Posted by: The Time Traveler at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (DU+/6)

50 Izzat Johnny Sins?

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (4I/2K)

51 That bear's paw is a pitch fork !

Posted by: Just a side note at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (lZco9)

52 Joan Collins and Paul Newman.

Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (AMIL/)

53 48 ACB: aren't time lines like 27 weeks, 15 weeks just arbitrary?
Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (G0vdT)

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Well, yes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (LvTSG)

54 They can't quit the coof fear mongering. It is too useful and the power it gives them is too intoxicationg.

Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (CYnTg)

55 Present

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (AzFPa)

56 Jessica Chastain and Mark Strong. No idea what they were in together.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (p+1gI)

57 I remember when 'excuse me for breathing' was said sarcastically, not earnestly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (V6f9+)

58 Did you guys see Cramer is calling for Biden to force everyone to get the clot shot?

Cramer thinks he lives in Australia.

Posted by: Capital Eff believes #RonnaMustGo #McCarthyMustGo #McConnellMustGo at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (GYllL)

59 Both MS and TX will lose their abortion cases.

Posted by: I'll ruin the ending for you at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (x4SpN)

60 Annie's Stew, thanks, and thank y'all.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (DhkCX)

61 That stew looks good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (Ls/45)

62 Slight edit:
Patriots in New York City pulled down a statue of George III in 1776. They were the good guys.

Pulling down a statue shouldn't be done lightly, however, and it is an act of revolution. So it is a good statement of intent of what these people want.

Posted by: John Milton's Ghost at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (ATyck)

63 Grizzly Man saw that paw up close and personal!
Posted by: Jmel

So did Matt Damon!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (DjPkW)

64 Had to look up the connection.

Movie I've never seen, which is why I didn't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (LvTSG)

65 If we are ever out walking and come upon a grizzly I'm going to trip you and run.

Fair warning.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (ZLI7S)

66 Mark Strong has been in everything. He's the new Michael Caine.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (AiZBA)

67 Back off, brother.

Back off, Vindman! I outrank you!

Posted by: General "Bear Claw" Miley! at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (I2/tG)

68 Wut? Another "Pro abortion" attorney gets to make her case?

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (G0vdT)

69 Great Suppression > Great Depression

Posted by: A Lumberjack at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (cupoy)

70

who dis'

Phyliss Diller and Soupy Sales!

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (K2SnJ)

71 60 Annie's Stew, thanks, and thank y'all.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (DhkCX)

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Yes. Same here.

Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (VJsqe)

72 OK, Jessica you-know-who and Stanley the guy who played Reinhard Heydrich.

Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (AMIL/)

73 Do not besmirch the esteemed narwhal!
Posted by: Moki at December 01, 2021

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Passenger to old-time sailor: "Is that a fence?"

Old-time Sailor: "Narr. Wall."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (txdEq)

74 66 Mark Strong has been in everything. He's the new Michael Caine.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (AiZBA)

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Started out on a guest spot on Eastenders. I think every British actor starts on Eastenders these days.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (LvTSG)

75 ***
Passenger to old-time sailor: "Is that a fence?"

Old-time Sailor: "Narr. Wall."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (txdEq)

{{Wolfus}}

How are the kitty overlords doing?

Posted by: Moki at December 01, 2021 11:27 AM (JrN/x)

76 Grizzly Man saw that paw up close and personal!
Posted by: Jmel
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So did Matt Damon!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021

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If so, Leonardo di Caprio was there first!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:27 AM (txdEq)

77 OK, Jessica you-know-who and Stanley the guy who played Reinhard Heydrich.
Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (AMIL/)
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I can't imagine playing Heydrich without becoming suicidal. It must be extremely difficult to play that kind of monster.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:27 AM (DU+/6)

78 Thomas: what right are we talking about here?

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:27 AM (G0vdT)

79 Do not besmirch the esteemed narwhal!
Posted by: Moki at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (JrN/x)

I can see it now ATC and her Manatees vs. Moki and the Narwhal...

It's got pay per view written all over it!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 01, 2021 11:28 AM (BgMrQ)

80 The people who would compel you to wear certain things are never the good guys.

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And yet pants are required for the book thread.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (VJsqe)

But have you seen some of those pants??!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2021 11:28 AM (axyOa)

81 The recoil from full-power .44 Magnum loads doesn't seem excessive when looking at that paw.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 11:28 AM (Q9lwr)

82 I never bothered to learn that guys name even though I've seen him in dozens of movies. Bad guy type cast for sure.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 01, 2021 11:28 AM (lZco9)

83 Michael Caine had a run where he could be the lead in movies though.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 01, 2021 11:28 AM (4thlk)

84 So did Matt Damon!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021

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If so, Leonardo di Caprio was there first!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I always get those twits mixed up.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (DjPkW)

85 Do not besmirch the esteemed narwhal!
Posted by: Moki at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (JrN/x)

NEVER!

Remember that Brit guy who, during a muzzie knife attack in London, ran into a club and grabbed a narwhal tusk off the wall and fought the attacker? The stuff of legend.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (AiZBA)

86 Stew looks good, tastes better with beef I'm sure.

Less sweaty.

Posted by: IP at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (w9UC1)

87 72 OK, Jessica you-know-who and Stanley the guy who played Reinhard Heydrich.

Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (AMIL/)

oops - Stanley the guy who played another high-ranking Nazi thug in the movie about implementing the Final Solution.

Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (AMIL/)

88 "And those who support, encourage, defend, and cheer on the people who would do these things are never the good guys, either."

Larry Correia's rant on this particular topic is fantastic, right on target, and a must-read (even though it's a little long, it's worth it). It's called "Do I unfairly paint the left with a broad brush?" TL;DR - the answer is 'no'.

https://tinyurl.com/43wb6wzx

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (mdjgu)

89 Ooh, that bear paw is making me horny...
Posted by: Michelle at December 01, 2021 11:23 AM (l0Lgi)

You too?

Posted by: Leonardo Dicaprio at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

90 Jessica Chastain.... mmm mmm mmm. Especially in Molly's Game. Dayuuum.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (OalnH)

91 Yeah, the "statues" line has too many counter-examples.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (RGHRK)

92 76 Grizzly Man saw that paw up close and personal!
Posted by: Jmel
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So did Matt Damon!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021

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If so, Leonardo di Caprio was there first!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:27 AM (txdEq)

I thought it was reported that it wasn't the bear's paw that di Caprio encountered, but some other part of the bear.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (N39Ws)

93 That ginger has got my soul half detached already.

Posted by: Muad'dib at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (Jyo5m)

94 My original Chuck Norris quip

When Chuck Norris crosses paths with a bear the bear plays dead.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (lZco9)

95 hola chamucos y chamucas, what's crackin!

Posted by: 5280 at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (oSX/P)

96 90 Jessica Chastain.... mmm mmm mmm. Especially in Molly's Game. Dayuuum.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (OalnH)

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Yeah...she looks great in that one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (LvTSG)

97 Tucci.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (OalnH)

98 The recoil from full-power .44 Magnum loads doesn't seem excessive when looking at that paw.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Why do you need a big, heavy gun in the first place?

It's gonna be hard for your buddy to run with a .22 lr slug in his knee.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (DjPkW)

99 {{Wolfus}}

How are the kitty overlords doing?
Posted by: Moki at December 01, 2021

***
There's only the one now, Moki. Wolf the giant black longhair, the Iron Cat who was rarely ever sick in his 10 years with me, passed on (kidney failure, we think) in late October. Now it's just Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat, who at 14 it seems has arthritis and moves like an elderly armadillo. Better, though, since the vet started him on gabapentin pills as well as his liquid prednisone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (txdEq)

100 And in other movie news... Nic Cage is gonna play Dracula.

Posted by: davidt at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (0hbQ6)

101 Thomas: So you're saying the right is for abortion.

Atty: Yes

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I think Thomas got her to admit she's arguing for a right that's not in the constitution.

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (G0vdT)

102 Today, the Aussie government awarded itself the power to electronically surveil citizens without a warrant, using their version of NSA.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (ITJyK)

103 Sign over Fauci's office door:

"Covid macht frei."

Posted by: Sharkman at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (vPEji)

104 Mark Strong has been in everything. He's the new Michael Caine.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 01, 2021 11:26 AM (AiZBA)

Pikers.

Call me when you have a game invented in your honor.

Posted by: Kevin Bacon at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

105 Shorter Justice Thomas, when the court talks about the 2nd amendment or the 4th amendment we're talking about enumerated, concrete laws and rights that have hundreds of years precedence and understanding, when we talk about abortion we're talking about shit the court pulled out of their asses 50 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (XhUIh)

106 My quest to quit smoking is going pretty good so far. No cigarettes on Monday, only two all day yesterday and so far, only one today.

But I'm gonna have to buy more hard candy. My supply is dwindling very fast.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (R5lpX)

107 A Portland teacher, complaining that he works just too damn hard:

Also worth pointing out that in Oregon, nearly all teachers have master's degrees. And while I'd like to see better working conditions for everyone, I also think that when comparing jobs, you should compare master's-level professionals with other master's-level professionals.

The Portland teacher's union thinks that he should only have to teach class four days a week, so he won't be so gosh-darned overworked.

After all, they have master's degrees in education! It's just like being a surgeon!

Posted by: Respect My Education Degree! at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (I2/tG)

108 Why do you need a big, heavy gun in the first place?

It's gonna be hard for your buddy to run with a .22 lr slug in his knee.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (DjPkW)

#amanwithaplan

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (BgMrQ)

109 59 Both MS and TX will lose their abortion cases.
Posted by: I'll ruin the ending for you at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (x4SpN)

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Abortion is a tax. All good.
- scotus

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (OalnH)

110 I was taking with my Pastor the other day and the topic of liberalism and crime came up.

Liberals like to say that the death penalty doesn't act as a deterrent against murder, and yet we have seen 75 percent of the nation run out to get the vaccine out of a fear of death.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (7F9te)

111 Yeah, the "statues" line has too many counter-examples.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (RGHRKM

The difference between peacetime and war is huge.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (lZco9)

112 Posted by: Leonardo Dicaprio at December 01, 2021 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

I was wondering when we'd see the first Leonardo DiCaprio/bear joke. Teh Horde never disappoints!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (RGHRK)

113 anybody ever try lamb faggot ? before you ban me, look it up, it's a real thing. CBD probably has a recipe for it.

Posted by: 5280 at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (oSX/P)

114 Ooh, that bear paw is making me horny...
Posted by: Michelle at December 01, 2021 11:23 AM

You don't come here for the hunting, either, then?

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (m+jkK)

115 Breyer: F*ck Kavanaugh's list of court reversals.

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (G0vdT)

116 How to start a civil war: use the military to enforce vaccine mandates.

Posted by: Guzalot says FJB at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (prSvo)

117 Ever notice that if white dad is not an idiot in a commercial he is an effeminate beta male feminist?

Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (CYnTg)

118 The people who lie virtually every time they open their pie holes -- and never sincerely apologize, show remorse, and/or start telling the truth each time they are proven to be liars -- are never the good guys.

"[Willful] Evasion [of Reality] is the Root of All Evil." -- Ayn Rand

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (x7jF8)

119 Teachers get 3-4 months vacation. Retire at 52 with a full pension and short of shooting a kid in front of witnesses, have lifetime job security.

Poor babies.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (OalnH)

120 he Portland teacher's union thinks that he should only have to teach class four days a week, so he won't be so gosh-darned overworked.

After all, they have master's degrees in education! It's just like being a surgeon!
Posted by: Respect My Education Degree! at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (I2/tG)

"Thinking is haaaarrrrdddd!" - Dr. Jill Biden

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (AiZBA)

121 101 I think Thomas got her to admit she's arguing for a right that's not in the constitution.
Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (G0vdT)

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Yeah...the constitution says specifically that any rights not expressly enumerated in the document either fall to the states or to the people. I'm not sure why our side keeps on this, "It's not in the constitution" bit.

I have a right to buy a computer from a retailer on Sundays while wearing silly hats. It's not in the Constitution either.

There are much better arguments to be had in this fight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (LvTSG)

122 Christina Hendricks lookalike and Always Bad Guy.

What do I win?

Posted by: Sharkman at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (vPEji)

123 113 anybody ever try lamb faggot ? before you ban me, look it up, it's a real thing. CBD probably has a recipe for it.
Posted by: 5280 at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (oSX/P)

Faggot is just a word for "stick".

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 11:33 AM (Y5qcH)

124 I'm no lawyer, but I've thought abortion was unconstitutional since I learned the meaning of the word "posterity" as used in the preamble.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 01, 2021 11:33 AM (xqRaG)

125 117 Ever notice that if white dad is not an idiot in a commercial he is an effeminate beta male feminist?
Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (CYnTg)

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White dad in a commercial? What am I, back in 2005?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:33 AM (OalnH)

126 Not to be a contrarian dick but weren't statues of Lenin/and or Stalin pulled down in former Iron Curtain countries?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (eGTCV)

127 86 Stew looks good, tastes better with beef I'm sure.

Less sweaty.
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Why not use pork?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (fWTJL)

128 >>Yeah...the constitution says specifically that any rights not expressly enumerated in the document either fall to the states or to the people. I'm not sure why our side keeps on this, "It's not in the constitution" bit.

>>I have a right to buy a computer from a retailer on Sundays while wearing silly hats. It's not in the Constitution either.

>>There are much better arguments to be had in this fight.

Really? Seems like the core of the constitutional issue to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (ZLI7S)

129 125 Only if they are wearing a tutu having a tea party with their daughter or washing her cape....

Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (CYnTg)

130 Are the bears paws asymmetrical?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (csEWM)

131 Who dis? The top image is a bitch. The other one, Mark Strong, I think.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (H8QX8)

132 106 My quest to quit smoking is going pretty good so far. No cigarettes on Monday, only two all day yesterday and so far, only one today.

But I'm gonna have to buy more hard candy. My supply is dwindling very fast.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (R5lpX)

Hang in there, friend. I quit my pack-a-day habit over 40 years ago. Trust me, it's worth it.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (RGHRK)

133 116 How to start a civil war: use the military to enforce vaccine mandates.
Posted by: Guzalot says FJB at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (prSvo)

That shithead Cramer is worthless

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (ONvIw)

134 My original Chuck Norris quip

When Chuck Norris crosses paths with a bear the bear plays dead.
Posted by: Just a side note at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM

I recall from the Fred Thompson facts thread at IMAO years ago:

When Chuck Norris and Fred Thompson pass each other on the street, they nod respectfully to one another.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (m+jkK)

135 119 Teachers get 3-4 months vacation. Retire at 52 with a full pension and short of shooting a kid in front of witnesses, have lifetime job security.

Poor babies.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (OalnH)

Prof friend of mine used to call his job 24/7 - 24 hours a week, 7 months a year.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (dfRN6)

136 Hollywood tries to sell Jessica Chastain as "smart" etc., and keeps putting her in movies, but she's completely off-putting.

Posted by: wiz at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (vCJZ2)

137 My quest to quit smoking is going pretty good so far. No cigarettes on Monday, only two all day yesterday and so far, only one today.

But I'm gonna have to buy more hard candy. My supply is dwindling very fast.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at December 01, 2021

***
Good work! I've had little interest in smoking my pipe since I tried some new leaf on Sunday, and made myself sick. That stuff (white burley, if it matters) was way too strong.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (txdEq)

138 126 Not to be a contrarian dick but weren't statues of Lenin/and or Stalin pulled down in former Iron Curtain countries?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (eGTCV)

____

Lots of them are still up, surprisingly enough.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (OalnH)

139 Jessica Chastain and Mark Strong, Miss Sloane.

Posted by: cthoms at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (2Xj6P)

140 Liberals like to say that the death penalty doesn't act as a deterrent against murder, and yet we have seen 75 percent of the nation run out to get the vaccine out of a fear of death.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Death penalty = Ends recidivism rate 100%.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (DjPkW)

141 11 Mark Strong with hair just looks wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:18 AM (LvTSG)

Mark Strong and Christopher Meloni have the same look. It's very flattering for both of them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (mdjgu)

142 Good link to some classic British faggots.....

https://tinyurl.com/BritishFaggots

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (7F9te)

143 Ever notice that if white dad is not an idiot in a commercial he is an effeminate beta male feminist?
Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (CYnTg)

Miss me??

Posted by: Dan from the Staples "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" Commercial at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (mZUr4)

144 59 Both MS and TX will lose their abortion cases.
Posted by: I'll ruin the ending for you at December 01, 2021 11:25 AM (x4SpN)

I disagree - Breyer is squawking publicly (which he never does) because he knows he's on the losing side of this one. Now I don't think they'll overturn Roe (good discussion of this last thread) They'll say Roe is upheld, but in same way or other say that States, under Roe, have the authority to set the date of Viabity. This would uphold the Mississippi law. The Texas law did something completely different, a nice end run around the system - but if that falls, Texas would be glad to replace it with a version of the Mississippi law.

The two laws represent two very different approaches to attacking Roe and Casey. Only one of them needs to work.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (trdmm)

145 The abortion lawyers and Justices: Stare decisis is sacrosanct, except when WE don't want to abide by it.

Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (AMIL/)

146 "56 Jessica Chastain and Mark Strong. No idea what they were in together."
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Zero Dark Thirty.

Posted by: Cosda at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (hEtbM)

147 Alito badgering atty about when a bad decision becomes a bad decision. Immediately or over time.

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:36 AM (G0vdT)

148 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (LvTSG)

It's precisely because it's not in the constitution that it falls to the states on whether you can wear your silly hat.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 01, 2021 11:36 AM (lZco9)

149 81 The recoil from full-power .44 Magnum loads doesn't seem excessive when looking at that paw.

I carry a S&W 69 when hiking here in the PNW.

Posted by: Capital Eff believes #RonnaMustGo #McCarthyMustGo #McConnellMustGo at December 01, 2021 11:36 AM (GYllL)

150 Teachers get 3-4 months vacation. Retire at 52 with a full pension and short of shooting a kid in front of witnesses, have lifetime job security.

Don't get those clowns started on summer vacation - you'll get an endless whine about how being out of work for 4 months means they have to find demeaning p/t jobs just to make ends meet.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 01, 2021 11:36 AM (2JVJo)

151 121 101 I think Thomas got her to admit she's arguing for a right that's not in the constitution.
Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:30 AM (G0vdT)

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Yeah...the constitution says specifically that any rights not expressly enumerated in the document either fall to the states or to the people. I'm not sure why our side keeps on this, "It's not in the constitution" bit.

I have a right to buy a computer from a retailer on Sundays while wearing silly hats. It's not in the Constitution either.

There are much better arguments to be had in this fight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (LvTSG)

Because the key argument here is whether the Constitution demands that states permit abortion. If abortion is not protected by the Constitution, then red states are free to ban it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2021 11:36 AM (z5Vrg)

152 "The people who pull down statues are never the good guys."

You might want to re-think this one. Think Iraq, Romania, the former Soviet satellites when the USSR dissolved, Italy under Mussolini, etc.

Posted by: Hammer Dog at December 01, 2021 11:36 AM (9M063)

153 145 The abortion lawyers and Justices: Stare decisis is sacrosanct, except when WE don't want to abide by it.
Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (AMIL/)

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It's almost like the game is rigged.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:36 AM (LvTSG)

154
The Portland teacher's union thinks that he should only have to teach class four days a week, so he won't be so gosh-darned overworked.

After all, they have master's degrees in education! It's just like being a surgeon!
Posted by: Respect My Education Degree! at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (I2/tG)

Remind me again of the consequences of the teacher having an off day. The kids aren't as indoctrinated as they should be?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 01, 2021 11:36 AM (cupoy)

155 Do I unfairly paint the left with a broad brush

Everything moderate/libertarian/centrist liberals told me is a crazy conspiracy theory no one, especially them, would ever support is currently happening now. And they are almost monothetically on board with it.

Hell, the scum are busy arguing "my body my choice" in front of the SC right now while trying to force everyone to take the clot shot.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (ESjRY)

156 --
And yet pants are required for the book thread.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (VJsqe)

*******

So no Sasquatch hootenannies in the book thread?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (OJLh6)

157 Exactly, if it is not in theConstitution than it is a state issue

Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (CYnTg)

158 Death penalty = Ends recidivism rate 100%.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM (DjPkW)
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True, but for the cost/benefit problem. Putting aside corrupt or incompetent prosecution condemning an innocent man (which is why I oppose the death penalty), there is still a cost/benefit problem.

The death penalty is permanent and can be applied only once. If you're prepared to gamble with that outcome, then any other crime you commit in support of the capital crime is free. They can only kill you the one time. If you move the death penalty down market, you have the side effect of making more crimes free of charge to the criminal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (DU+/6)

159 The people who pull down statues are never the good guys.
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Not always. Sometimes they're pulling down statues of Lenin and Stalin. Totalitarian dictators having their monuments removed when their systems fail is a slightly different category, I think.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:21 AM

Saddam statue in Iraq after OIF.

Yet here in the USA, aren't there places where they have erected status of Lenin (Seattle) and Stalin (Virginia)?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (Do5/p)

160 CBD probably has a recipe for it.

Posted by: 5280 at December 01, 2021 11:31 AM (oSX/P)

Check out greatbritishchefs.com

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (Q9lwr)

161 Teachers get 3-4 months vacation. Retire at 52 with a full pension and short of shooting a kid in front of witnesses, have lifetime job security.

I had a relative who became a middle school teacher in middle-age, after spending years working retail and running small businesses.

She said about her fellow teachers: "Most of my colleagues are real whiners."

The Portland Reddit discussions over the Portland teacher's union proposal to only have class four days a week are really revealing - the teachers posting just ooze entitlement. Why, they're all going to quit if they have to keep teaching class five days a week!

Posted by: Respect My Education Degree! at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (I2/tG)

162 Listening to Steven Crowder list all of the warning signs the Oxford, MI shooter was spewing the last few days:

Dear head dumped in the school quad.

Multiple videos published saying "I am become death, destroyer of worlds. See you tomorrow Oxford" and more.

Bunch of others. The kids in the school knew something was going to happen before it did and were talking about it with each other and their parents.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (vPEji)

163
Do not besmirch the esteemed narwhal!
Posted by: Moki at December 01, 2021 11:24 AM (JrN/x)

Obligatory narwhal song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbby9coDRCk

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (n+4am)

164 'The pro abortion lawyer is an uptalker. '

He is?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (T/s40)

165 Lots of them are still up, surprisingly enough.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM

But enough about Seattle...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2021 11:38 AM (m+jkK)

166 I think Thomas had the best response to the Stare decisis argument. The constitution is the ultimate stare decisis decision.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 11:38 AM (ZLI7S)

167 The recoil from full-power .44 Magnum loads doesn't seem excessive when looking at that paw.

I carry a S&W 69 when hiking here in the PNW.
Posted by: Capital Eff believes

#1 son is, in theory, anti-weaponry. Interestingly enough, he rented a .44 Magnum when backpacking in the back country of Yellowstone.

Dunno why.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 11:38 AM (mD/uy)

168 Neanderthals killed much bigger bears than modern Grizzlies with stone tipped spears.

Neanderthals were bad asses.

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2021 11:38 AM (gmo/4)

169 The 'ettes like chesty, leggy, and/or cheeky male Who Disses as well, OM.

Or shoe pr0n.

Posted by: J. Random Commenter at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (HvJy5)

170 Hang in there, friend. I quit my pack-a-day habit over 40 years ago. Trust me, it's worth it.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 11:34 AM (RGHRK)

Well hell, you quit about the time I started up. Been a two pack a day habit for 44 years now for me.

Hope I can make it stick this time. Last time made it three months.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (R5lpX)

171 And speaking of the Constitution the red headed cunt says domestic travel bans for the unvaccinated are " not off the table"

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/488597/

Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (CYnTg)

172 From Art Thread:

524 So, apparently the city of Philadelphia wants to let the AA girls walk, the ones who beat up an Asian chick on the train. They were "addressing racial inequity", and that makes it ok.

Black on Asian crime has been occurring with alarming regularity for DECADES in Philadelphia, primarily in the public school system.

That's the reason the four attackers felt emboldened to assault that lone Asian girl on the train. The System in Philadelphia has tolerated these hate crimes.

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (DJFLF)

173 It's not just summer vacay. It's also 2 weeks for Christmas, errr I mean winter break. And a week for spring break. And a week for Thanksgiving. And then every single federal and state holiday off.

That shit adds up to 1/4 of the year as paid holiday. And they still fucking whine.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (OalnH)

174 I kind of torn between preserving the life of innocents and letting the left abort themselves out of the gene pool.

Couldn't we just have the death penalty for communists?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (Y5qcH)

175 Yeah...the constitution says specifically that any rights not expressly enumerated in the document either fall to the states or to the people. I'm not sure why our side keeps on this, "It's not in the constitution" bit.

>>I have a right to buy a computer from a retailer on Sundays while wearing silly hats. It's not in the Constitution either.

Yeah. No you don't. Not in some states. Blue laws. Look 'em up. States rights.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (DjPkW)

176 Not to be a contrarian dick but weren't statues of Lenin/and or Stalin pulled down in former Iron Curtain countries?

Unironically there's one standing in Portland, OR of one Lenin.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (BFigT)

177 How to start a civil war: use the military to enforce vaccine mandates.

Posted by: Guzalot says FJB at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (prSvo)

Or overturn Roe!

Posted by: Dem Senator Shaheen at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (2YT8Y)

178 I hate that Jessica Chastain is an out and proud liberal. She is so hot. I love redheads. I might even have a neuroses about them

1st step is admitting a problem.

Posted by: Trog04 at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (wfZwW)

179 Death penalty = Ends recidivism rate 100%.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021

***
Yes. The argument was once, "The death penalty teaches the criminal nothing." True; but we have no other way to teach him not to be a criminal. A fairly and swiftly applied death penalty for violent crime would be a deterrent to any thinking being. And if the criminal is not a thinking being, then we have small loss in getting rid of him before he kills again (or before he breeds, if we're lucky).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (txdEq)

180 The abortion lawyers and Justices: Stare decisis is sacrosanct, except when WE don't want to abide by it.

Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 11:35 AM

Yet Bowers v Hardwick was not sacrosant to the Justices in Lawrence v Texas. And 20 years later, we're discussing legalizing and normalizing pedophilia.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (Do5/p)

181 Asians vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Because Republicans are raaaaaaaacist. So you know what, I give no fucks if they are being assaulted by blacks in blue city shitholes. LOLGF.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (OalnH)

182 168 Cave Bears...I wonder what the loss ratio was....

Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (CYnTg)

183 You might want to re-think this one. Think Iraq, Romania, the former Soviet satellites when the USSR dissolved, Italy under Mussolini, etc.
Posted by: Hammer Dog at December 01, 2021 11:36 AM (9M063)

The people who pull down statues in the same environment as those that burn books. With government consent.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (lZco9)

184 Wise Latina reciting Dem talking points on rape and contraceptives. What does that have to do with the constitution?

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (G0vdT)

185 So, apparently the city of Philadelphia wants to let the AA girls walk, the ones who beat up an Asian chick on the train. They were "addressing racial inequity", and that makes it ok.

Black on Asian crime has been occurring with alarming regularity for DECADES in Philadelphia, primarily in the public school system.

That's the reason the four attackers felt emboldened to assault that lone Asian girl on the train. The System in Philadelphia has tolerated these hate crimes.
Posted by: kallisto

So what Zphilly is saying is, don't leave witnesses?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (DjPkW)

186 Same in Ballard (Seattle)

Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (VJsqe)

187 174 I kind of torn between preserving the life of innocents and letting the left abort themselves out of the gene pool.

Couldn't we just have the death penalty for communists?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (Y5qcH)

Look on the bright side, this'll encourage leftists to move to blue states.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2021 11:41 AM (z5Vrg)

188 140 Liberals like to say that the death penalty doesn't act as a deterrent against murder, and yet we have seen 75 percent of the nation run out to get the vaccine out of a fear of death.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

in the early 20th century defenders of the DP got into the habit of saying it was needed as a Deterrent - that was a mistake. That isn't why you impose a DP, and it's easy to prove that criminals don't understand the consequences of their actions, so they aren't deterred the way rational people are deterred.

we impose a DP to maintain a rational, ordered society and to remove the worst predators who live among us, permanently.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 11:41 AM (trdmm)

189 Black on Asian crime has been occurring with alarming regularity for DECADES in Philadelphia, primarily in the public school system.

Damn that Trump!

Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:41 AM (CYnTg)

190 "Why not use pork?"

ok, or pork.

Posted by: IP at December 01, 2021 11:41 AM (w9UC1)

191 187 Look on the bright side, this'll encourage leftists to move to blue states.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2021 11:41 AM (z5Vrg)

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"I'm deathly afraid of covid and think DeSantis is going to murder me personally if I ever set foot in Florida. Also, I'm moving to Florida."
-Probably not happening

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

192 There are hundreds of people in prison now for homicide that were previously in prison for homicide.

Posted by: Just a side note at December 01, 2021 11:41 AM (lZco9)

193 I hate that Jessica Chastain is an out and proud liberal. She is so hot. I love redheads. I might even have a neuroses about them

1st step is admitting a problem.
Posted by: Trog04

I'd wager I've bought more houses for gingers that hate me than you have.

Was it worth it?

(You know the answer - I'm a Moron after all)

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 11:42 AM (mD/uy)

194 >>>Ever notice that if white dad is not an idiot in a commercial he is an effeminate beta male feminist?
Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (CYnTg)

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Where are these "white dads" in commercials you speak of? /

Posted by: Turn two at December 01, 2021 11:42 AM (rPNPP)

195 Is that picture of President Senile Pedophile real, or was PSP photoshopped in?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:42 AM (eGTCV)

196 Where are these "white dads" in commercials you speak of? /
Posted by: Turn two at December 01, 2021 11:42 AM (rPNPP)
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Farm Bureau Insurance has 'em. Seem normal, too - working on cars and shit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:42 AM (DU+/6)

197 No you don't. Not in some states. Blue laws. Look 'em up. States rights.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021

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Decades ago in my heavily-Catlick town, practically everything but mom-and-pop groceries, movie theatres, and drugstores was closed on Sunday, you couldn't buy hardware on Sunday, and the liquor department at the grocery (yes, we still have that) was roped off and verboten on election days. Sometimes I think we were better off then.

(Sometimes? More often than that.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (txdEq)

198 Test

Posted by: NativeNH at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (dtRY5)

199 >>Ever notice that if white dad is not an idiot in a commercial he is an effeminate beta male feminist?

I can think of only two exceptions, both car ads. The Neil McDonough Cadillac ad that is The Best, and the Volkswagen one where the dad is discreetly pushing the parked car's alert button so that his son dressed as Darth Vader thinks he's making it happen via the force.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (bDqIh)

200 Last time made it three months.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy
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I quit before vaping was a thing, and maybe that's the way to go now. But for me the nicotine lozenges worked great.

(Did get a little bit attached to the nicotine-lozenge habit, but that was much easier to quit cold turkey.)

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (sGnvY)

201 Or overturn Roe!
Posted by: Dem Senator Shaheen at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (2YT8Y

I think we can handle the pussyheads 2nd putsch

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (ONvIw)

202 I've seen a new trend in commercials where the kids have Down Syndrom or are in wheelchairs or some other type of disability. Not that it's a bad thing per se, but it seems like it's the next chapter of woke.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (OalnH)

203 The red head on Mythbusters is bunk worthy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (Ls/45)

204 Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (OalnH)

Suppose the people being attacked don't vote? Maybe we should question them first before they get on a subway? /sarc.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2021 11:44 AM (poMoX)

205 and the Volkswagen one where the dad is discreetly pushing the parked car's alert button so that his son dressed as Darth Vader thinks he's making it happen via the force.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (bDqIh)

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That's at least 10 years old though. From back in the before times. It was a super bowl ad, IIRC.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:44 AM (OalnH)

206 Where are these "white dads" in commercials you speak of? /
Posted by: Turn two at December 01, 2021 11:42 AM

Don't look at us.

Posted by: Nissan at December 01, 2021 11:44 AM (m+jkK)

207 Suppose the people being attacked don't vote? Maybe we should question them first before they get on a subway? /sarc.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2021 11:44 AM (poMoX)

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Still give no fucks. I'm tired of defending people who hate me.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:44 AM (OalnH)

208 202 I've seen a new trend in commercials where the kids have Down Syndrom or are in wheelchairs or some other type of disability. Not that it's a bad thing per se, but it seems like it's the next chapter of woke.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (OalnH)

Will all that shrieking over Sarah Palin deciding to give birth to her Down's Syndrome child be taken back?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:45 AM (eGTCV)

209 The red head on Mythbusters is bunk worthy.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM

Yep, way better then this redhead. It's a TRAP!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 01, 2021 11:45 AM (cOXDn)

210 Hmm...I'm thinking that under current jurisprudence, the wearing of the silly hat is actually very likely to be considered protected speech under the first amendment, and thus banning it would be a constitutional question. Limits to the wearing of silly hats would need to pass strict scrutiny and be the only way to protect a compelling government interest.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 01, 2021 11:45 AM (McMSJ)

211 Larry Correia doesn't think one can paint the Left with too broad of a brush: (remove spaces)

https://monsterhunternation.com /2021/11/23/ do-i-unfairly-paint-the-left-with-a-broad-brush/

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 01, 2021 11:45 AM (Au7o2)

212 Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:44 AM (OalnH)

The woman who got attacked on a subway knows you?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2021 11:45 AM (poMoX)

213 181 Asians vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Because Republicans are raaaaaaaacist. So you know what, I give no fucks if they are being assaulted by blacks in blue city shitholes. LOLGF.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:40 AM (OalnH)

They favor "open immigration" and increased Chinese imports, too

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:45 AM (ONvIw)

214 Thomas: Is a women accused of child abuse have a "right to liberty" argument.

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (G0vdT)

215 Has anyone else noticed that Brandon's ban on travel from Africa, and his deportation of Haitian illegal immigrants have something in common? Hmmm, what ever could that be?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (ctFUD)

216 >>That's at least 10 years old though. From back in the before times. It was a super bowl ad, IIRC.

And they were exceptions even back then.
The 'dumb white dad' in ads has been a thing for probably 20 years. It's always bugged me.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (bDqIh)

217 Neanderthals killed much bigger bears than modern Grizzlies with stone tipped spears.
*
Neanderthals were bad asses.
Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2021

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Cave lions too -- they were about 25% larger than today's lions. Panthera spelea. (I told Miss Linda once long ago that one of my cats still had racial memories of cave lion days. She thought I was making "cave lions" up.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (txdEq)

218 I forgot her name but knew she saved us from sparing Bin Laden.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (AzFPa)

219 Ever notice that if white dad is not an idiot in a commercial he is an effeminate beta male feminist?
Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (CYnTg)

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Where are these "white dads" in commercials you speak of? /
Posted by: Turn two at December 01, 2021 11:42 AM (rPNPP)

Married to strong black women. If you got your only information from TV, you'd think every marriage in the country was mixed-race.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (2JVJo)

220 215 Has anyone else noticed that Brandon's ban on travel from Africa, and his deportation of Haitian illegal immigrants have something in common? Hmmm, what ever could that be?
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (ctFUD)

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Purity of heart?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (LvTSG)

221 They favor "open immigration" and increased Chinese imports, too
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It wasn't "Asians" as a demographic getting assaulted in that video. It was four high school kids.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (sGnvY)

222 This blonde bartender in a bikini encourages you to kick back, have a beer, and leave the statues of the Founding Fathers alone:
https://is.gd/ucCa4B

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (DU+/6)

223 81 The recoil from full-power .44 Magnum loads doesn't seem excessive when looking at that paw.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 11:28 AM (Q9lwr)

Garrett Cartridges 44 Mag +P Hammerheads for the win. 330 gr super hard cast slugs @ 1400 fps

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (VGRuw)

224 The woman who got attacked on a subway knows you?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2021 11:45 AM (poMoX)

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OK keep fighting for people who hate you. This is why the left always wins. How about a nice tax cut for Bezos as well? Cuz you know, job creator and stuff.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (OalnH)

225 Have I pissed off pixy ?

Posted by: NativeNH at December 01, 2021 11:47 AM (dtRY5)

226 222 This blonde bartender in a bikini encourages you to kick back, have a beer, and leave the statues of the Founding Fathers alone:
https://is.gd/ucCa4B
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (DU+/6)

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How is she not a Representative in the House by now?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:47 AM (LvTSG)

227 #1 son is, in theory, anti-weaponry. Interestingly enough, he rented a .44 Magnum when backpacking in the back country of Yellowstone.

There are no atheist's in a foxhole.

Posted by: Capital Eff believes #RonnaMustGo #McCarthyMustGo #McConnellMustGo at December 01, 2021 11:47 AM (GYllL)

228 Will all that shrieking over Sarah Palin deciding to give birth to her Down's Syndrome child be taken back?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:45 AM (eGTCV)

That shrieking, they believed, put them in a better light than saying "she's better looking than me and went further with a lesser degree"..meooooow

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:47 AM (ONvIw)

229 222 This blonde bartender in a bikini encourages you to kick back, have a beer, and leave the statues of the Founding Fathers alone:
https://is.gd/ucCa4B
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (DU+/6)

She looks healthy.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:47 AM (eGTCV)

230 If you got your only information from TV, you'd think every marriage in the country was mixed-race.

Well of course in a country with such a small white minority...

Posted by: steevy at December 01, 2021 11:48 AM (CYnTg)

231 I've seen a new trend in commercials where the kids have Down Syndrom or are in wheelchairs or some other type of disability. Not that it's a bad thing per se, but it seems like it's the next chapter of woke.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM

They are just taking them to "The Farm".

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 01, 2021 11:48 AM (cOXDn)

232 I have a featherweight .44 magnum with a 4" barrel and porting. The effin bear would have to be chewing on my ass before I would touch that damn thing off without hearing protection. Just un-bear-ably loud.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 01, 2021 11:48 AM (o2MD2)

233 Last time made it three months.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at December 01, 2021 11:39 AM (R5lpX)

That means you can do it.

Keep the faith...you will win.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 11:48 AM (Q9lwr)

234 The 'dumb white dad' in ads has been a thing for probably 20 years. It's always bugged me.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 01, 2021

***
"Dumb white TV dads" goes back to the Fifties. It was why Robert Young's Father Knows Best character was such a refreshing change then; he was not a clueless dork. Okay, Rob Petrie was a bit of one, but Laura could be too, so they made a good team.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:48 AM (txdEq)

235 "And those who support, encourage, defend, and cheer on the people who would do these things are never the good guys, either."

Hmmm. That's a whole, whole, lot of "not the good guys". When you add "tolerate, cooperate with, submit to", it's ..... most of the world.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 01, 2021 11:48 AM (OTzUX)

236 I've only bought 2 homes, and we're still together after 19 years. I didn't marry a ginger, but once the Mrs. did color her hair red, and it definitely turned it to 11. Like I said, I have issues, man.

Posted by: Trog04 at December 01, 2021 11:48 AM (wfZwW)

237 I like redheads, but Chastain does nothing for me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (csEWM)

238 This blonde bartender in a bikini encourages you to kick back, have a beer, and leave the statues of the Founding Fathers alone:
https://is.gd/ucCa4B
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (DU+/6)

She's got the grip!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (4I/2K)

239 Where's that bar???

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (OalnH)

240 I'm confused by this idea that you can't put restrictions on when an abortion can be done in a pregnancy. I thought the original Roe v Wade did exactly that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (5HBd1)

241 Kavanaugh to Pro Abr Atty: Hey, there are two interests involved. The fetus has an interest. What say you?

Atty: Screw the fetus.

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (G0vdT)

242 Photo of bear paw is photoshopped

Posted by: NativeNH at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (dtRY5)

243 The Voya ad "Laundry" from 2016. The last funny ad ever in which the straight white heterosexual male was NOT the butt of the joke: wife doing laundry finds money in pants pocket and goes to yell at husband about being careless with their money. He calmly tells her those are her pants.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 01, 2021 11:50 AM (O6DoG)

244 Bunch of others. The kids in the school knew something was going to happen before it did and were talking about it with each other and their parents.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 01, 2021 11:37 AM (vPEji)

The similarities between the kids/teachers/admin and people/media/"elites" is striking. The kids knew. The people know.

Posted by: flounder at December 01, 2021 11:50 AM (SH2Zi)

245 241 Kavanaugh to Pro Abr Atty: Hey, there are two interests involved. The fetus has an interest. What say you?

Atty: Screw the fetus.
Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (G0vdT)

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Remake of History of the World Part I?

Or sequel?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:50 AM (LvTSG)

246 Why isn't chubby Colonel Vindmann eating that bear paw?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:50 AM (eGTCV)

247 The 'dumb white dad' in ads has been a thing for probably 20 years. It's always bugged me.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (bDqIh)

Longer than that. The Simpsons is over 30 years old, and it's the very apex of the dumb white dad (Technically, dumb yellow dad, I suppose, but you know what I mean)

Posted by: Wally at December 01, 2021 11:50 AM (FJYfm)

248 115 Breyer: F*ck Kavanaugh's list of court reversals.

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:32 AM (G0vdT)

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Please tell me he stuck his index fingers in both ears and started screaming "NA, NA, NA, NA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! ..." repeatedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (tsrYd)

249 239 Where's that bar???
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (OalnH)

Hmmm, she stands out in that place like a Fed at a J6 rally.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (csEWM)

250 Decades ago in my heavily-Catlick town, practically everything but mom-and-pop groceries, movie theatres, and drugstores was closed on Sunday, you couldn't buy hardware on Sunday, and the liquor department at the grocery (yes, we still have that) was roped off and verboten on election days. Sometimes I think we were better off then.

(Sometimes? More often than that.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM (txdEq)

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If you wanted to have any cash on the weekend you had to go to the bank or store before the weekend to cash a check.

Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (VJsqe)

251 Why isn't chubby Colonel Vindmann eating that bear paw?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:50 AM

Not enough sugar glaze?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (cOXDn)

252 Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (OalnH)

You changed the goalposts I'm not addressing Bezos Who's fighting for people who hate me? I'm saying people going to schools and jobs should have the ability to ride the subway without being attacked, because if you're making the argument that we just allow crime to run rampant as long as it's people who voting record we don't know but might possibly be Democrats get attacked, that's a really bad argument.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (poMoX)

253 240 I'm confused by this idea that you can't put restrictions on when an abortion can be done in a pregnancy. I thought the original Roe v Wade did exactly that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (5HBd1)

Yeah, but now the lib women are into the "goddess" tribalism and this stature as "goddesses" gives them the power over life and death. It's a fascinating new phenomenon trying to shoe horn its way into mainstream religions

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (ONvIw)

254 "featherweight .44 magnum" hurts, just saying the words. Ouch. I guess when compared to being a chew toy for a bear, sure. But not something you practice with a lot.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (OTzUX)

255 Photo of bear paw is photoshopped

Posted by: NativeNH at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (dtRY5)

Probably, but they really are big fvckers!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (Q9lwr)

256 >>> "she's better looking than me and went further with a lesser degree"..meooooow

Her degree in journalism put them in a quandary.

Posted by: fluffy at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (UnQlg)

257 The worst white dad commercial was an ad for a real estate brokerage, I think it was Century 21.

The white mom and dad are on the phone with their real estate agent. The dad is like, no I don't want to buy this house, I don't think it's a good idea. The wife and the real estate agent then badger him into it until he relents.

The ad came out in 2006, right at the peak of the the bubble.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (OalnH)

258 I think the fact that the SCOTUS allowed this case to be heard at all was the signal that they're ready to make big changes. For the last 30 years, they have been refusing to hear any of these cases because they didn't want to deal with it. But it's been an open joke in every law school in the country, for a long time, that the legal reasoning used in the original R v Wade decision was one of the most ridiculously anti-constitutional rulings ever made. It was a pure political decision, and it has always been defended on the basis of politics, not logical reasoning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (trdmm)

259 210 Farmer Bob, you would be right in part and not right in part.

A generally applicable law that banned all hats would be permissible under certain circumstances--prisons, interiors of government buildings, etc. for identification purposes or some other rational government objective.

However, if a non-silly hat is permitted, then it becomes a matter of strict scrutiny for government to limit silly hats. Viewpoint discrimination by government requires strict scrutiny.

Basically, our courts have twisted the Constitution into a pretzel and the principle of stare decisis has made the Court distinguish how the facts and application of law differ in one case versus another.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (9hXN1)

260 That Biology text with the boy/girl anatomic drawings may have inadvertently identified the problem with boys who want to pretend to be girls.

They saw the diagram as a cutaway and took it literally!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (m45I2)

261 216 >>That's at least 10 years old though. From back in the before times. It was a super bowl ad, IIRC.

And they were exceptions even back then.
The 'dumb white dad' in ads has been a thing for probably 20 years. It's always bugged me.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 01, 2021 11:46 AM (bDqIh)

I divorced a schmuck like that and have been happy ever since, with my adult kids living in the basement, and my four cats living upstairs with me. I'm gonna buy that product because that company understands my pain!

Posted by: More than a few women at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (AMIL/)

262 Photo of bear paw is photoshopped

Posted by: NativeNH at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (dtRY5)

Probably, but they really are big fvckers!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM

He's not wrong there.

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at December 01, 2021 11:53 AM (m+jkK)

263 Why isn't chubby Colonel Vindmann eating that bear paw?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:50 AM

He always looked like a fat soviet military guy in Khrushchev pants.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:53 AM (ONvIw)

264 254 "featherweight .44 magnum" hurts, just saying the words. Ouch. I guess when compared to being a chew toy for a bear, sure. But not something you practice with a lot.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (OTzUX)

Recoil isn't a problem. You don't notice it over the pain of burst eardrums.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 01, 2021 11:53 AM (o2MD2)

265 I've seen a new trend in commercials where the kids have Down Syndrom or are in wheelchairs or some other type of disability. Not that it's a bad thing per se, but it seems like it's the next chapter of woke.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM

Interesting if the Left is now proclaiming their love for Down's Syndrome kids, since the Left's love for abortion has greatly reduced the number of Down's Syndrome kids.

Posted by: Wally at December 01, 2021 11:53 AM (FJYfm)

266 A 12 gauge rifled slug will stop a grizzly dead in its tracks.

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2021 11:53 AM (gmo/4)

267 Those sayings about redheads? They're all true.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at December 01, 2021 11:53 AM (4I/2K)

268 You changed the goalposts I'm not addressing Bezos Who's fighting for people who hate me? I'm saying people going to schools and jobs should have the ability to ride the subway without being attacked, because if you're making the argument that we just allow crime to run rampant as long as it's people who voting record we don't know but might possibly be Democrats get attacked, that's a really bad argument.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (poMoX)

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My argument is I don't give a fuck if people who hate me are killing each other. And in fact I will load up on popcorn and watch it go down, smiling.

Now if you want to get involved in that fight, be my guest.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (OalnH)

269 and it's easy to prove that criminals don't understand the consequences of their actions, so they aren't deterred the way rational people are deterred.

I don't disagree with you TS.

But DP is a deterrent to rational individuals. A deterrent doesn't have to deter 100% in order to be effective.

For instance, I think we like to say the war on drugs or prohibition were failures. But were they? During prohibition, alcohol related deaths and illness were reduced. The reason we consider them failures is through an actuarial lens. In other words, the costs of liberty and enforcement exceeded the benefit.

But the measures did actually reduce certain negative societal factors associated with alcohol. And based on the ever increasing overdose numbers, we see the end of the war on drugs is likely to result in a rise in drug abuse and lives most.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (7F9te)

270 267 Those sayings about redheads? They're all true.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at December 01, 2021 11:53 AM (4I/2K)

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Dolley is the least crazy girl I ever dated, and she's the only redhead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

271 So grave robbing and buggering corpses is okay. Amiright?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (J7wri)

272 240 I'm confused by this idea that you can't put restrictions on when an abortion can be done in a pregnancy. I thought the original Roe v Wade did exactly that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (5HBd1)

That's the fatal flaw in the left's argument today - it did. So the SCOTUS can allow Mississippi to put restrictions on it and say "See, we are still upholding R v Wade". Which is what I think they will do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (trdmm)

273 Case closed.

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (G0vdT)

274 Not Stanley Tucci, huh? Welp, at least I got the actress correct, way up top: Joan Collins.

Posted by: More than a few women at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (AMIL/)

275 Yep. We went from Cosby and Thicke to Homer, Al Bundy, and Tim the Tool Man. From fathers are wise and loving leaders to fathers are dumb, incompetent/bumbling losers who may or may not love their families, but regardless need the strong leadership of modern, much smarter women in nearly every facet of life.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (McMSJ)

276 =========

Dolley is the least crazy girl I ever dated, and she's the only redhead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

Ah, but she blows you to say that.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 01, 2021 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

277 For the last 30 years, they have been refusing to hear any of these cases because they didn't want to deal with it. But it's been an open joke in every law school in the country, for a long time, that the legal reasoning used in the original R v Wade decision was one of the most ridiculously anti-constitutional rulings ever made. It was a pure political decision, and it has always been defended on the basis of politics, not logical reasoning.

But...but...but we wants it!

Posted by: The Left at December 01, 2021 11:55 AM (ZsR3z)

278 Question to ask a leftist: If a genetic test determines that your child will be gay or transgender, would that be grounds to abort it?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 11:55 AM (Y5qcH)

279 253 240 I'm confused by this idea that you can't put restrictions on when an abortion can be done in a pregnancy. I thought the original Roe v Wade did exactly that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (5HBd1)

Yeah, but now the lib women are into the "goddess" tribalism and this stature as "goddesses" gives them the power over life and death. It's a fascinating new phenomenon trying to shoe horn its way into mainstream religions
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (ONvIw)

It's just very old and primitive paganism.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2021 11:55 AM (z5Vrg)

280 DP deters that criminal from perpetuating his/her crime against a peaceful society.

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2021 11:55 AM (gmo/4)

281 If you wanted to have any cash on the weekend you had to go to the bank or store before the weekend to cash a check.

Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (VJsqe)

Well, you could knock over a gas station on Sat. morning and have enough money to get you through the weekend.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 11:55 AM (RGHRK)

282 Panthera spelea sounds like a Greek woman's name.

"In Athens once time, I dated this local MILF named Panthera Spelea. She was a real cougar!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:56 AM (txdEq)

283 246 Why isn't chubby Colonel Vindmann eating that bear paw?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:50 AM (eGTCV)

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Presently on assignment at the United States Strategic Pastry Reserve. [h/t Ace]

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 01, 2021 11:56 AM (ALRql)

284 yes that escalated quickly, she was a victim of larry krasner's crazy jihad against the citizen,

Posted by: no 6 at December 01, 2021 11:56 AM (hMlTh)

285 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (7F9te)

Plus, sociopaths lie, it's who they are. They always say "I didn't understand", but they do. Many are convincing liars.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:56 AM (ONvIw)

286 I have been within a child's arm reach of a wild grizzly bear. It was not a pleasant experience.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (ctFUD)

287 I think the fact that the SCOTUS allowed this case to be heard at all was the signal that they're ready to make big changes. For the last 30 years, they have been refusing to hear any of these cases because they didn't want to deal with it. But it's been an open joke in every law school in the country, for a long time, that the legal reasoning used in the original R v Wade decision was one of the most ridiculously anti-constitutional rulings ever made. It was a pure political decision, and it has always been defended on the basis of politics, not logical reasoning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM

As a 1L I read an article about a poll that was taken of law professors (overwhelmingly a lefty bunch) as to which were the top 10 worst SCOTUS decisions in history. Number 1 was Roe. They all agreed it had no mooring whatsoever in the Constitution, but immediately followed that up by saying that it should never be overturned because abortion was soooo relied upon in our society and such an important pillar of our culture. Evil bastards.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (m+jkK)

288 The original "well, he's a guy, so..."guy in the State Farm ad calling about insurance at 0300 makes his wife look kinda stupid.

Posted by: pep at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (ZsR3z)

289
I have a featherweight .44 magnum with a 4" barrel and porting. The effin bear would have to be chewing on my ass before I would touch that damn thing off without hearing protection. Just un-bear-ably loud.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 01, 2021 11:48 AM (o2MD2)

One of the gunbloggers once described shooting a Smith featherweight snubby as "put your hand on the table, and smack it with a 2x4".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (n+4am)

290 Dolley is the least crazy girl I ever dated, and she's the only redhead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

You lucky, lucky man.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (4I/2K)

291 Tom Servo is correct that Roe rests on shaky foundations. The original Griswold v. Ct. case that 'created' the right to privacy was a shambles of a decision. This is where Justice Douglas explained the penumbras and emanations of the various amendments 'created' the right to privacy for married adults to use contraceptives in CT. The case was a setup from the get go and failed to get standing the first two times because no one in CT had been charged with violating it. The third time, they found a constable willing to charge the couple (Planned Parenthood director and wife if I remember correctly) the 50 buck fine which set up the case.

Even future Justice Ginsberg criticized the mediocre reasoning of Justice Blackmun in the case as she proposed the equal protection argument was a stronger one as abortion laws and punishment have effects greater on women than men.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (9hXN1)

292 It's just very old and primitive paganism.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2021 11:55 AM (z5Vrg)

Yep. But they scour texts to find an "in" for their views. It's very malignant.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (ONvIw)

293 288 The original "well, he's a guy, so..."guy in the State Farm ad calling about insurance at 0300 makes his wife look kinda stupid.
Posted by: pep at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (ZsR3z)

____

Good times, goooood times.

Posted by: White Jake from State Farm who is now unemployed at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (OalnH)

294 I honestly don't care if the people in New York or Philly or Chicago or Denver or Washington DC or any other blue shithole kill each other. I think the cities should be walled off and anyone trying to leave be shot on sight.

Posted by: Megthered at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (sfWd9)

295 290 Dolley is the least crazy girl I ever dated, and she's the only redhead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

You lucky, lucky man.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (4I/2K)

It's possible the other women were just really crazy.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (z5Vrg)

296 Who Dis girl is Suzy Squarejaw?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (m45I2)

297 If you wanted to have any cash on the weekend you had to go to the bank or store before the weekend to cash a check.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021

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Yeah, that could be a problem then . . . but you can say that it encouraged thinking ahead and pre-planning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (txdEq)

298 They can only kill you the one time. If you move the death penalty down market, you have the side effect of making more crimes free of charge to the criminal.
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Kill a guard during the bank robbery, you won't think twice about shooting your way out on the getaway.

But to be fair, most criminals don't think logically and impulse control under the influence of adrenaline isn't something they train in.

Posted by: elementary at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (cC0sb)

299 295 It's possible the other women were just really crazy.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (z5Vrg)

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Um...yeah.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (LvTSG)

300 But...but...but we wants it!
Posted by: The Left at December 01, 2021 11:55 AM

And that was pretty much the substance of my Con Law II prof's argument in favor of Roe.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (m+jkK)

301 does anyone here know how to get past a paywall?

it's for the The Times of UK

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (DJFLF)

302 I have been within a child's arm reach of a wild grizzly bear. It was not a pleasant experience.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM

It wasn't pleasant at first, but after awhile...

And yes, now that you mention it, it was about the size of a child's arm.

Posted by: DiCaprio in The Revenant at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (FJYfm)

303 Every airhead actress in Hollywood is going to get their stupid on.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 11:59 AM (eGTCV)

304 Mark Strong....Emily Beacham

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 01, 2021 11:59 AM (Utipw)

305 290 Dolley is the least crazy girl I ever dated, and she's the only redhead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 11:54 AM (LvTSG)

You lucky, lucky man.
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He got a Viking Shield Maiden. There the best.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 01, 2021 11:59 AM (J7wri)

306 That bear pic gives me pause.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 01, 2021 11:59 AM (kTF2Z)

307 That fake titty barmaid has some weird ass eyebrows. Or maybe it's the crazy eyes.

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2021 12:00 PM (gmo/4)

308 That bear pic gives me pause.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 01, 2021 11:59 AM (kTF2Z)

.....

Took a moment to maul things over, huh?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 12:00 PM (7F9te)

309 I think the whole concept of stare decisis in a constitutional republic is dumb. We have a constitution and it is very clear. It's also clear that over the years a number of SC decisions where made that blatantly ignored the constitution including Roe.

Why they hell should we be tied to a bad and unconstitutional decision by a bunch of unelected judges? If the decision was unconstitutional in the eyes of this court then ignore it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 12:00 PM (ZLI7S)

310 I want whatever that grizzly is having.

Posted by: JEM at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (cZPWv)

311 Took a moment to maul things over, huh?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 12:00 PM (7F9te)

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some times it takes a while to get things bruin.

Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (VJsqe)

312 It's possible the other women were just really crazy.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (z5Vrg)

I also noted the relative comparison - and kept to myself.

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

313 Asians: Whites are racist!!!

Blacks attack Asians on the street or on the subway...

Asians: Fucking white supremacists, we need to stop the hate

MSM: Yep, these darn white supremacists, so much hate

Me: Keep killing yourselves, I give no fucks

Others here: oh no we have to fight for those poor Asian kids on the subway.

And then people wonder why the left always wins long term.

Posted by: White Jake from State Farm who is now unemployed at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (OalnH)

314 "If you wanted to have any cash on the weekend you had to go to the bank or store before the weekend to cash a check."
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:51 AM (VJsqe)

Banks were always open Sat. morning in my area as a service to the working man.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (4thlk)

315 258 I think the fact that the SCOTUS allowed this case to be heard at all was the signal that they're ready to make big changes. For the last 30 years, they have been refusing to hear any of these cases because they didn't want to deal with it. But it's been an open joke in every law school in the country, for a long time, that the legal reasoning used in the original R v Wade decision was one of the most ridiculously anti-constitutional rulings ever made. It was a pure political decision, and it has always been defended on the basis of politics, not logical reasoning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM (trdmm)

Why should only nine lawyers have the power to make a nationwide binding ruling about when life begins, or when it is "viable," when medical science is not unanimous on these questions? Let the legislatures of the States decide. That is not a perfect solution, but it is per the Constitution as I understand it. Let abortion proponents propose a Constitutional amendment to establish the right they claim women have.

Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (AMIL/)

316 There's a song by Tom T. Hall, "Ode to Half a Pound of Ground Round," in which the narrator is stuck in Roanoke, Virginia. He can't get a loan until payday for some reason, so he can't buy any food and has to go without for a week, or close to it. Funny -- but not something that could happen today, with ATMs and 24-hour groceries.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (txdEq)

317 They all agreed it had no mooring whatsoever in the Constitution, but immediately followed that up by saying that it should never be overturned because abortion was soooo relied upon in our society and such an important pillar of our culture. Evil bastards.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (m+jkK)

And then they wondered "Why are so many people starting to think the Court is just another political body who's actions are all dictated by their political beliefs?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (trdmm)

318 Completely OT, but that William Shatner Medicare commercial is just a little mini-performance. As somebody said once, you pay $5 to see him in a movie, you get $10 worth of acting.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 01, 2021 12:02 PM (BMmaB)

319 My clan's totem animal. When you drink the powerful magic mushroom brew out of their skull, you see things, man.

Posted by: Ayla, Clan of the Cave Bear at December 01, 2021 12:02 PM (4I/2K)

320 Throw a Guinness Extra Stout in the stew recipe...A++.

Posted by: BignJames at December 01, 2021 12:02 PM (AwYPR)

321 >>It's possible the other women were just really crazy.

Also possible that TJM is crazier than a shithouse rat and he can't recognize actual crazy.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 12:02 PM (ZLI7S)

322 That Biology text with the boy/girl anatomic drawings may have inadvertently identified the problem with boys who want to pretend to be girls.

They saw the diagram as a cutaway and took it literally!
Posted by: Muldoon

Could have been one of those pop-up books

Posted by: Miklos 101 at December 01, 2021 12:02 PM (QzkSJ)

323 317 And then they wondered "Why are so many people starting to think the Court is just another political body who's actions are all dictated by their political beliefs?"
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (trdmm)

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"My politics are not politics, just common sense. Your politics are insurrection."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 12:02 PM (LvTSG)

324 Posted by: White Jake from State Farm who is now unemployed at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (OalnH)

It's all about economic positions.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 12:02 PM (ONvIw)

325 I really doubt your average gang banger cares about the death penalty when he's killing his rival gang's members.

Posted by: White Jake from State Farm who is now unemployed at December 01, 2021 12:02 PM (OalnH)

326 One of the gunbloggers once described shooting a Smith featherweight snubby as "put your hand on the table, and smack it with a 2x4".
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM

Except that if it were a bear chewing off your leg, it would be the last thing you'd be worried about.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (cOXDn)

327 321 >>It's possible the other women were just really crazy.

Also possible that TJM is crazier than a shithouse rat and he can't recognize actual crazy.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 12:02 PM (ZLI7S)

==========

To be fair, I did propose the use of dynamite on corpses to ensure that they were actually dead earlier today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

328 Off White Jake sock

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (OalnH)

329 Speaking of crazy chicks.

https://bit.ly/3Edi15H

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (YYlyE)

330
Took a moment to maul things over, huh?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 12:00 PM (7F9te)

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some times it takes a while to get things bruin.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (VJsqe)

I suppose you think you're oso clever, don't you.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (n+4am)

331 >>To be fair, I did propose the use of dynamite on corpses to ensure that they were actually dead earlier today.

The prosecution rests.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (ZLI7S)

332 301 does anyone here know how to get past a paywall?

it's for the The Times of UK

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2021 11:58 AM (DJFLF)

Try running it through http:/archive.is

Or try https://12ft.io/

Let me know if either one works.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (RGHRK)

333 That's a wrap, people!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (BPuaD)

334 Banks were always open Sat. morning in my area as a service to the working man.
Posted by: lowandslow

The mill bars around me served as banks on payday after the shift ended. Which explains why the wives would march in and take 80% from their husbands' before they drank it up.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (mD/uy)

335 There's a song by Tom T. Hall, "Ode to Half a Pound of Ground Round," in which the narrator is stuck in Roanoke, Virginia. He can't get a loan until payday for some reason, so he can't buy any food and has to go without for a week, or close to it. Funny -- but not something that could happen today, with ATMs and 24-hour groceries.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (txdEq)

If I remember right he spent his last dollar tipping the barmaid.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (/1l9x)

336
311 Took a moment to maul things over, huh?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 12:00 PM (7F9te)
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some times it takes a while to get things bruin.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (VJsqe)

This could become a polar-izing topic

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (II3Gr)

337 331 >>To be fair, I did propose the use of dynamite on corpses to ensure that they were actually dead earlier today.

The prosecution rests.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (ZLI7S)

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"Objection!"
"On what grounds?"
"That it's very damaging to my case!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (LvTSG)

338 The court has sat sucking its thumb for years while obviously ridiculous unconstitutional crap has affected the lives and rights of the populace, doing nothing. It has yawned when its own authority is comically mocked by the inferior courts (Heller). It has allowed farcical lawlessness by inferior courts to derail the most fundamental aspects of the constitutional system (district courts usurping national security and uncontested executive authority under Trump). It refused to get involved in the most important possible issue, one that it actually has an explicit constitutional authority to decide, a year ago.

The court can do whatever it wants, or do nothing, and the country will just take it.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (OTzUX)

339 To be fair, I did propose the use of dynamite on corpses to ensure that they were actually dead earlier today.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

Yeah that's pretty bad. Fire is always more cost efficient and keeps them from rising as undead.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (z5Vrg)

340 303 Every airhead actress in Hollywood is going to get their stupid on.
Posted by: Northernlurker

Every sun in our system is going to come up in the East tomorrow morning.

Every bear is going to don its miter and recite the kyrie elieson.

Every Pope is going to take four steps past the nearest spruce and drop a deuce.

Posted by: JEM at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (cZPWv)

341 some times it takes a while to get things bruin.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021
*
I suppose you think you're oso clever, don't you.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2021

***
You two are polar opposites.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 12:05 PM (txdEq)

342 >>>The original "well, he's a guy, so..."guy in the State Farm ad calling about insurance at 0300 makes his wife look kinda stupid.
Posted by: pep at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (ZsR3z)

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And wasn't the original "Jake from State Farm" a white dude?

Posted by: Turn two at December 01, 2021 12:05 PM (rPNPP)

343 I've seen a new trend in commercials where the kids have Down Syndrom or are in wheelchairs or some other type of disability. Not that it's a bad thing per se, but it seems like it's the next chapter of woke.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 01, 2021 11:43 AM

So they want them all aborted because they don't deserve to live such horrible lives, but if they inconveniently survive the abortion, they want to use them in commercials to sell their products. Okay then.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 01, 2021 12:05 PM (Do5/p)

344 "The people who pull down statues are never the good guys."

You might want to re-think this one. Think Iraq, Romania, the former Soviet satellites when the USSR dissolved, Italy under Mussolini, etc.
Posted by: Hammer Dog

https://www.mementopark.hu/en/home/

Posted by: Miklos remembers when they were all over the city at December 01, 2021 12:05 PM (QzkSJ)

345 Speaking of crazy chicks.

https://bit.ly/3Edi15H
Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (YYlyE)

She seems nice and even-keeled. For a redhead.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at December 01, 2021 12:05 PM (4I/2K)

346 I used to be very pro death penalty, but as I have aged (29+), I don't trust the state with that power.

Posted by: Trog04 at December 01, 2021 12:05 PM (wfZwW)

347 Let abortion proponents propose a Constitutional amendment to establish the right they claim women have.
Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (AMIL/)

Same with the 2nd. You want to ban guns, go for repleading the 2nd Amendment, leftists. We have mechanisms for doing what they want, but they won't use them because they know they'll lose.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 12:06 PM (Y5qcH)

348 At least NPR has found something that moves its coverage beyond covid and omigodtheclimateisgoingtokillus...

They're now all Supreme Court livecasting of the abortion case.

Posted by: JEM at December 01, 2021 12:06 PM (cZPWv)

349 > Yeah that's pretty bad. Fire is always more cost efficient and keeps them from rising as undead.

Isn't that what they did to Beria? Threw him in a ditch, poured fuel over him, burned him to ashes, then scattered the ashes?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2021 12:06 PM (YYlyE)

350 Others here: oh no we have to fight for those poor Asian kids on the subway.

And then people wonder why the left always wins long term.
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Personally, I oppose lefty racial/identity politics because it's wrong, not because it's what the other side is doing, or because I think it's a losing strategy. It's evil bullshit.

Statistically speaking the victims in those videos have an 80% chance of voting (D). So do we say, "Fuck 'em"? To the other 20%, do we say "Sorry guys - you're just the wrong fucking race to deserve my sympathy."

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at December 01, 2021 12:06 PM (sGnvY)

351 And wasn't the original "Jake from State Farm" a white dude?
Posted by: Turn two at December 01, 2021

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'Twas. Looked a bit like Brian Stelter without the smarm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 12:07 PM (txdEq)

352 Do me next!

Posted by: United States v. Wong Kim Ark at December 01, 2021 12:07 PM (4I/2K)

353 I think the whole concept of stare decisis in a constitutional republic is dumb. We have a constitution and it is very clear. It's also clear that over the years a number of SC decisions where made that blatantly ignored the constitution including Roe.

Why they hell should we be tied to a bad and unconstitutional decision by a bunch of unelected judges? If the decision was unconstitutional in the eyes of this court then ignore it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 12:00 PM (ZLI7S)

I generally agree with what you're saying. I think the importance of stare decisis originally was so courts wouldn't waste their time on arguments that had already been rejected. But also for non-lawyers, having a definitive guideline they could depend on was important. If the Supreme Court had decided a water rights case between 2 states, everyone could rely on that decision, and plan accordingly.

The problem is, once the court moved past their original jurisdiction and decided they were going to weigh in on everything political, you had them locking the country in to the whims of 9 people on one particular day

Posted by: Wally at December 01, 2021 12:07 PM (FJYfm)

354 And speaking of the Constitution the red headed cunt says domestic travel bans for the unvaccinated are " not off the table"
==
Ignoring the constitution and ruling tyrannically is not off the table.

Posted by: Its funny because it is true at December 01, 2021 12:07 PM (WlRKT)

355 Well, you could knock over a gas station on Sat. morning and have enough money to get you through the weekend.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 11:55 AM (RGHRK)

Liquor store on Sat. afternoon.

Posted by: BignJames at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (AwYPR)

356 kallisto of it loads but then goes to block you off, load and switch to airplane mode

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (AzFPa)

357 336
311 Took a moment to maul things over, huh?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 12:00 PM (7F9te)
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some times it takes a while to get things bruin.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (VJsqe)

This could become a polar-izing topic
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (II3Gr)

Oso easily.

Posted by: reason at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (o0WIV)

358 >>>I used to be very pro death penalty, but as I have aged (29+), I don't trust the state with that power.
Posted by: Trog04 at December 01, 2021 12:05 PM (wfZwW)

======

This is where I am at, as well.

Posted by: Turn two at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (rPNPP)

359 348 At least NPR has found something that moves its coverage beyond covid and omigodtheclimateisgoingtokillus...

They're now all Supreme Court livecasting of the abortion case.
Posted by: JEM at December 01, 2021 12:06 PM (cZPWv)
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Well I know where the liberals on the SCOTUS sit. I have no idea what the "conservatives" are going to do.

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (G0vdT)

360 Photo of bear paw is photoshopped
Posted by: NativeNH at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (dtRY5)

Probably, but they really are big fvckers!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 11:52 AM

He's not wrong there.
Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at December 01, 2021 11:53 AM (m+jkK)
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Beat me to it, RMBS. BTW, the book "The Revenant" was fantastic; both wife and I quit watching the movie after 15 minutes (horrible and #Woke before #Woke was cool).

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (ALRql)

361 I used to be very pro death penalty, but as I have aged (29+), I don't trust the state with that power.

So?

Posted by: The Capitol Police at December 01, 2021 12:09 PM (CTJwJ)

362 Jim Cramer is an absolute loon. He's literally saying things on TV that could get him beat up (or worse) if he said it to people's faces.

Posted by: SciVo at December 01, 2021 12:09 PM (vRZXH)

363 Funny -- but not something that could happen today, with ATMs and 24-hour groceries.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (txdEq)

Back during the S&L crisis, my bank went insolvent on the Friday before a 3-day weekend. ATM card no-worky, no cash in my wallet, weekend kind of sucked...

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 01, 2021 12:09 PM (VGRuw)

364 I always get Chaistain confused with Opies daughter

Posted by: blaster at December 01, 2021 12:09 PM (mbFEM)

365 This could become a polar-izing topic
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw

But Dad!

It's Smokey!

Posted by: Miklos remembers this gem from K-Tel at December 01, 2021 12:09 PM (QzkSJ)

366 Someday I'll go to Churchill, Manitoba to watch polar bears.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 12:10 PM (eGTCV)

367 you had them locking the country in to the whims of 9 people on one particular day
Posted by: Wally at December 01, 2021 12:07 PM (FJYfm)

It's not really those nine people. SCOTUS has always been a rubber stamp for whatever was politically popular at the time. SCOTUS is a bait and switch scam to cover for actions the establishment wants and the public doesn't.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 01, 2021 12:10 PM (Y5qcH)

368 311 Took a moment to maul things over, huh?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 12:00 PM (7F9te)
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some times it takes a while to get things bruin.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM (VJsqe)

This could become a polar-izing topic
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (II3Gr)

Oso easily.
Posted by: reason at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (o0WIV)

These puns are skatagorically bad.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2021 12:10 PM (axyOa)

369 Neanderthals were bad asses.
Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2021 11:38 AM (gmo/4)

Know any I can call?

Posted by: Shep! at December 01, 2021 12:10 PM (w9Wax)

370 Jackstraw,
The concept of stare decisis comes from common law and before that Roman law as well as Judaic law. To some extent Islamic law gives a nod to it as well.

The reason is pragmatic, a law that changes all the time due to proclivities of individual judges is not a generally applicable law so it would be essentially unknowable. Contracts right now between people and companies rest on the idea that law is knowable by individuals which means the terms of art used in those contracts has to be understood by all involved to have one definition that can be authoritatively applied if needed.

Criminal law has even greater need for stability which is why the state legislatures more or less got rid of common law crimes by first writing statutes and then later complete codes of criminal law replacing them which often enacted in legislative language previous court decisions in common law criminal cases. If you are going to punish people, then the law has to be knowable.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2021 12:10 PM (9hXN1)

371 240 I'm confused by this idea that you can't put restrictions on when an abortion can be done in a pregnancy. I thought the original Roe v Wade did exactly that.
_______________

That was the old way of thinking, comrade! In our new, woke world, we recognize that there can be no restrictions on when a uterus-bearing person can eliminate the clump of cells inconveniencing xer life.

We must now acknowledge that xhe has the unfettered right to eliminate such noxious mass of tissue at any time, up to the point at which such mass is legally able to vote (18 years in most states, but we're working on changing that too).

There must be no limitations of a uterus-bearing person's right to freely express xerself sexually without having to worry about being punished with a baby (or a toddler, or an adolescent)!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 01, 2021 12:10 PM (k4dH2)

372 364 I always get Chaistain confused with Opies daughter
Posted by: blaster at December 01, 2021 12:09 PM (mbFEM)

==========

https://www.instagram.com/p/3suh74PKmO/

You're not alone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 12:10 PM (LvTSG)

373 Or are the polar bears all dead because of global warming?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (eGTCV)

374 342 >>>The original "well, he's a guy, so..."guy in the State Farm ad calling about insurance at 0300 makes his wife look kinda stupid.
Posted by: pep at December 01, 2021 11:57 AM (ZsR3z)

Well, to be fair who calls their insurance agent for quotes at 3am?

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (O6DoG)

375 346 I used to be very pro death penalty, but as I have aged (29+), I don't trust the state with that power.
Posted by: Trog04

I believe the death penalty is completely misused.

It should only rarely be based on a single occurrence, unless you, say, intentionally run down sixty people and kill a whole bunch of them.

I'd prefer to see it implemented as a Lifetime Achievement Award, congratulations you're behind bars for the fifth time and two of your victims still aren't out of the hospital, it's time to harvest you.

Posted by: JEM at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (cZPWv)

376 >>I generally agree with what you're saying. I think the importance of stare decisis originally was so courts wouldn't waste their time on arguments that had already been rejected. But also for non-lawyers, having a definitive guideline they could depend on was important. If the Supreme Court had decided a water rights case between 2 states, everyone could rely on that decision, and plan accordingly.

>>The problem is, once the court moved past their original jurisdiction and decided they were going to weigh in on everything political, you had them locking the country in to the whims of 9 people on one particular day

Yea, you said it better. It's the absolute insistence by some, and only some of the time, that stare decisis is an absolute binding principle that I object to.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (ZLI7S)

377 The problem is, once the court moved past their original jurisdiction and decided they were going to weigh in on everything political, you had them locking the country in to the whims of 9 people on one particular day
Posted by: Wally at December 01, 2021 12:07 PM (FJYfm)

The problem is that Congress abdicated all responsibility for these issues. The Constitution gives Congress the power to limit SCOTUS' appellate jurisdiction, but it's rarely used because doing so would mean that it would be up to Congress to settle conflicting decisions.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (wmDcS)

378 The court can do whatever it wants, or do nothing, and the country will just take it.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (OTzUX)

I'm starting to think that the death of RBG was one of the best, and most overdue, events to happen to us in the last 4 years or so.

She played a role on the court none of the current liberals can fill; she was a diehard liberal, but also very intelligent and scholarly, capable of building coherent arguments for her side. Sotomayer and Kagan's real problem is that they are mediocre pencil punchers who were advanced to their current position to fill a quota, and everyone there knows it. Neither of them has ever had an original insight in their lives. And Breyer is now just an old man who's long past his sell-by date.

Just like in the rest of government, the "great legal minds" of the left today are nothing but ineffective, inarticulate, mediocrities.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (trdmm)

379 These puns are skatagorically bad.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2021 12:10 PM (axyOa)

What did you expect fur a bunch or morons?

Posted by: flounder at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (SH2Zi)

380 > The court has sat sucking its thumb for years while obviously ridiculous unconstitutional crap has affected the lives and rights of the populace, doing nothing.

It has arguably been even worse when it did render decisions.

Dred Scott: Nope, black people can't be Americans.
Buck v Bell: Eugenics!
Korematsu: Intern Americans for their ancestry, sure!
Plessy v Ferguson: Separate but equal (or not, SCOTUS don't care)
Hammer v Dagenhart: Child labor is peachy keen!
Kelo: It's not your property, it belongs to whomever can make the most tax dollars off of it.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (YYlyE)

381 Took a moment to maul things over, huh?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
some times it takes a while to get things bruin.
Posted by: 496
This could become a polar-izing topic
Posted by: Insomniac
Oso easily.
Posted by: reason
These puns are skatagorically bad.
Posted by: Diogenes

You guys have taken this fur enough.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (mD/uy)

382 348 At least NPR has found something that moves its coverage beyond covid and omigodtheclimateisgoingtokillus...

They're now all Supreme Court livecasting of the abortion case.
Posted by: JEM at December 01, 2021 12:06 PM (cZPWv)
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The shot-resistant are going to kill you.
The internal-combustion engine is going to kill you.
TEXAS WON'T LET YOU KILL YOUR FETUS!

Yup. Sums up the day's programming nice and tidilly.

Posted by: reason at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (o0WIV)

383 Hey! Yogi!
Leave them pic-a-nic baskets alone.

Posted by: Boo Boo at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (4I/2K)

384 MSLSD take: The Central Issue Is The Integrity Of The Supreme Court! Roe v Wade Must Be Upheld Or The Court And Then The Republic Will Disintegrate And Women Will Be Enslaved!

Also -

Reversing Roe v Wade Will Be Racism, Straight-Up!

Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (AMIL/)

385 Sorry, everybody. That's a dead bear. This source is quite specific:

https://tinyurl.com/5bbh73yz

Posted by: MW at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (u33s0)

386 If the Court couldn't recognize standing in a clearly legitimate voter fraud case out of fear of social backlash, not a chance in hell they poke the Roe hornet nest.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (H8QX8)

387 362 Jim Cramer is an absolute loon. He's literally saying things on TV that could get him beat up (or worse) if he said it to people's faces.
Posted by: SciVo at December 01, 2021 12:09 PM (vRZXH)

Yep, the idea that the military should drag people out and have them forcibly injected with a "vaccine" for a bad head cold. Coronaviruses have been around for a long time.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (ONvIw)

388 I always get Chaistain confused with Opies daughter
Posted by: blaster at December 01, 2021

***
They do look a LOT alike.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (txdEq)

389 Let abortion proponents propose a Constitutional amendment to establish the right they claim women have.
Posted by: Gref at December 01, 2021 12:01 PM

Funny, how my body my choice is different when it's some forced jab isn't it?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (cOXDn)

390 351 And wasn't the original "Jake from State Farm" a white dude?
Posted by: Turn two at December 01, 2021

***
'Twas. Looked a bit like Brian Stelter without the smarm.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 12:07 PM (txdEq)

And he is an actual customer service employee for State Farm. That's why I'm not up in arms about him being replaced. He was never going to become the spokesman when they decided to turn it into a full time ad campaign. Now their choice of actor for the role? Oh yeah they definitely went diversity! and probably didn't interview a single white actor.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (E//99)

391 378 Just like in the rest of government, the "great legal minds" of the left today are nothing but ineffective, inarticulate, mediocrities.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (trdmm)

=========

I think you're misremembering RBG's reign of terror.

Her decisions were passed around on the left because she got the sick burns in, not because they were well reasoned. Kagan is actually much smarter than RBG was.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 01, 2021 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

392 If you are going to punish people, then the law has to be knowable.
Posted by: whig

IIRC, the Congressional Research Service found at least 30,000 Federal offences that can get you in the pokey, but concluded that the actual number is certainly higher but impossible to know.

Posted by: Miklos remembers this, I believe correctly at December 01, 2021 12:13 PM (QzkSJ)

393 This could become a polar-izing topic
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (II3Gr)

Oso easily.
Posted by: reason at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (o0WIV)

Oh good Lord. Stop pandaring to his fears.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 12:13 PM (7F9te)

394 Well, to be fair who calls their insurance agent for quotes at 3am?
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (O6DoG)
++++
:: raises hand ::

Having a 24/7 call center was great for me when I was working nights. I could take care of stuff like that during my lunch break or on long weeks when I didn't switch back completely to normal daytime hours. Around-the-clock staffing was a wonderful thing to have as a customer back then. Most people aren't going to need that, but if you do then it's great.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 12:13 PM (DU+/6)

395 And he is an actual customer service employee for State Farm. That's why I'm not up in arms about him being replaced. He was never going to become the spokesman when they decided to turn it into a full time ad campaign. Now their choice of actor for the role? Oh yeah they definitely went diversity! and probably didn't interview a single white actor.
Posted by: Buzzion

They never expected the commercial to go viral.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2021 12:14 PM (DjPkW)

396 I used to be very pro death penalty, but as I have aged (29+), I don't trust the state with that power.
Posted by: Trog04 at December 01, 2021 12:05 PM (wfZwW)

Yes. And when you look at how slow courts move, the death penalty no longer serves as a deterrent, because it isn't going to happen for at least 10 years. You take away its deterrent function, you take away a lot of the rationale for the death penalty.

Posted by: Wally at December 01, 2021 12:14 PM (FJYfm)

397 Sorry, everybody. That's a dead bear.

G'night, Paw!

Posted by: The Waltons at December 01, 2021 12:14 PM (w9Wax)

398 Shopping for an item the other day (online), my tiny vestigial capacity to be stunned was engaged, as the blah blah blah for the item included that the founder/designer was committed (and a % of proceeds would go towards) "restoring habitat" for ..... polar bears.

Polar bears live, mostly ...... on the ice.

What in the wide wide world of sports is this stupid company going to do to "restore" the polar ice pack (which is doing just fine, and of course oscillates in size and thickness, and has for billions of years)?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (OTzUX)

399 You guys have taken this fur enough.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (mD/uy)

Yes...there is a clause in the AoSHQ rules about bad bear puns.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (Q9lwr)

400 Jim Cramer is an absolute loon. He's literally saying things on TV that could get him beat up (or worse) if he said it to people's faces.
Posted by: SciVo at December 01, 2021 12:09 PM (vRZXH)

Yep, the idea that the military should drag people out and have them forcibly injected with a "vaccine" for a bad head cold. Coronaviruses have been around for a long time.
==
Cramer is a salesman/actor.

Who/what does a shit ton of advertising on his show and network?

Cramer says what he is told to say.

Posted by: if you keep watching the soap operas you aren't going to know what is going on at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (D97Lx)

401 Yea, you said it better. It's the absolute insistence by some, and only some of the time, that stare decisis is an absolute binding principle that I object to.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (ZLI7S)

To borrow a line from Willy S, it's a principle "More honoured in the Breach than in the Observance."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (trdmm)

402 G'night, Paw!
Posted by: The Waltons

Granpaw! Get offa me!!
-- A very annoyed JohnBoy

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (mD/uy)

403 -- 106 My quest to quit smoking is going pretty good so far. No
-- cigarettes on Monday, only two all day yesterday and so far, only
-- one today.

From my perspective as some who quit unsuccessfully many times and successfully (defined as 3 months or more of zero cigs), you aren't doing well at all. You are keeping the addiction alive by smoking at all. I see almost nobody who quits successfully the way you are trying.

Cold turkey and no slips is the only way IMHO.

Posted by: Con Reeder at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (/cox6)

404 >>The concept of stare decisis comes from common law and before that Roman law as well as Judaic law. To some extent Islamic law gives a nod to it as well.

Yea, I get that and I agree that in some cases it provides a degree of stability. But to use it as a hard and fast rule in every circumstance means that every decision made my a previous court was perfectly decided. Clearly, this is not the case.

As has been widely noted even the sainted RBG thought that Roe was a terrible decision despite the fact she was very pro-abortion. I guess my objection is more to the absolute nature it has taken on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (ZLI7S)

405 Did Dan'l Boone actually shoot a bar in that tree?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 12:16 PM (eGTCV)

406 There must be no limitations of a uterus-bearing person's right to freely express xerself sexually without having to worry about being punished with a baby (or a toddler, or an adolescent)!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer

The real punishment would be if kids came out of the womb as adolescents.

Posted by: Miklos, not suggesting anything at December 01, 2021 12:16 PM (QzkSJ)

407 Yes...there is a clause in the AoSHQ rules about bad bear puns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (Q9lwr)
++++
What about the right to keep and bear puns?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 12:16 PM (DU+/6)

408 I'd prefer to see it implemented as a Lifetime Achievement Award, congratulations you're behind bars for the fifth time and two of your victims still aren't out of the hospital, it's time to harvest you.
Posted by: JEM at December 01, 2021

***
Way back in the Sixties, Larry Niven suggested in a couple of stories that, once we had organ banks and could transplant organs easily, the voters would vote the death penalty for nearly any transgression. Who doesn't want to live forever? "Sure, running six red lights in a year is now a capital crime. Harvest him!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 12:16 PM (txdEq)

409 Yes...there is a clause in the AoSHQ rules about bad bear puns.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (Q9lwr)

THAT'S NOT PUNNY!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 01, 2021 12:16 PM (SH2Zi)

410 399 You guys have taken this fur enough.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (mD/uy)

Yes...there is a clause in the AoSHQ rules about bad bear puns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (Q9lwr)

The Claws Clause?

Posted by: Buzzion at December 01, 2021 12:17 PM (E//99)

411 Jessica Chastain and Mark Strong, both excellent in Zero Dark Thirty. He had hair in it.

Posted by: Leonardo Dicaprio's Hat at December 01, 2021 12:17 PM (dWIfC)

412 Or are the polar bears all dead because of global warming?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM (eGTCV)

According to these bullshit commercials i see in tv, they're dropping like flys. BUT! If i send in a bunch of $$$ I can "symbolicly adopt" one and they'll send me some little stuffed bear.
Gawd I hate those people.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2021 12:17 PM (axyOa)

413 Yes...there is a clause in the AoSHQ rules about bad bear puns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

The Bad News Bear Puns?

Posted by: Miklos, thinking he saw that at December 01, 2021 12:17 PM (QzkSJ)

414 It's not the death sentence you need to worry about, those that need to be gone rarely see it.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 01, 2021 12:17 PM (AzFPa)

415 IIRC, the Congressional Research Service found at least 30,000 Federal offenses that can get you in the pokey, but concluded that the actual number is certainly higher but impossible to know.

Posted by: Miklos

Ah, but the idea is that you could research your conundrum in advance so as to not break the law. There is also the vagueness doctrine and the presumption that criminal laws be strictly construed in favor of the defendant. For example, the honest services criminal law provision was limited by Scotus in the Black and Skilling cases.

In real terms, the proliferation of laws means that laws can be construed in such a way as to not know whether or not you are committing a crime even after research. So that is where you do the best you can to comply and rely on intent as a shield.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2021 12:18 PM (9hXN1)

416 > The concept of stare decisis comes from common law and before that Roman law as well as Judaic law. To some extent Islamic law gives a nod to it as well.

One of the legal concepts that gets my goat is different levels of "scrutiny". Who the hell told you black robed fascists you could use this "tool" in your analysis of the law? Other black robed fascists?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2021 12:18 PM (YYlyE)

417 410 399 You guys have taken this fur enough.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (mD/uy)

Yes...there is a clause in the AoSHQ rules about bad bear puns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (Q9lwr)

The Claws Clause?
Posted by: Buzzion at December 01, 2021 12:17 PM (E//99)

The paws clause.

Posted by: Caliban at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (HgGBT)

418 That bear claw could do a lot of damage.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (NpAcC)

419 I could do without the State enforcing the DP as long as you let private citizens use the "He Needed Killin'" defense in any trial.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (trdmm)

420 393 This could become a polar-izing topic
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (II3Gr)

Oso easily.
Posted by: reason at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (o0WIV)

Oh good Lord. Stop pandaring to his fears.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 12:13 PM (7F9te)
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Ooh. That's some koalaty punning right there.

Posted by: reason at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (o0WIV)

421 What about people who pull down statues of Lenin?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (GD2xa)

422 I could do without the State enforcing the DP as long as you let private citizens use the "He Needed Killin'" defense in any trial.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (trdmm)
++++
That's what jury nullification is for.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (DU+/6)

423 Dear Santa Claws...

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (cOXDn)

424 Ursa vain. You prob'ly think this song is about you...

Posted by: Muldoon at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (m45I2)

425 I occasionally binge watch the hunting program Meat Eater on Netflix. The host, Steve Something or other has never been able to kill a grizzly.

Oh, and I understand inland grizzlies are smaller than coastal grizzlies because they don't get all that delicious, fatty salmon.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (eGTCV)

426 Yes...there is a clause in the AoSHQ rules about bad bear puns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (Q9lwr)

Would you say they're bad news?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 01, 2021 12:20 PM (2JVJo)

427 The Paws that refreshes!

Posted by: Schweppes Ginger Actress at December 01, 2021 12:20 PM (w9Wax)

428 These puns are skatagorically bad.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2021 12:10 PM (axyOa)

What did you expect fur a bunch or morons?
Posted by: flounder at December 01, 2021 12:11 PM

I know, right? Here's ursine.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2021 12:20 PM (m+jkK)

429 Jim Cramer is Howard Beale without the rebellion angle.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 01, 2021 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

430 According to these bullshit commercials i see in tv, they're dropping like flys. BUT! If i send in a bunch of $$$ I can "symbolicly adopt" one and they'll send me some little stuffed bear.
Gawd I hate those people.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2021 12:17 PM (axyOa)
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I had fun imagining someone actually adopting a polar bear.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 01, 2021 12:20 PM (xqRaG)

431 Ace is up
NOOD

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (AzFPa)

432 ----
And yet pants are required for the book thread.
Posted by: 496 at December 01, 2021 11:19 AM (VJsqe)

could we be the baddies?

Posted by: Fox2! at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (cqzjS)

433 nood

Posted by: Miklos, thinking at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (QzkSJ)

434 Did you guys see that a "former astronaut who became a Senator" came up in court in reference to an Epstein event?

Say it ain't so, zombie John Glenn!

Posted by: bonhomme at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (YYlyE)

435 I could do without the State enforcing the DP as long as you let private citizens use the "He Needed Killin'" defense in any trial.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Or, we could adopt the Skidmore, MO solution for Ken McElroy. Bad guy pining for the fjords. No trial, no muss no fuss.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (mD/uy)

436 418 That bear claw could do a lot of damage.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (NpAcC)

Put some icing on it and I'll eat it

Posted by: Vindman, NSC Commando Supremo in Exile at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (AMIL/)

437 420 393 This could become a polar-izing topic
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 01, 2021 12:04 PM (II3Gr)
Oso easily.
Posted by: reason at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (o0WIV)
Oh good Lord. Stop pandaring to his fears.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 01, 2021 12:13 PM (7F9te)
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Ooh. That's some koalaty punning right there.
Posted by: reason at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (o0WIV)

*blows whistle* flag on the field. That's a marsupial pun. Not a bear pun.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (E//99)

438 Well I know where the liberals on the SCOTUS sit. I have no idea what the "conservatives" are going to do.

Posted by: WisRich at December 01, 2021 12:08 PM (G0vdT)

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we keep losing.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (RGHRK)

439 If I saw that bear I'd be shitting in the woods.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (axyOa)

440 Not Hedy and some bald guy

Posted by: REDACTED at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (us2H3)

441 Nood.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 01, 2021 12:21 PM (khAeP)

442 I would never have thought to use "panda," "oso," and "koala" as bear puns the way the Horde has today. Kudos.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 01, 2021 12:22 PM (txdEq)

443 417 410 399 You guys have taken this fur enough.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 01, 2021 12:12 PM (mD/uy)
Yes...there is a clause in the AoSHQ rules about bad bear puns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2021 12:15 PM (Q9lwr)
The Claws Clause?
Posted by: Buzzion at December 01, 2021 12:17 PM (E//99)
The paws clause.
Posted by: Caliban at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (HgGBT)
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Unenforceable. It has no teeth.

Posted by: reason at December 01, 2021 12:22 PM (o0WIV)

444 I could do without the State enforcing the DP as long as you let private citizens use the "He Needed Killin'" defense in any trial.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 01, 2021 12:19 PM (trdmm)

The tribe has spoken. You've been voted out of life.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at December 01, 2021 12:23 PM (4I/2K)

445 242 Photo of bear paw is photoshopped

Posted by: NativeNH at December 01, 2021 11:49 AM (dtRY5)

I don't think so. Google for similar photos and you'll find bear claws as big or nearly as big.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 12:23 PM (RGHRK)

446 Roe, and its progeny especially Casey v PP, represents an inflection point socially and legally. A society which gives approbation, and indeed tax dollars, to the destruction of innocent life is in deep moral decline. Death is celebrated and life, a precursor to liberty, is cheapened.

Roe is also destructive of our governing document, the Constitution. It undermined the republican principles of federalism and ordered liberty leaving to a numbingly stupid group of black robed lunatics ultimate authority on how they wish to rule over us.

Posted by: 7man at December 01, 2021 12:24 PM (qwO6y)

447 "Levels of scrutiny" is the comical reductio ad absurdum of constitutional dissolution (i.e. that "courts" make all kinds of decisions they have neither the substantive nor constitutional competence to even consider).

It renders every word of the constitution, even of laws, meaningless. It uses a completely confected laughable algorithm, invented out of thin air, to effectively put an asterisk on any part of the constitution 5 unelected/unaccountable people decide on any given day.

Another great one is "compelling state interest". Breath-taking.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 01, 2021 12:25 PM (OTzUX)

448 404 Jackstraw,

One of the problems of our Constitution is that it has not had a successful amendment on core matters of society since the right for women to vote was enshrined.

Once the Court became involved in social disputes rather than structural allocations of power, there is little common ground in society to permit constitutional amendments to pass through the amendment process. Either the elites hate what the commoners would propose (which would crimp the elites) and so it never gets on the agenda or the elites want something the commoners don't which means that it can never reach the stiff requirements of a constitutional amendment.

So, we get the court ruling on social issues by issuing de facto amendments which was never the original design in the first place.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2021 12:25 PM (9hXN1)

449 Seems like over the thousand of years we've bred sheep we could have made the adults taste good by now.

OH! Your talking about "sheep" "mutton" "Sheep!" not humanity in general.

Posted by: Paladin at December 01, 2021 12:26 PM (CE4w9)

450 Nood travel restrictions.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at December 01, 2021 12:27 PM (sGnvY)

451 405 Did Dan'l Boone actually shoot a bar in that tree?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 01, 2021 12:16 PM (eGTCV)
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Are you ready for the Danielle Boone reboot?

Danielle Boone was a man,
Yes, a trans-man!
With a pecker like an eagle
And with balls like a mountain was he!

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 01, 2021 12:30 PM (ALRql)

452 447 rhomboid,
The constitutional tests arose organically as the Court sought to reconcile historical patterns of free speech with that of a modern mass media society. Then having developed this via caselaw, they applied it to racial classifications and thence to other groups via equal protection of the laws clause.

Under rational basis, the government has carte blanche to restrict your speech. Under strict scrutiny, there has to be a compelling state interest and the state has the burden of proof to show that as well as the language has to be narrowly tailored to address the compelling interest.

The court basically has three audiences that are being simultaneously addressed: the lawyers and the judges in lower courts, the other branches of government, and the people. Difficult to write a coherent opinion that each of these groups grok.

Posted by: whig at December 01, 2021 12:31 PM (9hXN1)

453 Abolish the Supreme Courts and revert back to trials by single combat.

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2021 12:33 PM (gmo/4)

454 438 - We keep losing because 9 unelected, black-robed bureaucrats act as Kings over our society. I think Jefferson is the founding father who warned repeatedly, to no avail, about this. And other reasons, of course.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at December 01, 2021 12:34 PM (+CiEK)

455 If you are going to punish people, then the law has to be knowable.

Go to a law library, look at all the books sitting on the shelves, be aware that in a court of law you are held legally responsible for knowing every thing in all of those books, even when they contradict each other.

Of course when Jefferson said "Ignorance of the law is no excuse", the laws of the United States fit on two hand written pages of paper.

If I didn't know better, I'd say court rooms were just places where bullying is celebrated and enshrined, wait, how exactly, do I know better? If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and smells like a duck, is it a duck?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 01, 2021 12:36 PM (ctFUD)

456 Let me know if either one works.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at December 01, 2021 12:03 PM (RGHRK)

2nd one worked like a charm!

(First one work-blocked)

tyvm!

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2021 12:40 PM (DJFLF)

457 But I'm gonna have to buy more hard candy. My supply is dwindling very fast.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM

If you like them, I recommend a bulk of Atomic Fireballs, they helped me alot. They last forever, and you don't end up shoveling down a ton of sugar/calories and getting fat. I think 25 calories each.

Posted by: Monkey in a fez at December 01, 2021 12:41 PM (XXvpy)

458 I recommend a bulk of Atomic Fireballs. They last forever.
Posted by: Monkey in a fez at December 01, 2021 12:41 PM (XXvpy)

Ahhh, Fireballs. Reminds me of the time I accidently tripped and fell into the campfire during my scout days. The fire ants were the icing on the cake, so to speak. Good times.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 01, 2021 12:45 PM (Zvtjl)

459 Jessica Chastain is an insufferable leftist hollywood actress, but she's worth an anger-bang, no doubt.

Posted by: SMFH at December 01, 2021 01:05 PM (u/7wY)

460 405 Did Dan'l Boone actually shoot a bar in that tree?

No, he actually had a few shots at a bar downtown.

Posted by: MW at December 01, 2021 01:07 PM (u33s0)

461 The whole bear thing was highly instructive this morning. I was trying to find out if the photo was a hoax.

There are literally thousands of people on the internet passing this along as an anesthetized bear. I had to dive really deep, like research sub deep, to find that the bear had been shot, and the name of the person holding the paw.

This is scary. There used to be a saying that "a million Frenchmen can't be wrong." But they can. Dead ass wrong. The truth doesn't win on the internet. The answers people want to hear and then pass along win.

I see this a lot in discussions on COVID. The air is thick with statements supposedly hard facts, on ALL sides of the discussion, that aren't facts at all.

The research necessary to find this out is immensely time consuming, and requires filtering cosmic levels of bullshit out. And if you present it, it's ignored anyway.

Don't trust anything you read on the internet until you can track it down on your own, and do it properly. "I read it in fifty sources" is no longer a valid thing.

Remember the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Posted by: MW at December 01, 2021 01:17 PM (u33s0)

462 Hmm, just stumbled across the Women Marines' new dress blues, and could barely stop cheering. They are great! SO much better than what we had when I was in, which were wimpy to say the least.

I'm going to have to check further -- haven't had a reason to in decades -- and see if they ever got rid of that horrid green-and-white seersucker summer uniform. Dreadful, that was.

Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at December 01, 2021 02:22 PM (JJatH)

463 Very late reading my AoS threads due to work issues today, but one comment on the Lamb Stew recipe:
It's very similar to mine with a couple small exceptions,
1) Skip the tomato paste and red wine
2) Use 1 can of Guinness in the stew instead (and 1 or more cans in the chef while cooking!)

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 01, 2021 03:42 PM (DkHo+)

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