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Do Not Stab: Google has released an update to the Google App for iOS that... Inserts Google Search links into third-party web sites. (9to5Google)

There isn't even a Do Not Stab header for this one:
The feature, Google says, will offer an opt-out for website owners through a form. It's pointed out by SERoundTable that opting out can take up to 30 days, while the feature is live now.
Thanks Google.
Both sides of the Google antitrust case blathered incoherently in closing arguments. (New York Times) (archive site)

Can't they both lose?

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I bought myself a Terramaster D8 which is a small, cheap, and fairly dumb hybrid storage box.

It holds 4 x 3.5" drives and 4 x M.2 NVMe SSDs, attached over 10Gb USB. So it's much faster than my old Synology boxes, but it only does RAID-0 and RAID-1 and even that only on the first two drives. You want to configure that on the system it's attached to.

But it is cheap; I paid about $250 including tax and shipping, and you are not getting an 8-bay 10Gb Synology solution for that.
On the other hand, QNAP. (The Register)

They issued a timely software update.

It bricked users' devices.
Amazon's new Kindle Colorsoft is kind of good except kind of not. (The Verge)

It's a 7" colour e-ink device with a resolution of 300 dpi, which is pretty good, and 4096 colours, which is tragic for an LCD but again pretty good for e-ink.

But in colour mode the resolution is cut in half taking it from pretty good territory to pretty bad.

And while Amazon claims a battery life of 8 weeks on a charge, that assumes that you barely use the device; the reviewer estimated it will last for 20 hours of actual reading. Which again, is not bad, but is a lot less than 8 weeks.

Also it doesn't seem to be available in Australia.
Teamgroup has announced a 16TB external SSD. (Tom's Hardware)

It's basically the size of a 2.5" external hard drive, probably because it's a 2.5" SSD in a metal box, only it stores more, runs ten times faster, is a lot more robust, and costs an estimated $2000.

Disclaimer: No, seriously, duck.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:00 AM (omVj0)

2 Possibly.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 26, 2024 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'Day everyone
It's Hump day

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 04:02 AM (fwDg9)

4 Made it!!!

Evening and morning, insomaniacals! 'Tis Tiu's Day, one more step along the winding trail to the holiday!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:02 AM (omVj0)

5 And 56 days until the inauguration

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 04:02 AM (fwDg9)

6 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2024 04:05 AM (82lKT)

7 Princess ~~Bride~~ Separation:

https://tinyurl.com/2nrmsuvw

Anyone not see this coming?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2024 04:07 AM (82lKT)

8 I dreamed of the young Heather Locklear naked last night.

No, it was not as cool as it sounds. Linda had dragged me to some ragged araof town to see some kind of faith or Eastern-mystic healer who was very popular and worked out of her own building. We walked into a crowded waiting room at eleven a.m. and were still sitting there an hour later when a tousled mane of blonde hair lifted from a bed-shelf in the far corner, closely followed by Heather's face. Apparently she slept there. With care and interest I watched her pad around naked, apparently not disturbing the other patients, and drinking her morning coffee. She was even more tanned than she looked in the '90s; and no, she had no tan lines. Believe me, I observed carefully.

One dream I hated to wake up from.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:08 AM (omVj0)

9 Trump nominates associate pastor at a big Baptist church in TX to head Housing and Urban development:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxr2zxb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2024 04:11 AM (X61QJ)

10 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 26, 2024 04:17 AM (yF6km)

11 "Christian Post" gives some advice about avoiding political turmoil during TG:

https://tinyurl.com/547bsvdn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2024 04:20 AM (X61QJ)

12 ZDNet: AI isn't hitting a wall, it's just getting too smart for benchmarks, says Anthropic.

No comment is a comment.

https://is.gd/ZPiMVY

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 04:23 AM (vO42M)

13 My pipe refuses to stay lit -- actually the tobacco in it, a blend from England which is notorious for being hard to dry out. So I will set it aside, sip some coffee, and announce that I spoke with my boss yesterday morning about my retirement. He was not happy, as you might expect, but cheered up a bit when I told him I was aiming for Jan. 31 as my end date, to give him room to hire somebody. I agreed to give him some slack and maybe, maybe, stay as late as March 31, to finish the budget. I'm sure he'll be able to find someone sooner than that.

He told me, in fact, that it was up to me, and he would not have the new person start until a little while before my final end date. He left it up to me if I wanted to have a retirement dinner.

I'm waiting until Friday, after the main holiday is over, to tell Linda about it. It's not going to be a massive celebration, I'm sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:24 AM (omVj0)

Monday Overnight Open Thread (11/25/24) - Doof

Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to the Monday ONT! Another mixed bag of fun and interesting stuff awaits. Care to join me?

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Pet Thread meets Art Thread

This artist does Incredible drawings on dirty cars ��

�� yizhimilepic.twitter.com/nEPUsCNQL7
— Interesting things (@awkwardgoogle) November 24, 2024

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Strange Geography – Kentucky Bend

While watching a University of Kentucky basketball game recently (#CatsBy90!), I noticed that there is now a watermark in the shape of the state of Kentucky on the floor at Rupp Arena.

This is new for 2024 at the legendary college basketball arena. Something that caught my eye was an attention to detail that falls into the “If you know, you know” category. At the bottom left of the watermark, there is a circle which is disconnected from the rest of the watermark.

What may appear to be a mistake is actually a very astute accuracy. There is a very small part of Kentucky which is not connected to the rest of the state.

This sparse and serene landscape is as remote as an island, and to get here you have to mean it. "Kentucky Bend," or “New Madrid Bend,” is encircled on the north, east, and west by a snaking hairpin turn of the Mississippi River, while the southern portion is joined to the state of Tennessee. It’s literally an exclave of Kentucky, 30 square miles of land completely cut off from the rest of the state, all formed by a combination of surveyor mishaps and raging earthquakes.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Jutting out into the middle of the Mississippi River, the tiny community on the Kentucky Bend consists of a smattering of houses, cotton fields, and a lone cemetery. Yet this little spit of land has fascinated outsiders for well over a century.
The Mississippi River, central America’s preeminent determiner of East-West boundaries, was useless in marking ownership when it came to the Kentucky Bend. Missouri and Tennessee fought over the Bend until the mid-1800’s, when Tennessee finally relinquished its claim to Kentucky, which came out on top thanks to latitudinal jurisdiction.

Read the two linked articles for more information. Quite fascinating.

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1 I'll call the others

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 09:59 PM (O7YUW)

2 First?

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 09:59 PM (v8yjy)

3 Drat!

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 09:59 PM (v8yjy)

4 Dang! Awesome ONT!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (W/lyH)

5 Doof! Garden of the Gods!

Posted by: TRex at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (IQ6Gq)

6 Yeah, ONT

Posted by: Ciampino - swim away at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (i0xsb)

7 Hard to be first with all this fun content!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (pZEOD)

8 Here's an H.P. Lovecraft seasonal musical contribution for the ONT:

The Crooked House Male Voice Choir
"9 Days of Judgement"

https://youtu.be/lqGbZ2z7T7s

On the fifth day of Judgement the wizard said to me
R'lyeh Rising.
Die for Azathoth!
Green Henchmen,
Shoggoth in a box,
and the Necronomicon for me to read.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (O7YUW)

9 Two-thirds of DNC staffers were laid off as part of the downsizing on Wednesday, with only one day's notice and no severance, according to the union.

And they are begging online for money after wasting a billion dollars.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (aOqEy)

10 DOOF!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (WXNFJ)

11 Evening, all

Posted by: caf at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (/+mVZ)

12 Who knew Kentucky had an island.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (hY4dx)

13 You dirty dog!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 10:01 PM (WXNFJ)

14 st

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

15 Howdy, all you deplorable Moron turkeys. Hope you're as well as can be expected, in Spirit, Mind, and Body.

Posted by: mindful webworker - expectedly at November 25, 2024 10:02 PM (/PK5H)

16 The gals of the Albanian Evening News say, look at our large firm melons... and bras, who needs bras under our TV News Babe blazers...

https://tinyurl.com/54vafw6y

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 10:02 PM (TGPs7)

17 Like a newbie, I started reading the most excellent content and...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

18 Love the Kentucky geography history. Outstanding ONT-worthy trivia.

Posted by: TRex at November 25, 2024 10:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

19 Evening again all, thx Doof. Echo and the Bunnymen were a very good, overlooked band. Most likely because of the stupid name. "Bring on the Dancing Horse" and "The Killing Moon " are great

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 10:03 PM (FxDm7)

20 Happy-ish Monday Evening …

Posted by: Adriane the Technically Incompetent Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 10:03 PM (TX4bP)

21 Soon we'll all take for granted that Doof is a logger of cobs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:03 PM (hY4dx)

22 *Bulg offers tribute to Doof*

*bows before him*

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:03 PM (v6JzV)

23 Doof!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 10:04 PM (mH6SG)

24 Carter Lake, Iowa also cut off from the state by a shift in the Missouri. The difference is neither state wants Carter Lake.

Posted by: Wally at November 25, 2024 10:04 PM (RfD59)

25 The former Senator and President from Illinois didn’t know that Kentucky bordered his state.

Unbelievable.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 10:04 PM (D6PGr)

26 Was this ONT dedicated to Sponge?

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:05 PM (p4NUW)

27 Maybe it's not an island. It's more badass to consider it a ravelin.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:05 PM (hY4dx)

28 Doof, love your ONTs. I'm usually catching them right before the tech thread when I wake up.

Speaking of which, I'm up later than I should be. Time for bed.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 10:05 PM (O7YUW)

29 There is a very small part of Kentucky which is not connected to the rest of the state.

Big deal.

Posted by: Michigan's Upper Peninsula at November 25, 2024 10:05 PM (0Htd1)

30 We all knew Doof before he was famous. If he gets too big for his britches, we can get the Polaroids out.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:06 PM (aOqEy)

31 Good evening everyone! Thank you for stopping by!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:06 PM (a40pN)

32 >>> 9 Two-thirds of DNC staffers were laid off as part of the downsizing on Wednesday, with only one day's notice and no severance, according to the union.

And they are begging online for money after wasting a billion dollars.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (aOqEy)

Oh no!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 10:06 PM (KcwUg)

33 Yay Doof!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2024 10:06 PM (Z25uN)

34 Great ONT! Thanks, Doof!

Posted by: Iris at November 25, 2024 10:06 PM (bOJ2I)

35 I'll call the others
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 09:59 PM (O7YUW)

(sigh)

I'm just "others" again....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2024 10:06 PM (0eaVi)

36 Was this ONT dedicated to Sponge?
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:05 PM (p4NUW)

There's no Queensryche or hair bands

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (a40pN)

37 Another weird Kentucky geography fact. Adam Dunn was a big outfielder/first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds. He was playing a home game and hit a homer over the right field seats which ricocheted off a river walk and landed in the Ohio River. On that part of the river the Kentucky -Ohio border is against the Ohio side. Therefore Dunn is the only player to hit a ball out of a state

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (FxDm7)

38 The gals of the Albanian Evening News say, look at our large firm melons... and bras, who needs bras under our TV News Babe blazers...
Posted by: Mister Ghost

'Cause they are wild and crazy Albanian girls!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (WXNFJ)

39 "Doof" has got to be one of the best nics ever here at the HQ. Heh,

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (mH6SG)

40 My moms favorite album was Pablo Cruise World's Away.

We would drive to the pool with the sunroof open on the big ass Cougar sedan and sing at the top of our lungs. We drove past a dog obedience school on the way and would bark and howl at the dogs until they went batshit crazy.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (2n6Sf)

41 Interesting Kentucky trivia. Two fathers pic is nice. Thanks for the ONT, Doof.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (v8yjy)

42 Oh no!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 10:06 PM
***
Anyway...

Posted by: Jeremy Clarkson at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

43 30 We all knew Doof before he was famous. If he gets too big for his britches, we can get the Polaroids out.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November

I have video.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (p4NUW)

44 Good evening morons and thank you all over doof

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

45 Good job, Doof. Love the chalk outline on the sleeping baby.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (u82oZ)

46 That is quite the touching fathers picture/meme. Very uplifting for some reason. I'm not even a parent.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (gKDq2)

47 I am Ken @Ikennect · 3h
What job do you see Pete Buttigieg doing next?

James Woods @RealJamesWoods
Hand

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (hovnC)

48 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (0MSER)

49 Thanks for another dandy ONT, Doof!

Great photo up top. Surely that is the Garden of the Gods. With music to match behind it!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (rxCpr)

50 Two-thirds of DNC staffers were laid off as part of the downsizing on Wednesday, with only one day's notice and no severance, according to the union.

And they are begging online for money after wasting a billion dollars.
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Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (njWTi)

51 To think we knew him as a Disco star.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (u82oZ)

52 The Kentucky Bend link is munged, Doof Good thread, nevertheless.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (vYDDT)

53 Bannon thinks all the people that went after Trump are gonna get pardoned by Biden.

Like Jack Smith.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (aOqEy)

54 26 Doof is now authorized to post Queensryche lyrics.

Sponge, not so much.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (v6JzV)

55 24 Carter Lake, Iowa also cut off from the state by a shift in the Missouri. The difference is neither state wants Carter Lake.
Posted by: Wally at November 25, 2024 10:04 PM (RfD59)

Not many want any of Iowa period.

Thanks for The ONT Doof, nice job.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (QXQ4l)

56 It’s literally an exclave of Kentucky, 30 square miles of land completely cut off from the rest of the state

Minnesota has some exclaves, but they're cut off by a foreign country.

If you want to drive to the Northwest Angle, or Elm Point, or a few other little sections of beach on Lake of the Woods, you have to drive through Canada.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (DgGvY)

57 Evening again all, thx Doof. Echo and the Bunnymen were a very good, overlooked band. Most likely because of the stupid name. "Bring on the Dancing Horse" and "The Killing Moon " are great
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 10:03 PM (FxDm7)

High on my list of favorite bands. Seen them many times. Went with a deep cut tonight because it ties in with the photo

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (a40pN)

58 And I did get willowed

352 I'll re-post if this gets willowed:
Bought the frozen turkey breast (3 lbs.) this morning and put it in the fridge. Then, about five hours later, I realized I didn't want to thaw it out so early, so I put it in the freezer.
Do y'all think it's still okay?
They say you can re-freeze a thawed turkey, but I can't find anything on a barely begun to thaw one.

Very inexperienced turkey cooker here- we always went somewhere for Thanksgiving.
Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 10:04 PM (f+FmA)

Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 10:09 PM (f+FmA)

59 Oh Canada.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:09 PM (X+Uhk)

60 >>> 53 Bannon thinks all the people that went after Trump are gonna get pardoned by Biden.

Like Jack Smith.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (aOqEy)

What am I signing???

Posted by: Brandon at November 25, 2024 10:09 PM (KcwUg)

61 Thanks for The ONT Doof, nice job.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (QXQ4l)

I learned from the best!!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:09 PM (a40pN)

62 9 Two-thirds of DNC staffers were laid off as part of the downsizing on Wednesday, with only one day's notice and no severance, according to the union.

And they are begging online for money after wasting a billion dollars.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (aOqEy)

I bet the dems won't bring this up next election when they pander for the union vote.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 10:09 PM (NMT5x)

63 Hahaha, love that I'm not the only one what has *zero* sympathy for those DNC union drones.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (njWTi)

64 43 30 We all knew Doof before he was famous. If he gets too big for his britches, we can get the Polaroids out.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November

I have video.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (p4NUW

You can probably sell that to the tabloids now that he's famous.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (aOqEy)

65 Big deal.
Posted by: Michigan's Upper Peninsula at November 25, 2024 10:05 PM (0Htd1)

Word.

Posted by: Point Roberts at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (vYDDT)

66 andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (hovnC)

Ooooooo, serious snark…

Posted by: Adriane the Technically Incompetent Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (TX4bP)

67 Bannon thinks all the people that went after Trump are gonna get pardoned by Biden.

Like Jack Smith.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (aOqEy)

If that doesn't show people the fix was in, nothing will.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (gKDq2)

68 36 Was this ONT dedicated to Sponge?
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:05 PM (p4NUW)

There's no Queensryche or hair bands
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:07 PM (a40pN)

But all kinds of crazy love songs!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (QzINz)

69 {{{COMountainMarie}}}

How are you doing, sunshine?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (u82oZ)

70 The photo of two dads is so moving.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

71 61 Thanks for The ONT Doof, nice job.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (QXQ4l)

I learned from the best!!
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:09 PM (a40pN

Well thank you.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (QXQ4l)

72 Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 10:09 PM (f+FmA)

Should have thrown it in a brine instead of the freezer. Yeah I know too late now.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (D6PGr)

73 There's a tiny little piece of Minnesota that you would have to drive through Canadia to reach by land.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 10:11 PM (KcwUg)

74 I love the first three yacht rock songs but hate "Kiss You All Over". Pretty good success rate for Doof!

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 25, 2024 10:11 PM (rbKZ6)

75 All this Yacht Rock reminds me of my first gig after college in Youngstown. I go from being in the steel mill all day to riding home listening to that type of music. Kind of bi-polar opposites.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)

76 Those staffers should send their money request to Oprah and Beyoncé.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 10:12 PM (D6PGr)

77 "Not many want any part of Iowa period."

This is Harris Country!

Posted by: Ann Selzer at November 25, 2024 10:12 PM (RfD59)

78 I learned from the best!!
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:09 PM (a40pN

Well thank you.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (QXQ4l)

How's retirement?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:12 PM (aOqEy)

79 If you must eat turkey, brine wash up inside it in the sink. It will not be dry. A lot of folks wind up in the ER after deep frying turkeys.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:13 PM (X+Uhk)

80 25 The former Senator and President from Illinois didn’t know that Kentucky bordered his state.

Unbelievable.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 10:04 PM (D6PGr)
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Kenya is a long way from Kentucky, ask me how I know.

Posted by: Ciampino - White Highlands are beautiful at November 25, 2024 10:13 PM (i0xsb)

81 Some of that yacht rock is bringing back bad memories of disco music. Thankfully I no longer have the platform shoes and ugly polyester shirts.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 10:13 PM (0Htd1)

82 Son is bringing his girlfriend to dinner, so I would like to make a good impression by not poisoning anyone.

Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 10:13 PM (f+FmA)

83 But all kinds of crazy love songs!
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (QzINz)

Jealous of my bromance with Sponge??🤔

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:13 PM (a40pN)

84 Thanks for the tunes! Pablo Cruise reminds me of Kate's skating rink in Rock Hill, SC circa 1978. Fun and innocent times.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 25, 2024 10:13 PM (K1HkL)

85 Echo and the Bunnymen!!!!

Saw them live in a small venue. As in less than 300 people. Super fun.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 10:13 PM (1ztRL)

86 I believe I saw Echo and the Bunnymen on Uncle Floyd's Play House

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 10:13 PM (RIvkX)

87 Did not know about Kentucky Bend. Interesting.

Where else is there a separate non-contiguous part of a state (not counting islands, like Hawaii, Alaska)? Michigan, famously, of course. Anywhere else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Posted by: mindful webworker - expectedly at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM (/PK5H)

88 The Kentucky thing reminds me of Carter Lake, Iowa. It's an oxbow lake that got cut off and Iowa basically said "Screw you, Nebraska! We're keeping it! AND THE HUSKERS SUCK!"

Posted by: pookysgirl, Hawkeye for life at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)

89 70 The photo of two dads is so moving.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

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Pfft.

Posted by: Heather's Two Mommies at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM (hY4dx)

90 Kentucky Island.

Where they play yacht~~rock~~bluegrass.

Y'all mellow out to these heah tunes or Cletus there is gonna part yo' hair with that thar Ar Kansas toothpick.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM (Xo+UM)

91 73 Hyder, Alaska has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:15 PM (v6JzV)

92 Two Dads, One Baster.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 10:15 PM (mH6SG)

93 Alec Baldwin winning more friends. Called Americans uneducated and very uninformed about reality.

The Schweedy balls on that guy.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 10:15 PM (D6PGr)

94 Thankfully I no longer have the platform shoes and ugly polyester shirts.
Posted by: nerdygirl

There wouldn't happen to be any hip-huggers and peasant blouses, would there?

Asking for a friend.

I think I may still have my puka shell choker somewhere.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 10:15 PM (WXNFJ)

95 83 But all kinds of crazy love songs!
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (QzINz)

Jealous of my bromance with Sponge??🤔
Posted by: Doof at November 25

Moi? 🤣

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:16 PM (QzINz)

96 That little bit of Kentucky looks like a hemorrhoid!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:16 PM (d9fT1)

97 So this is a Doof ONT. I'm up past my bedtime. I trust there are no penguin infestations.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 10:16 PM (vFG9F)

98 93 Alec Baldwin winning more friends. Called Americans uneducated and very uninformed about reality.

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That's Hilaria, no?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:16 PM (hY4dx)

99 That little bit of Kentucky looks like a hemorrhoid!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:16 PM (d9fT1)

Does seem like a pain in the ass to get there

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:17 PM (a40pN)

100 Exclaves! Get your exclaves here!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:17 PM (v6JzV)

101 Doof: Did you remember to check out that song "Messed Up World" by Arcade, with Stephen Pearcy of RATT as the lead singer?

You said you added it to your Spotify playlist.

Here's the YouTube link for anyone else who's curious:
https://youtu.be/oPVhN2JzAZY

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 10:17 PM (O7YUW)

102 Where else is there a separate non-contiguous part of a state (not counting islands, like Hawaii, Alaska)? Michigan, famously, of course. Anywhere else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by: mindful webworker - expectedly

Minnesota has some, cut off by Canada and Lake Of The Woods. See my post at #56.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

103 My Old Kentucky Home needs a mint julep and those are gross.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:17 PM (QzINz)

104
The Schweedy balls on that guy.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 10:15 PM (D6PGr)

Favors Biden's "consideration" of letting the Ukes use Nukes? I hate Zelensky and his blackmail. Why else would we be picking a conflagration with Russia?

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:18 PM (2NXcZ)

105 Alabama was supposed to own the panhandle of Florida.

West Florida should have been south Alabama.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:18 PM (aOqEy)

106 97 So this is a Doof ONT. I'm up past my bedtime. I trust there are no penguin infestations.
Posted by: fd at November 25

Hang tight, the disco ball drops soon.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:18 PM (QzINz)

107 Virginia. delmarva

Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at November 25, 2024 10:18 PM (Ad8y9)

108 Content read- the "Two Dads" photo is lovely.
Thank you for such a sweet scene.

Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 10:19 PM (f+FmA)

109 Evening, Horde! Glad to see the Doof Dynasty persists!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 25, 2024 10:19 PM (v23vE)

110 So wait: Doof has the blog?

When did Ace's blog rename itself to Doofenschmirtz Evil Amalgamated?

And I assume Norm is downstairs with the hamsters on the wheel?

(deep, deep cut there!)

Posted by: SimoHayha at November 25, 2024 10:19 PM (yf7Pm)

111 106 97 So this is a Doof ONT. I'm up past my bedtime. I trust there are no penguin infestations.
Posted by: fd at November 25

Hang tight, the disco ball drops soon.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:18 PM (QzINz)

How tall are you in platform boots?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:19 PM (aOqEy)

112 9 Two-thirds of DNC staffers were laid off as part of the downsizing on Wednesday, with only one day's notice and no severance, according to the union.

And they are begging online for money after wasting a billion dollars.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (aOqEy)

Oh, look, some Americans who are available to mow lawns!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:19 PM (VNX3d)

113 9 Two-thirds of DNC staffers were laid off as part of the downsizing on Wednesday, with only one day's notice and no severance, according to the union.

And they are begging online for money after wasting a billion dollars.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

It's called "throwing good money after bad". And, yes, there are democrats who will send them money. Liberals believe in rewarding failure.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

114 Kentuckians hate it when you remind them that they are Yankees.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:20 PM (X+Uhk)

115 Exclaves, not to be confused with such as the Courland Pocket.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:20 PM (2oLC8)

116 69

Hiya {{NaCly}}!
Doin' well.....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2024 10:20 PM (Z25uN)

117 Albanian Evening News — the closed captions didn't ~~help~~ matter.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Albanian button shortage at November 25, 2024 10:20 PM (/PK5H)

118 Alec Baldwin winning more friends. Called Americans uneducated and very uninformed about reality.
++++
My husband is, how you say? Asshole

Posted by: Hilaria at November 25, 2024 10:20 PM (Lo97M)

119 Oh, look, some Americans who are available to mow lawns!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:19 PM (VNX3d)

And pick crops!

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:20 PM (2NXcZ)

120 My Old Kentucky Home needs a mint julep and those are gross.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:17 PM (QzINz)

You haven't had one of mine. They're real and spectacular!

On Derby day this year, a friend who prefers tequila had me make one with coconut flavored tequila instead of bourbon. Gotta say - it was damn good.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:20 PM (a40pN)

121 111
How tall are you in platform boots?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:19 PM (aOqEy)

5’2. And a half.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:20 PM (QzINz)

122 "Oh, look, some Americans who are available to mow lawns!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf "

Learn to pluck chickens.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 10:21 PM (vFG9F)

123 And a half.

Lol

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:21 PM (aOqEy)

124 Son is bringing his girlfriend to dinner, so I would like to make a good impression by not poisoning anyone.
Posted by: sal

I think if you thawed it in the fridge, it is OK.

It’s setting it on the counter to thaw that kills everybody.

Slather with butter and orange peel and drizzle some Cointreau on it while roasting…

Posted by: Adriane the Technically Incompetent Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 10:21 PM (TX4bP)

125 Was this ONT dedicated to Sponge?
Posted by: Piper
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Now, why would we do that???

Posted by: lin-duh at November 25, 2024 10:21 PM (VCgbV)

126 122: and clean toilets!

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:21 PM (2NXcZ)

127 Dear unemployed Democrats with useless degrees, there is winter lettuce in California that needs picking.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:21 PM (2oLC8)

128 Learn to code. Tyson will soon be hiring.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:22 PM (X+Uhk)

129 You wealthy folks and your yachts. All I have is a 17' Coleman Scanoe.

Posted by: Barely Afloat In The Biden Economy at November 25, 2024 10:22 PM (nS6qG)

130 Content read- the "Two Dads" photo is lovely.
Thank you for such a sweet scene.
Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 10:19 PM (f+FmA)

It really is a great moment. Dads don't get enough credit.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:22 PM (a40pN)

131 127 Dear unemployed Democrats with useless degrees, there is winter lettuce in California that needs picking.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:21 PM (2oLC

We can send them to their Chinese buddies to work in factories

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:22 PM (2NXcZ)

132 128 Learn to code. Tyson will soon be hiring.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:22 PM (X+Uhk)

This is how you do it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:22 PM (aOqEy)

133 Part of an Indian reservation in Canada can only be reached by going through upstate NY

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (FxDm7)

134 I started doing a 24 hour wet brine with seasonings on the turkey about 5 years ago. Yes, some work goes into the process and if you're doing big birds 21 lbs. + well. Finding the right receptacle to actually brine in is also some work.

But I will tell you, weather you do the bird in the oven or if you are owning a fine stick burner BBQ with the space and time for a 4–5-hour roast.

You will have, as an end result, one of the most flavorful, moist, birds you have ever had ever!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (TDvv2)

135 I grew up about 30-40 miles from Kentucky Bend.

Never been there, though. From what I understand, there's not much to see.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (lHPJf)

136 Two-thirds of DNC staffers were laid off as part of the downsizing on Wednesday, with only one day's notice and no severance, according to the union.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Oh, look, some Americans who are available to mow lawns!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Hour of the Wolf, off the top rope!

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (DgGvY)

137 120 My Old Kentucky Home needs a mint julep and those are gross.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:17 PM (QzINz)

You haven't had one of mine. They're real and spectacular!

On Derby day this year, a friend who prefers tequila had me make one with coconut flavored tequila instead of bourbon. Gotta say - it was damn good.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024

What is the drink for the Preakness? By the way, my riding instructor is Steuart Pittman.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (QzINz)

138 If you cook that turkey long enough and hot enough you can just go out for dinner.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (vFG9F)

139 It really is a great moment. Dads don't get enough credit.
Posted by: Doof

Seriously. I once had a bad cold so I understand exactly what mothers experience during childbirth!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (WXNFJ)

140 132 128 Learn to code. Tyson will soon be hiring.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:22 PM (X+Uhk)

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How good are you at handling breasts?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:24 PM (hY4dx)

141 The eastern parishes of Louisiana were part of Spanish Florida. Hence their designation as the “Florida Parishes.”

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:24 PM (v6JzV)

142 I can't tell you how many times I've said to myself, "step 1, cut a hole in the box", whenever I see someone carrying a box.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 10:24 PM (NMT5x)

143 Alabama was supposed to own the panhandle of Florida.

West Florida should have been south Alabama.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:18 PM (aOqEy)

If it was, Gore would have become President in 2000.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 25, 2024 10:25 PM (lHPJf)

144 Anna Puma

The real lairs are on volcanic atolls near Bora Bora.

The good news is the Red Army is no more. The current one is moving forward at an appalling number of men lost per kilometer gained. And their allied troops have never seen Western porn before. They are ruined for NK.

I aver that North Korean porn is a well-dressed woman eating at Denny's.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 10:25 PM (u82oZ)

145 What is the drink for the Preakness? By the way, my riding instructor is Steuart Pittman.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (QzINz)

Black Eyed Susan. Named after the state flower of MD. Kinda like a fuzzy navel with bourbon added.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:26 PM (a40pN)

146 24 Carter Lake, Iowa also cut off from the state by a shift in the Missouri. The difference is neither state wants Carter Lake.
Posted by: Wally at November 25, 2024 10:04 PM (RfD59)

All the sports bettors in Omaha who don't want to cross the river into Council Bluffs -- for good reason -- love Carter Lake.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 25, 2024 10:26 PM (v23vE)

147 Guess I misinterpreted the "two dads" thing, My bad.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 10:26 PM (mH6SG)

148 I must be slow tonight (heh) but I don't get the nutcracker.

Posted by: Ciampino - nuts and bolts at November 25, 2024 10:27 PM (i0xsb)

149 127 Dear unemployed Democrats with useless degrees, there is winter lettuce in California that needs picking.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Nyah. Farming is high tech these days. GPS programs, guided laser weed killers towed behind the tractor, and automated harvest equipment. They should become diesel mechanics. America needs more of them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 10:27 PM (u82oZ)

150 Right around here, Knotts Island is NC territory, but cut off from the rest of the State. You have to drive through Virginia Beach, Virginia to get to the rest of the county. Served by the Knotts Island Ferry at the South end.

Posted by: oldnorthstate at November 25, 2024 10:27 PM (nS6qG)

151 Did they make a Nutcracker Movie? I should watch that at some point.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:28 PM (X+Uhk)

152 If you must eat turkey, brine wash up inside it in the sink. It will not be dry. A lot of folks wind up in the ER after deep frying turkeys.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I'm getting a ham instead of a turkey. I like ham dinner better than turkey dinner, plus I prefer ham for leftovers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

153 Wait, so is "yacht rock" just the new way of saying "easy listening," or is it supposed to be "adult contemporary"?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:29 PM (ZOv7s)

154 88 The Kentucky thing reminds me of Carter Lake, Iowa. It's an oxbow lake that got cut off and Iowa basically said "Screw you, Nebraska! We're keeping it! AND THE HUSKERS SUCK!"
Posted by: pookysgirl, Hawkeye for life at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)

Of course, you realize this means war! GOOOOOO BIIIIIIG REDDDD!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 25, 2024 10:29 PM (v23vE)

155 I must be slow tonight (heh) but I don't get the nutcracker.
Posted by: Ciampino

Saturday Night Live. Justin Timberlake. "Dick In A Box."

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:29 PM (DgGvY)

156 148 I must be slow tonight (heh) but I don't get the nutcracker.
Posted by: Ciampino - nuts and bolts at November

I can’t believe I am doing this, but here

https://tinyurl.com/3z2e7kw7

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:29 PM (QzINz)

157 Why does getting paid to be a "Democrat Campaign Consultant" sound like a fantastic way to launder money?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 25, 2024 10:29 PM (pIfcn)

158 I must be slow tonight (heh) but I don't get the nutcracker.
Posted by: Ciampino - nuts and bolts at November 25, 2024 10:27 PM (i0xsb)

SNL. Justin Timberlake. D*ck in a box.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:30 PM (a40pN)

159 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Not Smooth Jazz, so it gots that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 10:30 PM (u82oZ)

160 "Did they make a Nutcracker movie."

Yes. It's called "Ow! My Balls!" Vey big in the future.

Posted by: Wally at November 25, 2024 10:30 PM (RfD59)

161 Ohio can have their damn Toledo. We got the lumber forests of the Upper Peninsula.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:30 PM (v6JzV)

162 I can’t believe I am doing this, but here

https://tinyurl.com/3z2e7kw7
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:29 PM (QzINz)

Hey girl...

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:31 PM (a40pN)

163 How will the US get potash after the Canadia trade war?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:31 PM (X+Uhk)

164 "West Florida should have been south Alabama.
Posted by: AlaBAMA"

There's not much difference until you get to the coast.

Ever heard of Two Egg, Florida? I've got ancestors from around there and up around Enterprise. That used to be some poor country. It was so bad they moved to Georgia.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 10:31 PM (vFG9F)

165 Where else is there a separate non-contiguous part of a state (not counting islands, like Hawaii, Alaska)? Michigan, famously, of course. Anywhere else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by: mindful webworker - expectedly at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM (/PK5H)

There's a part of northeast North Carolina that is accessable either via going beyond Pungo in Virginia Beach, along the coast on a winding two lane road through a coastal National Park, or a ferry from the mainland of North Carolina, near Coinjock. I've taken that route once to start a vacation, leaving from Norfolk and going down through Va Beach and that ferry, ending up in the Outer Banks, going way down on Hatteras Island to near Cape Hatteras and the Lighthouse (Avon).

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 10:31 PM (gKDq2)

166 My Old Kentucky Home needs a mint julep and those are gross.

Went to the Derby for 12 years consecutively. One year I drank a couple of dozen juleps. I kept the glasses but don't remember much else.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 10:31 PM (mH6SG)

167 Alabama was supposed to own the panhandle of Florida.
West Florida should have been south Alabama.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

If it was, Gore would have become President in 2000.
Posted by: Dr. T

* boom *

Posted by: the sound of mikeski's mind at November 25, 2024 10:31 PM (DgGvY)

168 Daughter was watching "Nutcracker and the 4 Realms" last night. Kiera Knightley in her usual "no chest" self but as a -- not heroic role.

Haven't decided if it's a good movie or not, but there's no box like that in that movie!

There is a Jack in the Box though. Does that count?

Posted by: SimoHayha at November 25, 2024 10:32 PM (yf7Pm)

169 At least they have their last check to tide them over. Oh wait.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:32 PM (X+Uhk)

170 163 How will the US get potash after the Canadia trade war?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:31 PM (X+Uhk)

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Blood potash. Mined exclusively by tiny orphans with spoons in Africa.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:32 PM (hY4dx)

171 It really is a great moment. Dads don't get enough credit.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:22 PM (a40pN)

I noticed yesterday as we sat in the small-children section at church that every family had a dad, and some of them were without moms as they were helping with church childcare. It was so nice to see, especially given my generation's tendency to continue the fatherless epidemic.

Posted by: pookysgirl, mostly raised by her dad at November 25, 2024 10:33 PM (dtlDP)

172 Thank you Doof!

I enjoyed the dirty car video.

I watched 'Saw 6' just a few minutes ago. I'd like that to be how the DUGE works.

You know, most of the people involved and 'victims' were corporate or govt people. So you wanted them to suffer. Well I did.

Except....spoiler alert for 'Saw 6' so go away...

Now.

The villain, was ultimately a government employee.

Here's what I found funny..in his off hours, he kidnapped about 12 people, kept them alive and drugged, set up all the 'choices' and put all the bodies in place.

Plus, he lived the American Dream and did something nasty to his boss. Knives were involved. Throats. Fire. But anyways..

That is the type of employee the DOGE needs to have on staff to work 80 hours a week with no pay for fun to get rid of government people crew.

Their blood letting would just be for catharctic freedom.

And drunken entertainment.

Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 10:33 PM (jvJvP)

173 The good news is the Red Army is no more. The current one is moving forward at an appalling number of men lost per kilometer gained. And their allied troops have never seen Western porn before. They are ruined for NK.

I aver that North Korean porn is a well-dressed woman eating at Denny's.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 10:25 PM (u82oZ)
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I hate to break it to you but Norks are not now, nor have ever been in Russia. It is an info op, and a lame one.

The Russians are not the Soviets, do not use human wave assaults, and are very cleverly, and astutely chiseling their way into Ukraine's defenses. They've turned the flank and are sweeping the southern trench lines from the east.

The advance is slow, methodical, and effective. Note how they shift around fortified settlements and isolate them with fire control of the outlying roads before making their move. When Chasov Yar falls, that whole sector will collapse - there's nothing behind it but farm fields.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:34 PM (ZOv7s)

174 Alabama was supposed to own the panhandle of Florida.
West Florida should have been south Alabama.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

But then Alabama and Mississippi wouldn't have looked like cute mirror___s of each other.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:34 PM (DgGvY)

175 Where else is there a separate non-contiguous part of a state (not counting islands, like Hawaii, Alaska)? Michigan, famously, of course. Anywhere else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by: mindful webworker - expectedly at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM (/PK5H)

I believe there's a town in Washington State at the southern end of a peninsula extending from British Columbia, so you can only reach it by ferry from Seattle or taking a land route through Canada.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 25, 2024 10:34 PM (lHPJf)

176 Where else is there a separate non-contiguous part of a state (not counting islands, like Hawaii, Alaska)? Michigan, famously, of course. Anywhere else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by: mindful webworker - expectedly at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM

New Jersey has a very small corner of land across the Delaware river on the Delaware side. Not entirely sure why, or at least I cannot remember. It's not like the river changed course. It's like a 200 foot wide strip, I think, for a quarter of a mile. I could be off a fair bit though.

No one actually lives in that chunk of New Jersey... I think Delaware tries to keep the insanity confined on the other side of the river.

Posted by: SimoHayha at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (yf7Pm)

177 There's a part of northeast North Carolina that is accessable either via going beyond Pungo in Virginia Beach, along the coast on a winding two lane road through a coastal National Park, or a ferry from the mainland of North Carolina, near Coinjock. I've taken that route once to start a vacation, leaving from Norfolk and going down through Va Beach and that ferry, ending up in the Outer Banks, going way down on Hatteras Island to near Cape Hatteras and the Lighthouse (Avon).
Posted by: RickZ

See #150 above. I live right near the ferry landing.

Posted by: oldnorthstate at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (nS6qG)

178 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:34 PM (ZOv7s)

Jack Posobiec says Joe wants to give Zelensky Nukes

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (2NXcZ)

179 Doof

Not sure I’d consider Sanford Townsend as yacht rock … 🤔

Pablo Cruise 🛥️🛥️🛥️

Eastern Conference 🥅 … very tight standing going into the Thanksgiving holiday

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (TTAGa)

180 Say a quote attributed to Alec Baldwin on the internet, so it must be true.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (VNX3d)

181 Lib sister recently sent me a hate email about election. She is a classic childless AWFL and petty much stopped talking to me years ago over her Trump derangement . (I never brought up politics with her, she can't shut up about it so it was all her decision) Any way the letter is almost a parody of the lib rants we've been seeing with one Dem talking point after another, all complete distorted or a outright falsehoods. Always amusing to see this on-line but it is a little disturbing when it is directed at you (a white male who is directly to blame for this disaster)

I gave up on her years ago or any hope of having a good relationship again but was consider responding. Do I

1. Reply with a point by point rebuttal with calm, well reasoned and referenced debunking of idiotic accusations. I really doubt it would make he slights impression and would be dismissed as Fox news propaganda, more evidence of my racism
2. Ignore and forget about it(most likely)
3. Spike the ball and torment her. Maybe send a Trump dance video (very tempting)

Seeing this level of insanity in an otherwise intelligent rational person and knowing there are millions more is concerning to say the least

Posted by: Ripley at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (PTDkx)

182 Alec Baldwin winning more friends. Called Americans uneducated and very uninformed about reality.

He has a big mouth for someone who killed a person because he handled a gun stupidly. Has his shooting victim's family gotten a gigantic settlement from him yet?

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM (0Htd1)

183 Thank you all for the nice words. Last night's crew wasn't as friendly.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM (a40pN)

184 believe there's a town in Washington State at the southern end of a peninsula extending from British Columbia, so you can only reach it by ferry from Seattle or taking a land route through Canada.
Posted by: Dr. T at November 25, 2024 10:34 PM (lHPJf)

I was trying to remember that … thank you

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM (TTAGa)

185 "Content read- the "Two Dads" photo is lovely."

Not to be confused with my two dads.

Posted by: Nicole Bradford at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM (89Sog)

186 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:34 PM (ZOv7s)

Jack Posobiec says Joe wants to give Zelensky Nukes
Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (2NXcZ

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What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM (hY4dx)

187 Nukes.

Kiev.

The Third World War.

Guess I'll go read Team Yankee again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:37 PM (2oLC8)

188 There's also a chunk of North East Africa called Bir Tawil that's disputed (sort of) between Egypt and Sudan, with the peculiar distinction that neither of them wants it. The deal is that there are two different borders drawn at different times, and depending on which one you choose, the country that gets Bir Tawil loses out on another piece of land that both countries *do* want.

I believe there have been attempts to colonize the region, given that it's no-man's-land/terra nullius, but apparently neither country is gonna go along with that. Also, this area is a shithole even by the standards of Northeast Africa. No roads, no water, no population... even the local desert tribes pass through there as fast as they can on the way to some slightly less shitholey region.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:37 PM (W5ArC)

189 Ohio can have their damn Toledo. We got the lumber forests of the Upper Peninsula.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:30 PM (v6JzV)
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Michigan got iron and copper ore so pure people weren't sure how to mine it. It was just sitting there, in huge, pure chunks.

Ohio got algae blooms.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:37 PM (ZOv7s)

190 Not to be confused with my two dads.
Posted by: Nicole Bradford at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM (89Sog)

Paul Reiser and Grwv Evigan. Pretty good show.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:38 PM (a40pN)

191 156 148 I must be slow tonight (heh) but I don't get the nutcracker.
Posted by: Ciampino - nuts and bolts at November

I can’t believe I am doing this, but here

https://tinyurl.com/3z2e7kw7
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:29 PM (QzINz)

And, it could be a Christmas song.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 10:38 PM (NMT5x)

192 Did they make a Nutcracker Movie? I should watch that at some point.
Posted by: Boss Moss

There's a stop-motion-animated one called "Nutcracker Fantasy."

If you want to know what being on serious drugs in Japan in 1979 was like.....

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:38 PM (DgGvY)

193
Seeing this level of insanity in an otherwise intelligent rational person and knowing there are millions more is concerning to say the least
Posted by: Ripley at November 25,

Send flowers and wish her well.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:38 PM (QzINz)

194 Posted by: oldnorthstate at November 25, 2024 10:27 PM (nS6qG)

Sorry. I was typing while you posted.

My ex-B-i-L's brother was a Methodist minister on Knotts Island. The Methodist whatever the leadership in Richmond is called thought him so bad they shipped him as far away from them as humanly possible as it was a Virgina parish. Remote doesn't describe living there.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 10:38 PM (gKDq2)

195 Russian recruited a bunch of Houthis. Gave them a bunch of promises and an enlistment contract, in Russian, to sign. Then sent them to Ukraine. Hey , a contract is a contract.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:38 PM (QTCRF)

196 "2. Ignore and forget about it(most likely)"

That will infuriate her even more, so I would do that. Plus, it's the easiest. Nothing says "I couldn't care less" better than no response at all.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 10:38 PM (vFG9F)

197 133 Part of an Indian reservation in Canada can only be reached by going through upstate NY
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (FxDm7)

And there’s a lot of shenanigans that take place through that Res …

Drugs, illegals, and other contraband goods …

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 25, 2024 10:39 PM (TTAGa)

198 What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM (hY4dx)

Starmer and Macron want US boots on the ground

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:39 PM (2NXcZ)

199 Jack Posobiec says Joe wants to give Zelensky Nukes
Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (2NXcZ)
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They would need delivery vehicles and crews, both of which would likely meet with unfortunate ends before they got into position.

It is very much the liberal mindset of being sore losers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:39 PM (ZOv7s)

200 How do you find real info on Ukraine Russo War. Both sides seem more adept at propaganda than actual fighting.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:39 PM (X+Uhk)

201 Do I

1. Reply with a point by point rebuttal with calm, well reasoned and referenced debunking of idiotic accusations. I really doubt it would make he slights impression and would be dismissed as Fox news propaganda, more evidence of my racism
2. Ignore and forget about it(most likely)
3. Spike the ball and torment her. Maybe send a Trump dance video (very tempting)

Seeing this level of insanity in an otherwise intelligent rational person and knowing there are millions more is concerning to say the least

Posted by: Ripley at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (PTDkx)

I'm sorry your sis is this way. I suggest option 2 for your own sanity.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 25, 2024 10:39 PM (K1HkL)

202 183 Thank you all for the nice words. Last night's crew wasn't as friendly.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM (a40pN)

Doof, really?

I've only been 6 beer passing through. But I've enjoyed ypur posts!

Is your nic new?

I've been here about 2002, leaving for sanity, but not one I recognise?

Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 10:39 PM (jvJvP)

203
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM (hY4dx

*cues up Norman Stansfield*

Eeeevvvvvverrrryyyyything!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:40 PM (aOqEy)

204 Thank you all for the nice words. Last night's crew wasn't as friendly.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:36 PM

F*ck them and the donkeys they rode in on.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 10:40 PM (mH6SG)

205 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I do get that. Plus using motorcycles to close the enemy line, then ditch the bikes to foil the constant drone coverage.

The Russian front lines are moving, but it still feels like 1916.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 10:40 PM (u82oZ)

206 Russian recruited a bunch of Houthis. Gave them a bunch of promises and an enlistment contract, in Russian, to sign. Then sent them to Ukraine. Hey , a contract is a contract.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:38 PM (QTCRF)
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Another info op. Show me the prisoners/corpses or it didn't happen.

Same media that lies to use about everything can be trusted to report honestly in Russia?

Yeah, no. At this point, ALL western media is wrong until proved otherwise.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:41 PM (ZOv7s)

207 82 Son is bringing his girlfriend to dinner, so I would like to make a good impression by not poisoning anyone.
Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 10:13 PM (f+FmA)

This for Thursday? Put it back in fridge and let it thaw. It won't rot, f'pete sake! Since it's just a breast portion, I would work a couple three strips of bacon under the skin and roast as directed...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 25, 2024 10:41 PM (Cbio9)

208 I take it back. It's Delaware that owns a small chunk of land on the New Jersey side of the river. Apparently the biggest thing that happens there is dead bodies washing up on it and the New Jersey people have to call Delaware to come pick them up.

Sorry for misleading y'all!

Posted by: SimoHayha at November 25, 2024 10:41 PM (yf7Pm)

209 200 How do you find real info on Ukraine Russo War. Both sides seem more adept at propaganda than actual fighting.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:39 PM (X+Uhk)

Russians fight well, Ukrainians are mostly dead. Before our men go there, send back every single Ukrainian who could afford to flee for the US and EU. They'll stop this shit then

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:41 PM (2NXcZ)

210 > 147 Guess I misinterpreted the "two dads" thing, My bad.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 10:26 PM (mH6SG)

This made me wonder whatever happened to the girl who was on that show back when.

She grew up to become a lawyer, sad to say. Child stars generally do not turn out well, but it's usually something more socially acceptable, like dealing drugs or holding up gas stations.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:41 PM (W5ArC)

211 Update on adult butthead daughter - R. drove to Orlando this afternoon and un****ed the situation about 80% with a clear path to completion tomorrow.

Ugh.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 10:42 PM (WXNFJ)

212 "Last night's crew wasn't as friendly."

Probably bothered by fleas.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 10:42 PM (vFG9F)

213 There wouldn't happen to be any hip-huggers and peasant blouses, would there?

Whenever I get the urge to grouse about the way young people dress, I remember the halter tops, bell bottoms, hip huggers, and decide I should shut up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

214 Russia got whooped by Poland between the World Wars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:42 PM (X+Uhk)

215 So as the nukes fly between Russia and Ukraine; will Joey Bidet stand up, raise his right arm, and yell, "Mein Fuhrer I can walk!"

Will he?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:42 PM (2oLC8)

216 Do I
1. Reply with a point by point rebuttal with calm, well reasoned and referenced debunking of idiotic accusations. I really doubt it would make he slights impression and would be dismissed as Fox news propaganda, more evidence of my racism
2. Ignore and forget about it(most likely)
3. Spike the ball and torment her. Maybe send a Trump dance video (very tempting)
Posted by: Ripley

I'm sorry your sis is this way. I suggest option 2 for your own sanity.
Posted by: Scarymary

Bah! A little of column 1, a little of column 3.

It's the "the Left can't meme" combo.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:43 PM (DgGvY)

217 215 So as the nukes fly between Russia and Ukraine; will Joey Bidet stand up, raise his right arm, and yell, "Mein Fuhrer I can walk!"

Will he?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:42 PM (2oLC

*gold clap*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:43 PM (aOqEy)

218 Doof, thou art awesome.

Thy detractors art scurvy knaves!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:43 PM (v6JzV)

219 Posted by: Ripley at November 25, 2024 10:35 PM (PTDkx)

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make take a shower …

Posted by: Adriane the Technically Incompetent Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 10:43 PM (TX4bP)

220 75 All this Yacht Rock reminds me of my first gig after college in Youngstown. I go from being in the steel mill all day to riding home listening to that type of music. Kind of bi-polar opposites.
Posted by: Tonypete
...........................
My Dad, who worked at Sharon Steel for 25 years, opted for classical or gospel music due to all the noise associated with working in a steel mill. He wanted something peaceful.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 10:43 PM (0MSER)

221 Another info op. Show me the prisoners/corpses or it didn't happen.

Same media that lies to use about everything can be trusted to report honestly in Russia?

Yeah, no. At this point, ALL western media is wrong until proved otherwise.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:41 PM (ZOv7s)

That is legit. *I have sources you guys have no access to. Plus, if they signed a contract, it is between them and Russia. Their business.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:43 PM (QTCRF)

222 Where else is there a separate non-contiguous part of a state (not counting islands, like Hawaii, Alaska)? Michigan, famously, of course. Anywhere else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
65 Big deal.
Posted by: Michigan's Upper Peninsula at November 25, 2024 10:05 PM (0Htd1)

Your Question was already answered:

Posted by: Point Roberts at November 25, 2024 10:10 PM (vYDDT)

Posted by: GilesOverreach at November 25, 2024 10:43 PM (rcnBO)

223 When people start complaining, you know you've got the ONT dialed in.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:44 PM (aOqEy)

224 How do you find real info on Ukraine Russo War. Both sides seem more adept at propaganda than actual fighting.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:39 PM (X+Uhk)
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I assume all Western media is lying. I then look at more neutral sources, some of which include American ex-military types like Doug Macgregor. There are a lot of 'mappers' and one of the most interesting elements is that the pro-Ukrainian ones have largely quit.

A ton of pro-Uke accounts have disappeared, including one of the armored losses counters.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:44 PM (ZOv7s)

225 Yeah, no. At this point, ALL western media is wrong until proved otherwise.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:41 PM (ZOv7s)

I watch some of the reports from Douglas McGregor when I can find them. Ukraine is finished unless Nato (the US) steps in.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:44 PM (2NXcZ)

226 214 Russia got whooped by Poland between the World Wars.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:42 PM (X+Uhk)

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Hold our aquavit.

Posted by: The Finns at November 25, 2024 10:44 PM (hY4dx)

227 Do we all have to learn to pickleball under the new Doofinhiemer regime?

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 25, 2024 10:44 PM (+VovS)

228 135 I grew up about 30-40 miles from Kentucky Bend.

Never been there, though. From what I understand, there's not much to see.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 25, 2024 10:23 PM (lHPJf)
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Drives one round the bend?

Posted by: Ciampino - nuts & assorted bolts at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (i0xsb)

229 What is happening? I thought we were singing Christmas carols and sappy love songs?

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (p4NUW)

230 Wasn't some NATO general just today saying Europe needs to prepare to fight a war?

These people are psychotic.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (aOqEy)

231 Where else is there a separate non-contiguous part of a state (not counting islands, like Hawaii, Alaska)? Michigan, famously, of course. Anywhere else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by: mindful webworker - expectedly at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM (/PK5H)

Me. The little patch of land forming the west shore of Boundary Bay, south of the 49th parallel, which passes through Boundary Bay. To get to Point Roberts, WA, from Blaine, WA, you have to cross into Canada at the Peace Arch border crossing, drive a few miles west, and re-enter the USA at Pt. Roberts border crossing.

Posted by: Point Roberts at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (b8UC5)

232 214 Yeah, with lots of help from the French.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (v6JzV)

233 I must be slow tonight (heh) but I don't get the nutcracker.
Posted by: Ciampino

One of the first things I learned on AoS: If you don't know, don't ask, and fer sure don't websearch on it.

Part of the "don't ask" rule is that someone else probably will. Which in this case, I guess, is you.

Posted by: mindful webworker - popcorn buckets work, too at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (/PK5H)

234 Now if Ukraine goes under what happens to the oligarchs' money? They bought the mineral rights in Donbas for nothing?

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (2NXcZ)

235 Russia got whooped by Poland between the World Wars.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:42 PM (X+Uhk)

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Hold our aquavit.
Posted by: The Finns at November 25, 2024 10:44 PM (hY4dx)

Did Poland or Finland capture any Russian territory ?

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:46 PM (QTCRF)

236 What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Cicero

Starmer and Macron want US boots on the ground
Posted by: long night ending, dawn

Sure. It'd be cheaper than all the other stuff we're sending them. As long as they don't want US feet in the boots.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:46 PM (DgGvY)

237 We should fight them to the last Ukrainian. I'll even throw in our vassal state of France.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:46 PM (X+Uhk)

238 Tell her when she is ready to ask, you will forgive her for being a zealot for evil causes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

239 Illinois is one of the states with an exclave. In fact the original state capital is there.

In the early days, the Mississippi-Ohio system was basically the only "road" into the area, so they put the capital on the river.

It shifted over time, and now the former state capital is on the Missouri side of the river.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:46 PM (W5ArC)

240 [Two-thirds of DNC staffers who were laid off] are begging online for money after wasting a billion dollars.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (aOqEy)

But first . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (gKWVE)

241 What is happening? I thought we were singing Christmas carols and sappy love songs?
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (p4NUW)

I blame A.H. Lloyd.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (QTCRF)

242 Russia got whooped by Poland between the World Wars.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:42 PM (X+Uhk)
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No, the Bolsheviks got turned back at Warsaw and both sides decided they had bigger fish to fry.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (ZOv7s)

243 Learn to pluck chickens.
Posted by: fd

My mom could do that. It came in handy when my brother hunted pheasants.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (0Htd1)

244 230 Wasn't some NATO general just today saying Europe needs to prepare to fight a war?

These people are psychotic.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (aOqEy)

Well Europe is useless and they can't. I don't get the desire to die so Zelensky can keep his embezzled money

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (2NXcZ)

245 Doof, thou art awesome.

Thy detractors art scurvy knaves!
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:43 PM (v6JzV)

It wasn't bad. The state flag thing brought some arrows my way.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (a40pN)

246 Do I
1. Reply with a point by point rebuttal with calm, well reasoned and referenced debunking of idiotic accusations. I really doubt it would make he slights impression and would be dismissed as Fox news propaganda, more evidence of my racism
2. Ignore and forget about it(most likely)
3. Spike the ball and torment her. Maybe send a Trump dance video (very tempting)
Posted by: Ripley

I would say Option 2 on that. It's the most low-cost option; you look like you're taking the high road, and preserve a bit of peace in the family, and it'll probably make her mad.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 25, 2024 10:48 PM (lHPJf)

247 245 Doof, thou art awesome.

Thy detractors art scurvy knaves!
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:43 PM (v6JzV)

It wasn't bad. The state flag thing brought some arrows my way.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024

That was me. Because the MD flag is hideous. 😊

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:48 PM (p4NUW)

248 Slather with butter and orange peel and drizzle some Cointreau on it while roasting…
Posted by: Adriane the Technically Incompetent Critic . . .

Best thing about cooking with booze, you drink whatever doesn't go into the recipe.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

249 I believe there's a town in Washington State at the southern end of a peninsula extending from British Columbia, so you can only reach it by ferry from Seattle or taking a land route through Canada.
Posted by: Dr. T

Point Roberts.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 10:48 PM (yYecZ)

250 It wasn't bad. The state flag thing brought some arrows my way.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (a40pN)

That was very entertaining. Kudos ! Unfortunately the crappiest states (CA) have the coolest flags...

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (QTCRF)

251 Do we all have to learn to pickleball under the new Doofinhiemer regime?
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 25, 2024 10:44 PM (+VovS)

You live near where it was invented!! I'm so jealous!!!!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (a40pN)

252 I must be slow tonight (heh) but I don't get the nutcracker.
Posted by: Ciampino

One of the first things I learned on AoS: If you don't know, don't ask, and fer sure don't websearch on it.

Part of the "don't ask" rule is that someone else probably will. Which in this case, I guess, is you.
Posted by: mindful webworker

Counterpoint: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (DgGvY)

253 Well Europe is useless and they can't. I don't get the desire to die so Zelensky can keep his embezzled money
Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (2NXcZ

I think it's where they get all their adrenochrome.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (aOqEy)

254 > No, the Bolsheviks got turned back at Warsaw and both sides decided they had bigger fish to fry.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (ZOv7s)

I know everyone was worn out by the carnage of WWI, but just think of how history would have been different if the West had curb stomped the Bolshies while they had a chance.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (W5ArC)

255 Option 2 Ripley

Options 1 and 3 will push her into a corner and come really unglued at you

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (2oLC8)

256 Russia is not going to lose to Ukraine. The whole thing only continues because of the grift.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (vFG9F)

257 "Last night's crew wasn't as friendly."
====

I'm an assh*le every night.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (RIvkX)

258 What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Cicero

Starmer and Macron want US boots on the ground
Posted by: long night ending, dawn

Sure. It'd be cheaper than all the other stuff we're sending them. As long as they don't want US feet in the boots.
Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 10:46 PM (DgGvY)

Which brand should we send? The cheapest, work boots, or fashionable boots?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (VNX3d)

259 Who gets Zombie Zelensky's yachts. You definitely don't want his piano.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:50 PM (X+Uhk)

260 Yup. The Russians are grinding it out and have been able to find enough men and equipment to keep going despite their losses.
They've taken back around 40% of the territory they lost in Kursk.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 25, 2024 10:50 PM (elaR+)

261 What is happening? I thought we were singing Christmas carols and sappy love songs?
Posted by: Piper

The Christmas Carol ration has been increased from 6 songs per ONT to 4 !!!!!!

Posted by: Adriane the Good Think Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 10:50 PM (TX4bP)

262 Walmart could supply the Brahmas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:50 PM (X+Uhk)

263 Bannon thinks all the people that went after Trump are gonna get pardoned by Biden.

That will be fine when the Truth and Reconciliation Committee calls them in to elocute on their crimes. They can't take the fifth and new perjury won't be pardoned.

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at November 25, 2024 10:51 PM (aD39U)

264 I blame A.H. Lloyd.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:47 PM (QTCRF)
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I blame Canada. Can anyone dispute me?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)

265 I think it's where they get all their adrenochrome.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (aOqEy)

I have no idea, but I do know that Singer, Gates, and Fink want those mineral rights. Even Lindsey Graham says that the Donbas is not something to give up. Lindsey you old poofter we are nearly on the last Ukrainian.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:51 PM (2NXcZ)

266 Point Roberts.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 10:48 PM (yYecZ)

I don't know if there is a ferry. Might not be enough users to make it pay. Maybe a water taxi to Blaine? I seem to remember many of the homes in Point Roberts are owned by Canadians as resort properties.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 10:51 PM (b8UC5)

267 Anyway, Goodnight , All.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:52 PM (v6JzV)

268 Which brand should we send? The cheapest, work boots, or fashionable boots?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (VNX3d)
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Given our current government, it will be Kinky Boots.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:52 PM (ZOv7s)

269 > That was very entertaining. Kudos ! Unfortunately the crappiest states (CA) have the coolest flags...
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (QTCRF)

Alaska has a pretty good flag (though I'm probably biased there). Arizona's is nice, as is South Carolina.

The shittiest flag, IMO, is Colorado. A kid with a copy of Microsoft Paint could do better than that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:52 PM (W5ArC)

270 The West could not stomp anything apparently, since the European West was a collection of rotting empires and colonialists. That brought death to tens of millions in WWI in the worst way possible. And the people were looking for something different. And fell into Communism.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:52 PM (QTCRF)

271 I have the feeling that this Soup of the Day would appeal to some of you.

Whiskey with H2O croutons.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:52 PM (VNX3d)

272 Night, Bulg!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (p4NUW)

273 Which brand should we send? The cheapest, work boots, or fashionable boots?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (VNX3d)

Those green things the English wear

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (2NXcZ)

274 I know everyone was worn out by the carnage of WWI, but just think of how history would have been different if the West had curb stomped the Bolshies while they had a chance.

Read The Ignorant Armies about the US Polar Bear division which was part of the Western intervention forces supporting the Whites at Murmansk until 1919. There are still lost Americans buried in Russian soil up there.

Then get back to me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (2oLC8)

275 How about wooden French boots. Sabotage.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (X+Uhk)

276 158 I must be slow tonight (heh) but I don't get the nutcracker.
Posted by: Ciampino - nuts and bolts at November 25, 2024 10:27 PM (i0xsb)

SNL. Justin Timberlake. D*ck in a box.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:30 PM (a40pN)
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Thanks to all who replied. Never ever watched SNL. Not familiar with the skit.
That box is too small for The Paolo.

Posted by: Ciampino - mixed nuts & assorted bolts at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (i0xsb)

277 > Which brand should we send? The cheapest, work boots, or fashionable boots?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (VNX3d)

Uggs.

Either that, or thigh-high stripper boots with six inch platforms.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (W5ArC)

278 CO flag is almost Warholian !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:54 PM (QTCRF)

279 You live near where it was invented!! I'm so jealous!!!!
Posted by: Doof

Talked to my son about getting you some insider news, he was like "The only thing I know about pickleball is we had to play it in gym, because it was invented here."

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 25, 2024 10:54 PM (+VovS)

280 I blame Canada. Can anyone dispute me?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)

Sounds good. And if the US is stupid enough to send soldiers, Canada will send us its migrants.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:54 PM (2NXcZ)

281 Those green things the English wear

Wellingtons Aka: Wellies. I think…

Posted by: Adriane these Boots are made for Walking in the Garden Mud Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 10:54 PM (TX4bP)

282 272 G’night, Piper!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:54 PM (v6JzV)

283 >>> 234 Now if Ukraine goes under what happens to the oligarchs' money? They bought the mineral rights in Donbas for nothing?
Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (2NXcZ)

We got farmland.

Posted by: BlackRock at November 25, 2024 10:55 PM (KcwUg)

284 Then get back to me.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (2oLC

There you go, reminding us that our fake Nato "allies" want to start a ground was with Russia in Winter.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (2NXcZ)

285 I know everyone was worn out by the carnage of WWI, but just think of how history would have been different if the West had curb stomped the Bolshies while they had a chance.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (W5ArC)
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That was the problem. The British Army was suffering from mutinies because the conscripted wanted to go home. Look up the US Polar Bear units.

To be honest, it's the prequel to where we are today - trying to fight a cheap, low-casualty war in the heart of Eurasia against people who really, really want to win.

The most pathetic part of the whole sordid affair are retired US generals chirpling like middle school mean girls. What the hell?! Demote them all.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (ZOv7s)

286 Speaking of Thanksgiving, I need to find two of my favorites to watch, the Charlie Brown thanksgiving special, and WKRP's Turkey Drop episode. Are there other shows or movies people watch on that day?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (VNX3d)

287 How about these boots?

https://tinyurl.com/bvyhz8dj

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (p4NUW)

288 260 Yup. The Russians are grinding it out and have been able to find enough men and equipment to keep going despite their losses.
They've taken back around 40% of the territory they lost in Kursk.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 25, 2024 10:50 PM (elaR+)

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You know who else lost Kursk to the Russians?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (hY4dx)

289 Read The Ignorant Armies about the US Polar Bear division which was part of the Western intervention forces supporting the Whites at Murmansk until 1919. There are still lost Americans buried in Russian soil up there.

Then get back to me.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (2oLC

Weren't there Americans in Vladivostok, too?

People forget why the Reds were so paranoid of the West. The Russians never forget shit like that, foreign armies in Mother Russia. And now NATO wants to play that game. Wonderful.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (gKDq2)

290 We got farmland.
Posted by: BlackRock at November 25, 2024 10:55 PM (KcwUg)

Won't be worth a penny after it's irradiated.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:57 PM (2NXcZ)

291 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. The Russians continue their relentless advance on the ground.
2. Things are heating up at the Kursk salient, as the Ukrainians throw drones and missiles into Russia. Courageous assault? Or desperate attempt to disrupt Russian logistics during a headlong retreat?
3. Today's rumor is the medium-range ballistic missile strike on that Ukrainian industrial complex last week was targeting a nuclear weapons workshop. Whatever it was, there is a suspicious silence about the damage done by a revolutionary weapons system.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 25, 2024 10:57 PM (c9fCQ)

292 Most Ukraine and Russian farmland is so unproductive that they never bothered to build connecting roads.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 10:57 PM (X+Uhk)

293 Then get back to me.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (2oLC

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There's a polar bear monument in one of Detroit's cemeteries. Lots of Michigan troops got sent there.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:57 PM (ZOv7s)

294 Rodrigo Borgia

More people died in the 5 years after Nov 11, 1918 than died in the entirety of WWI.

A lot of Russians and Balkans people did not make it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 10:58 PM (u82oZ)

295 I mean think about it, Wilhelm II, Franz-Jospeh, Nicholas II. That funny one from Bulgaria and Belgium. What could they have possibly have "stomped" .

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:58 PM (QTCRF)

296 > Are there other shows or movies people watch on that day?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (VNX3d)

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:58 PM (W5ArC)

297 The Western forces at Vladivostok did not engage in combat. The ones at Murmansk did; talking French, Canadian, British, and American forces.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 10:58 PM (2oLC8)

298 The most pathetic part of the whole sordid affair are retired US generals chirpling like middle school mean girls. What the hell?! Demote them all.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (ZOv7s)

Isn't that MacGregor's plan? Seems we have more 4 Stars now than in WWII.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:58 PM (2NXcZ)

299 " latitudinal jurisdiction." = government bureaucrats

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 10:58 PM (om3Wy)

300 The box would just have cracked nuts I guess.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2024 10:58 PM (Y6IkP)

301 Yup. The Russians are grinding it out and have been able to find enough men and equipment to keep going despite their losses.
They've taken back around 40% of the territory they lost in Kursk.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 25, 2024 10:50 PM (elaR+)

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You know who else lost Kursk to the Russians?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

The Russians never seem to be shy about trading bodies for territory.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 25, 2024 10:59 PM (+VovS)

302 I mean think about it, Wilhelm II, Franz-Jospeh, Nicholas II. That funny one from Bulgaria and Belgium. What could they have possibly have "stomped" .
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:58 PM (QTCRF)

Belgium did a pretty good job stomping the parts of Africa they controlled.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

303 Kursk was quite a hotspot during WWII. A bulge you know.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:01 PM (QTCRF)

304 Wasn't Old Canada the country that stood and applauded for Ukrainian Nazi who thrilled them by saying he fought against Russia in WWII?

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 11:01 PM (2NXcZ)

305 Belgium did a pretty good job stomping the parts of Africa they controlled.
Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

Congo.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:01 PM (QTCRF)

306 I mean think about it, Wilhelm II, Franz-Jospeh, Nicholas II. That funny one from Bulgaria and Belgium. What could they have possibly have "stomped" .
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:58 PM (QTCRF)
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Woodrow Wilson is history's greatest villain because he completely destroyed the last elements that held European society together - the traditional monarchies. Typical dipshit Ivy League professor decided he knew better than 1,000 years of European history and we've been picking up the pieces ever since.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:01 PM (ZOv7s)

307 Now if Ukraine goes under what happens to the oligarchs' money? They bought the mineral rights in Donbas for nothing?
Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:45 PM (2NXcZ)

The UK and probably the French or at least Brussels promised those lands, those minerals and that labor force to someone in return for the loans to Zelensky and the Ukrainians. The City of London banks got guarantees on the loans they issued, and Zelensky has defaulted. Because of the guarantees, the Exchequer is on the hook to the banks, which means Parliament is going to have to screw it out of the British taxpayer, which is what Starmer is apparently trying to do right now.
The big banking money people are thinking they can screw the money out of the taxpayers, since that is what they always did, but I am reminded of a time when the Knights Templar decided to call in debts against the French king to reconquer the Holy land, and wound up having their debt cancelled when the order was executed out of hand.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:03 PM (D7oie)

308 Wasn't Old Canada the country that stood and applauded for Ukrainian Nazi who thrilled them by saying he fought against Russia in WWII?
Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 11:01 PM (2NXcZ)
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The Uke Nazis played Canada for total saps. They got monuments put up with names of SS criminals on them, and did wreath-laying ceremonies and all sorts of shit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:03 PM (ZOv7s)

309 305 Belgium did a pretty good job stomping the parts of Africa they controlled.
Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

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It ruined Henry Morton Stanley's reputation.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 11:03 PM (hY4dx)

310 Democrat Megadonor Says the Way Kamala Harris Blew Through More Than a Billion Dollars 'Disqualifies Her Forever'

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 11:04 PM (GITLP)

311 My favorite little hiking area near there, actually closer to Pikes peak, is the crags. Fun geology, lots of bolder hopping opputunity, pretty scenic, mostly easy trails.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2024 11:04 PM (Y6IkP)

312 Exile - Kiss You All Over

Read that as Evil - Kiss You All Over, expecting more naked French women protesting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:04 PM (om3Wy)

313 We really should have stayed out of WW1. Let the Imperials sort it out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 11:04 PM (X+Uhk)

314 The Uke Nazis played Canada for total saps. They got monuments put up with names of SS criminals on them, and did wreath-laying ceremonies and all sorts of shit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:03 PM (ZOv7s)

Well, the Trudeau Liberals are total saps.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (b8UC5)

315 Walmart has kicked DEI to the curb and is getting rid of an unspecified number alphabet people targeted products such as chest binders. and just like that Christmas shopping became harder...LOLGF.

I fully expect Target to continue to behave as if promoting racism was an essential function of their business.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (vO42M)

316 Ripley,
I'd go with number 3. Or a compilation of liberal ladies having their blubbering meltdowns. My attitude is " you started it, so here you go." But as I've said before, my sister in law is very liberal, but she's decent enough to not bring up politics. So, I'm nice enough to not gloat.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (0Htd1)

317 Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:03 PM (D7oie)

So they're escalating the war to keep the loot.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (2NXcZ)

318 I saw the other day that the Brits are going to mothball both their carriers to save 500 million and then plan to give 3 billion to Ukraine, because they are insane.

Oh, and they're going to seize the farmland because the farmers are too dumb to know how to use it best.

Fricking communists.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (ZOv7s)

319 Posted by: Ripley
I would say Option 2 on that. It's the most low-cost option; you look like you're taking the high road, and preserve a bit of peace in the family, and it'll probably make her mad.
Posted by: Dr. T
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Another vote for Option 2.

This is how I deal with my own libtarded sister. (She hasn't contacted me since this election, however)

I'd looooovvvvee to do an Option 3 on her, but-- as long as she stays quiet, I won't. She went skizzo when I did Option 1 on her, over the covidscam.

Don't want to push her over the edge.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (njWTi)

320 Off to bed, I am 30 minutes past when I turn into a pumpkin.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (p4NUW)

321 Are we going to cry after monarchies now ? Us ? No thanks.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:06 PM (QTCRF)

322 Democrat Megadonor Says the Way Kamala Harris Blew Through More Than a Billion Dollars 'Disqualifies Her Forever'
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 11:04 PM (GITLP)

(pats dick)

My Billion Dollar baby!

Posted by: Willie Brown at November 25, 2024 11:06 PM (b8UC5)

323 313 We really should have stayed out of WW1. Let the Imperials sort it out.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 11:04 PM (X+Uhk)

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I'll never forgive Ulysses Grant for keeping us out of the Franco-Prussian War. That one was LIT.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 11:06 PM (hY4dx)

324 Germany F’d up the future world by returning Lenin to Russia.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:07 PM (D6PGr)

325 Oh, and they're going to seize the farmland because the farmers are too dumb to know how to use it best.

Fricking communists.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (ZOv7s)

A Holodomor for the UK?

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 11:07 PM (2NXcZ)

326 310 Democrat Megadonor Says the Way Kamala Harris Blew Through More Than a Billion Dollars 'Disqualifies Her Forever'
Posted by: SMOD
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She's blows everything she gets a hold of.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:07 PM (om3Wy)

327 Read that as Evil - Kiss You All Over, expecting more naked French women protesting.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:04 PM (om3Wy)
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You want lithe naked French chicks.
You'll accept normal naked French chicks.
You'll get American land whales.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:07 PM (ZOv7s)

328 >>> 318 I saw the other day that the Brits are going to mothball both their carriers to save 500 million and then plan to give 3 billion to Ukraine, because they are insane.

Oh, and they're going to seize the farmland because the farmers are too dumb to know how to use it best.

Fricking communists.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (ZOv7s)

Who had the Brits turning themselves into Zimbabwe on their 2025 bingo card???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 11:07 PM (KcwUg)

329 The British totally protected the Ukrainians of the 14th Waffen SS to serve as future spies and such.

But the Brits betrayed some 20,000 or so Cossack soldiers and civilians to the Soviets.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 11:07 PM (2oLC8)

330 The most pathetic part of the whole sordid affair are retired US generals chirpling like middle school mean girls. What the hell?! Demote them all.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (ZOv7s)

Last week the Pentagon wanted to promote the General who was in charge of our 'retreat' from Afghanistan.

A GOP Senator blocked that promotion...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 11:07 PM (QAkQ3)

331 The Brits don't have enough support ships for even one of their amphibious assault carriers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 11:08 PM (X+Uhk)

332 Woodrow Wilson is history's greatest villain because he completely destroyed the last elements that held European society together - the traditional monarchies. Typical dipshit Ivy League professor decided he knew better than 1,000 years of European history and we've been picking up the pieces ever since.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:01 PM (ZOv7s)

For me, he goes down as a great villain for being adamant about blaming Germany for the war; that Poison Ivy League superiority again. Set everything up for WWI Redux, but with an improved Wehrmacht and a Germany with a really nasty race war mentality. I always am grateful to the U.S. Senate at the time rejecting U.S. entry into Wilson's precious League of Nations. We forgot that lesson post-WWII.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:08 PM (gKDq2)

333 318 I saw the other day that the Brits are going to mothball both their carriers to save 500 million and then plan to give 3 billion to Ukraine, because they are insane

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So we'll get a couple of Marine Harrier squadrons back then?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 11:08 PM (VNX3d)

334 280 I blame Canada. Can anyone dispute me?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)

Sounds good. And if the US is stupid enough to send soldiers, Canada will send us its migrants.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 10:54 PM (2NXcZ)

I welcome your invasion!

Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 11:08 PM (jvJvP)

335 Green bean casserole is in the oven. We're having a family Thanksgiving tomorrow to accommodate work schedules, son-in-law big family get togethers, and my 1-month old first grandson.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2024 11:09 PM (Aqu9a)

336 January 20 can't come fast enough

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 11:09 PM (2NXcZ)

337 310 Democrat Megadonor Says the Way Kamala Harris Blew Through More Than a Billion Dollars 'Disqualifies Her Forever'
Posted by: SMOD

And yes, she was the one they wanted in charge of the US economy.

/facepalm

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 11:09 PM (QAkQ3)

338 >>> 336 January 20 can't come fast enough
Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 11:09 PM (2NXcZ)

8 weeks...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 11:09 PM (KcwUg)

339 Talking about the coming war in Europe, today, a commenter said he wants to see Germany when they cut welfare in order to build tanks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:10 PM (om3Wy)

340 Are we going to cry after monarchies now ? Us ? No thanks.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:06 PM (QTCRF)
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A regency council for Wilhelm II's grandson would have checkmated the Nazis. When the monarchy was swept aside there was nothing.

Similarly, breaking up the Dual Monarchy created a power vacuum that enabled German (and Italian) expansionism.

Good ol' Woodrow new jack shit about balance of power politics. He's the forerunner of today's moralistic imbeciles who think good intentions excuse everything.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:10 PM (ZOv7s)

341 Bannon thinks all the people that went after Trump are gonna get pardoned by Biden.

Like Jack Smith.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 10:08 PM (aOqEy)

If that doesn't show people the fix was in, nothing will.
Posted by: RickZ
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What the pardon for?
Well, we sort had, not really a coup-coup, just sort of took over the country and tried to kill the legitimate president several times...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)

342 Cicero

President Grant made the first foreign trip after he left office. He spent 2 years abroad. It was a very popular move in Europe.

All the great European generals of the time asked him at a conference: "Why did it take The Union so long to beat the Confederacy?"

He replied, "Because we were fighting Americans."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 11:10 PM (u82oZ)

343 Germany F’d up the future world by returning Lenin to Russia.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:07 PM (D6PGr)

Lenin would not have happen if Russia was doing great under the Romanovs. The last Romanov who made any kind of movement toward modernization and positive societal reforms was Alexander II. By 1905 everybody wanted a revolution, just not that particular outcome that came to be. There is a lesson in that.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:10 PM (QTCRF)

344 Around here half of the Walmart employees are those nail polish wearing fagolas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 11:11 PM (X+Uhk)

345 Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:08 PM (gKDq2)

We weren’t a signatory to the Versailles Treaty though Wilson wanted us to be.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:11 PM (D6PGr)

346 I know everyone was worn out by the carnage of WWI, but just think of how history would have been different if the West had curb stomped the Bolshies while they had a chance.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:49 PM (W5ArC)

Pilsudski tried

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:11 PM (D7oie)

347 Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:10 PM (QTCRF)

Lenin is who made it successful.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:12 PM (D6PGr)

348 DJ Doof - Yacht Rock Edition could easily double as Flashback Roller Rink Edition.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 11:12 PM (v8yjy)

349 Whoa, getting late. Fun discussion.

Come for the yacht rock, stay for the seminar on European history and geopolitics.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:12 PM (ZOv7s)

350 I can't decide which is pathetic. A politician who knows he or she is going to smoked a month out from an election and have to up appearances that win a sure thing or an NFL team that is behind by 4 touchdowns in the middle of the 4th quarter and has to play the game out.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 11:13 PM (vO42M)

351 The Harrier II is still in US service but in slowly dwindling numbers as the F-35 STOL enters service.

It was in 1987, that the seed of what would become the F-35 was first planted. It was intended to replace the AV-8A Harrier. Here we are in 2024 do we finally see the F-35.

The Harrier is no longer in British service, all of the GR7 and GR9 Harriers were ferried to Davis Monthan to serve as spare parts for all other users of the Harrier II.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 11:13 PM (2oLC8)

352 He replied, "Because we were fighting Americans."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 11:10 PM (u82oZ)

LOL

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 11:13 PM (hY4dx)

353 Have a great night, everyone.

May your night be peaceful.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 11:13 PM (u82oZ)

354 500 million for two British baby carriers?

Wonder if Musk wants to spend some pocket change.

Posted by: SimoHayha at November 25, 2024 11:14 PM (yf7Pm)

355 We're having a soft Jan 20. right now. Trump is naming positions and people are being vetted by the poiticos and the citizenry.
He's commanding the news cycle with his *appointments and I'm sure the DNC is like WTF?

*who's idea was it to put Cornyn in with the DODGE? WHY?

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:14 PM (om3Wy)

356 If Imperial Europe was still a thing in the 1970s that is what they jewelry rattlers would have been listening too.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 11:14 PM (vO42M)

357 Good ol' Woodrow new jack shit about balance of power politics. He's the forerunner of today's moralistic imbeciles who think good intentions excuse everything.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 11:10 PM (ZOv7s)

Wasn’t it the monarchy structure that caused most of Europes many many wars?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:15 PM (D6PGr)

358 Lenin is who made it successful.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:12 PM (D6PGr)

how ?

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:15 PM (QTCRF)

359 and now, in the Karma is a bitch category...

Fully Vax'd Vax Nazi Tedros, head of World Health Organization, is rushed to the Hospital with sudden onset HEART PROBLEMS.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 11:15 PM (QAkQ3)

360 How much are they?

Posted by: Elon Musk at November 25, 2024 11:15 PM (X+Uhk)

361 Come for the yacht rock, stay for the seminar on European history and geopolitics.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

It really is a nice Masters program,

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 25, 2024 11:15 PM (+VovS)

362 Lenin is who made it successful.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:12 PM (D6PGr)

how ?
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:15 PM (QTCRF)

Seriously?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:16 PM (D6PGr)

363 239 Illinois
It shifted over time, and now the former state capital is on the Missouri side of the river.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 10:46 PM (W5ArC)
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Kaskaskia then Vandalia then Springfield.
To which are you referring?

Posted by: Ciampino - Chicago is full of mixed nuts & assorted bolts at November 25, 2024 11:16 PM (i0xsb)

364 Are you guys playing Risk?

Posted by: Flounder at November 25, 2024 11:17 PM (Aqu9a)

365 Castle Risk.

Posted by: Elon Musk at November 25, 2024 11:17 PM (X+Uhk)

366 The Brits sure love them some subjugation. Must be genetic.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 11:18 PM (mH6SG)

367 Pilsudski tried
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:11 PM (D7oie)

A piece of History most people don't know about. For me, it's the main reason Uncle Joe was so eager to split Poland with the Nazis. Stalin was a vengeful bastard who never forgot. Plus he had Beria.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:18 PM (gKDq2)

368 So they're escalating the war to keep the loot.
Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 25, 2024 11:05 PM (2NXcZ)

You know that meme with the space guy in the suit with the Ohio state flag, shooting the space guy with the US flag?

Always has been

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:19 PM (D7oie)

369 Lenin knocked Russia out of the war.

Germany could move divisions to the Western Front. Where they would have faced a severely weakened French and British force.

But then Woodrow Wilson decided that the US finally had to join the fray.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 11:19 PM (2oLC8)

370 Are you guys playing Risk?

Attacking Kamchatka as I write this.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 11:20 PM (mH6SG)

371 They have good stuff over at the DM:

REVEALED: The exact amount of booze you can drink before your liver is 'irreversibly damaged'

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 11:20 PM (vFG9F)

372 Fully Vax'd Vax Nazi Tedros, head of World Health Organization, is rushed to the Hospital with sudden onset HEART PROBLEMS.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 11:15 PM (QAkQ3)

Did a search. Apparently out again, more's the pity.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 11:20 PM (b8UC5)

373 359 and now, in the Karma is a bitch category...

Fully Vax'd Vax Nazi Tedros, head of World Health Organization, is rushed to the Hospital with sudden onset HEART PROBLEMS.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 11:15 PM (QAkQ3)

He wasn’t supposed to take the real shot

Fuqing rookie

LOL

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 25, 2024 11:20 PM (TTAGa)

374 366 The Brits sure love them some subjugation. Must be genetic.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 11:18 PM (mH6SG)

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The English have an honorable history of standing up for themselves against tyranny.

It's shameful how far they've fallen.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 11:20 PM (hY4dx)

375 > Kaskaskia then Vandalia then Springfield.
To which are you referring?

Kaskaskia was the capital of the Illinois Territory, then (briefly) the first state capital when Illinois was admitted to the Union.

It's now on the other side of the Mississippi River.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2024 11:21 PM (W5ArC)

376 Seriously?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:16 PM (D6PGr)

My point is , he was part of a group. They moved it past February 1917 and the provisional government.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:21 PM (QTCRF)

377 Neither of the Kentucky Bend links work. Both come back with errors.

Posted by: Born Free at November 25, 2024 11:21 PM (raD1m)

378 Yeah, I think Germany would have won WWI except for Wilson.

They crushed the Allies with all the freed up troops from Russia after Lenin surrendered and were driving until they ran into Sgt. York and the doughboys. There's a reason Black Jack Pershing is one of the only 5 star generals.

Doesn't mean Wilson did a good job though.

Posted by: SimoHayha at November 25, 2024 11:21 PM (yf7Pm)

379 367 Pilsudski tried
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:11 PM (D7oie)

A piece of History most people don't know about. For me, it's the main reason Uncle Joe was so eager to split Poland with the Nazis. Stalin was a vengeful bastard who never forgot. Plus he had Beria.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:18 PM (gKDq2)

Coincidentally, I just finished watching "Death of Stalin" for the 4th or 5th time. Terrific. I'm still finding things I didn't notice before, making it better still.

Posted by: Gref at November 25, 2024 11:22 PM (aBgBM)

380 Doof! No longer are you the Padawan, and the Jedi Council must be alerted. Also, there's a pocket of land on the Western border of Mississippi and the Eastern border that has switched in ownership because the Mississippi River carved out some new territory and submerged others. The Corps of Engineers was able to regulate things somewhat, but next time you can, take a look at a current map of the territory of the two states, and you'll see Louisiana laying claim to areas of Mississippi, and vice versa. People have just gotten used to it.

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 25, 2024 11:22 PM (G6LTi)

381 The most pathetic part of the whole sordid affair are retired US generals chirpling like middle school mean girls. What the hell?! Demote them all.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (ZOv7s)

Isn't that MacGregor's plan? Seems we have more 4 Stars now than in WWII.
Posted by: long night ending, dawn
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The Academy Mafia looting the taxpayers via the Pentagon are worse than the Ivy League Cartel on coke raping corporate America.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 11:22 PM (/lPRQ)

382 The last Romanov (I think) commissioned a photographer to to travel Russia and photograph it and its people. It's a wonderful catalog which shows a healthy, happy and productive people and a beautiful land.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:22 PM (om3Wy)

383 The English have an honorable history of standing up for themselves against tyranny.

It's shameful how far they've fallen.

Post-1945, all bets were off.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 11:23 PM (mH6SG)

384 286 Speaking of Thanksgiving, I need to find two of my favorites to watch, the Charlie Brown thanksgiving special, and WKRP's Turkey Drop episode. Are there other shows or movies people watch on that day?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 10:56 PM (VNX3d)
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Since my Mom passed about ten years ago, it's been just my Dad and I at Thanksgiving (he lives here). Neither of us are sportsball guys, and watching a parade on TV sounds horrible, so we've made it a tradition to watch Three Stooges shorts all afternoon. The WKRP Turkey Drop episode is what finishes everything off before dinner.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at November 25, 2024 11:24 PM (QdGJh)

385 The Harrier II is still in US service but in slowly dwindling numbers as the F-35 STOL enters service.

It was in 1987, that the seed of what would become the F-35 was first planted. It was intended to replace the AV-8A Harrier. Here we are in 2024 do we finally see the F-35.

The Harrier is no longer in British service, all of the GR7 and GR9 Harriers were ferried to Davis Monthan to serve as spare parts for all other users of the Harrier II.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 11:13 PM (2oLC

I remember hearing that the HMS Queen Elizabeth has a US Marine squadron embarked, but I don't remember if they had Harriers of F-35s.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 11:24 PM (VNX3d)

386 My point is , he was part of a group. They moved it past February 1917 and the provisional government.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:21 PM (QTCRF)

He was not just part of a group. He was the founder and leader of the Bolsheviks.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:24 PM (D6PGr)

387 Where will all these armchair generals get soldiers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 11:25 PM (X+Uhk)

388 so we've made it a tradition to watch Three Stooges shorts all afternoon

Can't go wrong with that. Enjoy.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 11:25 PM (mH6SG)

389 Where will all these armchair generals get soldiers?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2024 11:25 PM (X+Uhk)

One word: Plastics!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (VNX3d)

390 The last Romanov (I think) commissioned a photographer to to travel Russia and photograph it and its people. It's a wonderful catalog which shows a healthy, happy and productive people and a beautiful land.

==

I'd be shocked that a commission of the Romanov's would show anything other than ! Did he include any Potemkin villages ?

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (QTCRF)

391 The last Romanov (I think) commissioned a photographer to to travel Russia and photograph it and its people. It's a wonderful catalog which shows a healthy, happy and productive people and a beautiful land.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:22 PM (om3Wy)

There was a Russian in that era who invented a process for color photography, IIRC.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (b8UC5)

392 Post-1945, all bets were off.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 11:23 PM (mH6SG)

Churchill lost the election in '45, after the war. Says a lot.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (gKDq2)

393 Yacht Rock Classics

Bread - Everything I Own
https://youtu.be/AeadLurGR1U

Air Supply - All Out Of Love
https://youtu.be/JWdZEumNRmI

Looking Glass - Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
https://youtu.be/mTqTE7aNjZQ

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (vO42M)

394 Lenin was the leader, he had the contacts. And the Germans gave him the gold to hire goons and do other things to win.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (2oLC8)

395 He was not just part of a group. He was the founder and leader of the Bolsheviks.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:24 PM (D6PGr)

Are you aware of any other names than Lenin ?

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (QTCRF)

396 >>> 359 and now, in the Karma is a bitch category...

Fully Vax'd Vax Nazi Tedros, head of World Health Organization, is rushed to the Hospital with sudden onset HEART PROBLEMS.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 11:15 PM (QAkQ3)

HA HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (KcwUg)

397 I'm rewatching Bones.
Season 4, which was released in 2008-09, has an episode about a transgender.
Iirc NCIS had. Trans ep around that time, maybe.
When did Hollywood start pushing the transgender agenda?
Who started it?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 11:27 PM (WL2lA)

398 Germans were certainly interested in the Russian revolution. So much so, that they missed one of their own.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:28 PM (QTCRF)

399 Ruski color pics 1905 - 1915

https://is.gd/AJDWIW

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 11:29 PM (vO42M)

400 Churchill lost the election in '45, after the war. Says a lot.

Thatcher tried to right the ship but it wasn't to be. The Brits wanted their free shit. Same as here in America.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 11:29 PM (mH6SG)

401 Rarely is there only one man that moves destiny. I guess Napoleon can be considered one.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:29 PM (QTCRF)

402 I share the conventional wisdom about Versailles:

The Allies imposed a harsh peace but didn't have any appetite for enforcing it. Public opinion had moved toward pacifism in the UK & France, and isolationism in the U.S.

Falling between 2 chairs.

Posted by: mnw at November 25, 2024 11:30 PM (NLIak)

403 One of the stokers aboard the commerce raider Wolf went full radical communist during the Great War.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 11:31 PM (2oLC8)

404 >>> 397 I'm rewatching Bones.
Season 4, which was released in 2008-09, has an episode about a transgender.
Iirc NCIS had. Trans ep around that time, maybe.
When did Hollywood start pushing the transgender agenda?
Who started it?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 11:27 PM (WL2lA)

fatass Pritzker and family in IL are big bucks in that mess; istr things getting really crazy around 2016 ish.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 11:31 PM (KcwUg)

405 @397, there had to be a tranny CSI episode in there somewhere. Does Dax from DS9 count?

Posted by: Scarymary at November 25, 2024 11:31 PM (K1HkL)

406 Air Supply - All Out Of Love

Ouch.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 11:31 PM (mH6SG)

407 ==

I'd be shocked that a commission of the Romanov's would show anything other than ! Did he include any Potemkin villages ?
Posted by: runner
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As I remember it, it was mostly countryside, farmers, field workers, rural type of thing and villages. Very warm and pleasant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:33 PM (om3Wy)

408 People always play this game, "if only so and so could have been taken out, the history would have been changed 180 degrees ! ...If only this or that did not happen..." I don't subscribe. If not that , then something else, would arrive at the same point, just by different means.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:33 PM (QTCRF)

409 Are you aware of any other names than Lenin ?
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (QTCRF)

Sure, plenty. But without Lenin and his charisma, the only other revolutionary who might have pulled it off was Trotsky. Stalin was a nobody in 1917. Though Trotsky was efficient at organizing the Red Army, he didn't have the 'it' factor that Lenin had. With Trotsky, there probably would have been a power struggle much earlier, again with Stalin out of the picture. People like Derzhinsky or Tomsky, Rykov, etc. Who knows? Pure speculation. Lenin was the real deal, though, and proved it. His legacy of misery lasted 80 years.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:34 PM (gKDq2)

410 A piece of History most people don't know about. For me, it's the main reason Uncle Joe was so eager to split Poland with the Nazis. Stalin was a vengeful bastard who never forgot. Plus he had Beria.
Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:18 PM (gKDq2)

I do wonder if Englands "staunch support" of the Poles was merely a play to block France's influence away from the area by breaking the Franco-Polish alliance, which would support the reason the UK dropped them like a hot rock at the end of the war, when the USSR marched in.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:35 PM (D7oie)

411 I'm out. Got home a few hours ago. Eating my low fiber dinner (banana, bbq chicken, white rice, water). Will add some mushy low-fiber veggies to it tomorrow. One antibiotic I'm on shouldn't be taken to close to having milk products, so I'm eschewing them (even yogurt) for now, as I took that antibiotic a half hour ago.

Paid some bills, got tired, so rested for a half-hour before prepping my dinner and coming here. Once I'm done eating I'm going to bed. Tired.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:36 PM (ynpvh)

412 Now is the time for all mindful webworkers to go to the bed of their slumber.

Here: Not this guy's best song, but seasonally appropriate, sorta.
https://youtu.be/Wp4qWnpGar0

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - turkey and mashed potatoes pizza???? at November 25, 2024 11:36 PM (/PK5H)

413 Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:34 PM (gKDq2)

Trotsky voluntarily downplayed his role because his concern being Jewish would effect the movement negatively.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:36 PM (D6PGr)

414 "If not that , then something else, would arrive at the same point, just by different means.
Posted by: runner"

God could have found another Moses.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 11:37 PM (vFG9F)

415 Are you aware of any other names than Lenin ?
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (QTCRF)

Paul and Ringo?

Posted by: Abby rode at November 25, 2024 11:37 PM (vukk5)

416 Trotsky voluntarily downplayed his role because his concern being Jewish would effect the movement negatively.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:36 PM (D6PGr)

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The man had ice in his veins.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 11:38 PM (hY4dx)

417 90 Kentucky Island.

Where they play yachtrockbluegrass.

Y'all mellow out to these heah tunes or Cletus there is gonna part yo' hair with that thar Ar Kansas toothpick.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 10:14 PM (Xo+UM)

Hey, Jim. You've got (e)mail.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:38 PM (ynpvh)

418 I do wonder if Englands "staunch support" of the Poles was merely a play to block France's influence away from the area by breaking the Franco-Polish alliance, which would support the reason the UK dropped them like a hot rock at the end of the war, when the USSR marched in.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:35 PM (D7oie)

There were a lot of shameful things in WWII but the way the Poles were treated by all sides was particularly shameful.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:38 PM (gKDq2)

419 Hi Jim in K. Glad you are back home.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 11:38 PM (vFG9F)

420 Nah, ice pick in the temple.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 11:38 PM (2oLC8)

421 @409, the opposite is true. Lenin without Molotov, Trotsky, Sverdlov ?

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:39 PM (QTCRF)

422 Night, all. Dinner's eaten.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:39 PM (ynpvh)

423 Nah, ice pick in the temple.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Thought it was several self inflicted blows with an ice ax.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 25, 2024 11:41 PM (+VovS)

424 Basketball?

Lennie Wirtz was the Hawaiian Judge of ACC basketball refs.

Posted by: Miklos, Dukie by inheritance at November 25, 2024 11:42 PM (+w4kg)

425 @414 you are talking about Prophets. That is why they are Prophets - kinda unique. I am talking about men.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:42 PM (QTCRF)

426 Nah, ice pick in the temple.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Your Clue boardgame was more hardcore than mine.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 11:44 PM (DgGvY)

427 Nah, ice pick in the temple.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 11:38 PM (2oLC

Ice axe. Ramón Mercader let all that ice out.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:44 PM (D7oie)

428 Trotsky voluntarily downplayed his role because his concern being Jewish would effect the movement negatively.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:36 PM (D6PGr)

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The man had ice in his veins.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 11:38 PM (hY4dx)

That's cold. Though he was willing to sacrifice.

Posted by: Foreigner at November 25, 2024 11:44 PM (Aqu9a)

429 ...Attacking Kamchatka as I write this. Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 11:20 PM (mH6SG)

Sheize thuh one lidd...one litter...ONE LITER boddle in a punch...pin...pinnncher movement. It'll never gno whud hit id ! *burrrrrpppp*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 11:44 PM (Xo+UM)

430 fatass Pritzker and family in IL are big bucks in that mess; istr things getting really crazy around 2016 ish.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

I can imagine Trump using the term "Fatass Pritzker"

Bigly

Posted by: Miklos thinks Trump will do that at November 25, 2024 11:45 PM (+w4kg)

431 you are talking about Prophets. That is why they are Prophets - kinda unique. I am talking about men.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:42 PM (QTCRF)

A lot of the evil in the world today can be traced to non-profits.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 11:47 PM (b8UC5)

432 Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim

*pours Bourbon*

*prays for Jim*

*sees no contradiction*

Posted by: Miklos at November 25, 2024 11:48 PM (+w4kg)

433 the opposite is true. Lenin without Molotov, Trotsky, Sverdlov ?
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:39 PM (QTCRF)

Only understanding film clips and the writings of those who experienced Lenin in person, it's something we have a hard time understanding today. It was his power of oratory. Same as Hitler. Would there have been a Nazi Party without Hitler? Sure, there already was one which Hitler joined. But it would not have been the same Nazi Party? Who knows if a Goebbels or a Himmler would have made the cut in a different Nazi government, if one took over. Goering? Probably being a military hero and all. But it was Hitler, just like Lenin, who brought it all together. It's a skill/luck few people have, being true revolutionaries. Most play-act.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:49 PM (gKDq2)

434 The man had ice in his veins.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 11:38 PM (hY4dx)

His TikTok likes have spiked

Posted by: Miklos notes at November 25, 2024 11:49 PM (+w4kg)

435 Nah, ice pick in the temple.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Your Clue boardgame was more hardcore than mine.
Posted by: mikeski

Stratego

Required for admission at Georgetown School of International Relations.

Posted by: Emeritus Prof. Miklos at November 25, 2024 11:52 PM (+w4kg)

436 I do wonder if Englands "staunch support" of the Poles was merely a play to block France's influence away from the area by breaking the Franco-Polish alliance, which would support the reason the UK dropped them like a hot rock at the end of the war, when the USSR marched in.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Sentiment for Poland helping the Brits against Napoleon?

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:53 PM (om3Wy)

437 Talking of Illinois, EEOC sues employer, alleges transgender employees were subjected to harassment at Carbondale Wendy's

https://tinyurl.com/34t7tsb8

Posted by: Ciampino - Chicago is full of mixed nuts at November 25, 2024 11:54 PM (i0xsb)

438 A lot of the evil in the world today can be traced to non-profits.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

I once saw a casette of Tallis' labeled, 'The Lamentaions of Jeremiah the Profit'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 11:54 PM (XeU6L)

439 *cassette

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 11:54 PM (XeU6L)

440 Ceasefire in Lebanon will be announced tomorrow, looks like.

I assume Israel has this covered. The Biden regime applied a ton of pressure on Israel to do this.

Posted by: mnw at November 25, 2024 11:55 PM (NLIak)

441 None of this is about me.

Posted by: A bullfrog at November 25, 2024 11:55 PM (XeU6L)

442 Life after the lab: Patched-up Violet the hound was used as surgery practice, while cats Delilah an…

https://mol.im/a/11559631

Posted by: Ciampino - rescues at November 25, 2024 11:55 PM (i0xsb)

443 "If not that , then something else, would arrive at the same point, just by different means.
Posted by: runner

" If I hadn't done it, somebody else would have"

Something evil George Soros (not his real name) has repeatedly said

Posted by: Miklos knows and remembers at November 25, 2024 11:56 PM (+w4kg)

444 and the Mexicans claim that Trotsky actually died from a stroke on the day following Mercader's attack

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:57 PM (D7oie)

445 Doof, you've got a real knack for this ONT thing. Excellent! I'm most amazed by the Asian dude painting with a q tip on dirty cars.

Posted by: keena at November 25, 2024 11:57 PM (t1fZA)

446 Are you saying runner that another Trump would have arisen?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 11:58 PM (vFG9F)

447 Beloved pastor killed by illegal migrant driving without a license in Detroit

https://mol.im/a/14124889

I would say that if the vehicle was not his then owner should be also charged.

Posted by: Ciampino - make sure he's marked for hard labor at November 25, 2024 11:58 PM (i0xsb)

448 Talking of Illinois, EEOC sues employer, alleges transgender employees were subjected to harassment at Carbondale Wendy's

Posted by: Ciampino - Chicago is full of mixed nuts at November 25, 2024 11:54 PM (i0xsb)

A case like this is why getting good judges on Federal courts across the country is so important. That was the only good thing The Turtle did during Trump's first term: He was a conveyer belt when it came to getting Federal judges approved.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 11:58 PM (gKDq2)

449 Paid some bills, got tired, so rested for a half-hour before prepping my dinner and coming here. Once I'm done eating I'm going to bed. Tired.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

It will be the best rest ever, when it's in your own bed.

Sleep well. Awaken blessed and happy to see another day.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 11:58 PM (FVv6s)

450 *cassette
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Find a mechanic or HVAC guy who is this precise on getting it right.

Posted by: Hints from Heloise and Miklos at November 25, 2024 11:59 PM (+w4kg)

451 More than oops:
Panic in space as astronauts on NASA's ISS report 'toxic smell' and 'contamination hazard

https://mol.im/a/14124827

Posted by: Ciampino - rescue mission? at November 26, 2024 12:01 AM (i0xsb)

452 Sentiment for Poland helping the Brits against Napoleon?
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 11:53 PM (om3Wy)

Not a clue, but the Poles had developed a Franco-Polish relationship in the 20's which would have gone a bit to create a block in central Europe, which the Brits felt was essential for controlling Eurasia; west of the Urals was a good path from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and that would have been a barrier to Russia and isolated the Balkans. After the war that is what Stalin wanted and wound up with.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2024 12:01 AM (D7oie)

453 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR NOVEMBER 25

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-76
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: November 25, 2024 ET
New T-Zero: November 26, 1:08 a.m ET, 0608 UTC, 07:08 CET.

https://www.youtube.com/live/lrOqfA5Ni7o

Posted by: Ciampino - rescue mission? at November 26, 2024 12:02 AM (i0xsb)

454 Whatever happened to Insomniac? He used to post here like crazy.

He is/was a lawyer who hated his chosen field.

Posted by: mnw at November 26, 2024 12:02 AM (NLIak)

455 Are you saying runner that another Trump would have arisen?
Posted by: fd

Trump isn't even the first Trump. Just the best one. Ross Perot was gonna fix the government for us, too.

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2024 12:02 AM (DgGvY)

456 None of this is about me.
Posted by: A bullfrog at November 25, 2024 11:55 PM (XeU6L)

*consumes some Mighty fine Wine*

Posted by: Miklos will hit you back, when circumstances allow at November 26, 2024 12:02 AM (+w4kg)

457 Nah, ice pick in the temple.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Thought it was several self inflicted blows with an ice ax.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat
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Heh. Stay with it...

youtube.com/watch?v=0XoRUurNbzU&t=208s

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 12:03 AM (njWTi)

458 More than oops:
Panic in space as astronauts on NASA's ISS report 'toxic smell' and 'contamination hazard

https://mol.im/a/14124827
Posted by: Ciampino - rescue mission?

===

Are those two still stuck up there?

Be something if they all get rescued but the two stranded by Boeing

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 26, 2024 12:04 AM (/lPRQ)

459 BREAKING

Federal Judge declares Electoral College tally "Impermissible" Harris will be President

Posted by: Miklos just trying to get this thing to 1000 at November 26, 2024 12:07 AM (+w4kg)

460 Parents slam Netflix's Spellbound for inappropriate divorce theme

https://mol.im/a/14124969

Posted by: Ciampino - as are so many families at November 26, 2024 12:07 AM (i0xsb)

461 McDonald's fans shocked to learn about key menu addition in Europe: 'I wish America could do this' -- it's beer!

https://mol.im/a/14124487

Posted by: Ciampino - Shocked? More like jealous. at November 26, 2024 12:09 AM (i0xsb)

462 *consumes some Mighty fine Wine*
Posted by: Miklos will hit you back
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But... did you ever understand a single word?

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 12:09 AM (njWTi)

463 MSNBC employee reveals he is 'conflicted' over openly gay Trump Treasury pick Scott Bessent

https://mol.im/a/14123497

Posted by: Ciampino - Bigot? at November 26, 2024 12:11 AM (i0xsb)

464 The little kids in our neighborhood just *loved* that song! Haha, they would sing it all the time...

"Jeremiah was a bullfrog!!!!" LOL every time I think of it!

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 12:12 AM (njWTi)

465 But... did you ever understand a single word?
Posted by: JQ

Wine has a vocabulary of its own.

Posted by: Miklosious ordered serving of the unmixed wine at November 26, 2024 12:12 AM (+w4kg)

466 449 Paid some bills, got tired, so rested for a half-hour before prepping my dinner and coming here. Once I'm done eating I'm going to bed. Tired.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia
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Jim (not in the hospital in Kalifornia) Very good. See, stay away from those night nurses and you heal up faster.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 12:12 AM (om3Wy)

467 youtube.com/watch?v=EVcpKjXYa5c

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 12:13 AM (njWTi)

468 Today's adventure in American business practices was getting a box from Amazon. The box had the sneakers I had ordered, inside a plastic bag, with a return tag on them. Inside one of the shoes was a handwritten note, saying they were returning them because they were showing excessive wear after only being worn for three weeks.
Needless to say, I had a return request sent in minutes.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 26, 2024 12:14 AM (c9fCQ)

469 Whatever happened to Insomniac? He used to post here like crazy.

He is/was a lawyer who hated his chosen field.
Posted by: mnw

Including, but limited to, his chosen field.

Posted by: Legal edits by Miklos at November 26, 2024 12:14 AM (+w4kg)

470 That giant nutcracker is nightmare fuel. I hate those fucking things.
Fun Fact! My dad liked that type of nutcracker and had a big collection of them. He put them out at Christmas every year. They were stationed on a high shelf. High enough that someone had to stand on barstools to put them in place. And that someone had to walk on several barstools to get them all lined up on the shelf. Dad knew I didn't like the creepy fuckers and always, as in EVERY YEAR, expected ME to put them on the shelf. There were other people in the room. People who were unwrapping the nutcracker brigade, people handing them up to me, people who said stupid shit like "hey mayhem, you're doing that without a net!" But did they have to walk around on barstools setting creepy fucking nutcracker on a shelf every December and then walk around on barstools to take the damned things down in January? No. No they did not. They refused to do it because they said "it's her job".
And Pappymayhem laughed his ass off about it.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 26, 2024 12:15 AM (4XwPj)

471 Another oops!
Woman who performed Nazi salute at protest, is unmasked as owner of cafés inside Jewish hospital

https://mol.im/a/14123417

Posted by: Ciampino - tire iron? at November 26, 2024 12:16 AM (i0xsb)

472 Miss Dixie says bed time.

More often than not, doggie is right.

Posted by: Bon Soir by Miklos at November 26, 2024 12:18 AM (+w4kg)

473 The box had the sneakers I had ordered, inside a plastic bag, with a return tag on them. Inside one of the shoes was a handwritten note, saying they were returning them because they were showing excessive wear after only being worn for three weeks.
Needless to say, I had a return request sent in minutes.

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So you missed the chance to walk a mile in another man's shoes?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2024 12:18 AM (hY4dx)

474 Dang, Madame Mayhem, that was just mean-spirited of your dad!

Fwiw, I don't like the things either. Not creepy to me, but merely ugly.

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 12:19 AM (njWTi)

475 A Turkish official taunting starving Armenians with bread, 1915

https://tinyurl.com/y9yya87m

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 12:19 AM (om3Wy)

476 Blinken mocked for hosting State Department 'cry sessions' after officials have 'personal meltdown' (on our dime!!)

https://mol.im/a/14121533

Posted by: Ciampino - tire irons? at November 26, 2024 12:19 AM (i0xsb)

477 ...Woman who performed Nazi salute...
-------

The "black power salute" is just a notsee salute with closed fist.

They mean the SAME THING.

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 12:21 AM (njWTi)

478 French women protesting because they all have small areola.

https://tinyurl.com/42faz6pa

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 12:22 AM (om3Wy)

479 > 415 Are you aware of any other names than Lenin ?
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 11:26 PM (QTCRF)

Paul and Ringo?
Posted by: Abby rode at November 25, 2024 11:37 PM (vukk5)

I think there were Marx Brothers and Lenin Sisters in there somewhere?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2024 12:22 AM (W5ArC)

480 Rand Paul's plans scorched earth move against Denver mayor who plans to stop mass deportations

https://mol.im/a/14121685

Posted by: Ciampino - cattle cars? at November 26, 2024 12:22 AM (i0xsb)

481 Ripley, I'm cutrently in your situation. I'd start with #2, and if they push it further, you'll have to decide on what percentage from column one and what percentage of column 3.

The problem is that you can spout all the facts you want, their brains are in a place of pure emotion. Refuting things point by point won't change their mind. When my sibling spouted the "good people on both sides" misinformation as fact, I knew even if I played the whole speech, they'd dismiss it and move on to the next disinformation. TDS is a powerful drug. Sorry that it's so rough.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 26, 2024 12:22 AM (wcIbG)

482 Privacy expert sounds alarm over new Apple feature: 'It accesses your banking apps'

https://mol.im/a/14116209

Posted by: Ciampino - if you like Apple at November 26, 2024 12:23 AM (i0xsb)

483 > 478 French women protesting because they all have small areola.

https://tinyurl.com/42faz6pa
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 12:22 AM (om3Wy)

Hey, there were actually a couple of halfway bangable ones. How did that happen?

I think I mentioned before that I once went to a "Slut Walk" because the event was described as featuring naked sluts (and you didn't even need any dollar bills).

Wow, was that a mistake.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2024 12:24 AM (W5ArC)

484 469

Not quite sure what your edit means.

My take on Insom was that he was severely depressed, hated practicing law, & was involuntarily unemployed.

Surprisingly, given all that, he was funny.

Posted by: mnw at November 26, 2024 12:25 AM (NLIak)

485 Tonight's launch
New T-Zero: 2:02 a.m ET, 0702 UTC, 08:02 CET

Posted by: Ciampino - if you like rockets at November 26, 2024 12:25 AM (i0xsb)

486 French women protesting because they all have small areola.

https://tinyurl.com/42faz6pa
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 12:22 AM (om3Wy)

LOL

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 26, 2024 12:27 AM (Aqu9a)

487 Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 12:19 AM (njWTi)

Nah, JQ. Pappymayhem didn't have a mean bone in his body. He just thought it was funny that I kept swearing at inanimate objects instead of swearing at my him. After he passed away, my brothers, Thing one and Thing two and I had to divide up all the Christmas decor. Hubbymayhem kept some of the nutcracker brigade! I threatened divorce but Hubbymayhem laughed and said " look on the bright side... You won't have to climb to set them out at Christmas! " He likes them and likes that they were dad's.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 26, 2024 12:28 AM (4XwPj)

488 I am so torn on Spellbound. It's a Lasseter movie. I want it to do well and be good, to stick it to Disney for firing him for hugs. But it stars Zegler. I want all of her work to fail and become box office poison. I'm torn.

A movie about parents splitting up could be cathartic. It's a very real, painful experience for many kids. I trust the storyteller. But that doesn't mean it's good. Not sure if I'll see it in theaters or not.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 26, 2024 12:32 AM (wcIbG)

489 >>>'To provide a customized experience, Apple Intelligence uses information on your device, including across your apps.'
---

Tim Cook is all up into your stuff. He wants to help you. He wants to know all about you. He's a pervert. I've got everything turned off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 12:33 AM (om3Wy)

490 Would there have been a Nazi Party without Hitler? Sure, there already was one which Hitler joined. But it would not have been the same Nazi Party?

NSDAP wasn't going anywhere without Adolf. The entire Nazi party apparatus was nothing more than an extension of Hitler. Goebbels was a loud-mouth whom nobody really liked and all Goering wanted was fun, fame, fabulous babes, furs, and morphine. Heck, he'd've joined a Jewish party (absent the NSDAP) if they promised him that.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 26, 2024 12:34 AM (KAi1n)

491 Humans are using too much groundwater causing the Earth to tilt an additional 31.5°. Everybody panic.

Old Hotness: Global Warming
Morphed Hotness: Climate Change
New Hotness: Global Tilt

https://is.gd/7iL2ao

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 12:34 AM (vO42M)

492 Send flowers and wish her well.
Posted by: Piper

Ripley, on the card write "sorry for your loss "

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 26, 2024 12:37 AM (J5RCE)

493 Humans are using too much groundwater causing the Earth to tilt an additional 31.5°. Everybody panic.

Old Hotness: Global Warming
Morphed Hotness: Climate Change
New Hotness: Global Tilt

https://is.gd/7iL2ao
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 12:34 AM (vO42M)

Just more Klimate Scam bullshit. Plate tectonics likely has a far great effect. Entire continents moving at one millimeter per year.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2024 12:40 AM (b8UC5)

494 >>> MSNBC employee reveals he is 'conflicted' over openly gay Trump Treasury pick Scott Bessent. https://mol.im/a/14123497

His silver fox hair is impeccable. Anderson Cooper hardest hit. The article says Bessent used to work for Soros. Would he be a secret mole for evil? Or know where the bodies are buried?

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 26, 2024 12:41 AM (wcIbG)

495 New Hotness: Global Tilt

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 12:34 AM (vO42M)

Didn't play a mean pinball.

Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2024 12:41 AM (gKDq2)

496 JOYYYYY TO THE WOOOOORLD
ALLLL THE BOYS AND GIRLS
JOY TO THE FISHES IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA
JOY TO YOU AND ME

Posted by: pookysgirl once killed a boss frog named Jeremiah at November 26, 2024 12:46 AM (dtlDP)

497 491 Humans are using too much groundwater causing the Earth to tilt an additional 31.5°. Everybody panic.

Old Hotness: Global Warming
Morphed Hotness: Climate Change
New Hotness: Global Tilt

https://is.gd/7iL2ao
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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What worries me is the speed that magnetic north is traveling toward Siberia. If it keeps on going we may have a magnetic shift in the poles (it's happened before) and our electronics, maybe even us will be por cacada.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 12:51 AM (om3Wy)

498 Willowed:

41 Can we count Lorenz’s rings to determine her age?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 06:14 PM (PCK5/)

It seems like she's never been married. No rings to sell.

Posted by: NC Ref at November 26, 2024 12:53 AM (jCS2/)

499 JEREMIAH IS A BULLFROG!
STILL A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE!
GOT CAUGHT UP BY A BUSY FRENCH CHEF
HIS LEGS WERE SAUTEED IN WINE.
SAUTEED IN BUTTER AND WINE.

WHEEEELCHAIRS FOR THE FROGS
MOSTLY, MUZ AND WOGS.
HANDICAPPED PLACARDS FOR THE TOADS AND THE FROGS.

CUISINE, FOR YOU AND ME.
A MIGHTY FINE PLATE TO SEE!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 26, 2024 12:53 AM (Xo+UM)

500 It's been fun. Ya'll have a good evening and a nice night.
See you in the morning. 'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 12:54 AM (om3Wy)

501 Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what Moltov tasted of desire
He holds with those who favor fire.
But if Trotsky had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 26, 2024 01:03 AM (lhenN)

502 SpaceX launch moved
New T-Zero: November 26, 10:05 p.m. ET / November 27, 0305 UTC, 04:05 CET.

Posted by: Ciampino - if you like rockets ... at November 26, 2024 01:05 AM (i0xsb)

503 The earth's tilt, ~23 degrees, has a wobble to it. This affects the albedo and so makes ice ages occur regularly every ~125k years.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 26, 2024 01:08 AM (lhenN)

504 Stopping in to see the Horde. My goodness, this Thanksgiving prep gets more exhausting every year.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 26, 2024 01:09 AM (Sgq8y)

505 Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 26, 2024 12:28 AM
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Ah. Okay, I 'get it' now. LOL!

Nice that your hubby appreciates the history, too, hahaha.

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 01:11 AM (njWTi)

506 Hi, Debby!

Just think... you won't need to do all that prep next year!

What a blessing!

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 01:13 AM (njWTi)

507 Democrats spark outrage with desperate fundraising ploy for layoffs

https://mol.im/a/14125425

Get some money back from those celebrities. Have those same people and rich donors (Soros?) put money in the kitty.

Posted by: Ciampino - Before the election they tauntd on funds raised at November 26, 2024 01:14 AM (i0xsb)

508 https://is.gd/7iL2ao
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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"Believe it or not, something as seemingly insignificant as our water usage can cause Earth’s physical orientation to deviate."

HAHAHAHAHA.... I believe... NOT!!!

LMAO, they just can't help themselves with that BS.

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 01:18 AM (njWTi)

509 Humans are using too much groundwater causing the Earth to tilt an additional 31.5°. Everybody panic.

Old Hotness: Global Warming
Morphed Hotness: Climate Change
New Hotness: Global Tilt

https://is.gd/7iL2ao

Reduce the human population to more manageable levels! Say, a 75% reduction. It's for your own good, Global Citizen.

Posted by: WEF is Jonestown Global at November 26, 2024 01:18 AM (sAmhv)

510
181 Lib sister recently sent me a hate email about election.
(...)
I gave up on her years ago or any hope of having a good relationship again but was consider responding.

- - - - - -

Do the Dennis Miller approach: Agree with her ("You may have something there") then steer away to other non-political topics. It defuses the arguments they want to have

Posted by: As not seen on TV at November 26, 2024 01:19 AM (Ajfy/)

511 The reduction of water in the earth is also devasting to the Sleestak population.

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE SLEESTAK'S!!!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 26, 2024 01:25 AM (sAmhv)

512 Missing Hannah Kobayashi's father is found dead at LAX after flying in to help find her

https://mol.im/a/14122417

Posted by: Ciampino - mystery at November 26, 2024 01:30 AM (i0xsb)

513 Top Democrat makes admission about Republican party's reputation

https://mol.im/a/14120247

Posted by: Ciampino - DM is so vague at November 26, 2024 01:32 AM (i0xsb)

514 ...Missing Hannah Kobayashi's father is found dead at LAX after flying in to help find her. https://mol.im/a/14122417 Posted by: Ciampino - mystery at November 26, 2024 01:30 AM (i0xsb)

He was Maru - ooned?

*denounces hisself, shuffles away*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 26, 2024 01:35 AM (Xo+UM)

515 Somebody's lib sister needs to get a life. Kam blew a billion dollars and actually went into debt. For NOTHING! And then goes on a VACATION in Hawaii. And sis is pissed because she didn't win? You can't fix stupid!

Posted by: Case at November 26, 2024 01:35 AM (NMZGW)

516 Well, I am trying to find the AC adaptors for the two IBM thinkpad laptops I have sitting here. None to be found. Nor the batteries for them. I know one of them did run, and I installed Linux on it, several years ago.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2024 01:39 AM (Sq5ev)

517 Good luck, AOP …

I trip over things I looking for way more than I actually find them, these days.

Posted by: Adriane these Boots are made for Walking in the Garden Mud Critic . . . at November 26, 2024 01:44 AM (TX4bP)

518 Good luck, AOP …

I trip over things I looking for way more than I actually find them, these days.
Posted by: Adriane
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This. I have misplaced an AC adaptor for a Dell laptop. It isn't lost, it was just absent mindedly deposited somewhere. I have a whole list of those sorts of things. My heirs will probably find them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2024 01:49 AM (XeU6L)

519 This. I have misplaced an AC adaptor for a Dell laptop. It isn't lost, it was just absent mindedly deposited somewhere. I have a whole list of those sorts of things. My heirs will probably find them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 26, 2024 01:49 AM (XeU6L)

I found my little Acer Netbook, and its power supply. That supply won't even plug in to the IBM. Found my old HP laptop and its power supply. Ditto. The HP laptop runs fine with Linux Mint, but it lost its wifi capability. Mint simply does not "see" the wifi adaptor, even though it is hard-built into the damned machine. I have enough transformers and parts here, I could probably build a 16.5 volt DC power supply for the IBM box.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2024 02:04 AM (RdRoZ)

520 Well, I am going to call it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2024 02:05 AM (RdRoZ)

521 Night, AOP

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 02:05 AM (njWTi)

522 The newly crowned Miss Universe was hit with a wave of criticism after she posted a [TikTok] video online that appeared to show her lip-synching a racial slur included in a Jay-Z song over the weekend.

This is amusing. Nitwits gonna be nitwits. The difference today is they get to do it on a global scale.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 02:07 AM (vO42M)

523 Night AOP. I am off to bed too, tomorrow being perhaps busier than today was.

Sweet dreams, Horde. Stay warm.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 26, 2024 02:13 AM (Sgq8y)

524 From Reddit: Will the CD player in my car damage my cds ?
My car can hold 6 CD and my friend advised me to not hold them in there are it could damage them over time , but my friend is also a dumb ass so i don't believe him.

Very amusing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 02:29 AM (vO42M)

525 Bought a truck from a friend. There's a CD stuck in the player, but it won't play & won't eject. LOL. Friend had previously loaned the truck to another friend, who tried to stuff in a 2nd CD without ejecting the 1st.. jammed it all up.

I haven't tried to extract it yet, got too many more pressing projects. Maybe some day.

Radio is fine for now.

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 02:45 AM (njWTi)

526 1/2hour till alarm, we will see

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 03:09 AM (fwDg9)

527 French women protesting because they all have small areola.

https://tinyurl.com/42faz6pa
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 12:22 AM (om3Wy)

You just know all the cops working that protest double checked to make sure their body cams were working.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at November 26, 2024 03:25 AM (EYem1)

528 Good night, all.

Say hello to the techie-peeps for me!

Lots to do before the next rain/snow...

Posted by: JQ at November 26, 2024 03:25 AM (njWTi)

529 I don't want to get up

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 03:55 AM (fwDg9)

Baywatch Reboot (Starring Dogs) Cafe

I think this is the Hudson Valley

Chatty rescue dog is almost at the Scooby Doo level of "speaking."

An argumentative seal. Blessed are the peacemakers.

A bird of burden.

Poor dog is pounced and seized.

Horse escaping his stall with a barrel-roll.

I've got to tickle the baby platypus, if I can be frank.

A bunny suffers from low self-esteem.

Dog halps.

Panda agility demonstration.

A panda calculates the exact trajectory for a lethal pouncing attack and then executes at the highest level.

Panda snuggling operations are up 20%.

Panda GAINZZZ.

A panda offers itself for mating in just the most incompetent way possible.

I don't approve of teasing the monkey but it's kind of funny.

Hand speed competition.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/ArCnqr7x9u
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 24, 2024

Bye.. 👋 pic.twitter.com/M04syBZVty
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 23, 2024

Counting the sheep.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/DmSqQC3Q4G
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 23, 2024

Dog saves dog.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/QbowaPLmwS
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 23, 2024

Posted by: Ace at 07:18 PM

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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 07:17 PM (dxSpM)

2 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 07:17 PM (fwDg9)

3 Maybe Tail of the Dragon?

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at November 25, 2024 07:18 PM (th/4a)

4 Hadrian this thread has been jumping around for me the last minute. It just popped up, then couldn't get to comments

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 07:18 PM (fwDg9)

5 Goat Trail section of NY route 9 south of Bear Mountain bridge.

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 07:20 PM (Abk96)

6 ace,
I hope you get to travel around NY state. Lots of scenery.

Do you need a travel fund, or just cushions to convert shelves into futons for your babes?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:21 PM (u82oZ)

7 The Bear necessaries
The simple Bear necessaries

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 07:21 PM (fwDg9)

8
It just popped up, then couldn't get to comments
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 07:18 PM (fwDg9)

_________

Yeah, sure. Sluggard.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 07:21 PM (dxSpM)

9 Corgis called

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:21 PM (hovnC)

10 The real driving challenge is parking a loaded semi in downtown Manhattan ... NY.

I took an oil tanker into New York Harbor for one Fleet Week. Helen Thomas was an unexpected surprise.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:22 PM (u82oZ)

11 Ace: "A bird of burden." link is empty/broken.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 07:23 PM (O7YUW)

12 Good evening, friends! Poke bowls on deck. Pandas are ridiculous.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 07:24 PM (p4NUW)

13 Catch Up@CatchUpFeed
Sunny Hostin was shocked to discover that her ancestors owned slaves.
------
End Wokeness @EndWokeness Nov 24
The moment reparations activist Sunny Hostin learns she descends from slave OWNERS:

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 14h
I watched this twenty times and I'm not nearly done.

https://tinyurl.com/yypm56kc
42 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:24 PM (hovnC)

14 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:24 PM (WXNFJ)

15 After the monkey won I half expected him to give the guy the finger

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 07:25 PM (YbbtK)

16 Letchworth Fall state park

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 07:26 PM (Abk96)

17 Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat
When you call your cat through surveillance for the first time

https://tinyurl.com/22ebbsfs
1:25 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:26 PM (hovnC)

18 Willowed but important:

Playing softly in the background is a 50's-60's collection of Christmas songs - Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and the like.

I'm feeling sentimental as all git out.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:27 PM (WXNFJ)

19
Why are you all so obsessed with me!?!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 07:27 PM (7SO1z)

20 Looks a lot like the Tail of the Dragon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 07:28 PM (dqcIy)

21 19
Why are you all so obsessed with me!?!
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz

Who?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 07:28 PM (VNX3d)

22
I think Pat Sajak is the LAST true game show host alive on Earth.

(I don't count Drew Carey)

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 07:28 PM (7SO1z)

23 That top pic needs a '49 Hudson Hornet sifting through the esses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:28 PM (ToK9w)

24 Minnewaska Park.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 07:29 PM (D6PGr)

25 18 Willowed but important:

Playing softly in the background is a 50's-60's collection of Christmas songs - Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and the like.

I'm feeling sentimental as all git out.
Posted by: Tonypete at November

I have a playlist like this. It is my absolute favorite for Christmas!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 07:29 PM (p4NUW)

26 When bad font choices are made:

And Don't Call Me Shirley. @Meme_Behavior 9h Replying to @SirajAHashmi
The Clippers may have had MORE anal, but which team had BETTER anal?

https://tinyurl.com/yp654jyh
IMAGE; BTW, it reads "final" -- a fatal ligature.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:30 PM (hovnC)

27 I used to ride my HD 1200 on that road and also mountain bike on the park trails.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 07:30 PM (D6PGr)

28 18 Willowed but important:

Playing softly in the background is a 50's-60's collection of Christmas songs - Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and the like.

I'm feeling sentimental as all git out.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:27 PM (WXNFJ)

Favorite Christmas Album? Yule be Swingin... a collection of 40s, 50s, swing and blues Christmas songs... think Louis Armstrong doin an upbeat Christmas song.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 07:31 PM (QAkQ3)

29 Bird of burden no loadee?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 07:31 PM (dOjkx)

30 X > Threads > Bluesky

Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes Nov 24
🤣🤣🤣

https://tinyurl.com/5fa6nd9d
IMAGE; removed from X for some reason [although maybe over copyright and not censorship].

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:32 PM (hovnC)

31 I used to ride my HD 1200 on that road and also mountain bike on the park trails.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 07:30 PM (D6PGr)

Did you carry the mountain bike on a rack on the back of the Harley?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:33 PM (ToK9w)

32 That top pic needs a '49 Hudson Hornet sifting through the esses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:28 PM (ToK9w)

Robert Mitchum in a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 (A la Thunder Road).

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 07:33 PM (VNX3d)

33 Teasing the monkey sounds like a euphemism for something dirty.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 07:33 PM (eRERE)

34
Remember when the EDSEL was butt of jokes in lots of media (tv, movies, etc.) when we were kids?

No one brings up the Edsels anymore.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 07:34 PM (7SO1z)

35 𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever
Dog's reaction to seeing the owner after six months..🐕🐾🥺❤️

https://tinyurl.com/4uwrr2xp
57 seconds; suitable but LOUD music

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:34 PM (hovnC)

36 Made some Chili Colorado today.
Pretty good with a flour tortilla on the side.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 07:34 PM (dqcIy)

37 I don’t try to be contrarian but Little Drummer Boy is one of my favorites because it just gives me the Christmas spirit.

I think the majority of morons don’t really care for it IIRC.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 07:35 PM (D6PGr)

38 Bear Mountain Parkway. That's how I knew my wife was The One: We drove a Camaro IROC-Z without A/C to a wedding nearby instead of the car with A/C... in August... just so I could drive this road in the Z car.

Posted by: DrSandman at November 25, 2024 07:35 PM (SxF46)

39 I just can't with these bears!

But. I could do with a cute sea otter.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 07:35 PM (gsJ4Q)

40 I think Pat Sajak is the LAST true game show host alive on Earth.

Posted by: Soothsayer

He retired this year.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 07:36 PM (dqcIy)

41 Bear Mountain Parkway. That's how I knew my wife was The One: We drove a Camaro IROC-Z without A/C to a wedding nearby instead of the car with A/C... in August... just so I could drive this road in the Z car.
Posted by: DrSandman at November 25, 2024 07:35 PM (SxF46)

Guess I’m wrong . Sure looks like RT 44 through the park.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 07:37 PM (D6PGr)

42 I wouldn't keep teasing that monkey. Some day he will escape and he will tear your face off and sit on your bleeding pie hole.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 07:37 PM (gsJ4Q)

43 Wicked smart reply to David Hogg:

Marie Isabella @MarieIsabellaB
🤣🤣

https://tinyurl.com/mtnuvcxs
screencap

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:37 PM (hovnC)

44 Sure looks like RT 44 through the park.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Those curves look the same; but, this one is probably shorter.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 07:38 PM (dqcIy)

45

You'll never see the bird of burden
I've walked for miles, my feet are hurting

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2024 07:39 PM (63Dwl)

46 How much does a being a Panda momma pay?

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 07:39 PM (fwDg9)

47 42 I wouldn't keep teasing that monkey. Some day he will escape and he will tear your face off and sit on your bleeding pie hole.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 07:37 PM (gsJ4Q
They’re evil, thank goodness they can’t fly.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 07:39 PM (LHPAg)

48 Dr. Simon Goddek @goddeketal
🤣🤣🤣

https://tinyurl.com/5n6n42af
anti-bullying IMAGE

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:41 PM (hovnC)

49 That bird of burden link is munged. I tried to grab it from the html source, but ace was too clever for me. The source just has a repeat of the seal link.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 25, 2024 07:42 PM (klJTj)

50 Teasing the monkey sounds like a euphemism for something dirty.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 07:33 PM (eRERE)

Or a high end lab doing animal testing on beauty products and hairdessing techniques.

"Trou Macacq. le palais des singes de la beauté"

Ook ook

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 07:42 PM (D7oie)

51 In this season of Thankfulness a raised glass to you all that have given me so much.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2024 07:42 PM (gGMRM)

52 46 How much does a being a Panda momma pay?

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 07:39 PM (fwDg9)
-------
The smart ones make decent money. The dmb ones get bamboozled.

Posted by: 496 at November 25, 2024 07:43 PM (pbgCF)

53 https://tinyurl.com/5n6n42af
anti-bullying IMAGE
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:41 PM (hovnC)

She is in training for the campaign against Antidisestablishmentarianism.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:43 PM (ToK9w)

54 Muh capitalism fake meat:

reason @reason
Cultivated meat keeps getting better and better.
I tried lab-grown salmon. Here's what it tasted like.
===
No link; don't want Reason to make money from a link.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:44 PM (hovnC)

55
* sniff *

* sniff *

Smells like it might be safe from mephitic penguinic olfactory assault.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 07:45 PM (a3Q+t)

56 In this season of Thankfulness a raised glass to you all that have given me so much.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2024 07:42 PM (gGMRM)

Did you learn if JT has wifi at his facility? I have an old IBM Thinkpad here with Linux loaded on it, and I think it still works. Would be happy to donate to the cause.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:45 PM (ToK9w)

57 Butterball facing Thanksgiving turkey boycott as disgusting sex abuse allegations resurface

https://mol.im/a/14123873

Posted by: Ciampino - wow at November 25, 2024 07:46 PM (i0xsb)

58 Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 07:37 PM

===

They’re evil, thank goodness they can’t fly.
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 07:39 PM

Are you referring to monkeys or otters?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 07:47 PM (a3Q+t)

59 AOP, I have not had a chance to follow up on it yet but I promise I will. Thank you for the offer.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2024 07:47 PM (gGMRM)

60 Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79 7h
The WSJ reports that @realchrisrufo “has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”
Nov 25, 2024 · 2:56 PM UTC

“He has said he thinks colleges and universities have been taken over by the left, and he wants to recapture them by cutting federal money to schools that continue to engage in DEI practices. He also wants to excise race-based affirmative action from any institution with which the federal government does business.”

Link: wsj.com/us-news/education/ch...
Christopher Rufo Has Trump’s Ear and Wants to End DEI for Good
From his perch outside Seattle, the 40-year-old documentary filmmaker and writer has become one of the country’s most influential culture warriors, waging public fights against diversity, equity and...

Big Jarhead @big_jarhead 6h Replying to @sfmcguire79 @realchrisrufo
I'd recommend using the term "neuter" or "spay" instead of "geld", which implies that the universities have balls. They don't.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:48 PM (hovnC)

61 I feel sorry for the monkey and if he gets out he's eating that person's face.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 07:49 PM (eRERE)

62 In this season of Thankfulness a raised glass to you all that have given me so much.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2024 07:42 PM (gGMRM)

Right back at you- you have got to be a true angel on this earth. The way you understand animals, the way you take care of people. Honestly, I am so blessed that somehow, someway you entered my life. Plus, the TxMoMe was just an experience that is hard to even describe - you know I was hesitant and walked away with knowing some of the most amazing people ever. It was a blast, literally and figuratively.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 07:49 PM (pZEOD)

63 They’re evil, thank goodness they can’t fly.
Posted by: Eromero

Those things in the Wizard of Oz scared the bejeebus out of me when I was a little girl. I still don't like them.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 07:50 PM (UoYkE)

64 Butterball facing Thanksgiving turkey boycott as disgusting sex abuse allegations resurface

https://mol.im/a/14123873
Posted by: Ciampino - wow at November 25, 2024 07:46 PM (i0xsb)

If PETA is behind this, they are flat-out lying.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:50 PM (ToK9w)

65 In this season of Thankfulness a raised glass to you all that have given me so much.
Posted by: Ben Had

Hear, hear!
I'll join you in that toast!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 07:51 PM (dqcIy)

66 @64/Alberta Oil Peon: "If PETA is behind this, they are flat-out lying."

Yup. This.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 07:52 PM (O7YUW)

67 57 Butterball facing Thanksgiving turkey boycott as disgusting sex abuse allegations resurface

https://mol.im/a/14123873
Posted by: Ciampino - wow at November

I am not a vegetarian and never will be, but there is zero excuse to treat animals like this. If an animal is giving up its life to feed me, it deserves the best death possible. This is not that.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 07:52 PM (pZEOD)

68 66 @64/Alberta Oil Peon: "If PETA is behind this, they are flat-out lying."

Yup. This.
Posted by: Grumpy and

Also the opposite of a PETA supporter, but the video is what the video is.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 07:53 PM (pZEOD)

69 Unparalleled athleticism !

https://tinyurl.com/2yjnrkr8

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 07:53 PM (QTCRF)

70 Hey Piper!

It was such a joy to meet you and dance with you and sing with you and laugh with you! I hope
You are planning for next year!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 07:53 PM (UoYkE)

71 Butterball facing Thanksgiving turkey boycott as disgusting sex abuse allegations resurface

Wait, wait, don't tell me... the illegals working in the processing plants are f*cking the turkey carcasses.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 07:54 PM (hB7mE)

72 Trump should pardon a bunch of Turkeys in front of Mar-a- Lago, and by Christmas, do a lighting ceremony of a Palm Tree !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 07:54 PM (QTCRF)

73 70 Hey Piper!

It was such a joy to meet you and dance with you and sing with you and laugh with you! I hope
You are planning for next year!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage

I am, and you are definitely on that list of amazing people. You are flat hysterical and bring out the best - or the worst 🤣- in me!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 07:54 PM (pZEOD)

74 The monkey had it coming.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 07:55 PM (6ydKt)

75 Leading Report @LeadingReport 6h
BREAKING: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reminds local officials that they have no authority to obstruct federal enforcement of immigration laws and warns that “any who attempt such obstruction in Florida will be held accountable.”

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:55 PM (hovnC)

76 Also the opposite of a PETA supporter, but the video is what the video is.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 07:53 PM (pZEOD)

Butterball says the video is 20 years old. I would not put it past PETA, not for one second even, to plant thugs in a packing plant's work force, and stage such outrages for the camera.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:55 PM (ToK9w)

77 54 Muh capitalism fake meat:

reason @reason
Cultivated meat keeps getting better and better.
I tried lab-grown salmon. Here's what it tasted like.
===
No link; don't want Reason to make money from a link.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:44 PM (hovnC)

WTF? I pull fresh salmon out of the river every year and cook it over a charcoal fire. The rest I smoke and can and we eat it all year. Why in hell would you invest in Franken-salmon? Fuck those idiots.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 07:56 PM (byWhc)

78 or maybe

"Trou Macacq. le palais de la beauté des singes"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 07:57 PM (D7oie)

79 I would not put it past PETA, not for one second even, to plant thugs in a packing plant's work force, and stage such outrages for the camera.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I'm pretty sure they've done that before.

How long before these meat processing companies sue the living daylights out of PETA?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 07:57 PM (hB7mE)

80 [deleted][CBD]
Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 25, 2024 07:56 PM (TmkE1)

I can say it too, but, like Richard Pryor, I choose not to. So maybe you should take your filth elsewhere.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 07:57 PM (byWhc)

81 PETA should just stick with what they know best: killing peoples' surrendered dogs and cats.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at November 25, 2024 07:57 PM (DTX3h)

82 Robby Starbuck says Walmart is abandoning all of its DEI crap after he told them he was going to do a story.

https://tinyurl.com/2bwdwebx

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 25, 2024 07:58 PM (paSBy)

83 76 Butterball says the video is 20 years old. I would not put it past PETA, not for one second even, to plant thugs in a packing plant's work force, and stage such outrages for the camera.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at

I pray it’s that old and I pray it doesn’t happen with our influx of help that hasn’t assimilated into our standards and care of life, even if that life is a Turkey.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 07:59 PM (pZEOD)

84 If a vegan and a vegetarian get into a dispute, can it still be called a "beef"?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 07:59 PM (a3Q+t)

85 Do we have anyone around with keys to the blog? Someone left the back door open again.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 08:00 PM (pZEOD)

86 I would not put it past PETA, not for one second even, to plant thugs in a packing plant's work force, and stage such outrages for the camera.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:55 PM (ToK9w)

I wouldn't say it's a bridge too far to say that PETA is a bunch of turkey fuckers.

And really, why do all the outrages come from where some pervert shoves his filthy dick? It gets pretty old.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:01 PM (byWhc)

87 Pandas have Kamala Harris level skills.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 08:02 PM (dIske)

88 Pandas have Kamala Harris level skills.
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 08:02 PM (dIske)

(books flight to China)

Posted by: Willie Brown at November 25, 2024 08:02 PM (ToK9w)

89 This isn't the Hudson Valley. It's the Delaware Valley in Orange County, NY. Route 97.

https:// c8. alamy. com/ comp/ F4PX55/ traffic -light -trails -on- hawks- nest- winding- road- route- 97- in- upstate- F4PX55.jpg

Posted by: Vasco de Gama at November 25, 2024 08:02 PM (z5JUV)

90 Butterball facing Thanksgiving turkey boycott as disgusting sex abuse allegations resurface

Posted by: Ciampino

They keep xxxxing that ~~chicken~~ turkey, don't they?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 08:03 PM (WXNFJ)

91 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 7h
NEW - Macy's disclosed Monday that an employee had hidden up to $154 million in expenses through false accounting entries over more than three years.
====
I think someone named Rachel Green.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 08:03 PM (hovnC)

92 I don't know whose idea it was to have an animal thread but it was a good one. It takes the edge off.
I watch the videos and just like animals so gosh darn much more.
I'm glad the monkey got to keep the treat.
I think the bear waved back because he thought he'd get another slice of bread.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 08:03 PM (3wi/L)

93 Ensure he hasn't bought any airplane tickets for Brazil:

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 8h
BREAKING: Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who has served as the chief federal law enforcement officer in the district, announced today his intention to resign his position as United States Attorney, effective 11:59 PM on December 13, 2024.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 08:04 PM (hovnC)

94 Video of Bear Mountain Goat trail:
https://youtu.be/6lqyvAwsM9w?si=yFjkMVUnquNZtw4_

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 08:06 PM (vt7xw)

95 Please, don't quote the trolls.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 08:06 PM (hovnC)

96 26
'The Clippers may have had MORE anal, but which team had BETTER anal?'

How are their knees?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 08:06 PM (3wi/L)

97
Frosted sugar cookie for dessert. Good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 08:07 PM (O0faj)

98 Piper: I was raised on a farm, and we slaughtered our own animals. It was drilled into me: Fast, clean, as painless as possible. You never wanted the animal to suffer.

I fully agree with you that treating animals abusively is utterly and completely wrong.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 08:08 PM (O7YUW)

99
This isn't the Hudson Valley. It's the Delaware Valley in Orange County, NY. Route 97.

_________

Noo Yawrkers get hopelessly lost north of the Bronx.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 08:08 PM (O0faj)

100 Turkeys always consent.

Posted by: Things Benjamin Franklin Said Vol. 3 (NY Folio ed. 1832) at November 25, 2024 08:08 PM (lxDEj)

101 I don’t try to be contrarian but Little Drummer Boy is one of my favorites because it just gives me the Christmas spirit.

I don't hate it but why is there not a popular version that includes an awesome drum solo?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 08:09 PM (/y8xj)

102 I don't hate it but why is there not a popular version that includes an awesome drum solo?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 08:09 PM (/y8xj)

I hate the lyric to the song. It's un-Biblical, and absolutely stupid. I have heard an instrumental version of it, played by some jazz combo, that was quite pretty.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 08:11 PM (ToK9w)

103 Shoe0nHead has released a video on YouTube giving her take on why the Democrats lost.

https://youtu.be/UkUkEvf7Ma4

Haven't watched it yet.
I know Ace likes her stuff.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 08:13 PM (6ydKt)

104 I don't hate it but why is there not a popular version that includes an awesome drum solo?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 08:09 PM

Because after the drum solo comes the bass solo, and you know what that means.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 08:13 PM (a3Q+t)

105 https:// c8. alamy. com/ comp/ F4PX55/ traffic -light -trails -on- hawks- nest- winding- road- route- 97- in- upstate- F4PX55.jpg
Posted by: Vasco de Gama at November 25, 2024 08:02 PM (z5JUV)

I consider Orange County to be in the Hudson Valley region. . After all the Hudson runs in it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:14 PM (c1bWo)

106 "Gee this lady just gave birth in a stable and hasn't slept all night.

Good time for a drum solo!!!"

Little Drummer Boy

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 08:14 PM (VCFK5)

107 Just read some bureaucrat kicked all the people out of their Amish tiny homes built for the people affected by Helene because they are not up to code. So a tent is apparently better.

What is wrong with people, honestly.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 08:15 PM (pZEOD)

108 Yeah, not the Bear Mountain trail.

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 08:15 PM (+OnsA)

109 Orange is west side of Hudson.

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 08:16 PM (+OnsA)

110 Pa rum pa pum pum sounds like something the one alter boy who wants to get molested would lisp.

That song is just gay af.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 08:16 PM (lxDEj)

111
Who likes beautiful jet aircraft?
Who likes President Trump?

Here's a cool short video of the recent re-painting of the President's personal 757:

https://is.gd/kwKa8L

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:16 PM (7SO1z)

112 98 I fully agree with you that treating animals abusively is utterly and completely wrong.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Thank you.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 08:16 PM (pZEOD)

113 101 I don’t try to be contrarian but Little Drummer Boy is one of my favorites because it just gives me the Christmas spirit.

I don't hate it but why is there not a popular version that includes an awesome drum solo?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 08:09 PM (/y8xj)
The percussion section in Bolero is pretty dynamic.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 08:17 PM (LHPAg)

114 Congrats on 1st Hadrian!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 08:17 PM (Wx316)

115 It's un-Biblical

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 08:11 PM (ToK9w)

You mean because the Bible doesn't mention a drummer boy? Because other than that the drummer boy describes the biblical story,

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:18 PM (c1bWo)

116
Day old smoked wild turkey on sweet rolls that my wife's uncle used to shoot was possibly the best, simplest post Thanksgiving hangover cure ever made. Breasts weren't white, meat self buttered the bread.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 08:18 PM (j4U/Z)

117
I think someone named Rachel Green.
Posted by: andycanuck

And her accomplices Ross & Monica Geller?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:18 PM (7SO1z)

118 I don't hate it but why is there not a popular version that includes an awesome drum solo?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 08:09 PM (/y8xj)
The percussion section in Bolero is pretty dynamic.
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 08:17 PM (LHPAg)

It needs that drummer from the Japanese kids show.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 08:19 PM (W6hoT)

119 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 08:16 PM (lxDEj)

Hah. WTF is wrong with some of you.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:19 PM (c1bWo)

120 Lyle Menendez’s Wife Rebecca Sneed Announces Separation After 21 Years of Marriage

Interesting this development happens when she might actually have to live with him.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 08:19 PM (pZEOD)

121 You mean because the Bible doesn't mention a drummer boy? Because other than that the drummer boy describes the biblical story,
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:18 PM (c1bWo)

Yep. They just Mary-Sued a little drummer boy into the account of the birth of Jesus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 08:20 PM (ToK9w)

122 Watching Shoe0nHead now...

She isn't holding back.
It's hilarious.
I'm dying here...

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 08:21 PM (6ydKt)

123 If they let the brothers out CA has truly gone insane.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:21 PM (c1bWo)

124 37 I don’t try to be contrarian but Little Drummer Boy is one of my favorites because it just gives me the Christmas spirit.

I think the majority of morons don’t really care for it IIRC.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 07:35 PM (D6PGr)

Bob Seger's version is my favorite.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 08:21 PM (NMT5x)

125 The DNC Staff Union Layoff Relief Fund is accepting donations via GoFundMe.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 08:21 PM (a3Q+t)

126 120
'Lyle Menendez’s Wife Rebecca Sneed Announces Separation After 21 Years of Marriage'

She didn't want to have a shotgun divorce.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 08:21 PM (3wi/L)

127 119 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 08:16 PM (lxDEj)

Hah. WTF is wrong with some of you.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:19 PM (c1bWo)

You know, it's a mistake to take me too seriously.

If I have to be serious, I am obligated to defend the song. It's on the Peanuts Christmas album, and only communists dislike the Peanuts Christmas album.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 08:22 PM (lxDEj)

128 Day old smoked wild turkey on sweet rolls that my wife's uncle used to shoot was possibly the best...

Slow down now... your wife's uncle used a sweet roll to shoot a turkey? That's awesome!

Posted by: MkY at November 25, 2024 08:22 PM (cPGH3)

129 And her accomplices Ross & Monica Geller?
-----
Something about how expensive sending a kid to Harvard is??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 08:23 PM (hovnC)

130 Slow down now... your wife's uncle used a sweet roll to shoot a turkey? That's awesome!
Posted by: MkY at November 25, 2024 08:22 PM (cPGH3)

And the turkey doesn't need to be stuffed!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 08:24 PM (ToK9w)

131 125 The DNC Staff Union Layoff Relief Fund is accepting donations via GoFundMe.
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Let's all donate a nickel each and pretend we're poor illegals so sorry about their treatment at the hands of the DNC!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 08:25 PM (hovnC)

132 19
Why are you all so obsessed with me!?!
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 07:27 PM (7SO1z)

My dad loved you in My Fair Lady!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 08:25 PM (aOqEy)

133 Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins Nov 22 [CNN's The Sauce, er, Source]
Trump is expected to offer Kelly Loeffler the job as the Secretary of Agriculture, I'm told. She's expected at Mar-a-Lago Club this afternoon.

Arthur Schwartz @ArthurSchwartz 18h
I wonder whether Kaitlan and her leaker have figured out that this was a leak test.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 08:25 PM (hovnC)

134 Day old smoked wild turkey on sweet rolls that my wife's uncle used to shoot
Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 08:18 PM

Where did your wife's uncle hunt sweet rolls?

Posted by: AoSHQ Assistant Associate Copy Editor, Punctuation Brigade, Oxford Comma Company at November 25, 2024 08:26 PM (a3Q+t)

135
Something about how expensive sending a kid to Harvard is??
Posted by: andycanuck

It was a reference to the Friends show.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:27 PM (7SO1z)

136 Storm King Hwy between Cornwall and West Point.

Posted by: Joe Redfield at November 25, 2024 08:27 PM (KOtXO)

137 >>Butterball facing Thanksgiving turkey boycott as disgusting sex abuse allegations resurface

Posted by: Ciampino

We prefer to call them...pre-stuffed.
-Butterball Management

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 08:28 PM (NMT5x)

138 It needs that drummer from the Japanese kids show.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The only way MXC could have been improved was to add that drummer.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 08:28 PM (WXNFJ)

139 Most annoying Christmas songs:

The Twelve Days of Christmas;
The Little Drummer Boy;
Jingle Bells;
Do You Hear What I Hear.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:29 PM (v6JzV)

140 I hate the lyric to the song. It's un-Biblical, and absolutely stupid. I have heard an instrumental version of it, played by some jazz combo, that was quite pretty.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 08:11 PM (ToK9w)

Unbiblical. That's probably not the best reason it is usually crap. A lot of things are unbiblical, but still true. If you are getting your religion from a silly Christmas song, there's something else wrong.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:29 PM (byWhc)

141 Most annoying Christmas songs:

The Twelve Days of Christmas;
The Little Drummer Boy;
Jingle Bells;
Do You Hear What I Hear.
Posted by: Bulg

Mariah Cary. 'nuff said.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 08:30 PM (WXNFJ)

142 Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:29 PM (v6JzV)

Jingle Bells started off as a Thanksgiving song.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:30 PM (c1bWo)

143 139 Most annoying Christmas songs:

The Twelve Days of Christmas;
The Little Drummer Boy;
Jingle Bells;
Do You Hear What I Hear.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:29 PM (v6JzV)

Mother in law will cut a bitch if she hears Go Tell it on the Mountain.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:30 PM (byWhc)

144 I don't hate it but why is there not a popular version that includes an awesome drum solo?
Posted by: Oddbob

The percussion section in Bolero is pretty dynamic.
Posted by: Eromero

It needs that drummer from the Japanese kids show.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You forgot the link.

https://youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg

And the bonus link.

https://youtu.be/sReGQj67HJU

Posted by: mikeski is a giver at November 25, 2024 08:31 PM (DgGvY)

145 Mariah Cary. 'nuff said.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 08:30 PM (WXNFJ)

When my son was little, we listened to the Christmas music station in the car. He got to Grandma's house and said, very seriously, "Gramma, all's I want for Christmas is YOU."

Grandma thought that was fine.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:31 PM (byWhc)

146 142 Yes, I know. But it’s been absorbed into the Christmas Borg.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:31 PM (v6JzV)

147 Little Drummer Boy do In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2024 08:32 PM (63Dwl)

148 And I have never heard any Mariah Carey Christmas stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:33 PM (v6JzV)

149 143
'Wonderful Christmas Time'
'Santa Baby'

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 08:33 PM (3wi/L)

150 "Check the balls out on that collie, falalalalalala.
Now we know why he's so jolly, falalalalalala."

And other classics of years past.

Oh to be 10 years old again. Or not.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:33 PM (byWhc)

151 Do You Hear What I Hear.

It's beyond me how anyone could find that "annoying".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 08:33 PM (mH6SG)

152 It's an ear worm but I don't really care for Feliz Navidad.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:33 PM (c1bWo)

153 151 Do You Hear What I Hear.

It's beyond me how anyone could find that "annoying".
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 08:33 PM (mH6SG)

Yeah, that one is beautiful.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 08:34 PM (lxDEj)

154 The boys used to sing that one "fleas on your nads." I hear it every time it comes up on the radio. Kinda ruins the mood.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:35 PM (byWhc)

155 149, 152 Yeah, those are on the list, too.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:35 PM (v6JzV)

156 "Check the balls out on that collie, falalalalalala.
Now we know why he's so jolly, falalalalalala."
And other classics of years past. Oh to be 10 years old again. Or not. Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:33 PM (byWhc)

Outside the snow is falling and Randy's balling a dog . . . .

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 08:35 PM (r5tfK)

157 The boys used to sing that one "fleas on your nads." I hear it every time it comes up on the radio. Kinda ruins the mood.

"Police nabbed my dad..."

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 08:37 PM (mH6SG)

158 Do You Hear is an awesome song. Andy Williams does a great version:
https://youtu.be/Em0P9zb3a3k?si=e3ZgNRqrNmaGtCao

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 08:37 PM (vt7xw)

159 Also, that Round the Christmas Tree thing.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:37 PM (v6JzV)

160 I have favorites based on genres. My favorite sacred carol is Coventry Carol.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 25, 2024 08:37 PM (GTqXr)

161
I regret to say I dislike just about every Christmas song. Because for a month that's all you hear. All the time. Over and over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 08:38 PM (dxSpM)

162 Some of y’all need to lighten up.

Posted by: Scrooge at November 25, 2024 08:38 PM (u73oe)

163 Merry Christmas Darling by the Carpenters is another mellow Christmas song that puts me in the Christmas mood.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:38 PM (c1bWo)

164 Most depressing Christmas song? Judy Garland and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Ugh.

Posted by: Toni at November 25, 2024 08:38 PM (ugzWe)

165 84 If a vegan and a vegetarian get into a dispute, can it still be called a "beef"?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 07:59 PM (a3Q+t)
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Good one!

Posted by: Ciampino - beefsteak? at November 25, 2024 08:38 PM (i0xsb)

166 Outside the snow is falling and Randy's balling a dog . . . .

And on our lovely river a scorpion’s hauling a frog.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 25, 2024 08:39 PM (olroh)

167 158 Do You Hear is an awesome song. Andy Williams does a great version:
https://youtu.be/Em0P9zb3a3k?si=e3ZgNRqrNmaGtCao
Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 08:37 PM (vt7xw)

DH sang backup for Andy when he came to Madison back in the day. Said he was a serious potty mouth, just nasty backstage. Kinda soured his "all-American family" image.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:39 PM (byWhc)

168 My wife's church had a drummer and flute with the choir this Sunday. The drummer was my age and I swear he was just a hair away from breaking into "When the Levee Breaks." He wanted to, bad, but he held himself back. The echo from up by the choir was exactly right and the sound of the bass and high hat were just right. I know he knew it too.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 08:39 PM (r5tfK)

169 the
fucking
donkey
song

hee haw hee haw!

Dominick the Donkey

my God how I hate it

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2024 08:40 PM (Pv3Rg)

170 Christmas music list #1 is all Silent Night and Jingle Bells
Christmas list #2 is Santa Clause is comin on a Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2024 08:40 PM (gGMRM)

171 Is the 'it's cold outside' song going to be bashed again by the #metoos ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 08:40 PM (c1bWo)

172 I play my Pandora Christmas song station year round, especially when it's really hot out

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 08:41 PM (vt7xw)

173 Let’s give thanks to GOD for November 5th, eat our Thanksgiving meal, and get on to celebrating GOD’s greatest gift to mankind, the birth of Christ.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 08:41 PM (LHPAg)

174
Let’s give thanks to GOD for November 5th

_________

Yup. Got everything I wanted for Christmas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 08:42 PM (dxSpM)

175 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen is the best Christmas Carol. Followed by Hatk, the Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful, and Silent Night. Those are the only Christmas carols I need.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:42 PM (v6JzV)

176 Gonna have a happy holiday for teens.

Posted by: Paul and Paula at November 25, 2024 08:42 PM (olroh)

177 The year I spent Christmas in the loony bin, the song Christmas in Dixie was on the radio. To this day, it makes me cry out loud. Funny, it is a really nice song, but the link in my mind is hardwired at this point.

However, all I need to do to fix it is play Robert Goulet doing Hurry Home for Christmas. That one is so godawfully over the top that I laugh out loud, every time.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:43 PM (byWhc)

178 Im at a Manheim Steamroller concert. They managed to make it annoying and boring.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 08:43 PM (LhhYM)

179 Bulg, that’s a wonderful playlist.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 25, 2024 08:44 PM (olroh)

180 Police on your block
Police on your block
Police on your block
Seventeen cruisers,
And the guys from SWAT

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at November 25, 2024 08:44 PM (99t1i)

181 Not sure how My Favorite Things became a Christmas song, but Tony Bennett's arrangement with a full big band orchestra is bangin'.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 25, 2024 08:45 PM (GTqXr)

182 164 No, that’s a great one. Judy brings it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:45 PM (v6JzV)

183 DH and I got married on New Years Eve mumblemumble years ago. That's Christmas time in the Catholic Church, it was all decorated for the season, just beautiful. And our music was mostly Christmas carols, Joy to the World and other great ones. Was truly lovely.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:45 PM (byWhc)

184 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen is the best Christmas Carol. Followed by Hatk, the Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful, and Silent Night. Those are the only Christmas carols I need.
Posted by: Bulg

I'll need "O Holy Night," too.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 08:45 PM (DgGvY)

185 How about the Siberian Trans Orchestra?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2024 08:45 PM (63Dwl)

186 I vote "Santa Baba" as possibly the worst Christmas song ever.

On another note, someone here recommended "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" as a movie to go see. Saw it tonight with some friends. Read the book some time ago. Really a nice little family film and because I think it takes place in the 50's or 69's not a cell phone in sight.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 08:46 PM (+iHNz)

187 169 the
fucking
donkey
song

hee haw hee haw!

Dominick the Donkey

my God how I hate it
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2024 08:40 PM (Pv3Rg)

I have no idea what's happening in this comment, and I do not want anyone to explain. No, I shall not google it, and I will count myself lucky.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 08:46 PM (lxDEj)

188 178 Im at a Manheim Steamroller concert. They managed to make it annoying and boring.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 08:43 PM (LhhYM)
Always remind me of Rushbo. And Klaus Noemi.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 08:46 PM (LHPAg)

189 The Band did my favorite Christmas song. Then again, any song with Rick Danko and Levon Helm is darned good.

https://tinyurl.com/3frx5a7w

Posted by: 496 at November 25, 2024 08:46 PM (LKffs)

190
I will amend what I said. "O Holy Night" is highly excellent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 08:47 PM (dxSpM)

191 It was a reference to the Friends show.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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And I meant Rachel's and Ross's bastard daughter.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 08:47 PM (hovnC)

192 No, I shall not google it, and I will count myself lucky.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 08:46 PM (lxDEj)

Safer that way.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 08:47 PM (byWhc)

193 Santa Baby. "Santa Baba " sounds like a cross between a Christmas story and Ali Baba and the 40 thieves.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 08:47 PM (+iHNz)

194 >I'll need "O Holy Night," too.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 08:45 PM (DgGvY)

Andrea Bocelli singing it is sublime.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 25, 2024 08:48 PM (GTqXr)

195 "The Little Drummer Boy" was first written for a choir of 120 penguins but the idea was scrapped because no one wanted to clean that shit up.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 25, 2024 08:48 PM (LhhYM)

196 I think Patton shot Dominick the Fucking Donkey

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 08:48 PM (vt7xw)

197 184 OK, O Holy Night as well.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:49 PM (v6JzV)

198 Los Peces en El Rio

youtu.be/-Ovr-9xo4sk

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 08:50 PM (D7oie)

199 Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas light show

https://t.ly/e-Dos

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 08:51 PM (WXNFJ)

200 139 Most annoying Christmas songs:

The Twelve Days of Christmas;
The Little Drummer Boy;
Jingle Bells;
Do You Hear What I Hear.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:29 PM (v6JzV)
----
Also any 'Xmas' song that includes words such as:
Santa, jingle, snow, sleigh, reindeer -- you get the idea.

Posted by: Ciampino - Hark The Angels at November 25, 2024 08:51 PM (i0xsb)

201 If a vegan and a vegetarian get into a dispute, can it still be called a "beef"?

Posted by: Duncanthrax

Quinoa come to a resolution here? Don't sit there and stew.

But one of them can get pisced off.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 08:51 PM (NMT5x)

202 196
'I think Patton shot Dominick the Fucking Donkey'

Threw him right off the bridge.
That was Dominick's Last Noel.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 08:52 PM (3wi/L)

203 a choir of 120 penguins but the idea was scrapped because no one wanted to clean that shit up.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 25, 2024 08:48 PM

There is iron in the words of Penguin Facts for all Morons to see.

Posted by: Duncanthrax Ten Bats at November 25, 2024 08:54 PM (a3Q+t)

204 194 >I'll need "O Holy Night," too.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2024 08:45 PM (DgGvY)

Andrea Bocelli singing it is sublime.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 25, 2024 08:48 PM (GTqXr)
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One of the most beautiful songs ever.
My late Wife (soprano) a cappella would bring me tears.

Posted by: Ciampino - dusty here at November 25, 2024 08:55 PM (i0xsb)

205 203 a choir of 120 penguins but the idea was scrapped because no one wanted to clean that shit up.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 25, 2024 08:48 PM

There is iron in the words of Penguin Facts for all Morons to see.
Posted by: Duncanthrax Ten Bats at November 25, 2024 08:54 PM (a3Q+t
Paper will not hold the words.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 08:55 PM (LHPAg)

206 I've always loved Mannheim Steamroller Christmas music. Have most of it either on CD or iTunes. And yes, it reminds me of El Rushbo.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 08:56 PM (mH6SG)

207 I leave for a half hour, come back, and the thread's turned into Christmas carols and penguins.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 08:58 PM (6ydKt)

208 Off the bridge
Into the river
To grandmother's house you float

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2024 08:59 PM (+OnsA)

209 161: really? Seems like anymore I have to tune into K-love or similar christian music station if I want to hear a Christmas tune on the radio. I do feel for retail workers as they probably do get a loop of limited songs (cuz the stores don't want to include hymns) for two months.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 09:00 PM (UKUm3)

210 If the Indians (feather, not dot) had given the Pilgrims a donkey instead of a turkey, we'd all be having a piece of ass this Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Philosomoron at November 25, 2024 09:02 PM (a3Q+t)

211 I think this is going to be the best Christmas in many a year.

Maybe I will put lights up around the Nightwatch compound...

Oh Yes , I will put lights up lights around the Nightwatch compound!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:02 PM (TDvv2)

212 Another beautiful song with great music and lyrics which my late Wife would sing a cappella and bring tears was " O Come, O Come Emmanuel"

Posted by: Ciampino - dusty here at November 25, 2024 09:02 PM (i0xsb)

213 210

HHHHAhhAHHHhhaaaaHHaaaaHHH

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:03 PM (TDvv2)

214 "Jingle Bells" is absolutely not a holiday song.

Winter song, sure, in that it joyfully relays the entertainment value of taking your best girl out for a drive and drifting your one-horsepower racing sleigh around corners, and laughing at your friends who ran theirs into the ditch.

Holiday song? Never.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 09:04 PM (cSS7r)

215 Bob Eubanks is still alive at 86. Dave Ruprecht from Supermarket Sweep, too.

Posted by: Buzzer Facts at November 25, 2024 09:05 PM (nS6qG)

216 Looks like the goat path in Hudson Valley. Drove it a bunch when I worked at Indian Point. It's fun.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 25, 2024 09:05 PM (b4o9z)

217 I'm slowly pulling out the Christmas stuff to hang around my old condo. Probably do most of it tomorrow. My Thanksgiving feast will be made tomorrow and I'll eat it for the rest of the week. I go back to work Wed night and work 4 straight nights.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 09:05 PM (sAmhv)

218 I always liked this Christmas song as a kid:

https://youtu.be/MgIwLeASnkw

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 09:07 PM (6ydKt)

219 Suicide carols:

Last Christmas I gave you my Heart

So this is Christmas

....

... I thought there was a third one, but it's not coming to mind, happily.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 09:07 PM (cSS7r)

220 "Santa's Using Zebras Now" is a fine Christmas song especially for children who live further South.

Posted by: Equal Opportunity Offender at November 25, 2024 09:08 PM (nS6qG)

221 208
'To grandmother's house you float'

LOL

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 09:09 PM (3wi/L)

222 Winter song, sure, in that it joyfully relays the entertainment value of taking your best girl out for a drive and drifting your one-horsepower racing sleigh around corners, and laughing at your friends who ran theirs into the ditch.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 09:04 PM

We always take my sleigh 'cause it's never been beat,
and we've never missed yet with the girls we meet.
None of the guys go steady 'cause it wouldn't be right,
to leave their best girl home on a Saturday night.

Posted by: Brian Wilson and Mike Love at November 25, 2024 09:09 PM (a3Q+t)

223 214 Yeah, everyone loves the winter songs (Jingle Bells, Sleigh Ride, etc.) until Dec. 26 or, at latest, Jan. 2. After that, Goodbye, Winter!❄️

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:09 PM (v6JzV)

224 I distinctly remember Rush's final show before Christmas break. I believe it was 1997. He talked about the passing of his Dad and of how he was on a late-night flight near Christmastime and Silent Night (Mannheim Steamroller) was queued on his device. It made him feel closer to his pop again. He closed the show with that and it got real dusty for me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:11 PM (mH6SG)

225 Best version of O Holy Night: Eric Cartman.

j/k.

Sort of.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Part of the E-4 Mafia at November 25, 2024 09:11 PM (Ad8y9)

226 Insomuch as the movie PATTON took certain liberties...(remember Socialist/Commie infused coke snorting/boozing HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS) were making movies those days...

sure, Patton shot the donkey...and he shot the donkey's sister too...and he liked it.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:11 PM (TDvv2)

227 212
Here is a lovely version
https://youtu.be/7xtpJ4Q_Q-4

Posted by: Ciampino - dusty here at November 25, 2024 09:11 PM (i0xsb)

228 My 4 yo grandson is terrified Krampus is showing up.
No idea where he got that from.
Damn internet.

Posted by: Reforger at November 25, 2024 09:11 PM (xcIvR)

229 Office of the President-Elect announces Task Force and Special Prosecutor to fight rampant Penguin phobia. The Hate and Disinformation must stop.

Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at November 25, 2024 09:12 PM (nS6qG)

230 Do you think Ace gets an elf on a shelf? Would it need a safety harness? Discuss.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 09:12 PM (NMT5x)

231 Fox running B roll of 2 year old and 4 year old crossing the border unaccompanied. It is simultaneously heartbreaking and outraging.

There must be a word in German for this feeling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 09:13 PM (RIvkX)

232
5 flannel shirts
4 big mud tires
3 shotgun shells
2 huntin' dogs
And some parts to a Mustang GT

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 09:13 PM (QTCRF)

233 12 pack of Bud
11 wrestlin' tickets
10 o' Copenhagen
9 years probation
8 table dancers
7 packs of Red Man
6 cans of Spam
5 flannel shirts
4 big mud tires
3 shotgun shells
2 huntin' dogs
And some parts to a Mustang GT

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 09:14 PM (QTCRF)

234 OK, you guys are not singing along.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 09:15 PM (QTCRF)

235 The perfect combination of voice and song would be Russ Taff, singing O Holy Night.

If any of you have a link to such a track, I'd surely be appreciative, were you to generously share said by way of a link in this here thread.

Much thanks in advance!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 09:16 PM (Xo+UM)

236 We always take my sleigh 'cause it's never been beat,
and we've never missed yet with the girls we meet.
None of the guys go steady 'cause it wouldn't be right,
to leave their best girl home on a Saturday night.
Posted by: Brian Wilson and Mike Love

XD Precisely!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 09:16 PM (cSS7r)

237 Ok

Christmas songs...would you prefer 1930-1940's

or older?

I have a soft spot for the 'Vince Guaraldi' Trio, yeah that

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:16 PM (TDvv2)

238 I think this is going to be the best Christmas in many a year.

So glad to hear that. This one will definitely be the worst ever for me. Oh, well...life throws us curveballs and we just have to hope for a walk.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:16 PM (mH6SG)

239 I love Jimmy Buffet's Christmas album. Makes me dance and smile and miss my boys something fierce.

Damn. I miss them.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 09:18 PM (UCElq)

240 Fox running B roll of 2 year old and 4 year old crossing the border unaccompanied. It is simultaneously heartbreaking and outraging.

-

Serious question: Did you see wristbands?

Because that's apparently one way the cartel that trades in s3x slaves keeps up with them and accounts for them.

They weren't alone. They were in between handlers.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 09:18 PM (NXhou)

241 I would not send a knight out on a dogma like this.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:19 PM (gbOdA)

242 My 4 yo grandson is terrified Krampus is showing up.
No idea where he got that from.
Damn internet.
Posted by: Reforger at November 25, 2024 09:11 PM (xcIvR)

I'm a lot older than that, and I'm terrified he's showing up!

I'm glad I didn't know about Krampus when I was little. Santa was scary enough, if I really gave the logistics some thought.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 09:19 PM (NMT5x)

243 Even more depressing is realizing that they were taken into custody by our government and then moved into the next stage of the system.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 09:19 PM (NXhou)

244 Pandas suck completely in every negative way possible.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 09:19 PM (ufFY8)

245 5 flannel shirts
4 big mud tires
3 shotgun shells
2 huntin' dogs
And some parts to a Mustang GT
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 09:14 PM (QTCRF)

fivvveeee flannnnnelllll shiiiieertts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:20 PM (gbOdA)

246 234 OK, you guys are not singing along.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 09:15 PM (QTCRF)
----
I got held up at 3 shotgun shells. Couldn't decide if birdshot, buckshot or salt.

(In junior school in Kenya I had a teacher Mr Purdy. He gave me his James Bond paperbacks and got me started).

Posted by: Ciampino - trusty ol' Purdy at November 25, 2024 09:20 PM (i0xsb)

247 That bear eating the flying bread is adorable. But I find it hard to believe the bear couldn't plow right through that fence if it wanted to, to get to the giant tin can on wheels giving it tasty things.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 09:21 PM (wcIbG)

248 Serious question: Did you see wristbands?

Because that's apparently one way the cartel that trades in s3x slaves keeps up with them and accounts for them.

They weren't alone. They were in between handlers.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 09:18 PM (NXhou)
====
I presume that is their fate. They were in the hands of the CBP.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 09:21 PM (RIvkX)

249 The lights arent twinkling

Thanks for noticing Art.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:21 PM (gbOdA)

250 We will have the hap hap happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny fuckin Kaye.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:22 PM (gbOdA)

251 OK, you guys are not singing along.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 09:15 PM (QTCRF)
====

I'm off key.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 09:22 PM (RIvkX)

252 231

'There must be a word in German for this feeling.'

SchadenEmporung?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 09:23 PM (3wi/L)

253 TSO for the win! Only Christmas music I can listen to all year.

I hope my dear departed parents could forgive me for all the times Little Drummer Boy was on steady repeat...Wonder I didn't wear out that 45.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at November 25, 2024 09:23 PM (Cu0iA)

254 238 So glad to hear that. This one will definitely be the worst ever for me. Oh, well...life throws us curveballs and we just have to hope for a walk.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:16 PM (mH6SG)

I am sorry this is going to be a hard Christmas for you. Life does throw curve balls. Here for you, though, even through a grey box.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 09:24 PM (pZEOD)

255 235

Jim, how ya feeling (surely with both hands)

There were once this group called the anonymous4 back years ago that did sing this tune "The HOLLY & THE IVY.

Best heard in front of a hearth fire with a glass of your best on Christmas eve. The high of most high of perfect female harmony as I heard this years ago...

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:25 PM (TDvv2)

256 Krampus is a decent horror movie.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 09:25 PM (lxDEj)

257 I think this is going to be the best Christmas in many a year.

I think so too! Lots of reasons - new grandbaby on the way. Kids are doing well. The lovely Mrs.'s ailments are under control, etc.

Best days ever.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 09:25 PM (WXNFJ)

258 >>> My 4 yo grandson is terrified Krampus is showing up. No idea where he got that from.
Damn internet. Posted by: Reforger at November 25, 2024 09:11 PM (xcIvR)

Krampus is frightening, no joke. There's a German style Christmas market in Utah, and they have someone dress up as him. Kids take pics with him. It's such a weird part of an otherwise picturesque tradition.

Does anyone remember Rudolph's Shiny New Year, the Rankin Bass movie? That vulture terrified me as a kid.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 09:25 PM (wcIbG)

259 And a stripper in a Mitsubishi

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:25 PM (gbOdA)

260 I slapped the soldier
But I did not shoot no donkey's ass!

Posted by: Patton's greatest hits at November 25, 2024 09:26 PM (hovnC)

261 I am sorry this is going to be a hard Christmas for you. Life does throw curve balls. Here for you, though, even through a grey box.

Thank you, Piper. Very much appreciated.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:26 PM (mH6SG)

262 Remember all the grade school Christmas pageants? Omfg.

The kindergarten parents all got to the church two hours early and jostled each other for front seats. The primary school parents weren't far behind.

By the time the 8th grade parents showed up, we sat on folding chairs in the back of the church and passed several flasks around.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 09:26 PM (R0XxO)

263 Just listened to Thanksgiving hymns by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on YouTube. Magnificent.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:27 PM (v6JzV)

264 *clears throat

The first thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me
Is finding a Christmas tree...

The second thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me
Rigging up the lights
And finding a Christmas tree...

The third thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me
Hangovers
Rigging up the lights
And finding a Christmas tree...

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 09:27 PM (QTCRF)

265 My cat just pulled my tea bag out of my tea because the string was hanging over the edge. It’s chaos here.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 09:28 PM (pZEOD)

266 The fourth thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me
Sending Christmas cards
Hangovers
Rigging up the lights
And finding a Christmas tree...

The fifth thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me
Five months of bills!
Sending Christmas cards
Hangovers
Rigging up the lights
And finding a Christmas tree...

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 09:28 PM (QTCRF)

267 Posted by: Notorious BFD

Are you anywhere near the PNW?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 09:28 PM (R0XxO)

268 And a stripper in a Mitsubishi
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:25 PM (gbOdA)

*thinks

Has potential !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 09:28 PM (QTCRF)

269 My cat just pulled my tea bag out of my tea because the string was hanging over the edge. It’s chaos here.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 09:28 PM (pZEOD)
==-=

Not your tea. Not your teabag.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 09:28 PM (RIvkX)

270 Krampus sounds like a bad high school dance date.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:29 PM (gbOdA)

271 261 I am sorry this is going to be a hard Christmas for you. Life does throw curve balls. Here for you, though, even through a grey box.

Thank you, Piper. Very much appreciated.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:26 PM (mH6SG)

You can even come here so you may also enjoy the antics of wild cats!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 09:29 PM (pZEOD)

272 Are you anywhere near the PNW?

Nowhere even close.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:29 PM (mH6SG)

273
Suicide carols:
Last Christmas I gave you my Heart
So this is Christmas
....
... I thought there was a third one, but it's not coming to mind, happily.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

The Christmas Shoes

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2024 09:31 PM (63Dwl)

274 >>> We will have the hap hap happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny fuckin Kaye.

That is a staple! Can't wait to put it on after Thanksgiving.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 09:31 PM (wcIbG)

275 HOLY SMOKES: Democrat mega-donor John Morgan says Kamala Harris’s political future is OVER after she completely botched her campaign.

“If you can’t run a campaign, you can’t run a country.”

adios

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:31 PM (gbOdA)

276 262

just morph them all into a Charlie Brown's Christmas with your videos of your kids and it will become sweet again.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:32 PM (TDvv2)

277 @GuntherEagleman
·
48m
Dudes, if you were stuck on an island and you had to pick one…! Fani Willis or Letitia James?

yuk

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:33 PM (gbOdA)

278 266 My family raised Christmas trees. Finding the perfect one was never an issue for us.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:33 PM (v6JzV)

279 48m
Dudes, if you were stuck on an island and you had to pick one…! Fani Willis or Letitia James?

yuk
Posted by: rhennigantx
-----------
I'm not a strong swimmer, but I'd take my chances.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 09:34 PM (v8yjy)

280 Damn. Forgive me for being such a downer, folks. I gotta stop that. Ugh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:34 PM (mH6SG)

281 GuntherEagleman
·
48m
Dudes, if you were stuck on an island and you had to pick one…! Fani Willis or Letitia James?

yuk
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:33 PM (gbOdA)

I’d make a sex doll out of coconuts.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 09:34 PM (D6PGr)

282 What's going on BFD?
I would like to pray for you.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 09:34 PM (7gFa4)

283 269
Not your tea. Not your teabag.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25

The other one just shut himself in the bathroom. I know y’all are jealous of this excitement!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 09:34 PM (pZEOD)

284 Cats are irritating AF.

You people need to learn to love dogs.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:35 PM (v6JzV)

285 @89 driven over the Hawk's Nest several times. Orange County NY, the county just south of me , is definitely the Hudson Valley. The Hawk's Nest is on the west side of Orange County and looks down on the Delaware River.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 09:36 PM (FxDm7)

286 Bulg, one of the few good things left about PBS is they show "Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir." I've been blessed to see it a few times in person. Definitely worth a watch!

The 2024 Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir special will air on PBS on:
December 17: At 8 PM EST/7 PM CST
December 24: At 9:30 PM

A celebration of the season with Christmas classics and French carols, plus a story about Victor Hugo and his wife hosting a Christmas feast for impoverished children.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 09:36 PM (wcIbG)

287 Cats are irritating AF.

You people need to learn to love dogs.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:35 PM (v6JzV)

I can do both.

Nothing cooler than a dog and cat being best friends.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 09:36 PM (D6PGr)

288 Cats are irritating AF.

You people need to learn to love dogs.
Posted by: Bulg
---
I have both....and both are annoying

Posted by: lin-duh at November 25, 2024 09:36 PM (VCgbV)

289 277
'Dudes, if you were stuck on an island and you had to pick one…! Fani Willis or Letitia James?'

You'll find me chasing a walrus.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 09:36 PM (3wi/L)

290 I can't have a real tree anymore. I love the smell and the life and everything about a real Douglas Fir tree or a western cedar in my home.

But they make me sick sick sick. Something about the molds and spores and pollen.

Oh well. I can enjoy them just outside my window. And in the woods. And the mountains. All year
Long.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 09:36 PM (R0XxO)

291 I'm drinking a beer called "Psychedelic Cat Grass".

What can I say, I'm a sucker for packaging and citrusy dry hoppy beers.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 25, 2024 09:37 PM (kpS4V)

292 273

Dude,

We have SOCIAL WORKERS and DPS, and DHS within your city. Doctors that can do a 5150 if needed,

Just Saying...

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:37 PM (TDvv2)

293 You people need to learn to love dogs.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:35 PM (v6JzV)

Glub, you don't have to learn to love dogs!
It's built in!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 09:37 PM (hOUT3)

294 >>Does anyone remember Rudolph's Shiny New Year, the Rankin Bass movie? That vulture terrified me as a kid.
Posted by: LizLem

Those movies rock! They even have some good songs, although I can't remember what movie is what.
Silver and Gold. The Heat Miser song.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 09:37 PM (NMT5x)

295 What's going on BFD?
I would like to pray for you.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 09:34

Just everything at once. I won't go into it but prayers are always appreciated!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:38 PM (mH6SG)

296 Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 09:36 PM (FxDm7)

Does it look similar to rt 44 through Minnewaska Park?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 09:38 PM (D6PGr)

297 Seriously?

WTF???

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:38 PM (TDvv2)

298 278 266 My family raised Christmas trees. Finding the perfect one was never an issue for us.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:33 PM (v6JzV
Orangeburg County?

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 09:39 PM (LHPAg)

299 Cats are irritating AF.

You people need to learn to love dogs.
Posted by: Bulg
---

I personally find people irritating AF.

Cats are amusing and they don't call the cops if you stroke them in public.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 25, 2024 09:39 PM (kpS4V)

300 You'll find me chasing a walrus.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Penguins, even.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 09:39 PM (NMT5x)

301 Cats are irritating AF.

You people need to learn to love dogs.
Posted by: Bulg
------------
I have a dog that thinks it is a cat. Best and worst of both.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 09:40 PM (v8yjy)

302 Thanks for asking, Nurse.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:40 PM (mH6SG)

303 My favorite version of Little Drummer Boy..

http://tiny.cc/u6cxzz

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 25, 2024 09:41 PM (Cbio9)

304 I bet 50% of guys would literally choose to be stranded on a desert island with ( fill in your fantasy girl) .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 09:42 PM (D6PGr)

305 I'm sorry you're stuck in a shitticane, Notorious.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 25, 2024 09:42 PM (kpS4V)

306 293 Raghtorh, agreed!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:42 PM (v6JzV)

307 The perfect combination of voice and song would be Russ Taff, singing O Holy Night.

If any of you have a link to such a track, I'd surely be appreciative, were you to generously share said by way of a link in this here thread.

Much thanks in advance!
Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 09:16 PM

I can't find O Holy Night sung by Russ Taft, but here's a version by The Texas Tenors that might be a poor substitute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2bUQVBMFMg

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 09:42 PM (a3Q+t)

308 @296 Sebastian, yup though 44 which is about 15m south of me has a lot of turns. The Hawk's Nest is just straight and looks down about 200+ feet.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 09:42 PM (FxDm7)

309 I just saw this, appropriate for cafe:
@libsoftiktok • JUST IN: Haitians are fleeing Springfield, Ohio out of fear of mass deportations once Trump gets into office

They're fleeing the dogs (woof woof woof woof)
They're fleeing the cats (meow meow meow meow)
They're fleeing the pets of the people that live there.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 09:42 PM (wcIbG)

310 258 >>> My 4 yo grandson is terrified Krampus is showing up. No idea where he got that from.
Damn internet. Posted by: Reforger at November 25, 2024 09:11 PM (xcIvR)

Middle g-daughter dictated a letter to her mother for the Elf on the Shelf:
'Dear Eddie,
You can go anywhere in the house, but don't come in my room."

Her siblings enjoyed him, but he creeped her out.

Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 09:43 PM (f+FmA)

311 Just saw the NFL has agreed to let the Redskins use their logo again. Crazy how many corporate behemoths are suddenly shy about DEI since Trump won.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 09:43 PM (Yqpb4)

312 294

'The Heat Miser song'

Sometimes I'll pull that up on YouTube and listen to it for no damn reason at all.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 09:43 PM (3wi/L)

313 Cats aren't irritating. They just don't GAF.

If I had a friend who had a don't GAF attitude, I'd think he was pretty cool.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 09:43 PM (aOqEy)

314 298. Michigan.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:43 PM (v6JzV)

315 302 Thanks for asking, Nurse.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

If you need to escape. Buy a plane ticket. I have a guest room. You can walk on the beach and walk in the woods and escape for a bit.

Seriously.

Peace be with you.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 09:43 PM (R0XxO)

316 haffhowershower, the Rankin Bass films are truly great! I keep meaning to buy a copy, they are hard to catch for free streaming. Maybe this year, and do a marathon.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 09:44 PM (wcIbG)

317 Haitians are fleeing Springfield, Ohio out of fear of mass deportations once Trump gets into office

I saw a video today where someone had a professionally painted taco truck in Springfield called "Whiskers and Woof". LOLOLOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 09:44 PM (Yqpb4)

318 Dogs are whores.

They will lick anyone for a treat.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 09:44 PM (aOqEy)

319 Heat Miser and Cold Miser were awesome. As were Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:45 PM (v6JzV)

320 Just saw the NFL has agreed to let the Redskins use their logo again. Crazy how many corporate behemoths are suddenly shy about DEI since Trump won.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 09:43 PM (Yqpb4)

How about getting rid of the tranny cheerleaders.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 09:46 PM (D6PGr)

321 Silent Night, Mannheim Steamroller:

https://tinyurl.com/4447aekm

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:46 PM (mH6SG)

322 They will lick anyone for a treat.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 09:44 PM

As opposed to 'rons, many of whom would lick for a teat?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 09:46 PM (a3Q+t)

323 How about getting rid of the tranny cheerleaders.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 09:46 PM (D6PGr
Logical next step.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 09:47 PM (LHPAg)

324 I hate Mannheim Steamroller.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:48 PM (v6JzV)

325 Do not be afraid.

President Trump and his outstanding team of "NON SWAMPLINGS"
will right the ship of state once again.

And FEAR THEE THUS Socialist/Commies trying to hang on in the White House and ALL Departments of the Government.

WE will find you...

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:49 PM (TDvv2)

326 The Heat Miser song'

Sometimes I'll pull that up on YouTube and listen to it for no damn reason at all.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at

You're too much!

Posted by: Rex B at November 25, 2024 09:49 PM (JA+4L)

327 Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 09:43 PM

Thank you. You are a blessing and a treasure here at the HQ.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:49 PM (mH6SG)

328 Worst religious Christmas song, if there is such a thing:
"Mary, Did You Know?"

On the good side, I have a favorite version of "Silent Night" sung in German with a simple guitar accompaniment. I look forward to it every year.

Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 09:49 PM (f+FmA)

329 Heat Miser and Cold Miser were awesome. As were Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble.
Posted by: Bulg
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Agree.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 09:49 PM (v8yjy)

330 My new favorite Christmas song is Lauren Daigle signing Noel.

It's haunting.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 09:50 PM (aOqEy)

331 265 My cat just pulled my tea bag out of my tea because the string was hanging over the edge. It’s chaos here.
Posted by: Piper
.............................
That tea bag was asking for it!!

-the cat

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 09:50 PM (sAmhv)

332 277
Dudes, if you were stuck on an island and you had to pick one…! Fani Willis or Letitia James?

----
Eeow!
Used, secondhand goods.

Posted by: Ciampino - swim away at November 25, 2024 09:50 PM (i0xsb)

333 I really hope that ELON will buy out MSNBC.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 09:50 PM (TDvv2)

334 Haitians are fleeing Springfield, Ohio out of fear of mass deportations once Trump gets into office

not all pussies want to get eaten

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2024 09:50 PM (gKWVE)

335 I hate Mannheim Steamroller.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:48 PM

Now that we have that established...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 09:51 PM (mH6SG)

336 328 From what I’ve read, it was originally performed on just a guitar. So, appropriate.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:51 PM (v6JzV)

337 Always wrong, never in doubt.

Meghan McCain@MeghanMcCain
New Post:
Congresswoman McBride deserves dignity and respect and Republicans are not giving it.
I really wanted to get my thoughts out on this issue.
Link in bio! Please subscribe!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 09:52 PM (L/fGl)

338 Liked the meme : Little Drummer Boy sees a woman stressed from giving birth to the son of God and thinks "what this lady needs is a drum solo"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 09:54 PM (FxDm7)

339 336 328 From what I’ve read, it was originally performed on just a guitar. So, appropriate.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:51 PM (v6JzV)

Just a very small mixed choir from a Catholic college. It's really charming and does give you an idea of how it first sounded.

Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 09:54 PM (f+FmA)

340 Will be willowed but the red powder throwing climate radicals won’t be doing it much more in the US.

Two were sentenced to 24 months and 18 months . Plus restitution of 58k for poutin red powder over the case holding the US constitution.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 09:55 PM (D6PGr)

341 Hahahahaha

Two-thirds of DNC staffers were laid off as part of the downsizing on Wednesday, with only one day's notice and no severance, according to the union.

And they are asking for donations from the same people they just scammed a billion dollars from.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 09:55 PM (aOqEy)

342 Nightwatch,

a fan of female harmony are we? Prepare to have your world thoroughly rocked...

http://tiny.cc/c9cxzz

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 25, 2024 09:55 PM (Cbio9)

343 As opposed to 'rons, many of whom would lick for a teat?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Heh, intentional slip of the tongue?

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 25, 2024 09:56 PM (NMT5x)

344 http://tiny.cc/c9cxzz
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 25, 2024 09:55 PM (Cbio9)

Thanks JK!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 09:59 PM (hOUT3)

345 Congresswoman McBride deserves dignity and respect and Republicans are not giving it.
I really wanted to get my thoughts out on this issue.
Link in bio! Please subscribe!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 09:52 PM (L/fGl)

And the other congressional women have to surrender to its mental disease and it’s demand that he gets to use the women’s facilities.

If he cuts off his wang I might reconsider but not likely.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 09:59 PM (D6PGr)

346 .
NOOD

The ONT is here! The ONT is here!

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 09:59 PM (O7YUW)

347 I'd start Jack White's Shakin' on one tab, and then watch Heat Meiser muted while the other song plays.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (lhenN)

348 Thank you. You are a blessing and a treasure here at the HQ.
----
Amen.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (hovnC)

349 I hate Acme Steamroller.

Posted by: Wile E. Coyote at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (63Dwl)

350 In my experience, female harmony is an oxymoron. It's more like constant chaos.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 10:00 PM (L/fGl)

351 NOOD ONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 10:03 PM (KcwUg)

352 I'll re-post if this gets willowed:
Bought the frozen turkey breast (3 lbs.) this morning and put it in the fridge. Then, about five hours later, I realized I didn't want to thaw it out so early, so I put it in the freezer.
Do y'all think it's still okay?
They say you can re-freeze a thawed turkey, but I can't find anything on a barely begun to thaw one.

Very inexperienced turkey cooker here- we always went somewhere for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 10:04 PM (f+FmA)

353 Do not cross the enchanted panda. You will rue the day.

It's not called pandaemonium for nothing, the panda's wrath will make you beg for contrition.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 25, 2024 10:24 PM (fY84s)

354 Hello, I think your site might be having browser compatibility issues.
When I look at your website in Ie, it looks fine but when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping.

I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Other then that, fantastic blog!

Posted by: comment at November 26, 2024 02:49 AM (Pmtoh)

355 bookmarked!!, I love your website!

Posted by: olxtoto at November 26, 2024 04:13 AM (M+YPW)

Trump's DC "Election Interference" Case Dismissed

This judge needs a few years of Congressional and FBI investigation. She ruled against Trump on every single point.

Now she dismisses the case only because Jack Smith requests it. And he's only requesting it because DOJ policy says you can't prosecute a sitting president.

"As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant, Donald J. Trump, will be inaugurated as President on January 20, 2025," Smith's motion said. "It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President. But the Department and the country have never faced the circumstance here, where a federal indictment against a private citizen has been returned by a grand jury and a criminal prosecution is already underway when the defendant is elected President."
"Confronted with this unprecedented situation, the Special Counsel's Office consulted with the Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), whose interpretation of constitutional questions such as those raised here is binding on Department prosecutors. After careful consideration, the Department has determined that OLC's prior opinions concerning the Constitution's prohibition on federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting President apply to this situation and that as a result this prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated," said the motion.
"That prohibition is categorical and does not turn on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government's proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Government stands fully behind," the motion said.

Chutkan dismissed the charges without prejudice, so that a later vindictive prosecutor can revive the politically-motivated case.

Trump will pardon himself, but vindictive prosecutors will bring charges anyway, just to make him go to court where they will argue that a president can't pardon himself. (He can -- there are no restrictions on the power.)

BREAKING: Judge Chutkan orders the Trump case dismissed. pic.twitter.com/5ZfQrgdtI9
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 25, 2024

When leftists object to prosecuting the prosecutors, remind them who started this:

Dems during the Trump Admin: Mueller's sending his ass straight to prison!! https://t.co/zf68Mdzzn8
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 25, 2024

Posted by: Ace at 06:05 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 First!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)

2 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (xcxpd)

3 Gas

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (dOjkx)

4 Also, I voted for revenge.
I hope I get it.
I hope Trump gets it...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (xcxpd)

5 Can the judge and "prosecutor" can be charged in this case?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (VNX3d)

6 It's simple... there is no longer an election to interfere in.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (QAkQ3)

7 I could have been first but I ate too many nuts.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (vFG9F)

8 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 06:07 PM (YTB33)

9 5 Can the judge and "prosecutor" can be charged in this case?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (VNX3d)

Election interference... and Conspiracy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:07 PM (QAkQ3)

10 "Also, I voted for revenge."

I want 4 years of no holds barred I don't give a fk retribution.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 06:08 PM (vFG9F)

11
Hello Fellow Kids, I'm Taylor Lorenz, internet influencer & political commentator!

Ask Me Anything!

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 06:08 PM (7SO1z)

12
Go on, ask me something.

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 06:08 PM (7SO1z)

13
Too bad. I wanted to see the high-speed car chase through DC with Trump blasting away at the pursuing Federales, SUVs flying through the air in flames, fruit stands being crashed into.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:08 PM (dxSpM)

14 7 I could have been first but I ate too many nuts.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (vFG9F)

Won't the guy miss them?

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 06:08 PM (byWhc)

15 Can the judge and "prosecutor" can be charged in this case?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (VNX3d)

Election interference... and Conspiracy.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:07 PM (QAkQ3)

Discovery on that clown would have to lead somewhere. No way they weren't colluding.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 06:09 PM (n7h9X)

16 Test.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at November 25, 2024 06:09 PM (5G6LU)

17 And this is MONTHS after another Federal Judge said Jack was illegally appointed in the first place, and thus should not be prosecuting...

But... election was not over yet, they still had 'evidence' to release to the public 2 weeks before the election.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (QAkQ3)

18 12
Go on, ask me something.
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 06:08 PM (7SO1z)

Okay, does that ugly you have go clean to the bone? Seems like it does.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (byWhc)

19 what fd said @ 10!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (gY0JQ)

20 It's always projection with the left. Everything they now claim Trump wants to do to them and their supporters they were doing to him and his supporters.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (YbbtK)

21 "Go on, ask me something.
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz"

What's old as the hills and twice as desolate?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (vFG9F)

22 These villains are fortunate that Trump is not the monster they claim that he is, but they know that.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (PCK5/)

23 Go on, ask me something.
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 06:08 PM (7SO1z)

How old are you?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 25, 2024 06:11 PM (I8RRu)

24 20 It's always projection with the left. Everything they now claim Trump wants to do to them and their supporters they were doing to him and his supporters.
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (YbbtK)

I'm surprised they think we are that mean. Of course, they are, but we've never done those things to them before.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 06:11 PM (byWhc)

25 I could have been first but I ate too many nuts.
Posted by: fd

I'm sorry to tell you that because you have consumed seed oils, you will die at any moment.

RIP

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 06:11 PM (Odg76)

26
Whatever. They already threw everything, including a few bullets, at Trump and guess who didn't give a fuck? An outright majority of Americans, that's who.

At this point, Trump could have these prosecutors prosecuted by bloodthirsty troikas staffed by hanging judges and sentenced to being milled into animal feed, and most people would shrug and say "yup, seems fair."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 06:11 PM (7oYYI)

27 Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2
In a final act of partisanship and poor legal judgement, Jack Smith dismisses the J6 case "without prejudice" to keep alive Trump haters hope this garbage case can somehow be resurrected when he leaves office.

Smith is such a dirtbag

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2
Smith continues to misrepresent his case. He did this in the superseding indictment as well post SCOTUS immunity opinion. Although Smith charged Trump with acts that allegedly occurred *while* in office, he changed his description from "former president" to "private citizen"

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2
This is another lie.

Smith had to water down his initial indictment by several pages following immunity opinion. What remained would never have passed another immunity test by SCOTUS.

Further, SCOTUS also overturned how DOJ applied 1512c2, which represented 2 of the 4 counts in the J6 indictment.

Smith is a liar, a fraud, and potentially a rogue criminal and both Congress and a Trump DOJ must make a full blown and PUBLIC investigation into the special counsel's office a top priority.

https://tinyurl.com/56rvyb7d
document citations

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:11 PM (hovnC)

28 10 "Also, I voted for revenge."

I want 4 years of no holds barred I don't give a fk retribution.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 06:08 PM (vFG9F)

Absolutely yes.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 25, 2024 06:11 PM (OX9vb)

29 I be sad to announce thats the Brattleboro FART Tube progrem will be docomtinued once Trump becumes Presdent. He be has ordered this progrim to be canselled because of Waste...

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at November 25, 2024 06:11 PM (A2iSa)

30 Too late. Need consequences for pursuing the case

Posted by: Zeera The people are coming at November 25, 2024 06:12 PM (EL0rn)

31 Can Chutkan !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2024 06:12 PM (NtVYv)

32 "Won't the guy miss them?
Posted by: tcn in AK"

. Do I look gay to you? Cashews.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 06:12 PM (vFG9F)

33 Trump will pardon himself, but vindictive prosecutors will bring charges anyway, just to make him go to court where they will argue that a president can't pardon himself. (He can -- there are no restrictions on the power.)

Biden will need to pardon himself over Burisma and Ukraine.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 06:12 PM (UE7n4)

34 Discovery on that clown would have to lead somewhere. No way they weren't colluding.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 06:09 PM (n7h9X)

Court records show that they released 'evidence' of Trump's guilt 2 weeks before the election because 'the people had a right to know'.

That right there, in their own words... election interference as they made the decision based ON the election itself.... and releasing said info would taint the Jury pool.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:12 PM (QAkQ3)

35 Want a crystal-clear case of election interference and conspiracy? The 51 Traitors. Prosecute them!
https://tinyurl.com/4yba5rr2

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at November 25, 2024 06:13 PM (5G6LU)

36
How old are you?
Posted by: Joe Kidd

I already answered this question. OMG, Why are you so obsessed with my age?!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 06:13 PM (7SO1z)

37 If Trump were like Putin, they would shut their mouths pretty damned quickly.. Trump is benign and they rely on this.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 06:14 PM (PCK5/)

38 Chutkan dismissed the charges without prejudice, so that a later vindictive prosecutor can revive the politically-motivated case.

*types*
*deletes*

The left needs lawfare from Trump, with the intensity of a Mongoose going after a Cobra.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 25, 2024 06:14 PM (MsrgL)

39 PSA - Weird Dave’s latest x post is hysterical. If you don’t follow him, you should. I am still laughing.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 06:14 PM (p4NUW)

40
Okay, does that ugly you have go clean to the bone? Seems like it does.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Why are you so obsessed with me!?

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 06:14 PM (7SO1z)

41 Can we count Lorenz’s rings to determine her age?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 06:14 PM (PCK5/)

42 It's always projection with the left. Everything they now claim Trump wants to do to them and their supporters they were doing to him and his supporters.
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (YbbtK)

For once I hope they are right.

Posted by: The demon on your shoulder at November 25, 2024 06:15 PM (aD39U)

43 At this point, Trump could have these prosecutors prosecuted by bloodthirsty troikas staffed by hanging judges and sentenced to being milled into animal feed, and most people would shrug and say "yup, seems fair."

I would object to that. We already have prions and mad cow disease. God only knows what diseases would be caused by milling these prosecutors into animal feed.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 25, 2024 06:15 PM (yOPBE)

44 What kind of name is "Chutkan," anyway?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 25, 2024 06:15 PM (YqDXo)

45 Hello Fellow Kids, I'm Taylor Lorenz, internet influencer & political commentator!

Ask Me Anything!

When did you stop diddling pre-teen girls, Taylor?

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 25, 2024 06:15 PM (MsrgL)

46 dammit

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at November 25, 2024 06:15 PM (aD39U)

47 *YMCA dance*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 06:15 PM (WL2lA)

48 38 Chutkan dismissed the charges without prejudice, so that a later vindictive prosecutor can revive the politically-motivated case.

*types*
*deletes*

The left needs lawfare from Trump, with the intensity of a Mongoose going after a Cobra.
Posted by: BifBewalski at November 25, 2024 06:14 PM (MsrgL)

And Federal Statute of Limitations will LONG be over before Trump is out of office.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:15 PM (QAkQ3)

49
What's old as the hills and twice as desolate?
Posted by: fd

My family isn't safe because of you people like you.
Why are you so obsessed with me!!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 06:16 PM (7SO1z)

50 vengeance, retribution, ... and trebuchets!

I personally wouldn't mind one bit if we added Aggressive Warfare against the left (like they've been doing to us for decades) to the above. go from merely reactive to proactive.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 25, 2024 06:16 PM (gY0JQ)

51 It's always projection with the left. Everything they now claim Trump wants to do to them and their supporters they were doing to him and his supporters.
Posted by: steevy
-------

'ALWAYS' , merits emphasis.

Then, there's hypocrisy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 06:16 PM (XeU6L)

52 44 Who can? Chutkan!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at November 25, 2024 06:16 PM (5G6LU)

53 We know from Jussie Smollet's recent case then there's a no-backsies part of dropped charges.

Because it was NO FAIR! trying to press charges again that were dropped owning to VIP influence.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:16 PM (krQz2)

54
What kind of name is "Chutkan," anyway?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 25, 2024 06:15 PM (YqDXo)

Commie. Right down to the last corpuscle.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:16 PM (dxSpM)

55 I miss the movie threads…

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 06:17 PM (PCK5/)

56 Cockroaches starting to scurry back under the floorboards.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 06:17 PM (WL2lA)

57 While the case was dismissed it can be restarted the minute another democrat wins the whitehouse. Everyone should know they do not care about the rule of law and will ignore the statute of limitations just like they did in the NYC case.

Trump needs to pardon himself on the way out the door in 2029.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 06:18 PM (Rcnd3)

58 HEY, whatever happened to the National Popular Vote Compact??

The 18 Leftwing states that signed on to it should by rights donate their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote: Donald John Trump!

Fork them over, WA, OR, CA, CO, NM, MN, IL, NY, VT, MA, CT, NJ, RI, ME, DE, and of course, DC!

Posted by: Beverly at November 25, 2024 06:18 PM (Epeb0)

59
Repost:

In case you missed it:

Head of fake news peddler "Axios" lashes out at Elon Musk and whines like a bitch: "Being a reporter is really hard!"

He is now a Meme:

https://is.gd/g1oNsa

Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:18 PM (7SO1z)

60 ate too many nuts.

Sack lunch.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 06:19 PM (dOjkx)

61 So perpetual lawfare or assassination? The other option, elections, @ $1billion a pop is just too damned expensive for our champaign Socialist deep state.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at November 25, 2024 06:19 PM (wBaIH)

62 Ding zings Gukesh in game 1 of world chess championship.
worldchampionship.fide.com

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at November 25, 2024 06:19 PM (5G6LU)

63 At this point, Trump could have these prosecutors prosecuted by bloodthirsty troikas staffed by hanging judges and sentenced to being milled into animal feed, and most people would shrug and say "yup, seems fair."

I would object to that. We already have prions and mad cow disease. God only knows what diseases would be caused by milling these prosecutors into animal feed.
Posted by: Chuck C at November 25, 2024 06:15 PM (yOPBE)

There are too many to use North Sentinel Island.

If you want them converted into animal feed, I'd ship the results to China, or maybe impoverished areas of Africa.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:20 PM (VNX3d)

64 I call her Judge Chucklaw.

She's the judge that said directly to a J6 defendant and their lawyer what was tantamount to declaring a change of venue necessary, but blithely ignored the what she herself implied on her way to sentence another trespasser to the DC gulags.

She said something to the effect of "You have to understand how angry the City of DC still is about January 6."

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:20 PM (krQz2)

65 I would love to see a variety of medieval tortures and heads on pikes, but alas, I think I'll be disappointed.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 06:20 PM (+iO64)

66
Speaking of movies:

Ace should watch Gladiator II and review it for our entertainment.

It's The Suck. Like, Real Bad. Like, way worse than Prometheus.

Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:20 PM (7SO1z)

67 It's The Suck. Like, Real Bad. Like, way worse than Prometheus.
Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:20 PM (7SO1z)

Unpossible!

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at November 25, 2024 06:21 PM (aD39U)

68 52 44 Who can? Chutkan!
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at November 25, 2024 06:16 PM (5G6LU)
Chutkan, sounds really close to shitcan. Coincidence, or what is known as a clue?

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 06:21 PM (LHPAg)

69 Hey though, how is Prometheus III? I really hated Covenant.

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at November 25, 2024 06:21 PM (aD39U)

70 Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiff 3h
The Justice Dept and the court system failed to uphold the principle that no one is above the law.

DOJ by neglecting to promptly investigate the events of Jan 6, and the courts by willfully delaying progress of the case and providing immunity.

The public deserved better.

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 3h
Enjoy the bitter tears of defeat and anger at Garland and Smith

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:22 PM (hovnC)

71 HEY, whatever happened to the National Popular Vote Compact??

The 18 Leftwing states that signed on to it should by rights donate their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote: Donald John Trump!

Fork them over, WA, OR, CA, CO, NM, MN, IL, NY, VT, MA, CT, NJ, RI, ME, DE, and of course, DC!
Posted by: Beverly at November 25, 2024 06:18 PM (Epeb0)
---
It only ever went into effect if they got states to sign it whose electoral votes added up to 270.

It also hasn't survived a Supreme Court test either, which it could very likely fail, as the single agreement of the states is supposed to the the Constitution.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:22 PM (krQz2)

72 I don't think they will go after Trump after his term, he will be out of politics and power. But because Smith didn't ask the case be dismissed with prejudice they have signaled that they want the war to continue so game on.

Let the investigations and prosecutions begin.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 06:22 PM (LkLld)

73 But... election was not over yet, they still had 'evidence' to release to the public 2 weeks before the election.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (QAkQ3)

It's amusing that they made those wonderful plans, and not a single voter in the country cared about their so-called "evidence". It was all for nothing. (except for the harrassment and aggravation)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 06:22 PM (wyMQY)

74 If the Nat. Pop. Vote contract were enforced this time, it would give EVERY state 'won' by Harris/Walz to the Republicans, with the sole exception of Virginia. 209 electoral votes in all.

Study on that, folks. The "Democrat" states are the only ones humping to get rid of the Electoral College.

This also underlines the political (albeit not the legal) importance of getting out and voting in lopsided states, whether 'safe' or 'hopeless,' if only to forestall this gross violation of the Constitution and our rights as citizens.

Posted by: Beverly at November 25, 2024 06:22 PM (Epeb0)

75 It's the old, mobile goal trick.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at November 25, 2024 06:23 PM (uTXDd)

76 Womp Womp

Posted by: jsg at November 25, 2024 06:23 PM (7kKPC)

77 They should juxtapose the vids of the Left trying to jail Trump next to the vids of the Left with their hair on fire saying Trump will try to jail all his enemies.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 06:23 PM (D6PGr)

78 No one being above the law, Adam Schiff should be investigated for pedophilia.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:23 PM (krQz2)

79 >>> Now she dismisses the case only because Jack Smith requests it. And he's only requesting it because DOJ policy says you can't prosecute a sitting president.
====

Segue into a new series of impeachment proceedings.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 06:23 PM (/lPRQ)

80
I cued it up for Ace:

Ace's new girlfriend, Ana K., speaks like a "based" girl, and she's all dolled up:

https://is.gd/qO12sn

Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (7SO1z)

81 I don't pretend to know the intricacies of lawfare, but I think the reason the case was dismissed is because they lost. The whole point was to keep Trump out of office, and it didn't work.

Whether anyone involved will be held accountable, who knows, but it would be like a divorce case, where the wife is accusing the husband of cheating, and he's spent the past 9 months defending himself against false accusations.

So finally when the case gets to court (or the settlement process), and the wife finds she's Shit out of luck in getting half his stuff, why keep accusing him of cheating. What's the point.

You lost. Go harass some other schmuck.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (dGCAG)

82 So yet another "walls are closing in" event has concluded ias a small wet fart.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

83 If you want them converted into animal feed, I'd ship the results to China, or maybe impoverished areas of Africa.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:20 PM (VNX3d

Purina Bad Dog Chow. When he pisses in the corner, he gets a bowl of Fani.

Any dog who fails to bite Jonah Goldberg gets SDNY Blend for a week.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (7oYYI)

84 Possibly already mentioned:
I'm reading that the clause "without prejudice" means that the case can be reopened later.
If so, this is just more persecution.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (MeG8a)

85 It's the old, mobile goal trick.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at November 25, 2024 06:23 PM (uTXDd)
---
Dems don't even plant them in the ground anymore.

They keep them on dollies.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (krQz2)

86 57 While the case was dismissed it can be restarted the minute another democrat wins the whitehouse. Everyone should know they do not care about the rule of law and will ignore the statute of limitations just like they did in the NYC case.

Trump needs to pardon himself on the way out the door in 2029.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 06:18 PM (Rcnd3)

On the other hand, JD Vance should be President from 2028 to 2036.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (wyMQY)

87 Schadenfraude.

Fuck you, Jack.

Fuck. You.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (aOqEy)

88 HEY, whatever happened to the National Popular Vote Compact??

The 18 Leftwing states that signed on to it should by rights donate their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote: Donald John Trump!

Fork them over, WA, OR, CA, CO, NM, MN, IL, NY, VT, MA, CT, NJ, RI, ME, DE, and of course, DC!
Posted by: Beverly at November 25, 2024 06:18 PM (Epeb0)

I think that particular movement is pretty much dead now. Or will be soon. They weren't counting on something like this happening. Typical leftists.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (g8Ew8)

89
Is California finished counting votes? What's it been, three weeks?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (dxSpM)

90
R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalerts

🚨#BREAKING: White House officials say that President Joe Biden will be attending Donald trumps inauguration which will take place on January 20th 2025

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (TGPs7)

91 70 Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiff 3h
The Justice Dept and the court system failed to uphold the principle that no one is above the law.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:22 PM (hovnC)

So, then Trump can sue you for slander and libel for when you said you had PROOF that Trump was colluding with Russia and Vlad Putin?

Or will you still hide behind the speech and debate clause, even though you said this in public, not in Congress.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (QAkQ3)

92 #39 Dave's Not Here @Weirddave0 20m
Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (hovnC)

93 Segue into a new series of impeachment proceedings.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 06:23 PM (/lPRQ)

Speaker Johnson isn't very popular around here, but he's not going to let that happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (wyMQY)

94 49
What's old as the hills and twice as desolate?
Posted by: fd

My family isn't safe because of you people like you.
Why are you so obsessed with me!!

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 06:16 PM (7SO1z

Don't get your saggy titties in a twist.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (aOqEy)

95 If you want them converted into animal feed, I'd ship the results to China, or maybe impoverished areas of Africa.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:20 PM (VNX3d

Purina Bad Dog Chow. When he pisses in the corner, he gets a bowl of Fani.

Any dog who fails to bite Jonah Goldberg gets SDNY Blend for a week.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (7oYYI)

Dogs and Cats don't deserve that! Feed for cattle, sheep, or goats makes more sense. I should have included Iran in that list, with goat feed.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (VNX3d)

96 Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 3h
I encourage @ChuckGrassley to immediately send a letter to Jack Smith warning him not to leave the country. I also detail some areas of investigation for the biggest loser in DOJ history.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (hovnC)

97
Can the judge and "prosecutor" can be charged in this case?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (VNX3d)

Make Frogmarching Great Again!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (y9nCu)

98 The prosecution was likely dropped because

1. It didn't keep Trump from getting elected.
2. Jack Smith doesn't have to reveal that he got bupkis--and Dem-drones can continue to think that the levers of justice were rigged against them once again (See Adam Schitt)

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (krQz2)

99 I say let bygones be bygones.

JK! No I don't.

Retributions, pain, wailing and gnashing of teeth, the public stocks, tar and feathers, gibbeting, and Pinochet-style helo exercises are in order.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (WXNFJ)

100
Any dog who fails to bite Jonah Goldberg gets SDNY Blend for a week.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (7oYYI)

Those Hill's prescription foods you get from the vet no dog ever has wanted to eat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (dxSpM)

101 Jack figures, "Meh, WWIII should be fully involved before Trump get sworn in."

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (/lPRQ)

102 90
R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalerts

🚨#BREAKING: White House officials say that President Joe Biden will be attending Donald trumps inauguration which will take place on January 20th 2025
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (TGPs7)

Does he realize it's not his inauguration?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (aOqEy)

103
58 HEY, whatever happened to the National Popular Vote Compact??

The 18 Leftwing states that signed on to it should by rights donate their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote: Donald John Trump!

Fork them over, WA, OR, CA, CO, NM, MN, IL, NY, VT, MA, CT, NJ, RI, ME, DE, and of course, DC!
Posted by: Beverly

It only takes effect when they have enough states on board to equal at least 270 electoral votes. They are sitting at 209 right now.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 06:27 PM (p4NUW)

104 I cued it up for Ace:

Ace's new girlfriend, Ana K., speaks like a "based" girl, and she's all dolled up:

https://is.gd/qO12sn
Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:24 PM (7SO1z)

Won't load on the work pooter.

Look, I don't care what anyone says, even when she was spouting pure leftist bullshit, if you didn't want to bang her, you're gay.

Don't tell me "Don't stick your stick in crazy." Shut up. If you wouldn't have wanted that, you sux the peener. That's all there is to it.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 06:27 PM (dGCAG)

105 BREAKING: White House officials say that President Joe Biden will be attending Donald trumps inauguration which will take place on January 20th 2025
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (TGPs7)

Great. I hope there aren't any sloped roofs around.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 06:27 PM (7oYYI)

106 Schiff can go schiff himself

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:27 PM (YbbtK)

107 102
Does he realize it's not his inauguration?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024

They are eeking out as much pomp as they possibly can bleed before they exit stage left.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 06:28 PM (p4NUW)

108 Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.
Posted by: andycanuck

I can't imagine how this could happen but I do admire your effort. And hers too!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 06:28 PM (WXNFJ)

109 Is California finished counting votes? What's it been, three weeks?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (dxSpM)
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The funny thing I heard is that they probably want to stop the count, because it's leaning redder as the count continues (or at least it was at one point).

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:28 PM (krQz2)

110 I do not think anyone who went after Trump cannot be charged with deprivation of rights under color of law.

I wish we weren't in this position but I believe the only to prevent it happening again is if people go to jail.

Naturally, the GOPe will fight against this every step of the way.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 06:28 PM (tT6L1)

111 One of Biden's fangirl influencers JoJo from Jersey absolutely lost her sh*t on X about the dismissal. Every narrative bs thrown into a thread screeching at Trump and Republicans. I smiled and smiled

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 06:29 PM (FxDm7)

112 🚨#BREAKING: White House officials say that President Joe Biden will be attending Donald trumps inauguration which will take place on January 20th 2025
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (TGPs7)

Does he realize it's not his inauguration?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (aOqEy)

They told him it was an ice cream social with Brownie Troop 1368.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 06:29 PM (dGCAG)

113 It only takes effect when they have enough states on board to equal at least 270 electoral votes. They are sitting at 209 right now.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 06:27 PM (p4NUW)

They've mainly got the Kamala States, and they're stuck. The whole idea is stupid on so many different levels; one of them is the idea that they could talk smaller red states into allowing California to vote for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 06:29 PM (wyMQY)

114 I would love to see a variety of medieval tortures and heads on pikes, but alas, I think I'll be disappointed.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Gibbets. They didn't have lamposts at the time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 06:30 PM (XeU6L)

115 Does he realize it's not his inauguration?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:26 PM (aOqEy)
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Trump should hire an Easter Bunny to direct him around.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:30 PM (krQz2)

116 Emergencies , try duct tape all around that knee joint.
Yeah I'm a born again hillbilly..

Posted by: humphreyrobot at November 25, 2024 06:30 PM (uTXDd)

117 Look, I don't care what anyone says, even when she was spouting pure leftist bullshit, if you didn't want to bang her, you're gay.

Don't tell me "Don't stick your stick in crazy." Shut up. If you wouldn't have wanted that, you sux the peener. That's all there is to it.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 06:27 PM (dGCAG)
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Sorry, not a 1. Horseface is a no-go.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)

118
Great. I hope there aren't any sloped roofs around.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 06:27 PM (7oYYI)

I've been a bit surprised the Deep State didn't take a shot at Joe during the campaign. It's not like he's doing anything important anyway, Kammie becomes Our First Black Female Presidentette and the DS can start the Great Terror.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:30 PM (dxSpM)

119
Someone "fixed" the Jaguar ad. It's perfect, now"

https://is.gd/MJyG9J

Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:31 PM (7SO1z)

120 So we're clear, by all these cases being dismissed, this is admitting that none of these cases had any merit.

To me, that's a winning lawsuit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:31 PM (aOqEy)

121 108 Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.
Posted by: andycanuck

I can't imagine how this could happen but I do admire your effort. And hers too!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 06:28 PM (WXNFJ)

the story is begging for a "Hey, the same thing happened to me last night!!!" joke.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 06:31 PM (wyMQY)

122 Schiff can go schiff himself

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:27 PM (YbbtK)
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Jerry Wadler can show him how.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:31 PM (krQz2)

123 the "without prejudice" isn't that big a deal.

Statute will have run; I think it's 5 years?

It's not tolled by the filing of the suit, IIRC.
And, even if it was, 3 years from J6 to filing plus four more.

And the bones of Jack Smith, with a few scraps of rotting flesh left upon them, as they hang in the Crow's Nest outside the DOJ HQ ought to warn off any further prosecution.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 06:32 PM (8Kx9y)

124 Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.
Posted by: andycanuck

I can't imagine how this could happen but I do admire your effort. And hers too!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 06:28 PM (WXNFJ)

the story is begging for a "Hey, the same thing happened to me last night!!!" joke.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 06:31 PM (wyMQY)

At least it was in a good cause.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:32 PM (VNX3d)

125 113
They've mainly got the Kamala States, and they're stuck. The whole idea is stupid on so many different levels; one of them is the idea that they could talk smaller red states into allowing California to vote for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Right! People who don’t understand the electoral college are exactly why we need it.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 06:32 PM (p4NUW)

126 I've been a bit surprised the Deep State didn't take a shot at Joe during the campaign. It's not like he's doing anything important anyway, Kammie becomes Our First Black Female Presidentette and the DS can start the Great Terror.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:30 PM (dxSpM)

Yup. The Kirov Option. Late last year / early this year would have been the time for that cynical play. I was half expecting it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 06:32 PM (7oYYI)

127 Funny how a Kangaroo Court case disappeared

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 06:32 PM (fwDg9)

128 There are too many to use North Sentinel Island.

If you want them converted into animal feed, I'd ship the results to China, or maybe impoverished areas of Africa.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:20 PM (VNX3d)

*********

Hey, what about us? We have to eat as well!

Posted by: The Sand Fleas at November 25, 2024 06:33 PM (026f8)

129 Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (hovnC)

Did you fall out of the trapeze?

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at November 25, 2024 06:33 PM (aD39U)

130 Feels like a humble brag from andycanuck

That's what you get for using the kama sutra as a how-to manual!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 06:33 PM (OTdqV)

131 BREAKING: White House officials say that President Joe Biden will be attending Donald trumps inauguration which will take place on January 20th 2025
Posted by: Mister Ghost

"Jill, Jill, Jill, when does the movie start? Did I have breakfast? Oh, look, an airplane ... Zzzzzzzzzz"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (IG4Id)

132 the story is begging for a "Hey, the same thing happened to me last night!!!" joke.
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Maybe Weird Dave is ~~doing~~ posting the ONT tonight and we can suggest it??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (hovnC)

133 We all want pain and retribution, dems just want to get along. Will Trump go after anyone or does he have enough on his plate to just let it go? Or maybe one of his attacks dogs gets things started.

Posted by: Megthered at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (Mtips)

134 HEY, whatever happened to the National Popular Vote Compact??
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*spits*

Splitters!!

Posted by: The Popular National Vote Compact at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (krQz2)

135 I've been a bit surprised the Deep State didn't take a shot at Joe during the campaign. It's not like he's doing anything important anyway, Kammie becomes Our First Black Female Presidentette and the DS can start the Great Terror.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:30 PM (dxSpM)
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If you haven't noticed, none of these guys are James Bond material. They're not even Austin Powers.

They got as far as they did during the first term because they were so crooked that no one expected it. But they were never competent.

And that was the first team. These guys are terrible. KGB would have them all in gimp suits within a half hour giving up everything. Really sad. Pathetic. Total loser.

Everyone says so. No energy, low T, sad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (ZOv7s)

136 I do wonder who's in charge of the govt right now

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (OTdqV)

137 Bet they run away to a foreign land

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (fwDg9)

138 "110 I do not think anyone who went after Trump cannot be charged with deprivation of rights under color of law."

THIS!

deserves wide application!

start with every single politician who has ever proposed or voted for gun control laws, and just keep going.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (gY0JQ)

139
Young couple: "Oooh, ahhhh!"

Old couple: "Ow, ouch!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (dxSpM)

140 I do wonder who's in charge of the govt right now
Posted by: vmom

Same groups as were in charge the last 3 3/4 years.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (WXNFJ)

141 And Trump won't even have to engage in illegal or dubious methods to fire them and investigate them in the most proctological of ways either. Their own actions and statements damn them.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (SSBCb)

142 Bet they run away to a foreign land
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (fwDg9)

The Sand Fleas will be waiting for them!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (VNX3d)

143 Where's General Flynn?
I want to see him become part of team retribution too

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (XLfSN)

144 HEY, whatever happened to the National Popular Vote Compact??

The 18 Leftwing states that signed on to it should by rights donate their electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote: Donald John Trump!

Fork them over, WA, OR, CA, CO, NM, MN, IL, NY, VT, MA, CT, NJ, RI, ME, DE, and of course, DC!
Posted by: Beverly at November 25, 2024 06:18 PM (Epeb0)
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It only ever went into effect if they got states to sign it whose electoral votes added up to 270.

It also hasn't survived a Supreme Court test either, which it could very likely fail, as the single agreement of the states is supposed to the the Constitution.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:22 PM

It isn't going to survive any legal challenge as none of the states can enter into any sort of agreement with any other state unless congress blesses it. Article 1 section 10 explains it:

"No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 06:36 PM (Rcnd3)

145 Yup. The Kirov Option. Late last year / early this year would have been the time for that cynical play. I was half expecting it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 06:32 PM (7oYYI)
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Look at the shooters they came up with! This is what happens when a core value of your movement is that guns are icky and no one of quality should know shit about them.

See also: Soyboy rifle shoot and Walz wrestling with a shotgun.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:36 PM (ZOv7s)

146 128, exactly!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 25, 2024 06:36 PM (gY0JQ)

147 90
R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalerts

🚨#BREAKING: White House officials say that President Joe Biden will be attending Donald trumps inauguration which will take place on January 20th 2025
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (TGPs7)

________________________

The Roomba just wants to experience the pageantry of that final Air Force One flight. Most leaving presidents get a nice little send off in the media as well. He won't get one.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 06:36 PM (dIske)

148 143 Where's General Flynn?
I want to see him become part of team retribution too
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (XLfSN

John Brennen.

I want Brennen.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:36 PM (aOqEy)

149 with every single politician who has ever proposed or voted for gun control

Gas.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 06:37 PM (dOjkx)

150 Young couple: "Oooh, ahhhh!"

Old couple: "Ow, ouch!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Old Couple:

"Hey Honey, I'd like to get nekkid tonight!"

"I'll call around and see what I can find for you."

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 06:37 PM (WXNFJ)

151 I do wonder who's in charge of the govt right now

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (OTdqV)
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Still the DC politburo.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:37 PM (krQz2)

152 Remember when DOJ dropped case against Flynn but that asshat judge continued the persecution?
What was that fucktards name again?
He needs a legal woopin too

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at November 25, 2024 06:38 PM (XLfSN)

153 Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash 3h
Biden fought the teleprompter and lost again... This time at the annual Turkey Pardon.

56 days!

https://tinyurl.com/yc29u8sb
19 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:38 PM (hovnC)

154 Did you fall out of the trapeze?
Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at November 25, 2024 06:33 PM (aD39U)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 25, 2024 06:38 PM (OX9vb)

155 Impeach this Bitch. Overturn her malicious prosecution. Vacate every Judge, every conviction in DC. There can be no prosecutions in DC. No Judge. No Juries. They do not qualify for representation.

Posted by: Oso loco at November 25, 2024 06:38 PM (ILafk)

156 Bet they run away to a foreign land
Posted by: Skip

I'll just make things worse. The clock on statue of limitations stops when a suspect leaves the country. They'd just give Trump's DOJ more time to put together a case, then raid their asses with a Seal Team when it's ready.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 06:38 PM (IG4Id)

157
I knew he'd fuck up the stupid turkey pardon thing.

Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:39 PM (7SO1z)

158 Is California finished counting votes? What's it been, three weeks?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Still 'curing' votes for Democrats.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 06:39 PM (/lPRQ)

159 I knew he'd fuck up the stupid turkey pardon thing.
Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:39 PM (7SO1z)

He accidentally pardoned Hunter.

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at November 25, 2024 06:39 PM (aD39U)

160 This would be a good start in dealing with the scum

https://youtu.be/ypW9ptwviRU

Except I'd want a rough cut, with lots and lots of large splinters....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:39 PM (VNX3d)

161 157
I knew he'd fuck up the stupid turkey pardon thing.
Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:39 PM (7SO1z

Did Biden shoot the turkey?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:39 PM (aOqEy)

162 143 Where's General Flynn?
I want to see him become part of team retribution too
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at November 25, 2024 06:35 PM (XLfSN)
____________________

It wouldn't shock me to see his name pop up as a special envoy to concentrate on problem areas like they did with the Middle East. Trump pulled a fast one (in a way) on Rubio. He gave him the Sec. of State, and then took the ME off the board by assigning a special envoy to the region that reports directly to the White House. I bet they do the same thing with Ukraine. Such an approach removes the Establishment from turning it into a cash cow armament region.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 06:40 PM (dIske)

163 Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiff 3h
The Justice Dept and the court system failed to uphold the principle that no one is above the law.

DOJ by neglecting to promptly investigate the events of Jan 6, and the courts by willfully delaying progress of the case and providing immunity.

The public deserved better.

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 3h
Enjoy the bitter tears of defeat and anger at Garland and Smith
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:22 PM (hovnC)

your OWN justice department Adam Schiff?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 06:40 PM (n7h9X)

164 Remember when DOJ dropped case against Flynn but that asshat judge continued the persecution?
What was that fucktards name again?
He needs a legal woopin too

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at November 25, 2024 06:38 PM (XLfSN)
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Emmett Sullivan.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:40 PM (krQz2)

165 Michael Whatley @ChairmanWhatley 3h
CALIFORNIA ELECTION INTEGRITY:

Two updates as vote counting in California continues.

1. The RNC and @CAGOP have been on the ground with attorneys and observers across the state throughout the process of voting, curing, and counting.

2. It is absurd for California to accept ballots by mail up to 7 days after Election Day and take almost a month to count them. The RNC has filed lawsuits to stop this and will continue to fight aggressively to force all states to stop accepting ballots after Election Day.

Every vote in every state matters, and the RNC will work with our state parties and candidates to ensure Election Integrity across the country. It is clear that we need real election reforms to Protect the Vote in California.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:41 PM (hovnC)

166 He accidentally pardoned Hunter.
Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at November 25, 2024 06:39 PM (aD39U)
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Only because Beau died in a Thanksgiving pardon mix-up.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:41 PM (krQz2)

167 Nothing to see here comrades!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 06:42 PM (hOUT3)

168 I see the dismissal as an admission that the whole thing was to prevent Trump from being able to be elected again.

Posted by: Decaf at November 25, 2024 06:42 PM (unUNN)

169 Trump pulled a fast one (in a way) on Rubio. He gave him the Sec. of State, and then took the ME off the board by assigning a special envoy to the region that reports directly to the White House. I bet they do the same thing with Ukraine. Such an approach removes the Establishment from turning it into a cash cow armament region.
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 06:40 PM (dIske)

One reason Rubio might not mind - over the last few years, Rubio has made himself into quite the expert on Latin America and China, but he hasn't had much involvment in Middle Eastern Affairs. So that allows him to concentrate on the areas he knows best.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 06:42 PM (wyMQY)

170 To all saying “revenge” and believe me I understand it - it’s not revenge - it’s justice and the rule of law. We are supposed to be a nation of laws - not men (yes I’m ripping off John Adams). But it’s important- the people running this stuff were outlaws and they need to be held to account.

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at November 25, 2024 06:42 PM (Uy2Lz)

171 Hey Honey, I'd like to get nekkid tonight!"

"I'll call around and see what I can find for you."
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 06:37 PM (WXNFJ)
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"Hey honey, how'd you like to have sex tonight?"

"Sure, let me see if my boyfriend is free."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:42 PM (ZOv7s)

172 There can be 3am home searching for every judge involved in the Kangaroo Courts

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 06:43 PM (fwDg9)

173 Duct tape, is there anything it CAN'T do?

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:43 PM (YbbtK)

174 I see the dismissal as an admission that the whole thing was to prevent Trump from being able to be elected again.

Posted by: Decaf at November 25, 2024 06:42 PM (unUNN)
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But it saves the embarrassment like when the Mueller investigation finished.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:44 PM (krQz2)

175 168 Concur.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at November 25, 2024 06:44 PM (5G6LU)

176 I spoke with avowed leftist today who was still bedeviled by the election results. I said, here are a few reasons that people will never forget;
- You subverted the law to lock people up for J6 charges, many which would have been misdemeanors or a fine. You further weaponized the law to try and jail an opposition candidate.
- You used COVID as an excuse to completely subvert most of The Bill of Rights. You forced people to take medicine they didn’t want or risk loosing their jobs or livelihood
- You weaponized the DoJ against anyone who didn’t agree with you
- You used the ATF to try and take away peoples Second Amendment rights
- You corrupted DHS to allow millions of illegal immigrants into the country in violation of federal law. It brought with it the scourge of crime, deadly drugs and the misuse of federal resources whose services were stolen from the citizens
- You raided the federal treasury to provided handouts to all your supporters, which not only destroyed our economy, but put our nation into historic debt
- You completely destroyed our energy sector for green handouts and your phony climate change agendas.

Nobody should ever trust your party again. Ever.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2024 06:44 PM (gG76v)

177 Justice is Coming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 06:44 PM (RIvkX)

178 Big Penguin is afoot!

Posted by: DU commmenters & the MSM at November 25, 2024 06:44 PM (a3Q+t)

179 Duct tape, is there anything it CAN'T do?

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:43 PM (YbbtK)
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Injure it's knee having sex with Andy's wife?

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:44 PM (krQz2)

180 "Duct tape, is there anything it CAN'T do?"

It can't be peeled apart once it sticks to itself.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Pep at November 25, 2024 06:44 PM (5G6LU)

181 The new Leftist judicial standard is to suspend persecutions of their enemies until the conditions change so indictments, convictions, sentencing, and incarcerations are slam dunks.

Lovely.

I say, use those rules today to take out the bastards that perpetrated these legal charades while it is possible. This has little to do with retribution and more to do with self-preservation at this point.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 06:45 PM (vO42M)

182 Rubio was picked specifically for South America and a realignment there. It will be a good thing.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2024 06:45 PM (gGMRM)

183 Duct tape couldn't save Kamala Harris' campaign

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:45 PM (aOqEy)

184 To all saying “revenge” and believe me I understand it - it’s not revenge - it’s justice and the rule of law. We are supposed to be a nation of laws - not men (yes I’m ripping off John Adams). But it’s important- the people running this stuff were outlaws and they need to be held to account.
Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at November 25, 2024 06:42 PM (Uy2Lz)
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I think we should accept the wins and move on. There's a risk in looking at every victory as leading to other problems. Just take it and keep going.

There are other, more important things right now, like generational change in the very scope of government. Running down these pissants is a waste of time. They will have their reward.

I'm more interested in purging the Pentagon of traitors and getting the Epstein list out there.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:46 PM (ZOv7s)

185 I still remember the Mueller worship on the Left - Deniro did guest spots on SNL showing him as a steely-eyed investigator and prosecutor. And the tears of Rachel Maddow when the Mueller report turned up nothing except for the incompetence and declining mental health of Mueller himself. If you're not Snidely Whiplash, how often do you have to say "Curses, foiled again" before you accept the futility of what you're attempting to accomplish?

It's like the Bigfoot believers - despite sixty-plus years, one questionable film, and no undisputable evidence, they still believe the creature is out there, and one day they'll confirm his existence.

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 25, 2024 06:46 PM (G6LTi)

186 I do not think anyone who went after Trump cannot be charged with deprivation of rights under color of law.

I wish we weren't in this position but I believe the only to prevent it happening again is if people go to jail.

Naturally, the GOPe will fight against this every step of the way.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1)
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I want to see that. It would probably work if it starts very low profile though like going after the people who prosecuted some dude who left tires marks on a rainbow some pedos painted on a public street.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 06:46 PM (/lPRQ)

187 "Hey honey, how'd you like to have sex tonight?"

"Sure, let me see if my boyfriend is free."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:42 PM

Bull > boyfriend

Posted by: David F. at November 25, 2024 06:46 PM (a3Q+t)

188 - You used COVID as an excuse to completely subvert most of The Bill of Rights. You forced people to take medicine they didn’t want or risk loosing their jobs or livelihood

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2024 06:44 PM (gG76v)
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Covid--especially in the coastal states--was the most "Papers, please" thing to ever happen on American soil.

Nobody should be calling another faction fascist, if we can't say that about the Vaxzies.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:46 PM (krQz2)

189
Duct tape couldn't save Kamala Harris' campaign
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 06:45 PM (aOqEy)

If only she had turned to us.

Posted by: Cable Ties and WD-40 at November 25, 2024 06:47 PM (dxSpM)

190 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 1h
JUST IN - Judge Chutkan dismisses Trump's election case.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 25m
The case got Chutkanned.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:47 PM (hovnC)

191 Election interference... and Conspiracy.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:07 PM (QAkQ3)

Federal charge? Conspiracy to deprive DJT of his civil rights under color of law?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 06:48 PM (RdRoZ)

192 "Duct tape, is there anything it CAN'T do?"

'Missile' tape is even worse. A guy who knows a guy gave me a roll liberated from the Navy.

When I handed it to me he said, "Don't let this touch anything that you don't want it stuck to forever!".

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 06:48 PM (WXNFJ)

193 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 25m
The case got Chutkanned.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:47 PM (hovnC)
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That's a good one.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:48 PM (krQz2)

194 Sorry, not a 1. Horseface is a no-go.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
===

Saw the still and immediately closed the window.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 06:48 PM (/lPRQ)

195 183 Duct tape couldn't save Kamala Harris' campaign
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Maybe if they'd duct taped her mouth

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 06:49 PM (Wx316)

196
Conspiracy to deprive DJT of his civil rights under color of law?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 06:48 PM (RdRoZ)

Colored law? Sounds raciss.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:49 PM (dxSpM)

197 Injure it's knee having sex with Andy's wife?
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It was Weird Dave and his wife!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:49 PM (hovnC)

198
I cued it up.

Look at the bullshit theatrics this gaslighting cunt gets paid $30 million a year to serve her unhinged viewers:

https://is.gd/efV6ZU

Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:49 PM (7SO1z)

199 “ Covid--especially in the coastal states--was the most "Papers, please" thing to ever happen on American soil.

Nobody should be calling another faction fascist, if we can't say that about the Vaxzies.
Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:46 PM (krQz2)”

When I talk to a lot of younger voters it’s the first thing that comes up. It left an indelible impression on their minds. As a result they don’t trust Democrats or any of the government agencies. As it should be. I don’t think democrats will ever get out from under that subversion with that generation.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2024 06:49 PM (gG76v)

200
Note: the msdnc chiron reads: "Elon Musk Posts Dangerous Meme"

Posted by: Soothsayer: colon king at November 25, 2024 06:50 PM (7SO1z)

201 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 25m
The case got Chutkanned.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:47 PM (hovnC)

I laughed

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2024 06:50 PM (NtVYv)

202
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Tiktoker suggests she will put cans in socks to use as weapons against Republican relatives.

The kind and tolerant left!

https://tinyurl.com/3myax3jh

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:50 PM (TGPs7)

203 Go on, ask me something.
Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 06:08 PM (7SO1z)

How would you rate your skills as a cocksucker, relative to Kamala?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 06:51 PM (RdRoZ)

204 Don't ever bring duct tape on a first date..

Posted by: humphreyrobot at November 25, 2024 06:51 PM (uTXDd)

205
brb, doxxin'

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2024 06:51 PM (7SO1z)

206 I also injured my knee begging for sex last night.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at November 25, 2024 06:51 PM (wBaIH)

207 Anthony @AnthonyG0528 Nov 24
Should President Trump revoke the security clearance of the 51 intelligence officials who signed off on the Hunter Biden laptop? And should they be prosecuted for election interference?

Max Abrahms @MaxAbrahms 22h
I do think there should be serious career consequences for intel leaders to lie to American citizens about national security matters at the request of Biden to help him win the 2020 presidential election.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:52 PM (hovnC)

208 It occurred to me as soon as Elon Musk started really supporting Trump that the accusations would start that Trump is helping SpaceX. Already started.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:52 PM (YbbtK)

209 When I talk to a lot of younger voters it’s the first thing that comes up. It left an indelible impression on their minds. As a result they don’t trust Democrats or any of the government agencies. As it should be. I don’t think democrats will ever get out from under that subversion with that generation.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2024 06:49 PM (gG76v)
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It's a good demonstration for "Kids, don't be a narcissist".

Narcissists cannot imagine themselves with bad traits. Therefore, if it's a bad trait, it's not theirs. So that means they can go 3/4-Nazi and they'll never believe they came close.

Meanwhile, a person outside of that thought loop sees a person who demands officials exclude anybody from being on the streets unless they have "their papers in order".

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:53 PM (krQz2)

210 In case you missed it:

Head of fake news peddler "Axios" lashes out at Elon Musk and whines like a bitch: "Being a reporter is really hard!"

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Hey those billionaire oligarch dicks don't blow themselves -- and it's brutal on the knees!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 06:53 PM (ZnnsS)

211 https://tinyurl.com/3myax3jh
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:50 PM (TGPs7)
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Off screen that heffalump probably whacked herself in the head.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 06:53 PM (tT6L1)

212 It occurred to me as soon as Elon Musk started really supporting Trump that the accusations would start that Trump is helping SpaceX. Already started.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:52 PM (YbbtK)
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He should be impeached.

Posted by: The Standard Media Chorus at November 25, 2024 06:54 PM (krQz2)

213 Get ready for your bag of dicks, Justin.

Trump just announced that unless Mexico and Canada stop the flow of migrants on Jan 20th he will slap 25% tariffs on ALL products coming from Mexico and Canada and 10% on China.

It's gonna be a fun 4 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 06:54 PM (LkLld)

214 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 4h
2017: Comey will get Trump
2018: Mueller will get Trump
2019: Avenatti will get Trump
2020: AG James will get Trump
2021: AG Garland will get Trump
2022: Smith probe will get Trump
2023: DA Fani Willis will get Trump
2024: DA Alvin Bragg will get Trump

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 2h
They tried to Harris him. The Walz were closing in.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:54 PM (hovnC)

215 Okay, I'm pretty sure the duct tape could not injure its knee having sex with Weird Dave's wife, either.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:54 PM (krQz2)

216 314 The walls are closing in

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:55 PM (YbbtK)

217 184 -Lloyd - yes I get it. Need to keep moving forward and agree with your points but certain people must be held to account (publicly and with reasoned arguments) - the people need to be taught and the schools are opposed to upholding the basic principles of our nation - so examples must be made if there is to be a turning toward the right path which we know but too many do not.

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at November 25, 2024 06:55 PM (Uy2Lz)

218
I just luvvvvv seeing my future US Senator in there.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 25, 2024 06:55 PM (Xwngz)

219 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 4h
2017: Comey will get Trump
2018: Mueller will get Trump
2019: Avenatti will get Trump
2020: AG James will get Trump
2021: AG Garland will get Trump
2022: Smith probe will get Trump
2023: DA Fani Willis will get Trump
2024: DA Alvin Bragg will get Trump
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Guess what? "34 convictions" just blew away in the wind, if Bragg drops the charges.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:55 PM (krQz2)

220 Don't ever bring duct tape on a first date..
Posted by: humphreyrobot
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True. Adhesive benefits are not the right kind of benefits.

Posted by: Sticky, things could get at November 25, 2024 06:56 PM (41CYW)

221 The walls are closing in

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:55 PM (YbbtK)
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They're on wheels, which came off.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:57 PM (krQz2)

222 Bragg will fold too like a cheap suit

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 06:57 PM (fwDg9)

223 The migrants from Canada freeze to death when the coyotes drop them off a few miles from the border! [Or the boat sinks amongst the Thousand Islands!]

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:58 PM (hovnC)

224 Don't ever bring duct tape on a first date..

Posted by: humphreyrobot
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One should adhere to that principle.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2024 06:58 PM (krQz2)

225 24
'Of course, they are, but we've never done those things to them before.'

Oh. I'm ready to do those things to some of them. Some democrats need some fear their lives to keep them from threatening anyone else.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 06:58 PM (3wi/L)

226 202
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Tiktoker suggests she will put cans in socks to use as weapons against Republican relatives.

The kind and tolerant left!

https://tinyurl.com/3myax3jh
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:50 PM (TGPs7)

************

They're such miserable things and they inflict their misery upon themselves for no good reason.

I enjoyed the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, and all the other sorted foods on Thanksgiving 2020. Politics was one of the last things on my mind and I suspect the same can be said of the rest of America that isn't a hard-core leftist, too.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 25, 2024 06:58 PM (026f8)

227 It occurred to me as soon as Elon Musk started really supporting Trump that the accusations would start that Trump is helping SpaceX. Already started.
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:52 PM (YbbtK)

But of course they will ignore that Trump will likely stop the 7500 tax credit for EV purchases.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 06:58 PM (D6PGr)

228 I know the NPVC wasn't supposed to go into effect until they had states with 270 EC votes -- but dammit, we should demand it anyway.

Rub rock salt into their wounds.

Posted by: Beverly at November 25, 2024 06:59 PM (Epeb0)

229 If you want them converted into animal feed, I'd ship the results to China, or maybe impoverished areas of Africa.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 06:20 PM (VNX3d)

Mink are livestock, and they eat meat. And I don't think you could catch Mad Tard Disease from a Mink coat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:00 PM (RdRoZ)

230 When leftists object to prosecuting the prosecutors, remind them who started this:

It's cute that you think Trump will be bringing justice with his election.

Lemme guess, Q predicted it!

Posted by: Ace's White Hats at November 25, 2024 07:01 PM (4oPVq)

231 Ihab Hassan
@IhabHassane
🚨BREAKING: Fierce clashes have erupted between Hamas' Sahem Unit and the Jargon family in Khan Younis after a trader from the Jargon family refused to pay a tax on a truckload of cigarettes.

Reports indicate a significant number of fatalities among Hamas members and the Jargon…
Embedded video
9:22 PM · Nov 24, 2024
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Those darn joos!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 07:01 PM (RIvkX)

232 I also injured my knee begging for sex last night.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

Knee slipped off the curb?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 07:01 PM (dqcIy)

233 Hey Dr. Claw. I laughed like a gorilla.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at November 25, 2024 07:01 PM (uTXDd)

234 232 It would be hilarious if Israeli intelligence instigated this

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 07:02 PM (YbbtK)

235 If Vance wins 2028, then Trump has zero risk, and Vance can do it for him.

Posted by: Harun at November 25, 2024 07:03 PM (IuIym)

236 136 I do wonder who's in charge of the govt right now
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (OTdqV)

Otto. But with Kumala on vacation he's deflating

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 07:03 PM (SSBCb)

237 229 Mad Tard Disease
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Well I never! And twice in one day on this...this... blog!

Posted by: Scoldilocks at November 25, 2024 07:03 PM (41CYW)

238 ...cans in socks...
That fat bitch would get curb stomped in a millisecond if she tried that shit.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 25, 2024 07:04 PM (XMwZJ)

239 I am not a vindictive sort, but I have cleared out some space for tzompantli expansion.

Posted by: Crazy Miklos' Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Sacrificial Games Emporium with Heated jacuzzi swim-up b at November 25, 2024 07:04 PM (+w4kg)

240 Anthony @AnthonyG0528 Nov 24
Should President Trump revoke the security clearance of the 51 intelligence officials who signed off on the Hunter Biden laptop? And should they be prosecuted for election interference?

Max Abrahms @MaxAbrahms 22h
I do think there should be serious career consequences for intel leaders to lie to American citizens about national security matters at the request of Biden to help him win the 2020 presidential election.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:52 PM (hovnC)

all security clearances should be revoked when they leave office. I don't want these insiders making money on their undemocratic access.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 07:04 PM (n7h9X)

241 66
Speaking of movies:

Ace should watch Gladiator II and review it for our entertainment.

It's The Suck. Like, Real Bad. Like, way worse than Prometheus.

Really? That is a pretty high bar. I mean, you've got r*tards in space suits trying to pet things on planets. Space abortion machine with alien fetus vs giant combat; and who can forget Idris Elba trying to talk with a southern accent. I have no desire to actually see which movie is worse but all I'm going to say...is that is a very high bar in sh*ttiness to clear.

Posted by: Nelly at November 25, 2024 07:04 PM (bcr4y)

242 58
'The 18 Leftwing states that signed on to it should by rights donate their electoral college votes '

They should at least be sued for pledging to do it and then reneging.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 07:04 PM (3wi/L)

243 Damn, I had that comment ready 20 min ago, but got interrupted.

Posted by: jim (leavin Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 07:05 PM (SSBCb)

244 #39 Dave's Not Here @Weirddave0 20m
Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (hovnC)

Heh! If that doesn't result in a flurry of "Ur doing it rong!" responses, my nic isn't AOP.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:05 PM (RdRoZ)

245 Shots fired

@Breaking911
BREAKING: President-elect Trump threatens to impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico & Canada into the U.S. if they fail to halt illegal migrant caravans

"This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country! Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power..."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 07:05 PM (IG4Id)

246 Narcissists cannot imagine themselves with bad traits. Therefore, if it's a bad trait, it's not theirs. So that means they can go 3/4-Nazi and they'll never believe they came close.

Meanwhile, a person outside of that thought loop sees a person who demands officials exclude anybody from being on the streets unless they have "their papers in order".
Posted by: Axeman

"Are we the Baddies?" would never enter their little pea brains.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:05 PM (WXNFJ)

247 @libsoftiktok
Tiktoker suggests she will put cans in socks to use as weapons against Republican relatives.

If I were unfortunate enough to be one of her relatives, I would not merely disinvite her from Thanksgiving, I would also report her to the police for making violent threats.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 07:06 PM (hB7mE)

248 236 243 Damn, I had that comment ready 20 min ago, but got interrupted.
Posted by: jim (leavin Hospital in Kalifornia)

So, Otto has fully deflated by now? Hopefully with his finger away from the nuclear football.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 07:06 PM (VNX3d)

249 #39 Dave's Not Here @Weirddave0 20m
Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (hovnC)

Heh! If that doesn't result in a flurry of "Ur doing it rong!" responses, my nic isn't AOP.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 07:05 PM (RdRoZ)
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Probably get more than a few "ewwwe" or, "Dad.....TMI" responses.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 07:06 PM (tT6L1)

250 It occurred to me as soon as Elon Musk started really supporting Trump that the accusations would start that Trump is helping SpaceX. Already started.
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:52 PM (YbbtK)

But of course they will ignore that Trump will likely stop the 7500 tax credit for EV purchases.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 06:58 PM

Which will actually help elon musk in the long run. He has been making EV's for years and all of the other car companies are playing catch up and losing billions each year trying to compete with tesla. Those subsidies are the only thing keeping them in the EV business and if Trump stops them, they lose a huge stream of free government money to prop them up and they will exit the business.

musk already has a successful business model that does not rely on government cheese to make cars to sell and he is going to keep selling cars with or without the government pouring
$$$$ into the EV market.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 07:07 PM (Rcnd3)

251 108 Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.
Posted by: andycanuck

I can't imagine how this could happen but I do admire your effort. And hers too

Same - 6 weeks after knee surgery, told surgeon (local famed ortho, tv and all,) that I still hurt when attempting the "deed". His esteemed reply - You're just going to have to Fukk UP. Bout fell outta my chair!

Posted by: OkJohn at November 25, 2024 07:08 PM (NC/it)

252 Don't ever bring duct tape on a first date..
Posted by: humphreyrobot

If the chick brings it?

Posted by: Miklos admits uncertainty at November 25, 2024 07:08 PM (+w4kg)

253 Right! People who don’t understand the electoral college are exactly why we need it.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 06:32 PM (p4NUW)

People who don't understand the Electoral College shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Posted by: goozer at November 25, 2024 07:09 PM (aWAkn)

254 Jack Smith is not a real boy.
He cannot dismiss anything.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 07:09 PM (CpPSJ)

255 Same - 6 weeks after knee surgery, told surgeon (local famed ortho, tv and all,) that I still hurt when attempting the "deed". His esteemed reply - You're just going to have to Fukk UP. Bout fell outta my chair!
Posted by: OkJohn at November 25, 2024 07:08 PM (NC/it)

That would have been bad on the knee too.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 07:09 PM (n7h9X)

256 Ridley Scott lost it along time ago.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 07:10 PM (YbbtK)

257 92 #39 Dave's Not Here @Weirddave0 20m
Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (hovnC)
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You do know the Kama Sutra is for young people right?

Posted by: Ciampino - shucks - blushes at November 25, 2024 07:10 PM (i0xsb)

258 250 It occurred to me as soon as Elon Musk started really supporting Trump that the accusations would start that Trump is helping SpaceX. Already started.
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 06:52 PM (YbbtK)

But of course they will ignore that Trump will likely stop the 7500 tax credit for EV purchases.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 06:58 PM

Which will actually help elon musk in the long run. He has been making EV's for years and all of the other car companies are playing catch up and losing billions each year trying to compete with tesla. Those subsidies are the only thing keeping them in the EV business and if Trump stops them, they lose a huge stream of free government money to prop them up and they will exit the business.

musk already has a successful business model that does not rely on government cheese to make cars to sell and he is going to keep selling cars with or without the government pouring
$$$$ into the EV market.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 07:07 PM (Rcnd3)

Trump's trying to give Elon an EV monopoly!!!!

Posted by: jim (leavin Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 07:10 PM (SSBCb)

259 Meanwhile, a person outside of that thought loop sees a person who demands officials exclude anybody from being on the streets unless they have "their papers in order".
Posted by: Axeman

"Are we the Baddies?" would never enter their little pea brains.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:05 PM (WXNFJ)

But comrade Tonypete, is for common good, da!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 07:10 PM (hOUT3)

260 Btw he is comparing the Denzel Washington character in the movie to...Trump

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 07:11 PM (YbbtK)

261 136 I do wonder who's in charge of the govt right now
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (OTdqV)
I say a slurry of ubama, a group of mullahs, soros, a few oligarchs, and greta thunberg.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 07:12 PM (LHPAg)

262 Trump's trying to give Elon an EV monopoly!!!!

Posted by: jim (leavin Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 07:10 PM (SSBCb)

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Trump's gonna just give the Space Force to SpaceX!

/Just imagine how cool their uniforms are gonna be ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 07:12 PM (rMWup)

263 Trump will pardon himself, but vindictive prosecutors will bring charges anyway, just to make him go to court where they will argue that a president can't pardon himself. (He can -- there are no restrictions on the power.)

==

Well, 1) good chance that they all will be in jail or indicted or something. And 2) Trump should pardon himself anyway , just to rub it in.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 07:12 PM (QTCRF)

264 105

Great. I hope there aren't any sloped roofs around.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 06:27 PM (7oYYI)
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For the SS it's rooves, you know, grooves.

Posted by: Ciampino - shucks - trips on groove at November 25, 2024 07:13 PM (i0xsb)

265 Trump has all the cards now...

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 07:13 PM (QTCRF)

266 Duct tape, is there anything it CAN'T do?
Posted by: steevy

It’s not my first choice for cassette tape repair …

Just sayin’

Posted by: Adriane the Technically Incompetent Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 07:13 PM (TX4bP)

267 Duct tape, is there anything it CAN'T do?
Posted by: steevy

Car exhaust repair.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 07:14 PM (VNX3d)

268 Conspiracy to deprive DJT of his civil rights under color of law?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The fun part of 'under color of law' - it's done in the open and fully documented. No investigation needed unless you are trying to find rehearsals for what is already done, but 'fellow travelors' can/did ad lib the whole pagent.
Prosecute or do not. If yes just pick them up at o'dark thirty, take all their shiite to scour for further evidence..

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 07:14 PM (/lPRQ)

269 Btw he is comparing the Denzel Washington character in the movie to...Trump
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 07:11 PM (YbbtK)

I don't think too many Roman Emperors lost elections.

Now there was a Byzantine emperor who had his nose cut off and exiled, who married a barbarian woman to get troops and invaded Constantinople and wore a silver false nose.

Now that would make a good movie.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 07:14 PM (n7h9X)

270 A study showed that the one thing duct tape was not good at was working on ducts. The heat/cool wire out the adhesive and caused the tape to be brittle

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 07:15 PM (FxDm7)

271 Catch Up@CatchUpFeed
Sunny Hostin was shocked to discover that her ancestors owned slaves.

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Oh no! Sunny will be a reparations payer, not a recipient!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 07:16 PM (L/fGl)

272 Who runs tje Country?
Same Deep State that has for 3 years and 10 months

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 07:16 PM (fwDg9)

273 Duct tape, is there anything it CAN'T do?
Posted by: steevy

It actually will work as a field expedient wound closure.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:16 PM (WXNFJ)

274 Duct tape, is there anything it CAN'T do?

Posted by: steevy

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It makes for a great nude mummy costume at Halloween ... until it comes time to rip it off.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 07:16 PM (rMWup)

275 Don't ever bring duct tape on a first date..
Posted by: humphreyrobot

That's called abduct tape. Totally different.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 07:16 PM (QzM4s)

276 Amish volunteers built over 100 tiny homes for victims of Helene. NC forced the recipients out because the houses were not built to code.

https://tinyurl.com/2bwdwebx

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 25, 2024 07:17 PM (paSBy)

277 Radio Nuz said big, bad Johnny Cornyn is going to be part of the DOGE.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 07:17 PM (om3Wy)

278 sloped roofs

Like on a Chinee restaurant?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 07:17 PM (dOjkx)

279 Amish volunteers built over 100 tiny homes for victims of Helene. NC forced the recipients out because the houses were not built to code.

https://tinyurl.com/2bwdwebx
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis

The process is the punishment. (Along with the flooding and hurricane).

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:18 PM (WXNFJ)

280 276 Amish volunteers built over 100 tiny homes for victims of Helene. NC forced the recipients out because the houses were not built to code.

https://tinyurl.com/2bwdwebx
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist
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Read yesterday that the NC DOT shut down that free built road because FU we're the govt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 07:18 PM (om3Wy)

281 What President Trump endured over the last 8 years from the DOJ, the FBI, and Deep State agencies demands that they get gutted. This is about protecting all Americans from an even more virulent persecutions down the road.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 07:18 PM (vO42M)

282 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Nov 25, 2024, 6:35 PM
I have had many talks with China about the massive amounts of drugs, in particular Fentanyl, being sent into the United States – But to no avail. Representatives of China told me that they would institute their maximum penalty, that of death, for any drug dealers caught doing this but, unfortunately, they never followed through, and drugs are pouring into our Country, mostly through Mexico, at levels never seen before. Until such time as they stop, we will be charging China an additional 10% Tariff, above any additional Tariffs, on all of their many products coming into the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:18 PM (hovnC)

283 The migrants from Canada freeze to death when the coyotes drop them off a few miles from the border! [Or the boat sinks amongst the Thousand Islands!]
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:58 PM (hovnC)
*****
This actually happened. Murder convictions for two coyotes. Family with two children. Frozen

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 07:19 PM (CpPSJ)

284 Amish volunteers built over 100 tiny homes for victims of Helene. NC forced the recipients out because the houses were not built to code.

https://tinyurl.com/2bwdwebx
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis

The process is the punishment. (Along with the flooding and hurricane).
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:18 PM (WXNFJ)

Next on the Amish build list: Public Stocks, with bins for rotten vegetables.

The first users will be those who pushed out the residents.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 07:20 PM (VNX3d)

285 Amish volunteers built over 100 tiny homes for victims of Helene. NC forced the recipients out because the houses were not built to code.

https://tinyurl.com/2bwdwebx
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 25, 2024 07:17 PM (paSBy)

—————

Speaking of people who need prison time.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 07:20 PM (u73oe)

286 Altaria Pilgram, that clip ace put up of Dershowitz on retribution.
It's not lawfare it's the law.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 07:20 PM (om3Wy)

287 Early Café

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 07:20 PM (hovnC)

288 261 136 I do wonder who's in charge of the govt right now
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 06:34 PM (OTdqV)
I say a slurry of ubama, a group of mullahs, soros, a few oligarchs, and greta thunberg.
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 07:12 PM (LHPAg)

Just after the election, one of the leftist news outlets published something it sounded like they’d been sitting on for a while until a safe time to let it out. They said that from the start, the Biden admin was run by about 25 - 30 administrators held over from the Obama administration, scattered throughout the bureaucracy and all closely tied to Obama and Valerie Jarrett. Said neither Biden or Harris ever had much to do with actual decisions; it really was Obsma’s 3rd term.
Well they have about 60 days left to screw up as much as they can before they leave.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 07:21 PM (Ereai)

289 I'm a little surprised the Amish built places are against code. I would have imagined there are damned few building codes in place out in the sticks. Many rural places here (TN) are outside a ruling jurisdiction.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:21 PM (WXNFJ)

290 Predictable response from presstitutes re tariffs:

Trump trades fentanyl overdose deaths for tariff profits. To

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 07:21 PM (CpPSJ)

291 92 #39 Dave's Not Here @Weirddave0 20m
Latest entry in the "Oh no, I actually am getting old" file: I've been limping around all day because last night I threw my knee out while having sex with my wife.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 06:25 PM (hovnC)
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So, you need either
1. The Paolo to help out;
or
2. Hire a slave to do the 'work'.
Meanwhile place knee between two hot bewbs.

Posted by: Ciampino - shucks - trips on carpet at November 25, 2024 07:22 PM (i0xsb)

292 And playing softly in the background is a 50's-60's collection of Christmas songs - Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and the like.

I'm feeling sentimental as all git out.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 07:23 PM (WXNFJ)

293 Don't ever bring duct tape on a first date..
Posted by: humphreyrobot

That's called abduct tape. Totally different.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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*Golf clap* well done, bear.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 07:23 PM (41CYW)

294 Jo is not handling this well.

Jo@JoJoFromJerz
A rapist, traitor, felon, fraud has made an absolute mockery out of our system of so-called “justice”.

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Of course she didn’t handle RFK well either.

Jo@JoJoFromJerz
Nothing to worry about folks, the whale decapitating, dead bear depositing, baby sitter sexually harassing, raw milk drinking, anti-vaxxing future head of Health and Human Services says doing heroin made him a better student.
.This is fine.
This is totally fine.
Everything is just absolutely fucking fine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 07:25 PM (L/fGl)

295 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 07:07 PM (Rcnd3

He would still sell more and in fact his lower priced model that he’s building would benefit greatly from that 7500 tax credit.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 07:26 PM (D6PGr)

296 289 I'm a little surprised the Amish built places are against code. I would have imagined there are damned few building codes in place out in the sticks. Many rural places here (TN) are outside a ruling jurisdiction.

Posted by: Tonypete
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When the code is what the govt says it is you can never build to code unless they say you can.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 07:28 PM (om3Wy)

297 I posted this suggestion on another thread:

Trump should ask Congress to amend the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (FRCP) thusly:

"Every federal elected official, or Cabinet officer, when charged with a crime may request a change of venue as a matter of right. When such a request is received, the case shall be transferred to a new District chosen by lot."

So much for using lawfare to bring such cases in D.C. or Manhattan.

Posted by: mnw at November 25, 2024 07:29 PM (NLIak)

298 176 'I spoke with avowed leftist today...'

Gave it to them right between the eyes. Good for you.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 07:30 PM (3wi/L)

299 262 Trump's trying to give Elon an EV monopoly!!!!

Posted by: jim (leavin Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 07:10 PM (SSBCb)

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Trump's gonna just give the Space Force to SpaceX!

/Just imagine how cool their uniforms are gonna be ...
Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 07:12 PM (rMWup)

As long as it's not the cyberpunk of uniforms

Posted by: jim (leavin Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 07:33 PM (SSBCb)

300 Cybertruck. Damn autocucumber

Posted by: jim (leavin Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 07:33 PM (SSBCb)

301 >>>Trump will pardon himself, but vindictive prosecutors will bring charges anyway, just to make him go to court where they will argue that a president can't pardon himself. (He can -- there are no restrictions on the power.)

I disagree with every part of that.

Trump will not pardon himself. It would be a weak move and he won't do it. Plus, it's not a sure thing.

The Feds are not going to charge him again once he leaves office. He will no longer be a reelection threat and they would prefer he fade into obscurity. Not that he will, but they will try to ignore (cancel) him. Bringing charges let's him remain in the news and the public eye.

Presidents can't pardon themselves. If it came to that SCOTUS would rule that although the text doesn't limit it that way, he still can't. They will rely on the history of the pardon going back to common law as well as the intent of the framers, etc. It would not be allowed to stand.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 25, 2024 07:34 PM (klJTj)

302 Until such time as they stop, we will be charging China an additional 10% Tariff, above any additional Tariffs, on all of their many products coming into the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

==

HAHAHAHAH ! 10% on top of 40%! no more cheap crap! we can make our own cheap crap, but it will be quality cheap crap !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 07:48 PM (QTCRF)

Shock Study: DEI Training Teaches People to Find Racism Where There Is None, Increases Hostility Between the Races

In other words, it's working precisely as it's intended to.

New study finds DEI initiatives creating 'hostile attribution bias'

Using materials from within the DEI movement, the study measured 'explicit bias'
By Jasmine Baehr
Fox News

New research from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and Rutgers University reveals that some diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training methods may cause psychological harm.
The study, released on Monday, shows significant increases in hostility and punitive attitudes among participants exposed to DEI pedagogy covering subjects like race, religion and caste.
This hostile attribution bias may contribute to increased intergroup hostility and authoritarian behavior in the long run, according to study co-author and NCRI Chief Science Officer Joel Finkelstein.
"What we did was we took a lot of these ideas that were found to still be very prominent in a lot of these DEI lectures and interventions and training," said Finkelstein in an interview with Fox News Digital. "And we said, 'Well, how is this going to affect people?' What we found is that when people are exposed to this ideology, what happens is they become hostile without any indication that anything racist has happened."
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As DEI programs have become a major area of investment in recent years, their actual effectiveness remains a topic of debate, with NCRI's study suggesting they may exacerbate tensions rather than alleviate them. The study measured "explicit bias, social distancing, demonization, and authoritarian tendencies" with both the DEI materials and control materials.
Their study included sharing anti-racist DEI materials from thought leaders like Ibram X. Kendi and "White Fragility" author Robin DiAngelo with participants involved. Specifically, the NCRI focused on materials which emphasized awareness of and opposition to "systemic oppression," popularized by texts such as Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist."
Those exposed to anti-racist materials were linked to heightened perceptions of racial bias in the study. Participants were also more likely to support punitive measures against perceived offenders of so-called "microaggressions," even in the absence of evidence.

You don't say. You don't say.

"And when people are supposed to see anti-racist material in the ideology, it looks like what happens is that they become more likely to punish for any evidence of wrongdoing," said Finkelstein. "That includes protesting people, calling for dismissal, demanding public apologies, receiving people calling for their relocation. These punitive measures are, in some cases, costing people their jobs."

Wow. Five years into this vicious racist madness and academics are finally actually looking into it.

Take your time, though, "Experts." Take your time.

These results suggest that anti-Islamophobia training inspired by ISPU materials may cause individuals to assume unfair treent of Muslim people, even when no evidence of bias or unfairness is present. This effect highlights a broader issue: DEI narratives that focus heavily on victimization and systemic oppression can foster unwarranted distrust and suspicions of institutions and alter subjective assessments of events.

I'm learning so much of what I already knew.

Here comes a big shock:

One key takeaway from Finkelstein in the NCRI study is that the authoritarianism that comes from hostile attribution bias looks different in the 21st century.

According to Finkelstein, those who are likely to carry hostilities are "people who are higher in what's called left-wing authoritarianism. This is now a steady phenomenon. We the people have been studying right-wing authoritarianism since World War II. It's really only in the past 10 or 15 years that people have started saying, 'Wait a minute, this is on the left, too."

You don't say? Really?

...
When reached for comment, Kendi slammed both Fox News and the study, calling it "pseudoscience."

As opposed to Henry "Ibram Kendi" Rogers' true racist science.

The report says that when people were exposed to Robin D'Angelo's and Henry Rogers' racially-incendiary claims, they were much, much more likely to claim that they were experiencing "microaggressions" based on nothing at all. They compared groups primed by reading these "anti-racist" books to normal, uninfected people. The uninfected people were chill. The "anti-racist" people saw racism everywhere, claimed non-violent people were committing "literal violence," and assumed that anyone evaluating them must be white. (That is, they assumed that anyone whose race they could not see but held a grudge against must be white.)

A little bar graph for those of you who enjoy graphs and/or bars.

Posted by: Ace at 04:48 PM

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1 Searching for microaggressions and angrily confronting people about it increases tensions?

Where would we be without studies?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

2 St

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 25, 2024 04:48 PM (/6GbT)

3 Let's just have a race war and see who wins. Mmmkay?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:49 PM (jFCkp)

4 Why it's almost like hyperfocusing on microaggressions makes everyone go apeshit over microscopic offenses.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 04:50 PM (5GshG)

5 The Lightworker's fundamental transformation is working.
Try to change anything it's going straight to the courts.

For Four Years

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 04:50 PM (CpPSJ)

6 Imaginary racism pays off like gangbusters.

Posted by: Robin D'Angelo at November 25, 2024 04:50 PM (DKIGo)

7 And Bluey had to modify some dialog because the doggehs said "ooga booga" while acting like monkeys, because supposedly that was a slur against aborigines.

Grow a pair, pussies.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 04:50 PM (ufFY8)

8 Shock Study: DEI Training Teaches People to Find Racism Where There Is None, Increases Hostility Between the Races

So telling people are their problems are caused by a distinct racial group leads to hatred of them?

If only we had pretty much all of human history to look at to show this has been proven over and over again

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 04:50 PM (oZhjI)

9 Is it me or has the Civil War fever broken?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 04:51 PM (wBaIH)

10 This is as bad as it gets.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 04:51 PM (QTCRF)

11 Some Farm Animals are more equal than other farm animals.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 25, 2024 04:51 PM (MsrgL)

12 "It's going to get a little choppy..."

LOL

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at November 25, 2024 04:51 PM (xA5g+)

13 Shocking to absolutely no one. Not even the DEI enthusiasts. It's there bread and butter. The more racial problems, the more DEI training.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at November 25, 2024 04:51 PM (s19xO)

14 Why it's almost like hyperfocusing on microaggressions makes everyone go apeshit over microscopic offenses.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 04:50 PM (5GshG)

Ooga booga!

Posted by: Bluey and Bingo at November 25, 2024 04:52 PM (ufFY8)

15 Racist, insane shite forced upon the populace. We've been living 1984 since 2008.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 04:52 PM (QTCRF)

16 In "I'M DOCTOR JILL!!!!" news, today the White House official X account posted a photo of Kamala getting on a plane and waving goodbye with the caption "Building a brighter future for every American".

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

17 I've noticed my employer is backing off on this craziness. A couple of years ago they were holding some kind of training sessions (via Zoom, as this was during the Sniffle Scare) that were not mandatory -- but "It is expected that they will eventually be required of all staff." Now we just get emails about the DIE programs that already exist.

I was hoping to hold off on going to even a single one until they forced me, and I thought maybe by then I'd be retired. Looks like its half-life was shorter than they thought -- at least here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:53 PM (J2vNu)

18 Taylor Lorentz admitting to being 50 but you know she is 58.

Ace nails another investigation!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 04:53 PM (17s+e)

19 DEI is focused on calling all white people racist, white guilt and reparations in multiple forms.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 04:53 PM (D6PGr)

20 I guess "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is too first century.

Posted by: Moki at November 25, 2024 04:53 PM (wLjpr)

21 10 This is as bad as it gets.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 04:51 PM (QTCRF)

No. It's not.

Posted by: The Tall Man at November 25, 2024 04:53 PM (DTX3h)

22 DIE training is Marxism 1.1

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 04:54 PM (fwDg9)

23 What is funny is that you'd think microaggressions would be trivial compared to actual aggressions but the reverse is true.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:54 PM (n7h9X)

24 DEI on steroids is why I retired from a corporate job a few years ago. When your boss is an inept drooling imbecile that is rarely in the office or available, it's time to pack up and move on.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 25, 2024 04:54 PM (/U5Yz)

25 "These punitive measures are, in some cases, costing people their jobs."

========

So what!

Those racists losing their jobs is a good thing!!!

(Right?)

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 04:54 PM (i7Q7S)

26 OT, missed that thread, but I must be missing something. Local/state government harboring illegal aliens, in any way, is in no way a "political dispute". Their active obstruction of unambiguous federal law and authority is lawlessness, defined.

And to compare this to the political persecution through abuse of law enforcement authority used against Trump and others, um, wow. Those abuses likely literally involved law-breaking, but clearly were based on misuse of authority for political purposes.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2024 04:54 PM (1m82a)

27 I always thought that a significant contributing factor to Trump's unexpected win in 2016 was that as large organizations normalized their mandatory annual "hate whitey" DEI struggle sessions, that voting for Trump by white males was blowback to that.

I knew a number of people who worked for large organizations, and the mandatory annual DEI struggle session was definitely the most hated part of the job.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 04:55 PM (uxCna)

28 All those right wing authoritarians were left wing. Weird really.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 04:55 PM (YbbtK)

29 Didn’t get here in time for the Taylor Lorenz thread.
I can only hope that someone on X responds to her age reveal as I would.

“50? Really? For some reason I thought you were older.”

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 04:55 PM (jbnUc)

30 If you follow the drawings, you get the tool you want. You want racism, listen to the professor, she’s an expert. Yo.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 04:55 PM (LHPAg)

31 Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2024 04:54 PM (1m82a)

Leftists have no ability to make logical comparisons.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 04:55 PM (D6PGr)

32 Leave it to Academia to be the cause of and solution to societies' most toxic ills. While alcohol will rot your liver first, Academia will rot your brain.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at November 25, 2024 04:56 PM (aXxgO)

33 Every DEI department and its hires are an exact replica of the Soviet Commissars who were assigned to every organization. Watching over for The Party Purity allegiance, and eliminating the filthy, traitorous dissenters.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 04:56 PM (QTCRF)

34 OT, missed that thread, but I must be missing something. Local/state government harboring illegal aliens, in any way, is in no way a "political dispute". Their active obstruction of unambiguous federal law and authority is lawlessness, defined.

Lots of commenters made the same point. You gotta remember, Ace still thinks Trump lost the debate to Kamala even after CNN said he didn't.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 04:57 PM (2ocoG)

35 Fascism and communism are just slightly different flavors of socialism and socialism is always authoritarian and totalitarian.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 04:57 PM (17s+e)

36 Darn it, now I'm going to have to borrow Sarah Hoyt's shocked face again!

I borrow it so often, she's gonna start charging me rent.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 25, 2024 04:57 PM (LxER7)

37 "Shock Study: DEI Training Teaches People to Find Racism Where There Is None, Increases Hostility Between the Races"

The deuce you say........

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 04:57 PM (Rcnd3)

38
The DEI crowd can't afford the hate to die. They must keep it alive so they can grift from it. Rev Al sharpton, Rev Jesse Jackson, and all the other old time race grifters taught them well.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 04:57 PM (+oR7L)

39 that voting for Trump by white males was blowback to that.

Some Leftist noted that a problem with the Kamala campaign was that not a single one of the "consultants" advising the campaign was a straight white male under the age of 40.

Not one.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 04:58 PM (uxCna)

40 Shock Study: DEI Training Teaches People to Find Racism Where There Is None, Increases Hostility Between the Races

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No way!

Posted by: Bill & Ted at November 25, 2024 04:58 PM (u73oe)

41
From the last thread but still on-topic: I now have to drive 10 miles to a liquor store in the ga-het-toe to buy Colt 45 in a 40oz. as a traditional Thanksgiving prize.

Racist? You decide.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 04:58 PM (j4U/Z)

42 27 I always thought that a significant contributing factor to Trump's unexpected win in 2016 was that as large organizations normalized their mandatory annual "hate whitey" DEI struggle sessions, that voting for Trump by white males was blowback to that.

I knew a number of people who worked for large organizations, and the mandatory annual DEI struggle session was definitely the most hated part of the job.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 04:55 PM (uxCna)
No, it was the freaking lie ‘D.E.I. increases the company bottom line.’

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 04:59 PM (LHPAg)

43 DogEater's "fundamental transformation" and legacy.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 04:59 PM (5BMa6)

44 So, people who teach racism will end up with students who recognize and practice racism. Also good to know.

It's a self-perpetuation machine.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at November 25, 2024 04:59 PM (aXxgO)

45 Fascism and communism are just slightly different flavors of socialism and socialism is always authoritarian and totalitarian.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 04:57 PM (17s+e)

Someone always gets to define the groups and divert resources from one group to the others. They are the winners and don't have to explain why so much is taken from one and so little remains to give to the other.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:59 PM (n7h9X)

46 What you're saying is, if one's pay depends upon not solving the problem, the problem will never be solved?
And, in fact, they will make the problem bigger?

That's a question I'd like all the DEI and anti-racist frauds to answer:
What does success look like?
How will we know we have "ended racism?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 04:59 PM (8Kx9y)

47 Some Leftist noted that a problem with the Kamala campaign was that not a single one of the "consultants" advising the campaign was a straight white male under the age of 40.

Not one.

When it was pointed out that she was offering literally nothing to straight young men her campaign had two responses:

1) Getting a bunch of gay guys to talk up Harris
2) Telling straight men that they'd be allowed to discuss how terrible they were

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 04:59 PM (oZhjI)

48 After the bar it's time for a pie-chart.

Posted by: DaveA at November 25, 2024 04:59 PM (FhXTo)

49 No, it was the freaking lie ‘D.E.I. increases the company bottom line.’

That. The C Suite doesn't believe it and you can easily tell they don't, but it's the official cover for the struggle sessions.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 05:00 PM (2ocoG)

50 From the last thread but still on-topic: I now have to drive 10 miles to a liquor store in the ga-het-toe to buy Colt 45 in a 40oz. as a traditional Thanksgiving prize.

Racist? You decide.

Posted by: Auspex
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Billy Dee Williams says "Coldcock is the authentic ghetto beer."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 05:00 PM (17s+e)

51 "hen people were exposed to Robin D'Angelo's and Henry Rogers' racially-incendiary claims, they were much, much more likely to claim that they were experiencing "microaggressions" based on nothing at all. "

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That is because "microaggression" just like "intersectionality" is a stupid, made up term that is nonsense.

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 05:00 PM (i7Q7S)

52 Ace you couldn't have picked a more timely topic for my county. In my local rag today they are reporting that despite DEI being on its last legs, my county legislature is going to mandate that elected officials take advanced DEI training. My county has been overrun by NYC leftists so not really a surprise, but their stubborn stupidity is impressive. Also makes me think someone has a good grift going in getting paid to lecture people.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 05:00 PM (FxDm7)

53 Okay read the material.
It ChiCom struggle session.
Walz is prime example.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 05:00 PM (CpPSJ)

54 DogEater's "fundamental transformation" and legacy.

If the Biden White House can successfully finger him for the cocaine on their way out, it'll be their undisputed greatest accomplishment.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (2ocoG)

55 No, it was the freaking lie ‘D.E.I. increases the company bottom line.’

Oh, did we lie about that?

Tee, hee!

Posted by: McKinsey & Company! at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (uxCna)

56 Someone here at the HQ says something to the effect that the purpose of an action is the thing that the action accomplishes. Their phrasing was pithier than this.

Posted by: Emmie at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (e7ATA)

57 Fascism and communism are just slightly different flavors of socialism and socialism is always authoritarian and totalitarian.

Fascism is socialist heresy. Mussolini broke with the rest of the socialists over the question of whether you could support your own country in WWI.

But like most heresies they don't matter much to people who don't follow the faith. The problem is most of our elites ARE socialists and therefore the heresy of national socialism is a big deal, even if the betrayal of communism by fascism happened 80 years ago...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (oZhjI)

58 ShainS: "DogEater's 'fundamental transformation' and legacy."

Yep. I hope the real history books get written and contemporary writers have the courage to save their work and not let this fact get memory holed.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (aXxgO)

59

A Fresh Study from the Department of Shit You Already Know.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (z/jjr)

60 Diversity is not our strength.

We've always known it.

I laugh when the political tools say it with passion.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (jyAD3)

61 19 DEI is focused on calling all white people racist, white guilt and reparations in multiple forms.

What could go wrong?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 04:53 PM (D6PGr)

I read White Fragility in early COVID days.

I don't know how anyone could read that book and not say "this is a recipe for disaster."

The tl;dr is all white people benefit from a system intentionally designed to benefit white people (mostly men) at the expense of everyone else. And the only way to fix the system is to loudly proclaim that you're benefiting from a racist system and to "give POC space to give their perspective."

Which in practice is a life long struggle session that you can never get out of (as a white person) and a life long dislike / hatred of white people / "the system" for non white people.

Doesn't sound like a recipe for good race relations. Also, let's important millions of more non-whites as immigrants and teach them the same stuff. That'll make them love America and assimilate.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (Evo1G)

62 No, it was the freaking lie ‘D.E.I. increases the company bottom line.’
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 04:59 PM (LHPAg)

No, it was the business school graduates that would believe such obvious nonsense and implement it.

Now it has degenerated further to be that the worst people in the world is our actual customers. So they hunt for new customers and fail to find any.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (n7h9X)

63 Next time you step on an airplane remember, Boeing has fully embraced DEI for the last 10+ years. Fly Airbus if you can.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (/U5Yz)

64 Nice to see this vile totalitarian racist sewage being flushed out, but the people who are behind it, those who actually believe it, and those who tolerated it for more than 15 seconds are still anchors around our lives and society. A true character reveal for the country.

Oh, and we'll not even speak of the comical lawlessness of all this crude racist and other persecution and discrimination under US law (even the laws that *should* exist).

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (1m82a)

65 No, it was the freaking lie ‘D.E.I. increases the company bottom line.’

IIRC they just cherry picked companies that were already succeeding because of regulatory capture and claimed the "
benefit" was DEI instead of...regulatory capture.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (oZhjI)

66 Someone here at the HQ says something to the effect that the purpose of an action is the thing that the action accomplishes. Their phrasing was pithier than this.

"The purpose of a system is what it does" is the version I see a lot. Applies well here.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (2ocoG)

67 I will believe that DEI has finally lost when the "Department of Society, Culture, and Justice" changes its name back to "Sociology and Anthropology".

Which I'm going to assume were too difficult for the incoming freshmen to pronounce.

In other news, the state board of education told state colleges to get rid of any office, policy, procedure, or initiative dedicated to Diversity, Equity, or Inclusion.

The university is slow-walking action on this in order to protect a bunch of people's phony-baloney racist jobs, of course.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (hB7mE)

68 Let's just have a race war and see who wins. Mmmkay?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:49 PM (jFCkp)

I was once of the same attitude, to just be done with all this bullshit name calling and get to swinging.
But really, I don't want to shoot people because of their skin color, and I don't want myself or others I love shot for the same reason.
That's what it comes down to; your skin color is your uniform, and there's plenty of proof that a low level race war already exists at street level, where "aggrieved" youth feel impunity when striking at an "oppressor".

It's going to take a long time to get back to the scabbed over wound era that existed before Obama.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (FCbAQ)

69 New study finds DEI initiatives creating 'hostile attribution bias'

the Gob is officially Smacked on this one. /s

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 25, 2024 05:03 PM (Rbu5d)

70 In a slightly more ideal world, companies that deploy DIE should be automatically subject to Hostile Work Environment suits. It's not going to stop until employers are scared pissless of lawsuits.

Further, I think there could be an additional claim of Religious Test violations. DIE as an extension of neo-marxism is a quasi-religious movement, aka cult. The original literature speaks in terms that popped up in the 70s/'80 spiritual, new age nonsense. "Woke" is a new age term.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 05:03 PM (IG4Id)

71 Corporate HR run through hoops when they have to fire a POC whereas a white guy is fired based on the one two step in the employee manual.

Step one: warning
Step two: fired

My HR attorneys spent weeks researching one of my POC employees who wrote claim checks to his friends. Finally they conceded there was enough evidence and dismissed him. Refused to involve law enforcement to get restitution and I was not allowed to disclose that he was fired for cause if a potential employer called for a check.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 05:03 PM (D6PGr)

72 Slowly, then all at once.

>>@julie_kelly2
·
9m
It is official.

Judge Tanya Chutkan grants motion to dismiss J6 case

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 05:03 PM (LkLld)

73 63 Next time you step on an airplane remember, Boeing has fully embraced DEI for the last 10+ years. Fly Airbus if you can.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (/U5Yz)

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Avoid United. Their CEO is a friggen cross-dressing, faggot, weirdo. And I'd guess has pedo proclivities.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 05:03 PM (jyAD3)

74 Diversity is not our strength.

We've always known it.

I laugh when the political tools say it with passion.
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (jyAD3)

I would argue that "diversity" is the single most destructive thing to a society, IF we define diversity as the left does.

Which is why every sane countries immigration policies focuses on DECREASING "diversity" by heavily encouraging people to assimilate to the dominant culture and leave their "old world" ways behind.

Strangely, the US and recently much of Europe, have decided to go in a different direction when it comes to immigration and assimilation in recent years.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (Evo1G)

75 >>Diversity is not our strength.

You know, for years I have been pointing out that the Homeless are about as Diverse a population as you could hope to find.

How's that working out for the Homeless?

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (z/jjr)

76 I gave up on rebutting accusations of racism.
It's like asking when you stopped beating your wife...
Especially when those accusing us of racism are themselves racists of the highest order.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (MeG8a)

77 9 ‘Is it me or has the Civil War fever broken?’

Maybe it has here but I suspect it is growing among the left. I’m waiting to see how it manifests.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (jbnUc)

78 >Shock Study: DEI Training Teaches People to Find Racism Where There Is None
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a solution in search of a problem

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (/7KEl)

79 I mentioned this somewhere else: I, actually, think the term of Islamophobia can actually be pursued as liable. Initially, it was "name calling" and generalization. But, as world governments (ours include) and the UN worked the term into legislation, edicts and plans, it gave the accusation stature. And, what is Islamophobia?

Well, A “phobia” is defined within the medical community as: an anxiety disorder, defined by an irrational, unrealistic, persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation.

So, when a media representative, a "community organizer" or even a private individual label you as an Islamophobe, they are saying that you possess a medical anxiety disorder. They better be able to back that up if they make that statement online, in the media or in other established public places. Because if they can't we've moved into the realm of Libel. By legitimizing the term, they made it's use potentially actionable.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (dIske)

80 It's all Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (fwDg9)

81 That is because "microaggression" just like "intersectionality" is a stupid, made up term that is nonsense.
Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 05:00 PM (i7Q7S)

Always good to have experts that can't explain what they are expert in.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (n7h9X)

82 "shows significant increases in hostility and punitive attitudes among participants exposed to DEI pedagogy covering subjects like race"

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Black people in America are socialized from birth to believe they are victims and white America is racist.

Just imagine the society we would have if that were not the case.

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (i7Q7S)

83 JC... Libel not liable. In my defense, I had a couple beers.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (dIske)

84 >>The DEI crowd can't afford the hate to die. They must keep it alive so they can grift from it. Rev Al sharpton, Rev Jesse Jackson, and all the other old time race grifters taught them well.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 04:57 PM

At some point, I think you've made enough money trying to start a civil war.

Posted by: huerfano at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (DKIGo)

85 Juveniles Justice Information Exchange: Obama Administration Unveils School Discipline Guidelines
By Gary Gately | January 9, 2014

WaPo, Jun 1, 2020 — Kaepernick's took a knee during the anthem before the final exhibition, on Sept. 1, 2016, in San Diego, with teammate Eric Reid joining him in ...

Definition of equity - The value of the shares issued by a company. "He owns 62% of the group's equity"

Now, equity means, per NACE: "fairness and justice
The term “equity” refers to fairness and justice and is distinguished from equality: Whereas equality means providing the same to all, equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances."

And like the Black Lives Matter, the more educated, wealthier & connected individuals greatly benefited, while the working and government subsidized classes just got angrier.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (NFX2v)

86 76 I gave up on rebutting accusations of racism.
It's like asking when you stopped beating your wife...
Especially when those accusing us of racism are themselves racists of the highest order.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (MeG8a)

Yes, the left are the people that claim some races are too stupid to get IDs. That's racist.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (SwYcw)

87 so do we think DEI and trans shit has peaked, or are we still in it

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (/7KEl)

88 Training people in dumb shit makes them dumber than they were before the training?

What a surprising result. I never would have predicted this.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 25, 2024 05:06 PM (vQIx0)

89 Fascism and communism are just slightly different flavors of socialism and socialism is always authoritarian and totalitarian.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

It starts out with artificial ideas about what is "fair" to people, the haves versus the "have nots". The "haves" have too much stuff, money, and power, which is what the "have nots" want.
So when people start resisting what others think is fair (gimme your stuff and money!), then that's when the shooting starts. Or guillotines. Or gas chambers. Or mass deportations to concentration camps.
It always ends this way.
You can vote yourself into socialism, but you usually have to shoot your way out. Milei in Argentina may prove the exception.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at November 25, 2024 05:06 PM (vcOmj)

90 Diversity is not our strength.

You know, for years I have been pointing out that the Homeless are about as Diverse a population as you could hope to find.

How's that working out for the Homeless?
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (z/jjr)

They are to a large majority men, so thus undiverse by definition.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:06 PM (n7h9X)

91 Serious question, do any of you care when you're called racist? Either individually or as a group, like MAGA.

I sincerely do not give a shit. If I think I could take them, I'd laugh in their face.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 05:07 PM (jyAD3)

92 my feeling is, in the Biden times the Left finally pushed the Crazy too far, and they got a smackdown on Nov 5

imo fwiw ymmv stp ups nasa

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:07 PM (/7KEl)

93 I also received a Land's End catalog. Apparently, Land's End is where china meets Bohai Bay. Posted by: Thomas Paine
*
IIRC, Land's End was Sears' aspirational line of clothing which is an oxymoron and dates to a time before Sears began exclusively hiring people as they came over the Rio Grande.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024

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AP, back in to about 1990, Lands' End was a kind of variant on LL Bean, just a little cheaper, with good stuff available only in catalogs. I bought several shirts and a briefcase from them. In less than a decade, though, they linked up with Sears, or Sears bought them, and it seemed to lessen theri appeal instead of bringing Sears up. Are they still around in catalog form?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 05:07 PM (J2vNu)

94 Training people in dumb shit makes them dumber than they were before the training?

What a surprising result. I never would have predicted this.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Training people? And why do you think the stuff on TV is called programming?
A lot of TV and movies persistently change people's attitudes and ideas slowly and subtley.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (vcOmj)

95 Didn't start with the affirmative action intern "president". And won't end with the overdue elimination of this vile official racist indoctrination. Because the racial disability in such a large number of people in certain "communities" is as entrenched as ever. Racial disability = actual racism, narcissistic victim disorder, ignorance, envy, all groomed and stoked and fed by "education" pop culture and society in general for generations. And of course enabled by the still jaw-dropping phenomenon of suburban "educated" "white guilt", easily 50 years after anything like it should have withered away.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (1m82a)

96 Best Korea!

Posted by: Every NORK at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (CpPSJ)

97 sounds like the results received in the Milgram experiment or the Stanford Prison experiment. Tell people from a position of authority what's allowed and suddenly they are pushing the button to shock the crap out of you for no reason.

Posted by: Bob's your uncle at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (3OfwQ)

98 The country needs a culling. Pronto.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (Q4IgG)

99 Take your time, though, "Experts." Take your time.

These results suggest that anti-Islamophobia training inspired by ISPU materials may cause individuals to assume unfair treent of Muslim people, even when no evidence of bias or unfairness is present.

Ok. Fine.
Not every muzzie explodes.
But everyone that has exploded in the last 24 years has been muzzies.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (UE7n4)

100 >>They are to a large majority men, so thus undiverse by definition.

Those are just the ones you see.

Hobos are like Dwarves. They keep their females hidden.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (z/jjr)

101 As long as it's being paid for somehow, it's in.

Universities, sports, public schools, civil service...

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (NFX2v)

102 I did not expect this.

Posted by: The Spanish Inquisition at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (aD39U)

103 When victimhood pays well, whether monetarily or socially, don't be surprised when you get more of it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (SwYcw)

104 The left only real accomplishment is that they have institutionalized incompetence.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (vQIx0)

105 DEI was never about equity or equitable outcomes. It was about giving unqualified minorities positions and pay they did not deserve to punish white America for our sins. It was just another form of reparations.

And it all started with Obama.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (LkLld)

106 so do we think DEI and trans shit has peaked, or are we still in it
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (/7KEl)

Some businesses are getting smart enough to eliminate/hide the DEI department. Others are not.

The war inside academia for the funding of useless majors like X Studies is probably just getting started.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (n7h9X)

107 No, it was the freaking lie ‘D.E.I. increases the company bottom line.’
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Kinda like the article I read this AM about Trump looking to shitcan all the trannies from the military Day One.

And they were like, but all the branches are having trouble meeting recruitment goals, reeee!

Yeah--when you cater to deviants, fudge-packers and crazies, normal don't want no part of that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (8Kx9y)

108 >Serious question, do any of you care when you're called racist? Either individually or as a group, like MAGA.
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to me, the word has lost all meaning & usefulness
when people say 'racism' I just hear a kind of buzzing noise from their faces

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (/7KEl)

109 We the people have been studying right-wing authoritarianism since World War II. It's really only in the past 10 or 15 years that people have started saying, 'Wait a minute, this is on the left, too.'

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WTF do you mean "too", you pricks (I mean, "Experts")? Have we seen any "right-wing authoritarianism" to any meaningful degree in decades?

Posted by: bearski at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (Bhsk7)

110 Black people in America are socialized from birth to believe they are victims and white America is racist.

Just imagine the society we would have if that were not the case.
Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 05:05 PM (i7Q7S)

Worse than that, it teaches black kids that the system is rigged against them and there's no point in even trying to better themselves.

Robbing an entire race of kids of their hopes and dreams.

Really horrific stuff.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (Evo1G)

111 NPR of all places had a DEI expert on to look at the results of all the DEI training. They actually admitted on air they were not able to see any increase in less discrimination or benefits from the DEI training.

Millions and millions spend on the DEI scam. Nothing to show for it except making things worse. Glad it will get gutted at the federal level at least during Trump's second term. No more paying the grifters to host struggle sessions during work hours.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (wcIbG)

112 47...When it was pointed out that she was offering literally nothing to straight young men her campaign had two responses:

1) Getting a bunch of gay guys to talk up Harris
2) Telling straight men that they'd be allowed to discuss how terrible they were
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 04:59 PM (oZhjI)

The guy in the middle was gonna make a difference!!
https://tinyurl.com/2yrk56v5

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (Rbu5d)

113 105 DEI was never about equity or equitable outcomes. It was about giving unqualified minorities positions and pay they did not deserve to punish white America for our sins. It was just another form of reparations.

And it all started with Obama.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (LkLld)

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I agree.

Our diverse President was a shit show.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (jyAD3)

114 Serious question, do any of you care when you're called racist? Either individually or as a group, like MAGA.

I sincerely do not give a shit. If I think I could take them, I'd laugh in their face.
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024

***
I'm waiting for someone to call me that. Depending on my mood, I may laugh, or I may say, "Yes, I am. So?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (J2vNu)

115 ...even in the absence of evidence.

This is literally the definition of faith --

Hebrews 11:1 -- "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

These institutions are forcing their religious faith on government and all of us, which is a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Posted by: Half Dozen at November 25, 2024 05:10 PM (ppfCG)

116 Judge Tanya Chutkan grants motion to dismiss J6 case

************

Without prejudice, so they'll just bring it up again when Trump leaves office, amirite?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Certified Cranberry Sauce and Keto Stuffing Cook at November 25, 2024 05:10 PM (M7vhK)

117 China's population is majority all one race, the Han people. Not a small majority, either.
They don't waste any energy on any DEI crap.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 25, 2024 05:10 PM (MeG8a)

118 By the way:

"President-Elect Donald J. Trump has prepared an Executive Order for his First Day in Office, which would see the Medical Discharge of over 15,000 Transgender Service members from the U.S. Military, as well as a Ban on Transgender Individuals from joining any Branch of the Armed Forces."

-Thank God

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 05:10 PM (i7Q7S)

119 Fascism and Communism can’t function without a strong dictator and then it’s just a Potemkin village.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 05:10 PM (D6PGr)

120 35 Fascism and communism are just slightly different flavors of socialism and socialism is always authoritarian and totalitarian.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 04:57 PM (17s+e)
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Yes!!
I cringe when I see Socialism listed with Fascism, Nazism and Communism. The latter three are subsets of Socialism.

Posted by: Ciampino - see, we're hard players! at November 25, 2024 05:10 PM (i0xsb)

121 If those people could read they'd be very disappointed in the content of this post.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 05:11 PM (u6S9O)

122 Serious question, do any of you care when you're called racist? Either individually or as a group, like MAGA.

Nope.
If I call you friend, I don't care what color uou are. If I call you enemy, I don't care if you're blood.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:11 PM (UE7n4)

123 We have 15,000 transgenders in the military?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 05:11 PM (D6PGr)

124 “You don’t fix society’s problems of racism, discrimination, and segregation by engaging in more racism, discrimination, and segregation. You fix them by ending them.” - Dr. Carl Mumpower

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 05:11 PM (XeU6L)

125 Ok. Fine.
Not every muzzie explodes.
But everyone that has exploded in the last 24 years has been muzzies.

Fun fact: did you know that over half of the married Pakistanis living in Britain are married to their first cousins, and that this is mirrored across the Islamic world?

It's Islamaphobia if you notice that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 05:11 PM (uxCna)

126 >Kinda like the article I read this AM about Trump looking to shitcan all the trannies from the military Day One.

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yeah.. I don't see this happening
I think the best Trump's gonna get is making this shit a bar to reenlistment

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:11 PM (/7KEl)

127 How in the hell did we get 15,000 trannies in the military? I didn't think there were 15,000 of them in the country let alone in the military. We have a serious mental illness problem.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 05:11 PM (LkLld)

128 That's what it comes down to; your skin color is your uniform, and there's plenty of proof that a low level race war already exists at street level, where "aggrieved" youth feel impunity when striking at an "oppressor".

It's going to take a long time to get back to the scabbed over wound era that existed before Obama.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (FCbAQ)

Yep. Mr. Bassman and I both have been mistreated for our "uniform" when we were minding our own business.

Posted by: Emmie at November 25, 2024 05:12 PM (e7ATA)

129 attrition....

ATTRITION!

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:12 PM (/7KEl)

130 Avoid United. Their CEO is a friggen cross-dressing, faggot, weirdo. And I'd guess has pedo proclivities.
Posted by: Seems Legit

Too late!! I flew United to Europe and back last month.

Does that make me ghey? Am I transitioning?
Frankly, I'm worried.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at November 25, 2024 05:12 PM (vcOmj)

131 sounds like the results received in the Milgram experiment or the Stanford Prison experiment. Tell people from a position of authority what's allowed and suddenly they are pushing the button to shock the crap out of you for no reason.
Posted by: Bob's your uncle at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (3OfwQ)

Ah when psychology tests actually did tests.

Another good one was the time they took a group of kids of similar skill and told teachers that Bob was smart, Joe was slow and Dave was a troublemaker and the teachers graded them that way.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

132
"President-Elect Donald J. Trump has prepared an Executive Order for his First Day in Office, which would see the Medical Discharge of over 15,000 Transgender Service members from the U.S. Military, as well as a Ban on Transgender Individuals from joining any Branch of the Armed Forces."

--

And the funniest part will be that the pervs will think that the nation is on their side.

Well, the 2nd funniest. The first part will be the part where they're doing it for any reason beyond the free surgeries and medicines with no expectations of difficult anything because homophobe.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 05:12 PM (u6S9O)

133 >>How in the hell did we get 15,000 trannies in the military? I didn't think there were 15,000 of them in the country let alone in the military. We have a serious mental illness problem.

They announced that they would pay for the Transition Surgeries and Treatments.

They got the Recruits they were after.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:13 PM (z/jjr)

134 I say keep the trannies in the military. Someone has to sweep for mines.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 25, 2024 05:14 PM (vQIx0)

135 When you can get a job for being tranny by buying a blue fright wig, you will get more trannys.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:14 PM (n7h9X)

136 Fun fact: did you know that over half of the married Pakistanis living in Britain are married to their first cousins, and that this is mirrored across the Islamic world?

It's Islamaphobia if you notice that.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

If she's not good enough for her family, why would she be good enough for mine?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:15 PM (UE7n4)

137 When I saw this headline earlier today, I echo'd ace's first line - "so it did exactly what it was supposed to: rip our society apart."

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 25, 2024 05:15 PM (jwAmR)

138
Fun fact: did you know that over half of the married Pakistanis living in Britain are married to their first cousins, and that this is mirrored across the Islamic world?

It's Islamaphobia if you notice that.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 05:11 PM (uxCna)

Boy, I bet that makes for some high IQs

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 05:15 PM (SwYcw)

139 From Barky then Sundowner they welcomed Mental illness Trannies

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 05:15 PM (fwDg9)

140 If those people could read they'd be very disappointed in the content of this post.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
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No they wouldn't. You see, they have been so inculcated by the message of the Left, for their entire lives, that any data or facts presented to them that contradicts the narrative that has been installed in their psyches is simply not considered. It will not make it past their eyes or ears.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 05:15 PM (XeU6L)

141 Don't think I would be shocked over 15,000

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 05:15 PM (fwDg9)

142 " did you know that over half of the married Pakistanis living in Britain are married to their first cousins"

==============

Diversity, not our strength.

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 05:16 PM (i7Q7S)

143 Serious question, do any of you care when you're called racist? Either individually or as a group, like MAGA.

I sincerely do not give a shit. If I think I could take them, I'd laugh in their face.
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 05:07 PM (jyAD3)

I've never been called racist / sexist / homophobe / etc. in person. If I were, it would probably sting a bit, depending on the context.

Online? No, it's silly. An extension of Godwins Law, as it were.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:16 PM (Evo1G)

144 I think I shared before that I did DEI training at work, and the facilitator/grifter they hired to run the session actually had a Clarence Thomas quote in her slides.

She mocked him. He was clearly, in the quote, making the point of, what is discrimination? But she used it to imply by him asking the question, he clearly didn't know and must be stupid. (She was black, I think she felt that gave her a pass to mock him.)

Then later on, she said conservatives are welcome to express opinions, everyone is welcome, we need diverse thoughts too. Nuh uh. Not falling for that when you willingly mock one of the greatest conservative minds of our era. A man whose life experience and harships would make her quake in her shoes with rage had she experienced it.

My employer terminated DEI training. Finally. I learned a lot during it. But NOT the lessons they wanted.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 05:16 PM (wcIbG)

145 Shocking. Shocking!

Surely they will immediately reverse course on this crazy plan!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 05:16 PM (aOqEy)

146 I had a black roomate in college for three years We were pretty good fiends and hung out.

He caught shit from the other blacks for hanging out with me. The blacks didn't like me either. One came up to me one time and said that the only reason Craig, my roommate, hung out with me was because it was easier for him to get white women.

I thought it was kind of funny. I asked him about it later and he said it was true. Then we went and had some beers.

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 05:16 PM (QB+5g)

147 Newsbreak, FACT Check, Did the Pentagon Allocate $86 Billion Dollars For DEI Initiatives?
By Anthony Pascone, 4 days ago
...

“The Pentagon is worried that Pete Hegseth will immediately cut off funding for the nearly $86 billion the Pentagon has spent on DEI initiatives. This sounds great,” the post reads. “START NOW!”

The post in question is misleading, though. The Pentagon has only spent $86.5 million on DEI programs, not billion. In 2023, the Pentagon asked for $114 million in new DEI incentives following a failed audit, ABC33 reported at the time.

The Pentagon has earmarked $162 million for DEI initiatives for 2025. While Hegseth has not publicly announced any cuts to the Pentagon’s budget, experts believe that one of the changes that will be implemented will be a significant reduction in these incentives, according to The Washington Examiner."

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:16 PM (NFX2v)

148 Fun fact: did you know that over half of the married Pakistanis living in Britain are married to their first cousins, and that this is mirrored across the Islamic world?

It's Islamaphobia if you notice that.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Boy, I bet that makes for some high IQs
Posted by: CaliGirl

You have to add the whole family up. All 23 members to barely break a hundred.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (UE7n4)

149 If those people could read they'd be very disappointed in the content of this post.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
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No they wouldn't. You see, they have been so inculcated by the message of the Left, for their entire lives, that any data or facts presented to them that contradicts the narrative that has been installed in their psyches is simply not considered. It will not make it past their eyes or ears.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

--

Full disclosure:

I was mostly just wanting to poke fun at the 75%+ illiteracy rates in urban areas, all while somehow also having 75%+ high school graduation rates.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (u6S9O)

150 Incentives

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (NFX2v)

151 The dark night of racial discrimination is forever descending on the Right yet always landing on the Left.

Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (aD39U)

152 Boy, I bet that makes for some high IQs

A high percentage of the people suffering genetic diseases in Britain are Pakistani.

Turns out that a centuries-old tradition of marrying your first cousin has some downsides.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (uxCna)

153 Help. I've got a one pound bag of cashews and no restraining influence.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (vFG9F)

154 You all will be shocked to learn that this happened:

"two leading media organizations—The New York Times and Bloomberg—abruptly shelved coverage of a groundbreaking study that raises serious concerns about the psychological impacts of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) pedagogy. The study, conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) in collaboration with Rutgers University, found that certain DEI practices could induce hostility, increase authoritarian tendencies, and foster agreement with extreme rhetoric. "

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Democracy dies in darkness!

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (i7Q7S)

155 And why do you think the stuff on TV is called programming?
---
We ham and eggers have benefitted greatly by 20 hours a week of prime time programming assuring America that we are, in fact, ham and eggers.

That's for damn sure.

Posted by: The FBI at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (paSBy)

156 3 Let's just have a race war and see who wins. Mmmkay?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:49 PM (jFCkp)

Sounds good to me, I'll be waiting in this hole in the desert ! ! !

Posted by: Charles S. Manson at November 25, 2024 05:18 PM (Yt3ED)

157 15,000 Trans in the military???

No wonder legacy recruits and others said nope to joining.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 05:18 PM (jyAD3)

158 Serious question, do any of you care when you're called racist? Either individually or as a group, like MAGA.

Nope.
If I call you friend, I don't care what color uou are. If I call you enemy, I don't care if you're blood.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:11 PM (UE7n4)

Always have to consider the source. If some well paid huckster says it, well that source has no standing.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:18 PM (n7h9X)

159 OT But kinda DEI. The current government of Canada hates guns. I stumbled on this. The Canadian Armed Forces had 10,200 Inglis made Browning Hi Powers in storage, destined for destruction rather than sell to law abiding citizens. They have elected to donate these pistols to Ukraine. So anyway, some guy in Ukraine is gonna make a lot of money selling them back

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 05:18 PM (gm9Sb)

160 >>I've got a one pound bag of cashews and no restraining influence.

Be glad you didn't bring home the Candied ones.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:18 PM (z/jjr)

161 "Diversity is our strength" means that pedophilia is good for a society.

After all, it is "diversity."

Oh, you mean "The Diversity I Like--and which I personally benefit from--is our Strength."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 05:18 PM (8Kx9y)

162 In 2023, the Pentagon asked for $114 million in new DEI incentives following a failed audit, ABC33 reported at the time.

Everything in context. Is seven a lot?

In dwarves? No.
In consecutive failed audits? Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:19 PM (UE7n4)

163 And why do you think the stuff on TV is called programming?
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We ham and eggers have benefitted greatly by 20 hours a week of prime time programming assuring America that we are, in fact, ham and eggers.

That's for damn sure.
Posted by: The FBI at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (paSBy)

But we've been told for years that ham and eggs are bad for us....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 05:19 PM (VNX3d)

164 Help. I've got a one pound bag of cashews and no restraining influence.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (vFG9F)

Eat them. Eat them all.

Posted by: The demon on your shoulder at November 25, 2024 05:19 PM (aD39U)

165
It starts out with artificial ideas about what is "fair" to people, the haves versus the "have nots". The "haves" have too much stuff, money, and power, which is what the "have nots" want.

I was reading an MSN listicle on "The surprising things people found out when becoming rich"

About 2/3 of the 25 entries were people complaining that the OTHER rich people they knew were lazy and shouldn't be allowed to have all that money.

It was 100% my experience talking with wealthy lefty LIVs talking about the need to tax the rich. No, not THEM, the rich people that didn't deserve it.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 05:19 PM (oZhjI)

166 "President-Elect Donald J. Trump has prepared an Executive Order for his First Day in Office, which would see the Medical Discharge of over 15,000 Transgender Service members from the U.S. Military
-----

And they will all line up for VA disabilty benefits, and hospital 'Service Related' treatment.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 05:19 PM (XeU6L)

167 DEI - purveyors of Envy and Wrath

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 05:20 PM (WL2lA)

168 We have advanced to the point in society where we get constant pharmaceutical ads during the TV shows telling us how great our government agents are.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 05:20 PM (u6S9O)

169
Everything in context. Is seven a lot?

In dwarves? No.

Eh, I'm gonna hafta disagree with youse heah. Seven of them gits is way too much. Well, afta my axe is done wid 'em at least!

Posted by: Some Warhammer Ork at November 25, 2024 05:20 PM (oZhjI)

170
I've never been called racist / sexist / homophobe / etc. in person. If I were, it would probably sting a bit, depending on the context.

Online? No, it's silly. An extension of Godwins Law, as it were.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:16 PM (Evo1G)

I haven't been called anything like that in person either but I think I'd laugh. That means they have no argument.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 05:20 PM (SwYcw)

171 I love how someone with a pseudo name is calling it pseudo science.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 05:20 PM (p4NUW)

172 Boy, I bet that makes for some high IQs

A high percentage of the people suffering genetic diseases in Britain are Pakistani.

Turns out that a centuries-old tradition of marrying your first cousin has some downsides.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

The Paki's could have saved time an simply asked the Brit riyalty.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:20 PM (UE7n4)

173 Huh.
CDC just called me.
Want me to do a Covid vaccination survey.

I hope there's a free-form, "tell us in your own words" section.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 05:21 PM (8Kx9y)

174 Isn't a lot of Muslims clans, and need to keep that clan from getting diversified

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 05:21 PM (fwDg9)

175 Evening.

So leftist researchers really couldn't fathom even the tiniest possibility that leftists can be even the slightest bit authoritarian? You mean to tell me these people with fancy, expensive credentials are a very likely a bunch of partisan phonies?

No! I shan't believe it. I shan't!

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 05:21 PM (RHpYA)

176 D - ?
E-Envy
I - Ire

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 05:21 PM (WL2lA)

177 I've never been called racist / sexist / homophobe / etc. in person. If I were, it would probably sting a bit, depending on the context.

Online? No, it's silly. An extension of Godwins Law, as it were.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:16 PM (Evo1G)

I haven't been called anything like that in person either but I think I'd laugh. That means they have no argument.
Posted by: CaliGirl

I have. Without ever opening my mouth. Simply because I am a cracker.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:21 PM (UE7n4)

178 I can only speak from personal experience that DEI is poisonous in the workplace. I have been retired only a couple of years but this had been happening even then. I worked in a university.

The sensitivity training was so anti-white that I cringed at what we were being asked to believe. What was horrifying was finding my black co-workers agreed with it. These were people who had the same working conditions and pay as I did yet we were asked to think of their disadvantage due to their race.

All it did is make me resentful.

Posted by: Decaf at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (unUNN)

179 >>I've got a one pound bag of cashews and no restraining influence.
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This is going to really mess up the USB ports.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (XeU6L)

180 Get out!

"These results suggest that anti-Islamophobia training inspired by ISPU materials may cause individuals to assume unfair treatment of Muslim people, even when no evidence of bias or unfairness is present."

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (i7Q7S)

181 173 Huh.
CDC just called me.
Want me to do a Covid vaccination survey.

I hope there's a free-form, "tell us in your own words" section.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 05:21 PM (8Kx9y)

Super curious why the CDC would be doing a survey.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (aOqEy)

182 Everything in context. Is seven a lot?

In dwarves? No.

Eh, I'm gonna hafta disagree with youse heah. Seven of them gits is way too much. Well, afta my axe is done wid 'em at least!
Posted by: Some Warhammer Ork

*snort.

Parts everywhere!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (UE7n4)

183 15,000 trannys in the military? That is approximately 0.75% so we should totally turn the entire 2 million+ man operation upside down for them.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (17s+e)

184 137 When I saw this headline earlier today, I echo'd ace's first line - "so it did exactly what it was supposed to: rip our society apart."
Posted by: Defenestratus at November 25, 2024 05:15 PM (jwAmR)

————

I think sometime around the 80s and early 90s the racial climate was probably the best. Of course there were problems but generally much better than now.

I’ve come to the conclusion that a truly free democratic multiracial society cannot exist long term. The racial grievance mongers will always divide according to race, making peaceful coexistence an issue.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (mdi0h)

185 >>Super curious why the CDC would be doing a survey.

So they know when to turn on the nano-bots.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (z/jjr)

186 No, it was the business school graduates that would believe such obvious nonsense and implement it.

Now it has degenerated further to be that the worst people in the world is our actual customers. So they hunt for new customers and fail to find any.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (n7h9X
I’m a customer. I choose, when possible, where my money’s spent. At 75 I ain’t likely to be a new customer of a company that pissed me off.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (LHPAg)

187 Did they really refer to kendi and deangelo as thought leaders in that article?
I don't think either of them has had an original thought in their entire life.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (Lo97M)

188 "Eat them. Eat them all.
Posted by: The demon on your shoulder"

The most I can gain is a pound, right?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (vFG9F)

189
I haven't been called anything like that in person either but I think I'd laugh. That means they have no argument.
Posted by: CaliGirl

I have. Without ever opening my mouth. Simply because I am a cracker.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at

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Being aware of your surroundings is important, too. As is carrying a firearm. It wouldn't take much to have an accusation thrown and then a group surrounding you.

There was gentleman who discussed this rationally and with data a few years ago that was canceled before "canceled" was a thing.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (u6S9O)

190 Shock Study: DEI Training Teaches People to Find Racism Where There Is None
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a solution in search of a problem
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (/7KEl)

a crime in search of a victim

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (QTCRF)

191 Huh.
CDC just called me.
Want me to do a Covid vaccination survey.

I hope there's a free-form, "tell us in your own words" section.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 05:21 PM (8Kx9y)

Super curious why the CDC would be doing a survey.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (aOqEy)

Do you get a free gift card?

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (RHpYA)

192 D - ?
E-Envy
I - Ire
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Didn't
Earn
It

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:24 PM (UE7n4)

193 162. In dwarves? No.
In consecutive failed audits? Yes.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices

Apples & Oranges

Breaking Defense: Pentagon
Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row, eyes passing grade by 2028 “This result was not a surprise, and I know that on the surface it doesn't sound like we're making progress. However, that is not the case,” said DoD comptroller Michael McCord. By Ashley Roque, November 15, 2024 at 7:53 PM

Detail in piece. Not specifically DEI.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:24 PM (NFX2v)

194 a crime in search of a victim
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (QTCRF

This is the Democrat Way!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 05:24 PM (aOqEy)

195 183 15,000 trannys in the military? That is approximately 0.75% so we should totally turn the entire 2 million+ man operation upside down for them.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (17s+e)

————

Wasn’t the numbers for the whole USA about 15,000 a few years ago.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 25, 2024 05:24 PM (mdi0h)

196
I think sometime around the 80s and early 90s the racial climate was probably the best. Of course there were problems but generally much better than now.

-

Same here. When you can date a black chick in podunk Alabama and no one cares, it's pretty much over.

That's why it had to be brought back.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 05:25 PM (u6S9O)

197 CDC Survey Question:

Did you enjoy your Free Donut?

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:25 PM (z/jjr)

198 Super curious why the CDC would be doing a survey.

They have too much money and need to find something to waste it on before the end of the year

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 05:25 PM (oZhjI)

199 Why would the CDC survey by phone? Sounds like a scam.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at November 25, 2024 05:25 PM (wBaIH)

200 133 >>How in the hell did we get 15,000 trannies in the military? I didn't think there were 15,000 of them in the country let alone in the military. We have a serious mental illness problem.

They announced that they would pay for the Transition Surgeries and Treatments.

They got the Recruits they were after.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:13 PM (z/jjr)

++++

I guess that makes sense. I was shocked by the number, also.

Posted by: washrivergal at November 25, 2024 05:25 PM (mzoqX)

201
Identity and racial grievance politics are everywhere death to any society. It descends into civil war. Thomas Sowell used to go on and on about this.

This should be common sense. Go around telling people how "the man" (whoever that is) is out to get them, and they see the man everywhere keeping them down. Rather than trying to live their lives they want to get even with the man.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2024 05:25 PM (w6EFb)

202 I haven't been called anything like that in person either but I think I'd laugh. That means they have no argument.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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I have been called a racist. Couple of years ago. I did exactly what you mentioned. Laughed at him and told him he was making a lot of assumptions about things he didn't know.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (2bFN5)

203 Isn't a lot of Muslims clans, and need to keep that clan from getting diversified

Yep - cousin marriage is a way of reinforcing tribal structures.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (uxCna)

204 Taylor Lorentz admitting to being 50 but you know she is 58.

Ace nails another investigation!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 04:53 PM (17s+e)

--

There was a post on X this weekend that found a couple of newspaper references to Ms Lorenz when she was in high school. She's 40.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (gPsAl)

205 Being aware of your surroundings is important, too. As is carrying a firearm. It wouldn't take much to have an accusation thrown and then a group surrounding you.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie

At which point a pistol would only exacerbate your problem. Unless you had a machine gun and went full Al Pacino.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (k0Waj)

206
At the beginning of this nonsense it wasn't called DEI, but where I worked the meetings were still mandatory, and even then the white folks knew to keep their moufs shut.

The joke was that afterwards we were 'certified".

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (j4U/Z)

207
I was reading an MSN listicle on "The surprising things people found out when becoming rich"

About 2/3 of the 25 entries were people complaining that the OTHER rich people they knew were lazy and shouldn't be allowed to have all that money.

It was 100% my experience talking with wealthy lefty LIVs talking about the need to tax the rich. No, not THEM, the rich people that didn't deserve it.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 05:19 PM

I recall reading about a study where a group of people got 1,000 and a few got 5,000. The people in charge asked the people that got 1,000, if they'd be willing to give some of their money back to take all the money from the people that got 5,000. They not only gave back their money, they were willing to actually pay more out of their own pocket to ensure the 5,000 got taken away from the smaller group.
Envy is a strong emotion.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (SwYcw)

208 You ride your bicycle downtown to Sears, go in the back door at the snack stand and get a quarter pound of cashews, a chili dog and a root beer. A proper diet for a kid on a bike.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (gm9Sb)

209 15,000 trannys in the military? That is approximately 0.75% so we should totally turn the entire 2 million+ man operation upside down for them.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 05:23 PM (17s+e)

Wasn’t the numbers for the whole USA about 15,000 a few years ago.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 25, 2024 05:24 PM (mdi0h)

Probably but that was before people realized you could use it as an excuse to act like a complete shitbag and get away with it.

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (RHpYA)

210 Help. I've got a one pound bag of cashews and no restraining influence.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (vFG9F)

That'll teach ya...

to buy the 2 pound bag!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (FCbAQ)

211
Super curious why the CDC would be doing a survey.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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Necessary in order to shape the narrative.

What sets me off is Pfizer ads for Paxlovid. What a deal, you produce a 'vaccine' that seems to merely extend a virus, then produce a 'treatment' for it. Sweet deal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 05:27 PM (XeU6L)

212 Super curious why the CDC would be doing a survey.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (aOqEy)

Putting pathogens on the survey forms?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:27 PM (n7h9X)

213 It's really only in the past 10 or 15 years that people have started saying, 'Wait a minute, this is on the left, too."

Their total naivete and lack of interest in self-reflection is growing tiresome at this point.

They can start correcting that willful blindness by stopping these totally incorrect notions of "far left" and "far right" as Socialists vs. Fascists.

The actual political-economic spectrum ranges from Anarchism to Totalitarianism. All forms of socialism, including fascism, fall on the right side of that scale.

America's liberal, democratic, republican form of government falls on the center-left of that scale.

Once they rearrange those basics in their minds, maybe then we can get somewhere.

Not holding my breath.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 05:27 PM (6ydKt)

214 I like Charlie Kirk's approach of discussing why Orientals and Hispanics had terrible experiences in the U.S. and are the wealthiest and most upwardly mobile groups of any, with family stability a key component.

Spoiler alert: Systemic racism was LBJ and other D laws/programs to intentionally destroy black fathers and families.

It's going to begin getting through at some point.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 05:27 PM (u6S9O)

215 Trump should put all of the Trannies in one Battalion and send them to Ukraine.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 05:27 PM (z/jjr)

216
Speaking of Covid, Trump's Surgeon general pick, whats-her-name, is a covidiot. Pro-worthless vaccine, and pro-masking, and all that. Don't like her one little bit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2024 05:28 PM (w6EFb)

217 At the beginning of this nonsense it wasn't called DEI,
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Heh.

Posted by: Political Correctness at November 25, 2024 05:29 PM (XeU6L)

218 18-1: "I was reading an MSN listicle on 'The surprising things people found out when becoming rich'..."

Meh. If it was from MSN, I'd disregard the story whatever the reportage. Remember, Gell-Mann.

It's like something from the NYT or WaPo. They could cover how blue the sky was and, with all of their history and earned credibility, I'd have to consider visiting an optometrist.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at November 25, 2024 05:29 PM (aXxgO)

219 DEI is Moaist Commie bullshit, again as usual.

Posted by: 80's music fan at November 25, 2024 05:29 PM (r0dOk)

220 Trump should put all of the Trannies in one Battalion and send them to Ukraine.
Posted by: garrett
____________

15,000 is enough for a division. It could have a catchy name and insignia.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 05:29 PM (Dm8we)

221 216
Speaking of Covid, Trump's Surgeon general pick, whats-her-name, is a covidiot. Pro-worthless vaccine, and pro-masking, and all that. Don't like her one little bit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2024 05:28 PM (w6EFb

Same. She's a curious pick. Not even sure why we need a SG. It's a bogus role.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 05:29 PM (aOqEy)

222 Being aware of your surroundings is important, too. As is carrying a firearm. It wouldn't take much to have an accusation thrown and then a group surrounding you.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie

At which point a pistol would only exacerbate your problem. Unless you had a machine gun and went full Al Pacino.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage

--

If you're being surrounded by a group of ignorant, violent, overly emotional and extremely reactive thugs that are being agitated by a lie into violence against you, I think having a firearm would be preferable to not having one.

That's just me, though.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 05:29 PM (u6S9O)

223 Maybe it has here but I suspect it is growing among the left. I’m waiting to see how it manifests.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 05:04 PM (jbnUc)

There will always be a handful of internet wankers who cheer for it, but any wide movement towards it is dead.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 05:29 PM (Ereai)

224 There was a post on X this weekend that found a couple of newspaper references to Ms Lorenz when she was in high school. She's 40.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at November 25, 2024 05:26 PM (gPsAl)

In Hexadecimal.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:30 PM (n7h9X)

225 181 173 Huh.
CDC just called me.
Want me to do a Covid vaccination survey.

I hope there's a free-form, "tell us in your own words" section.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 05:21 PM (8Kx9y)

Super curious why the CDC would be doing a survey.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (aOqEy)

Q1: Why are you still alive?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 05:30 PM (VNX3d)

226
15,000 is enough for a division. It could have a catchy name and insignia.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 05:29 PM (Dm8we)

++++

Can you just imagine the in-fighting?

Posted by: washrivergal at November 25, 2024 05:30 PM (mzoqX)

227 Ukraine can round up its fighting age men, hiding by the thousands in the US, Poland, etc., and send their a**es to war.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:30 PM (NFX2v)

228 Trump should put all of the Trannies in one Battalion and send them to Ukraine.

Just wait until one of the Azov guys spends some time in his American compatriot's foxhole and then finds out she used to be a he.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 05:31 PM (oZhjI)

229 216 Speaking of Covid, Trump's Surgeon general pick, whats-her-name, is a covidiot. Pro-worthless vaccine, and pro-masking, and all that. Don't like her one little bit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2024 05:28 PM (w6EFb)

I would have wanted Ben Carson, but whatever. Trump wanted the hot looking chick.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 05:32 PM (Ereai)

230 Fox News @FoxNews 23h
EMOTIONAL STATE: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to Secretary of State Blinken demanding he reveal the cost of therapy sessions that were reportedly held after President-elect Trump beat VP Harris. trib.al/70Ko9Z2

Darrell Issa @DarrellIssa 20h
The State Department is using taxpayer funds to provide post-election therapy sessions for employees. End this.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 05:32 PM (hovnC)

231 Aren't they (Azov fighters and others) part the Antifa in this country?

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:32 PM (NFX2v)

232 Would you consider our COVID efforts to be:

A. Perfect
B. Well above average
C. Fantastic
D. Other

Posted by: CDC at November 25, 2024 05:32 PM (aOqEy)

233 21 10 This is as bad as it gets.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 04:51 PM (QTCRF)

No. It's not.
Posted by: The Tall Man at November 25, 2024 04:53 PM (DTX3h)

BOY!

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at November 25, 2024 05:32 PM (lg881)

234 Hey guys ease up on Ms Lorenz, I found her to be fine young company after a day of throwing tea in the harbor

Posted by: The original Sam Adams at November 25, 2024 05:32 PM (oZhjI)

235 153 Help. I've got a one pound bag of cashews and no restraining influence.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 05:17 PM (vFG9F)
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If they still need shucking then be careful of shell-shock.

Posted by: Ciampino - shucks! at November 25, 2024 05:32 PM (i0xsb)

236 >> Same. She's a curious pick.

Megyn Kelly thinks it's because she's the sister-in-law of Michael Waltz, Trump's National Security Advisor pick. She thinks Waltz probably suggested her.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2024 05:32 PM (w6EFb)

237 They can start correcting that willful blindness by stopping these totally incorrect notions of "far left" and "far right"

Left and Right came based on where someone sat down on a tennis court in a revolutionary meeting.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:33 PM (n7h9X)

238 "CDC just called me.
Want me to do a Covid vaccination survey."

So, a push-poll. Yeah, no.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at November 25, 2024 05:34 PM (aXxgO)

239
My HR attorneys spent weeks researching one of my POC employees who wrote claim checks to his friends. Finally they conceded there was enough evidence and dismissed him. Refused to involve law enforcement to get restitution and I was not allowed to disclose that he was fired for cause if a potential employer called for a check.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Never, ever give a reference. Send it to HR to do - there is a fine line where you can get slammed with a lawsuit, or from the other end, you did not disclose relevant information. There is always the potential of neutrality language in a severance agreement that typically is cheaper than a lawsuit as frustrating as that might feel. HR and legal have made this tightrope walk, let them walk it. Most people know, but you may not, I have been a global HR Exec for 2 very, very large companies.

In your case, as you outline it, I would have gone to the mat and filed theft charges. That isn’t one of those you just say oh well, unless the dollar figure is nominal.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 05:34 PM (p4NUW)

240 Maybe, just maybe DEI was created to foment a race war the left could take advantage of. /s

For the betterment of society.

Theirs. Not yours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 05:34 PM (Q4IgG)

241 Was looking at a board at the kids lib where kids can write on a cutout turkey or something what they are tankful for
Some cute stuff, including a drawing of a cat (?).
A grade school age girl added her turkey. Her mom asked what did you write?
Kid(proudly) "Diversity!"

So much praise from the mom and the librarian

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 05:34 PM (WL2lA)

242 Speaking of Covid, Trump's Surgeon general pick, whats-her-name, is a covidiot. Pro-worthless vaccine, and pro-masking, and all that. Don't like her one little bit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2024 05:28 PM (w6EFb)
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One of Trump's blind spots is the vaxx, which he pushed through in record time.

I will say that the vaxx itself is different than mandating it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 05:34 PM (ZOv7s)

243 The idea of equity is racist to the core.

It says "all men are not created equal".

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 05:34 PM (RIvkX)

244 Darrell Issa @DarrellIssa 20h
The State Department is using taxpayer funds to provide post-election therapy sessions for employees. End this.
Posted by: andycanuck
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I could do this for $1.00, 'Get over it'. Hell, I'd do it for free...wait...I'd pay to do it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 05:34 PM (XeU6L)

245 Would you consider our COVID efforts to be:

A. Perfect
B. Well above average
C. Fantastic
D. Other

Posted by: CDC at November 25, 2024 05:32 PM (aOqEy)

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E Mass Murderous

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 05:35 PM (vpL93)

246 U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Just a small sample of Employee Assistance Programs:

Core Employee Assistance Program Services

Federal EAP’s are the first component of an Employee Wellness Program and should be designed to support and uplift the 8 Dimensions of Wellness, which include emotional, physical, occupational, intellectual, financial, social, environmental, and psychological aspects. Prioritizing each dimension based on employees’ individualized needs can lead to a healthier and more positive lifestyle and state of mind. While Federal EAPs can include a variety of resources, supports, trainings, and services for individuals, managers, and agencies, the services outlined below should be standard in any Federal EAP.

Cultural Competency Services:

Cultural competency services are designed to increase the ability of individuals to understand and respect values, attitudes, and beliefs which may differ from one’s own views or culture and can be instrumental in supporting and fostering diverse workplaces and healthy interactions. These services should include resources and supports for underserved communities...

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:35 PM (NFX2v)

247 DEI was never about equity or equitable outcomes. It was about giving unqualified minorities positions and pay they did not deserve to punish white America for our sins. It was just another form of reparations.
Posted by: JackStraw

On the surface level only. You can be a good whitey, bow and scrape, and still get hired. You can be a bad POC who rejects the catechism and be kicked out. The true goal is full-blown societal warfare that leads to the downfall of the US Republic. The Acolytes can never acknowledge it even if they're aware, but the goal of their programmers, the Adepts, is to destroy every facet of society in order to usher in a fascist superstate.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 05:36 PM (IG4Id)

248 name field ted

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - let not my last thought be if I only had my gun at November 25, 2024 05:36 PM (lnBc0)

249 Maybe you could ask the CDC the exact day that the clot shot went from being proven 100% to stop COVID to anyone that ever claimed we said the clot shot stopped COVID was a science hating NAZI?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 05:36 PM (oZhjI)

250 Maybe, just maybe DEI was created to foment a race war the left could take advantage of. /s

For the betterment of society.

Theirs. Not yours.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 05:34 PM (Q4IgG)
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It provided a huge boost to employment prospects for people who otherwise would have been check-out clerks.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 05:36 PM (ZOv7s)

251 The sensitivity training was so anti-white that I cringed at what we were being asked to believe. What was horrifying was finding my black co-workers agreed with it. These were people who had the same working conditions and pay as I did yet we were asked to think of their disadvantage due to their race.

All it did is make me resentful.
Posted by: Decaf at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (unUNN)

It also makes black people (and other minorities) paranoid.

I remember Obama talking about the racism he experienced "people have lock their car doors when I walked by" and "people wouldn't hold the elevator for me"

Which are things the vast majority of people have experienced. But if you believe from a young age that everything has a racial angle, I can see how you would take a bunch of small "micro aggressions" that were probably in no way related to you at all, much less your race, and build a narrative in your mind.

And as a white person, I can't question it, because I need to shut up and listen to other peoples experiences (according to DEI theory).

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:37 PM (Evo1G)

252 Not even sure why we need a SG. It's a bogus role.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 05:29 PM (aOqEy)
====

Surgeon General is commanding officer of the United States Public Health Service. I think.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 05:38 PM (RIvkX)

253 Dear Mr. Ace, Thanks for the chance to type: repent, oh Maoists, before your encounter in the particular judgement.

Posted by: 80's music fan at November 25, 2024 05:38 PM (r0dOk)

254 Take your time, though, "Experts." Take your time.

Funny that it takes so long to earn your doctorate in The Immediately Obvious.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2024 05:38 PM (abcTK)

255 " "people have lock their car doors when I walked by" and "people wouldn't hold the elevator for me"

That's happened to me too! And I didn't even have a good tan.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 05:38 PM (vFG9F)

256
Do you know why I never succeeded? Apart, of course, from being stupid, lazy and unmotivated? It's because I'm left handed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 05:39 PM (dxSpM)

257 15,000 is enough for a division. It could have a catchy name and insignia.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

The Balloon Knots!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:39 PM (UE7n4)

258 Was looking at a board at the kids lib where kids can write on a cutout turkey or something what they are tankful for
Some cute stuff, including a drawing of a cat (?).
A grade school age girl added her turkey. Her mom asked what did you write?
Kid(proudly) "Diversity!"

So much praise from the mom and the librarian
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 05:34 PM (WL2lA)

And like in real DEI programs, somebody is getting eaten.

I used to write subversive essays for Brotherhood week in highschool. The teacher liked them, posslbly just because they weren't the same old stuff.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:39 PM (n7h9X)

259 Bo Burnham - Welcome To The Internet

https://youtu.be/k1BneeJTDcU

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 05:39 PM (vEse0)

260 U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Just a small sample of Employee Assistance Programs:

Posted by: L - Rooster today
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Straight-up example of Bullshit. Our tax dollars at work.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 05:39 PM (XeU6L)

261 Diverse titties

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 05:39 PM (dOjkx)

262 Do you know why I never succeeded? Apart, of course, from being stupid, lazy and unmotivated? It's because I'm left handed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Fistbump!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 05:39 PM (UE7n4)

263 Do you know why I never succeeded? Apart, of course, from being stupid, lazy and unmotivated? It's because I'm left handed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 05:39 PM (dxSpM)

A sinister plot indeed.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:40 PM (n7h9X)

264 Poor Jack.

Trump abused him so much. He just looks broken and tired.

LOL.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2024 05:40 PM (aOqEy)

265 The Balloon Knots!

Rump Rangers

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 05:40 PM (dOjkx)

266 Do you know why I never succeeded? Apart, of course, from being stupid, lazy and unmotivated? It's because I'm left handed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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My father often said that my mother was 20 minutes late to their wedding, and never caught up. Thus, I figure I was born 20 minutes late, and have thus missed opportunity after opportuity to be a success.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 05:42 PM (XeU6L)

267 In happier news, the Civilian Marksmanship Program will be having a Black Friday sale, with 10% off ammo.

Yes, my friends, nothing like buying ammo from the US gov't on discount. Also rifles and 1911s.

Hopefully DOGE will expand the CMP to provide affordable AR-15s for all Americans!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 05:42 PM (ZOv7s)

268 10 years ago I was required to attend a day-long Diversity class at a FedGov Agency. My take-aways from that class were:

1. Wondering what I had done wrong all my life. I didn't feel I had wronged everyone I encountered who wasn't white and male.

2. Questioning how someone 'diverse', in other words, not pale, male, and with a Christiam upbringing, could improve my Agency's high-tech hardware work. Improve our work that is grounded in math and physics, simply because they were female, or had a non-white skin color, or a non-Christian religious upbringing, or grew-up in a non-white urban or suburban environment, or ate much different food than I did, or wore strange clothing, or spoke with an accent. What 'new and better ideas' could they offer in designing a space mechanism simply because they had one or more of of those 'diverse' characteristics. I'm still wondering how that is supposed to be.

DEI is a sledgehammer against "white US Culture," wielded by people who resent white US Culture. IMHO.

Posted by: Gref at November 25, 2024 05:42 PM (aBgBM)

269 260. Straight-up example of Bullshit. Our tax dollars at work.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

That was not the program before O and Joe, believe me.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:42 PM (NFX2v)

270 There was a Pew or similar poll posted here back in 2020 or so.

IIRC 75% of black people believe they will be killed by a white supremacist.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - let not my last thought be if I only had my gun at November 25, 2024 05:42 PM (lnBc0)

271 I remember Obama talking about the racism he experienced "people have lock their car doors when I walked by" and "people wouldn't hold the elevator for me"

And as a white person, I can't question it, because I need to shut up and listen to other peoples experiences (according to DEI theory).
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:37 PM (Evo1G)

Barry, Barry that isn't because you are black, it is because you are a politician!

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:42 PM (n7h9X)

272 Boston's "unofficial" 2024 election numbers boast a 113% voter turnout.

439,171 registered voters.
497,457 total votes cast.

http://tiny.cc/71bxzz

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 05:42 PM (Odg76)

273 "Diverse titties"

In Ten Cities.

Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2024 05:43 PM (fV+MH)

274 U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Just a small sample of Employee Assistance Programs:

Posted by: L - Rooster today
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I can imagine a coversation between Elon Musk and these people.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 05:43 PM (XeU6L)

275 That's happened to me too! And I didn't even have a good tan.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 05:38 PM (vFG9F)

Yeah. These kinds of things happen every day to every person.

In the BLM era, I remember liberal white news anchors talking about how sad it was that black parents had to have "the talk" with their kids about how to interact with the police.

Like yeah, my parents had that talk with me too. Some variation of "roll down the windows, hand on the steering wheel, don't admit anything, don't argue, say 'yes sir' and 'no sir' and you can argue about it in court."

But I think a lot of black people truly believe that white people get away with whatever they want and cops are nice to them. We don't, and a lot of times, they're not.

But that belief fucks with black people. Because instead of following the basic etiquette, they think the cop is going to shoot them, so they run or do something stupid and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:43 PM (Evo1G)

276 Boron Cobbie: "We have advanced to the point in society where we get constant pharmaceutical ads during the TV shows telling us how great our government agents are."

Did ad law change in the past five or so years? 'Cause I've noticed a significant in crease in drug ads. I mean huge.

Used to be rare. Maybe Excedrin or Bayer pain relief or hemorrhoid ointment. But now? Countless ads on myriad - and very expensive - products. It's kind of alarming. Maybe we need to clone RFKj.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at November 25, 2024 05:43 PM (aXxgO)

277 Basketball Network, Ice Cube shares his struggles watching Larry Bird dominate: "I just couldn't understand how he was as good as he was" Bird used to give Ice Cube nightmares.
Damien Peters, Nov 23, 2024

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:44 PM (NFX2v)

278 Llink to CMP ammo page:
https://shop.thecmp.org/browse/Ammo

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 05:44 PM (ZOv7s)

279 >>> people have lock their car doors when I walked by" and "people wouldn't hold the elevator for me"

The ask questions like "do you cross the street whe you see a black man coming towards you? So you avoid a Hispanic male when you are in the parking lot at night? You're racist!"

I don't care if you are a purple hippo. You come towards me late at night when I'm alone on a street, I'm crossing the street. I'm a woman, I avoid men at night, PERIOD. They teach women situational awareness, to see potential trouble coming, and then when we do we get accused of racism.

(I see Obama coming towards me at night... I cross the street, and then check my pocket to see if he also somehow lifted my wallet. But it's a dem thing not a race thing. And if I see Hunter or Biden, I run.)

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 05:45 PM (wcIbG)

280 CDC survey was legit.
Bunch of questions about the have you gotten covid, RSV or flu vax; will you take; how safe do you think they are.
Seemed like they're pushing to take the RSV vax.

Then these dozies:
"What sex were you assigned at birth, on your original birth certificate?"
"How do you currently describe yourself"
DIE question, in the last 2 years, you feel you got better or worse health care than other races?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 05:45 PM (8Kx9y)

281 272 Boston's "unofficial" 2024 election numbers boast a 113% voter turnout.

439,171 registered voters.
497,457 total votes cast.

http://tiny.cc/71bxzz

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 05:42 PM (Odg76)

++++

And they'll just go with that. It's fine, fine.

Posted by: washrivergal at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM (mzoqX)

282 But that belief fucks with black people. Because instead of following the basic etiquette, they think the cop is going to shoot them, so they run or do something stupid and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:43 PM (Evo1G)
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This was the point. There is a crippling shortage of racist cops shooting black men, so they have to try to create these incidents to hold everyone in line.

It's failing, and that's part of their panic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)

283 do we need a United States Public Health Service

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM (/7KEl)

284 Did ad law change in the past five or so years? 'Cause I've noticed a significant in crease in drug ads. I mean huge.

Used to be rare. Maybe Excedrin or Bayer pain relief or hemorrhoid ointment. But now? Countless ads on myriad - and very expensive - products. It's kind of alarming. Maybe we need to clone RFKj.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at November 25, 2024 05:43 PM (aXxgO)

No.

Pharma ads are primarily about two things -- 1) to check a box for "informed consent" on the side effects of a drug and 2) to buy off the media so they don't run negative stories about big pharma and to get favorable coverage from the media.

1) hasn't changed in recent years.

So I imagine the primary driver of more pharma ads is 2)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:47 PM (Evo1G)

285 Black people dream of being able to worry about their children the way the parents of deaf kids do.

Except the deaf kids aren't being antisocial monsters. They just can't hear the cops.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - let not my last thought be if I only had my gun at November 25, 2024 05:47 PM (lnBc0)

286 Aw, c'mon. I'm offended by the study. Any amount of money was too much for this.

You have an entire industry that's based on telling people that one race is responsible for all the evil in the world, and that all other races are victims of that evil race.

We're not talking about good old fashioned bigotry of the "no dogs or Irish" variety. We're talking about the new & improved Nazi-style racism. The nascent stage of the eliminationist final form.

And we need to study to learn that this kind of vicious racial demonization, systematically propagated through every large institution in the country, has made people more racist?

Go fuckin' figure. Thank the Lord for whatever mega-brained boffins came up with that probing question.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 05:48 PM (7oYYI)

287
do we need a United States Public Health Service
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM (/7KEl)

How will we otherwise conduct valuable scientific research like the Tuskegee Study?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 05:48 PM (dxSpM)

288 143 Serious question, do any of you care when you're called racist? Either individually or as a group, like MAGA.

I sincerely do not give a shit. If I think I could take them, I'd laugh in their face.
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 05:07 PM (jyAD3)

We've fallen a loooong way from the days of Archie Bunker and George Jefferson. Two sides of the same coin that helped to show us that we could (and should) laugh at bigotry and ignorance while still seeing them as human and having more than a little in common with the "common man." We almost closed the book on overt and foul racism...

Way back when I was a yoot in highskrewel — probably 1980-ish, I was at a lunch table where some girl classroom acquaintance blurted out during one of the wide-ranging discussions we had the she "hated Puerto Ricans." Then she looked over at me and said, "But you're ok." I just laughed. It was her damage to deal with, not mine. Still is. It was a great "Archie Bunker-type" moment.

I would pretty much laugh in the face of anyone who called me a racist, and say "It takes one to know one."

Posted by: goozer at November 25, 2024 05:49 PM (aWAkn)

289 >> to buy off the media so they don't run negative stories about big pharma

That's the long and the short of it right now. RFKJr mentioned that Roger Ailes was sympathetic to something he wanted to run about childhood vaccine safety or something like that. Ailes was sympathetic, but told him that if they ran that story, he'd get a call in 5 minutes and would have to fire everyone involved, including himself.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2024 05:49 PM (w6EFb)

290 do we need a United States Public Health Service
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM (/7KEl)

Well we've got like a thousand of the things, what's one more?

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 05:49 PM (HZNQ6)

291 This was the point. There is a crippling shortage of racist cops shooting black men, so they have to try to create these incidents to hold everyone in line.

It's failing, and that's part of their panic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)

I watch a lot of cop body cam / dash cam videos. It's shocking how quickly some people (especially minorities) escalate situations with the police.

Instead of being tazed and spending the night in jail, did it ever occur to you to just accept the ticket for having a taillight out? Then going to court and telling the judge you fixed it and getting off with no / low fine? I know its annoying, trust me.

But isn't that preferable to spending a night or more in jail?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:49 PM (Evo1G)

292 A little bar graph for those of you who enjoy graphs and/or bars.

What about Venn diagrams? I love Venn diagrams!

Even bats get more love around here than Venn diagrams do!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at November 25, 2024 05:49 PM (a3Q+t)

293 But I think a lot of black people truly believe that white people get away with whatever they want and cops are nice to them. We don't, and a lot of times, they're not.

But that belief fucks with black people. Because instead of following the basic etiquette, they think the cop is going to shoot them, so they run or do something stupid and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:43 PM (Evo1G)

Eddie Murphy's 'White Like Me' skit on SNL was a great sendup of the first paragraph when he tried paying for something and the store owner says 'hey, there's nobody around just take it"

And Chris Rock's video "How not to get your ass kicked by the police" is great too. That poor actor who was the normal guy when his girl and friends acted out...

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:50 PM (n7h9X)

294
But now? Countless ads on myriad - and very expensive - products. It's kind of alarming. Maybe we need to clone RFKj.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at November 25, 2024 05:43 PM (aXxgO)

More than a few are for "lifestyle" problems: weight, diabetes, fag flu.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 05:50 PM (dxSpM)

295 I have no problem shutting up and taking the abuse of DEI practitioners. I have never dignified that crap with a response.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 05:50 PM (byWhc)

296 I would pretty much laugh in the face of anyone who called me a racist, and say "It takes one to know one."
Posted by: goozer at November 25, 2024 05:49 PM (aWAkn)
=====

I am not a racist. I hate everyone just the same.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 05:51 PM (RIvkX)

297 Speaking of entryism:

@libsoftiktok 16m
This is not Gaza. This is Hoboken, NJ.

The Mayor held a Palestinian flag raising ceremony in City Hall today.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 05:51 PM (IG4Id)

298 I also told them I didn't think the flu, covid or RSV vax were safe at all, I wasn't gonna take 'em and I wasn't worried about catching those illnesses.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 05:51 PM (8Kx9y)

299 273 "Diverse titties"

In Ten Cities.

Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2024 05:43 PM (fV+MH)

"Hey, I understood that reference!" \m/ -_- \m/

Posted by: goozer at November 25, 2024 05:51 PM (aWAkn)

300 Boston's "unofficial" 2024 election numbers boast a 113% voter turnout.

439,171 registered voters.
497,457 total votes cast.

http://tiny.cc/71bxzz

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 05:42 PM (Odg76)

++++

And they'll just go with that. It's fine, fine.
Posted by: washrivergal at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM

Fukc you, racists!

Posted by: Mayor Wu at November 25, 2024 05:52 PM (Wnv9h)

301 143 Serious question, do any of you care when you're called racist? Either individually or as a group, like MAGA.

I sincerely do not give a shit. If I think I could take them, I'd laugh in their face.
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 05:07 PM (jyAD3)

When its my Tax dollar, being used, and some official Government policy calling me that?

Well... yes... I do care... and yes, I do care when you are teaching our children, once again using tax dollars, this crap.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 05:52 PM (QAkQ3)

302 But isn't that preferable to spending a night or more in jail?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 05:49 PM (Evo1G)
====

I don't think anyone is spending the night in jail much anymore.

But to your point, no, there is not much cultural stigma attached to it, no social cost, in fact in some communities stints in jail accrue social capital.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 05:53 PM (RIvkX)

303 The only reason I have had to listen to DEI bs is because the lawyers said we have to so we can CYA for lawsuits. It's ridiculous busy work that's unnecessary but now mandatory in most workplaces. It's regulation.

I blame the lawyers.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 05:54 PM (DUydn)

304 I randomly watched some Young Frankenstein outtakes. Gene Wilder got to grab Terry Garr's tit. Good for him.

https://youtu.be/tOjH-yoEJe0?t=179

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 05:55 PM (Odg76)

305 There are not enough competent DEI hires to go around ... (while maintaining adequate standards). The solution is obviously to ignore standards, and jam through the incompetence.

Now true, those with greatest arrogance (and greatest incompetence) while rise to the forefront, demanding the "white supremacists yield to their "superior race or sexual deviance, diversity superiority".

Because "Diversity is Our Strength" is a well proven maxim, and if you disagree, You are the White Supremacist Hater my college profs warned me about.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2024 05:56 PM (Cus5s)

306 do we need a United States Public Health Service
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM (/7KEl)
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It's kind of a zombie department. Originally created when the two service departments (War and Navy) didn't have much in the way of organized medical services. I interviewed a doctor during the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill. They stood out because they were still wearing Woodland pattern uniforms, which they used because they had no budget, and there were lots still in federal inventory. They were basically a sort of wartime hospital system in waiting and did gigs like the other services, doing health screenings and stuff.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)

307 people wouldn't hold the elevator for me"

You fart.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 05:56 PM (dOjkx)

308 Basketball Network, Ice Cube shares his struggles watching Larry Bird dominate: "I just couldn't understand how he was as good as he was" Bird used to give Ice Cube nightmares.
Damien Peters, Nov 23, 2024

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 05:44 PM (NFX2v)

Bird was funny. One game he was yelling at the opposing coach who had a white guy guarding him for "disrespect"

Jordan had a similar thing when he heard a pretty good defender and a turned ankle and wasn't playing. He asked who was guarding him and after getting the name just laughed and said "50". He got 50.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:56 PM (n7h9X)

309 I am against DEI initiatives in nearly all respects, and I would love a study that comes along and proves that they cause harm. Unfortunately this study doesn't do that. It only shows that, well, training works.

If you take an online course about the local birds in your area, you will most certainly be able to name more birds when you go outside. And if one of the birds it shows you is an airplane and it provides a legit bird name, if you didn't know any better you would learn that too. And a study would show that the training worked.

So in this case, it's saying people were trained to see "micro aggressions " (eye roll) and behold, they now see them. It doesn't really get to the real matter, whether this is a real thing or not.

Posted by: Briny the Elder at November 25, 2024 05:57 PM (VR4cY)

310 And Chris Rock's video "How not to get your ass kicked by the police" is great too. That poor actor who was the normal guy when his girl and friends acted out...
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:50 PM (n7h9X)

This should be mandatory in inner city schools. With a test afterward

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2024 05:57 PM (NtVYv)

311 ++++

And they'll just go with that. It's fine, fine.
Posted by: washrivergal at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM

Fukc you, racists!
Posted by: Mayor Wu at November 25, 2024 05:52 PM (Wnv9h)

Wonder what they needed passed that required the extra votes? Probably wasn't local politicians, in cities those run unopposed.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 05:58 PM (n7h9X)

312 These DEI people - for now - stop short of saying "we should gas all the whites and burn them in ovens," but only just short of it, and only because they want to extort them first.

Who could guess that DEI is racist? Wow. I'm stunned.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 05:59 PM (7oYYI)

313 I have to conclude that if it were not for cognitive dissonance, leftism couldn't exist. The other conclusion is that in view of the amount of dissonance required to sustain their fictional reality that it cannot last.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 25, 2024 05:59 PM (hKoQL)

314 Even now, I see very few police stops where any and everyone - Black, White, whatever - in a vehicle aren't required to get out in public, and where backup isn't called. There are simply too many shootings, road rage incidents, wild driving, invalid paper "license plates," etc.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 06:00 PM (NFX2v)

315 Test.

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at November 25, 2024 06:00 PM (5G6LU)

316 I have to conclude that if it were not for cognitive dissonance, leftism couldn't exist. The other conclusion is that in view of the amount of dissonance required to sustain their fictional reality that it cannot last.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 25, 2024 05:59 PM (hKoQL)
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How about that it isn't meant to be rational and instead appeals to demonic energy and emotions that feed off of hate. People who are perpetually fearful, angry, distrustful and borderline violent are very pleasing to the Enemy.

DEI is one of the devil's most successful projects.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:01 PM (ZOv7s)

317 295 I have no problem shutting up and taking the abuse of DEI practitioners. I have never dignified that crap with a response.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 05:50 PM (byWhc)

Working in the Advertising field on the Creative side, I've been dealing with crap like this pretty much my entire four-decade career. Sitting through one of those "Unconscious Bias" BS struggle sessions at TracyLocke led by a Robin DiAngelo-looking wannabe was one of the "lowlights" of my career. It was all I could do from keeping my eyes from rolling so hard that the building would fall over.

It was sadly amusing when the thought police cancelled our then CEO, because he used a common British slang term in a meeting to describe something that would be offensive...and one of the stronk wammen present was offended.

Posted by: goozer at November 25, 2024 06:01 PM (aWAkn)

318 I'm a racist, leper, and massaginest, whatever that is.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 06:01 PM (vFG9F)

319 Extort or ground some of the younger ones into the ground mentally to kill their confidence and opportunities?

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 06:02 PM (NFX2v)

320 I don’t think there are 15,000 trannies in the military. I think they exaggerated the number for effect.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 06:02 PM (D6PGr)

321 Megyn Kelly had a martini at work

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IKFLnGqU8aY

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 06:02 PM (/7KEl)

322 318 "Slag?"

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at November 25, 2024 06:03 PM (5G6LU)

323 I don’t think there are 15,000 trannies in the military. I think they exaggerated the number for effect.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 06:02 PM (D6PGr)
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Lots of opportunists out there, who see a way to get easier PT and shower with women.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)

324 You're FIRED, Finkelstein!

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 06:03 PM (MX0bI)

325 321 I don’t think there are 15,000 trannies in the military. I think they exaggerated the number for effect.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 06:02 PM (D6PGr)

I'd prefer to fire for effect myself....

Posted by: goozer at November 25, 2024 06:03 PM (aWAkn)

326 Who could guess that DEI is racist? Wow. I'm stunned.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 05:59 PM (7oYYI)

We have an EEO Coordinator. Person to whom you are supposed to bitch if you feel you have been slighted by management. That person is invariably a large, overweight black person. Usually but no always female. Most of them last about 6 to 8 months, because there is little if anything for them to do besides hold the yearly in-person harangue they are required to deliver to all of us to tell us how awful we are. The last one was actually skinny, but she was mean as hell. Got notice last week that she's gone. Poof.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 06:03 PM (byWhc)

327 There was a spate of swatting attacks on Congress turkeys, US officials, and Twitter people over the last few years. The Feds caught them and are prosecuting.

@catturd2 4h
Just got a letter from the DOJ confirming that these are my alleged swatters. Got swatted 3 times. FAFO!

2 men charged with ‘swatting’ members of Congress

Link to politico in nic

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 06:04 PM (IG4Id)

328 I don’t think there are 15,000 trannies in the military. I think they exaggerated the number for effect.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 06:02 PM (D6PGr)
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Lots of opportunists out there, who see a way to get easier PT and shower with women.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)

Worked for that Admiral.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 06:04 PM (n7h9X)

329 Yeah, who woulda thought that dividing people up by race, the accusing ONE race of something evil... would cause problems?

Especially when you are accusing the one Race that has freed more people, than any other race.... Hell.. the Race that pretty much decided that racism is a bad thing.

Who could have predicted that some would get angry about falsely being accused of something because of your skin color.

The Commandment is 'Thou shall not bear false witness'... which is exactly what DIE does.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 06:05 PM (QAkQ3)

330 nood

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at November 25, 2024 06:05 PM (5G6LU)

331
318 "Slag?"
Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at November 25, 2024 06:03 PM (5G6LU)

"Tart"?
"Strumpet"?
"Bird"?
"Doxie"?
"Judy"?

Hey, this is fun!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (dxSpM)

332 There was a spate of swatting attacks on Congress turkeys, US officials, and Twitter people over the last few years. The Feds caught them and are prosecuting.

@catturd2 4h
Just got a letter from the DOJ confirming that these are my alleged swatters. Got swatted 3 times. FAFO!

2 men charged with ‘swatting’ members of Congress

Link to politico in nic
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 06:04 PM (IG4Id)

Dude on YT called the Quartering was swatted and also got the call, his guy can get 20 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (n7h9X)

333 Trumpian NOOD

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)

334 Harmeet Dhillon's law group has filed suit to unseal documents in the case against Dr Haim. Dr Haim is a whistleblower who spoke out against Texas Children's Hospital's tranny surgeries. The prosecutor ridiculously claimed Dr Haim illegally obtained confidential patient records.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (Odg76)

335 I have to conclude that if it were not for cognitive dissonance, leftism couldn't exist. The other conclusion is that in view of the amount of dissonance required to sustain their fictional reality that it cannot last.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA
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Short take: The Left are always shocked when they encounter reality.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 06:10 PM (XeU6L)

336 This was the point. There is a crippling shortage of racist cops shooting black men, so they have to try to create these incidents to hold everyone in line.

It's failing, and that's part of their panic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)
__________________

I read a survey that asked how many unarmed black men were shot and killed by police in the preceding year. The median answer was 10,000. The correct answer: 23.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 25, 2024 06:13 PM (YqDXo)

337 Prescription drug ads came to TV at the same time as legal services ads, about 25 years ago. What you're seeing now is the absence of other things that used to be advertised until COVID ran them out of business. And, of course, I guess, cigarettes.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 06:13 PM (zdLoL)

338 313 These DEI people - for now - stop short of saying "we should gas all the whites and burn them in ovens," but only just short of it, and only because they want to extort them first.

Who could guess that DEI is racist? Wow. I'm stunned.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 05:59 PM (7oYYI)
The old Soros play, steal the designated groups possessions, then gas and burn them in ovens.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 06:16 PM (LHPAg)

Nate Silver Wonders Why Taylor Lorenz Won't Post Her Age or Birthdate (and She Actually Posts Her Age)

For those of you who don't know why we're always picking on her: Because she's constantly doxing and defaming people and calling for cancellations and then crying on TV when anyone sends "hate" her way.

She hides her age because she wheedles her way in to "interviews" with teenagers and wants to pretend she's a generation younger than she really is. Apparently her family owns important internet archives and all biographical information about her has been scrubbed. You know, like she's some kind of super-spy.

Deleting this because it's mean. I don't think highly of this person but I also don't know this person. pic.twitter.com/jSJQNArsEC
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver53 November 24, 2024

The sad fact is that men like u will NEVER engage with me directly, because it would reveal that this entire character you�ve built me into in order to farm outrage online is a lie.
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) November 24, 2024

The infantile woman who outed LibsofTikTok's name and place of business is complaining about someone "directing online hate" towards her.

White lefties have been in a bubble of privilege so long and subscribe to a political philosophy -- or, more accurately, a political cope -- that says they are owed even more privileges.

They melt down and scream when they don't get the privileges they believe they're entitled to, so many people have coddled them these past ten years and granted these privileges, thinking, wrongly, that it was easier to give baby their ba-ba than to stand up to them.

They were wrong. Giving in to these entitled terrorists' demands only encouraged, get this, more terrorism, and has led to more and more extravagant demands of privilege and deference.

But people are now pushing back. And the coddled, privileged lefties are melting down even more crazily now, because they've become so accustomed to getting their own way when they crime, scream, and stamp their feet.

But this 71-year-old woman, whose car was hit by an uninsured Millennial who then fled the scene, isn't having it.

Uninsured Kamala voter hits a car and then has an emotional breakdown when asked for her insurance. pic.twitter.com/IO5aDSQVlK
— Adam Francisco (@adamfrancisco_) November 23, 2024

Commenters have brought up the concept of an "extinction burst" -- something children do when they're disciplined.

And obviously these adult children have never been disciplined before.

Google AI's summary:

An extinction burst is a temporary increase in the intensity, duration, or frequency of an unwanted behavior that occurs when a reward or reinforcement is taken away. It's a part of the extinction process, which is used to reduce or stop behaviors that were previously rewarded.
Here are some examples of extinction bursts:
Withholding screen time
When a parent withholds screen time until a child completes their homework, the child may experience an extinction burst.
Withholding praise
When a parent stops praising a child for a particular behavior, the child may experience an extinction burst.
Withholding a desired outcome
When a toddler stops crying to get their way, they may escalate to a tantrum to get the desired outcome.
Extinction bursts can be a sign that an intervention is working, but they can also be aversive and unintentionally reinforce the behavior. When an extinction burst occurs, it's important to not react with fear and to pay as little attention to the behavior as possible.

As Halperin said, we're headed for the greatest mental health crisis in American history. We're going to see a huge escalation in nervous breakdowns and bursts of leftwing violence as we tell them "no."

For some, this will be an extinction burst, and they will begin comporting themselves to the New Rules.

For others: They'll pick up a gun or axe and kill their families or maybe themselves.

It's going to get a little choppy.

Posted by: Ace at 03:22 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (Rcnd3)

2 And I thought just a few years ago she was claiming she was in her 20's.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 03:23 PM (Rcnd3)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 25, 2024 03:23 PM (GYt5+)

4 Meep meep!

Good afternoon, my fine feathered finks!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (mZt2Q)

5 It's going to get a little choppy.

I'm normally pretty chill, and not scared around people or strangers, etc. But seeing how deranged and easily triggered these people are, I don't engage in any provocative speech or behavior around them, such as slam dunking the election when I'm aware they are libtard weenies

at the very least, I don't want my tires slashed

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 03:26 PM (dCxaZ)

6 End Wokeness @EndWokeness Nov 24
The moment reparations activist Sunny Hostin learns she descends from slave OWNERS:

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 14h
I watched this twenty times and I'm not nearly done.

https://tinyurl.com/yypm56kc
42 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 03:26 PM (hovnC)

7 As Halperin said, we're headed for the greatest mental health crisis in American history. We're going to see a huge escalation in nervous breakdowns and bursts of leftwing violence as we tell them "no."

========

I really feel like 2016 will have been worse in retrospect.

Trump was unexpected in 2016. In 2024, we've already survived one term, and this is just the second.

Can the left really break any harder than they did, with corporate America's enthusiastic support and encouragement which seems to be much more muted this time (at least so far), from 2017 through 2021?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

8
So Lorenz is 50?

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 03:27 PM (+oR7L)

9 this extreme behavior among leftards began during the 0bama campaign.

A friend of mine had his headlight busted because he wouldn't commit to voting for 0bama when a campaign worker came around. He wasn't even a republican, he told the worker bot that he was apolitical which was true, at the time.

Brownshirt Nation started in 2007

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (dCxaZ)

10 8
So Lorenz is 50?

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 03:27 PM (+oR7L)

=======

"Nah, my girl is 23!"
-some TikToker, or something

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

11 So, she's kind of a cut-rate Nora Desmond and her Sunset Blvd is the internet.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (njExo)

12 ... axe and kill their families or maybe themselves.

It's going to get a little choppy.
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ISWYDT

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (2bFN5)

13 Taylor Lorenz vs Nate Silver is like Cowboys vs Steelers

on’t care who wins. Pray for injuries.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 25, 2024 03:29 PM (btpRW)

14 She isn't a young person nor as old as often here thinks

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 03:29 PM (fwDg9)

15 I had a good idea (I think). I wanted to make a keto lasagna (no noodles). Keto recipes usually call for some vegetable that has carbs to replace the noodles for layering it. Like Zuchini strips or cabbage or lettuce or someting else.

I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (KRtlO)

16 Ha! Did not know I could do that.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (btpRW)

17 I'm already seeing libs reacting to that Joy Reid video, where she tells them not to spend Thanksgiving with Trump voting relatives, saying NO, I'M GONNA GO AND BE AS AWFUL AS POSSIBLE.

Posted by: Ktgreat at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (33LJY)

18 "As Halperin said, we're headed for the greatest mental health crisis in American history. We're going to see a huge escalation in nervous breakdowns and bursts of leftwing violence as we tell them "no."

We are already in the greatest mental health crisis, but the insane have been backed up by government. Confess to the global warming religion or be fired, or worse. Use the insane's "proper pronouns" or be cancelled.

The "crisis" will occur for a few when their delusions are confronted, not enabled. Many will go back to what they always knew was normal. The breakdowns will be largely fake, with a few crazies going violent, perhaps.

But BigGov fostered the crazies, depending on them to Kill Trump to Save our Diversity", or Save the Planet, or whatever

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2024 03:31 PM (Cus5s)

19 Fuck you!!!! Have a heart!!! Fuck you!!!

Her mother and father need to see this video and then be each slapped hard. Happy to say my kids didn't act this bad when toddlers.

Posted by: Cheri at November 25, 2024 03:31 PM (FGQ5G)

20 Taylor Lorenz is so old, she referred to Denisovans as "whippersnappers."

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:31 PM (v6JzV)

21 15 I had a good idea (I think). I wanted to make a keto lasagna (no noodles). Keto recipes usually call for some vegetable that has carbs to replace the noodles for layering it. Like Zuchini strips or cabbage or lettuce or someting else.

I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (KRtlO)

The grease level...

Between the cheese and now the steak, it's gonna be a lot...and if you precook the steak and then bake it, you're probably gonna end up with shoe leather...

But maybe it's thin enough...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 03:32 PM (exHjb)

22
The 2016 meltdown was way worse. At least here in Portland Oregon. That's because the Hillary annointing was all set, they just had to light the candles.

The TDS crowd here are making a living from it now via counseling, groups, dinners etc. It's a more civilized TDS crowd now.

That's not to say there are complete nutjob whole invested mental illness TDS that pops up.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 03:32 PM (+oR7L)

23 An extinction burst is a temporary increase in the intensity, duration, or frequency of an unwanted behavior that occurs when a reward or reinforcement is taken away.

Enough with this millennial psychobabble. Its called a "tantrum."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:32 PM (RsS92)

24 It's going to get a little choppy.

Way ahead of you, pal.

Posted by: Lizzie Borden at November 25, 2024 03:32 PM (Aqu9a)

25 The 2016 meltdown was way worse. At least here in Portland Oregon. That's because the Hillary annointing was all set, they just had to light the candles.

And, misunderstanding the electoral system, they didn't think it was a "real" win. They only recognize the popular vote.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:33 PM (RsS92)

26 Meep meep!

Good afternoon, my fine feathered finks!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM

Meep meep, nurse!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:33 PM (ZANHd)

27 Couldn't Silver have done an FOIA request with social security to see when she filed for retirement benefits?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 03:33 PM (lTGtQ)

28
Taylor Lorenz is to old she carries Sucrets Lozenges.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 03:34 PM (+oR7L)

29 The infantile woman who outed LibsofTikTok's name and place of business is complaining about someone "directing online hate" towards her.
++++
And she's right.

Criticism of fascists online is not the same as hateful and hurtful attacks by fascists online. Not only is it different in fact - and that alone should be enough to do away with this whole canard - it is also different in spirit.

Exposing fascists is done in the interests of general safety - the safety of those targeted by fascists and the safety of the community in general. This is done out of hate, but out of love and respect - love and respect for fellow humans, and a desire to not see them harassed, ostracized, oppressed, beaten or murdered by fascists. Fascist harassment is never just or justified. It is merely retribution.

The goal of exposing fascists as fascists is to help them learn to be better. The goal of fascist retribution is oppression and violence.

Quit. Drawing. False. Equivalencies.

Posted by: Your Kid's Media Studies Professor at November 25, 2024 03:34 PM (HnUIn)

30 They'll pick up a gun or axe and kill their families or maybe themselves.

It's going to get a little choppy.
===

ISWYDT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 03:34 PM (RIvkX)

31 There was a youtube video a few years back of some teen boy melting down in his room after his parents cut off his phone or game privileges or something. It was hilarious, wish I remembered how to find it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 03:35 PM (wyMQY)

32 I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace

Ooooo, meat noodles.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 25, 2024 03:35 PM (mFpew)

33 The hysterical driver will make a good butler.

(Obligatory Seinfeld ref for the day)

Posted by: Rex B at November 25, 2024 03:36 PM (1uXoH)

34 Have a heart? No, I have a car, and you hit it, you ignorant twat. Now you have to make good. Quit fucking up and you won't have these issues. Now, pay me.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:36 PM (byWhc)

35 15 I had a good idea (I think). I wanted to make a keto lasagna (no noodles). Keto recipes usually call for some vegetable that has carbs to replace the noodles for layering it. Like Zuchini strips or cabbage or lettuce or someting else.

I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (KRtlO)

https://www.cjsketokitchen.com/keto-no-noodle-lasagna/

It seems he just ups the other 3 parts and ends up with casserole more than lasagna, but with all the lasagna taste...

Have not tried...do not know if this sucks...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 03:36 PM (exHjb)

36 As Halperin said, we're headed for the greatest mental health crisis in American history. We're going to see a huge escalation in nervous breakdowns and bursts of leftwing violence as we tell them "no."
++++
:: looks at therapy stats ::
:: looks at prescription drug stats ::
:: looks at dating stats ::
:: looks at marriage and family stats ::

Uhhh, I dunno that "headed for" still applies...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:36 PM (HnUIn)

37 Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (2bFN5)

*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 03:36 PM (RIvkX)

38 Horde mind, San Franpsycho.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 03:36 PM (2bFN5)

39 As Halperin said, we're headed for the greatest mental health crisis in American history. We're going to see a huge escalation in nervous breakdowns and bursts of leftwing violence as we tell them "no."

For some, this will be an extinction burst, and they will begin comporting themselves to the New Rules.

For others: They'll pick up a gun or axe and kill their families or maybe themselves.

It's going to get a little choppy.

Posted by: Ace at 03:22 PM

Or killing their perceived "enemies". But I agree, it's going to intensify, maybe radically.
If you can carry legally, carry.
If you can't, mumble mumble badlegaladvice mumble anyways.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024 03:36 PM (FCbAQ)

40 Taylor Lorenz is to old she carries Sucrets Lozenges.

She shops Walgreens for Neco Wafers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:37 PM (RsS92)

41 Taylor Lorenz was a spring chicken when Ford introduced the flathead V-8.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2024 03:37 PM (Aqu9a)

42 Taylor survived the fall of Constantinople, she will survive a little criticism.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 03:37 PM (aD39U)

43 I thought an "extinction burst" is what happens when an AR-15 is pointed at a group of humans.

Are you trying to tell me that David Hogg is NOT an informed and intelligent individual?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2024 03:37 PM (HlyYF)

44 So Lorenz is an AARP member

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 03:37 PM (IyPmt)

45 I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (KRtlO)

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Love you Ace, but that sounds gross.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 03:37 PM (DRSnL)

46 Here's another tweet from Adam Francisco, who posted no-insurance girl:

https://tinyurl.com/5442re5z

incidence of mental health diagnosis according to political orientation

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 03:37 PM (dCxaZ)

47 29 The goal of exposing fascists as fascists is to help them learn to be better. The goal of fascist retribution is oppression and violence.

Quit. Drawing. False. Equivalencies.
Posted by: Your Kid's Media Studies Professor at November 25, 2024 03:34 PM (HnUIn)

========

So, I should target those who advocate for the private/public partnerships where the federal government uses large corporations like Big Tech to implement social changes?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

48 Her bio needs to include:

Favorite Song: Forever Young by Alphaville

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (Vyll1)

49 What will they do at the inauguration this time?

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (YbbtK)

50 57 days and mental health clinics will get swamped with patients

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (fwDg9)

51 So, she's kind of a cut-rate Nora Desmond and her Sunset Blvd is the internet.
Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024

***
If I see a funeral for a chimpanzee in her back yard, I'm outta here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Taking a Lesson From Joe Gillis at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (J2vNu)

52 I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace

Ooooo, meat noodles.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 25, 2024 03:35 PM (mFpew)

Ramen lasagna?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (Aqu9a)

53 I can pin all these emotional breakdowns on Obama. He told them that they weren't responsible when they fail and don't feel bad about not having any accomplishments because the successful people "didn't build that."

Posted by: ryukyu at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (z/gEl)

54 I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (KRtlO)

Bacon.

Bacon's love only asks one thing from you - that you love it back. And you do...admit it.

Posted by: Boswell at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (V7158)

55 How odd, went to go look for how many Womenz are being treated for mental problems... and the latest data from CDC in 2021.... when it was 21%. Seems they no longer make reports on said data...

Lots of data from the CDC seems to have ended when more people started actually LOOKING at their data during Covid.

How... interesting.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (QAkQ3)

56
I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace

Someone made lasagna with thin cooked eggs. They said you really have to watch the amount of liquid you use or it is a thick soup.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (THzoa)

57 Nurse, are we all Lucy's family now?!

Posted by: Nazdar at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (9XWKq)

58 She shops Walgreens for Neco Wafers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:37 PM

She eats horehound candies

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (+oR7L)

59 So this miserable old harpy is 50 then? Is that the take-away? Or do we think she's lying about that?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

60 I am a 50 yr old woman who u have been posting abt all day unprompted! Then when I call u on it and say, hey Nate, why don’t u actually try having a single conversation with me instead of constantly misrepresenting my reporting and beliefs online, u encourage fans to dox me

It's a minor thing, but telling in its way. Children and teens use abbreviations like "u". I can type the word "you" as quickly as I can type "u".

You aren't a fellow kid. Stop acting like one.

Posted by: FEMA at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (xCA6C)

61 Her bio needs to include:

Favorite Song: Forever Young by Alphaville
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM

She's been trespassed from Forever 21.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (ZANHd)

62 This low carb lasagna recipe is really good, although kind of a pain to make. I could've sworn I got it from the sidebar some time ago. https://is.gd/NHDHfi

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (DRSnL)

63 Taylor Lorenz is so old, she referred to Denisovans as "whippersnappers."

Taylor Lorenz is so old, her social security number is "2"

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (zSyrn)

64 So Lorenz is an AARP member
Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024

***
They're not too selective. My late cat Tatiana has received membership offers from them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (J2vNu)

65 D'Oh!

Posted by: Archimedes = FEMA at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (xCA6C)

66 Taylor Lorenz is to old she carries Sucrets Lozenges.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 03:34 PM (+oR7L

Stuck together by time and covered in purse lint.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (FCbAQ)

67 So, I should target those who advocate for the private/public partnerships where the federal government uses large corporations like Big Tech to implement social changes?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Why do you hate democracy?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (HnUIn)

68 Of all things the Steakumms X account called out Neil DeGrasse Tyson . Steakumms.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (YbbtK)

69 17 I'm already seeing libs reacting to that Joy Reid video, where she tells them not to spend Thanksgiving with Trump voting relatives, saying NO, I'M GONNA GO AND BE AS AWFUL AS POSSIBLE.
Posted by: Ktgreat at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (33LJY)

My mom and dad had no patience with this crap. More than once, one or the other of us kids spent a lovely meal out sitting in the back of the station wagon waiting. Misbehavior had consequences. Usually involving a wooden spoon or worse. Missing a meal was light punishment.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (byWhc)

70 49 What will they do at the inauguration this time?
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (YbbtK)

I'm hoping not much... Trump won by a lot with people from all different groups... Of course I'm probably wrong

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (IyPmt)

71 A Bacon's love is different from that of a square.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (aD39U)

72 *patient Mom voice*
"You're not hurt."

That's someone who has raised kids and has had to deal with many inappropriately dramatic responses.

It's pretty incredible she had to pull out the Mom techniques to deal with someone who appears to be in their late 20s to early 30s.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (Odg76)

73 Everybody needs to tell Taylor she looks good… for her age.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (6ydKt)

74 Do I spy with my little eye a dildo on little miss extinction guest's car seat?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (wBaIH)

75 "Google's AI summary" -- is of no value, since it's generated by Automated Imbecility.

Just Say No to AI.

Posted by: The Nth Doctor at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (vWw36)

76 67 So, I should target those who advocate for the private/public partnerships where the federal government uses large corporations like Big Tech to implement social changes?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:38 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Why do you hate democracy?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (HnUIn)

=======

Because it's a bastard system that our founders rejected in favor of constitutional republicanism?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

77 So this miserable old harpy is 50 then? Is that the take-away? Or do we think she's lying about that?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

No, you misunderstood. She was born in the year 50. Only 50 BC, not 50 AD like she says.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:41 PM (v6JzV)

78 Taylor used to dine regularly at Woolworth's lunch counter.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2024 03:41 PM (Aqu9a)

79 Seeing Nate's b-day reminds me that I once argued with him about the Yankees on Usenet and made him into an idiot.

I really thought at the time he held his own abilities in far too high esteem. Nailed it.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 03:41 PM (12v8J)

80 You aren't a fellow kid. Stop acting like one.
Posted by: FEMA at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (xCA6C)

No, she's a big baby. Not quite the same thing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:41 PM (byWhc)

81 A Bacon's love is different from that of a square.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (aD39U)
++++
*snort*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:41 PM (HnUIn)

82 Taylor Lorenz is so old, she farts dust.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at November 25, 2024 03:41 PM (zSyrn)

83
this extreme behavior among leftards began during the 0bama campaign.

A friend of mine had his headlight busted because he wouldn't commit to voting for 0bama when a campaign worker came around. He wasn't even a republican, he told the worker bot that he was apolitical which was true, at the time.

Brownshirt Nation started in 2007
Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (dCxaZ)

Goes back to at least the Bush administration. About the time the Iraq War started 20-odd years ago, I had a desiccated hippie couple pull something similar in a SoCal parking structure. She stood behind my car to prevent me from leaving while he stood next to my door berating me. I fired up the car and revved the engine to choke her with fumes, while laying into the horn. Nice thing is, I didn't have to scrape my knuckles by breaking his nose

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (y9nCu)

84 Here's another tweet from Adam Francisco, who posted no-insurance girl:

https://tinyurl.com/5442re5z

incidence of mental health diagnosis according to political orientation

Posted by: kallisto

What is amazing is that is a lifetime score, so the older one gets, the more likely a 'yes' answer. 18-29 year old liberal women with mental health issues are more than half, with only a third of the life experience.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (lTGtQ)

85 incidence of mental health diagnosis according to political orientation

I have come to understand that you can break your own and others' mental health and cause at least temporary insanity by cruelty, excessive emotional expression, stress, and simply being mentally weak.

I watched people go literally insane during the panic lockdowns. They broke, and some never got better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (RsS92)

86
Taylor Lorenz is so old that whenever she leaves a museum the alarms go off.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (+oR7L)

87 Lasagna without pasta is like a day without sunshine. Just sayin'...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (mH6SG)

88 Damn, Lorenz is 50?

That means she was graduating college when you and I were born Ace.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (k1E2D)

89 > There was a youtube video a few years back of some teen boy melting down in his room after his parents cut off his phone or game privileges or something. It was hilarious, wish I remembered how to find it.

I think this is the one:
https://youtu.be/YersIyzsOpc

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (Odg76)

90 15 I had a good idea (I think). I wanted to make a keto lasagna (no noodles). Keto recipes usually call for some vegetable that has carbs to replace the noodles for layering it. Like Zuchini strips or cabbage or lettuce or someting else.

I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace at November

Ace- there are less than 4g of carbs in a serving of zucchini. If you do the net carb calculation, it’s less than 2.5. It is a very low glycemic vegetable. Your body does need some carbs, it needs fiber. Do you just not like Zucchini? Steak ummms, while actually meat, aren’t from the highest cuts and are all chopped up and then pressed together. I don’t know what their holding up power will be.

I am sure it’s probably pointless for me to discuss keto with you in general, but know there are ways to eat that will still help you lose weight or gain muscle or maintain, depending on your goals, that give your body everything it needs. If you ever want to talk about it, let me know. Xoxo. 😀

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (p4NUW)

91 Taylor Lorenz is so old, she was relieved when SMOD finally got rid of those pesky dinosaurs.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (xCA6C)

92 20 Taylor Lorenz is so old, she referred to Denisovans as "whippersnappers."

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:31 PM

Taylor Lorenz is so old, that when Chuck Norris kicked her, she didn't fall over ... her flapping wrinkles just absorbed the kick.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (HlyYF)

93 Wait, didn't she quit X and migrate to Bluesky with the other bipedal emos?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (CwhoI)

94 71 A Bacon's love is different from that of a square.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 03:40 PM (aD39U)

When you get 'round to it - yeah.

Posted by: Boswell at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (V7158)

95 I'll wait and see what happens in the next year or so on people's behavior. We're talking about some weak individuals here and weak individuals are more prone to surrender. As I said, we'll see.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (g8Ew8)

96 I don't know why we keep picking on Taylor Lorenz.

In some cultures, people revere the Ancient Ones because of the wisdom they've accumulated over the centuries.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (BpYfr)

97 She's been trespassed from Forever 21.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (ZANHd)

good one!

even if you believe that 50 is the new 30, she's still a decade too old for that store

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (dCxaZ)

98 "by an uninsured Millennial who then fled the scene"

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I bet she has a master's degree though!

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (i7Q7S)

99 Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought. Over $100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars has been wasted in the Democrat Party's fight against their Political Opponent, ME.
Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before. They have also used State Prosecutors and District Attorneys, such as Fani Willis and her lover, Nathan Wade (who had absolutely zero
experience in cases such as this, but was paid MILLIONS, enough for them to take numerous trips and cruises around the globe!), Letitia James, who inappropriately, unethically, and probably Illegally, campaigned on "GETTING TRUMP" in order to win Political Office, and Alvin Bragg, who himself never wanted to bring this case against me, but was forced to do so by the Justice Department and the Democrat Party....

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 03:44 PM (RHGPo)

100 In some cultures, people revere the Ancient Ones because of the wisdom they've accumulated over the centuries.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (BpYfr)
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That presupposes that the Ancient Ones have accumulated and developed wisdom.

Western media types never have. Never can.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:44 PM (HnUIn)

101 Taylor Lorenz vs Nate Silver is like Cowboys vs Steelerson’t care who wins. Pray for injuries.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 25, 2024 03:29 PM (btpRW)

I pray for a blimp crash on those days.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:44 PM (n7h9X)

102 That's someone who has raised kids and has had to deal with many inappropriately dramatic responses.

Mom had to do that with me a few times in my youth and you know what? When the center of your world's stability and wisdom says something like that, it really calls you up short. I would stop and reconsider. Maybe I am being a spaz. Maybe I should take this in stride.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:44 PM (RsS92)

103 If she was relevant but she's not.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at November 25, 2024 03:44 PM (eC6+u)

104 As Halperin said, we're headed for the greatest mental health crisis in American history.

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Headed for -- you mean it can get even worse?

Wait, don't answer that ... Doubling-Down on Stupid, Failure, Emasculation, and Infantilization is always The Way of The Lemming Death Cult.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 03:45 PM (/YFXY)

105 "Commenters have brought up the concept of an 'extinction burst' -- something children do when they're disciplined."

Could be. But I think these hysterical outbursts are more intentional ploys to manipulate others.

The screeching idiot who hit the lady's car clearly wanted to just be let go. So she pulls a screaming sympathy ploy -- like a little child -- thinking that will get her her way. When she learns it doesn't, she just ratchets up the hysteria. They know no other way.

I'll bet almost any amount of money this retard starts screaming and crying whenever she doesn't get her way.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

106 15 I had a good idea (I think). I wanted to make a keto lasagna (no noodles). Keto recipes usually call for some vegetable that has carbs to replace the noodles for layering it. Like Zuchini strips or cabbage or lettuce or someting else.

I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (KRtlO)

— —

You’re making a pizza without the dough, ace.
They call them “Pizza Bowls” at Marco’s Pizza.

They make a cheesesteak version.
Add some Alfredo sauce, onions, green peppers, mushrooms, provolone & mozzarella.

It’s delicious, even without the dough.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:45 PM (6ydKt)

107 "The goal of exposing fascists as fascists is to help them learn to be better. The goal of fascist retribution is oppression and violence."

After they serve their time in prison (for the actual fascists) ... sure, it would be nice if they learned to be better. But recidivism in general is pretty high.

"Fascist Retribution" ... what is that? Making criminals pay for their crimes? A goal of prison may be to reform them, but mostly prison is to stop the criminal's "oppression and violence" against the public in general.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2024 03:45 PM (Cus5s)

108 I pray for a blimp crash on those days.
Posted by: Oldcat

The Goodrich blimp?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:45 PM (v6JzV)

109 Frank Sinatra was in this chair and I asked him, Frank how old is Taylor Lorenz? Frank said Taylor Lorenz is a hundred thirty seven years old!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (u73oe)

110 For others: They'll pick up a gun or axe and kill their families or maybe themselves.

It's going to get a little choppy.

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

Tampon Tim is predicting that "THERE WILL BE BLOOD!"

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (/YFXY)

111 Sanity matters more to me than age, when it comes to Taylor Lorenz
But that's just me

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (kTd/k)

112 cruelty, excessive emotional expression, stress, and simply being mentally weak.

You knew my maw?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (dOjkx)

113 Damn missed the Homan thread
Got some browsing of comments to do.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

114 Taylor Lorenz is to old she carries Sucrets Lozenges.

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Taylor Lorenz is to old she met the Smith Brothers, and learned their lozenge formula from them.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (VNX3d)

115 These people are throwing big boy and girl tantrums when they don't get their way. This is astonishing behavior.

They even do it with a camera pointed at them. This tells me the public freakout has worked at some point, whether a parent, teacher or employer, this has been successful for them in the past or else they haven't passed the toddler stage.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (1szDw)

116 I'll bet almost any amount of money this retard starts screaming and crying whenever she doesn't get her way.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

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And pulls some kind of neurodivergent card.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (DRSnL)

117 Posted by: Boswell at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (V715

How nice to "see" you. Boswell. I hope you and your family are well and that you have a very happy Thanksgiving. Please conside posting some more sketches, if you the interest and you ever have the time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (MQJVv)

118 That presupposes that the Ancient Ones have accumulated and developed wisdom.

Yeah. That's the key. I grew up knowing that elderly people had faced hell and gotten through, they had wisdom and experience. They knew stuff I needed to know.

Today's elderly were at woodstock and have sleeve tats. They smoke weed "for their arthritis" and still are trying to experience free love. They voted for McGovern. They are not well experienced or wise. They haven't faced any hardship beyond seeing Kennedy shot on TV.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (RsS92)

119 I don't think we can take Taylor's declaration she's 50 as gospel. She has lied repeatedly about key details of her life. For example, at one point she admitted she went to a Swiss boarding school. Later she tried to claim she only did a summer abroad program one time.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (Odg76)

120 Whatever. She's way too old.

Posted by: Joey Fingerbang at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

121
M ake
A sylums
G reat
A gain

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (Q4IgG)

122 in remembrance....

Taylor Lorenz is so old, she told VIC to get off her lawn.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (QAkQ3)

123 They're ALL "neurodivergent"

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (YbbtK)

124 Are we sure Taylor Lorenz was telling the truth when she said she was 50, or was she trying to be sarcastic? That would make her actually older than me, and I didn't think she was that old. If true, absolutely hilarious though!

Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (iMtj5)

125 This topic of people completely losing their sh*t has always been of interest. I have always subscribed to the idea that people that are not mentally ill are motivated in two ways (which come in many flavors): 1. Reward. 2 Punishment. I think we are full on with the punishment option with these people. The mental illness topic is a different issue and is going to require a lot of attention and work.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (2bFN5)

126 Maybe I should take this in stride.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:44 PM (RsS92)

As I recall, mom would say something like, "What is your issue? You did this to yourself." And dad's stock response was, "Do you even know what you are doing?"

Huh. Okay. I'll shut my yap now.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (byWhc)

127 119 You're right, she's probably damn near 60!

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (YbbtK)

128 NEW: House Oversight investigators have given US Capitol Police until Dec. 4 to turn over all emails, texts +other messages from the cellphone, email account, computer +other devices used by unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt's killer USCP Capt. Michael Byrd from 1/1/21-1/1/24

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (RHGPo)

129 Personalized plate 50 LAPS on walker.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (LHPAg)

130 Taylor Lorenz is so old her first words were "Let there be light."

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (12v8J)

131
Today's elderly were at woodstock and have sleeve tats. They smoke weed "for their arthritis" and still are trying to experience free love. They voted for McGovern. They are not well experienced or wise. They haven't faced any hardship beyond seeing Kennedy shot on TV.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (RsS92)

Hey Christopher... Get off my lawn

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (IyPmt)

132 You’re making a pizza without the dough, ace.
They call them “Pizza Bowls” at Marco’s Pizza.

They make a cheesesteak version.
Add some Alfredo sauce, onions, green peppers, mushrooms, provolone & mozzarella.

It’s delicious, even without the dough.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:45 PM (6ydKt)

You could always try a Meatza. Form ground beef in the bottom and sides of a pie pan, and fill with pizza sauce and toppings.

Weight Watchers had a specific recipe for it a lo-o-o-o-ong time ago.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (VNX3d)

133 "The moment reparations activist Sunny Hostin learns she descends from slave OWNERS"

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You can just see the hate ooze from her by looking at that video.

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (i7Q7S)

134 Taylor used to dine regularly at Woolworth's lunch counter.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2024 03:41 PM

My first job was stocky boy and cleaning up the lunch counter at Woolworth's. $2.10 an hour.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (Rcnd3)

135 The screeching idiot who hit the lady's car clearly wanted to just be let go. So she pulls a screaming sympathy ploy -- like a little child -- thinking that will get her her way. When she learns it doesn't, she just ratchets up the hysteria. They know no other way.

Its like the girl who cheats on a guy and then attacks him for getting upset. Or the guy who grabs a Trump sign out of a yard, then gets whiny when a cop arrests them for theft.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (RsS92)

136 Tantrum girl needs something like that scene in "Airplane!"

https://youtu.be/0chd6ZP1p6Y?t=14

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (O7YUW)

137 15 I had a good idea (I think). I wanted to make a keto lasagna (no noodles). Keto recipes usually call for some vegetable that has carbs to replace the noodles for layering it. Like Zuchini strips or cabbage or lettuce or someting else.

I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM

I made a lasagne last week with eggplant instead of pasta. It worked well and my husband liked it. He's going to eat fewer carbs whether he wants to or not.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (1szDw)

138 I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (KRtlO)

Bacon.

Bacon's love only asks one thing from you - that you love it back. And you do...admit it.
Posted by: Boswell at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (V715

I don't know the structure of a Steak Umms but thick cut bacon in a shingle pattern seems structurally sound enough for lasagne.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (n7h9X)

139 That young broad looks like she needs to make some money so she can drive with insurance. Lots of ways to make money honey with a mouth like that.

Call me.

Posted by: Velvet Jones at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (Y5VD5)

140 Frank Sinatra was in this chair and I asked him, Frank how old is Taylor Lorenz? Frank said Taylor Lorenz is a hundred thirty seven years old!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (u73oe)

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Frank craps are younger than her!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (/YFXY)

141 The mental illness topic is a different issue and is going to require a lot of attention and work.
Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (2bFN5)

It is not mental illness. It is lack of discipline and self-respect. These are usually learned by life smacking them upside the head. Some learn it sooner, some never do. But it is not an illness.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (byWhc)

142 Taylor Lorenz is to old she met the Smith Brothers, and learned their lozenge formula from them.

Taylor Lorenz is so old, she got one of those big pills from Miracle Max.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (xCA6C)

143 And pulls some kind of neurodivergent card.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 03

It does look very much like an autistic melt down from someone who has not been to a behavioralist. If she isn’t on the spectrum, she should be beyond embarrassed.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (p4NUW)

144 These people are throwing big boy and girl tantrums when they don't get their way. This is astonishing behavior.

They even do it with a camera pointed at them. This tells me the public freakout has worked at some point, whether a parent, teacher or employer, this has been successful for them in the past or else they haven't passed the toddler stage.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (1szDw)
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They do this because it works. Sadly. I see it all the time when parents give in to their children at the first sign of a tantrum. It's much easier to give the kid what he wants than to do some real parenting.

The kids learn this and take it with them as they get older. For girls, they later on learn that the same technique works effectively with boys. Start screaming and crying, and you'll probably get your way.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

145 I'm thinking a lot of Dems are having an extinction burst about now with Smith moving to dismiss. Schadenfreude Monday!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 03:50 PM (FxDm7)

146 It's going to get a little choppy.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: zombie Lizzie Borden at November 25, 2024 03:50 PM (a3Q+t)

147 144 They do this because it works. Sadly. I see it all the time when parents give in to their children at the first sign of a tantrum. It's much easier to give the kid what he wants than to do some real parenting.

The kids learn this and take it with them as they get older. For girls, they later on learn that the same technique works effectively with boys. Start screaming and crying, and you'll probably get your way.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

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I don't see this in my boys at all.

For some reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

148 >>>Between the cheese and now the steak, it's gonna be a lot...and if you precook the steak and then bake it, you're probably gonna end up with shoe leather...

huh. I did precook it,so I guess i'm going to wind up with shoe leather.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:50 PM (KRtlO)

149 I made a lasagne last week with eggplant instead of pasta. It worked well and my husband liked it. He's going to eat fewer carbs whether he wants to or not.
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Did he swing by a burger joint afterwards?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:51 PM (jFCkp)

150 Smith basically said " And I would have convicted him too if it wasn't for those darn voters!"

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 03:51 PM (YbbtK)

151 Frank Sinatra was in this chair and I asked him, Frank how old is Taylor Lorenz? Frank said Taylor Lorenz is a hundred thirty seven years old!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM

You never met no Frank Sinatra....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:51 PM (ZANHd)

152 My first job was stocky boy and cleaning up the lunch counter at Woolworth's. $2.10 an hour.
Posted by: Mister Scott

*slowly backs off Mr. Scott's lawn*

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:51 PM (v6JzV)

153 You could always try a Meatza. Form ground beef in the bottom and sides of a pie pan, and fill with pizza sauce and toppings.

mom used to make a dish like that, I'd do it but its not very tasty without cheese.

Hey Christopher... Get off my lawn

You know what I mean though, right? The elderly of today are not what we knew when we were young. My grandfather lived before airplanes. He saw WWI. My mom lived through the depression. The elderly of today are not like that, except for the VERY oldest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:52 PM (RsS92)

154 @121/Martini Farmer: "Make Asylums Great Again"

That's what I've been saying! :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 03:52 PM (O7YUW)

155 Afternoon all.
Ace, try layering eggplant. If you fry it first like eggplant Parm it holds up better but you do need to roast it first. Then you can layer ricotta, mozzarella, even add peppers and then sauce just like lasagna.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 25, 2024 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)

156 It is not mental illness. It is lack of discipline and self-respect. These are usually learned by life smacking them upside the head. Some learn it sooner, some never do. But it is not an illness.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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I was trying to separate into two categories. The impudent brats - which I agree with your point, wholeheartedly. And the ones with true mental illness.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 03:52 PM (2bFN5)

157 Today's elderly were at woodstock and have sleeve tats. They smoke weed "for their arthritis" and still are trying to experience free love. They voted for McGovern. They are not well experienced or wise. They haven't faced any hardship beyond seeing Kennedy shot on TV.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (RsS92)

Hey Christopher... Get off my lawn
Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (IyPmt)

LOL

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 03:52 PM (g8Ew8)

158 I don't think we can take Taylor's declaration she's 50 as gospel. She has lied repeatedly about key details of her life. For example, at one point she admitted she went to a Swiss boarding school. Later she tried to claim she only did a summer abroad program one time.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (Odg76)

We have a good lower bound. There's no way she would say she was 50 if she were 45.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:52 PM (n7h9X)

159 I had a good idea (I think). I wanted to make a keto lasagna (no noodles). Keto recipes usually call for some vegetable that has carbs to replace the noodles for layering it. Like Zuchini strips or cabbage or lettuce or someting else.

I had an idea? Why not cook up some Steak Umm cheesesteak slices and use that for layering?

I dunno if it'll work, but I'm trying it.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (KRtlO)
____________

I make lasagna with the tears and regrets of my enemies. Try it. Delicious!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

160 I don't know the structure of a Steak Umms but thick cut bacon in a shingle pattern seems structurally sound enough for lasagne.

Trust me you don't want boiled bacon

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (RsS92)

161 How nice to "see" you. Boswell. I hope you and your family are well and that you have a very happy Thanksgiving. Please conside posting some more sketches, if you the interest and you ever have the time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (MQJVv)

Hi Fen - took a bit of a break away from things the last month or so - but happy to come back into Horde fold, so to speak!

Posted by: Boswell at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (V7158)

162 NEW: House Oversight investigators have given US Capitol Police until Dec. 4 to turn over all emails, texts +other messages from the cellphone, email account, computer +other devices used by unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt's killer USCP Capt. Michael Byrd from 1/1/21-1/1/24
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (RHGPo)
++++
Given the age of these requested correspondence, it is no longer retained in online systems. Messages are retained in online retrieval systems for three years, at which time they are archived for the balance of the legally-required retention period.

The archive system in this case is digital tape storage. We were able to locate the referenced information in the tape management system, but the tapes involved were unable to be read. It appears that an undiscovered moisture problem in the tape library has caused failure of numerous tapes from the period of 2018-2021. We are partnering with a data recovery firm in an effort to recover information from the damaged tapes, but results so far have not been promising.

We will continue to be transparent with the House of Representatives in pursuit of its vital oversight and accountability mission.

Posted by: Capitol Police, probably at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (HnUIn)

163 We have a large percentage of people who think they live in that hardest times EVER you guys. They have no idea how good they have it.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (YbbtK)

164 Trust me you don't want boiled bacon
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM

No?

Posted by: Jenny Meyer at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (ZANHd)

165 My nearly 19 yr old zoomer was at a stop sign and got rear ended by a tractor/trailer truck sans trailer. She calmly pulled thru the intersection and moved to the side of the road. Put on her flashers, checked for traffic, and got out to check the damage and speak with the truck driver. First accident, so she called me. I told her to get insurance info and call local cop shop for accident report. By the time I arrived on the scene, cop was leaving, insurance info had been exchanged, truck driver had given her his business card, and the two of them were chatting on the side of the road. Truck driver was impressed. The last three times he had an incident of that nature, the other more seasoned drivers just left.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (4XwPj)

166 Taylor Lorenz is to old she carries Sucrets Lozenges.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 03:34 PM (+oR7L
*
Stuck together by time and covered in purse lint.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024

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Can you even buy those any more?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (J2vNu)

167 Trust me you don't want boiled bacon
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (RsS92)

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What about sous vide bacon?

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (DRSnL)

168 You know what I mean though, right? The elderly of today are not what we knew when we were young. My grandfather lived before airplanes. He saw WWI. My mom lived through the depression. The elderly of today are not like that, except for the VERY oldest.
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My grand dad fought in the Spanish American War.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (jFCkp)

169 Lefty women are thoroughly embarrassing themselves.

They can't be trusted.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (jyAD3)

170 If she's only 50, then I'm eating someones ass for losing a bet.

Posted by: Kamala's Throat at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (W+TLY)

171 I have never posted my actual birthday on FB or even any of the smaller BBs that wanted that info, simply out of general paranoia about ID theft. I did decide I needed to be in the correct month so as not to get "Happy Bdays" that were way off and be within a couple years so as not seem like a cougar or whatever. But the internet does not need to have my PID sitting around.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (UKUm3)

172 NEW: House Oversight investigators have given US Capitol Police until Dec. 4 to turn over all emails, texts +other messages from the cellphone, email account, computer +other devices used by unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt's killer USCP Capt. Michael Byrd from 1/1/21-1/1/24

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 03:48 PM (RHGPo)

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Timely.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (/YFXY)

173 >>>Between the cheese and now the steak, it's gonna be a lot...and if you precook the steak and then bake it, you're probably gonna end up with shoe leather...

huh. I did precook it,so I guess i'm going to wind up with shoe leather.f
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:50 PM (KRtlO)

There will be plenty of juice from the ground beef and sause though, right?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (n7h9X)

174 Assuming no underlying health conditions to the contrary, carbs are not bad and should be eaten. The type of carb matters, and the food pyramid is not to be trusted. But you should eat carbs.

Okay I said it. Again. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (p4NUW)

175 168 You know what I mean though, right? The elderly of today are not what we knew when we were young. My grandfather lived before airplanes. He saw WWI. My mom lived through the depression. The elderly of today are not like that, except for the VERY oldest.
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My grand dad fought in the Spanish American War.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (jFCkp)

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There was a WWII vet on the cruise.

He had been on PT-302. He was 97 years old and could still walk, well, with a walker.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

176 It does look very much like an autistic melt down from someone who has not been to a behavioralist. If she isn’t on the spectrum, she should be beyond embarrassed.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (p4NUW)
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As we know, if you reward a behavior, you get more of that behavior. If you punish a behavior, you get less.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (RIvkX)

177 Frank Sinatra was in this chair and I asked him, Frank how old is Taylor Lorenz? Frank said Taylor Lorenz is a hundred thirty seven years old!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM

You never met no Frank Sinatra....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:51 PM

It's the chapping left over from the sequined thongs he wore during his OnlyFans sting.

Posted by: zombie Lizzie Borden at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (a3Q+t)

178 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

http://tiny.cc/inaxzz

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Odg76)

179 Well, to cut her some slack, in Taylor's time they only kept track of their ages up to 18 when young men (and sometimes women) registered with their local kin group (phratria). This marked the beginning of their military service for two years.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (Y6IkP)

180 When I watch Millennial Meltdown videos, I find myself laughing like Dwight Frye.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (wBaIH)

181 Taylor Lorenz so old that she watches MSNBC

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (KRtlO)

182 Macy’s was preparing its unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the third fiscal quarter when it discovered the incident and launched an investigation, the company said in a statement that included its preliminary third-quarter results.

“[A] single employee with responsibility for small package delivery expense accounting intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries to hide approximately $132 to $154 million of cumulative delivery expenses from the fourth quarter of 2021 through fiscal quarter ended November 2, 2024,” the department store added.

… this really only happens in “B” movies

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (RHGPo)

183 I have never posted my actual birthday on FB or even any of the smaller BBs that wanted that info, simply out of general paranoia about ID theft. I did decide I needed to be in the correct month so as not to get "Happy Bdays" that were way off and be within a couple years so as not seem like a cougar or whatever. But the internet does not need to have my PID sitting around.
Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (UKUm3)

=====

I use a made up birthday for pretty much everything on the internet.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (DRSnL)

184 "Keto recipes usually call for some vegetable that has carbs"

Name one vegetable that has no carbs. Avocado is a fruit.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (KAi1n)

185 Yeah, I can see it getting a little choppy as well. The "thought process" for these dysfunctional retards is predictable. Kill your parents and try for the victimization sympathy of being an orphan.

I still think that one of the most stupid ideas in parenting was whomever came up with the "time-out." I suppose you could have incorporated into parenting like they do in basketball. You only get a limited number of them. When you run out, you get the belt.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (dIske)

186 Can you even buy those any more?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (J2vNu)

You can Necco Wafers, i pick them up sometimes

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (n7h9X)

187 There was a WWII vet on the cruise.

He had been on PT-302. He was 97 years old and could still walk, well, with a walker.
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Imma guessing this is his last cruise.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (jFCkp)

188 No?
Posted by: Jenny Meyer

Better Off Dead high fives

She was really cute still in that. That was the girl from the Star Trek episode where the adults were all dead. And True Grit!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (RsS92)

189 For others: They'll pick up a gun or axe and kill their families or maybe themselves.

It's going to get a little choppy.

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Yup. I've been noticing this. The media is handling '24 much better than '16, so things seem calmer on the surface. But the NPCs seem to be taking it much worse - hence the gazillion TikTok freakouts and the handful of deadly rampages we've already seen.

I expect that if - as seems likely - Trump takes off the belt and starts spanking the Left, there will be more and more intense freakouts and violence.

Any blue city Morons should keep their heads on a swivel come January, because at least some of these little monsters are going to get real froggy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (7oYYI)

190 Taylor Lorenz was in diapers when I graduated college

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (RHGPo)

191 You can Necco Wafers, i pick them up sometimes
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They look better than they taste.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (jFCkp)

192 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

http://tiny.cc/inaxzz
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Odg76)

What a douchebag.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (12v8J)

193 It's going to get a little choppy.

I'm normally pretty chill, and not scared around people or strangers, etc. But seeing how deranged and easily triggered these people are, I don't engage in any provocative speech or behavior around them, such as slam dunking the election when I'm aware they are libtard weenies

at the very least, I don't want my tires slashed
Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 03:26 PM (dCxaZ)
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And, when you consider the 650,000 violent criminals let across the border by this administration, keep your head on a swivel, and stay armed with at least something.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (W/lyH)

194
So, she's kind of a cut-rate Nora Desmond and her Sunset Blvd is the internet.
Posted by: Paco

The pictures are REALLY small on a cell phone.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (63Dwl)

195 Make state mental hospitals great again.

Gonna need them for the “One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest” crowd.

Posted by: Mrs Emma Peel at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (lIN5E)

196 "Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year."

Buy $58.08 worth of food. Bring 9 people over this Thursday. Thanksgiving dinner for 10 for $58.08. Meh.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 25, 2024 03:58 PM (KAi1n)

197 That was the girl from the Star Trek episode where the adults were all dead. And True Grit!
John Wayne did NOT like working with her

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 03:58 PM (YbbtK)

198 What the ever loving....? Lorenz is 50?

She tries to portray herself as late thirties or so and mentally is about 12...I would never have guessed Taylor is 50.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 03:58 PM (tT6L1)

199 My advice? Go with traditional lasagna and enjoy.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 03:58 PM (mH6SG)

200 181 Taylor Lorenz so old that she watches MSNBC
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (KRtlO)

She's so old she watches re-runs of the Lawrence Welk show and is President of the Myron Florin fan club

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 03:58 PM (IyPmt)

201 141 The mental illness topic is a different issue and is going to require a lot of attention and work.
Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 03:47 PM (2bFN5)

It is not mental illness. It is lack of discipline and self-respect. These are usually learned by life smacking them upside the head. Some learn it sooner, some never do. But it is not an illness.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (byWhc)
Insurance girl is one of the reasons law enforcement has bodycams.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 03:59 PM (LHPAg)

202 178 considering Frank Luntz appears to drink gravy as a beverage, I'd say that dinner cost was on the low side

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 03:59 PM (wBaIH)

203 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

http://tiny.cc/inaxzz
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Odg76)

Who'd want to eat the crap he cooks? They all stop off at McDonalds on the way home.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:59 PM (n7h9X)

204 Shaq and the General should pay a visit to the uninsured driver and show her how easy it is to get auto insurance.

I doubt Shaq would tolerate any length of an extinction burst beyond 5 seconds.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 25, 2024 03:59 PM (Vyll1)

205 The last three times he had an incident of that nature, the other more seasoned drivers just left.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

... Maybe this will teach him to stop rear-ending other drivers...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:59 PM (hB7mE)

206
I expect that if - as seems likely - Trump takes off the belt and starts spanking the Left, there will be more and more intense freakouts and violence.

Any blue city Morons should keep their heads on a swivel come January, because at least some of these little monsters are going to get real froggy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (7oYYI)

I was surprised that antifa didn't riot but like you I assume they will in January.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:59 PM (1szDw)

207 They look better than they taste.

The Chocolate Neco Wafers are better, but yeah

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:59 PM (RsS92)

208 It is not mental illness. It is lack of discipline and self-respect. These are usually learned by life smacking them upside the head. Some learn it sooner, some never do. But it is not an illness.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (byWhc)
Insurance girl is one of the reasons law enforcement has bodycams.
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 03:59 PM (LHPAg)

Acting like a child is crazy, not a mental illness.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (n7h9X)

209 One part of me wonders at video generation the other part of me thinks one has no choice due to how unhinged leftists have become.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (tT6L1)

210 @171/PaleRider

This is the protocol I use also.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (O7YUW)

211 “[A] single employee with responsibility for small package delivery expense accounting intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries to hide approximately $132 to $154 million of cumulative delivery expenses from the fourth quarter of 2021 through fiscal quarter ended November 2, 2024,” the department store added.

… this really only happens in “B” movies
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (RHGPo)
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They just write it off!
-Kramer

Was that wrong?
-George

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (RIvkX)

212 I think Frank forgot the 1 in front of $58.08,
It's $158.08

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (fwDg9)

213 178 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

http://tiny.cc/inaxzz
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Odg76)

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WTF is he shopping?

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (jyAD3)

214 So this miserable old harpy is 50 then? Is that the take-away? Or do we think she's lying about that?
Posted by: Elric The Blade
*
No, you misunderstood. She was born in the year 50. Only 50 BC, not 50 AD like she says.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024

***
She dated Julius Caesar?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (J2vNu)

215 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

http://tiny.cc/inaxzz
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Odg76)

What a douchebag.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (12v8J)
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Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. I pay for Thanksgiving dinner and its way way way way more expensive than that. Fuck, I doubt you can get a 10-person meal from the cheapest, nastiest, dive-iest food place in the country for $60.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

216 213 178 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

http://tiny.cc/inaxzz
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Odg76)

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WTF is he shopping?
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (jyAD3)

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What is he eating?

Bread and rice?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

217 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

http://tiny.cc/inaxzz
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Odg76)
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This is not my experience.

Turkey is cheaper this year, that much is true. So is milk, though cheese and sour cream aren't. Ham is not. Fresh fruit and vegetables are not. Stuffing mix is not. Potatoes are not. Beer and wine are not. Soda is not. Canned vegetables are about the same.

What planet are these people on? I skimmed the article and it seems to boil down to, "turkey is cheaper and some stores are doing semi-prepared bundled deals that are okay on price."

No wonder Comcast is looking to jettison CNBC.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:01 PM (HnUIn)

218 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

http://tiny.cc/inaxzz

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Odg76)

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Primarily because Kevin McCarthy is bringing the whipped cream.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 04:01 PM (/YFXY)

219 I was surprised that antifa didn't riot but like you I assume they will in January.
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AntiFa was always on a leash. They are Live Action Performers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:01 PM (jFCkp)

220 I was surprised that antifa didn't riot but like you I assume they will in January.

It takes time to organize the buses and pallets of bricks

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 04:01 PM (RsS92)

221 I have never posted my actual birthday on FB or even any of the smaller BBs that wanted that info, simply out of general paranoia about ID theft. I did decide I needed to be in the correct month so as not to get "Happy Bdays" that were way off and be within a couple years so as not seem like a cougar or whatever. But the internet does not need to have my PID sitting around.
Posted by: PaleRider

It really pisses me off that I have to treat my own birthday like it's some kind of state secret. It just a date of something that happened in the past, like the Battle of Hastings.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 04:01 PM (v6JzV)

222 They look better than they taste.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (jFCkp)

Necco Wafers look like you should play Tiddly-Winks with them, and I still rate that comment to be true.

(New England Candy Company and they closed 201

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 04:01 PM (D7oie)

223 The left's denial of reality continues.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 04:02 PM (YbbtK)

224 I doubt Shaq would tolerate any length of an extinction burst beyond 5 seconds.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle

In the paint, 3 seconds.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 25, 2024 04:02 PM (KAi1n)

225 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

-

A turkey large enough for ten people is likely going to take most of the budget by itself.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:02 PM (lTGtQ)

226 Uninsured Kamala voter hits a car and then has an emotional breakdown when asked for her insurance.
......

I laughed. Does that make me a bad person?

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:02 PM (v0R5T)

227 Frank Luntz can make ten people a Thanksgiving dinner for under $60 dollars because him and McCarthy don't feed their eight beleaguered catamites, and two tabs of MDMA don't cost much.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 04:02 PM (7oYYI)

228 ***
She dated Julius Caesar?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (J2vNu)
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Julius purposely turned his back on Brutus....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (tT6L1)

229 California could offer electric vehicle rebates if Trump eliminates tax credit, Newsom says

… they have such a huge surplus of revenue

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

230 You can Necco Wafers, i pick them up sometimes
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They look better than they taste.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM (jFCkp)

nostalgia...used to be at the little pharmacy across from elementary school when you had a bit of change. French Chews, Lemonheads.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (n7h9X)

231 Better Off Dead high fives

She was really cute still in that. That was the girl from the Star Trek episode where the adults were all dead. And True Grit!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:57 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (ZANHd)

232 Notice the giant IF...

If your dollar had the same overall purchasing power as a consumer in 1984 … this would be the least expensive Thanksgiving meal in the 39-year history of the AFBF Thanksgiving survey, other than the outlier of 2020,” the authors wrote.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (YbbtK)

233 It just a date of something that happened in the past, like the Battle of Hastings.
Posted by: Bulg

Hastings lost. It's now UC Law San Francisco

Posted by: SFGoth at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (KAi1n)

234 I still think that one of the most stupid ideas in parenting was whomever came up with the "time-out."

I mean... it's a useful tool among others in a parent's arsenal.

Sometimes the problem is that the kids just need to be away from each other and maybe take a nap.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (hB7mE)

235 I don't know who this person is

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (/7KEl)

236 ... “[A] single employee with responsibility for small package delivery expense accounting intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries to hide approximately $132 to $154 million of cumulative delivery expenses from the fourth quarter of 2021 through fiscal quarter ended November 2, 2024,” the department store added. ...
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (RHGPo)
++++
So, a single employee was able to defeat every accountability, validation and verification mechanism in his or her fiscal chain of command?

Taking the statement at face value, it's still damning for the organization.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (HnUIn)

237 Necco Wafers look like you should play Tiddly-Winks with them, and I still rate that comment to be true.

(New England Candy Company and they closed 2018 )

Posted by: Kindltot

They started making them again. Where else can you get a clove flavored candy? I have always liked them - my grandmother used to give them to me.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (lTGtQ)

238 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

Gonna be a tight squeeze, my guess is a lot of canned stuff and budget options. But there's no way its cheaper than last year.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (RsS92)

239 227 Frank Luntz can make ten people a Thanksgiving dinner for under $60 dollars because him and McCarthy don't feed their eight beleaguered catamites, and two tabs of MDMA don't cost much.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 04:02 PM (7oYYI)

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LOL

Is your newsletter still in circulation?

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (jyAD3)

240 Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. I pay for Thanksgiving dinner and its way way way way more expensive than that. Fuck, I doubt you can get a 10-person meal from the cheapest, nastiest, dive-iest food place in the country for $60.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

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Your meant $60 each, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (vrjjg)

241 WTF is he shopping?
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (jyAD3)
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Dollar Grocery.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (tT6L1)

242 California could offer electric vehicle rebates if Trump eliminates tax credit, Newsom says

… they have such a huge surplus of revenue
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

That California has a balanced budget amendment is one of the funniest things ever.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (n7h9X)

243 MMmmmm. SteakUmms.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (+oR7L)

244 "California could offer electric vehicle rebates if Trump eliminates tax credit, Newsom says"

The coke they found in the White House - that was Newsom's.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (KAi1n)

245 It wasn't Luntz I believe but a CNBC story

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (YbbtK)

246
Better Off Dead high fives

She was really cute still in that. That was the girl from the Star Trek episode where the adults were all dead. And True Grit!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024

***
Hard for me to imagine Kim as a MILF, and doing comedy yet. Almost all her roles when she was young were dramatic things like Trek, True Grit, and Run For Your Life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (J2vNu)

247 Everything I know about Taylor Lorenz I learned against my will.

Posted by: Geezer at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (DobEs)

248 244 "California could offer electric vehicle rebates if Trump eliminates tax credit, Newsom says"

The coke they found in the White House - that was Newsom's.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (KAi1n)

=======

I want CA driven to insolvency at ludicrous speed.

Can I have that, please?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

249 I don't know anything about Taylor Lorenz beyond what has been on the AoS posts and comments. I would have taken the under on a 50 or younger age wager.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 04:05 PM (2bFN5)

250 Circus peanuts FTW?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 04:05 PM (mH6SG)

251 208 It is not mental illness. It is lack of discipline and self-respect. These are usually learned by life smacking them upside the head. Some learn it sooner, some never do. But it is not an illness.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:49 PM (byWhc)
Insurance girl is one of the reasons law enforcement has bodycams.
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 03:59 PM (LHPAg)

Acting like a child is crazy, not a mental illness.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM

My friends and I just used to cry to try to get out of trouble, it doesn't work but at least we weren't losing our shit in public, on camera, that you know is going straight to the internet for everyone to make fun of.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 04:05 PM (1szDw)

252 This slender blonde is glad that it's finally sweater weather:
http://tiny.cc/noaxzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:05 PM (HnUIn)

253 Here's a line from the CNBC article about the inexpensive Thanksgiving meal.

Target is offering a $20 Thanksgiving meal for four, including a small turkey, canned vegetables and stovetop stuffing mix.

OK, fine. You can get a couple slices of turkey, some canned veggies, and stovetop stuffing for $5.50 a person. But that's a criminally underwhelming Thanksgiving meal.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (Odg76)

254 Do they sell Necco wafers in Japan? Because in Japan, those would be made of cats.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (KAi1n)

255 I still think that one of the most stupid ideas in parenting was whomever came up with the "time-out."

Yeah my parents would try that once then give up because I wanted nothing better than to be on my own and left alone to think and create. They found spankings much more effective LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (RsS92)

256 Frank Luntz ridiculously claims the cost of Thanksgiving dinner for TEN PEOPLE is only $58.08 and 5% cheaper than last year.

Gonna be a tight squeeze, my guess is a lot of canned stuff and budget options. But there's no way its cheaper than last year.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (RsS92)
________

Turkey-flavored ramen!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (iFTx/)

257 Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. I pay for Thanksgiving dinner and its way way way way more expensive than that. Fuck, I doubt you can get a 10-person meal from the cheapest, nastiest, dive-iest food place in the country for $60.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

McDs. Small Burger, like 2.50. Small Fries 3.50 Small Drink 3.50. add tax and that's over 10 and only your 5 year old might be full.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (n7h9X)

258 Luntz? Let's see, that rhymes with...

Posted by: Rubs chin thoughtfully at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (DobEs)

259 When 15000 tranny GI's get told they're fired there's going to be extinction burst weapons fire.
Unless Navy because many don't get weapons training.

I served 8 years Navy, you're welcome, and never operated a firearm. It simply wasn't asked or ordered of me to do so.

But many of the 15000 are going to go full metal jacket when they're fired.

I hope I'm wrong.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (CpPSJ)

260 Wife shopped TG dinner yesterday and the price was $200. This probably doesn't count the numerous Honey Dew errands I will add to pick something up.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (jFCkp)

261
Frank Luntz is the guy who walks in with a wife and three kids, sits down and orders himself a root beer, and a Large coke with 4 straws.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (+oR7L)

262 258 Luntz? Let's see, that rhymes with...
Posted by: Rubs chin thoughtfully at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (DobEs)

=======

*nods sagaciously*

Idiot. It rhymes with idiot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

263 Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. I pay for Thanksgiving dinner and its way way way way more expensive than that. Fuck, I doubt you can get a 10-person meal from the cheapest, nastiest, dive-iest food place in the country for $60.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (iFTx/)
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Yup. It's not cheaper than last year. And you probably *could* do it for $60ish, but not generously or well.

A turkey. A package of stuffing. Some potatoes and salad. Canned cranberries. No second helpings. You *might* be able to sneak it in under the wire.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:07 PM (HnUIn)

264 Fled because she "couldn't afford insurance"? This screeching girl's Corolla (?) looks to be fairly new. "Affordable" to the current generation means living in a 3000 sq ft house in a city of their choosing while driving a new car with a $400/mo payment and still treating themselves to a $20/day Starbucks habit.

What's the old song lyric? I want it all, and I want it now.

Posted by: red speck at November 25, 2024 04:07 PM (0Id0S)

265 235 I don't know who this person is
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (/7KEl)

I get her confused with Madison Cornbread.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 04:07 PM (1szDw)

266 This slender blonde is glad that it's finally sweater weather:
http://tiny.cc/noaxzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:05 PM (HnUIn)
____

That might be AI. If she's a real person, she's so heavily shopped it might be a guy for all we know. Verdict: unbangable.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:07 PM (iFTx/)

267 Do they sell Necco wafers in Japan? Because in Japan, those would be made of cats.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 25, 2024 04:06 PM (KAi1n)

Thought it was Neko, from the little program on the PC than had a line art cat chase the mouse pointer and sleep.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:08 PM (n7h9X)

268 Who thinks Nate Silver is a reactionary?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 04:08 PM (r5tfK)

269 They started making them again. Where else can you get a clove flavored candy? I have always liked them - my grandmother used to give them to me.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (lTGtQ)

They still make BlackJack gum, I see it in the stores. Not the candies though, I would suggest looking on Amazon or a home-made recipe

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 04:08 PM (D7oie)

270 Taylor Lorenz has lived her life as Blanche DuBois, living off the kindness of strangers. And the usual bunch of relatives with connections.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:08 PM (gm9Sb)

271 DanMa'am had a $30 gift card to the Honey Baked Ham store. Spent $120 after the card. What a break.

Posted by: DanMan at November 25, 2024 04:08 PM (8uzBS)

272 "California could offer electric vehicle rebates if Trump eliminates tax credit, Newsom says"

So, he'll help you buy an EV, but there won't be any power so you can drive the ticking firebomb anywhere. If you can get the insurance.

Smooth move, Ex-lax!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 04:08 PM (VNX3d)

273 You know what doesn't hold up nearly as well as I had hoped?

Mortal Kombat.

It's just...not good. 9 year old TJM is saddened by this development.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

274 I guess one could do thanksgiving for ten for under 60 bucks, if you gave everyone a glass of water, a piece of jerky, and half of a Butterfinger each.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:09 PM (lTGtQ)

275 Target is offering a $20 Thanksgiving meal for four, including a small turkey, canned vegetables and stovetop stuffing mix.

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OFFS, if that's your Thanksgiving meal then food is not on the top of your list of what you're grateful for.

This is effing America.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:09 PM (jyAD3)

276 That was the girl from the Star Trek episode where the adults were all dead. And True Grit!
John Wayne did NOT like working with her
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024

***
Another reason I should stop reading any of the "behind-the-scenes" or "tell-all" books or articles about classic Hollywood. (TG is from 1969 -- old enough to be "classic.") From what I did read, though, it was because she was much more of a Method actor, something Wayne never needed or wanted to be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:10 PM (J2vNu)

277 A turkey. A package of stuffing. Some potatoes and salad. Canned cranberries. No second helpings. You *might* be able to sneak it in under the wire.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:07 PM (HnUIn)
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I see there's no room in the budget for pie...pumpkin or otherwise.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 04:10 PM (BpYfr)

278 California could offer electric vehicle rebates if Trump eliminates tax credit, Newsom says ...
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (RHGPo)
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Hey, Newsom? Fuck you.

Instead of subsidizing EVs, how about you pay back the federal unemployment loan so they get rid of the punitive tax rate. Our asses are already screaming in pain, and you're making it worse.

Posted by: CA Business Owners at November 25, 2024 04:10 PM (HnUIn)

279 278 Hey, Newsom? Fuck you.

Instead of subsidizing EVs, how about you pay back the federal unemployment loan so they get rid of the punitive tax rate. Our asses are already screaming in pain, and you're making it worse.
Posted by: CA Business Owners at November 25, 2024 04:10 PM (HnUIn)

=======

"Fuck you, pay me."
-~~Goodfellas~~ California

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

280 I will drink $58 worth of beer on Thanksgiving.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

281 I see there's no room in the budget for pie...pumpkin or otherwise.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 04:10 PM (BpYfr)
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Not if your budget is 60 bucks for a party of ten.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:11 PM (HnUIn)

282 Taylor Lorenz so old that she watches MSNBC
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (KRtlO)

oh, so cruel!

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 04:11 PM (QTCRF)

283 I will drink $58 worth of beer on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: wth
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LOL.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 04:11 PM (2bFN5)

284 Not if your budget is 60 bucks for a party of ten.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:11 PM (HnUIn)

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That's no "party."

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (jyAD3)

285 My wife likes pumpkin pie. I don't. So I get a PECAN PIE.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (jFCkp)

286 25 They only recognize the popular vote.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:33 PM (RsS92)
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That's because they keep saying "Our Democracy" instead of "Our Republic".

Posted by: Ciampino - see, we're hard players at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (i0xsb)

287 280 I will drink $58 worth of beer on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

=======

I got a bottle of Statesman by Old Forrester and Bulleitt on the boat (duty and tax free!).

I will be partaking of those.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

288 I see there's no room in the budget for pie...pumpkin or otherwise.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Yeah, the price of pie is irrational.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (v6JzV)

289 I will drink $58 worth of beer on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:11 PM (v0R5T)
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Easy to do, nowadays.

I'm not a beer drinker, but I bought a case and half for the holiday, and a few magnums of affordable wine.

My ass hurts.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (HnUIn)

290 283 I will drink $58 worth of beer on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: wth
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LOL.
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This is true.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (jFCkp)

291 I see there's no room in the budget for pie...pumpkin or otherwise.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 04:10 PM (BpYfr)
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Not if your budget is 60 bucks for a party of ten.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:11 PM (HnUIn)

well, it would be better if you allowed for $60 each

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (D7oie)

292 CA will subsidize the purchase of an EV and hit EV owners with a mileage tax because EV owners don't buy gasoline.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (tT6L1)

293 I will drink $58 worth of beer on Thanksgiving.

As the Pilgrims intended.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (mH6SG)

294 Hard for me to imagine Kim as a MILF, and doing comedy yet. Almost all her roles when she was young were dramatic things like Trek, True Grit, and Run For Your Life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:04 PM (J2vNu)

There probably were more limited numbers of kid actors that could be trusted to keep up with shooting so they reused them...or used some executives snotty kid.

Now a film takes 10 years to make so there are no second roles.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (n7h9X)

295 My wife likes pumpkin pie. I don't. So I get a PECAN PIE.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Pecan pie, yech.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (v6JzV)

296 Enough leaf collecting for today, at least see the end of it though all are not down yet

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (fwDg9)

297 well, it would be better if you allowed for $60 each
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (D7oie)
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At 60 *each,* part of the meal better me made out of silver.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (HnUIn)

298
285 My wife likes pumpkin pie. I don't. So I get a PECAN PIE.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (jFCkp)

I like both of those, it's not Thanksgiving without pie, pumpkin or pecan, preferably both.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (1szDw)

299 Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. I pay for Thanksgiving dinner and its way way way way more expensive than that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (iFTx/)
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Yup. It's not cheaper than last year. And you probably *could* do it for $60ish, but not generously or well.

A turkey. A package of stuffing. Some potatoes and salad. Canned cranberries. No second helpings. You *might* be able to sneak it in under the wire.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:07 PM (HnUIn)
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What to drink tho? Tap water? Maybe you could do it for $60 if you tried really hard with such a bare, cheapo dinner that it pissed off everyone and they threw you out into the cold. But I'll bet any amount of money that the average cost for a 10-person T-day dinner in even the poorest households is more than $60.

What is the point of reporting on the cost of something, if the cost is totally unrealistic and clearly not reflective of what people are actually paying.

It's like reporting on the average cost of cars, based just on the base price -- without adding any options, when everyone knows options today are 20% or more of the cost of a car.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

300 Newsom is about as popular as Kalamama in CA now.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

301 A woman who doesn't want to talk about her age? That isn't worth paying attention too.

On the other hand a narcissistic psycho totalitarian demanding that everyone lick her boots isn't anything new either but because TL is such a narcissistic psycho totalitarian she makes it damn near impossible not to make fun of her.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (vO42M)

302 Don't discipline the little darlings and that's what you get.
Period. Like animals, routine socialization and reasonable discipline of the young is important.

Now after decades of life dramas, they're unable to calm themselves & think concretely & act rationally but its ok there's lots of calming meds available through Obamacare - for both them & their families.

Waste, fraud, abuse of federal funds.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (NFX2v)

303 CA will subsidize the purchase of an EV and hit EV owners with a mileage tax because EV owners don't buy gasoline.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (tT6L1)

To pay for road repairs that don't happen.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (n7h9X)

304 I guess one could do thanksgiving for ten for under 60 bucks, if you gave everyone a glass of water, a piece of jerky, and half of a Butterfinger each.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:09 PM (lTGtQ)

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I just got a great idea for a new candy bar and marketing idea: "Hey, you got your jerky in my Butterfinger!"

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (/+Izy)

305 297 well, it would be better if you allowed for $60 each
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM (D7oie)
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At 60 *each,* part of the meal better me made out of silver.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (HnUIn)

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*shrugs innocently*
-eBay prices of a Smithfield country ham

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

306 That brat in the video

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (gDlxJ)

307 102 Mom had to do that with me a few times in my youth and you know what? When the center of your world's stability and wisdom says something like that, it really calls you up short. I would stop and reconsider. Maybe I am being a spaz. Maybe I should take this in stride.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:44 PM (RsS92)

"I'll stop hitting you when you stop crying".

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (UnA8+)

308 No insurance chick was funny.

Guess she'll have to pay with nature's credit card......

Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 04:14 PM (jvJvP)

309 Thankfully, I am *not* responsible for desserts. I have an aunt who does pie and does it well and does it willingly.

One of many things for which I am thankful!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:14 PM (HnUIn)

310 306 That brat in the video
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (gDlxJ)

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She so brat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

311 My wife likes pumpkin pie. I don't. So I get a PECAN PIE.

Posted by: Pudinhead

There is no substitute for mincemeat pie.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:14 PM (lTGtQ)

312 Newsom is about as popular as Kalamama in CA now.
Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

Don't think Harris had a state recall election.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:14 PM (n7h9X)

313 Two boxes of C rations left. You get yours and it's turkey loaf, a can of peaches and pound cake. You are thankful because the poor bastard behind you got the ham and limas.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (gm9Sb)

314 She so brat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)
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Slay!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (HnUIn)

315 At 60 *each,* part of the meal better me made out of silver.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (HnUIn)

That's just two ounces, man. Pretty niggardly if you ask me.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (D7oie)

316 A little choppy. I like that.

Posted by: look whats not at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (nakGR)

317 All those North Korean troops that got sent to fight the war against Ukraine. Apparently they're defecting to Ukraine without firing a shot.

I'm surprised it took this long for that to happen. This is most amusing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (vO42M)

318
At the first Thanksgiving, the Indians brought the beer.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (+oR7L)

319 There probably were more limited numbers of kid actors that could be trusted to keep up with shooting so they reused them...or used some executives snotty kid.

Now a film takes 10 years to make so there are no second roles.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024

***
You saw Kim and blonde Laurie Prange in all sorts of dramatic roles on TV for a while in the '60s. They and (slightly older) Carol Lynley, who while pretty and all never really rang my bell. But they must have been reliable as well as having talent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (J2vNu)

320 I think this is the one:
https://youtu.be/YersIyzsOpc
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (Odg76)

That’s it! Everything about that video cracks me up, especially the way it ends when some adult finally yells “SHUT UP!!!” At him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (Ereai)

321 311 There is no substitute for mincemeat pie.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:14 PM (lTGtQ)

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It's priest, have a little priest (is it really good?)
Sir, it's too good, at least
Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh
So it's pretty fresh
Awful lot of fat (only where it sat)
Haven't you got poet, or something like that?
No, you see, the trouble with poet is how do you know it's deceased?
Try the priest

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

322 I think I'm on to Luntz and his clever plan: He'll shell out $60 for a turkey and assign guests to bring side dishes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (tT6L1)

323 Banana cream pie FTW

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (/7KEl)

324 She's so brat.

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Can you believe they were trying to make that a think with Kamala? Holy shit, perfect campaign indeed.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (jyAD3)

325 Can you imagine a Thanksgiving dinner in Luntz' fake West Wing, with his replica of Monica's jizz soaked dress on the wall? Horror show. Nobody attends that (except the hungry catamites).

Other Luntz-related news: I saw him - in all seriousness - blame his recent stroke on Trump. Not his obviously bad diet, or his chain-smoking, or ignorance of which controlled substances are contraindicated for monkeypox salve.

It was Trump that did him in.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (7oYYI)

326 There is no substitute for mincemeat pie.
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Never had it. It looks like fruit cake in a jar. I can't stand fruit cake.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (jFCkp)

327 CA will subsidize the purchase of an EV and hit EV owners with a mileage tax because EV owners don't buy gasoline.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:12 PM
****
Fast Track
Pay more automatic license plate readers so your car can move rather than accordion in endless freeway traffic. Not cheap.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (CpPSJ)

328 235 I don't know who this person is
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (/7KEl)
Me neither, and I don’t care about this person.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (LHPAg)

329 At the first Thanksgiving, the Indians brought the beer.

Posted by: Frank Barone

Singing, "From the land of sky blue waters...."

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (lTGtQ)

330 Taylor Lorentz, or Lorenz, whatever, who cares. Self aggrandizing entity who desperately craves something that nobody else can figure out.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (PCK5/)

331 317 All those North Korean troops that got sent to fight the war against Ukraine. Apparently they're defecting to Ukraine without firing a shot.”

There were a couple videos posted of the Norks discovering the joys of internet porn for the first time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (Ereai)

332 324 She's so brat.

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Can you believe they were trying to make that a think with Kamala? Holy shit, perfect campaign indeed.
Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (jyAD3)

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I don't measure the extent of cultural reach based on whether it reaches me or not because I'm very consciously in a bubble of my own making.

That being said, it was an extension of a popular song from early summer by Charlie xcx (I think, not looking it up). It was an effort (with the singer's permission) to manufacture popularity by piggybacking on something already (supposedly) popular.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

333 Other Luntz-related news: I saw him - in all seriousness - blame his recent stroke on Trump. Not his obviously bad diet, or his chain-smoking, or ignorance of which controlled substances are contraindicated for monkeypox salve.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (7oYYI)
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Gotta be careful with that one. Tricky.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (HnUIn)

334 Layer ground beef and cheese, perhaps add some chopped veggies for more taste. If you want "noodles" use zucchini, sliced.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (NFX2v)

335 Singing, "From the land of sky blue waters...."

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM

I thought I heard the tom toms.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (+oR7L)

336 Funny how people here are quick to say that folks are mentally ill and then say that they react like normies to punishment and reward.

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (QB+5g)

337 Taylor Lorenz lists Pangaea as her place of birth.

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (G6LTi)

338 ... Maybe this will teach him to stop rear-ending other drivers...
Posted by: FeatherBlade

The other incidents were not his fault he said. The guy had three gold teeth and sunglasses covered with rhinestones and purple lenses. Nice guy though. We are dealing with his insurance company now.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (4XwPj)

339 Newsom is about as popular as Kalamama in CA now.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

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He's extremely popular where it really counts -- in Beijing -- and especially when he and Queen LeBron are taking turns taking it from behind from Xi.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (/+Izy)

340 Singing, "From the land of sky blue waters...."
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (lTGtQ)
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And that, gentlemen, is when the war started......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (tT6L1)

341 I kinda like mincemeat, but it’s an odd flavor. And has nothing to do with meat.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (Ereai)

342 334 Layer ground beef and cheese, perhaps add some chopped veggies for more taste. If you want "noodles" use zucchini, sliced.
Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (NFX2v)

Or- Tater Stelter,breakfast.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (PCK5/)

343 Thankfully Lorenz isn’t a school teacher. You know she would be raping her students and hosting drunken student orgies at her house.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (mdi0h)

344 She so brat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)
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Slay!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (HnUIn)
____

On a related note, that Charlie XCX slut or whoever that worthless THOT is, has been posting to social media claiming other people or things are "brat." It just so happens her new album is called ... wait for it ... "Brat." This pimping whore has just been promoting herself this whole time. Just a cheap PR trick. I suspected as much from the jump. Now it's obvious. Suck my balls, bitch.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

345 That’s it! Everything about that video cracks me up, especially the way it ends when some adult finally yells “SHUT UP!!!” At him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (Ereai)
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111,000,000 views.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (82lKT)

346 There was a WWII vet on the cruise.

He had been on PT-302.
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He was only 193 PTs away from being President of the United States.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (z0QHk)

347 That’s it! Everything about that video cracks me up, especially the way it ends when some adult finally yells “SHUT UP!!!” At him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (Ereai)

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Why did he try to shove the remote up his ass? Is that a default for people or what?

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (jyAD3)

348 Singing, "From the land of sky blue waters...."
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Hamms is good cheap beer.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (jFCkp)

349 336 Funny how people here are quick to say that folks are mentally ill and then say that they react like normies to punishment and reward.
Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (QB+5g)

I mean, most of us were raised in a time where fathers could still beat their kids.

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (UnA8+)

350 344 On a related note, that Charlie XCX slut or whoever that worthless THOT is, has been posting to social media claiming other people or things are "brat." It just so happens her new album is called ... wait for it ... "Brat." This pimping whore has just been promoting herself this whole time. Just a cheap PR trick. I suspected as much from the jump. Now it's obvious. Suck my balls, bitch.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

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I'm at least 90% certain that the album came first and Kamala adopted after.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (GBKbO)

351 Pecan pie, yech.
Posted by: Bulg
.....

I'm so full by then I just eat the Cool Whip off it.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (v0R5T)

352 They started making them again. Where else can you get a clove flavored candy? I have always liked them - my grandmother used to give them to me.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (lTGtQ)

They still make BlackJack gum, I see it in the stores. Not the candies though, I would suggest looking on Amazon or a home-made recipe

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 04:08 PM (D7oie)

its on amazon if you want 40 dollars worth.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (n7h9X)

353 On a related note, that Charlie XCX slut or whoever that worthless THOT is, has been posting to social media claiming other people or things are "brat." It just so happens her new album is called ... wait for it ... "Brat." This pimping whore has just been promoting herself this whole time. Just a cheap PR trick. I suspected as much from the jump. Now it's obvious. Suck my balls, bitch.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (iFTx/)
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Of course.

But the cheap PR stunt was Kamala's, not hers. She's just a pop tart trying to make fetch happen (with at least a modicum of success, however superficial or fleeting it may turn out to be). Kamala wanted to borrow that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (HnUIn)

354 There is no substitute for mincemeat pie.
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Never had it. It looks like fruit cake in a jar. I can't stand fruit cake.

Posted by: Pudinhead

It is delicious: raisins, currants, apples and suet.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (lTGtQ)

355 Hamms is good cheap beer.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (jFCkp)
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Cheap, sure. Good? No...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (tT6L1)

356 I think this is the one:
https://youtu.be/YersIyzsOpc
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (Odg76)

That’s it! Everything about that video cracks me up, especially the way it ends when some adult finally yells “SHUT UP!!!” At him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 04:15 PM (Ereai)

What ... what was he trying to do with the remote?

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (OguvZ)

357 I have been pointing and laughing at Charli XCX for many years now. She is a moderately functioning retarded woman.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (7oYYI)

358
My nephews and bro-in-laws used to take $60 out of the liquor cabinet on Thanksgiving before the Lions were down 7-0.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (j4U/Z)

359 I did find the meatza recipe I mentioned earlier. It used bread crumbs to help turn the ground beef into more of a meatloaf-type crust. If you're avoiding grains, it probably isn't a good solution.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (VNX3d)

360 Pecan pie is disturbingly sweet.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (PCK5/)

361 Hamms is good cheap beer.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Do they still make it?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (v6JzV)

362 353 Of course.

But the cheap PR stunt was Kamala's, not hers. She's just a pop tart trying to make fetch happen (with at least a modicum of success, however superficial or fleeting it may turn out to be). Kamala wanted to borrow that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (HnUIn)

========

Kamala chased a trend to make herself cool.

She's the embodiment of corporate mentality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

363 At Frank Luntz's Thanksgiving you get turkey and a roll of Neco Wafers. They're awful, but you get a lot of 'em.

Posted by: washrivergal at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (mzoqX)

364 It was Trump that did him in.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (7oYYI)

Wow! One more thing we have to thank Trump for!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 04:21 PM (Ereai)

365 Funny how people here are quick to say that folks are mentally ill and then say that they react like normies to punishment and reward.

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 04:17 PM (QB+5g)

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Fair. But is it the coddling infantalization that is primarily responsible for much of the mental illness?

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 04:21 PM (/+Izy)

366 I agree with the folks that say this started with Obama.

He gave them the license to be as nasty and mean as they wanted.
After all, they are on "the right side of history."
And everyone who opposes them is a subhuman racist not worthy of any respect, deference or engagement.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 04:21 PM (8Kx9y)

367 Sucrets>>Neccos Wafers

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 04:21 PM (PCK5/)

368 I have been pointing and laughing at Charli XCX for many years now. She is a moderately functioning retarded woman.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (7oYYI)
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She was one of that first set of pop princesses to misunderstand how transportation works.

She "crashed her car into the bridge" the same year that other broad was "in the fast lane, from LA to Tokyo."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:21 PM (HnUIn)

369 366 I agree with the folks that say this started with Obama.

He gave them the license to be as nasty and mean as they wanted.
After all, they are on "the right side of history."
And everyone who opposes them is a subhuman racist not worthy of any respect, deference or engagement.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 04:21 PM (8Kx9y)

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Eh. W stole 2000 and was Chimphitler.

It feels like a building thing over the decades. It seemed to accelerate under Obama, but it didn't start there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

370 Sucrets>>Neccos Wafers
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 04:21 PM (PCK5/)
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But Sucrets aren't candy...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (HnUIn)

371 $60 tday meal. Get the turkey with the digital coupon special. (I don't use em but probably .49/lb). Use 2 different grocery chains if you need 2 turkeys.
Buy a big bag of plain jane taters to mash yourself. sweet taters are usually on sale this time of year. Make the pies from scratch. (given cost of pie filling and canned pumpkin this still might be iffy). Make the stuffing with that old bread you save for homemade panko.

Still with the cost of butter, cream, eggs, etc getting a meal for 10 done for $60 seems like a squeeze.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (UKUm3)

372 At well child visits for toddlers I always emphasized to parents "Never, Never give in to a tantrum or the tantrums never stop. Tantrums are ugly in your child now, but even worse when an adult".
Many of the "liberal" types would instead try to reason with their 2 year old. Some of those kids are near 50 now.

Posted by: Hal Dall at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (KrKxR)

373 I can't stand fruit cake.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (jFCkp)

Pixie to the white courtesy phone please.

Posted by: look whats not at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (nakGR)

374 What came first? Box wine or the Taylor L. personality type?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (vO42M)

375 370 Sucrets>>Neccos Wafers
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 04:21 PM (PCK5/)
++++
But Sucrets aren't candy...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (HnUIn)

Neithr are Neccos… just poseurs..

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 04:23 PM (PCK5/)

376 355 Hamms is good cheap beer.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (jFCkp)
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Cheap, sure. Good? No...
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The secret to drinking cheap beer is temperature. If a cheap beer is literally Ice Cold it drinks well. You might want to add a shot of something else and chase it with cheap beer.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:23 PM (jFCkp)

377 I have an aunt who does pie and does it well and does it willingly.
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Are we still doing phrasing

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 04:23 PM (12v8J)

378 374 What came first? Box wine or the Taylor L. personality type?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (vO42M)

She's so old she orders Chablis.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (1szDw)

379 On a related note, that Charlie XCX slut or whoever that worthless THOT is, has been posting to social media claiming other people or things are "brat." It just so happens her new album is called ... wait for it ... "Brat." This pimping whore has just been promoting herself this whole time. Just a cheap PR trick. I suspected as much from the jump. Now it's obvious. Suck my balls, bitch.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

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I'm at least 90% certain that the album came first and Kamala adopted after.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (GBKbO)
_______

The annoying term "brat" for a girl with spunk or stronk has been around for a long time. There was a line of dolls about it, years ago. The album didn't invent it. The reason the album is called "brat" is to capitalize on this. I don't know where the "Kamala as Brat" came from. I thought it was XCX trying to leverage a preexisting "Kamala as Brat" meme to promote herself. I don't think it was the other way around.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

380 What ... what was he trying to do with the remote?
Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (OguvZ)

LOL that’s what makes it so great! Of course there’s the insane ranting and raving, but then comes this WTF???? moment right in the middle of it!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (Ereai)

381
In some cultures, people revere the Ancient Ones because of the wisdom they've accumulated over the centuries.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 03:43 PM (BpYfr)

Faced with a choice between Donk commie cocksuckers and the Great Old Ones, I'm going with the lesser evil.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (y9nCu)

382 Cheap beer…. Schaeffer’s Grain Belt

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (PCK5/)

383 354 My Dad, the baker, made a really good mince meat pie. Secret is heavy on the raisins, let them soak awhile in a booze mix, and go nuts with the spices. Some of the Old Man's finest came out in his drinking days when he and his two man crew were also taking a booze soak.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (gm9Sb)

384 Lucky if you can feed 4 for 58

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (12v8J)

385 What came first? Box wine or the Taylor L. personality type?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (vO42M)

She's so old she orders Chablis.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (1szDw)
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Italian Swiss Colony.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (z0QHk)

386
The annoying term "brat" for a girl with spunk or stronk has been around for a long time. There was a line of dolls about it, years ago. The album didn't invent it. The reason the album is called "brat" is to capitalize on this. I don't know where the "Kamala as Brat" came from. I thought it was XCX trying to leverage a preexisting "Kamala as Brat" meme to promote herself. I don't think it was the other way around.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

Bratz dolls were the skanks of the doll world.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 04:25 PM (1szDw)

387 Lucky if you can feed 4 for 58
Posted by: ...
......

Happy Thanksgiving kids! Enjoy your Spam.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

388 Bratz Dolls. They were awful.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 04:26 PM (Ereai)

389 If you're invited to Thanksgiving, bring the best. Night Train.

Or Thunderbird

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 04:26 PM (+oR7L)

390 361 Hamms is good cheap beer.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Do they still make it?
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Yeah, in MN. You used to find nationwide but that was long ago and far away times. Hamms and Oly were two cheap bears that tasted good Ice Cold. I used to buy Hamms at the Liquor Locker in HI. It was cheap.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:26 PM (jFCkp)

391 8 hours a day on the business end of a shovel at the Dignity Canal Project will cure a lot of these mental health cases.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 04:27 PM (8Kx9y)

392 I have been pointing and laughing at Charli XCX for many years now. She is a moderately functioning retarded woman.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (7oYYI)
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She was one of that first set of pop princesses to misunderstand how transportation works.

She "crashed her car into the bridge" the same year that other broad was "in the fast lane, from LA to Tokyo."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:21 PM (HnUIn)
______

Did she even sing those lyrics. I think she only sung the "I don't care" chorus. She somehow got famous singing just a few words in some other girl's song. I think a lot of dick was sucked.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 04:27 PM (iFTx/)

393 "She hides her age because she wheedles her way in to "interviews" with teenagers and wants to pretend she's a generation younger than she really is. Apparently her family owns important internet archives and all biographical information about her has been scrubbed. You know, like she's some kind of super-spy."

So she's an IRL manifestation of the "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme? Pathetic.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 25, 2024 04:27 PM (uGhsv)

394 357 I have been pointing and laughing at Charli XCX for many years now. She is a moderately functioning retarded woman.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (7oYYI)

She looks like a young Gene Simmons in drag.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 04:27 PM (5GshG)

395 I saw the Monkeypox Salve Contraindications open for Satyricon and The Electric Hell Fire Club at the Barrowland Ballroom in 2000.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 04:27 PM (/+Izy)

396 In a DC court, Donald Trump could be convicted of mass genocide of the planet Alderaan on a Wednesday

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 04:27 PM (RHGPo)

397 Hamms and Oly

Schlitz has entered the chat

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 04:28 PM (dOjkx)

398 382 Cheapest beer ever was Ballantine's as served for ten cents a can at Marine Corps Slop Chutes (affectionate name for the enlisted club). If you had a buck left day before payday you could enjoy a six pack, a couple slim Jim's, and a bag of chips.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:28 PM (gm9Sb)

399 Yeah, in MN. You used to find nationwide but that was long ago and far away times. Hamms and Oly were two cheap bears that tasted good Ice Cold. I used to buy Hamms at the Liquor Locker in HI. It was cheap.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:26 PM (jFCkp)
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Are you old enough to remember the Hamms Beer missing bear radio commercials? They were a hoot.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:29 PM (tT6L1)

400 She's 50? Old enough to know better.

Posted by: El Mariachi at November 25, 2024 04:29 PM (mvURQ)

401 351 Pecan pie, yech.
Posted by: Bulg
.....

I'm so full by then I just eat the Cool Whip off it.
Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (v0R5T)
Coolwhip. There’s your problem. I prescribe coffee with Kailua.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 04:29 PM (LHPAg)

402 bring the best. Night Train.

Pagan Pink.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 04:29 PM (dOjkx)

403
I remember Great grandpa always had Lowenbrau beer

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 04:29 PM (+oR7L)

404 397 Hamms and Oly

Schlitz has entered the chat
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That was my High School beer. Never liked Bud so Schlitz was the other beer.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:29 PM (jFCkp)

405 Was Hamm's or Oly love by the lake? (Fuckin' near water).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:30 PM (gm9Sb)

406 I think a lot of it comes from the media.

People watch a lot of entertainment and think it’s normal to freak out in a melodramatic way to get attention or what you want,

They do the Drama Queen/King thing because it works in TV and TikTok.

The bad parenting and psych issues intensify it,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 04:31 PM (6ydKt)

407 "But is it the coddling infantalization that is primarily responsible for much of the mental illness?"

Who would be responsible for that? The parents of course.

There are a lot of parents out there that lost control of their kids. Divorce, absent fathers, exposure to media.

I have no answers other than blaming the parents shows a lack of experience.

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 04:31 PM (QB+5g)

408 Are you old enough to remember the Hamms Beer missing bear radio commercials? They were a hoot.
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Only knew their national TV adds as a kid. Best use of cartoon critters evah! As a kid I got the first pull off my dad's beer if I brought him one. Good Times.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:31 PM (jFCkp)

409 No love for Old Milwaukee beer? *sad*.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 25, 2024 04:32 PM (uGhsv)

410 Are you old enough to remember the Hamms Beer missing bear radio commercials? They were a hoot.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024

***
I remember some TV spots that used the melody of a song from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying w/ Robert Morse. The chorus was something about "the big beer-drinking brotherhood of Hamm's!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:32 PM (J2vNu)

411 As a wee lad I would hear "from the land of sky blue waters" and crawl to the TV.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 04:32 PM (dOjkx)

412 At Taylor Lorenz's high school, she was a member of the class of 92. 3092 B.C., that is. When she applied for her first job, she included letters of recommendation from Gilgamesh, Nebuchadnezzar, and Tilgath Pilzer. She majored in Cuneiform, with a minor in Cave Paintings. As a side hustle, she served as a model for the Sphinx. Her astrological sign is listed as too effin' far back to determine. She's still bitter about Pazuzu not asking her to the prom. Her birth was so far in the past that if you mention her name to God, He has to say, "Wait, who are we talking about here?"

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 25, 2024 04:32 PM (G6LTi)

413 Eh. W stole 2000 and was Chimphitler.

It feels like a building thing over the decades. It seemed to accelerate under Obama, but it didn't start there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

Reagan was the devil and would blow up the world

Nixon was the uber devil.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:33 PM (n7h9X)

414 Not sure that fleeing the scene of an accident, after being FILMED, serves much purpose.

Thinking things through is not her long suit, but it's consistent with also being an uninsured motorist.

Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at November 25, 2024 04:33 PM (NLIak)

415 Whinging bitch needs a punch in the face.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 04:33 PM (ufFY8)

416 383 354 My Dad, the baker, made a really good mince meat pie. Secret is heavy on the raisins, let them soak awhile in a booze mix, and go nuts with the spices. Some of the Old Man's finest came out in his drinking days when he and his two man crew were also taking a booze soak.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:24 PM (gm9Sb)

If you can find a recipe, would you mind posting it on the food thread this Sunday? Mince pie is my favorite holiday pie, and I really want to make one this Christmas . Your dad's version sounds amazing!!

Posted by: Moki at November 25, 2024 04:33 PM (wLjpr)

417 got the first pull off my dad's beer

Great uncle.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 04:33 PM (dOjkx)

418 As a wee lad I would hear "from the land of sky blue waters" and crawl to the TV.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism

Yeah, I loved that jingle.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 04:33 PM (v6JzV)

419 413 Reagan was the devil and would blow up the world

Nixon was the uber devil.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:33 PM (n7h9X)

=======

Dewey was Hitler before it was cool.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

420 My parents drank Falstaff beer, and it was still around when I got to be old enough to buy it myself. In 1972 you could buy a six-pack of Old Milwaukee or a similar cheap brew and a bag of Doritos for about $2.50.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:34 PM (J2vNu)

421 I love how quickly BlueSky's reputation has become, "pedophiles and porn."

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:34 PM (jyAD3)

422 There you go, Ace

Taylor Lorenz on twitter
Oct 01, 2024

~personal news~ I'm going independent and launching my own media outlet on Substack called User Mag.

Please consider buying a yearly subscription to help me continue my work
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At least Elon is keeping an eye on her.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 04:34 PM (NFX2v)

423 The beer refreshing. I remember those commercials. Loved them as a kid. Never actually drank a Hamm's.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 04:34 PM (5GshG)

424 At the Lunz Thanksgiving, hot beef injections are free.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 04:34 PM (8Kx9y)

425 Thanksgiving for 10 for $58...hah!

But that's why a lot of folks can't cook - to do that, it's probably just open cans and make boxes.

Boxed mashed potatoes, canned cranberry sauce, boxed stuffing, jarred gravy, and canned green beans. The turkey may or may not also come out of a box or can. Then, you have pie filling poured into a graham crust. And everyone drinks tap water and we ignore the cost of serving and cleaning.

I'm thinking of the bags we give for the poor at Church for Thanksgiving...that's probably about that amount of money...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 04:35 PM (exHjb)

426 420 My parents drank Falstaff beer, and it was still around when I got to be old enough to buy it myself. In 1972 you could buy a six-pack of Old Milwaukee or a similar cheap brew and a bag of Doritos for about $2.50.
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Remember when Stroh's was offered nationwide? That was pretty good beer.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:35 PM (jFCkp)

427 I just got the Harry and David catalog. Thanksgiving feast with 18 lb turkey, green beans, sweet potato, and dessert.

$269.99

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:36 PM (lTGtQ)

428 If Tay the Lesser is actually 50, she looks pretty good for 50. Too bad about the deluxe cray-cray.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 04:36 PM (5GshG)

429 Rainer Beer
https://youtu.be/f0Dse53ChTM

I was in this commercial
https://youtu.be/daZdK1fRZYk

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:36 PM (vO42M)

430 426 Remember when Stroh's was offered nationwide? That was pretty good beer.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:35 PM (jFCkp)

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Remember when you had to hire a guy to barrel across the nation in a semi, led by a Trans Am, just to get a Coors?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

431
Who would be responsible for that? The parents of course.

There are a lot of parents out there that lost control of their kids. Divorce, absent fathers, exposure to media.

I have no answers other than blaming the parents shows a lack of experience.
Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 04:31 PM (QB+5g)

Back in the 90's, there was a push for non-corporal discipline, to the extent that some communities reported parents who spanked their kids to CPS, and hilarity ensued. (Fun fact, it did not ensue. It was a freaking nightmare.) If it was a long con to ensure that young people today are completely incapable of functioning in society, it worked like a charm.

Posted by: Moki at November 25, 2024 04:36 PM (wLjpr)

432 Remember when you had to hire a guy to barrel across the nation in a semi, led by a Trans Am, just to get a Coors?
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Yep. Finished college and managed a fishing lodge in Colorado and was very excited about Coors. Coors was good but I ended up liking Oly better.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:38 PM (jFCkp)

433 Back in the 90's, there was a push for non-corporal discipline, to the extent that some communities reported parents who spanked their kids to CPS, and hilarity ensued. (Fun fact, it did not ensue. It was a freaking nightmare.) If it was a long con to ensure that young people today are completely incapable of functioning in society, it worked like a charm.
Posted by: Moki at November 25, 2024 04:36 PM (wLjpr)

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Yes.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 04:38 PM (jyAD3)

434 You have to call out your kids for being drama kings/queens (b/c boys and girls both do it) and not stand for it. They try it a few times, and then slowly stop as they realize it gets them less than nowhere compared to the non-drama siblings...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 04:39 PM (exHjb)

435 My parents drank Falstaff beer, and it was still around when I got to be old enough to buy it myself. In 1972 you could buy a six-pack of Old Milwaukee or a similar cheap brew and a bag of Doritos for about $2.50.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:34 PM (J2vNu)

In College we drank a beer that was a white can with BEER on the side (or LIGHT BEER). It was pretty good, the theory was since this was St Louis it was surplus or slightly below qualifying Busch beer.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:39 PM (n7h9X)

436 No MD 2020 ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2024 04:39 PM (NtVYv)

437 Yeah, in MN. You used to find nationwide but that was long ago and far away times. Hamms and Oly were two cheap bears that tasted good Ice Cold. I used to buy Hamms at the Liquor Locker in HI. It was cheap.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:26 PM (jFCkp)

***

You forgot Schmidt and to a lesser extent Special Export. Schmidt tasted awful but it was cheap and got a kid drunk. Buckhorn is the ultimate cheap swill... buy a case and get more back for the empties than the beer cost in the first place.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 25, 2024 04:40 PM (1FWWQ)

438 You have to call out your kids for being drama kings/queens (b/c boys and girls both do it) and not stand for it. They try it a few times, and then slowly stop as they realize it gets them less than nowhere compared to the non-drama siblings...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 04:39 PM (exHjb)

Think my mom had a hand signal for all the other kids to taught / rough up the offender.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:41 PM (n7h9X)

439 I also received a Land's End catalog. Apparently, Land's End is where china meets Bohai Bay.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 04:41 PM (lTGtQ)

440 Does anyone remember Dixie Beer?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:41 PM (jFCkp)

441 It feels like a building thing over the decades. It seemed to accelerate under Obama, but it didn't start there.

Retribution in the form of property damage and physical violence started with the obama campaign though. As well as family and friends being cut off for political wrongthink.
People weren’t getting their cars smashed because they wouldn’t commit to any other demorat candidate, not even Bill Clinton

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 04:41 PM (g4zkO)

442 "Fun fact, it did not ensue. It was a freaking nightmare)"

Oh yes, and the kids picked up on it and shared. Nothing like a couple of CPS bitches with clipboards standing on your porch asking to come in. You lose control at that point.

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 04:42 PM (QB+5g)

443 When Trump has a spot of time, I hope he'll push to change the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to allow elected officials and Cabinet officers one change of venue as a matter of right.

But instead of allowing a judge to decide where to move the trial, do it by lottery.

This is wishcasting, but it would solve the D.C. jury farce.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't rein in Bragg or Leticia James or Fani Willis.

Posted by: mnw at November 25, 2024 04:42 PM (NLIak)

444 Omg.

Ok I guess I'm old.
But if people don't stfu and leave me alone so I can think and get my work done, I'm going to lose my shit.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 04:42 PM (ti1MH)

445 Managed to get 3 tours of Olympia brewery (and many samples) before being recognized and politely asked to be gone. You been here four hours!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 04:42 PM (dOjkx)

446 A prominent Staten Island pediatrician accused of mowing down a dad and his 6-year-old daughter before leaving the scene of a January crash paid a $300 fine to make it all go away. Dr. Sam Leuzzi, 66, of Middletown, N.J., cut a plea deal with the Staten Island District Attorney’s office this month where he receives no prison time — just a fine and community service, court records show.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 04:42 PM (RHGPo)

447 Remember when you had to hire a guy to barrel across the nation in a semi, led by a Trans Am, just to get a Coors?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Glad to see you're back! How'd the community service go?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:42 PM (vO42M)

448 Remember when you had to hire a guy to barrel across the nation in a semi, led by a Trans Am, just to get a Coors?
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Yep. Finished college and managed a fishing lodge in Colorado and was very excited about Coors. Coors was good but I ended up liking Oly beetter.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:38 PM (jFCkp)

I remember in Ohio the mythical status of Coors. Once I went to St Louis and could get some, it was pretty meh. Little Kings was way better and the little bottles were cool.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:43 PM (n7h9X)

449 How about Mister Beer? My go-to in college.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 25, 2024 04:43 PM (LxER7)

450 Ok I guess I'm old.
But if people don't stfu and leave me alone so I can think and get my work done, I'm going to lose my shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 04:42 PM (ti1MH)
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Whatever, nurse. Get off my lawn.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:43 PM (tT6L1)

451 447 Glad to see you're back! How'd the community service go?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:42 PM (vO42M)

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Trawled the seas for a week looking for shipwrecks to clean up. Didn't find a one, so I drank and ate instead.

I've had worse community service assignments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

452 445 Managed to get 3 tours of Olympia brewery (and many samples) before being recognized and politely asked to be gone. You been here four hours!!
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That was true of the Bud Brewery next to Willam & Mary in VA. At first you drink all you wanted and the students did. Then is was merely sampled.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:44 PM (jFCkp)

453 cheap

People's beer!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 04:44 PM (dOjkx)

454
Hamms is hate.

Proper fare is:

Two Hearted
Red's Rye
Miller Lite
Appleton's Spiced Rum
Buffalo Trace
Maguala del hay messcal
Kaluha for the ladies

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 04:44 PM (j4U/Z)

455 Heh. If you're not kidding, I'm afraid I can't do. Dad's been gone since 75. Now, we found what he called his "formula book". Dad's handwriting resembled something between Grieg shorthand and that stuff they find in caves. Top it off, what we could make out was in Finnish (Dad was born there, didn't speak English much until about age 8-9). Like I said, what I can remember from hanging around the shop, soak the fruit fillings like raisins and whatever in a booze soak (rum, maybe port wine is what Dad used for fruitcake). I remember he added fine crushed walnuts. Also, while baking, get tuned up like Dad and the crew.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:44 PM (gm9Sb)

456 Olympia: It's Water!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 04:44 PM (HnUIn)

457 Remember when you had to hire a guy to barrel across the nation in a semi, led by a Trans Am, just to get a Coors?

And Sally Field's ass?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 25, 2024 04:45 PM (ufFY8)

458 Does Costco have a premade Thanksgiving dinner?
The prep was easy, and every dish tasted homemade. We let Costco handle Thanksgiving dinner by ordering a premade meal from the warehouse chain's site. The $180 meal for eight included a turkey breast, rolls, six sides, and two pies.

Cheaper than some markets.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 04:45 PM (NFX2v)

459 Remember when you had to hire a guy to barrel across the nation in a semi, led by a Trans Am, just to get a Coors?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Give me a Diablo Sandwich and a Dr Pepper, and make it fast cause I'm in a godamm hurry

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2024 04:45 PM (NtVYv)

460 Little Kings was way better and the little bottles were cool.
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Was that some sort of Cream Ale?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:45 PM (jFCkp)

461 Billy Beer.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 04:45 PM (+oR7L)

462 455 is for 416 Moki

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:45 PM (gm9Sb)

463 My Dad was a Bud man . We rarely had any beer in the house though. What I remember about beer back then is they came in steel cans and cars would flatten them in the Bowling alley parking lot and they made fine Ninja throwing stars. I have the scars to prove it.

Posted by: Hunter at November 25, 2024 04:45 PM (D6PGr)

464 458 Does Costco have a premade Thanksgiving dinner?
The prep was easy, and every dish tasted homemade. We let Costco handle Thanksgiving dinner by ordering a premade meal from the warehouse chain's site. The $180 meal for eight included a turkey breast, rolls, six sides, and two pies.
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That's called a Swanson Frozen Turkey Dinner.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 04:46 PM (jFCkp)

465 Little Kings

Uggh.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 04:46 PM (dOjkx)

466 In MN it was almost a given beer season hadn't really started until Leinie's Bock hit the liquor store shelves.

Funny thing about living in MN: Liquor stores were closed on Sunday but, one could get hammered at the bar and drive home.

Never made much sense.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

467 Ima ready to skim the comments, but that tantrum used to be an Oscar winning performance, but it probably meets the bullet point outline of psychosis. Just sayin'

Posted by: 80's music fan at November 25, 2024 04:47 PM (r0dOk)

468 The beer refreshing. I remember those commercials. Loved them as a kid. Never actually drank a Hamm's.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 04:34 PM (5GshG)

As I recall it wasn't bad, a garden variety Bud beer.

Olympia was better. We would get a whole line of roomies walking to the store carrying cases of what was cheapest.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:47 PM (n7h9X)

469 Bear Wizz Beer

It's in the water.

Posted by: Firesign Theater at November 25, 2024 04:48 PM (QB+5g)

470 Noodus DIE training

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:48 PM (J2vNu)

471 464. That's called a Swanson Frozen Turkey Dinner.
Posted by: Pudinhead

👍😊

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 04:48 PM (NFX2v)

472 Off now forgotten sock

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 04:48 PM (D6PGr)

473 455 Heh. If you're not kidding, I'm afraid I can't do. Dad's been gone since 75. Now, we found what he called his "formula book". Dad's handwriting resembled something between Grieg shorthand and that stuff they find in caves. Top it off, what we could make out was in Finnish (Dad was born there, didn't speak English much until about age 8-9). Like I said, what I can remember from hanging around the shop, soak the fruit fillings like raisins and whatever in a booze soak (rum, maybe port wine is what Dad used for fruitcake). I remember he added fine crushed walnuts. Also, while baking, get tuned up like Dad and the crew.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:44 PM (gm9Sb)

Lol!! I have found a few of those - my grandparents owned a small chain of cafes (good Greek granddad) and I found their restaurant cookbooks from the 1920's - virtually indecipherable and I read Greek! But I think I can work something out from your description - thanks bill!!

Posted by: Moki at November 25, 2024 04:49 PM (wLjpr)

474 465 Little Kings. There was a bar in Cleveland dedicated to the Little Kings. Five in a small bucket for two bucks. This place was a dive bar for people kicked out of the better dive bars, and was frequented by the Cleveland cops in their drinking on duty days.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 04:49 PM (gm9Sb)

475 446

That's insane.

Sounds like Soros got around to Staten Island.

Prosecutors used to take pride on being tough with criminals, & the voters liked it, too.

Posted by: mnw at November 25, 2024 04:49 PM (NLIak)

476 >But if people don't stfu and leave me alone so I can think and get my work done, I'm going to lose my shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 04:42 PM (ti1MH)
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Whatever, nurse. Get off my lawn.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker
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PIPE DOWN
Matlock's on

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2024 04:49 PM (/7KEl)

477 nood dei

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

478 Funny thing about living in MN: Liquor stores were closed on Sunday but, one could get hammered at the bar and drive home.

Never made much sense.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

if it is like Ohio blue laws, beer and wine were not considered liquors and could be bought at groceries. Stronger stuff was only at state owned stores.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 04:49 PM (n7h9X)

479 ...Hamms is good cheap beer.
Posted by: Pudinhead

~~~

Do they still make it?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 04:20 PM (v6JzV)

I've got two six-packs of Hamm's in the fridge, even now. 16 oz. cans. TWO sixers at Krogers, for $11/both, plus tax.

DECENT cheap beer. Better, more "beer-like" than Bud.

Back in the day, Schlitz was mabye THE MOST "beer-like" flavor in any mass market brew. Then the MBAs got involved, changed the formula for "savings", and destroyed the brand.

Family of geniuses also lost the original recipe, and brewmasters who knew how to make the old beer. THAT is a brand, though still "exists", which is truly lost to the mash-bill of time.

In Texas, "Olympia" is brewed in one of the San Antonio breweries. Lone Star or Pearl, I fail to recall.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 04:50 PM (Xo+UM)

480 I also received a Land's End catalog. Apparently, Land's End is where china meets Bohai Bay. Posted by: Thomas Paine

IIRC, Land's End was Sears' aspirational line of clothing which is an oxymoron and dates to a time before Sears began exclusively hiring people as they came over the Rio Grande.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:50 PM (vO42M)

481 429 Rainer Beer
https://youtu.be/f0Dse53ChTM

I was in this commercial
https://youtu.be/daZdK1fRZYk
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 04:36 PM (vO42M
Tell me you got at least one of those beers to jump in your vehicle.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 04:50 PM (LHPAg)

482 429 Rainer Beer

Rainier and Blitz' Henry Weinhard commercials were hilarious. You can find them on Youtube.
My first drunk was on Oly,
I preferred Lucky Lager, especially the Bock in spring. (Home town brew).

Posted by: Hal Dall at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (KrKxR)

483 91 Taylor Lorenz is so old, she was relieved when SMOD finally got rid of those pesky dinosaurs.

for some reason, the use of 'pesky' with dinosaurs makes me chuckle. G***amn T-rex!! Stop sh**ting on my lawn!

Posted by: Nelly at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (bcr4y)

484 I must admit I gloated over these screaming, crying, howling, hysterical Karen reactions in the days following Trump's victory and must've watched dozens of them, but as time passed, I quit laughing because insanity isn't funny, at least not for long. It got dark quickly.

I think it's worse than Ace thinks. I think a significant minority of these batshit crazy people will imagine themselves as a brave Resistance, take the Weathermen Underground route, and start shooting and bombing and so on. I suppose the word 'Choppy' to describe what's coming is as good a word as any.

Posted by: troyriser at November 25, 2024 05:08 PM (DPeYO)

485 "They'll pick up a gun or axe and kill their families or maybe themselves."

May've been mentioned, but they're already doing that.

See: Duluth and Seattle

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at November 25, 2024 05:09 PM (Qt4kF)

486 On the sitcom Community, 2009-2015, Alison Brie (whom many of you know from Mad Men) played the innocent young Annie Edison. At least, her character is supposed to be young and innocent. I've never been able to believe either because a) the actress was about ten years older than the character, and b) a quick look at her biography seems to belie any real innocence - and she's not that good an actress. In the Series Finale, she gets a job with an Alphabet Agency (I forgot which) that's supposed to be in synch with her high ideals. Instead, I find it ominous, not just because of what we now know about the CIA & FBI, but also because she resembles Taylor Lorenz*.

*Miss Brie has aged poorly since 2015.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 25, 2024 05:12 PM (p9rFX)

487 183 I have never posted my actual birthday on FB or even any of the smaller BBs that wanted that info, simply out of general paranoia about ID theft. I did decide I needed to be in the correct month so as not to get "Happy Bdays" that were way off and be within a couple years so as not seem like a cougar or whatever. But the internet does not need to have my PID sitting around.
Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 03:54 PM (UKUm3)
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I use a made up birthday for pretty much everything on the internet.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 03:56 PM (DRSnL)

Heck, I use a made-up birth date when they ask me for it when buying booze at the grocery store.

6/6/66 is what I usually give them.

Posted by: BillyD at November 25, 2024 05:14 PM (Yt3ED)

488 82 Taylor Lorenz is so old, she farts dust.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at November 25, 2024 03:41 PM (zSyrn)

Ha! Just wait until you're old enough to know this joke makes no sense. I wish it were true.

Posted by: Walsingham at November 25, 2024 05:20 PM (+BWF0)

489 I understand the reluctance of people to share personal information, and they have good reasons for that. But honestly, I am somewhat flattered when somebody "cards" me at the liquor store or other spots where ID is acquired. I'm sure it's a standard policy to do that with everyone, but for a moment there I can pretend I don't look like Methusula's grandfather.

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (G6LTi)

490 My mom and dad had no patience with this crap. More than once, one or the other of us kids spent a lovely meal out sitting in the back of the station wagon waiting. Misbehavior had consequences. Usually involving a wooden spoon or worse. Missing a meal was light punishment.

Neither did mine. When I was 6, we were at Frontier Town in upstate New York and I refused to get off of the Stagecoach. My mother grabbed me by the arm and took me to the car (my feet never touched the ground). There we sat for the rest of the afternoon. Learned real quick that my mother meant what she said when she said NOW!

Posted by: Mike the Marine at November 25, 2024 05:22 PM (y90Gt)

491 At 237 comment . Atwood’s in Oklahoma sells clove chewing gum

Posted by: Suspicious Gorn at November 25, 2024 05:28 PM (ofDJ7)

Border Czar Nominee Tom Homan: "Resistance" Governors and Mayors Who Block Deportation Efforts Will Be Prosecuted for Harboring Illegal Aliens

Homan sees this issue with the proper amount of nuance, which is nearly none at all.

President-elect Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, has issued a stark warning to sanctuary cities, stating their officials could face federal charges for obstructing immigration enforcement. The warning comes as Trump prepares to reinstate strict immigration policies and mass deportations.
Key Details:
Homan said federal law supersedes local sanctuary laws, and refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could result in charges for obstruction and harboring illegal immigrants.
Homan plans to work with the next Attorney General, likely Pam Bondi, to determine if sanctuary city policies violate federal law.
Trump and Homan aim to prioritize deportations of individuals accused or convicted of crimes, with additional measures to cut federal funding for sanctuary jurisdictions.
Diving Deeper:
President-elect Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, has signaled a hardline approach to sanctuary cities, warning local officials they could face prosecution for defying federal immigration laws. Speaking to Just the News, Homan emphasized that impeding federal enforcement or knowingly harboring illegal immigrants could result in criminal charges.
"Federal law trumps state and local law every time," Homan said, referring to sanctuary policies in cities like Los Angeles, which recently reaffirmed its status as a sanctuary city. He noted that refusing to transfer illegal immigrants in custody to ICE may constitute harboring, a violation of federal law.
Homan plans to seek an official opinion from the next Attorney General--Pam Bondi is currently the nominee--on whether such refusals warrant legal action. He is also advocating for broader measures, such as withholding federal funds from jurisdictions that adopt sanctuary policies.
"We've got to pull federal funding," Homan stated, arguing that sanctuary policies undermine public safety. He warned mayors and governors that failing to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement could jeopardize community safety and violate federal statutes.
Homan also addressed broader concerns, including the Biden administration's handling of unaccompanied minors and the loss of track of 30,000 migrant children. He pledged to prioritize efforts to locate these children, acknowledging the challenges but vowing to combat human trafficking and forced labor.
Looking ahead, Homan expressed hope that Mexico's government would cooperate in reinstating Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, which requires asylum seekers to await processing south of the U.S. border. However, he warned, "If [Mexico's president] doesn't, then you know President Trump's one bad-ass president."

This may be a bluff, a bit of saber-rattling.

We already know the public rejected the lawfare against Trump. Now, if Trump begins using legal process against #Resistance figures (who are legitimately breaking the law), we'll see if the public is against all use of prosecutorial power to settle political disputes, or only plainly rancid and corrupt uses of the power, as we saw in the five Trump prosecutions.

I think the public might just reject all attempts to prosecute political actors over political disputes, but we'll have to see.

There is little question, though, that these Sanctuary jurisdictions should have federal monies stripped from them, as Homan suggests. The federal government is paying blue cities a lot of money supposedly for "law enforcement;" if they won't enforce the law, that money should stop.

Obviously, the Biden tactic of using all federal funds (especially FEMA emergency funding) as a slush fund to send to blue cities to pay for illegals will end, immediately. If any of these Sanctuary zones want to continue giving illegals free health care and rent subsidies, they can steal that money from their own citizens/taxpayers for that purpose, and see if how their voters like it. It's always easier to tax someone far away to pay for something unpopular. Having to tax your own voters will be a heavier lift.

And, of course, if these cities and states declare themselves Sanctuary zones, then we all know where all the remaining illegals must be sent.

Meawhile, lefties and left-leaning corporate libertarians are warning Americans -- who have not seen much in wage gains for 40 years because of "outsourcing" most manufacturing to the third world while the US simultaneously imported a third-world workforce to do all the jobs in the US that couldn't be "outsourced" -- that the maids and gardeners they don't actually earn enough money to employ will now be more expensive.

Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

Everyone nostalgic for the 1950s might not realize what that actually entails. https://t.co/enWhwz1koC
— Jason C (@jasonc_nc) November 24, 2024

A lot of us do this already. https://t.co/KFJ5XJsdvY
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) November 25, 2024

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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (ZANHd)

2 Do it.

Arresting the governors who prefer illegals to their own citizens after an election where almost every blue enclave saw a hard shift to the right would be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

3 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 02:22 PM (ZANHd)

4 Willowed:

394 Headlines from the Paper of Record, the Babylon Bee:

It’s Official: Trump Now Has Hottest Cabinet Of All Time

'The View' Ratings Soar After Introducing Ejection Seat For When Hosts Make Inaccurate Statements
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (VNX3d)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 02:22 PM (VNX3d)

5 Everyone nostalgic for the 1950s might not realize what that actually entails. https://t.co/enWhwz1koC

- Jason C (@jasonc_nc) November 24, 2024

Was this asshoe one of those whining about his avocado toast?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:22 PM (KcwUg)

6 I think the public might just reject all attempts to prosecute political actors over political disputes, but we'll have to see.

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I think the lesson of the rise of Trump is that the American people are largely sick of the criminality of the political class and asked an outsider to come in an clean things up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

7 that the maids and gardeners they don't actually earn enough money to employ will now be more expensive.

"If we don't have slaves, who will pick the crops?"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:22 PM (uxCna)

8

Axios style "journalism!"

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 02:22 PM (siRul)

9 HOMAN: 2028

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:22 PM (z/jjr)

10 Meawhile, lefties and left-leaning corporate libertarians are warning Americans -- who have not seen much in wage gains for 40 years because of "outsourcing" most manufacturing to the third world while the US simultaneously imported a third-world workforce to do all the jobs in the US that couldn't be "outsourced" -- that the maids and gardeners they don't actually earn enough money to employ will now be more expensive.

=======

I mow my own lawn.

My rates are about to go up!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

11 Be good for stupid lefties to learn how to mow their grass and do some simple home repairs. Make vocational training great again.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (EmT/E)

12 Stop. It can't get any harder without risking an arterial blowout.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (Aqu9a)

13 Its all posturing and virtue signalling, nothing will come of it.

I've definitely seen Emerald Robinson ask it, but of course OAN's not allowed to talk to KJP or anyone else remotely official.

She's allegedly an investigative reporter, where's her report on what is going on. Has she even tried? They all seem afraid to even look at it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (RsS92)

14 What Mexico has done to accommodate this 4 year invasion is nothing less than an act of war, in my opinion. It should be dealt with harshly. Peacefully, but harshly.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (xyuoi)

15 Reading this tells me one thing. Mr. Homan shouldn't be referred to as a Tsar or Czar, but as the Border Khan, sweeping all enemies before him.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (VNX3d)

16 We already know the public rejected the lawfare against Trump. Now, if Trump begins using legal process against #Resistance figures (who are legitimately breaking the law), we'll see if the public is against all use of prosecutorial power to settle political disputes, or only plainly rancid and corrupt uses of the power, as we saw in the five Trump prosecutions.

The left/FNM claimed Trump was literal Hitler and was going to send millions of people to death camps.

I don't think non-leftists are going to care if a leftist mayor gets sent to jail for breaking the law.

The one caveat is you do have to show a clear crime unlike the crap the left went after Trump for

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (oZhjI)

17 I'm getting sexually aroused. Can I vote for Trump again?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

18 According to X What's his name, the Denver mayor, drove away from an airport with a rental car he had not duly paid for.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 02:24 PM (kTd/k)

19 Are they going to suddenly discover states rights again? 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 02:24 PM (p4NUW)

20 Jason C is just a little metrosexual bitch isn't he?

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 02:25 PM (YbbtK)

21 16 I don't think non-leftists are going to care if a leftist mayor gets sent to jail for breaking the law.

The one caveat is you do have to show a clear crime unlike the crap the left went after Trump for
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (oZhjI)

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All you have to do is highlight some murder by an illegal immigrant in the state/city under question that would have been prevented by working with ICE and the feds for deportation.

X will carry it further than NBC news will be able to blunt it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

22 The Denver mayor needs to rot in jail as long as any J6 defendant.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 02:25 PM (kTd/k)

23 Most of my lawn is mowed by cattle and in the future the rest will likely be mowed by sheeps.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:25 PM (KcwUg)

24 People keep talking about bluster, but I think that some people will have to go to jail before this is taken seriously.

Think about the economic impact of 50 million illegals. Housing, grocery inflation, auto insurance, theft and violent crime, and jobs are all impacted by this.

We a literally paying millions of Americans welfare, and meanwhile illegals can get free plane tickets, free housing, use our emergency rooms, and get $2,000 per month in food stamps while they take those jobs - and somehow this is good for the economy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:25 PM (lTGtQ)

25 Why do these idiots keep using the same argument used for slavery as their flex? Honestly, just bless their little hearts.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 02:25 PM (p4NUW)

26 I love this guy!

Enjoying X tweets about how he would have been a killer Roman fighter based on physiognomy, heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 02:25 PM (Hkcdp)

27 This may be a bluff, a bit of saber-rattling.
____________________________

Never play poker with Tom Homan.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 02:26 PM (dIske)

28 I think the public might just reject all attempts to prosecute political actors over political disputes, but we'll have to see.

the population who suffers most from the influx of illegals will back these prosecutions 100%

I refer to the already established minority communities in the cities

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 02:26 PM (dCxaZ)

29 All you have to do is highlight some murder by an illegal immigrant in the state/city under question that would have been prevented by working with ICE and the feds for deportation.

The leftists are going to go from "if it saves one life..." to "it isn't fair to blame us for all the people murdered by our policies" so fast it will make your head swim

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:26 PM (oZhjI)

30 Has anyone memed Homan as Baron Harkonnen yet? I can't be the only one who sees the resemblance (and meme potential).

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 25, 2024 02:26 PM (B9Prs)

31 It.Moved.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 02:26 PM (aD39U)

32 We already know the public rejected the lawfare against Trump. Now, if Trump begins using legal process against #Resistance figures (who are legitimately breaking the law), we'll see if the public is against all use of prosecutorial power to settle political disputes, or only plainly rancid and corrupt uses of the power, as we saw in the five Trump prosecutions.

Its going to depend on who wins the publicity war to frame the efforts. If the left manages to convince people that its only Trump throwing a tantrum and looking for revenge by abusing power, then he's in trouble.

If the truth wins out, so that people perceive it as punishing abuse of power and making people pay the price for using the justice system to attack political enemies, then he'll be in good shape. The important thing is to never say its about vengeance or payback. Its not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:26 PM (RsS92)

33 >>> 30 Has anyone memed Homan as Baron Harkonnen yet? I can't be the only one who sees the resemblance (and meme potential).
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 25, 2024 02:26 PM (B9Prs)

Seriously?

Way too skinny. Now, Governor Pritzker, maybe...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (KcwUg)

34 Landscape crews come in every size, shape and color/race/ethnicity

I haven't seen any females though

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (dCxaZ)

35 I will chortle if Denver's Mayor is perp walked in front of the cameras.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (u82oZ)

36 Seriously?

Way too skinny. Now, Governor Pritzker, maybe...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (KcwUg)

It's his face

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (B9Prs)

37 Why do these idiots keep using the same argument used for slavery as their flex? Honestly, just bless their little hearts.

Old and busted: "who's gonna pick our cotton??"
New and hot: "who's gonna mow our lawn?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (RsS92)

38 >>Never play poker with Tom Homan.

When Chuck Norris sees Tom Homan walking down the sidewalk, he crosses to the other side of the street.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (z/jjr)

39 Has anyone memed Homan as Baron Harkonnen yet? I can't be the only one who sees the resemblance (and meme potential).

Looks more like Colin Farrell's the Penguin to me.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (oZhjI)

40 If Mike Ehrmantraut were a real person

Posted by: Uncledave at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (E+1ea)

41 Way too skinny. Now, Governor Pritzker, maybe...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (KcwUg)

He is the one who is fairly rotund, right?

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (EmT/E)

42 I'm okay acting and *then* letting the public decide.

Bottom line is an apolitical observation long ago by brit lass wife - Republicans seem serious, Democrats seem like a joke. They always look disheveled and like they just got there. Republicans show up in suits and it FEELS like something heavy is going on.

This is from a *long* time ago and she was just talking as an outside observer which is what a lot of voters really are.

Well it has reared its head again now, watching clips of Homan vs clips of Harris.

So if you're gonna be serious, be serious. Prosecute if you must and don't let them stand in the way or they will steamroll you and the rest of this country out of sheer will.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (12v8J)

43
Hondurans have the roofing business covered. They can have it.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (j4U/Z)

44 Landscape crews come in every size, shape and color/race/ethnicity

A lot are hispanic around here, but not exclusively. quite a few are college age guys of various ethnicities from the region.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (RsS92)

45 What is Homan's background?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (kTd/k)

46 The arguments that deporting these illegals will have negative financial implications is kindergarten level stupidity. Or more likely, just outright lying. The long term impacts of supporting tens of millions of illiterate masses far outweighs the price I may have to pay for a fucking head of lettuce for crying out loud.

And the bottom line is that I can choose to not buy that head of lettuce, but I will not have the choice to not pay the increased social costs of supporting - through my taxes - these tens of millions of indigents. If I have to support people in need, I prefer them to be Americans. For crying out loud again.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (xyuoi)

47 Yeah, the whole "who will clean your toilets" schtick, whether it's applied to routine home and child care, or repairs or whatever... it stinks of elitism and misunderstanding that is astonishing.

Will the cost of my landscraping to up? Only if I have to buy a new lawnmower*.

*I'm just kidding, I would never buy a house that has a lawn. Now, I'm prolly going to pay someone to uproot the ugly bushes on the property, but once the cacti and pines are planted, it'll just be little ol' me doing the work. As do most homeowners.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (dGCAG)

48 BTW, the New York Times is reporting to day that in their efforts to light up World War III before Trump takes office, the British and French are considering sending troops to Ukraine.

But wait! It gets better!

The Biden Administration is considering sending nukes to Ukraine.

Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications.

You think?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (uxCna)

49 Looks more like Colin Farrell's the Penguin to me.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (oZhjI)

Haven't watched (heard good things though), so that wasn't the image that came to mind for me.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (B9Prs)

50 I think the public will view charges against Dims/statists/GOPe differently somehow:

Greg Price @greg_price11 Nov 22
Denver Mayor @MikeJohnstonCO: I will use police to block the feds from deporting illegals.

*one day later*

Illegal alien in Denver is charged with raping a 14-year-old girl.
https://tinyurl.com/2xurjxek

Spencer Lindquist @SpencerLndqst Nov 22
An illegal alien was charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in Denver, Colorado right after the mayor Mike Johnston pledged to resist Trump's mass deportation agenda.

I reported for @realDailyWire:
https://tinyurl.com/4xnteur5

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (hovnC)

51 According to X What's his name, the Denver mayor, drove away from an airport with a rental car he had not duly paid for.

So? Then the Denver mayor got one thing right in his life. If I have a car reservation and the employees have abandoned the rental counter and the keys are sitting there, I'm taking my reserved car and dealing with it later, not wasting my time at the airport.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (yOPBE)

52 The courts have been pretty that virtually everything having to do with border security is federal. I think the Mayor of Denver or some of these illegal loving governors are going to have a hard time winning defying the feds in court.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (LkLld)

53 >>> 11 Be good for stupid lefties to learn how to mow their grass and do some simple home repairs. Make vocational training great again.
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (EmT/E)

As if.

I will be happy to charge them $50/hour.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (KcwUg)

54 Border Czar Nominee Tom Homan: "Resistance" Governors and Mayors Who Block Deportation Efforts Will Be Prosecuted for Harboring Illegal Aliens
Homan sees this issue with the proper amount of nuance, which is nearly none at all.

Speak softly. Carry a big stick. Don't be afraid to swing it.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (UE7n4)

55 Speaking of "willowed" is willow still around?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2024 02:30 PM (WPL6O)

56 I mowed lawns for a couple of people when I was in high school. I made decent spending money.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:30 PM (v6JzV)

57 Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden
________

There will be plenty of former federal employees to do those jobs. I expect to see Wray trimming my rose bushes, while Mayorkas sharpens the blades for him.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 02:30 PM (1bNHn)

58 Mexicans call Tom Homan 'The Donkey Show'.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:30 PM (z/jjr)

59 This argument that central americans are "doing jobs that American's won't do" is one of the most perplexing arguments I've ever heard.

Are you saying Ecuadorians are genetically predisposed to mowing lawns? Or that Americans are too lazy to mow lawns? Or both? And if we legalized those immigrations, would they still be mowing lawns, or would they try to find work in other sectors?

It's an insulting and nonsense argument.

Either way, I think it's a GOOD thing if the cost of domestic services go up. It should go up. That's how a healthy economy works. If the demand is high, the supply either increases, or the price increases. If we cut off the flow of supply (illegals), the price will equalize somewhere where being a landscaper is, once again, a career where people can live a normal life and not a life on welfare.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 02:30 PM (Evo1G)

60 50 Spencer Lindquist @SpencerLndqst Nov 22
An illegal alien was charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in Denver, Colorado right after the mayor Mike Johnston pledged to resist Trump's mass deportation agenda.

I reported for @realDailyWire:
https://tinyurl.com/4xnteur5
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (hovnC)

=========

Yeah, the people are going to react badly to the feds trying to correct this situation because it's exactly the same as creating legal theories out of nothing and prosecuting the previous president for reasons no one can explain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

61 Defund the NGOs that are aiding and abetting this illegal alien insurrection. Take their leadership into grand juries in Texas

Posted by: BigG at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (dhVjM)

62 Harboring illegals should be like hiding criminals

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (fwDg9)

63 Someone tell Director Homan that Jack Smith will be available to prosecute the Resistance.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (CpPSJ)

64 What is Homan's background?

Posted by: Northernlurker

Former border patrol agent, moved up through the ranks.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (lTGtQ)

65 Speaking of "willowed" is willow still around?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

When JJ announced his brain cancer, she showed up and wished him well.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (v6JzV)

66 >>I mowed lawns for a couple of people when I was in high school. I made decent spending money.

I used to build decks for people in HS.

Also, Drop Ceilings for Commercial Builders.

On top of 2-3 other PT jobs. I made a ton of money.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (z/jjr)

67 Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications.

The only reason the ukraines gave up the Russian nukes that were on their soil was because they didn't have the arming codes.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (yOPBE)

68 Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications./i]

It would be fitting for the greek notion of hubris if the Junta got a limited nuclear war started and President Trump assumed office with most of the population of NYC/DC gone directly due to Biden's warmongering.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:32 PM (oZhjI)

69 Yes, the Denver mayor is an idiot, and iirc, spoiled rich kid. His own back yard is a disaster zone, so him being able to manage an entire city was never going to happen. He has been singularly focused on homelessness/illegals from the get-go. It’s all he cares about, the rest of the city could crumble and he would not notice.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 02:32 PM (Hkcdp)

70 Am I the only person who bought a house so that I didn't have to have random people I don't know in my personal spaces?

Posted by: Storm of Ale at November 25, 2024 02:32 PM (i14/a)

71 One of the first things that needs to happen is that it will no longer be illegal to demand proof of citizenship before hiring someone to do work at one's house.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:32 PM (xCA6C)

72 ...The important thing is to never say its about vengeance or payback. Its not.

Agreed. It's about justice. But it needs to be good and hard.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2024 02:32 PM (xyuoi)

73
The Left: We must help these poor refugees!!

Also The Left: Now who is going to mow my lawn???

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:32 PM (12v8J)

74 Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

How stupid are this people?
They only know people who can afford to do all of those things.?

The only time I had someone occasionally clean my house was when I was working full time, when my husband was employed full time at a job in which he made considerably more, and when I didn't have to pay taxes on my house.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 02:32 PM (MQJVv)

75 The truth is, if you look at modern homes being built, they have a postage stamp-sized lawn if any to begin with. If you have to pay someone to mow your 12 square foot lawn, you're pretty pathetic.

Bottom line is an apolitical observation long ago by brit lass wife - Republicans seem serious, Democrats seem like a joke. They always look disheveled and like they just got there. Republicans show up in suits and it FEELS like something heavy is going on.

Men look 25% better in a suit. It looks like you're ready for business and people treat you with respect.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:32 PM (RsS92)

76 ""Resistance" Governors and Mayors Who Block Deportation Efforts Will Be Prosecuted for Harboring Illegal Aliens"

Oh, man I just can't WAIT to see them do the perp hoist/forklift ride for Illinois governor JBlob Pritzker. And then stick him in a cell with a disconnected toilet.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (Ft5W9)

77 I had to go to Walmart this morning to pick up my prescription and get a few things. While there I saw a bunch of people who I hope are about to enjoy their first and last Thanksgiving Day in the US.

Posted by: huerfano at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (DKIGo)

78 Landscape crews come in every size, shape and color/race/ethnicity

I haven't seen any females though
Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (dCxaZ)

Oh! The Chefs/Panzers football game yesterday had a chick official on the field. Not a ref, but one of the line judges or whatever.

At first I thought that's silly, but as terrible as officiating is in pro sports, having a chick do it, it can't get any worse.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (dGCAG)

79 That tweet is a prime showcase of the divide in America:

The Democrats and the left have maids, lawn services and home repairmen they hire.

The rest of us don't 'cause we can't afford any of that.

And they literally do not know that.
What do you mean "about to" pendejo?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (8Kx9y)

80 Has Netflix made an Anne Frank movie, except she's a black Hidpanic lesbian?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (kTd/k)

81 Hondurans have the roofing business covered. They can have it.
========
@amuse @amuse 4h
TEMU ELON: Florida man has been arrested for posing as Elon Musk on Facebook and stealing $600,000 from an elderly woman. NOTE: Elon won’t reach out to you on Facebook to ask you to invest in his roofing business.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (hovnC)

82 Looks more like Colin Farrell's the Penguin to me.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (oZhjI)

Haven't watched (heard good things though), so that wasn't the image that came to mind for me.
Posted by: joe

The prosthetics they use equal the stuff they used on Brendan Frasure in The Whale. He doesn't even look like himself. And so far so good on the Penguin.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (UE7n4)

83 74-and that was before we had our wonderful son to take care of.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (MQJVv)

84 Harboring illegals should be like hiding criminals

Posted by: Skip

They are hiding criminals.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (lTGtQ)

85 Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Just to be clear, although there were Soviet nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Ukrainians never had the Soviet arming codes, so the nukes weren't usable.

Ukraine was never a nuclear power.

One assumes that with enough time and effort, the Ukes might have jury-rigged a way around the arming code devices, but that's not the same thing as saying that they had nukes when the USSR collapsed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (uxCna)

86 Bottom line is an apolitical observation long ago by brit lass wife - Republicans seem serious, Democrats seem like a joke. They always look disheveled and like they just got there. Republicans show up in suits and it FEELS like something heavy is going on.

Men look 25% better in a suit. It looks like you're ready for business and people treat you with respect.

Sure, but a suit of armor is even better. Preferably with greaves.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (xCA6C)

87 Leftist in the HOA.... "Does this mean I'll have to mow my own grass?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (Q4IgG)

88 First comes the saber rattling warning.

After that, some prosecutions to show it wasn't just all talk.

Then, the obviously dangerous criminals are ejected.

All of which creates incentive for other illegals to self deport.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (tT6L1)

89 >>What is Homan's background?

He was an Army Ranger. A Navy Seal.

And before that, an Eagle Scout.

Before Tom Homan, the 1000 Yard Stare was only 350 yards.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (z/jjr)

90 President Trump should announce on day one of his presidency, the end of welfare, food stamps, free healthcare and all other govt handouts for illegal aliens. No funds for those activities to sanctuary cities and states.
===

That self deports half of the criminal illegal invaders.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (17s+e)

91 And the bottom line is that I can choose to not buy that head of lettuce, but I will not have the choice to not pay the increased social costs of supporting - through my taxes - these tens of millions of indigents. If I have to support people in need, I prefer them to be Americans. For crying out loud again.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (xyuoi)

100%. I am absolutely willing to pay slightly more money for food to support decent lower middle class (or whatever) wages for Americans working.

Because the other side of that ledger is more americans working (so fewer outlays for welfare) and fewer immigrants here (so fewer outlays on the immense spending we spend on illegals).

And to save billions in tax dollars, all we need to do is pay $.20 more per head of lettuce? Sounds like a great deal.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (Evo1G)

92 Am I the only person who bought a house so that I didn't have to have random people I don't know in my personal spaces?
Posted by: Storm of Ale

I just read that Mount Vernon had a huge front porch, which was unusual for the time, because George Washington got a lot of random people showing up to meet or schmooze him, and he wanted a place to meet with them outside so he wouldn't have to let them into his house.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (v6JzV)

93 At first I thought that's silly, but as terrible as officiating is in pro sports, having a chick do it, it can't get any worse.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (dGCAG)

Plus she can keep the other officials well nourished with sandwiches.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:35 PM (12v8J)

94
The Democrats and the left have maids, lawn services and home repairmen they hire.

I saw an article in one of the leftwing web-zines, maybe Slate, maybe the Atlantic, arguing that the "achievements" of feminism were mostly upper class white women hiring poor minority women to take care of their kids, cook their food, and clean their houses. And...they aren't entirely wrong here.

All of the AWFLs I know have foreign "help". And complain about the salaries American women want to do that work...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:35 PM (oZhjI)

95 Why do these idiots keep using the same argument used for slavery as their flex? Honestly, just bless their little hearts.

Old and busted: "who's gonna pick our cotton??"
New and hot: "who's gonna mow our lawn?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (RsS92)

Who's gonna fill their shoes?
https://youtu.be/vxHjRqnY7zA

Posted by: Zombie George Jones at November 25, 2024 02:35 PM (Aqu9a)

96 Not so fast

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at November 25, 2024 02:35 PM (IyPmt)

97 The Trump prosecutions were for "crimes" that didn't personally affect anyone (E. Jean Carroll is a lying skank). Everyone has been impacted in some way by illegal aliens...crime rates, property values, tax hikes, hospital closures, cost of living, the spread of previously eradicated diseases. You name it, illegal immigration has been there, done that, fucked it up.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at November 25, 2024 02:35 PM (u7cz3)

98 Is Jason C. making the point that illegal laborers are trivial in the workforce?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 02:35 PM (aD39U)

99 Landscape crews come in every size, shape and color/race/ethnicity

When I was growing up in California in the 1960s, all the retired gardeners were Italian, all the middle-aged gardeners were Japanese, and all the young gardeners were Mexican.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (uxCna)

100 This guy sounds the part but I remember doing the Chuck Norris thing over that dummy "Mad Dog".

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (12v8J)

101 What is Homan's background?

He was an Army Ranger. A Navy Seal.

And before that, an Eagle Scout.

Before Tom Homan, the 1000 Yard Stare was only 350 yards.

When he met Chuck Norris, Norris genuflected.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)

102 In this video, there's something that bothers me a lot more than the DOI "elected government official":

https://tinyurl.com/5n7bfspc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (K3JKK)

103 160 years after the Civil War, Democrats still want a 'servant' class to work on the cheap for them.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (CwhoI)

104 >>What is Homan's background?

He was an Army Ranger. A Navy Seal.

And before that, an Eagle Scout.

Before Tom Homan, the 1000 Yard Stare was only 350 yards.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM (z/jjr)

LOL +1

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (Aqu9a)

105 I mow my own lawn.

My rates are about to go up!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Do you have a riding mower with a beer holder?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (jFCkp)

106 At first I thought that's silly, but as terrible as officiating is in pro sports, having a chick do it, it can't get any worse.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (dGCAG)

——————-

Look, I shouldn’t have to tell you why I threw the flag!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (u73oe)

107 >>This guy sounds the part but I remember doing the Chuck Norris thing over that dummy "Mad Dog".

When we let Reality ruin a fun gag...the Communists will have won.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (z/jjr)

108 What is Homan's background?
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A green screen.

I don't even know what that means.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (12v8J)

109 Lawn maintenance is going to get extremely expensive in California.

You're going to need an $80000 electric truck pulling a trailer full of electric landscaping tools using $16 hour minimum wage workers. Your workers are going to lured away by $20 hour minimum food service or $25 hour minimum medical jobs.

A lot of lawns are going to be weeds. Like mine.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (CpPSJ)

110 At first I thought that's silly, but as terrible as officiating is in pro sports, having a chick do it, it can't get any worse.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (dGCAG)

Plus she can keep the other officials well nourished with sandwiches.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:35 PM (12v8J)

She didn't look like the sammich making type. More like a carpet muncher.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:37 PM (dGCAG)

111 When we let Reality ruin a fun gag...the Communists will have won.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (z/jjr)

Reality ruining a fun gag is my middle name.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:37 PM (12v8J)

112 Matt Wallace

@MattWallace888
🚨BREAKING: A senior Biden administration official is reportedly ready to present evidence suggesting the cocaine found in the White House was linked to Barack Obama, not Hunter Biden.

Reports allege it was left by Obama during a visit to the White House.

Did the U.S. Secret Service know about this? Everything is starting to make sense now!

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:37 PM (TGPs7)

113 Everyone nostalgic for the 1950s might not realize what that actually entails. https://t.co/enWhwz1koC
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Actually, I long for the re-instituton of the HUAC. So, yeah, let's roll.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 02:37 PM (XeU6L)

114 -maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

I've been doing most of that stuff myself, and have been since before I was a teenager.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024 02:37 PM (njExo)

115 >>What is Homan's background?

He was an Army Ranger. A Navy Seal.

And before that, an Eagle Scout.

Before Tom Homan, the 1000 Yard Stare was only 350 yards.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:34 PM

When Todd Homan passes Chuck Norris on the street, they nod at one another respectfully.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (ZANHd)

116 Every NGO involved with this mess needs a thorough examination and prosecution where evidence of a crime is found. The execs should be imprisoned if found guilty.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (IG4Id)

117 And before that, an Eagle Scout.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)
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I was a quartermaster.

I could'a been a contender.

STELLA!!!!!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (K3JKK)

118 I just read that Mount Vernon had a huge front porch, which was unusual for the time, because George Washington got a lot of random people showing up to meet or schmooze him, and he wanted a place to meet with them outside so he wouldn't have to let them into his house.

I think that was a fairly common architectural feature of the time, since there was no AC. As you know, DC in the summer is pretty stifling.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (xCA6C)

119 Reports allege it was left by Obama during a visit to the White House.

Did the U.S. Secret Service know about this? Everything is starting to make sense now!
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:37 PM (TGPs7)

What a twist!

Posted by: M. Night. Shamalyamadingdong at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (B9Prs)

120 I live in DuPage County, IL, next door to Cook County; I use Davey Tree Co exclusively for tree maintenance/shrub planting/cleanup and mulching etc.

The last few years basically a longboat crew from 'Thor' shows up. Big, strapping blondish giants, many with beards. I keep waiting for them to start sporting horns on their hard hats along with the face shields and ear muffs. One of these days Imma gonna put 'Immigrant Song' on the outside speakers and see how many sing along.

And, no lie, I DID hear one of the guys singing 'I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK' as he went about his tasks.

Just one counter to the 'only illegals do the outside work anymore' bilge.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (Ft5W9)

121

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (xCA6C)

122 I just read that Mount Vernon had a huge front porch, which was unusual for the time, because George Washington got a lot of random people showing up to meet or schmooze him, and he wanted a place to meet with them outside so he wouldn't have to let them into his house.
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The breeze off the Potomac is very welcomed prior to A/C.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (jFCkp)

123 If any of these Sanctuary zones want to continue giving illegals free health care and rent subsidies, they can steal that money from their own citizens/taxpayers for that purpose, and see if how their voters like it.

THIS x one million.

Stop the flow of money, and make thrm feel the pain.
Start deporting in red areas first, pushing the illegal criminals to sanctuary cities and states, to hasten their demise.

Make them bake the Deportation Cake.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (ufFY8)

124 Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

Yeah we do all this and I make plenty of money. This is why they lose. They understand nothing about the way this country works

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (NtVYv)

125 !

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (KcwUg)

126 Sure, but a suit of armor is even better. Preferably with greaves.

Well, clearly. Sword or axe or mace, though? Maybe spear and shield.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:38 PM (RsS92)

127 According to X What's his name, the Denver mayor, drove away from an airport with a rental car he had not duly paid for.

So? Then the Denver mayor got one thing right in his life. If I have a car reservation and the employees have abandoned the rental counter and the keys are sitting there, I'm taking my reserved car and dealing with it later, not wasting my time at the airport.

Careful about that. If it's a Hertz car you may get arrested for driving a stolen vehicle. Because a previous customer turned it in late and Hertz never told the cops they'd recovered it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (Gyft8)

128 Douglas Macgregor
@DougAMacgregor

BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (TGPs7)

129 cutting off funding is just as effective as a criminal prosecution, and easier/faster to carry out

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (V6W16)

130 Wasn't Homam Trump's Border Patrol boss in his first term?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (KcwUg)

131 I mowed lawns for a couple of people when I was in high school. I made decent spending money.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:30 PM (v6JzV)

Same here until I was 16 and got a driver's license. Could make more money on a custom wheat-harvesting crew.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (g8Ew8)

132 There is little question, though, that these Sanctuary jurisdictions should have federal monies stripped from them, as Homan suggests. The federal government is paying blue cities a lot of money supposedly for "law enforcement;" if they won't enforce the law, that money should stop.

This, and lots of it.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (njExo)

133 This guy sounds the part but I remember doing the Chuck Norris thing over that dummy "Mad Dog".
Posted by: ...

I'm old enough to remember Scott Walker's Throne of Skulls.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (u7cz3)

134 1950's lawn care:

Kid rings doorbell: "Mr, mow your lawn for fifty cents?"

Man digs out lawn mower and says, "have at it!"

Funny how kids back then tended to be a bit leaner than the kids of today.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (tT6L1)

135 Speaking of fun gags, I am 99.999% positive people here at the time suggested it was Ofuckstick's.

I don't even know what to believe but the theory reasonably funny.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (12v8J)

136 At first I thought that's silly, but as terrible as officiating is in pro sports, having a chick do it, it can't get any worse.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (dGCAG)

——————-

Look, I shouldn’t have to tell you why I threw the flag!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (u73oe)

I was gonna say, but why is the flag mauve colored, but I think maybe the NFL already did that.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (dGCAG)

137 Blah Blah and I will sure miss the cheap lettuce we now get even if it has a bit of our little brown brothers from South of The Border fecal matter on some of the leaves. Adds flavor and mouth feel in my opinion. Blah Blah says since the hired help will now be deported we can use our SS money for another cruise or two for next year when we are not blowing that money on the slots in Vegas instead of paying Graciela and her crew less than minimum wage under the table.

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrats and moochers at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (Y5VD5)

138 I don't understand the "grow a home garden" one.

Do people pay other people to plant and maintain the garden at their home? Like, tomatoes, herbs, etc? If it's like flowers, I'd assume that would fall under lawncare mentioned above.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (B9Prs)

139 I think the public might just reject all attempts to prosecute political actors over political disputes, but we'll have to see.

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Perhaps. Perhaps not. It shouldn't be a consideration. Trump is a second term President whose own Party is against him and whom he owes nothing but disdain. He has literally nothing to worry about in the future electorally. He should just do whatever he feels like. Why should he care if he harms GOP electoral odds in the future?

Just go ape shit, Donald.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (7oYYI)

140 103 160 years after the Civil War, Democrats still want a 'servant' class to work on the cheap for them.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 25, 2024 02:36 PM (CwhoI)
****
They're fixing it by tiering minimum wage. $16 for the bottom. $20 food service. $25 for medical related work.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (CpPSJ)

141 Reports allege it was left by Obama during a visit to the White House.

Did the U.S. Secret Service know about this? Everything is starting to make sense now!

Posted by: Mister Ghost

If I were to guess at what he would sneak into the white house, it would be roofies for the pool boys.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (lTGtQ)

142 Homan's background:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · Nov 10
I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (“The Border Czar”

, including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security. I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (hovnC)

143 THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' 'BOUT!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (/YFXY)

144 Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden
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Or... or spoiled children and teenagers are going to start earning money doing those chores. Who knows might even get my order correct in ENGLISH at a burger joint.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (17s+e)

145 Yeah! Rick Perry kicked ass, chewed bubblegum, and... I can't remember the third thing he did.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (12v8J)

146 All of the AWFLs I know have foreign "help". And complain about the salaries American women want to do that work...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:35 PM (oZhjI)

100% true.

I have a co-worker who is a big liberal. She works part time, her husband has family money. They own a multi million dollar co-op in SoHo and a multi million dollar house in the Hamptons. They have two kids with stupid names.

They employ an army of domestic helpers. I don't know the immigration status of these people, but I do know that my co-worker has been sued 3 times for failing to pay people according to the law laws (mostly not paying overtime), and that she always bitches about how much she has to pay the help.

Which is just crazy to me. First off, you don't NEED 24/7 nanny coverage, a house keeper, a driver, and a chef. But if you ARE going to hire those people, yes, you should have to pay them appropriately.

But anyways, she's obviously a big fan of immigration.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (Evo1G)

147 Too nice out for late November and I have leaves to chop up and get into compost bin because I don't have illegals to do it

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (fwDg9)

148 About five seconds after the deportations begin cable news will be wall to wall crying children. I think Homan has zero fucks to give.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (u73oe)

149 BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (TGPs7)
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I guess Russia launching that intermediate range missile wasn't enough of a warning.

Idiots.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (tT6L1)

150 Just one counter to the 'only illegals do the outside work anymore' bilge.

I think it depends a lot where you live. If you live in the only places true humans actually live according to the left (California and NYC) you're going to have different expectations than someone living in South Dakota or Arkansas.

For the Californians, its always hispanic help (as someone else pointed out, it used to be Japanese). If you live in New York, its Puerto Rican etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (RsS92)

151 Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications.

It would be fitting for the greek notion of hubris if the Junta got a limited nuclear war started and President Trump assumed office with most of the population of NYC/DC gone directly due to Biden's warmongering.

Posted by: 18-1

That would instantly get Ukraine nuked. No way Putin allows that.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (UE7n4)

152 It's amazing how quickly the left went from damning this nation for being built on exploited labor to telling us how bad it will be if we don't have brown people to mow our lawns for us.

Posted by: Sarge at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (BzF4R)

153 Its going to depend on who wins the publicity war to frame the efforts. If the left manages to convince people that its only Trump throwing a tantrum and looking for revenge by abusing power, then he's in trouble.
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Every single article that touches on immigration has to include the line "false claims immigrants were eating pets" or some variation.
It's hilarious how desperate they are--still--to spike that one line from the debate.

BTW, we should remind the left that, although Kamala lost the election, she did "win" the debate.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (8Kx9y)

154 Douglas Macgregor
@DougAMacgregor

BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (TGPs7)

Fine by me. Let Europe solve their own problems for a change.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (g8Ew8)

155 Douglas Macgregor
@DougAMacgregor

BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (TGPs7)

Meanwhile, Germany makes ready their latest version of the Von Schlieffen plan.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (dGCAG)

156 Good news, everyone! They're practically giving away Thanksgiving dinners this year!

RNC Research@RNCResearch
Karine Jean-Pierre is back to bragging about "lower" prices. Except......

— Grocery prices are still up 22.2% under Biden-Harris.

— Gas prices are still up ~30% under Biden-Harris.

— A typical Thanksgiving meal still costs ~20% more under Biden-Harris.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (L/fGl)

157 41 Way too skinny. Now, Governor Pritzker, maybe...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (KcwUg)
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Ohh, Ohh, Ozempic...

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (jFCkp)

158 I don't understand the "grow a home garden" one.

Do people pay other people to plant and maintain the garden at their home? Like, tomatoes, herbs, etc? If it's like flowers, I'd assume that would fall under lawncare mentioned above.

For most people, growing a garden is a money loser compared to buying at Costco or whatever. It's a hobby, and a fun way to get outside, but no way is it cost effective.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (xCA6C)

159 Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrats and moochers at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (Y5VD5)

I didn't realize these names were from Glengarry Glenn Ross, until I watched it again a few weeks back.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (OguvZ)

160 Douglas Macgregor
@DougAMacgregor

BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (TGPs7)

One more reason to quit NATO.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (VNX3d)

161 No gas powered portable equipment. All battery.
So all the stuff that breaks is land fill. No small engine repair shops.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (CpPSJ)

162 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (7oYYI)

Yes but on the contrary I think Trump wants to fuck the Left for a generation or more. That is a legacy, and it might just spare the world some little bit longer.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (12v8J)

163 BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.

Posted by: Mister Ghost

Do it. Then we pull out of NATO.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (lTGtQ)

164 @MattWallace888
🚨BREAKING: A senior Biden administration official is reportedly ready to present evidence suggesting the cocaine found in the White House was linked to Barack Obama, not Hunter Biden.

Reports allege it was left by Obama during a visit to the White House.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:37 PM (TGPs7)
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So he's really more than 50% white.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (K3JKK)

165 Fine by me. Let Europe solve their own problems for a change.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (g8Ew

When has that ever worked?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (dGCAG)

166 >>> 128 Douglas Macgregor
@DougAMacgregor

BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (TGPs7)

So it will be what, 10 minutes before the cheese-eaters *and* the limeys surrender?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (KcwUg)

167 Oh cry me a river, teenagers are going to have to do chores because the cheap illegal domestics will be gone. However shall they survive. Plus those same teens may be more able to get entry level jobs as businesses cant use under the table workers with some enforcement.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (UKUm3)

168 >>BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.

Ok. Fine by me. Let France and the UK deal with Vlad.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (LkLld)

169 154 Douglas Macgregor
@DougAMacgregor

BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (TGPs7)

Fine by me. Let Europe solve their own problems for a change.
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Mmmm, remember the last two countries to invade Russia were Germany and France.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (jFCkp)

170 BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Well, they do know trench warfare.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (L/fGl)

171 France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.

I think that is just posturing. Neither has much of a real standing army any longer and both rely very heavily on US military presence. If the US won't play along, they will not either.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (RsS92)

172 Just one counter to the 'only illegals do the outside work anymore' bilge.

What of the ag workers? Don't fear the reaper, dudes.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (aD39U)

173 BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (

Good.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (p4NUW)

174 Mmmm, remember the last two countries to invade Russia were Germany and France.
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Correction - Britain and France.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (jFCkp)

175 >>BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.

I don't think Putin wants all of Europe...

but, if they are going to roll out the Red Carpet?

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (z/jjr)

176 I think the public might just reject all attempts to prosecute political actors over political disputes, but we'll have to see.

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RUFKM?

Seeing traitors and other overt in-our-face criminals held to account and be legally punished?

JD Vance may win a 57-state landslide in '28 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (/YFXY)

177 It's amazing how quickly the left went from damning this nation for being built on exploited labor to telling us how bad it will be if we don't have brown people to mow our lawns for us.
Posted by: Sarge at November 25, 2024 02:41 PM (BzF4R)

The Left's thing has long been punishing you for their own crimes.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:44 PM (12v8J)

178 ***Border Czar Nominee Tom Homan: "Resistance"
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is futile, surrender and I will be merciful.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:44 PM (om3Wy)

179 We already know the public rejected the lawfare against Trump. Now, if Trump begins using legal process against #Resistance figures (who are legitimately breaking the law), we'll see if the public is against all use of prosecutorial power to settle political disputes, or only plainly rancid and corrupt uses of the power, as we saw in the five Trump prosecutions.

Unlike Trump, these sanctuary city/state clowns are committing actual felony violations of Federal law. I'll allow that there's no way the media tells anyone that distinction, but it is a true thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

180 Tell me how much it costs America for all of the ER visits and other medical care that these illegals consume. And just for shits and giggles, add in the cost of policing and incarceration.

I'll bet it dwarfs the theoretical increase in food production costs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 02:44 PM (d9fT1)

181 Ok. Fine by me. Let France and the UK deal with Vlad.

As long as they don't drag us into yet another one of their territorial disputes. You're on your own this time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:44 PM (RsS92)

182 For most people, growing a garden is a money loser compared to buying at Costco or whatever. It's a hobby, and a fun way to get outside, but no way is it cost effective.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (xCA6C)

So then I don't see the connection with the loss of cheap local illegal labor. They're saying the price of food is going to go up we won't be able to afford vegetables unless we grow them ourselves?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 25, 2024 02:44 PM (B9Prs)

183 My son cleans the house, including the bathrooms. That is why I pay him an allowance. At his work this summer at a restaurant, when he went back to school and put in his notice, the initial replacement was an illegal. That lasted a day, as the owner called ICE or DPS, and the illegal was taken into custody. The second replacement was an actual Texas resident. If all government assistance was cut off and businesses acted like my son's employer, most illegals will self deport. Government assistance includes schools, hospitals, and anything that takes one cent of government money, other than the bus ticket to the border, which I would be ok with using tax dollars for.

Posted by: TheITGuy2 at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (+Em2P)

184 AFAIK we get no benefit from illegal alien slaves at our house. I've never paid anyone to clean my home or mow my lawn. Frankly, it's an icky thought. Probably my right wing sensibilities.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (w6EFb)

185 Or... or spoiled children and teenagers are going to start earning money doing those chores. Who knows might even get my order correct in ENGLISH at a burger joint.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (17s+e)

Yes. Off the tablets and outside with these kids.

I do give props to my local DQ. The workers there are wonderful. Always polite and the place is spotless.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (K1HkL)

186 Mmmm, remember the last two countries to invade Russia were Germany and France.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Don't forget the multiple foreign interventions during the Russian Civil War.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (v6JzV)

187 Yeah! Rick Perry kicked ass, chewed bubblegum, and... I can't remember the third thing he did.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (12v8J)

Third thing: Got bent out of shape because Trump said, "pussy".

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (g8Ew8)

188 I also like the casual slur/insult against everyone that works on landscaping, home repair or home cleaning.

The insinuation that it's too hard and way beneath people.

It's slowly dawning on some of the quicker Dems that they just lost the title "for the working man" in this election.

And 1) they ain't getting it back and 2) tweets like this drive even more non-college away from the Dems.

Fantastic.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (8Kx9y)

189 They employ an army of domestic helpers.

There's an economics professor at the University of Michigan who says that it would be far more efficient if the American professional class used a lot more servants.

And, yes, he is a very Left-wing Democrat.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (uxCna)

190 I've said some less than complimentary things about Vladimir Putin over the years. But if he cauterizes the Acela Corridor with hypersonic missiles, I'll personally chip in for one of those hideous gigantic flower-wreathed portraits that Russian dictators love so much.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (7oYYI)

191 Those democrats never forgave us for freeing the slaves, and are bargaining now for sub-minimum wages under the table.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (lTGtQ)

192 " Ok. Fine by me. Let France and the UK deal with Vlad.

As long as they don't drag us into yet another one of their territorial disputes. You're on your own this time."

You don't have ME to kick around any more!

Posted by: Charles Lindbergh at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (Ft5W9)

193 Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

Everyone nostalgic for the 1950s might not realize what that actually entails. https://t.co/enWhwz1koC

— Jason C

These limousine liberal elitists are so out of touch they're like characters in a Monty Python sketch about upper-class twits.

What they say:

"But who will rake your garden?"

What they mean:

"But who will rake my garden?"

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (pMi6S)

194 🚨BREAKING: A senior Biden administration official is reportedly ready to present evidence suggesting the cocaine found in the White House was linked to Barack Obama, not Hunter Biden.
Reports allege it was left by Obama during a visit to the White House.

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I'm willing to suspend my disbelief on this.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (L/fGl)

195 Our cat has decided there are only two choices for him: either sit on my chest directly blocking off my vision of the keyboard so I can't write... or leave entirely and sleep in another room. I get that he's not particularly bright, but seems like "sit nearby in the same room with me" is better than alone in another room but what do I know.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (RsS92)

196 BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

It's as hilarious as it is stupid. I don't think we're obligated to help them out if they launch attacks on Russia.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (IG4Id)

197 1950's lawn care:

Kid rings doorbell: "Mr, mow your lawn for fifty cents?"

Man digs out lawn mower and says, "have at it!"

Funny how kids back then tended to be a bit leaner than the kids of today.

Posted by: blake

Late 60's/early 70's it was $2 front, $3 for the back, and included hand edging with manual clippers.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (UE7n4)

198
Got a friend who gave his snowflake teenager nephew a job last summer. Sweeping floors. A job "special needs" kids did in my era. Couldn't do it right.

Add school administrators and teachers to your enemy list.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (j4U/Z)

199 About five seconds after the deportations begin cable news will be wall to wall crying children. I think Homan has zero fucks to give.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (u73oe)

I think AOC is kind of cute when she fake cries. Opinion may vary.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (kTd/k)

200 I think the public might just reject all attempts to prosecute political actors over political disputes, but we'll have to see.

They arrested that town/county clerk in Kentucky (I forget the lady’s name) who refused to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples.

As far as I’m concerned, the left chose this hill to die on almost a decade ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (6ydKt)

201 > I just read that Mount Vernon had a huge front porch, which was unusual for the time, because George Washington got a lot of random people showing up to meet or schmooze him, and he wanted a place to meet with them outside so he wouldn't have to let them into his house.
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Our front porch spans the entire front of the house. For just that reason.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 02:47 PM (Q4IgG)

202 If Trump and Homan follow through I am going to invest in John Deere stock cause there are going to be a lot of new lawnmower sales.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 02:47 PM (LkLld)

203 I haven't seen any females though Posted by: kallisto

My vineyard wench is Francesca. She's a real find.
'Homeless.' Lives in a tent in the woods with her fella.
Born here, US native, ex-druggie, totes unemployable except for me and a local slumlord. Ten bucks an hour plus a ride both ways and two cheap meals, and I have to take both of them. Deal.

I'm not quite ready to move them into the caretaker cottage, but we had an energetic summer of employment together.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 02:47 PM (zdLoL)

204 I've be happy to clean my own house, learn how to do minor home repairs, and cut my own grass . . .

. . . oh, wait. It gets hot in the summer, and my neighbors wouldn't like me running the snarling m ower at 7 am to avoid the heat. Well, there's got to be a teenage American kid or two who'd like to earn a little $$, huh?

Anybody?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 02:47 PM (J2vNu)

205 >>>or only plainly rancid and corrupt uses of the power, as we saw in the five Trump prosecutions.
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More than 1/2 of America can't wait for the prosecutions to begin.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:47 PM (om3Wy)

206 I've seen reports that Britain has more political prisoners in jail then Russia does. It gets into a question of course of who exactly is a political prisoner but there is no question Western Europe has been rapidly becoming worse.

If they want to go bleed themselves over Ukrainian graft and sex trafficking I guess that is up to them...but it certainly won't be a fight for "democracy" or whatever other crap they are pushing

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:47 PM (oZhjI)

207 It's a hobby, and a fun way to get outside, but no way is it cost effective.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (xCA6C)

Herbs are probably cost effective if one uses a lot of them.

They certainly are for me. But produce? You are 100% correct.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 02:47 PM (d9fT1)

208 >>Got a friend who gave his snowflake teenager nephew a job last summer. Sweeping floors. A job "special needs" kids did in my era. Couldn't do it right.

He needed instructions on running the Push Broom?

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:47 PM (z/jjr)

209 Remember, there aren't enough people in the British Army to fill a big American college football stadium.

Good luck fighting Russia, guys.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:47 PM (uxCna)

210 BREAKING: A senior Biden administration official is reportedly ready to present evidence suggesting the cocaine found in the White House was linked to Barack Obama, not Hunter Biden.
Reports allege it was left by Obama during a visit to the White House.

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I'm willing to suspend my disbelief on this.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I'm not. No way that was obolo's. That was 100% Hunter.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (UE7n4)

211 I'll bet it dwarfs the theoretical increase in food production costs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 02:44 PM (d9fT1)
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Last few years my wife and I were in CA, hospital ER visits were a nightmare, at least, in Bakersfield. Illegals everywhere, all with very expensive cell phones, etc. They didn't care how long they had to wait to see a doctor. They weren't paying for it. Which is probably why Urgent care became a thing. $20 up front meant skin in the game and probably helped weed out more than a few of the free loaders.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (tT6L1)

212 For most people, growing a garden is a money loser compared to buying at Costco or whatever. It's a hobby, and a fun way to get outside, but no way is it cost effective.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:42 PM (xCA6C)

So then I don't see the connection with the loss of cheap local illegal labor. They're saying the price of food is going to go up we won't be able to afford vegetables unless we grow them ourselves?

I think they're saying that farmers will have to pay more to have their crops picked, so food prices will rise, and that is correct. It's a different question whether or not that makes overall economic sense.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (xCA6C)

213 "I think the public might just reject all attempts to prosecute political actors over political disputes, but we'll have to see."

Political he says. OK.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (Z8Yh2)

214 14 What Mexico has done to accommodate this 4 year invasion is nothing less than an act of war, in my opinion. It should be dealt with harshly. Peacefully, but harshly. - Chairborne!

To borrow and adapt a line from Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon: Peacefully, if possible, but in any event...expeditiously.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (njExo)

215 "But if he cauterizes the Acela Corridor with hypersonic missiles, I'll personally chip in for one of those hideous gigantic flower-wreathed portraits that Russian dictators love so much."

I said before the election that if Putin nuked Washington DC he'd be elected US president in a write-in landslide.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (Ft5W9)

216 Got a friend who gave his snowflake teenager nephew a job last summer. Sweeping floors. A job "special needs" kids did in my era. Couldn't do it right.

He needed instructions on running the Push Broom?
Posted by: garrett

It's complicated.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (UE7n4)

217 180: CBD. you forgot to mention paying super premiums for auto insurance, not to mention the lost wages during recovery after an illegal crashes into your car and those are direct costs to citizens, not government costs that will have to be paid eventually.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (UKUm3)

218 I've seen reports that Britain has more political prisoners in jail then Russia does.

Russia generally punishes dissidents with fines.

Britain generally punishes dissidents with prison.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (uxCna)

219 The house I grew up in sat on two lots, so our yard was huge. Sometimes it would take me two days to mow it.

And then I got to rake up all the mowed grass.

And I never got an allowance for it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (v6JzV)

220 What they say:

"But who will rake your garden?"

What they mean:

"But who will rake my garden?"

Yeah I think they believe it has broad appeal "we'll all be hurt by this!" when it only means they lose their nanny and gardener, which none of us have. Elites lose perspective pretty quickly in all cultures.

There's more than cost involved in home gardening, though. Its probably not more expensive to grow your own tomatos than to buy them, but the flavor of home grown is 900000% better than store bought ones. I get that its a bit of labor (like 10 minutes a day in your garden outside), but that cost is pretty minimal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (RsS92)

221 There's an economics professor at the University of Michigan who says that it would be far more efficient if the American professional class used a lot more servants.

And, yes, he is a very Left-wing Democrat.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (uxCna)

Sure, you can easily justify it.

"I am a lawyer, my billable rate is $550 an hour. If I cook dinner every day, at an hour a day, that's $3,850 in labor costs alone! It's much cheaper to hire a cook to cook for me, or to eat out" or "it would cost me millions in lost billable hours to raise my kids on my own. I need to hire a nanny, it's so much cheaper!"

Of course, they're not staying up late writing briefs every day, most of the time they're sitting on the couch drinking wine and watching netflix. But you can see how they justify their laziness and lack of attention to their families / homelife.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (Evo1G)

222 Jason C
@jasonc_nc

Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

Everyone nostalgic for the 1950s might not realize what that actually entails.

============

ZitoSalena
@ZitoSalena

A lot of us do this already.

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Make Bourgeois Values Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (/YFXY)

223 Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden
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Our long national nightmare has arrived!!!

What do these people do all day? Traffic children?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (12v8J)

224 Barky McFuckstick does blow? I'm shocked, shocked I say. Actually no , it makes perfect sense

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (FxDm7)

225 Tell me how much it costs America for all of the ER visits and other medical care that these illegals consume. And just for shits and giggles, add in the cost of policing and incarceration.

I'll bet it dwarfs the theoretical increase in food production costs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

It goes well beyond that. Millions of Americans are on welfare because those jobs were taken at below minimum wage. Then, add in the free or almost free housing, and the $2,000 per month in food stamps that more than two thirds of illegals are getting.

We are paying more than twice the cost by keeping Americans on welfare and subsidizing illegals. It is just that the employers aren't paying it directly - we taxpayers are.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (lTGtQ)

226 Actually Feb 23 2021 would have been the day NATO should have deployed into Ukraine. 💩 tin didn't think they had the balls to face off against him. It came as a surprise to poo Tin that the corrupt Ukrainians got a spine. However winning is elusive to all the parties.

I figure with the depletion of Russian armor ( and aircraft) that there's not much left. A solid push by Western armies and Russia is out of Ukraine.

The problem is obvious: will Russia go nuclear....to try to survive in Ukraine or just to get revenge.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (CpPSJ)

227 175 >>BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
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I don't think Putin wants all of Europe...
but, if they are going to roll out the Red Carpet?
Posted by: garrett
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Like the man said, (paraphrasing) - just wait until Germany withdraws social services to pay for building tanks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (om3Wy)

228 >>> 184 AFAIK we get no benefit from illegal alien slaves at our house. I've never paid anyone to clean my home or mow my lawn. Frankly, it's an icky thought. Probably my right wing sensibilities.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (w6EFb)

My neighbor here in TX has been mowing my lawn - I think he enjoys any power equipment - but I hope to replace him with sheeps starting next year.

I feel the same way about having someone clean my house, I guess I'm weird too.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (KcwUg)

229 and right on time, cbs news reports:

Unlawful crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are on track to drop to a new low for the Biden administration in November, according to internal Customs and Border Protection figures obtained by CBS News.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (CWTWj)

230 Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

Everyone nostalgic for the 1950s might not realize what that actually entails.

I do the first three things. I don't have a garden, so by definition I don't have illegals doing it either.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (2ocoG)

231 194 BREAKING: A senior Biden administration official is reportedly ready to present evidence suggesting the cocaine found in the White House was linked to Barack Obama, not Hunter Biden.
Reports allege it was left by Obama during a visit to the White House.

-
I'm willing to suspend my disbelief on this.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (L/fGl)

— —

If that’s true then that is one plot twist I didn’t see coming.

Although, it is totally on brand for O.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (6ydKt)

232 You know who really hates illegal immigrants?

Legal immigrants.

That's why Trump scored so well with Hispanics this time around.

The only people who want illegal immigrants are overpaid soyboy beta males who can't do anything around the house and need to hire cheap day laborers to do anything involving muscles.

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (pMi6S)

233 I will be merciful.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024

***
Merciful AND quick!

Posted by: Tom "The Gorn" Homan at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (J2vNu)

234 Remember when some "refugees" to Britain literally cut a soldier into pieces on the street?

Oh and isn't Britain the country that is about to steal its farmer's lands to pay for the upkeep on their "refugees"? Where the hell are they going to get the money to fight a war overseas AND pay their refugees to kill British people at home?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (oZhjI)

235 For all you Joe & Mika fans

Mika has left Twitter for Bluesky....

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (TGPs7)

236 Late 60's/early 70's it was $2 front, $3 for the back, and included hand edging with manual clippers.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (UE7n4)
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Yep. And, the idiot posting that "1950's lawncare" nonsense is way too young and ignorant to remember kids earned money that way growing up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (tT6L1)

237 What Mexico has done to accommodate this 4 year invasion is nothing less than an act of war, in my opinion. It should be dealt with harshly. Peacefully, but harshly.

Pffffft. Twenty five mile wide DMZ inside Mexico to the US border. Free fire zone. Nothing moves inside it or it is expeditiously eradicated.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (UE7n4)

238 I dunno. I see Obama as more of a designer-drug abuser.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024 02:51 PM (njExo)

239 196 BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Commies fighting Russians.

Who was it that said "I hope both sides lose"?

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 02:51 PM (j4U/Z)

240 BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (TGPs7)
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The french have nice rifles, never shot and only dropped once.

The English have only shot their rifles four times, the number of rounds that military gives them on deployment.

My money says that neither France nor England deploys troops this is a bluff and Trump will call that bluff.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 02:51 PM (17s+e)

241 I'm not. No way that was obolo's. That was 100% Hunter.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (UE7n4)

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I think Kamala is a possible candidate.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 02:51 PM (jyAD3)

242 BREAKING: A senior Biden administration official is reportedly ready to present evidence suggesting the cocaine found in the White House was linked to Barack Obama, not Hunter Biden.
Reports allege it was left by Obama during a visit to the White House.

Maybe that's why O looks so shitty. It's not actually the AIDS, it's the Peruvian marching powder.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 02:51 PM (2ocoG)

243 I think AOC is kind of cute when she fake cries. Opinion may vary.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (kTd/k)

We still need to see her tits before she goes.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 25, 2024 02:51 PM (ufFY8)

244 If Trump deports all the illegal aliens, and given the exodus from California the past few years, how many congressional seats will California have to give up in the House of Representatives?

Posted by: Dave's not here, man at November 25, 2024 02:51 PM (raPis)

245 >>I never got an allowance for it.

Last house we lived in we built.
The pile of trees we had, after clearing the Lot was bigger than the house.
I spent every day for 2 years; cutting, splitting, and stacking wood.
The woodpile was just under 1/4 mile long, 6 feet tall and 3 rows deep.
Dad didn't even say 'Thanks'.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (z/jjr)

246 239 196 BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

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So the people of France and England want to go to war with Russia in Ukraine.

Dumb.Asses.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (jyAD3)

247 Biden's minions are repaying Obama for running a palace coup against Joe, with the cocaine actually belongs to Obama line.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (tT6L1)

248 Obama gives new meaning to

"Driving that train, high on cocaine"

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (12v8J)

249 >>> 226 Actually Feb 23 2021 would have been the day NATO should have deployed into Ukraine. 💩 tin didn't think they had the balls to face off against him. It came as a surprise to poo Tin that the corrupt Ukrainians got a spine. However winning is elusive to all the parties.

I figure with the depletion of Russian armor ( and aircraft) that there's not much left. A solid push by Western armies and Russia is out of Ukraine.

The problem is obvious: will Russia go nuclear....to try to survive in Ukraine or just to get revenge.
Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (CpPSJ)

I'm not terribly convinced the Brits and French can provide this. Or for that matter, our current transified military, although hopefully OrangeManBad can change this...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (KcwUg)

250 ...a part of every day, for 2 years.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (z/jjr)

251 The Vigilant Fox 5@VigilantFox
NEW: Whoopi Goldberg unexpectedly SHUTS DOWN co-host's attempt to fearmonger about Trump before he even takes office.
ANA NAVARRO: “I'm not going to wait and see. I mean, this guy has told us he's a retribution. He's going to be a dictator.”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “There's nothing to be done until you know what you're fighting. Pissing in the wind doesn't help—you just get a wet face.”
ANA NAVARRO: “What I'm saying is I have no false expectations that at 78, he's going to, all of a sudden, turn into another human being. I spent weeks telling people that he was apocalyptic. I'm not going to change.”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “You lose credibility in many different ways. If you don't know what you're talking about and you accuse him of something, then they're going to blow it back. That's why I say we need to wait and see.”

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Don't worry, Whoopsie. There's no way you could lose credibility. You ain't got none.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (L/fGl)

252 The worst yard job I had as a kid was in early March, when the snow had all melted, and my Mom sent me outside with a shovel to pick up all the frozen dog turds that our mutt had left under the snow.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (v6JzV)

253 There's an economics professor at the University of Michigan who says that it would be far more efficient if the American professional class used a lot more servants.

The left is running around saying the only answer for AI/automation taking a bunch of jobs is UBI.

But honestly this guy has a better answer. Lower the costs of employment/living by reducing government and let a lawyer hire an American born cook or driver or whatever if he wants.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:53 PM (oZhjI)

254 If Trump deports all the illegal aliens, and given the exodus from California the past few years, how many congressional seats will California have to give up in the House of Representatives?
Posted by: Dave's not here, man at November 25, 2024 02:51 PM (raPis)

Well, they have 52. I suppose somewhere between 15 and 25?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 02:53 PM (VNX3d)

255 My neighbor here in TX has been mowing my lawn - I think he enjoys any power equipment - but I hope to replace him with sheeps starting next year.

I feel the same way about having someone clean my house, I guess I'm weird too.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Pro tip? Don't use sheep in the house. They drop pellets everywhere.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:53 PM (UE7n4)

256 244 If Trump deports all the illegal aliens, and given the exodus from California the past few years, how many congressional seats will California have to give up in the House of Representatives?
Posted by: Dave's not here, man at November 25, 2024 02:51 PM (raPis)

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The Census Bureau admitted 3 years ago that it botched the 2020 census.

CA should have lost between 2 and 3 more seats. IL and NY should have lost another each. Something like 17 seats were misappropriated.

And that's with the counting of illegals.

If Republicans own the executive in 2030, President Vance (or whoever) must force through the change to prevent the errors from 2020 and to not count illegals.

CA could lose 9 seats at once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

257 Unlawful crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are on track to drop to a new low for the Biden administration in November, according to internal Customs and Border Protection figures obtained by CBS News.
Posted by: gnats local 678

But what about the Border Bill that Trump blocked?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:53 PM (12v8J)

258 I would like to see a change of "business as usual" and have Trumps DOJ start arresting and prosecuting those actually breaking the law.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 25, 2024 02:53 PM (WsJuq)

259 247 Biden's minions are repaying Obama for running a palace coup against Joe, with the cocaine actually belongs to Obama line.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (tT6L1)

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100%

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 02:53 PM (jyAD3)

260 Putin wasn't surprised when Ukranians fought back, they did last time when he invaded an area with unmarked tanks. What changed was that the entire western world decided to flood Ukraine with weapons, "advisors" and money this time.

I've seen reports that Britain has more political prisoners in jail then Russia does.

Britain has jailed like 30 times more people for social media posts than Russia. Its a totalitarian state, it is not a place to move to now.

A woman in 2021 got the Wuhan Flu, which complicated an illness she already had. The National Health Service wrote her off: no cure, die quietly. Her family wanted to try an experimental treatment outside the UK. The NHS called her insane and took them to court to stop this. The judge agreed, and further, took her passport away to stop her from trying to get treatment.

They passed a law that makes it a thought crime to merely pray silently outside an abortion clinic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (RsS92)

261 So the people of France and England want to go to war with Russia in Ukraine.

TBH the citizens of France and England have very little input in who gets to rule them - like the inner cities here in the US.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (oZhjI)

262 Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

I mowed my (or my Dad's) lawn for 50 years. I made almost all home repairs until a few years ago. We have a cleaning service now, but certainly didn't when we were younger and had kids. I spend much of my free time landscaping the yard or my church grounds.

I make no apologies for hiring someone to do stuff once I hit 29. I earned it, and I have the money.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (xCA6C)

263 225 Tell me how much it costs America for all of the ER visits and other medical care that these illegals consume. And just for shits and giggles, add in the cost of policing and incarceration.

I'll bet it dwarfs the theoretical increase in food production costs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Farmers can concentrate on healthier food not having to produce as much. How much of our food production goes into federally funded food consumption? 12 to 25 million less mouths to feed.
Oh, strain on the electric grid diminishes too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (om3Wy)

264 Regarding the tweet fear mongering about having to do your own home repair - it always boils down to: “But who will pick the cotton?”

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (Hkcdp)

265 I wonder if the Obama's were flying high on the booger sugar when Big Mike drowned their mouthy chef.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (7oYYI)

266 and right on time, cbs news reports:

Unlawful crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are on track to drop to a new low for the Biden administration in November, according to internal Customs and Border Protection figures obtained by CBS News.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (CWTWj)

Hail Trump.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 02:55 PM (aD39U)

267
I think that was a fairly common architectural feature of the time, since there was no AC. As you know, DC in the summer is pretty stifling.
Posted by: Archimedes

No AC in DC? I'm thunderstruck!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2024 02:55 PM (63Dwl)

268 252 The worst yard job I had as a kid was in early March, when the snow had all melted, and my Mom sent me outside with a shovel to pick up all the frozen dog turds that our mutt had left under the snow.
Posted by: Bulg at November

And what is funny is while the left is crying the blues about losing cheap help, the void gets filled by entrepreneurs. Enter Doody Calls.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 02:55 PM (p4NUW)

269 Hey, how about France and England pay the price for Blackrock's 250 billion scam in Ukraine.

Better than our men and women doing it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 02:55 PM (jyAD3)

270 The house I grew up in sat on two lots, so our yard was huge. Sometimes it would take me two days to mow it.

And then I got to rake up all the mowed grass.

And I never got an allowance for it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (v6JzV)

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Until the wifey got rid of lots of rocks in the yard (3/4-acre) and splurged for a nice new gas-powered lawn mower (with forward-moving wheel-assist), for about a decade I'd spend all three days of the Memorial Day holiday weed-eating it -- much to the displeasure of my lower back.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:55 PM (/YFXY)

271 I feel the same way about having someone clean my house, I guess I'm weird too.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:50 PM (KcwUg)

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I did have a company clean my house for a couple of years (no illegals, all young American women). Mostly because there were four adults living in the house and I got tired of working full time and being the only one who gave a shit if the house was clean. Since I've been working fewer hours and we have one less person in the house I'm back to doing it myself.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 02:55 PM (DRSnL)

272 They arrested that town/county clerk in Kentucky (I forget the lady’s name) who refused to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples.

As far as I’m concerned, the left chose this hill to die on almost a decade ago.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (6ydKt)

They also jailed an election worker in Colorado who attempted to prevent cheating. She knew the election officials planned to "lose" some important information so she made a backup copy.

Posted by: Emmie at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (9b91n)

273 >>> 255
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Pro tip? Don't use sheep in the house. They drop pellets everywhere.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:53 PM (UE7n4)

LOL

I cannot believe how many people I see on the intertubes who bring bottle baby goats or sheeps into the house and then let them run around instead of keeping them in the crate or tub or whatever. They are livestock, they cannot be house broken.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (KcwUg)

274 But honestly this guy has a better answer. Lower the costs of employment/living by reducing government and let a lawyer hire an American born cook or driver or whatever if he wants.
Posted by: 18-1

Paying SS, FICA, state unemployment, etc on the American would not be cheaper than a 14 yr old Guatamalan sex slave.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (UE7n4)

275 Oh and isn't Britain the country that is about to steal its farmer's lands to pay for the upkeep on their "refugees"? Where the hell are they going to get the money to fight a war overseas AND pay their refugees to kill British people at home?

Posted by: 18-1

Saw a video by the Lotus Eaters this weekend. The amount of money the UK plans to raise by taking away farmers' land is equal to the amount of money they are sending to Kenya to support local farming there.

Makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (lTGtQ)

276 The Biden Administration is considering sending nukes to Ukraine.

Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications.

You think?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (uxCna)

Weren't they returned to Russia as part of the non proliferation deal? We were cooperating in those days. I'm not sure why the US would even have them or why they would have saved them.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (n7h9X)

277 I have hired a house cleaner once or twice in my life. Was never very impressed.

And TBH if I went to clean someone else's house I don't think I could clean it as well as mine anyway

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (oZhjI)

278 Late 60's/early 70's it was $2 front, $3 for the back, and included hand edging with manual clippers.
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Yep. And manual clippers sucked.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (jFCkp)

279 I make no apologies for hiring someone to do stuff once I hit 29. I earned it, and I have the money.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (xCA6C)

No argument from me. The advantage of tossing the illegals is that the labor market will no longer be as distorted. Some companies were willing to break the law, but some companies weren't, and that is an awful way for a labor market to function.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (d9fT1)

280 The military has the concept of the "kill box." Trump should employ the concept for immigration. Funnel illegals into sanctuaries, forming a "deportation box," making it easier to round them up when the time comes.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 25, 2024 02:57 PM (paSBy)

281 I think they're saying that farmers will have to pay more to have their crops picked, so food prices will rise, and that is correct. It's a different question whether or not that makes overall economic sense.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (xCA6C)

I'd be happy if we just got rid of the immigrants that came in the last 4 years. Who was taking care of the farms 4 years ago? There was no labor shortage I knew of.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 02:57 PM (wyMQY)

282 There's more than cost involved in home gardening, though. Its probably not more expensive to grow your own tomatos than to buy them, but the flavor of home grown is 900000% better than store bought ones. I get that its a bit of labor (like 10 minutes a day in your garden outside), but that cost is pretty minimal.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:49 PM (RsS92)

Maybe if you start the 'maters from seed. If you buy plants to set out in the Spring, you will be eating some very expensive tomatoes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 02:57 PM (IErdF)

283 When I had mom living here, I got a service to help take care of her, and they did some housework. I admit that was really nice, it gave me a chance to rest a few hours and the house looked good. But I cannot possibly justify that cost, and honestly one ought to care for our own property as best we are able.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:57 PM (RsS92)

284 My dad used to wait until the hottest day of the week, then declare the yard needed to be mowed.

I despised cutting grass.

I despise it now. But now I gets to sit on my fat ass and ride around on the tractor, while solving all of the planet's problems. With a drink holder.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 02:57 PM (Q4IgG)

285 After reading this about Homan, the diamond in my wife's ring is the 2nd hardest thing in my house right now.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (k1E2D)

286 Saw a video by the Lotus Eaters this weekend. The amount of money the UK plans to raise by taking away farmers' land is equal to the amount of money they are sending to Kenya to support local farming there.

Makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (lTGtQ)

And of course it is impossible that UK farmers will develop LLCs or the equivalent to dodge inheritance taxes by having the "owner" never die.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (n7h9X)

287 Last house we lived in we built.
The pile of trees we had, after clearing the Lot was bigger than the house.
I spent every day for 2 years; cutting, splitting, and stacking wood.
The woodpile was just under 1/4 mile long, 6 feet tall and 3 rows deep.
Dad didn't even say 'Thanks'.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (z/jjr)

Gnarly

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (NtVYv)

288 262
I make no apologies for hiring someone to do stuff once I hit 29. I earned it, and I have the money.
Posted by: Archimedes at

I have someone who cleans the house every other week. She is on her way now, as a matter of fact. She is not an illegal, and she sings gospel while she cleans. It’s awesome.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (p4NUW)

289 I think they're saying that farmers will have to pay more to have their crops picked, so food prices will rise, and that is correct. It's a different question whether or not that makes overall economic sense.

The people that tell me there has been no inflation over the last 4 years tell me I should be outraged I'd have to pay another nickel for a head of lettuce if Trump sent the illegals home.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (oZhjI)

290 Wow, we get to go back to the 50's? When a Man could support a family and buy a house on a single salary? When we sent our kids to church, and made them do their homework?

When being a single parent was because Dad died in the War, not because Mom was an unmarried slut or threw Dad to the Curb?

When they served REAL Meals on Airplanes? We had big cars with V8s? When food was MUCH more natural and unprocessed then now?

OK... I'm in.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (QAkQ3)

291 >>>Britain has jailed like 30 times more people for social media posts than Russia. Its a totalitarian state, it is not a place to move to now.
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Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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May they find a special place for Ellen DeGenerate and her 'significant' other.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (om3Wy)

292 Americans are about to learn how to
-maintain their own lawns
-clean their own house
-make home repairs themselves
-grow a home garden

Everyone nostalgic for the 1950s might not realize what that actually entails.

Those who partake in the hiring for these services are of the laptop and professional class. In other words, the upper middle class and higher who are usually kollige educated and hate their smelly blue collar fellow Americans. Not all, but enough to make this generality, so if the costs of living well go up a little, it's fine with those of us with a mower and snow thrower in the shed.
And a tool box that includes a filter wrench in the garage.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (FCbAQ)

293 The thing is, IF we had a secure, controlled border and a no-nonsense immigration system, THEN we could have a well-regulated guest-worker program that both provided labor where needed AND protected the rights of workers. We can't have that within the current state of chaos.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (9yUzE)

294 He needed instructions on running the Push Broom?
Posted by: garrett

To be fair, there is a technique to it.

It's one that most people can figure out after running one and actually observing how effective their efforts are, of course, but there is a technique.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (hB7mE)

295 Maybe if you start the 'maters from seed. If you buy plants to set out in the Spring, you will be eating some very expensive tomatoes.

However, the local wildlife will be very happy.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (xCA6C)

296 My 13th birthday gift was a Craftsman Push Mower.

Wouldn't have been so bad, except Dad took me to look at Road Bikes the week before.

Much disappointment when the Bianchi I imagined I was getting turned out to be a lawnmower.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (z/jjr)

297 290 Wow, we get to go back to the 50's? When a Man could support a family and buy a house on a single salary? When we sent our kids to church, and made them do their homework?

When being a single parent was because Dad died in the War, not because Mom was an unmarried slut or threw Dad to the Curb?

When they served REAL Meals on Airplanes? We had big cars with V8s? When food was MUCH more natural and unprocessed then now?

OK... I'm in.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (QAkQ3)

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Yeah, but you'll have to figure out how to replace a garbage disposal on your own. The horror.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

298 I think they're saying that farmers will have to pay more to have their crops picked, so food prices will rise, and that is correct. It's a different question whether or not that makes overall economic sense.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (xCA6C)

I'd be happy if we just got rid of the immigrants that came in the last 4 years. Who was taking care of the farms 4 years ago? There was no labor shortage I knew of.
Posted by: Tom Servo

We have enough farm workers visas.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (UE7n4)

299
I cannot believe how many people I see on the intertubes who bring bottle baby goats or sheeps into the house and then let them run around instead of keeping them in the crate or tub or whatever. They are livestock, they cannot be house broken.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (KcwUg)

I know a guy that has a wild hog he hand raised at his office, he has a huge doggy door and a room filled with hay for the hog. It's huge. If you pull up in your truck outside the hog comes running up to greet you. It's nuts.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (1szDw)

300 Back when we lived in a nice neighborhood in Southern Califzuela, we were pretty much the only people on our block who did their own landscaping.

Illegals did all the rest -- employing the ubiquitous leaf-blower, of course)!while blasting their shitty repetitive "music" -- but I did admire them for at least working, and working hard.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 03:00 PM (/YFXY)

301 I have been checking British threads about the coming land seizures.

The argument from the pro side mostly boil down to two things

1) The farmers have money and we want it
2) The farmers voted for the Tories and/or Brexit and therefore we have a right to hurt them

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 03:00 PM (oZhjI)

302 Removing the 20 million illegal invaders off of EBT will lower the price of food for Americans.

Fun Fact: In June of 2021 the Biden-Harris junta almost doubled the EBT money. Before inflation really clobbered groceries. They knew what they were doing and shielded the illegal invaders.... and made food inflation that much worse.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 03:00 PM (17s+e)

303 amazing how so many on the left seem surprised that all of their lawfare is falling apart now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 03:00 PM (wyMQY)

304 I despise it now. But now I gets to sit on my fat ass and ride around on the tractor, while solving all of the planet's problems. With a drink holder.
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Sweet. And when you run out of beer you drive your mower to pickup moar beer! I've seen this moar than once.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:00 PM (jFCkp)

305 Why the hell would the Brits and Frogs want to into a land war over the Donbass and Crimea?

Those areas have effectively been under Russian sovereignty since Catherine the Great.

Yes, Ukraine is sovereign now, but is getting into a dangerous conflict with Russia over Russian populated land really worth the effort?

Even if they manage to take the regions back that Russia occupied they’d have to deport millions of Russian-speaking Russians from the area just to prevent an insurgency and another civil war in a few years.

But no, let’s have a pissing contest in a meat grinder against a nuclear power.

Kier and Emmanuel need to blow each other instead of trying to blow up the world.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:01 PM (6ydKt)

306 amazing how so many on the left seem surprised that all of their lawfare is falling apart now.

"WE'VE GOT HIM NOW!!"

Posted by: Libtard Victory Cry ssince January 2017 at November 25, 2024 03:01 PM (dCxaZ)

307 When being a single parent was because Dad died in the War, not because Mom was an unmarried slut or threw Dad to the Curb

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25

Or Dad walked out never to be seen again….

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:01 PM (p4NUW)

308 Oh no, Muffy! Those brutish Republicans are freeing our slaves agin.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 03:02 PM (wBaIH)

309 Someone tell Director Homan that Jack Smith will be available to prosecute the Resistance.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (CpPSJ)

>>>Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to dismiss the election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump, citing longstanding Justice Department policy barring the prosecution of a sitting president while insisting that the government "stands fully behind" the merits of the charges.

Dude is a grade A traitor.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 25, 2024 03:02 PM (i24o9)

310 >>> 297

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Yeah, but you'll have to figure out how to replace a garbage disposal on your own. The horror.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

Even *I* have done that.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 03:02 PM (KcwUg)

311 I despise it now. But now I gets to sit on my fat ass and ride around on the tractor, while solving all of the planet's problems. With a drink holder.
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Sweet. And when you run out of beer you drive your mower to pickup moar beer! I've seen this moar than once.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:00 PM (jFCkp)

Just don't get pulled over for drunk driving on your lawn tractor....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 03:02 PM (VNX3d)

312 Forcing companies to hire actual citizens will raise prices... but the overall lower cost of having fewer illegals should balance that out. The problem is that most of the costs are governmental, and they're spending money they aren't getting from taxes. So basically at best it means less debt.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:02 PM (RsS92)

313 The people that tell me there has been no inflation over the last 4 years tell me I should be outraged I'd have to pay another nickel for a head of lettuce if Trump sent the illegals home.

Posted by: 18-1

The necessary deflation of the money supply (which was the actual cause of inflation) will more than offset any increase in wages for bringing in the crops.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 03:02 PM (lTGtQ)

314 The Obama cocaine thing, true or not, certainly feels like another shot across Kalorama’s bow from Joe and DOCTOR JILL.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 03:02 PM (3cXfB)

315 >>> Prosecuted for Harboring Illegal Aliens

Ef that shiite man!
Send in snatch and bag teams to send them to Bolivia foir renditions. Maybe in a few years charged with Insurrection.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 03:03 PM (/lPRQ)

316 >>>Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to dismiss the election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump, citing longstanding Justice Department policy barring the prosecution of a sitting president while insisting that the government "stands fully behind" the merits of the charges.

Merits of the charges ? If you believe that why dismiss ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 03:03 PM (IyPmt)

317 WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “You lose credibility in many different ways. If you don't know what you're talking about and you accuse him of something, then they're going to blow it back. That's why I say we need to wait and see.”

Looks like all those legal notices are having a salutary effect.

Who knew that Whoopi would be the teachable one?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:03 PM (hB7mE)

318 >>> 299
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I know a guy that has a wild hog he hand raised at his office, he has a huge doggy door and a room filled with hay for the hog. It's huge. If you pull up in your truck outside the hog comes running up to greet you. It's nuts.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (1szDw)

That's funny and sad at the same time, because how much bacon could that have been?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 03:03 PM (KcwUg)

319 I don't do any home repairs on my own, because I suck when it comes to using tools.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:03 PM (v6JzV)

320 >>Or Dad walked out never to be seen again…

He's just going to get some milk.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (z/jjr)

321 317 WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “You lose credibility in many different ways. If you don't know what you're talking about and you accuse him of something, then they're going to blow it back. That's why I say we need to wait and see.”

Looks like all those legal notices are having a salutary effect.

Who knew that Whoopi would be the teachable one?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:03 PM (hB7mE)

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Reading 4 legal notices on one show must have had an effect.

Also, is she walking back any of the insanity she's been espousing this entire election season about what she said Trump would do?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

322 So the people of France and England want to go to war with Russia in Ukraine.

TBH the citizens of France and England have very little input in who gets to rule them - like the inner cities here in the US.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (oZhjI)

France has a pretend election so the deep state knows exactly how to steal the real one.

England can change 'presidents' without an election at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (n7h9X)

323 Or Dad walked out never to be seen again….
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:01 PM (p4NUW)

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He went out to get some milk. Should be back any minute now...

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (DRSnL)

324 The worst yard job I had as a kid was in early March, when the snow had all melted, and my Mom sent me outside with a shovel to pick up all the frozen dog turds that our mutt had left under the snow.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:52 PM (v6JzV)

Not all of those were from Fido.

Posted by: Joe Shit The Ragman, Neighborhood Hobo at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Y5VD5)

325 Looks like all those legal notices are having a salutary effect.

Who knew that Whoopi would be the teachable one?

If she gets fired or laid off, who else would hire her? She's got to make this work.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (xCA6C)

326 Why the hell would the Brits and Frogs want to into a land war over the Donbass and Crimea?

Posted by: SpeakingOf

Because they owe it to Blackrock. I'm not joking.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (lTGtQ)

327 >>Much disappointment when the Bianchi I imagined I was getting turned out to be a lawnmower.

When my folks had the farm it took me an entire day to cut the grass and I mean sunup till sundown.

First the tractor with the sickle bar. Then the riding mover. Then the push mover and then the weed whip.

I hated lawn day.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (LkLld)

328 310
Even *I* have done that.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November

I have a brand new kitchen faucet I need to get installed. J, bless him, is worthless when it comes to things like this. I wonder if I could do it, because hiring a handyman for something so small is proving difficult.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (p4NUW)

329 A woman in 2021 got the Wuhan Flu, which complicated an illness she already had. The National Health Service wrote her off: no cure, die quietly. Her family wanted to try an experimental treatment outside the UK. The NHS called her insane and took them to court to stop this.

Their second mistake was telling the government they were going to try an experimental treatment outside the UK.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:05 PM (hB7mE)

330 He's just going to get some milk.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (z/jjr)

Funny story. My dad actually did that.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 03:05 PM (12v8J)

331 Dammit, Garrett!

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 03:05 PM (DRSnL)

332 Weren't they returned to Russia as part of the non proliferation deal? We were cooperating in those days. I'm not sure why the US would even have them or why they would have saved them.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (n7h9X)

IIRC, all of them were dismantled, and the nuclear material reprocessed into reactor fuel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 03:05 PM (IErdF)

333 >>>Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to dismiss the election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump, citing longstanding Justice Department policy barring the prosecution of a sitting president while insisting that the government "stands fully behind" the merits of the charges.

Merits of the charges ? If you believe that why dismiss ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 03:03 PM (IyPmt)

Because this government is going away in 2 months to be replaced by Trumps.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:05 PM (n7h9X)

334 Yep. And manual clippers sucked.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Manual edgers sucked worse.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 03:06 PM (j4U/Z)

335 293 The thing is, IF we had a secure, controlled border and a no-nonsense immigration system, THEN we could have a well-regulated guest-worker program that both provided labor where needed AND protected the rights of workers. We can't have that within the current state of chaos.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (9yUzE)

the Guest worker program still exists. Its never changed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 03:06 PM (QAkQ3)

336 They arrested that town/county clerk in Kentucky (I forget the lady’s name) who refused to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples.

As far as I’m concerned, the left chose this hill to die on almost a decade ago.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (6ydKt)

My hazy recollection of that incident is that she wasn't against issuing the licenses per se, but that it was still specifically illegal to do so in Ky and she wanted some official notification from higher up before she did.
In the interim she go in hot water. So really she was punished for trying to do the best legal job she could.
Typical in our current environment.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024 03:06 PM (FCbAQ)

337 And we never had riding mowers when I was growing up. Push mowers all the way.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:06 PM (v6JzV)

338 330. Funny story. My dad actually did that.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 03:05 PM (12v8J)

I am sorry. Honestly. Because that sucks and it hurts forever.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:07 PM (p4NUW)

339 318 >>> 299
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I know a guy that has a wild hog he hand raised at his office, he has a huge doggy door and a room filled with hay for the hog. It's huge. If you pull up in your truck outside the hog comes running up to greet you. It's nuts.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (1szDw)

That's funny and sad at the same time, because how much bacon could that have been?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 03:03 PM

He must trap them, he had another one but a neighbor shot it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:07 PM (1szDw)

340 “You lose credibility in many different ways. If you don't know what you're talking about and you accuse him of something, then they're going to blow it back. That's why I say we need to wait and see.”

It is surprising to see Whoopi show some sense after screaming nazi and fascist for 8 months. Its not hard to seem wise compared to the rest of the View though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:07 PM (RsS92)

341 333 >>>Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday moved to dismiss the election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump, citing longstanding Justice Department policy barring the prosecution of a sitting president while insisting that the government "stands fully behind" the merits of the charges.

Merits of the charges ? If you believe that why dismiss ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 03:03 PM (IyPmt)

Because this government is going away in 2 months to be replaced by Trumps.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:05 PM (n7h9X)

Simpler, because there is no longer an Election to interfere with.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 03:07 PM (QAkQ3)

342 *fistbump*

Posted by: Uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at November 25, 2024 03:07 PM (gxokI)

343 I have a brand new kitchen faucet I need to get installed. J, bless him, is worthless when it comes to things like this. I wonder if I could do it, because hiring a handyman for something so small is proving difficult.
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So, Piper, you are looking for someone to fix your pipes?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:07 PM (jFCkp)

344 Have at it Europe, go at each other neck, and hope no one comes to help this time

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 03:07 PM (fwDg9)

345 >>> 328
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I have a brand new kitchen faucet I need to get installed. J, bless him, is worthless when it comes to things like this. I wonder if I could do it, because hiring a handyman for something so small is proving difficult.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (p4NUW)

Try a plumber instead?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 03:08 PM (KcwUg)

346 337 And we never had riding mowers when I was growing up. Push mowers all the way.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:06 PM (v6JzV)

Those do a really good job but you have to sharpen the blades. The ones without a motor, right? My grandparents had one of those and their grass was so nice.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:08 PM (1szDw)

347 >>I have a brand new kitchen faucet I need to get installed. J, bless him, is worthless when it comes to things like this. I wonder if I could do it, because hiring a handyman for something so small is proving difficult.

It's not a difficult job to do.

First step is putting on a skirt and a low cut bouse...

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:08 PM (z/jjr)

348 A woman in 2021 got the Wuhan Flu, which complicated an illness she already had. The National Health Service wrote her off: no cure, die quietly. Her family wanted to try an experimental treatment outside the UK. The NHS called her insane and took them to court to stop this.

Their second mistake was telling the government they were going to try an experimental treatment outside the UK.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:05 PM (hB7mE)

They do this with children a LOT. Even if the outside doctor volunteers to do it for no cost. They want their patients to die once they sentence them to death.

I can understand not going nuts due to cost if there is nothing that can be done in their eyes. The not letting the patient escape is monstrous.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:08 PM (n7h9X)

349 To be honest, the California economy will implode without illegals working at below-minimum-wage rates.

That's because our minimum wage is now an absurd $18.67/hr in San Francisco, and pretty close to that in most other cities/counties.

If homeowners actually paid this wage to their workers, every little thing would be astronomically expensive. So nearly everyone hires illegals willing to work at lower rats, and then pays them in cash. Otherwise, the economic system is untenable.

The reason the voters are OK with this is that they think the higher minimum wage is a punishment against businesses (who are evil capitalists), but they (the liberal voters themselves) feel that they shouldn't have to be similarly punsihed. So they pass laws to hurt business owners and then flaunt the law themselves.

But with the illegals gone, suddenly they'll all have to pay the actual minimum wage to actual Americans. Which the won't be able to afford.

So everything will come to a standstill.

Except the popcorn industry.

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2024 03:08 PM (pMi6S)

350 Weren't they returned to Russia as part of the non proliferation deal? We were cooperating in those days. I'm not sure why the US would even have them or why they would have saved them.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 02:56 PM (n7h9X)

Yeah, part of the same deal where we said NATO would not expand...

Oh... Looky....

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 03:08 PM (QAkQ3)

351 The only reason the ukraines gave up the Russian nukes that were on their soil was because they didn't have the arming codes.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (yOPBE)
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And?

Posted by: Black JEM at November 25, 2024 03:08 PM (GZYu7)

352 And we never had riding mowers when I was growing up. Push mowers all the way.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:06 PM (v6JzV)

Those do a really good job but you have to sharpen the blades. The ones without a motor, right? My grandparents had one of those and their grass was so nice.
Posted by: CaliGirl

No, they were motorized. Gas-powered.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:08 PM (v6JzV)

353 I have no beef against a controlled admittance of farm labor into this country. It was done very until the dems opened the floodgates. I see no reason why it can't be done again.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 03:09 PM (g8Ew8)

354 343. -----------
So, Piper, you are looking for someone to fix your pipes?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03

Just the faucet, friend. Just the faucet. And I actually mean a faucet. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:09 PM (p4NUW)

355 I am sorry. Honestly. Because that sucks and it hurts forever.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:07 PM (p4NUW)

Oh man I was just kidding. He did die young though. And my mother makes Joan Crawford look like Tinkerbell.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 03:09 PM (12v8J)

356 Ha, Judge Cedric Simpson ruling on an assault and battery case. Looks like mutual combat, and the judge would find BOTH guilty, but will find the defendant not guilty, because the other guy wasn't charged.

Awesome.

Judges Youtube channel right now, lol.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:09 PM (ufFY8)

357 According to Ukraine first Gorka, Trump is going to threaten Russia with US military involvement in they don't agree to US terms. Trump really needs to get past his appointments kissing his ass as a qualifying trait.

Posted by: ryukyu at November 25, 2024 03:09 PM (z/gEl)

358
I have a brand new kitchen faucet I need to get installed. J, bless him, is worthless when it comes to things like this. I wonder if I could do it, because hiring a handyman for something so small is proving difficult.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (p4NUW)

Watch a YouTube video on changing a faucet and I bet you could do it. I change the flappers on the toilets myself. That's a lot easier than a faucet though.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:10 PM (1szDw)

359 The Aztecs better watch themselves. If they help lose another election for Democrats, the AWFLs will go full Sparta and make them receive mandatory beatings out on the lawn, and so on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 03:10 PM (7oYYI)

360 I have no beef against a controlled admittance of farm labor into this country. It was done very until the dems opened the floodgates. I see no reason why it can't be done again.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 03:09 PM (g8Ew

I live in Farm country... there is no, nor has there been, any lack of available Labor for farmers... even well before the latest border insanity.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 03:10 PM (QAkQ3)

361 354 343. -----------
So, Piper, you are looking for someone to fix your pipes?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03

Just the faucet, friend. Just the faucet. And I actually mean a faucet. 🤣
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Does your faucet use cartridges? Cuz, if that's the case, its a pretty easy fix.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:10 PM (jFCkp)

362 The not letting the patient escape is monstrous.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yup.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:11 PM (hB7mE)

363 Why the hell would the Brits and Frogs want to into a land war over the Donbass and Crimea?

Posted by: SpeakingOf

Maybe they'll draft all the migrants and send them to Ukraine. You know, kill two birds with one stone.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 03:11 PM (L/fGl)

364 I was at the gas station today and I had a nice interaction with a stranger. She apparently saw me looking at her dog and decided to chat with me. She brought him over, introduced the dog, and asked if I wanted to pet him. I did. He leaned against me while I pet his neck and asked a couple of questions. I thanked her and finished up getting gas.

Because I work from home, I don't get a lot of casual interactions with people. It was nice.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:11 PM (Odg76)

365 296/My 13th birthday gift was a Craftsman Push Mower.

Wouldn't have been so bad, except Dad took me to look at Road Bikes the week before.

Much disappointment when the Bianchi I imagined I was getting turned out to be a lawnmower.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (z/jjr)

— —

What did he make you use before he got the lawnmower?
A scythe?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:11 PM (6ydKt)

366 To be honest, the California economy will implode without illegals working at below-minimum-wage rates.

That's because our minimum wage is now an absurd $18.67/hr in San Francisco, and pretty close to that in most other cities/counties.

Posted by: zombie

You are thinking about it from a business owner's perspective. Subtract the costs for welfare being paid to the Americans who lost those jobs, and the costs of putting illegals up in 'free' housing, and the cost of taxpayer paid emergency rooms, and the monthly food stamp payments to all illegals. It is cheaper to hire Americans and throw the illegals out of the country.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 03:11 PM (lTGtQ)

367 >>I have a brand new kitchen faucet I need to get installed. J, bless him, is worthless when it comes to things like this. I wonder if I could do it, because hiring a handyman for something so small is proving difficult.

It's not a difficult job to do.

First step is putting on a skirt and a low cut bouse...
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:08 PM (z/jjr)

I've done it myself (without the change of costume) when the old one had some pinholes spraying. It wasn't hard as I recall as long as the fittings in the new one match up and your piping is OK.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:12 PM (n7h9X)

368 328 Try a plumber instead?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Even worse. But I want to change out the shower, too, it just is a want not a need. May need to combine a few things.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:12 PM (p4NUW)

369 >>Watch a YouTube video on changing a faucet and I bet you could do it.

Watch 3. Seriously.
The repetition helps and one of the 3 will make a lot more sense to you than the others.
A different one will be so lame that it will give you confidence.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:12 PM (z/jjr)

370 Piper - the faucet almost definitely came with instructions. They're really simple installations. I'm sure you can do it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 03:12 PM (7oYYI)

371 "Even the Pharos needed Hebrew braceros"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 03:13 PM (D7oie)

372 Inadequately based. I'll fix it for MXM, also known as "Axios for non-communists"

Key Details:
- The border porous to the point of being open
- The incoming administration views a porous border as being a cultural, security, legal and economic risk
- The incoming administration has vowed to take immediate and decisive action on the border, including rigorous border security and mass deportation of illegal aliens
- Various state and local government leaders have indicated displeasure with the incoming administration views and plans, and have vowed to block the incoming administration where possible.

Diving Deeper:
- The incoming administration has informed state and local leaders that if they fuck around, they will find out

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:13 PM (HnUIn)

373 >>What did he make you use before he got the lawnmower?

A Franken-Mower that my grandfather built from any number of 'Trash Day' lawnmower carcasses he had laying around.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:13 PM (z/jjr)

374 Also - I know Ace Hardware has a handyman service. You could check with them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 03:13 PM (7oYYI)

375 Trump should make a deal with mex: close down the migration through Mexico now or when he takes office all illegals will be deported over the border from wence they came.

Posted by: Wardo at November 25, 2024 03:14 PM (162BX)

376 You are thinking about it from a business owner's perspective. Subtract the costs for welfare being paid to the Americans who lost those jobs, and the costs of putting illegals up in 'free' housing, and the cost of taxpayer paid emergency rooms, and the monthly food stamp payments to all illegals

This is all true, to a certain extent, but the problem is that governments won't lower taxes and fees if their costs go down. And the federal costs are spent without taxes funding them, its all just deficit spending.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:14 PM (RsS92)

377 So to change the subject slightly: Who do you think is going to be on both the Epstein and Diddy Party lists?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 03:14 PM (Da7Vv)

378 370 Piper - the faucet almost definitely came with instructions. They're really simple installations. I'm sure you can do it.
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We were not told why she wants a new faucet. We assume it is a leak. We need moar information. She may have took to a new faucet cuz reasons.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:14 PM (jFCkp)

379 372 Diving Deeper:
- The incoming administration has informed state and local leaders that if they fuck around, they will find out
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:13 PM (HnUIn)

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Then who will fight in our illegal fighting pits?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

380 I do not believe that ending federal funding to "sanctuary" cities is using lawfare or punishing people for their politics. I believe it is in the interest of public law and order. Break the law, lose your benefits. The difference is that Trump was prosecuted for NOT breaking the law, but being Trump. Not the same thing at all.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (byWhc)

381 BREAKING: France and England reportedly now in talks to deploy troops to Ukraine if Trump withdraws military aid.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 02:39 PM (TGPs7)
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So they CAN muster a military force if they really want to.

Dissolve NATO.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (YqDXo)

382 Ha, Judge Cedric Simpson ruling on an assault and battery case. Looks like mutual combat, and the judge would find BOTH guilty, but will find the defendant not guilty, because the other guy wasn't charged.

Awesome.

Judges Youtube channel right now, lol.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:09 PM

Heh. Judge Simpson is great.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (ZANHd)

383 Also - I know Ace Hardware has a handyman service. You could check with them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Not recommended for shelving installation, however.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (v6JzV)

384 I cannot believe how many people I see on the intertubes who bring bottle baby goats or sheeps into the house and then let them run around instead of keeping them in the crate or tub or whatever. They are livestock, they cannot be house broken.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

My daughter had two pigs in her home. Not human ones, real live farm pigs. Yes, she's a messed up as one might imagine.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (WXNFJ)

385 374 Also - I know Ace Hardware has a handyman service. You could check with them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at

I will open the box and look at the instructions. If they aren’t overwhelming, I may try it.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (p4NUW)

386 377 So to change the subject slightly: Who do you think is going to be on both the Epstein and Diddy Party lists?
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 03:14 PM (Da7Vv)

All those dirty fuckers, I presume. The question might read "who isn't?"

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (byWhc)

387 ICE makes illegals melt. The link lists all the ~~sanctuary~~ insurrection states, counties, and cities. New Mexico's going to be lit up : 21 of its 33 counties and it's three largest cities, Albuquerque, Las cruces, and Santa Fe all have insurrection policies.

Plus New Mexico's Governor announced last week that she plans to contest every single move by the federal government in the, presumably, Hawaiian courts. To emphasize this point, she ordered enough Hawaiian themed judicial robes for the entire country.

https://is.gd/9YtUrB

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 03:16 PM (vO42M)

388 Zombie they shoot themselves in the foot and I really don't care. They are dragging the country down as it is.

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 03:16 PM (fwDg9)

389 There's an economics professor at the University of Michigan who says that it would be far more efficient if the American professional class used a lot more servants.

And, yes, he is a very Left-wing Democrat.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:45 PM (uxCna)
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Probably true - but it is for a pretty narrow sliver of professionals - who probably already have them. If they have kids - it is a net negative. Kids should be doing the work around the house until they leave for college or go off to be an adult living on their own.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 25, 2024 03:16 PM (GZYu7)

390 322 So the people of France and England want to go to war with Russia in Ukraine.

TBH the citizens of France and England have very little input in who gets to rule them - like the inner cities here in the US.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (oZhjI)

France has a pretend election so the deep state knows exactly how to steal the real one.

England can change 'presidents' without an election at all.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (n7h9X)

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Really, that's my point. I'd love to see some crazy protests over it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 03:16 PM (jyAD3)

391 369 >>Watch a YouTube video on changing a faucet and I bet you could do it.

Watch 3. Seriously.
The repetition helps and one of the 3 will make a lot more sense to you than the others.
A different one will be so lame that it will give you confidence.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:12 PM

This!

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (1szDw)

392 My daughter had two pigs in her home. Not human ones, real live farm pigs. Yes, she's a messed up as one might imagine.
Posted by: Tonypete

Do they monopolize the TV to watch cowboy and Indian movies?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (v6JzV)

393 So they CAN muster a military force if they really want to.

Dissolve NATO.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (YqDXo)

Saw a report a couple days ago said the UK currently has 73,000 combat troops. 73,000 total. That's not a military, that's a cosplay convention.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (wyMQY)

394 osted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 03:11 PM (Odg76)

How nice! Thanks for sharing an upbeat story.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (MQJVv)

395 Why the hell would the Brits and Frogs want to into a land war over the Donbass and Crimea?

1853 would like a word.
Step just half a league onward, over there...

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (zdLoL)

396 There is little question, though, that these Sanctuary jurisdictions should have federal monies stripped from them, as Homan suggests. The federal government is paying blue cities a lot of money supposedly for "law enforcement;" if they won't enforce the law, that money should stop.
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They absolutely should. This is, in essence, a nullification crisis. The blue states and cities have been engaging in nullification for more than a decade with no consequence. The border ("sanctuary" policies) and drugs (legal marijuana) are obvious, glaring examples.

Meanwhile, any attempt by the non-progs to engage in nullification - "gun sanctuaries" and whatnot - are immediately resisted by the feds.

Well, turnabout is fair play. Give it to them hard and deep. If the states and cities want to make a military issue out of their sanctuary status, then so be it. They break the law, the feds cut them off and if they want to start a war over it and compel the feds to turn the taps back on, then let them try. It will be illustrative and clarifying regardless of outcome.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (HnUIn)

397 384 I cannot believe how many people I see on the intertubes who bring bottle baby goats or sheeps into the house and then let them run around instead of keeping them in the crate or tub or whatever. They are livestock, they cannot be house broken.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

My daughter had two pigs in her home. Not human ones, real live farm pigs. Yes, she's a messed up as one might imagine.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (WXNFJ)

If you are going to have critters, you will shovel the shit. This is known. Domestic or not. I'd rather not shovel it in my house, though. Just sayin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (byWhc)

398 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:09 PM

Heh. Judge Simpson is great.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (ZANHd)

Judge Jeffrey Middleton is decent, also.

He us telling some dumbass chick right now that she should not drive without insurance.
Single mother of three, good grief.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (ufFY8)

399 I have a brand new kitchen faucet I need to get installed. J, bless him, is worthless when it comes to things like this. I wonder if I could do it, because hiring a handyman for something so small is proving difficult.

Tip: If the valves haven't been moved in a long time (if you don't know, they haven't been) turn off the main water feed to the house first. Valves that haven't moved in a while are prone to breakage and you don't want one breaking with pressure behind it.

But if it does break, the water's already off and the valves are pretty easy to replace, too.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (Gyft8)

400 He us telling some dumbass chick right now that she should not drive without insurance.

I'm not going to blame her for that. Insurance be expensive, yo.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (hB7mE)

401 The price of food now is still higher now due to inflation than any study of the potential increase if we cut illegal immigration.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (8Kx9y)

402 336 They arrested that town/county clerk in Kentucky (I forget the lady’s name) who refused to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples.

As far as I’m concerned, the left chose this hill to die on almost a decade ago.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (6ydKt)

My hazy recollection of that incident is that she wasn't against issuing the licenses per se, but that it was still specifically illegal to do so in Ky and she wanted some official notification from higher up before she did.
In the interim she go in hot water. So really she was punished for trying to do the best legal job she could.
Typical in our current environment.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024 03:06 PM (FCbAQ)

IIRC, also, the forms from the state only listed Husband(or male) in one box, and Wife(or female) in the other box, and legally she wasn't able to modify those boxes.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (k1E2D)

403 Who do you think is going to be on both the Epstein and Diddy Party lists?

I think the venn diagram of those is going to be close to a single circle

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (RsS92)

404 CA Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) came down hard on the "gig economy". Workers for cash.
This ended my career as an upright bassist in a duo in local bars where I would make maybe $100 in 3 hours or so.
But then they ignore it when it comes to illegals...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (MeG8a)

405 Judge Jeffrey Middleton is decent, also.

He us telling some dumbass chick right now that she should not drive without insurance.
Single mother of three, good grief.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM

Middleton is good, too. If you haven't seen Judge Fleischer out of TX, look for him. He's a riot.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (ZANHd)

406 Do they monopolize the TV to watch cowboy and Indian movies?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (v6JzV)

Some pigs are more equal than others.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (byWhc)

407 Watch a YouTube video on changing a faucet and I bet you could do it. I change the flappers on the toilets myself. That's a lot easier than a faucet though.

Might need a faucet wrench unless you have really long, skinny arms but that's a minor expense. IIRC, you (Piper) removed and replaced a drain P-trap a couple of months ago. It's not much more complicated than that.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (/y8xj)

408 Watch 3. Seriously.
The repetition helps and one of the 3 will make a lot more sense to you than the others.
A different one will be so lame that it will give you confidence.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:12 PM (z/jjr)
++++
Plus, it improves the odds of seeing your scenario.

I knew nothing about HVAC and installed a mini-split after just some YouTube research and a bit of reading (the reading was just to learn why some of the steps were necessary).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (HnUIn)

409 I'll be happy, bordering on ecstatic, to pay moar for lettuce and lawn care, to help Trump get rid of the millions of illegals who represent an existential threat to MY country.

Anyone who can afford a lawn guy or a part-time housekeeper right NOW can afford to pay more. Cut back on Starbucks and Pelosi's fancy ice cream.

Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (NLIak)

410 >>Tip: If the valves haven't been moved in a long time (if you don't know, they haven't been) turn off the main water feed to the house first. Valves that haven't moved in a while are prone to breakage and you don't want one breaking with pressure behind it.

Best to not touch the shut off valves at all if you can get to your water main and shut the whole house down.

Those valves are a very weak link in your system. Try to never use them if you can.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (z/jjr)

411 326 Because they owe it to Blackrock. I'm not joking.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 03:04 PM (lTGtQ)
— —

Why?
I’m seeing something about setting up a Rebuild Ukraine Investment Fund with JP Morgan for $15 billion.

I guess the grift continuing in Ukraine could be a part of it.

I think these fools along with Biden are trying to force Trump into something before January comes.

What exactly I don’t know.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (6ydKt)

412 Why the hell would the Brits and Frogs want to into a land war over the Donbass and Crimea?

Posted by: SpeakingOf

Maybe they'll draft all the migrants and send them to Ukraine. You know, kill two birds with one stone.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 03:11 PM (L/fGl)

Well the the Brits want Crimea because they are idiots hankering after the Crimean War -- which is mostly remembered for Idiot British Generalship and Terrible British hospitals killing their own men.

For almost 6 months the Brits were determined to cross the Dnepr at one spot on the swampy banks of the Riverbed (a dam collapsed upstream a few years ago and water levels are low) and march to Sevestapol. Now a look at the map shows that the narrow entry into Crimea would be trivial to defend. The Russian Generals convinced Putin not to counterattack, instead they just shelled the poor troops in this swamp from afar and every so often collected prisoners...and shelled boats carrying wounded out and new troops in. It was even stupider than the Charge of the Light Brigade.

France is pissed since a missle wiped out some 'volunteers' who were 'advising' in Kharkov.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (n7h9X)

413 That is, no one has ever said, "your food will be 25%+ higher if we cut back on illegal immigration."

It's always been maybe 10%. on the high end.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (8Kx9y)

414 He us telling some dumbass chick right now that she should not drive without insurance.

I'm not going to blame her for that. Insurance be expensive, yo.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (hB7mE)

Yeah, but you don't hit someone and cause $7k in damages. She has a judgement against her, and now the dude can garnish up to 30% of her net.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:21 PM (ufFY8)

415 265 I wonder if the Obama's were flying high on the booger sugar when Big Mike drowned their mouthy chef.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (7oYYI)

++++

He was out in public the next day, I believe with a black eye and bandages on his fingers. No one in the news media thought it was in the least bit important.

Posted by: washrivergal at November 25, 2024 03:21 PM (mzoqX)

416 I live in Farm country... there is no, nor has there been, any lack of available Labor for farmers... even well before the latest border insanity.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 03:10 PM (QAkQ3)

This is true. And it was certainly true where I grew up. Town boys would take farm jobs during the summer.

But you have to realize that our "education system" more or less took that option away with elongated school years and summer schools for less accomplished students.

There's also the work ethic factor. Kids don't want dirty jobs anymore. And they definitely don't want to work hard.....and farm work is hard work.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 03:21 PM (g8Ew8)

417 Saw a report a couple days ago said the UK currently has 73,000 combat troops. 73,000 total. That's not a military, that's a cosplay convention.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (wyMQY)

As a Moron already noted, they can't even fill an SEC stadium.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 03:21 PM (aD39U)

418 Best to not touch the shut off valves at all if you can get to your water main and shut the whole house down.

The entire point of having valves at the outlet is so you don't have to shut down the entire house.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:21 PM (hB7mE)

419
Best to not touch the shut off valves at all if you can get to your water main and shut the whole house down.

Those valves are a very weak link in your system. Try to never use them if you can.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (z/jjr)

I live in a really old house and I've had plumbers here changing pipes under the house and making clean out valves. Yeah, the shut off valves under the sinks break, ask me how I know.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (1szDw)

420 These motherfuckers are really pitting roving gangs of violent thugs vs cheap lawn labor.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (12v8J)

421 >I will open the box and look at the instructions. If they aren’t overwhelming, I may try it.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:15 PM (p4NUW)

Depending on the faucet, a specialized wrench might be needed. I just replaced my kitchen faucet. Was not terribly difficult, but removing the old faucet was a PITA. Mostly just awkward trying to get my hands behind the sink basin underneath the sink.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (GTqXr)

422 Yeah, but you don't hit someone and cause $7k in damages. She has a judgement against her, and now the dude can garnish up to 30% of her net.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:21 PM

Did she try to tell him she was just travelling?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (ZANHd)

423 336 They arrested that town/county clerk in Kentucky (I forget the lady’s name) who refused to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples.

As far as I’m concerned, the left chose this hill to die on almost a decade ago.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:46 PM (6ydKt)

My hazy recollection of that incident is that she wasn't against issuing the licenses per se, but that it was still specifically illegal to do so in Ky and she wanted some official notification from higher up before she did.
In the interim she go in hot water. So really she was punished for trying to do the best legal job she could.
Typical in our current environment.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 25, 2024 03:06 PM (FCbAQ)

IIRC, also, the forms from the state only listed Husband(or male) in one box, and Wife(or female) in the other box, and legally she wasn't able to modify those boxes.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at November 25, 2024 03:19 PM (k1E2D)

— —
Could be, but I thought the original story was that she was Christian and couldn’t, by conscience, issue the licenses.

That could’ve been media malpractice, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:23 PM (6ydKt)

424 I live in a really old house and I've had plumbers here changing pipes under the house and making clean out valves. Yeah, the shut off valves under the sinks break, ask me how I know.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM

I won't. I know for the same reason.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:23 PM (ZANHd)

425 These motherfuckers are really pitting roving gangs of violent thugs vs cheap lawn labor.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (12v8J)

Saw something like that on the Sopranos, lol.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:23 PM (ufFY8)

426 Saw a report a couple days ago said the UK currently has 73,000 combat troops. 73,000 total. That's not a military, that's a cosplay convention.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (wyMQY)

As a Moron already noted, they can't even fill an SEC stadium.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 03:21 PM (aD39U)

They wouldn't have to go that far. It wouldn't even fill Wembley stadium for a rugby game (90k capacity).

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 03:23 PM (VNX3d)

427 >>The entire point of having valves at the outlet is so you don't have to shut down the entire house.

And you would think they would make them a lot better quality, for it.

However. They don't and they are the primary cause of issues outside of Freezing Pipes in my experience. If they aren't leaking, I leave them be.

Assuming that shutting the main is convenient and an option. In a house, it almost always is.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:24 PM (z/jjr)

428 Or Dad walked out never to be seen again….
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:01 PM (p4NUW)

=====
He went out to get some milk. Should be back any minute now...
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024

***
"Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack --
I went out for a ride and I never went back!"

Posted by: A Guy Named Springsteen at November 25, 2024 03:24 PM (J2vNu)

429 413 That is, no one has ever said, "your food will be 25%+ higher if we cut back on illegal immigration."

It's always been maybe 10%. on the high end.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (8Kx9y)

Now that we moved out of Anchorage, I will be growing most of my food, and using local ranchers for beef, etc. Wetback labor is meaning less and less to me as time goes on. Now, consider the significance of time....

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:24 PM (byWhc)

430 @376 the problem is that governments won't lower taxes and fees if their costs go down.

For sure, and this is a major anchor around the neck of education "reform." Education is expensive, at any level. If you could break the back of the federal machine and just pay at the state level, it would be a wash. Get beyond that, back to private or parochial schools and contract tutors, you might even come out ahead in total. But every one of those levels has its own infrastructure, staffing, and legal tradition with a tax tap attached. It's going to take a long generation of really wanting it to undo all those knots. And you have to keep the majority.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 03:24 PM (zdLoL)

431 Best to not touch the shut off valves at all if you can get to your water main and shut the whole house down.

Those valves are a very weak link in your system. Try to never use them if you can.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:20 PM (z/jjr)

I live in a really old house and I've had plumbers here changing pipes under the house and making clean out valves. Yeah, the shut off valves under the sinks break, ask me how I know.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (1szDw)

I have a toilet that needs its innards replaced. The shutoff valve, get this, doesn't shut off the water pressure.

You had one job!

So it's shutting off the water supply to the house and draining the line going to the toilet.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2024 03:24 PM (Aqu9a)

432 Yeah, the shut off valves under the sinks break, ask me how I know.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM

I won't. I know for the same reason.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

You all have inspired me to every so often, shut and re-open the valves just so they stay operable.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:24 PM (hB7mE)

433 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:21 PM

Did she try to tell him she was just travelling?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (ZANHd)

LOL.

She got a ticket for failure to stop and hit him.

Norm McDonald would have a comment about women drivers.
RIP.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (ufFY8)

434 Now that we moved out of Anchorage, I will be growing most of my food, and using local ranchers for beef, etc. Wetback labor is meaning less and less to me as time goes on. Now, consider the significance of time....
Posted by: tcn in AK

You get wetbacks in Alaska?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (v6JzV)

435 Might need a faucet wrench unless you have really long, skinny arms but that's a minor expense. IIRC, you (Piper) removed and replaced a drain P-trap a couple of months ago. It's not much more complicated than that.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024

That was like 2 things y’all talked me through it step by step 😂. I am thinking I don’t take this on before Thanksgiving. I mean the pipes and valves should be fine, the house is only 4 years old.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (p4NUW)

436 He was out in public the next day, I believe with a black eye and bandages on his fingers. No one in the news media thought it was in the least bit important.
Posted by: washrivergal at November 25, 2024 03:21 PM (mzoqX)

Maybe Big Mike killed him protecting Barry when his strapping rent boy grabbed a hammer and went all David DePape on him.

You know that fairy wasn't strong enough to subdue and drown him. That's probably why he keeps her around. For the muscle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (7oYYI)

437 All threads become shut off valve threads eventually.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (vO42M)

438 Did she try to tell him she was just travelling?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (ZANHd)

Is she in double bonus yet?

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (byWhc)

439 Saw a report a couple days ago said the UK currently has 73,000 combat troops. 73,000 total. That's not a military, that's a cosplay convention.

I think they have a couple tanks, too. And a ship.

This is what happens when the US decides to foot the bill on every single nation in Europe's military budget. We need to cut them loose, and if Europe ends up in war again, meh, not our problem.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (RsS92)

440 Tyson Foods should be permitted to bring in guest workers, just like Israel does. You work, earn money, & go home.

There was never any problem, as far as I know, with U.S. "bracero" guest worker program for seasonal agri workers.

Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at November 25, 2024 03:26 PM (NLIak)

441
I have a brand new kitchen faucet I need to get installed. J, bless him, is worthless when it comes to things like this. I wonder if I could do it, because hiring a handyman for something so small is proving difficult.
Posted by: Piper

It isn't hard.
Youtube is your friend.

You'll need:
https://is.gd/FMEyM8
And Plumbers putty.

Again, Youtube, really.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 03:26 PM (THzoa)

442 Saw a report a couple days ago said the UK currently has 73,000 combat troops. 73,000 total. That's not a military, that's a cosplay convention.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 03:17 PM (wyMQY)

And worse yet, this is an infantry war. All those fancy artillery guns and tanks are special forces have to hide behind the poor bloody infantry who are a small fraction of the manpower. Even Russia had to reorganize the entire army in the SMO to increase the proportion of foot soldiers and assign more support tanks down to the lowest level.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:26 PM (n7h9X)

443 Crimean War trivia I thought was quite amusing when I found it out; the episode everyone remembers is the Charge of the Light Brigade, which of course was nobly disastrous. One of the reasons it was so disastrous was that it was supposed to be supported by a charge of a heavy brigade from another angle - but the heavy brigade stayed put, never left their lines, and thus the light brigade charged dug in lines all on their own and were massacred.
Why did the Heavy Brigade sit this one out? Turned out that he 2 commanders were brothers in law - and had hated each other for 20 years, and were barely on speaking terms even in staff meetings. The Heavy Brigade Commander was overjoyed to find an excuse to stay in his lines and let his hated relatives unit get cut to pieces.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 03:26 PM (wyMQY)

444 373 A Franken-Mower that my grandfather built from any number of 'Trash Day' lawnmower carcasses he had laying around.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:13 PM (z/jjr)

— —

I’m imagining a loud, angry, smoke cloud, mowing along with a coughing kid behind it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:27 PM (6ydKt)

445 Didn't I read that Germany would be able to put a dozen fighter aircraft up, if they had to, maybe, if it was on a workday.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 03:27 PM (aD39U)

446 You get wetbacks in Alaska?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (v6JzV)

We've got everybody here. The feds relocated some Afghan refugees here, there are ragheads from Nigeria, lots of Hispanics that don't speak English, the works. Not where I am now, but Anchorage is full of relocated illegals.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (byWhc)

447 That was like 2 things y’all talked me through it step by step 😂. I am thinking I don’t take this on before Thanksgiving. I mean the pipes and valves should be fine, the house is only 4 years old.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 03:25 PM (p4NUW)

Sounds like a Piper Pipe Project thread on the weekend?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (n7h9X)

448 >>I’m imagining a loud, angry, smoke cloud, mowing along with a coughing kid behind it.

Imagine it without ANY of the safety devices you would think it would/should have...and you got it.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (z/jjr)

449 You get wetbacks in Alaska?
Posted by: Bulg

Soon to be known as ICEbacks.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (vO42M)

450 The Heavy Brigade Commander was overjoyed to find an excuse to stay in his lines and let his hated relatives unit get cut to pieces.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Wow. Did he face any punishment for that?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (v6JzV)

451 Check YouTube University Foro those small home repairs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 03:29 PM (/lPRQ)

452
nood nate silver

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2024 03:29 PM (w9Ycv)

453 You all have inspired me to every so often, shut and re-open the valves just so they stay operable.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 03:24 PM

To be fair, the valves in my mom's house were the old wheel type valves that hadn't been moved in years. A friend helped me replace them all with new valves. Easy job.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 03:29 PM (ZANHd)

454 I’m imagining a loud, angry, smoke cloud, mowing along with a coughing kid behind it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:27 PM (6ydKt)
++++
AH! Flashes of my childhood!

Except that was a riding mower with three blades and the center blade was broken. So one rode and mowed, and the other walked behind with the other mower to cut the middle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2024 03:29 PM (HnUIn)

455 It's always been maybe 10%. on the high end.

That is nothing to sneeze at, especially after the inflation we've already been brutalized with.

That said, the better overall economy and higher pay that should result from Trump's other policies should help offset that. Especially cheaper gas.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (RsS92)

456 440 Tyson Foods should be permitted to bring in guest workers, just like Israel does. You work, earn money, & go home.

There was never any problem, as far as I know, with U.S. "bracero" guest worker program for seasonal agri workers.
Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at November 25, 2024 03:26 PM

It's called the H2A program and you have to provide all meals and housing and transportation.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (1szDw)

457 Didn't I read that Germany would be able to put a dozen fighter aircraft up, if they had to, maybe, if it was on a workday.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 25, 2024 03:27 PM (aD39U)

yeah their airforce is a joke. Also, they have to borrow operable tanks from other units to even train a unit.

At least saber rattler diplomats made sure they had a saber!

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:30 PM (n7h9X)

458 Piper, I don't really know what your doing with faucet but one pro-tip is to embrace plumbers tape and use it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 03:31 PM (jFCkp)

459 450 The Heavy Brigade Commander was overjoyed to find an excuse to stay in his lines and let his hated relatives unit get cut to pieces.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Wow. Did he face any punishment for that?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 03:28 PM (v6JzV)

Nope, because the story gets even bettter. Turns out that the overall commander had been told by the Home Office back in London that there was long term bad blood between the two men, and he should keep them as far apart as he could. He blew off the warning, ignored it completely and did exactly what he was warned not to do. In typical British Army fashion, they gave eveyone a medal and sent them all home.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 03:31 PM (wyMQY)

460 Heh. I moved into my house shortly before Thanksgiving. Old home - no pressure regulator on the main valve behind the meter.

Right about that time, the city did something or other that increased the pressure coming through the meter - popped every plastic plumbing valve in the house, just in time for the holidays. Good times.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 03:32 PM (7oYYI)

461 I have a toilet that needs its innards replaced. The shutoff valve, get this, doesn't shut off the water pressure.

Another problem that comes from having cheap valves. In the current house I replaced all the water fixture valves with 1/4 turn ball valves because I didn't want to deal with cheap plastic that snapped when you tried to turn it or leaked if it didn't beak.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 03:32 PM (Gyft8)

462 — —
Could be, but I thought the original story was that she was Christian and couldn’t, by conscience, issue the licenses.

That could’ve been media malpractice, though.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 03:23 PM (6ydKt)

That was what the reported initial reasoning was until she was ordered by a court to do it, but after the court decision that was the reason behind not issuing the certificate.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at November 25, 2024 03:33 PM (k1E2D)

463 Crimean War trivia I thought was quite amusing when I found it out; the episode everyone remembers is the Charge of the Light Brigade, which of course was nobly disastrous. One of the reasons it was so disastrous was that it was supposed to be supported by a charge of a heavy brigade from another angle - but the heavy brigade stayed put, never left their lines, and thus the light brigade charged dug in lines all on their own and were massacred.
Why did the Heavy Brigade sit this one out? Turned out that he 2 commanders were brothers in law - and had hated each other for 20 years, and were barely on speaking terms even in staff meetings. The Heavy Brigade Commander was overjoyed to find an excuse to stay in his lines and let his hated relatives unit get cut to pieces.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 03:26 PM (wyMQY)

To be fair to the Heavy Brigade, the guns that the Light Brigade was charging were an entirely different set of guns at the far end of a long valley with other guns on the side. The correct guns weren't visible to the Colonel, and the staff officer giving the order pointed to the other guns because he didn't know either and didn't want to check.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2024 03:34 PM (n7h9X)

464 the episode everyone remembers is the Charge of the Light Brigade

Iron Maiden remembers.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at November 25, 2024 03:36 PM (lg881)

465 Forgive some ignorance, but have sanctuary policies only been applied to immigration issues? I mean, if a city or State can say we don't want to cooperate with federal law on immigration, can a city or State say we don't like the federal gun laws? All our gun stores do not have to do NICS checks? Take any federal law and apply this reasoning. Why has this only been done to thwart the feds on immigration?

Posted by: Lex at November 25, 2024 03:37 PM (fMN7A)

466 Didn't the Federal govt. under Obama sue Arizona when that state tried to enforce immigration laws?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at November 25, 2024 03:39 PM (lg881)

467 Trump didnt overwhelmingly win with a Mandate to cozy up with the enemy who have been trying to destroy the country since at the very least 2008.

MAGA wont win in 2028 if Trump does destroy the Deep State. If the successor to MAGA campaigns in 2028 that we have to elect them to protect us from the Commies and Deep State, MAGA will lose. That's why MAGA was elected in 2024.

Posted by: mossomo at November 25, 2024 03:46 PM (mttHV)

468 Biden Harris set the whole "Full Court press by executive action" scenario up...They declared a Border "Crises", defined it as an "Emergency",including authorizing FEMA to get involved. NOW "Emergency measures" are fully warranted and the pathway cleared.

Posted by: birddog at November 25, 2024 03:53 PM (WRmPz)

469 Yeah! Rick Perry kicked ass, chewed bubblegum, and... I can't remember the third thing he did.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:40 PM (12v8J)

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Posted by: Rick Perry at November 25, 2024 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

470 Depending on the faucet, a specialized wrench might be needed. I just replaced my kitchen faucet. Was not terribly difficult, but removing the old faucet was a PITA. Mostly just awkward trying to get my hands behind the sink basin underneath the sink.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 25, 2024 03:22 PM (GTqXr)
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Pro tip: buy a set of deep sockets and the longest ratchet extender bar you can find that has a fitting that accommodates the deep socket. Then you can remove the nuts fastening the faucet to the sink (the worst part, IMO) with a simple ratchet, without having to get your hands in behind the sink bowl.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 25, 2024 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

471 You need a deep socket because typically the nuts fastening the faucet to the sink are halfway up the stud, too far for a standard socket to reach them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 25, 2024 04:05 PM (YqDXo)

472

whenever theres a democrat in the white house

its all about the supremacy clause

whenever theres a republican in the white house

all of a sudden its all about the 10th amendment and states rights

Posted by: sound awake at November 25, 2024 04:05 PM (g7ym/)

473 Homan is incorrect - federal law does not supercede state law.

And states are not required or cooperate with federal law enforcement.

They may not legally *interfere* with it, but they are not required to cooperate.

Posted by: agammamon at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (jWCrI)

474 "Refusing to transfer illegal immigrants in custody to ICE may constitute harboring, a violation of federal law."

Harboring unauthorized aliens under subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) makes it a crime to harbor, shield, or conceal an unauthorized alien knowingly. Harboring includes providing shelter or other assistance (financial, food, etc.).

I would not be shy about enforcing it. Arrest law enforcement if you have to - they can go right into custody with the illegals they are harboring. They can complain about "just following orders" but the answer is this - you were informed that you broke the law and willingly did so, orders or not. Also, whose orders? Then arrest that person who gave the orders. No jail time - process and release with a court date. Everything by the book.

Posted by: El Mariachi at November 25, 2024 04:19 PM (mvURQ)

475 In prosecuting the perps for harboring, make sure you document multiple instances of them being informed what they are doing is illegal under federal law, and what penalties might attach.

I'd slap a $10k fine on the perps, and a warning that the next time will be 1 year in jail. Good luck if you are a LEO with a felony on your record.

You won't have to do this very often, just once or twice. Again, the mayor might talk tough, but when the Denver PD starts losing officers...and can't find anyone to take their places...it's fine for the politicians to parade around waving the bloody shirt...but LEO - they won't do it.

Posted by: El Mariachi at November 25, 2024 04:27 PM (mvURQ)

476 I disagree about cutting off JUST the law assistance money. If they are educating illegal kids, cut off the education money. If they are paying to house illegal immigrants, cut off the housing assistance and the fed “guarantees” from Freddie and Fannie. If they are feeding illegals, cut off the food money. If they are giving illegals drivers licenses, cut off highway funds. And so on.

Posted by: Jeff M at November 25, 2024 04:33 PM (uvkwn)

477 I fail to see why not simply enforcing EXISTING immigration laws won't sort things out quite neatly.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 25, 2024 05:28 PM (hKoQL)

478 "We already know the public rejected the lawfare against Trump. Now, if Trump begins using legal process against #Resistance figures (who are legitimately breaking the law), we'll see if the public is against all use of prosecutorial power to settle political disputes"

these won't be "political disputes" ... they will be criminal behavior ... procesuting them won't be lawfare but will be following the rule of law ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at November 25, 2024 05:38 PM (DBAaD)

479 "Federal law trumps state and local law every time," Homan said
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I agree that we need to be hardcase in enforcing immigration law, especially after the last 4 years of lawlessness, but this kind of statement pisses me off. No, not EVERY TIME . There's that pesky 10th Amendment to consider. Federal law trumps state law only in the areas assigned to the feds IN THE CONSTITUTION. Immigration is one of those areas, but Homan sounds like one of those jack-booted thugs in the FBI that thinks that they are superior to us mere mortals. I'm wondering if too many years in law enforcement has encouraged a badge-heavy mindset.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 25, 2024 08:06 PM (EyY5h)

480 A woman in 2021 got the Wuhan Flu, which complicated an illness she already had. The National Health Service wrote her off: no cure, die quietly. Her family wanted to try an experimental treatment outside the UK. The NHS called her insane and took them to court to stop this. The judge agreed, and further, took her passport away to stop her from trying to get treatment.

They passed a law that makes it a thought crime to merely pray silently outside an abortion clinic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:54 PM (RsS92)

A Disqus commenter I follow related a story about his daughter going to Britain on a work study program. She had a diabetic episode while there and was hospitalized. Because of a shortage of beds, she was in a mixed ward with an elderly man in the next bed. That night, the NHS euthanized him against his wishes. After listening to the struggle, she checked out the next morning AMA and went home to the states as soon as she could go.

Posted by: Advo at November 25, 2024 09:06 PM (jO4mz)

481 "If any of these Sanctuary-city mayors or -state govs wants to continue giving illegals free health care and housing, they can steal that money from their own citizens/taxpayers for that purpose, and see if how their voters like it."
....Yeah, well...about that: the pols will blame Trump, saying he "cut our funds" even when that's not true. And their stupid Dem voters will believe every word of it, cuz the battlespace was prepared years ago by the Mainstream Media.

Posted by: sf44 at November 25, 2024 09:57 PM (X9nCc)

482 @redsteeze retweeted
John Hasson
@SonofHas
15h
You’re simply detached from reality if you think that A) most Americans pay for maid service and B) those maids are all illegal immigrants

Posted by: m at November 26, 2024 02:48 AM (VnUSN)

483 480 A Disqus commenter I follow related a story about his daughter going to Britain on a work study program. She had a diabetic episode while there and was hospitalized. Because of a shortage of beds, she was in a mixed ward with an elderly man in the next bed. That night, the NHS euthanized him against his wishes. After listening to the struggle, she checked out the next morning AMA and went home to the states as soon as she could go.
Posted by: Advo at November 25, 2024 09:06 PM (jO4mz)

AMA = discharge against medical advice (AMA), in which a patient chooses to leave the hospital before the treating physician recommends discharge

Posted by: m at November 26, 2024 02:51 AM (VnUSN)

Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics But No One Believes Her

Center square on The View or bust.

Although she can't go that route, can she? She can't speak extemporaneously and her brain rebels against her taking any actual position (except for being ecstatically pro-abortion).

If she does "find her voice" and start spouting out her hard left positions again, everyone will know she was a filthy liar when she ran in 2024.

So maybe she does have no other choice but to make a doomed run at another office.

Kamala Harris has been lying low since her defeat in the presidential race, unwinding with family and senior aides in Hawaii before heading back to the nation's capital.
But privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open -- whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years. As Harris has repeated in phone calls, "I am staying in the fight."
She is expected to explore those and other possible paths forward with family members over the winter holiday season, according to five people in the Harris inner circle, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. Her deliberations follow an extraordinary four months in which Harris went from President Joe Biden's running mate to the top of the ticket, reenergizing Democrats before ultimately crashing on election night.
"She doesn't have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months," said one former Harris campaign aide. "The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships."

Oh she wants to start a Global Clinton Initiative-like grift that poses as a charity but actually exists to pay her a salary, pay for her staff, pay travel including car and chaufeur and pay for a ritzy complex of offices in a major city.

I don't think people will pay for that, though. She has no political future and therefore no one is interested in paying her for future political favors she cannot deliver on.

Most immediately, Harris and her advisers are working to define how and when she will speak out against Donald Trump and reassert her own role in the Democratic Party. Closing out her term as vice president, she's set to preside over certifying the November election she lost to Trump, and then appear at the once-and-future president's inauguration on Jan. 20.
"There will be a desire to hear her voice, and there won't be a vacuum for long," a person close to Harris said.

Is there? Is there such a desire?

At the same time, Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will have a long checklist to plow through before they leave the Naval Observatory for good.
They have to decide whether they'll take up permanent residence at their home in Los Angeles, or establish a base elsewhere. No matter where Harris and her family live, some around her have expressed concerns about safety, as her Secret Service protection expires six months after stepping away.

Everyone fears that without the Secret Service, Slugger Emhoff will start punching her.

Following her meteoric rise in Washington and California, there are internal questions about standing up a federal committee to raise money. It will be the first time in two decades that the former senator and career prosecutor will be out of public office. That means she'll be standing up a personal office and nurturing her massive online presence without the organizing principle of day-to-day governing.
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But others close to Harris believe that the current news cycle and speed at which the Democratic Party might start making decisions will force Harris, who tends to deliberate for long periods, to make some early decisions.

She ran for president without settling on a position profile. So this could take a while.

In interviews with Harris aides and confidants, as well as Democratic luminaries, there's broad acknowledgment that Harris represents an "X factor" in the next Democratic primary.

She will not be a factor of any letter. She already got zero primary votes in a primary, and that was before people knew she could not run a campaign or win a presidential election.

The good news for Harris, according to her allies, is that her standing in the party increased the longer that she ran her short campaign, which is rare in electoral politics. Her allies believe that the toxicity that surrounded John Kerry or Hillary Clinton after their losses is unlikely to taint Harris' political future in the same way.

What?

They point to her running a race as a more moderate candidate (a break from her 2019 primary run) as a boon to whatever choice she ends up making as the party seems poised to do its own writ large move to the center.
"She proved a lot of skeptics wrong as a political athlete. And her standing with the public is as good as any Democrats with the name I.D. that she has," a Harris ally told POLITICO.

Okay sure.

A snap poll of the 2028 field found Harris at 41 percent, a significant lead over the others: Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, Tim Walz, Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gretchen Whitmer, JB Pritzker, Andy Beshear and several others who all were in single digits.

I mean, this does point out something important: We can goof on Harris's chances for being the nominee again, but... who else do they have?

But Harris' advantages are not unique. Similar surveys taken in the two months after the 2016 campaign, for example, found Clinton with a large lead for 2020, with majorities of Democrats saying they wanted her to run in the next cycle.
"I can't conceivably imagine the party turning to her a second time," said one Democratic strategist granted anonymity to speak candidly.
If she opts not to run in 2028, the earliest clues about her political future could come around whether she runs to succeed Newsom in California, a prospect POLITICO first reported in May. Her office pushed back strongly at the time. Yet the mere idea of her running again in California has frozen the field and kept some fundraisers on the sidelines.
While there's disagreement among people who know Harris well about what office she should run for, there's emerging consensus that she probably can't do both -- compete for governor and then turn around and start a presidential campaign a few weeks later.
The calendar alone would make that difficult, with the 2028 primary gearing up immediately after the midterm elections. Harris confidants also point to the demands on a governor's time, and the expectation of the electorate that she would stay home and dig into the state's mounting challenges around the high cost of living, homelessness and crime.
"It's a real job," is how one of the people close to her put it, contending they were at first dismissive of the idea she might do it, but now feel like it's possible.

Has she ever had a real job? The prospect must be daunting for her.

...
"She is not someone who makes rash decisions. She takes, sometimes, a painfully long time to make decisions. So I would pretty much guarantee you she has no idea what her next move is," said Brian Brokaw, a former Harris aide who has remained close to her circle.
"Could she run for governor? Yes. Do I think she wants to run for governor? Probably not. Could she win? Definitely. Would she like the job? I don't know. Could she run for president again? Yes," Brokaw said. "Would she have a whole bunch of skepticism from the outset, because she has run in a full-length Democratic primary where [in 2019] she didn't even make it long enough to be in the Iowa caucus, and then she was the nominee this year?"

I saw someone speculate that this nonsense article was pushed to Politico so that Harris can continue fundraising to pay off her $18 million debt.

Posted by: Ace at 01:15 PM

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1
What choice or talent does she have but continue to grift?

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 01:16 PM (j4U/Z)

2 So .. when does the toxic whore and the odious scumbag abuser get a divorce? There's no way this is an actual marriage.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

3 Willowed:

Can Trump's DOJ subpoena all of Obama's school records for any reason?
That'd be a cherry on top of Obama's "legacy"!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 01:18 PM (THzoa)

4 What, no professorship at some Ivy League dumping ground for washed up politicos?

Wow... she must really be tainted. 💩

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 01:18 PM (Q4IgG)

5 Guest spot on some of the news channels?

Special Correspondent?

Posted by: Blanco at November 25, 2024 01:18 PM (savWN)

6 Kamala has all sorts of government pensions and her husband is a wealthy lawyer. Why work?

Posted by: huerfano at November 25, 2024 01:19 PM (DKIGo)

7 >>> 2 So .. when does the toxic whore and the odious scumbag abuser get a divorce? There's no way this is an actual marriage.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

Spouses cannot be legally compelled to testify against one another.

Posted by: Hillary! at November 25, 2024 01:19 PM (KcwUg)

8 Well, duh. No one expects her to get a real job. And she's a bit long in the tooth for prostitute, which is the only job she's actually qualified for.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 01:20 PM (0Htd1)

9 I bet Walz is happy he can anonymously go back to toe tapping under the stall in gas station bathrooms.

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 01:21 PM (i7Q7S)

10 She takes, sometimes, a painfully long time to make decisions

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I absolutely, 100% believe this.

Not why they want me to, though.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 01:21 PM (t+rgW)

11 Willlowed:

Looks like a lot of rent-a-girl model types there. Highly unlikely that was an organic protest. But at least the French still have some sympathy for the male gaze and don't throw acid into our eyes by parading around a bunch of fat bull dykes like these protests do in the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

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They probably get more media attention with attractive women than unattractive ones.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

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Of for sure. Which begs the question why they don't do that here. It only takes one text message to wrangle a few dozen attractive fore-hire women to stage a protest. But for some reason, in the USA the fat bull dykes want to punish the male gaze with their putrid nudity.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

12 Fight! Fight! Fight!

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:21 PM (12v8J)

13 I'm sure Kamala will be tanned, rested and ready for 2028! She's a brain and personality transplant away from being able to take on JD Vance!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 01:21 PM (tT6L1)

14 What morons would donate to a future Harris campaign? They were fooled once.

Trump vanquished Harris, Walz, Clinton, and Obama for good. They had the Deep State, MSM, Big Tech, education, etc., and still lost. They will always have to live with that. What a hero.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM (ULKp+)

15 I could've done without all the writing on the French ladies' breasts.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM (v6JzV)

16 They point to her running a race as a more moderate candidate (a break from her 2019 primary run) as a boon to whatever choice she ends up making as the party seems poised to do its own writ large move to the center.

"She proved a lot of skeptics wrong as a political athlete. And her standing with the public is as good as any Democrats with the name I.D. that she has," a Harris ally told POLITICO.

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Yes, she does have name recognition, which is far from nothing.

But she's still a fucking terrible candidate. Even when she was much more natural in 2019 and every single candidate was trying to out-woke each other so she could say what she actually meant, she was offputting and dropped out before a single vote was cast.

She'll use her name recognition to get funding, but it'll be wasted again, and I suspect that she'll end up with the same terrible campaign team who will launder the money once more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

17 Jack Smith Is dropping the election interference case.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM (NpAcC)

18 Price tag for losing in a landslide is now estimated to be north of $1.5 billion. Pity she didn't get a chance to fix the economy here reckless spending caused.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM (17s+e)

19 She could always go out and make millions on the speech circuit.

Just kidding.

Although she will.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM (12v8J)

20 Doug is going to find it really hard pimping out Kammie. Maybe she should develop some odd kink or something?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM (jFCkp)

21 . No matter where Harris and her family live, some around her have expressed concerns about safety, as her Secret Service protection expires six months after stepping away.

I'm sure there are houses available in Butler, PA.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (0Htd1)

22 Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics
.......

Why not? She seems to be making millions.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (v0R5T)

23 Anyone thinking about voting for Kamala in the future should see this

https://tinyurl.com/muj9eh4a

Posted by: Gref at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (aBgBM)

24 Something telling is that I saw Kamala in the headline, and didn't realize that it was a new post. My mind is already skipping over her existence.

I guess the sooner we all forget about her, the better for our sanity?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (VNX3d)

25 She won the CA AG race by about one point while other statewide dem candidates won by double digits. She won’t be governor.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (u73oe)

26
Doug "Slugger" Emhoff

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (5QCUm)

27 I mean, this does point out something important: We can goof on Harris's chances for being the nominee again, but... who else do they have?

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Newsom is the obvious choice, but he's going to campaign terribly in IA and SC, so his star will diminish quickly.

Whitmer can actually campaign, but she's got a host of shit in her past as governor that's going to rub people the wrong way.

It's a thin bench. Open for some billionaire to swoop in and become the nominee.

It'd be funny if it were Musk, but he's not native born. Le sigh..

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

28 "the expectation of the electorate that she would stay home and dig into the state's mounting challenges around the high cost of living, homelessness and crime."
Posted by: Ace

Gag me, just gag me.
She *fosters* homeless, crime, and increases the cost of living simply by existing.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (THzoa)

29 You can never close the door on this stuff because it hampers your Graft Score.

If people think one day you will be in a position to do Big favors that's very valuable. Plus you can never really say it won't happen, look at Biden.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (12v8J)

30 Who in their right mind would pay to hear Harris give a speech? She couldn't even fill a high school gym during the campaign had to resort paying millions to entertainers to try and drum up a little excitement and she paid supporters to attend her rallies.

She's done. Take her out of the safe CA political machine and is worse than Dukakis.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (LkLld)

31 She Dan Quayled herself out of a lifelong senate seat.

At least Quayle had family money and business connections. Harris is a spent force.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (GWazU)

32 I saw someone speculate that this nonsense article was pushed to Politico so that Harris can continue fundraising to pay off her $18 million debt.

Does she really have to? What if she just tells her creditors "You f*cked up; you trusted us." Isn't that pretty much what Clinton did?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (/y8xj)

33 So this all depends on Kamala showing initiative and putting in the hard work to build up a core of serious support for her personally. Something she has never managed to do before over a lifetime of politics.
yeah, right..

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (wyMQY)

34 I mean honestly - Stanford can't give her some no-show fake prof slot?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (Pv3Rg)

35 The most formidable opponent is Shapiro, he is the best at pretending not to be a communist.

Pritzker would be the best for us. His family, particularly his transie cousin, led the charge and funding on this teenager castration agenda. He can't back off of that and 2028 would be "for us of for they/them?" once again.

Posted by: Candidus at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (zGvse)

36 I could've done without all the writing on the French ladies' breasts.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM (v6JzV)
......

At least most of them shaved their pits.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (v0R5T)

37 11 Of for sure. Which begs the question why they don't do that here. It only takes one text message to wrangle a few dozen attractive fore-hire women to stage a protest. But for some reason, in the USA the fat bull dykes want to punish the male gaze with their putrid nudity.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

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Because our sham orgs are run by True Believers and their sham orgs are run by con men who are actually good at running cons?

Just a guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

38 And Gavin Newsom is just Kamala sans vagine. Scummy out of touch Cali Marxist, but a dude. Not saying it's impossible he'll run or that he can't "win". I'm just saying Kamala hasn't helped the perception of Cali politicians at all.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (Y6IkP)

39 The Dems have some non woke people in Congress and one or two governors .

One of those would be their best bet but they won’t do it at this point. I expect someone even worse that Harris to keep their 35 year old record of having the subsequent Dem candidate being worse than the one before.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (D6PGr)

40 @JustTheNews
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54s
Breaking: Special counsel Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (LkLld)

41 >>> 32 I saw someone speculate that this nonsense article was pushed to Politico so that Harris can continue fundraising to pay off her $18 million debt.
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Does she really have to? What if she just tells her creditors "You f*cked up; you trusted us." Isn't that pretty much what Clinton did?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (/y8xj)

Is there a Harris / techbros faction version of "Arkanicide"?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (KcwUg)

42 She is not someone who makes rash decisions. She takes, sometimes, a painfully long time to make decisions.

She sounds burdened.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (OguvZ)

43 35 The most formidable opponent is Shapiro, he is the best at pretending not to be a communist.

he literally does nothing as gov

at least he shows up now and again I suppose

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

44 "She has no political future and therefore no one is interested in paying her for future political favors she cannot deliver on."

The Clinton shakedown was always based not on doing future favors, but on avoiding future pain. You did not want to NOT be on the Clinton team.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (r5tfK)

45 They could always try the Celebrity Route if they figure it worked for Trump. But they need a Celebrity who is 100% controllable and who has full approval from the Grift Merchants at the top of the party... I, I mean... the People.... the People! Democracy!! Voters!!!

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (12v8J)

46 What's less valuable than an old whore?

Posted by: Wally at November 25, 2024 01:26 PM (dxp4v)

47 > I bet Walz is happy he can anonymously go back to toe tapping under the stall in gas station bathrooms.
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I bet his wife beats him senseless every night.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 01:26 PM (Q4IgG)

48 I am a strong supporter of her 2028 run. Girl Power!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 01:26 PM (pZEOD)

49 > We can goof on Harris's chances for being the nominee again, but... who else do they have?

I think Newsom is the most electable. Whitmer doesn't seem to have the capacity to contain her inner lunatic.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2024 01:26 PM (Odg76)

50 Harris was run to shore up down ballot races and to end her own political ambitions.

She's no Hillary who knows where the bodies are buried and she's to hetero, drunk, stupid and lazy for Obama to even give a second thought.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 01:26 PM (tT6L1)

51 Breaking: Special counsel Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump
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No shit?

Well there's someone who can see writing on a wall.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:26 PM (12v8J)

52 And Gavin Newsom is just Kamala sans vagine. Scummy out of touch Cali Marxist, but a dude. Not saying it's impossible he'll run or that he can't "win". I'm just saying Kamala hasn't helped the perception of Cali politicians at all.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (Y6IkP)

He's also white, which is a big no-no in the DEI/intersectional olympics. He'd have to rebill himself as a black or asian lesbian woman, with the supporting characteristics, and no hair, to have a chance.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 01:27 PM (VNX3d)

53 Sure Kamala.

Posted by: Marcia Brady at November 25, 2024 01:27 PM (Vcfyk)

54 >>> But for some reason, in the USA the fat bull dykes want to punish the male gaze with their putrid nudity.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

PETA will sometimes do the nude hot chick protests, sometimes with models.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2024 01:27 PM (Y6IkP)

55 I still think Kumswala's future is in a cushy no-work DEI-hire appointment at some fancy college or law school. Like an even dumber and slimier version of Claudine Gay.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

56 What choice or talent does she have but continue to grift?

Head

Posted by: LTC HAM at November 25, 2024 01:27 PM (W2Ov3)

57 39 The Dems have some non woke people in Congress and one or two governors .

One of those would be their best bet but they won’t do it at this point. I expect someone even worse that Harris to keep their 35 year old record of having the subsequent Dem candidate being worse than the one before.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (D6PGr)

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Manhattan media will suck all the oxygen out of the room for personalities they don't approve of. One would need pre-existing national name recognition and independent funding sources outside of the normal Democrat fundraising and Manhattan media cartel to get the kind of exposure necessary to gain a foothold in that kind of race.

Moderates will announce and drop out without anyone noticing. Just look at the number of nominees from 2020 that you've completely forgot even ran:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries#Candidates

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

58 It would be funny if Kamala ran against Pelosi in the primaries.

Posted by: Archer at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (IDphi)

59 >>> 51 Breaking: Special counsel Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump
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No shit?

Well there's someone who can see writing on a wall.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:26 PM (12v8J)

There's someone who's hoping for a ~~woofloo psychosis~~ political prosecution amnesty.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (KcwUg)

60 Don’t we realize it takes $2 beelion to buy Kali govship?

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (jgmnb)

61 Honestly, is she really too dumb to figure out the grift train? That she will make far more money with far less scrutiny writing a book (which involves someone else writing the book), going ton the speech circuit, giving interviews to friendly outlets?

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (pZEOD)

62 I still think Kumswala's future is in a cushy no-work DEI-hire appointment at some fancy college or law school. Like an even dumber and slimier version of Claudine Gay.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Agree.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (2bFN5)

63 She could do a kid's show. Nick at Night.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (Dm8we)

64 >>Has she ever had a real job?

It doesn't suck itself.

Posted by: Willie Brown at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (z/jjr)

65 >>>"She is not someone who makes rash decisions. She takes, sometimes, a painfully long time to make decisions. So I would pretty much guarantee you she has no idea what her next move is," said Brian Brokaw, a former Harris aide who has remained close to her circle.

We'll see how close he remains to her circle after describing her as a slow-witted dullard.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (CwhoI)

66 Honestly, is she really too dumb to figure out the grift train? That she will make far more money with far less scrutiny writing a book (which involves someone else writing the book), going ton the speech circuit, giving interviews to friendly outlets?

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (pZEOD)

A half dozen paintings would put a good det in the debt.

Posted by: Hunter at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (D6PGr)

67 Wes Moore is the next hot thing for the Dems. Go read his Wikipedia and tell me how that's not their "guy" 2028? Only thing that keeps him from being the nominee is if he doesn't want it or if his ability to play-act a centrist dooms him with the Dems psycho left wing base in the primaries.

Posted by: Ravenmother at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (oiHdz)

68 43 35 The most formidable opponent is Shapiro, he is the best at pretending not to be a communist.

he literally does nothing as gov

at least he shows up now and again I suppose
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

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This is always a weird way to measure potential presidential (or any elected position) candidate.

You don't have to have done things to get people to vote for you. You just have to get people to vote for you. Do people vote based on previous accomplishments? If so, I can give you a long list of people who did have accomplishments who went no where in politics.

Also, Biden did nothing as VP...and we know how 2020 went.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

69 Last thread related but...
Western Lensman @WesternLensman Nov 24
🚨NEW: Adam Schiff doesn’t believe that Trump AG pick Pam Bondi should be “prosecuting the prosecutors."

"Is she going to continue to say that the Justice Department should be prosecuting prosecutors who brought valid evidence before a grand jury?"

“A grand jury found probable cause to believe Donald Trump committed crimes. That's not a basis to go after them."

The American people who gave a mandate to Trump disagree, Adam.

The people responsible for the “Get Trump” op at the Biden DOJ must be held to account.

Mike Davis @mrddmia Nov 24
Dear @AdamSchiff:
A federal grand jury in Ft. Pierce, FL must probe whether agents, prosecutors and other co-conspirators in FL, DC, NY, and AZ waged illegal lawfare and election interference against Trump, his aides, and his allies.

18 U.S.C. § 241 (conspiracy against rights).

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (hovnC)

70 Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney 6m
BREAKING: Jack Smith moves to dismiss the case against Trump in Washington.
storage.courtlistener.com/re…

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 3m
This means both federal criminal cases against President Trump are over. Time for investigations.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (hovnC)

71 Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics But No One Believes Her
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The knees knows.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (3KZZ8)

72 >>> 61 Honestly, is she really too dumb to figure out the grift train? That she will make far more money with far less scrutiny writing a book (which involves someone else writing the book), going ton the speech circuit, giving interviews to friendly outlets?

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (pZEOD)

Have you seen the meme with Barry, Brandon, Kamala and Timmeh in that order, with the first three thinking "I need a running mate dumber than me..."?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (KcwUg)

73 14 What morons would donate to a future Harris campaign? They were fooled once.

Trump vanquished Harris, Walz, Clinton, and Obama for good. They had the Deep State, MSM, Big Tech, education, etc., and still lost. They will always have to live with that. What a hero.
Posted by: Eternity Matters at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM

Those were investments in future favors they were purchasing. I don't think Kamala is going to run the shadow government like the Clintons did with the Clinton Foundation.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (1hQvE)

74 Kamala will get a no-show job at an NGO. The left rewards their own.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (rJ48h)

75 "Electability" doesn't matter if you're a Democrat. You have 70 million votes baked in and this irretrievable idiot was immediately anointed Slay Queen of the World and came five c-hairs away from taking office.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (12v8J)

76 64 >>Has she ever had a real job?

It doesn't suck itself.
Posted by: Willie Brown at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (z/jjr)

If she does it for pay, it's a job.
Otherwise, it is just a hobby.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (N39Ws)

77 52 He's also white, which is a big no-no in the DEI/intersectional olympics. He'd have to rebill himself as a black or asian lesbian woman, with the supporting characteristics, and no hair, to have a chance.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 01:27 PM (VNX3d)

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This is why Biden didn't win the Democrat Primary in 2020, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

78 Wes Moore is the next hot thing for the Dems. Go read his Wikipedia and tell me how that's not their "guy" 2028? Only thing that keeps him from being the nominee is if he doesn't want it or if his ability to play-act a centrist dooms him with the Dems psycho left wing base in the primaries.
Posted by: Ravenmother at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (oiHdz)

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But...he doesn't have a vagina! He can't possibly be the 2028 pick.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (DRSnL)

79 58 It would be funny if Kamala ran against Pelosi in the primaries.
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Nancy would have her killed.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (jFCkp)

80 I mean honestly - Stanford can't give her some no-show fake prof slot? Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (Pv3Rg)

I expect her to turn up on the payroll of a West Coast law firm that will use her to go to lunch with foreign clients, give speeches, and appear at the summer associate recruiting weekend.

She may get some kind of academic sinecure if she can bring her own funding. She'll have someone ghostwrite a book for her about how awful Biden was.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (r5tfK)

81 She'll run for California Governor and lose to a republican candidate. A Larry Elder type. He's crush her at any debate, as would most anyone with a third grade education.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (dIske)

82 To Kamala politics = blowjobs. So i totally believe she will stay in "politics"

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 25, 2024 01:31 PM (L9siw)

83 Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump
via @nbcnews

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 01:31 PM (RHGPo)

84 Perhaps the ambassadorship to Moronica would be an acceptable role to shoot for.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 25, 2024 01:31 PM (Vyll1)

85 I mean, this does point out something important: We can goof on Harris's chances for being the nominee again, but... who else do they have?
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AOC and Chelsea!
The dream ticket!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 01:31 PM (THzoa)

86 Kamala Harris, the woman, has no debt.

The Kamala Harris for President PAC or whatever it was, is millions of dollars in debt.

Harris herself isn't responsible for a dime. He face is all over it, but personally, she's free and clear to pin any outstanding debt on "staff."

Which she will. Or has.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 01:31 PM (Q4IgG)

87 What's less valuable than an old whore?
Posted by: Wally
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I suppose she can try to put her money where her mouth is. Or vice-versa.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 01:32 PM (2bFN5)

88 >>> 86 Kamala Harris, the woman, has no debt.

The Kamala Harris for President PAC or whatever it was, is millions of dollars in debt.

Harris herself isn't responsible for a dime. He face is all over it, but personally, she's free and clear to pin any outstanding debt on "staff."

Which she will. Or has.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 01:31 PM (Q4IgG)

*cackles*

They didn't position me for success!

Posted by: Kamala at November 25, 2024 01:32 PM (KcwUg)

89 @JustTheNews
·
54s
Breaking: Special ~~counsel~~ tyrant Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 01:25 PM (LkLld)

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Fixed [h/t Bongino].

Is Jack Smith tired of losing yet?

I hope he experiences some real karmic justice ... in Federal PMITA Prison.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 01:32 PM (+dcCQ)

90 I can't imagine her handlers were happy with her performance, so I'm not sure why'd they want to drag her again through a campaign unless she suddenly turns into a rainmaker in the next year. From the little we've heard about her time in office, it sounds like she's a lazy asshole with no particular portfolio. If not her name, why bother?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 01:32 PM (IG4Id)

91 Harris running for Cali gov would mean knifing her LG friend Eleni Kokônutriakis. You love to see it.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (7fVdQ)

92 Jack Smith Is dropping the election interference case.

One hopes that very soon the only thing he'll be worried about dropping is the soap.

Posted by: Nelly at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (bcr4y)

93 "Could she run for governor? Yes. Do I think she wants to run for governor? Probably not. Could she win? Definitely. Would she like the job? I don't know."

The always insightful Brokaw. These are the hard-hitting deep questions only he can answer.

Do I want a slice of pie? Yes. Do I think I should go for a walk? Probably not. Could I have another slice of pie? Definitely.

Posted by: fly gal at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (bmwu5)

94 Democrats have bigger problems than finding a candidate in 2028. They don't even know who they are anymore or what they represent.

Half saw the 2024 disaster and want the party to try and get back to being not completely batshit crazy. The other half want to even further left.

They have more beatings in store for them before they figure it out, then they can worry about a nominee.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (LkLld)

95 Mayor of Oakland. It's where democrat party dead wood washes ashore.

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (ab3AP)

96 Harris herself isn't responsible for a dime. He face is all over it, but personally, she's free and clear to pin any outstanding debt on "staff."

Which she will. Or has.

Ironic, considering she's already stopped paying people that had been promised pay until the end of the year.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (Gyft8)

97 @Raven, Wes Moore has a stolen valor problem in that he claimed to have a Bronze Star he was not awarded. Of course, that never stopped Sergeant Toys-for-Tots in Connecticut. That said, he seemed reasonably competent at managing the situation when the ship ran into the bridge.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (r5tfK)

98 What's the over/under for Kamala's BAC on January 6th?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (KcwUg)

99

jack shit gonna return President Trump's documents, too?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (siRul)

100 82 To Kamala politics = blowjobs. So i totally believe she will stay in "politics"
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In fact she could make money on OnlyFans by showing her past campaign videos for simps to spank it to.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (L9siw)

101 Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking a judge to drop all charges against President-elect Donald Trump stemming from Smith's investigation into the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach, Fox News Digital has learned.
Judge Tanya Chutkan will need to approve the request before the case is dismissed.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

102 90 I can't imagine her handlers were happy with her performance, so I'm not sure why'd they want to drag her again through a campaign unless she suddenly turns into a rainmaker in the next year. From the little we've heard about her time in office, it sounds like she's a lazy asshole with no particular portfolio. If not her name, why bother?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 01:32 PM (IG4Id)

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Failure has a thousand fathers, and you can lay a lot of blame on people not Kamala Harris, starting with Joe Biden.

There will be people, even people with money, who will be convinced by such arguments.

Remember, rich people aren't necessarily smart. Example A: Mark Cuban.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

103 I could've done without all the writing on the French ladies' breasts.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:22 PM (v6JzV)

I would volunteer to help wash it off. I am a giver.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (IErdF)

104 85 I mean, this does point out something important: We can goof on Harris's chances for being the nominee again, but... who else do they have?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 01:31 PM (THzoa)
__________________________

They learned their lesson. The next general election will pull towards the middle. The candidate will be a democrat governor from a red state. So, the Kentucky governor or the NC governor.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (dIske)

105 It would be funny if Kamala ran against Pelosi in the primaries.
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Nancy would have her killed.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (jFCkp)

That would be pretty funny.

Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (z/ifB)

106 Someone linked an old Sesame Street episode where a scientist builds the $6 Man - a play of course on the six million dollar man.

Anyway the scientist goes into how much each part cost and he used a bottle of olive oil which cost...$1.50. Which even the cheap stuff would be 10X that now.

But remember inflation is like 2%!!!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (oZhjI)

107 As I said earlier, I'm just pleased that I haven't had to hear KH's thin, uncertain, whiny voice or that shivery cackle on every "news" broadcast for the last three weeks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (J2vNu)

108 OT

There are 6 Central Americans outside my window operating leaf blowers. It's LOUD AF!

Posted by: Serious Cat at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (TaHi/)

109 would be funny if this turned out like the General Flynn case where the judge is so afflicted with TDS that she won't allow the charges against Trump to be dropped

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (V6W16)

110 jack shit gonna return President Trump's documents, too?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Maybe. He's keeping Melania's skivvies, though.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (v6JzV)

111 Center square on The View or bust.

She already has the requisite cackle.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 01:35 PM (0Htd1)

112 I'm just saying Kamala hasn't helped the perception of Cali politicians at all.
Posted by: banana Dream

Solidified the perception that they are scummy liars for me!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 01:35 PM (THzoa)

113 So maybe she does have no other choice but to make a doomed run at another office.

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[As I said earlier if they don't rig the Califzuela Governor's race for her:] She could move to Arizona where they can steal the Governor's Mansion for her after Soros butt-bitch Hobbs leaves.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 01:35 PM (+dcCQ)

114 >>>But...he doesn't have a vagina! He can't possibly be the 2028 pick.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2024 01:30 PM (DRSnL)

I will grant you that! But I think his being an actual "real" foundational black American, with his up by the bootstraps story, extremely smart, believe he was a paratrooper, written a bunch of books, has an attractive wife with a sympathetic chronic illness, the cute kids....

The Dems will be desperate to win back black males and need a vet to counter JD's CV.

Posted by: Ravenmother at November 25, 2024 01:35 PM (oiHdz)

115 WHY AREN'T YOU PEOPLE LISTENING TO US!!!???/Politico
KAMALA HARRIS IS YOUR DREAM DATE AMERICA!/also Politico

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at November 25, 2024 01:35 PM (Ft5W9)

116 She can't run for governor, because if she loses, we wouldn't have Kamala Harris to kick around any more.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 01:35 PM (r5tfK)

117 meteoric rise

Is has been pointed out elsewhere and long ago that Meteors don't rise, they fall.

I would like to submit "Volcanic rise" to the style guide as a substitute.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 01:35 PM (hB7mE)

118 Hello, welcome to WalMart!

Posted by: Jack Smith at November 25, 2024 01:35 PM (paSBy)

119 Unless Trump runs for Governor of California against her, Cackles ain't got a chance.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at November 25, 2024 01:36 PM (zSyrn)

120 104 They learned their lesson. The next general election will pull towards the middle. The candidate will be a democrat governor from a red state. So, the Kentucky governor or the NC governor.
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (dIske)

==========

Depends on the Manhattan media's predilections, to be honest.

They can snuff out people without national name recognition pretty easily by simply never talking about them or dredging up dirt and burying the campaigns.

Do the people who have decided and drove for almost 20 years that the only solution is more ~~cowbell~~ crazy socialist/cultural nonsense suddenly decide that they want something else?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

121 Judge Tanya Chutkan will need to approve the request before the case is dismissed.
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

Imagine if she pulled a Sullivan-on-Flynn and appointed a buddy to take over as a special prosecutor.

Posted by: Candidus at November 25, 2024 01:36 PM (zGvse)

122 Calling the camel a “political athlete” is comedy gold. Gold Jerry… Gold!!!!

These people are delusional…. She couldn’t even answer the one obvious question on the view. Maybe they mean a special Olympics athlete…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2024 01:36 PM (uAQQB)

123 95 Mayor of Oakland. It's where democrat party dead wood washes ashore.
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It amazes me that such a beautiful place to live is nothing but a hog farm. You know the insurance companies are buying the place up. They've got long legs when it comes to investing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:36 PM (jFCkp)

124 Sorry 'Bitcoin Fixes Everything', I see you beat me to the punch.

Posted by: Candidus at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (zGvse)

125 California Uber Alles, with Harris as the hatching serpent's egg. The prophet Jello Biafra has so ordained

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (wBaIH)

126 >>> Everyone fears that without the Secret Service, Slugger Emhoff will start punching her.

heh. Nicely done!

Posted by: No Name Today at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (vlXMQ)

127
If this is true, then You People should know this IS NOT jack shit's decision.

SOMEONE is Ordering jackoff smith to do this.

But Who?

Whom?

Well, Garland, of course. But Who told Garland to give the Order? My guess: biden.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (siRul)

128 They thought they could eliminate Trump either via their assassins or lawfare so they wanted another Biden....but a black female one.

She's still a great choice for the Junta members as she will take orders.

So will they tap her again for the next election? it depends on how aggressive Trump is, TBH. If he starts arresting the people behind the assassins and lawfare and builds a strong economy then the Dems will have to return to the center to beat candidate Vance, DeSantis, or the like.

If Trump mostly fails at taming the bureaucracy though the left will continue to celebrate insanity and believe they can just cheat/destroy their way to victory in 2028 like they did in 2020.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (oZhjI)

129 Dr Philip Nitschke, 77, ‘I’ll bring Death Pods to Britain if assisted dying law passes’

I invite all the MPs of Labour to personally test out the Death Pods for proper safety

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (RHGPo)

130 It amazes me that such a beautiful place to live is nothing but a hog farm.
Posted by: Pudinhead

The trouble with California is that it's full of Californians.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (v6JzV)

131 Her book title has to be "Unburdened"

Has to be.

Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (z/ifB)

132 would be funny if this turned out like the General Flynn case where the judge is so afflicted with TDS that she won't allow the charges against Trump to be dropped

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything
===

Beat me to it. That is where I would place a bet.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (17s+e)

133 "I would like to submit "Volcanic rise" to the style guide as a substitute."

Volcanic rise would not apply to Harris, but to her early political work as volcanoes erupt.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at November 25, 2024 01:38 PM (zSyrn)

134 Smith is looking for a non-extradition country to move to.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 01:38 PM (lTGtQ)

135
At least the Clinton Foundation had a lot of federal employees and business connections to draw from, money to be passed around, favors to be repaid...

Kamala's got fired assistant stories to look forward to.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 01:38 PM (j4U/Z)

136 They had the Deep State, MSM, Big Tech, education, etc., and still lost. They will always have to live with that. What a hero.
Posted by: Eternity Matters

You forgot the celebrity endorsements, which did her sooo much good.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 01:38 PM (0Htd1)

137 reenergizing Democrats

Oh, she did all right. That's how she sailed to victory on election day!

wait, what's that you're saying?

No way. No. Way.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2024 01:38 PM (WPL6O)

138
Or perhaps garland is making these decisions independently.

But why?

Askeered of something?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 01:38 PM (siRul)

139 Is has been pointed out elsewhere and long ago that Meteors don't rise, they fall.

*polite cough*

Posted by: Gloster Aircraft Company at November 25, 2024 01:39 PM (OguvZ)

140 >>> 104
__

They learned their lesson. The next general election will pull towards the middle. The candidate will be a democrat governor from a red state. So, the Kentucky governor or the NC governor.
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (dIske)

I would expect residents of Western NC of have some issues with the current governor, and won't be shy about telling people about him.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 01:39 PM (KcwUg)

141 Her book title has to be "Unburdened"

Has to be.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024

***
"The Venn Diagram of My Life"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 01:39 PM (J2vNu)

142 She burned thru a billion dollars in 107 days.

Who will fund that?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (UE7n4)

143 Jack Smith files motion to drop federal case against Trump

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WHEREFORE it was all bullshit to begin with and it didn't keep him from winning the election, the people hereby move to dismiss the charges in People v. Trump.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (L/fGl)

144 She could host a revival of "The Apprentice"

Posted by: brak at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (NGHTx)

145 Boy, the quotes from "Harris allies" reminds me of the South Park episode where the virtue-signaling hybrid car owners are standing around smelling their own farts with gusto.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (z0QHk)

146 I was reading an article on "the unexpected parts of becoming rich" from MSN.

About 2/3s of the 25 answers were people complaining that all the OTHER rich people around them are lazy SOBs that don't deserve their wealth. The meta on it was pretty comical and 100% matches the wealthier lefties I know.

The more honest answers were along the lines of "many things become easier because you can solve many problems just by spending money of which you have enough"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (oZhjI)

147 I have a lefty idiot I talk to and she thinks I'm persuadable. I am - but not to leftardism.

Anyway to sum up the election, she says...

1. It was "unfair" that they blamed Harris for what this administration did for the last 4 years. The VP has no power.

2. Too many people believed the "lies" about the economy being bad.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (12v8J)

148 Was it Joy Reid who kept saying that Kamala ran a PERFECT campaign? PERFECT.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (jyAD3)

149 I mean, this does point out something important: We can goof on Harris's chances for being the nominee again, but... who else do they have?
Posted by: AZ deplorable
Posted by: Orson

Orson!!!!
That was Ace!
Don't attribute his wisdom to me!
I don't measure up to his punditry and cruelty!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (THzoa)

150 I can't think of any politician who failed as miserably as Kamala who ended up with any sort of political career after their failure.

Harris is a broken novelty.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (Q4IgG)

151 The anti-semitism is now too entrenched in the Dem party; a white Jew like Shapiro could never win their nomination.

I agree that Wes Moore is their most likely up and comer; but he’s a Colin Allred type candidate. Here in Texas, Allred was recruited to run against Cruz; relatively young, ex football player, telegenic, generically non threatening moderate (although Cruz got some hits in on the gender stuff). On paper Allred seemed like the perfect candidate. But he was too generic, too dull, too much of a character chosen by central casting, rather than a person. He never excited any real enthusiasm and only got 44% of the vote.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (Ereai)

152 meteoric rise

Is has been pointed out elsewhere and long ago that Meteors don't rise, they fall.

I would like to submit "Volcanic rise" to the style guide as a substitute.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 01:35 PM

Perhaps, how you say, "Paoloic rise"?

Posted by: Paolo at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (a3Q+t)

153 Anyway the scientist goes into how much each part cost and he used a bottle of olive oil which cost...$1.50. Which even the cheap stuff would be 10X that now.

But remember inflation is like 2%!!!
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 01:34 PM (oZhjI)

...

And fake.

Someone introduced us to actual good olive oil and I still can't get over what a radical difference there is.

Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (z/ifB)

154 Her book title has to be "Unburdened"

Has to be.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024

***
"The Venn Diagram of My Life"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 01:39 PM (J2vNu)
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"The Time of the Passage of Time."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (z0QHk)

155 Her book title has to be "Unburdened"

Has to be.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024

"How many licks does it take to get to ......"
Kamala "The Owl" Harris

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (N39Ws)

156 Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics

Until we run out of men willing to get a hummer, she'll always have a future.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (xyuoi)

157 She could host a revival of "The Apprentice"

Would be the first time the apprentices have fired the boss.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (Gyft8)

158 She burned thru a billion dollars in 107 days.

Who will fund that?

Pretty much all of that was made up of laundered tax payer dollars. From government employee donations, to NGO donations, to oligarchs spending money they "earned" due to regulatory capture.

Will they be able to do it in 2028? Depends on how aggressive and successful Trump is

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (oZhjI)

159 Lol.

Ok sweetheart - your Party set up an opposition candidate to be murdered and carried out a soft coup on its old standard bearer to try and get you into office. After all that bad blood under the bridge, there will be no "reasserting your role in the Party." You are out of political capital.

You sucked long and hard and enthusiastically. Nobody can say you have shallow throat, even if you have a shallow mind. But it just wasn't enough. It's over. Stop with the Norma Desmond act.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (7oYYI)

160 Piper, if you're still here, I just sent you an e-mail.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (v6JzV)

161 101 Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking a judge to drop all charges against President-elect Donald Trump stemming from Smith's investigation into the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach, Fox News Digital has learned.
Judge Tanya Chutkan will need to approve the request before the case is dismissed.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

Fifty quatloos Commie Chutkan will do an Emmett Sullivan and refuse to dismiss the charges. She'll keep the case alive somehow and the DC Fed Court of Appeals will back her. As it did Sullivan when he refused to agree with the DoJ prosecutor's filing to dismiss charges against Gen. Mike Flynn. Trump ended up having to pardon Flynn to get the DC Courts to stop trying to crucify him.

Posted by: Gref at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (aBgBM)

162 Who in their right mind would pay to hear Harris give a speech? She couldn't even fill a high school gym during the campaign had to resort paying millions to entertainers to try and drum up a little excitement and she paid supporters to attend her rallies.

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She'd be great on the comedy circuit.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (g8Ew8)

163 Oh she wants to start a Global Clinton Initiative-like grift that poses as a charity but actually exists to pay her a salary, pay for her staff, pay travel including car and chaufeur and pay for a ritzy complex of offices in a major city.

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Well-Connected Influencer & Party Animal Rights Advocate Extraordinarre Hunter Biden is tanned, strung-out, doing two cousins at once, taking a sabbatical from painting, and available to run the Coconut Global Initiative!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (BRRLt)

164 Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 11m
In a final act of partisanship and poor legal judgement, Jack Smith dismisses the J6 case "without prejudice" to keep alive Trump haters hope this garbage case can somehow be resurrected when he leaves office.

Smith is such a dirtbag

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 7m
Smith continues to misrepresent his case. He did this in the superseding indictment as well post SCOTUS immunity opinion. Although Smith charged Trump with acts that allegedly occurred *while* in office, he changed his description from "former president" to "private citizen"

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 1m
This is another lie.

Smith had to water down his initial indictment by several pages following immunity opinion. What remained would never have passed another immunity test by SCOTUS.

Further, SCOTUS also overturned how DOJ applied 1512c2, which represented 2 of the 4 counts in the J6 indictment.

Smith is a liar, a fraud, and potentially a rogue criminal and both Congress and a Trump DOJ must make a full blown and PUBLIC investigation into the special counsel's office a top priority.
https://tinyurl.com/56rvyb7d

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (hovnC)

165 142 She burned thru a billion dollars in 107 days.

Who will fund that?
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (UE7n4)

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"She's borderline retarded? Who would fund that?"
-December, 2018

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

166 Raw Story: Kamala Harris eyes re-run for White House: Politico claimed the Democratic nominee who was soundly beaten by President-elect Donald Trump is considering returning to the campaign trail in 2028.

“Privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years,” the report stated.

A white man will be the nominee. Probably Beshear, Shapiro , or Newsom. Even in 2020 many that supported Harris voted for Biden as they felt he was a safer pick.

Biden's did fine in interviews. But by 2024's SOTU you could see he aged. Yet he held his own for that great event. The fact they wanted to get the debates done early was a tell. I doubt VP Harris will be the nominee again. She was heroic, but lacked creds on some level.

she would do as well as a candidate as she did in the 2020 primaries. She’s just not a great presidential candidate, I’m excited about other potential options like Whitmer, Shapiro, or Fetterman. Almost zero chance either of those candidates gets completely frozen out of the Blue Wall.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (JCZqz)

167
My advice to Dems is to stay with identity politics; Black and gay has got to be a winner, right?

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (j4U/Z)

168 Whitmer can actually campaign, but she's got a host of shit in her past as governor that's going to rub people the wrong way.

Or she could join the touring cast of "Wicked". Some green make up, a pointy hat, and she's good to go.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (0Htd1)

169 Do the people who have decided and drove for almost 20 years that the only solution is more cowbell crazy socialist/cultural nonsense suddenly decide that they want something else?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
___________________________

Trojan horse strategy. Get control of a moderate and leverage socialism out of him with the Sword of Damocles. We've seen the figurehead technique for the last four years.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM (dIske)

170 147 I have a lefty idiot I talk to and she thinks I'm persuadable. I am - but not to leftardism.

Anyway to sum up the election, she says...

1. It was "unfair" that they blamed Harris for what this administration did for the last 4 years. The VP has no power.

2. Too many people believed the "lies" about the economy being bad.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (12v8J)

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"I would have done nothing differently."
-Kamala Harris, spouting misinformation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

171 Kind of surprised no one's cooked up a law school sinecure somewhere to put her on ice indefinitely....

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM (muRIc)

172 "Nancy would have her killed."

Nancy could pay Slugger Emhoff to do the foul deed.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM (zSyrn)

173 1. It was "unfair" that they blamed Harris for what this administration did for the last 4 years. The VP has no power.

McVain was blamed for every bad thing that happened under Shrub. Shrub in turn was literally blamed for the weather. And of course in 2020 Trump was blamed for Fauci's COVID virus.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM (oZhjI)

174 I would like to see Kamala waste another billion or so of Democrat political money,

but that's about it.

I find it impossible though that anyone is going to contribute anything toward a proven lame-ass, inarticulate but grotesquely spendthrift candidate.

Hope springs eternal though!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM (eDfFs)

175 >>> 162

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She'd be great on the comedy circuit.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (g8Ew

She can be her own laugh track.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM (KcwUg)

176 🇺🇸 @FreeStateWill 2h
If DOJ/FBI committed crimes and deprived rights in J6 cases, they don't necessarily have to be prosecuted in D.C.

Most arrests and initial hearings took place in other judicial districts. For instance, my arrest and magistrate judge was in Kansas. Use a Kansas grand jury on DOJ!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 01:44 PM (hovnC)

177 Vance's wife comes from a small village in India. The Indian media is love bombing the "local girl made good" angle as the US's first VP first lady of Indian descent.

Suck it Kamala, you fake Black woman of no accomplishment.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 01:44 PM (wBaIH)

178 Jack Smith files motion to drop federal case against Trump

Ah, following the "Kamala Harris School of Malicious Prosecution" wherein one forces a defendant to waste money, time and reputation and them just.. drops the charges like the whole thing was some kind of hilarious prank.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 01:44 PM (hB7mE)

179 166 she would do as well as a candidate as she did in the 2020 primaries. She’s just not a great presidential candidate, I’m excited about other potential options like Whitmer, Shapiro, or Fetterman. Almost zero chance either of those candidates gets completely frozen out of the Blue Wall.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2024 01:42 PM (JCZqz)

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If dude had said that 4 weeks ago, he'd have been banned.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

180 Damian Williams said he would step down as US attorney for the Southern District of New York on Dec. 13 – about a month before Trump’s inauguration.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

181 Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics But No One Believes Her
Should read:

Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics But No One Cares

Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 25, 2024 01:44 PM (Lo97M)

182 I’m excited about other potential options like Whitmer, Shapiro, or Fetterman.

Fire bad guy is waayyy too pro-Israel for the "mostly peaceful protests for Gaza" crowd

Posted by: brak at November 25, 2024 01:45 PM (NGHTx)

183 Until we run out of men willing to get a hummer, she'll always have a future.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2024 01:41 PM (xyuoi)
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Isn't that an inexhaustible resource?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 01:45 PM (z0QHk)

184 I like the story that 4 firms were paid the bulk of her $1.2 billion that she spent.

Two questions I absolutely encourage Democrats to go after with all their might:
1) Where are the missing 8 million votes?
2) What did Kamala spend that $1.2 billion on?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 01:45 PM (8Kx9y)

185 "There will be a desire to hear her voice, and there won't be a vacuum for long," a person close to Harris said.

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Never use "vacuum" in the same sentence as Kommie-la ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 01:45 PM (BRRLt)

186 148 Was it Joy Reid who kept saying that Kamala ran a PERFECT campaign? PERFECT.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (jyAD3)

Is Joy Reid secret MAGA ?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 25, 2024 01:45 PM (+qdHL)

187 Kamala is a 9 year old Gretna Thumbutt on estrogen. She is the ideal for Governor of the great communist state of California.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 01:45 PM (om3Wy)

188 Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics

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She's too old to learn another grift.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 01:46 PM (L/fGl)

189 182 I’m excited about other potential options like Whitmer, Shapiro, or Fetterman.

Fire bad guy is waayyy too pro-Israel for the "mostly peaceful protests for Gaza" crowd
Posted by: brak at November 25, 2024 01:45 PM (NGHTx)

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I'm willing to believe that Fetterman has some special connection to PA that makes him electable there. Well, sort of willing to believe.

I doubt that translates well to, say, SC, especially when the story of his running after an innocent black man while Fetterman brandished a shotgun gets played in majority black Democrat Party South Carolina.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

190 Her "allies" saying she's thinking about running for President in 2028 made me laugh out loud.

Good, I hope she does.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 01:46 PM (jyAD3)

191 Damian Williams said he would step down as US attorney for the Southern District of New York on Dec. 13 – about a month before Trump’s inauguration.
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

...

The smart people will beat the rush and find their next gig now.

Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024 01:46 PM (z/ifB)

192 She's too old to learn another grift.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha!
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And far too lazy.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (2bFN5)

193
She's run out of political dicks to suck.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (+oR7L)

194 I find it impossible though that anyone is going to contribute anything toward a proven lame-ass, inarticulate but grotesquely spendthrift candidate.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM

Don't fall into the trap of being disproportionately cynical compared to your tender years that so many of the commentators here do.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (a3Q+t)

195 The fundraising guess is probably the best one, she needs people to believe that she might have power and hence is worth ~~bribing~~ donations.

I don't actually see much of a future for her. She's hated by nearly everyone, is shockingly incompetent, lost badly to Trump, and is terrible at public speaking. Maybe a no-work job at a foundation or something.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (RsS92)

196 If Kamala wants to keep her name out there, here's an idea. She could become the next Billy Mays, hawking items on TV. There's no audience, just reading a script, and she already has the distinct characteristic - her cackle.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (VNX3d)

197 I hear that Kamala can cook.

Maybe Obama can hire her.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (v6JzV)

198 Well, Garland, of course. But Who told Garland to give the Order? My guess: biden.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Biden doesn't know what he had for breakfast. We've yet to learn what group is actually in charge of the regime. And it sucks to know we probably never will without some dumb/brave insider writing a book.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (IG4Id)

199
Trojan horse strategy. Get control of a moderate and leverage socialism out of him with the Sword of Damocles. We've seen the figurehead technique for the last four years.
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM (dIske)
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I have to say that this is the first time I've seen the Sword of Damocles intersect with the Trojan Horse.

Only on AoSHQ.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (z0QHk)

200 Kamala could save a lot of money for her upcoming campaigns by collecting up all the Trump signs that are no longer needed and change the "U" to an "A".

By doing this she would demonstrate a newly acquired sense of fiscal responsibility and acumen and use it as a launching board for any future campaigns.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2024 01:48 PM (xyuoi)

201 Vance's wife comes from a small village in India. The Indian media is love bombing the "local girl made good" angle as the US's first VP first lady of Indian descent.

I've noticed in watching Indian newscasts that they characterize the Democrats as the China party in the US.

There are obvious reasons for India then to throw its weight behind the Republican and Vance's wife is a good way to sell that. Of course Kamala herself is half Indian and ran as black so it is amusing.

But one problem with this alignment is there are many, many bored high caste Indians in the US that like what the Democrats are selling in terms of authoritarianism.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 01:48 PM (oZhjI)

202 No, no one wants to hear her voice again ever.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2024 01:48 PM (YbbtK)

203 She's too old to learn another grift.

She's getting past her limited looks expiration date as well. When all you're good at is pleasuring more powerful men for favors, and you look like a hag, you've got a pretty bleak future.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 01:48 PM (RsS92)

204 186 148 Was it Joy Reid who kept saying that Kamala ran a PERFECT campaign? PERFECT.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (jyAD3)

Is Joy Reid secret MAGA ?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 25, 2024 01:45 PM (+qdHL)

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I forgot the best part, right after that insane comment she said, "Even Queen Latifah endorsed her and she's never endorsed anyone."

hhahhahhahhahah Yes, the coveted queen latifah endorsement.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 01:48 PM (jyAD3)

205 Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics
......

She's gonna need another neck wattle job.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (v0R5T)

206 The simple reason Kamala won’t get the Dem nomination for Governor of California is that there are plenty of other ambitious California Dems who will be saying to themselves “I could be Governor, why should I stand aside for that idiot?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (Ereai)

207 Biden doesn't know what he had for breakfast.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

But he does remember the sweet poop afterwards.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)

208 Kamala Harris was the worse candidate I have ever seen running for President. Didn't Barack Obama say something like "At some point you've made enough money."(Of course, he didn't mean that about himself) Hasn't she reached that point yet and can now be an airheaded dolt on "The View" or something?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (MQJVv)

209 The smart people will beat the rush and find their next gig now.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024 01:46 PM (z/ifB)

There's a limited number of job openings in the Deep State-friendly part of the private sector.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (IErdF)

210 I mean, this does point out something important: We can goof on Harris's chances for being the nominee again, but... who else do they have?

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There's only one American whom the Mad Mullahs, Xi, Putin, and Little Rocket Man fear more than Trump:

"I nominate Atomic Tranny DogBoy!"

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (BRRLt)

211 Her book title has to be "Unburdened"

Has to be.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024

No it'll be something like

A Righteous Fight

Something that sounds religious or spiritual and is the polar opposite of the truth.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (12v8J)

212 Isn't that an inexhaustible resource?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 01:45 PM

Isn't exhausting that resource the point of a hummer?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (a3Q+t)

213 ff topic, noticed at twixxer:

There is no doubt the Trump Administration will seek retribution against Jack Smith. The best way for President Biden to protect him is to appoint Jack Smith to the bench.

RETWEET if you think @POTUS should appoint Jack Smith as a federal judge!

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (CWTWj)

214 It's a thin bench. Open for some billionaire to swoop in and become the nominee.

It'd be funny if it were Musk, but he's not native born. Le sigh..
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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No problem. Someone could just “find” his Hawaiin birth certificate.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (JRP2U)

215 Kamala was such a poor candidate that I don't think she'll even get the no-show board jobs and high dollar speaking fees other Dim flops get.

Her best bet is at some educational institution like-

North Southeastern Louisiana College of Swampology and Voodoo.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 01:50 PM (eDfFs)

216 Or perhaps "The Whirlwinds".

Which is reference to this quote by MLK:

"The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges"

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:50 PM (12v8J)

217 I hear that Kamala can cook.

Maybe Obama can hire her.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (v6JzV)

Ha. Or she can run a collard greens food truck in Escondido.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 01:50 PM (OguvZ)

218 Kamala Harris Is Telling People She Will Continue In Politics But No One Believes Her

How? When the suction breaks, you fall to the ocean's floor and you have to start all over again.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2024 01:50 PM (D5SRX)

219 California Uber Alles, with Harris as the hatching serpent's egg. The prophet Jello Biafra has so ordained
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (wBaIH)

Knock, knock, on the door, the silicon valley secret police come for your uncool niece.

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 01:50 PM (ab3AP)

220 I get text messages from DNC, not sure why though. I let them through because I'm curious to see if they ever get my name right, and because they can be mildly amusing. One came in this morning--it was more than three paragraphs long, based on "fighting Trump" and fundraising deadline is SOON! What was really different is that they're begging for a $20 donation, first time they've asked for a specific amount. Paying off the debt 1 million voters at a time?

Posted by: Lirio100 at November 25, 2024 01:50 PM (izAv/)

221 One thing about growing a beard and a full mustache - you don't have to worry about nose hair.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 01:51 PM (om3Wy)

222
Now let's revisit Ethel Kennedy's funeral when it appeared obama & biden were having words.

Lip-readers suggest buden said to obama: "but she's not as strong as me."

obama saying: "we still have time"

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 01:51 PM (siRul)

223 I might hire her as a maid, but nothing more.

As PDT’s policies strengthen us, the Libtards will get louder and more irrelevant.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 25, 2024 01:51 PM (RJSYQ)

224 206 The simple reason Kamala won’t get the Dem nomination for Governor of California is that there are plenty of other ambitious California Dems who will be saying to themselves “I could be Governor, why should I stand aside for that idiot?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 01:49 PM (Ereai)

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She stepped outside the CA machine once she accepted Biden's offer to be his VP. She became the machines representative in DC, but her place in line was done.

Next in line for Newsom's job should be the sitting AG or Lieutenant Governor. A non-office holder who's lived and worked in DC and isn't even a Senator for the past 4 years just doesn't have that priority to the machine anymore.

If she runs for CA governor, she'll end up 4th place in the jungle primary behind the AG and LG and the Republican nominee, and her team will probably figure that out pretty quickly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

225 Kamala will be installed as California's governor in November 2026.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 25, 2024 01:51 PM (rJ48h)

226 "There will be a desire to hear her voice, and there won't be a vacuum for long," a person close to Harris said.

What desire? Where? I see no desire.

There was a desire to hear from Kamala Harris about two months ago.

Over half the country decided they didn’t desire to hear from Kamala after January 20, 2025.

The most hilarious part is that you believe there’s a “vacuum” in the American political atmosphere because Kamala Harris is silent.

Over half of Americans voted the way they did because they know the only vacuum around here is between Kamala’s ears.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 01:51 PM (6ydKt)

227 OT but who's Tammy Duckworth?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (kTd/k)

228 She should become CEO of PP. it’s a cause she belies in, it pays well and she’ll be a hero to the sisterhood. And she’ll never be fired no matter how incompetent she is.

Why deal with the headaches of politics when something like that is an option?

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (VnatX)

229 I have to say that this is the first time I've seen the Sword of Damocles intersect with the Trojan Horse.

Only on AoSHQ.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM

Behold! The power of a Venn diagram!

Posted by: Kamala! 2028! David Hogg! 2032! at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (a3Q+t)

230 227 OT but who's Tammy Duckworth?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (kTd/k)

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Senator from...IL?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

231 Steve McGuire
@sfmcguire79

The WSJ reports that Chris Rufo
@realchrisrufo
“has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (NpAcC)

232
>>>Coconut Global Initiative!
Posted by: ShainS --

Ha!

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (siRul)

233 off topic again: twixxer: another brain dead:

Jack Smith is seeking to dismiss his fake Doc's case against Trump... he will submit a letter to Judge Merchan for approval

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (CWTWj)

234 As to what office Harris should run for: With all the Haitians leaving, Springfield Ohio has need of a dog catcher again.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 01:53 PM (Da7Vv)

235 Now let's revisit Ethel Kennedy's funeral when it appeared obama & biden were having words.

Lip-readers suggest buden said to obama: "but she's not as strong as me."

obama saying: "we still have time"

Posted by: Soothsayer

Obama: Of course not. She's dead. That's why we're here.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 01:53 PM (UE7n4)

236 OK I'm going to share a bit of perspective on the left that I recently read about that I think is enlightening.

When WW2 was wrapping up, everyone knew the Germans were going to lose and the war was going to be over soon. The intelligentsia and academia of Europe and the US started discussing what to do next. Their entire discussion was dominated, understandably, by Hitler and his rise to power, and how to prevent that from ever taking place again.

They studied all that and came to the conclusion that the real problem here was borders, differences between people, and a lack of openness in culture. So they focused on a solution involving inclusion, ending individualism, ending borders and ending authoritarianism.

Now, 90 years after Hitler took power the same template controls the left's every concept. Most of the founding ideas modern leftism is based on are sketchy if even remembered by most of its proponents. The fact that they utterly ignored nearly everything that put Hitler in power and Fascism stood for doesn't bother them at all, they have their theory.

1/2

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 01:53 PM (RsS92)

237 Keep my wife's name out of yo mouf!

Keep my wife's name out of yo fucking mouf!!

*approaches Ace on stage*

Posted by: Doug E. at November 25, 2024 01:53 PM (gsCyQ)

238 I have to say that this is the first time I've seen the Sword of Damocles intersect with the Trojan Horse.

Only on AoSHQ.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
___________

Then you didn't see them on tour together in 89. The Greek Fire tour.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 01:53 PM (Dm8we)

239 WSJ reports that Chris Rufo
@realchrisrufo
“has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”
Posted by: redridinghood

Giiiiigidddy.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 01:53 PM (VnatX)

240 Arkancide?

RealAF Patriot
@RealAF_Patriot
ANTHONY WEINER'S LAPTOP

9 out of the 12 NYPD officers that allegedly went through the Anthony Weiner Laptop, “committed suicide".

All 9 of them died by a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Self inflicted? I don’t believe that.

It sounds more like executions to me.

Tick Tock Hillary.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 01:53 PM (TGPs7)

241 Kamala who?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 01:54 PM (dGCAG)

242 I think Newsom is the most electable. Whitmer doesn't seem to have the capacity to contain her inner lunatic.
Posted by: bonhomme

I'm still pissed off at her hypocrite crap from the shut down. That photo of her crammed with 12 other gals at a restaurant/bar table during the shut down is stilll floating around the internet.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 01:54 PM (0Htd1)

243 saw someone speculate that this nonsense article was pushed to Politico so that Harris can continue fundraising to pay off her $18 million debt.

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

She could "write" an autobiography like "The Audacity of Dope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Scream" ... with a Forward by Claudine Gay.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 01:54 PM (BRRLt)

244 One thing about growing a beard and a full mustache - you don't have to worry about nose hair.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others
.....

What about my ear hair?

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 01:54 PM (v0R5T)

245 I might hire her as a maid, but nothing more.

As PDT’s policies strengthen us, the Libtards will get louder and more irrelevant.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 25, 2024 01:51 PM (RJSYQ)

She's probably not competent enough to properly clean a house, and she's no way cute enough to look good while doing it badly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 01:54 PM (IErdF)

246 Biden doesn't know what he had for breakfast. We've yet to learn what group is actually in charge of the regime. And it sucks to know we probably never will without some dumb/brave insider writing a book.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 01:47 PM (IG4Id)

There was a pretty good piece dumped in one of the leftist outlets just after the election (made me think they’d been sitting on it a while) saying that for the last 4 years, the government has actually been run by about 25 -30 former Obama officials scattered throughout the bureaucracy in top positions, all still closely tied to Obama and Valerie Jarrett. So yes, this actually ha been Obama’s 3rd term.
And they’ve got about69 days to keep screwing things up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 01:54 PM (Ereai)

247 Oh yeah we're not still doing polls are we. Can we have a Poll Moratorium for like a week?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:54 PM (12v8J)

248
North Southeastern Louisiana College of Swampology and Voodoo.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 01:50 PM (eDfFs)

--------

LOLOL

I'd consider being an exchange student.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 25, 2024 01:55 PM (jyAD3)

249 231 Steve McGuire
@sfmcguire79

The WSJ reports that Chris Rufo
@realchrisrufo
“has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (NpAcC)

=======

Make college endowments illegal.

Force separation between research and teaching parts of institutions. The separate entities can collaborate, but they must have completely separate funding, staff, and facilities.

Make colleges parties to bankruptcy proceedings dealing with college debt which should now become dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Mandate a 25-1 teacher to administrator ratio.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

250 Senator from...IL?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (GBKbO)
*******
Double amputee from war in Iraq. She's the senator in a wheelchair.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 01:55 PM (NpAcC)

251 Kamala's basically a Trivial Persuit answer at this point. "Who was the second democrat candidate to lose a general election race to Donald Trump?"

I'm guessing that within 5 years most people will have completely forgotten about her. She's not telling people she's staying in politics, she's begging someone to hire her.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 25, 2024 01:55 PM (B9Prs)

252 Damian Football Williams?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2024 01:55 PM (63Dwl)

253 Top NATO official calls on businesses to prepare for wartime.

-
It's a little early for April Fools.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 01:55 PM (L/fGl)

254 She's probably not competent enough to properly clean a house, and she's no way cute enough to look good while doing it badly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*pictures Kamala in a French maid outfit*

*shudders*

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:55 PM (v6JzV)

255 She has no political future

The Harrix/Walz ticket was the worst in my lifetime. In American history, has there been a more unelectable pair?

what's devastatingly frightening is that 47% of the nation voted for they/them

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (dCxaZ)

256 9 out of the 12 NYPD officers that allegedly went through the Anthony Weiner Laptop, “committed suicide".
.......

You would too if you saw pictures of him and Huma naked.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (v0R5T)

257 We can only hope for Kamala. She is the worst candidate of my lifetime.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (kzHlT)

258 I see Jack Smith is dropping 6 Jan, next logical move is keep a good hold on the soap.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (hKoQL)

259 How the fuck do you raise over $1B dollars and end up in debt? All within the span of 100 days.

If this isn’t Democrats in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (VnatX)

260 2/2:

The thing is, when you hear leftists call Trump "Fascist" its not based on any remote understanding of fascism, its based on their worldview which states that wars and conflict and evil stem from nation states, borders, and lack of tolerance and inclusion. They view anyone who opposes this as "fascist" because that was their answer to fascism. The fact that this has nothing to do with actual fascism is beside the point.

When you hear leftists freaking out about Trump's ascendance and the failure of their ideas, its because they think their ideas are the only thing preventing another holocaust. Its a matter of time, you see, if you don't do what they recommend, it has to happen again, because their theories are the only thing that will stop it.

Tranny bathrooms, floods of illegals, abortion, one world government, all of it stems from this set of theories: get rid of borders, just get people to like each other, and we'll live in paradise! Its not even communist. Its just idiotic nonsense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (RsS92)

261 Smith is dropping his cases against Trump. The gnashing of teeth, drooling band screaming will be epic among the left and never Trumpers. Schadenfreude Monday

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (FxDm7)

262 Oh she wants to start a Global Clinton Initiative-like grift that poses as a charity but actually exists to pay her a salary, pay for her staff, pay travel including car and chauffeur and pay for a ritzy complex of offices in a major city.

So like Biden, too? She may have to wait for him to be dearly departed to open another, or - again - elbow the Bidens out of the way. DEI.

Anyway, her sister - who seems to be a bit of a loser following Hillary and now Kamala - shall continue to be her guiding light. Bet on that.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (NFX2v)

263 jack shit gonna return President Trump's documents, too?
---
What's gonna be best is, on January 21, 2015, he's going to re-declassify all of them.

And we're going to see the docs were napkins with notes on them, an old menu and some "thank-you" cards.
That Smith's team hastily stuffed inside the folders marked "classified."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (8Kx9y)

264 One thing about growing a beard and a full mustache - you don't have to worry about nose hair.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 01:51 PM (om3Wy)

—————-

Yes, but when you sneeze you look like a party favor.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (u73oe)

265 Stanford will give her some adjunct professor position and that will be that for her.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (EmT/E)

266 >>> 242 I think Newsom is the most electable. Whitmer doesn't seem to have the capacity to contain her inner lunatic.
Posted by: bonhomme

I'm still pissed off at her hypocrite crap from the shut down. That photo of her crammed with 12 other gals at a restaurant/bar table during the shut down is stilll floating around the internet.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2024 01:54 PM (0Htd1)

Newsom went out more than once during woofloo lockdowns; Whitler and her family did the same and she was the twat who banned the sale of fcking *garden seeds* because reasons.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (KcwUg)

267 228 She should become CEO of PP. it’s a cause she belies in, it pays well and she’ll be a hero to the sisterhood. And she’ll never be fired no matter how incompetent she is.
---

Or spokeswoman for the Harridan Group. Yes, the crazies will find a place for her.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 01:57 PM (om3Wy)

268 Kamala will get a sinecure at a university is what I think she's going to do.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 01:57 PM (1hQvE)

269 and some are probably whispering in kamala's ear: 2032...

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 25, 2024 01:57 PM (CWTWj)

270 263 What's gonna be best is, on January 21, 2015, he's going to re-declassify all of them.

And we're going to see the docs were napkins with notes on them, an old menu and some "thank-you" cards.
That Smith's team hastily stuffed inside the folders marked "classified."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (8Kx9y)

=======

I'm hoping for a blanket declassification order on everything.

No redactions allowed. No concern for CIA assets in the field.

Don't give a shit. Declassify everything within 24 hours or face criminal charges.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

271 9 out of the 12 NYPD officers that allegedly went through the Anthony Weiner Laptop, “committed suicide".
------------
Driven mad by Weiner's copy of "The Necronomicon?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 01:57 PM (z0QHk)

272 >>I think Newsom is the most electable.

Check out the Recall that he suffered and all that went into him keeping his Governorship.

No way he succeeds in a National Contest.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (z/jjr)

273 Make college endowments illegal.

Force separation between research and teaching parts of institutions. The separate entities can collaborate, but they must have completely separate funding, staff, and facilities.

Make colleges parties to bankruptcy proceedings dealing with college debt which should now become dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Mandate a 25-1 teacher to administrator ratio.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:55 PM (GBKbO)
*********
Equal amount of conservative professors to leftist professors.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (NpAcC)

274 I might hire her as a maid, but nothing more.

-
She could scrub floors. I hear she's good on her knees.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (L/fGl)

275 I think Schiff's seat in Senate will be achievable of she doesn't constantly remind the public how much of a walking toothache she is between now and then. Six years might be enough time to wash away the memory of how unlikable she is.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (eiejz)

276 The Democrats should have a blow off between AOC and Cumalot

Posted by: MAC V SOG at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (P4Pk9)

277 They could always run Tay-Tay.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (7oYYI)

278 272 Check out the Recall that he suffered and all that went into him keeping his Governorship.

No way he succeeds in a National Contest.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (z/jjr)

========

It is hard to imagine him walking into a black church in SC and charming anyone.

If he can't win SC, he can't win the nomination.

Still, he'll raise $100 million for the run.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

279 North Southeastern Louisiana College of Swampology and Voodoo.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 01:50 PM (eDfFs)

That’s our big football rival.
- South Northwest Eastern Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (VnatX)

280 >>I see Jack Smith is dropping 6 Jan, next logical move is keep a good hold on the soap.

He is going to run straight to The Hague and hide behind some curtains, there.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 01:59 PM (z/jjr)

281 "Could she run for governor? Yes. Do I think she wants to run for governor? Probably not. Could she win? Definitely. Would she like the job? I don't know. Could she run for president again? Yes," Brokaw said. "Would she have a whole bunch of skepticism from the outset, because she has run in a full-length Democratic primary where [in 2019] she didn't even make it long enough to be in the Iowa caucus, and then she was the nominee this year?"

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

OH, STOP ASKING YOURSELF EASY QUESTIONS SO YOU CAN LOOK LIKE A GENIUS!

https://tinyurl.com/yc3wbx6k

Posted by: bearski at November 25, 2024 01:59 PM (Bhsk7)

282 they know the only vacuum around here is between Kamala’s ears.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 01:51 PM (6ydKt)

You ain't just whistling Dixie!

Posted by: Willie Brown at November 25, 2024 01:59 PM (12v8J)

283 Who is this Harris woman again? I've already forgotten this airhead, certainly forgot her great qualities, if she ever had any (besides her younger years as a pro stitute).

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2024 02:00 PM (Cus5s)

284 255 She has no political future

The Harrix/Walz ticket was the worst in my lifetime. In American history, has there been a more unelectable pair?

what's devastatingly frightening is that 47% of the nation voted for they/them
Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (dCxaZ)

I bet there is a substantially non zero number of votes for them that would dissappear if voter roles in all 50 states were thoroughly cleaned of the dead and duplicate registrations.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 25, 2024 02:00 PM (OA79/)

285 >> they know the only vacuum around here is between Kamala’s ears.

I think you mean her 'grips'.

Posted by: Willie Brown at November 25, 2024 02:00 PM (z/jjr)

286
Now do Biden cabinet secretary career futures:

Buttagieg : Traverse City Mayor.
Mayorkas : Uses his dual Israeli citizenship to disappear into the middle east.
Granholm : Seriously, why the time and billions spent in Puerto Rico the last two years? Retirement.
Blinken: University town coffee shop guitar playing stoner.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 02:00 PM (j4U/Z)

287 =======

I'm hoping for a blanket declassification order on everything.

No redactions allowed. No concern for CIA assets in the field.

Don't give a shit. Declassify everything within 24 hours or face criminal charges.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
---

He could give a head's up allowing enough time for assets to get out of Dodge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:00 PM (om3Wy)

288
True or False

Democrats will let The People choose the nominee because they have finally learned their lesson.

Posted by: Willie Brown at November 25, 2024 02:01 PM (12v8J)

289 Her book title has to be "Unburdened"

Has to be.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024

"Golf Balls and Garden Hoses: My Rise Through the Democratic Party"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 25, 2024 02:01 PM (eb5mD)

290 Harris ran for Galactic Emperor of the Evil Empire, but came in third behind Charles Manson's gall bladder and some random cockroach.

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2024 02:01 PM (pMi6S)

291 Kamala's basically a Trivial Persuit answer at this point. "Who was the second democrat candidate to lose a general election race to Donald Trump?"

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

Killary and Kommie-la really put the "ass" into Glass Ceilings.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:02 PM (BRRLt)

292 Yes, but when you sneeze you look like a party favor.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (u73oe)
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*slantendicular look*

What kind of parties do you go to?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 02:02 PM (z0QHk)

293 280 >>I see Jack Smith is dropping 6 Jan, next logical move is keep a good hold on the soap.

He is going to run straight to The Hague and hide behind some curtains, there.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 01:59 PM (z/jjr)

What's the deal with the 34 FELONIES!!!?

Have those been dropped yet. Looking forward to the supercuts of all the dupes using that as a club against pdt to eat a giant shit sandwich along with crow on that front.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 25, 2024 02:02 PM (OA79/)

294 I see Jack Smith is dropping 6 Jan, next logical move is keep a good hold on the soap.

He is going to run straight to The Hague and hide behind some curtains, there.
Posted by: garrett

Does Israel owe Trump any favors?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:02 PM (UE7n4)

295 239 WSJ reports that Chris Rufo
@realchrisrufo
“has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”
Posted by: redridinghood

Giiiiigidddy.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 01:53 PM (VnatX)

The University thing is easy. First, if you want your Institution to be eligible for Federally backed student loans, Half your endowment will taken and put towards student loan debt mitigation. Also, every school must publish yearly data on the % of former students in arrears, specific to each major.

I don't mind getting rid of the student debt, but go get the money back, don't hose the taxpayers twice.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 25, 2024 02:02 PM (pIfcn)

296 I believe Ahnold said he's looking for a maid, face it, he'll bang anything vaguely human, so Kamel Toe qualifies.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 02:03 PM (Da7Vv)

297 She is a toxic and painful reminder to Democrats not only of what a disaster she was but of the Biden admin. as a whole. She's gone.

Posted by: Cheri at November 25, 2024 02:03 PM (FGQ5G)

298 If all these people reeeaaalllyy want to live in tyranny

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 25, 2024 02:03 PM (l2p3K)

299 Newsom ist kaput. The Kentfield mansion LLC sham has legs.And Pritzker is involved. And the Thousand Oaks gift house.

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 02:03 PM (ab3AP)

300
NBC News, Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump
President-elect Donald Trump faced four felony charges in connection with his efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss, which culminated in the U.S. Capitol attack.
30 minutes ago

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 02:04 PM (NFX2v)

301 >>Have those been dropped yet. Looking forward to the supercuts of all the dupes using that as a club against pdt to eat a giant shit sandwich along with crow on that front.

Merchan has suspended sentencing.

Still have to see if there is Prejudice involved as to whether or not they will be abandoned are backburnered.

Posted by: Willie Brown at November 25, 2024 02:04 PM (z/jjr)

302 147 I have a lefty idiot I talk to and she thinks I'm persuadable. I am - but not to leftardism.

Be careful...one of my favorite YouTube clips ever shows how bad it can get if a liberal woman thinks you're "pursuadable".
https://tinyurl.com/3haxtyfk (queued up for the key 30 second soundbite)

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2024 02:04 PM (JCZqz)

303 I will stick with Buttigieg because fuck it.

(phrasing)

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:04 PM (12v8J)

304 sockOFF

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:04 PM (z/jjr)

305 The whore didn't even fill a whole term as a senator, correct?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:04 PM (lTGtQ)

306 289 Her book title has to be "Unburdened"

Has to be.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024

"Golf Balls and Garden Hoses: My Rise Through the Democratic Party"
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 25, 2024 02:01 PM (eb5mD)

"The beatings will continue till the economy improves. The story of kamala Harris and Doug emhoff."

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 25, 2024 02:04 PM (OA79/)

307 Still, he'll raise $100 million for the run.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

Based on Kamala's spending this fall, that's three days worth of campaigning.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2024 02:04 PM (eiejz)

308
It just occurred to me who mike pence's wife reminds me of!

Ginny Sacrimone!!

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 02:04 PM (siRul)

309 OT but who's Tammy Duckworth?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (kTd/k)

Senator from...IL?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

She has a military background. Not sure exactly what, but think maybe she was injured in a helicopter crash or something? So when she disparages someone who was enlisted, it's another form of elitism.

Which is fine, most of us who were enlisted think very little of most officers.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:05 PM (dGCAG)

310 The University thing is easy. First, if you want your Institution to be eligible for Federally backed student loans, Half your endowment will taken and put towards student loan debt mitigation. Also, every school must publish yearly data on the % of former students in arrears, specific to each major.

I don't mind getting rid of the student debt, but go get the money back, don't hose the taxpayers twice.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 25, 2024 02:02 PM (pIfcn)

Just use the endowments to underwrite the student loans. Forget about the feds providing any going forward - the banks, colleges, and universities are responsible. Bank loans require the college or university to be guarantor on the loan.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 02:05 PM (VNX3d)

311 I'm hoping for a blanket declassification order on everything.

No redactions allowed. No concern for CIA assets in the field.

Don't give a shit. Declassify everything within 24 hours or face criminal charges.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
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He could give a head's up allowing enough time for assets to get out of Dodge.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:00 PM (om3Wy)
__________

Do we have any assets anywhere that are actually worth a shit? Serious question. What does the CIA do anymore, besides launder money for Democraps and spy on Americans the Democraps don't like? The CIA has been totally captured by the leftwing Deep State and serves no purpose other than to do their dirty work.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

312 Another shot at the Presidential primaries by Kamala Harris would be a bigger flopperoo than the movie "Plan 9 From Outerspace". But then Kamala projects as a sort of airheaded space cadet--so she might have a shot.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at November 25, 2024 02:05 PM (cB7nX)

313 What this shows me is Democrats have hubris but no balls.

They don't want to jail the guy who just won the Popular Vote? What about justice? Pussies.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:05 PM (12v8J)

314 How the fuck do you raise over $1B dollars and end up in debt? All within the span of 100 days. If this isn’t Democrats in a nutshell I don’t know what is. Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (VnatX)

The ironic thing is that her entire ascendancy to the candidacy was premised on the opnion that only she could access the Biden-Harris campaign's $90 million in the bank. Any Democrat candidate could have raised the billion. They didn't need her.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 02:05 PM (r5tfK)

315 297 She is a toxic and painful reminder to Democrats not only of what a disaster she was but of the Biden admin. as a whole. She's gone.
Posted by: Cheri at November 25, 2024 02:03 PM (FGQ5G)

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I think it's important to remember a small event from the 2016 primary:

Trump called the Iraq War stupid, and the commentariat was aghast because there was no way that the voters would allow for a candidate who spoke poorly of their precious W whom they loved, especially in South Carolina where there were so many veterans. The establishment really pushed this line, and they probably believed it.

They really thought that W was popular with Republicans and that insulting him through the Iraq War was a death knell. They were very wrong, of course.

My point being: the establishment is vastly out of alignment with voters and think very differently from normal people. They probably think Biden was a great president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

316 Hey, madam vp, send Monica’s blue dress on a hanger.

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 25, 2024 02:06 PM (l2p3K)

317 I’m not the first to mention this (I just don’t remember where I read the opinion), but I don’t think Kamala has any issues speaking if she’s talking freely. She’s way left of crazy Bernie Sanders. If she’s not filtering every word to try and appear more centrist, her speaking disability diminishes considerably. I’ve seen videos of her comfortable with a California progressive presser, and she’s just talking away.

WRT her political future, while the Dems are unforgiving to their losing candidates, she remains a very progressive in good standing. She’s unlikely to feature in a national role that she isn’t appointed to, but I can see her not going away.

Besides, it remains to be seen what kind of economic poison pill the uniparty has laid in for the Trump II administration. The international conflagration is being publicly fanned, there’s likely another domestic issue intended to bring Trump’s influence to a halt, too. We’re currently just hoping that the Clinton and Obama influences have been curtailed. We may well find they were the reasonable ones.

Posted by: Advo at November 25, 2024 02:06 PM (jO4mz)

318 The University thing is easy. First, if you want your Institution to be eligible for Federally backed student loans, Half your endowment will taken and put towards student loan debt mitigation. Also, every school must publish yearly data on the % of former students in arrears, specific to each major.

I don't mind getting rid of the student debt, but go get the money back, don't hose the taxpayers twice.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here

I don't understand why everyone keeps proposing complicated "clever" solutions to this problem.

Forbid the feds from issuing student loans. Period. Done and dusted.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2024 02:06 PM (hB7mE)

319 It will not be a woman and probably not even a black. You can forget that shit for a few D cycles.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:06 PM (12v8J)

320 Newsom in 2028 is dangerous IMO. He has executive experience, horrible as the state of CA is, and is definitely a faster thinker and better orator that Kamala. And of the Dem are going to double down on progressive, left wing policies than he is their guy.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 02:07 PM (EmT/E)

321 311 He could give a head's up allowing enough time for assets to get out of Dodge.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:00 PM (om3Wy)
__________

Do we have any assets anywhere that are actually worth a shit? Serious question. What does the CIA do anymore, besides launder money for Democraps and spy on Americans the Democraps don't like? The CIA has been totally captured by the leftwing Deep State and serves no purpose other than to do their dirty work.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

=======

"Oh, we need time for our assets in Iran! For sure, Iran it is!"
-the CIA keeping classified information on assets working on American soil, against the law and arguably treasonously

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

322 304 sockOFF
Posted by: garrett

suckOFF

Posted by: Kamala in WIllie's office at November 25, 2024 02:07 PM (pMi6S)

323 >>How the fuck do you raise over $1B dollars and end up in debt?

You get suckered into running an actual campaign!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at November 25, 2024 02:08 PM (z/jjr)

324 Her book title has to be "Unburdened"

Has to be.
Posted by: TexasDan at November 25, 2024

"Golf Balls and Garden Hoses: My Rise Through the Democratic Party"
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 25, 2024 02:01 PM (eb5mD)

"Has Been: The Unburdening: The Kamala Harris Story"

Yes, her book title will have two colons.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:08 PM (dGCAG)

325 I bet there is a substantially non zero number of votes for them that would dissappear if voter roles in all 50 states were thoroughly cleaned of the dead and duplicate registrations.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 25, 2024 02:00 PM (OA79/)

I wholeheartedly agree!

Let's just throw out a couple million votes that were fraudulent due to a combo of Trump vote suppression and Harris/Walz manufactured votes. It still represents around 44% of the country voting for her.

I would only be satisfied that Americans are not brain dead if her actual true percentage of the total vote was under 30%

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 02:08 PM (dCxaZ)

326 320 Newsom in 2028 is dangerous IMO. He has executive experience, horrible as the state of CA is, and is definitely a faster thinker and better orator that Kamala. And of the Dem are going to double down on progressive, left wing policies than he is their guy.
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 02:07 PM (EmT/E)

Gotta think that he has ca locked up but gives away millions if votes elsewhere.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 25, 2024 02:08 PM (OA79/)

327 Mayorkas : Uses his dual Israeli citizenship to disappear into the middle east.

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Jeebus, I could see dual-citizenship with Venezuela, The Cartels (are they an official country yet?) or some Central American Shithole ... but come on, Israel, have some minimal standards!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:08 PM (BRRLt)

328 just make student loans dischargeable and bankruptcy and watch the whole system burn to the ground

Posted by: brak at November 25, 2024 02:08 PM (NGHTx)

329 "Family" members? WTF? Other than Dougie the pugilist, who is the family?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 25, 2024 02:08 PM (KiBMU)

330

Meteoric rise.

Career prosecutor.

Lol

Posted by: E Buzz at November 25, 2024 02:09 PM (Zdzep)

331 >> Newsom in 2028 is dangerous IMO. He has executive experience, horrible as the state of CA is, and is definitely a faster thinker and better orator that Kamala.

While I don't doubt that his cocksucking skills eclipse those of Kamala...

He couldn't hang in a debate with Meatball Ron. He's got no chance in a National Race.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at November 25, 2024 02:09 PM (z/jjr)

332 Another shot at the Presidential primaries by Kamala Harris would be a bigger flopperoo than the movie "Plan 9 From Outerspace".
-----------
Point of order: people actually watch and enjoy "Plan 9".

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 02:09 PM (z0QHk)

333 332 Another shot at the Presidential primaries by Kamala Harris would be a bigger flopperoo than the movie "Plan 9 From Outerspace".
-----------
Point of order: people actually watch and enjoy "Plan 9".
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 02:09 PM (z0QHk)

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Ironically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

334 295 239 WSJ reports that Chris Rufo
@realchrisrufo
“has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”
Posted by: redridinghood
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I prefer their treasuries emptied to help pay off the debt.
That will begin to pay their penalty for what they've done
to this nation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (om3Wy)

335 Newsom in 2028 is dangerous IMO. He has executive experience, horrible as the state of CA is, and is definitely a faster thinker and better orator that Kamala. And of the Dem are going to double down on progressive, left wing policies than he is their guy.

Posted by: IC

Hairgel got his butt handed to him in the debate with DeSantis, and DeSantis is not known for his stage skills.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (lTGtQ)

336 Do we have any assets anywhere that are actually worth a shit?

Well, Brennan killed all our spies in China due to poor communications security.

No consequences for his doing that, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (uxCna)

337 Good point #315.

Posted by: Cheri at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (FGQ5G)

338 How the fuck do you raise over $1B dollars and end up in debt? All within the span of 100 days.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald

The problem with Democratic campaigns is that almost immediately you run out of other people's money.

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (pMi6S)

339 Meteoric rise.

Career ~~prosecutor~~prostitute.

Lol

Posted by: E Buzz at November 25, 2024 02:09 PM (Zdzep)

FIFY

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (VNX3d)

340 It just occurred to me who mike pence's wife reminds me of!

Ginny Sacrimone!!
Posted by: Soothsayer
____________

For that joke, Pence is going to ask Bill Crystal to sanction a hit.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (Dm8we)

341 Newsom in 2028 is dangerous IMO. He has executive experience, horrible as the state of CA is, and is definitely a faster thinker and better orator that Kamala. And of the Dem are going to double down on progressive, left wing policies than he is their guy.
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 02:07 PM (EmT/E)
________

DeathSantis destroyed Newsom at the debate, and then you barely heard another word out of him. Newsom also made a fool of himself on the basketball court when he showed the athleticism of Gay Lightbringer, and tackled a kid. He may well be the "best" candidate they have for 2028, but the more the voters see of him the less they'll like.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

342 Vance is the best debater on our side, I think he more than demonstrated that.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (12v8J)

343 Ironically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)
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Yes.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 02:11 PM (z0QHk)

344 Its just idiotic nonsense.

So the Beast of Revelation it is; an idiots view of heavenly perfection.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 02:11 PM (Da7Vv)

345 333 332 Another shot at the Presidential primaries by Kamala Harris would be a bigger flopperoo than the movie "Plan 9 From Outerspace".
-----------
Point of order: people actually watch and enjoy "Plan 9".
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 02:09 PM (z0QHk)

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Ironically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

This! Can she get less votes in the primary next time than she did this time? haha it's a trick question.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 25, 2024 02:11 PM (OA79/)

346 just make student loans dischargeable and bankruptcy and watch the whole system burn to the ground

Make colleges and universities cosign the student loans.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:11 PM (uxCna)

347 Universities should be held responsible for the Chinese spies working/studying within them. Conviction for spying=loss of endowment.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 25, 2024 02:11 PM (rJ48h)

348 Agreed that Vance is the best debater we have now. Vivek R is pretty quick on his feet too.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 02:11 PM (EmT/E)

349 Cummala Harris is like an undefeated boxer, who has been systematically risen through the rankings, by putting her in the ring with tomato cans and has beens. Not to mention a fixed fight or two, she gets her shot at the title, and...

Gets knocked out and exposed as the phony she is.

Sure, she will tell people she's going to get back in the gym, train for it, and take another shot at the title, but nobody's going to give her that. She's done.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:12 PM (dGCAG)

350 If any of the Fake Charges against Trump are dismissed w/o prejudice, Trump should pardon himself against any and all of them.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:13 PM (BRRLt)

351 Which is fine, most of us who were enlisted think very little of most officers.
Posted by: BurtTC

Don't call me "Sir." I work for a living.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 02:13 PM (v6JzV)

352 Wishcasting election 2028.
Events, my dear boy. Events

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 02:13 PM (CpPSJ)

353 Kumala needs to go back to blowing.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 25, 2024 02:13 PM (ufFY8)

354
It just occurred to me who mike pence's wife reminds me of!

Ginny Sacrimone!!
Posted by: Soothsayer
____________

For that joke, Pence is going to ask Bill Crystal to sanction a hit.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Carmine was so funny in that scene when they told him the joke.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (siRul)

355 So Harris is in Hawaii having a breakdown, and Biden is brain dead.

Who the ever living Fuck is running this country? You know... like deciding to use US missiles to directly attack Putin's Estate? (supposedly has a small command center which made it a military target?).

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (QAkQ3)

356 Another shot at the Presidential primaries by Kamala Harris would be a bigger flopperoo than the movie "Plan 9 From Outerspace".
-----------
Point of order: people actually watch and enjoy "Plan 9".
====
With today's Dims, I think Glen or Glenda? more appropriate.

Now, where did I leave my sweater??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (hovnC)

357 >>If any of the Fake Charges against Trump are dismissed w/o prejudice, Trump should pardon himself against any and all of them.

He can't Pardon himself against State Charges.

Though, the NY charges should not be able to survive appeal. Of course, without a sentence, it is hard to appeal.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (z/jjr)

358 Now, 90 years after Hitler took power the same template controls the left's every concept.

TBH I don't think so.

The modern left comes from post-modernism with the Soviets controlling the strings behind the scene. Its an ideology around power and just a tiny veneer of the things the old left used to care about.

Now the Junta structure - a grinning idiot for a figure head with a cabal behind him/her to call the shots is designed to stop someone Hitler or Caesar but given the choice between one of their own being strongman in this case or a President Trump they would still pick the strongman - they just assumed they could beat Trump with a grinning idiot because they had done so in 2020. Whether they pick another idiot or a potential strongman in 2028 will depend on which they view as more likely to win.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (oZhjI)

359 "A snap poll of the 2028 field found Harris at 41 percent, a significant lead over the others: Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, Tim Walz, Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gretchen Whitmer, JB Pritzker, Andy Beshear and several others who all were in single digits."

Yikes.

Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (fV+MH)

360 349 Cummala Harris is like an undefeated boxer, who has been systematically risen through the rankings, by putting her in the ring with tomato cans and has beens. Not to mention a fixed fight or two, she gets her shot at the title, and...

Gets knocked out and exposed as the phony she is.

Sure, she will tell people she's going to get back in the gym, train for it, and take another shot at the title, but nobody's going to give her that. She's done.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:12 PM (dGCAG)

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She could pay off her campaign debt by getting in the ring with Mike Tyson.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (BRRLt)

361 What choice or talent does she have but continue to grift?
Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 01
****
We're in the same line of work Honey.

Posted by: Stormy Daniels at November 25, 2024 02:15 PM (CpPSJ)

362 359 "A snap poll of the 2028 field found Harris at 41 percent, a significant lead over the others: Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, Tim Walz, Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gretchen Whitmer, JB Pritzker, Andy Beshear and several others who all were in single digits."

Yikes.
Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (fV+MH)

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Name recognition buys you a lot in politics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

363 My heart will go on . . .

Posted by: Kamala Harris at November 25, 2024 02:15 PM (Aqu9a)

364 Between now and 2028is not just four years, but who knows what other kind of chaos. California could literally implode and Newsom would be blamed. The next couple of years in Dem politics will be knives out and Cali falling apart will get Gavin shivved

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 02:15 PM (FxDm7)

365 Pence's wife is named Karen. Is that appropriate?

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:15 PM (om3Wy)

366 And now for something completely different. A true crime show was about a teenager living with his adult sister who was accused of raping and murdering a neighbor. He admitted he was there but claimed his sister brought him along only to teach him how to do burglaries for drug money, the owner came home unexpectedly, his sister murdered her, and he had nothing to do with it. The cop asked how sperm got into the victim. He said his sister was a bisexual.

I did not know it worked that way

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 02:15 PM (L/fGl)

367 260 Its not even communist. Its just idiotic nonsense.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (RsS92)

— —-

It’s kind of communist in the sense that Marx believed the end goal utopia would be a stateless society, free of oppression, equality, brotherhood, yadda yadda yadda., all run by the workers, themselves.

Marxism evolved in opposition to capitalism but eventually took on the anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-LGBTQ stuff because the Marxists realized around the 1990s that their worker’s revolution would never materialize in the prosperous West, so they looked to other disaffected and marginalized groups to recruit from.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (6ydKt)

368 The Harrix/Walz ticket was the worst in my lifetime. In American history, has there been a more unelectable pair?

The real vote count, probably about 42% really voted for Harris (some precincts in Massachusetts for example had more than 200% of the actual voters turn out). But either way that's still too much for the least charismatic, most shockingly bizarre ticket in American history.

I sort of understand why they picked Walz, to a leftist he seems beefy and manly and he won a state, so he might guarantee that for Kamala. But to the rest of the nation he was bizarre unlikeable, and a soy homunculus of a man.

They tried so hard to get ahead of the "what a weird" response to Walz by calling Vance weird but... it didn't work.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (RsS92)

369 >>> 355 So Harris is in Hawaii having a breakdown, and Biden is brain dead.

Who the ever living Fuck is running this country? You know... like deciding to use US missiles to directly attack Putin's Estate? (supposedly has a small command center which made it a military target?).
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (QAkQ3)

Isn't this week Brittany the intern's turn?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (KcwUg)

370 What choice or talent does she have but continue to grift?
Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 01
****
We're in the same line of work Honey.
Posted by: Stormy Daniels at November 25, 2024 02:15 PM (CpPSJ)

Don't forget E Jean Carroll or whatever Ford-Blasey.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (VNX3d)

371 He can't Pardon himself against State Charges.

Though, the NY charges should not be able to survive appeal. Of course, without a sentence, it is hard to appeal.
Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (z/jjr)
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I hope James and Bragg are paying close attention.

Posted by: WisRich at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (G0vdT)

372 You know, I used to come here for the ever abundant wisdom and innovative ideas.

Then some guy ruined if for me by suggesting putting carrots in chili. So now, I sit her trying to capture the old magic.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (dIske)

373 just make student loans dischargeable and bankruptcy and watch the whole system burn to the ground

They are dischargeable now, it’s just a very high threshold to make it happen.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (p4NUW)

374 I prefer their treasuries emptied to help pay off the debt.
That will begin to pay their penalty for what they've done
to this nation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 02:10 PM (om3Wy)

They defrauded millions of College Students with the idea that a College degree leads to automatic success... and got them to take student loans...

So, seize that money, and use it to pay off student loans. THAT is more just IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (QAkQ3)

375 Marxism evolved in opposition to capitalism but eventually took on the anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-LGBTQ stuff because the Marxists realized around the 1990s that their worker’s revolution would never materialize in the prosperous West, so they looked to other disaffected and marginalized groups to recruit from.

But all those came out of the "if we remove what divides us then we prevent another Hitler" post-war philosophy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:17 PM (RsS92)

376
shapiro/buttgig

"Shlomo & the Homo 2028!"

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 02:17 PM (siRul)

377 American rifleman has an illustrative photo of Newsom in December issue. Full Hitler rage mode.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 02:18 PM (dOjkx)

378 California is just stupid enough to elect her to something, but I still doubt it. She's politically mort.

And Newsom missed his moment. The problem with the democrats is they have no idea how to dislodge themselves of the extremism that the populace has just judged as ludicrous and repulsive. They're wedded to it for now. My guess is that a more moderate-seeming figure is their only chance in 2028, somebody not yet on the radar, a blank slate like Obama was in 2007.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 02:18 PM (ZlOcj)

379 Harris is in Hawaii having a breakdown, and Biden is brain dead.

Who the ever living Fuck is running this country?

The question nobody seems to want to ask. The question no reporter, even Ngo and Emerald Robinson and the rest are determined to not even consider.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:18 PM (RsS92)

380 Kelo the Universities.

Take their land. Develop it.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:18 PM (z/jjr)

381 The best ticket ever would be Harris and AOC. Oh my goodness, that would be so entertaining.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 02:18 PM (p4NUW)

382 Marxism evolved in opposition to capitalism but eventually took on the anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-LGBTQ stuff

If you ever want to have fun make modern woke leftists read Marx's actual letters.

Note he liked to refer to Jews as the n-word let alone black people...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:19 PM (oZhjI)

383 And now for something completely different. A true crime show was about a teenager living with his adult sister who was accused of raping and murdering a neighbor. He admitted he was there but claimed his sister brought him along only to teach him how to do burglaries for drug money, the owner came home unexpectedly, his sister murdered her, and he had nothing to do with it.

The cop asked how sperm got into the victim. He said his sister was a bisexual.

I did not know it worked that way
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

His sister is trans and has a 6 inch clit.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 02:19 PM (UE7n4)

384 Who the ever living Fuck is running this country?
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Yes.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:19 PM (12v8J)

385 It could be Fetterman in 2028...

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 02:19 PM (EmT/E)

386 >>Then some guy ruined if for me by suggesting putting carrots in chili.

The Carrots keep the Beans from getting lonely.

Posted by: garrett at November 25, 2024 02:19 PM (z/jjr)

387 The question nobody seems to want to ask. The question no reporter, even Ngo and Emerald Robinson and the rest are determined to not even consider.

I've definitely seen Emerald Robinson ask it, but of course OAN's not allowed to talk to KJP or anyone else remotely official.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 02:19 PM (2ocoG)

388 Oh she wants to start a Global Clinton Initiative-like grift that poses as a charity but actually exists to pay her a salary, pay for her staff, pay travel including car and chaufeur and pay for a ritzy complex of offices in a major city.

Plus a membership for Dougie to a racket club so he can practice his backhand.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at November 25, 2024 02:19 PM (u7cz3)

389 Has our liaison checked in on DU since Smith moved to dismiss another case against Trump?

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 02:20 PM (p4NUW)

390 The good news for Harris, according to her allies, is that her standing in the party increased the longer that she ran her short campaign
______________

The bad news for Harris, according to everyone else, is that her standing with the American electorate decreased the longer she ran her short campaign.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 25, 2024 02:20 PM (YqDXo)

391 She can't speak extemporaneously and her brain rebels against her taking any actual position (except for being ecstatically pro-abortion).

A Democratic candidate in Oregon in the past had a miscarriage that required surgical intervention, and she tried to claim that it was actually an abortion, to gain political points.

Imagine how far gone a society has to be where having an abortion is seen as a political asset.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 02:20 PM (uxCna)

392 Yikes.
Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2024 02:14 PM (fV+MH)

Name recognition buys you a lot in politics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

I would guess a similar poll taken in '04, after the election, John F'n Kerry would have polled quite a bit higher than Barak Hussein Bobama. Hillory was probably the clear front runner though.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:20 PM (dGCAG)

393

Noooood

Hhionnnnoooood

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (siRul)

394 Headlines from the Paper of Record, the Babylon Bee:

It’s Official: Trump Now Has Hottest Cabinet Of All Time

'The View' Ratings Soar After Introducing Ejection Seat For When Hosts Make Inaccurate Statements

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (VNX3d)

395 nood

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (EmT/E)

396 Norm MacDonald would have enjoyed Trump term II.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (YAesX)

397 Although Kamala has struggled to clear all of the hurdles in the 100 meter hurdle race, we feel she is a lock to take the gold in the high jump. And another gold in the long jump.

Posted by: The Fawning Press at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (Aqu9a)

398 He admitted he was there but claimed his sister brought him along only to teach him how to do burglaries for drug money, the owner came home unexpectedly, his sister murdered her, and he had nothing to do with it.

I was reading about some serial killer who broke into a house and murdered a group of nurses. At one point he commented that he wished he'd just done a normal burglary instead of murdering the nurses, which, yeah, that would have been better but how about...no criminality?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (oZhjI)

399 Nood. Border Tsar.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 02:21 PM (ZANHd)

400 just make student loans dischargeable and bankruptcy and watch the whole system burn to the ground

They are dischargeable now, it’s just a very high threshold to make it happen.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (p4NUW)
_____

Yes, it's almost impossible to meet the very narrow criteria for discharging student loans. Plus, I don't think they are dischargeable at all in a normal bankruptcy proceeding. The debtor has to bring a separate proceeding in the bankruptcy to even try to discharge the loan. That's a long and expensive process with a very low chance of success. I doubt many debtors would take the chance.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 02:22 PM (iFTx/)

401 Who the ever living Fuck is running this country?
-------

Yes.
Posted by: ...
___________

And exactly why wouldn't China be using it to make a move on Taiwan? Seems like they would have foreseen exactly this situation as soon as Biden dropped out in July and started getting their shit ready.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 02:22 PM (Dm8we)

402 The question nobody seems to want to ask. The question no reporter, even Ngo and Emerald Robinson and the rest are determined to not even consider.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:18 PM (RsS92)

Most people I pay attention to just assume the foreign policy shit is controlled by Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinkin.

And has been the whole time.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (dGCAG)

403 I was reading about some serial killer who broke into a house and murdered a group of nurses. At one point he commented that he wished he'd just done a normal burglary instead of murdering the nurses
--------

He's healed!!!

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 02:23 PM (12v8J)

404
Chilis, ground beef, onion, maybe tomatoes. Except salt & peppers.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 02:25 PM (j4U/Z)

405 375 But all those came out of the "if we remove what divides us then we prevent another Hitler" post-war philosophy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 02:17 PM (RsS92)

— —-

It did, but we must also remember that Communists vs. National Socialists of 1930s Germany was a civil war between two competing visions of authoritarian socialism.

The Communist doesn’t hate the Fascist because they see them as evil, they actually agree on most issues outside of nationalism.

The Communist hates the Fascist because he sees him as competition for power.

They both feel much the same way about religion.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (6ydKt)

406 [snip]

Tranny bathrooms, floods of illegals, abortion, one world government, all of it stems from this set of theories: get rid of borders, just get people to like each other, and we'll live in paradise! Its not even communist. Its just idiotic nonsense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 25, 2024 01:56 PM (RsS92)

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Thanks for that summary, Christopher.

I've always simplistically looked at it as International Authoritarian Collectivism (or "Communism" -- necessary for their Utopia because they can tolerate no competitors like free nation-states) vs. National Authoritarian Collectivism (or "Fascism") ... as you say going back to Stalin's Soviet Union vs. Hitler's Germanic Reich.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (/YFXY)

407 It’s kind of communist in the sense that Marx believed the end goal utopia would be a stateless society, free of oppression, equality, brotherhood, yadda yadda yadda., all run by the workers, themselves.

Marxism evolved in opposition to capitalism but eventually took on the anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-LGBTQ stuff because the Marxists realized around the 1990s that their worker’s revolution would never materialize in the prosperous West, so they looked to other disaffected and marginalized groups to recruit from.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:16 PM (6ydKt)

Everyone gets the juke box. You WILL take the juke box.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (g8Ew8)

408
We can goof on Harris's chances for being the nominee again, but... who else do they have?

=================

Buttigieg and Newsom so far. Battle of the Hairlines.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 25, 2024 02:28 PM (Xwngz)

409 Newsom barely got a bill passed that will kick $300 million a year for 10 years to homeless services on BONDS. So he will be dead and gone and the bill will still be being repaid.

But the #'s of homeless will by 2028 go down because spending $1.2 billion on a problem will have SOME SUCCESS. Newsom will tout his visionary success to con his way to the White House.

Four Families control much of California. Newsom, Pelosi, Brown, and Getty. The Brown line is probably dead from no children from Jerry and the other relatives don't seem to be interested in politics or too old.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (CpPSJ)

410 The Vigilant Fox 5@VigilantFox
NEW: Whoopi Goldberg unexpectedly SHUTS DOWN co-host's attempt to fearmonger about Trump before he even takes office.
ANA NAVARRO: “I'm not going to wait and see. I mean, this guy has told us he's a retribution. He's going to be a dictator.”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “There's nothing to be done until you know what you're fighting. Pissing in the wind doesn't help—you just get a wet face.”
ANA NAVARRO: “What I'm saying is I have no false expectations that at 78, he's going to, all of a sudden, turn into another human being. I spent weeks telling people that he was apocalyptic. I'm not going to change.”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “You lose credibility in many different ways. If you don't know what you're talking about and you accuse him of something, then they're going to blow it back. That's why I say we need to wait and see.”

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Don't worry, Whoopsie. There's no way you could lose credibility. You ain't got none.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (L/fGl)

411 This warms my heart so hard

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (xaNfJ)

412 Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2024 02:27 PM (6ydKt)

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WILLOWED Horde Mind!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 02:30 PM (/YFXY)

413 every school must publish yearly data on the % of former students in arrears

If you tightened those blinders any more, pus would squirt out.

IMDS, only losers graduated with debt. You worked, you saved, sometimes you took a quarter off, and then there was the parent-child relationship. In a trice, all that vanished, replaced by a government-run commercial loan structure to which everyone, apparently, subscribes without reservation.

'We' stood there and watched that happen -- and actually blame education and students for it? You're asking a lot.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 02:30 PM (zdLoL)

414 Kamala's catheter commercials

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2024 02:31 PM (NtVYv)

415 Don't worry, Whoopsie. There's no way you could lose credibility. You ain't got none.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 02:29 PM (L/fGl)

Sounds like Whoopsie might have got a talking to.

and a whoopin

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2024 02:33 PM (NtVYv)

416 I think Gavin is trying his best to run all Repub voters out of California to make it easy for Kamala to win.

The Curley Effect. Works every time.

Posted by: PJ at November 25, 2024 02:48 PM (RRCAT)

417 She may want to reconnect with the working class. I heard there's an opening at McD's vacated by a former President 🤣

Posted by: Rodent at November 25, 2024 02:59 PM (vmSgf)

418 You won't have Dick Sucker to kick around anymore.

Posted by: Kamala Milhouse Harris at November 25, 2024 03:02 PM (LaNzR)

419 380 Kelo the Universities.

Take their land. Develop it.

Trump could seize the universities+their endowments. It would be like Henry VIII seizing the monasteries.

Posted by: Henry O at November 25, 2024 03:42 PM (X5Mi4)

420 Kamala is going to the Nixon playbook. Governor, then Prez. Problem is that Nixon, for all his faults, was very intelligent. Need I say more?

Posted by: RobertM at November 25, 2024 05:02 PM (btIS/)

421
It sounds like Kammie marathon-watched Wicked

Kammie:

Word-salad isn't the slang you've got to know.

It's all about aptitude
Not just the way you're viewed

Don't be offended by my frank analysis, think of it as personality dialysis.

Posted by: Lance LaBeouf, Member, The League of Ugly Shirted Gentlmen at November 25, 2024 05:57 PM (FlRtG)

422 Right аway I am ɡoing to do mү breakfast, afterwwrd һaving mʏ
breakfast cⲟming yeet again to rｅad ore news.

Posted by: crypto at November 25, 2024 06:54 PM (2lf+m)

423 there won't be a vacuum for long
Oh, honey. It's Harris. There will ALWAYS be a vacuum.

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2024 07:05 PM (CfKb1)

Missouri AG Senator Eric Schmitt: Fire All DOJ Officials Who Had Any Role in Trump's Prosecutions

Fired? Like, from a cannon?

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) called for a sweeping dismissal of Department of Justice employees who played roles in prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump. In a pointed interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Schmitt condemned the indictments as political attacks orchestrated to undermine Trump's campaign and presidency.
"You saw all these cases resurrected. They all fell apart under the weight of the law," Schmitt said, asserting that the DOJ's actions represent a systemic abuse of power. He stressed the need for accountability, arguing that removing special prosecutor Jack Smith alone would be insufficient.
"I think accountability means, first and foremost, the people involved with this should be fired immediately," Schmitt said. He alleged the DOJ's actions were designed to remove Trump from the ballot and tarnish his political career, labeling such efforts as undemocratic and harmful to the nation's judicial integrity.
Schmitt also criticized the DOJ for undermining its core mission of addressing crime, stating, "Getting it back to crime fighting is important, but there has to be accountability for these kinds of abuses."
Schmitt applauded Trump's attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, who has vowed to combat what Republicans describe as the "weaponization" of federal agencies. Schmitt himself had been considered for the attorney general post in Trump's administration.

Alan Dershowitz asks the question, should the Trump prosecutors be themselves prosecuted?

I thought he would cuck out but his answer is actually "yes." I'd forgotten that the left used lots of lawfare against Trump and his lawyers. But Dershowitz hasn't forgotten that.

He points out that Fani Willis and Sweetdick committed perjury -- and always say "No one is above the law." Well, that includes them, he notes.

As for "Tish" James and Alvin Bragg, he doesn't think they can be charged with any crime, but he does think that they should be disbarred for abuse of office and malicious prosecution. Good luck getting the leftwing NY State Bar to take any action, though.

He doesn't think there's any basis for prosecuting Jack Smith, unfortunately.

Posted by: Ace at 12:24 PM

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1 That’s my senator!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 12:24 PM (u73oe)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 12:24 PM (VnUSN)

3 He is not wrong.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 25, 2024 12:25 PM (btpRW)

4 Otters called.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 12:25 PM (u73oe)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 25, 2024 12:25 PM (GYt5+)

6 Not far enough.

Fire everyone and restaff from scratch.

Down to janitors.

Bring the legal challenges, declare civil service laws that protect civil servants from presidential decisions on administration, including their employment, unconstitutional.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

7 not a cannon, a trebuchet!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 25, 2024 12:25 PM (gY0JQ)

8 Top 10!!!

Posted by: Grayman27 at November 25, 2024 12:26 PM (pgwxJ)

9 What about the norms, though ...

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 12:26 PM (OguvZ)

10 My Senators are pretty sporty..

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 12:26 PM (PCK5/)

11 7 not a cannon, a trebuchet!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 25, 2024 12:25 PM (gY0JQ)

=======

Only with a counterweight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

12 Not to nitpick, but Schmidt is a senator now, not AG.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 12:26 PM (u73oe)

13 "Accountability" is the only word I can think of that only gets used when it refers to the opposite of itself happening.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (12v8J)

14 K want to see them tar and feathered as well
Can the entire all DOJ

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (cdFLU)

15 12 Not to nitpick, but Schmidt is a senator now, not AG.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 12:26 PM (u73oe)

Nah, that’s a pickable nit, Duke.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (PCK5/)

16 The DOJ is about as worthless as shit on a stick.

Posted by: Tits On A Boar Hog at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (Y5VD5)

17 13 "Accountability" is the only word I can think of that only gets used when it refers to the opposite of itself happening.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (12v8J)

======

Hillary took accountability for Benghazi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

18 Nothing to see here, just a march to WWIII by whomever is running this White House.

"The Biden administration may return nuclear weapons to Ukraine - NYT"

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (i7Q7S)

19 I am onboard with this. Problem is even if Trump fires them MSPB will will give them their jobs back with back pay in a few years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (Rcnd3)

20 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

21 Good to see that Dershowitz just pounds nails into the wall and hangs pictures wherever, like a normal person.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (7fVdQ)

22 Accountability is for losers.

Retribution is what we're after here. Revenge. Whatever it takes.

But it's not accountability.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)

23 Not one person directly or indirectly involved in the persecution and prosecution of Donald Trump, including the sham impeachments, have been held to ANY type of accountability.

If they broke the law, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of it. On BOTH sides of the aisle.

Enough. This country needs an enema.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

24 I won't be happy until these people are taken to the helicopters.

They are a clear and present threat to our freedom and way of life.

They won't stop. They will have to be stopped.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 12:29 PM (RIvkX)

25 ======

Hillary took accountability for Benghazi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

Too bad it made no difference at that point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

26 "MSNBC: Trump plans to fire Special Counsel Jack Smith's team. His attorney general wants to prosecute the bad prosecutors and investigators. "

Good.

I hope Pam Bondi makes this her primary focus.

Posted by: Jay in PA at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (i7Q7S)

27 Last I heard, all of the prosecutors will be fired, some will be charged, and the 2020 election will be investigated.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (lTGtQ)

28
Did Ace see this Axios Anal Aperture?

https://is.gd/g1oNsa

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (D6xjx)

29 TJM, how was the cruise?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (tT6L1)

30 Missouri AG Eric Schmitt: Fire All DOJ Officials Who Had Any Role in Trump's Prosecutions

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I want executions.
I'll settle for life imprisonment.
I'll get strongly-worded letters.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (ibjfk)

31 He doesn't think there's any basis for prosecuting Jack Smith, unfortunately.

Jack Smith accepted an illegal appointment. Every paycheck was a fraud against the American taxpayer.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (Gyft8)

32 I am onboard with this. Problem is even if Trump fires them MSPB will will give them their jobs back with back pay in a few years.

The MSPB's primary statutory functions is to protect Federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices.

Where were these people for the last 16 years?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (xCA6C)

33 The DOJ is about as worthless as shit on a stick.
Posted by: Tits On A Boar Hog at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (Y5VD5)

Shit on a stick was VERY useful when you were a little boy and were tormenting little girls.

"DOO DOO!!!! Gonna put it ON YOU!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

34 27 Last I heard, all of the prosecutors will be fired, some will be charged, and the 2020 election will be investigated.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (lTGtQ)

========

Throw in ActBlue, and you've got a wild ride ahead for Democrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

35 Look people... Your canon is fine, your tebuchet is cool, your tar and feathers.... All of it is okay. But let's just get right down to the serious business and break out the guillotine. Simple, effective, cheap, reusable, horrifying and entertaining!

What's not to love?

Make Guillotines Great Again!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 25, 2024 12:31 PM (4XwPj)

36 Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (ibjfk)

Don't forget the sleeves and armpit sweat stains!

Posted by: Gentleman Jim Jordan at November 25, 2024 12:31 PM (12v8J)

37 "Quiet, you numbskulls, I'm prossy-cute-ing!"
( -- Moe, a recent Harvard Law grad and new ADA in NYC)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:31 PM (J2vNu)

38 "He doesn't think there's any basis for prosecuting Jack Smith, unfortunately."

So what? Prosecute him anyway. Prosecute them all. Drag them through the mud and Fani's poisonous smegma. Force them to spend time and money. Bankrupt them if at all possible. Fuck them all through mouth with a tentpole. Does the GOP still not understand that the process is the punishment?

And who knows? Maybe we get a good jury who is sick and tired of leftwing corruption and witch hunts, and wants to give them a taste of their own medicine.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

39 prosecuted?

GASSSSS THEM

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 12:32 PM (dOjkx)

40 What a koinkadinky!

Manhattan's top federal prosecutor to resign ahead of Trump inauguration
By REUTERS
NOVEMBER 25, 2024 18:44

Damian Williams, top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, said on Monday he planned to resign his position on Dec. 13, about a month before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 12:32 PM (3KZZ8)

41 "He doesn't think there's any basis for prosecuting Jack Smith, unfortunately."

Oh, probably suppression of evidence beneficial to the defendant on something with Judge Cannon (florida document raid case) i would guess.

Isnt that lying to the court, and she can throw him in jail for contempt at least.

Posted by: Scott_T at November 25, 2024 12:32 PM (2waQ7)

42 Prosecution of government officials for abuse of power is largely a waste of time, even though they deserve it. It would take years to administer, and DC juries/judges aren't going to convict any member of The Resistance tribe. It would be nothing but gag orders and sealing of evidence by judges, and "can't comment on an ongoing investigation" nonsense.

Much better to have all records ever produced by the DoJ made available to the public, and queryable by an AI for anyone to use.

The amount of malfeasance uncovered would destroy what little remains of the DoJ's credibility, and strengthen the public case for widespread reforms (and perhaps prosecutions if the malfeasance is bad/obvious enough).

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 25, 2024 12:32 PM (V6W16)

43 29 TJM, how was the cruise?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (tT6L1)

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Save for the evening I got a 103 degree fever (which was gone by the next morning) when I missed our reservation at the on-board steakhouse, it was good.

Fourth time I've set foot on Mexican soil, and the first time I feel like I've actually been to Mexico (we went to the Chacchoben ruins).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

44 I want executions.
I'll settle for life imprisonment.
I'll get strongly-worded letters.
Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (ibjfk)
====

Don't settle.

Trump must be decisive.

Look at how quickly they were able to hamstring and undermine hime, undo his policies, throw innocents into jail. That. Cannot. Happen. Again.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 12:32 PM (RIvkX)

45 Shit on a stick was VERY useful when you were a little boy and were tormenting little girls.

"DOO DOO!!!! Gonna put it ON YOU!!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024

***
Is that the way to get girls to like you?

I've been doing it all wrong!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:33 PM (J2vNu)

46 Did Ace see this Axios Anal Aperture?

https://is.gd/g1oNsa
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (D6xjx)

What a lying, egotistical, self-righteous DOUCHEBAG that guy is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

47 "A good start"

Posted by: An idea around even in Shakespeare's day at November 25, 2024 12:33 PM (ufFY8)

48 "He doesn't think there's any basis for prosecuting Jack Smith, unfortunately."

-

That comment is ridiculous. Smith was unconstitutionally appointed, he lied in court, he fabricated evidence, and leaked information to the press in order to influence an election.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 12:33 PM (lTGtQ)

49 Did Ace see this Axios Anal Aperture?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (D6xjx)
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This is big!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 12:33 PM (3KZZ8)

50
What's long, brown and sticky?

Posted by: A stick at November 25, 2024 12:34 PM (DobEs)

51 Fire All DOJ Officials Who Had Any Role in Trump's Prosecutions

There's a blizzard going on down here at the DOJ!

Posted by: Acme Document Shredders, Inc. at November 25, 2024 12:34 PM (hKf3k)

52 I guess Dershowitz doesn't do fiscal law.

If anyone bothered to look there is probably some misappropriation in Jack Smiths recent past.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 12:34 PM (/lPRQ)

53
The DOJ is about as worthless as shit on a stick.
Posted by: Tits On A Boar Hog at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (Y5VD5)

Right you are.

Posted by: A Used Condom at November 25, 2024 12:34 PM (dxSpM)

54 Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma placed a hold on the promotion of Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue that would have elevated him to lead U.S. Army forces in Europe.Donahue is currently a three-star general who was nominated to become a four-star general by President Joe Biden earlier this month. Donahue was one of the top military officials overseeing the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 12:34 PM (RHGPo)

55 Will need to bring the cases somewhere other than DC. Conviction will be impossible there.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 12:34 PM (u73oe)

56 ***
Is that the way to get girls to like you?

I've been doing it all wrong!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:33 PM (J2vNu)

I was never that cruel, but then, those guys did grow up and get laid way before I did, so maybe you're on to something there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

57 What a lying, egotistical, self-righteous DOUCHEBAG that guy is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
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...but enough about our elected representatives......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 12:35 PM (tT6L1)

58 Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) called for a sweeping dismissal of Department of Justice employees who played roles in prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump.
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Good man. Trump getting support from the House, too bad it's missing from the Senate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 12:35 PM (om3Wy)

59 Did Ace see this Axios Anal Aperture?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (D6xjx)
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".... what Al Jazeera does in the Middle East...."

Lying.

He's right, you know!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 12:35 PM (3KZZ8)

60 Hillary took accountability for Benghazi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024

***
She took it to a cliff in Colorado and pitched it over.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:35 PM (J2vNu)

61 What's long, brown and sticky?
Posted by: A stick at November 25, 2024 12:34 PM (DobEs)

Raimondo's mother

Posted by: Gentleman Jim Jordan at November 25, 2024 12:35 PM (12v8J)

62 Missouri's Attorney General is not one to back off either.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 12:36 PM (om3Wy)

63 Is that the way to get girls to like you?

I've been doing it all wrong!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:33 PM (J2vNu)
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Have you tried spiders and snakes?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 12:36 PM (3KZZ8)

64
Not only should they be prosecuted, but any potential defense attorneys should be told how deleterious taking the case on will be to their careers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 12:36 PM (dxSpM)

65 Jack Smith should be prosecuted for having a shitty soy beard.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 25, 2024 12:36 PM (l+FCO)

66
I want executions.
I'll settle for life imprisonment.
I'll get strongly-worded letters.
Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (ibjfk)

I will settled for the same treatment Indiana gave poor Richard Allen: solitary confinement with suicide watch for thirteen months, along with Haldol injections. It was torture that broke him.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 12:37 PM (ufFY8)

67 Missouri AG Eric Schmitt: Fire All DOJ Officials Who Had Any Role in Trump's Prosecutions

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I want executions.
I'll settle for life imprisonment.
I'll get strongly-worded letters.
Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01

Then their annual performance evaluation and bonus will be held at 95% of statutory maximum.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 12:37 PM (/lPRQ)

68 I saw Axios Anal Aperture open for Smash Mouth at The Brewery Thunderdome in '98.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:37 PM (ibjfk)

69
I thought Andrew Bailey was the Missouri AG?

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2024 12:37 PM (w9Ycv)

70 Good morning! Or afternoon for some of you. Windows are open, airing things out always feels so good.

Also, yes, they should all be fired. I hate to start legal wars, because it won’t end, it won’t teach anyone a lesson. But what else do you do at this point?

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 12:38 PM (p4NUW)

71 NATIONAL PARFAIT DAY - November 25

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 12:38 PM (RHGPo)

72 Is there a right to bring private prosecutions in any jurisdictions that could be of use here? I know it's still a thing in some states.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 12:38 PM (Dm8we)

73 >>> I won't be happy until these people are taken to the helicopters. They are a clear and present threat to our freedom and way of life.They won't stop. They will have to be stopped.

I'm not a Pinochet kind of person, but I understand the sentiment. Rules have to get changed and prosecutions have to happen. People need to be thrown in jail. Because they will just put a pause in this lawfare madness for 4-8 years, and as soon as they are in power ramp it up again.

If the left fights the changes, Do we have to lawfare so bad we overstep and the dems screech injustice, then things will change? Because the left proved after 2016 they don't know how to play nice anymore. But I hate lawfare in general. I'm sad they forced their hand.

We haven't punished people yet for covid overstepping, either. I want to see Fauci in jail. Because otherwise the next big health scare, the same squashing of our rights will happen.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 12:38 PM (wcIbG)

74 Fire every one. After all, ubama fired all of gwb’s appointed prosecutors.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 12:38 PM (jgmnb)

75 It was just a few rogue agents in the Cincinnati office.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:38 PM (12v8J)

76 Hello Ace, I hope you take it a little easy during turkey week. Thanks for for being here with us. I was thinking about it and this is almost my 16th year here, shortly before Barky was coronated. Cheers!

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2024 12:38 PM (Y6IkP)

77 The DOJ is about as worthless as shit on a stick

Some day Elon Musk is going to find a use for that and we'll have to find a new idiom.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (BG3vZ)

78
".... what Al Jazeera does in the Middle East...."

Lying.

He's right, you know!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 12:35 PM

It's only allowed and righteous if it aligns with the LEFTIST mindset. The purchase of the Twatters by Musk proved very quickly to be the single most important thing in the tech age since the tech age started.

He revealed just how deep the corruption and censorship goes and how many violations the government was making against the people of this country.

The only reason it makes those that post on X "citizen journalists" is because they're allowed to present FACTS unedited by leftist raging mafia types and it reminds just how corrupt and evil they really are.

GFY, Axios CO. EABOD. DIAF.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

79 ".... what Al Jazeera does in the Middle East...."

Now do Russian Collusion.

Posted by: Buh bye at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (DobEs)

80 saw Axios Anal Aperture open for Smash Mouth at The Brewery Thunderdome in '98.
Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:37 PM (ibjfk)

You know who else was an All Star?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (12v8J)

81 69
I thought Andrew Bailey was the Missouri AG?
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2024 12:37 PM (w9Ycv)

He is, and he is a hardass like the Senators.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (PCK5/)

82 If anyone bothered to look there is probably some misappropriation in Jack Smiths recent past.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

His appointment was unconstitutional!

His salary and every fucking penny he spent on his Trump persecution is misappropriation.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (4XwPj)

83
I want a StarChamber assembled against these prosecutors.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (+oR7L)

84 60 Hillary took accountability for Benghazi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024
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Running guns and secret spook operations; Security hook-ups for her best bud; Stand-down of all military rescue allowing the murder of innocent Americans. She wasn't held accountable.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (om3Wy)

85 Have you tried spiders and snakes?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 12:36 PM (3KZZ

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Heh, would have worked with my wife. She found a good size black and yellow king snake in our yard a few years ago and made sure to move it over by the river.

She also thinks Wolf spiders are cool to look at.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (tT6L1)

86 We haven't punished people yet for covid overstepping, either. I want to see Fauci in ~~jail~~ swinging from a lamp post. Because otherwise the next big health scare, the same squashing of our rights will happen.
Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 12:38 PM (wcIbG)

FIFY

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 25, 2024 12:40 PM (N39Ws)

87 First, all the things the executive and legislature can do alone:

1. Subpoena records.
2. Throw the assholes out and pile their shit on the curb.
3. Revoke security clearances.
4. Pardon all their victims.

After that, the legal remedies.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 25, 2024 12:40 PM (wzAuc)

88 84 60 Hillary took accountability for Benghazi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024
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Running guns and secret spook operations; Security hook-ups for her best bud; Stand-down of all military rescue allowing the murder of innocent Americans. She wasn't held accountable.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (om3Wy)

=======

She said she did in front of a congressional committee, and you can't lie in front of a congressional committee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

89 OT , slightly..

let's kill it with fire !

"DEI Training Material Increases Perception of Nonexistent Prejudice, Agreement with Hitler Rhetoric, Study Finds"

https://tinyurl.com/5n6df3yx

Well, that's unacceptable !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 12:40 PM (QTCRF)

90 The DOJ is about as worthless as shit on a stick

Some day Elon Musk is going to find a use for that and we'll have to find a new idiom.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 12:39 PM (BG3vZ)

StickXcrement.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 12:41 PM (ufFY8)

91
...but enough about our elected representatives......
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 12:35 PM (tT6L1)

The statement does seem to be coming more and more of a universal truth, doesn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

92 Have You People seen this?

She is SCREAMING at senile joe like a lunatic:

https://is.gd/qry8mA

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 12:41 PM (D6xjx)

93 Just torch the DoJ. It is nothing but a relic of Reconstruction and the center of all organized crime. The Constitution speaks of an AG. His job was to oversee the legality of international matters as informed by the Supreme Court. He had no direct control of any State.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (jFCkp)

94 Is Bondi up equal to this?

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (ZlOcj)

95 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (DobEs)

96 https://is.gd/g1oNsa

That Jim Vandehei guy has "delusions of grandeur."

Your Fourth Estate is right here. *motions to testicles*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (RIvkX)

97 (Pay wall)

here is the link that works : "New study finds DEI initiatives creating 'hostile attribution bias"

https://tinyurl.com/297e6uzr

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (QTCRF)

98 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (paSBy)

99 ..and makes one literally hitler

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (QTCRF)

100 87 First, all the things the executive and legislature can do alone:

1. Subpoena records.
2. Throw the assholes out and pile their shit on the curb.
3. Revoke security clearances.
4. Pardon all their victims.

After that, the legal remedies.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 25, 2024 12:40 PM (wzAuc)

Bingo, hit them hard and fast, hurt their wallets and their reputations and undo what they did.

Prosecutions are nice to have but will inevitably get bogged down.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (V6W16)

101 59 Did Ace see this Axios Anal Aperture?

Posted by: Soothsayer
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You read that article about Salvador Dali and that $6.7 million grant to Stanford for that commode.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (om3Wy)

102 Jack Smith should be prosecuted for having a shitty soy beard.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 25, 2024 12:36 PM (l+FCO)

Hopefully, there's a large black man's cock with Jack's name on it just waiting for him in federal 'pound you in the ass' prison that he'll get to experience, bigly, in his future.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

103 The IRS should investigate every one of these chodes. And the DOJ. And a special counsel. And the USPS. And everyone else.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 25, 2024 12:44 PM (GWazU)

104 100 87 First, all the things the executive and legislature can do alone:

1. Subpoena records.
2. Throw the assholes out and pile their shit on the curb.
3. Revoke security clearances.
4. Pardon all their victims.

After that, the legal remedies.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer
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Congress has authority to have them arrested.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 12:44 PM (om3Wy)

105 I'd forgotten that the left used lots of lawfare against Trump and his lawyers.

Remember, Marc Elias was running ads in swing states threatening any lawyer who dared to work for the Republicans on election matters with disbarment and prosecution.

BTW, you know what would make me truly happy?

A 2 AM FBI SWAT raid on Marc Elias' house, with Marc being hauled out in his underwear under the glare of TV lights.

It doesn't matter if the charges stick, but it would be deserved payback for how the FBI treated Trump's allies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 12:44 PM (uxCna)

106 "Those exposed to anti-racist materials were linked to heightened perceptions of racial bias in the study. Participants were also more likely to support punitive measures against perceived offenders of so-called "microaggressions," even in the absence of evidence.."

and we had to live under this totalitarian BS since 2008

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 12:44 PM (QTCRF)

107 https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (paSBy)
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I think we should trade out topless protesters for the French gals.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 12:44 PM (tT6L1)

108 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (paSBy)

What exactly are they protesting?

And some of them might've been hittable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

109 Good to see that Dershowitz just pounds nails into the wall and hangs pictures wherever, like a normal person.
Posted by: Oglebay
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I've been thinking about hanging up my HS diploma. A guy has to go with what he's got.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (XeU6L)

110 94. Probably not. But two deputies nominated by Trump are.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (GWazU)

111 Since Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed, he is a private citizen with no qualified immunity. Once Judge Cannon dismissed that case because of the lack of lawful appointment, Smith had intent to exercise prosecutorial authority without legal justification. Is that not a felony? Can I pretend to be a prosecutor and get the FBI to start raiding my political opponents?

Posted by: Candidus at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (zGvse)

112 endorsed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (xcxpd)

113 pièce de résistance - "Across all groupings, instead of DEI materials reducing bias, the study discovered they engendered a hostile attribution bias amplifying perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present."

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (QTCRF)

114 And who knows? Maybe we get a good jury who is sick and tired of leftwing corruption and witch hunts, and wants to give them a taste of their own medicine.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Pardon victims of J6 persecution en mass, justification being the underutilized "deprivation of civil rights under color of law". Trials to be held where the arrest / kidnapping* occured.

*penalties for such forcible felonies include up to the life imprisonment or the more expedited equivalent methods.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (/lPRQ)

115 currently a three-star general who was nominated to become a four-star general by President Joe Biden earlier this month. Donahue was one of the top military officials overseeing the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 12:34 PM (RHGPo)

A true Dem patriot.. failing upwards

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 25, 2024 12:46 PM (/6GbT)

116 98 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,

Isn't it getting a little nippy out for that kind of thing?

Posted by: Big Wet Ones at November 25, 2024 12:46 PM (nS6qG)

117 Bewbs and French.

My cognitive dissonance burns.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 25, 2024 12:46 PM (ufFY8)

118 92 Have You People seen this?

She is SCREAMING at senile joe like a lunatic:

https://is.gd/qry8mA
Posted by: Soothsayer

That's gold, Jerry!
GOLD!

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at November 25, 2024 12:46 PM (DobEs)

119 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5

It's amazing how the French manage to find attractive women to participate in the topless protests.

If they did it in the United States, it would be obese, purple-haired, trannies.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 12:46 PM (uxCna)

120 Have You People seen this?

She is SCREAMING at senile joe like a lunatic:

https://is.gd/qry8mA
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 12:41 PM (D6xjx)

Happy early birthday, as a gift to the press will you talk to us.

WTF?

I mean, yeah, they should be pissed. That demented old fool hasn't talked to the press basically since he declared his butt's been wiped.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

121 I'm fine with things being somewhat nebulous with regards to "what Trump might do" upon reclaiming the White House. I'd rather not telegraph intentions to people that have the wherewithal to lawyer up, dispose of evidence and/or leave the country.

I'd rather they be surprised. At 3AM.

Telegraphing intentions is unwise, especially when you've got some pretty slippery, evil, and resourceful people that need to be hanging from lampposts.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 12:47 PM (Q4IgG)

122 >>> Topless protest in France:
https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 25, 2024 12:42 PM (paSBy)

I can't understand what they're saying or what's written but from the context I think it's "BOOBS ARE GREAT!" and I wholeheartedly agree. Boobs are great.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2024 12:47 PM (Y6IkP)

123 (Ok, got that out the way)

yes , Clinton fired every US Attorney AND dismissed the FBI Director

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 12:47 PM (QTCRF)

124 True justice for the government officials who committed lawfare against Trump, his lawyers and the American People would be to have them fired, prosecuted, and all their wealth paid to their victims. That will be the only way to prevent this type of corruption happening again.

Posted by: Crazy at November 25, 2024 12:48 PM (ZXBqN)

125 And some of them might've been hittable.
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Front row far left has a very nice rack.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:48 PM (jFCkp)

126 98 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
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Protesting violence against women, yet no doubt voted for unchecked immigration of barbaric hordes.

Isn't ironic, don’t you think?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2024 12:48 PM (oEwPv)

127
Well, technically legally, since jack shit No Legal Authority as a "special counsel," he ILLEGALLY possessed & released Classified Documents.

Right?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 12:48 PM (M+0Lm)

128 No big deal, done all the time. Presidential prerogative.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 12:48 PM (QTCRF)

129 If the Russians do in fact have Rods from God and can target them accurately they can decapitate any country in Europe.

Why didn't we know about this before or did "we"?

Have they tested this before? I think they said it was a prototype. They wanted to show t off around the neighborhood.

I think a booster launch of something of this nature would have shown up on the regular monitoring equipment.

Were there appreciable seismic signatures?

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 12:48 PM (QB+5g)

130 116 98 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,

Isn't it getting a little nippy out for that kind of thing?
Posted by: Big Wet Ones

It can be hard to stay abreast of these things.

Posted by: Oops at November 25, 2024 12:48 PM (DobEs)

131 Donahue was one of the top military officials overseeing the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

This was the guy who refused to let in people waving US passports at the Marine checkpoints at the airport, and took up space on an evacuation flight with a Taliban Land Rover, which he was taking home as a war trophy.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 12:49 PM (uxCna)

132 Telegraphing intentions is unwise, especially when you've got some pretty slippery, evil, and resourceful people that need to be hanging from lampposts.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 12:47 PM (Q4IgG)

It is always the bad guys' error to telegraph what one is going to do.

Opsec.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 25, 2024 12:49 PM (ufFY8)

133
Isn't it getting a little nippy out for that kind of thing?
Posted by: Big Wet Ones at November 25, 2024 12:46 PM (nS6qG)

Glass cutting nipples make their protest that much more effective, you see. They're showing TRUE dedication.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

134 The entire lot should be charged for a Coup D'etat

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 12:51 PM (cdFLU)

135 Topless protest in France:
____

Was expecting hairy pits in France, mais non, je suis décu.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2024 12:51 PM (oEwPv)

136 We get Triggleypuff, French get nice tits. Some how Justice is never to be seen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:51 PM (jFCkp)

137 The entire lot should be charged for a Coup D'etat
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 12:51 PM (cdFLU)

Good thing that's not an insurrection, because THOSE things.........THOSE are BAD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)

138 pawn, it was reported that the russkis provided the US 30 minute notice of the launch - presumably because of the profile, an IRBM/MRBM, is the sort of thing we obviously monitor and also fits into the "oh, shit" category of such things. Damn my memory but also think the russkis themselves announced it was launched from Kapustin Yar, which is one of the long-standing Soviet/Russian long range missile test sites (along with Plesetsk). Don't think it's an operational base.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2024 12:52 PM (1m82a)

139 >WaPo, Nov. 22, 2024, 'Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, use DOJ to probe 2020 election'
The plans show how president-elect Donald Trump wants to use the Justice Department to address his own personal grievances

>NYT, Meet the Team Prosecuting Donald J. Trump
Manhattan’s district attorney assembled a group of experienced courtroom hands, some of whom have confronted the former president before. By Kate Christobek
April 22, 2024

>Press Release, 'Attorney General James Wins Landmark Victory in Case Against Donald Trump' Donald Trump, Adult Sons, and Former Executives Ordered to Pay More Than $450 Million They Fraudulently and Illegally Obtained
Donald Trump Banned from Serving as an Officer or Director of Any New York Company for Three Years
February 16, 2024

"The investigation and subsequent legal action were conducted by ......"
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Go get 'em. All of them. But also remember how many in Congress/DOJ were given access via NARA to Trump's presidential records on (Obama's) Biden's ok for release.

One who had every directive, rule, law modified right before Trump entered the White House & never released his own records & the other a 50 yr. deviant grifter. imo.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 12:52 PM (NFX2v)

140 135 Topless protest in France:
____

Was expecting hairy pits in France, mais non, je suis décu.
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American tastes seem to rule them, Qui?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:52 PM (jFCkp)

141 What exactly are they protesting?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

Against blouses, I think.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 12:52 PM (OguvZ)

142
Was expecting hairy pits in France, mais non, je suis décu.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2024 12:51 PM (oEwPv)

Yeah, I was expecting more hair than a Siberian Husky in winter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)

143 Sounds like a good start.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (v0R5T)

144 I think it was Jay Leno who said he was looking at apartments and was shocked by the rent. The sales agent said, "Just look at the wonderful view!"

Leno replied, "For the price, there should be breasts pressed up against the glass"

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (7fVdQ)

145
Welcome back from your luxury cruise, TJM!

Did you miss the revolution or abscond after voting?

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (eDfFs)

146 It is the seriousness of the charge.

Charge them all with being practicing Republicans.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (RhjSY)

147 Afternoon, All.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (v6JzV)

148 Leno replied, "For the price, there should be breasts pressed up against the glass"
Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (7fVdQ)

BONUS! There's joy on BOTH sides of the glass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

149 Yeah, I was expecting more hair than a Siberian Husky in winter.
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So bush heavy like Yoko?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:54 PM (jFCkp)

150 pièce de résistance - "Across all groupings, instead of DEI materials reducing bias, the study discovered they engendered a hostile attribution bias amplifying perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present."
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (QTCRF)

Shocker. Just like pronouncing out of nowhere thar "there are no red and blue states" amplifies the perception that there are. And it's all intentional.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:54 PM (12v8J)

151 Dershowitz brings it, again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 12:54 PM (om3Wy)

152

It was all a coincidence and an accident that these lawsuits happened.

Posted by: E Buzz at November 25, 2024 12:55 PM (Zdzep)

153 > The plans show how president-elect Donald Trump wants to use the Justice Department to address his own personal grievances
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Wonder what Obama and the folks behind *biden think of that?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 12:55 PM (Q4IgG)

154
For a Happier Thanksgiving, don't for get your-

Turkey-Infused Pechuga Mezcal!

https://tinyurl.com/bdz274un

Shots before, during, and after dinner.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 12:55 PM (eDfFs)

155 Did anyone tell TJM yet that while he was on the cruise they continued counting until Harris won, or are we going to keep the charade going a little longer?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:55 PM (12v8J)

156 One of the under-appreciated but truly disgusting and chilling aspects of the lawfare culture the Dems have produced is this legal world prejudice against Trump and actual action/intimidation to back it up. In 2020 in PA, one of several states with (obviously) outrageous and histrionic evidence of fraud and violation of state and federal law in the election process, major law firms made it clear that helping the Trump campaign in legal challenges would place you in Siberia.

A friend was on the margins of this and confirmed what a stunning and chilling thing it was. Dismissals and whatever by a fedgov under new management are fine and justified, but the reality is a lot darker and bigger, and not sure how that's addressed.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2024 12:55 PM (1m82a)

157 Shocker. Just like pronouncing out of nowhere thar "there are no red and blue states" amplifies the perception that there are. And it's all intentional.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:54 PM (12v8J)
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My good man you know nothing of government! Obviously, it's not the material that is at fault, rather, it's lack of funding!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 12:55 PM (tT6L1)

158 The entire lot should be charged for a Coup D'etat

Coup D'etit.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (ufFY8)

159 155 Did anyone tell TJM yet that while he was on the cruise they continued counting until Harris won, or are we going to keep the charade going a little longer?
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:55 PM (12v8J)

Well, now you've done it.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (VnUSN)

160 136 We get Triggleypuff, French get nice tits. Some how Justice is never to be seen.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:51 PM (jFCkp)

Thankfully the only skin we saw from Triggleypuff was her bingo wings.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (N39Ws)

161 WaPo, Nov. 22, 2024, 'Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, use DOJ to probe 2020 election'
The plans show how president-elect Donald Trump wants to use the Justice Department to address his own personal grievances

No, he's going after those that used the Justice Department to address THEIR own personal grievances, you insignificant sniveling twatwaffle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

162 145
Welcome back from your luxury cruise, TJM!

Did you miss the revolution or abscond after voting?

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (eDfFs)

========

We were only gone for a week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

163 My nephew had Dershowitz as an instructor at Harvard Law School. Said he was a hoot. One day he'd drive the few conservative students crazy with liberal arguments, then the next day he'd flip and use conservative arguments. He really appreciated a student who could effectively counter him.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (W/lyH)

164 "Meet the Team Prosecuting Donald J. Trump"
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This list should come in handy for the incoming admin. Thanks NYT!!!!

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (12v8J)

165 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,
*
Isn't it getting a little nippy out for that kind of thing?
Posted by: Big Wet Ones
*
It can be hard to stay abreast of these things.
Posted by: Oops at November 25, 2024

***
Most of the ones the camera lingers on at the start are pretty darn attractive. Except for the Resting Bitch Faces, and you can hardly expect anything else at a protest.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:57 PM (J2vNu)

166 Shocker. Just like pronouncing out of nowhere thar "there are no red and blue states" amplifies the perception that there are. And it's all intentional.
Posted by: ...
---

Right.
Also, one might say, from looking at an election map, there are no blue states.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 12:57 PM (om3Wy)

167 159 155 Did anyone tell TJM yet that while he was on the cruise they continued counting until Harris won, or are we going to keep the charade going a little longer?
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 12:55 PM (12v8J)

Well, now you've done it.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (VnUSN)

========

Quelle surprise!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

168 92 Have You People seen this?

She is SCREAMING at senile joe like a lunatic:

https://is.gd/qry8mA
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 12:41 PM (D6xjx)

Yeah, now. We have no respect for them, he has no respect for them.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 12:57 PM (VnUSN)

169 >>Alan Dershowitz asks the question, should the Trump prosecutors be themselves prosecuted?

If they need someone to maintenance The Wood Chipper of Justice, that will surely be going 24/365, for the next four years, I'm you're guy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2024 12:57 PM (XV/Pl)

170 Afternoon, All.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (v6JzV)

Hey Glub -- how'd the interview go?

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 12:57 PM (jgdZo)

171 Dismissals and whatever by a fedgov under new management are fine and justified, but the reality is a lot darker and bigger, and not sure how that's addressed.
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Make Labor Camps Great Again!

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:57 PM (jFCkp)

172 The left argued literal Hitler required novel legal theories to defeat.

Well the people decided they like literal Hitler better then them so why shouldn't he use the same novel legal theories against literal Satan?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 12:57 PM (oZhjI)

173 So bush heavy like Yoko?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:54 PM (jFCkp)

Just not as hideously disgustingly ugly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

174 Damn my memory but also think the russkis themselves announced it was launched from Kapustin Yar

Correct.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 12:58 PM (uxCna)

175 172 The left argued literal Hitler required novel legal theories to defeat.

Well the people decided they like literal Hitler better then them so why shouldn't he use the same novel legal theories against literal Satan?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 12:57 PM (oZhjI)

=======

Man, you can just use regular legal theories against these people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:58 PM (GBKbO)

176 170 Afternoon, All.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 12:53 PM (v6JzV)

Hey Glub -- how'd the interview go?
Posted by: Doof at November

Yes! And what happened with the other role? Email me if you prefer.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 12:58 PM (pZEOD)

177 Have You People seen this?

She is SCREAMING at senile joe like a lunatic:

https://is.gd/qry8mA
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 12:41 PM (D6xjx)
-

Is that Louder with Crowder?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 12:58 PM (3KZZ8)

178 The only way lawfare goes away is if Trump puts hundreds of leftist/GOPe bureaucrats and pols in prison.

If he doesn't do it they'll just continue when he is gone

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 12:58 PM (oZhjI)

179 We were only gone for a week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

Should of taken Mrs D. It would of seemed a lot longer.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 12:58 PM (W/lyH)

180 Thankfully the only skin we saw from Triggleypuff was her bingo wings.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

And we're thankful for THAT?!?! That is nauseating.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 25, 2024 12:59 PM (4XwPj)

181 Jen "Self-Gasser" Rubin:

"Literally Hitler's cabinet is too white! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:59 PM (n99CU)

182 156 One of the under-appreciated but truly disgusting and chilling aspects of the lawfare culture the Dems have produced is this legal world prejudice against Trump and actual action/intimidation to back it up. In 2020 in PA, one of several states with (obviously) outrageous and histrionic evidence of fraud and violation of state and federal law in the election process, major law firms made it clear that helping the Trump campaign in legal challenges would place you in Siberia.

A friend was on the margins of this and confirmed what a stunning and chilling thing it was. Dismissals and whatever by a fedgov under new management are fine and justified, but the reality is a lot darker and bigger, and not sure how that's addressed.
Posted by: rhomboid

Excellent. Thanks

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 12:59 PM (NFX2v)

183 American tastes seem to rule them, Qui?
Posted by: Pudinhead

I'm old enough to remember when French opinion mattered in America, especially in Hollywood.

Before 1968.

Since then they have become irrelevant to the point of young people not knowing where France is on a map.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 12:59 PM (j4U/Z)

184 A french woman I had worked with was laid off. Going through her desk to remove personal items, boudoir photos were discovered - apparently printed on one our company's high quality printers. Not hard on the eyes at all, and removed every preconception I had on french ladies grooming habits.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 25, 2024 12:59 PM (N39Ws)

185 >>Should of taken Mrs D. It would of seemed a lot longer.

Dibs on your stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 12:59 PM (LkLld)

186
What's wrong with the French?

None of their topless protest women weight 300+ libs like here in America.

And their hair wasn't even blue!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 01:00 PM (eDfFs)

187 Damn my memory but also think the russkis themselves announced it was launched from Kapustin Yar

Correct.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024p/i]

***
Tasha Yar's older sister?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 01:00 PM (J2vNu)

188

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 01:00 PM (J2vNu)

189 179 We were only gone for a week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)
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So how much time did you spend in the Hot Tub - aka Butt Soup?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (jFCkp)

190 I would like to see Gen. Donahue in charge of the European theater. Then he can bug out like he did in Afghanistan.
Only, please remember to take our weapons out unlike last time, pansy asshole.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (wBaIH)

191 "As for "Tish" James and Alvin Bragg, he doesn't think they can be charged with any crime, but he does think that they should be disbarred for abuse of office and malicious prosecution. Good luck getting the leftwing NY State Bar to take any action, though."

Charge them with the Federal Civil Rights crime of conspiring to deny civil rights under color of law. The process is the punishment. Include Merchan in the case.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (IErdF)

192 Smith knew he was not appointed legally. Dersh is a douche.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (Z8Yh2)

193 We were only gone for a week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

Should of taken Mrs D. It would of seemed a lot longer.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 12:58 PM (W/lyH)

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

* Laughs ass off *

* Remembers that the wifey now lurks here *

* Holds tongue. j/k Babe! *

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (n99CU)

194 A friend was on the margins of this and confirmed what a stunning and chilling thing it was. Dismissals and whatever by a fedgov under new management are fine and justified, but the reality is a lot darker and bigger, and not sure how that's addressed.
Posted by: rhomboid
-

People are reluctant to acknowledge it, but anything short of helicopters just postpones them being back in positions of power with lessons learned about the weakness of the Filthy Capitalists.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (t+rgW)

195 180; 180 Thankfully the only skin we saw from Triggleypuff was her bingo wings.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

And we're thankful for THAT?!?! That is nauseating.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November

What am I going to do with y’all? As you age, skin loses its ability to bounce back, especially if you have had fluctuations in weight or lost a lot of weight. It’s not ugly. It’s what it is - especially if the result is because you are getting healthier.

That is all.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 01:02 PM (pZEOD)

196
Another point against the French: They used to adore Jerry Lewis.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 01:03 PM (j4U/Z)

197 189 179 We were only gone for a week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)
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So how much time did you spend in the Hot Tub - aka Butt Soup?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (jFCkp)

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Dolley hates hot tubs, so only once when there was no one else around.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

198 Since then they have become irrelevant to the point of young people not knowing where France is on a map.
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Once the manly Normans set up shop in England, France has had a difficult time.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:03 PM (jFCkp)

199 @48

>>That comment is ridiculous. Smith was unconstitutionally appointed, he lied in court, he fabricated evidence, and leaked information to the press in order to influence an election.

Even more fundamental, Smith and his team of investigators and prosecutors fabricated evidence and lied to the court about it.

That's at least 3-5 in FPMITAP.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2024 01:03 PM (XV/Pl)

200 Hey Glub -- how'd the interview go?
Posted by: Doof at November

Yes! And what happened with the other role? Email me if you prefer.
Posted by: Piper

Actually, it wasn't an interview after all, but an information session. There were like 20 other people on the call. An individual interview is the next step.

The position sounds fascinating -- being in charge of conducting depositions in civil litigation.

Downside is, it's an independent contractor position, so no 401K, health benefits, etc.

Does anyone here have experience working as an independent contractor? What's it like?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:03 PM (v6JzV)

201
What am I going to do with y’all? As you age, skin loses its ability to bounce back, especially if you have had fluctuations in weight or lost a lot of weight. It’s not ugly. It’s what it is - especially if the result is because you are getting healthier.

That is all.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 01:02 PM (pZEOD)

Women should simply be taught at an early age that their bodies are temples and they should never do anything to cause those types of things to happen, ever.

Silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

202 Oh c'mon. Surely they could prosecute Jack Smith under some variation of a nuisance law, no?

Posted by: bluebell at November 25, 2024 01:04 PM (79pEw)

203 Dolley hates hot tubs, so only once when there was no one else around.
----------------
Imma thinking Dolley and I would hit it off.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:04 PM (jFCkp)

204 184 A french woman I had worked with was laid off. Going through her desk to remove personal items, boudoir photos were discovered - apparently printed on one our company's high quality printers. Not hard on the eyes at all, and removed every preconception I had on french ladies grooming habits.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Why would you leave those at work? People are just dumb.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2024 01:04 PM (pZEOD)

205
Dolley hates hot tubs, so only once when there was no one else around.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

I miss our hot tub.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

206 "DEI Training Material Increases Perception of Nonexistent Prejudice, Agreement with Hitler Rhetoric, Study Finds"
Posted by: runner

Need to have few dozen more of these to really hammer it home. Also, there's a prize out there for biz students in doing case studies of companies that go DIE. I have no doubt it leads to disaster and a few case studies would help as well.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 01:05 PM (IG4Id)

207 205 I miss our hot tub.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

=======

That's what happens when you let Matthew Perry die in it, the police take it away.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

208 First, all the things the executive and legislature can do alone:

1. Subpoena records.
2. Throw the assholes out and pile their shit on the curb.
3. Revoke security clearances.
4. Pardon all their victims.

After that, the legal remedies.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 25, 2024 12:40 PM (wzAuc)

5. Strip citizenship.
6. Drop them in the jungle in Nicaragua, sans electronics, ID, or passport.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 01:06 PM (VNX3d)

209 174 Damn my memory but also think the russkis themselves announced it was launched from Kapustin Yar

Correct.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2024 12:58 PM

I misread that as Rasputin.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 01:06 PM (1hQvE)

210 165 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,
---

If they weren't so antagonistic people would be more receptive to them as humans. They're the warriors.
Maybe they are angry because their areola are so small.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 01:07 PM (om3Wy)

211 Women should simply be taught at an early age that their bodies are temples

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2024 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)
-

“Shirley you can’t be serious!”

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 01:07 PM (3KZZ8)

212 >>> 74 Fire every one. After all, ubama fired all of gwb's appointed prosecutors.
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 12:38 PM (jgmnb)

This.

Then get a new crew to do all the things OrangeManBad has mentioned so far, *plus* RICO the fcking ABA, for starters.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 01:08 PM (KcwUg)

213 Maybe they are angry because their areola are so small.
---------------
Yep. A whole lotta nickels and dimes.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:08 PM (jFCkp)

214 Joni Ernst is leading the Senate's new DOGE caucus. Any bets on how much ethanol subsidies will be cut?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 25, 2024 01:09 PM (paSBy)

215 In other "oh those wacky central planners!!!" news:

"A chemical byproduct found in some treated drinking water in the U.S. that remained a mystery for more than 40 years may have finally been identified by scientists.

The authors of the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, have named the byproduct chloronitramide anion, and believe it is a decomposition byproduct of chloramine, which is used as a disinfectant in tap water."

https://tinyurl.com/2rwxpnbh

So it might not just be geriatric pregnancies and vaccines causing all the birth defects. Oh, and increase in cancers.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 01:09 PM (t+rgW)

216 209 I misread that as Rasputin.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 01:06 PM (1hQvE)

=======

Ra-ra-Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra-ra-Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

217 165 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,

_______________________________

How funny would it be to set up a little table with a handful of guys rating the exposed breasts? "That one...#5, I don't know, it's like Marty Feldman eyes. I think she's trying to hypnotize us. Don't look at that one directly."

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 01:10 PM (dIske)

218 "A chemical byproduct found in some treated drinking water in the U.S. that remained a mystery for more than 40 years may have finally been identified by scientists.

The authors of the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, have named the byproduct chloronitramide anion, and believe it is a decomposition byproduct of chloramine, which is used as a disinfectant in tap water."

The Sterling Hayden character from Dr. Strangelove is vindicated!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:10 PM (v6JzV)

219 Yep. A whole lotta nickels and dimes.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 01:08 PM

A whole shitload!

Posted by: Taggart at November 25, 2024 01:11 PM (BOoMv)

220 RE NatReview DIE study:

National Review has reached out to Ahmed and Kitanaka with Bloomberg but has not yet received a response.

No reporter should ever get away with not answering questions. NatRev should have sent a stringer to find them and stick a mike in their faces. Enough of this coward journalism.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2024 01:11 PM (IG4Id)

221 TOPLESS CARWASH ...
https://tinyurl.com/kb4eap3e

Posted by: Kathy at November 25, 2024 01:11 PM (qpw89)

222 >>> 215 In other "oh those wacky central planners!!!" news:

"A chemical byproduct found in some treated drinking water in the U.S. that remained a mystery for more than 40 years may have finally been identified by scientists.

The authors of the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, have named the byproduct chloronitramide anion, and believe it is a decomposition byproduct of chloramine, which is used as a disinfectant in tap water."

https://tinyurl.com/2rwxpnbh

So it might not just be geriatric pregnancies and vaccines causing all the birth defects. Oh, and increase in cancers.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie at November 25, 2024 01:09 PM (t+rgW)

Whoops! Whoopsie!

Posted by: EXPERTS! at November 25, 2024 01:11 PM (KcwUg)

223 "Pam Bondi, who has vowed to combat what Republicans describe as the "weaponization" of federal agencies."
==

I disagree with that. the federal agencies' weapons should be maintained and turned on the demo-fascist party for total destruction. Make the pain so bad that the little Hitlers never think of pulling that shit again.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 01:11 PM (17s+e)

224 Oh c'mon. Surely they could prosecute Jack Smith under some variation of a nuisance law, no?
Posted by: bluebell
__________

Private prosecution law in the states:

https://tinyurl.com/yttehvnm

Alabama and Texas look promising.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 01:12 PM (Dm8we)

225 202 Oh c'mon. Surely they could prosecute Jack Smith under some variation of a nuisance law, no?
Posted by: bluebell at November 25, 2024 01:04 PM (79pEw)
Penumbra. A good penumbra can take down a fool-growm mule in it’s tracks.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 01:12 PM (jgmnb)

226 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,

_______________________________

How funny would it be to set up a little table with a handful of guys rating the exposed breasts? "That one...#5, I don't know, it's like Marty Feldman eyes. I think she's trying to hypnotize us. Don't look at that one directly."
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2024 01:10 PM (dIske)
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Looks like a lot of rent-a-girl model types there. Highly unlikely that was an organic protest. But at least the French still have some sympathy for the male gaze and don't throw acid into our eyes by parading around a bunch of fat bull dykes like these protests do in the USA.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

227 165 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,
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If that is their counter attack to the war on women, we need to keep this fictitious war going!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 25, 2024 01:14 PM (17s+e)

228
Dear NSF,

I should like to research the correlation in women between small areolas and fervor for feminist protest.

I have already begun my research ~~today on the Ace of Spades blog~~ and believe that this study will revolutionize the Science of Boobology.

Five hundred million dollars should be sufficient to complete this project.

Scientifically yours,

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 01:15 PM (eDfFs)

229 226 Looks like a lot of rent-a-girl model types there. Highly unlikely that was an organic protest. But at least the French still have some sympathy for the male gaze and don't throw acid into our eyes by parading around a bunch of fat bull dykes like these protests do in the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

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They probably get more media attention with attractive women than unattractive ones.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

230 Did Triggleypuff comment on the election? She has articulated her philosophy so well before.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at November 25, 2024 01:15 PM (zSyrn)

231
Easy FOOL-PROOF Way To Sell DOGE Cuts:

So We Can Pay Social Security For Our Seniors For Generations

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 01:15 PM (siRul)

232 I don't even boil my pasta in tap water. Been a thing with me forever.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:16 PM (12v8J)

233 Thinking back over the last several years that has to be the best protest in recent mammary.

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 01:16 PM (991eG)

234 Charge them with the Federal Civil Rights crime of conspiring to deny civil rights under color of law. The process is the punishment. Include Merchan in the case. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (IErdF)

I've been proposing this for months. File the case in Southern District of Florida with the Mar-a-Lago raid as the predicate act establishing jurisdiction. Name as defendants everyone who set foot on the compound, then start flipping them to go after their bosses all the way up to Smith and maybe Garland and Wray if the paper (email) trail exists. I can't believe Garland and Wray weren't informed in advance and at least didn't disapprove. I can't believe there wasn't coordination with the Secret Service.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 01:16 PM (r5tfK)

235
Looks like a lot of rent-a-girl model types there. Highly unlikely that was an organic protest. But at least the French still have some sympathy for the male gaze and don't throw acid into our eyes by parading around a bunch of fat bull dykes like these protests do in the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:14 PM

Usually the people that take off their clothes in public are the very people you'd never want to see unclothed.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 01:16 PM (1hQvE)

236 Rhomb,

Thanks, now it appears we have a Rod Gap.

How timely.

This is really going to mess things up because NATO/Europe will be defenseless when this goes operational.

Time for a master negotiator.

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 01:16 PM (QB+5g)

237 Okay, topless French ladies, why don't you take your "protest" to one of the Muslim portions of Paris. If any of you survive, let us know how it worked out for you.

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 01:17 PM (tT6L1)

238 232 I don't even boil my pasta in tap water. Been a thing with me forever.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:16 PM (12v8J)

What do you use? Bottled water? Or RO?

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 01:17 PM (1hQvE)

239 Can Trump's DOJ subpoena all of Obama's school records for any reason?
That'd be a cherry on top of Obama's "legacy"!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 01:17 PM (THzoa)

240 Downside is, it's an independent contractor position, so no 401K, health benefits, etc.

Does anyone here have experience working as an independent contractor? What's it like?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 01:03 PM (v6JzV)

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I've been one (a medical courier) for 12 years; upside is I'm pretty much my own boss -- and since I use my own vehicle, can deduct miles driven and pay no income tax as a result and a small SSI self-employment tax (but you's have to do at 13%). You can deduct any business expenses for your gig.

Downside like you say is no benefits -- and in my case, only two vacations (haven't missed a single day of work otherwise) over 12 years because I generally have to find my own replacement (may not be an issue in your case).

NOTE that as was done in Califzuela a couple years ago (with loopholes carved out for Uber & Lyft, natch), the F. Joe Mugabe Junta's Department of Labor was all hot & bothered to criminalize independent contracting nationwide (throwing tens of millions out of work) -- as a sop to Big Oligarch and The Unions -- so we've at least gotten a 4-year reprieve on that with Trump's reelection.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 01:17 PM (+dcCQ)

241 Looks like a lot of rent-a-girl model types there. Highly unlikely that was an organic protest. But at least the French still have some sympathy for the male gaze and don't throw acid into our eyes by parading around a bunch of fat bull dykes like these protests do in the USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 01:14 PM

These might be the B-grade models, looking for more attention and hoping for an upgrade to the A league.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 01:17 PM (VNX3d)

242 Jack Smith continues to practice law AFTER Judge Cannon finds he was no authorized to prosecute Trump.

A real lawyer would halt all his cases, tell his Bar Associations the issue is pending, and litigate the issue.

Jack Smith is not ethical and neither are the Bar Associations who license lawyers and ignore his dubious illegal status as a lawyer.

This goes for AG Garland who illegally appointed the jerk.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2024 01:18 PM (CpPSJ)

243 Pam Bondi, who has vowed to combat what Republicans describe as the "weaponization" of federal agencies."
==

Oh boy. Please for once I want a Republican to just be talk.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:18 PM (12v8J)

244 239 Can Trump's DOJ subpoena all of Obama's school records for any reason?
That'd be a cherry on top of Obama's "legacy"!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 01:17 PM (THzoa)

=======

"Sure, Obama was a C student, but that's just because he was too genius for his teachers. We all know he's so much smarter than Chimphitler who was just a C student."
-DU, 98.99% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

245 Usually the people that take off their clothes in public are the very people you'd never want to see unclothed.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 01:16 PM (1hQvE)
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Hey, now, let's not be too judgmental here. Maybe we shouldn't project American standards onto the French, okay?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 01:18 PM (tT6L1)

246 Topless protest in France:
https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
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Huh. No topless protesters when I was at the Louvre or in the square at the Louvre. It was raining that day. *shrugs*

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 01:18 PM (2bFN5)

247 What do you use? Bottled water? Or RO?
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 01:17 PM (1hQvE)

Bottled! And yes I know, microplastics. Pick your poison.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 01:19 PM (12v8J)

248 234 Charge them with the Federal Civil Rights crime of conspiring to deny civil rights under color of law. The process is the punishment. Include Merchan in the case. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (IErdF)

I've been proposing this for months. File the case in Southern District of Florida with the Mar-a-Lago raid as the predicate act establishing jurisdiction. Name as defendants everyone who set foot on the compound, then start flipping them to go after their bosses all the way up to Smith and maybe Garland and Wray if the paper (email) trail exists. I can't believe Garland and Wray weren't informed in advance and at least didn't disapprove. I can't believe there wasn't coordination with the Secret Service.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2024 01:16 PM (r5tfK
This right her.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 01:19 PM (jgmnb)

249 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2024 01:19 PM (1hQvE)

250 Jack Smith is not ethical and neither are the Bar Associations who license lawyers and ignore his dubious illegal status as a lawyer.

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I keep wondering if which bar associations are for lawyers, and which are for alcoholics - and which one some of these government "lawyers" belong to.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 25, 2024 01:19 PM (VNX3d)

251 165 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,

I did not ask for this.

Posted by: guy who always yells: "Show us yer tits!" at November 25, 2024 01:20 PM (v0R5T)

252 NOOD

Kamala, unburdened

Posted by: Hillary! at November 25, 2024 01:20 PM (KcwUg)

253 >>What exactly are they protesting?

Who cares? I just hope they stay angry.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 25, 2024 01:20 PM (Y1sOo)

254 oops.

There really is a NOOD you Morons.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 01:21 PM (KcwUg)

255 Jack Smith Is dropping the election interference case.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 01:21 PM (NpAcC)

256 The things they did to Trump are the very things that the king used to do to people he didn't like. Accuse them of something (usually not an actual crime because the kings word is the law) and then execute them or throw them in jail forever.

The revolutionary war was started primarily because of this. Here we are doing the same shit again.

You investigate crimes, not individuals.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 25, 2024 01:23 PM (L9siw)

257 Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney 6m
BREAKING: Jack Smith moves to dismiss the case against Trump in Washington.
storage.courtlistener.com/re…

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 3m
This means both federal criminal cases against President Trump are over. Time for investigations.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 01:24 PM (hovnC)

258 Shredding government records is a crime. But when you've been ordered to preserve them, 18 USC 1512 (C) (1) with its 20 year prison term for each document you destroy is in play. Think about what you are doing DOJ people. Remember, first person to squeal gets the deal.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 01:27 PM (Da7Vv)

259 7 not a cannon, a trebuchet!

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Agree. A Canon would blow them to pieces immediately. Might as well just strap dynamite on them (that sounds good too). But the trebuchet would give them a brief moment to think about what a shitty person they are before they splat on the ground.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 25, 2024 01:28 PM (L9siw)

260 Western Lensman @WesternLensman Nov 24
🚨NEW: Adam Schiff doesn’t believe that Trump AG pick Pam Bondi should be “prosecuting the prosecutors."

"Is she going to continue to say that the Justice Department should be prosecuting prosecutors who brought valid evidence before a grand jury?"

“A grand jury found probable cause to believe Donald Trump committed crimes. That's not a basis to go after them."

The American people who gave a mandate to Trump disagree, Adam.

The people responsible for the “Get Trump” op at the Biden DOJ must be held to account.

Mike Davis @mrddmia Nov 24
Dear @AdamSchiff:
A federal grand jury in Ft. Pierce, FL must probe whether agents, prosecutors and other co-conspirators in FL, DC, NY, and AZ waged illegal lawfare and election interference against Trump, his aides, and his allies.

18 U.S.C. § 241 (conspiracy against rights).

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (hovnC)

261 Topless protest in France:

https://tinyurl.com/3kmfhtx5
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,
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There are a lot of nice looking babes in that video.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 01:29 PM (g8Ew8)

262 I'm way late to this and it may have been said already but I think the real way to get these Deep State bureaucrats attention is to take their pensions. Period. And if there are some legal or constitutional hurdles to that, I say..."Fuck it, THERE ARE NO RULES! and we will do whatever it takes to hurt you. Badly".

And you know where we learned those "rules"? From you fuckers, that's where.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2024 01:37 PM (xyuoi)

263 All of the lawyers at the DOJ know the tune:

First Rat to squeal gets the deal
Those Rats in line do all the time.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 01:39 PM (Da7Vv)

264 >>>chloronitramide anion, and believe it is a decomposition byproduct of chloramine, which is used as a disinfectant in tap water."
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Around here when they switched from chlorine (or whatever) to chloramine they warned people diabetes and kidney problems not to drink it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 01:40 PM (om3Wy)

265 About Jack Smith, he lied about the Mar-a-Lago document evidence. It was at least a conspiracy to invent evidence

Posted by: BigG at November 25, 2024 02:58 PM (dhVjM)

266 Right now it looks like Expression Engine is
the top blogging platform available right now.
(from what I've read) Is that what you are using on your blog?

Posted by: Sheffield escorts at November 25, 2024 03:11 PM (8vwUQ)

267 Bragg et al CAN BE PROSECUTED, the charge is Official Oppression under Color of Law.

Posted by: Susan D Harms at November 25, 2024 04:07 PM (Kkd7F)

268 Revoke the American Citizenship of George Soros

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 25, 2024 04:13 PM (wGqjj)

269 87 First, all the things the executive and legislature can do alone:

1. Subpoena records.
2. Throw the assholes out and pile their shit on the curb.
3. Revoke security clearances.
4. Pardon all their victims.

After that, the legal remedies.

No, after that the EXTRAlegal (and horrific) remedies.

Posted by: mike at November 25, 2024 05:01 PM (vJrlF)

270 Why is firing people even discussed as a "punishment"? That these traitors are fired should be an obvious starting point. The punishment is the prison sentence that follows. Failure to do this will have dire consequences.

Posted by: AWOL Civilization at November 25, 2024 05:46 PM (ZQ3a+)

271 Prosecute Jack Smith for conspiracy to suppress civil rights. He was attacking Trump's rights to free speech and assembly and association, and the rights of all of his supporters, by trying to criminalize his criticism of the 2020 election as stolen (which it was).

10 yrs in jail for each victim under the 1965-66 Civil Rights Acts. 80 million victims. 800myr jail sentence, which sounds about right.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at November 25, 2024 07:48 PM (YwWCT)

THE MORNING RANT: Celebrating My Five-year Anniversary as a Contributor/Co-Blogger at this Great Blog, plus Other Topics

Happy Thanksgiving week! This week marks the five-year anniversary of me being a contributor to the amazing online community that is the Ace of Spades HQ.

Since then, and as a result, I have had several more writing opportunities open up to me, including at The Blaze, for whom I am currently a contributing writer. I have also developed some great relationships with people involved in politics and policy, and I have established friendships with quite a few of Ace’s readers. There are not words that can express how much I appreciate the support and mentorship I have received from the co-bloggers. And of course, I am profoundly grateful to Ace for allowing me a forum on the very best political blog around. I’m also very grateful for all of the feedback, tips, and suggestions I receive from readers of the blog. Above all else, my loving wife has embraced and supported my time-consuming writing venture. I am dearly blessed to have her as my partner in life.

As much as I enjoy being published at other sites, I don’t plan on uprooting from this wonderful site any time soon - so long as you will have me. Among my many blessings, the Ace of Spades community is a significant one.

Thank you again.

*****

A primary focus of my writing has been the climate hoax and all its various tentacles, including the green energy scam, net zero / decarbonization, ESG, government subsidization of green businesses, etc. (I might have also done a piece or two about electric vehicles, and periodically mentioned my affinity for music that includes an upright bass.)

Ultimately, the climate scam overlaps pretty much all of the left’s agenda, from the radical gender crusade to corporate woke capital.

In fact, at the current UN Climate Conference, they are focusing on “gender responsive climate action.”

St. Greta of The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse is now wearing a keffiyeh in support of the Palestinians who attacked Israel and committed mass murder against Jews.

The absolute nonsense of it all becomes clearer when you realize that if you oppose the transgender agenda, then you are a climate denier. If you support Israel’s right to self-defense, then you are a climate denier.

As I watch the climate cult become more deeply entwined with the most radical activists on the left, I have never been more proud to be a “climate denier.”

*****

Somewhat related, Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be Attorney General and his subsequent withdrawal has been the topic of much discussion among conservatives.

While I appreciate how Gaetz has generally battled for the MAGA agenda, and especially for dethroning House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for betraying the conservatives who helped McCarthy obtain that position, I still don’t trust Gaetz.

Matt Gaetz is an outspoken believer in the climate hoax, stating as recently as 2020 that “Climate Change is real. Climate change is urgent.”

I don’t trust any climate cultist to be heading the Justice Department, where “climate deniers” like me might need to fear being the target of “climate justice” because “climate change is urgent.”

*****

My latest piece at The Blaze takes a look at the reasons Big Oil is opposed to Donald Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the anti-petroleum Paris Climate Agreement. This piece is behind a paywall, but if you have a Blaze subscription, I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

My latest piece at The Blaze discusses how Exxon & Big Oil are *opposed* to Trump’s intention to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agmt, because Big Oil intends to prosper from govt anti-carbon subsidies. https://t.co/S2Nw1sAOVA
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) November 23, 2024

*****

Finally, as we gather this week to give thanks for the blessings our Creator has bestowed upon us in this favored land, here is a traditional Thanksgiving hymn to hum while you prepare for the feast. (And, yes there is an upright bass in the orchestra!)

WE GATHER TOGETHER
We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;
He chastens and hastens His will to make known;
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
Sing praises to His name, He forgets not His own.
Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;
So from the beginning the fight we were winning:
Thou Lord was at our side - the glory be Thine!
We all do extol Thee, Thou leader in battle,
and pray that Thou still our defender wilt be.
Let Thy congregation escape tribulation;
Thy name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!

Happy Thanksgiving!

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:00 AM (v6JzV)

2 Otter status: Culled.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)

3 Happy Anniversary, Buck!

This means the drinks are on you, right?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:02 AM (v6JzV)

4 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 11:02 AM (cdFLU)

5 Oh look at that! Pippi Ragestocking now has colorful hair. I'm sure in the next six months, she'll be a they/them.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 11:02 AM (lXoJ5)

6 Thank you for the content, Buck Throckmorton.

Posted by: Ann at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (4neFu)

7 Equating climate action and gender perversion proves the fact that neither is a legitimate movement.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (lTGtQ)

8 This week marks the five-year anniversary of me being a contributor to the amazing online community that is the Ace of Spades HQ.

I was wondering about the water cooler full of Val-U-Rite vodka in the break room.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (lXoJ5)

9 Congratulations Buck
Boy how time flys

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (cdFLU)

10 Congratulations and Thank You Buck.

Must be me. Greta looks kind of doable. Except for crazy rule.

Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (jvJvP)

11 Speaking of climate change, I see that the UK and France are discussing deploying forces to Ukraine. Nuclear detonations will change the climate.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (u73oe)

12 Oh look at that! Pippi Ragestocking now has colorful hair. I'm sure in the next six months, she'll be a they/them.
Posted by: NR Pax

I think that's just weird lighting. Her coat has the same purple hue.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:04 AM (v6JzV)

13 Congrats, Buck!

What the hell IS "gender-responsive climate action"?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 25, 2024 11:04 AM (LxER7)

14 I find even people who don't seem to be Leftists have bought into Global warming

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 11:04 AM (cdFLU)

15 A very Happy Anniversary Buck! Have always appreciated your contributions.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 11:04 AM (W/lyH)

16
Oh this is rich!

Head of fake news peddler "Axios" lashes out at Elon Musk: "Being a reporter is really hard!"

He is now a Meme:

https://is.gd/g1oNsa

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (eWUp2)

17 Mazel Tov Buck!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (RIvkX)

18 What the hell IS "gender-responsive climate action"?

An interpretive dance.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (dOjkx)

19 Must be me. Greta looks kind of doable. Except for crazy rule.
Posted by: Stateless

She's not bad looking when she smiles, now that she's given up the pigtail shtick.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (v6JzV)

20 Ian Miles Cheong

·
Nov 24, 2024
@stillgray
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Follow
Canada arrests journalist Ezra Levant who was covering a pro-Palestinian protest “in the interest of public safety.” Canada is no longer a free country.

Leora Shemesh
@lawshemesh
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Follow
I have spoken to him. He will be released at some point. This nonsensical and negligent conduct on behalf of the Toronto police force is truly an embarrassment. Breaching the peace for being a journalist and covering the hate on our streets. Shameful. Truly. @TPSOperations
11:06 AM · Nov 24, 2024

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (RIvkX)

21 Oh look at that! Pippi Ragestocking now has colorful hair. I'm sure in the next six months, she'll be a they/them.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 11:02 AM (lXoJ5)

Pippi Ragestocking is a great snarky nickname. Better than my Greta van Bleat.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Part of the E-4 Mafia at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (xPJvm)

22 I see Greta Tunamelt's transformation into a Cabbage Patch Kid continues apace.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (OguvZ)

23 Love all your posts, Buck! And love your focus on the climate scam. Amazing how few seem to understand how the interests of the mega-corps like Exxon are completely opposed to the rest of their industry, and to people in general. Because they seek to dominate and control, and heavy handed government action is the perfect cover for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (Ereai)

24 Greta deserves no mentions. People like her, and the alphabet people thrive on being the center of attention. One way they get that is to be re-posted or mentioned through some media outlet or blog online.

Best to ignore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

25 A primary focus of my writing has been the climate hoax and all its various tentacles, including the green energy scam, net zero / decarbonization, ESG, government subsidization of green businesses, etc.

You left out the malignant influence of Big Chalk, aka the Teacher's Unions, who are among the most diligent in pushing the climate hoax. There's a wonderful graph in the link showing the impact of the constantly increasing education budgets on actual performance. Any private company, including Bud Light and Jag-U-R would have burned these people at the stake by now for their utter lack of competence and performance, and yet all we'll hear for the next four years is more, MORE, MORE!!!

Too Much Is Never Enough: the Big Lie About Education Spending

https://is.gd/jaCoHh

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

26 Congratulations, Buck!

I have learned much over these years from your research and writings.

These topics should be mandatory for at least high school students (when I was a senior back in the late 70s we had a class called something like "Contemporary Issues" where the instructor would bring up a number of political issues and conflicts of the day for discussion and debate.

Great guy -- had no idea what his actual politics were.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:06 AM (Mdfxc)

27 Happy Thanksgiving, Buck, your arrival seems like yesterday.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 11:06 AM (om3Wy)

28 Top 17?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at November 25, 2024 11:06 AM (pgwxJ)

29 the reasons Big Oil is opposed to Donald Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the anti-petroleum Paris Climate Agreement.

-

There is a legitimate gripe here. Big oil was pressured into stupid regulations and then bribed with carbon capture garbage to make up for the losses elsewhere. Now that they have spent millions, the winds have changed. If the government weren't so large and in everybody's business, none of that wasteful spending would have occurred.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 11:07 AM (lTGtQ)

30 Matt Gaetz is an outspoken believer in the climate hoax, stating as recently as 2020 that “Climate Change is real. Climate change is urgent.”
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Geez I knew I hated that fag. WTF is wrong with people.

Oh and congrats Buck!

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 11:07 AM (12v8J)

31 Speaking of climate change, the LA Times, of all things, had a good article about the collapse of the solar electricity scheme so proudly touted by Governor Gavin. Complete boondoggle.

https://tinyurl.com/4s9tea4u

Posted by: PJ at November 25, 2024 11:07 AM (RRCAT)

32 What the hell IS "gender-responsive climate action"?

An interpretive dance.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (dOjkx)

It's an excuse to guilt corporations into sponsoring a bullsh*t conference in some fancy city that people can have a week expenses paid vacation, after sitting for an hour on some panel.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 11:08 AM (W/lyH)

33 I'm pretty sure Buck Throckmorton is some kinda pseudonym like that Dildo fella uses. Doof is the only genuine guy on here.

Posted by: Credit Where Due at November 25, 2024 11:08 AM (nS6qG)

34 Billions of $ have been spent to chase biofuel subsidies. Entire biofuels refineries have been built. For a little while they were money printers. Just another case of the govt controlling the market or creating one that wouldn’t even exist in this case.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 25, 2024 11:08 AM (Mr/Gz)

35 31 Speaking of climate change, the LA Times, of all things, had a good article about the collapse of the solar electricity scheme so proudly touted by Governor Gavin. Complete boondoggle.

https://tinyurl.com/4s9tea4u
Posted by: PJ at November 25, 2024 11:07 AM (RRCAT)

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And not one reporter will ask him about it during his 2028 primary run for president.

Because it's old news.

Instead, they will focus on JD Vance's college shenanigans which are much more important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

36 If you support Israel’s right to self-defense, then you are a climate denier.
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As an Israeli, our support my country's right to self defense but I'm definitely not a climate denier.

Let there be not doubt. There is a climate!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 11:09 AM (3KZZ8)

37 What the hell IS "gender-responsive climate action"?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 25, 2024 11:04 AM (LxER7)

Women can take their shirts off in hot weather too...

She's not bad looking when she smiles, now that she's given up the pigtail shtick.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (v6JzV)

For me, I think it's the longer hair. Especially these days.

Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 11:09 AM (jvJvP)

38 Gender-responsive climate action. They do love their language Olympics.
Well done on your AoS anniversary week. I enjoy your writing.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 11:10 AM (2bFN5)

39 In case it wasn't already said, we aren't climate deniers, but REALISTS.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:10 AM (SSBCb)

40 "Gender responsive climate action."

Wtf are these imbeciles talking about? Seriously. What the fuck are they talking about?

They're just stringing together leftwing duckwords in rando combinations like some demented Mad Lib. Just take any three or four of their duckwords, put them together randomly in a sentence, and you'll have a statement from one of their official press releases. Retards.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

41 Speaking of climate change, the LA Times, of all things, had a good article about the collapse of the solar electricity scheme so proudly touted by Governor Gavin. Complete boondoggle.

Their owner, the guy who forbade them to make a presidential endorsement, has said he wants to get away from the Ministry of Propaganda model and try being a real newspaper again. We shall see, but it seems he's having some effect.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 11:11 AM (xCA6C)

42 Greta deserves no mentions. People like her, and the alphabet people thrive on being the center of attention. One way they get that is to be re-posted or mentioned through some media outlet or blog online.

Best to ignore.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

Trump above all proves that no fight is too small or unimportant to ignore. Some things must be put down. People need to be informed. You cannot let them construct their narratives unabated or you turn around one day and Obama has appeared out of "nowhere".

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 11:11 AM (12v8J)

43 As an Israeli, our support my country's right to self defense but I'm definitely not a climate denier.

Let there be not doubt. There is a climate!
Posted by: Biden's Dog

What's the temperature like over there this time of year?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:11 AM (v6JzV)

44
These topics should be mandatory for at least high school students (when I was a senior back in the late 70s we had a class called something like "Contemporary Issues" where the instructor would bring up a number of political issues and conflicts of the day for discussion and debate.

Great guy -- had no idea what his actual politics were.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:06 AM (Mdfxc)
***

Contemporary World Problem.
Mr Demko
Great teacher.
And (in my time) it wasn't all about Viet Nam.
We actually learned the difference between a Nazi and a Facist.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (W/lyH)

45 Morning.

I agree about Gaetz to a point but I don't think he worked to dethrone McCarthy for any conservative principles. Matt Gaetz did it for Matt Gaetz. He might be a very intelligent man but he is his own worst enemy. It's just as well he won't be the next AG because his damn ego would get in the way.

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (3u4KS)

46 I deny there is a climate. It’s a scam by the weather controllers!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (Mr/Gz)

47 Oh Canada. Arresting the journalist for reporting on the mob violence instead of using fire hoses on the mob. What possessed you to import the troublemakers in the first place.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (CKOCg)

48 38 Gender-responsive climate action. They do love their language Olympics.
Well done on your AoS anniversary week. I enjoy your writing.
Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 11:10 AM (2bFN5)

All folks with hot flashes head to the cold climes?

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (SSBCb)

49 42 Trump above all proves that no fight is too small or unimportant to ignore. Some things must be put down. People need to be informed. You cannot let them construct their narratives unabated or you turn around one day and Obama has appeared out of "nowhere".
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 11:11 AM (12v8J)

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The left punches down all the time, and it has for a long time.

Like the rodeo clown who got canceled for the Obama mask.

It's tyrannical as hell, but it's also just politics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

50 Climate change gets here next Monday...21 degrees...we're still stuck in the ice age model.

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (Yj6Os)

51 You've been a great addition to the blog, Buck.

Thanks to you, I've been able to deliver EV facts to the enviroweenies in my life. I"m a treehugger, but I can spot a faulty system when it shows up in my life.

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (dCxaZ)

52 What's the temperature like over there this time of year?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:11 AM (v6JzV)
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Here in Jeru, currently 8C/46 and super overcast. We put the heat on an hour ago - first time this season.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (3KZZ8)

53 Happy Cobversary, Buck!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (GhIJO)

54 Is Greta Thunberg now adult enough we can hold her responsible for her actions or is she still a hopeless 'tard being totally controlled by her pinko commie parents?

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (3u4KS)

55 Happy Anniversary!
Five years! An eyeblink, and forever.

I am thankful for this place, and for the CoBs, and for you.

(and here's to upright bass)

Posted by: barbarausa at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (enw9G)

56 The most exhausting thing about the last 16 years, since Obama was elected, and coming to a head the last 4 years, was how we all we were forced into silent agreement with whatever they said.

On everything. Especially on social issues.
But even what should have been regular, ordinary budget issues:
Obamacare, for who, big hospitals? "Shut up, racist!"
Troubled Asset Relief, for who, big banks? "Shut up, racist!"
Build Back Better, for who, government? "Shut up, racist!"
Inflation Reduction, for who, big banks again? "Shut up, racist!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (8Kx9y)

57 Congrats on the 5 years, Buck! Appreciate your writing on EVs and other climate doom and gloom stuff. I have quite a few of your pieces bookmarked and/or open on my phone at all times to help counter climate crazies in my daily life. Glad you're here!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (jgdZo)

58 Climate Change is a doomsday cult

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (GhIJO)

59 58 Climate Change is a doomsday cult
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (GhIJO)

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I will never understand the appeal of doomsday cults. But there's no denying their power to other people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

60 I always look forward to a Buck contribution.

The EV articles are great; I distribute to all my Tesla loving buddies. Result: Minds Blown.

Posted by: scottst at November 25, 2024 11:15 AM (Sj2Om)

61 The absolute nonsense of it all becomes clearer when you realize that if you oppose the transgender agenda, then you are a climate denier. If you support Israel’s right to self-defense, then you are a climate denier.

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

If you don't murder as many humans and other mammals -- including yourself -- as possible for breathing and spewing "poisonous" carbon dioxide poison, you're a "climate-destroying" criminal who deserves to be murdered! If it saves just one tree ...

A Death Cult, if you can keep it.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:15 AM (7wgpR)

62 Oh Canada. Arresting the journalist for reporting on the mob violence instead of using fire hoses on the mob. What possessed you to import the troublemakers in the first place.
Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (CKOCg)
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They said his presence at a joo-hate fest constituted incitement.

Tell me all again about your "Charter of Freedoms"

LOLGF

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 11:16 AM (RIvkX)

63 Anytime someone starts talking about the “collective”, they should be shot as commies.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 25, 2024 11:16 AM (Mr/Gz)

64 Speaking of Greta, I don't know if this is the work of AI or simple Photoshop, but it's pretty funny.

https://tinyurl.com/s4yf7zrk

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2024 11:16 AM (JCZqz)

65 The Gaetz-Bondi switcheroo is doing to the RINOs what Drs. do to patients: "Threaten them with death, and they'll happily settle for illness."

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 11:17 AM (wBaIH)

66 I'm pretty sure Buck Throckmorton is some kinda pseudonym like that Dildo fella uses. Doof is the only genuine guy on here.
Posted by: Credit Where Due at November 25, 2024 11:08 AM (nS6qG)

*looks at drivers license"

*shrugs*

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 11:17 AM (jgdZo)

67 Newsom Challenges Trump on Electric Vehicle Tax Credits

Lisa FriedmanSoumya KarlamanglaShawn Hubler
By Lisa FriedmanSoumya Karlamangla and Shawn Hubler
Nov. 25, 2024, 9:00 a.m. ET
California will step in and provide rebates to eligible residents who buy electric vehicles if President-elect Donald J. Trump ends the $7,500 federal E.V. tax credit, Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Monday.

“We will intervene if the Trump administration eliminates the federal tax credit, doubling down on our commitment to clean air and green jobs in California,” Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement. “We’re not turning back on a clean transportation future — we’re going to make it more affordable for people to drive vehicles that don’t pollute.”

***

Cadillac is advertising a lease on the Lyriq for $400 per month with

https://tinyurl.com/4zsmz3n9

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2024 11:17 AM (7fVdQ)

68 Did Gaetz sponsor any global warming bills, or did he just say the magic words in an attempt to get people on the other side to listen to him re: the Covid bill? Bc if he didn't he just a "denier" and the rest of his tweet is tuned out by anyone that doesn't already agree with him.

I know "no true conservative" would dare utter those words, but I'm willing to cut some slack given the situation.

Posted by: brak at November 25, 2024 11:18 AM (NGHTx)

69 A Death Cult, if you can keep it.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:15 AM (7wgpR)

"for limited time only"

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 11:18 AM (Yj6Os)

70 Many happy returns! i was a longtime reader and commenter back in the oughts. then that damned pervert gabriel malor wrecked the site for me and i stayed away until quite recently when i learned that the garbage had been taken out.

Posted by: DenverGregg at November 25, 2024 11:18 AM (MryGi)

71 52 What's the temperature like over there this time of year?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:11 AM (v6JzV)
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Here in Jeru, currently 8C/46 and super overcast. We put the heat on an hour ago - first time this season.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (3KZZ

It's a lot like SoCal.
Med to the west, Pacific to the west
Deserts to the south, deserts on the west.
Dead Sea, Salton Sea.
They have assholes living around them, lots of assholes in SoCal.
...

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (SSBCb)

72 We barely have a climate here on the colorado front range. The real deniers are the commiecrats shouting that the science is settled.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (CKOCg)

73 Oh look at that! Pippi Ragestocking now has colorful hair. I'm sure in the next six months, she'll be a they/them.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 11:02 AM (lXoJ5)

Pippi Ragestocking is a great snarky nickname. Better than my Greta van Bleat.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Part of the E-4 Mafia
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Both good. Scoldilocks is my favorite. I'm sure someone here used that (do not recall who) and I deploy it.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (2bFN5)

74 Greta looks "doable"?! Hate to tell you what we do to pervs that fuck retards in my old neighborhood.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (wBaIH)

75 This might save your life one day.

https://is.gd/mBRKal

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

76 "I will never understand the appeal of doomsday cults. But there's no denying their power to other people."

They have historically been rampant in generations just preceding/just following a millenium.

Look at the people who believed Y2K not only would precipitate global computer chaos resulting in the end of civilization, but those who believed/hoped it would coincide with the Rapture?

anything can be a doomsday cult, and unfortunately, given our time in the continuum, they are loud and proud at the moment.

Posted by: barbarausa at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (enw9G)

77 Dead Sea, Salton Sea.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

Isn't the Salton Sea going away?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)

78 76 anything can be a doomsday cult, and unfortunately, given our time in the continuum, they are loud and proud at the moment.
Posted by: barbarausa at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (enw9G)

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Doesn't matter.

World ended in 2012.

Mayan calendar outside should have told ya.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

79

biden is molesting turkeys, now, live on Fox

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (eWUp2)

80 It's a lot like SoCal.
Med to the west, Pacific to the west
Deserts to the south, deserts on the west.
Dead Sea, Salton Sea.
They have assholes living around them, lots of assholes in SoCal.
...
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (SSBCb)
***

At least Santa Monica still has a pier.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 11:21 AM (W/lyH)

81 Both good. Scoldilocks is my favorite. I'm sure someone here used that (do not recall who) and I deploy it.
Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (2bFN5)

I use that one too

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 11:21 AM (jgdZo)

82 58 Climate Change is a doomsday cult
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (GhIJO)

Everything we saw with Covid and the jabs was EXACTLY the same game plan the used for climate change.

1. Media only had one side of the story. No dissenting or questioning views.
2. Fear used as a weapon.
3. Social media banning dissenters.
4. Mocking of the disbelievers

Etc...

It was pretty easy to decide to avoid the shot they wanted everyone to get after they've been saying all of us are murdering Gaia just by existing for 20 years.

Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 11:21 AM (jvJvP)

83 The absolute nonsense of it all becomes clearer when you realize that if you oppose the transgender agenda, then you are a climate denier. If you support Israel’s right to self-defense, then you are a climate denier.

I'm a straight out climate denier. Accurately predict the weather for six months without ONE wrong prediction to prove you know what you are talking about and I MIGHT, JUST MIGHT listen to what you have to say about what happens in 50 years.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 11:21 AM (UE7n4)

84 TJM, have you seen Scorsese's 'The Saints?' Any comments on it?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:22 AM (jFCkp)

85 The left punches down all the time, and it has for a long time.

Like the rodeo clown who got canceled for the Obama mask.

It's tyrannical as hell, but it's also just politics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

Then there was the actor that played Satan tempting Christ in a Netflix series- Mehdi Oussani, a Moroccan actor who was removed from the film for bearing a resemblance to Teh One.

Posted by: Rex B at November 25, 2024 11:22 AM (1uXoH)

86 84 TJM, have you seen Scorsese's 'The Saints?' Any comments on it?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:22 AM (jFCkp)

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Nope.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

87
Whether the weather be cold
Whether the weather be hot
Whether the weather be good
Whether the weather be not
Whatever the weather
We'll weather the weather
Whether we like it or not.

Posted by: Old Baptist Preacher at November 25, 2024 11:22 AM (DobEs)

88 Davos 2025 will take place on January 20-24, 2025. Anyone wishing to date Greta will probably find her there. OTOH, a small nuclear device dropped on that city would eliminate 40-50% of the terrible problems of the planet.

Posted by: Practical Solutions, Inc. at November 25, 2024 11:22 AM (nS6qG)

89 Welcome, welcome all of you
Glad you are with us
Shake hands, no need to be blue
Welcome to you!
He keeps me singing a happy song
He keeps me singing it all day long
For all the things that we drear
He always is near
And that's why my heart is always filled with song
Singing, singing
All day long...

Posted by: DTFH at November 25, 2024 11:23 AM (Y5VD5)

90 They have assholes living around them, lots of assholes in SoCal.
...
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (SSBCb)
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Here, too. Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Yemen.....

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 11:23 AM (3KZZ8)

91 Oh look at that! Pippi Ragestocking now has colorful hair. I'm sure in the next six months, she'll be a they/them.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 11:02 AM (lXoJ5)

Pippi Ragestocking is a great snarky nickname. Better than my Greta van Bleat.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Part of the E-4 Mafia
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Both good. Scoldilocks is my favorite. I'm sure someone here used that (do not recall who) and I deploy it.
Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (2bFN5)
_________

I'm partial to "Retarded Commie Cuntwhore." But that's just who I am.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 11:23 AM (iFTx/)

92 73 Scoldilocks is my favorite. I'm sure someone here used that (do not recall who) and I deploy it.
Posted by: scampydog

I also like Autistic Weather Potato.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 11:23 AM (lXoJ5)

93 I'm a straight out climate denier. Accurately predict the weather for six months without ONE wrong prediction to prove you know what you are talking about and I MIGHT, JUST MIGHT listen to what you have to say about what happens in 50 years.
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Imma much moar worried that Antarctica will shift north into the Atlantic creating a land bridge between us and those retards in Europe/Africa.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:23 AM (jFCkp)

94 Dead Sea, Salton Sea.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

Isn't the Salton Sea going away?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)

Not until it plays Creole....

Creole!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 11:24 AM (jgdZo)

95 "Mayan calendar outside should have told ya."

Oh, it did, it DID!

Over and over.

Anyway....

Posted by: barbarausa at November 25, 2024 11:24 AM (enw9G)

96 Isn't the Salton Sea going away?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)
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So is the Dead Sea.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 11:24 AM (3KZZ8)

97 He see responsive climate change, 🤣

It’s like that joke…

Scientists discover an massive asteroid is hurtling through space on its way to hit the earth, killing every living thing on the planet. NYT Headline the next day, Asteroid To Hit Earth: Women and Minorities Impacted The Most

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 11:24 AM (VnatX)

98 86 84 TJM, have you seen Scorsese's 'The Saints?' Any comments on it?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:22 AM (jFCkp)
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Nope.
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Do you plan to watch it?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (jFCkp)

99 Happy anniversary, Buck!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (VnUSN)

100 100

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (VnUSN)

101 66 I'm pretty sure Buck Throckmorton is some kinda pseudonym like that Dildo fella uses. Doof is the only genuine guy on here.
Posted by: Credit Where Due at November 25, 2024 11:08 AM (nS6qG)

*looks at drivers license"

*shrugs*
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 11:17 AM (jgdZo)

https://tinyurl.com/mry2hmrz

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (SSBCb)

102 98 86 84 TJM, have you seen Scorsese's 'The Saints?' Any comments on it?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:22 AM (jFCkp)
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Nope.
--------------
Do you plan to watch it?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (jFCkp)

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I don't have whatever Fox channel it's on, so not anytime soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

103 I'm a straight out climate denier. Accurately predict the weather for six months without ONE wrong prediction to prove you know what you are talking about and I MIGHT, JUST MIGHT listen to what you have to say about what happens in 50 years.
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Challenge Accepted!

Its going to rain in Seattle for the next six months.

What do I win?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (W/lyH)

104 Buck,

I remember when you first started posting. I thought it was great that someone was posting with an authentic understanding of the Energy world because it fundamentally drives all of the modern issues we chat about here.

Please stick around.

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (QB+5g)

105 vehicles that don’t pollute.”

Coal fired power plants have entered the chat

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (dOjkx)

106
I don’t trust any climate cultist to be heading the Justice Department, where “climate deniers” like me might need to fear being the target of “climate justice” because “climate change is urgent.”

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[As Trump has jokingly said, he's gonna:] Keep RFK, Jr. far, far away from Energy Policy -- and it goes without saying on a different planet than DOJ/FBI where he's indicated in the past a preference for jailing "climate deniers."

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (wUAh7)

107 96 Isn't the Salton Sea going away?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)
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Its kind of nasty what with all the foam floating on top of the sea. It was created when the Corps of Engineers fucked up and allowed the Colorado to fill the desert.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:26 AM (jFCkp)

108 Isn't the Salton Sea going away?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)
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So is the Dead Sea.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Really? Hadn't heard that. What's happening to it?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:26 AM (v6JzV)

109 *looks at drivers license"

*shrugs*
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 11:17 AM (jgdZo)

https://tinyurl.com/mry2hmrz
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (SSBCb)

Nice!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 11:26 AM (jgdZo)

110 Imma much moar worried that Antarctica will shift north into the Atlantic creating a land bridge between us and those retards in Europe/Africa.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Imagine the horros of emperor penguins marching down Main Street USA.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 11:26 AM (UE7n4)

111 I also like Autistic Weather Potato.

I think "Swedish Doom Goblin" works as well.

Posted by: Grayman27 at November 25, 2024 11:27 AM (pgwxJ)

112 I don’t trust any climate cultist to be heading the Justice Department, where “climate deniers” like me might need to fear being the target of “climate justice” because “climate change is urgent.”

Trump 2.0 thus far has been more responsive to rank-and-file conservatives than any campaign in history, and with Musk and Vivek and Don Jr. involved in various ways that's unlikely to change when he's in office. And if there's one thing Trump came into politics knowing how to do, it's fire people.

Also, Gaetz's statement isn't a defense of climate change, it's opposing codifying it into law.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:27 AM (2ocoG)

113 Glad you are pleased with your success.
But put some pants on, ok?

Posted by: Dan Patterson at November 25, 2024 11:27 AM (3xKm6)

114 So is the Dead Sea.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Really? Hadn't heard that. What's happening to it?
Posted by: Bulg

It's being revived.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 11:27 AM (UE7n4)

115 I believe in climate change. It’s been changing for billions of years. What I don’t believe, is me using air conditioning or driving a car has any impact on said change.

It’s kind of a narcissistic view that you, this insignificant spec in the universe has the power to change a planet’s climate.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 11:28 AM (VnatX)

116 Learned a fun film fact yesterday. Apparently, Bob Hope was well-known a philanderer.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:28 AM (v6JzV)

117 I don't have whatever Fox channel it's on, so not anytime soon.
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Yeah, I have the same problem with Thursday Night Football.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:28 AM (jFCkp)

118 Isn't the Salton Sea going away?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)
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So is the Dead Sea.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Really? Hadn't heard that. What's happening to it?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:26 AM

I don't know about the dead sea but the salton sea has been shrinking because california has been pulling more water from it than gets replenished for over 50 years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 11:29 AM (Rcnd3)

119 Swedish Doom Goblin… priceless… and yet there are some here, doubtlessly, that would in fact hit it…

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 11:29 AM (PCK5/)

120 @47/PaleRider: "...What possessed you to import the troublemakers in the first place."

Our birth rate dropped to 1.33 in 2022 according to Stats Canada. Replacement rate (where you can just hold at par for your population) is 2.1.

The government is desperate for people to make up the next bottom-layer of the pyramid in the economic and population based pyramid-scheme, so they're importing anyone and everyone they can, qualifications or skills regardless.

There are several world governments who also have hit this point and they're equally as desperate, and so you have what you see.

Reality will assert itself. That which can not go on, will not go on.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 11:29 AM (O7YUW)

121 I think "Swedish Doom Goblin" works as well.
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I thought she was Dutch.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:29 AM (jFCkp)

122 54 Is Greta Thunberg now adult enough we can hold her responsible for her actions or is she still a hopeless 'tard being totally controlled by her pinko commie parents?

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (3u4KS)

Embrace the power of "and."

Posted by: goozer at November 25, 2024 11:30 AM (aWAkn)

123 Swedish…

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 11:30 AM (PCK5/)

124 I think "Swedish Doom Goblin" works as well.
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I thought she was Dutch.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Gads, no. Don't' insult my people like that.

We have Eva Vlaardingerbroek.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:30 AM (v6JzV)

125 I saw this clip on YouTube of a local TV newscast in Florida. Topic was DOGE. And shockingly the report was, yeah you know, the govt is kinda wasteful. Maybe we need someone like Mist or Vivek to look into eliminating the waste.

They even had an ex Democrat congressman on who said, wouldn’t the worst thing in the world for them to find and cut out billions of wasteful spending.

I was like whaaaaaaa? Times are changing.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 11:30 AM (VnatX)

126 I don't know about the dead sea but the salton sea has been shrinking because california has been pulling more water from it than gets replenished for over 50 years.
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Nah. They'd have to desalinate it. Its just evaporating. It was created by an engineering mistake by the Corps of Engineers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:31 AM (jFCkp)

127 ***My latest piece at The Blaze discusses how Exxon & Big Oil are *opposed* to Trump’s intention to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agmt, ***
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The days of big oil being associated with big men like Ross Sterling, Glenn McCarthy, Michael Halbouty and George Mitchell are gone. Men who cared for the Republic and breathed financial life into the Republican Party.

Rex Tillerson supporter of gays in the scouts and ex-head boss of Exxon is now the symbol of big oil. Big Oil's support of Climate Catastrophe is also bolstered by the un-American trio of Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street who conspired and manipulated three Greenies into Exxon board membership.
They are conspiring to do this at all big corporations.
Decimate them.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 11:31 AM (om3Wy)

128 I don’t want to go on the cart!

Posted by: The Dead Sea at November 25, 2024 11:31 AM (u73oe)

129 We have Eva Vlaardingerbroek.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:30 AM (v6JzV)
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Hoe gaat het met je?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 11:31 AM (RIvkX)

130 Challenge Accepted!

Its going to rain in Seattle for the next six months.

What do I win?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (W/lyH)

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Nate Silver's Climate & Elections Model predicts that there's a 93% chance it rains in Seattle yesterday.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:31 AM (2r4yn)

131 Yeah, I just had FoxNews on.

Puddinghead just finished the pardon.

I wonder where the nuclear football is? Remember when Clinton lost it for an extended while....?

Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 11:31 AM (jvJvP)

132 here is a traditional Thanksgiving hymn to hum while you prepare for the feast.

Yeah...I remember singing that in public elementary school. Try that now.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 11:32 AM (ZANHd)

133 124 I think "Swedish Doom Goblin" works as well.
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I thought she was Dutch.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Gads, no. Don't' insult my people like that.

We have Eva Vlaardingerbroek.
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As a Swede that makes her the Angel of Death.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:32 AM (jFCkp)

134 The Dead Sea is on a tectonic plate boundary, I think part of the same bundle stretching down into the Rift Valley. The whole thing is something of a mess.

Give it a few million years and that whole part of the world is going to look mighty different.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 25, 2024 11:32 AM (LxER7)

135 Greta looks like she needs a good scrubbing.

Heck, Greta also needs better parents, period.

Yeah, I know Greta is now an adult but it's obvious her parents pimped her out at a young age so they could grift off the climate hoax.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 11:32 AM (tT6L1)

136 NGL Greta is kinda cute. I know, rule number 1. Just saying though.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 11:32 AM (VnatX)

137 Yeah, I just had FoxNews on.

Puddinghead just finished the pardon.

I wonder where the nuclear football is? Remember when Clinton lost it for an extended while....?
Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 11:31 AM (jvJvP)

Don't worry, Joe never had it. It is in the capable hands of a 27 yo trans they/them. We're totally safe.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 25, 2024 11:33 AM (AiZBA)

138 They are conspiring to do this at all big corporations.
Decimate them.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 11:31 AM (om3Wy)
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Only 10%? Go whole hog!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 11:34 AM (z0QHk)

139 I see some of you are in desperate need of my services.

Posted by: An Optometrist at November 25, 2024 11:34 AM (u73oe)

140 The Post Millennial@TPostMillennial
WH press sec Karine Jean-Pierre on why Biden has not called Trump an "existential threat" recently:
“We are now in a different place.”

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Yeah we are.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:34 AM (L/fGl)

141 136 NGL Greta is kinda cute. I know, rule number 1. Just saying though.
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1st Rule applies at all times.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:34 AM (jFCkp)

142 I saw this clip on YouTube of a local TV newscast in Florida. Topic was DOGE. And shockingly the report was, yeah you know, the govt is kinda wasteful. Maybe we need someone like Mist or Vivek to look into eliminating the waste.

They even had an ex Democrat congressman on who said, wouldn’t the worst thing in the world for them to find and cut out billions of wasteful spending.

I was like whaaaaaaa? Times are changing.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald

The raping of the Treasury has run it's course.
You can either get behind DOGE, or get steamrolled by it.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 11:34 AM (UE7n4)

143 Thank you, Buck, for your incredible contributions. A gifted writer who is absolutely spot-on with everything you publish. We are lucky to have you.

Posted by: Happy at November 25, 2024 11:34 AM (Qg6De)

144 Isn't the Salton Sea going away?
Posted by: Bulg
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So is the Dead Sea.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Really? Hadn't heard that. What's happening to it?
Posted by: Bulg
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I don't know about the dead sea but the salton sea has been shrinking because california has been pulling more water from it than gets replenished for over 50 years.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

I am compelled to post this...

It's dead, Jim.
- Bones

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 25, 2024 11:34 AM (MsrgL)

145 know "no true conservative" would dare utter those words, but I'm willing to cut some slack given the situation.
Posted by: brak at November 25, 2024 11:18 AM (NGHTx)

This isn't a purity test, this is wondering where the hell someone's head is. 2020 is way too late to still be on the Climate Hoax train for any reason. I'm done with being lectured by people, especially those with the prized "R" after their name.

It's Global Warming R goons that have us in the mess we are in.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 11:35 AM (12v8J)

146 NGL Greta is kinda cute. I know, rule number 1. Just saying though.
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1st Rule applies at all times.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Rule #1 even applies if you are using someone else's.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 11:35 AM (UE7n4)

147 77 Dead Sea, Salton Sea.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

Isn't the Salton Sea going away?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)

Yes. Shore records of the past show this has happened many, many times in the past when the Colorado River would exceed it's banks and flood waters would fill it up. Someone did a paper that found a correlation to how full the sea was and large quakes in the area. Don't remember the exact correlation

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:36 AM (SSBCb)

148 I think "Swedish Doom Goblin" works as well.

Swedish Fish > Swedish Doom Goblin

(In before someone claims she's a "1").

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:36 AM (2ocoG)

149 Happy anniversary, Buck! Good deal you've picked up some other gigs.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 11:36 AM (tT6L1)

150 I recently visited Phoenix and one of the Uber drivers showed up in a Tesla. I asked him what his experience has been with it. He said he loved it for around town BUT that it was terrible for road trips. He has family in California and they live about 350 miles away. Because he last drove to see them in the dead of summer and had to run the air conditioner, he had to charge it TWICE just to cover the 350 miles. How ridiculous.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2024 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

151 What good's permitting
Some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

152 She might be a Swedish Doom Goblin, but she's a sexy Swedish Doom Goblin...

Pout for me, Little Climate Mama!

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 11:37 AM (TGPs7)

153 Nate Silver's Climate & Elections Model predicts that there's a 93% chance it rains in Seattle yesterday.

But what about the keys?

BTW, Silver caused a Taylor Lorenz explosion over the weekend when he said he'd agree to debate her on something if she'd say what her actual birthdate is, including the year.

Ace was reposting stuff about it like mad yesterday.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:37 AM (2ocoG)

154 Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO

He can’t show up to testify to Congress - but he has all the time in the world to make self-congratulatory speeches at fancy DC dinners. Interesting

FBI
@FBI
At the G-Man Honors Dinner, Director Wray praised the #FBI's dedication and sacrifice, emphasizing the Bureau's crucial role in protecting justice and national security while facing emerging threats with integrity and resilience.
7:10 AM · Nov 22, 2024

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 11:38 AM (RIvkX)

155 I also like Autistic Weather Potato.

I think "Swedish Doom Goblin" works as well.

Posted by: Grayman27 at November 25, 2024 11:27 AM (pgwxJ)

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"Pol Tot" is my fave.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:38 AM (K+rMi)

156 Only at aos can someone turn an innocuous painting title that actually celebrates American exceptionalism into a negative.

lol

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:39 AM (D6PGr)

157 “We are now in a different place.”

Agree, as well.

Post-lockdown, I had pretty successfully held off despair by resolving to have "go f*ck yourself" as my go-to.

Now, post election, my new mantra may be "stop masturbating."

That is all so many of the elect do--the performative exhibitionism of the onanist for whom the major part of the kink is forcing people to watch.

For years now, we haven't just been forced to watch, but have been harrassed if we don't also applaud and cheer.

It is not my responsibility to "see" them, so they feel "affirmed".

Stop. Masturbating.

Posted by: barbarausa at November 25, 2024 11:39 AM (enw9G)

158 Does the Bulwark still pretend to be conservative? I’ve watched some clips their podcast and it’s indistinguishable from a msnbc report. Shit even The Young Turks occasionally says something good about Trump. With these guys it’s 24/7 he’s Hitler and please please Democrats save our most precious democracy!!!!

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 11:39 AM (VnatX)

159 democrats are saying that harris will run again in 2028. Some even going as far to claim she ran a flawless campaign and was cheated out of the presidency.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 11:40 AM (Rcnd3)

160 Isn't the Salton Sea going away?
Posted by: Bulg
-
So is the Dead Sea.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Really? Hadn't heard that. What's happening to it?
Posted by: Bulg

It's becoming the Zombie Sea.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:40 AM (L/fGl)

161 We have thwarted 95% of the terror threats we created!

Posted by: Chris Wray at November 25, 2024 11:40 AM (u73oe)

162 Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO

He can’t show up to testify to Congress - but he has all the time in the world to make self-congratulatory speeches at fancy DC dinners. Interesting

FBI
@FBI
At the G-Man Honors Dinner, Director Wray praised the #FBI's dedication and sacrifice, emphasizing the Bureau's crucial role in protecting justice and national security while facing emerging threats with integrity and resilience.
7:10 AM · Nov 22, 2024

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 11:38 AM (RIvkX)

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At least he doesn't fly around the world in a taxpayer-funded private jet.

Wait, wut!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:40 AM (K+rMi)

163 Does the Bulwark still pretend to be conservative?

Bill Kristol is now flat out saying he's a proud Democrat.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

164 democrats are saying that harris will run again in 2028. Some even going as far to claim she ran a flawless campaign and was cheated out of the presidency.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 11:40 AM

O_o

Wait...they're serious?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (ZANHd)

165 A petition was launched last Friday in the UK to call for new elections since Starmer is such a miserable failure. So far, 2 million Britons have signed it in three days.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (lTGtQ)

166 NGL Greta is kinda cute. I know, rule number 1. Just saying though.
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1st Rule applies at all times.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Rule #1 even applies if you are using someone else's.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 11:35 AM (UE7n4)

She’s always reminded me of someone who could be Summer Glau’s sister.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (D6PGr)

167 I recently visited Phoenix and one of the Uber drivers showed up in a Tesla. I asked him what his experience has been with it. He said he loved it for around town BUT that it was terrible for road trips. He has family in California and they live about 350 miles away. Because he last drove to see them in the dead of summer and had to run the air conditioner, he had to charge it TWICE just to cover the 350 miles. How ridiculous.
Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2024 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

My mom died last year. A group of my cousins drove to San Diego from Phoenix in a Tesla for her funeral. They were proud they made the 350 mile drive after having to stop a couple of times at random apartment complexes in Yuma and El Centro to charge up. It "only" took 10 hours. It was an adventure.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (AiZBA)

168 Harris is political dead meat. She can't speak and she lost to Orange Hitler. Democrats need someone who can speak.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (12v8J)

169 Learned a fun film fact yesterday. Apparently, Bob Hope was well-known a philanderer.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:28 AM (v6JzV)

Bob was packing heat IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Zombie Bing Crosby, Child Abuser at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (Y5VD5)

170
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid
·
Follow
5.5M killed in Congo - ICC: 🥱
500K killed in Syria - ICC: 🥱
500K killed in Sudan - ICC: 🥱
400K killed in Yemen - ICC: 🥱
300K killed in Iraq - ICC: 🥱
250K killed in Afghanistan - ICC: 🥱
40K killed in Gaza (mostly H×mas terrorists) - ICC: GENOCIDE! 😱

No Jews, no news.
2:25 AM · Nov 22, 2024

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 11:42 AM (RIvkX)

171 163 Does the Bulwark still pretend to be conservative?

Bill Kristol is now flat out saying he's a proud Democrat.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

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Well, yeah.

Because The Democrat Party is the real conservative party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

172 150 I recently visited Phoenix and one of the Uber drivers showed up in a Tesla. I asked him what his experience has been with it. He said he loved it for around town BUT that it was terrible for road trips. He has family in California and they live about 350 miles away. Because he last drove to see them in the dead of summer and had to run the air conditioner, he had to charge it TWICE just to cover the 350 miles. How ridiculous.
Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2024 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

That’s pretty much the consensus on EVs. Fine as a commuter car and running errands around town. Sucks balls for any long distance trips. And sucks even bigger balls if there’s no charging at home available.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 11:42 AM (VnatX)

173 Man, 5 years went fast...

Come to think about it, I found my way here either late 2007 or early 2008... just before $hit Midas we elected.

Wow.

Posted by: Inogame at November 25, 2024 11:42 AM (53oGX)

174 165 A petition was launched last Friday in the UK to call for new elections since Starmer is such a miserable failure. So far, 2 million Britons have signed it in three days.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (lTGtQ)

=======

"Fuck you."
-Starmer for the next 4 years or so

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

175 Bill Kristol is now flat out ~~saying he's~~ admitting he's always been a proud Democrat.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 11:42 AM (ZANHd)

176 We have thwarted 95% of the terror threats we created!

Posted by: Chris Wray at November 25, 2024 11:40 AM (u73oe)

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We need a new HQ and double the budget in order to provide ongoing white privilege sensitivity training in Maui, noose eradication, and tiki torches ... but mostly tiki torches.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:43 AM (K+rMi)

177 @politicalmath posted something on climate change and especially the windmill farms:

@politicalmath
11h
The most entertaining rants from Taylor Sheridan are the ones in which he takes the left-ish talking points at face value and pretends as if they are serious arguments

with 2-minute video rant

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 11:43 AM (VnUSN)

178 It is not my responsibility to "see" them, so they feel "affirmed".

Stop. Masturbating.

I'd like to accommodate you, but if Elon really does buy MSNBC, your prospects don't look good.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

179 Schadenfreude yacht rock.

https://is.gd/3wYhiN

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:44 AM (L/fGl)

180 democrats are saying that harris will run again in 2028. Some even going as far to claim she ran a flawless campaign and was cheated out of the presidency.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 11:40 AM (Rcnd3)

It is pretty normal to not learn anything from success other than "we should do that again"
It is completely irrational to not learn anything from a complete defeat and come out of it thinking the tactics are perfect and should be repeated.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:44 AM (D7oie)

181 Bill Kristol is now flat out saying he's a proud Democrat.

That's like proclaiming you're a proud cowpie.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 11:45 AM (xCA6C)

182 democrats are saying that harris will run again in 2028. Some even going as far to claim she ran a flawless campaign and was cheated out of the presidency.

That's an AWFL/BlueAnon thing. The Dem donor class (including Hollywood) have been expressing horror about how badly her campaign mismanaged money and want her locked up in Siberia.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:45 AM (2ocoG)

183 Bill Kristol is now flat out saying he's a proud Democrat.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

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So it's another year ending in an even number.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:45 AM (2r4yn)

184 180 democrats are saying that harris will run again in 2028. Some even going as far to claim she ran a flawless campaign and was cheated out of the presidency.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 11:40 AM (Rcnd3)

It is pretty normal to not learn anything from success other than "we should do that again"
It is completely irrational to not learn anything from a complete defeat and come out of it thinking the tactics are perfect and should be repeated.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 11:44 AM (D7oie)

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Name recognition does a LOT in politics. She now has one of the highest levels of name recognition in American politics.

Of course she's going to run again, and of course she's going to raise a bunch of money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

185 I'd like to accommodate you, but if Elon really does buy MSNBC, your prospects don't look good.

And if he replaces Morning Joe with Morning Russell. There may actually be more liberal screaming about that than there was about Trump wining.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:46 AM (2ocoG)

186 democrats are saying that harris will run again in 2028. Some even going as far to claim she ran a flawless campaign and was cheated out of the presidency.

That's an AWFL/BlueAnon thing. The Dem donor class (including Hollywood) have been expressing horror about how badly her campaign mismanaged money and want her locked up in Siberia.

People have insisted for the last 8 years that Hillary would run again. It's nonsense, and so is this. Harris is a political dead letter.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 11:47 AM (xCA6C)

187 Of course she's going to run again, and of course she's going to raise a bunch of money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

She will be overtaken easily in any primary unless it is somehow rigged for her. There is a reason they didn't want a primary this year and it's not because Joe was "fine".

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 11:47 AM (12v8J)

188 George Galloway
@georgegalloway

According to today's leftists I am "right-wing" (after a life of being called a Commie) because I'm opposed to NATO and the EU. Because I'm with China and Russia against US hegemony. Because I'm with the farmers and not globalised capital like Blackrock. Because I believe men cannot be women however they dress up. Because I hate abortion and euthanasia. Because I've concluded that marriage and the nuclear family is the best way to live. Because I believe in free speech and the free play of ideas. Because I believe in God. If these things truly are "right-wing" then so be it. But are they? Really?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 11:47 AM (TGPs7)

189 Harris did about as well in the Presidential election as she did when she ran in the Democrat primary.

Why would they consider her in 2028? She won’t get out of the primary.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:48 AM (D6PGr)

190 187 She will be overtaken easily in any primary unless it is somehow rigged for her. There is a reason they didn't want a primary this year and it's not because Joe was "fine".
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 11:47 AM (12v8J)

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She'll be out before Super Tuesday.

Which will be an improvement from 2020 when she dropped out before Iowa.

But she'll still make it past the first three primaries, probably having celebrated a second place win in NH or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

191 People have insisted for the last 8 years that Hillary would run again. It's nonsense, and so is this. Harris is a political dead letter.

Hillary running again is more likely than Kamala being the nominee again, but I don't give either a high chance of happening.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:48 AM (2ocoG)

192 The absolute nonsense of it all becomes clearer when you realize that if you oppose the transgender agenda, then you are a climate denier. If you support Israel’s right to self-defense, then you are a climate denier.

The left actually doesn't care about any of these issues. It cares about power and getting more of it. It supports climate change because it gives more power to the government. It support the jihadis because it believes they were weaken Christianity. It supports tranny because it believes insane people will follow orders better and so on

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 11:48 AM (oZhjI)

193 "I'd like to accommodate you, but if Elon really does buy MSNBC, your prospects don't look good."

There's a big difference between "I'll be in my bunk" and "my pronouns are she/her! Call me MA'AM! I'm filming this! You are SO fired, racist transphobe!", or any of the meltdowns filmed for posterity.

By all means, enjoy your time in the privacy of the bunk.
Haven't see you or anyone else here post that on TikTok, unlike the loony narcissists who don't exist or vote in the numbers they need.

Posted by: barbarausa at November 25, 2024 11:48 AM (enw9G)

194 LOL.

Harris will definitely run again - but that will be a brazen, barely concealed money laundering operation.

She's ovah.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 11:48 AM (7oYYI)

195 So far today JJ picked on Bondi, CBD picked on Rockwall, and Buck took a shot at Gaetz all before ace is out of bed!
OUCH!

Posted by: anon2020 at November 25, 2024 11:49 AM (RqMDa)

196 George Galloway
@georgegalloway

According to today's leftists I am "right-wing" (after a life of being called a Commie) because I'm opposed to NATO and the EU. Because I'm with China and Russia against US hegemony. Because I'm with the farmers and not globalised capital like Blackrock. Because I believe men cannot be women however they dress up. Because I hate abortion and euthanasia. Because I've concluded that marriage and the nuclear family is the best way to live. Because I believe in free speech and the free play of ideas. Because I believe in God. If these things truly are "right-wing" then so be it. But are they? Really?
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 11:47 AM (TGPs7)

Yes they are . Really

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:49 AM (D6PGr)

197 Geez! I hope the Donks don't see this.

The Telegraph@Telegraph
Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance issued by the British Transport Police

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:49 AM (L/fGl)

198 Why would they consider her in 2028? She won’t get out of the primary.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:48 AM (D6PGr)

Primaries?
Primaries?
We don't need no stinkin' primaries.
-- The DNC

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 25, 2024 11:49 AM (AiZBA)

199 Stop. Masturbating.

Think of the kittens.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 11:50 AM (dOjkx)

200 Hillary running again is more likely than Kamala being the nominee again, but I don't give either a high chance of happening.
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When bugz hit the windshield of DeSoto traveling 70 mph they are dead bugz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 11:50 AM (jFCkp)

201 Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance issued by the British Transport Police

Cue the mad rush of Morons buying Party City wigs and signing up to do security on Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:50 AM (2ocoG)

202 Ahoy, choice cabins are filling up on our 2025 Bulwark Cruise To Nowhere. The finest minds of the Nevertrump Majority will speak. Remember to use our promo code when making a reservation for best rates-CUCKSHED.

Posted by: Admiral Kristol at November 25, 2024 11:51 AM (nS6qG)

203 198 Primaries?
Primaries?
We don't need no stinkin' primaries.
-- The DNC
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 25, 2024 11:49 AM (AiZBA)

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2028 will be more 2020 than 2016.

The DNC will want to crown someone but the Democrat electorate will struggle to follow because the DNC will pick someone uniquely awful.

The "frontrunner" will struggle to seem relevant, probably embarrass themselves at the Iowa State Fair, but there will be too many candidates and too many donors angry with how the party's been directed over the past 20 years.

Should be interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

204 My only question is if there's any truth to the rumors of her running for CA governor.

That would be her best bet - but I don't think she can even win that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 11:52 AM (7oYYI)

205 204 My only question is if there's any truth to the rumors of her running for CA governor.

That would be her best bet - but I don't think she can even win that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 11:52 AM (7oYYI)

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She'd be stupid to try.

So, she probably will.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

206 Trump wining.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:46 AM (2ocoG)

Trump doesn't wine. He's a teetotaler.

Posted by: Emmie at November 25, 2024 11:53 AM (e7ATA)

207 Must be me. Greta looks kind of doable. Except for crazy rule.
Posted by: Stateless

She's not bad looking when she smiles, now that she's given up the pigtail shtick.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:05 AM (v6JzV)

**perks up**

Posted by: BJ Clintoon at November 25, 2024 11:53 AM (iODuv)

208 Gotta admit, the pic of Greta -- smiling! -- is the best one I've ever seen of her. She actually looks friendly and cute.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 11:54 AM (J2vNu)

209 Buck, I appreciate your contributions here -- great interesting well-thought-out essays.

Posted by: Pastafarian at November 25, 2024 11:54 AM (tWGrL)

210 So France is now on board with the Ukes using their version of the Storm Shadow against Russia.
Sheesh!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 11:54 AM (W/lyH)

211 Tampon Tim 2028 -- Make America Bloody Good!

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 11:55 AM (AG4Zc)

212 "Think of the kittens."

I'm just practicing for family Christmas, contemplating using it on my Hollywood BIL.

His social media has been black fields since election night, with one post of a Heather Cox Richardson screed.

(also waiting to tell him, since she doesn't do any research, but simply relies on her gravitas as "AN Historian", that I've researched her a bit, and wonder how much she makes from her teaching position in Boston when she resides in coastal Maine, and that the bulk of her impressive income is from her TDS newsletter)

Posted by: barbarausa at November 25, 2024 11:55 AM (enw9G)

213 196
‘ 196 George Galloway
@georgegalloway

According to today's leftists I am "right-wing" (Because I believe in God. If these things truly are "right-wing" then so be it. But are they? Really?
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 11:47 AM (TGPs7) ‘

I’m not sure I want him on our side. He’s been a slimy rat at least as long as I’ve been aware of him.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 11:55 AM (jbnUc)

214 Is the guy in the "Gender Day" picture wearing a dunce cap? I think he is.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2024 11:55 AM (fDXgc)

215 Both for the Party, and for her own brand Hillary should have been far more involved in Kamala’s campaign than she was - but crypt keeper bill ended up with a lot more camera time than she did.
The obvious conclusion is that her health and general condition is now too poor for to make many public appearances anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 11:55 AM (Ereai)

216 Time flies. Congratulations, and Thank You!

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 11:55 AM (NFX2v)

217 WATCH: Tulsa City Council opens meeting with "satanic prayer" delivered by "priestess of the goddess"

https://is.gd/EbHrNv

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Tulsa?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:56 AM (L/fGl)

218 Wow, I agree wholeheartedly with George Galloway on most of his stated beliefs (or stated a little better for my psyche- he agrees with many of my beliefs) I don't go as far as he does in his statement supporting Russia and China, but I certainly can't agree with the statement that the US has been a force for good in many of it's actions in the last 20 years at least.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2024 11:56 AM (oEwPv)

219 @136/It is Go Time Donald: "... I know, rule number 1."

"Don't whiz on the electric fence" ?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 11:56 AM (O7YUW)

220 democrats are saying that harris will run again in 2028. Some even going as far to claim she ran a flawless campaign and was cheated out of the presidency.

That's an AWFL/BlueAnon thing. The Dem donor class (including Hollywood) have been expressing horror about how badly her campaign mismanaged money and want her locked up in Siberia.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:45 AM (2ocoG)

Kamaltoe is done. She ain't running again. She'll be sloshing down box wine while starring out the window planning her never-to-come retribution.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)

221 208 Gotta admit, the pic of Greta -- smiling! -- is the best one I've ever seen of her. She actually looks friendly and cute.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Good to see you. How is life with the new rescue dachshund?

Posted by: Did I Dream That? at November 25, 2024 11:56 AM (nS6qG)

222 The obvious conclusion is that her health and general condition is now too poor for to make many public appearances anymore.

Dang, if you're so decrepit-looking that you're replaced by Bill Clinton, you must have one and a half feet in the grave.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 11:57 AM (xCA6C)

223 Buck, you are a treasured contributor here. I enjoy reading your perspective.

Posted by: Emmie at November 25, 2024 11:57 AM (e7ATA)

224 Oklahoma! Where the wing demons come sweeping down the plains!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2024 11:57 AM (oEwPv)

225 Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2024 11:56 AM (oEwPv)

Yeah his US bashing doesn’t separate the good from the bad. Typical Leftist . Both European and American.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 11:57 AM (D6PGr)

226 Gotta admit, the pic of Greta -- smiling! -- is the best one I've ever seen of her. She actually looks friendly and cute.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Don't let that fool you.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 11:58 AM (WXNFJ)

227 Gotta admit, the pic of Greta -- smiling! -- is the best one I've ever seen of her. She actually looks friendly and cute.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
*
Good to see you. How is life with the new rescue dachshund?
Posted by: Did I Dream That? at November 25, 2024

***
Melatonin is a hell of a drug, ain't it? Free mind movies at night while you're lying down.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 11:58 AM (J2vNu)

228 208 Gotta admit, the pic of Greta -- smiling! -- is the best one I've ever seen of her. She actually looks friendly and cute.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
_____

Maybe David Hogg finally gave up his maidenhood to Greta. If so, I'm happy for them both.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2024 11:58 AM (oEwPv)

229 Hakeem Jeffries Admits “Racism” and “Sexism” Had Nothing to Do With Trump’s Victory

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Pure fascism then?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:59 AM (L/fGl)

230 "Gender responsive climate action" LOL.

Thanks, Buck for your, thoughtful, intelligentwriting and your co-blogging, and I am glad to hear that other writing opportunities have opened up for you. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 11:59 AM (MQJVv)

231 Made thumbprint cookies Thanksgiving style - cinnamon and ginger in the dough, rolled in sugar (since only 1/2 cup sugar in the recipe vs 2 cups flour), and fig butter and pumpkin butter (alternating) as the jam.

Oh man, the fig butter one was so good. Daughter tried the pumpkin butter one and said it was also amazing.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 11:59 AM (exHjb)

232 217 WATCH: Tulsa City Council opens meeting with "satanic prayer" delivered by "priestess of the goddess"

https://is.gd/EbHrNv

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Tulsa?!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:56 AM (L/fGl)

There are reasons why Tulsa is not OK's capital. This is one of them.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 12:00 PM (g8Ew8)

233 My only question is if there's any truth to the rumors of her running for CA governor.

That would be her best bet - but I don't think she can even win that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 11:52 AM (7oYYI)

Kamala has shown herself to be pretty brittle under pressure. I wonder if she will try to push into a battle like that again.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 12:00 PM (D7oie)

234 Buck, it's really been five years? Wow. Congratulations!

Your picking apart the EV scam has been fascinating.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:00 PM (J2vNu)

235 199 Stop. Masturbating.

Think of the kittens.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 11:50 AM (dOjkx)

Now that I have two younger cats staying here, I am actually using the phrase "Watch the ballsack!"

Nothing weird. Just don't scratch please.

Posted by: Stateless at November 25, 2024 12:01 PM (jvJvP)

236 https://tinyurl.com/mry2hmrz
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)
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Is that night nurse still giving you a hard time?

Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 12:01 PM (om3Wy)

237 Kamaltoe is done. She ain't running again. She'll be sloshing down box wine while starring out the window planning her never-to-come retribution.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 11:56 AM

I agree. Come January 20, 2025 she will start collecting her huge fat bloated government retirement check and disappear from public view.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2024 12:01 PM (Rcnd3)

238 231 Made thumbprint cookies Thanksgiving style - cinnamon and ginger in the dough, rolled in sugar (since only 1/2 cup sugar in the recipe vs 2 cups flour), and fig butter and pumpkin butter (alternating) as the jam.

Oh man, the fig butter one was so good. Daughter tried the pumpkin butter one and said it was also amazing.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 11:59 AM (exHjb)

yum

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 12:01 PM (VnUSN)

239 Congrats Buck! Love your work, soldier on!

Posted by: Danimal28 at November 25, 2024 12:01 PM (klw0w)

240 There are reasons why Tulsa is not OK's capital. This is one of them.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2024 12:00 PM (g8Ew

I know Tulsa from watching TheFirst 48. Yes a biased view but you can assume that it’s a crime ridden shit hole.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 25, 2024 12:02 PM (D6PGr)

241 Hi Buck, have you seen the young man on X named Chris Martz?

Posted by: CA Token at November 25, 2024 12:02 PM (htQdD)

242 I'm pretty sure Buck Throckmorton is some kinda pseudonym like that Dildo fella uses. Doof is the only genuine guy on here.

Pseudonyms here? Now what kind of white trash would do that?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 12:02 PM (Gyft8)

243 What witchery is this? Michael Moore makes sense!

Michael Moore Blasts Joe Biden Going Out in a “Blaze of Horror”: Pushing Us “Right Into World War III”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 12:03 PM (L/fGl)

244 Tulsa?!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 11:56 AM (L/fGl)

There are reasons why Tulsa is not OK's capital. This is one of them.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons
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Tulsa used to be such a nice place.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 12:03 PM (om3Wy)

245 243 What witchery is this? Michael Moore makes sense!

Michael Moore Blasts Joe Biden Going Out in a “Blaze of Horror”: Pushing Us “Right Into World War III”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 12:03 PM (L/fGl)

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Eh.

Maybe Europe needs a big war again.

It'll make it very clear to a lot of people that the migrants taking social services don't in any way think of themselves as citizens of their host nations when they refuse to serve.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

246 2 I'm pretty sure Buck Throckmorton is some kinda pseudonym like that Dildo fella uses. Doof is the only genuine guy on here.
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Pseudonyms here? Now what kind of white trash would do that?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024

***
Darn straight. We Aureliuses are proud of our family name. (Yeah, it used to be "Aurelii" as a plural, but Cousin Dorkus couldn't understand it, so we went with the other.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:05 PM (J2vNu)

247 There are reasons why Tulsa is not OK's capital. This is one of them.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

It's almost as if all shithole cities have a common view of vice, communism, sin, sloth and pride.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 12:05 PM (WXNFJ)

248 Congratulations Buck and best wishes going forward.

I do have to say that every time I read "Buck Throckmorton" I hear 'bow-chicka-wow-wow' in my head. Not sure why or of it was intentional but you definitely have a brand. In my head at least.

Posted by: Candidus at November 25, 2024 12:06 PM (zGvse)

249 242 white trash
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 12:02 PM (Gyft

white trash = blanco basura
heh

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 12:06 PM (VnUSN)

250 Speaking of Greta, I don't know if this is the work of AI or simple Photoshop, but it's pretty funny.

https://tinyurl.com/s4yf7zrk

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2024 11:16 AM (JCZqz)

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Someone should do that in a dominatrix outfit.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:06 PM (AG4Zc)

251 >>> 245

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Eh.

Maybe Europe needs a big war again.

It'll make it very clear to a lot of people that the migrants taking social services don't in any way think of themselves as citizens of their host nations when they refuse to serve.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

Maybe the locals to whom this is already clear will have the opportunity to kick out most of the "migrants", as well as the asshoes that brought them in to begin with.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 12:07 PM (KcwUg)

252 Congratulations Buck. You think and write well. Enjoy the niche you are operating in. It's a war on all fronts.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2024 12:07 PM (4780s)

253 Pseudonyms here? Now what kind of white trash would do that?
Posted by: Blanco Basura

I prefer 'an alias'.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 12:07 PM (WXNFJ)

254 251 Maybe the locals to whom this is already clear will have the opportunity to kick out most of the "migrants", as well as the asshoes that brought them in to begin with.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2024 12:07 PM (KcwUg)

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Just keep us out of it.

Europe used to fight its own wars without American help.

Make Europe great at fighting its own wars Again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

255 And yeh, Greta is looking hittable, in a hit and run sort of way.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2024 12:08 PM (4780s)

256 WATCH: Tulsa City Council opens meeting with "satanic prayer" delivered by "priestess of the goddess"

https://is.gd/EbHrNv

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Somebody should send an old mobster from NYC to clean that place up ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:08 PM (AG4Zc)

257 245
Eh.
Maybe Europe needs a big war again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, no.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 12:08 PM (VnUSN)

258 Tulsa seems to lead the nation in fleabag motels full of tweekers peeking out the window waiting for the cops to roll up.

Posted by: First 48 at November 25, 2024 12:09 PM (nS6qG)

259 I prefer 'an alias'.

Oh, that's OK then.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 12:09 PM (Gyft8)

260 And yeh, Greta is looking hittable, in a hit and run sort of way.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2024

***
Welcoming, almost.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:09 PM (J2vNu)

261 White Trash… every time I hear that perfectly acceptable racial slur I think about the White Trash Cookbook… interesting reading.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 12:09 PM (PCK5/)

262 My only question is if there's any truth to the rumors of her running for CA governor.

That would be her best bet - but I don't think she can even win that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 11:52 AM (7oYYI)
_______

She will run, or least try to. I don't think she'll go gently into that good night. She'll have to be forced out. But there are already at least two DEI scumbag Democrap party loyalists in line ahead of her for gov. I don't think she has a chance. But anything can happen between now and then. It's a lifetime in politics.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

263 Congratulations, Buck!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 25, 2024 12:09 PM (gY0JQ)

264 Yet again, Ace is proven right about some of you being willing to tap just about anything.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 12:10 PM (OguvZ)

265 You could open cans with Greta's chin.

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 12:10 PM (UnA8+)

266 262 She will run, or least try to. I don't think she'll go gently into that good night. She'll have to be forced out. But there are already at least two DEI scumbag Democrap party loyalists in line ahead of her for gov. I don't think she has a chance. But anything can happen between now and then. It's a lifetime in politics.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

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If she runs for governor, she ends up placing 3rd or 4th in the jungle primary and kills her chances of running for president in the primary again in 2028 long before Iowa.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

267 Europe has let its military forces deteriorate so much that one charismatic corporal could put together an army of his own and overrun the entire continent pretty easily. Not like it’s been done before or anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 12:11 PM (Ereai)

268 Yet again, Ace is proven right about some of you being willing to tap just about anything.
Posted by: spindrift

Never underestimate the Power of The 'P'.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 12:11 PM (WXNFJ)

269 Yet again, Ace is proven right about some of you being willing to tap just about anything.
Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024

***
I just said she was cute, not hot!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:11 PM (J2vNu)

270 When communication took weeks Europe could war on it's own. Those times long gone for everywhere but maybe central Africa.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2024 12:11 PM (4780s)

271 Regarding Matt Gaetz, I think we have to face the fact that the Klimate Hoax has become so pervasive and ingrained that many non-believers will pay lip service to it in order to get a hearing from the True Believers on topics that are completely unrelated. We have to judge people on whether they are talking Klimate Khange as a matter of strategy, or of tactics.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 12:11 PM (dIrg5)

272 I had no idea about Gaetz as a climate hoax supporter. Thanks.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 12:12 PM (ZlOcj)

273 ========

Eh.

Maybe Europe needs a big war again.

It'll make it very clear to a lot of people that the migrants taking social services don't in any way think of themselves as citizens of their host nations when they refuse to serve.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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A nice European war with no nukes. Since Trump is war adverse we will be able to watch some very interesting developments.
The Visegrád Four with a few other allies aligned in a defensive posture.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 12:12 PM (om3Wy)

274 264 Yet again, Ace is proven right about some of you being willing to tap just about anything.
Posted by: spindrift

Heck, that's anywhere you go in the world. We're just more open and honest about it.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 12:12 PM (lXoJ5)

275 Greta Gotta Grift…. ( expect a change, down the line).

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 12:12 PM (PCK5/)

276 273 A nice European war with no nukes. Since Trump is war adverse we will be able to watch some very interesting developments.
The Visegrád Four with a few other allies aligned in a defensive posture.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 12:12 PM (om3Wy)

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I just want the German premiere, or whatever, to announce that they have to cut social services to buy tanks to hold back Putin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

277 If she runs for governor, she ends up placing 3rd or 4th in the jungle primary and kills her chances of running for president in the primary again in 2028 long before Iowa.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

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Could move to Arizona where they can steal the Governor's Mansion for her after Soros butt-bitch Hobbs leaves.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:13 PM (AG4Zc)

278 Who is good enough for the Horde??

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 12:13 PM (PCK5/)

279 Kamala is yesterday's news. Defuncto. Anything she says about her political ambitions is just personal ego salvation and meaningless.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 12:13 PM (ZlOcj)

280 @politicalmath
11h
The most entertaining rants from Taylor Sheridan are the ones in which he takes the left-ish talking points at face value and pretends as if they are serious arguments

with 2-minute video rant
Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 11:43 AM (VnUSN)
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I can't find the post. Do you have a link?

Posted by: WisRich at November 25, 2024 12:14 PM (G0vdT)

281 She will run, or least try to. I don't think she'll go gently into that good night. She'll have to be forced out. But there are already at least two DEI scumbag Democrap party loyalists in line ahead of her for gov. I don't think she has a chance. But anything can happen between now and then. It's a lifetime in politics.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

======

If she runs for governor, she ends up placing 3rd or 4th in the jungle primary and kills her chances of running for president in the primary again in 2028 long before Iowa.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
________

True, but she's dead in 2028 no matter what. She has ZERO chance at a national position now. Nobody will touch her with a ten-foot pole. But CA is so corrupt and scumbaggy that anything's possible -- if the party is behind you. I just don't think she's even 3rd in line now as far as the party is concerned. She's yesterday's news, and very bad news at that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

282 I was always partial to flea bag motels when traveling alone, just for the characters you could observe.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2024 12:14 PM (4780s)

283 281 True, but she's dead in 2028 no matter what. She has ZERO chance at a national position now. Nobody will touch her with a ten-foot pole. But CA is so corrupt and scumbaggy that anything's possible -- if the party is behind you. I just don't think she's even 3rd in line now as far as the party is concerned. She's yesterday's news, and very bad news at that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:14 PM (iFTx/

=========

She has a chance in 2028 to launder tens of millions in the primary before flaming out.

Do not get me wrong: she has no chance of winning the nomination. But, Ben Carson never had a chance of winning the nomination in 2016 and he still raised $60 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

284 True, but she's dead in 2028 no matter what. She has ZERO chance at a national position now. Nobody will touch her with a ten-foot pole. But CA is so corrupt and scumbaggy that anything's possible -- if the party is behind you. I just don't think she's even 3rd in line now as far as the party is concerned. She's yesterday's news, and very bad news at that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024

***
I'm happy right now not hearing about her every damn day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:15 PM (J2vNu)

285 Well, she's no Janet Reno.

Posted by: Just the punchline at November 25, 2024 12:15 PM (DobEs)

286 I'm pretty sure Buck Throckmorton is some kinda pseudonym like that Dildo fella uses. Doof is the only genuine guy on here.

-
What with DEI being all the rage, I'm going to change my nick to A'Nonosaurus W'Recks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 12:15 PM (L/fGl)

287 Why are people so helpless?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at November 25, 2024 12:16 PM (xA5g+)

288 *Shakes Ipad*

Wake up, Ace!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 12:16 PM (u73oe)

289 There are reasons why Tulsa is not OK's capital. This is one of them.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons

It's almost as if all shithole cities have a common view of vice, communism, sin, sloth and pride.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2024 12:05 PM (WXNFJ)

So...a top location for the new Eff Bee Eye?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 12:16 PM (W/lyH)

290 280 @politicalmath
11h
The most entertaining rants from Taylor Sheridan are the ones in which he takes the left-ish talking points at face value and pretends as if they are serious arguments

with 2-minute video rant
Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 11:43 AM (VnUSN)
------------

I can't find the post. Do you have a link?
Posted by: WisRich at November 25, 2024 12:14 PM (G0vdT)

Here's a more direct link.

https://tinyurl.com/4vtrrm75

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 12:17 PM (VnUSN)

291 Love Matt Gaetz the fighter but his climate statements were probably taken in context of his behavior. We all know how conservatives get the protection shield of impunity.

Posted by: Roberto at November 25, 2024 12:17 PM (1LMOS)

292 A nice European war with no nukes. Since Trump is war adverse we will be able to watch some very interesting developments.
The Visegrád Four with a few other allies aligned in a defensive posture.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 12:12 PM (om3Wy)

The recent Russian MRVs were loaded with "exotic metal" penetrators, and were pretty much Rods from gods. They probably shattered any bunker and punched to the bedrock

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 12:17 PM (D7oie)

293 True, but she's dead in 2028 no matter what. She has ZERO chance at a national position now. Nobody will touch her with a ten-foot pole. But CA is so corrupt and scumbaggy that anything's possible -- if the party is behind you. I just don't think she's even 3rd in line now as far as the party is concerned. She's yesterday's news, and very bad news at that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:14 PM (iFTx/

=========

She has a chance in 2028 to launder tens of millions in the primary before flaming out.

Do not get me wrong: she has no chance of winning the nomination. But, Ben Carson never had a chance of winning the nomination in 2016 and he still raised $60 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:15 PM (GBKbO)
__

Carson was a popular figure even though he had no chance. Kumswala? She's the puddle of anal semen under the dirty rathole motel bed left behind after Willie was done with her. Maybe you're right that she could still somehow raise money. I just think she'll be so toxic nobody will touch her.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

294 She will run, or least try to.

-
She has delusions of adequacy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 12:17 PM (L/fGl)

295 I was always partial to flea bag motels when traveling alone, just for the characters you could observe.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2024 12:14 PM (4780s)

As long as you don't observe them crawling across the pillow.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 12:18 PM (W/lyH)

296 Could move to Arizona where they can steal the Governor's Mansion for her after Soros butt-bitch Hobbs leaves.

A friend of mine worked on the campaign for the guy that replaced Richer in Maricopa County. Says the new guy appears to be for real so we may see a bit less fraud out of that county next cycle. Meaning Fontes will have to figure out how to get the other counties (Pima, etc) to get the Dems to get 350% turnout they'll need.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 12:18 PM (Gyft8)

297 Good morning!

Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at November 25, 2024 12:18 PM (5G6LU)

298 295 I was always partial to flea bag motels when traveling alone, just for the characters you could observe.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2024 12:14 PM (4780s)

As long as you don't observe them crawling across the pillow.
----------------------
Don't take a black light in one.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:19 PM (jFCkp)

299 After seeing Kammie-Ha-Ha, a civilized country would wake up and realize that putting "diverse" people in high positions *only* because they are "diverse" is utter madness.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:20 PM (J2vNu)

300 The recent Russian MRVs were loaded with "exotic metal" penetrators, and were pretty much Rods from gods. They probably shattered any bunker and punched to the bedrock
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2024 12:17 PM (D7oie)

You can bet we have folks crawling all over the impact craters doing the analysis.
At least I hope we do.
Are we that smart?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 12:20 PM (W/lyH)

301 She will run, or least try to.

-
She has delusions of adequacy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 12:17 PM (L/fGl)

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Classic job review: "Strives for mediocrity, and often fails."

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:20 PM (AG4Zc)

302 Good morning!
Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at November 25, 2024 12:18 PM (5G6LU)

*checks watch*

Russian disinformation!

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 12:20 PM (OguvZ)

303 Ol' Shelvey got buried under a pile of shelves again, I presume?

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 12:20 PM (UnA8+)

304 "We gather together" is a lovely hymn. We sang it the senior center worship service as well as at church yesterday. It is under the "Providence" section of the hymnal, but it started out earlier as a celebration of the Dutch being freed from Spanish control. Here is what some people think its history:

https://tinyurl.com/czabp3j7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 12:21 PM (MQJVv)

305 "Mediocrity:

When You're Willing to Settle."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:21 PM (J2vNu)

306 I was always partial to flea bag motels when traveling alone, just for the characters you could observe.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2024 12:14 PM (4780s)

As long as you don't observe them crawling across the pillow.
----------------------
Don't take a black light in one.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 12:19 PM (jFCkp)
______

That's true of most hotels. There are LOTS of whores banging wealthy johns in the expensive hotels, especially in Europe where that's practically an art form.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

307 299 After seeing Kammie-Ha-Ha, a civilized country would wake up and realize that putting "diverse" people in high positions *only* because they are "diverse" is utter madness.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:20 PM (J2vNu)

=======

Let's remember that we've been told endlessly that, since 2012, the Democrat Party electorate demands minority and female candidates and that white men have no place in the party at that level.

Then, in 2016, the DNC had to cheat to get Hillary over the line against a, old, white, Jewish man (the coin flips in Nevada). Then, in 2020, the race was a horserace between two old, white, men.

The party leaders want things very different from the party voters. This will play out again in 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

308 Good morning!
Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at November 25, 2024
*
*checks watch*

Russian disinformation!
Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024

***
Still morning here for another forty minutes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 12:22 PM (J2vNu)

309 A friend of mine worked on the campaign for the guy that replaced Richer in Maricopa County. Says the new guy appears to be for real so we may see a bit less fraud out of that county next cycle. Meaning Fontes will have to figure out how to get the other counties (Pima, etc) to get the Dems to get 350% turnout they'll need.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2024 12:18 PM (Gyft

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Heh. Have they stopped counting "ballots" yet?

/They're still counting them in Califzuela, natch ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 12:22 PM (AG4Zc)

310 Gaia is "god'- I suppose- to the left. Nothing is outside of Gaia's control and nothing is unrelated to Gaia. I prefer to worship Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 12:23 PM (MQJVv)

311 As long as there are positions that pay well and do not require public speaking.... Kamala's got a job.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)

312 Here in Jeru, currently 8C/46 and super overcast. We put the heat on an hour ago - first time this season.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (3KZZ

Wanna trade? Here in my corner of Alberta, it is bright and sunny. It is also -20C / -4F.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 12:23 PM (fnSFd)

313 312
Wanna trade? Here in my corner of Alberta, it is bright and sunny. It is also -20C / -4F.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 12:23 PM (fnSFd)

========

"But it feels like 100 degrees celsius because of global warming."
-the local news

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

314 nood ace

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 12:24 PM (VnUSN)

315 .
NOOD

Ace is up! "Missouri AG Eric Schmitt: Fire All DOJ Officials Who Had Any Role in Trump's Prosecutions"

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 12:24 PM (O7YUW)

316 Ace is up.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2024 12:24 PM (u73oe)

317 306 That's true of most hotels. There are LOTS of whores banging wealthy johns in the expensive hotels, especially in Europe where that's practically an art form.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

Ever seen Dan Bell's "Another Dirty Room"?

It's brain-breaking how much blood, shit, and semen is all over those rooms.

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 12:25 PM (UnA8+)

318 Let's remember that we've been told endlessly that, since 2012, the Democrat Party electorate demands minority and female candidates and that white men have no place in the party at that level.

Then, in 2016, the DNC had to cheat to get Hillary over the line against a, old, white, Jewish man (the coin flips in Nevada). Then, in 2020, the race was a horserace between two old, white, men.

The party leaders want things very different from the party voters. This will play out again in 2028.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 12:21 PM (GBKbO)
_____

The Dums have been screaming that Kumswala's loss was fueled by sexism in that people don't want a woman president. In some sense, they are correct. But can you blame the voters? There isn't a woman executive or leader anywhere who isn't a total nuclear catastrophe. Why would any voter -- even a woman -- want more of that? To be sure, the vast majority of men suck balls too, but there are at least a few very competent ones.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

319 Hey TJM

Back from your luxury cruise.

Did you miss the revolution?

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 12:27 PM (eDfFs)

320 Congrats Buck on the anniversary!

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (wcIbG)

321 It's unimportant whether Kamala becomes governor of California or not.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (om3Wy)

322 Maybe if Greta got some dick she would settle down a little.
Ive seen some regular dick do some amazing things!

Posted by: Dr kill at November 25, 2024 12:30 PM (gpLUH)

323 >>>The party leaders want things very different from the party voters. This will play out again in 2028.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024
---

Democrat party may be entirely different in 2026/28.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 25, 2024 12:32 PM (om3Wy)

324 Coal fired power plants have entered the chat
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (dOjkx)

Not to mention the mines and smelters that produce all the exotic metals used to build them. And to build the "non-polluting" solar panels and windmills that as supposed to charge them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 12:33 PM (fnSFd)

325 I’m not sure I want him on our side. He’s been a slimy rat at least as long as I’ve been aware of him.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 11:55 AM (jbnUc)

This. And a raging Jew-hater.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 12:45 PM (IErdF)

326 The globalist collectivists are becoming increasingly desperate. They haven't quite yet learned the lesson of Spanish Man's Grave:* that their Big Medicine is no good any more, and their gods have forsaken them. We need to make sure they learn it. Among other things, the line absolutely must be held on Pete Hegseth as SecDef.

Here's why: Back when Trump was (ahem) "convicted," I saw some posts on X by people I otherwise respect along these lines: "Can we talk about another candidate now, or is this a ride-or-die thing?" Answer: It absolutely was a ride-or-die thing, because the Blob has to be shown that the things that used to work for them -- including lawfare -- don't work any more.

Same goes for Hegseth. The allegations are BS. The line must be held and Hegseth must either be confirmed or recess appointed.

Posted by: Rowsdower & Batman have had it up to HERE with these damn juggalos & still think Ray Epps is a fed a at November 25, 2024 12:47 PM (tzYsy)

327 *Spanish Man's Grave is an excellent story by James Warner Bellah. Find it and read it. It's in a collection of stories called There Will Be War (Volume I) if you can't find it elsewhere.

Posted by: Rowsdower & Batman have had it up to HERE with these damn juggalos & still think Ray Epps is a fed a at November 25, 2024 12:51 PM (tzYsy)

328 Speaking of Thanksgiving -- a hearty and long overdue "thank you" to all those who make AoS what it is. The reverence for things that deserve it and irreverence in all other things; the insightful, the indignant, the lighthearted and heavy. This is a site like no other, largely stemming from the mystical Powers That Be who keep it going daily, but also because of the morons who flesh out these topics (or who lead it on the wildest of goose-chases) through some of the most trying times the country and individuals have faced.

So, Ace, Buck, et al -- Thank you. Hope you find some rest in the coming season.

Posted by: red speck at November 25, 2024 01:01 PM (0Id0S)

329 @304 Thank you, Fen. That kicks some serious backside.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 01:03 PM (zdLoL)

330 Annoyingly i can no longer wear my kefiyah (desert tan) even though I am a Gulf War veteran and it is 100% the best piece of clothing for hot weather.

Posted by: Heresolong at November 25, 2024 10:53 PM (evZX6)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Freedom From Want
Norman Rockwell

At the risk of skewering an icon of 20th century Americana, I find this piece to be insulting in its assumptions, and not-so-subtly contemptuous of traditional America...and American Exceptionalism.

Our founders fought and died to protect and guarantee our God-given natural rights from the depredations of government. But the expansion of those rights into needs and desires and wants trivializes our true rights and creates the conditions for exactly what we have today...a huge and unaccountable government that is intrusive and demanding while it purports to satisfy those needs and desires and wants.

I'm not calling Norman Rockwell a crypto-communist, but this is a rare misstep in a long career that is marked by his respect for and celebration of America.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 09:30 AM (UE7n4)

2 rd

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 09:30 AM (hOUT3)

3 close

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 09:30 AM (hOUT3)

4 A R T

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

5 I like the Charlie Brown/Snoopy Thanksgiving theme as well.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 09:31 AM (UE7n4)

6 It's no Rothko.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:31 AM (hY4dx)

7 Who wears a suit and tie for Thanksgiving?

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)

8 Little premature but good for the week

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 09:32 AM (cdFLU)

9
No dog. Not art. Unless he's hiding under the table.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 09:32 AM (0PG7L)

10 The guy in the lower right-hand corner didn't come for the turkey.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:32 AM (hY4dx)

11 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. We're getting the bird for art today.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 09:32 AM (W/lyH)

12 Perfect!

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

13 Is that Rockwell in the lower right corner?

Posted by: dantesed at November 25, 2024 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)

14
Sometimes a turkey is just a turkey. Calm down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 09:33 AM (0PG7L)

15 So… you don’t like turkey..

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 09:33 AM (PCK5/)

16 Norman was a devout New Deal Democrat. The Four Freedoms were cast as the freedom from various things not the freedom to do what you want with your life and that was deliberate, and he worked that out with the Roosevelt administration. They wanted to recast the very core concept of freedom in Americans' minds.

Posted by: Beverly at November 25, 2024 09:33 AM (Epeb0)

17 That bird looks like it has ketchup on it.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:33 AM (jgdZo)

18 There are an awful lot of white people in this painting. Is this some kind of Klan rally or something?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:33 AM (hY4dx)

19 I've always admired the painting but hated it's name. "Freedom From Want" is neither a right nor an American value.

Posted by: Hoagie at November 25, 2024 09:34 AM (LH8Tq)

20 CBD, are you having a bad day?

This looks to me like many an intergenerational Turkey Day as celebrated by my family, all of whom worked their a*ses to make sure they had food on the table and shelter for their families!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 09:34 AM (hOUT3)

21
Who wears a suit and tie for Thanksgiving?
Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)

________

No pants, though.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 09:34 AM (0PG7L)

22 The guy in the lower right-hand corner didn't come for the turkey.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:32 AM (hY4dx)

Duh! He's the one taking the photo - selfie style.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:34 AM (jgdZo)

23
I've always liked this depiction of joy, leave the politics out of it.

Yes, people used to dress up for all occasions, respecting others.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 09:34 AM (j4U/Z)

24 Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear

Freedom from Want is latter expanded into the Second Bill of Rights:
Employment
An adequate income for food, shelter, and recreation
Farmers' rights to a fair income
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Decent housing
Adequate medical care
Social security
Education

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

25 What the hell is this shit?

Posted by: Faguar Motor Co. at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM (hY4dx)

26 I'll have some corn with the cornucopia ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM (6XjEr)

27 No dog. Not art. Unless he's hiding under the table.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 09:32 AM (0PG7L)
******
Of course it's hiding under the table.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

28 They wanted to recast the very core concept of freedom in Americans' minds.

Posted by: Beverly at November 25, 2024 09:33 AM (Epeb0)

Yup.

I know he was a Roosevelt supporter, although I wonder how fervently leftist he was.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM (d9fT1)

29 No dog. Not art. Unless he's hiding under the table.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

If he is a house dog, that's exactly where he is!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM (hOUT3)

30 When I look at this, I don't see communists, I see Grandma. And having enough to eat is a blessing for which to give thanks.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM (SfhV1)

31 Who wears a suit and tie for Thanksgiving?

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)

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

Back when it was celebrated on Sundays.

/

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM (6XjEr)

32 What the hell are you on about, CBD? Get a cup of coffee and calm down. Sheesh.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at November 25, 2024 09:36 AM (Ij2uN)

33 They look happy.
Must be Trump supporters.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

34 When your Thanksgiving dinner is catch-as-catch-can and you haven't seen you "family" in three years, this picture hits different.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at November 25, 2024 09:36 AM (Nv+9A)

35 30 When I look at this, I don't see communists, I see Grandma. And having enough to eat is a blessing for which to give thanks.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM (SfhV1)

You obviously do not see everything through the lens of political conflict, grammie..be better.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 09:36 AM (PCK5/)

36 I want to see
“Freedom from democrats”

Other freedoms will bloom like a thousand flowers after that.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 09:36 AM (jbnUc)

37 The lady on the right with the fluffy white hair looks like my Grandma Berg. It's been 30+ years since she died and I'd pretty much forgotten what she looks like.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 25, 2024 09:37 AM (s9EYN)

38 Get the government out of the way and people will have enough to eat.

There hasn't been a non-government induced famine in hundreds of years...but government induced famines happen at at a regular pace...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:37 AM (oZhjI)

39 That bird looks like it has ketchup on it.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:33 AM (jgdZo)

paprika?

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:37 AM (Yj6Os)

40 That's a big bird. 20 pounder?

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 09:38 AM (OguvZ)

41 Who wears a suit and tie for Thanksgiving?
Posted by: BignJames

I've done that in the past. I've also dressed like that for Christmas dinner, especially when we used to go to my brother-in-law's house for Christmas.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:38 AM (v6JzV)

42
Prolly lumpy, dried out mashed potatoes under one of those covered dishes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 09:38 AM (0PG7L)

43 Interesting that evrybody at the table is leaning in.

Eager ~~beavers~~ eaters ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:39 AM (6XjEr)

44 40 That's a big bird. 20 pounder?
Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 09:38 AM (OguvZ)

---------

He didn't go quietly. The kitchen looks like an abattoir.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:39 AM (hY4dx)

45 Freedom from Want is latter expanded into the Second Bill of Rights:
Employment

Years ago I saw a Democrat campaigning for the house on a platform of ending unemployment by giving everyone who couldn't find one on their own one from the government.

A reporter actually did his job that day and asked, "What if the unemployed person didn't want the job the government assigned him?" And the answer? "Well that person would be forced to take it of course"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:39 AM (oZhjI)

46 Who wears a suit and tie for Thanksgiving?

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)

Never seen the movie Avalon, huh?

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:40 AM (jgdZo)

47 I've also dressed like that for Christmas dinner, especially when we used to go to my brother-in-law's house for Christmas.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:38 AM (v6JzV)

When we are invited to a Christmas dinner I wear a coat and tie. I think it signals respect for the event and one's hosts, and the tie keeps the gravy off my shirt.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 09:40 AM (d9fT1)

48 No pants, though.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 09:34 AM (0PG7L)

pajama pants

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:40 AM (Yj6Os)

49 Normal Rockwell is always a great pick.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:41 AM (u1uWe)

50 Grandma's arms seem strange for someone holding a 20 pound+ bird on a platter.

Posted by: RS at November 25, 2024 09:41 AM (E7m29)

51 Ah for a time when bluish hair meant someone was an elder...not a youngin' with daddy issues.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:41 AM (oZhjI)

52 In many ways this is a typical Rockwell with appropriate expressions and details that spell out the environment of the image. The scenes might be cute like the little boy at the doctor's office not knowing he is about to get an injection in the butt. Might be the neighbors welcoming a soldier back from combat. What catches my eye in this one is the way Rockwell so effectively paints the food and dinnerware. Those details are worthy of the Dutch Masters still life paintings.

Posted by: JTB at November 25, 2024 09:41 AM (yTvNw)

53 the tie keeps the gravy off my shirt.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

LOL

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:42 AM (v6JzV)

54 I've seen this picture so many, many times but it never occurred to me that I hadn't known its title.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at November 25, 2024 09:42 AM (bufu1)

55 What is the thing that looks like a potato in the fruit bowl? I see a pear and grapes and something that almost looks like a potato with a face.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:42 AM (oZhjI)

56 Get the government out of the way and people will have enough to eat.

There hasn't been a non-government induced famine in hundreds of years...but government induced famines happen at at a regular pace...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:37 AM (oZhjI)

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

* Government-induced economic boom-and-bust cycles have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:43 AM (pdiTJ)

57 Has anyone watched the new Ken Burns DaVinci series (think it's just 2 episodes long)? It's based on Walter Isaacson's book. Watched the first episode yesterday -- it is excellent!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:43 AM (u1uWe)

58 Gentlepersons/undefinable/nonentities, this is Trump's fascism, manifest.

Posted by: Joy Reid at November 25, 2024 09:43 AM (MUitS)

59 That kid (young adult?) on the left with his face next to the turkey looks like Matt Gaetz with a shit-eating grin after he banged a 17-year-old at a drug-fueled rave. Just sayig.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2024 09:43 AM (iFTx/)

60 Normal Rockwell is always a great pick.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:41 AM (u1uWe)

How about this Rockwell??
https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:43 AM (jgdZo)

61 Just one guy with a receding hairline. Wildroot Cream Oil, FTW!

Posted by: Hairy Goomer at November 25, 2024 09:43 AM (nS6qG)

62 Save room for the tiramisu!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:43 AM (hY4dx)

63 The guy in the lower right-hand corner didn't come for the turkey.
Posted by: Cicero
--------------
Kind of looks like Bogart. He will probably bogart the gravy, but has motives.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 09:44 AM (2bFN5)

64 No pants, though.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 09:34 AM (0PG7L)

pajama pants
Posted by: BignJames

Or sweatpants. Old maternity pants in a pinch. Gotta have an expandable waistband for holiday dinner.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 25, 2024 09:44 AM (lHzOd)

65 Good to see there's celery on the table. They're gonna need some fiber after eating that bird.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)

66 What is the thing that looks like a potato in the fruit bowl? I see a pear and grapes and something that almost looks like a potato with a face.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:42 AM (oZhjI)

That's the shrunken head of the HOA president.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 09:44 AM (OguvZ)

67 Grandma's arms seem strange for someone holding a 20 pound+ bird on a platter.

Posted by: RS at November 25, 2024 09:41 AM (E7m29)

Back in those days she was probably in her 40's.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2024 09:44 AM (VwHCD)

68 Unburdened of want.

Posted by: Kamala at November 25, 2024 09:44 AM (i0F8b)

69 >>Never seen the movie Avalon, huh?

Oh, that movie -- don't start the meal until everyone arrives!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:44 AM (u1uWe)

70 What is the thing that looks like a potato in the fruit bowl? I see a pear and grapes and something that almost looks like a potato with a face.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:42 AM (oZhjI)

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

Mr. Potato Head and/or baby Tater Stelter?

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:44 AM (pdiTJ)

71 Good to see there's celery on the table. They're gonna need some fiber after eating that bird.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)

That's only for the lucky person who gets the wings.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:45 AM (jgdZo)

72 Mr. Potato Head and/or baby Tater Stelter?

The problem with inviting Stelter to T-day is that he'll drink all your gravy and then put the moves on your turkey.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:45 AM (oZhjI)

73 This is a lovely painting. The color, lighting, composition... all are hopeful and welcoming. Look at how the faces form a triangle that peaks at grandpa. Notice how he's the only one in dark colors. He's the patriarch of an obviously ideal family unit with several generations. In the exact center of the work is the a perfectly cooked turkey presented by grandma. Look at how the viewer is placed. We're at the other end of this long table. The eyeball in the bottom right corner looks right at us. We are included here. This might not be our family, but we are a welcome guest.

Posted by: Kris at November 25, 2024 09:46 AM (EwaUh)

74 That's only for the lucky person who gets the wings.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:45 AM (jgdZo)

I don't think I've ever eaten a turkey wing.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 09:46 AM (SfhV1)

75 The girl on the right looks like Jean Simmons.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:46 AM (v6JzV)

76 "In many ways this is a typical Rockwell"
Posted by: JTB

I've always thought Rockwell was a counter-point to the socialist=realism prevalent during his heyday.

Posted by: RS at November 25, 2024 09:47 AM (E7m29)

77 This might not be our family, but we are a welcome guest.
Posted by: Kris at November 25, 2024 09:46 AM (EwaUh)

----------

It is time for the Airing of the Grievances.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:47 AM (hY4dx)

78 The expressions are all fairly creepy.

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 09:47 AM (UnA8+)

79
paprika?
Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:37 AM (Yj6Os)

_________

We did duck with Cajun seasoning one year. Damn, that was good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 09:47 AM (0PG7L)

80 The girl on the right looks like Jean Simmons.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:46 AM (v6JzV)

Are you saying she wants to rock and roll all night?

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 09:48 AM (OguvZ)

81 Where's the kid's table?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 09:48 AM (Q4IgG)

82 For the Rockwell fans there is a huge coffee table book called Norman Rockwell Artist and Illustrator. It has just about all his paintings and prints, and many are actually removable should somebody want to frame them. Seriously nice book. I found a first edition on ebay for $25, and there were a few others there in the same price range.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2024 09:48 AM (VwHCD)

83 I'm cooking this year. Nobody in my family likes turkey very much so I'm going with game hen.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 25, 2024 09:48 AM (LxER7)

84 When you were a kid, could you imagine an America where a too-large swath of the country would look at this painting and think: "Colonizers"? Or, frankly, anything other than "What a beautiful family gathering"?

Make America Grateful Again.

Posted by: red speck at November 25, 2024 09:49 AM (0Id0S)

85 They must be rich. They've got wainscoting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:49 AM (hY4dx)

86 There's going to be three people at our Thanksgiving dinner this year. The hostess got a 21 lb. turkey! Yikes.

Posted by: Kris at November 25, 2024 09:50 AM (EwaUh)

87 They've got wainscoting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:49 AM (hY4dx)

Or a chair rail...which I love!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 09:50 AM (d9fT1)

88 No Hawaiian Buns. This is wrong.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 09:50 AM (jFCkp)

89 I don't think I've ever eaten a turkey wing.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 09:46 AM (SfhV1)

Cut 'em off before roasting the bird. They get lost and/or overlooked anyway.
Fry / grill / smoke a bunch of turkey wings. Dry rub or sauce. Underrated experience!!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:50 AM (jgdZo)

90 Where's the kid's table?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

And the TV next to the table with the Bears/Lions game on?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:50 AM (v6JzV)

91 from FDR 1944 State of the Union address, proposed so-called Second Bill of Rights:

"Among these are:

1. The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;
2. The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
3.The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
4. The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
5. The right of every family to a decent home;
6. The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
7.The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
8. The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security.

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (991eG)

92 Why aren't they all looking at their phones?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (hY4dx)

93 *sniff, sniff*

Posted by: Bumpus Dogs at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (i0F8b)

94 Always liked Norman even though he was a New Dealer. Like this painting though they maybe communists because I don't see any can shaped cranberry sauce. There appears to be a small tin shaped something but it doesn't look cranberryish

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (FxDm7)

95 And the TV next to the table with the Bears/Lions game on?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:50 AM (v6JzV)

LOL

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (SfhV1)

96 Turkey and plastic fruit. Depression era?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (VwHCD)

97 We did duck with Cajun seasoning one year. Damn, that was good.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 09:47 AM (0PG7L)

Tony Chachere??

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (jgdZo)

98 All of these rights spell security.

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (991eG)

That's a terrible limerick!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (d9fT1)

99 Yeah, Rockwell's Freedom of Expression is a better painting, and that subject is an actual freedom in the Bill of Rights - 1st Amendment, that is.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (BHrzb)

100 FDR was a dickhead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2024 09:52 AM (VwHCD)

101 Grandma's arms seem strange for someone holding a 20 pound+ bird on a platter.

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

My great-grandmother walked bent over at the lower back 90° from decades of slopping the hogs on the family farm in a place with brutally cold winters.

I was horrified & repulsed the first time I had to use that outhouse as a four-year-old ... and couldn't imagine having to use it in freezing winter during the middle of the night.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:52 AM (8AZzc)

102 40 >>>That's a big bird. 20 pounder?

In 2024, it might just be a genetically modified chicken.

Posted by: red speck at November 25, 2024 09:52 AM (0Id0S)

103 Ah, the memories of family arguments this brings back.

Wait 'til these folks have a snootfull of booze in 'em. They'll be arguing over Smoot-Hawley in no time.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:52 AM (v6JzV)

104 25 What the hell is this shit?
Posted by: Faguar Motor Co. at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM

Ha! Good one.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at November 25, 2024 09:53 AM (0slL1)

105 Visible fold lines in tablecloth. Nobody slapped an iron to it.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 09:53 AM (2bFN5)

106 59
‘ That kid (young adult?) on the left with his face next to the turkey looks like Matt Gaetz with a shit-eating grin after he banged a 17-year-old at a drug-fueled rave’

Now. I can’t I unsee that. I hope you’re happy. You’ve defiled this picture for me.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (jbnUc)

107 @91 "all of these rights spell security".

Actually I think they spell tyranny

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (FxDm7)

108 No wine on the table. Baptist Grandma would approve.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (SfhV1)

109 What the hell are you on about, CBD? Get a cup of coffee and calm down. Sheesh.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser

Seconded. Yeah, I get it, leftists co-opt "freedom" language e.g. "freedom from gun violence" when they mean taking away the right of self-defense. "Freedom from want" is a nice-sounding way to talk about forcible redistribution. But why should we let the left define these things? Take back the language.

There's nothing wrong with freedom from want, when that freedom is earned by one's own industry, thrift and forbearance. No doubt that's how Rockwell intended it.

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (MX0bI)

110 In the Beastie Boys 1986 address to the nation, they advocated for a Third Bill of Rights.

This consisted of:

1. The right to party.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (OguvZ)

111 I saw where someone took the jaguar ad and added an actual jaguar running in and eating the models.

Makes for a much more entertaining ad...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (oZhjI)

112 I was horrified & repulsed the first time I had to use that outhouse as a four-year-old ... and couldn't imagine having to use it in freezing winter during the middle of the night.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:52 AM (8AZzc)

chamber pot....thunder bucket

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (Yj6Os)

113 I don't think I've ever eaten a turkey wing.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

Turkey wings go into the stockpot.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (CbDvl)

114 Well, context is everything. We can't even begin to imagine not having enough food on the table to feed our family, unlike this post-Depression family. The closest we've come to not having everything was the great toilet paper and paper towel shortages during the wuhan flu 2020 invasion.

Posted by: Dana Ray at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (anSj1)

115 How did Dan Rather get to the head of the table?

Posted by: bearski at November 25, 2024 09:55 AM (Bhsk7)

116 someone forgot their meds this morning

Posted by: lh at November 25, 2024 09:55 AM (Ln22s)

117 Has anybody posted a link to the WKRP Thanksgiving ep yet?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:55 AM (v6JzV)

118 My grandmother would be barking at someone to move the salt and pepper shakers and he celery plate back so that she had room to set the turkey platter down.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 25, 2024 09:56 AM (Y1sOo)

119 FDR was a dickhead.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2024 09:52 AM (VwHCD)

Had a discussion with my grandmother about him one time. She grew up in the Depression era and thought he was the bees knees. I opined that he was horrible as a president. She said, "but without him we wouldn't have Social Security". I said "Exactly!" Then my mom gave me THE look.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:56 AM (jgdZo)

120 Freedom From Want

What I want is for your Grandpa to heave this thirty-pound plate of turkey on to the table for me.

Posted by: Grandma at November 25, 2024 09:56 AM (xtH79)

121 That's a big bird. 20 pounder?

Roast hobo.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 25, 2024 09:56 AM (dOjkx)

122 50 >>Grandma's arms seem strange for someone holding a 20 pound+ bird on a platter.

There was almost an annual test at my grandparents' home when we'd visit. My grandma used to use an old cast iron skillet to cook breakfast. We always marveled at how deftly she was able to manipulate the thing on the stove. We take turns trying to lift it off the burner without our forearms wilting. It was like pulling Arthur's sword from the stone. None were ever up to the task.

Posted by: red speck at November 25, 2024 09:56 AM (0Id0S)

123
Wait 'til these folks have a snootfull of booze in 'em. They'll be arguing over Smoot-Hawley in no time.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024

***
Great painting, with the usual Rockwell skill evident.

Whatever happened to Smoot, anyway?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

124 Like this painting though they maybe communists because I don't see any can shaped cranberry sauce. There appears to be a small tin shaped something but it doesn't look cranberryish

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (FxDm7)

I think that is Aspic jelly. Shudder.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 25, 2024 09:56 AM (K1HkL)

125 100 FDR was a dickhead.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Bers!

To be fair, he was a dickhead first, before he became a Democrat

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 09:57 AM (hOUT3)

126 Two weeks of turkey leftovers then it's Glitter Season.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 09:57 AM (hY4dx)

127 The dad kind of resembles FDR a little bit.

Posted by: davidt at November 25, 2024 09:57 AM (i0F8b)

128 CBD, he could just be saying they have everything they need or could want right there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2024 09:57 AM (JQfE3)

129 I was horrified & repulsed the first time I had to use that outhouse as a four-year-old ... and couldn't imagine having to use it in freezing winter during the middle of the night.
Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:52 AM (8AZzc)
chamber pot....thunder bucket
Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (Yj6Os)

You gotta go, you gotta go.

Posted by: Captain McCluskey, A Dirty Cop at November 25, 2024 09:57 AM (Y5VD5)

130 When you were a kid, could you imagine an America where a too-large swath of the country would look at this painting and think: "Colonizers"? Or, frankly, anything other than "What a beautiful family gathering"?

Make America Grateful Again.

Posted by: red speck at November 25, 2024 09:49 AM (0Id0S)

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

+1

I'll have a second helping of gratitude ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:58 AM (8AZzc)

131 Whatever happened to Smoot, anyway?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I think he moved to Hooterville. Spent all his time playing checkers with Fred Zifffle down at Sam Drucker's store.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 09:58 AM (v6JzV)

132 My grandmother would be barking at someone to move the salt and pepper shakers and he celery plate back so that she had room to set the turkey platter down.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 25, 2024 09:56 AM (Y1sOo)

Yeah, that's clearly not going to fit.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 09:58 AM (OguvZ)

133 Turkey and plastic fruit. Depression era?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Zero carb diet, you can only look at fruit. Similarly satisfying as Depression era dinner.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 25, 2024 09:58 AM (lHzOd)

134 Alternate title;

"Turkey Supremacy Grinding Down the Rights of Prime Rib to Be Consumed on Thanksgiving Day"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 09:58 AM (eDfFs)

135 So I'm not supposed to like this ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 09:59 AM (IyPmt)

136 Never gave thought to any politics behind these 'freedom' paintings by Rockwell. I took freedom in the title to mean the American system offered the opportunity for plenty, not that plenty is an entitlement. Learning about an FDR administration connection, which tainted everything it touched, does cast a shadow over why he painted it.

I'll still enjoy the painting for the technique and the family feel it portrays. Reminds me of the Thanksgiving dinners in my youth which are pleasant memories.

Posted by: JTB at November 25, 2024 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

137 My favorite meal. Two invites for the both of us. We'll never be hungry again.

Posted by: Mutt at November 25, 2024 10:00 AM (HcbZb)

138 It is wrong that steak is not a traditional meal for any major holiday.

Or is it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2024 10:00 AM (JQfE3)

139 30 When I look at this, I don't see communists, I see Grandma. And having enough to eat is a blessing for which to give thanks.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 09:35 AM (SfhV1)

Me, too.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 10:00 AM (exHjb)

140 What the DOI calls "pursuit of happiness":

We consider to be "Freedom to..." be an individual, try, fail, explore, experiment, etc. requiring only the courage of the individual.

Democrats, Socialists and Communists consider to be "Freedom from..." want, poverty, need, sickness, worry, etc. all requiring Big Government to ensure.

When self-fulfillment (happiness) comes from the government, it is hardly self-fulfillment is it?

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:01 AM (991eG)

141 While the Beastie Boys did recognize a Right to Party, one only earned that right through compulsory combat.

Posted by: Wally at November 25, 2024 10:01 AM (dxp4v)

142 So I'm not supposed to like this ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 09:59 AM (IyPmt)

If you like it- you like it. Don't let CBD get you down.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2024 10:01 AM (JQfE3)

143 Grandma's arms seem strange for someone holding a 20 pound+ bird on a platter.

There was almost an annual test at my grandparents' home when we'd visit. My grandma used to use an old cast iron skillet to cook breakfast. We always marveled at how deftly she was able to manipulate the thing on the stove. We take turns trying to lift it off the burner without our forearms wilting. It was like pulling Arthur's sword from the stone. None were ever up to the task.
Posted by: red speck

There's gym strong and then there's country strong.

Gym strong doesn't even compare.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:01 AM (UE7n4)

144 No doubt that's how Rockwell intended it.

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (MX0bI)

I doubt that very much.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:01 AM (d9fT1)

145 At the risk of skewering an icon of 20th century Americana, I find this piece to be insulting in its assumptions, and not-so-subtly contemptuous of traditional America...and American Exceptionalism.

Our founders fought and died to protect and guarantee our God-given natural rights from the depredations of government. But the expansion of those rights into needs and desires and wants trivializes our true rights and creates the conditions for exactly what we have today...a huge and unaccountable government that is intrusive and demanding while it purports to satisfy those needs and desires and wants.
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Say, what??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

146 Had a discussion with my grandmother about him one time. She grew up in the Depression era and thought he was the bees knees. I opined that he was horrible as a president. She said, "but without him we wouldn't have Social Security". I said "Exactly!" Then my mom gave me THE look.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024

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I'd been taught in school and in my usual reading that FDR had actually *done something* to bring the country back from depression, and had been a tower of strength during the Hitler/Tojo War. My mother, who had actually lived through those times as a young adult (born 1915), referred to him as "that man" and told me he had known the Japanese were going to attack us, probably at Pearl Harbor, and did nothing to warn them or avert the attack. Apparently the story wasn't completely hushed up even at the time; some people knew. Perhaps there were actual journalists then who spoke out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

147 I'm with CBD on this one. Seeing the title made me right angry. Rockwell's fault for executing a nice painting named for bullshit commie ideals.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 25, 2024 10:02 AM (lHzOd)

148 It is wrong that steak is not a traditional meal for any major holiday.

Or is it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Steak and Blow Job Day.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (UE7n4)

149 Think I remember Alton Brown on one of his 'Good Eats' shows doing a cute aftermath of this picture.. mentioning how such a colossally oversized bird probably collapsed the table by its own weight.

Posted by: dev2000man at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (vjSNN)

150 It is wrong that steak is not a traditional meal for any major holiday.

Or is it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Steak and BJ day

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (lHzOd)

151 all requiring Big Government to ensure.

********

And yet always failing at that.

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (991eG)

152 The dad kind of resembles FDR a little bit.
Posted by: davidt at November 25, 2024

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More like LBJ. Lookit them ears.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

153 You're being a bit of a hypocrite here, CBD.

You admonish folks for dragging politics into everything, music, theater, movies, and here you completely eviscerate a purely American painting that celebrates a purely American holiday!

Jeepers. Please go for a walk.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (XNYK+)

154 Let's cut to the chase and address the elephant in the room: why does the otherwise attractive young woman on the right have a pencil mustache?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (xCA6C)

155 We just want freedom to worship God without fear.

Posted by: Zachariah at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (gDlxJ)

156 Alternate title:

"Everybody Loves Beyond Turkey's New Premolded Tofurkey!"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (eDfFs)

157 Think I remember Alton Brown on one of his 'Good Eats' shows doing a cute aftermath of this picture.. mentioning how such a colossally oversized bird probably collapsed the table by its own weight.
Posted by: dev2000man

He did an ep where he deep-fried a turkey. He built this amazing contraption outside so he could lower the turkey into the boiling oil safely.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (v6JzV)

158 Let's cut to the chase and address the elephant in the room: why does the otherwise attractive young woman on the right have a pencil mustache?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (xCA6C)

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Botoxed lips?

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (d73WM)

159 I disagree with CBD on this one. It's an anodyne painting of a happy scene - not a political screed.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (xCA6C)

160 Well, it does have a turkey in it, so it's got that going for it...

Posted by: Martin Tell at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (2XEIN)

161 Whatever happened to Smoot, anyway?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I think he moved to Hooterville. Spent all his time playing checkers with Fred Zifffle down at Sam Drucker's store.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024

***
And ogling Lisa Douglas and the Shady Rest girls whenever they came to town!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

162 Carving at the table is a dicey proposition at best as well.

Carve, then serve.

A good sharp knife and some room and you could make a masterpiece with that bird though. Thick (but not too thick) slices the size of your hand. Disclaimer: I have carved a few turkeys in my day.

Mmmmmm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (JQfE3)

163 There is much to be thankful for this year.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (gDlxJ)

164 In the Beastie Boys 1986 address to the nation, they advocated for a Third Bill of Rights.

This consisted of:

1. The right to party.
Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (OguvZ)

In the music video, there's a guy in a white shirt and black pants. Looks a lot like mid-late 80s Doof. My buddies at the time swore it was actually me. Good reference points at 0:44-0:47 (getting smacked with a beer can) and 3:33 (lower right corner).
https://youtu.be/eBShN8qT4lk

I really miss my hair.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:06 AM (jgdZo)

165 Let's cut to the chase and address the elephant in the room: why does the otherwise attractive young woman on the right have a pencil mustache?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024

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Big fan of Clark Gable?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

166 There is much to be thankful for this year.

Two toddler grandkids and two more on the way.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:06 AM (xCA6C)

167 Let's cut to the chase and address the elephant in the room: why does the otherwise attractive young woman on the right have a pencil mustache?

Posted by: Archimedes

What has been seen cannot be unseen.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:07 AM (UE7n4)

168 No doubt that's how Rockwell intended it.

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (MX0bI)

I doubt that very much.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Really? I mean, I don't know anything about Rockwell other than the art. There could be something I don't understand about this.

I still like the scene, though.

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 10:07 AM (MX0bI)

169 Let's cut to the chase and address the elephant in the room:

I think elephant is only served at Thanksgiving in Tanzania.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 10:07 AM (OguvZ)

170 Bulg, I miss Good Eats

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 10:07 AM (gDlxJ)

171 You admonish folks for dragging politics into everything, music, theater, movies, and here you completely eviscerate a purely American painting that celebrates a purely American holiday!

Jeepers. Please go for a walk.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (XNYK+)

Uh...politics is downstream of culture, and there is no denying that. As for my admonishments? I try to keep the art thread clear of politics for the first 100 comments, but I thought that this piece deserved a bit of a skewering.

But the art thread over at HotAir.com has a fantastic and vibrant commenter section. You should head over there if this post displeases you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:07 AM (d9fT1)

172 I think CBD is playing up the schtick a bit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (JQfE3)

173 Notice the absence of morbid obesity in this picture. This is the America I remember.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (jFCkp)

174 Let's cut to the chase and address the elephant in the room: why does the otherwise attractive young woman on the right have a pencil mustache?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (xCA6C)

The Boston Blackie kind?

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (jgdZo)

175 Let's cut to the chase and address the elephant in the room:

I think elephant is only served at Thanksgiving in Tanzania.

Yeah, but the leftovers last forever.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (xCA6C)

176 Has anyone watched the new Ken Burns DaVinci series (think it's just 2 episodes long)? It's based on Walter Isaacson's book. Watched the first episode yesterday -- it is excellent!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:43 AM (u1uWe)

I watched both episodes...thought it was just...alright.

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (Yj6Os)

177 ‘ That kid (young adult?) on the left with his face next to the turkey looks like Matt Gaetz with a shit-eating grin after he banged a 17-year-old at a drug-fueled rave’

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And the little girl next to him has no body -- she looks as if her head is growing out of his shoulder.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

178 Bulg, I miss Good Eats
Posted by: vmom

Yeah, that was a fun show. My wife and I quote lines from it all the time.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (v6JzV)

179 "162 Carving at the table is a dicey proposition at best as well.

Carve, then serve."

Preach it!

Posted by: RS at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (E7m29)

180 154
‘ why does the otherwise attractive young woman on the right have a pencil mustache?’

You found Rockwell’s Easter egg. The mustache
is there to suggest Joseph Stalin.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (jbnUc)

181 The dad kind of resembles FDR a little bit.
Posted by: davidt at November 25, 2024

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More like LBJ. Lookit them ears.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

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I believe it was LBJ who started the meme "Excuse me ... while I whip this out."

/

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (d73WM)

182 57 ... "Has anyone watched the new Ken Burns DaVinci series (think it's just 2 episodes long)? It's based on Walter Isaacson's book. Watched the first episode yesterday -- it is excellent!"

Lizzy, I mentioned it on the book thread yesterday. I thought it was a decent overview of the man but two episodes isn't enough to cover the subject. I wanted more detail on his painting and the techniques he used. But that's me. Glad you enjoyed it. If the shows make you want to learn more, check out the books about his paintings and drawings and his notebooks. They are worth the read.

Posted by: JTB at November 25, 2024 10:09 AM (yTvNw)

183 Speaking of the D of Ed, is Jimmy Carter still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:45 AM (2oLC

Oh crap, you're gonna summon the LET'S DANCE guy...
Posted by: XTC
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You asked for it!!!

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta3YkTdIQqE

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at November 25, 2024 10:09 AM (EFZgU)

184 Has anyone watched the new Ken Burns DaVinci series (think it's just 2 episodes long)? It's based on Walter Isaacson's book. Watched the first episode yesterday -- it is excellent!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:43 AM (u1uWe)

I watched both episodes...thought it was just...alright.

Concur. He was mostly going through the motions.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:09 AM (xCA6C)

185 But the art thread over at HotAir.com has a fantastic and vibrant commenter section. You should head over there if this post displeases you.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

They always have that painting of naked Ed Morrisey on an ottoman. Ugh.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:10 AM (v6JzV)

186 179 Bulg, I miss Good Eats
Posted by: vmom

Yeah, that was a fun show. My wife and I quote lines from it all the time.
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Yep. Well done, informative and entertaining. Alton Brown taught my wife how to make perfect gravy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 10:10 AM (jFCkp)

187 I still like the scene, though.

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 10:07 AM (MX0bI)

The scene is lovely! I think it is wonderful.

The title is offensive.

And Rockwell knew what he was doing...it was full-throated support of FDR and his drive to socialize America. Whether Rockwell was a true believer? I don't know, but his actions indicate that he took it seriously.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:10 AM (d9fT1)

188 Fine fine details, as you'd expect from Rockwell: Grandma's print dress, for example, and the lines on Grandpa's face. Even the celery stalks and the fruit on the table look as if you could pick them right up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)

189 The whiteness in this painting is… I just can’t even right now.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 10:10 AM (VnatX)

190 Bulg, I miss Good Eats
Posted by: vmom

Yeah, that was a fun show. My wife and I quote lines from it all the time.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (v6JzV)

I employ quite a few cooking techniques I learned from AB on that show.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:10 AM (jgdZo)

191 Well, later, peeps. Gotta go shower and get dressed for my interview.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

192 Grandma's arms seem strange for someone holding a 20 pound+ bird on a platter.

Posted by: RS
__________

Yeah, I don't care about all the granny strength legends. She couldn't hold that weight in that position. Unless it's about to slam into the table with her faceplanting into the top of the turkey.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 10:11 AM (Dm8we)

193 But the art thread over at HotAir.com has a fantastic and vibrant commenter section. You should head over there if this post displeases you.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

They always have that painting of naked Ed Morrisey on an ottoman. Ugh.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:10 AM (v6JzV)

Is that Otto-pundit?

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:11 AM (jgdZo)

194 Has anyone seen Martin Scorsese's 'The Saints?'

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 10:11 AM (jFCkp)

195 This painting does a great job depicting that magic moment when the table is set just before the Thanksgiving feast is about to begin and joyful anticipation is at its peak.

Would hang once a year in the dining room so everyone understands what's expected of them in TG day.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2024 10:12 AM (eDfFs)

196 Concur. He was mostly going through the motions.

Burns, not DaVinci.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:12 AM (xCA6C)

197 Well, later, peeps. Gotta go shower and get dressed for my interview.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

If you shower for the interview, they'll expect you to do that every day if you get the job. Ya might want to reconsider.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:12 AM (jgdZo)

198 Has anyone checked under the table for Russians?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:12 AM (xCA6C)

199 Well, later, peeps. Gotta go shower and get dressed for my interview.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024
*
If you shower for the interview, they'll expect you to do that every day if you get the job. Ya might want to reconsider.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 1

***
"Begin as you wish to continue"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:13 AM (J2vNu)

200 100 FDR was a dickhead.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Bers!

To be fair, he was a dickhead first, before he became a Democrat

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 25, 2024 09:57 AM (hOUT3)

Yup, it's in his name. Franklin Dickhead Roosevelt.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2024 10:13 AM (VwHCD)

201 Can you imagine Thanksgiving dinner with Hillary? Cereally.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 10:13 AM (jFCkp)

202 How goes it, fellow insurrectionists?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

203 I never knew the title of this one. Yep the title makes it a bit suspect.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (12v8J)

204 "And Rockwell knew what he was doing...it was full-throated support of FDR and his drive to socialize America."

...

Aw, Jeez...I didn't need to know that.

Never mind. Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (MX0bI)

205 I too was disappointed at all the important things left out of the Da Vinci documentary.

Posted by: renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (OguvZ)

206 Can you imagine Thanksgiving dinner with Hillary? Cereally.

Any number of drunken, belligerent aunts come to mind.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (xCA6C)

207 Notice the absence of morbid obesity in this picture. This is the America I remember.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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250lb max on the old spring scale at Casa de scampydog. New ones being sold max out at 400lbs.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (2bFN5)

208 Classic art in motion:

https://tinyurl.com/42apsack

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 10:15 AM (3KZZ8)

209 Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:12 AM (jgdZo)

Hey Doofenshmirtz, been enjoying your ONTs. Nice work.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:15 AM (12v8J)

210 And ogling Lisa Douglas and the Shady Rest girls whenever they came to town!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

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Petticoat Junction!

Damn, it never occurred to my prepubescent self that that was a double entendre ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 10:15 AM (d73WM)

211 I too was disappointed at all the important things left out of the Da Vinci documentary.

Fortunately, they did cover his probable homosexuality. It would have been tragic to leave that out.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:15 AM (xCA6C)

212 No doubt that's how Rockwell intended it.

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 09:54 AM (MX0bI)

I doubt that very much.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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"Freedom from Want" is the socialist motivation that twists the spirit of what most people think "freedom" to be. Most people think of freedom akin to liberty, but a socialist (and most Europeans, but that's repetitive) argues that a government should provide 'freedom from need (aka want)'. Which is incongruous with liberty. I have a hard time believing Rockwell was pure communist given how pro-American his work was (and a true communist can't support America), but it sounds like he was the more traditional Democrat / New Dealer who wanted government programs to counter 'robber barons'. And the "Freedom from Want" title sympathizes with that view. Tragically that more innocent quasi-socialist rock snowballs decades later into the woke insanity of today...

Posted by: bearski at November 25, 2024 10:16 AM (Bhsk7)

213 250lb max on the old spring scale at Casa de scampydog. New ones being sold max out at 400lbs.
Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (2bFN5)
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Or if they have a 2-for-1 sales on scales....

/math

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 10:16 AM (3KZZ8)

214 I admire the attempt at realism here but there's not enough family strife portrayed at the table.

At least one kid should be tears.

And two adults pointing fingers and bitching.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 10:16 AM (Q4IgG)

215 174 Notice the absence of morbid obesity in this picture. This is the America I remember.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (jFCkp)

You don’t even need to go back that far.

I remember in 3rd grade we had one “fat kid” in my class. Today that kid would be in the top 1/2 of the class in terms of weight health.

It just happened overnight it seems where everyone got fat. And you can’t blame it all on preservatives and shit in food. Plenty of packaged food and fast food existed in the 70s and 80s and people were still skinny.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 10:16 AM (VnatX)

216 How goes it, fellow insurrectionists?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

Welcome back! I mean - them's fighting words!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:16 AM (jgdZo)

217 Or if they have a 2-for-1 sales on scales....

/math
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 10:16 AM (3KZZ

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/and physics

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 10:16 AM (3KZZ8)

218 Fortunately, they did cover his probable homosexuality. It would have been tragic to leave that out.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:15 AM (xCA6C)

of course

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:17 AM (Yj6Os)

219 But the art thread over at HotAir.com has a fantastic and vibrant commenter section. You should head over there if this post displeases you.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDild

Dude. Calm down.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 10:17 AM (QXQsI)

220 217 How goes it, fellow insurrectionists?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

Welcome back! I mean - them's fighting words!
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:16 AM (jgdZo)

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"them's fighting words"?

Those are fighting' words...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

221 Classic art in motion:

https://tinyurl.com/42apsack

That was really cool. Thanks. I especially liked the clips of Nappy B and Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:18 AM (xCA6C)

222 Classic art in motion:

https://tinyurl.com/42apsack

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 10:15 AM (3KZZ

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Wow.

Now do Jackson Pollack and Hunter Biden ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 10:18 AM (d73WM)

223 Who wears a suit and tie for Thanksgiving? Posted by: BignJames

You're a sissy, and someday you might grow the hell up.
I usually wear a homespun shirt, leather singlet and a tricorn.
You just get off the boat, or what.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 10:18 AM (zdLoL)

224 Hey Doofenshmirtz, been enjoying your ONTs. Nice work.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:15 AM (12v8J)

Thank you!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:19 AM (jgdZo)

225 250lb max on the old spring scale at Casa de scampydog. New ones being sold max out at 400lbs.
Posted by: scampydog

Digital readout... one at a time, please.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 25, 2024 10:19 AM (lHzOd)

226 I employ quite a few cooking techniques I learned from AB on that show.

If you're going to do a traditional oven-roasted turkey, watch and follow his brining and roasting method. Perfect every time. Also, I loved his Rube Goldberg hoisting contraption for the deep-fried turkey.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 10:19 AM (/y8xj)

227 I don't see any politics in this picture. I see family and joy. We need more of it.

Posted by: Megthered at November 25, 2024 10:19 AM (Mtips)

228 It just happened overnight it seems where everyone got fat. And you can’t blame it all on preservatives and shit in food. Plenty of packaged food and fast food existed in the 70s and 80s and people were still skinny.

Not to worry. RFKJ will save us by telling us what rations we'll be allowed to eat.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:20 AM (xCA6C)

229 George Lincoln Rockwell… any relation to Norman Rockwell??

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 10:20 AM (PCK5/)

230 To me, this illustration celebrates family and intergenerational ties and some of the happiness of childhood memories, all in a distinctly American way. It's not a flag, but it's a banner.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:20 AM (VnUSN)

231 ‘ why does the otherwise attractive young woman on the right have a pencil mustache?’

You found Rockwell’s Easter egg. The mustache
is there to suggest Joseph Stalin.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Looks like the guy from NYC who wears a black suit and stops in Peoria.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:20 AM (UE7n4)

232 How goes it, fellow insurrectionists?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

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The consensus of The Horde is that Dolly will likely need to take maternity leave sometime next year ...

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 10:20 AM (v6zUe)

233 "them's fighting words"?

Those are fighting' words...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

No need to put the apostrophe at the end if the g is there. Did your brain get scrambled while you were at sea??

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:21 AM (jgdZo)

234 It just happened overnight it seems where everyone got fat. And you can’t blame it all on preservatives and shit in food. Plenty of packaged food and fast food existed in the 70s and 80s and people were still skinny.

Lot less office jobs where people sit on their ass for eight hours. Me included.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:22 AM (UE7n4)

235 It just happened overnight it seems where everyone got fat. And you can’t blame it all on preservatives and shit in food. Plenty of packaged food and fast food existed in the 70s and 80s and people were still skinny.

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Sedentary lifestyle.

I have a horrible diet but exercise regularly -- and have been blessed with excellent health.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 10:22 AM (v6zUe)

236 Actually I think they spell tyranny
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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Exactly

That's why I cut the quote right there. This is the distinction CBD and others are making.

If the "Freedom from Want" came from the hard work and perseverance of Grandma and Grandpa and the family farm, that would be one thing.

But this was painted in 1942 and made the Saturday Evening Post cover in 1943 and echoes FDR's 1941 speech of the Four Freedoms.

in the waning years of WWII when Britain was promising the populace NHS and old age pensions for all in return for the sacrifices made during the war years, and The US was on the brink of a massive expansion of social welfare programs.

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:22 AM (991eG)

237 Another fan of Good Eats. I learned a lot from that show. His Thanksgiving one hour episode, "Romancing The Bird" taught me a lot (and was funny as well). That brining method makes a huge difference.

Posted by: JTB at November 25, 2024 10:23 AM (yTvNw)

238 ttps://tinyurl.com/42apsack

That was really cool. Thanks. I especially liked the clips of Nappy B and Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024

***
The girl at :23 looked especially lifelike. And Napoleon began to resemble Marlon Brando by :44 -- but still, great work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

239 188 I still like the scene, though.

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 10:07 AM (MX0bI)

The scene is lovely! I think it is wonderful.

The title is offensive.

And Rockwell knew what he was doing...it was full-throated support of FDR and his drive to socialize America. Whether Rockwell was a true believer? I don't know, but his actions indicate that he took it seriously.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:10 AM (d9fT1)

Nobody reads the titles of paintings, except art world folks. The 99.9% of folks who view this will think "this is Thanksgiving in America, and damn I want that for me"...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 10:23 AM (exHjb)

240 173 I think CBD is playing up the schtick a bit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (JQfE3)

Then he forgot a snark tag!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:23 AM (VnUSN)

241 233 The consensus of The Horde is that Dolly will likely need to take maternity leave sometime next year ...

/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 10:20 AM (v6zUe)

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Well...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

242
Denounce New Deal crypto communism or be gone!

Gotta go to work I guess (slithers away)

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2024 10:23 AM (j4U/Z)

243 234 No need to put the apostrophe at the end if the g is there. Did your brain get scrambled while you were at sea??
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:21 AM (jgdZo)

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Well, I did get a 103 degree fever at one point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

244 The war on protein and fat was a killer.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:24 AM (12v8J)

245 The consensus of The Horde is that Dolly will likely need to take maternity leave sometime next year ...

/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 10:20 AM (v6zUe)

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Well...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

So you DO get it

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:24 AM (jgdZo)

246 I admire the attempt at realism here but there's not enough family strife portrayed at the table.

At least one kid should be tears.

And two adults pointing fingers and bitching.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

No wine or scotch glasses. Not even tea or sodas. Just water.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:24 AM (UE7n4)

247 It just happened overnight it seems where everyone got fat. And you can’t blame it all on preservatives and shit in food. Plenty of packaged food and fast food existed in the 70s and 80s and people were still skinny.

Lot less office jobs where people sit on their ass for eight hours. Me included.
Posted by: rickb223
_________

And more smoking.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 25, 2024 10:24 AM (Dm8we)

248 And the participants are so White! Rockwell couldn't do that these days.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at November 25, 2024 10:25 AM (cB7nX)

249 246 So you DO get it
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:24 AM (jgdZo)

=======

Well, that, I do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

250 This is not a great rationalization but:

Consider that a "blanket pardon" of any who committed crimes on J6 ... would include all the deep state paid provocateurs, agents and instigators.

Is that why the word is out that it'll be case-by-case?
IDK.
Like a say, it's not a great reason, but should be a consideration.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 10:26 AM (8Kx9y)

251 If you're searching the thread for comments from CBD, like I did, go with (d9fT1).

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:26 AM (VnUSN)

252 No wine or scotch glasses. Not even tea or sodas. Just water.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:24 AM (UE7n4)

No sweet taters.

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:26 AM (Yj6Os)

253 You don’t even need to go back that far.

I remember in 3rd grade we had one “fat kid” in my class. Today that kid would be in the top 1/2 of the class in terms of weight health.

It just happened overnight it seems where everyone got fat. And you can’t blame it all on preservatives and shit in food. Plenty of packaged food and fast food existed in the 70s and 80s and people were still skinny.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 10:16 AM (VnatX)

Apparently, you can blame the 90's loophole of GRAS - generally recognized as safe. Companies have abused that to no end since it was allowed, and that's how crap has gotten in our food. It wasn't known til Great Harvest almost killed folks (cost 39 gall bladders and counting) with an ingredient a Peruvian company self-certified as good 2 years ago for a vegan product...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 10:26 AM (exHjb)

254 3.The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
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Already made a mockery of via Wickard v. Filburn.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 10:26 AM (z0QHk)

255 Who wears a suit and tie for Thanksgiving? Posted by: BignJames

***
I may not wear a tie this Thurs. when we go out to eat, but I will wear a sport coat, nice shirt and slacks, and Crocs.

Not really; I'll wear brown oxford shoes; but I gotcha there, huh?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

256 what is that little item that looks like a flan, just below the things that look like celery or fennel?

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 10:27 AM (dCxaZ)

257 I will just take this painting at its’ face value, and skip deeper analysis… happier that way.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 10:27 AM (PCK5/)

258 253 No wine or scotch glasses. Not even tea or sodas. Just water.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:24 AM (UE7n4)

No sweet taters.
Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:26 AM (Yj6Os)

They could be inside that china tureen.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:27 AM (VnUSN)

259 Apparently, you can blame the 90's loophole of GRAS - generally recognized as safe. Companies have abused that to no end since it was allowed, and that's how crap has gotten in our food. It wasn't known til Great Harvest almost killed folks (cost 39 gall bladders and counting) with an ingredient a Peruvian company self-certified as good 2 years ago for a vegan product...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024

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"Gras" is the French word for "fat." Coincidence? YOu make the call. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

260 Gros.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 10:28 AM (PCK5/)

261 "The GRAS loophole was originally intended to cover ingredients that are already known to be safe, such as vegetable oil, flour, baking soda, and spices. In 1997, the FDA loosened the existing protocol, creating the “voluntary notification” system." 1997 is the date we all started getting killed by US companies...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2024 10:28 AM (exHjb)

262 No sweet taters.
Posted by: BignJames

No wonder they were skinny. An emu, some celery and some wax fruit.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:28 AM (UE7n4)

263 what is that little item that looks like a flan, just below the things that look like celery or fennel?
Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024

Just below the celery? Jello, maybe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

264 257 what is that little item that looks like a flan, just below the things that look like celery or fennel?
Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 10:27 AM (dCxaZ)

Jellied cranberry sauce?

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:28 AM (VnUSN)

265 Grandpa needs a better fork and knife for that bird.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 25, 2024 10:29 AM (LetHV)

266 Can you imagine Thanksgiving dinner with Hillary? Cereally.
Posted by: Pudinhead

************

Muldoon: "Hey, who brought the empty wine box?"

Hillary: "Hic!"

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:29 AM (991eG)

267 263 No sweet taters.
Posted by: BignJames

No wonder they were skinny. An emu, some celery and some wax fruit.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:28 AM (UE7n4)

Emu is very tasty.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 10:29 AM (PCK5/)

268 Now I want some sweet potatoes.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:29 AM (VnUSN)

269 They could be inside that china tureen.
Posted by: m

China or silver?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:29 AM (UE7n4)

270 ... and I mean NOW.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:29 AM (VnUSN)

271 @257 That is aspic jelly. Gelatin derived from boiling bones. My hubbies MeMaw made a version with veggies in it. I miss her dearly but not her aspic jelly....

Posted by: Scarymary at November 25, 2024 10:30 AM (K1HkL)

272 what is that little item that looks like a flan, just below the things that look like celery or fennel?

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 10:27 AM (dCxaZ)

liver mush

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:30 AM (Yj6Os)

273 and where are the manicotti?

and the wedding soup??

Posted by: kallisto, whose family celebrated thanksgiving Italian style at November 25, 2024 10:30 AM (dCxaZ)

274 Isn't art in the eye of the beholder? A painting doesn't just reflect the views of the artist. It reflects the views of the observer.

Who cares what the artist thinks? I'm viewing the work, not someone's politics. I wonder what Vermeer's politics were. Should I investigate before admiring his art?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 10:31 AM (SfhV1)

275 and where are the manicotti?

and the wedding soup??
Posted by: kallisto

Probably a 1,000 miles east in NYC's Little Italy.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:31 AM (UE7n4)

276 270 They could be inside that china tureen.
Posted by: m

China or silver?
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:29 AM (UE7n4)

The base makes me think china, but hmm.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:32 AM (VnUSN)

277 I'm with grammie.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 10:32 AM (ya/XM)

278 https://tinyurl.com/42apsack

That was really cool. Thanks. I especially liked the clips of Nappy B and Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024

***
The girl at :23 looked especially lifelike. And Napoleon began to resemble Marlon Brando by :44 -- but still, great work.

***
The girl at :23 to :25 looks awfully familiar, too, but I can't put a name to her.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

279 Freedom from Want, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms series of four oil paintings by American artist Norman Rockwell. The works were inspired by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address, known as Four Freedoms. Wikipedia
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Who could hold a real cooked 20+ lb. turkey at that position and place on the table without tumbling sideways or spilling the plate? Yeah, maybe Grandmom so many decades ago.

Water glasses, celery, salt cellars and parsley decorating meat, fish, or fowl platters was the family norm even for our raucous crews at Thanksgiving and Sunday dinners, all served between 1 and 2 pm.

Anyway, it's still a sweet painting and a lovely start of the art week.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

280 No wine or scotch glasses. Not even tea or sodas. Just water.

Could be vodka.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 10:32 AM (/y8xj)

281 275 Isn't art in the eye of the beholder? A painting doesn't just reflect the views of the artist. It reflects the views of the observer.

Who cares what the artist thinks? I'm viewing the work, not someone's politics. I wonder what Vermeer's politics were. Should I investigate before admiring his art?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 10:31 AM (SfhV1)

It’s politics all the way down right now… post election victory exuberance.. it’ll susbside.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 10:33 AM (PCK5/)

282 The base makes me think china, but hmm.
Posted by: m

Yeah. Base and lid look china. But the handles look silver.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 10:33 AM (UE7n4)

283 Gripes about The Four Freedoms notwithstanding, I highly recommend the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, if you have the opportunity to visit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 10:33 AM (ZANHd)

284 It was a simpler time that maybe never exactly existed but I miss it and they are why we're here.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:33 AM (VnUSN)

285 Probably a 1,000 miles east in NYC's Little Italy.

IIRC Rockwell was from new England. so those goodies would be closer, like the North End of Boston or Providence RI

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 10:33 AM (dCxaZ)

286 Could be vodka.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 10:32 AM (/y8xj)

shine

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:33 AM (Yj6Os)

287 My family's one, enduring Thanksgiving tradition; Bloody Mary's during the day. I don't drink them often, but more than make up for it on Thanksgiving.

Dad would be so proud.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 10:33 AM (Q4IgG)

288 No pride flags? None of the kids announcing their pronouns and demanding to be called stunning and brave? What Hell on Earth is this?

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 10:34 AM (lXoJ5)

289 Could be vodka.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 10:32 AM (/y8xj)
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Or gin.

"Always drink gin with a mark, kid. He can't tell if you've cut it."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 10:34 AM (z0QHk)

290 The little girl at upper left looks like she has a SPIDER coming out of her hair.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:35 AM (VnUSN)

291 Who cares what the artist thinks? I'm viewing the work, not someone's politics. I wonder what Vermeer's politics were. Should I investigate before admiring his art?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 10:31 AM (SfhV1)

If the title of the piece gives away what the artist thinks it's worth at least paying attention to.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:35 AM (12v8J)

292 Dad would be so proud.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 10:33 AM (Q4IgG)

Bloody Marys sounds like a very good idea!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:35 AM (yLvqS)

293 Classic art in motion:

https://tinyurl.com/42apsack

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 10:15 AM (3KZZ

Very cool. Reminds me of an animated film called Loving Vincent. All animation was done in the style of Van Gogh paintings. It incorporates many of his more famous works. It tells a story of his last few months as a mystery. An investigator is talking with people trying to determine if it really was suicide or, perhaps, something more sinister. Also very cool animation.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 25, 2024 10:35 AM (4XwPj)

294 Looking at this painting from an artist's POV, the limited palette strikes me. It's just white, blues and various gold/sepia tones...very effective in establishing a light filled environment.

and happy too

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 10:35 AM (dCxaZ)

295 @283 Stockbridge just lost its other landmark:
Alice, from Alice's Restaurant, has passed away.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 10:36 AM (zdLoL)

296 Sometimes a turkey is just a turkey.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 10:36 AM (QTCRF)

297 IIRC Rockwell was from new England. so those goodies would be closer, like the North End of Boston or Providence RI
Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 10:33 AM

Stockbridge. Western MA. About 5 miles from the NY line.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (ZANHd)

298 If someone paints a picture of an eagle draped in red white and blue and calls it The Great Satan, I want to know.

That said, it wouldn't really offend me at this point because honestly I kind of get it.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (12v8J)

299 Is it a Norman Rockwell week? yay. I love love his paintings.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (EmT/E)

300 All of these rights spell security.

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 09:51 AM (991eG)

That's a terrible limerick!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

********

Sifhgh, fine

Alphabets Soup Kitchen - a limerick

Roosevelt's speech promised surety
With big dose of left winger purity
WPA, TVA, SSA
HHS, NRA, FHA
All together that spells: Soocial Innsecurity"

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (991eG)

301 Bloody Marys sounds like a very good idea!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:35 AM (yLvqS)

Is V8 juice ok?

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (Yj6Os)

302 If the title of the piece gives away what the artist thinks it's worth at least paying attention to.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:35 AM (12v8J)

I see "Freedom From Want" and I think "God Shed His Grace On Thee."

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (SfhV1)

303 @283 Stockbridge just lost its other landmark:
Alice, from Alice's Restaurant, has passed away.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 10:36 AM

*doffs hat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (ZANHd)

304 Looking at this painting from an artist's POV, the limited palette strikes me. It's just white, blues and various gold/sepia tones...very effective in establishing a light filled environment.

and happy too
Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 10:35 AM (dCxaZ)
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I've always thought Rockwell's palette was rather muddy. Did a lot with it, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 10:38 AM (z0QHk)

305 Sifhgh. = sigh

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:38 AM (991eG)

306 I’m sorry, I must quote Alan Lichtman and declare this post to be Blasphemy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 10:38 AM (Ereai)

307 Isn't art in the eye of the beholder? A painting doesn't just reflect the views of the artist. It reflects the views of the observer.

Who cares what the artist thinks? I'm viewing the work, not someone's politics. I wonder what Vermeer's politics were. Should I investigate before admiring his art?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 10:31 AM (SfhV1)

I see CBD's point, though. Rockwell's choice of title brings implications to the painting. Rockwell connected a political theme -- not CBD. If one can ignore the connection - so be it. But if one doesn't ignore the connection, and thereby points it out as part of an overall discussion of the work - that's still well within the "eye of the beholder" thing.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:38 AM (jgdZo)

308 Stockbridge. Western MA. About 5 miles from the NY line.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (ZANHd)

Oh wow I attended a wedding there once. The woman was a narcissistic shrew hag but the egg rolls were to die for.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:38 AM (12v8J)

309 Grandpa looks like Bibi Netanyahu with Obama ears.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 10:38 AM (2ocoG)

310 301 Bloody Marys sounds like a very good idea!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:35 AM (yLvqS)

Is V8 juice ok?
Posted by: BignJames

Cesar >> Bloody Mary

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 25, 2024 10:39 AM (ya/XM)

311 I’m sorry, I must quote Alan Lichtman and declare this post to be Blasphemy.

CBD is actually Cenk's Brown Dildo?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 10:39 AM (2ocoG)

312 Rockwell created paintings for each of Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" during the war. I like all of the justly-famous paintings. Roosevelt's concept, not so much.
https://www.nrm.org/2012/10/collections-four-freedoms/

Posted by: IronDave at November 25, 2024 10:39 AM (k3crU)

313

I see "Freedom From Want" and I think "God Shed His Grace On Thee."
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (SfhV1)

Perhaps. But I think the zeitgeist at the time was this idea that Daddy Government was there to save you. I'll do some reading on it.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:40 AM (12v8J)

314 Sometimes a turkey is just a turkey.

Posted by: runner

Hey! Don't talk about CBD like that!

Posted by: Bombadil at November 25, 2024 10:40 AM (MX0bI)

315 Luke Skywalker, 11/4/24.

https://is.gd/Tuc9KA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 10:41 AM (L/fGl)

316 Pass the jellied cranberries, please. It wiggles and shimmies!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2024 10:41 AM (Aqu9a)

317 A reporter actually did his job that day and asked, "What if the unemployed person didn't want the job the government assigned him?" And the answer? "Well that person would be forced to take it of course"
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:39 AM (oZhjI)

You mean like if that person was black, and the job was picking cotton?

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 10:41 AM (Ereai)

318 The title wasn't intended ironically was it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

319 Muldoon: "Hey, who brought the empty wine box?"

I saw something over the weekend about how one of the former USSR countries had box vodka on sale. Now that's the real Val-U-Rite.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 10:42 AM (2ocoG)

320 Harmeet Dhillon is off to Alaska, to handle legal issues on the Alaska recount.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 25, 2024 10:42 AM (gfViB)

321 Isn't art in the eye of the beholder? A painting doesn't just reflect the views of the artist. It reflects the views of the observer.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 10:31 AM (SfhV1)

Yep. An artist may have an intention, but everyone gets to interpret their work in their own way.

"You weren't supposed to take it like that!" is my favorite whine from artists, musicians, filmmakers etc.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 10:42 AM (OguvZ)

322 Is that Norman himself in the lower left?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 25, 2024 10:43 AM (wzAuc)

323 321 Yep. An artist may have an intention, but everyone gets to interpret their work in their own way.

"You weren't supposed to take it like that!" is my favorite whine from artists, musicians, filmmakers etc.
Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 10:42 AM (OguvZ)

=======

But ignoring parts of the art (like the title) and interpreting it absent that chosen excision weakens an argument.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

324 "That's a big bird. 20 pounder?
Posted by: spindrift"

Granny's been working out.

Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2024 10:43 AM (fV+MH)

325 I'm sure it's been mentioned but, recall W's trip to Iraq for Thanksgiving?

"iT wAZ a PLaztIC TurKeY!"

It was amazing that the media insisted on printing the lie no matter what just to attack him.

And that was 20 years ago.
Now they are so much worse.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 10:43 AM (8Kx9y)

326 I remember that there was a bit of unpleasantness going on when this painting was made.. people were pretty supportive of Roosevelt during this time, his ideology notwithstanding.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 10:44 AM (PCK5/)

327 The Bongino STFU.

Bill Kristol@BillKristol
I don’t personally know Rep. Nancy Mace or Rep. Sarah McBride, and I can’t say I’ve thoroughly researched their biographies or political views. But I’ve seen enough in recent days to say this: I am very grateful to be of the party of Sarah McBride, and not that of Nancy Mace.

Dan Bongino@dbongino
We’re grateful too Bill.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

328 325 I'm sure it's been mentioned but, recall W's trip to Iraq for Thanksgiving?

"iT wAZ a PLaztIC TurKeY!"

It was amazing that the media insisted on printing the lie no matter what just to attack him.

And that was 20 years ago.
Now they are so much worse.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 10:43 AM (8Kx9y)

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They wouldn't have done that to a quality candidate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

329 Good thing there are no mashed taters on that table, or the Horde would be throwing them at each other by now.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 25, 2024 10:44 AM (LxER7)

330 Is V8 juice ok?

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (Yj6Os)

yes

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 10:44 AM (dCxaZ)

331 No pride flags? None of the kids announcing their pronouns and demanding to be called stunning and brave? What Hell on Earth is this?

Ah, you've solved the mystery of the woman with the pencil mustache! She's a tranny.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:45 AM (xCA6C)

332 I had forgotten all about the old Val-u-rite meme.

Posted by: eleven at November 25, 2024 10:45 AM (fV+MH)

333 317 A reporter actually did his job that day and asked, "What if the unemployed person didn't want the job the government assigned him?" And the answer? "Well that person would be forced to take it of course"
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:39 AM (oZhjI)

You mean like if that person was black, and the job was picking cotton?
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 10:41 AM (Ereai)

from the tech thread:

116
Democrats 2019:
Without illegal aliens who will pick our crops?

Democrats 1860:
Without black slaves who will pick our cotton?
shows they still have a slave owner mentality

@akafacehots
Nov 24
Democrats be like
Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 07:16 AM (VnUSN)

Horde!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:45 AM (VnUSN)

334 I saw something over the weekend about how one of the former USSR countries had box vodka on sale. Now that's the real Val-U-Rite.

**********

My D=I=L was in Australia for work a while back and bought red wine in a pop-top can at a burger joint///

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:46 AM (991eG)

335 334 My D=I=L was in Australia for work a while back and bought red wine in a pop-top can at a burger joint///
Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:46 AM (991eG)

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You can buy those in America.

We bought one out of curiosity once. It was gross.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

336 Perhaps freedom from want is a tribute to the productive capacity of the American economy, which leads to things like bounteous harvests and ample food for most, if not - this being the real world - all. Regardless of any ulterior motives FDR may have had in declaring the four freedoms, the freedoms themselves are laudable goals (and two are constitutional rights), although naturally freedom from want can, and has been, used as an excuse for larger and more intrusive and oppressive government. Nonetheless, picking a fight with Norman Rockwell over this painting - which most people, the title notwithstanding, view fondly as a specimen of that great American tradition, the Thanksgiving dinner - seems a bit ...curmudgeonly.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024 10:46 AM (njExo)

337 327
Bill Kristol@BillKristol
I don’t personally know Rep. Nancy Mace or Rep. Sarah McBride, and I can’t say I’ve thoroughly researched their biographies or political views. But I’ve seen enough in recent days to say this: I am very grateful to be of the party of Sarah McBride, and not that of Nancy Mace.

Dan Bongino@dbongino
We’re grateful too Bill.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

Even thankful!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:47 AM (VnUSN)

338 Relax, everyone. I'm sure this is nothing.

zerohedge@zerohedge
US Officials Discussed Giving Nuclear Weapons To Ukraine

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

339 I've made Blood Mary's with V-8 before. It just needs to be jacked up a bit. And the spicey version is just shit for a mix. Ask me how I know...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 10:48 AM (Q4IgG)

340 Is V8 juice ok?

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:37 AM (Yj6Os)

yes

Posted by: kallisto at November 25, 2024 10:44 AM (dCxaZ)

I think it's fine...but I know CBD can be...persnickety.

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:48 AM (Yj6Os)

341 I'm not calling Norman Rockwell a crypto-communist, but this is a rare misstep in a long career that is marked by his respect for and celebration of America.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM
Maybe you meant ‘freedom from want to pay my own way’?

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2024 10:48 AM (jgmnb)

342 I am very grateful to be of the party of Sarah McBride, and not that of Nancy Mace.

Well, Bill, the real question is "are the Dems happy to have you in their party?" It's my guess they view you with contempt, and as merely a useful idiot.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM (xCA6C)

343 Nonetheless, picking a fight with Norman Rockwell over this painting - which most people, the title notwithstanding, view fondly as a specimen of that great American tradition, the Thanksgiving dinner - seems a bit ...curmudgeonly.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024 10:46 AM (njExo)

You want a curmudgeon?

Just wait until tomorrow!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM (yLvqS)

344 Nonetheless, picking a fight [ ... ] seems a bit ...curmudgeonly.

You new here, bro?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM (/y8xj)

345 20 CBD, are you having a bad day?

This looks to me like many an intergenerational Turkey Day as celebrated by my family, all of whom worked their a*ses to make sure they had food on the table and shelter for their families!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
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Beat me to it.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM (om3Wy)

346 "Freedom from Want is actually a derisive swipe at FDR. In the painting we see no government hand delivering food or services. We see only a family, brought together by an American tradition, and collecting their things together voluntarily, without force from a third party. Freedom from Want is in the American character, according to this painting, not something government can force."
-probably not, but an effort to use the title within criticism of the art that goes against the interpretation that CBD put forward...I know almost nothing of Rockwell

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

347 Is that Norman himself in the lower left?
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 25, 2024 10:43 AM (wzAuc)
-

It ain't Alfred Hitchcock!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM (3KZZ8)

348 Mr. and Mrs. T Bloody Mary Mix
https://youtu.be/Pz1AdzVLnuY

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 10:50 AM (jgdZo)

349 I'm not calling Norman Rockwell a crypto-communist, but this is a rare misstep in a long career that is marked by his respect for and celebration of America.

Dang. Did zombie Norman Rockwell pour pure Vermont Grade B maple syrup on CBD's French Toast this morning?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 10:51 AM (TTO0Z)

350 Holding on too tight dude.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 25, 2024 10:51 AM (Z8Yh2)

351 There is a pastiche of this painting in the closing credits of "Lilo and Stitch."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 10:51 AM (z0QHk)

352 Ah well, the pot of shit hath been stirred… Mondays, whatcha gonna do??

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 10:51 AM (PCK5/)

353 "Freedom From Want" is what capitalism is all about.

Is this a social contract between the government and the American people? Hell, no.

The government is NOT the economy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 10:52 AM (RIvkX)

354 What I hate most about the W in Iraq for Thanksgiving lie was, they went so insane to push the lie, for the biggest reason, to keep American's from seeing how much the troops appreciated and enjoyed that he was there.

While they were running daily "grim milestone" counters of the deaths each night on the news.

And you could just feel the hate ooze off of the media at that visual because they knew how authentic it was and that no Democrat will ever get that kind of reception from the troops.
Not even their President Dream Date Obama.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2024 10:52 AM (8Kx9y)

355 343 Nonetheless, picking a fight with Norman Rockwell over this painting - which most people, the title notwithstanding, view fondly as a specimen of that great American tradition, the Thanksgiving dinner - seems a bit ...curmudgeonly.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024 10:46 AM (njExo)

You want a curmudgeon?

Just wait until tomorrow!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM (yLvqS)

uh-oh

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:52 AM (VnUSN)

356 You want a curmudgeon?

Just wait until tomorrow!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM

Freud incoming!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 10:53 AM (TTO0Z)

357 336 Perhaps freedom from want is a tribute to the productive capacity of the American economy, which leads to things like bounteous harvests and ample food for most, if not - this being the real world - all. Regardless of any ulterior motives FDR may have had in declaring the four freedoms, the freedoms themselves are laudable goals (and two are constitutional rights), although naturally freedom from want can, and has been, used as an excuse for larger and more intrusive and oppressive government. Nonetheless, picking a fight with Norman Rockwell over this painting - which most people, the title notwithstanding, view fondly as a specimen of that great American tradition, the Thanksgiving dinner - seems a bit ...curmudgeonly.
Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2024 10:46 AM (njExo)

I agree with you on all this. I would have left off most of the last sentence, but that's just me!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:53 AM (VnUSN)

358 Merry Christmas movie!

Juanita Broaddrick@atensnut
OMG! CNN and MSNBC ratings have lost out to Hallmark. Hallmark has more viewers than CNN or MSNBC.

-
Well, Hallmark Christmas movies are more in touch with reality.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

359 You want freedom from want?
Then roll up your sleeves, go to work, and earn it.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 10:54 AM (W/lyH)

360 > You want a curmudgeon?

Just wait until tomorrow!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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I've marked by calendar. This will be good.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 10:54 AM (Q4IgG)

361 The art is excellent, the title is not.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (SSBCb)

362 I waaant it, I waaaant it, I waaant it...

You caaaan't have it!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (z0QHk)

363 Given the currently desire of communist Europe to plan agriculture and tell people what they can and can't eat or raise, freedom from want is a good thing. I can get what I want. Not what I'm told to want by urban elites. I'll accept Rockwell's painting as validation tradition and not as a " government granted turkey. Nothing in that picture suggests poverty or welfare.

Posted by: Enough BS at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (2NXcZ)

364 Freud incoming!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 10:53 AM (TTO0Z)

Worse.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (yLvqS)

365 364 Freud incoming!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 10:53 AM (TTO0Z)

Worse.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (yLvqS)

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It's not pretty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

366 361 The art is excellent, the title is not.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (SSBCb)

Then maybe think of it as “ Family Thanksgiving” like I do.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (PCK5/)

367 Planning to be a curmudgeon kinda saps the magic. Being a curmudgeon should be natural and organic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (RIvkX)

368 Merry Christmas movie!

Juanita Broaddrick@atensnut
OMG! CNN and MSNBC ratings have lost out to Hallmark. Hallmark has more viewers than CNN or MSNBC.

-
Well, Hallmark Christmas movies are more in touch with reality.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 25, 2024 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
***

CNN needs to hire Lacey Chebert and Jill Wagner.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (W/lyH)

369 This painting brought a tear to my eye.

I'm definitely getting "Old".

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (QB+5g)

370 You want a curmudgeon?

Just wait until tomorrow!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM
-

Taters gonna Tate!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (3KZZ8)

371 Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

Are you STIL.L in the hospital? You're going to be in the repair shop longer than JJ's computer at this rate.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (v6JzV)

372 Freud incoming!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 10:53 AM (TTO0Z)

Worse.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (yLvqS)
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Klimt? Pollock?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (z0QHk)

373 A small museum in Appleton, WI had a showing of Rockwell paintings a few years ago. Almost every work was on display. Spent hours there. A fantastic day.

Posted by: French Jeton at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (VDSsj)

374 There's really not a lot of food going on in that illustration. Mainly turkey. There's probably some bread on an adjacent table. It all seems more about the celebration than the bounty.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (VnUSN)

375 359. And there's no reason to believe the adults in that picture didn't work or earn it. And at that time the already rich hadn't shipped manufacturing to China to become even richer.

Posted by: Enough BS at November 25, 2024 10:57 AM (2NXcZ)

376 Musk would never make a dime off MSNBC, but he might buy it just as a big “Fuck You!!!” To all of his critics. Imagine him making it a podcast/broadcast channel.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 10:57 AM (Ereai)

377 364 Freud incoming!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 10:53 AM (TTO0Z)

Worse.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (yLvqS)

Note to self: Pick up hazmat suit from cleaners this afternoon.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 25, 2024 10:57 AM (LxER7)

378 I want a new drug.

Posted by: Huey Lewis at November 25, 2024 10:57 AM (OguvZ)

379 You want a curmudgeon?

Just wait until tomorrow!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2024 10:49 AM
-

Taters gonna Tate!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (3KZZ

***

Freedom from Ottomans?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 10:57 AM (W/lyH)

380 I always had the sense that the British public was clamoring for government social welfare services in the wake of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the threat of Nazi invasion, as their due recompense.

While in the USA, the sense was more, "win the war so the boys can get back home to their gals, their folks, their hometowns and building hot rods". Our civilian populace never faced the same travails as the British and our military didn't have as devastating a death toll relative to population. So the demand for a social welfare state was blunted and delayed a decade or two.

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:58 AM (991eG)

381 366 361 The art is excellent, the title is not.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (SSBCb)

Then maybe think of it as “ Family Thanksgiving” like I do.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (PCK5/)

Agree that would have been a worthier title.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 10:58 AM (SSBCb)

382 Freedom from Ottomans?
Posted by: Diogenes

Tanned, rested, and ready!
-- Zombie Jan Sobieski

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:59 AM (v6JzV)

383 Freedom from want

I want red beans and rice

Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 10:59 AM (Yj6Os)

384 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 11:00 AM (v6JzV)

385 Thanksgiving in the style of Hieronymus Bosch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 11:00 AM (Ereai)

386 Our civilian populace never faced the same travails as the British and our military didn't have as devastating a death toll relative to population. So the demand for a social welfare state was blunted and delayed a decade or two.

Posted by: muldoon at November 25, 2024 10:58 AM (991eG)
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OTOH, the UK was pretty much the only European country that was mostly intact, had hundreds of thousands of demobbed soldiers ready to go to work, and still elected a socialist government that f'ed everything they touched.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 25, 2024 11:01 AM (z0QHk)

387 I still want pastrami because of the comment Sefton made yesterday.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 25, 2024 11:01 AM (4XwPj)

388 371 Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

Are you STIL.L in the hospital? You're going to be in the repair shop longer than JJ's computer at this rate.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (v6JzV)

Indeed, although unlike JJ's computer, I returned home a few times in between before something else broke down.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:01 AM (SSBCb)

389 "Freedom From Want" is what capitalism is all about.
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I guess.

I think it's the way that Democrats altered the word "freedom" the way they do these days with justice.

Freedom From Want is not a God granted inalienable freedom.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 11:01 AM (12v8J)

390 Not one glass of beer in the painting. Commie!

Posted by: Rex B at November 25, 2024 11:01 AM (1uXoH)

391 Morning.

I think CBD is reading way too much into this piece. I think it's nice. A very pleasant scene. But what I want to know is what is that guy on the lower right corner looking at? Is he gazing into my soul? Is he the Abyss personified?!?

Posted by: Robert at November 25, 2024 11:02 AM (itnNP)

392 annoyed with my husband. I made pies for thursday and told my husband not to touch it. He waits till I go to sleep last night and cuts himself a piece.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 25, 2024 11:02 AM (EmT/E)

393 Hi CBD, thanks for the Rockwell and a trip down memory lane. For my parents (both born in 1923), this painting was aspirational. That’s the huge difference between “then” and “now”. The “Greatest Generation” and their predecessors took for granted that you didn’t get the Four Freedoms of the paintings without hard work and sacrifice. That was the American culture and anyone who thought differently was shunned as lazy. What none of them realized was that they’d been suckered onto the Democrat plantation. “Vote Democrat and the government will provide you these freedoms”. But those “freedoms” came at the cost of ever-growing government and higher taxes. And unlike the Greatest Generation, the ones that came after didn’t understand that the crypto-socialist system was predicated on everyone working hard and having a lot of children. I started to understand in the 80’s that Social Security was going to fail, now it will, and in my lifetime, because the current generations don’t understand the socialist bargain. As lovely as these paintings are (I have “Freedom from Fear” at home), going forward, the first and only freedom must be “Freedom to Fail”.

Posted by: I learned to code (and all I got was this lousy t-shirt) at November 25, 2024 11:02 AM (gBOcS)

394 376 Musk would never make a dime off MSNBC, but he might buy it just as a big “Fuck You!!!” To all of his critics. Imagine him making it a podcast/broadcast channel.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 10:57 AM (Ereai)

XNN. No Govt Propaganda, 24 hrs a day

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (SSBCb)

395 CBD, I think you're over interpreting the title of the painting. You can have freedom from want that is not in the context of government. Maybe the context is that everybody has a job and there is plenty of food and other goods to go around.

Unless you know more about Norman Rockwell than I do. In that case, maybe you are right.

Posted by: Ralph at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (TysyT)

396 new thread up

Posted by: Ann at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (4neFu)

397 Your objection is the title. Reduce the mental stress by thinking of it as _Thanksgiving_.
I don't think NR was a crypto-communist,. He was simply not immune from the Zeitgeist. It took me awhile to knock ol' FDR off his pedestal in my mind. My parents... hell, ALL of my older relatives viewed him as almost a demigod.

"These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know—morons.”

Posted by: buddhaha at November 25, 2024 11:08 AM (EyY5h)

398 395 CBD, I think you're over interpreting the title of the painting. You can have freedom from want that is not in the context of government. Maybe the context is that everybody has a job and there is plenty of food and other goods to go around.

Unless you know more about Norman Rockwell than I do. In that case, maybe you are right.
Posted by: Ralph at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (TysyT)

It prompted some 400 comments on the theme, and that's pretty great for posting an illustration that we've all seen many times before!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 11:13 AM (VnUSN)

399 399

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 11:13 AM (VnUSN)

400 400

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 11:13 AM (VnUSN)

401 Norm like everyone here was a product of his time.

Present company has had nearly a century to develop the perspective to see when and why the rot set in. Frankly, people were hurting badly when it was first introduced.
Heck, the Commies might have been able to take over in an alternate history.

Hindsight is Golden.

I can easily disassociate the painting from the title.

I don't think the New Deal or the politics inspired the painting. Take it at face value. AND it is GLORIUS! in a completely and unique American way.

And Thanksgiving is about Gratitude.

Posted by: pawn at November 25, 2024 11:14 AM (QB+5g)

402 371 Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

Are you STIL.L in the hospital? You're going to be in the repair shop longer than JJ's computer at this rate.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (v6JzV)

Jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) posted a number of updates on his condition in the ONT.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 11:19 AM (VnUSN)

403
I'm torn. Is it better to inform us of what Rockwell was almost certainly thinking here, or leave that commentary out and let the picture stand for something completely different, the artist's thoughts remaining, as they should be, on the dustbin of history? It's a matter worthy of thought, for sure.

Posted by: American Hawkman at November 25, 2024 11:20 AM (9VDxG)

404 Musk would never make a dime off MSNBC, but he might buy it just as a big “Fuck You!!!” To all of his critics. Imagine him making it a podcast/broadcast channel.

Russell Brand and Joe Rogan have expressed interest in having shows on MSNBC if Musk buys it.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 25, 2024 11:21 AM (2ocoG)

405 . I think it signals respect for the event and one's hosts, and the tie keeps the gravy off my shirt.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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The tie is a shrunken and symbolic vestigal remains of the noble cravat, whose function, as washable dark colored wool, was to keep the gravy off the stain-prone difficult to launder white linen shirt.
In a reversal of roles worthy of its own movie, one now hopes the gravy misses the expensive, almost impossible to clean tie, and lands on the shirt which will be easily washed.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 25, 2024 11:25 AM (EyY5h)

406 Who wears a suit and tie for Thanksgiving?
Posted by: BignJames at November 25, 2024 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)

In the world in which I grew up, following WW2, all the men wore suits for the major holidays. And a hat. Usually, the afternoon meal followed church service in the morning, and the men and women were still dressed in their church attire. We kids also were dressed in our Sunday best. Just the way it was.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 25, 2024 11:38 AM (iODuv)

407
Unless you know more about Norman Rockwell than I do. In that case, maybe you are right.
Posted by: Ralph at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (TysyT)

He's not.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at November 25, 2024 11:51 AM (An3vV)

408 The Thanksgiving stress was terrific
Cold and snow blew in off the Pacific
But the crux of the holiday,
the true road to La-La, lay
in getting Muldoon to say "Sifhgh."

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 11:52 AM (zdLoL)

409 The left has gone so far extreme, that an image by a new deal democrat artist is now far right. It's too white! Too privileged! Too cisnormative! But I love it anyway.

Rockwell always snuck in family and friends as subjects. I can't remember which of the faces here he knew in real life, would have to look it up.

Posted by: LizLem, Lord of the Rings and the Reckonings at November 25, 2024 12:29 PM (wcIbG)

410 Willow this, probably, but why the hell WOULDN'T you expect the most exceptional country on the planet to have an exceptional turkey to help celebrate that country?

We aren't Euros, we're Americans--extraordinary by dint of our heritage. We occupy a special place--celebrate that and be thankful for it.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 25, 2024 12:36 PM (hKoQL)

411 The tureen contains the pudding for the traditional dipping of the balls

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at November 25, 2024 12:56 PM (qXsmv)

412 "I'm not calling Norman Rockwell a crypto-communist"

That's funny, because I am.

Posted by: Mr. Proton at November 25, 2024 02:43 PM (cHB26)

413 This picture is what gets those idiots from PETA upset all the time they have already come up with their stupid version using Turkeys and a Human Carcass

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 25, 2024 04:16 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 11/25/24

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a nice, restful weekend, as we are now in the run-up to the Thanksgiving holiday. Sorry to have to be the bringer of dyspepsia, but hey, it's my job! So let us dive right in to the deep end.

For those of you fortunate enough not to recognize the accursed name of Jasmine Crockett, she is a Democrat congressfiend from Dallas TX who has the intellectual agility of a sea slug with down's syndrome. And is about as vicious, twisted, perverted and unreconstructed a racialist as you'll find. Given the state of affairs of one political party and movement of our nation, that's saying something. Yet, she actually belched out something over the weekend that I can truly agree with, though likely not in the way she means, but it works as a convenient foil for me to get my point across.

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Sunday on ABC News that there should be no peace for President-elect Donald Trump since he “signed up” for office again, warning that he should be working “every single day” to lower prices and keep Americans safe.

Well this parasitic nematode on the civil society in a way is right. Donald Trump should spend every waking hour doing everything he can to reverse and dismantle everything that Jasmine Crockett's Party has done to this country going back at least to Woodrow Wilson if not all the way back to Aaron Burr.

Until my dying day: Everything wrong with this country, all the pain, misery, suffering, destruction, dislocation and utter waste of blood, treasure and human potential is the fault of or made infinitely worse by the policies and actions of the anti-AMERICAN Left and its epicenter, the Democrat Party. It should have been completely dismantled and abolished in 1865 were it not for the fact that one of its own assassinated Abraham Lincoln. While the sentiment behind the words "with malice towards none" is indeed noble, quite frankly, a cursory look at even the last decade or so of our history has put me in a less than charitable state of mind.

In my view, 2024 was perhaps not so much an embracing of Donald Trump as it was a rejection of Democrat leftism, given what average Americans have suffered through economically, societally and in terms of having any sense of safety and security completely stripped away courtesy of a completely erased border, crime that was already out of control thanks to the decriminalization of crime that insane fiends like Crockett and her ilk inflicted on us going back years now, predating the emergence of Trump on the political scene.

Speaking of which, now that Matt Gaetz is out of the running for Attorney General, whatever the Machiavellian machinations or multi-dimensional chess it may or may not be, it puts his replacement Pam Bondi directly in the spotlight, or the hot-seat as the case may be. And psaki-psircling back to the aforementioned racialism and out of control crime that predates Trump, selecting Bondi raises some doubts, or does it?

Pam Bondi, Trump’s nominee for Attorney General now that Matt Gaetz has withdrawn, is an interesting choice. On the one hand, she seems like a conservative attack dog and comes out of Ron DeSantis’s Florida, which argues that she’s solid. On the other hand, a lot of RINOs are awfully pleased that she’s been named, which is always worrisome.
One other worrisome thing is how Bondi handled the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case back in 2012 as Florida’s AG twelve years ago. Sundance, at Conservative Treehouse, has written a detailed analysis about Bondi’s decision to force George Zimmerman’s case to trial, and what Sundance says is worth thinking about. He describes the facts and the risk that the Swamp now has a hold on her.
The undisputed facts were that Martin, who was black, attacked Zimmerman, slammed him onto the sidewalk, and started to bash Zimmerman’s head against the pavement, a potentially deadly act. Zimmerman, fearing for his life, was able to free his gun and shoot Martin, killing him. . .
. . . Apparently acting at attorney Benjamin Crump’s behest, Bondi told then-Governor Rick Scott to appoint a special prosecutor, forcing out the responding officer, the chief of police, and the local prosecutor. The special prosecutor, Angela Corey, was Bondi’s campaign manager. Corey charged Zimmerman with second-degree homicide and convinced the judge to hold Zimmerman in jail until the trial.
Per Sundance, Bondi’s friend and colleagues built a false case against Zimmerman. She knew what they were doing and approved or perhaps even directed it as AG. Law enforcement at the local level and the local prosecutor were not consulted until the case came to trial. Likewise, the two Zimmerman supporting witnesses were not consulted until the trial.

Human nature dictates that race relations and the tribal nature of people to begin with will always create tensions and animosities, even in pre-Obama America where America despite isolated incidents here and there was truly on the way to becoming in-fact post-racial. The problem for Democrat leftists is that a truly post racial America would denude them of their political power. And so, every time a colored person of color died at the hands of a white person, especially a police officer. Forget for a second that George Zimmerman was a Latino. Hence the invention, or cribbing from the Nuremberg Laws, to label him as a White Hispanic, so as to preserve the racalist mythologies and ability to claim the moral high ground.

In a not necessarily unrelated story, speaking of political power and who will be allowed to wield it:

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson cast doubt Sunday on NBC News about President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, after suggesting that presidential executive orders should be banned.
During Trump’s campaign, the former president vowed to shut down the U.S. southern border and conduct a large-scale deportation operation. On “Meet the Press,” NBC host Kristen Welker questioned Johnson about Trump’s plan, noting how he planned to continue rolling out his goals for the border after signing executive orders.

Directing an agency to do its constitutionally-mandated duty should be banned? How many Hawaiian judges are on SCOTUS? Any agent at any level who refuses to round up and ship out foreign invaders should be fired, imprisoned and have pensions revoked.

It's not that America is a lawless nation, or we have a two-tiered justice system, Shit like this just makes us a naked tyranny. If it is allowed to go on this way.

Have a great day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Miranda Devine: So now we know that the cop who shot dead unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, 36, during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was rewarded with a promotion and a $36,000 bonus.
There were no ill consequences for his rash actions that day. Instead, Capt. Michael Byrd, 56, was held up as a hero of democracy, despite the fact that he had a lengthy disciplinary record that includes leaving his loaded handgun in a public bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center, “improperly” firing his gun at a car near his home while off-duty and abusing a Maryland cop who tried to stop him entering a high school football field as a “racist a–hole,” again while off duty, according to a letter released last week by the GOP-led House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight.
Tragic Ashli Babbitt and the buried Jan. 6 truth

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN

Besides the targeted strikes to take out the top Hezbollah commander, the IDF was destroying the terrorist infrastructure in the southern Beirut jihadist bastion of Dahieh.
Hezbollah Operations Commander Reportedly Targeted in “Decapitation Strike” in Beirut
Clarice Feldman: After Hamas raped, tortured, burned, kidnapped, and murdered innocent Israelis on October 7, it is astonishing to see how so much of the world has blamed the victims.
It’s a Mad Mad Mad World

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In a video of the arrest posted to social media by Levant’s Rebel News platform, officers can be heard telling the conservative activist that his presence at the pro-"Palestinian" rally was “inciting the crowd.”
Self-Gasser Agitprop Rag The ‘Times of Israel’ Smears Journalist Ezra Levant as ‘Far-right Activist’ After Arrest
One of the last actions the Biden-Harris junta takes could be the disbursal of tens of millions of dollars to a pro-"Palestinian" nonprofit that disseminated protest materials exalting Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of Israel.
‘Solidarity Forever’: Biden-Harris EPA Weighs Awarding Taxpayer Dollars To Nonprofit That Wants To Defund The Police

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Prosecutors said that he also tried to distribute instructions on how to build bombs.
Albanian National Charged With Trying To Provide Support For ISIS
Rabbi Tzvi Kogan, the assistant rabbi to the growing Jewish community in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, was confirmed dead Sunday morning, apparently murdered by three Iranian agents from Uzbekistan who fled to Turkey. The Chabad organization confirmed his death and asked people to do a good deed — a “mitzvah” — in his memory.
Rabbi Confirmed Murdered in UAE; Netanyahu: ‘Antisemitic Terrorism’
"Hope the concert was good," one politician fired back at Trudeau.
Trudeau Blasted For Dancing While Montreal Burned During Anti-Semitic Riot
Daniel Greenfield: The Muslim illegal alien had crossed Biden's open border and was released into America
Illegal Alien Muslim Terrorist Targeted Jews and Christians in Chicago
The Met said that the incident, which took place just steps away from the British parliament, is being treated as “an isolated incident” and that it is currently “not being treated as terrorism”. The incident has seen renewed criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan over his handling of crime in the British capital. Reform UK Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe remarked: “London feels like an increasingly unsafe place. Stabbings, rapes, thefts – all just accepted as normal now. It’s not normal. We must demand better. “I don’t know how Sadiq Khan sleeps at night.”
Four Arrested After Attack on Westminster Bridge Leaves Man in Critical Condition
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
When they have a singular goal, and feel their back is against the wall, they are incredibly disciplined.
How the Left plans to defeat President-elect Trump's agenda
“I said that they would probably try to put Trump in jail and Joe Biden was deteriorating at a geometric rate, would probably be la-la land, and then there would be calls to make her president. Then she would be acculturated for 60 days and then the Left would, that would give the left time enough,” Hanson said.
Victor Davis Hanson Warns Dems Still Have A Way To Put Kamala In The White House
Perry’s finally speaking out so he can draw attention to the political actions of progressive District Attorney Jose Garza.
Texas Pardoned Daniel Perry For Murder Conviction Of Armed BLM Protester. Perry’s Finally Speaking Out.
TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH
Because Trump will continue to face threats from Iran throughout his time in the Oval Office, the Secret Service director will no doubt have an elevated role in the Trump administration.
Trump Takes His Time With Secret Service Director Choice
"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson cast doubt Sunday on NBC News about President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, after suggesting that presidential executive orders should be banned. Directing an agency to do its Constitutional, and legal function should be banned? Fuck Johnson in the heart with a steak knife - jjs)
Fmr Homeland Security Sec Doubts Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Teases Ban On Executive Orders
What do Massachusetts, New York, and Colorado have in common? According to the nonprofit Global Refuge, they're all considered "sanctuary states." Unfortunately, something else they all have in common is that some of the migrants they're harboring have been arrested for attacking women, children, and dogs in recent weeks.
Multiple Migrants Arrested in 'Sanctuary States' for Attacking Women, Children, & Dogs
The academy and the media mislead about immigration’s effects.
Debunking the Debunkers
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrat leaders are facing backlash over the Biden administration's handling of illegal immigration, leading to a surge in crime, strained services, and a Trump victory focused on border security.
The Immorality of Illegal Immigration
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Trump’s team called the ruling a “decisive win” for the president-elect.
Trump’s Sentencing In New York Hush Money Case Suspended Indefinitely
The move comes as the various cases Trump has faced have started to fall apart following his dominant election victory this month.
Trump To Gut DOJ Of Everyone Who Worked On Cases Against Him
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The case, brought by Navy veteran Zachary Young, is on pace for a January trial
CNN's Fake Fapper, Jake Tapper Refuses To Disclose Salary, Other Financial Info in $1 Billion Defamation Suit
The discussion of a potential Musk bid for MSNBC (msnsdap) is catching fire on his social media network, X (formerly Twitter), after a post by President-elect Donald J. Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., suggesting Musk purchase the tanking network. “Hey [Elon Musk] I have the funniest idea ever!!!” he wrote on Friday, prompting Musk to respond: “How much does it cost?”
Elon Says It’s ‘Likely’ He Buys Tanking MSNBC.
If you didn’t think the callous partisans at MSNBC could stoop any lower, they were just pressured to change a headline they'd published that sympathized with a murderous rapist. Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan gang member, crossed into the U.S. illegally in 2022. Reportedly with the help of our taxpayer money, the Biden junta flew him to Georgia, where he later hunted down 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley while she was out for a morning jog. Ibarra then attempted to rape Riley before bludgeoning her to death with a rock. Police say the attack was so brutal, Riley’s skull was left “disfigured” from the trauma, as MRCTV previously reported.
'Laken Riley's Killer Never Had A Chance': MSNSDAP Changes Headline Appearing to Sympathize with Illegal Alien Murderer
I'll stipulate that RFK Jr. may not be the best candidate for HHS that ever was. But making the argument that Rachel Levine, a doctor who wears a skirt and claims men can be women, and Xavier Becerra, an attorney, are better is downright crazy talk.
You'll Need to Hit the Showers for a 'Sanewash' After This Ridiculous RFK Hit Piece
The proposed legislation outlined sweeping powers to fine tech companies up to five percent of their yearly turnover if they breached new online safety obligations.
Australia Abandons Plans to Fine Tech Firms for ‘Misinformation’
Esteemed Lady Dr. — not an actual doctor, the Lady Jill kind of community organizer or whatever posing as a doctor — Mary Anne Franks’ highly nuanced and learned argument is that free speech is racist.
MSNSDAP News Actor, Race Scholar ‘Confront the First Amendment’s Dark History’
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
American households and businesses are much more serene and hopeful this time around. Polling released by Pew Research on Friday shows that 70 percent of Americans are very or somewhat confident that the transition to the Trump administration will go smoothly. Similarly, a majority of Americans say they have a positive evaluation of Trump’s post-election conduct. . . If the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory on Election Day feels joyous and tranquil, you are not alone.
Breitbart Business Digest: The Trump Economic Boom Is Already Beginning
But I thought Trump hates gays? Bessent, CEO of Key Square Group, is openly gay, married, and has two children.
Trump Nominates Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary
Well, that didn't last as long as I would have liked. President-elect Donald Trump had been on a roll with his choices for roles in his next administration. On Thursday, he ruined the good vibes with one horrible, horrible Cabinet pick.
The Honeymoon Is Over: Trump's Pick for Labor Secretary Is a Teachers' Union Fave
Four years after the pandemic, Americans are working from home 30 percent of the time.
Taking Stock of the Work-from-Home Revolution
Daniel Greenfield: What a difference an election makes.
Media Suddenly Rediscovers National Debt
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
One attendee enjoyed 'a cold one made from recycled sewage water' so much that he returned for more the next day, the New York Times reports
Toilet-to-Tap: Singapore's Sewage Beer Delights UN Climate Change Conference
WARNING: The following is forbidden knowledge for committed climate activists. More
Oh, that pesky carbon dioxide!
In the race to achieve Energiewende (“energy transition”, Germans forgot about dunkelflaute (wind drought/dark calm). (Feed Swalwell beans and drop him over Leipzig! - jjs)
12-Day Wind Drought Has German Utility Executives on Edge
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Sundance, at Conservative Treehouse, has a fascinating analysis contending that Bondi leveraged her career by forcing George Zimmerman’s indictment.
Is Pam Bondi really independent, or will her ties to the Zimmerman-Martin case make her a Deep Swamp pawn?
Enraged Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres slammed the administration of Mayor Eric Adams and Albany-led Gov. Kathy Hochul as “complicit” in madman Ramon Rivera’s murderous stabbing spree. (Wonder what he thinks of Daniel Penny? - jjs)
Dem pol tears into ‘complicit’ Hochul and Adams admins after serial stabber who killed 3 on NYC streets slipped through the cracks
In short, the prosecution case offered up plenty of evidence that Penny acted rationally and bravely in a harrowing situation. And the defense started off with a bang. On Thursday, forensic pathologist Dr. Satish Chundru testified that Penny’s chokehold wasn’t what killed Neely, but instead “the combined effects of sickle-cell crisis, the schizophrenia, the struggle and restraint, and the synthetic marijuana.”
The house-of-cards case against Daniel Penny is falling apart
The case for incarceration (Meh, build more gallows - jjs)
Build More Prisons
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
For New York’s public schools, creepy sex abnormalities are the most important thing your 5-year-old must learn during this formative stage of development. Or, so they say.
NY Schools Implements 'Gender Identity' Curriculum - For Kindergarteners
ABORTION
Planned Parenthood will gather “evidence of fetal heart activity by ultrasound immediately prior to the dilation and evacuation procedure,” the submitted plan reads. The abortion provider aimed to harvest babies from “up to 2,500 patients,” according to the plan.
Report: Planned Parenthood Caught Selling ‘Viable’ Fetuses To University Of California San Diego
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS
“The NC State Board of Elections failed to administer this election fairly. They have been inconsistent, uncooperative, and non-transparent throughout this process — but we will fight them every step of the way.”
NC Supreme Court Recount Gets Underway, Republican Files Election Protests
Under this system, the Oregon DMV has processed more than 54,600 voter registrations for individuals who have not proven citizenship, according to documents obtained by The Federalist.
Oregon DMV Busted Allowing People Of ‘Unknown Citizenship’ To Register To Vote
The program was pioneered by a Republican, Trent Tripple, who previously worked in the County Clerk’s office, according to The New York Times.
‘Tired Of Everybody Questioning Elections’: Idaho County Draws National Attention With Unique Ballot Transparency Tool
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Allan Lichtman has returned to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, roughly 24 hours after announcing he was “done” with the social media platform. The historian, best known for the ’13 Keys to the White House’ model he uses to predict U.S. election winners, had become a figure of much ridicule after he inaccurately predicted a Kamala Harris victory on November 25, becoming visibly distraught as he watched the results come in live.
Allan ’13 Keys’ Lichtman Crawls Back to X One Day After Leaving.
Duckworth said, “Well, I think she’s compromised. I think by going to Syria and basically um, backing you know, a brutal dictator there. I mean Russian controlled media called her a Russian asset. So I do think that we have a real deep concern whether or not she’s a compromised person.”
Duckworth [fuckworthless]: Tulsi Gabbard Is ‘Compromised’ — ‘She Will Not Have America’s Best Interests at Heart’ (From the party of slavery, Jim Crow and concentration camps for the Nisei - jjs)
Nearly 70 percent of the Harris campaign's known total spending went to just four media consulting firms
These Four Democrat Firms Raked in $600 Million Running Ads for Kamala's Failed Campaign
POLITICS
Following the 2024 election, American public sentiment toward President-elect Donald J. Trump has brightened significantly compared to previous elections. A Pew Research Center survey released on Friday highlights that 53 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s agenda for his upcoming term, compared to 46 percent disapproving.
Majority of Americans Back Trump’s Second Term Plans: Pew Research.
In one corner, at the tender age of 40, is JD Vance. He’s a military veteran who was deployed in Iraq, graduated from Yale, has three children, and had a meteoric rise to the top of the ranks of the GOP. In the other corner, at the tender age of 46, is Ron DeSantis. He’s a military veteran who was deployed in Iraq, graduated from Yale, has three children, and had a meteoric rise to the top of the ranks of the GOP. But despite their surface-level similarities, the two are starkly different people.
The Looming MAGA War Between JD Vance and Ron DeSantis: The First Move Is Coming
In a Sunday report titled “The Resistance goes quiet,” Axios aimed to explain why the left wing has not erupted into widespread protests like what occurred when Trump beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton eight years ago.
Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Movement Facing Post-Election ‘Disillusionment with Activism’
It's going to be a long four years for these insufferable people.
The Left’s Panic Over a Third Trump Term That Can’t Happen Hits Peak Absurdity
American Majority Action turned out low-participation voters in battleground States to help Trump and fellow Republicans to victory.
How A Handful Of Grassroots Groups Built The Ground Game Critical To Trump’s Victory
Daniel Greenfield: Will the coddling never end?
Dems Unwilling to Write Off Kamala Comeback
Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Sunday on ABC News that there should be no peace for President-elect Donald Trump since he “signed up” for office again, warning that he should be working “every single day” to lower prices and keep Americans safe. [I agree: work every single day to destroy her party and bring us back to a time before Woodrow Wilson if not Aaron Burr - jjs]
‘Should Not Be Any Peace’: Dem Rep Says Trump Should Be Working ‘Every Single Day’

THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
European leaders are now having to make the transition from dealing with Ukraine war hawk Biden and the more dovish Trump.
NATO Chief Travels to Mar-a-Lago to Hold Ukraine Peace Talks With Trump
Biden's politically-motivated actions to inflame Russa-Ukraine war can only lead to more carnage.
Seriously, Is Biden Trying To Start WWIII To Get Even With Trump?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.
The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated
BIDEN/HARRIS AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma placed a hold on Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue's promotion.
GOP Senator Blocks Promotion Of General Who Took Part In Afghanistan Withdrawal
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“Since 2015, Dr. Gorka has been a tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement, serving previously as Strategist to the president in the first Trump Administration,” Trump said in his announcement.
Sebastian Gorka Appointed White House Senior Counterterrorism Adviser to President Trump
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
With Trump’s electrifying victory, Elon Musk’s promise to cut $2 trillion in federal spending takes center stage. But can it be done?
The Trump-Musk Road to Prosperity
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, she worked on the front lines in New York City treating thousands of Americans and helped patients in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s Historic Operation Warp Speed that saved hundreds of millions of lives.” (Ugh, a QUackpot - jjs)
Trump Nominates Pro-Mask Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Proposed rule relies on WPATH guidelines, which call procedures ‘medically necessary’ to expand insurance coverage
Oregon Poised To Force Health Insurers To Cover Trans Genital Surgeries for Children—or Risk Losing Their Licenses
Tyson then asked if Helmuth still has her job and Maher responded that it’s not because of the claims on sports and asked Tyson if he sees a problem with claiming that society is the reason why there are differences between male and female athletes. Tyson responded that women might have an advantage in long-distance swimming, which Maher conceded, before remarking that Tyson is “part of the problem.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson While Refusing to Say Inherent Gender Differences Exist in Sports: ‘Let’s Talk About Science’
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
While the commercial is clearly meant to illustrate the safety features of Volvo’s newest model, the underlying message is clear: children are a blessing, life is incredibly precious and worth protecting, and your family will forever be your greatest joy.
Volvo's New Ad Is Tear-jerkingly Pro-Life, and We're Here For It
Never go full Bud Light.
Jaguar Goes Full Bud Light, Destroys Brand
Christian Toto: Unhinged rants. Legal notices. On-air squabbles. It's only getting worse
Can ‘The View’ Survive Trump 2.O?
Academics and government officials privilege “indigeneity” ideology at the expense of genuine research.
Anthropology in Retreat
Kudos to Josh Harris and the NFL Washington Commanders ownership group for agreeing to no longer erase the iconic Blackfoot chief logo from the team’s history, including video archives. It’s a healthy step away from the Stalinesque drive to blot out any and all record of the past that’s inconvenient to the ideologues who dominate our cultural institutions. Team ownership yielded to cancel culture in 2020, dropping the Redskins name and memory-holing the franchise’s iconic symbol.
Un-erasing Redskins history: One small defeat for America’s woke Stalinists
They are not gone, but they should be forgotten.
No Wake for the Woke
HITHER & YON
The legacy of the assassination is a basic distrust in the government and American institutions in general that didn't exist prior to the assassination which came to the fore in the aftermath of the event. The assassination of JFK has been eating away at America's core beliefs for 61 years now and the nation has never come to grips with it. Donald Trump promised during his campaign for president that if elected, he would declassify all remaining government records on the assassination and release them.
The Impact of JFK's Assassination is Still Reverberating 61 Years Later
Harpo Marx never spoke on screen, yet generations of Americans laughed at, cried with, and enthusiastically applauded him for his comedic genius and musical brilliance. But even amidst the fame and glory of a lengthy career on stage and screen, the Jewish Marx had to contend always with the dark specter of anti-Semitism, leading him to fight for equal rights for all persecuted individuals and for the re-creation of the state of Israel.
Harpo Marx, Comedian, Musician, and Fighter for Jewish Rights

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 07:42 AM (gbOdA)

2 "This is not the end, but perhaps it is the end of the beginning."

What some guy said.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 25, 2024 07:43 AM (Gqoy+)

3 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at November 25, 2024 07:43 AM (53oGX)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

5 Hey, JJ, any chance you can add Vic to the Absent Friends list?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

6 Hiya, Horde! Happy almost Thanksgiving.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 07:45 AM (lXoJ5)

7 Good morning JJ and horde
I am glad it's going to be a short week

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 07:46 AM (cdFLU)

8
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2024 07:46 AM (w9Ycv)

9 Cut the budget, quit giving money away like it's Monopoly Money. Cut off this university cash, end lots of government agencies
Just for a stsrt

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 07:48 AM (cdFLU)

10 5 Hey, JJ, any chance you can add Vic to the Absent Friends list?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

Did he pass away?! Ugh. Send me his obit or info and I will ask Ace to include it in the sidebar. My e-mail is in the contact list on the Left sidebar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 07:49 AM (x0n13)

11 I meant to say "With malice towards every democrat bastard and his sons"...

Damn typo.

Posted by: Zombie Abe Lincoln, America's First Dictator at November 25, 2024 07:50 AM (Y5VD5)

12 Good morning, JJ - and thanks!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 07:50 AM (jgdZo)

13 What about all that money Trump had to put up in NYC? 450 million or so I think.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

14 Jasmine Crockett, she is a Democrat congressfiend from Dallas TX who has the intellectual agility of a sea slug with down's syndrome.
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This is offensive to sea slugs everywhere, and to down's sufferers. Have you no empathy, mon?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 07:51 AM (1bNHn)

15 Thank you for the MR, JJ; my first read of every week day

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Caitlyn Jenner of Bill Nye.

Posted by: fly gal at November 25, 2024 07:51 AM (sTQ8G)

16 Victor Davis Hanson Warns Dems Still Have A Way To Put Kamala In The White House

With all due respect to VDH, even California Democrats have to know that they'd never pull off having Harris be President for four years and putting her in office for two months would remove the ability to shriek "historic first" over whatever evil idiot that put up in '28. This is a fever dream of the most lunatic elements of the left.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

17 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

18 What they are doing to Rudy needs to be fixed before those two hos in Atlanta trash everything he had.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

19 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at November 25, 2024 07:55 AM (DobEs)

20 Selection of Bondi was nth dimensional chess....not.

I no longer give a shit who Trump selects for anything. Wish him luck, and hope he does better than the first term but wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he ends up locked in the gulag by Bindi herself.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 07:55 AM (/lPRQ)

21 Took a very short spin around the conservative websites this morning, very short. 6 months ago conservatives were lamenting that kammie would win resoundingly and destroy the balance of what mr potatohead had left and the US would become a hollowed out core of what it once was. Now the conservatives are hair on fire concerning PDT for his choices to run the government. It's so tiresome. He won after running a brilliant campaign against an admittedly lackluster harris one. Can we wait until PDT is back in office, give him maybe more then 10 minutes and see how these choices work out. He hire them and he can fire them.
I'm also beginning to think that some of these conservative sites may run these articles to boost their hits. I'll have a lot more time available if I start ignoring several of them.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 07:55 AM (2NHgQ)

22 Most American cities are already on a trajectory to fail in the next decade. Illegal Immigration will acclerate this. Minorities will be hardest hit.

Vacancy rates for downtown offices will skyrocket as leases expire. Work from home is already driving this. So there goes the tax base for our cities.

Coddling Illegals while our Working Poor suffer shouldn't be sustainable but the people governing our cities seem intent on making this happen.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 25, 2024 07:57 AM (Gqoy+)

23 Trudeau Blasted For Dancing While Montreal Burned During Anti-Semitic Riot
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The damned in Hell, and their attendant demons, must enjoy giving shit to Fidel for siring such a pussy.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 07:58 AM (1bNHn)

24 >>Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

Took the words right off my keyboard.

We just rescued our country. I think I can wait a few weeks before lighting my hair on fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 07:58 AM (LkLld)

25 JJ. Several of us have emailed ace concerning Vic. Hopefully you have better luck. I believe the obit was in the sidebar in October and ace may have acknowledged his passing there as well.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 08:00 AM (2NHgQ)

26 I’ve also heard that Bondi had nothing to do with the persecution of that skell scumbag Trayvon. I don't know who to believe. The leftwing shitfucks seem to hate her. That must be a good thing, right?

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 25, 2024 08:00 AM (08HK+)

27 Build More Prisons

What percentage of inmates are illegals? Deport them with the understanding that they'll be executed if they re-enter the country and you free up beds all over the place.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

28 “ Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed,” he said. “Peace! Be strong now; be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, since you have given me strength.””

Daniel 10:19

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2024 08:01 AM (EaUHc)

29 VDH
Two, Mexico and Latin America received some 120 billion dollars per year in remittances, mostly sent by their own citizens residing illegally in the U.S. and reliant on American government services that free them up to send billions into the coffers of our own increasingly hostile neighbors.

This is easy peasy. Just add a simple law that taxes all remittances at the pay window with the highest tax rate on the books.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:01 AM (gbOdA)

30 I mean the persecution of Zimmerman for killing the scumbag Trayvon.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 25, 2024 08:01 AM (08HK+)

31 It’s a good practice for me to take a little time and ask myself what I would like Trump to accomplish in his 4 years… take a breath, and analyze what I want in terms of reality. That is a way of determining if I have a good grasp on reality.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 08:02 AM (PCK5/)

32
Electric Chairs>>>>Prisons

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:03 AM (x0n13)

33 28 “ Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed,” he said. “Peace! Be strong now; be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, since you have given me strength.””

Daniel 10:19
Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2024 08:01 AM (EaUHc)

Same words offer up to shepherds and Mary. Notice that around 99% of progressive ideas are deep rooted in either creating fear or establishing that unfounded fears are real.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:04 AM (gbOdA)

34 Saw that Susan Collins is going to be chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee?

The cowardly snakes that are the GOPe have declared full war on DJT.

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 08:04 AM (UnA8+)

35 Victor Davis Hanson Warns Dems Still Have A Way To Put Kamala In The White House
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I'll have what he's having. That's bizarre. Not that I'd put it past them to try, but it's not remotely plausible it would succeed.

Really, he should stick to the classics.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:04 AM (1bNHn)

36 Jasmine Crockett, she is a Democrat congressfiend from Dallas TX who has the intellectual agility of a sea slug with down's syndrome.

We don't appreciate being denigrated in this manner, Mr. Sefton.

#BeBetter

Posted by: Sea Slug Special Needs Society at November 25, 2024 08:04 AM (a3Q+t)

37 30 I mean the persecution of Zimmerman for killing the scumbag Trayvon.
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 25, 2024 08:01 AM (08HK+)

See also, Derek Chauvin, Daniel Penny and P.O. Darren Wilson.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:04 AM (x0n13)

38 Has Dave in FL been around to opine on the last 2 CA House seats? Looks to me like CA is curing them over to the dems.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 08:05 AM (2NHgQ)

39 What percentage of inmates are illegals? Deport them with the understanding that they'll be executed if they re-enter the country and you free up beds all over the place.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

OK gov is working on a plan to pack up every illegal in jail and mailed them back home COD.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

40 In one corner, at the tender age of 40, is JD Vance. He’s a military veteran who was deployed in Iraq, graduated from Yale, has three children, and had a meteoric rise to the top of the ranks of the GOP. In the other corner, at the tender age of 46, is Ron DeSantis. He’s a military veteran who was deployed in Iraq, graduated from Yale, has three children, and had a meteoric rise to the top of the ranks of the GOP.

Vance was public affairs and DeSantis was JAG. Saying you were deployed in Iraq implies, for a lot of people, a combat role. They should probably be careful about that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

41 What is the difference between a scientist and an engineer ? … the engineer is required to take economics

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 08:07 AM (BCN/l)

42 I checked the VDH article about denying Trump the presidency and what's sad is one can no longer discount the idea Democrats are leaving no option off the table to keep PDT out of the White House.

Morning, J.J. and thanks again!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 08:07 AM (tT6L1)

43

Structurally, the government, that is the Deep State bureaucracy will do all it can to blockade and prevent Trump from accomplishing his goals, since sad to say those goals threaten their power and gravy train.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:07 AM (x0n13)

44 JJ, did you get a new computer or is this the repaired one?

Posted by: dantesed at November 25, 2024 08:08 AM (Oy/m2)

45 38 Has Dave in FL been around to opine on the last 2 CA House seats? Looks to me like CA is curing them over to the dems.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 08:05 AM (2NHgQ)

HE's on X Twitter and I shall ask him

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:08 AM (x0n13)

46 39 OK gov is working on a plan to pack up every illegal in jail and mailed them back home COD.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I like the idea of the illegal aliens' nations be the one on the hook. We can start deducting it from the money we pay them in aid.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 08:08 AM (lXoJ5)

47 Elon Says It’s ‘Likely’ He Buys Tanking MS❌NBC.

FIXED IT

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

48 'The View' Hosts Forced to Read Four 'Legal Notes' on Friday for Lying and It Was Glorious

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 08:09 AM (BCN/l)

49 Neil deGrasse Tyson While Refusing to Say Inherent Gender Differences Exist in Sports: ‘Let’s Talk About Science’
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I seriously doubt there was ever a science popularizer worth listening to. Wells wrote some good novels, but that's different. His non fiction was BS too.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:09 AM (1bNHn)

50 As a consequence of Trump stocking his cabinet with so much Florida talent, DeSantis has never stood larger, stronger, or more dominant in Florida GOP circles. With the local ranks depleted, DeSantis only grows larger in stature.

If DeSantis wants the Presidency he needs to hire someone to teach him how to come across as human in a campaign setting. His policies are good but, sadly, that won't get you elected.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

51 Of course the cop who executed Ashli Babbitt was commended and rewarded. I'll bet Lindsey Graham offered him warm personal words of approbation. Just one more example of how they've inverted and perverted "justice" in their overweening contempt for us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:10 AM (ZlOcj)

52 The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated

It's important to note that this refers to the President of the Philippines.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

53 49 Neil deGrasse Tyson While Refusing to Say Inherent Gender Differences Exist in Sports: ‘Let’s Talk About Science’
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I seriously doubt there was ever a science popularizer worth listening to. Wells wrote some good novels, but that's different. His non fiction was BS too.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:09 AM (1bNHn)

Professor Proton was pretty good.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 08:12 AM (PCK5/)

54 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:12 AM (v6JzV)

55 "Trump’s Sentencing In New York Hush Money Case Suspended Indefinitely"

Who has this on their 2024 bingo card?
Hunter Biden sentenced for felonies earlier than Trump.

You're soon going to be able to fill that square. Hunter has sentencing hearings in Wilmington and LA in the next three weeks!

Posted by: Gref at November 25, 2024 08:13 AM (aBgBM)

56 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 08:13 AM (UE7n4)

57 It's National Parfait Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

58 A girthy start to Thanksgiving week!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 08:13 AM (a3Q+t)

59 Miranda Devine: So now we know that the cop who shot dead unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, 36, during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was rewarded with a promotion and a $36,000 bonus.

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At least he wasn't awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 08:14 AM (/6TY1)

60 If DeSantis wants the Presidency he needs to hire someone to teach him how to come across as human in a campaign setting. His policies are good but, sadly, that won't get you elected.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

I'm not sure that's something you can fix, fashion or focus group. The total, politically unadorned authenticity of Trump has set a precedent and there's no going back.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:14 AM (ZlOcj)

61 Vance has never claimed that he saw combat in Iraq. Don't know about DeSantis. Vance was basically a Marine journalist who published under the name Hamel and he's spoken about it or written about it. If someone sees combat role every time deployed is listed they don't know how the modern military works. Bottom line both Vance and DeSantis were in combat zones and should be applauded for joining and serving.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 08:14 AM (2NHgQ)

62 >>Structurally, the government, that is the Deep State bureaucracy will do all it can to blockade and prevent Trump from accomplishing his goals, since sad to say those goals threaten their power and gravy train.

One thing this election demonstrated to me is that the country is done with the Obama era crap. Trump didn't just eek out a victory, he schlonged Harris. There are memes breaking out with electoral maps showing a sea of red with a few patches of blue and the words "Can You Hear Us Now?".

Yea, they will fight. But we already took over social media thanks to Musk and the MSM is in the process of imploding. The country wants a return to sanity and it's going on all over the world. A petition is floating around the UK to call for new elections and already has 2+ million signatures.

We are at the find out stage of FAFO. They'll fight. We'll win.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 08:14 AM (LkLld)

63 What has been protected in the United States, above all, is not fearless speech in the service of equality, but rather reckless speech in the service of racial and gender hierarchy. While great strides have been made over the centuries to transform Americans’ false claim of democracy into a true one, the original ruling class has done everything it can to resist this.

And what party today extends it roots back to a time when when both blacks and women were chattel?

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

64 57 It's National Parfait Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

When is National IBS Day?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 08:14 AM (PCK5/)

65 I want to see Musk buy the NY Times. Talk about heads exploding.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:15 AM (ZlOcj)

66 Bottom line both Vance and DeSantis were in combat zones and should be applauded for joining and serving.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 08:14 AM (2NHgQ)

Agree

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:16 AM (SfhV1)

67 NEW study finds testicular cancer rate 26.5x higher in males undergoing "gender-affirming" orchiectomies (removal of testicles).

All cases in the study occurred after at least 2 years of feminizing hormone therapy.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 08:16 AM (BCN/l)

68 Elon Says It’s ‘Likely’ He Buys Tanking MS❌NBC.

FIXED IT
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:09 AM

And, just like that, a new era in commenting began.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2024 08:16 AM (a3Q+t)

69 44 JJ, did you get a new computer or is this the repaired one?
Posted by: dantesed at November 25, 2024 08:08 AM (Oy/m2)

It's my old laptop and it's running perfectly!

The repair shop did a great job in that regard. My only beef with them was lousy communication and the insane delay for them getting the parts.

At first it was just the sound chip and then when that alone didn't work they had to order the entire sound board. Why did they not just order it from the get-go and either charge me or return it if it wasn't needed.

the shop is "U-Break-I-Fix" which I believe is a national chain. Since there are no Apple stores near me, and they are an authorized repair facility, it was the only option. And I live less than 10 minutes from them.

It was either that or a store that is 90 minutes away roundtrip and I likely would have had the same issues vis a vis waiting for parts and repair. So it worked out in the end.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:16 AM (x0n13)

70 Selling discarded babies is one of those things in the future where people will say "how did people sit back and let this happen".

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 08:17 AM (12v8J)

71 51 Of course the cop who executed Ashli Babbitt was commended and rewarded. I'll bet Lindsey Graham offered him warm personal words of approbation. Just one more example of how they've inverted and perverted "justice" in their overweening contempt for us.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:10 AM (ZlOcj)

I always wonder what was the purpose of the killing. I think it was to start a gun battle. I think the FBI in the Capital thought the people were armed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

72 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:12 AM (v6JzV)

Howdy, Glub! Good luck with the job interview today! When is that?

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 08:18 AM (jgdZo)

73 Thanks as always JJ. Much to think about…

Regarding Pam Bondi, the pick did not delight me but I thought about it over the weekend and decided Trump probably picked her because she’s a loyalist…. I hope he’s right because the George Zimmerman case, which I didn’t know about, is concerning…. DOJ is his most important pick, so please no more Sessions or Barr’s!!

One more note: Mere mention of the name Michael Byrd makes my blood boil. I really hope PDJT issues J6 pardons on J20

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2024 08:18 AM (uAQQB)

74 20 Selection of Bondi was nth dimensional chess....not.

I no longer give a shit who Trump selects for anything. Wish him luck, and hope he does better than the first term but wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he ends up locked in the gulag by Bindi herself.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2024 07:55 AM (/lPRQ)
******
What?
I've watched Pam Bondi for over 8 years go to the mat for Trump. They are great friends and she is fiercely loyal to him.
She was his lawyer for his impeachment trial and was part of Stop the Steal.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

75 Trump's not even inaugurated yet and the pundits are out in the weeds over potential admin picks.

Had they only spent as much time vetting *biden's various picks.

Like, say Surgeon General or Dept. of Transportation, or... maybe atomic tranny dogboy. I don't recall any of those positions getting the 3rd degree in the political press.

But... whatever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 08:19 AM (Q4IgG)

76 57 It's National Parfait Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

"Hullo, dis is Tom Carvel!!!!!!!!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:19 AM (x0n13)

77 We are at the find out stage of FAFO. They'll fight. We'll win.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 08:14 AM (LkLld)

One thing about power, as it wanes it also becomes more desperate and intense.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:19 AM (ZlOcj)

78
Republicans float a quiet conspiracy theory that Biden won't be on the ballot

The mostly unfounded chatter includes talk that Democrats secretly want to replace him with former first lady Michelle Obama or California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

--NBC fake gaslighting "News"
October 26, 2023

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:19 AM (GrnuB)

79 67 NEW study finds testicular cancer rate 26.5x higher in males undergoing "gender-affirming" orchiectomies (removal of testicles).

All cases in the study occurred after at least 2 years of feminizing hormone therapy.
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 08:16 AM (BCN/l)

Lets just throw powerful chemicals at the body and see what happens. Whats the worse...

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:20 AM (gbOdA)

80 It's National Parfait Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

Is that the margarine that had the sing-songy commercial?
Or is that the basketball floor at Boston Garden?

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (jgdZo)

81 I am a Fed that is going to retire and so will 1000's like me. Trump and Elon are about to screw the proverbial pooch. We lost a HUGE number of lifers around COVID - they simply retired. Our pay is not commensurate and we rely on benefits to attract new people. We will have a mass exodus and I, for one, am not sticking around to watch the fallout. I’m tired of doing MORE with LESS.

Thank you for your service. We sometimes forget to recognize people like you who have given so much.

The Fascists do not want to pay one penny in taxes. They claim the government is broken and dysfunctional and no longer works. It is only this way because they broke it the best they can.

Republicans have wanted to gut "entitlements" for as long as I can remember. The war criminal GWB wanted to privatize Social Security. They want to turn everything over to the ravenous corporations.

In his first term TFA tried to undo every Obama accomplishment. This time he and the Republicans will attempt to undo every Democratic administration's accomplishments stretching back to FDR. This is the ultimate result of Reagan's declaration that government is the problem.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (ycI94)

82 Volvo's New Ad Is Tear-jerkingly Pro-Life, and We're Here For It

Are you a frequently distracted driver in the world where pedestrians just assume they'll always be safe? We have good brakes (assuming they're maintained).

Volvo. For people who do something other than the most important thing they should be doing.

I do think the guy should have married the girl before he knocked her up though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

83 73 One more note: Mere mention of the name Michael Byrd makes my blood boil. I really hope PDJT issues J6 pardons on J20
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2024 08:18 AM (uAQQB)

Can Byrd still be indicted for murder? If not, then at the very least he should be charged with civil rights violations and Babbitt's family should sue the shit out of him for wrongful death.

Sadly, the DC jury pool will not be reliable.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (x0n13)

84 One of the last actions the Biden-Harris junta takes could be the disbursal of tens of millions of dollars to a pro-"Palestinian" nonprofit that disseminated protest materials exalting Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of Israel.

‘Solidarity Forever’: Biden-Harris EPA Weighs Awarding Taxpayer Dollars To Nonprofit That Wants To Defund The Police

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What's the 10% vig on that?

Oh well, at least the Biden Crime Family will still be able to rake in millions from Hunter's Art after January 20th ... wait wut, nobody's buying after that?

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (/6TY1)

85 Despite efforts by Democrats and the media to generate controversy, Trump is enjoying significant goodwill, with 53% of registered voters approving of his transition and 40% disapproving. Interestingly, while Trump remains personally unpopular, voters appear to want him to succeed.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 08:22 AM (BCN/l)

86 72 Thanks, Food. It’s at noon.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:22 AM (v6JzV)

87 Here's what the left thinks about Bondi. They seem a bit anxious.

>>@EricLDaugh
MSNBC: Trump plans to fire Special Counsel Jack Smith's team. His attorney general wants to prosecute the bad prosecutors and investigators. It's a huge chilling effect

https://tinyurl.com/yuwjt3t6

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 08:22 AM (LkLld)

88 5 I want to see Musk buy the NY Times. Talk about heads exploding.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:15 AM (ZlOcj)
******
I want him to buy CBS, ABC or NBC. Conservatives need another television outlet other than cable.

Love to see The Views heads explode.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

89 One more note: Mere mention of the name Michael Byrd makes my blood boil. I really hope PDJT issues J6 pardons on J20
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2024 08:18 AM (uAQQB)

Can Byrd still be indicted for murder? If not, then at the very least he should be charged with civil rights violations and Babbitt's family should sue the shit out of him for wrongful death.

Sadly, the DC jury pool will not be reliable.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (x0n13)

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Extradite him to Club Gitmo and a military tribunal.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 08:23 AM (/6TY1)

90 Sooth. Thanks for posting that. Just one of the freak outs we all endured while the dems were shooting themselves in the posterior. m obama replacing mr potato head. In hindsight they were partially correct, biden wasn't on the ballot.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 08:23 AM (2NHgQ)

91 80 Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (jgdZo)

It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:23 AM (x0n13)

92 The Looming MAGA War Between JD Vance and Ron DeSantis: The First Move Is Coming

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With all the 24/7/365 election chaos we just went through, I just couldn't care less about this type of garbage. It's 4 years off, for crying out loud. Can't we just take a moment to breathe and enjoy the momentum we have? Does everything have to be a red light, flashing siren on All the Things(tm) all the time? It's exhausting.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2024 08:23 AM (qBdHI)

93 Allan ’13 Keys’ Lichtman Crawls Back to X One Day After Leaving.
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He should be the perfect symbol of self-important imbecility. But he's too obscure for that; 95% of people haven't heard of him.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:23 AM (1bNHn)

94 Hey, JJ, any chance you can add Vic to the Absent Friends list?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

Did he pass away?! Ugh. Send me his obit or info and I will ask Ace to include it in the sidebar. My e-mail is in the contact list on the Left sidebar.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 07:49 AM (x0n13)

Has anyone still got the link? It's fallen off the right sidebar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

95 I do think the guy should have married the girl before he knocked her up though.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

I want to believe the pro life people behind the ad wanted to give the message more weight by being less doctrinaire about it.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 08:24 AM (12v8J)

96
“So here’s the scenario that I think is perhaps the most likely and most dangerous: In August of 2024, the Democrat kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama.”

--Senator Lyin' Ted
September 2023

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:24 AM (GrnuB)

97 Tulsi Gabbard being a Russian operative is more “Russia, Russia, Russia” crap from Hillary Clinton. And, by the way, if Tulsi really was a Russian operative, Russian state TV would be the last people in the world to say so.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 08:24 AM (Da7Vv)

98 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

I recalled Nesheiwat being a skeptic during the pandemic, I must be confusing her with someone else.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

99 Does everything have to be a red light, flashing siren on All the Things(tm) all the time?

Come for the Book Thread, stay for the hair on fire.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

100
My supermarket's bakery makes a wicked good blueberry muffin.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:24 AM (x0n13)

101 “So, first of all, somebody should pass a law banning executive orders on day one. Because the reality is executive orders drafted by transition teams without the input of the affected agency before the cabinet secretaries are even confirmed are not great ideas,” Johnson said.

… sounds unconstitutional

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 08:25 AM (BCN/l)

102 I look at the JFK assassination as a hierarchy of possibilities.

The official story that Oswald acted alone was never top of my list.

I used to put Khruschev / Castro Revenge as #1.

With what I've learned recently I now put Deep State Power Play as #1. Oswald was a framed patsy.

But the shot did come from the Depository. There's a video from Oswald's perch that shows JFK's car moving straight away at 5 mph. I could have made that shot.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 25, 2024 08:25 AM (Gqoy+)

103 This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center published the identities of anonymous staff writers for our sister site, Not the Bee, which covers news so absurd that it seems like satire.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 08:26 AM (BCN/l)

104 Captain Byrd shot an unarmed woman in the back for opposing Democrats. He's routinely capricious and negligent in his duties, because he treats his badge as a sinecure. He abuses his power and shoots at citizens in his private life, just for annoying him. And he uses his race as a shield to justify illegal behavior when challenged by legitimate law enforcement.

He's everything the Party expects a cop to be. The promotion and big bonus were totally appropriate in the context of Washington DC.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 08:26 AM (7oYYI)

105 It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature!!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:23 AM (x0n13)

Damn JJ, that's a great pull! Forgot about that particular one.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 08:26 AM (jgdZo)

106 The cowardly snakes that are the GOPe have declared full war on DJT.
Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 08:04 AM (UnA8+)

They must all be crushed. Marathon, not sprint.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

107 Who would have guessed Trump would have two former Democrat Presidential candidates in his cabinet? Along with a teachers union supporter Labor Secretary and a censorship promoting Surgeon General?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 25, 2024 08:26 AM (GJIkK)

108 A note to JJ and Ace, here's a link to Vic's obituary. I had it bookmarked.

https://tinyurl.com/24sfx4n3

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 25, 2024 08:27 AM (iODuv)

109 I really hope PDJT issues J6 pardons on J20
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2024 08:18 AM (uAQQB)

I read somewhere that's not happening. Instead Trump will announce expedited reviews of every case.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:27 AM (ZlOcj)

110 I'd half heartedly like to see Trump nationalize the various broadcasters like ABC, CBS, NBC. Under his "America First" agenda they'd be forced to parrot the truth instead of the bullshit they spew daily now.

As it is today they're Democrat mouthpieces anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 08:28 AM (Q4IgG)

111 Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 25, 2024 08:27 AM (iODuv)

Thanks. I will forward it on to Ace/Pixy and cobs who edit the sidebar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 08:28 AM (x0n13)

112 I'll bet Lindsey Graham offered him ~~warm personal words of approbation~~ oral.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

113 I already wasn't thrilled with Bondi. But her railroading of Zimmerman, who is an idiot but was innocent, is not a good sign.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 08:28 AM (12v8J)

114 Is Pam Bondi really independent, or will her ties to the Zimmerman-Martin case make her a Deep Swamp pawn?
_______
On the one hand, the Zimmerman connection is troubling. On the other, my distrust of Sundance's judgement is total.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:28 AM (1bNHn)

115 93 He should be the perfect symbol of self-important imbecility. But he's too obscure for that; 95% of people haven't heard of him.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:23 AM (1bNHn)

When you get owned by Chunk Uygur, it's time to vanish off the face of the earth.

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 08:29 AM (UnA8+)

116 Is that the margarine that had the sing-songy commercial?
Or is that the basketball floor at Boston Garden?
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (jgdZo)
*******
An easy dessert.
All you need are fruits, nuts and whipped cream

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

117 What new lows and horrors will the ever-diminishing Bidet Administration deliver unto the US today?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:29 AM (2oLC8)

118 Thanks, Food. It’s at noon.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:22 AM (v6JzV)

Good luck. Shootin' some words upward for ya. I imagine some others will too!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 08:30 AM (jgdZo)

119 n his first term TFA tried to undo every Obama accomplishment. This time he and the Republicans will attempt to undo every Democratic administration's accomplishments stretching back to FDR. This is the ultimate result of Reagan's declaration that government is the problem.

At least back to Woodrow Wilson's racist crap.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 08:30 AM (Da7Vv)

120 Has Trump picked a nominee for the Dept of Education?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

121 One of the first things that the new AG should do is bring murder charges against Michael Byrd. The venue needs to be changed to a politically neutral area to get a fair jury. If he is found innocent, law enforcement has an "open season" permit to start shooting protesters at any demonstration.

Posted by: jwest at November 25, 2024 08:30 AM (VP9ao)

122 97 Tulsi Gabbard being a Russian operative is more “Russia, Russia, Russia” crap from Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 08:24 AM (Da7Vv)

Her vile, rotted soul has completely overtaken her intelligence if she thinks that will work anymore -- as if it ever did.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:31 AM (ZlOcj)

123 Allen Dulles was behind the JFK assassination. LBJ was probably in on it, too.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:31 AM (v6JzV)

124 As long as we are dreaming of things that won't happen, I want Pam Bondi to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Anthony Fauc

Posted by: one hour sober at November 25, 2024 08:31 AM (Y1sOo)

125 Allan ’13 Keys’ Lichtman Crawls Back to X One Day After Leaving.
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He should be the perfect symbol of self-important imbecility. But he's too obscure for that; 95% of people haven't heard of him.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:23 AM (1bNHn)

This is hilarious and predictable. I wonder if anyone there will blaspheme against him. I hope so…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2024 08:31 AM (uAQQB)

126 *Fauci, but you knew that

Posted by: one hour sober at November 25, 2024 08:32 AM (Y1sOo)

127 Chunk Uygur

--------

I like "Chunk Hunger." I laugh every time somebody says that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 08:32 AM (7oYYI)

128

Chuck Woolery is mort. 83.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:32 AM (GrnuB)

129 Vance has never claimed that he saw combat in Iraq. Don't know about DeSantis... Bottom line both Vance and DeSantis were in combat zones and should be applauded for joining and serving.

While I agree with the second point, the first point opens them to criticism. Neither has claimed to have seen combat but, then again, Trump didn't sexually assault E. Jean Carroll and that doesn't stop the Dems from calling him a rapist.

It's fucked up that people on the right have to police everything they say but it's also reality.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

130 118 Thanks, Doof. Much appreciated.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2024 08:33 AM (v6JzV)

131 It's also...
National Book Week.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

132
Bush fascist warmonger stooge and homosexual activist "lawyer" ted olson dead at 79.

Good riddance, pickle smoocher.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:33 AM (GrnuB)

133 Chuck Woolery is mort. 83.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:32 AM (GrnuB)

Check out last night's ONT. I honored him with a few funny vids.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 08:34 AM (jgdZo)

134 Oops. Linda McMahon. Forgot.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:34 AM (SfhV1)

135 Chuck Woolery is mort. 83.
Posted by: Soothsayer

He'll be back in 2 & 2.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 08:34 AM (UE7n4)

136 On the one hand, the Zimmerman connection is troubling. On the other, my distrust of Sundance's judgement is total.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:28 AM (1bNHn)

He's right about how how Bondi's actions revealed her priority of political cronyism over an individual life, but he's wrong about it amounting to blackmail fodder. Zimmerman was acquitted and the case is ancient history in political terms.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:34 AM (ZlOcj)

137 To put things in perspective

Trump. Vance, and DeSantis have seen more danger than Democrat Senator DaNang Dick Blumenthal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:34 AM (2oLC8)

138 I really hope PDJT issues J6 pardons on J20
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2024 08:18 AM (uAQQB)

I read somewhere that's not happening. Instead Trump will announce expedited reviews of every case.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 08:27 AM (ZlOcj)

That’s disappointing… unless expedited means less than one week. Those folks need to be out of that gulag

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2024 08:34 AM (uAQQB)

139 Republicans have wanted to gut "entitlements" for as long as I can remember. The war criminal GWB wanted to privatize Social Security. They want to turn everything over to the ravenous corporations.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (ycI94)

ha
Everyone under forty would have privately held money.
S&P Returns last 20 yrs.
3 13 4 -38 23 12 0 13 30 12 -1 10 20 -6 29 16 27 -19 24 25.
10k would be worth 65k.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

140 My supermarket's bakery makes a wicked good blueberry muffin.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

What do you do with the stumps?

Posted by: Environmental Crisis Action Committee at November 25, 2024 08:35 AM (nS6qG)

141 Apple? That explains everything.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 25, 2024 08:35 AM (3Rpkk)

142 Does everything have to be a red light, flashing siren on All the Things(tm) all the time?

Some people like it that way.

My in-laws were like that. Liked to be watching Fox News by sunrise so that they could be good and pissed off by 8:00 a.m.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 08:36 AM (5GshG)

143 We lost a HUGE number of lifers around COVID - they simply retired. Our pay is not commensurate and we rely on benefits to attract new people.

Talk about out of touch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:36 AM (ExV1e)

144 "Allen Dulles was behind the JFK assassination. LBJ was probably in on it, too."

Dulles was the first head of the CIA until JFK fired him over the Bay of Pigs debacle. Somehow he was a member of the Warren Commission.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 25, 2024 08:36 AM (Gqoy+)

145 Apple is the John Deere of computers.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 25, 2024 08:36 AM (3Rpkk)

146 Has Trump picked a nominee for the Dept of Education?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)
******
Yes. Linda McMahon.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

147 I want to see Musk buy the NY Times.

I want him to buy CBS, ABC or NBC.

If I were advising him financially, I'd suggest waiting a few months to let their value stabilize, IYGWIM. Better deals coming.

I'd like him to buy NYT for what it's worth, and sell for what they think it's worth...

I had a plan to make MSNBC exciting, but damn it, Chuck Woolery died on me.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 08:37 AM (zdLoL)

148 129 While I agree with the second point, the first point opens them to criticism. Neither has claimed to have seen combat but, then again, Trump didn't sexually assault E. Jean Carroll and that doesn't stop the Dems from calling him a rapist.

It's fucked up that people on the right have to police everything they say but it's also reality.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:33 AM (ExV1e)

Don't forget, the Left also says that he murdered Melania and had her replaced with a fake.

Sanity has never been a requirement for them.

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 08:37 AM (UnA8+)

149 Yes. Linda McMahon.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

Thanks. My remember-er is in JJ's shop for repairs.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:37 AM (SfhV1)

150 Check out last night's ONT. I honored him with a few funny vids.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 08:34 AM (jgdZo)

I never look back, Darlink! It takes away from deh Now.

Posted by: Edna Mode at November 25, 2024 08:38 AM (LxER7)

151 120 Has Trump picked a nominee for the Dept of Education?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

Linda McMahon

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

152 I read the article on building more prisons. It could have read build more work houses. There is a lot of work contracted to inmates, some not so good like on line work where they could be privy to sensitive information. A lot would serve a good purpose. I remember way back in my USMC days wall lockers and some barracks furniture had tags saying made by Federal Prison Industries. A good formula would be pay state minimum, none of this fight for fifteen BS. Half goes back to the penalty system for the incarceration, a quarter is applied to fines and restitutions, and the remainder to the convict, with a percentage retained and payable at release.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2024 08:38 AM (gm9Sb)

153
btw, for what it's worth, RFK has A LOT of hollywood celery friends. They like him and agree with his wacky ideas.

I think that will have an impact on the Democrats & Fake News dragging him through the mud. Might backfire significantly, is my prediction.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:38 AM (GrnuB)

154 146 Has Trump picked a nominee for the Dept of Education?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)
******
Yes. Linda McMahon.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

Which means he's probably gonna drop Garland's Federal Sex Trafficking Investigation into Vince.

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 08:38 AM (UnA8+)

155 Today is Joe DiMaggio's birthday?

The Democrats are totalitarian freaks? Say it ain't so Joe.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:39 AM (2oLC8)

156 Willowed:

Geico goes DEIco!

https://tinyurl.com/2p9ms85r

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 08:39 AM (3KZZ8)

157 In 2015, Dept of Education budget was 70 Billion. Today it is 240 Billion per Charlie Kirk.

Wipe it out, and let the states take care of their Education

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 08:40 AM (YCxFk)

158 Does everything have to be a red light, flashing siren on All the Things...

A significant portion of the commentariat is just trying to get their blood pressure up enough to try for a bowel movement.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 08:40 AM (zdLoL)

159 VDH’s speculation could have worked the first week of October; but it’s nonsense now. Have you noticed that Kamala is already disappearing? She can’t speak in public, she has no actual backers if they’re not being paid to stand and cheer. And now, she’s a loser of no further value. She’s going to vanish from the political scene faster than that Deez Nutz guy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 08:41 AM (W6hoT)

160 Today is Joe DiMaggio's birthday?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:39 AM (2oLC

-

That reminds me. Time to make my afternoon Mr. Coffee.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 08:41 AM (3KZZ8)

161 The school included their plans to show students “pictures of children and talk about what they know about the children just from the pictures.”

“Using their observations,” the school adds they will “then take the opportunity” to interject “vocabulary (newspeak) to describe characters of different identities.” For example, they list made up terms like “cis-gender,” “transgender” and even more obnoxiously, “non-binary,” the delusion that you’re neither a boy nor a girl.

Kindergarten

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

162 >>He's right about how how Bondi's actions revealed her priority of political cronyism over an individual life, but he's wrong about it amounting to blackmail fodder. Zimmerman was acquitted and the case is ancient history in political terms.

Is he? The original states attorney that was assigned to look at the case recused himself and asked Gov Scott and Bondi to appoint a new prosecutor. It wasn't like Bondi just woke up one morning and decided she was going after Zimmerman.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 08:42 AM (LkLld)

163 Toilet-to-Tap: Singapore's Sewage Beer Delights UN Climate Change Conference
_______
Remember the signs in men's rooms saying "What Our Beer Contains. Please Pee in the Urinals, not on the Floor."

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:42 AM (1bNHn)

164 For J6 I see an expedited process to release the Grandmas and Tourists quickly. I'm hoping for a J6 Truth Commission to identify the true culprits, Nancy especially. She should die of Ass Cancer without a Capitol Rotunda funeral. Am I right?

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 25, 2024 08:42 AM (Gqoy+)

165 [i[]Willowed:

Geico goes DEIco!

https://tinyurl.com/2p9ms85r
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 08:39 AM

Did the little lizard change its gender?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 08:42 AM (ZANHd)

166 93
‘ Allan ’13 Keys’ Lichtman Crawls Back to X…
But he's too obscure for that; 95% of people haven't heard of him.

What I have heard is hilarious.
“I wasn’t wrong! Everyone else wrong. Stupid
, stupid voters!”

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 08:42 AM (jbnUc)

167 VDH’s speculation could have worked the first week of October; but it’s nonsense now. Have you noticed that Kamala is already disappearing? She can’t speak in public, she has no actual backers if they’re not being paid to stand and cheer. And now, she’s a loser of no further value. She’s going to vanish from the political scene faster than that Deez Nutz guy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2024 08:41 AM (W6hoT)

Professor Suggon Deeznutz? Great teacher… like that guy. Free speech expert…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2024 08:42 AM (uAQQB)

168 10k would be worth 65k.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:35 AM (gbOdA)

And it would be YOUR money. Not subject to government games and folks who die young (like, for example, black men) could leave it to their heirs rather than just losing out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:43 AM (ExV1e)

169 Report: Planned Parenthood Caught Selling ‘Viable’ Fetuses To University Of California San Diego

My guess is over 50% black babies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

170 Happy Monday!

>>Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson cast doubt Sunday on NBC News about President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, after suggesting that presidential executive orders should be banned.

Funny it's Obama's surrogates now flooding the media.
Looking like they got ~~the band~~Team Coup back together again.

Is Mayorkas in hiding? Advised by his lawyer to stop speaking in public? Fled the country?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 08:43 AM (u1uWe)

171 The Department of Education should be renamed the Department of Grifters.

Posted by: dantesed at November 25, 2024 08:44 AM (Oy/m2)

172 Has Trump picked a nominee for the Dept of Education?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)
=-=
Linda McMahon

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2024 08:44 AM (RIvkX)

173 I want Bondi to investigate 2 Deep State Women, and perp walk both.

1. Lisa Monaco, Garland's number 2, who ordered FBI to bring Assault Rifles to the Mara Lago Raid.

2. Mary McCord. Assistant Attorney General for both Obama and Biden. She spearheaded the Lawfare against Trump.

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

174 Per Sundance, Bondi’s friend and colleagues built a false case against Zimmerman. She knew what they were doing and approved or perhaps even directed it as AG. Law enforcement at the local level and the local prosecutor were not consulted until the case came to trial. Likewise, the two Zimmerman supporting witnesses were not consulted until the trial.
==

hmm. last thing we need is another Sessions.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 08:44 AM (QTCRF)

175 Speaking of the D of Ed, is Jimmy Carter still alive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:45 AM (2oLC8)

176 RFK has A LOT of hollywood celery friends. They like him and agree with his wacky ideas.

I haven't actually paid a lot of attention to him. Which of his ideas are wacky and did you hear that from him or from someone bitching about him?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

177 >>Report: Planned Parenthood Caught Selling ‘Viable’ Fetuses To University Of California San Diego

IT'S SURPRISING THIS IS NEWS GIVEN PP WAS CAUGHT ON TAPE DOING THIS ABOUT A DECADE AGO.
THEN KAMALA JAILED THE DUDE FOR DOING THIS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at November 25, 2024 08:45 AM (u1uWe)

178 Apropos of nothing, Tim Dillon's recent imitations of Lindsey Graham have been cracking me up. Comedy gold.

Skip to 4:35.

https://tinyurl.com/4bjyz6wu

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2024 08:45 AM (7oYYI)

179 Today is Joe DiMaggio's birthday?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:39 AM (2oLC
-

That reminds me. Time to make my afternoon Mr. Coffee.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 08:41 AM (3KZZ

Head to Dinky Donuts. He's a dunker, Jerry!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 08:45 AM (jgdZo)

180 Alan Lichtman, Charlie Cook, and Larry Sabato all have awful Toupee's.

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

181 JJ,
Since I followed all your computer misadventures, when my old laptop started having one minor problem after another, I asked my computer guru Dan the Man if it was worth repairing. He said, this is the way Apples die.

He told me what I needed, and last Friday set it all up. Seamless. Ten days from ordering to working on the new one.

Not to rub it in or anything.

BTW, I trust Dan completely. He plays bass in a band.

Posted by: Wenda at November 25, 2024 08:46 AM (YzCJt)

182 How short are memories.

Janet Reno. Her claim to fame before Waco was railroading an innocent boy in Florida over false charges of sexual abuse.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:47 AM (2oLC8)

183 A significant portion of the commentariat is just trying to get their blood pressure up enough to try for a bowel movement.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 08:40 AM (zdLoL)

HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST SUCH AN OUTRAGEOUS... what were we talking about?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:47 AM (ExV1e)

184 117 What new lows and horrors will the ever-diminishing Bidet Administration deliver unto the US today?
---------------
Well, we're not on the verge of war with Cuba, Venezuela, Northern Mexico, or Brazil, so things are completely normal.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 08:47 AM (jFCkp)

185 I think Trump's team should be smart this time around and test Bondi's loyalty right off the bat. Give her something that will show whose side she is on.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 08:47 AM (QTCRF)

186 Did you notice that Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is black ? I'm sure she won't let you forget it.

TheAmericanSpectator: Isn’t It Time for Jasmine Crockett to Shut Up?

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

187 Shreding government records is a crime. But when you've been ordered to preserve them, 18 USC 1512 (C) (1) with its 20 year prison term for each document you destroy is in play. Think about what you are doing DOJ people. Remember, first person to squeal gets the deal.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 08:47 AM (Da7Vv)

188 In his first term TFA tried to undo every Obama accomplishment. This time he and the Republicans will attempt to undo every Democratic administration's accomplishments stretching back to FDR. This is the ultimate result of Reagan's declaration that government is the problem.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2024 08:21 AM (ycI94)
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I see the DUmmies ramain true to the oeuvre: long on generalities and short on specifics.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 08:48 AM (tT6L1)

189 Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) says, "Hello!" and hopes that everyone will enjoy their Thanksgiving week...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 08:48 AM (BpYfr)

190 Being fair to Bondi for Zimmerman. That was 2012. Donald was not even a Republican at that point.

We have to forgive a little, and hope for best

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 08:48 AM (YCxFk)

191 180 Alan Lichtman, Charlie Cook, and Larry Sabato all have awful Toupee's.
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I would vote for Larry as the worst but I don't know Alan or Charlie.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 08:48 AM (jFCkp)

192
THE Dan The Man?

Of the Man family?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:48 AM (EppBK)

193 175 Speaking of the D of Ed, is Jimmy Carter still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:45 AM (2oLC

Oh crap, you're gonna summon the LET'S DANCE guy...

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 08:49 AM (UnA8+)

194 117 What new lows and horrors will the ever-diminishing Bidet Administration deliver unto the US today?
---------------
Well, we're not on the verge of war with Cuba, Venezuela, Northern Mexico, or Brazil, so things are completely normal.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 08:47 AM (jFCkp)
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Under FJB, we've been trying to *become* all of those places...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 08:49 AM (BpYfr)

195
"professor" lickman stole Pat Cadell's wig

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2024 08:49 AM (EppBK)

196 171 The Department of Education should be renamed the Department of Grifters.
Posted by: dantesed at November 25, 2024 08:44 AM (Oy/m2)

Grifters, Groomers and Didlers

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:50 AM (gbOdA)

197 Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Sunday on ABC News that there should be no peace for President-elect Donald Trump since he “signed up” for office again, warning that he should be working “every single day” to lower prices and keep Americans safe.

There is going to be a lot of pressure on Trump to lower prices, kick on the illegals, and reduce government authoritarianism.

I hope he's ready because the GOPe and the Dems will fight him and with the 4 stolen senate seats it is going to be tough.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 08:51 AM (oZhjI)

198 If we become Brazil, sure we get dictatorship, but we also get Carnival.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:51 AM (2oLC8)

199 Well, we're not on the verge of war with Cuba, Venezuela, Northern Mexico, or Brazil, so things are completely normal.

At least if we do tangle with the Brazilians we don't have to worry about getting lost in the bush.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 08:52 AM (oZhjI)

200 Oh crap, you're gonna summon the LET'S DANCE guy...

youtube.com/shorts/cN-Mp6j2hp4

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

201 Yahoo! News is already clutching at pearls and sobbing fake tears over Trump separating millions of families by kicking illegals out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:52 AM (2oLC8)

202 Oh crap, you're gonna summon the LET'S DANCE guy...
Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2024 08:49 AM (UnA8+)
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Ain't got time fer dancin' cause we're gonna run Kilimanjaro!

Let's go! https://tinyurl.com/msurypbx

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at November 25, 2024 08:53 AM (tT6L1)

203 IIRC the Trayvon / Zimmerman thing was right about the time "racism" became a thing. Zimmerman being a Hispanic White man and all.

Bondi was likely influenced by all that too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 08:53 AM (Q4IgG)

204 182. Someone needs to make a list of how many F up's the DOJ had under Bush 1 and Bush 2. Rino boneheads.

1. Ted Stevens in Alaska.
2. Casper Weinberger
3. US Rep Curt Weldon of Penn

Bondi needs to rein in these career Investigate units at DOJ and FBI, that only go after the GOP and low hanging fruit like Bob Menendez

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 08:53 AM (YCxFk)

205 Daniel 10:19
Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2024 08:01 AM (EaUHc)

Same words offer up to shepherds and Mary. Notice that around 99% of progressive ideas are deep rooted in either creating fear or establishing that unfounded fears are real.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 08:04 AM (gbOdA)

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This could also include Herrod killing all newborn babies , and th esteemed democrat base insisting on abortion.

Posted by: Chillin the most at November 25, 2024 08:54 AM (AhKLt)

206 Yahoo! News is already clutching at pearls and sobbing fake tears over Trump separating millions of families by kicking illegals out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:52 AM (2oLC

I don't understand this idea of separating families. If they came in together, why can't they leave together?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 08:54 AM (SfhV1)

207 On the local news: Childhood obesity rate has nearly doubled!

On the WSJ front page: "A 12-year old Journeys into the World of Ozempic"

And no mention of RFK jr at all -- they are pretending to have stumbled onto this issue all on their own.

I can't imagine getting my kid hooked on a $1000k per month drug for life at age 12 - WTF?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 08:54 AM (u1uWe)

208 Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) says, "Hello!" and hopes that everyone will enjoy their Thanksgiving week...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 08:48 AM

Give Kaylee All The Scritches from teh Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 08:55 AM (ZANHd)

209 Grammie Winger

YahoO! News, "but but but the children were born here!!!! WwwaahhH!!!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:55 AM (2oLC8)

210 low hanging fruit like Bob Menendez

Hey! New Jersey Senators are all fiercely heterosexual. -- Bob Menendez

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 08:55 AM (ExV1e)

211 >>I don't understand this idea of separating families. If they came in together, why can't they leave together?

Anchor babies.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 08:55 AM (u1uWe)

212 Per Sundance, Bondi’s friend and colleagues built a false case against Zimmerman. She knew what they were doing and approved or perhaps even directed it as AG. Law enforcement at the local level and the local prosecutor were not consulted until the case came to trial. Likewise, the two Zimmerman supporting witnesses were not consulted until the trial.
==

hmm. last thing we need is another Sessions.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 08:44 AM (QTCRF)
******
Now do RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard etc.
Sometimes I think Sundance likes to sow dissension. I stopped listening to him awhile ago.
Pam Bondi is no Sessions. She's going to be great.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

213 hmm. last thing we need is another Sessions.
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2024 08:44 AM (QTCRF)

I recused myself! Recused I tell ya!

Posted by: Jeff Sessions, Alabama Hayseed Hick and Cornpone at November 25, 2024 08:56 AM (Y5VD5)

214 Grammie Winger

YahoO! News, "but but but the children were born here!!!! WwwaahhH!!!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:55 AM (2oLC

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Why do I read that as, "waddled across the border 8.5 months along and dropped the kid at the nearest border hospital?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 08:56 AM (tT6L1)

215 Those babies need to drop anchor in another country. When they turn 18 sure come back and we'll see

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:56 AM (2oLC8)

216 in the Summer, JD Vance made a excellent point about the Deep State.

the real problem is the mid level managers in the Federal Department's, that fly under the radar, and do not have to be confirmed. They have been there 20+ years, and have much power. They need to be dumped too

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 08:57 AM (YCxFk)

217 I don't understand this idea of separating families. If they came in together, why can't they leave together?

Anchor babies.

Posted by: Lizzy

I can see a logical case for 'the fruit of the poisoned tree' being applied. How can you reward the results of a criminal act?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2024 08:57 AM (lTGtQ)

218 I can't imagine getting my kid hooked on a $1000k per month drug for life at age 12 - WTF?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 08:54 AM (u1uWe)
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Well, there's always puberty blockers. right?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 08:57 AM (tT6L1)

219 >>Yahoo! News is already clutching at pearls and sobbing fake tears over Trump separating millions of families by kicking illegals out.

Did they happen to mention that the Biden administration has lost contact with over 300,000 immigrant children they turned over to "sponsors"?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 08:57 AM (LkLld)

220 Now do RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard etc.
Sometimes I think Sundance likes to sow dissension. I stopped listening to him awhile ago.

I find Sundance to be a bit cultish

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 08:58 AM (IyPmt)

221 >>Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said Sunday on ABC News that there should be no peace for President-elect Donald Trump . . .

Guess "reading the room" is not part of Jasmine's talent stack.

Go ahead, stick with that message, hon.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 08:58 AM (u1uWe)

222 good morning JJ, Horde

Note to self: JJ hates sea slugs and nematodes.

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 25, 2024 08:58 AM (JcnCJ)

223 JJ. "who has the intellectual agility of a sea slug with down's syndrome......something something "nematode." LOL. Gees, I'm da Bronx, but you guys from Brooklyn are so....poetic.

Posted by: DiddlySquat at November 25, 2024 08:58 AM (Kx62N)

224 Why do I read that as, "waddled across the border 8.5 months along and dropped the kid at the nearest border hospital?"

Oh you've seen that crisis exploding over the past decade or so?

But they will totes round up and deport women from China coming to the US to have their babies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 08:58 AM (2oLC8)

225 ‘ Duckworth said, “Well, I think she’s compromised’

Tammy Duckworth doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 08:59 AM (jbnUc)

226 3. US Rep Curt Weldon of Penn

I vaguely recall he was the guy that lost to Slestak.

I looked up the case again and the LA Times accused him of using his daughter as the bagwoman to get paid by some Russian oligarch. Note based on this the DOJ opened a major investigation and spent a ton of time and money harassing him to get...nothing. Sorry, they found one of his aides made $19K she didn't report accurately on her taxes that had nothing to do with any of this.

Note how differently this was handled compared to Hunter Biden...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 08:59 AM (oZhjI)

227 Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) says, "Hello!" and hopes that everyone will enjoy their Thanksgiving week...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 08:48 AM (BpYfr)
******
Be sure to read her a bedtime story for National Book Week.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

228 This new female Prez is getting uppity. Trump will humble her day one

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 08:59 AM (YCxFk)

229 ‘ Duckworth said, “Well, I think she’s compromised’

Tammy Duckworth doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 08:59 AM

Cruelty Level: Chuy.

But I LOL'd.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2024 09:00 AM (ZANHd)

230 I don't understand this idea of separating families. If they came in together, why can't they leave together?

Anchor babies.

Mostly this - and the obvious answer is send them home anyway.

There are also the sex trafficked children, and trust me our elites case way more about keeping them here than the anchor babies.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2024 09:00 AM (oZhjI)

231 Remember the signs in men's rooms saying "What Our Beer Contains. Please Pee in the Urinals, not on the Floor."
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Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes 15h
🤣🤣🤣

https://tinyurl.com/5fa6nd9d
IMAGE that's been removed from genuine X for some reason.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 09:01 AM (hovnC)

232 Tammy Duckworth is a vile piece of DNA. She held a do nothing job at the VA while veterans were dying. Then she got into Congress and became truly vile.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2024 09:01 AM (2oLC8)

233 226. Good info 18. I remember he got raided like Mara Lago in 2006. He was a powerful House Chairman

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:01 AM (YCxFk)

234 >>Well, there's always puberty blockers. right?

Yes -- it's frightening to see Big Pharma* is going there with another lifetime use drug. As if the puberty blockers grift isn't ghoulish enough. I can't imagine a person who starts Ozempic at 12 will have no complication, that it won't potentially shorten their life (stomach paralysis, etc.).

*(I feel like a prog saying that)

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:01 AM (u1uWe)

235 I find Sundance to be a bit cultish
Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 08:58 AM (IyPmt)
******
He causes unnecessary outrage.
I think he finds pleasure in that.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

236 Durbin will probably retire, so empty head Duckworth will be senior Sen of Soviet Illinois

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:02 AM (YCxFk)

237 I trust Gabbard more than I trust Collins, Murkowski,McConnell, and Thune

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 09:03 AM (IyPmt)

238 Deported families don't have to be separated, "anchor babies" or not. Deport them all. When and if the kid want's to return have him/her enter via a properly controlled port of entry with proof of citizenship.

The others can pound sand.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2024 09:03 AM (Q4IgG)

239 Morning all, thx JJ glad to have the report back in swing.
I like the ballot verifier program. That means the the Dems and propaganda ministries will try and kill it before it spreads out of Idaho

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 09:03 AM (FxDm7)

240 Bush 1 Attorney General allowed Def Secretary Casper Weinberger to get indicted a month before the 1992 election

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:04 AM (YCxFk)

241 220 Now do RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard etc.
Sometimes I think Sundance likes to sow dissension. I stopped listening to him awhile ago.

I find Sundance to be a bit cultish
Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 08:58 AM (IyPmt)

Know nothing of him… is he worth the bother?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 09:04 AM (PCK5/)

242 U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 30th district
Assumed office January 3, 2023

Hasn't finished a single term and is bucking for "Leadership"

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

243 Western Lensman @WesternLensman Nov 24
🚨NEW: Adam Schiff doesn’t believe that Trump AG pick Pam Bondi should be “prosecuting the prosecutors."

"Is she going to continue to say that the Justice Department should be prosecuting prosecutors who brought valid evidence before a grand jury?"

“A grand jury found probable cause to believe Donald Trump committed crimes. That's not a basis to go after them."

The American people who gave a mandate to Trump disagree, Adam.

The people responsible for the “Get Trump” op at the Biden DOJ must be held to account.

Monica Crowley @MonicaCrowley Nov 24
Somebody’s very very nervous

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 25, 2024 09:05 AM (hovnC)

244 So McConnell is sticking around, because afraid that Dem Gov of KY will appoint a Dem to his seat?

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:05 AM (YCxFk)

245 217
‘ I can see a logical case for 'the fruit of the poisoned tree' being applied. How can you reward the results of a criminal act?’

It helps if you’re a judge in 2024 US.

That’s the iceberg I’m looking at. Judges who rule against the law and for the left.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 09:05 AM (jbnUc)

246 I would take anything posted by Conservative Outhouse with a huge grain of salt. They are a bunch of divisive, purity test shitposters who have been wrong about almost everything.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 25, 2024 09:06 AM (Jl4aj)

247 Funny how the Left doesn't care about "separating families" when people are murdered by illegals.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 09:06 AM (12v8J)

248 38 Has Dave in FL been around to opine on the last 2 CA House seats? Looks to me like CA is curing them over to the dems.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
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I am assuming that the Dems will find the last few views needed to take CA-13.

This isn't a bad thing, btw.

Garcia, Steele, and Deurte are all Kevin McCarthy acolytes, and explicitly rejected MAGA during the campaign. They then ran 4-8 points behind Trump in their districts and lost (or will lose).

CA-13 in particular I want to see that prick Duerte lose by 1 vote. The CA GOP is a useless bunch of never Trumpers who are completely clueless about their base of voters.

It is better that the Dems win those seats through fraud. It highlights the problem while getting rid of people who will backstab Trump.

Win-win

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 25, 2024 09:06 AM (m8F5V)

249
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
@ImMeme0
Holy Sh*t!

A two-year-old was among a group of 60 unaccompanied minors crossing our border at once. DHS is facilitating what amounts to the largest taxpayer-funded human trafficking operation, and no one in our government seems to care.

DISGUSTING!

For over four years, there hasn’t been a single staged photo op of
@AOC
shedding tears over separated children.

https://tinyurl.com/392dubab

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

250 Be sure to read her a bedtime story for National Book Week.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:59 AM (NpAcC)
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Pet Semetary?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 09:07 AM (BpYfr)

251 244 So McConnell is sticking around, because afraid that Dem Gov of KY will appoint a Dem to his seat?
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Best news for all is if McConnell is confined to an iron lung and unable to speak.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 09:07 AM (jFCkp)

252 243. Monica Crowley is solid. She has stuck by Trump thru the bad times

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:07 AM (YCxFk)

253 Rep. Jasmine Crockett challenges proposed DEI bill: 'No oppression tor the white man'

Democratic lawmaker Jasmine Crockett rants about ‘the white man’ during a hearing on the Dismantle DEI Act

Crockett lays into Republicans claiming oppression over DEI

Jasmine Crockett Goes Viral For Schooling Colleagues While Defending DEI: ‘There Has Been No Oppression For The White Man In This Country’

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

254 Didn't notice the wonderful Cosmik Debris hidden click on last night's Doof ONT until just now. Politically, Maryland is still a black hole, but I will cut Doof some slack for a good while.

Posted by: George Duke Fan at November 25, 2024 09:07 AM (nS6qG)

255 250 Be sure to read her a bedtime story for National Book Week.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 08:59 AM (NpAcC)
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Pet Semetary?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 09:07 AM (BpYfr)

Cujo…

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 09:08 AM (PCK5/)

256 Anchor babies should be turned over to the WWE for a baby wrestling league.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2024 09:08 AM (5GshG)

257 Nancy especially. She should die of Ass Cancer without a Capitol Rotunda funeral. Am I right?

Sadly, people rarely get what they deserve: Farrah Fawcett died of ass cancer, while Nancy stays home and gets hammered with her husband. George Soros survived WW2, while Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 25, 2024 09:08 AM (Da7Vv)

258 >> So McConnell is sticking around, because afraid that Dem Gov of KY will appoint a Dem to his seat?
Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:05 AM (YCxFk)

There is a dispute between the governor and the legislature about the process. The legislature wrote a law that states the governor must pick someone from the same party, and from a list presented by the legislature. The governor has stated he won’t comply.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 25, 2024 09:08 AM (Jl4aj)

259 246 I would take anything posted by Conservative Outhouse with a huge grain of salt. They are a bunch of divisive, purity test shitposters who have been wrong about almost everything.
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They can't meet the Vespa/Croc threshold.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 09:08 AM (jFCkp)

260 I believe Adam Schiff may truly be one of the vilest denizens of the House and soon to be Senate, I've seen in a while.

Even for a Democrat he's amazingly repugnant and obviously enjoys power far more than the obvious politician.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (tT6L1)

261 So in the Zimmerman trial why did Bondi let the fake girlfriend on the stand. She was NOT the real girlfriend.
Also why did she cover up the store video and receipt for the ingredients for purple drank?

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (gbOdA)

262 Bondi railroaded Idiot Zimmerman, I don't care who posts the news about it.

Treehouse's stupid theory that the deep state can "use" this against her strikes me as the usual soap opera unreality crap, but facts are facts. Why did she pursue the case, and why were phony witnesses allowed. At whose behest? I want to hear her shitty fucked up reasoning. Makes her a poison apple regardless.

"Little Trayvon" is a big part of where we are right now.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (12v8J)

263 the intellectual agility of a sea slug with down's syndrome

-

🤣

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (VnatX)

264 But Dave, 221 is better than 220 seats, in terms of at least organizing the House.

Dave you did a great job this election cycle by the way. Congrats

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (YCxFk)

265 260 I believe Adam Schiff may truly be one of the vilest denizens of the House and soon to be Senate, I've seen in a while.

Even for a Democrat he's amazingly repugnant and obviously enjoys power far more than the obvious politician.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (tT6L1)

Compensating for … something…

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (PCK5/)

266 George Soros survived WW2, while Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen.
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George was well fed and did not contract typhus. Typhus is a very nasty disease.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2024 09:10 AM (jFCkp)

267 Also want to comment on the Labor Secretary choice. Ignore the words of the teachers union and focus on the support from Teamsters and UAW.

If MAGA is to have long term viability we need the union households on board.

How many wins did the Chamber of Commerce deliver?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 25, 2024 09:10 AM (m8F5V)

268 Dave you did a great job this election cycle by the way. Congrats

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (YCxFk)

Yep.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 25, 2024 09:10 AM (SfhV1)

269 On the one hand, the Zimmerman connection is troubling. On the other, my distrust of Sundance's judgement is total.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2024 08:28 AM (1bNHn)

That's about how I feel. I have doubts about Bondi, but I would lije to see her baggage unpacked by someone
who's not an online cult leader. I used to take Sundance fairly seriously, up until he started proclaiming, ludicrously, that DeSantis connived to facilitate the FBI raid on Mar-a-Largo, and followed it up by insisting that
DeSantis was "endorsed" by Soros, which was a blatantly dishonest spin on that video clip where Soros was admitting that DeSantis was more effective, and hence more dangerous, than Trump. Sundance has also been stoking paranoia about Musk and Vance, and claiming that he himself is being blocked from communicating with Trump to warn him of the perils posed by the Deep State. The amazing thing is that Sundance has a fervent following that believe everything he says; he's an example of how dramatic-looking graphics (all his images with red circles and arrows), and repeated catchphrases ("there are trillions at stake" "this guy is sketchy") can build an undeserved reputation online.

Posted by: Wiese at November 25, 2024 09:10 AM (1pand)

270 236
‘ Durbin will probably retire, so empty head Duckworth will be senior Sen of Soviet Illinois’

It sounds impossible but I actually despise that slimy nematode more than Duckworth.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2024 09:10 AM (jbnUc)

271 So when Mike Johnson is elected Speaker again in Jan, what happens if GOP loses members thru passing or Specials and goes below 218.

Does Johnson remain speaker?

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:11 AM (YCxFk)

272 How many families were separated when the illegals left their stupid home countries? Are we to believe EVERYONE traveled with their family?

Trump is reuniting people!

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 09:11 AM (12v8J)

273 It is better that the Dems win those seats through fraud. It highlights the problem while getting rid of people who will backstab Trump.

Win-win
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 25, 2024 09:06 AM (m8F5V)
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yeah, why go for the imitation when one can have the real thing?

We are at the point such people need to be retired. Yay team GOP doesn't cut it any more.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 09:11 AM (tT6L1)

274 As long as California is in the Union we’ll have House problems…

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 09:11 AM (PCK5/)

275 McConnell is sticking around, because afraid that Dem Gov of KY will appoint a Dem to his seat?
—

Dem Replacing a Dem. What’s the big deal?

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 09:12 AM (VnatX)

276 Know nothing of him… is he worth the bother?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 09:04 AM (PCK5/)
******
No. He loves to stir the pot, unnecessarily .

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

277 107 Who would have guessed Trump would have two former Democrat Presidential candidates in his cabinet? Along with a teachers union supporter Labor Secretary and a censorship promoting Surgeon General?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

The two Dems doesn't bother me, but judging from the other two nominees you listed, I'm guessing they bother you? These are angry Dems that have seen the corruption and evil of the Establishment, and are energized to tear it down....which is Trump's message and voter base goal. There was a time not to long ago when Democrats (at least their voters) distrusted the Federal government, and suspected the CIA and other agencies of violating the rights of Americans, and destabilizing other countries with coups and wars.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2024 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

278 Sundance is still connected to some of the few remaining good guys in Sodom on Potomac and was the only source of true reporting in Florida when the Trayvon thing happened.

He isn't always right, but is like Rush(98.6% of the time :-D) and should be consulted on a regular basis.

Posted by: Danimal28 at November 25, 2024 09:13 AM (klw0w)

279 Didn't notice the wonderful Cosmik Debris hidden click on last night's Doof ONT until just now. Politically, Maryland is still a black hole, but I will cut Doof some slack for a good while.
Posted by: George Duke Fan at November 25, 2024 09:07 AM (nS6qG)

Each state flag had a mystery click behind it with an artist from those states. Did ya catch all 3?

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2024 09:13 AM (jgdZo)

280 I believe Adam Schiff may truly be one of the vilest denizens of the House and soon to be Senate, I've seen in a while.

Even for a Democrat he's amazingly repugnant and obviously enjoys power far more than the obvious politician.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (tT6L1)

Compensating for … something…
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (PCK5/)

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He misses Ed Buck and young black boys ... but mostly young black boys.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:13 AM (QJHXT)

281 Well, dog walking time is upon me. Someone needs to tell the Sun it's slacking off.

later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 09:13 AM (tT6L1)

282 Human trafficking is exactly what they have been doing and working with NGOs and the UN to facilitate it.

There's an ocean of shit to undue in DC.

>>A two-year-old was among a group of 60 unaccompanied minors crossing our border at once. DHS is facilitating what amounts to the largest taxpayer-funded human trafficking operation, and no one in our government seems to care.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 09:14 AM (LkLld)

283 Are Anchor Babies as collectable as Beanie Babies?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 25, 2024 09:14 AM (1FWWQ)

284 How many families were separated when illegals killed Americans? Or when they took jobs held by Americans which left to financial ruin and families breakups.

So spare me the bullshit leftists.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 25, 2024 09:14 AM (VnatX)

285 267. Chamber of Commerce in Chicago, is Dem run. Awful

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:14 AM (YCxFk)

286 Not really on 221. Duerte already voted with the Dems last week. The margin is so small that 219, 220, or 221 is not really important.

Also don't be surprised when a number of Dems change party in the next year.

Duerte is a prick, losing him is a net gain.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 25, 2024 09:14 AM (m8F5V)

287 Notice how quickly the circular firing squad forms? We are still a month or two out from Trump being even sworn in, for fucks sake.

I know we want to hold his feet to the fire, but let's not stick our heads in it as well just yet. The game clock has not even started and we are already writing the epitaph.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2024 09:15 AM (JQfE3)

288 He misses Ed Buck and dead young black boys ... but mostly dead young black boys.

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FIFM.

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 25, 2024 09:15 AM (QJHXT)

289 Put Gaetz in the Senate, to fight Schiff, and to tell McConnel to F off

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:16 AM (YCxFk)

290 Thanks Dave. Would still like that extra seat in the numbers. In two years the RNC could figure out how to replace him with someone better.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 09:17 AM (2NHgQ)

291 But Dave, 221 is better than 220 seats, in terms of at least organizing the House.

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:09 AM (YCxFk)

Whatever it takes.

Posted by: Michael Keaton at November 25, 2024 09:17 AM (OguvZ)

292 287. Agreed. But i understand the talk on Bondi. We need to make sure she cleans up the DOJ and FBI.

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:18 AM (YCxFk)

293 A two-year-old was among a group of 60 unaccompanied minors crossing our border at once. DHS is facilitating what amounts to the largest taxpayer-funded human trafficking operation,

and no one in our government seems to care.
Posted by: JackStraw

Because they are dicking the kids.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 09:19 AM (UE7n4)

294 Dave are their any Dems left who could move to the GOP House?

Golden is running for Gov or Senate in Maine

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2024 09:20 AM (YCxFk)

295 California didn't just do away with voter ID they made it illegal to even ask for an ID.

As long as there is no ID and no time limit on counting ballots we are going to lose seats in California.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 09:20 AM (LkLld)

296 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
This crap ends on January 20th, 2025

https://tinyurl.com/yazns6wt

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2024 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

297 Sadly in the CA GOP the only way to replace someone bad is to lose to a Democrat in the general.

I am shedding no tears over watching McCarthy's minions lose.

That state party needs a come to Jesus moment.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 25, 2024 09:21 AM (m8F5V)

298 DailyMail: Senior Russia general 'is sacked by Putin for faking success stories in Ukraine'

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

299 Well, we're not on the verge of war with Cuba, Venezuela, Northern Mexico, or Brazil, so things are completely normal.

At least if we do tangle with the Brazilians we don't have to worry about getting lost in the bush.
Posted by: 18-1

As long as we stick to the edges.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 09:22 AM (UE7n4)

300 Sundance lost me a few years ago. The HQ is conservative, however ace posts commentary that's not 100% positive to all things conservative and PDT. Sundance's top post for the day, which I believe is resistance day number xxxxx is a bit over the top. A bit of skepticism is good.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 09:22 AM (2NHgQ)

301 Is he?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 08:42 AM (LkLld)

Yes, I believe he is. Have you read his summary? It's very well documented. I'm not against Bondi. Trump obviously trusts her, and she has shown loyalty to him above and beyond. I just think it's a piece of her history worth noting.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2024 09:23 AM (ZlOcj)

302 I seriously doubt there was ever a science popularizer worth listening to.

Mr. Wizard was good and the Electroboom guy on youtube. And let's not forget Professor Proton.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 09:23 AM (/y8xj)

303 >>Compensating for … something…

Recall that Schiff was buddies with that big Democrat funder who got his rocks off hiring black, male prostitutes to then shoot them up with heroine before sex -- killing two (that we know of).

Yeah, Schiff seems more than a little bent. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:23 AM (u1uWe)

304 Globalists present their newest plan for us: Beer crafted from raw sewage

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

305 304 Globalists present their newest plan for us: Beer crafted from raw sewage
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

So... Bud Lite

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2024 09:24 AM (IyPmt)

306 I see the Alaskan GOP looks for a recount of the ranked voting repeal loss. Good luck in getting vrud of an idiotic concept.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2024 09:25 AM (FxDm7)

307 >>Globalists present their newest plan for us: Beer crafted from raw sewage

How about they micromanage their own d@mn lives and stop telling us how to live ours?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:25 AM (u1uWe)

308 On Bondi - I really, really dislike this idea that anyone who doesn't meet Trump 2024 standards is definitionally unacceptable.

Not even Trump 2010 met Trump 2024 standards. In 1999 (not that long ago), Trump said he was "very liberal when it comes to health care," and that he "believes in universal healthcare."

Is he no longer acceptable?

I absolutely hate it when leftists use 2024 standards to judge the Founding Fathers. It's not better when we do it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at November 25, 2024 09:26 AM (aYubz)

309 See you all later. off for a cat scan on my foot. Last year's surgery may have left me with hardware that's causing swelling to the bones.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 25, 2024 09:26 AM (2NHgQ)

310 >I seriously doubt there was ever a science popularizer worth listening to.

Professor Whoopie.

Posted by: Tennessee Tuxedo at November 25, 2024 09:26 AM (i0F8b)

311 I seriously doubt there was ever a science popularizer worth listening to.

Beakman's World.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 25, 2024 09:28 AM (UE7n4)

312 >>Yes, I believe he is. Have you read his summary? It's very well documented. I'm not against Bondi. Trump obviously trusts her, and she has shown loyalty to him above and beyond. I just think it's a piece of her history worth noting.

A lot of stuff Sundance writes are well documented but not 100% accurate. As I mentioned, the original state's attorney that was assigned to the case recused himself which forced Gov. Scott and Bondi to pick a replacement. It was a very heated time with lots of protests and the whole BLM crap was spinning up with race baiting attorney's descending on FL. Scott even called for a review of FL's Stand Your Ground bill.

In hindsight it's always easier to say what should have been done but this seems like a pretty minor issue. Sundance writes some interesting stuff but he has never found an issue he can't spin up to eleventy!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2024 09:28 AM (LkLld)

313 See you all later. off for a cat scan on my foot.

Hope you're feline better soon.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2024 09:29 AM (/y8xj)

314 "NATO Chief Travels to Mar-a-Lago to Hold Ukraine Peace Talks With Trump"

I wonder how many high tech bugging devices FBI installed around Trump's place, when they did their criminal raid. They need to spy on Trump constantly ... to protect/save their criminal enterprise.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2024 09:29 AM (Cus5s)

315 I seriously doubt there was ever a science popularizer worth listening to.

Maybe Professor Nucleus von Fission:

https://youtu.be/XrAFle0W228

Although he actually created something, as opposed to just running a planetarium gift shop.

Posted by: spindrift at November 25, 2024 09:30 AM (OguvZ)

316
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Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

317 From JJs link - Dr. Mary Anne Franks:

The First Amendment’s mythical status as the uncompromising guardian of free expression for all is the product of historical revisionism, selective intention, and limited imagination. What has been protected in the United States, above all, is not fearless speech in the service of equality, but rather reckless speech in the service of racial and gender hierarchy. While great strides have been made over the centuries to transform Americans’ false claim of democracy into a true one, the original ruling class has done everything it can to resist this. The values of while male supremacy the and the speech that reinforces them have ways received heightened protections in our society.

Yeah, free speech's purpose isn't to promote "equality" or any of your other Marxist goals, it's to keep the government from suppressing what you want to say.

It's also about freedom of religion, which she seems to ignore (at least in the linked piece).

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2024 09:32 AM (u1uWe)

318 The father of the missing Hawaii woman who vanished while heading to New York City for a vacation was found dead near LAX early Sunday.

Ryan Kobayashi, 58, was in Los Angeles to search for his 30-year-old daughter, Hannah Kobayashi, after she missed a connecting flight to New York from Los Angeles International Airport over two weeks ago.

Police confirmed that Ryan Kobayashi died after he jumped off a parking structure near LAX sometime around 4 a.m. Sunday, according to NBC Los Angeles.

... sounds like the Russians

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

319 That Vance vs DeSantis article? Mentions nothing about media presence. You are not going to get elected if you can't do the interviews. Also, Vance has now run a full national campaign. DeSantis has not.

Front runners right after an election are seldom the front runners four years later. Much too early for this.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 25, 2024 09:37 AM (gfViB)

320 You fly to LAX to jump off a parking structure?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 25, 2024 09:38 AM (SEhPf)

321 Just about everything Sundance writes strains credulity. It’s always a search for the slightest perceived deviation from a purity test. People talk about how we need to rid ourselves of the most extreme and intellectually faulty parts of the Democratic Party, but that’s also something we need to do as Republicans. I have no opposition to open, truthful and honest debate on the issues. But what I find both problematic and dishonest are people such as that on the outside who throw stones and try to tear everything down without making a single contribution towards building it up.

We don’t need more pundits and people who sit around the edges and nitpick about what they believe are other people’s motives. We need intelligent people who can formulate cogent arguments, discuss factual, realistic policies and our collective goals. It’s about bringing people together around the fundamentals of liberty, not digging into people’s past, and uncovering what they’ve done as some type of apostasy. And BTW, we all make mistakes in judgment but what defines us is not the mistakes, but rather how we respond to them. YMMV

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2024 09:40 AM (d1nBw)

322 Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at November 25, 2024 09:26 AM (aYubz)

There is never a time when it's ok to railroad an innocent person.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 09:57 AM (12v8J)

323 They've cemented their history of J6:

Roll Call, Jan. 6, 2023, White House, 'Biden honors officers, officials to mark Jan. 6 attack anniversary' Those individuals helped stop an attack on America’s democratic system of government, the president said at the White House ceremony

AP, Dec. 6, 2022, Jan. 6 ‘heroes’ honored for defending Capitol from Trump mob

"To recognize the hundreds of officers who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the medals will be placed in four locations — at U.S. Capitol Police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. In signing the legislation last year, Biden said that one will be placed at the Smithsonian museum “so all visitors can understand what happened that day.”
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J trying for WW3? No, but Marshall Law (like Z)?

Military News, 'Trump Could 'Destroy' Pentagon and Upend Rule of Law if Reelected, Senate Armed Services Chairman Warns,' By Rebecca Kheel, Published October 28, 2024

CIP UW edu, Rumors rapidly spreading about reissued Department of Defense Directive 5240.01, Oct 18, 2024
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Reuters, today, UAE says suspects arrested in alleged killing of Israeli rabbi are from Uzbekistan

Z?

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 10:03 AM (NFX2v)

324 320 You fly to LAX to jump off a parking structure?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 25, 2024 09:38 AM (SEhPf)

Weird. Talking to a relative yesterday and the weird factoid about terminally ill people going on cruise ships and jumping off into the ocean to commit suicide.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 10:04 AM (x0n13)

325
Uzbekistan backwards is Nazi Kebzu!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 10:06 AM (x0n13)

326 Bondi needs to appoint Matt Gaetz on day one as special prosecutor to investigate prosecutorial and judicial abuse, conspiracy and election obstruction. Give him dozens of attorneys, unlimited money, subpoenas and grand juries who will indict anyone for anything. Let's see how many democrat operatives we can bankrupt and ruin.

Posted by: jwest at November 25, 2024 10:06 AM (VP9ao)

327 I find Sundance to be a bit cultish
******
He causes unnecessary outrage.
I think he finds pleasure in that.
_____________________
Some people read "The Paranoid Style in American Politics"
as an instruction manual. It can be habit-forming.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 25, 2024 10:06 AM (zdLoL)

328 323 "They've cemented their history of J6:

Roll Call, Jan. 6, 2023, White House, 'Biden honors officers, officials to mark Jan. 6 attack anniversary' Those individuals helped stop an attack on America’s democratic system of government, the president said at the White House ceremony"

This is why Bondi needs to indict Michael Byrd for murder and indict some of the other Capital Police officers who testified for perjury.

Posted by: jwest at November 25, 2024 10:08 AM (VP9ao)

329 If Bondi was pressured by BLM into prosecuting Zimmerman that is possibly the worst news of all.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2024 10:09 AM (12v8J)

330 Liz Cheney Hurt Kamala Harris with Swing Voters in Rust Belt.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 10:10 AM (RHGPo)

331

Have any of the animals who beat and stomped Roseanne Boyland to death ever been identified?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2024 10:14 AM (x0n13)

332 15 "Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Caitlyn Jenner of Bill Nye."

Have some sympathy for this poor guy who as a child was beaten up every day by his more erudite and learned brother, Mike!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at November 25, 2024 10:15 AM (gfztU)

333 I wish Trump would give Adam Kinzinger a role in his administration so Trump can ritually humiliate him at meetings.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 10:19 AM (RHGPo)

334 When my daughter was graduating from college, the speaker was supposed to be Neil deGrasse Tyson, but for some odd reason, they ended up with Bill Nye.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 10:21 AM (RHGPo)

335 Yeah Jasmine Crockett is no jewel. She's as bad as Barbara Lee the black Marxist that Berkeley and Oakland sent to Congress for many years.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at November 25, 2024 10:26 AM (cB7nX)

336 Bondi is one of those whores who will do whatever it takes to advance her ambitions. She is one of those individuals who we have all met who'd sell their mother if she thought it improve her chance for a promotion. One of those dark critters with no principles whatsoever, she was ready to sell an innocent man down the river on the bidding of a black lynch mob. No wonder the RINOs love her.

Are we to believe she will clean out the DOJ? Yeah just like Obama will rid the DOD of queers and Muslims.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at November 25, 2024 10:40 AM (bXvrr)

337 The Deep State War Against Donald Trump Begins

Finally, under no condition should Trump appear in a New York City courtroom (or anywhere else in New York City) until after January 20, 2025. A Trump decision to continue directing the transition from within the confines of Mar-a-Lago until Inauguration Day would be prudent.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 10:43 AM (RHGPo)

338 Axios CEO has a meltdown over Elon Musk saying X is the media “Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today saying like, ‘we are the media. You are the media.’” “My message to Elon Musk is bullsh*t! You're not the media!”

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g'joob

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2024 10:46 AM (RHGPo)

339 That Volvo ad is great, but I'm still not buying a Chinese car.

Posted by: Bigsmith at November 25, 2024 10:55 AM (LvZ//)

340 "The undisputed facts were that Martin, who was black, attacked Zimmerman, ...."

Not true.
In fact- it could not be proven as to who initiated the attack. The witness was able to see the interaction at the point where Martin was on top of Zimmerman. But there was no one who actually saw who started it. Girl on the phone with Martin testified that Zimmerman had lost sight of Martin, and Martin approached Zimmerman. But no one say who turned the incident into a physical altercation.

Which is why it never should have been brought to trial. If Martin had survived the encounter and Zimmerman died- it would have been the same. A man claiming self-defense, with no one to confirm who turned the event physical.

Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at November 25, 2024 11:03 AM (aM8qU)

341 333. I wish Trump would give Adam Kinzinger a role in his administration so Trump can ritually humiliate him at meetings.
Posted by: SMOD

Only suitable position: Pinata.

BTW, his lovely wife - born in Peru & entered US w/family - was a lower level Communications Specialist in the Trump White House.

Federal employment history:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Jan. 2020-Aug. 2020), Press Secretary

Office of the Vice President of the United States (Jan. 2018-Jan. 2020) Michael Richard Pence (Mike),
Strategic Media Director

House Speaker (Republican) (July 2013-March 2014) Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), Press Assistant

House Speaker (Republican) (May 2012-June 2013)
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), Staff Assistant
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Kinzinger and Boza-Holman tied the knot on February 15, 2020, according to a news release from the congressman’s office. The couple chose to have a destination wedding in Antigua, Guatemala. But the wedding still included a religious ceremony.

A more recent article, GP Magz, "Sofia Kinzinger, An Inspiring Story Of Leadership And Success' Nov 23, 2024, writes, "In 2013, Kinzinger married Adam Kinzinger."

Humm. His 'attitute' makes a bit more sense.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 11:29 AM (NFX2v)

342 I seriously doubt there was ever a science popularizer worth listening to.

———-

Dr Becky
Anton Petrov
Sabine Hossenfelder
V101 Space
Ancient Architects
PBS SpaceTime

All those a pretty good. I guess it depends on what a “popularizer” is?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 25, 2024 11:50 AM (mdi0h)

343 Instagram:
carrieprejeanboller
@epochtimes reveals what really happened to Roseanne Boyland on Jan 6, 2021

#j6injustice
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NYT, Videos Show How Rioter Was Trampled in Stampede at Capitol
Rosanne Boyland died after losing consciousness in the crush of a pro-Trump mob as it surged against the police. Here’s how it happened. Published Jan. 15, 2021
Updated May 31, 2021
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Worth reading and watching in entirety.
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MSNBC, American Radical, February 10, 2022
Transcript: Cause of Death
The full episode transcript for American Radical: Cause of Death

Roseanne Boyland

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 25, 2024 12:22 PM (NFX2v)

Daily Tech News 25 November 2024

Top Story

RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header. (5SNB)

An idea whose time has come.
Over the last 50 years, advancements in peripherals have allowed websites to stab users. A number of industries have popped up to provide SaaS (Stabbings as a Service). Some users have expressed discomfort when a knife is plunged into their chest, and this header allows those users to express their personal preferences.
A user preference can, of course, be ignored by bad actors. However, most stabbings are not done by malicious actors, they are simply law-abiding companies which will gladly stop stabbing you if you ask. This standard provides a method for a user to easily opt-out of all stabbings, except those mandated by law, and ones that the company wants to do anyways.
Seems entirely fair. Who could possibly object to this?
Syntax

The header has only one form, Do-Not-Stab: 1. This is because the lack of a header indicates a clear preference that the user wants to be stabbed.
Understandable.
Defaults

A user-agent MUST NOT adopt Do-Not-Stab: 1 as the default preference. If a user-agent were to do this, web services SHOULD ignore the preference and stab the user anyways.
This is of course a parody of... Well, pretty much everything the big tech companies do these days.

Or is it?

Tech News

This website is hosted on Bluesky. (Daniel Mangum)

Well, not this one. And not the one linked above, either. But the one linked in the article linked above.

I mean, sort of. It requires jumping through several flaming hoops and is entirely pointless, but... Not sure there is a but.
Outlandish recursive query examples with SQLite. (SQLite)

Like solving Sudoku with a database query. Or plotting the Mandelbrot set... With a database query.
Yes, we seem to have run out of tech news.

Disclaimer: As it turns out, I did not accidentally throw out the fruit cake. I was cleaning the kitchen yesterday and there was some fruit loaf sitting on the counter - or so I thought - and I realised that it had to be stale since I haven't bought fruit loaf for two or three weeks. So I threw it out. Then later on I went to get a slice of fruit cake and there wasn't any because I had thrown it out. Though I couldn't understand how I had done that since they don't look that much alike. And this was a problem because gluten-free fruit cake is available for about three weeks of the year and the window has already closed, so there wouldn't be any more until October next year. But then I was in the kitchen today and I found the fruit cake and it turns out that I did in fact throw out stale fruit loaf which is available year-round. So I had some.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin' Pixy & Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 04:01 AM (O7YUW)

2 Morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 04:01 AM (lXCUP)

3 G'Day everyone
Reading Jiim's hospital experience downstairs

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 04:02 AM (fwDg9)

4 NO STAB I

Posted by: Horta at November 25, 2024 04:04 AM (njWTi)

5 Morning Horde! Pixy, if you’re here, the front page is crashing within a few seconds on my iPhone…

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 25, 2024 04:04 AM (btpRW)

6 Evening and morning to all the early risers and late toilers! Yeah, yeah, it's Monday . . . but, y'know, compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:04 AM (omVj0)

7 Time to hit the sack

Posted by: SFGoth at November 25, 2024 04:06 AM (KAi1n)

8 "do-not-stab" - This HTML flag may not function correctly in "Aloha Snackbar" iframes.

"It requires jumping through several flaming hoops and is entirely pointless" - much like Bluesky itself.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 04:07 AM (O7YUW)

9 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 04:08 AM (6ePlE)

10 Mornin' Wolfus!

I dunno 'bout that right/wrong side of the ground thing...

This weekend has been, um, "challenging" for me. Sometimes feel like I'm about to crack.

How's the Southern Swamp?

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 04:08 AM (njWTi)

11 5 Morning Horde! Pixy, if you’re here, the front page is crashing within a few seconds on my iPhone…

Probably ads, unfortunately, which I don't have much control over. Not seeing anything weird going on with the content.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 25, 2024 04:09 AM (BLOW1)

12 Grandma always sent mom a special fruit cake made at a Wenatchee bakery. We kids hated it, so mom must've gorged on it at tea time.

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 04:10 AM (UGS7U)

13 Mornin' Puddleglum!

youtube.com/watch?v=_jCuroTbqBI

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 04:12 AM (njWTi)

14 Dreams . . . I had a variant on the "unprepared for a test" nightmare. I had missed the 7:30-9:15 morning class of whatever it was, and arrived at the auditorium about 9:20. The same prof taught both the first class and the 9:30 one, and I usually sat on the second or third row, so I was sure (despite the fact the class was a big one in a giant auditorium) that he'd know I'd skipped. I crept into a desk farther back. Then I discovered I had no paper to take notes on. I hoped to borrow some from a classmate, but it seemed I didn't know anybody to ask.

A woman came up to me with a shoulder bag, asking if I knew the owner, and described him -- poorly, as the owner came up, and he didn't resemble the description at all.

Nice note to start a Monday on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:15 AM (omVj0)

15 Morning, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at November 25, 2024 04:17 AM (n7rxJ)

16 Mornin' Wolfus!

I dunno 'bout that right/wrong side of the ground thing...

This weekend has been, um, "challenging" for me. Sometimes feel like I'm about to crack.

How's the Southern Swamp?
Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024

***
Sorry to hear that, JQ. A good morning to you! "Take it one day at a time" is the best life advice I ever got; maybe you can adapt it to you.

The Swamp cooled on Friday and Saturday, and warmed back again (not as bad) yesterday, so I had to run the window unit A/C in the afternoon. 'Tis 64 F. right now, which is fairly pleasant.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:20 AM (omVj0)

17 Appt in the a.m. and snow expected overnight. Ugh. Guess I'd better log off.

G'night, all.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 04:20 AM (njWTi)

18 Howdy, JQ

youtu.be/haNLpJuW0YQ

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

19 This work week is short, only two days for me, as my boss is letting us off (unofficially) on Wed. As he says, just don't do anything criminal, or he will have to say, "I didn't know Wolfus wasn't at work; nope, didn't have any idea."

Last night Miss Linda had a migraine coming, so she left early and I knew discussing my retirement wasn't going to work. Today, I plan to screw my courage to the sticking place and talk to my boss about it. Scary . . . but the other great saying in AA is, "Feel the fear and do it anyway."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:26 AM (omVj0)

20 G'night, JQ

youtu.be/Ut4c-GTABwc

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 04:28 AM (sAmhv)

21 Good luck Wolfus. Hope both the conversation with the boss and Miss Linda go well.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 25, 2024 04:31 AM (haw4/)

22 Good luck Wolfus. Hope both the conversation with the boss and Miss Linda go well.
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 25, 2024

***
Thank you, sir. I have no idea how the boss will take it; I hope he'll be okay with my leaving at the end of Jan. As for Linda, the right time never seems to arrive. Perhaps the melatonin I've suggested to her will head off the migraine, and we can discuss this on Friday, after the T-giving fuss is over. (We're going to a nice restaurant on Thursday p.m., so it's not a cooking fuss.)

She still hasn't told me what she wants for her b'day on 12/1. I'll stop at Dillard's and get her some perfume or a gift card, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:42 AM (omVj0)

24 Had French Toast because I have sausages, I am dtuffed

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 04:48 AM (fwDg9)

25 Good morning, good people. I wish to completely withdraw from ANY stabbings, literal or figurative. Any attempt will be met with as lethal a response as possible.

Have to admit I'm looking forward to this Thanksgiving with unbridled anticipation of eating myself into a coma.
Can't see where that hurts on a once yearly basis, candidly.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 25, 2024 04:49 AM (hKoQL)

26 57 days until the inauguration

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 04:54 AM (fwDg9)

27 >>>it turns out that I did in fact throw out stale fruit loaf which is available year-round

Yay!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 04:55 AM (VnUSN)

28 Coffee, half slice of whole grain toast w/ peanut butter. There's no real rush this am. I'm taking it easy (no workout) thanks to the bruised rib -- which is better, so I guess I'm doing the right thing for it. No need to shave this am either.

Got to rinse the felines' bowls and set their canned food out to warm a little while. I'll shower, feed them, and then, real breakfast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 04:57 AM (omVj0)

29 "57 days until the inauguration"

Seems like forever.

Posted by: Case at November 25, 2024 04:57 AM (NMZGW)

30 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 25, 2024 05:02 AM (hoCmQ)

31 Breakfast is a good idea. Thinking gravy and biscuits would go well on a frigid morning like this.
BBIAB.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 25, 2024 05:02 AM (hKoQL)

32 >>>This website is hosted on Bluesky. (Daniel Mangum)

• However, applying validation does not mean that Bluesky’s restrictions will necessarily be applied.
• However, according to the specification, because this blob has to be referenced, it shouldn’t be visible.
• However, the app.bsky.embed.image schema retricts the MIME type to those prefixed with image/*.
• However, the blob $type is part of the AT Protocol data model and not specific to Bluesky.
• However, the post that references the image just includes the cid.
• However, I, and clearly the awesome folks building Bluesky, think it’s clearly worth it.

The tiresomeness, it hurts.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 05:05 AM (VnUSN)

33 Psalm 100- Being thankful despite trials.

I found this a very touching devotional because I have a dear, dear woman who is part of the church who came one day wearing a knit cap, and I immediately knew she was having cancer treatments even thoug she hadn't said . She soldiers on and says, Other people have it much worse than I do".

Devotional also contains some insights about the passage :

https://tinyurl.com/ym3wccbh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 05:13 AM (+HjOT)

34 Bluesky, with a commie Chinese balloon floating around.
no thanks.

Posted by: Case at November 25, 2024 05:15 AM (NMZGW)

35 Dishwasher unloaded and covfefe is ready.

What's a stab/stabbings?

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 25, 2024 05:25 AM (hoCmQ)

36 Chilly out and clear, above freezing at least
Flag is up
🫡
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 05:26 AM (fwDg9)

37 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I received a summons for petit jury duty this past week, though I'm currently ineligible due to having served on a grand jury within the past 10 years. I won't be eligible to serve until February 2028.

This is the second time they've summoned me, despite the fact I'm ineligible. Apparently they don't pay attention to their records.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 05:26 AM (BpYfr)

38 G'morning all!

40.3 degrees out.

Better than the 36 degrees yesterday.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 25, 2024 05:28 AM (a1415)

39 from the comments at Hacker News on Daniel Mangum's post about Bluesky blobs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42230392

pfraze 12 hours ago | next [–]
Appreciated Daniel reaching out to the team about this! Hosting blobs is one of those things that will inevitably go through iterations as we understand the abuse vectors more and more, but for now it's really fun to see this kind of usage in action. The PDS is meant to be a database host in the same sense that a webserver is a website host.

(elsewhere in the comments i.d.ed as Bluesky celebrity pfrazee)

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 05:30 AM (VnUSN)

40 G'morning Fen. I'm feeling much better, and just in time for me to be able to go to work today.

Thank you for the prayers!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 05:34 AM (O7YUW)

41 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 25, 2024 05:35 AM (dR6yv)

42 This is the second time they've summoned me, despite the fact I'm ineligible. Apparently they don't pay attention to their records.

I once got a jury summons when I was in college. I explained to the person on the phone that I was in Santa Clara County which was about 400 miles away from Los Angeles Counts.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 05:35 AM (lXoJ5)

43 Running a little bit late.

Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 25, 2024 05:36 AM (a1415)

44 PTL! Case of the Missing Fruit Cake solved! I love happy endings.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 25, 2024 05:40 AM (hoCmQ)

45 I received a summons for petit jury duty this past week, though I'm currently ineligible due to having served on a grand jury within the past 10 years. I won't be eligible to serve until February 2028.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2024 05:26 AM (BpYfr)
-

Maybe you'll get lucky and they'll throw the book at you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 05:41 AM (3KZZ8)

46 Happy Birthday to the Bush Twins,
Jenna and Barbara are 43 today...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 05:44 AM (TGPs7)

47 Happy National Parfait Day, today!
Off you go to the Dairy Queen to have one...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 05:45 AM (TGPs7)

48 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 25, 2024 05:46 AM (dg+HA)

49 I'm pretty sure the Bush Twins voted for Kamala...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 05:46 AM (TGPs7)

50
Paul Frazee
@pfrazee
Product developer and protocol engineer @bluesky. Formerly @BeakerBrowser, dat, ssb.
pfrazee.com

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 05:47 AM (VnUSN)

51 Please Come to Boston and expose yourself...

s.t.Å.c.o. | online
@StacoS
DELAYED:
[BOSTON]
Several lewd & lascivious incidents in Boston today. First it was a guy in a gray beanie exposing himself on Melrose St in Bay Village. Then it was a guy exposing himself to everyone who walked into a men’s restroom in the Pru on Huntington Ave. Now it’s another guy exposing himself in Back Bay/Downtown. BPD investigating...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 05:48 AM (TGPs7)

52 What do you get when you cross a website address with Chinese noodles?

Chicken Domain

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 05:51 AM (6f8Ov)

53 Keeping Trump's feet to the fire...

Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry.
@naomirwolf
President Trump should bear in mind that MAGA won with the alliance of MAHA and that MAHA can walk away again in 2026. This is an historic realignment. Don’t take it for granted. Deliver on implied and overt promises.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 05:52 AM (TGPs7)

54 Got back to my little rural hamlet in CT from the burbs of DC - the entire place was designed and remains a place for 50% of the population there. There really should be an efforts to, if not eliminate, then decentralize federal gov functions. If anything, for the environment/climate change - see now even the Gia-ists can’t object.

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at November 25, 2024 05:53 AM (Uy2Lz)

55 Grumpy and recalcitrant -who’s probably left by now- you are most welcome. dear one and I am thankful to the Lord that you are feeling better.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 05:53 AM (6f8Ov)

56 52 What do you get when you cross a website address with Chinese noodles?

Chicken Domain
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 05:51 AM (6f8Ov)

Using a Chinese server no doubt.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 05:54 AM (SSBCb)

57 We truly live in a golden age when you can get stale fruit cake year round.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 25, 2024 05:54 AM (bss/y)

58 The definition of an upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in.

Posted by: Ciampino - What boots up must come down at November 25, 2024 05:56 AM (i0xsb)

59 Looks like we'll warm up unpleasantly during the next couple of days. Then, rain and a "cold front" on Thurs., with cooler (58 to 62 as highs) conditions through Sun. Better than the T'givings where we sweat outdoors.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2024 05:57 AM (omVj0)

60 57 We truly live in a golden age when you can get stale fruit cake year round.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 25, 2024 05:54 AM (bss/y)

Is that like dwarf bread in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett?

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 05:58 AM (SSBCb)

61 Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
West Hollywood, California Starbucks refuses to serve man because he’s openly a Donald Trump supporter

The Hispanic manger knows he supports mass deportations and Trump so after refusing to serve him they call the police

Starbucks location: 428 N Beverly Dr, Beverly Hills

https://tinyurl.com/bden879n

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 05:59 AM (TGPs7)

62 Well gonna try and get some more 💤

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 06:00 AM (SSBCb)

63 They're already talking about being "weather aware" this Thanksgiving with several storms across the US...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:01 AM (TGPs7)

64 I have to say, the lions look very relaxed...

Nature is Amazing ☘️

@AMAZlNGNATURE
This Is Not About Hunting. Alex Larenty, From Britain, Lives In A South African Game Reserve Where He Gives Lions Foot Massages. He Started Doing This After Noticing That A Cream For Paw Infections Made A Lion Relax And Look Happy

https://tinyurl.com/um4fr6sa

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:04 AM (TGPs7)

65 29 "57 days until the inauguration"

Seems like forever.
Posted by: Case

The waiting is the hardest part.

Posted by: Your grandmother at November 25, 2024 06:05 AM (dg+HA)

66 Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 05:59 AM (TGPs7)

Great way to run a business/s and also risk a lawsuit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 06:12 AM (dYpyh)

67 Opera singing dog made me laugh:

https://tinyurl.com/3krpfmf5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2024 06:15 AM (dYpyh)

68
Elon Musk retweeted
DogeDesigner
@cb_doge
4h
Just a reminder:
You can now use Grok to decode memes.

They've made a Ben Roethlisberger!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 06:15 AM (VnUSN)

69 Happy Birthday to the Bush Twins,
Jenna and Barbara are 43 today...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 05:44 AM (TGPs7)

I shall refrain from comment on the Bush family.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 06:16 AM (ExV1e)

70 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at November 25, 2024 06:17 AM (dg+HA)

71 Keeping Trump's feet to the fire...

Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry.
@naomirwolf
President Trump should bear in mind that MAGA won with the alliance of MAHA and that MAHA can walk away again in 2026. This is an historic realignment. Don’t take it for granted. Deliver on implied and overt promises.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 05:52 AM (TGPs7)

Has he done something which upsets them?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 06:17 AM (ExV1e)

72
MILO
@Nero
Thanksgiving is spiritually dangerous. Can’t get into the details today but it exists to drain Christmas of happiness and holiness. I forbid it.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:21 AM (TGPs7)

73 70 I need a drink.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at November 25, 2024 06:17 AM (dg+HA)

Here. *hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 25, 2024 06:23 AM (PiwSw)

74 67 Opera singing dog made me laugh:

https://tinyurl.com/3krpfmf5
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

A cat assisting an opera singer.

youtube.com/shorts/mVdaW-wS77Q

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 06:23 AM (sAmhv)

75 Has he done something which upsets them?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 06:17 AM (ExV1e)

Trump's choice for Surgeon General, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat has been very reviled...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:24 AM (TGPs7)

76 wow

@elonmusk retweeted
@ibab
10h
Example of why @xAI is a truly special place to work at: Recently Elon took the time to hear 5min presentations from everyone at the company about what they are working on, with everyone going into as much technical detail as possible. He gave feedback to every single team member on what they are doing and how to help make Grok better. Elon spent 18 hours total with the team on this. No other leader cares so much about making their team successful, and the results speak for themselves.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 06:26 AM (VnUSN)

77 Trump's choice for Surgeon General, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat has been very reviled...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 25, 2024 06:24 AM (TGPs7)

1. Why?
2. Is Surgeon General actually a big deal?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 06:34 AM (ExV1e)

78 77
1. Why?

Praising social media censorship of Covid is a red flag.

2. Is Surgeon General actually a big deal?

Yes. And even if it wasn't, every single person Trump puts up needs to be checked. Frankly, his last administration was full of stupid choices.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 06:38 AM (lXoJ5)

79 Morning, all.

Glad the sickly are feeling better. jim may be asleep, but happy to hear his problems are finally (!) diagnosed.
Plus, I found the green bean recipe on the ONT.

We are hosting just our son and his girlfriend, who are heading back to Dallas Thursday after lunch, which will be very simple.
The real cooking starts Friday- with pies for his church event. Making and freezing the crusts today to be a bit ahead.

Had a stern talking-to with myself, the result of which was I spent several hours stringently cleaning out the sewing room yesterday. I feel twenty pounds lighter, after deciding to goback to my first loves- quilting and knitting and deleting everything else.
So, many things will be donated to a good cause.

Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 06:41 AM (f+FmA)

80 Is Janette a Dude In A Dress?
Does Janette wear a uniform and call itself an "Admiral?"
No?
Then gotta be an improvement.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 25, 2024 06:43 AM (dg+HA)

81 mornin yall. PDT is going to kick 15k mentally ill people out of the military. When they start offing themselves, it's going to be his fault. That's my President!

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2024 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

82 Fun fact: One of our previous Surgeon Generals was the sister of Father Guido Sarducci.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 25, 2024 06:44 AM (PiwSw)

83 Good morning. 38 degrees here in western NC going up to a sunny 70. Getting ready for an early morning dental appointment. Ugh. Be well all.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at November 25, 2024 06:45 AM (CXFY/)

84 79 Had a stern talking-to with myself, the result of which was I spent several hours stringently cleaning out the sewing room yesterday. I feel twenty pounds lighter, after deciding to goback to my first loves- quilting and knitting and deleting everything else.
So, many things will be donated to a good cause.
Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 06:41 AM (f+FmA)

Good job!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 06:47 AM (VnUSN)

85 I think sal is doing it wrong. The obvious answer was a new shed or an addition to the house.

Morning!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 06:49 AM (tT6L1)

86 I shall refrain from comment on the Bush family.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 06:16 AM (ExV1e)
-

I'd rather have a bird in the hand.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 06:52 AM (3KZZ8)

87 I think sal is doing it wrong. The obvious answer was a new shed or an addition to the house.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 06:49 AM (tT6L1)

Luckily for me, I already did the shed- "You are no more going to process that camel hair than fly to the moon, so THROW IT OUT!"

Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 06:53 AM (f+FmA)

88 G'mornin' everyone!

"Is that like dwarf bread in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett?"

no, flexible, and much better flavor!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 25, 2024 06:53 AM (gY0JQ)

89 Is Surgeon General actually a big deal?

Yes. And even if it wasn't, every single person Trump puts up needs to be checked. Frankly, his last administration was full of stupid choices.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 06:38 AM (lXoJ5)

RFKJ is gonna be her boss. Seems like a tempest in a teapot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 06:55 AM (ExV1e)

90 89 RFKJ is gonna be her boss. Seems like a tempest in a teapot.

The only way to prevent the problem is to stomp down on it before it ever becomes a problem. And frankly, someone who is pro-censorship does not belong in any high ranking government position.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2024 06:56 AM (lXoJ5)

91 I'm meh about the surgeon general. There's already so much controversy, in a good way, about PDT's picks, I don't much care about one that raises eyebrows on our side.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 06:56 AM (tT6L1)

92 And they are still pissed at the Secretary of Ag, even though it's not the one they were originally pissed about.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 25, 2024 06:57 AM (gfViB)

93 89 Surgeon General
---
RFKJ is gonna be her boss. Seems like a tempest in a teapot.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2024 06:55 AM (ExV1e)

And we will never have federal mandates again.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 06:57 AM (VnUSN)

94 Its 6 AM somewhere.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 06:59 AM (gbOdA)

95 The New York Post has an informative writeup of the Temptation meme that Rachel Maddow is having vapors about:

https://tinyurl.com/mt53wh6m

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 07:00 AM (VnUSN)

96
Luckily for me, I already did the shed- "You are no more going to process that camel hair than fly to the moon, so THROW IT OUT!"
Posted by: sal at November 25, 2024 06:53 AM (f+FmA)
-----------

Might I offer you some nice lambs wool to card?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 25, 2024 07:00 AM (tT6L1)

97

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 25, 2024 07:01 AM (EFZgU)

98 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

99 Ha! Hillary! is all over this thread.

73 70 I need a drink.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at November 25, 2024 06:17 AM (dg+HA)

Here. *hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 25, 2024 06:23 AM (PiwSw)

97
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 25, 2024 07:01 AM (EFZgU)

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 07:03 AM (VnUSN)

100 100

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 07:03 AM (VnUSN)

101
Checking in. All conditions nominal. Repeat, all conditions nominal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 07:04 AM (dxSpM)

102 Wonder of wonders. My heating solutions are working, and my wife is not complaining about how cold she is. This is most unusual in the winter.

Because I remember how much she hated it in summer when our geothermal unit recirc pump needed to be replaced. Zounds. I sent her to a hotel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

103 Hadrian the Seventh

Are you and the remaining dogs go for launch?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

104 m

You still got the touch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

105
I am writing a report for a project I've done. I always provide one or more tables showing the hierarchy for patent classifications used in the search. Constructing them is a huge, persnickety pain in the posterior. If there's something AI can do for me, it's this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 07:07 AM (dxSpM)

106
Are you and the remaining dogs go for launch?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

Dogs are fine. I'm going in this morning for a heart exam. Nothing alarming, just a follow-up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 07:08 AM (dxSpM)

107 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

or: "Go home Hillary. You are drunk and ugly to the bone, and no one wants you around."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

108 If there's something AI can do for me, it's this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 07:07 AM (dxSpM)
-

Try X's Grok.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 07:09 AM (3KZZ8)

109 Do-Not-Stab flag

---

Hmmmm

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2024 07:10 AM (Wx316)

110 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Enjoy your heat wave.

Are you mall walking, or just in the neighborhood?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

111
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2024 07:13 AM (w9Ycv)

112 Hadrian the Seventh

Somewhere in the USPTO, there is a pale geek, who knows no touch of a woman, that lives for organizing the patent classification list.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

113 Geico goes DEIco!

https://tinyurl.com/2p9ms85r

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2024 07:14 AM (3KZZ8)

114 Delurks

Good morning. I have a puppy question for Hadrian . At what age should puppies stop having "accidenrs" in the house.
We purchased a bernedoodle a week and a half ago. He is quire smart and we have about house broken him, but on occasion if we don't get him outside in the morning on time (I'm hurt at the moment, but wife does her best) he still pees in the house.

Just curious because he is smart. He will even come to me during the day and bark at me if he needs to ho. Makes me think he should not be having accidents.

Amy help would be appreciated.

Posted by: Dandalo at November 25, 2024 07:15 AM (3QsZU)

115 Time for work preps. Two full days of school, and then the Thanksgiving break.

Have a wonderful day, and may you be surrounded by adoring family.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2024 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

116
Democrats 2019:
Without illegal aliens who will pick our crops?

Democrats 1860:
Without black slaves who will pick our cotton?
shows they still have a slave owner mentality

@akafacehots
Nov 24
Democrats be like

Posted by: m at November 25, 2024 07:16 AM (VnUSN)

117
At what age should puppies stop having "accidenrs" in the house.

The rule of thumb is they can hold it for one hour for every month of age. It might help to confine him to a crate for the evening as dogs are adverse to eliminating where they sleep.

We're attuned to hearing them and if they start to complain, run them out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 25, 2024 07:19 AM (dxSpM)

118 Got it, thank you.

Posted by: Dandalo at November 25, 2024 07:26 AM (3QsZU)

119 Good actors, bad actors, ugly actors ...
What about those stabbings that are not done by actors?

Posted by: PG at November 25, 2024 07:27 AM (6B43M)

120 I once implemented a telnet client that supported the "randomly lose" option as per the relevant RFC.

Ah, that takes me back.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 25, 2024 07:28 AM (iZEhM)

121 Absolutely crate the puppy at night and make sure that the size of the crate is only big enough for them to lay comfortably. If you use a crate that is too roomy, the puppy will typically just mess in a corner when it can't hold it any longer.

For young puppies, we'd set an alarm every two hours and take turns getting up and taking the puppy out to its soiling area.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 25, 2024 07:28 AM (Y1sOo)

122 Ok I give up WTF is stabbing?

Posted by: M. Gaga at November 25, 2024 07:39 AM (KiBMU)

123
JJ
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 25, 2024 07:42 AM (gbOdA)

124 When is this person going to admit they have transitioned to a women?

Posted by: Fisht at November 25, 2024 09:27 AM (BHEHK)

125 I'm so glad Pixy got his fruitcake. Means the world to me.

Posted by: look whats not at November 25, 2024 01:43 PM (nakGR)

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Best State Flags (according to your humble host)

Here in Maryland, people are obsessed with the state flag. It’s EVERYWHERE. The MD flag comprises the arms of the Calvert and Crossland families. The combination of symmetry and contrast works very well. There is a specific “official” direction the flag should be oriented (black square in the top left corner). Get that wrong, and many Marylanders will lose their ever-loving mind. Being as objective as possible, I do think it is the best of all of the state flags.

2 – Arizona

This flag is quite visually appealing. It first caught my eye back in the late 80s when the NFL Cardinals used to have it on the sleeve of their jerseys. Digging deeper, I found some really interesting things about the Arizona Flag.

The state flag consists of alternating red and yellow rays that represent the 13 original colonies and the western setting sun. The red and yellow are based on the colors of the Spanish flag that Coronado carried into the region. The bottom half of the flag is the same color blue found in the U. S. flag. The copper star identifies Arizona as the largest copper producing state in the union.

3 – South Carolina

The indigo blue flag of The Palmetto State of course features a palmetto tree. And a crescent. The color and the crescent tie back to Revolutionary War times. A very early version of the flag, designed by Colonel William Moultrie, had the word LIBERTY inside the crescent. It did not have the palmetto. The blue was the color of the SC militia’s uniforms, and the crescent was a part of the insignia on their caps. The palmetto was added during Civil War times, signifying the importance of the palmetto trees as defense against British cannons.

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See all 50 state flags here. For whatever reason, New Mexico’s flag is often rated very high in these types of lists. I think it’s just kinda “whelming”. Some state flags are honestly just downright boring. Where does your state’s flag rate on the boring to cool scale? I guess you hoseheads from up in the Great White North can chime in on flags up in your neck of the woods if you don’t want to feel left out!

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Something to make you smile

Hero abandoned dog saves 38 other animals and is then adopted herself

A remarkable tale of animal heroism unfolded when a 10-year-old Basset Hound ran away from her neglectful home and saved tens of other animals. The dog, now aptly named Hero, escaped wearing an ID tag that led animal control officers to a house with 38 animals in dire need of rescue.
Hero sparked a rescue effort that saved 36 dogs, a chicken, and a cat from a life of neglect and suffering. The shelter staff recognised the dogs’ incredible bravery when naming her:

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The Rhyme So Nice, I’m Sharing It Twice

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— Based Washington™ (@BasedWash) November 22, 2024

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— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) November 22, 2024

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DJ Doof – 80s Alternative Rock Edition

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Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (+HzbQ)

2 I told you!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (d9fT1)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (WXNFJ)

4 Is that the McDonald's bridge?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (63Dwl)

5 Hello Open Blogger, thank you for putting together this ONT.
Now to read the content!

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (+HzbQ)

6
On this day in History: It's official. The song "Popular" was sung publicly, on national radio, on Friday, by Ariana Grande. Not Kammie Harris.

And with apologies to A.G,.the entire cast of "Wicked" and Universal Studios,

It really is about aptitude,
Not just the way you're viewed.

Don't be offended by my frank analysis, think of it as personality dialysis.

I will refrain from swinging on a chandelier while doing a split. You're welcome.

- G.K.

Posted by: Guy Karate, Member, The League of Ugly-Shirted Gentlemen at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (FlRtG)

7 DOOF!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (KcwUg)

8 The MD is hideous. Sorry, Doof.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (p4NUW)

9 Food!

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:03 PM (v6JzV)

10 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Hard to believe that Thursday is Thanksgiving...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 24, 2024 10:03 PM (rxCpr)

11 Cowabunga, dude!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 24, 2024 10:03 PM (RVmrv)

12 Sorry I'm late, I was playing charades. (Just for future reference, always try to get on the same team as Marcel Marceau.)

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2024 10:03 PM (R256O)

13 An ONT! And its on time!

Oh frabjous day!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:03 PM (dDmld)

14 So, is this what we have to look forward to? I mean, all this and more?

Howdy, Hordelings.

Posted by: mindful webworker - ready for this week... not! at November 24, 2024 10:04 PM (sFBIQ)

15 The MD flag is a pathetic reminder of the cowardly MD founders who were more European than any other state's bigwigs.

CA may be awful now, but the state flag is great!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 10:04 PM (d9fT1)

16 The MD is hideous. Sorry, Doof.
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (p4NUW)

I didn't design it!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:04 PM (vVhSt)

17 good time

Posted by: Ciampino - Affari spaziiali at November 24, 2024 10:04 PM (i0xsb)

18 Womers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 10:04 PM (63Dwl)

19 Some state flags are honestly just downright boring.

Unfortunately several have been updated in the past decade or so for stupid commie reasons.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 10:05 PM (KcwUg)

20 Hero sparked a rescue effort that saved 36 dogs, a chicken, and a cat from a life of neglect and suffering.

The chicken, named adobo, was invited to dinner at a neighbors house.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 10:05 PM (0eaVi)

21 CA may be awful now, but the state flag is great!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 10:04 PM (d9fT1)

Ooooh - a bear!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:05 PM (vVhSt)

22 {watches Doof kick the ant hill of state flag arguments, ducks beneath the table}

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 10:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

23 Not exactly a state flag, but I'm partial to the Ontario flag as it reminds me of the pre-1965 Canadian Ensign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ontario

Posted by: MichiCanuck at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (LXNOR)

24 Um…Mt. Rushmore is in South Dakota. Which doesn’t border Canada. Just sayin’.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (v6JzV)

25 That Maryland flag has a strong undertone of Crusaders slaughtering assorted brown people.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (dDmld)

26 Be careful {{Doof}}!
You are quickly becoming a CoB...
Good evening dear sir!
Back to content....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (Z25uN)

27 VA flag has a dead tyrant. How can you beat that?

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (fghTy)

28 Good evening morons and thanks doof

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

29 10 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Hard to believe that Thursday is Thanksgiving...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 24, 2024 10:03 PM (rxCpr)

Seriously. I went shopping today, and the contempt for humanity I have (after dealing with all the idiots) is off the charts.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:07 PM (v23vE)

30 Hard to believe that Thursday is Thanksgiving...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 24, 2024 10:03 PM (rxCpr)

It's only one month until Christmas Eve!

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 24, 2024 10:07 PM (+HzbQ)

31 The Maryland flag stinks. Sorry, Food.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:07 PM (v6JzV)

32 I think Doof is a Jr. COB now.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:08 PM (p4NUW)

33 24 Um…Mt. Rushmore is in South Dakota. Which doesn’t border Canada. Just sayin’.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (v6JzV)

North Dakota doesn't count.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:08 PM (v23vE)

34 Love Connection came on right after Letterman at 1:30 AM and both were mandatory viewing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

35 That Maryland flag has a strong undertone of Crusaders slaughtering assorted brown people.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (dDmld)

So you like it!!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:08 PM (RFPHU)

36 Richard Dawson > Chuck Woolery

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:08 PM (dDmld)

37 CA may be awful now, but the state flag is great!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 10:04 PM (d9fT1)

I bearly even notice it.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2024 10:09 PM (R256O)

38 > North Dakota doesn't count.

Right? It’s all just Dakota.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:09 PM (olroh)

39 32 I think Doof is a Jr. COB now.
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:08 PM (p4NUW)

I think the term of art is COBbit!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 24, 2024 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

40 I always “drive gently” in Maryland.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:09 PM (v6JzV)

41 Um…Mt. Rushmore is in South Dakota. Which doesn’t border Canada. Just sayin’.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (v6JzV)

Pssst -- there really aren't butts on the back of Mt. Rushmore. Just sayin!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (RFPHU)

42 27 VA flag has a dead tyrant. How can you beat that?
Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (fghTy)

A great big red x? As in don’t come here, you dam* Yankees!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (p4NUW)

43 Good evening, good people, from the Adirondacks, where we learned today in one easy lesson how to burn fudge and clean up the results.

There is no planned follow up to this experiment.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (hKoQL)

44 If you're stressed out tonight, remember stressed backwards is desserts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (VNX3d)

45 37 CA may be awful now, but the state flag is great!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 10:04 PM (d9fT1)

I bearly even notice it.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2024 10:09 PM (R256O)

ISWYDT...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (v23vE)

46 Um…Mt. Rushmore is in South Dakota. Which doesn’t border Canada. Just sayin’.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (v6JzV)

North Dakota doesn't count.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy

North Dakota is so flat that that's still the Canadian view.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (DgGvY)

47 I think Doof is a Jr. COB now.
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:08 PM (p4NUW)

Still just a Padawan

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (RFPHU)

48 Hello, Horde!

Thanks for the ONT, Doof ♥️♥️♥️

FTR, it really sucks to have the Thanksgiving food thread on a day when one is undergoing colonoscopy prep (Lord, I am hungry!)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth - AoS Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief. Eat the cheesecake, buy the yarn. at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (SRRAx)

49 34 Love Connection came on right after Letterman at 1:30 AM and both were mandatory viewing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (iZaDk)

50 19 Some state flags are honestly just downright boring.

Unfortunately several have been updated in the past decade or so for stupid commie reasons.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 10:05 PM (KcwUg)

Were I from Minnesota, I would he offended.

Not by your statement, but by the Somali flag retreat they just adopted.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (R256O)

51 Colorado state flag should have a limp disk prominently displayed...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (Z25uN)

52 Um…Mt. Rushmore is in South Dakota. Which doesn’t border Canada. Just sayin’.

Minor detail

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 24, 2024 10:11 PM (+HzbQ)

53 38 > North Dakota doesn't count.

Right? It’s all just Dakota.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:09 PM (olroh)

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Pfft. Throw in Wyoming and you have San Bernardino County.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:11 PM (dDmld)

54 27 VA flag has a dead tyrant. How can you beat that?

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (fghTy)
***
And virtue, the lady that has quashed tyranny, has an exposed breast...on the Official State Flag. Boobie for the win!

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

55 The MD is hideous. Sorry, Doof.
Posted by: Piper

Concur. It manages to combine a hideous color scheme with tiny, stupid symbols conveying no information. I mean, the German flag (black, red, and gold) is better.

The best national flags are the Union Jack and the French flag. In third place is the Rising Sun flag. Sorry, but that's the fact, Jack.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 10:11 PM (xCA6C)

56 CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero

Heard the character he played in "The Running Man" was how he was in real life.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 24, 2024 10:11 PM (+VovS)

57 A great big red x? As in don’t come here, you dam* Yankees!
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (p4NUW)
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Yeah! Dam* Yankees!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 10:11 PM (fghTy)

58 What exactly was it that the dog did that was heroic?

Am I missing something?

Posted by: Nosmo King at November 24, 2024 10:11 PM (991eG)

59 North Dakota is so flat that that's still the Canadian view.
Posted by: mikeski

Isn't the telephone pole the state tree of North Dakota?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)

60 46 Um…Mt. Rushmore is in South Dakota. Which doesn’t border Canada. Just sayin’.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (v6JzV)

North Dakota doesn't count.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy

North Dakota is so flat that that's still the Canadian view.
Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (DgGvY)

NoDak is so flat that you can watch your dog run away for two weeks...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:12 PM (v23vE)

61 27 VA flag has a dead tyrant. How can you beat that?
Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (fghTy)

With a mallet, preferably, or a baseball bat if no mallet is available.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2024 10:12 PM (R256O)

62 "Here in Maryland, people are obsessed with the state flag. It’s EVERYWHERE. The MD flag comprises the arms of the Calvert and Crossland families."

Didn't we fight and win a revolution to be free from nobility and hereditary coats of arms, titles such as Lord Baltimore, and so on? No hosannas from me for the MD State Flag. Nothing personal, Doof.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 10:13 PM (aBgBM)

63 Hey Tonypete! Congratulations on the baby news! Nothing better than a brand new little life.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:13 PM (p4NUW)

64 Pssst -- there really aren't butts on the back of Mt. Rushmore. Just sayin!
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (RFPHU)

Bullcrap! Don Martin begs to differ.

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Posted by: Ciampino - Affari spaziiali oggi at November 24, 2024 10:13 PM (i0xsb)

66 That Maryland flag has a strong undertone of Crusaders slaughtering assorted brown people.
Posted by: Cicero

Minnesota's flag used to be one of the boring "it's just the state seal on a plain background" ones.

Now it looks like Bizarro Pac-man.

And it's got enough Somalia in it that those Maryland Crusaders have a target.

I agree with Cicero; of the fifty flags, it's the only one that would look good painted on a kite shield.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2024 10:13 PM (DgGvY)

67 53 38 > North Dakota doesn't count.

Right? It’s all just Dakota.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:09 PM (olroh)

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Pfft. Throw in Wyoming and you have San Bernardino County.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:11 PM (dDmld)

Minus the wildfires, of course...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:13 PM (v23vE)

68 Canada's provincial and territorial flags:

https://tinyurl.com/2kjkffjb

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:14 PM (hovnC)

69 {{{Teresa}}} So you're posting from, ummmm, the throne room?

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 24, 2024 10:14 PM (+VovS)

70 "What's all this I hear about fag design?"

Posted by: Zombie Emily Latella at November 24, 2024 10:15 PM (WXNFJ)

71 Isn't the telephone pole the state tree of North Dakota?
Posted by: Tonypete

It's the American Elm.

Not the whole species. They've just got this one outside of Minot.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2024 10:15 PM (DgGvY)

72 Minnesota's flag used to be one of the boring "it's just the state seal on a plain background" ones.

Now it looks like Bizarro Pac-man.

And it's got enough Somalia in it that those Maryland Crusaders have a target.

I agree with Cicero; of the fifty flags, it's the only one that would look good painted on a kite shield.
Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2024 10:13 PM (DgGvY)

Yet another reason to be happy that we, as a nation, dodged the bullet that is Tim Walz.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:15 PM (v23vE)

73 Canada's provincial and territorial flags:

https://tinyurl.com/2kjkffjb

I think the Nunavut flag has an image of the rock man from the Thor movies.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 10:15 PM (xCA6C)

74 No hosannas from me for the MD State Flag. Nothing personal, Doof.
Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 10:13 PM (aBgBM)

I'm not offended. Actually kinda proud -- only took me 3 ONTs to turn everyone against me! Now I can really start having fun.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:16 PM (RFPHU)

75 FWIW, I have always been partial to the Texas state flag (red stripe on the bottom, people!) 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth - AoS Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief. Eat the cheesecake, buy the yarn. at November 24, 2024 10:16 PM (SRRAx)

76 Hard to believe that Thursday is Thanksgiving...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

The Thanksgiving lights line the front fascia !

And the Thanksgiving fairy light whose shapes are too small to be seen from the sidewalk are blink in the breakfast nook window.

Posted by: Adriane the Technically Inept Critic . . . at November 24, 2024 10:16 PM (TX4bP)

77 Wow. That MD flag could give someone a stroke.

Or vertigo.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:16 PM (iZaDk)

78 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 24, 2024 10:17 PM (6ePlE)

79 I used to like the NYS Excelsior-E Pluribus Unum flag 40 years ago when I lived there. It hasn't been on an onward and upward trajectory for some time. Ruined for me.

Posted by: Hiding in NC at November 24, 2024 10:17 PM (nS6qG)

80 Huh. I just realized that I've lived in Nebraska for almost a year now and couldn't describe the Nebraska flag to you if I had to.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 10:17 PM (/y8xj)

81 Heard the character he played in "The Running Man" was how he was in real life.

Just watched that movie again, last night with my dad. Still great. A little scary how real it’s become.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:17 PM (olroh)

82 Cool ONT, Doof. I Still Belueve is in my regular rotation, The Call, not the Tim Capello recording. MN flag *facepalm*

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2024 10:17 PM (41CYW)

83 I always kind of liked MD's flag. Wyoming's is cool too, but I'm biased.

Posted by: 496 at November 24, 2024 10:18 PM (t+VLa)

84 Goodnight, All. Gotta get to bed. Job interview tomorrow.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:18 PM (v6JzV)

85 I'm not offended. Actually kinda proud -- only took me 3 ONTs to turn everyone against me!

Not so! We turned against you from the start.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 10:18 PM (xCA6C)

86 74 No hosannas from me for the MD State Flag. Nothing personal, Doof.
Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 10:13 PM (aBgBM)

I'm not offended. Actually kinda proud -- only took me 3 ONTs to turn everyone against me! Now I can really start having fun.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:16 PM (RFPHU)

If someone in the Horde isn't pissed about something you post or didn't post in an ONT, or isn't arguing with you, you're not doing it right! Thanks for your ONTs, Doof!

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 10:18 PM (aBgBM)

87 69 {{{Teresa}}} So you're posting from, ummmm, the throne room?
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at November 24, 2024 10:14 PM (+VovS)

Nope - haven't eaten anything solid for the last 2 days, so there isn't much left in there to begin with.... 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth - AoS Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief. Eat the cheesecake, buy the yarn. at November 24, 2024 10:18 PM (SRRAx)

88 84 Goodnight, All. Gotta get to bed. Job interview tomorrow.
Posted by: Bulg at November

Fingers staying crossed.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:18 PM (p4NUW)

89 #68 Notes:

Newfoundland & Labrador's new flag is a stylized British 'Grand Union' flag as before it joined the Canadian federation in 1949, it used the British flag as its colonial one.

I didn't like it when it came out [June 6, 1980] but it has grown on me since.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:19 PM (hovnC)

90
Pssst -- there really aren't butts on the back of Mt. Rushmore. Just sayin!
Posted by: Doof

Bullcrap! Don Martin begs to differ.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

SPLOTZ!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 10:19 PM (63Dwl)

91 44 If you're stressed out tonight, remember stressed backwards is desserts.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2024 10:10 PM (VNX3d)
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And muffins spelled backwards is Sniffem.

-Joe Biden

Posted by: 496 at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (t+VLa)

92 Colorado state flag should have a limp disk prominently displayed...

It already looks like the Commodore logo. Isn’t that close enough?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (olroh)

93 58

Yes. You're missing something.
You don't have, or perhaps never had, a dog...
Who's a good boy😽!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (Z25uN)

94 Heard a Replacement song the other day, and I swore it was yet another song by The Alarm that doesn't sound like any other Alarm song. But if you gotta choose, 68 guns or Spirit of 76, I pity you!

Posted by: Bucky Dornster at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (gMdOV)

95 RIP Chuck Woolery. I liked him. He was married to actress Jo An Pflug all through the 70s and they have a daughter together. They were a photogenic couple.

Posted by: Credit Where Due at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (nS6qG)

96 There is a specific “official” direction the flag should be oriented (black square in the top left corner). Get that wrong, and many Marylanders will lose their ever-loving mind.

Well, upside-down flags are a distress signal.

What do you do if your flag is symmetrical, like Japan's, so it's the same upside-down as rightside-up?

Or if you're Indonesia, and turning it upside-down just turns it into Poland's flag? And vice-versa.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (DgGvY)

97 The Ledge is an awesome song, and I used to play the hell out of The Alarm on my Walkman about mumble mumble years ago.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (R256O)

98 88 Thank you, Piper. All the best to you and yours.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (v6JzV)

99
Newfoundland & Labrador's new flag is a stylized British 'Grand Union' flag as before it joined the Canadian federation in 1949, it used the British flag as its colonial one.

Shouldn't they have dogs on their flags?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (63Dwl)

100 The Maryland flag is pretty damn cool and the state is too despite all the liberals that infest this place.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (1FWWQ)

101 Good luck, Bulg.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (41CYW)

102 80 Huh. I just realized that I've lived in Nebraska for almost a year now and couldn't describe the Nebraska flag to you if I had to.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 10:17 PM (/y8xj)

I grew up there, Oddbob, and neither can I. Don't sweat it.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (v23vE)

103 36 Richard Dawson > Chuck Woolery

CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:08 PM (dDmld)

____________________________

The Estate of Richard Dawson is currently dealing with 17,589 #METOO complaints from past old, fat and bitter women contestants.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (dIske)

104 Goodnight, All. Gotta get to bed. Job interview tomorrow.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 10:18 PM (v6JzV)
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Good luck, Bulg!

(I have one, too, but from the other side of the table...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (BpYfr)

105 I think we should all just start flying the Texas flag (in Co) and claim the support of the rule of adverse possession to gain ground for Texas.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 10:22 PM (vd6bO)

106 Newfoundland & Labrador's new flag is a stylized British 'Grand Union' flag as before it joined the Canadian federation in 1949, it used the British flag as its colonial one.

Shouldn't they have dogs on their flags?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (63Dwl)

Burning bags of doggie doodoo?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2024 10:22 PM (VNX3d)

107 88 84 Goodnight, All. Gotta get to bed. Job interview tomorrow.
Posted by: Bulg at November

Fingers staying crossed.
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:18 PM (p4NUW)

What Piper said, Bulg. Best wishes.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:22 PM (v23vE)

108 I think the Nunavut flag has an image of the rock man from the Thor movies.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 10:15 PM (xCA6

It's an Inukshuk, which is literally a "stick figure" of a man made from rocks. It's an Inuit thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 10:22 PM (2ka5e)

109 Doof! Thanks.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 10:23 PM (mH6SG)

110 Good luck Bulg!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 10:23 PM (WXNFJ)

111 Heard a Replacement song the other day, and I swore it was yet another song by The Alarm that doesn't sound like any other Alarm song. But if you gotta choose, 68 guns or Spirit of 76, I pity you!
Posted by: Bucky Dornster at November 24, 2024 10:20 PM (gMdOV)

Almost went with The Stand, but I figured 68 Guns fit well following the previous thread

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:23 PM (RFPHU)

112 51
Limp DICK, you stupid autocucumber!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:23 PM (Z25uN)

113 The Estate of Richard Dawson is currently dealing with 17,589 #METOO complaints from past old, fat and bitter women contestants.
Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (dIske)

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Meh. You host a game show for 20 years, you're going to honk a few boobs. It's like a law of nature.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:23 PM (dDmld)

114 I am off to bed, good people. Great ONT, Sir Doof.

I believe you are magic. Because we have to believe. Night!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:24 PM (p4NUW)

115 15

'CA may be awful now, but the state flag is great!'

Isn't the NJ flag a graphic of a policeman arresting a gun owner?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2024 10:24 PM (3wi/L)

116 Doof!

Look at You being all impotent!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:24 PM (iZaDk)

117 Goodnight, All. Gotta get to bed. Job interview tomorrow.
Posted by: Bulg at November

Good luck, Glub!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:24 PM (RFPHU)

118 The Thanksgiving lights line the front fascia !

And the Thanksgiving fairy light whose shapes are too small to be seen from the sidewalk are blink in the breakfast nook window.
Posted by: Adriane the Technically Inept Critic . . . at November 24, 2024 10:16 PM (TX4bP)

Wife said tonight why don't I turn on the Christmas lights. We have Thanksgiving lights on our fascia too. I told her I didn't want to insult Thanksgiving. Neighbors can do what they want, but I'm not gonna step on Thanksgiving.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 10:25 PM (0eaVi)

119 112 51
Limp DICK, you stupid autocucumber!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:23 PM (Z25uN)

It happens as we age, ma'am. Regrettable, but unfortunately unavoidable.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:25 PM (v23vE)

120 I think the Oklahoma flag could've rated a little higher, maybe four places. I've always thought it was genuinely classy.

Although, I may be partial to it.

Getting a jump on Thanksgiving here tonight. SonM picked up a cast-iron pie-plate for his mom, and brought it by this evening, with a maple-bourbon apple pecan-pumpkin pie in it.

Having a slice with a cup of hot chocolate, since it's too late for coffee. Won't be too late tomorrow morning, when we can have a slice for "second breakfast."

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at November 24, 2024 10:26 PM (sFBIQ)

121 75 FWIW, I have always been partial to the Texas state flag (red stripe on the bottom, people!) 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth - AoS Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief. Eat the cheesecake, buy the yarn. at November 24, 2024 10:16 PM (SRRAx)

LOL. I see TX flags flying upside down not infrequently around here. They could be protesting, but I think just confused.

The Maryland flag is bold. It reminds me of an old guy that wears striped shirts and plaid pants and just doesn't care.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 24, 2024 10:26 PM (K1HkL)

122 Doof!

Look at You being all impotent!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:24 PM (iZaDk)

I see what you did there!!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:26 PM (RFPHU)

123 I wouldn't drive through Maryland for any reason. State is horrible on gun rights and the State Police are the lackeys, thugs, and redcaps of the governor.

Posted by: Fweedom! at November 24, 2024 10:26 PM (nS6qG)

124 Wow. That MD flag could give someone a stroke.

Or vertigo.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:16 PM (iZaDk)

It's a dazzle design to fool the Germans.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 10:26 PM (0eaVi)

125 I think the Nunavut flag has an image of the rock man from the Thor movies.
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The official flag of Nunavut was proclaimed on 1 April 1999, along with the territory of Nunavut in Canada. It features a red inuksuk—a traditional Inuit land marker—and a blue star, which represents the Niqirtsuituq, the North Star, and the leadership of elders in the community. The colours blue and gold represent the riches of the land, sea and sky. It was adopted following a process where input was sought from local communities and submissions were solicited from the Canadian public.
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A style of cairn, yes, imitating a man.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:27 PM (hovnC)

126 Forgot to mention the State Police are bullies, too.

Posted by: Fweedom! at November 24, 2024 10:27 PM (nS6qG)

127 I am off to bed, good people. Great ONT, Sir Doof.

I believe you are magic. Because we have to believe. Night!
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:24 PM (p4NUW)

Thank you, lovely lady! And I see what you did with the magic thing. Disco Doof approves!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:27 PM (RFPHU)

128 116 Doof!

Look at You being all impotent!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:24 PM (iZaDk)

It happens as we age, ma'am. Regrettable, but ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:27 PM (v23vE)

129 The Maryland flag is pretty damn cool and the state is too despite all the liberals that infest this place.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (1FWWQ)

You get it. Lots to love about MD. But I still want out!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:29 PM (RFPHU)

130 92

🤪!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:29 PM (Z25uN)

131 Huh. I just realized that I've lived in Nebraska for almost a year now and couldn't describe the Nebraska flag to you if I had to.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 10:17 PM (/y8xj)

I grew up there, Oddbob, and neither can I. Don't sweat it.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (v23vE)

It's the Johnny Carson logo, isn't it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 10:29 PM (0eaVi)

132 25 That Maryland flag has a strong undertone of Crusaders slaughtering assorted brown people.
Posted by: Cicero

I already liked it. You didn't have to convince me.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2024 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

133 The Maryland flag is bold. It reminds me of an old guy that wears striped shirts and plaid pants and just doesn't care.

That's a good description, but you forgot the Crocs with black socks.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 10:29 PM (xCA6C)

134 Be careful {{Doof}}!
You are quickly becoming a CoB...
Good evening dear sir!
Back to content....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (Z25uN)

Howdy COMM! Have you found all of the mystery clicks??

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (RFPHU)

135 State seals (no, not the arf-arf-arf kind) on state flags are boring. At a distance you can hardly tell one from another. Great flags have distinctive, ideally unique, designs with few, high-contrast colors. I have to forgive the state seal flag states, though. It is difficult to come up with a distinctive design along with good (and few) colors when there are so many states.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (aBgBM)

136 Seriously. I went shopping today, and the contempt for humanity I have (after dealing with all the idiots) is off the charts.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy

I did also. There was a group of people clogging the aisle of the store. My cursing under my breath may have been heard.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (0Htd1)

137 131 Huh. I just realized that I've lived in Nebraska for almost a year now and couldn't describe the Nebraska flag to you if I had to.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 10:17 PM (/y8xj)

I grew up there, Oddbob, and neither can I. Don't sweat it.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (v23vE)

It's the Johnny Carson logo, isn't it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 10:29 PM (0eaVi)

You are correct, sir!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (v23vE)

138 Something I learned while visiting Charleston this summer is that there's no one "official" design for the South Carolina flag, just as long as there's a white palmetto, a white crescent moon and the field is blue.

Posted by: Josephistan at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (9XPe8)

139 In a toy soldier wargame I was in, a player had a brigade of Maryland militia and we all asked him if it was the cheesemakers' guild's flag. Checked when I got home and saw that, yes, it was indeed, and still is, Maryland's state flag.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:32 PM (hovnC)

140 I haven't heard or thought of The Alarm in decades. They had something.

Thanks for the ONT and for bringing them back to mind again Doof.

Posted by: 496 at November 24, 2024 10:32 PM (t+VLa)

141 Evenin'

The Replacements - youtu.be/fl9KQ1Mub6Q

The Call - youtu.be/to2KasivROc

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 24, 2024 10:32 PM (sAmhv)

142 137 Seriously. I went shopping today, and the contempt for humanity I have (after dealing with all the idiots) is off the charts.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy

I did also. There was a group of people clogging the aisle of the store. My cursing under my breath may have been heard.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (0Htd1)

There was so much discussion about turkey weights, I couldn't even.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:33 PM (v23vE)

143 Something I learned while visiting Charleston this summer is that there's no one "official" design for the South Carolina flag, just as long as there's a white palmetto, a white crescent moon and the field is blue.
Posted by: Josephistan at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (9XPe

There's a bridge there that the locals are pretty proud of. I think I've seen a photo of it recently.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:33 PM (RFPHU)

144 I have some Maryland flag shorts. I might look like a fool when wearing them but I do not care.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 24, 2024 10:34 PM (1FWWQ)

145 The best national flags are the Union Jack and the French flag. In third place is the Rising Sun flag. Sorry, but that's the fact, Jack.
Posted by: Archimedes

Wales. It's got a Dragon!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 24, 2024 10:34 PM (sAmhv)

146 You all sound like you've finally figured out that one can have a lot of ...Fun With Flags!

Posted by: Dr. Sheldon Cooper at November 24, 2024 10:34 PM (xCA6C)

147 State seals (no, not the arf-arf-arf kind) on state flags are boring. At a distance you can hardly tell one from another. Great flags have distinctive, ideally unique, designs with few, high-contrast colors. I have to forgive the state seal flag states, though. It is difficult to come up with a distinctive design along with good (and few) colors when there are so many states.
Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (aBgBM)

Well, you could give all the "blue" States the old Soviet flag. Russkies aren't using it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 10:34 PM (2ka5e)

148 144 Posted by: Josephistan at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (9XPe

There's a bridge there that the locals are pretty proud of. I think I've seen a photo of it recently.
Posted by: Doof at November

I have frequented that bridge posted very recently, maybe even posted today! Going to bed first real now. Night!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:35 PM (p4NUW)

149 There was so much discussion about turkey weights, I couldn't even.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:33 PM (v23vE)

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Metric or Imperial?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:35 PM (dDmld)

150 Excellent mystery click Mr. Doof sir.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 24, 2024 10:36 PM (F3SmE)

151 I haven't heard or thought of The Alarm in decades. They had something.

Thanks for the ONT and for bringing them back to mind again Doof.
Posted by: 496 at November 24, 2024 10:32 PM (t+VLa)

Under-appreciated band. Got overshadowed by U2 in the early-mid 80s.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:36 PM (RFPHU)

152 138 You are correct, sir!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM
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Weird, wild stuff! I did not know that.

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

153 Hagerstown, MD here, and there's a guy in the neighborhood with the flag upside down on his bumper (yellow square top left). I just don't have the heart to tell him.

Posted by: DougW at November 24, 2024 10:36 PM (oKgLe)

154 Metric or Imperial?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:35 PM (dDmld)

Doesn't really matter. Turkeys can't lift much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 10:36 PM (2ka5e)

155 Excellent mystery click Mr. Doof sir.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 24, 2024 10:36 PM (F3SmE)

Thanks. There may or not be more than 1.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:36 PM (RFPHU)

156 149 144 Posted by: Josephistan at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (9XPe

There's a bridge there that the locals are pretty proud of. I think I've seen a photo of it recently.
Posted by: Doof at November

I have frequented that bridge posted very recently, maybe even posted today! Going to bed first real now. Night!
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 10:35 PM (p4NUW)

Autocucumber strikes again! Night, ma'am.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:36 PM (v23vE)

157 I always liked the Lion Rampant as a shield device.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:37 PM (dDmld)

158 129 The Maryland flag is pretty damn cool and the state is too despite all the liberals that infest this place.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 24, 2024 10:21 PM (1FWWQ)

You get it. Lots to love about MD. But I still want out!
Posted by: Doof

I love western MD. West of Hagerstown. I-68 (starts near Hancock) is an underrated gem of a drive. Pretty country out there.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 24, 2024 10:37 PM (sAmhv)

159 State flag of WA is pretty boring.

I love the British Colombia flag.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:38 PM (cdCuM)

160 144
'I've seen a photo of it recently.'

Well, yeah. It looks like the bridge you posted in this ONT.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2024 10:38 PM (3wi/L)

161 I know Trump picked her because she has big tits and is photogenic, but he needs to dump this jackass... Participating in that asinine Covid Dance is an automatic disqualification!

Scarlett Johnson
@scarlett4kids
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, nominee for Surgeon General, was involved in the dumb TikTok trend that emerged during the Covid pandemic. This trend featured doctors & nurses performing annoying dance routines while telling us to mask up & “shelter in place."

Still makes my skin crawl.

https://tinyurl.com/yfxd8vrv

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 24, 2024 10:38 PM (TGPs7)

162 I always liked the Lion Rampant as a shield device.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:37 PM (dDmld)

Rampant Lyin' would be a good fit for DC. And Ottawa.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 10:38 PM (2ka5e)

163 I love western MD. West of Hagerstown. I-68 (starts near Hancock) is an underrated gem of a drive. Pretty country out there.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 24, 2024 10:37 PM

Perhaps a photo of Sideling Hill will make an appearance in a future ONT

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:39 PM (RFPHU)

164 I love western MD. West of Hagerstown. I-68 (starts near Hancock) is an underrated gem of a drive. Pretty country out there.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 24, 2024 10:37 PM (sAmhv)]

Yep. Drove that route home from central PA on 11 Sept 2001 to Ohio. I go that way whenever I can now.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:39 PM (v23vE)

165 Spent a good portion of my childhood in Maryland and loved every minute of it. Apparently the state now sucks bigly. Sigh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 10:39 PM (mH6SG)

166 135 Doof

Why yes. Yes I have. I'm just hoping someone will carry on the December Zappa tradition...
Maybe Mis.Hum will step in....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:40 PM (Z25uN)

167 Posted by: Josephistan at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (9XPe

There's a bridge there that the locals are pretty proud of. I think I've seen a photo of it recently.
Posted by: Doof

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My hotel was right by the base of it, on the other side of the river in Mount Pleasant

Posted by: Josephistan at November 24, 2024 10:40 PM (9XPe8)

168 Racing news...

Red Bull's Max Verstappen wins his fourth Formula 1 world championship at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

George Russell finishes ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton to win the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:40 PM (hovnC)

169 'I've seen a photo of it recently.'

Well, yeah. It looks like the bridge you posted in this ONT.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2024 10:38 PM (3wi/L)

Thanks for paying attention!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:40 PM (RFPHU)

170 Limp DICK, you stupid autocucumber!
Posted by: COMountainMarie

I've never seen an automatic one, but I guess it could replace a limp dick?

Posted by: mikeski knows rule 34 has this covered at November 24, 2024 10:41 PM (DgGvY)

171 As a native Marylander transplanted to New Mexico I prefer the "clean, simple, elegant" design in my adopted state's emblem.

Posted by: DaveS at November 24, 2024 10:41 PM (bIrSo)

172 139 Something I learned while visiting Charleston this summer is that there's no one "official" design for the South Carolina flag, just as long as there's a white palmetto, a white crescent moon and the field is blue.
Posted by: Josephistan at November 24, 2024 10:31 PM (9XPe

Until 1912, there was no official arrangement for the stars in the US flag. As long as it had the proper number, it didn't really matter how they appeared.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2024 10:42 PM (R256O)

173 "I wouldn't drive through Maryland for any reason. State is horrible on gun rights and the State Police are the lackeys, thugs, and redcaps of the governor.
Posted by: Fweedom! "
*************
I have the misfortune of a necessary annual vist to Maryland. It's probably the only place I travel without a firearm and Baltimore is arguably a place you should have one.

Posted by: Cosda at November 24, 2024 10:42 PM (m5NGK)

174 Doof

Why yes. Yes I have. I'm just hoping someone will carry on the December Zappa tradition...
Maybe Mis.Hum will step in....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:40 PM (Z25uN)

FZ is from MD. Thus his appearance behind the MD flag. Hopefully Mis Hum saw it and appreciated it.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:42 PM (RFPHU)

175 Hagerstown, MD here, and there's a guy in the neighborhood with the flag upside down on his bumper (yellow square top left). I just don't have the heart to tell him.
Posted by: DougW
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LOL.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2024 10:43 PM (41CYW)

176 Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

T, sent you invite.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 10:43 PM (0eaVi)

177 George Russell finishes ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton to win the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
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Missed "Mercedes teammate".

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:43 PM (hovnC)

178 Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, nominee for Surgeon General, was involved in the dumb TikTok trend that emerged during the Covid pandemic. This trend featured doctors & nurses performing annoying dance routines while telling us to mask up & “shelter in place."

Still makes my skin crawl.

Yep. Who thought that was a good idea to even consider her? You can do much better, PDT.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 10:44 PM (mH6SG)

179 I always liked the CO flag.

As a kid growing up in CO, it was very easy for me to draw.

The MO flag is much harder for children to draw...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2024 10:44 PM (BpYfr)

180
Doof's going to get initiated. "You get it straightened out?" "Naah, we had a problem. And we tried to do everything we could"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 10:44 PM (dxSpM)

181 T - 11 minutes

Posted by: Ciampino - Kiwi launch at November 24, 2024 10:44 PM (i0xsb)

182 I always liked the Lion Rampant as a shield device.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:37 PM (dDmld)

Rampant Lyin' would be a good fit for DC. And Ottawa.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 10:38 PM (2ka5e)

A poop icon, on a vermillion background. The shitheads are bleeding us dry.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2024 10:45 PM (VNX3d)

183 Until 1912, there was no official arrangement for the stars in the US flag. As long as it had the proper number, it didn't really matter how they appeared.
Posted by: tankdemon

Yeah, but television wouldn’t be around for another 15 years or so, so nobody knew who the stars were …

Posted by: Adriane the Technically Inept Critic . . . at November 24, 2024 10:45 PM (TX4bP)

184 Yep. Who thought that was a good idea to even consider her? You can do much better, PDT.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 10:44 PM (mH6SG)

Does the Surgeon General have much actual power? I expect she would be easy to get confirmed in the Senate. Give her the job, and when she fucks up, can her ass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 10:47 PM (2ka5e)

185
Does the Surgeon General have much actual power?

IIRC, she is in charge of teaching the nation's youth to masturbate.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 10:48 PM (xCA6C)

186 Western Lensman @WesternLensman 12h
🚨NEW: Adam Schiff doesn’t believe that Trump AG pick Pam Bondi should be “prosecuting the prosecutors."

"Is she going to continue to say that the Justice Department should be prosecuting prosecutors who brought valid evidence before a grand jury?"

“A grand jury found probable cause to believe Donald Trump committed crimes. That's not a basis to go after them."

The American people who gave a mandate to Trump disagree, Adam.

The people responsible for the “Get Trump” op at the Biden DOJ must be held to account.

Monica Crowley @MonicaCrowley 10h
Somebody’s very very nervous

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:48 PM (hovnC)

187 176 T, sent you invite.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 10:43 PM
***
Accepted. Thanks!
{Looks around inconspicuously. Nothing to see here.}

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

188 >> Electron - Ice AIS Baby

That's just a bit too cute. Ice ice baby.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2024 10:49 PM (w6EFb)

189 161 I know Trump picked her because she has big tits and is photogenic, but he needs to dump this jackass... Participating in that asinine Covid Dance is an automatic disqualification!

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 24, 2024 10:38 PM (TGPs7)
Trump is still proud of Operation Warp Speed.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2024 10:49 PM (R256O)

190
I always liked the Lion Rampant as a shield device.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 10:37 PM (dDmld)

________

Hound courant, therefore heraldry.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 10:49 PM (dxSpM)

191 Doof is getting quite good at this ONT stuff

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 10:49 PM (WL2lA)

192 Well {{Doof}}...
When you become famous, don't forget about us little people who got you here....👄🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:50 PM (Z25uN)

193 Best Zoroastrian Singer Of All Time...

Boston Radio Watch®️
@bostonradio
Remembering Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury who passed away 33 years ago today, November 24, 1991. He was 45.

Mercury was known for his flamboyant stage persona and 4-octave vocal range. Undoubtedly one of rock’s greatest live performers of all time.

‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’(1980).

https://tinyurl.com/55s2ewcj

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 24, 2024 10:50 PM (TGPs7)

194 Last reminder

T - 5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/live/KJmOFs5kZ0s

Posted by: Ciampino - Kiwi launch now at November 24, 2024 10:50 PM (i0xsb)

195 Doof's going to get initiated. "You get it straightened out?" "Naah, we had a problem. And we tried to do everything we could"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 10:44 PM (dxSpM)

No way - all the COBs really like me. Weasel even said he was gonna take me snipe hunting.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:51 PM (RFPHU)

196 184

'when she fucks up, can her ass.'

I'm embarrassed how my brain interpreted this on the 1st skim.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2024 10:51 PM (3wi/L)

197 Doof is getting quite good at this ONT stuff
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 10:49 PM (WL2lA)

Thank you vmom!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:53 PM (RFPHU)

198 Ha, ha!

End Wokeness @EndWokeness Nov 24
The moment reparations activist Sunny Hostin learns she descends from slave OWNERS:

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 14h
I watched this twenty times and I'm not nearly done.

https://tinyurl.com/yypm56kc
42 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:54 PM (hovnC)

199 197 Doof is getting quite good at this ONT stuff
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 10:49 PM (WL2lA)

Thank you vmom!
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:53 PM (RFPHU)

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It's only a model.

Posted by: Patsy at November 24, 2024 10:54 PM (dDmld)

200 …As a kid growing up in CO, it was very easy for me to draw. The MO flag is much harder for children to draw…
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

The Oklahoma flag does not fall into the easy-to-draw category. It is even a challenge just to describe. Blue, with like a bunch of injun stuff in the center. It's a know-it-when-I-see-it flag, though. Glad the commie revisionists haven't gotten to it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at November 24, 2024 10:55 PM (sFBIQ)

201 PBD Podcast @PBDsPodcast Nov 23
EMBARRASSING!😂
@patrickbetdavid roasts CNN and MSNBC after report comes out that Hallmark beat them in viewership

"Imagine you wake up one day, and your producer comes to you, says guys Hallmark just beat us."

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 14h
Hallmark has more believable stories.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:56 PM (hovnC)

202 Well {{Doof}}...
When you become famous, don't forget about us little people who got you here....👄🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 10:50 PM (Z25uN)

That'll never happen COMM. The famous thing and the forgetting thing!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 10:57 PM (RFPHU)

203 Last reminder

T - 5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/live/KJmOFs5kZ0s
Posted by: Ciampino - Kiwi launch now at November 24, 2024 10:50 PM (i0xsb)

Probably an unpopular opinion here, but space launches have become pretty routine. I'm not going to try to watch one live, unless it's going to be something historic, like a manned Moon or Mars mission.

But I know there are folks who like to watch them, so good on you for doing this work. (lifts glass in memory of RickL)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 10:57 PM (2ka5e)

204 Doof, the Zappa clip was good. Sometimes, though, when I see Frank performing songs off his albums, he seems a little bored; dry delivery on the lyrics. Probably just anxious to get to the guitar riff part. At least this one didn't abruptly cut off like so many of 'em do.

Posted by: mindful webworker - with the dust of the Grand Wazoo at November 24, 2024 10:58 PM (sFBIQ)

205 Does the Surgeon General have much actual power? I expect she would be easy to get confirmed in the Senate. Give her the job, and when she fucks up, can her ass.

Sorry, but I guess I don't care. I will never, ever forgive those who promoted the unwarranted coof hysteria.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 10:59 PM (mH6SG)

206 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 14h
I watched this twenty times and I'm not nearly done.

https://tinyurl.com/yypm56kc
42 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:54 PM (hovnC)

Damn! Did she use linoleum mastic to fasten the wig to her head?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 11:00 PM (2ka5e)

207 The New York State flag has several iterations, got no idea which is prevalent, they're all forgettable.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 24, 2024 11:00 PM (hKoQL)

208 Breaking911 @Breaking911 2h
SEE IT: A passenger films a volcanic eruption in Iceland from an airplane.

https://tinyurl.com/mz8rcm9k
18 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 11:01 PM (hovnC)

209 Thanks. There may or not be more than 1.
Posted by: Doof

* hoists banana in salute*

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 24, 2024 11:02 PM (F3SmE)

210 "I Still Believe" is a great Christian rock song. I'm not sure if Russ Taff was the first to sing it, but his version is really good too.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at November 24, 2024 11:02 PM (wJdoI)

211 @patrickbetdavid roasts CNN and MSNBC after report comes out that Hallmark beat them in viewership

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 14h
Hallmark has more believable stories.
Posted by: andycanuck

On the cruelty scale, that's about 0.7 Ace.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2024 11:03 PM (DgGvY)

212 MY flag is the American flag, which is the only one I swear fealty to.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 24, 2024 11:03 PM (hKoQL)

213 MD flag looks vaguely formula one
AZ flag looks like Vietnam conquered Macedonia
SC looks like it belongs to a Middle Easter country

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 11:03 PM (Wx316)

214 Doof, the Zappa clip was good. Sometimes, though, when I see Frank performing songs off his albums, he seems a little bored; dry delivery on the lyrics. Probably just anxious to get to the guitar riff part. At least this one didn't abruptly cut off like so many of 'em do.
Posted by: mindful webworker - with the dust of the Grand Wazoo at November 24, 2024 10:58 PM (sFBIQ)

I imagine boredom can set in for any musician who performs prolifically. Not letting it show is probably quite difficult.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 11:04 PM (RFPHU)

215 Well, the Star Trek: Unification thing gets better and better. Assuming Midnight's Edge was not just spoofed.

Someone got into their comment feed with the Otoy icon with some really cool background information.

The characters in the short film actually did speak. But at Bill Shatner's suggestion it was dropped. Otoy is licensed by Paramount and Paramount did give them guidance. The garden at the beginning was CGI, but Kirk's feet are real.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2024 11:04 PM (pieFP)

216 Vietnam could never conquer Macedonia.

Posted by: Phillip II at November 24, 2024 11:05 PM (dDmld)

217
Very nice views of the the NZ Mahia peninsula as it took off with a daylight launch.

I did not know that Mahia launch complex existed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2024 11:06 PM (w6EFb)

218 Love the AZ flag. Front plate on my cars. Imperial Japanese Navy of the desert!

Posted by: azjaeger at November 24, 2024 11:07 PM (3/XaG)

219 Roadrunner kills coyote...

Breaking911 @Breaking911 8h
Illegal migrant guide dies after jumping in canal to evade arrest by U.S. Border Patrol Agents

https://tinyurl.com/3brhr3wz
screencap of police [?] report.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 11:07 PM (hovnC)

220 Just got here so not sure what is in the comments.

I do like the MD flag but I'm still partial to the OH flag - I like that it has an unusual shape.

Also, Maine is changing it's flag to one with a pine tree on it to be more representative of the state. There were a couple versions but I think the one that was getting the nod was the cartoonish one...

Posted by: Iris at November 24, 2024 11:08 PM (bOJ2I)

221
219,

How sad, NOT

Posted by: four seasons at November 24, 2024 11:08 PM (3ek7K)

222 The Tx flag hanging rule is not difficult: white for the clouds overhead, red for the ground soaked with the blood of patriots.
Easy peasy.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 11:09 PM (f+FmA)

223 The best national flags are the Union Jack and the French flag. In third place is the Rising Sun flag. Sorry, but that's the fact, Jack.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Giant pluss sign, you math deniers.

Posted by: Swiss Flag at November 24, 2024 11:10 PM (41CYW)

224 Breaking911 @Breaking911 2h
WATCH AND ENJOY: The team at the @TrumpWarRoom has put together the best media moments and left-wing meltdowns of Trump's historic victory.

https://tinyurl.com/4c54zm3f
2:09 minutes; very LOUD.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 11:11 PM (hovnC)

225 Breaking911 @Breaking911 2h
SEE IT: A passenger films a volcanic eruption in Iceland from an airplane.

https://tinyurl.com/mz8rcm9k
18 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 11:01 PM (hovnC)

See? Gaia is busy expanding Iceland, so when Global Warming really kicks in, it can accommodate more people. All those blonde Viking hula dancers in their grass skirts...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 11:11 PM (2ka5e)

226 I'm partial to Petoria's flag.

Posted by: The Duke of Ted at November 24, 2024 11:12 PM (UyyOe)

227 217
I think I have watchd 3-4 launches from there.

Posted by: Ciampino - No launch is routine at November 24, 2024 11:13 PM (i0xsb)

228 The Arizona flag was designed in the tents behind the firing line at Camp Perry. Arizona 'territorials' attended the national matches; statehood was pending, and everybody else had a state flag flying. There was no provision for a state flag yet, so the team made one up.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 11:14 PM (zdLoL)

229 More good news:
Leading Report @LeadingReport 4h
BREAKING: Trump is reportedly planning an executive order that would lead to the removal of all transgender members of the US military, defence sources say.

Leading Report @LeadingReport 5h
BREAKING: Rural counties in California and Illinois are pushing to secede from their blue states to separate from liberal-run cities and create their own, following Trump’s win.

Leading Report @LeadingReport 6h
BREAKING: Rand Paul says Denver’s mayor will be removed from office if he resists Trump’s deportations.

Leading Report @LeadingReport 7h
BREAKING: More Republican women own g*ns than Democratic men, according to Gallup survey data.

Leading Report @LeadingReport 8h
BREAKING: Some Haitian migrants are leaving Springfield, Ohio, out of fear of deportation, per CBS

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 11:15 PM (hovnC)

230 No love for Peruvian flag?

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2024 11:16 PM (41CYW)

231 The flag of OHIO is one of just two non rectangular flags

The other being the imaginary state of Rhode Island

I’m partial to the OHIO design …

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 24, 2024 11:16 PM (TTAGa)

232 The Arizona flag was designed in the tents behind the firing line at Camp Perry. Arizona 'territorials' attended the national matches; statehood was pending, and everybody else had a state flag flying. There was no provision for a state flag yet, so the team made one up.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 11:14 PM (zdLoL)

Well, I think it's a good one. No text, no fiddly little drawings, no seals. Just an instantly recognizable colorful flag.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 11:17 PM (2ka5e)

233 Leading Report @LeadingReport 6h
BREAKING: Rand Paul says Denver’s mayor will be removed from office if he resists Trump’s deportations.

Hanged for insurrection counts as "removed from office", doesn't it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 11:19 PM (2ka5e)

234 167 went across that bridge for shrimp and grits. The guys said they went there all the time, but they were having trouble finding it. Realized later that they usually came by boat, as the place has its own dock. And the food? Fantastic.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 11:19 PM (vd6bO)

235 The flag of OHIO is one of just two non rectangular flags

The other being the imaginary state of Rhode Island

I’m partial to the OHIO design …
Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 24, 2024 11:16 PM (TTAGa)

I missed an opportunity to feature this song with the flags
https://youtu.be/wYsMjEeEg4g

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 11:20 PM (RFPHU)

236 229 More good news:
Leading Report @LeadingReport 4h
BREAKING: Trump is reportedly planning an executive order that would lead to the removal of all transgender members of the US military, defence sources say.

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Good. Mentally ill people have no place in the U.S. military.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 11:21 PM (dDmld)

237 Hanged for insurrection counts as "removed from office", doesn't it?
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I think it depends where they display the corpse.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 11:21 PM (hovnC)

238
That electron rocket uses battery powered turbopumps I was reading. Not that big thrust wise, but the batteries have to supply 1MW power.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2024 11:21 PM (w6EFb)

239 I like the state flags with animals on them
Cute

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 11:21 PM (J5RCE)

240 Peruvia, gem of the ocean!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 11:21 PM (hovnC)

241 233

Hopefully....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 11:21 PM (Z25uN)

242 I like the state flags with animals on them
Cute
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 11:21 PM (J5RCE)

Nurse should start a grass roots campaign to get a sea otter on the WA flag.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 11:22 PM (RFPHU)

243 Game show host Chuck Woolery looking for fringe benefits.
OK by me.

Good evening Horde, glad to be here, glad to see everyone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 11:24 PM (TDdfP)

244 Evening.

Sorry, but the Maryland state flag leaves me cross eyed.

Arizona is nice.

I didn't realize South Carolina was part of the caliphate.

I'm kind of biased towards the Texas flag myself.

Ohio's is pretty cool, too.

Posted by: Robert at November 24, 2024 11:25 PM (0yHIW)

245 I can’t believe no one has “socked”

Sheldon Cooper yet

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 24, 2024 11:25 PM (TTAGa)

246 …annnnd, that's a day. It was a nice one, clear blue skies with a high of 70°+; last warm day for a while it seems.

Did smash my little toe into the leg of the bed this morning, which still hurts like crazy. I've had a few cracked ribs, but the only broken bones I've had were my little toes. I've smashed them multiple times. They're both twisted all gnarly. Hard to clip the nails.

Other than that, a good day. I am thankful.

https://youtu.be/cx7ZXL01LAw

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - beyond the farthest star at November 24, 2024 11:26 PM (sFBIQ)

247 Nurse should start a grass roots campaign to get a sea otter on the WA flag.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 11:22 PM (RFPHU)

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Otter Rampant or Otter Passant?

You have to think these things through.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 11:26 PM (dDmld)

248 245 I can’t believe no one has “socked”

Sheldon Cooper yet

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He was upthread somewherez

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 11:27 PM (dDmld)

249 Bazinga!

146 You all sound like you've finally figured out that one can have a lot of ...Fun With Flags!
Posted by: Dr. Sheldon Cooper

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 11:27 PM (hovnC)

250 When vaquero first saw the California revolt flag they laughed at it because the grizzly bear looked more like a pig - and it did. The Porcine Rebellion!

“On June 14th, a small band of frontiersmen led by Ezekiel “Stuttering Zeke” Merritt and William Ide captured the town of Sonoma, just north of San Francisco and arrested the commander, Mariano Vallejo. They declared the creation of the California Republic. Sporting a battle flag with a picture of a grizzly bear on it, the rebels began calling themselves Bear Flaggers.”

Posted by: 13times at November 24, 2024 11:28 PM (vBoto)

251 … and that’s what I get for not using my laptop for a “control +F” 🤦‍♂️

How does one search on an iPhone 🤔

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 24, 2024 11:30 PM (TTAGa)

252 So Doof.
I had to go back and listen to Rucker. Such a lovely song...
When he was a Hootie, he never had the recognition he deserved. The Blowfish seem to be gone; we still have Darius..
Good stuff...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 11:30 PM (Z25uN)

253 Now do official state ties. Clue: you won't be surprised.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 11:31 PM (XeU6L)

254 252. Wasn't he the ruler of Persian for a bit?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 11:31 PM (3VfXK)

255
Leading Report @LeadingReport 8h
BREAKING: Some Haitian migrants are leaving Springfield, Ohio, out of fear of deportation, per CBS
Posted by: andycanuck

The cat in the hat comes back.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 11:31 PM (63Dwl)

256 Re the bridge pic. It has a failed lamp. Probably LED.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 11:32 PM (XeU6L)

257 254 Persia. Sorry. Ottokorrekt is killing me.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 11:32 PM (vd6bO)

258 Know why the MD flag looks so familiar?

Just look at The Joker on any given deck of fifty-two....

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 11:33 PM (Xo+UM)

259 254 252. Wasn't he the ruler of Persian for a bit?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 11:31 PM (3VfXK)

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Darius I claimed to be an Achaemenid but the jury is still out.

FUN FACT: His successor Darius III was murdered by a servant who hoped to curry favor with the rampaging Alexander the Great, thus bringing an end to the once-dominant Persian Achaemenid Empire.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 11:35 PM (dDmld)

260 Well. My missing bewb is hurting.
Imma gonna sign off...
Thanks for making the evening fun Doof!

A blessed good night to all🙏💤🧡🧡🧡

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 24, 2024 11:35 PM (Z25uN)

261
Ask Orval Faubus how defying federal authority worked out for him.

Ike sent in the 101st Airborne under the Insurrection Act and federalized the Arkansas National Guard, taking it out of control of Faubus.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2024 11:35 PM (w6EFb)

262 Wisconsin should change their flag to a yellow pendant - for all the cheeseheads in the state. If it needs more, then add 1848, for the year it was admitted to the union.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2024 11:36 PM (VNX3d)

263 How does one search on an iPhone 🤔
Posted by: browndog

Long-press a word, and "find selection" is an option. Or start typing in the address bar, and "find on this page" will be an option below the search selections.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2024 11:36 PM (DgGvY)

264 How does one search on an iPhone 🤔
Posted by: browndog

If it's safari on iPhone, at the bottom of the screen, the share button also has a find on page if you scroll down

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 11:36 PM (J5RCE)

265 Hanged for insurrection counts as "removed from office", doesn't it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 11:19 PM (2ka5e)

Let's do incremental quartering for insurrection. One horse every 60 seconds.

It's been a shitty 4 years.

Posted by: Stateless at November 24, 2024 11:37 PM (jvJvP)

266 Otter Rampant or Otter Passant?

Sea Otther in Repose.
River Otter Rampant.

Posted by: 13times at November 24, 2024 11:41 PM (vBoto)

267 Probably an unpopular opinion here, but space launches have become pretty routine. I'm not going to try to watch one live, unless it's going to be something historic, like a manned Moon or Mars mission.

But I know there are folks who like to watch them, so good on you for doing this work. (lifts glass in memory of RickL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
===

I started college as an astrophysics major, damn near retirement, and ended up working in the 'space coast'. I pay no attention to rocket launches anymore after being here years.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 11:42 PM (/lPRQ)

268 The ONT is hearby declared

GIRTHY

All in favor say aye

Posted by: Miklos McMiklos, of the Auld and Ancient Clan McMiklos at November 24, 2024 11:43 PM (+w4kg)

269 For those interested in SFBA politics (corruption).

https://thevoicesf.org/the-bonta-money-trail/

Posted by: 13times at November 24, 2024 11:43 PM (vBoto)

270 Thank you Mikeski and votermom …

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 24, 2024 11:43 PM (TTAGa)

271 All in favor say aye
Posted by: Miklos McMiklos, of the Auld and Ancient Clan McMiklos at November 24, 2024 11:43 PM (+w4kg)
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*belches*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

272 How many people go to the airport just to watch planes take off?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 11:45 PM (63Dwl)

273 259. And yet another Wikipedia visit on my part. I plan to read more about that whole era, but I have been spending time lately reading about the DeMedici family. Book called "Lorenzo the Magnificent" by David Loth. Best biographical read ever.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 11:45 PM (vd6bO)

274 For whatever reason, New Mexico’s flag is often rated very high in these types of lists. - Doof

For whatever reason, you must be an escaped mental patient who has the artistic sensibility of a goat header. No offense to goat headers. - New Mexico.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 24, 2024 11:45 PM (lEyUm)

275 >>>242 I like the state flags with animals on them
Cute
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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We could annex Mexico they've a really good animal flag.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 11:45 PM (TDdfP)

276 “Find on Page”

Worked perfectly …

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 24, 2024 11:46 PM (TTAGa)

277 The Alarm 68 Guns is a classic non-disco Doof move.

Doof, you ain't foolin' nobody.

Posted by: Miklos so knows and swears at November 24, 2024 11:46 PM (+w4kg)

278 I like the launches. There is always a chance that there may be a spectacular ka-boom.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 24, 2024 11:46 PM (c9fCQ)

279 I would like to have every one of the J6 upon their pardon, be replaced in their cells by a democrat govt. official that was on the hearing staff up to and including the primary staff that wrongfully imprisoned them.

ESPECIALLY CHENNY. And can we get a hell YEAH for publicly disbarring a judge or two??

RETRIBUTION BITCHES!!!!

You have NO IDEA what is coming as payback for our pain for the last 4 years!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 24, 2024 11:47 PM (TDvv2)

280 Top Democrat makes admission about Republican party's reputation

https://mol.im/a/14120247

Posted by: Ciampino - opinions at November 24, 2024 11:48 PM (i0xsb)

281 Arizona’s flag gives the vibes of “New Soviet Man”

Colorado … gay

New York … boring

Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole at November 24, 2024 11:48 PM (TTAGa)

282 267 Probably an unpopular opinion here, but space launches have become pretty routine. I'm not going to try to watch one live, unless it's going to be something historic, like a manned Moon or Mars mission.

But I know there are folks who like to watch them, so good on you for doing this work. (lifts glass in memory of RickL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I had big exuberance the time he launched from Vandenberg, Boca Chica and Florida the same day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 11:49 PM (TDdfP)

283 FUN FACT: His successor Darius III was murdered by a servant who hoped to curry favor with the rampaging Alexander the Great, thus bringing an end to the once-dominant Persian Achaemenid Empire.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 11:35 PM (dDmld)

FUN FACT

The only Darius I ever met was the lead singer for Hootie and the Blowfish.

Posted by: Mikos is reasonably honest at November 24, 2024 11:49 PM (+w4kg)

284 Most people don't know that one of Chuck Woolery's famous lines from Wheel of Fortune was "Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep". That's because originally, at the end of each round, the winner would pick from a bunch of prizes with price tags on them. It was kind of cool.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 24, 2024 11:49 PM (KAi1n)

285
*belches*
Posted by: San Franpsycho

This man needs some Unicum

You can look that up, it is a drink in Hungary

Posted by: Miklos provides advice at November 24, 2024 11:52 PM (+w4kg)

286 283 But was he a Hootie or just another Blowfish?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 11:53 PM (3VfXK)

287 OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

I am pleased to announce that President Donald J. Trump has asked me to join his administration as Mockery Czar. Also, Czar of Every Little Bureaucratic Thing.

No tolerance for any government employee who violates, or has ever violated any rule or regulation of any kind whatsoever.

Fire, and

Then mock them.

Posted by: DOGEklos at November 24, 2024 11:55 PM (+w4kg)

288 Arizona’s flag gives the vibes of “New Soviet Man”
Posted by: browndog runs it up the flag pole

Close. Middle California, a difference without distinction. Calling Arizona East California would make the most sense but New Mexico already owns the copyright to East California.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 24, 2024 11:55 PM (lEyUm)

289 Probably an unpopular opinion here, but space launches have become pretty routine. I'm not going to try to watch one live, unless it's going to be something historic, like a manned Moon or Mars mission.

But I know there are folks who like to watch them, so good on you for doing this work. (lifts glass in memory of RickL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I had big exuberance the time he launched from Vandenberg, Boca Chica and Florida the same day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others

I'll watch a number of the Falcon or Electron launches after the fact. Starship launches, though, I want to watch live, because they're still pushing the boundaries of what it might do.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2024 11:57 PM (VNX3d)

290 >>>> 273 259

Lorenzo the Magnificent by Loth, David. Thanks for the tip guys. Just DL’d it and will begin reading it tonight.

archive.org have the free 1929 public domain PDF.

Posted by: 13times at November 24, 2024 11:58 PM (+4yUt)

291 288 That makes me think of a Clever Plan to get the Californians to leave their leftist politics behind when coming to Colorado. It's a copyright violation, fer cryin' out loud!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 11:58 PM (vd6bO)

292 Pfft. Lorenzo wasn't that magnificent.

Posted by: Cosimo DiMedici at November 24, 2024 11:59 PM (dDmld)

293 I suspect that if North California separated from coastal California there might be another Sutter's Mill Situation.

Posted by: Miklos just guesses at November 25, 2024 12:00 AM (+w4kg)

294 Why father was freed for 12 days after 'trying to honor kill daughter'

https:// .im/a/14105749

Posted by: Ciampino - opinion? at November 25, 2024 12:02 AM (i0xsb)

295 292 Pfft. Lorenzo wasn't that magnificent.
Posted by: Cosimo DiMedici at November 24, 2024 11:59 PM (dDmld)

You tell it, Girl.

Posted by: Miklos in just an Effendi, and a Mensch at November 25, 2024 12:02 AM (+w4kg)

296 I think it was the Democrat SET UP and the lies, the MSM spinning the LIES for the SET UP, the fact that it never WAS an INSERECTION
CNN...die a slow death...media speaking of course.

ABC, NBC, CBC...you as well are soon to be done..."We don't trust you at all anymore and have not for many years (see your propped up ratings you stupid fools.)

And NSNBC...I save you for last as it is my wish the ELON will indeed BUY your worthless network just to give me the pleasure of watching him FIRE JOY, RACHEL, and the Nimby Twins Joe & Mika. I will have a party with a BBQ for that one...thinking WHOLE ROAST PIG!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 12:02 AM (TDvv2)

297 Probably an unpopular opinion here, but space launches have become pretty routine. I'm not going to try to watch one live, unless it's going to be something historic, like a manned Moon or Mars mission.

Not at all, at least IMHO. I'm as big of a space exploration geek as there is. I'll just sit back and wait for a milestone.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 12:05 AM (mH6SG)

298 Ha ha. South Korean man, 26, dodged Army draft by binge eating to gain weight

https://mol.im/a/14120891

Posted by: Ciampino - well that's a new way at November 25, 2024 12:06 AM (i0xsb)

299 283 Miklos

Good grief...WHAT did I just say!??

Grumble...and I was just turning in...
Pay attention Miklos!
Anyway, hi and good night💗💤

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2024 12:06 AM (Z25uN)

300 295 292 Pfft. Lorenzo wasn't that magnificent.
Posted by: Cosimo DiMedici at November 24, 2024 11:59 PM (dDmld)

You tell it, Girl.

But, but, Cosimo was not a girl, effendi.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 25, 2024 12:06 AM (vd6bO)

301 Minnesota's new state flag oddly looks as if it was approved in Somalia. This should not be surprising since it likely was. Or in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, a difference without distinction.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 25, 2024 12:06 AM (lEyUm)

302 Woohoo !
Granddaughter of Diogenes soccer' team makes it to the Elite Eight!!!
Go Hokies.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 12:09 AM (W/lyH)

303 As far as the flags go, I perceicve some Doof bias.

Which is OK, as I personally imbibed a Quantity of Natty Bo.

Posted by: Mikols recalls his time in Bawlamer with affection at November 25, 2024 12:11 AM (+w4kg)

304 America,

We can get REAL news from much better sources these days.

And the Legacy News Networks have truly dug their own graves by slipping into the trap of becoming PROPOGANDA for the LEFT. So, this is NOT a funeral but a joyful realization that WE DO NOT HAVE TO DEPEND ON THEM ANYMORE. Because they LIE!!! AND WE KNOW IT!!!

Shout it out in the streets America!!

And goodnight HORDE!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 25, 2024 12:16 AM (TDvv2)

305 Granddaughter of Diogenes soccer' team makes it to the Elite Eight!!!
Go Hokies.
Posted by: Diogenes
------------
That's fantastic! Exciting times. Daughter played in a CWS, great experience and memories for her, team, and family. Enjoy the run!

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 12:17 AM (41CYW)

306 303 A Bal'moron perhaps?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 25, 2024 12:18 AM (vd6bO)

307 Video of hydrogen and oxygen combining to water - at the atomic level.

https://tinyurl.com/5eh5v37x

Posted by: Ciampino - how much more efficient can you make it at November 25, 2024 12:18 AM (i0xsb)

308 Dog food recall - Salmonella

https://tinyurl.com/mu7aakdm

Posted by: Ciampino - to kibble or not to kibble at November 25, 2024 12:20 AM (i0xsb)

309 The original 1929 typeface in the book Lorenzo the Magnificent is uncommon but very nice.

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 12:20 AM (7eMFb)

310 309 'tis

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 25, 2024 12:23 AM (vd6bO)

311 Dog food recall - Salmonella

The new Plandemic. Poisoned food.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 25, 2024 12:24 AM (mH6SG)

312 Inside the insidious Democratic plot to keep Biden in office using terrifying harassment tactics

https://mol.im/a/14120789

Posted by: Ciampino - to plot or not to plot at November 25, 2024 12:25 AM (i0xsb)

313 Hey Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 25, 2024 12:26 AM (Sgq8y)

314
313 Hey Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 25, 2024 12:26 AM (Sgq8y

--------

Hey

Posted by: The Horde at November 25, 2024 12:27 AM (dDmld)

315 Dog food recall - Salmonella

https://tinyurl.com/mu7aakdm
Posted by: Ciampino -

I do not feed Miss Dixie Doodle "dog food".

I would not feed her anything I would not eat myself.

Also, dog food, the little "Cesar" packets are, once per ounce, much more expensive than ordinary "people" food.

Posted by: Miklos thinks Dixie agrees at November 25, 2024 12:28 AM (+w4kg)

316 Hey Debby

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 12:28 AM (njWTi)

317 He excommunicated Malatesta for the crimes of heresy, sacrilege, rebellion against the Holy See, rape, adultery, violation, incest, parricide, felony and murder. The Lord of Rimini was actually guilty of most of these offences, and a few others which the Pope in his hasty rage forgot to mention, but he declined the Pontiff's invitation to come to Rome and be burned for his sins. Pius had to be content with consigning his effigy to the flames.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 25, 2024 12:28 AM (vd6bO)

318
Hate to admit it, but the Tennessee flag might be the best. It caused Jarles Chonson to majorly lose his mind.

Good times.

Posted by: Guy Karate, Member, The League of Ugly-Shirted Gentlemen at November 25, 2024 12:28 AM (FlRtG)

319 Developing Nations blast COP29 climate deal.

https://tinyurl.com/nbes23ar

Posted by: Ciampino - Give us more money at November 25, 2024 12:28 AM (i0xsb)

320 313 Hey Horde.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

The most Distinguished Return Hey is hereby presented.

The Tzampotli is now fully illuminated.

Posted by: Crazy Miklos' Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Sacrificial Games Emporium with Full Bar at November 25, 2024 12:31 AM (+w4kg)

321 Hey
Posted by: The Horde

Hiya

Posted by: Miklos hopes JT is getting better at November 25, 2024 12:32 AM (+w4kg)

322 319
Fourth bullet: Trump has pledged to remove US from climate pact.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 25, 2024 12:33 AM (vd6bO)

323 Rural counties in California, Illinois push to secede from blue states to separate from liberal-run cities after Trump’s win.

https://tinyurl.com/58jkbhph

Posted by: Ciampino - YES! YES! YES! at November 25, 2024 12:33 AM (i0xsb)

324 Pius had to be content with consigning his effigy to the flames.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

So

I am relatively OK

Posted by: Miklos is not as evil as they say at November 25, 2024 12:34 AM (+w4kg)

325 Mysterious find could prove THIS about life on Mars, scientists say

https://mol.im/a/14117691

Posted by: Ciampino - too much scifi at November 25, 2024 12:35 AM (i0xsb)

326 As the Texans say, "We're proud to be Americans at least until we can secede." per the Austin Lounge Lizards.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 25, 2024 12:36 AM (vd6bO)

327 325 Mysterious find could prove THIS about life on Mars, scientists say

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It ain't the kind of place to raise a kid?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2024 12:36 AM (dDmld)

328 Enjoy the run!
Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2024 12:17 AM (41CYW)

No kidding. Amazing they made it this far.
A great experience!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2024 12:37 AM (W/lyH)

329 318
Hate to admit it, but the Tennessee flag might be the best. It caused Jarles Chonson to majorly lose his mind.

Good times.
Posted by: Guy Karate,
................................
TBF, that was an extremely low bar.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 12:38 AM (6ePlE)

330 for the crimes of heresy, sacrilege, rebellion against the Holy See, rape, adultery, violation, incest, parricide, felony and murder.

I am actually innocent of all of those, but in a DC or New York Court who knows.

Posted by: Miklos is Presbyterian predestined to guilt regardless of facts or law at November 25, 2024 12:39 AM (+w4kg)

331 324 As you have not typo-ed Miklos as bad as Malatesta yet. Only Mikos and Mikols. Totally in the clear. -Pius

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 25, 2024 12:39 AM (vd6bO)

332 As you have not typo-ed Miklos as bad as Malatesta yet. Only Mikos and Mikols. Totally in the clear. -Pius
Posted by: Don in SoCo

Much as with "antique" furniture, it is the small flaws that guarantee authenticity.

Posted by: Miklos was accused of being a "bot" maybe 8 years ago already at November 25, 2024 12:44 AM (+w4kg)

333 Much as with "antique" furniture, it is the small flaws that guarantee authenticity.
Posted by: Miklos was accused of being a "bot" maybe 8 years ago already at November 25, 2024 12:44 AM (+w4kg)

It's Moops.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2024 12:46 AM (0eaVi)

334 It ain't the kind of place to raise a kid?
Posted by: Cicero

"Get Home before sundown or you go hungry!"

Posted by: Old Mama on Mars at November 25, 2024 12:46 AM (+w4kg)

335 Much as with "antique" furniture, it is the small flaws that guarantee authenticity.

It's like sincerity, the key to success. Once you learn to fake that, you're good.

Posted by: Don in SoCo who knows Miklos is not a bot at November 25, 2024 12:47 AM (3VfXK)

336 Seen in an ad: "Genuine Louis XV imitation furniture."

Posted by: Ciampino - too authentic at November 25, 2024 12:48 AM (i0xsb)

337 "Get Home before sundown or you go hungry!"
Posted by: Old Mama on Mars

"Get Home before sundown or you go hungry and the Glumphenikkle won’t!!!”

Posted by: Adriane the Glumphenikkle Phobic Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 12:49 AM (TX4bP)

338 Passing back through on my way to pee...can't sleep dammit....
But...hi {{DDS}}!!! Always good to see your smiling face 😁😁💟💟💟!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2024 12:50 AM (Z25uN)

339 336 Seen in an ad: "Genuine Louis XV imitation furniture."

Everything is real. I myself feel authenticer by the day. Horror of horrors, I saw in a furniture catalog once a picture of a woman wearing safety glasses and holding some sort of tool like a small mace to put "wear marks" on their furniture.

Posted by: Don in SoCo who knows Miklos is not a bot at November 25, 2024 12:54 AM (vd6bO)

340
Seen in an ad: "Genuine Louis XV imitation furniture."
Posted by: Ciampino - too authentic

================

The Philippines?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2024 12:55 AM (bVHdT)

341 336 Seen in an ad: "Genuine Louis XV imitation furniture."
Posted by: Ciampino - too authentic at November 25, 2024 12:48 AM (i0xsb)

Rich Corinthian Naugahyde

Posted by: Miklos likes wood and steel, but that's the pesky Y chromosome at November 25, 2024 12:58 AM (+w4kg)

342 Rural counties in California, Illinois push to secede from blue states to separate from liberal-run cities after Trump’s win.

https://tinyurl.com/58jkbhph
Posted by: Ciampino - YES! YES! YES! at November 25, 2024 12:33 AM (i0xsb)

Tazewell County is not among them.

Posted by: Maybe someday i'll choose a nick and stick with it! Today is not that day. Dangerous Radical at November 25, 2024 12:59 AM (89Sog)

343
Also, good evening, everyone.

Here's what I think should happen: Trump should phone up Kamala and tell her to 25th Biden out and assume the presidency and pick him as her veep so they can steward the country safely over the next 2 months and facilitate a smooth transition to Trump's re-presidency. Think she'd go for it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2024 01:00 AM (bVHdT)

344 341 Like Ricardo Montalban, I approach my old beat up truck and proclaim, "Look what they've done to my car!"

Posted by: Don in SoCo who has only seen Bal'more once at November 25, 2024 01:02 AM (vd6bO)

345 Passing back through on my way to pee...can't sleep dammit....
But...hi {{DDS}}!!! Always good to see your smiling face 😁😁💟💟💟!
Posted by: COMountainMarie

As far as I am concerned, you may both pass and pee here any time.

You can also help me design post cards.

Posted by: Greetings from Mar-a-Miklos at November 25, 2024 01:03 AM (+w4kg)

346 You can't threepeat playing like they did 2day.

In their last 3 games, the Chefs have lost one, & SHOULD have lost all 3.

Of the 3 games, their best performance was in the one they lost.

Luckily, they have the Las Vegas Craters next Friday-- which is tantamount to a second by week.

Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at November 25, 2024 01:08 AM (NLIak)

347 Horror of horrors, I saw in a furniture catalog once a picture of a woman wearing safety glasses and holding some sort of tool like a small mace to put "wear marks" on their furniture.
Posted by: Don in SoCo who knows Miklos is not a bot at November 25, 2024 12:54 AM (vd6bO)

Antiqueing. My sister used a metal chain with about 1/2 inch links. Beat the wood up real nice and left 'age' marks. Fire is another antiqueing device for wood. Just not too much fire.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 01:12 AM (gKDq2)

348 Aw, Miklos and COMM, it is truly a week to be thankful!

Um, RickZ, I think it was you that posted a really good recipe for green beans, care to give me the quick version, I am gearing up for the last Thanksgiving in this location.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 25, 2024 01:15 AM (Sgq8y)

349 Hmmm, blue states letting their red portions go peacefully is highly unlikely. This leaves non-peaceful means as the alternative. The red portions form militias, and start serious resistance. Then adjoining red states can send in their National Guards to provide "humanitarian" assistance.

The Split is coming.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 25, 2024 01:17 AM (c9fCQ)

350 345 Miklos, or whoever you might be in this time and place...😜

Silly boy...
And yeah. I got some postcard designs. I'm not sure you'd understand them...but, hey...let's talk😏....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2024 01:19 AM (Z25uN)

351
More good news:
...
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC)

===============

I've had a slightly upset stomach for about 5 days. I think I may be sick of winning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2024 01:20 AM (bVHdT)

352 343 Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes it, eh?

Posted by: Don in SoCo who has only seen Bal'more once at November 25, 2024 01:20 AM (vd6bO)

353 Debbie,

Here's my recipe.

Fresh string beans, a lot.
One package sliced almonds.
Garlic
Butter
Better Than Bouillon Chicken
Frech black Pepper
One lemon, zested, juiced and strained

In a the cooking pot, add butter and a 1/4 to 1/2 cups of almonds. Toast in butter until golden. Remove and drain.

Add a little more butter and about 6 or so cloved of sliced garlic. Toast until golden and and the rinsed and cut string beans. Add water to cover.

1/

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 01:22 AM (gKDq2)

354 Miklos is not a bot.

Bots ASPIRE to be Miklos, should they ever achieve sentience.

Given that bots operate while running Shitware 2.1, the odds of their success, are slim to none.

And Slim is boarding the redeye to Topeka.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 01:24 AM (Xo+UM)

355 348 I am gearing up for the lastThanksgiving in this location.

DDS! Where you be going girl ??!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2024 01:25 AM (Z25uN)

356 2/

Add lemon juice, black pepper and the bouillon and a little dried basil. I cook uncolver on high, stirring occassionally, until the liquid cooks off, or almost cooks off. The beans should be done but nor mush. If still a little raw, cover and vook on look for a short time. I hate muchy string beans.

Once beans are cooked, toss in lemon zest and almonds and stir to mix.

That's the basics. Questions?

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 01:26 AM (gKDq2)

357 People have been talking about splitting California into two or three separate entities for decades.

Ceding the coastline/ports to leftist rats is silly-minded tomfoolery.

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 01:26 AM (JqbO1)

358 Antique furniture? Ha! I worked in a plant that made structural laminated beams. Occasionally a customer asked for a "rough timber" finish on the beams.
We had a huge electric chainsaw mounted on a wheeled carriage. Two of us would push the chainsaw along, using it to gnaw off an eighth of an inch off the exposed surfaces of the beams.
We produced an epic amount of sawdust.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 25, 2024 01:27 AM (c9fCQ)

359 347. My oldest boy is currently a second year apprentice plumber. He cleans up for shows we play (family band) but often wears his work boots because he sometimes forgets to bring his "good" ones. So, a lady was admiring his "authentic-looking" boots and wondering where she could buy boots like that. Uh...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 25, 2024 01:27 AM (vd6bO)

360 Ceding the coastline/ports to leftist rats is silly-minded tomfoolery.
Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 01:26 AM (JqbO1)

Yep. The left can't run a Navy, except into the ground.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 01:29 AM (gKDq2)

361 And Jim SND TX...
Always, always, good to see ya....even in the middle of the night!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2024 01:30 AM (Z25uN)

362 354
Hi, Jim!
What Miklos is, is entertaining for certain.

Posted by: Don in SoCo who is convinced Miklos is real at November 25, 2024 01:31 AM (vd6bO)

363 I guess it's time for bed, there's an owl hooting outside my window telling me to pack it in for the day.

Posted by: Archer at November 25, 2024 01:32 AM (IDphi)

364 I guess I'm sleepy enough now.
Love you guys!
Goodnight.

"Sleep is the best meditation.”

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2024 01:39 AM (Z25uN)

365 Ceding the coastline/ports to leftist rats is silly-minded tomfoolery.
Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 01:26 AM (JqbO1)

After The Split, taking the California ports would be a huge project, and there's no large ports in Oregon. Therefore, we'll need to invade Washington and take Seattle, driving a wave of rainbow-haired refugees before us. I'm sure Portland would be happy to take them in.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 25, 2024 01:39 AM (c9fCQ)

366 RickZ, Perhaps minor questions, but my cooktop does not offer vook or look settings, is there a conversion chart that I might consult? Thanks for the recipe, they do sound delish, I think I might shake things up a bit and try them. This will entail yet another trip to the grocery store tomorrow. It is not so painful if you shop in $80.00 increments.

COMM, I really need to downsize, taxes are killing me and the lesbo Guv insists that we continue to welcome all migrants with open arms, minds and wallets.

JIM SND, Happy Thanksgiving to you and herself.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 25, 2024 01:44 AM (Sgq8y)

367
People have been talking about splitting California into two or three separate entities for decades.

Ceding the coastline/ports to leftist rats is silly-minded tomfoolery.
Posted by: 13times

==============

That's not the split that's been proposed. It's North and South, above San Francisco (which makes you wonder why bother since the South part will be SF, LA, and an even smaller population of inlanders than before to resist them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2024 01:45 AM (bVHdT)

368 What Miklos is, is entertaining for certain.
Posted by: Don in SoCo who

My work here is done.

*eats chili that I cooked, prepares for another round at Probate Court*

Posted by: Miklos did not inherit any of the necessary documents at November 25, 2024 01:46 AM (+w4kg)

369 Mysterious find could prove THIS about life on Mars, scientists say

https://mol.im/a/14117691
Posted by: Ciampino - too much scifi at November 25, 2024 12:35 AM (i0xsb)

Jeepers, that's a poorly-written story, even by DM standards. Almost Grauniad-worthy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 01:47 AM (QAzxD)

370 And virtue, the lady that has quashed tyranny, has an exposed breast...on the Official State Flag. Boobie for the win!
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 10:11

My family surname goes back to a Scottish clan. The old family crest shows a standing bare breasted woman, with the motto "Amo", Latin for I love.

I really should dig into the origins of that. But it seems self-explanatory. Plus I was breastfed. Hey, this is just my heritage.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 25, 2024 01:47 AM (55Qr6)

371 "Sleep is the best meditation.”
Posted by: COMountainMarie

"Laughter is the Best Medicine"

Posted by: Miklos is old enough to remember Readers' Digest at November 25, 2024 01:48 AM (+w4kg)

372 I really should dig into the origins of that. But it seems self-explanatory. Plus I was breastfed. Hey, this is just my heritage.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 25, 2024 01:47 AM (55Qr6)

How is Jules doing today?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 01:51 AM (QAzxD)

373 Hey Farmer, I am glad that you are here, I seem to have lost your email. I am praying for you and for Jules, I am sure that this is very tough on you. How is your Dad doing too? Hang in there. I hope that you can enjoy a nice Thanksgiving despite your situation.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 25, 2024 01:53 AM (Sgq8y)

374 "Laughter is the Best Medicine"
Posted by: Miklos is old enough to remember Readers' Digest

But chocolate runs a close second !!!

Posted by: Adriane the Confectionary Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 01:54 AM (TX4bP)

375 But chocolate runs a close second !!!
Posted by: Adriane the Confectionary Critic

*awards a Cafe du Mond cafe au Chocolat*

Posted by: Le Mikleuse de la Nouvelle Orleans at November 25, 2024 01:57 AM (+w4kg)

376 Posted by: Miklos is old enough to remember Readers' Digest at November 25, 2024 01:48 AM (+w4kg)

I have a Readers' Digest Dictionary since in high school. There is an irony here as the dictionary is well over 3-1/4 inches thick, so not abridged. A real dictionary with hard to find words. From Readers' Digest. Go figure.

On the inside, it says it's a third edition Funk and Wagnalls from 1969, under the Readers' Digest name. The fact that I still have it tells you it's a good dictionary.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 02:00 AM (gKDq2)

377 My prayer system is basically to ask The Father to be with all those who call upon Thy Name.

Call me lazy, but sincere.

Posted by: Miklos at November 25, 2024 02:01 AM (+w4kg)

378 Current proposals include a coastal-inland division. It's stupid on the level of epic stupidity. That's being run up the flagpole.

Every proposal leaves the radical left in charge of our ports. Unless one considers Elk Snout Harbor a viable international port.

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 02:04 AM (UGS7U)

379 On the inside, it says it's a third edition Funk and Wagnalls from 1969, under the Readers' Digest name. The fact that I still have it tells you it's a good dictionary.
Posted by: RickZ

Put that in your Funk and Wagnalls

Posted by: Miklos is old enough (barely) to remeber Laugh-In at November 25, 2024 02:04 AM (+w4kg)

380 You beat me to it, Miklos!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 25, 2024 02:06 AM (Sgq8y)

381 Every proposal leaves the radical left in charge of our ports. Unless one considers Elk Snout Harbor a viable international port.

Posted by: 13times

heh

Federalize

Moar heh

Posted by: Kelo. v. City of New London at November 25, 2024 02:06 AM (+w4kg)

382 379 Eighth grade teacher in our small rural school told us "Ain't ain't a word, 'cause ain't ain't in the dictionary", circa 1977.

Posted by: Don in SoCo who is convinced Miklos is real at November 25, 2024 02:08 AM (vd6bO)

383 Eighth grade teacher in our small rural school told us "Ain't ain't a word, 'cause ain't ain't in the dictionary", circa 1977.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

I wonder what the definition of "gay" was in 1977.

Posted by: Inquiring mind of Miklos at November 25, 2024 02:13 AM (+w4kg)

384 Stan Statham's "two and three" state split options. Like I said, this is a decades old thing leaving us Northerners with lots of fresh water reserves and no intl. shipping ports.

https://www.phrelin.com/3Cals/Statham.htm

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 02:15 AM (UGS7U)

385 Eighth grade teacher in our small rural school told us "Ain't ain't a word, 'cause ain't ain't in the dictionary", circa 1977.
Posted by: Don in SoCo who is convinced

"Ain't" was certainly never used in any foundational American literature.

Posted by: Miklos Langhorne Clemens at November 25, 2024 02:22 AM (+w4kg)

386 Stan Statham's "two and three" state split options. Like I said, this is a decades old thing leaving us Northerners with lots of fresh water reserves and no intl. shipping ports.

https://www.phrelin.com/3Cals/Statham.htm
Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 02:15 AM (UGS7U)

Going by the maps at the link, it would appear that the city of SF would be in "central" CA, but much of the harbor coastline would be in "north" CA.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 02:24 AM (QAzxD)

387 I wonder what the definition of "gay" was in 1977.
Posted by: Inquiring mind of Miklos at November 25, 2024 02:13 AM (+w4kg)

1969 Funk and Wagnalls, Readers' Digest version:

gay, adj. 1. Happy and carefree; merry. 2. Brightly colored or ornamnetal. 3. Jaunty, sporty. 4. Full of or given to lighthearted pleasure. 5. Rakesh; libertine. 6. Slang Homosexual.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 02:28 AM (gKDq2)

388 H.L. Mencken (whose immortal phrase graces every AoS top banner) considered "ain't" to be perfectly cromulent ( I might be paraphrasing a bit) in his book and linguistic study "The American language".

Posted by: Miklos, who lived in Mencken's house once at November 25, 2024 02:28 AM (+w4kg)

389 How is Jules doing today?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 01:51

Today was some good news, she still has the ventilator in but it was turned down for a trial and she was able to breathe on her own all last night.

Still not good enough and might have a treach soon unless she improves. Ups and downs are making me crazy.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 25, 2024 02:29 AM (55Qr6)

390 Still not good enough and might have a treach soon unless she improves. Ups and downs are making me crazy.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 25, 2024 02:29 AM (55Qr6)

Well, seize on whatever good news you can. May she make a speedy and complete recovery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 02:31 AM (QAzxD)

391
gay, adj. 1. Happy and carefree; merry. 2. Brightly colored or ornamnetal. 3. Jaunty, sporty. 4. Full of or given to lighthearted pleasure. 5. Rakesh; libertine. 6. Slang Homosexual.
Posted by: RickZ

I'm so old, I remember when queerbait was an insult, not a resume enhancer.

Posted by: Miklos, non of whose shoes have significant heels at November 25, 2024 02:32 AM (+w4kg)

392 AOP - that's Drake's Bay. Its somewhat shallow, but might be dredged. There's no actual quay there for container shipping, but a long pier for transferring crude oil to the Pinole refinery. We would lose SF and Oakland ports.

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 02:33 AM (UGS7U)

393 AOP - that's Drake's Bay. Its somewhat shallow, but might be dredged. There's no actual quay there for container shipping, but a long pier for transferring crude oil to the Pinole refinery. We would lose SF and Oakland ports.
Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 02:33 AM (UGS7U)

A perfect opportunity to resume Project Ploughshare!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 02:36 AM (QAzxD)

394 I remember my Mom telling a neighbor that he certainly looked gay when he showed up for the Christmas Party in a powder blue leisure suit. She of course meant the first definition offered by Funk and Wagnalls. He looked stricken somehow like the sixth definition had been exposed.

I am off to bed, Horde, hope that you all have sweet dreams and a Happy Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 25, 2024 02:40 AM (Sgq8y)

395 Getting late here. I am off to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2024 02:41 AM (QAzxD)

396 Project Ploughshare?

Canals first

Canals of Great Dignity

Big beautiful Dignity Canals, with dignity like you wouldn't believe

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at November 25, 2024 02:42 AM (+w4kg)

397 Evening. Here for just a bit. Couldn't get back to sleep after waking up from text from younger son.
No, throw away the raw marinated meat I put in fridge the day before I went to the hospital. You are not your uncle x.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 02:42 AM (SSBCb)

398 Oh, as flags go, Kali has an extinct bear on it. Fitting, I guess.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 02:43 AM (SSBCb)

399 Well, tonight is a School Night.

Night all

and

DON'T WAKE UP SKIP

Posted by: Concerned Aunt Miklos at November 25, 2024 02:45 AM (+w4kg)

400 Anybody still here?

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 02:49 AM (SSBCb)

401 Hi, jim! Just got back, LOL

How are you?

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 02:50 AM (njWTi)

402 Trying to get some late night chores done.

Not motivated enough.

Posted by: Adriane the Confectionary Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 02:52 AM (TX4bP)

403 Idaho has one of those boring flags: plain blue field with a state seal & banner under that.. bleh.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 02:52 AM (njWTi)

404 Not motivated enough.
Posted by: Adriane
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Story of my life, lately. Can't get started on anything, because then *something urgent* will happen that calls me away from whatever I was doing. Never fails!

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 02:54 AM (njWTi)

405 Oh, as flags go, Kali has an extinct bear on it. Fitting, I guess.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 02:43 AM (SSBCb)

It's a Russian boar. (so say the vaquero)

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 02:55 AM (UGS7U)

406 401 Hi, jim! Just got back, LOL

How are you?
Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 02:50 AM (njWTi)

Doing better, good chance I go home tomorrow. Didn't realize how bad off I was until I started looking at doc notes.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 02:56 AM (SSBCb)

407 Wow, jim! Scary..

Hope you get to go home & have a nice Thanksgiving with family and/or friends.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 02:59 AM (njWTi)

408 Apparently I had embraced the power of AND.
I had/have diverticulitis AND the transverse colon abscess AND low BP/tachycardia AND the start of sepsis.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:00 AM (SSBCb)

409 I'm so old, I remember when queerbait was an insult, not a resume enhancer.
Posted by: Miklos, non of whose shoes have significant heels at November 25, 2024 02:32 AM (+w4kg)

My favorite meme has Grandpa Simpson sitting on a stump on a small hill with some kids sitting on the ground around him. He says, "Back in my day, blowing a tranny was an automotive issue."

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 03:00 AM (gKDq2)

410 391

How it became 'gay'...

https://tinyurl.com/5yzsyvjz

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2024 03:01 AM (Z25uN)

411 Hubby & I will go to a friend's place for T-day. She's single now, and will be just the 3 of us. Nice & easy... we've all known each other for over 20 years; she and I had worked together.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 03:01 AM (njWTi)

412 Two are fixed, other two are healing.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:02 AM (SSBCb)

413 BRB

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:03 AM (SSBCb)

414 Apparently I had embraced the power of AND.
I had/have diverticulitis AND the transverse colon abscess AND low BP/tachycardia AND the start of sepsis.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)
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Holy Crap! Dude, maybe not be in a huge hurry to leave?

Prayers for health and healing........

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 03:03 AM (njWTi)

415 Apparently I had embraced the power of AND.
I had/have diverticulitis AND the transverse colon abscess AND low BP/tachycardia AND the start of sepsis.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

But you did NOT have a dilated pore of winer … so there is that …

Posted by: Adriane the Confectionary Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 03:03 AM (TX4bP)

416 Hubby & I will go to a friend's place for T-day.

I’ve plans to go to my niece’s and she does NOT want any more food.

I feel like a slacker if I don’t bring a little something.
: -)

Ah well. She is the hostess.

I hope you guys have a nice relaxing dinner.

Posted by: Adriane the Confectionary Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 03:07 AM (TX4bP)

417 Thanks, Adriane!

Wine is good, if it *can* be enjoyed, and is not 'food' right?

We will bring dessert, and show up early enough to help with cooking. Will bring sparkling cider because it tastes good and 2 of us cannot have alcohol. There will be flower, I think.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 03:14 AM (njWTi)

418 Thanks to Stateless, for suggesting that I go ahead and switch on the Christmas lights early, to lift my mood...it helped!

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 03:20 AM (njWTi)

419 415 Apparently I had embraced the power of AND.
I had/have diverticulitis AND the transverse colon abscess AND low BP/tachycardia AND the start of sepsis.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

But you did NOT have a dilated pore of winer … so there is that …
Posted by: Adriane the Confectionary Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 03:03 AM (TX4bP)

That I do not. Plenty of small keratin spots and cherry hemangiomas.

Also a check of my cervix came back negative. I'd have been worried if they found one.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:23 AM (SSBCb)

420 Good idea. I like the Martinelli’s Sparkling Apple with a Splash of cranberry.

Maybe some Ginger Ale for full tummies …

Posted by: Adriane the Confectionary Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 03:24 AM (TX4bP)

421 I'm working Thanksgiving Day. Well, night. I'm doing a crockpot Turkey dinner Tuesday night and from Wed to Sat, I'll feast upon it. It's just me anyway. Not the first time I've done major holidays solo. My FedGov overlords usually cater for Thanksgiving. It's been Wegmans the last few years. It's fine.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 03:26 AM (6ePlE)

422 WOW Jim.

That's almost the story of my dad!

Doing yard work, big thing flies into his eye and breaks the lens, into the ER, admitted for eyeball surgery.

Released back home on a dozen meds and hours later he's doubled over in pain, rushed to ER, admitted for diverticulosis.

Gets home from hospital on 2 dozen meds. Visit to the diverticulosis doc a week later and says "Everything's fine except the side effects of the meds, you know the chest pain."

Doc says CHEST PAINS? Get on this treadmill...

Admitted to hospital for severe heart condition, gets a quintuple bypass.

Lived for quite a few years after that. Died of none of the above.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2024 03:26 AM (bVHdT)

423 Martinelli's! Yes!

There's a cranberry flavored, which we like as-is. Grape is good too.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 03:27 AM (njWTi)

424 ...Also a check of my cervix came back negative. I'd have been worried if they found one. Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:23 AM (SSBCb)

Primary symptom of Man with Cervix disorder, is voting (d) in any given election.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 03:27 AM (Xo+UM)

425 I'll be missing out on home-made tamales and other wonderful foods at my brother's place. No shape for a long drive.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:28 AM (SSBCb)

426 Jim! Good to see you here. In my thoughts and prayers. How're holding up?

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:30 AM (SSBCb)

427 I read some of yinz medical conditions and ask myself 'how?'. That's some odd ball stuff, kali Jim.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 03:30 AM (6ePlE)

428 One neighbor plopped down a few of those inflatable Christmas things which look horrible when unplugged, flaccid and flabby during daylight hours.

One took to lighting-up her ornaments during the covid nightmare which brightened the whole street.

Posted by: 13times at November 25, 2024 03:33 AM (UGS7U)

429 427 I read some of yinz medical conditions and ask myself 'how?'. That's some odd ball stuff, kali Jim.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2024 03:30 AM (6ePlE)

Also found out I probably have sleep apnea. Is it bad for O2 Sat to drop to 65% while sleeping? 2x nurse comes in, I wake up, she asks if I'm OK. Have 24hr heart monitor remotely watching me...

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:36 AM (SSBCb)

430 Lived for quite a few years after that. Died of none of the above.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Wholely Cow!!!

Posted by: Adriane the Confectionary Critic . . . at November 25, 2024 03:37 AM (TX4bP)

431 Oh, yeah, forgot that. Initial EKG when I was admitted showed a single oddity that the machine took as a sign I'd had a heart attack, but ER doc reviewed and said I hadn't. Current stay up
I've been hooked up to remote heart monitor w O2 sat since.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:44 AM (SSBCb)

432 Died of none of the above.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2024 03:26 AM (bVHdT)

So yer tellin me it really could'a been worse?

What a story. Or series of stories.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2024 03:46 AM (gKDq2)

433 I had not real work dreams all.night

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2024 03:46 AM (fwDg9)

434 On this stay, had two IV lines infiltrate surrounding tissue, so on third IV site. This time I could see the ultrasound display. Was cool watching the catheter thread the center of the vein.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:47 AM (SSBCb)

435 Well, late now. Will try to get some 💤

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 03:50 AM (SSBCb)

436 'Night, jim. Get some rest.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2024 03:52 AM (njWTi)

437 jim in CA.

Write to me directly, and we shall establish a correspondence.

My prayers are for your star, ascending.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 03:59 AM (Xo+UM)

438 .
NOOD

Tech Thread is up

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 04:01 AM (O7YUW)

439 Nicely done on the ONT, Doof!

The Canadian side of Mount Rushmore gave me a good laugh.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2024 05:23 AM (O7YUW)

440 Aye!!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 25, 2024 05:57 AM (F3SmE)

441 437 jim in CA.

Write to me directly, and we shall establish a correspondence.

My prayers are for your star, ascending.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2024 03:59 AM (Xo+UM)

Will do once I'm home.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2024 12:28 PM (SSBCb)

Gun Thread: Almost Thanksgiving Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be almost Thanksgiving? Are all y'all almost thankful? Weasel are thankful for all y'all!

As we all know, the true meaning of Thanksgiving is to a) celebrate the defeat of the Indians and the subsequent occupation of the North American continent, and 2) standing in line at 3am for the opportunity to buy a plasma TV for 99 cents. Are you planning a traditional celebration? More importantly, do you have any shooting stuff you're planning to buy? If so, please share your list in the comments below!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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FUNdamentals
A Navy SEAL with good watch diameter value discusses fundamentals and not shooting low/left.

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Beginner Drills
Some first time drills with Lena Miculek.

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Iconic Revolvers!

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Is The .380 Enough?
With Mas Ayoob

At what point are the benefits of concealibility owtweighed by a cartridge's effectiveness?

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More Mas Ayoob
One in the chamber or not?

Interested in where all y'all as a group are on this? 50/50?

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Highway Patrol
A diversion robbery! Sneaky bastards!

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Our Pal the Sun!
Dr. Baxter with Bell Labs talks about our pal the Sun.

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Gun Basics 101
New video from the She Equips Herself gal! This week's video is on gifts for the range babe(s) in your life..

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Cigar of the Week

This week our pal rhomboid scores again with this excellent review of the Habano Bourbon Barrel Aged Sun Grown and the Double Aged 12 Year Vintage Maduro. A double header!!

En route to a sailing trip I spent a few days in Miami. Gee, what might be one item of interest in that town? Cigars! So I visited a small company in Little Havana (future review), and took Uber through the horrendous rush-hour traffic out to Perdomo Cigars HQ, near the executive airport. Got there late but they let me hang out, burn a cigar, and had a nice chat with (I think) Nick Perdomo's son as they closed up. Bought a bunch of their sticks, 2 are reviewed below. Highly recommend visiting Perdomo when in the area. Nice lounge in front, and the humidor has their entire line.
The Habano Bourbon Barrel Aged Sun Grown (at left in photo) is a nice looking medium/dark brown stick. The Nicaraguan tobaccos in it are all aged 6 years - the wrapper is aged an additional 10 months in ex-bourbon barrels. Construction on all Perdomos seems flawless, the burn even. This stick is one of the best I've had in a long time - a mellow medium, with a rich sweetness that must be the bourbon barrel aging coming through. Ample smoke. Will be getting more of these.
The cigar on the right of the photo, the Double Aged 12 Year Vintage Maduro, has Nicaraguan tobaccos aged 10 years, then 2 more years in ex-bourbon barrels. To me there was less of the unique sweetness of the Habano Sun Grown, I got more earth, even leather, and less distinct flavors. Still a nice smoke, and I'll be trying it again. The Habano BB Aged Sun Grown is available online for $8, the 12-Year Vintage Maduro for $10.

Excellent, rhomboid! Thank you!

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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.

Cigarsinternational.com
Cigarpage.com
Famous-smoke.com
Cigarsdaily.com
Neptunecigar.com
Smallbatchcigar.com
Bobalu Cigar Company
Cigarbid.com
Nicks Cigar World New!

A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid

Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!

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Ammo Link-O-Rama
I'm really very seriously not kidding around anymore. Buy Ammo
AmmoSeek - online ammo search tool
GunBot - online ammo search tool
SG Ammo
Palmetto State Armory
Georgia Arms
AmmoMan
Target Sports USA
Bud's Gun Shop
American Elite Ammo NEW!

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Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!

That's it for this week - have you been to the range?

Posted by: Weasel at 07:00 PM

Comments

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1 BANG!!!!!

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 07:00 PM (0XVad)

2 Bang

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 07:00 PM (LHPAg)

3 Hello, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 07:00 PM (AiJK3)

4 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 07:01 PM (Wnv9h)

5 Or not.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 07:01 PM (Wnv9h)

6 Scoobs, you got a turkey! Nope, that’s a flamingo. They’re protected. I gotta run, see you next Sunday. Bye.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 07:02 PM (LHPAg)

7 Here!
Scoobs wins again.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:05 PM (2UpC3)

8 Have not done anything gun related here. I have to call the store that I use as an FFL to ask some questions in transferring a gun that I will purchase from a friend.
I cannot just buy a rifle here in NYC, have to send in paperwork for their registry.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 07:05 PM (0XVad)

9 Good afternoon, Weasel. Thanks once again for another fabulous pre-holiday gun thread extravaganza!

Range report to follow.

I want to know how SEH stands up straight. Good grief.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:05 PM (tT6L1)

10 gub thread! yay!

Posted by: 80's music fan at November 24, 2024 07:05 PM (r0dOk)

11 Some first time drills with Lena Miculek.

Lena is a treasure. Her papa ain't to shabby, either.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 07:05 PM (mH6SG)

12 I am also interested in the Moron poll on carrying with one in the chamber.

I do not carry enough, nor have enough close friends that EDC, so I am not informed enough to have an opinion.

Would like to hear some Horde wisdom.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:07 PM (HlyYF)

13 One in the Chamber or Not?

Yes. Any other answer compromises your safety for the sake of FUD and/or lack of training.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 07:07 PM (/y8xj)

14 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 07:07 PM (fwDg9)

15 One in the Chamber or Not?

Yes. That's all I have to say on that one.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 07:08 PM (mH6SG)

16 Good evening Horde. Thanks Weasel! BTW, check your email.

I am pleased to report that I've (mostly) cured my low and left problem. For me, the problem was the three fingers of the trigger hand wrapping around the grip. If I keep those at rest and isolate the movement of the trigger finger, my success rate skyrockets. The new grip still isn't fully intuitive but that's what practice is for. Had a good outing at the range on Friday. Look forward to watching the video in the content.

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 07:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

17 If Scoobs is ever involved in a self-defense situation, I hope he is as fast on the draw in that circumstance as he is on AOS!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:08 PM (HlyYF)

18 One in the Chamber or Not?

For my 1911? Yes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 07:08 PM (Wnv9h)

19 I recently purchased a Citizen Corso Eco-Drive Chronograph, 44mm. Is this watch within allowable limits?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:09 PM (tT6L1)

20 I recently purchased a Citizen Corso Eco-Drive Chronograph, 44mm. Is this watch within allowable limits?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:09 PM (tT6L1)
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40-43mm.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:10 PM (fghTy)

21 17 If Scoobs is ever involved in a self-defense situation, I hope he is as fast on the draw in that circumstance as he is on AOS!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:08 PM

It is luck, pure luck.

If I ever do have a self defense situation it better be here at home where I have the means to defend myself.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 07:10 PM (0XVad)

22 4 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 07:01 PM

On a previous AOS thread I saw that you can still earn a very nice physical bronze medal for a 3st.

Unfortunately for you, I have never encountered anyone giving out medals for 4st!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:10 PM (HlyYF)

23 If Scoobs is ever involved in a self-defense situation, I hope he is as fast on the draw in that circumstance as he is on AOS!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:08 PM (HlyYF)
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Scoobs, faster on the dray than a Moron hitting the F5 key on Aos!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:11 PM (tT6L1)

24 Gub!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 07:11 PM (mH6SG)

25 Rats. Since I'm over on the watch diameter I suppose I have a note in my permanent record.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:11 PM (tT6L1)

26 Hi everyone!!

Happy Thanksgiving.
I don't carry all the time - but nearly every time I go to Dallas I do. Always have one in the chamber. Seems like it would be extra effort / time to have to rack the gun if I pulled it. As a lefty, having to hit the safety on a right handed gun is tricky enough.

Posted by: Lurking in Garland at November 24, 2024 07:12 PM (x+Kx9)

27 PI, my EDC is an original tiny Ruger LCP. in 380 ACP. It goes with me everywhere.
It is Double Action only with a loooong trigger pull. According, I have no problems carrying with one in the pipe. And, with a 6 round mag, it means I carry over 16% more rounds.
Oops, math.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:12 PM (2UpC3)

28 Rats. Since I'm over on the watch diameter I suppose I have a note in my permanent record.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:11 PM (tT6L1)
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Waivers are known to be granted.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:13 PM (fghTy)

29 I cannot just buy a rifle here in NYC, have to send in paperwork for their registry.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 07:05 PM

When you do eventually escape from NYC, I hope your body will be able to handle the sudden and massive increase in freedom!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:13 PM (HlyYF)

30 I carry a 1911 cocked and locked. Round is most definitely in the chamber. Took me a while to get comfortable doing so, though.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:13 PM (tT6L1)

31 Heh. Top 30(?) or so…
No range time but I did get to watch the sun rise and set over the farm I hunt.
Good evening to all the GunHorde and Thank You Weasel

Posted by: Coelacanth at November 24, 2024 07:14 PM (nrpZ6)

32 Dear Diary,

It is my second week since I have returned to the Gun Thread. It is a mixture of the familiar and strange. Many names I recognize, others I do not. They seem friendly, but also more feral than I remember them.

What unsettled me the most was that no one so much as mentioned .41 Magnum. I feel I don't know these people anymore.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)

33 You should have one in the chamber. If your handgun isn't safe to carry w/ one in the chamber, get one that can.

Outside the wire I always had one in the chamber of both the M16/M4 and M9/M1911. You will not have the time or brain power to think about chambering a round under the stress of combat.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 07:16 PM (AiJK3)

34 Good Sunday evening, gub 'ettes and 'rons, and a sneaky diversion greeting to our host Weasel!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 07:16 PM (v23vE)

35 By my count, I believe "one in the chamber" is currently leading 5-0!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:16 PM (HlyYF)

36 Today, in 1871, the National Rifle Association was incorporated.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 07:17 PM (a3Q+t)

37 One in the Chamber or Not?

Yes. Definitely.

Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at November 24, 2024 07:17 PM (Hdixl)

38 Hmm, will will the keeper of the personal records let me off if I explain my regular beautiful Seiko broke and due to watch withdrawal, I bought a new Citizen to tide me over until I can get the Seiko repaired? (40mm, by the way)

I also had a gift certificate which covered the cost of the new watch.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:17 PM (tT6L1)

39 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:17 PM (tT6L1)
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We can forward your waiver application to the Standards Committee for a ruling.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:19 PM (fghTy)

40 Range Report!
My buddy, the Aspirin Shoot Match Director, has been giving me sh*t about missing the last two monthly matches.
This morning, after realizing that a weekday alarm will not go off on a weekend, I made a mad dash to the range. I got there just in time.
Match Director and I were the only ones there. OK, it was 35, damp and windy. At least my Permanent Record got an attaboy.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:19 PM (2UpC3)

41 Gun within 10 ft of me now? Well... Colt .45 Replica, with 5 chambers loaded.... so as soon as I cock it she's ready to go....

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 24, 2024 07:20 PM (QAkQ3)

42 Perhaps off topic, but Roger Staubach on recent Cowboys teams. Pretty funny!

https://tinyurl.com/y4d9vafr

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 07:20 PM (VNX3d)

43 I see we have a weirdo extolling the virtues of the .41 Magnum. We may need to keep an eye on him, as one never knows.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:20 PM (tT6L1)

44 25 Rats. Since I'm over on the watch diameter I suppose I have a note in my permanent record.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:11 PM

When I was quickly scanning posts, I though you had purchased a "shooting" chronograph to get your ammo perfect for your long range competitions.

Since it is just a watch, AND your are 1mm out of compliance - I am bitterly disappointed.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:20 PM (HlyYF)

45 29 When you do eventually escape from NYC, I hope your body will be able to handle the sudden and massive increase in freedom!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:13 PM

Might be sooner than expected. When I reach 65 I will retire, or if I reach a certain monetary amount in my accounts. I am pretty close on both.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 07:20 PM (0XVad)

46 I see we have a weirdo extolling the virtues of the .41 Magnum. We may need to keep an eye on him, as one never knows.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1)

If there's an ammo dump, though, he'll be able to get most of that caliber for himself. Planning ahead!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 07:21 PM (VNX3d)

47 You will not have the time or brain power to think about chambering a round under the stress of combat.
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 07:16 PM (AiJK3)

Sure seems to me like these are words of wisdom.
If you carry, you do so that you can react quickly in a complex situation that you do not control.
Adding one more step to your reaction time seems to be very risky.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 24, 2024 07:22 PM (hOUT3)

48 Thanks for the Gun Thread Weasel!

Posted by: DBCooper at November 24, 2024 07:22 PM (y1Mvi)

49 Since it is just a watch, AND your are 1mm out of compliance - I am bitterly disappointed.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:20 PM (HlyYF)
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usually, I just disappoint people. I'm gratified to know I've upped my game to "bitterly."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:22 PM (tT6L1)

50 One in the Chamber or Not?
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As in most firearm-related question, it depends. If you use a revolver as a primary carry piece, the question is somewhat moot.

However, with autoloaders things get more complicated, and that depends greatly on your individual circumstances.

For example, if you live in a jurisdiction where you have to leave your weapon in a vehicle and it must be stored in a "safe" condition, repeatedly drawing it and manipulating it offers ample opportunity for error or mechanical malfunction. You must therefore consider the odds where using it will require immediate employment vs the many many times it has to be handled.

I have seen autoloaders discharge while being cleared, so in my calculation, I am willing to accept the incremental increase in draw time and employment vs an unintentional discharge.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

51 Scoobs, you can camp out on my lawn in NNH if you need to retire quickly.
I even have a cool dry basement where your firearms can vacation.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:23 PM (2UpC3)

52 What unsettled me the most was that no one so much as mentioned .41 Magnum. I feel I don't know these people anymore.
Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:15 PM

Someone mentioned it last week, but it is sad and disappointing that such a fine community* as exists here does not wax rhapsodic on the finest handgun cartridge more often.

* Yes, even the Glock fan bois.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 07:23 PM (a3Q+t)

53 What unsettled me the most was that no one so much as mentioned .41 Magnum. I feel I don't know these people anymore.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:15 PM

Glad to see you back, AHL!

I fear that Bidenomics may have somewhat cooled the ardor for the .41 Magnum in some parts.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:23 PM (HlyYF)

54 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 07:24 PM (WXNFJ)

55 Evening all.
No range report. This time of year seems to mess with everyone's schedule.
I definitely shoot low and left and after watching that video, I'm pretty sure I know why. Can't wait to get to the range to check it out.
Thanks Weasel.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 24, 2024 07:24 PM (t/2Uw)

56 51 Scoobs, you can camp out on my lawn in NNH if you need to retire quickly.
I even have a cool dry basement where your firearms can vacation.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:23 PM

Not a bad idea. Don't know how I would handle the winters. LOL

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 07:25 PM (0XVad)

57 Not having one in the chamber is like storing your gun in a safe until you need it. Balderdash!

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 07:25 PM (gGMRM)

58 As in most firearm-related question, it depends. If you use a revolver as a primary carry piece, the question is somewhat moot.
Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:23 PM

* would wave arms frantically, if we had arms, instead of being arms *

Posted by: Colt SAAs at November 24, 2024 07:26 PM (a3Q+t)

59 If I had a CZ Model 75, I'd keep one in the chamber. State law has no requirement to travel with your pew pew in a 'safe' condition.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 07:26 PM (WXNFJ)

60 This morning, after realizing that a weekday alarm will not go off on a weekend, I made a mad dash to the range. I got there just in time.

Match Director and I were the only ones there.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:19 PM

Dang it, I wish I would have been able to attend.

I would have liked to finish in the "top 3" at an aspirin shoot!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:26 PM (HlyYF)

61 No range time for me this week. Went to the Chantilly Gun Show on Friday and Saturday. A good sized crowd showed up. The shows right before and right after the holiday season usually have the biggest attendance of the whole year. I didn't buy anything big at the show, but I did pick up an item I had pre-ordered, a new B&T modified Glock 19 "Hush Puppy" kit. B&T modified the Glock 19 to include a slide lock, threaded barrel, and an milled out slide that accommodates a low-mount Aimpoint Acro P2 red dot. The kit also includes a "Hush Puppy" wipe equipped suppressor. This is a small (3" long) suppressor that can be lengthened with a second stage to get the most noise reduction possible. It all comes w/ tools in a nice little briefcase with laser cut foam. Weasel, would you like to see a write up of it?

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 07:28 PM (AiJK3)

62 I currently have only 2 handguns. Both are full size which would make conceal/carry difficult.

But with both I can keep one round chambered. On the Sig 9mm it is a DA/SA trigger. I just have to de-cock the hammer and it is in DA which gives one time to reflect if one should shoot.

The other is a Sig 1911 which I can keep cocked and locked. Just have to remember to take the safety off.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 07:28 PM (0XVad)

63 Unfortunately for you, I have never encountered anyone giving out medals for 4st!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:10 PM

Come on, I was forced!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 07:28 PM (Wnv9h)

64 You will not have the time or brain power to think about chambering a round under the stress of combat.
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 07:16 PM (AiJK3)
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Setting aside that this isn't a combat situation, if you train while you fight, it isn't an issue. When I chose to carry an autoloader, I spent hours doing draw-chamber-shoot drills. Total time from holster to shots fired was only a fraction of a second slower than a revolver.

The key is assessing risk and also your role in the situation. Guys like Mas Ayoob were cops, and so they were going into danger and expecting trouble. They also had to subdue/defeat the threat.

Civilians are seeking only to break engagement. There is no requirement to defeat a threat. In the vast majority of circumstances, merely producing a weapon is sufficient deterrent. One should be willing to employ force if necessary, but in the current legal system, there is far greater danger for people firing too soon than too late.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:29 PM (ZOv7s)

65 Weasel, would you like to see a write up of it?
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 07:28 PM (AiJK3)
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Sure!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:29 PM (fghTy)

66 Match Director and I were the only ones there.
Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:19 PM

Remember, Second Place is First Loser.

Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 07:29 PM (a3Q+t)

67 Boss Weasel, I need to seek an indulgence here and mention something not directly Gub related.
If you recall, the VaMoMe of 2020 featured a cardboard cutout of President 45 - I have a pic of Mrs. Red next to him.
I just got back from an underground Pres. 47 victory party and there was the same cutout!
Needless to say, I have another pic of Mrs. Red with him.
Ok, back to Gubs! .45 rules, 9 mm drools!

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:30 PM (2UpC3)

68 usually, I just disappoint people. I'm gratified to know I've upped my game to "bitterly."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:22 PM

Would it help if I also said I was vicariously happy when you do well at a competition?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:30 PM (HlyYF)

69 Bigger artillery:

RocketLab Launch - Ice AIS Baby
10:55 PM EST

https://www.youtube.com/live/fps-ilnHsEM

Pad : LC-1B
Location : Maria Peninsula, New Zealand
Rocket : Electron

Live stream starts at T-25:00.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 07:31 PM (VNX3d)

70 When I chose to carry an autoloader, I spent hours doing draw-chamber-shoot drills. Total time from holster to shots fired was only a fraction of a second slower than a revolver.

If you say so...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 07:32 PM (mH6SG)

71 Glad to see you back, AHL!

I fear that Bidenomics may have somewhat cooled the ardor for the .41 Magnum in some parts.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:23 PM (HlyYF)
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I'm not sure if you saw it, but Roy Harrell did a great video on why the .41 Magnum failed to catch on, and he did a side by side comparison. Short version is that it was superior in terms of felt recoil, but only marginally so. Most LEOs figured they may as well get the full punch for the same size and weight.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:32 PM (ZOv7s)

72 When I carry, which is much of the time, there’s one in the chamber. As noted above, your body may not function well enough to run the slide and chamber a round. Additionally, the extra time required may result in you being unable to use the firearm, since many bad situations occur at very close quarters.

Posted by: Coelacanth at November 24, 2024 07:33 PM (nrpZ6)

73 Remember, Second Place is First Loser.
Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 07:29 PM (a3Q+t)

DThrax, we didn’t even uncase. So we both tied for second, I guess.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:33 PM (2UpC3)

74 Setting aside that this isn't a combat situation, if you train while you fight, it isn't an issue

Are you 100% sure that you'll have use of your off hand in an emergency? What if you're using it to fend off your attacker?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 07:34 PM (/y8xj)

75 I got to watch all of the Bell Labs science films in my early school years. They were terrific films. However, in hindsight the series was sorely deficient. There wasn't a film about exterior ballistics of small arms projectiles.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 07:34 PM (aBgBM)

76 Come on, I was forced!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 07:28 PM

This is the Gun Thread, not the Pun Thread!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:34 PM (HlyYF)

77 Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 07:34 PM (aBgBM)
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Aren't they great?!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:35 PM (fghTy)

78 Seeing chatter that SpaceX Starship launch number 7 could be NET Jan 11.

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 07:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

79 If you say so...
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 07:32 PM (mH6SG)
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Revolvers are faster on first shot by about a second, slower on followup shot, so doing a two-shot drill you can get both comfortably under four seconds.

It took about a year to get that fast - I was around five seconds for a long time, but as it often happens you go slow and then you go fast.

Also, the weapon matters. For reasons I think are obvious, .380 is quicker than .40.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:36 PM (ZOv7s)

80 Carrying without a cartridge in the chamber for a semi auto is a training issue. And the reason that the Israelis did it or Uncle Sam did it was because raw recruits and gun guys may have some overlap but generally not but officers are punished for accidental discharges. Thus, the feel good leave the chamber empty rigmarole. Military practices are not something I would recommend on small arms. And yes, I spent time working for Uncle Sam.

Carrying a double action revolver of modern make (unless it is an obsolete single action type without a transfer bar safety) on an empty chamber went away by the 1900's with the advent of hammer blocks in S&W and Colt. Most modernized revolver now use transfer bar safeties where literally the firing pin cannot physically reach the cartridge primer without pulling the trigger.

So, if carrying a live round in the chamber concerns you, then a) consider the DA/SA with or without a safety, b) a heavy DAO trigger (NY Glock Trigger 1 or Smith 3rd Generation/Beretta Constant Action) without a safety, or c) firearm with a safety. The 1911 is a superb platform but only if you TRAIN with it cocked and locked. Not so good otherwise.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 07:36 PM (ctrM5)

81 77 Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 07:34 PM (aBgBM)
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Aren't they great?!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:35 PM (fghTy)

I learned a lot from those films.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 07:37 PM (aBgBM)

82 Seeing chatter that SpaceX Starship launch number 7 could be NET Jan 11.
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 07:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

I'd like to see it on Jan 20, with an orbit that passes over Washington DC. It would be cool to watch the inauguration viewed from space.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 07:37 PM (VNX3d)

83 I carried the S&W MP10 my first ten years in the police department before we switched to 9mm.
I used to kid the guys that we carried the same equipment as Barney Fife including the dump pouches.
Thanks for taking care of your cops Bill Bratton. The best PC we ever had.

Posted by: RetSgtRN at November 24, 2024 07:37 PM (rP0zz)

84 Getting back to guns, what type of gun is Snoopy carrying above? Granted, it's a pop gun, but what is it supposed to replicate?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM (VNX3d)

85 Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 07:34 PM (aBgBM)
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Im pretty sure there is one about the coriolis effect which has a cannon in the illustration if I remember correctly!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM (fghTy)

86 Tomorrow, in 1871, the National Rifle Association sent out its first fundraising letter.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM (hovnC)

87 Lena Miculek is definitely not a fan of wobbly shit.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM (v23vE)

88 My neighbor here at our SW FL winter home location, he and his wife live here year round, wants a handgun.

He said the week following the latest hurricane, the power all out, was a spooky experience. Ours is a gated community, but in power outages such as when hurricanes hit, the gates are up all over town, and the sketchy characters go prowling. Thus the want for a gun.

He wants something small to carry and to have on the nightstand, so I said let's go to the range which has a super gun store, and check out some .380s.

He can try my old Sig P232 which is almost identical to a Walther PPK, and the range has loaners, the new S&W Bodyguard 2.0 and the Glock 42, either of which might be a nice choice.

Any comments about either of these two?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM (KiBMU)

89 I carry at all times except in the shower. If I’m in bed, there’s always a firearm with a chambered round within reach. It’s the way.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 07:41 PM (LHPAg)

90 I'm not sure if you saw it, but Roy Harrell did a great video on why the .41 Magnum failed to catch on, and he did a side by side comparison. Short version is that it was superior in terms of felt recoil, but only marginally so. Most LEOs figured they may as well get the full punch for the same size and weight.
Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd
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Both the 41 Magnum and the 10 mm had the same problem. Poor initial ammunition choices for a new handgun. The intended 41 Magnum service round was about the potency of the 38-40 but Police Department unfortunately bought the cheaper hunting ammo which was too powerful as it overpenetrated and had a tendency to lead up the revolver due to its very fast velocity.

The 10mm, likewise, was really too potent for street cops due to its original Norma firebreathing load. FBI repeatedly due to training problems asked for a reduction in the load until it resembled the 40 S&W. Smith which was making the FBI 10mm pistols realized that they could eliminate the now vacant space in the 10mm cartridge and make it fit a 9mm frame. Thus, the 40 S&W was born.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 07:42 PM (ctrM5)

91 84 Getting back to guns, what type of gun is Snoopy carrying above? Granted, it's a pop gun, but what is it supposed to replicate?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM

A blunderbuss.

If loaded with shot, there have been times at my farm where I might have been able to bag 5-6 turkeys with a single shot when they were approaching me in a line.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 07:42 PM (HlyYF)

92 Are you 100% sure that you'll have use of your off hand in an emergency? What if you're using it to fend off your attacker?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 07:34 PM (/y8xj)
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What if my right arm is disabled before I can draw? What if they have the muzzle to my head before I know they are there?

As I said, you have to look at the totality of the risk matrix. All firearms do is offer options.

If you carry with one in the pipe, you eliminate some problems but create new ones. For example, base model Glock-style weapons can be accidentally fired on the draw and we've all seen the videos.

Pistols with manual safeties create the risk that you fail to disengage it. Or that it was disengaged and reengage it. Or that it was off and you shoot prematurely.

Put simply, if you aggregate all the unintentional discharges and compare them to failures of self-defense specifically because a round was not in the chamber, I think the weight of incidence is on the former rather than the latter.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:42 PM (ZOv7s)

93 carry at all times except in the shower. If I’m in bed, there’s always a firearm with a chambered round within reach. It’s the way.
Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 07:41 PM (LHPAg)

These are words of steel.
Copper and lead, too.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:42 PM (2UpC3)

94 Lena Miculek is definitely not a fan of wobbly shit.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM

Because I'm a giver...

https://www.youtube.com/watch

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 07:45 PM (Wnv9h)

95 16 Good evening Horde. Thanks Weasel! BTW, check your email.

I am pleased to report that I've (mostly) cured my low and left problem. For me, the problem was the three fingers of the trigger hand wrapping around the grip. If I keep those at rest and isolate the movement of the trigger finger, my success rate skyrockets. The new grip still isn't fully intuitive but that's what practice is for. Had a good outing at the range on Friday. Look forward to watching the video in the content.
Posted by: TRex

It is not a target grip but one of the reasons for using a crush grip aka gorilla grip is to stop your other fingers from milking the grip like a milking a cow. You get repeatability with a crush grip at a small cost of top most accuracy. But, then again target grip is lousy for weapons retention in a struggle at bad breath range.

For most of us, it is simply easier to have one master grip and use it on all the firearms that one owns but that requires proper fit to the hand and sending ones that do not fit (or cannot be made to fit without a bunch of $ and time) down the road.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 07:46 PM (ctrM5)

96 If .41 Magnum is your thing, and ammo is scarce, consider the greatest (according to their unbiased catalog) revolver ever made, The Herter's .401 Powermag!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2024 07:47 PM (gm9Sb)

97 Evening all! Appendix carry is a good test of confidence in carrying one in the chamber.

Posted by: JSpicy at November 24, 2024 07:48 PM (UAP++)

98 Carrying a double action revolver of modern make (unless it is an obsolete single action type without a transfer bar safety) on an empty chamber went away by the 1900's with the advent of hammer blocks in S&W and Colt. Most modernized revolver now use transfer bar safeties where literally the firing pin cannot physically reach the cartridge primer without pulling the trigger.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 07:36 PM (ctrM5)
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One of the virtues of modern revolvers is that they sidestep this debate. The DA trigger greatly reduces the risk of unintentional discharge and loading/unloading likewise has zero risk.

I like the simplicity of the revolver, have gotten pretty good at DA shooting (which is something of an art form), and that is my EDC. Until the canoe accident, of course.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:48 PM (ZOv7s)

99 And now, drum roll please, Range Report: A craftsman and his tools edition.

The last few matches I've not shot well, Practice seems okay and I put off the occasional flier to my inexperience. Though, I did drop a shot at 1,000 yards which I believe should have at least been in the 9 ring. Yesterday was our monthly silhouette match, so the day before, I headed out to do some checking on elevations, record DA, etc. Everything seemed to go well until yesterday morning, and, suddenly, once again, I was all over the place. A match I was well set up to easily get close to at least 15 for 20..I went 7 for 20. I was really surprised, to say the least.

I mentioned to Mike, one of our better shooters, I was surprised at how poorly I shot and thought perhaps I'd messed up and should have cleaned before I practiced. He mentioned he's found rifles have to be pretty dirty before they really start losing accuracy. He suggested I might have burned the barrel out. With that in mind I decided to clean the rifle then measure the chamber. Well, so much for cleaning. The chamber is so far out of spec it's not even funny. So, new barrel time. And, bonus, I can blame my tools! #winning!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:49 PM (tT6L1)

100 100!

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 07:49 PM (IQ6Gq)

101 100 100!
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 07:49 PM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 07:50 PM (Wnv9h)

102 100 100!
Posted by: TRex

Well done!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 24, 2024 07:51 PM (hOUT3)

103 Looks like most everyone carries with one ready to go!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:52 PM (RG6z4)

104 Blake- What Caliber and what was your round count on the barrel?

Posted by: DBCooper at November 24, 2024 07:52 PM (y1Mvi)

105 If .41 Magnum is your thing, and ammo is scarce, consider the greatest (according to their unbiased catalog) revolver ever made, The Herter's .401 Powermag!
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2024 07:47 PM (gm9Sb)
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My favorite magnum is .32 H&R. Used to be rare and pricey, now it's more available, though the price sucks. Happily, .32 Long makes affordable practice ammo.

Firing it side by side with a .38, one gets greater speed, much less felt recoil, superior ballistics and an extra round in the cylinder. Lucky Gunner's Kyle Baker agrees, which just shows how intelligent he is.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 07:52 PM (ZOv7s)

106 94 Lena Miculek is definitely not a fan of wobbly shit.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM

Because I'm a giver...

https://www.youtube.com/watch
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 07:45 PM (Wnv9h)

RMBS, partial link, maybe? The one above takes me to my YouTube landing page.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 07:52 PM (v23vE)

107 On carrying with round in chamber: To me it would depend on a realistic assessment on how likely you are to have to quick draw and shoot with very little warning opposed to the vastly decreased likelihood of an accidental discharge if the chamber is empty. As I don't live or am on foot in a blue ghetto often and don't frequent high crime situations, I generally don't carry chambered.

Posted by: azjaeger at November 24, 2024 07:52 PM (3/XaG)

108 Re this week's videos: by some strange coincidence, lately I have begun to yearn to acquire a S&W Model 10. I'd really like to find an old Victory Model in shootable shape, but I realize that's a pipe dream. However, I think having a Model 10 on hand to use instructing some novice shooters might be a good idea. Anyone have thoughts on the Model 10 as a trainer for new shooters?

Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at November 24, 2024 07:53 PM (Hdixl)

109 @DB cooper, about 1,200 rounds, 30.06. Which is why I was caught off guard. I was expecting to get over 2K rounds before barrel replacement.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 07:55 PM (tT6L1)

110 Interesting, blake. I have two rifles where super accurate went south rapidly. .243 Winchester and .223 WSSM. Velocities 3000 to 4000 fps.
My bore scope showed mucho chamber/rifling corrosion.
It will cost about a grand to get a REM 4700 barrel. And .223 WSSM isn’t even made anymore.
Le Sigh.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 07:55 PM (2UpC3)

111 Any comments about either of these two?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM (KiBMU)

Mr. Gaga, a couple of questions for your friend:
- Weapon ergonomics: It may look great on paper, but if doesn't feel good in your friend's hand, or if they can't manipulate the controls, it's probably a no-go.
- Physical strength: How's your friend's grip strength? Can he (or his wife) hold the handgun when it's firing full power defensive loads? Does arthritis (or something else) prevent them from manipulating the slide or disassembling it for cleaning?
- Is small the way to go? For most, small, concealable handguns are some of the most difficult to learn how to shoot accurately, especially under stress. I wouldn't recommend one as a first gun for a newbie shooter. Can he afford one handgun (a larger one) for home defense and another for the carry role?

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 07:55 PM (AiJK3)

112 Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at November 24, 2024 07:53 PM (Hdixl)
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Check around for police trade-ins. Bud's used to have a bunch of them.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:55 PM (RG6z4)

113 105 You will never wear out the Herter's .401 Powermag.You will also never find ammunition for it. All kidding aside, those big Herter's single actions were well built, by Sauer IIRC, and if you run across one in .357 you might have a real bargain.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2024 07:55 PM (gm9Sb)

114 Blake, Cool, Thanks. I'm at 1248 on my Creedmoor 6.5 and think I am getting close.

Posted by: DBCooper at November 24, 2024 07:56 PM (y1Mvi)

115 Howdy.

Went to the range last week. Found out my used Colt .357 works fine. Also found out I need to go back and (in Allen Iverson voice) practice.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by pew pew at November 24, 2024 07:57 PM (sAmhv)

116 59 If I had a CZ Model 75, I'd keep one in the chamber. State law has no requirement to travel with your pew pew in a 'safe' condition.
Posted by: Tonypete
====
Generally states prohibit transport of loaded long arms due to poaching and also risk to others during hunting season. Aside from states like NY, NJ, CA, HI, IL, etc., most states allow people with permits (or even constitutional carry states) to carry loaded handguns. The federal loophole for people transversing non-free states is that it be unloaded, in a locked container, and not accessible to those in the vehicle readily.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 07:58 PM (ctrM5)

117 Any comments about either of these two?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM (KiBMU)

One more question to ask your friend: How committed are they to train w/ any firearm they acquire? If they plan to carry the firearm, I'd say training becomes a requirement, not a nice to have.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 07:58 PM (AiJK3)

118 When the "weak hand" theorem becomes necessity.

I've got to go lefty on everything "handgun", from here on out.

Including carry.

I can still manage a good cigar with the (formerly) strong hand, though. And sip a bourbon. And kludge around a keyboard, a bit.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 08:00 PM (Xo+UM)

119 My bore scope showed mucho chamber/rifling corrosion.
It will cost about a grand to get a REM 4700 barrel. And .223 WSSM isn’t even made anymore.
Le Sigh.
Posted by: RI Red
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Did you mean Remington 7400?

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:00 PM (ctrM5)

120 So, hate to be that guy, but ...

Food Thread had 354 comments. We are on pace, but need to keep it up. We don't want Weasel's Thanksgiving week to start with an early-morning Zoom call, do we?

DO WE?

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:01 PM (v23vE)

121 On carrying with round in chamber: To me it would depend on a realistic assessment on how likely you are to have to quick draw and shoot with very little warning opposed to the vastly decreased likelihood of an accidental discharge if the chamber is empty. As I don't live or am on foot in a blue ghetto often and don't frequent high crime situations, I generally don't carry chambered.
Posted by: azjaeger at November 24, 2024 07:52 PM (3/XaG)
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Yes, it varies for each individual, that's all I'm saying.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:01 PM (ZOv7s)

122 Whig, thanks. My occasional dyslexia shown through.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 08:01 PM (2UpC3)

123 Any comments about either of these two?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 24, 2024 07:38 PM (KiBMU)

Mr. Gaga, a couple of questions for your friend:
- Weapon ergonomics: It may look great on paper, but if doesn't feel good in your friend's hand, or if they can't manipulate the controls, it's probably a no-go.
- Physical strength: How's your friend's grip strength? Can he (or his wife) hold the handgun when it's firing full power defensive loads? Does arthritis (or something else) prevent them from manipulating the slide or disassembling it for cleaning?
- Is small the way to go? For most, small, concealable handguns are some of the most difficult to learn how to shoot accurately, especially under stress. I wouldn't recommend one as a first gun for a newbie shooter. Can he afford one handgun (a larger one) for home defense and another for the carry role?
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 07:55 PM (AiJK3)

A couple more questions
> Would a revolver be an easier solution, with the simpler manual of arms?
> How much care is your friend likely to spend in maintenance? Rotating magazines?

Yes, I like revolvers, but pistols carry more rounds. Where is that trade-off in their mind.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 08:01 PM (VNX3d)

124 RMBS, partial link, maybe? The one above takes me to my YouTube landing page.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 07:52 PM

Crap. Try this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeQNM4AV-3U

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:02 PM (Wnv9h)

125 I've got to go lefty on everything "handgun", from here on out.

Including carry.

I can still manage a good cigar with the (formerly) strong hand, though. And sip a bourbon. And kludge around a keyboard, a bit.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 08:00 PM (Xo+UM)

Howdy, sir! Glad to hear you've found workarounds that you can bring to bear.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:03 PM (v23vE)

126 Anyone have thoughts on the Model 10 as a trainer for new shooters?
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at November 24, 2024 07:53 PM (Hdixl)
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If you are open to it, consider .32 S&W long. They're dirt cheap online, ammo is cheap, and the recoil is very, very mild.

Same fundamentals. Also, unlike .22LR, it is centerfire and actually brings a little heat. Teddy R equipped NYPD with them back in the day because the cops were more accurate with them.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:04 PM (ZOv7s)

127 I can still manage a good cigar with the (formerly) strong hand, though. And sip a bourbon. And kludge around a keyboard, a bit.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 08:00 PM

*raises glass*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:04 PM (Wnv9h)

128 108 Re this week's videos: by some strange coincidence, lately I have begun to yearn to acquire a S&W Model 10. I'd really like to find an old Victory Model in shootable shape, but I realize that's a pipe dream. However, I think having a Model 10 on hand to use instructing some novice shooters might be a good idea. Anyone have thoughts on the Model 10 as a trainer for new shooters?
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen
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Good to go with the Model 10 but do not let them shoot it single action. Train them to shoot it double action as intended. Start with full wadcutter ammo and then work up slowly with it.

Easy to teach newbies how to check if loaded and how to load them. The major drawback is the heavy double action trigger but a Smith is generally pretty smooth making it easier to master than a Colt (old style). Those tend to stack a bit in double action due to the v mainspring binding a bit.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:04 PM (ctrM5)

129 Crap. Try this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeQNM4AV-3U
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:02 PM (Wnv9h)

2nd try was a charm. Thanks! I'm already following Heather Lynn on Instagram because she's funny, but knowing that she's a student of the ballistic arts just enhances my appreciation.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:05 PM (v23vE)

130 Mr. Gaga, FYI, Walther just re-released the Walther PPK and PPK/S in .32 ACP. The .380 ACP PPKs have a reputation for being a bit rough in the hand when fired because of the PPK's design as a straight blowback handgun. The .32 ACP is supposed to easier to handle due to its milder load. Supposedly, they're out there, but I haven't seen any in the wild yet. $1,099 MSRP. .32 ACP might be easier for your friend's wife to handle vice .380 ACP.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:05 PM (AiJK3)

131 *waves*

Hi DBCooper!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 08:06 PM (k1CAF)

132 A couple more questions
> Would a revolver be an easier solution, with the simpler manual of arms?
> How much care is your friend likely to spend in maintenance? Rotating magazines?

Yes, I like revolvers, but pistols carry more rounds. Where is that trade-off in their mind.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 08:01 PM (VNX3d)
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You beat me to it: "Have you considered a revolver?"

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:06 PM (ZOv7s)

133 By the way, I made an executive decision, pulled apart the Savage to get it ready for a new barrel. The scope was moved to a regular Howa 1500 in 308 with basically a hunting profile barrel. Originally I was going to rebarrel the Howa in 6.5 Creedmoor but, since I want to keep shooting, it stays 308 for now. I figure there's no way I can do worse than what was happening with the Savage. Friday I head out to zero and to see if I can get anything resembling a group from the rifle.

Should be a hoot.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 08:07 PM (tT6L1)

134 Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:55 PM (RG6z4)

Thanks, Weasel. I did a quick look at Bud's and they don't appear to have any available.

Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at November 24, 2024 08:09 PM (Hdixl)

135 Blake and RI Red,
Consider loading only with single base powders as the double based tend to burn up barrels quicker due to their general higher burn temperature generated.

You may lose a bit in velocity is the tradeoff but often that can result in a bit more accuracy.

RI Red, sorry about your 7400, they are nice rifles you do not have one that jams but replacing the barrel is a PITA even when you could easily get replacements.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:09 PM (ctrM5)

136 Great gun thread, Weasel, thanks. I miss the sci-fi classics, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2024 08:09 PM (CHHv1)

137 Mr. Gaga, FYI, Walther just re-released the Walther PPK and PPK/S in .32 ACP. The .380 ACP PPKs have a reputation for being a bit rough in the hand when fired because of the PPK's design as a straight blowback handgun. The .32 ACP is supposed to easier to handle due to its milder load. Supposedly, they're out there, but I haven't seen any in the wild yet. $1,099 MSRP. .32 ACP might be easier for your friend's wife to handle vice .380 ACP.
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:05 PM (AiJK3)
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FINALLY! This is awesome news. Too bad about the price.

A cheaper alternative if you're willing to consider it, is some of the European police surplus that pops up online.

Yes, .32 ACP is much better than .380 in the same platform. It's off the beaten path, but the French Walther PP clones are superb.

My oldest really likes a Zastava M70 was dirt cheap. SAO, but it would work for home defense.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:10 PM (ZOv7s)

138 133 By the way, I made an executive decision, pulled apart the Savage to get it ready for a new barrel. The scope was moved to a regular Howa 1500 in 308 with basically a hunting profile barrel. Originally I was going to rebarrel the Howa in 6.5 Creedmoor but, since I want to keep shooting, it stays 308 for now. I figure there's no way I can do worse than what was happening with the Savage. Friday I head out to zero and to see if I can get anything resembling a group from the rifle.

Should be a hoot.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 08:07 PM (tT6L1)

Blake, I'm intrigued by your "since I want to keep shooting" aside. Is that because of ammo cost differential, or round performance, or some third thing that I'm not yet smart enough to think of?

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:10 PM (v23vE)

139 So, I'm an hour late to the gunthered. I was busy catching up on all the memes & xweets. ALL of them.

Thought some here might not have seen these

This pic
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/
2024/11/1706376859123453963.jpg

And in similar vein, Is this every man's dream basement? (video 1:02)
https://xcancel.com/TheFigen_/status/
1860427316502937925

Sorry for the broken URLs. Turns out Bitly has now limited free accounts to 10 short-urls per month. Used to be a lot better site.

Posted by: mindful webworker - aw, shoot at November 24, 2024 08:10 PM (sFBIQ)

140
Revolvers make fine self defense weapons, and with a little practice can be pretty accurate, even in DA. Focus on fundamentals!!

https://tinyurl.com/2tpwht9u

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 08:10 PM (fghTy)

141 RMBS, I wonder if Lena M needs a boyfriend.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 08:10 PM (2UpC3)

142 With any, I mean any, semi-auto, your trigger finger placement is key when drawing. Keep it the heck away from the trigger. Point that finger the same direction as the barrel is pointed, keep it rested against the slide, drop the safety, and only touch the trigger when you know what you mean to shoot.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 08:10 PM (LHPAg)

143 Thanks, Weasel. I did a quick look at Bud's and they don't appear to have any available.
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen

Try AIM Surplus. There are also some by sellers on Gunbroker at a regular basis. These will all be relatively later numbered models, not the older and collectible WWII era Victory and older models.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:11 PM (ctrM5)

144 142 With any, I mean any, semi-auto, your trigger finger placement is key when drawing. Keep it the heck away from the trigger. Point that finger the same direction as the barrel is pointed, keep it rested against the slide, drop the safety, and only touch the trigger when you know what you mean to shoot.
Posted by: Eromero
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Yep, in register, it takes a mere microsecond to move the finger to the trigger if needed. Carrying a handgun with a lighter trigger requires ruthless shoot, don't shoot training.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:13 PM (ctrM5)

145 Great gun thread, Weasel, thanks. I miss the sci-fi classics, though.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2024 08:09 PM (CHHv1)
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Back next week. I had one ready to go and realized at the last minute it would not embed into a thread.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 08:13 PM (fghTy)

146 HIYA' NURSE! I see the Seahawks beat the Cardinals today.

Posted by: DBCooper at November 24, 2024 08:13 PM (y1Mvi)

147 @ whig, I burned up the barrel on the Savage through pushing bullets a lot faster down the barrel than it was really designed for.

Thousand yard matches kind of need the velocity.

I'm planning to move to 6.5 Creedmore in one rifle. I'm also taking a long hard look at 6.5x284 Norma, which is a real barrel burner. We shall see.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 08:14 PM (tT6L1)

148 If you are open to it, consider .32 S&W long. They're dirt cheap online, ammo is cheap, and the recoil is very, very mild.
Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:04 PM (ZOv7s)

I just hate to succumb to caliber creep. I've already got plenty of .38 Special ammo for my snubby and would prefer something that will eat the ammo I have.

Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at November 24, 2024 08:14 PM (Hdixl)

149 RMBS, I wonder if Lena M needs a boyfriend.
Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 08:10 PM

Or if SEH has a single sister.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:14 PM (Wnv9h)

150 FINALLY! This is awesome news. Too bad about the price.
Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:10 PM (ZOv7s)

One of the PPK variants Walther is releasing includes a threaded barrel from the factory, a first for the PPK in its nearly 100-year history. You can now LARP as 007 with a suppressed PPK in hand, just like the books and movies.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:14 PM (AiJK3)

151 Whig, can you give some examples of single base and double based powders? I’m familiar with the reference, but not the details.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 08:14 PM (2UpC3)

152 Blake, I'm intrigued by your "since I want to keep shooting" aside. Is that because of ammo cost differential, or round performance, or some third thing that I'm not yet smart enough to think of?
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:10 PM (v23vE)
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Next match I'm shooting is Dec 7. I don't think I can get a new barrel and loads worked out for the Savage by then. So, I'll shoot factory loads in the Howa and have fun. Plus, if I don't care if I ruin the barrel on the Howa. It's getting a new barrel in the next two or three months anyway,.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 08:17 PM (tT6L1)

153 146 HIYA' NURSE! I see the Seahawks beat the Cardinals today.
Posted by: DBCooper

Yep! Son #1 was at the game. It was chilly and wet and he had a blast!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 08:17 PM (4ynbb)

154 Try AIM Surplus. There are also some by sellers on Gunbroker at a regular basis. These will all be relatively later numbered models, not the older and collectible WWII era Victory and older models.
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:11 PM (ctrM5)

Don't wait too long if you see something you like. They'll go quickly at the prices you see on AIM Surplus.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:17 PM (AiJK3)

155 Mr. Gaga, a couple of questions for your friend:
- Weapon ergonomics: It may look great on paper, but if doesn't feel good in your friend's hand, or if they can't manipulate the controls, it's probably a no-go.
- Physical strength: How's your friend's grip strength? Can he (or his wife) hold the handgun when it's firing full power defensive loads? Does arthritis (or something else) prevent them from manipulating the slide or disassembling it for cleaning?
- Is small the way to go? For most, small, concealable handguns are some of the most difficult to learn how to shoot accurately, especially under stress. I wouldn't recommend one as a first gun for a newbie shooter. Can he afford one handgun (a larger one) for home defense and another for the carry role?
Posted by: Ed L
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What Ed L said is so well done, it deserves to be repeated. Very important questions for anyone thinking of buying a handgun.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:17 PM (ctrM5)

156 Hi Gun Thread. Been an odd week. And I neither got to nor had to use my firearms. Though there was some ambiguity on Saturday.

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2024 08:17 PM (GR9H0)

157 Hey Jim SND!! Hope all is well.
Will contact you most likely next week about the rifle.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 08:18 PM (0XVad)

158 One of the PPK variants Walther is releasing includes a threaded barrel from the factory, a first for the PPK in its nearly 100-year history. You can now LARP as 007 with a suppressed PPK in hand, just like the books and movies.
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:14 PM (AiJK3)
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I have a Manurhin-made PP in .32 ACP and it is freaking awesome. Such a fine fit in the hand, fixed barrel makes it a tack hammer. "Full-sized" .32s are really, really nice to shoot and when I grow up and get a chronograph, I'm going to run some numbers because I think .32's performance gets short shrift because everyone clocks it on pocket Berettas. Another inch and half of barrel can make a big difference.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:18 PM (ZOv7s)

159 Or if SEH has a single sister.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:14 PM (Wnv9h)

I would gladly teach her to arch her back so she doesn’t slump forward.
Not sure I could get permission though.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 08:18 PM (2UpC3)

160 Next match I'm shooting is Dec 7. I don't think I can get a new barrel and loads worked out for the Savage by then. So, I'll shoot factory loads in the Howa and have fun. Plus, if I don't care if I ruin the barrel on the Howa. It's getting a new barrel in the next two or three months anyway,.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 08:17 PM (tT6L1)

Gotcha, thanks!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:19 PM (v23vE)

161 On the concealed carry.....

I carry when I go to Mass and when I run errands around town. I carry when I go hiking.

I do not carry to work, or to the beach. I always have pepper spray in my pocket.

Situational awareness is my best friend. If I hear a commotion downtown, I walk the other way. If I see a "live one" on the street, I jaywalk to the other side. I find avoidance it the best defense.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 08:20 PM (4ynbb)

162 Don't wait too long if you see something you like. They'll go quickly at the prices you see on AIM Surplus.
Posted by: Ed L
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Think the Model 10's or the stainless variants they have are about 400-500 which is a lot more than they used to sell for.

Another source that I have purchased from in the past, is Centerfire Systems in Kentucky. They buy quite a few used revolvers from Century International Arms (wholesaler only unless you have a C&R license for some firearms that qualify). Old Western Scrounger did have quite a few Colt Detectives and old model Cobras for sale too.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:20 PM (ctrM5)

163 Don't wait too long if you see something you like. They'll go quickly at the prices you see on AIM Surplus.
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:17 PM (AiJK3)
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I'm not going to disagree with you on that specifically, but I do think there is value in putting off gun and ammo purchases until Trump takes office. Ammo is already getting discounted and by spring I expect a full-on gun recession. Total buyer's market.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:20 PM (ZOv7s)

164 Well, time to wander. A piece of cake is calling my name.

Later!

Thanks again, Weasel!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 08:23 PM (tT6L1)

165 So, hate to be that guy, but ...

Food Thread had 354 comments. We are on pace, but need to keep it up. We don't want Weasel's Thanksgiving week to start with an early-morning Zoom call, do we?

DO WE?
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:01 PM

John Kerry and Sarah Jessica Parker concur, "Neigh!"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 08:23 PM (a3Q+t)

166 Situational awareness is my best friend. If I hear a commotion downtown, I walk the other way. If I see a "live one" on the street, I jaywalk to the other side. I find avoidance it the best defense.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 08:20 PM (4ynbb)
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This is very wise advice.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

167 151 Whig, can you give some examples of single base and double based powders? I’m familiar with the reference, but not the details.
Posted by: RI Red
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Nitroglycerin is used in the double based plus nitrocellulose. Nitrocellulose only is a single based powder. Nitroglycerin makes the powder burn hotter and faster generally speaking and it generates a different pressure curve than a single based one. Hodgons Extreme Line is single based while I think most if not all the Alliant Reloader series is double based for example.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:24 PM (ctrM5)

168 159 Or if SEH has a single sister.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:14 PM (Wnv9h)

I would gladly teach her to arch her back so she doesn’t slump forward.
Not sure I could get permission though.
Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 08:18 PM (2UpC3)
So, did we switch to kinesiology?

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 08:24 PM (LHPAg)

169 Good evening Weasel, good evening Horde!

Well, I could offer an opinion on the CC question IF and WHEN the Commonwealth of VA ever decides to give me one. Somehow, my proficiency cert ended up with TRex's papers and visa versa. And of course, the well qualified and overpaid bureaucrats couldn't just switch them. So, back to Circuit Ct Wed am....

Range report: progressing along, still making tweeks when the holes don't appear where they should, and seeing some consistency. Next up is moving out the target and then introducing some speed.

Purchases? I understand Santa will be bring magazines, as we've been told you can never have enough.

Lastly, the other Commonwealth's (PA) Supreme Ct finally made a correct decision (actually this is the second in a row) and unanimously ruled that the State's firearms preemption law is unconstitutional and struck it down. Happy early Christmas!
https://tinyurl.com/khxuh3h3

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 08:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

170 Round in the chamber when you're carrying for self-defense? Yes!

However, when you're first beginning to carry? Maybe not. Depends on how confident you are and the sort of gun you have. Get used to carrying it, learn and practice drawing it. When you're confident in your ability to get it out without mashing the trigger, then start carrying with a round in the chamber. Note that it will mean you're not ready to defend yourself until you start carrying one in the chamber. The bad guys will not let you "Hold on a minute while I load my gun" when you need it.

And, unless you carry with TWO empty chambers in the cylinder, a revolver always has one in the next chamber, which is where it needs to be.

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2024 08:25 PM (GR9H0)

171 Howdy Hordelings! And thank you Weasel for another dandy bit of funnin' and gunnin'!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 08:25 PM (RFPHU)

172 Doof!

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:27 PM (AiJK3)

173 Situational awareness is your best friend. I was raised by LEOs and knew at an early age to (1) be aware, and (2) go in the other direction ASAP.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 08:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

174 Doof!
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:27 PM (AiJK3)

Hey there, brother!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 08:28 PM (RFPHU)

175 To continue, a double based powder generally is a 'faster' powder that rapidly brings up the pressure curve while the single based is a slower buildup in pressure.

Might find this article useful from NRA Shooting Illustrated. https://tinyurl.com/r2n3bju5

What you will not find is that double based powders have less shelf life than single based including in loaded ammo. We are talking about decades here but still double based powders for whatever reason do not last as long either in a canister or loaded ammo.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:29 PM (ctrM5)

176 163 Don't wait too long if you see something you like. They'll go quickly at the prices you see on AIM Surplus.
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:17 PM (AiJK3)
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I'm not going to disagree with you on that specifically, but I do think there is value in putting off gun and ammo purchases until Trump takes office. Ammo is already getting discounted and by spring I expect a full-on gun recession. Total buyer's market.
Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024
Great advice!
-Eromero bought his first Sig556 at premium price in Dec 2008. Right before the emaculation.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 08:29 PM (LHPAg)

177 Thanks, Whig. I need to think about that, though at present I’m not shooting any high velocity rounds.
Unfortunately/fortunately, I laid in a lot of .243 for the burning times. Guess I’ll need another rifle in that chambering. Any suggestions?

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 08:29 PM (2UpC3)

178 I think we'll take my tiny arsenal when my neighbor and I go the indoor range and store, which allows lane-sharing.

He can try all from .22 LR to 45 ACP. I don't think he really ever intends to carry, but wants a weapon handy in the home for safety from intruders.

He though FL required a CCW permit in order to buy a handgun. I told him that FL formerly required CCW in order to carry, but not for ownership. And that FL went with constitutional carry, meaning no permit needed now to own OR carry.

So we'll plink and he can shop, and I will bring up a short shotgun as maybe what you keep under the bed, instead.

He and his wife have all the hand strength needed plus good eyesight to learn to shoot handguns, but know nothing about guns yet.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 24, 2024 08:30 PM (KiBMU)

179 Situational awareness is my best friend. If I hear a commotion downtown, I walk the other way. If I see a "live one" on the street, I jaywalk to the other side. I find avoidance it the best defense.

This. In spades. The best gun fight is the one you don't have. That said, if you're out of options short of giving up life or limb...

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 08:32 PM (/y8xj)

180 177 Thanks, Whig. I need to think about that, though at present I’m not shooting any high velocity rounds.
Unfortunately/fortunately, I laid in a lot of .243 for the burning times. Guess I’ll need another rifle in that chambering. Any suggestions?
Posted by: RI Red
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Brownells was selling some bare Howa barrelled actions for less than five bills. Including 243 Win

I get all the sales flyers regrettably due to past purchases.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:32 PM (ctrM5)

181 Evenin’, All.

Hey, Weasel.

Food!

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 08:32 PM (v6JzV)

182 Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 24, 2024 08:30 PM (KiBMU)
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Nice job introducing them to guns 'n shooting!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 08:33 PM (fghTy)

183 ...Hey Jim SND!! Hope all is well. Will contact you most likely next week about the rifle. Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 08:18 PM (0XVad)

Cool. Let me know, as I'll be sending Weasel the Full List, should he wish to publish it.

Next step? Rent three tables at a local Gun Show, recruit some anti-theft help, and Go for the Gusto!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 08:33 PM (Xo+UM)

184
Nice to see the classic cars in "Highway Patrol." I guess there's something wrong with me. In the back of my mind, against all reason, I was hoping that the bandits would get away.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 24, 2024 08:35 PM (iTNuP)

185 -Eromero bought his first Sig556 at premium price in Dec 2008. Right before the emaculation.
Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 08:29 PM (LHPAg)
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I have been quite good on the bargain-hunting thing. When prices surged for 'practical' weapons, I noticed a dip for vintage and cashed in.

However, I got badly bit on a Colt Official Police my *friend* bought during the height of the Pandemic. He showed it to my wife, who loves Colts and made me promise to buy it. I said okay.

And then the guy cools on it, decides he wants to sell it and I am honor bound to buy it and of course I knew he overpaid, but can't bring that up for friendship's sake.

Of course, within a couple of years, the Mrs. has lost interest in it, so I sold it over the summer, hoping the tightening market would help. It didn't.

I ended up trading it and some rather hot surplus ammo for a Carcano Moschetto.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:37 PM (ZOv7s)

186 I also don't walk alone downtown. It's dark here at 430. I mean dark.

There's a coworker who takes a different boat and we leave at the same time. We walk together down the hill through downtown to the dock. I have my pepper spray and she's a LOUD, LARGE MEXICAN WOMAN.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 08:37 PM (kIzwW)

187 Hello gubthreaders and all the ships at sea.

We are practicing the art of organic tree farming this week.

I found a sloped area that might be good for shooting if I have the time we will do that. But first we are drilling a well (driving actually it's shallow. )

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2024 08:37 PM (2s5/8)

188 Cool. Let me know, as I'll be sending Weasel the Full List, should he wish to publish it.

Next step? Rent three tables at a local Gun Show, recruit some anti-theft help, and Go for the Gusto!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 08:33 PM (Xo+UM)

Hmmm... may be time for Yet Another Texas Trip ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:38 PM (v23vE)

189 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR NOVEMBER 24

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Launch Site 1 - Mähia Peninsula, NZ - Space Affairs Live
Scheduled for Nov 24, 2024 (NET November 25, 2024)
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check the website for time updates

Posted by: Ciampino - Spatial affairs at November 24, 2024 08:39 PM (i0xsb)

190 Evenin’, All.

Hey, Weasel.

Food!
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 08:32 PM (v6JzV)

Glub!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 08:39 PM (RFPHU)

191 184
Nice to see the classic cars in "Highway Patrol." I guess there's something wrong with me. In the back of my mind, against all reason, I was hoping that the bandits would get away.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 24, 2024 08:35 PM (iTNuP)
The guy in the jewelry store said they were ‘well dressed’, but then he was just glad they didn’t fill him full of lead

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 08:40 PM (LHPAg)

192 186 I also don't walk alone downtown. It's dark here at 430. I mean dark.

There's a coworker who takes a different boat and we leave at the same time. We walk together down the hill through downtown to the dock. I have my pepper spray and she's a LOUD, LARGE MEXICAN WOMAN.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 08:37 PM (kIzwW)

Key question - is she skilled in the art of La Chancla? Because ain't nobody gonna mess with her if so.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:40 PM (v23vE)

193 Sorry, that should read "tried to sell." Some may wonder why, and my answer is that my collection (all of which is now in a river somewhere) has specific themes, and all additions are gridded out. That Colt was not on the grid, but for the sake of marital bliss, I allowed it. Once protection was withdrawn, it had to go.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:41 PM (ZOv7s)

194 Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 08:33 PM

Jim, interested in that spotting scope if it's not already spoken for. I can resend contact info if it didn't go through last time.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:42 PM (Wnv9h)

195 Time to renew the ol' Concealed Weapons License.

One thing I appreciate about my state is that the CWL covers not merely firearms but also blades and bludgeons.

I thought it very nice of them to leave a body the option of hiding a sword under one's trenchcoat.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 24, 2024 08:42 PM (cSS7r)

196 The Nation’s Gun Show was at the Chantilly Expo Center this weekend.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 08:43 PM (v6JzV)

197 Key question - is she skilled in the art of La Chancla? Because ain't nobody gonna mess with her if so.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:40 PM (v23vE)

Hahahahahha!

Yes.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 08:43 PM (kIzwW)

198 I thought it very nice of them to leave a body the option of hiding a sword under one's trenchcoat.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 24, 2024 08:42 PM (cSS7r)
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Go with the classic sap & dirk option.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:44 PM (ZOv7s)

199 Time to renew the ol' Concealed Weapons License.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 24, 2024 08:42 PM

I'm curious to see how much slower MA can walk my renewal next time around.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:45 PM (Wnv9h)

200 200!

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 08:45 PM (IQ6Gq)

201 I also have told a couple of women I work with that their whistles and noisemakers are NOT SELF
DEFENSE. No one gives a shit and is going to intervene.

Tasers require you to be in contact with the assailant. Nope. And if you have the shooting taser things, you get one chance. And if you haven't practiced, your chances of success are zero.

Nope nope nope.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 08:48 PM (kIzwW)

202 I see people carrying 5” fixed blades on their belt. By their looks they might keep company with the wrong crowd.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 08:48 PM (LHPAg)

203 Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 08:43 PM (v6JzV)

I was there Friday and Saturday. I thought there was a pretty good turnout based on the

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:48 PM (AiJK3)

204 RMBS. I got your mail, will reply with particulars.

Illness wise, the ADMIN of paperwork and interviews for medical, logistical, financial.... has been worse than a full time job.

I'm playin' catch up, this week.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 08:49 PM (Xo+UM)

205 I thought it very nice of them to leave a body the option of hiding a sword under one's trenchcoat.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 24, 2024 08:42 PM (cSS7r)

Things I learned in church this month ...

Ehud, a southpaw, made maximum use of that option in Judges 3:12-30

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:50 PM (v23vE)

206 (continued) difficulty of finding a parking space at the Dulles Expo Center. It looked like the Christmas shopping was in full swing based on the gaps I saw on the tables on Saturday compared to Friday.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 08:50 PM (AiJK3)

207 200 200!
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 08:45 PM (IQ6Gq)

You, sir, are on fire with the round numbers tonight!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:51 PM (v23vE)

208 I'm playin' catch up, this week.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 08:49 PM (Xo+UM)
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Hang in there. One of the hidden benefits of Horde membership is that you're automatically, at no extra charge, included in the Prayer Thread by default.

So you've go that going, which is nice.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)

209 I thought it very nice of them to leave a body the option of hiding a sword under one's trenchcoat.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 24, 2024 08:42 PM (cSS7r)

Things I learned in church this month ...

Ehud, a southpaw, made maximum use of that option in Judges 3:12-30
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:50 PM (v23vE)
It was Ehud, in the privy, with a short sword, what done the old man in.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 08:52 PM (LHPAg)

210 207 200 200!
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 08:45 PM (IQ6Gq)

You, sir, are on fire with the round numbers tonight!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:51 PM
***
Just setting you up for the big 300. Getting ready?

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 08:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

211 Illness wise, the ADMIN of paperwork and interviews for medical, logistical, financial.... has been worse than a full time job.
**************
Jim, I hear you. True, every word.
If I can help you with any of it, reach out via my email.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

212 I'm more and more intrigued about the TXMoMe. Perhaps, if I am still extant upon this realm next year, I may see if I can find a table quite away from the main event and observe. Who knows, my dear boy, who knows.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM (CHHv1)

213 Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 08:49 PM

Thanks, brother. Keeping you in our prayers.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM (Wnv9h)

214 Just setting you up for the big 300. Getting ready?
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 08:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

Zeroed and dialed in, sir.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM (v23vE)

215 It was Ehud, in the privy, with a short sword, what done the old man in.
Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 08:52 PM (LHPAg)
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As opposed to a ninja, in the latrine, with a pike.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 08:55 PM (ZOv7s)

216 212 I'm more and more intrigued about the TXMoMe. Perhaps, if I am still extant upon this realm next year, I may see if I can find a table quite away from the main event and observe. Who knows, my dear boy, who knows.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM (CHHv1)

Dude. You gotta. That's all I can say.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:55 PM (v23vE)

217 I was there Friday and Saturday. I thought there was a pretty good turnout based on the
Posted by: Ed L
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Never saw the sni

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 08:56 PM (hovnC)

218 203 Hey, Ed L, I believe that my wife and I met you at the NoVa MoMe. Where you told us about Jelly Bryce, and we discussed the Maui wildfires? If so, good to reconnect with you.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 08:56 PM (v6JzV)

219 Unfortunately/fortunately, I laid in a lot of .243 for the burning times. Guess I’ll need another rifle in that chambering. Any suggestions?
Posted by: RI Red

Another option is CDNN has a Sauer in 243 Win for $800. A Browning X-bolt is going for 1200 for that same cartridge.

The Sauer (and its sister Mauser) models have exceptional accuracy but the limit is they have press fit barrels because rifle barrels as well as actions are treated as serialized components in Euroland.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 08:56 PM (ctrM5)

220 I'm more and more intrigued about the TXMoMe. Perhaps, if I am still extant upon this realm next year, I may see if I can find a table quite away from the main event and observe. Who knows, my dear boy, who knows.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM

*channels inner Zod*

You will attend the 10th Anniversary TXMoMe. You will do this ~~now~~ in October.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:56 PM (Wnv9h)

221 Who’s was awesome. Take out the king when he’s on the shitter.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 08:58 PM (v6JzV)

222 I'm more and more intrigued about the TXMoMe. Perhaps, if I am still extant upon this realm next year, I may see if I can find a table quite away from the main event and observe. Who knows, my dear boy, who knows.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM (CHHv1)

C'mon in, the water's fine! Nobody bites.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 08:58 PM (RFPHU)

223 C'mon in, the water's fine! Nobody bites.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 08:58 PM

Well...not hard.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:59 PM (Wnv9h)

224 221 Who’s was awesome. Take out the king when he’s on the shitter.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 08:58 PM (v6JzV)

[Tyrion Lannister has entered the chat]

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:59 PM (v23vE)

225 223 C'mon in, the water's fine! Nobody bites.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 08:58 PM

Well...not hard.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:59 PM (Wnv9h)

And it's almost all consensual...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:59 PM (v23vE)

226 221 I meant “Ehud” was awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 09:00 PM (v6JzV)

227 226 221 I meant “Ehud” was awesome.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 09:00 PM (v6JzV)

Yet another victim of autocucumber!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:02 PM (v23vE)

228 I meant “Ehud” was awesome.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 09:00 PM (v6JzV)
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Right, because the ninja was doing the same thing.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:02 PM (ZOv7s)

229 I'm just watching the end of the battle in Olivier's Henry V.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 09:03 PM (hovnC)

230 225 223 C'mon in, the water's fine! Nobody bites.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 08:58 PM

Well...not hard.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 08:59 PM (Wnv9h)

And it's almost all consensual...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November

Ummm. Kinda homo that it's all boys talking about biting.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (aRIIa)

231 BeckoningChasm - the privy facilities are well guarded at the TXMoMe. You shouldn't need to worry about swordplay in the latrine.

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

232 Had to step away for a few. #4 son (and wife!) called to let us know they are expecting their first. YEEHAW!!!

This was the son who met his wife at a pro-life rally.

I keep on telling everyone "I know what the hell I'm talking about!"

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (WXNFJ)

233 Any thoughts on Walther P22Q?
Bass Pro has them on sale starting tomorrow.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (/lPRQ)

234 Just checked Aimsurplus has model 64-5 to 64-8 in stock for less than 500. These are stainless steel variants of the Model 10--the 64 has fixed sights just like the 10 and all have heavy barrels.

At least the ad says these are from a US department so not an return from overseas like some of their tradeins recently and those purchasing them seem to like what they got quality wise. YMMV

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 09:05 PM (ctrM5)

235 Tasers require you to be in contact with the assailant. Nope. And if you have the shooting taser things, you get one chance. And if you haven't practiced, your chances of success are zero.

Nope nope nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 08:48 PM (kIzwW)
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This highlights the problem with non-lethal self-defense. Tasers are really just a tool for law enforcement to subdue suspects. They have no place with armed citizens.

Pepper spray can serve both purposes, and I've trained my daughters in its use and all of them carry it. It carries none of the legal weight of a firearm, and while you see the courthouse videos of guys essentially ignoring it, that's now how it is deployed in a self-defense situation, where the object is simply to get away.

This goes back to the full/empty chamber question, which at is core is tailored to each individual's needs.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:06 PM (ZOv7s)

236 Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 08:56 PM (v6JzV)

Hope everything is going well with you, Bulg. Are you planning on going to TX for the MoMe next October? It'll be worth it, I promise.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 09:06 PM (AiJK3)

237 I may see if I can find a table quite away from the main event and observe. Who knows, my dear boy, who knows.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM (CHHv1)

BeckChas, you really need to attend. If things get too noisy, we can set up a spotting scope for you so you can view the festivities from a very safe distance!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 24, 2024 09:06 PM (hOUT3)

238 Ummm. Kinda homo that it's all boys talking about biting.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (aRIIa)

You're just jealous!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 09:06 PM (RFPHU)

239 Ummm. Kinda homo that it's all boys talking about biting.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM

No homo!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 09:06 PM (Wnv9h)

240 Ummm. Kinda homo that it's all boys talking about biting.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (aRIIa)

Apologies, ma'am, did not mean to exclude you. Feel free to masticate to your heart's content.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:06 PM (v23vE)

241 Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (WXNFJ)
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Congratulations!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:07 PM (fghTy)

242 Any thoughts on Walther P22Q?
Bass Pro has them on sale starting tomorrow.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (/lPRQ)
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What will you be using it for?

I like .22 for plinking and training, but would not use it for self defense.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:07 PM (ZOv7s)

243 232 Had to step away for a few. #4 son (and wife!) called to let us know they are expecting their first. YEEHAW!!!

This was the son who met his wife at a pro-life rally.

I keep on telling everyone "I know what the hell I'm talking about!"
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (WXNFJ)

Congratulations to you and the Mrs. on the impending re-grandparenthood, Tonypete!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:08 PM (v23vE)

244 Okay, wish everyone well, Happy Thanksgiving, and have a pleasant evening. Will probably be offline most of this coming week due to a procedure scheduled for Tuesday.

Thanks Weasel for the content this week and thanks to all commenters that make this thread one of the better experiences at AOS.

If there are any lurkers out there with questions, there are people here that can address most of them so ask away.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 09:08 PM (ctrM5)

245 Congrats, Tonypete!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 09:09 PM (RFPHU)

246
This was the son who met his wife at a pro-life rally.

I keep on telling everyone "I know what the hell I'm talking about!"
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (WXNFJ)
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Congratulations!

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:09 PM (ZOv7s)

247 219. I was at a gun show last weekend and saw a Henry lever action in .243. Capacity is only four rounds as the (I think only internal) magazine is vertical.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 09:09 PM (gd0Fy)

248 If there are any lurkers out there with questions, there are people here that can address most of them so ask away.
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 09:08 PM (ctrM5)
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Have a good one!

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:10 PM (ZOv7s)

249 Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 09:09 PM (gd0Fy)
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Howdy and welcome!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:10 PM (fghTy)

250 I was at a gun show last weekend and saw a Henry lever action in .243. Capacity is only four rounds as the (I think only internal) magazine is vertical.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 09:09 PM (gd0Fy)
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The guns shows around here are about 50 percent flea markets. There are a few good vendors, but for surplus addicts like me, it's often pretty thin gruel.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:12 PM (ZOv7s)

251 So my spousal unit, who has not been to Corsicana, and is not active on this smart military blog, is not only making plans to come next year, but also scoping out vehicles that will accommodate all the requisite gear, along with passengers we might pick up along the way.

Such is the power of a fully operational TXMoMe!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:13 PM (v23vE)

252 244 Okay, wish everyone well, Happy Thanksgiving, and have a pleasant evening. Will probably be offline most of this coming week due to a procedure scheduled for Tuesday.

Thanks Weasel for the content this week and thanks to all commenters that make this thread one of the better experiences at AOS.

If there are any lurkers out there with questions, there are people here that can address most of them so ask away.
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2024 09:08 PM (ctrM5)

Best wishes that all goes well, sir.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:14 PM (v23vE)

253 Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM

Congratulations!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 09:14 PM (Wnv9h)

254 Apologies, ma'am, did not mean to exclude you. Feel free to masticate to your heart's content.
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Hey! Nurse ain't no thespian!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 09:14 PM (hovnC)

255 Such is the power of a fully operational TXMoMe!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:13 PM (v23vE)
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Don't you mean "a fully *armed* and operational TXMoMe"?

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:15 PM (ZOv7s)

256 Such is the power of a fully operational TXMoMe!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:13 PM

The power of the Horde compels you!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 09:15 PM (Wnv9h)

257 Any thoughts on Walther P22Q?
Bass Pro has them on sale starting tomorrow.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (/lPRQ)

Walther has a good reputation for its handgun triggers right out of the box.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 09:16 PM (AiJK3)

258 236 Ed L, I’m going to try my damnedest to make it. I’ll ride there on yak if need be.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 09:17 PM (v6JzV)

259 Whig, prayers and best wishes on your procedure.

S'Puppy, that's great news about Mrs S'Puppy attending, can't wait to meet her

TonyPete, that's the very best news! Just another reason to give thanks!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 09:18 PM (IQ6Gq)

260 Hmmm, getting to that time. Thanks again, Weasel! Good to be back. While I've been away, I've not been idle.

I'll send you content for your amusement.

Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:18 PM (ZOv7s)

261 >>> 212 I'm more and more intrigued about the TXMoMe. Perhaps, if I am still extant upon this realm next year, I may see if I can find a table quite away from the main event and observe. Who knows, my dear boy, who knows.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM (CHHv1)

Oh look, another excuse to remind everyone that next year will be the *tenth* TX MoMee.

And did anyone mention there are dogs there, who are terribly deprived and never *ever* get petted, let alone get treats...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 09:18 PM (KcwUg)

262 Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 09:17 PM (v6JzV)
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You would have to be a fairly enormous weirdo not to have a good time!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:19 PM (fghTy)

263 F all that weird stuff in the food thread.

Turkey. Stuffing. Mashed potatoes. Salad. Pie. Etc.

Normal stuff. Cut the crap. Nobody needs people gilding the Thanksgiving lily.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2024 09:19 PM (7oYYI)

264 Have a great Thanksgiving, Whig!

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 09:19 PM (v6JzV)

265 258 236 Ed L, I’m going to try my damnedest to make it. I’ll ride there on yak if need be.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 09:17 PM (v6JzV)

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Make sure it's a real yak and not a dzo. Accept no substitutes!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 09:20 PM (dDmld)

266 Thanks for the welcome, Weasel! And to Former?(A canoeing incident?) Gun Owner A. H. Lloyd, it was a show in Pueblo. It was really pretty decent. Lots of new guns as well as some very old stuff - could have snagged a Gatling gun for (a mere) $9,000.00!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 09:20 PM (vd6bO)

267 Whig, good luck, and thanks for the always good advice.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 09:21 PM (2UpC3)

268 Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 09:17 PM (v6JzV)

I'm planning on driving because I want to bring some NFA toys that I won't trust to the tender mercies of the airlines.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 09:21 PM (AiJK3)

269 254 Apologies, ma'am, did not mean to exclude you. Feel free to masticate to your heart's content.
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Hey! Nurse ain't no thespian!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 09:14 PM (hovnC)

I didn't mean to imply that she was of Lebanese origin. My apologies. Those responsible have been sacked.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:21 PM (v23vE)

270 Seen online:

Beware of Christmas scams. I ordered my wife expensive jewelry, and they sent me a gun and two boxes of ammo.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2024 09:22 PM (VNX3d)

271 OK, all y'all 9:22 thank you time.

Thank you!

I cannot thank you enough for being here week after week. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving and hope to see you again next Sunday!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:22 PM (fghTy)

272 You would have to be a fairly enormous weirdo not to have a good time!
Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:19 PM (fghTy)

I already tried that in 2021. Turns out that weirdos are acceptable in the sight of the attendees; enormous ones even more so.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:23 PM (v23vE)

273 Sorry if I was a tad contentious on the round in the pipe debate. It just makes sense to me and was how I was trained.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 09:23 PM (mH6SG)

274 Thank you, Weasel. Best to you, WW, and doggies, new and old.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 09:23 PM (2UpC3)

275 Chris Collinsworth, much like Howard Costello, has an excellent grasp of the obvious.

Shut up, Chris.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 24, 2024 09:25 PM (wbIUs)

276 You would have to be a fairly enormous weirdo...

I admit that I've put on a few pounds but "enormous" seems a bit much.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 09:25 PM (/y8xj)

277 255 Such is the power of a fully operational TXMoMe!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:13 PM (v23vE)
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Don't you mean "a fully *armed* and operational TXMoMe"?
Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:15 PM (ZOv7s)

Fair. I held back because:
(1) Didn't want to scare anyone away; and
(2) The "armed" part was kinda implied by anyone who's paying attention to the Gub Thread between, oh, say, September and Thanksgiving ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:25 PM (v23vE)

278 Good night all, and a very Happy Thanksgiving to each of you and your families.
Wow, this is the last GT in Nov 2024....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 09:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

279 All of you folks are the greatest people on the planet, and I hope you know and understand that. Hm.

As for me, I will be at TXMoMe, perhaps. Yes, I shall be there, maybe. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in your beliefs, and prove to me I am not mistaken in mine.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2024 09:26 PM (CHHv1)

280 271 OK, all y'all 9:22 thank you time.

Thank you!

I cannot thank you enough for being here week after week. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving and hope to see you again next Sunday!
Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:22 PM (fghTy)

Same to you, your better half, and the doggos both old and new!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:26 PM (v23vE)

281 Thanks for hosting, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 09:27 PM (AiJK3)

282 We've been to the TX MoMe and had a good time.

Posted by: Enormous Weirdos at November 24, 2024 09:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

283 Thanks for hosting, Weasel!

+1000

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 09:28 PM (mH6SG)

284 Any thoughts on Walther P22Q?
Bass Pro has them on sale starting tomorrow.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 09:04 PM (/lPRQ)
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What will you be using it for?

I like .22 for plinking and training, but would not use it for self defense.
Posted by: Former Gun Owner A.H. Lloyd
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Plinking

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 09:28 PM (/lPRQ)

285 275 Chris Collinsworth, much like Howard Costello, has an excellent grasp of the obvious.

Shut up, Chris.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Omg. I can't stand him. Almost as infuriating as Bob Costas.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 09:28 PM (YQBrg)

286 >>> 282 We've been to the TX MoMe and had a good time.
Posted by: Enormous Weirdos at November 24, 2024 09:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

Same here!

Posted by: Medium and Minuscule Weirdos at November 24, 2024 09:29 PM (KcwUg)

287 Gun Thread adjacent, perhaps? I spent much of the afternoon dismantling an old 17" NEC Multisync monitor. Come the nice weather in the Spring, I will place the CRT in my burn pit, and tape a target to the face of it. Actually have two CRT's, so Kaboom once, Kaboom twice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 09:31 PM (IErdF)

288 285 275 Chris Collinsworth, much like Howard Costello, has an excellent grasp of the obvious.

Shut up, Chris.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Omg. I can't stand him. Almost as infuriating as Bob Costas.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 09:28 PM (YQBrg
Use the mute feature.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 09:31 PM (LHPAg)

289 Round in the chamber requires a one word answer--1911.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 24, 2024 09:31 PM (hKoQL)

290 Punching out for tonight.

Thanks for a great Gub Thread, Weasel!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 09:32 PM (Wnv9h)

291 For ALL of the weirdos, please make the effort to come to a MoMe if you can. It's so much fun, at least for me, to watch new folks arrive for the first time and see their face light up as they realize they fit right in.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:32 PM (fghTy)

292 I believe DH will take me to the MoMe next October. He’s taking me to Hawaii in March. Getting old has its advantages.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 24, 2024 09:33 PM (wbIUs)

293 276 You would have to be a fairly enormous weirdo...

I admit that I've put on a few pounds but "enormous" seems a bit much.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 09:25 PM (/y8xj)

You think you're enormous? Please. I eat your enormousness for lunch, then go seek dessert.

Your AOR must have been excited this weekend, bowl eligibility and all that.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:33 PM (v23vE)

294 Gonna need ~70 comments in the next 20 minutes or so to ensure Weasel gets to sleep in.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:34 PM (g07/a)

295 Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:34 PM (g07/a)
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Uh oh.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:35 PM (fghTy)

296 292 I believe DH will take me to the MoMe next October. He’s taking me to Hawaii in March. Getting old has its advantages.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 24, 2024 09:33 PM (wbIUs)

Awesome! Hawaii and Corsicana in the same year!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:35 PM (v23vE)

297 290 Punching out for tonight.

Thanks for a great Gub Thread, Weasel!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 09:32 PM (Wnv9h)

Evening, sir. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:36 PM (v23vE)

298 291. Right. Howdya figure out the location and date in your region? Is there an internship that must be completed first?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 09:36 PM (vd6bO)

299 It was fun while it kasted.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 09:36 PM (LHPAg)

300 Lasted

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 09:36 PM (LHPAg)

301 295 Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:34 PM (g07/a)
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Uh oh.
Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:35 PM (fghTy)

We got your back, sir, until that Zoom call comes in from a certain Ewok ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:36 PM (v23vE)

302 I do believe I saw that Nebraska is bowl eligible too!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 09:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

303 Eh bought me a lovely AR style .308 for shooting bears if the come into the yard after the dogs. Not so easy to find ammo for that just now. We can’t order ammo because it has to be driven through Canada. Can’t be air freighted. Boo.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 24, 2024 09:37 PM (wbIUs)

304 355 is the magic number tonight.

#GetCrackin'!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:37 PM (g07/a)

305 >>> 292 I believe DH will take me to the MoMe next October. He's taking me to Hawaii in March. Getting old has its advantages.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 24, 2024 09:33 PM (wbIUs)

Excellent!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 09:37 PM (KcwUg)

306 214 Just setting you up for the big 300. Getting ready?
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 08:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

Zeroed and dialed in, sir.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM
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Ahem...

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

307 Right. Howdya figure out the location and date in your region? Is there an internship that must be completed first?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 09:36 PM (vd6bO)
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Keep an eye on the main page left sidebar for MoMe announcements. Approximately the 3rd-ish week in Oct is the jamboree hootenanny in TX.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:38 PM (fghTy)

308 >>> 303 Eh bought me a lovely AR style .308 for shooting bears if they come into the yard after the dogs. Not so easy to find ammo for that just now. We can't order ammo because it has to be driven through Canada. Can't be air freighted. Boo.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 24, 2024 09:37 PM (wbIUs)

So if I win the lottery, I could start up manufacturing in AK?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 09:38 PM (KcwUg)

309 302 I do believe I saw that Nebraska is bowl eligible too!
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 09:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

They are indeed, ma'am. Oddbob is, as memory serves, in the vicinity of the ~~Bugeaters~~Cornhuskers.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:39 PM (v23vE)

310 Even Ace can't expect us to beat the FT the week of Thanksgiving!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 09:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

311 Eh? Autocucumber. DH, dammit.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 24, 2024 09:39 PM (wbIUs)

312 How do snowmen travel to the TxMoMe?

By icicle.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:39 PM (g07/a)

313 306 214 Just setting you up for the big 300. Getting ready?
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 08:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

Zeroed and dialed in, sir.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 08:54 PM
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Ahem...
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

Didn't say I was a good shot. But you knew that already.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:39 PM (v23vE)

314 Thanks for another fined Gub thread, Weasel. I'm out. As Broderick Crawford said, 10-4.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 09:40 PM (aBgBM)

315 So if I win the lottery, I could start up manufacturing in AK?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 09:38 PM (KcwUg)

Absolutely.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 24, 2024 09:40 PM (wbIUs)

316 I believe DH will take me to the MoMe next October. He’s taking me to Hawaii in March. Getting old has its advantages.
Posted by: tcn in AK

I lived on the Big Island for a while. South of Hilo. Could tell you cool things to do there but most all of it was buried by lava flows.

Did take my wife to the Army Reserve/Guard range out by the Hilo airport one year. She was coached by my uncle and some other vets who had connections with the Guard. She did quite well.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 09:40 PM (/lPRQ)

317 303 Eh bought me a lovely AR style .308 for shooting bears if the come into the yard after the dogs. Not so easy to find ammo for that just now. We can’t order ammo because it has to be driven through Canada. Can’t be air freighted. Boo.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Erf. Gotta barge it up? That's a shitload of ammo.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 09:40 PM (BT7V7)

318 307. Thank you kindly. I have been lurking here lol these many years only occasionally commenting, but you good people are interesting, and I get down to Texas a lot.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 09:40 PM (vd6bO)

319 Your AOR must have been excited this weekend, bowl eligibility and all that.

We're about 5 miles from the stadium as the crow flies. We heard the fireworks.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 09:41 PM (/y8xj)

320 Just went through the 8H renewal course for MD CCW today. 25 rnd course of fire - hit the man sized target, scored by number in the black. Easy, but surprised how much off I was at the early close-in shots - way off center of mass. I started shooting thinking bullseye shooting, 25 yds, so shooting at 3 just seems too close. But from a defense perspective - I get it - it's point shooting, not necessarily sights. Any good drills or recommendations on how to practice this effectively? Just feel I should be quicker and more accurate - not hitting the target in the hip for those first couple shots. After I settled in, was in 8s or better for the rest of the course of fire, but think I could use some fundamentals work for close-in defensive shooting.

Posted by: MD_Mike at November 24, 2024 09:41 PM (BouEL)

321 317 AkBargeMoMe

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 09:42 PM (vd6bO)

322 Weasel, maybe Gertie can distract Ace, and calm him down?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:42 PM (g07/a)

323 103 Looks like most everyone carries with one ready to go!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 07:52 PM

I was pretty sure that would be the case.

However, I still greatly appreciate the "Weasel Poll" - knowing the demographics of your survey group!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 09:42 PM (HlyYF)

324 298 291. Right. Howdya figure out the location and date in your region? Is there an internship that must be completed first?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 09:36 PM (vd6bO)

No. But we do hold exercise classes every morning at 6a.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 09:42 PM (pZEOD)

325 He’s taking me to Hawaii in March. Getting old has its advantages.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 24, 2024 09:33 PM (wbIUs)

If you can hack it, do climb to the top of Diamond Head to watch the sunrise. It's a nice view of the city of Honolulu from the top. If you want to go to the USS Arizona Memorial, go there as early as you can get there (preferably by 0630) to wait for them to start handing out the free tickets for the USN boat ride to the memorial. First come, first served. Usually, all of the tickets for the whole day (last trip is about 3:30 PM, I think) are gone between 0830 and 0900, so don't dawdle if you want to make that trip.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 09:43 PM (AiJK3)

326 Hey there PI, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your wife!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 09:43 PM (IQ6Gq)

327 Thanks Horde, thanks Weasel, and thanks Enormous Weirdos for another fun gub thread. Best wishes to all who are traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday. See y'all around.

Remember, your AoS family is always here if you need a break from the family you are related to during the holiday (or at any time).

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:43 PM (IQ6Gq)

328 Giving CBD bragging rights this week could make him nigh insufferable in the CoB Staff Meetings.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:44 PM (g07/a)

329 We can’t order ammo because it has to be driven through Canada.
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That's odd because firearms stores here do deliver ammo although I don't know if through the regular mail service [that I know ordinary people can't use as it's hazardous material -- I checked because I wanted to send my nephew some ammo] or via courier company.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 09:45 PM (hovnC)

330 Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:42 PM (g07/a)
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Nah, I just have to face the consequences of my total and complete failure.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:45 PM (fghTy)

331 Enormous Weirdos would be a good name for a punk band.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 09:46 PM (/y8xj)

332 Posted by: MD_Mike at November 24, 2024 09:41 PM (BouEL)

Start doing what you want to do slowly to make sure you get the hits/accuracy you want. Try to speed up without losing accuracy. Slow down again if your accuracy starts to slip.

IPSC target shooting might help because the scoring system forces you to find a compromise between speed and accuracy with each target and the whole course of fire. Hope this helps.

Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 09:48 PM (AiJK3)

333 We're about 5 miles from the stadium as the crow flies. We heard the fireworks.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 09:41 PM (/y8xj)

Sad as hell that my fellow 'Husker fans are that excited about six wins, but the team has not been to a bowl since 2016. Baby steps.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:48 PM (v23vE)

334 292 I believe DH will take me to the MoMe next October. He’s taking me to Hawaii in March. Getting old has its advantages.
Posted by: tcn in AK a

Looking forward to meeting you, fair winds and all!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 24, 2024 09:49 PM (hOUT3)

335 328 Giving CBD bragging rights this week could make him nigh insufferable in the CoB Staff Meetings.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:44 PM (g07/a)

Those meetings should be livestreamed. Just sayin' ....

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:50 PM (v23vE)

336 Giving CBD bragging rights this week could make him nigh insufferable in the CoB Staff Meetings.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:44 PM (g07/a)

Have you met him? Because he is insufferable regardless!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 09:52 PM (d9fT1)

337 A Very Happy Thanksgiving to All of the Horde!

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2024 09:52 PM (v6JzV)

338 335 Those meetings should be livestreamed. Just sayin' ....

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:50 PM
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Don't mind the hobby thread guy trying to keep a low profile and vanish into the wallpaper.

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

339 Those meetings should be livestreamed. Just sayin' ....
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:50 PM (v23vE)
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They're awful, what with all of the yelling and sobbing.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:53 PM (fghTy)

340 Ok, we gotta get a few more comments.
Yup, Jr. formalized with DILIT on Oahu. Not a Sig, but a beeyootifull diamond with emeralds.
I may get grandkids out of this while I am still sentient.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 09:53 PM (2UpC3)

341 336 Giving CBD bragging rights this week could make him nigh insufferable in the CoB Staff Meetings.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:44 PM (g07/a)

Have you met him? Because he is insufferable regardless!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 09:52 PM (d9fT1)

No, he isn't. He's actually very personable ...

oh, crap, was I supposed to keep that to myself?

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:53 PM (v23vE)

342 so don't dawdle if you want to make that trip.
Posted by: Ed L at November 24, 2024 09:43 PM (AiJK3)

There whole experience was so well done and so moving. Put it on your priority list!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 24, 2024 09:54 PM (hOUT3)

343 340 I may get grandkids out of this while I am still sentient.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 09:53 PM
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Congrats! You can provide baby's first bullets!

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

344 No range report.
But the Model 70 bagged another deer.

It's brining tonight before vacuum sealing tomorrow.

Posted by: Chappyman66 at November 24, 2024 09:55 PM (fwM0m)

345 340 Ok, we gotta get a few more comments.
Yup, Jr. formalized with DILIT on Oahu. Not a Sig, but a beeyootifull diamond with emeralds.
I may get grandkids out of this while I am still sentient.
Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 09:53 PM (2UpC3)

Congrats, RI! I love the fact that she's been DILIT for so long, but it's time she was promoted to DILRSN (DIL Real Soon Now™

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:55 PM (v23vE)

346 Don't mind the hobby thread guy trying to keep a low profile and vanish into the wallpaper.
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

It's 2024. Wallpaper is so 1978 ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:57 PM (v23vE)

347 Congrats! You can provide baby's first bullets!
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

I already volunteered to homeschool them.
Math will include ballistics.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 09:57 PM (2UpC3)

348 Yes to one in the chamber.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 24, 2024 09:57 PM (Kcw7x)

349 339 Those meetings should be livestreamed. Just sayin' ....
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:50 PM (v23vE)
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They're awful, what with all of the yelling and sobbing.
Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:53 PM (fghTy)

Which is why I wanted the livestream, but anyway ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:57 PM (v23vE)

350 346 It's 2024. Wallpaper is so 1978 ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:57 PM
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Have you seen the meeting room? Budget for decoration updates is paltry.

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

351 Yes to one in the chamber.
Posted by: lin-duh at November 24, 2024 09:57 PM (Kcw7x)
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Hey! I haven't forgotten that I owe you an email.

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 09:58 PM (fghTy)

352 348 Yes to one in the chamber.
Posted by: lin-duh at November 24, 2024 09:57 PM (Kcw7x)

Evening, ma'am. Hope all is well in the Big Blue Dot in the middle of TX.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:58 PM (v23vE)

353 One in the chamber depends on the pistol. My H&K? Yes. My 1911? Yes. My Sig? No.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 09:59 PM (d9fT1)

354 Congrats, RI! I love the fact that she's been DILIT for so long, but it's time she was promoted to DILRSN (DIL Real Soon Now™
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:55 PM (v23vE)

Yeah, they sure have their own schedule which has not been shared with me. But I did tell them I need to be healthy enough to do Little League again.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 09:59 PM (2UpC3)

355 347 Congrats! You can provide baby's first bullets!
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

I already volunteered to homeschool them.
Math will include ballistics.
Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 09:57 PM (2UpC3)

Ballistics?

Cosines?

Mr. Weasel, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 09:59 PM (v23vE)

356 357!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (iZaDk)

357 356!

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

358 Congrats RI Red! Hoping they will be happy and give you lots of grandbabies!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

359 357!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (iZaDk)

360 Doof ONT nood!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (v23vE)

361 Well. Crap.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (iZaDk)

362 And I reminded them that family membership at the range is for actually married people.
Must have been the final straw.

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM (2UpC3)

363 Have you met him? Because he is insufferable regardless!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 09:52 PM

Why, yes, yes I have met him. In fact, the only negative thing I've heard is he didn't pay off his bet when the Red Sox won the World Series.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (g07/a)

364 Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 10:01 PM
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When multiple shots are necessary to ensure the objective is accomplished.

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

365 FNX45, one in the chamber. By the way, it's ambidextrous magazine release has become very stiff. I guess. Some disassembly and deep cleaning is in order.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (vd6bO)

366 355 347 Congrats! You can provide baby's first bullets!
Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

I already volunteered to homeschool them.
Math will include ballistics.
Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 09:57 PM (2UpC3)

Ballistics?

Cosines?

Mr. Weasel, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy

Who's up for the Coriolis Effect Seminar?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

367 326 Hey there PI, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your wife!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 09:43 PM

Happy Thanksgiving to you, and your dinosaur too!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 24, 2024 10:02 PM (HlyYF)

368 Well done, Gun Thread Commentators. Well done.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 10:05 PM (g07/a)

369 Hey! I haven't forgotten that I owe you an email.
Posted by: Weasel
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😉

Posted by: lin-duh at November 24, 2024 10:05 PM (Kcw7x)

370 DThrax, I do appreciate the countdown. Have a great thanksgiving!

Posted by: RI Red at November 24, 2024 10:06 PM (2UpC3)

371 356 357!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage

357 356!
Posted by: TRex
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359 357!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage

361 Well. Crap.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 10:08 PM (hovnC)

372 I went to the range this week. I wanted to work on sight picture and point of aim/impact on a firearm I haven’t used in a while. At 3 yards, I was in fact low and left. At 10 yards, I was slightly left, but no longer low. Still working on grip fundamentals.

I don’t currently carry, but every weapon in my home is loaded with an empty chamber. The idea is that everything I might need is in the same state. If I pick it up, I know what needs to be done to use it. When I carry, a round will be chambered for immediate use.

I own a copy of Gift of Fear. It is an excellent read for about half the book. Once the author is done explaining the source of unease and why you should pay attention to it, they lapse into name-dropping who they know and work with. Then they close with all the reasons why “normal” people shouldn’t be armed.

Posted by: Advo at November 24, 2024 10:12 PM (jO4mz)

Food Thread: Weird But Good, Or Just Weird...It's All Fun On Thanksgiving

I think a lot of the fun of the Thanksgiving table (besides one-upping your smarmy 2nd cousin) is the seemingly endless selection of side dishes that people conjure. Do an internet search for "Thanksgiving Sides," or even check The Joy Of Cooking, and you will be swamped with straightforward or weird dishes. Hell some of the straightforward ones are weird. Cranberry Sauce? That horrid green bean and canned crispy onion dish?

And you people make fun of Haggis?

Anyway, my favorite one is a simple squash soup with crispy crostini (I think that's redundant) smeared with some goat cheese. I have been making it for years, although I have delegated it recently to one of the brats. It's my carefully honed recipe of course, because the idea of giving up all control over what happens in my kitchen is mad...MAD I SAY! (I have posted it and other recipes before).

But there are lots of little tweaks to things like mashed potatoes that can make them special without a huge commitment in time and money. Sure, fly in some fresh truffles from Perigord! But you can also make garlic mashed potatoes that are absolutely delicious! And those roasted Brussels Sprouts that are a fixture at your table? Add bacon and Parmesan cheese for a delicious change.

And for those of you with refined tastes, an oyster stuffing is hard to beat. You troglodytes can eat "dressing" if you want, but all red-blooded Americans know that it is called "stuffing." And if oysters are a bit too weird for you, good old sausage stuffing is hard to top for deliciousness. I use corn bread, but plain old day old bread will work. And if you really want to do it up right, bake the loaf yourself! Hell, I wonder how sourdough bread will work for stuffing? Has anyone ever used it?

As fun and tasty and different the Thanksgiving meal can be, it is just a bonus. The real treat should be the relaxed and happy time you spend with your friends and relatives. That has always been my policy, and I find the idea that the meal is more important than the company to be a bit dismissive of our humanity.

That doesn't mean that you should pull out the crappy bourbon...we are not savages!

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Garlic, cauliflower, zucchini, flour.

You know what I mean.

50%...easy!

So tell The Bureau of Labor Statistics and their political masters to stick it where the sun don't shine.

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From commenter (Lurker?) "Tyler"

Got a kick out of the Negroni meme on the food thread.
Speaking of the aforementioned cocktail, I did have a pretty amazing Negroni recently which the post reminded me of... at a great local seafood restaurant (in Omaha of all places)... they used the standard Campari and sweet vermouth combo but had a gin that was aged in a Sauvignon Blanc barrel... the gin smoothed the whole cocktail out and almost required a lemon peel to bring out the "bite" of the drink.

Of course "Tyler" sort of glossed over the fact that I think Negronis are repulsive. However, I will forgive him because he is a Sous Vider, and he does short ribs that look delicious!
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[Hat Tip: Iris]

I am no longer going to adhere to any sort of rule of polite behavior about politics. I won't bring it up when we have company, but if it is a topic, I will not pull any punches.

Like last night.

Yes, I slept on the couch (just kidding).

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Well, this looks interesting! Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookie Pie sounds impossibly decadent. Probably one of those tiny slice jobs...

Or...you know...half the pie after everyone has gone to sleep.

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[Hat Tip: Misanthropic Humanitarian]

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From commenter "Robert." Oh lord, it does sound like fun. But I don't have a 6" Springform pan. Why would anyone have a pan that small? I guess I will have to double or triple the recipe to fit my smallest Springform.

Maple Bacon Cake

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[Hat Tip: Misanthropic Humanitarian]

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Addendum I have neglected some important safety advice, but commenter "Joe Kidd" has taken up the slack:

meal prep hydration is a too often overlooked Thanksgiving safety element, so keep a chilled six pack or Vino Verde within easy reach. Maybe even designate a spotter or two to make sure you are regularly restoring those vital fluids that quickly dissipate in a hot kitchen.

What the hell happened to all the vegetables? And send me garlic that isn't grown in heavy metals and human waste in China, well-marbled hanger steaks and elk chops to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

~~Who are those poor deluded souls~~ We know who shake their Manhattans! These are the same people who drink fine bourbon with coke, and probably shake red wine with ice too.

$1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty of fifty years, but it is worth it!

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM

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1 Food fight

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 04:00 PM (fwDg9)

2 Cheesesteak tonight because why not?

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 04:03 PM (fwDg9)

3 Just took a bite of a "Chocolate Quinoa Crisp". Don't need to do that again.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:03 PM (vd6bO)

4 I like green bean casserole.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 04:03 PM (PiwSw)

5 Hey, I dutifully called them but can't make them comment

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 04:04 PM (fwDg9)

6 The sharpest knives should be brought out for the Thanksgiving dinner. They make the carving so much easier.

Posted by: Amy Bishop at November 24, 2024 04:04 PM (/U5Yz)

7 I brought my knife and fork. Where's the grub, the nosh?

Posted by: Ciampino - but watch out for the ons carrying knives and forks at November 24, 2024 04:04 PM (i0xsb)

8 I like pork sausage ground up in my stuffing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:06 PM (/U5Yz)

9 "That horrid green bean and canned crispy onion dish?"

Hey, I learned that one specifically from American Thanksgiving, and we've incorporated it into our dishes here when we do up our Thanksgiving in October. I rather like that one!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 24, 2024 04:06 PM (O7YUW)

10 I'm making cornbread and sausage stuffing this year. Sweet potatoes, maybe broccoli or Brussels sprouts for greens. I dunno just yet.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 04:06 PM (BbEYi)

11 Any turnip love?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:07 PM (/U5Yz)

12 Dinner tonight is lamb, roasted herbed potatoes, and green beans.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 04:07 PM (BbEYi)

13 I love a good squash soup! Also, if you need a good crouton and you dint have time to make your own, Kooshy Almost Naked Croutons are really yummy.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:07 PM (p4NUW)

14 8 That sounds good! Grew up on oyster dressing myself. Love the stuff, but the wife does not approve. Oh, well, she's a great cook.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:07 PM (vd6bO)

15 Willowed and now I have no food news to add.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:08 PM (D6PGr)

16
Wheel Of Misfortune:

Chuck Woolery is mort?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 04:08 PM (rabIu)

17 Our family never did the traditional stuffing - ours was more of a potato filling - mashed potatoes with sausage, bacon chunks, and (not too many) bread crumbs. Baked in an monster dish with tons of butta.

Served with gravy. If you didn't go into a food coma after that something was wrong with you.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 04:09 PM (WXNFJ)

18 I’m going to make that squash soup this week. Sounds great and looks easy to do. Thanks CBD for the recipe and a Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at November 24, 2024 04:10 PM (o9LdA)

19 Never had oyster stuffing. That sounds like some weird east coast thing.

Wonder what weird west coast thing Nurse Ratched will make. Some geoduck horror probably.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 04:10 PM (BbEYi)

20 I do lingonberries instead of cranberry sauce and this year it was unanimously decided NO green bean casserole... Hurrah !

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2024 04:10 PM (IyPmt)

21 My youngens help with a food distribution occasionally, and they send them home with the leftover stuff that would expire...some of this stuff is a bit odd.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:11 PM (vd6bO)

22 >>I am no longer going to adhere to any sort of rule of polite behavior about politics. I won't bring it up when we have company, but if it is a topic, I will not pull any punches.

That's the spirit.

And no Thanksgiving feast would be complete without oysters.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 04:11 PM (LkLld)

23 Okay on my food news I’ve got boxes of can food in my prepper cache that is past its sell by date that if not for the move I would keep. Now I’m going to throw it away as I couldn’t give it away now.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:12 PM (D6PGr)

24 11 Any turnip love?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:07 PM (/U5Yz)

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Down here we eat collard greens.
Delicious as long as you boil them in water/chicken stock with ham hocks (or ham bones with some meat) for about 4 or 5 hours.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 04:13 PM (6ydKt)

25 I was assigned to make dressing. Sausage, sage, homemade cornbread and sourdough will be the main flavor profile. I considered either apple or cranberry but decided to keep it simple. Making my own stock to mix in as I loathe store bought stock or broth.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 04:14 PM (R1Ziy)

26 Not thanksgiving but close. One of the things I miss about NY/NYC is being invited to my Italian friends home for the Feast of Seven Fishes.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:15 PM (D6PGr)

27 I am doing sage sausage stuffing, roasted root veggies, mashed potatoes with crème fraiche, and collard greens.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:15 PM (p4NUW)

28 11 Any turnip love?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:07 PM (/U5Yz)

Turnips, rutabaga, parsnips, beets and sweet potatoes roasted are awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 04:16 PM (R1Ziy)

29 Oh, and homemade cranberry sauce with satsumas.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:16 PM (p4NUW)

30 >>>I am no longer going to adhere to any sort of rule of polite behavior about politics. I won't bring it up when we have company, but if it is a topic, I will not pull any punches.

See Amy Bishops post above. Limit the alcohol is always a good tactic.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:17 PM (/U5Yz)

31 I while back we started having practice Thanksgiving, roast turkey plus all other dishes we wanted to trial but didn't want to find out we didn't like for the big day. Lots of fun, plus we could invite friends who would be with their own family on Thanskgiving.

Posted by: Candidus at November 24, 2024 04:17 PM (zGvse)

32 >>Never had oyster stuffing. That sounds like some weird east coast thing.

I'll have you know, young lady, Thanksgiving is a weird east coast thing and seafood was on the menu in Plymouth Colony.

Damn flat landers.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 04:17 PM (LkLld)

33 I found this the other day. Looks good but why does the base recipe call for chicken sausage (bleah!) instead of Concecuh, which they suggest as an alternate?
Million Dollar Soup Is The Best Soup Of The Season
Southern Living
Plus it includes kale, so Piper should be happy. ;P

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 04:17 PM (KcwUg)

34 28 11 Any turnip love?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:07 PM (/U5Yz)

Turnips, rutabaga, parsnips, beets and sweet potatoes roasted are awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage

I love them too. Costco has a bag of frozen grilled root vegetables. They are charcoal grilled and so good.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:18 PM (/U5Yz)

35 For years I made oyster and chestnut stuffing for the turkey, but as we're not having turkey this year I am going to dispense with that. As we're only having three people for TG dinner I don't feel a need to make a big fuss and the guys don't really care either. We will be together and we will give thanks to God. It's all good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 04:18 PM (0dmPh)

36 I'm making kale salad again. Surprisingly, everyone liked it last year. I have lots of baby kale from the late summer planting, and the salad has kale, pomegranate seeds, Parmesan, onion, and a lemon dressing. Maybe some other things, need to review the recipe.

I'm surprised that I like it myself! You know how I am.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 04:19 PM (OX9vb)

37 I’ve gone to my friend’s house for Thanksgiving for past five years . For some reason the wife ( also a friend I met before they married) never made mash potatoes. I never said anything until prior to last year’s dinner. I couldn’t go another Thanksgiving without mashers and gravy.

And yes I’m still invited this year😀

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:19 PM (D6PGr)

38 19 Never had oyster stuffing. That sounds like some weird east coast thing.

Wonder what weird west coast thing Nurse Ratched will make. Some geoduck horror probably.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos

Hey hey hey now.

I would do oyster stuffing, but the host is allergic to bivalves.

Oyster stuffing is sublime. As for geoduck, I'd make fritters as part of the pre feast engorgement.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 04:19 PM (fzPQK)

39 I'm surprised that I like it myself! You know how I am.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November

Please share this recipe!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:20 PM (p4NUW)

40 Just took a bite of a "Chocolate Quinoa Crisp". Don't need to do that again.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:03 PM (vd6bO)

Are you on a United Airlines flight? That's one of their snacks.

I have eaten them out of boredom.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 04:21 PM (d9fT1)

41 Our politics rule this year is that the five of us who are sympatico we will not bring anything up. If someone on the other team starts, we will have one designated spokesperson to respond who is calm, cool, de-escalatory and a dedicated moron.

Posted by: Candidus at November 24, 2024 04:21 PM (zGvse)

42 This year we're not having any friends or family over so we're going with a large Butterball turkey roll. We've had them before and they were good. Sacrilege I know.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:21 PM (/U5Yz)

43 Down here we eat collard greens.
Delicious as long as you boil them in water/chicken stock with ham hocks (or ham bones with some meat) for about 4 or 5 hours.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 04:13 PM (6ydKt)

In the bath tub right?

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 04:22 PM (xcIvR)

44 For two years running, I have dispensed with the actual dinner at Thanksgiving. I now go directly to the open-face sandwich, which, traditionally, had been the Second Meal.

If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

Posted by: goatexchange at November 24, 2024 04:23 PM (qBTvW)

45 Sorry, but in N'Awlins, it ain't NEVAH called 'stuffing' ... it's always 'ersta dressin'' ... just like 'Where y'at, brah?' is the traditional greeting.

Posted by: Dr_No at November 24, 2024 04:23 PM (ayRl+)

46 In the bath tub right?
Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 04:22 PM (xcIvR)

Only if great-aunt Esther is finished.

Posted by: Candidus at November 24, 2024 04:23 PM (zGvse)

47 >>Are you on a United Airlines flight? That's one of their snacks.

>>I have eaten them out of boredom.

Was on two United flights the other week. I ate the first one out curiosity.

I have no excuse for eating the second one.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 04:23 PM (LkLld)

48 Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:21 PM (/U5Yz)

That's interesting. I've never heard of a Butterball Turkey Roll.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 04:23 PM (0dmPh)

49 In the bath tub right?
Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 04:22 PM (xcIvR)

Only if great-aunt Esther is finished.
Posted by: Candidus at November 24, 2024 04:23 PM (zGvse)

And the gin has been made already.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 04:24 PM (VNX3d)

50 33 Plus it includes kale, so Piper should be happy. ;P
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 04:17 PM (KcwUg)

I recently sent Doof the recipe for my famous squash, sausage and kale soup. He said “ummm…thank you….but I was really looking for a smoothie….” 🤣😂

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:24 PM (p4NUW)

51 >>> 37 I’ve gone to my friend’s house for Thanksgiving for past five years . For some reason the wife ( also a friend I met before they married) never made mash potatoes. I never said anything until prior to last year’s dinner. I couldn’t go another Thanksgiving without mashers and gravy.

And yes I’m still invited this year😀
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:19 PM (D6PGr)

Mashed taters are easy! My "challenge" this year is that I will *finally* be making mostly home made stuffing (store-bought instead of home baked bread).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 04:24 PM (KcwUg)

52 I’ll be at a table with all conservatives so it will just be an echo chamber /preaching to the choir if someone chooses to talk politics.

Most likely it will be more about how LSU blew their season and how ridiculous NIL is.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:24 PM (D6PGr)

53 That's interesting. I've never heard of a Butterball Turkey Roll.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yup bake it and then slice it. No bones.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:24 PM (/U5Yz)

54 Mashed taters are easy! My "challenge" this year is that I will *finally* be making mostly home made stuffing (store-bought instead of home baked bread).
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 04:24 PM (KcwUg)

Yes I even offered to make anc bring them. I have to say her stuffing is really good and I’m not a stuffing guy,

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:25 PM (D6PGr)

55 53 That's interesting. I've never heard of a Butterball Turkey Roll.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke[/i

My bad. It's a Butterball turkey roast. All stringed up and ready to pop in the oven.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:26 PM (/U5Yz)

56 Doing steaks for T day. Having spiral cut ham, wild rice and butternut squash casserole tonight. Roast the squash, onion and apples. When done whip it all together with seasonings of choice and lots of butter. Bake. Will most likely do pumpkin pie spices.
I make my squash soup with onion and bacon, don't need sherry. Lot's of butter. Notice a theme?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 24, 2024 04:26 PM (2NHgQ)

57 It has been long enough since the last time we cooked Thanksgiving dinner for the mob that I have almost forgotten what a PITA it had become.

Now that I remind myself, I think I will give it another year off. 2025 would be a good time to restart the tradition. Maybe.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 04:26 PM (sNCuU)

58 Link might help:
https://shorturl.at/QXGrp

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 04:26 PM (KcwUg)

59 Any turnip love?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:07 PM

Shredded into slaw with olive oil and seasoned rice vinegar, salt, and pepper.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 04:26 PM (Wnv9h)

60 I don't know how it happened, but some years ago I got roped into bringing a soup to the feast. And, now, I suppose it's our traditional appetizer. I prefer making poultry stock soups (chicken, turkey, even pheasant a couple times; always from scratch), but since the headliner of dinner is turkey, I'm forced go another way.

So, this year is Ox tail with homemade dumplings. The meat I'll smoke the night before, then braise...then marinate overnight in a garlic butter sauce with baking soda (that's how all those Chinese restaurants have such tender meat btw baking soda). Fresh veggies added with the dumplings (which this year will be stuffed with minced garlic, basil, parsley and a very sharp parmesan). The dumplings are very small, and I use a handheld meat injector to fill them. Veggies are nothing special, carrots, celery, white onions, seasonings. It's a good warm me up appetizer for the main event.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2024 04:26 PM (dIske)

61 Last year, for our first TGiving in the new house, we had MiladyJo, me, daughter & her hub, SonM, niece from Missouri and her daughter, and a friend Daughter's age, his lovely Thai wife, and their daughter, plus three dogs. The two young daughters were about the same age, so they weren't stuck with just old pharts.

This year, daughter and hub will be with his family in New Yawk, niece probably has her own plans, and the other couple have moved a ways south. Looks like it will just be MilaldyJo, SonM, and me. And our dog. (And cat, always, who hides when there's too much activity.)

MiladyJo says she has a turkey breast in the freezer, a couple of pies in mind. Mashed potatoes and green beans (but not the "canned crispy onion dish") with maybe some peppers thrown in. And, yes, cranberry sauce and some cranberry orange relish. Should be good eating for a couple of days.

If it were up to me, we'd just have sliced turkey sandwiches and some potato chips. Fortunately it's not.

Posted by: mindful webworker - family is family at November 24, 2024 04:26 PM (vUvG1)

62 Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:24 PM (/U5Yz)

Thanks. I'll have to look for that We got our "free" roast after spending $400.00 (sigh) at the local market so that's what it will be.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 04:27 PM (0dmPh)

63 . If someone on the other team starts

GAS THEM

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 24, 2024 04:28 PM (e8Sk7)

64 Thanks for food thread cbd

Sides are ok but I'm there for the star of the show.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 04:28 PM (RIvkX)

65 Stuffing is the only reason to cook a turkey. And gravy. That's it.

My grandmother's stuffing was so good I'm pretty sure she was some sort of witch.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 04:28 PM (LkLld)

66 Please share this recipe!
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:20 PM (p4NUW)

I had to go find it. Thank God for The Deplorable Gourmet--in addition to the great stuff already in there, it is my catch-all for recipes I printed from the internet.

Recipe coming in a separate post...

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 04:29 PM (OX9vb)

67 RMBS's Onion/mushroom and wild rice soup is divine.
If you missed it--Doof's recommendation for spraying your turkey with duck fat is a winner. Crispy skin made easy. Works on your baked potatoes too

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:29 PM (gGMRM)

68 I'm surprised that I like it myself! You know how I am.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 04:19 PM (OX9vb)

I have had an excellent baby kale salad. The problem is that there are millions of recipes for kale, and only one tastes good.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 04:29 PM (d9fT1)

69 My bad. It's a Butterball turkey roast. All stringed up and ready to pop in the oven.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:26 PM (/U5Yz)

Aren't they pre-brined?

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 04:29 PM (sNCuU)

70 Tonight is "loose meat" sammiches on King's Hawaiian rolls with roasted broccoli and french fries.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 04:29 PM (RIvkX)

71 Thanksgiving massive dinners I think is past. But in years of big gatherings though most of dinner was made by one house, most brought dishes .

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 04:30 PM (fwDg9)

72 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 04:27 PM (0dmPh)

Meant frozen "chicken"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 04:30 PM (0dmPh)

73 Sides are ok but I'm there for the star of the show.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 04:28 PM (RIvkX)

Ah yes...the bone-in pork loin...sous vided then finished on the grill!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 04:30 PM (d9fT1)

74 for cranberry sauce, skip the sugar and water. instead use orange juice and port in proportion like the sugar and water. great depth of flavor. been doing this for nearly 30 years now.

Posted by: DenverGregg at November 24, 2024 04:31 PM (MryGi)

75 We're grazing out of the fridge so that we have room for all of the feast, feast, feast indgredients.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:31 PM (vd6bO)

76 Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:29 PM

Glad you enjoyed the soup!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 04:31 PM (Wnv9h)

77 Aren't they pre-brined?
Posted by: Pete Bog

I believe so. The trick is to release the string net before the outside starts to get crunchy otherwise, the string is difficult to remove.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:32 PM (/U5Yz)

78 We're grazing out of the fridge so that we have room for all of the feast, feast, feast indgredients.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:31 PM (vd6bO)

Impromptu MoMe at Don's house, to help empty his fridge?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 04:32 PM (VNX3d)

79 As an only child and all relatives thousand + miles away, my Thanksgiving as a kid was going out to one of the few restaurants that were open or the occasional accepted invite to one of my parents friend’s home.

I was always a little uncomfortable when we went to someone’s house. Had to be on best behavior and not be a pig.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:32 PM (D6PGr)

80 No rocket launches for Thanksgiving, so I guess the launch crews at SpaceX have the day off and will be cooking. There is a Kiwi launch tonight - details later.

Posted by: Ciampino - send leftovers at November 24, 2024 04:33 PM (i0xsb)

81 Oyster stuffing was a tradition with my family. In fact it was so popular that my Mom world make a separate casserole with the ingredients because the stuffing would be gone so fast.

Posted by: pawn at November 24, 2024 04:33 PM (QB+5g)

82 74. We throw the whole orange(minus any seeds, of course, into our cranberry relish... can't say we skip the sugar, though.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:33 PM (vd6bO)

83 or cranberry sauce, skip the sugar and water. instead use orange juice and port in proportion like the sugar and water. great depth of flavor. been doing this for nearly 30 years now.
Posted by: DenverGregg at November 24, 2024 04:31 PM (MryGi)

That sounds great.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:34 PM (D6PGr)

84 Thanksgiving just isn't complete with out hot turkey sammiches with gravy. I buy just the breasts, pan fry them in wine and herbs and make the gravy with the juices left in the pan.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:35 PM (gGMRM)

85 Simple Kale Salad

Dressing
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 to 2 teaspoons honey
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Salad
2 bunches kale, chopped
1/2 cup finely shredded Parmesan cheese
1/3 cup toasted almonds (alternately, pine nuts or pepitas)
1/3 cup cranberries (I used pomegranate instead of cranberries)

I won't bore you with the instructions--I'm pretty sure any of you could figure it out.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 04:35 PM (OX9vb)

86 I like pork sausage ground up in my stuffing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

So do I. I also add chopped dried apricots. Yum.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2024 04:35 PM (oaGWv)

87 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1k4wNS40iQ

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 24, 2024 04:36 PM (e8Sk7)

88 I recently sent Doof the recipe for my famous squash, sausage and kale soup. He said “ummm…thank you….but I was really looking for a smoothie….” 🤣😂
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:24 PM (p4NUW)

That is true! But I do think I'm gonna try to make the soup. Gotta admit, it looks good!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 04:36 PM (RFPHU)

89 I get really tired of people who want everything to be easy and no fuss and not a big deal.

Get off your ass and make a special meal for Thanksgiving. Jeepers.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 04:36 PM (9ONh1)

90 Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November

This sounds great! Adding it on.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:37 PM (pZEOD)

91 buy just the breasts,

Still $20 like in town.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 24, 2024 04:37 PM (e8Sk7)

92 86 I like pork sausage ground up in my stuffing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

So do I. I also add chopped dried apricots. Yum.
Posted by: Tuna

Oh yum. Will try.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:37 PM (/U5Yz)

93 RMBS, I did freeze some so I get to have it again.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:37 PM (gGMRM)

94 Haggis ain’t bad if it’s prepared right. It’s very rich tasting, almost like a very flavorful meatloaf. I think a lot more Americans would like it if they didn’t know what’s in it. Is it my thing? No. But I ate it knowing what it was and my reaction was ‘not bad.”

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 04:38 PM (CbgXE)

95 78. Might need the help. Makes for a weird meal or two. I had leftover French toast, cheese, olives, crackers, and reheated shrimp fettuccine for lunch.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:39 PM (vd6bO)

96 Food planning idea for those in hurricane country.

Keep a package of pre-cooked bacon in the fridge, marked "Hurricane Bacon".

When a hurricane hits, put the bacon in your pocket, to make it easier for the search dogs to find you quickly if you're buried in rubble.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 04:39 PM (VNX3d)

97 If you missed it--Doof's recommendation for spraying your turkey with duck fat is a winner. Crispy skin made easy. Works on your baked potatoes too
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:29 PM (gGMRM)

Howdy Ben Had! Duck fat rules. No spray this year but my local Wegmans had a jar of actual duck fat. Will be doing the spatchcock thing with this year's turkey and rubbing it down with the duck fat.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 04:40 PM (RFPHU)

98 Butternut squash is my go-to for pie. Milder than pumpkin. One year I made little butternut squash souffles. The seeds are very similar to pumpkin too, so you can roast them to have with your beer as you stay hydrated throughout your meal prep.

Oh, and meal prep hydration is a too often overlooked Thanksgiving safety element, so keep a chilled six pack or vino verde within easy reach. Maybe even designate a spotter or two to make sure you are regularly restoring those vital fluids that quickly dissipate in a hot kitchen.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 04:40 PM (Cbio9)

99 Daughter wanted a Thanksgiving dish, so she's doing breakfast.

She's making Thanksgiving shortcake for breakfast. What she tells me is we're having a pumpkin butter apple precooked filling (the Trader Joe pumpkin butter is the sweetener, but I expect her to use more holiday spices, too) with her dairy and nut free shortcake biscuits and some coconut whip. Sorta desserty, but we normally do the Pepperidge Farm turnovers or the organic cinnamon rolls, so the family is used to the small dessert breakfast before my lunch tray of proscuittio, smoked salmon, cheese, 3 fruits, and pumpkin dip (this is all the pre-eating before dinner...breakfast is the only real junk, so it might as well be good!)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 04:41 PM (exHjb)

100 Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 04:36 PM (9ONh1)

I think people should do what they and their family want to do for TG. I cook every day from scratch and make very special meals at other times.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 04:41 PM (ZvPn1)

101 I hope Dominos is open on Thanksgiving

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2024 04:41 PM (/7KEl)

102 Better go upstairs and get making supper.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 04:41 PM (fwDg9)

103 Got a big chicken breast on the smoker. Nobody likes turkey at any time, but me. So... this, as sorry as it might be is my "Thanksgiving" bird.

But... there is sausage stuffing. Smoked of course.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 04:41 PM (Q4IgG)

104 98 Butternut squash is my go-to for pie. Milder than pumpkin. One year I made little butternut squash souffles. The seeds are very similar to pumpkin too, so you can roast them to have with your beer as you stay hydrated throughout your meal prep.

Oh, and meal prep hydration is a too often overlooked Thanksgiving safety element, so keep a chilled six pack or vino verde within easy reach. Maybe even designate a spotter or two to make sure you are regularly restoring those vital fluids that quickly dissipate in a hot kitchen.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 04:40 PM (Cbio9)

I love butternut squash pie (of course, I find butternut squash, sweet potato, and pumpkin almost interchangeable as fall pies)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 04:41 PM (exHjb)

105 Avocado/tomato on toast.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 04:42 PM (LHPAg)

106 I like pork sausage ground up in my stuffing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

So do I. I also add chopped dried apricots. Yum.
Posted by: Tuna

Oh yum. Will try.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:37 PM (/U5Yz)
———

My mom makes a monster sausage stuffing, and has been for 40+ years. She got the recipe from my grandmother (her MiL) who probably got it from a German ancestor further up the line. This is back from the days when families passed recipes down. I don’t know if they do that any more.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 04:42 PM (CbgXE)

107 No spray this year but my local Wegmans had a jar of actual duck fat.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 04:40 PM (RFPHU)

Buy a $25-$30 duck, trim and render the fat, then roast the duck.

You get delicious roast duck, and about $25 worth of duck fat!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 04:43 PM (d9fT1)

108 I'm surprised that I like it myself! You know how I am.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Kale salad fan here.
Our Thanksgiving salad is the lettuce, cauliflower, bacon, onion, and Hellmann's one.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2024 04:44 PM (41CYW)

109 little butternut squash souffles

Posted by: Joe Kidd at

Ohhh! I have these little Le Creuset soufflé dishes my mom gave me that would be perfect. But there will only be 4 of us at the table…okay, everyone, get in your cars and start driving to my house! We will need a bigger turkey but that is okay!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

110 74 for cranberry sauce, skip the sugar and water. instead use orange juice and port in proportion like the sugar and water. great depth of flavor. been doing this for nearly 30 years now.
Posted by: DenverGregg at November 24, 2024 04:31 PM (MryGi)

That's hardcore - I cut the sugar called for in half b/c I like it tart...but damn, that would be REALLY tart!

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 04:45 PM (exHjb)

111 If you don’t already brine your turkey (or chicken), then try it. You won’t go back to unbrined. Brining is a game changer. There are a million how-to guides on brining your meat. Choose one. It’s easy, it’s quick, and it’s cheap. And it makes a noticeable difference. Trust The Blade.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 04:47 PM (CbgXE)

112 106 I like pork sausage ground up in my stuffing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

So do I. I also add chopped dried apricots. Yum.
Posted by: Tuna

Oh yum. Will try.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 04:37 PM (/U5Yz)
———

My mom makes a monster sausage stuffing, and has been for 40+ years. She got the recipe from my grandmother (her MiL) who probably got it from a German ancestor further up the line. This is back from the days when families passed recipes down. I don’t know if they do that any more.
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 04:42 PM (CbgXE)
Mrs.E makes macaroni and cheese with Mama Eromero’s recipe, very rich and very satisfying.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 04:47 PM (LHPAg)

113 >>>I hope Dominos is open on Thanksgiving
Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2024 04:41 PM (/7KEl)
********
If not, I’m sure your local Chinese carry-out will be.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at November 24, 2024 04:47 PM (o9LdA)

114 Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 04:40 PM (Cbio9)

Added to the post. Thank you!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 04:47 PM (d9fT1)

115 Duck. Grill the breasts, cook all the rest and make duck enchiladas in blue corn tortillas.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:48 PM (gGMRM)

116 Get off your ass and make a special meal for Thanksgiving. Jeepers.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 04:36 PM (9ONh1)

Or find somebody who is willing to make one, be really nice and bring them a good bottle of wine. Then ask if they have a boat or a vacation house.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 04:48 PM (sNCuU)

117 110. Cranberry pie! Not adulterated with strawberries or cherries, straight-up! Best pie I have ever had....other than that pumpkin pie where my daughter emptied the pumpkin pie spice container ('bout triple the usual amount).

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:49 PM (vd6bO)

118 Sides are ok but I'm there for the star of the show.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 04:28 PM (RIvkX)
------------

I'm there for everything. Actually, I'm here for everything. And I make everything. But I like everything I make.

Posted by: bluebell at November 24, 2024 04:49 PM (79pEw)

119 Thanksgiving here will be my citrus and herb turkey, giblet (w/o the actual giblets IN it) gravy, homemade mashed potatoes, Stovetop stuffing (b/c you have to save time somewhere if everything else is homemade), roasted green beans/onions/mushrooms with fried onion topping (no glop), and homemade cranberry sauce (to be decided with pear or apple or clementine). Pumpkin pie "ice cream" pie for dessert.

Friday will be the same meal, minus the stuffing which will be gone, so I will make sweet potatoes (in some way) and probably a new dessert or muffin...this way, you never over-carb and always feel good after dinner...

Then Saturday, we start sandwiches. And Sunday night, we have Thanksgiving soup if there's anything left from Thursday or Friday...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 04:49 PM (exHjb)

120 Southeastern Massachusetts is covered with cranberry bogs. Watching them harvested with the wet method is really cool and really helps kick off the Fall season.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 04:50 PM (LkLld)

121 I was born and raised in California. My mother always made oyster stuffing, also regular stuffing. I am fortunate that no one in my family circle even comes close to being left-wing. Trumpsters all the way. So no arguing about politics on Thanksgiving.

Posted by: washrivergal at November 24, 2024 04:50 PM (mzoqX)

122 Sausage stuffing works just fine with sourdough. the gravy even goes well with it. Been doing that for years.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 24, 2024 04:50 PM (hKoQL)

123 Cranberry pie! I've never heard of that. Hmmmm.

I love cranberry anything.

Posted by: bluebell at November 24, 2024 04:50 PM (79pEw)

124 I loved it when I could do Thanksgiving alone. Put on some music, open a bottle of wine and cook the meal I wanted.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:51 PM (gGMRM)

125 I think people should do what they and their family want to do for TG. I cook every day from scratch and make very special meals at other times.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Except when you're ordering the entire meal from a boutique store and then bitching because you had to cook the bird.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 04:51 PM (0MDkH)

126 123 It's GOOD.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:52 PM (vd6bO)

127 Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 04:51 PM (0MDkH)

Not doing that so it's fine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 04:52 PM (ZvPn1)

128 Ohhh! I have these little Le Creuset soufflé dishes my mom gave me that would be perfect. But there will only be 4 of us at the table…okay, everyone, get in your cars and start driving to my house! We will need a bigger turkey but that is okay!
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 04:44 PM (pZEOD)

Cooked B'nut squash freezes well, so bust out the dishes and enjoy the tribute that your guests will undoubtedly lay at your feet. Then do it again for Christmas...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 04:52 PM (Cbio9)

129 Tonight is meatloaf, roasted carrots and parsnips with ginger and honey, lettuce/spinach/kale salad with homemade sourdough croutons (if there are homemade croutons, my kids destroy salad - if not, they don't), and blueberries and grapes.

This is both a clear out the fridge dinner and a "beef up" before the week of poultry...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 04:52 PM (exHjb)

130 Buy a $25-$30 duck, trim and render the fat, then roast the duck.

You get delicious roast duck, and about $25 worth of duck fat!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 04:43 PM

"Save the liver!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 04:52 PM (Wnv9h)

131 RMBS, I did freeze some so I get to have it again.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:37 PM

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 04:53 PM (Wnv9h)

132 I think people should do what they and their family want to do for TG. I cook every day from scratch and make very special meals at other times.

>>>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 04:41 PM (ZvPn1)

I am very glad that we have you as a moral guide for our behavior.

Posted by: test pattern at November 24, 2024 04:53 PM (oUoKb)

133 And always gratitude. That's why this is the best holiday of the year to me. Always begin everything with gratitude. Just works better that way.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 04:53 PM (vd6bO)

134 That chocolate chip peanut butter pie looks almost exactly like the chocolate chip pie I make. I never thought to put peanut butter in it. I bet that would be rich and delicious.

Posted by: bluebell at November 24, 2024 04:55 PM (79pEw)

135

Well, the lamb is out of the pressure cooker and marinating in my vindaloo paste. Some onions were caramelized and are now sitting in the cooking juices, which is gently reducing . Basmati rice will go on when mama gets home.

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at November 24, 2024 04:56 PM (H4YoQ)

136 Sides are ok but I'm there for the star of the show.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 04:28 PM (RIvkX)
———-

Same. I’ll take a nice fat helping of my mom’s sausage stuffing (see above), but otherwise just gimme the bird and I’m done.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 04:57 PM (CbgXE)

137 homemade sage dressing with onions and celery is our family tradition. I have to just lookup sage stuffing as I lost the recipe but what I found works fine. I tweak by using more seasoning then they say, especially sage.

And after brining the turkey the first time because I needed to get it thawed after not getting started in time I always brine. Juicy turkey and extra gravy to make turkey pot pie* leftovers. I cheat and don't make a real pie crust, I just do it like a shepherds pie or with biscuick topping.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 04:57 PM (CKOCg)

138 43 In the bath tub right?

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 04:22 PM (xcIvR)

- --- -
Ha!

Some people clean them and pull the stalks off in the bath tub, but we just use the sink.

To cook them we use a huge pot.
About the same size you'd use to make a deep fried turkey.

After about 4 hours the collards have shrunk enough that you can put them in a large pot on the stove.

I love them,... about three times a year.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 04:58 PM (6ydKt)

139 I bet that would be rich and delicious.

Posted by: bluebell at November 24, 2024 04:55 PM (79pEw)

I'll tell you Thursday evening. Or earlier if you do your job and come here and teach me how to make pie crusts.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 04:58 PM (d9fT1)

140 Not a turnip fan.

I mean if I'm served them at someone else's Thanksgiving meal, I'll eat some and smile politely and say "yum yum" and think "meh".

Buuuuuut, it won't ruin my TG.

Now-

If they were to serve a horrid, gloppy, nasty wet stuffing, that would definitely ruin my Thanksgiving meal and I might have to go on a homicidal rampage.

Slightly moist stuffing/dressing baked in the oven so that it has a nice crunchy crispy top is the way to go. Otherwise, you're just abusing your guests.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 04:58 PM (eDfFs)

141 We made butternut soup a while back.

It was thick... but very good. I had lamb sirloins on the side.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 04:58 PM (Q4IgG)

142 Posted by: test pattern at November 24, 2024 04:53 PM (oUoKb)

Honey. How is that being moral guide if I think people that they should be able to do want- cook, don't cook and go out , have something other than turkey, have turkey. There are three of us. It's our holiday not yours .

LOL insult factory even on the food thread. LOL
Adios

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 04:58 PM (I762/)

143 Oxtail soup finally put together. Just need so simmer for 3 1/2 hours.

Posted by: javems at November 24, 2024 04:59 PM (8I4hW)

144 If they were to serve a horrid, gloppy, nasty wet stuffing, that would definitely ruin my Thanksgiving meal and I might have to go on a homicidal rampage.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 04:58 PM (eDfFs)

That sounds almost as bad as a shaken Manhattan!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:00 PM (d9fT1)

145 I think the holidays can bring out the best of us and the worst of us. Me included, I hate my older girls won’t be with me so if I get testy, I need someone to smack me, please. Thank you.

Back to food.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 05:00 PM (pZEOD)

146 I loved it when I could do Thanksgiving alone. Put on some music, open a bottle of wine and cook the meal I wanted.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:51 PM (gGMRM)

And then I threw this stupid party in October and years later it seems like I have all these new friends and people offering to feed me.

Ha! you are stuck with us Ben Had.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 05:00 PM (sNCuU)

147 Watching Uncle Buck for the 30th time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 05:01 PM (D6PGr)

148 Wait ! There’s crappy bourbon ?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 24, 2024 05:01 PM (64qRd)

149 124 I loved it when I could do Thanksgiving alone. Put on some music, open a bottle of wine and cook the meal I wanted.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:51 PM (gGMRM)

This is me, lately. The best part is no hosting pressure makes for very chill meal prep. I still make a full meal, eat most over the next few days, and freeze the rest. Made turkey omelets one January morning because, oh look what I found in the freezer!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 05:01 PM (Cbio9)

150 I had lamb sirloins on the side.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 04:58 PM (Q4IgG)

I have never seen lamb sirloins at the store!

Legs, loin chops, racks, and sliced shoulder chops.

Sh*t...I have missed out!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:02 PM (d9fT1)

151 I can attest that Maker's Mark 46 is a damn fine bourbon. And now that Costco is selling it, it's very affordable.

I wish they'd stock Buffalo Trace though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:03 PM (xcxpd)

152 146 I loved it when I could do Thanksgiving alone. Put on some music, open a bottle of wine and cook the meal I wanted.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:51 PM (gGMRM)

I've never had that...pre-cancer, I actually used to invite bachelor friends and other friends of my spouse over so no one would have to have Thanksgiving alone if I knew them...made me happy to feed people...

I'd go back to doing it now, but all the bachelor guys finally married or moved away...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 05:03 PM (exHjb)

153 CBD - There was a request in the last 2-3 weeks for an alcohol thread. I don't know anything about alcohol, because I don't drink, so I couldn't write it.

I don't know if that's the food thread, an idea for a future Sunday, or someone creates a post for it. If it is the food thread, and I see the request again, I'll remember to direct them here.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 05:04 PM (VNX3d)

154 I had a leg of lamb that was too big to fit on the rotisserie so I cubed it and made lamb curry. I have got to find a ground lamb supplier.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:04 PM (gGMRM)

155 BiL reverse searing some venison backstraps tonight. We are headed over there AFTER dinner. That sumbitch better save a bit for me.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2024 05:04 PM (41CYW)

156 Gratitude first. But the meal for me is oyster dressing, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, plain green beans, and cranberry sauce. Actual turkey I can take or leave, ham will do, but for me it’s the basis stuff. And by the way, I’m working this Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 05:04 PM (LHPAg)

157 I loved it when I could do Thanksgiving alone. Put on some music, open a bottle of wine and cook the meal I wanted.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 04:51 PM (gGMRM)

That is my Thanksgiving until about 2:00pm.

The house is empty (everyone else is on a traditional walk), so I do all of the cooking, with my music, my coffee, without any insanity. It's great!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:05 PM (d9fT1)

158 For Thanksgiving, I keep it simple: Turkey, stuffing (the wife loves it, just loves it), peas and cranberry sauce from a can, with a pumpkin pie buried in whipped cream.

Since this is one of the rare 'cheat' meals I'll gave before June, I plan to really indulge in this one.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:05 PM (xcxpd)

159 Going to my sister’s for Thanksgiving. For the first time. One problem: she can’t boil water. Her husband is decent. The cooks in the family are me, my brothers, and my mom. So this Thanksgiving dinner might be as lame as a stirred Manhattan!

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 05:06 PM (CbgXE)

160 I wish they'd stock Buffalo Trace though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:03 PM (xcxpd)

Take a road trip to California. It is stupidly cheap there.

It's pushing $50/bottle here, and that is absolutely ridiculous.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:06 PM (d9fT1)

161 When I moved my mom closer to me after my Father died , for Thanksgiving we either went out to Luby’s or Black Eyed Pea . After she didn’t feel up to going out I would order to go dinner , enough food for five at Boston Market. Thanksgiving season always feels better if you have left overs to eat.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 05:07 PM (D6PGr)

162 153 CBD - There was a request in the last 2-3 weeks for an alcohol thread. I don't know anything about alcohol, because I don't drink, so I couldn't write it.

I don't know if that's the food thread, an idea for a future Sunday, or someone creates a post for it. If it is the food thread, and I see the request again, I'll remember to direct them here.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 05:04 PM (VNX3d)

The answer is bourbon. It's always bourbon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:07 PM (xcxpd)

163 Thanksgiving in our house is amazing. We mix traditional with Korean and Puerto Rican/Columbian. Dinner here is like a meeting at the UN but lots more fun.
I love my international family and every one of us is grateful for living in these United States.
I wish only the best for all of you Morons.

Posted by: RetSgtRN at November 24, 2024 05:07 PM (udfkQ)

164 >>The answer is bourbon. It's always bourbon.

You spelled rum wrong. Twice.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:08 PM (LkLld)

165 159 Going to my sister’s for Thanksgiving. For the first time. One problem: she can’t boil water. Her husband is decent. The cooks in the family are me, my brothers, and my mom. So this Thanksgiving dinner might be as lame as a stirred Manhattan!
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 05:06 PM (CbgXE)

Offer to bring something or to arrive early to help...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 05:08 PM (exHjb)

166 The house is empty (everyone else is on a traditional walk), so I do all of the cooking, with my music, my coffee, without any insanity. It's great!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:05 PM (d9fT1)

This is known as the time to open the cooking wine to begin the process of marinating the chef. Typically calls for the best bottle prior to the guests arriving. And drinking said best bottle!

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 05:08 PM (sNCuU)

167 160 I wish they'd stock Buffalo Trace though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:03 PM (xcxpd)

Take a road trip to California. It is stupidly cheap there.

It's pushing $50/bottle here, and that is absolutely ridiculous.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:06 PM (d9fT1)

With the price of gas, not to mention needing to swap out my handguns, it's not worth the trip. Our local Kroger/Fred Meyers has Buffalo Trace for about $32 after taxes. That's not bad. Just wish I could buy it in bulk.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:08 PM (xcxpd)

168 Going to my sister’s for Thanksgiving. For the first time. One problem: she can’t boil water. Her husband is decent. The cooks in the family are me, my brothers, and my mom. So this Thanksgiving dinner might be as lame as a stirred Manhattan!
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 05:06 PM (CbgXE)

Maybe she will have it made as mentioned above. Even Popeyes will cook a Turkey for you.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 05:09 PM (D6PGr)

169 164 >>The answer is bourbon. It's always bourbon.

You spelled rum wrong. Twice.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:08 PM (LkLld)

Why do I sense another Mary Ann/Ginger battle forming here?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 05:09 PM (VNX3d)

170 I rarely drink but someone here wrote about putting a couple tablespoons of vodka in the pie crust dough. So today I stopped at a gas station market where I'd seen those little bottles of booze for a dollar. I bought one. It was clear and had a Russian name. Vodka, of course. No. When I got home I read the label and the tiny print says it is a white wine. What the hell did I buy? I am laughing.

Posted by: washrivergal at November 24, 2024 05:10 PM (mzoqX)

171 164 >>The answer is bourbon. It's always bourbon.

You spelled rum wrong. Twice.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:08 PM (LkLld)

There is a place in South Beach Miami called 'The Rum Room'. I think they said they have 80 different rums there. You'd like it.

Good Cuban food there.

Costco brand dark rum tastes like medicine. It even ruins Old Fashioned mix. Bleh.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:10 PM (xcxpd)

172 Posted by: RetSgtRN at November 24, 2024 05:07 PM (udfkQ)

True Thanksgiving .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 05:10 PM (D6PGr)

173 JackStraw, I found a rum that is damn near undrinkable. Balcones makes a very good bourbon but their rum is nasty. I was very disappointed.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:10 PM (gGMRM)

174 Mom and than I cooked many big t-day week meals on Friday or Saturday over the years. Dad used to volunteer to work the holidays so that more other drivers who needed to do t-day or xmas on the actual day could have it off. Us kids were older by the time he started driving and we didn't need to bow to big calendar

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 05:11 PM (CKOCg)

175 Just wish I could buy it in bulk.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:08 PM (xcxpd)

Check whether http://www.wine-searcher.com/ has any liquor stores listed that will ship to you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:11 PM (d9fT1)

176 175 Just wish I could buy it in bulk.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:08 PM (xcxpd)

Check whether http://www.wine-searcher.com/ has any liquor stores listed that will ship to you.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:11 PM (d9fT1)

will do, thanks

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:11 PM (xcxpd)

177 Only rum I like is that koolaid rum,

Malibu Rum

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 05:11 PM (D6PGr)

178

Any recommendations for a twenty four inch wall oven that isn't multiple thousands of dollars?

My oven, it be dead...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at November 24, 2024 05:12 PM (H4YoQ)

179 The other reason for doing the full meal solo is that I can bust out mom's Corningware roasting pan. I paid a pretty penny to ship her gear out to California when she passed, but the other sibs didn't want it and it's another thing to contemplate as I count my blessings throughout the day..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 05:12 PM (Cbio9)

180 163 Thanksgiving in our house is amazing. We mix traditional with Korean and Puerto Rican/Columbian. Dinner here is like a meeting at the UN but lots more fun.
Posted by: RetSgtRN at November 24, 2024 05:07 PM (udfkQ)

I love that! My family, too--white, black, Indonesian. Always an interesting array of food.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 05:12 PM (OX9vb)

181 Going to my sister’s for Thanksgiving. For the first time. One problem: she can’t boil water. Her husband is decent. The cooks in the family are me, my brothers, and my mom. So this Thanksgiving dinner might be as lame as a stirred Manhattan!
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 05:06 PM (CbgXE)

Offer to bring something or to arrive early to help...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 05:08 PM (exHjb)
———

I bring the booze … and foot the bill for dinner.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 24, 2024 05:12 PM (CbgXE)

182 We have hosted Thanksgiving for our family for many years now. Mom, aunts, and cousins have either died or fallen away so it's just 6 of us. We still probably make the same amount of food because we all like leftovers.

As preparation so far we've made cranberry/orange/apple/cinnamon relish, make-ahead gravy, and a smoked turkey breast. Desserts on Wednesday and then everything else on the day. I have a timeline that I wrote several years ago and it takes a lot of the stress out of the process.

That said, one year son's family was elsewhere and only guests were husband's sister and her husband. We sat around and drank Bloody Marys and finally remembered to make dinner. The food was great but, man, was that a mellow holiday

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at November 24, 2024 05:14 PM (FEVMW)

183 >>There is a place in South Beach Miami called 'The Rum Room'. I think they said they have 80 different rums there. You'd like it.

I hope I never find it. I'm too young to die.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:14 PM (LkLld)

184 Liberals around me are saying we "aren't talking politics" while then proceeding to talk politics. Which is really you have to STFU while I continue to lecture tired retarded rhetoric at you. They lost because most people can't stand the stupid, they seem to have some sort of vague awareness of this and yet they really can't STFU. They are literally addicted to spewing the stupid just like they are addicted to masks and lockdown nostalgia.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at November 24, 2024 05:15 PM (jPdyB)

185 I'm not the thanksgiving host. I do Christmas Eve for 10-24 depending on who is around.

I love busting my ass and decorating and prepping and cooking for my friends and family. The smiles and laughter and sincere thank yous are priceless.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 05:15 PM (ybxgE)

186 Any recommendations for a twenty four inch wall oven that isn't multiple thousands of dollars?

My oven, it be dead...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at November 24, 2024 05:12 PM (H4YoQ)

Turn it into a microwave space and buy a oven/stove top.

May have to cut out the space .

That’s how I solved the same problem.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 05:16 PM (D6PGr)

187 I wanted chiles rellenos for Thanksgiving but got out voted.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:18 PM (gGMRM)

188 I made your butternut soup a few years ago, and lost the recipe. I was glad to see it today, but the link from the 2017 page is not working for me. I would like to prepare it again.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 24, 2024 05:18 PM (zheob)

189 >>JackStraw, I found a rum that is damn near undrinkable. Balcones makes a very good bourbon but their rum is nasty. I was very disappointed.

Some rum is an abject failure. I don't get it. It's like they intentional set out to make something that tastes like paint thinner.

But some rums are just sublime and they bring back memories.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:18 PM (LkLld)

190 Any recommendations for a twenty four inch wall oven that isn't multiple thousands of dollars?

My oven, it be dead...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at November 24, 2024 05:12 PM (H4YoQ)

I wonder who builds those 2nd tier brands that Home Depot sells?

I'll bet the same people who build the $3,000 ovens.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:19 PM (d9fT1)

191 PSA: guys, only 65 shopping days left until February 14th, 2025.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 05:19 PM (tT6L1)

192 187 I wanted chiles rellenos for Thanksgiving but got out voted.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:18 PM (gGMRM)

Oooh. I didn't get to vote! *Raises hand enthusiastically

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 05:19 PM (OX9vb)

193 This is known as the time to open the cooking wine to begin the process of marinating the chef. Typically calls for the best bottle prior to the guests arriving. And drinking said best bottle!
Posted by: Pete Bog

I've seen the two of you in the kitchen. It is a delight and a pleasure.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 05:19 PM (UpLUT)

194 183 >>There is a place in South Beach Miami called 'The Rum Room'. I think they said they have 80 different rums there. You'd like it.

I hope I never find it. I'm too young to die.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:14 PM (LkLld)

Tip the waiter $20 and you'll get the biggest pours you ever saw.

Bwa ha ha.

Seriously, great place, great food.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:20 PM (xcxpd)

195 Blake!

Package received. Will make certain it gets to the destination.

Thank you.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 05:20 PM (UpLUT)

196 Take a road trip to California. It is stupidly cheap there.

It's pushing $50/bottle here, and that is absolutely ridiculous.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:06 PM (d9fT1)

Yeah, and I can't figure why. Total Wines had been carrying Buffalo Trace for $22 a bottle, with the caveat that you could only buy one. I was just there and noticed Bibb and Tucker 8 year old for under $35. That's a table-pounding buy. Maybe the distilleries give us a discount because living in California gives us so many damn reasons to drink..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 05:21 PM (Cbio9)

197 Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 24, 2024 05:18 PM (zheob)

It's a downloadable PDF. But if it isn't working just email me and I'll send you the recipe.

My email address is in the sidebar.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:21 PM (d9fT1)

198 Greetings!
Once upon a time I liked rum.
Then I went on a tour at Bacardi and saw it being made...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 24, 2024 05:21 PM (MeG8a)

199 191 PSA: guys, only 65 shopping days left until February 14th, 2025.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 05:19 PM (tT6L1)

+++++

I am holding my breath until Jan. 20th. That's the date that is important to me.

Posted by: washrivergal at November 24, 2024 05:21 PM (mzoqX)

200 Any recommendations for a twenty four inch wall oven that isn't multiple thousands of dollars?

My oven, it be dead...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at November 24, 2024 05:12 PM (H4YoQ)

Do you have a local appliance recycle/repair shop?

I've had good luck with the place in Snohomish WA and also good luck checking out craigslist. Got a damn fine freezer for my garage and it cost next to nothing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:22 PM (xcxpd)

201 Thank you CBD.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 24, 2024 05:22 PM (zheob)

202 198 Greetings!
Once upon a time I liked rum.
Then I went on a tour at Bacardi and saw it being made...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 24, 2024 05:21 PM (MeG8a)

Bacardi isn't rum.

Check out Kracken. It sorta tastes like sugar cookies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:23 PM (xcxpd)

203 Okay, I now did acquire a bachelor coming to Thanksgiving. Oldest's college friend (who lives in our neighborhood) was here hanging out and let me know his dad just got diagnosed with CJD earlier this month (he's too young at 72) and is in home hospice, and they aren't doing a big meal, so I invited the kid and he accepted (he's gonna spend the morning with his parents and then come here).

Reach out to folks and bring them in...I may bring his mom a meal, although her daughter may be doing that...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 05:23 PM (exHjb)

204 185 I love busting my ass and decorating and prepping and cooking for my friends and family. The smiles and laughter and sincere thank yous are priceless.
----
Ayup.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 05:23 PM (vd6bO)

205 Buffalo Trace is a good bourbon at no more than $30 a bottle.
For not much more, grab a bottle of Knob Creek. The 9 year, 100 proof version is available everywhere. If 100 proof is too hot for you, add a splash of water or a single ice cube.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 05:23 PM (RFPHU)

206 Joe Kidd, I was gifted a bottle of Bibb and Tucker 10 year. When you come to Texas we will open it.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:24 PM (gGMRM)

207 191 PSA: guys, only 65 shopping days left until February 14th, 2025.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 05:19 PM (tT6L1)

What's this about Palmetto State Armory?

But seriously...they have good sales on now. If you need or want a rifle or handgun...check them out.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:24 PM (xcxpd)

208 TURKEY IN THE BAG ... For several reasons, it's just going to be me and hubby for Thanksgiving dinner (in between mid-day brunch with some of the kids and evening desserts with extended family) ... Anyway, this gives me the opportunity to test a recipe for roasting inside a bag with champagne, except I'll be testing with just a turkey breast (not a full bird) ... Almost all the commenters were pleased with the results, even those who substituted sparkling apple cider for the champagne (which I intend to do) ... I also plan to wrap fresh herbs (rosemary, sage, thyme) along with onions, carrots, celery, and maybe half an orange in some cheesecloth, tie it up, then place this in the bottom of the bag with the turkey breast on top ... Most of the commenters said their turkeys required less time to cook than traditional roasting and that the gravy was delicious ... Here's a link to the recipe for anyone interested:
https://tinyurl.com/yfc96w34

Posted by: Kathy at November 24, 2024 05:25 PM (qpw89)

209 205 Buffalo Trace is a good bourbon at no more than $30 a bottle.
For not much more, grab a bottle of Knob Creek. The 9 year, 100 proof version is available everywhere. If 100 proof is too hot for you, add a splash of water or a single ice cube.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 05:23 PM (RFPHU)

Good advice ^^

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:25 PM (xcxpd)

210 Correct me if I err, but doesn't all rum start as grain alcohol, and then flavors are added?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 24, 2024 05:25 PM (MeG8a)

211 Having Slow Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu, Peas and Smashed Potatoes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2024 05:26 PM (XV/Pl)

212 210 Correct me if I err, but doesn't all rum start as grain alcohol, and then flavors are added?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 24, 2024 05:25 PM (MeG8a)

I THINK it starts with distilled sugar cane or molasses right?

Then it may get aged in barrels, which imparts flavors.

But I defer to anyone who actually knows anything. I've been to bourbon distilleries but not a rum place.

Yet.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:27 PM (xcxpd)

213 I saw Horse Nut Sister open for Joni Michell at the Saddledome in '78.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 24, 2024 05:27 PM (lhenN)

214 "My oven, it be dead..."

Speaking of Thanksgiving, 5 or 6 years ago our oven decided to crater while I was baking the pies for the holiday on Wednesday. It suddenly had two temperatures: zero and cremation. Found out when it incinerated the pumpkin pie

Fortunately, we still had our outdoor grill and managed to cook the turkey out there and make the rest of the food some other way. Worked out, but it was stressful.

Good news is that I replaced the oven with an oven I love. FWIW, I would NEVER buy a Kitchen Aid appliance...ever. All of the ones that were here when we moved in are gone except the microwave. I hate that f'er.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at November 24, 2024 05:28 PM (FEVMW)

215 >>Greetings!
Once upon a time I liked rum.
Then I went on a tour at Bacardi and saw it being made...

When I lived in PR Bacardi used to have a big processing plant on San Juan Harbor where they gave tours. And part of the tour was free rum drinks on their patio.

We took the tour more than once. I'm not proud of all my mistakes.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:28 PM (LkLld)

216 What I saw was 180 proof clear alcohol that got stepped on later by adding flavored syrups.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 24, 2024 05:29 PM (MeG8a)

217 I enjoyed my few alone-time Thanksgivings. Just me, a bitchin spread, and Punkin Chunkin or MST3K on the tube.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 05:29 PM (kpS4V)

218 PSA: guys, only 65 shopping days left until February 14th, 2025.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 05:19 PM

*contemplates social life*

Anyway...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 05:29 PM (Wnv9h)

219 They are remaking Matlock, with Kathy Bates in the lead role.

Damnit.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 24, 2024 05:30 PM (Gv9cA)

220 Nope.

Depending on the type of rum, it's made with molasses or sugar cane juice or crushed sugar cane.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 05:30 PM (eDfFs)

221 >>I THINK it starts with distilled sugar cane or molasses right?

>>Then it may get aged in barrels, which imparts flavors.

Correct. There's a reason rum comes largely from where sugarcane grows.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:31 PM (LkLld)

222 We took the tour more than once. I'm not proud of all my mistakes.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:28 PM (LkLld
Me too. And the beautiful young lady tour guide invited me to ‘mi casa’ for lunch. It was a little eating place.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 05:32 PM (LHPAg)

223 Coming from a family of grape stompers distilled spirits are a step up.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:32 PM (gGMRM)

224 Late to the food thread. I have a distinct lack of food in the house, and an oven that's not working to boot. No milk, no eggs, not bread, no meats. And I really don't feel like going out.
A conundrum. If I cut a frozen store brand pizza in half, would half fit in the toaster oven, and would it cook reasonably well?
May have to go out, either to a pub or the grocery store.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2024 05:32 PM (4780s)

225 206 Joe Kidd, I was gifted a bottle of Bibb and Tucker 10 year. When you come to Texas we will open it.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:24 PM (gGMRM)

Oh my...that is the most intriguing proposal I've had in many a decade. I look forward to it (slicks back hair and sniffs armpits)..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 05:33 PM (Cbio9)

226 221 >>I THINK it starts with distilled sugar cane or molasses right?

>>Then it may get aged in barrels, which imparts flavors.

Correct. There's a reason rum comes largely from where sugarcane grows.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:31 PM (LkLld)
Watch out there, you’re getting too close to the triangle trade.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 05:34 PM (LHPAg)

227 I bring the booze … and foot the bill

Funny, how often those go together. Does one lead to the other?
Our kids who are "field grade" understand etiquette and meal planning quite well (son eats with the wrong hand, like in Yerp!) but, generational change being what it is, they never scored The Wine Thing. So for a couple-days with kids, guests and Her Parents, I get to bring the aperitifs, toasts, table wines, dessert wine, and [automatic] guest-gift sets of glassware.

It only strained my sense of generosity when DIL indicated a taste for very odd (read "pricey") glassware of questionable provenance. I was lucky to find something from my local maker that was just weird enough to satisfy her wild hair. And her husband has excellent taste in whiskeys, so that should work out.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 05:34 PM (zdLoL)

228 sounds like flavored vodkas or the wine coolers, hard lemonades etc. not rum.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 05:35 PM (CKOCg)

229 191 PSA: guys, only 65 shopping days left until February 14th, 2025.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 05:19 PM (tT6L1

If anyone needs my list, just let me know. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 05:36 PM (pZEOD)

230 Forgot to paste, that was to reply to 216

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 05:36 PM (CKOCg)

231 >>Coming from a family of grape stompers distilled spirits are a step up.

I assure you there is nothing genteel about rum.

Arr, matey.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:37 PM (LkLld)

232 224 Late to the food thread. I have a distinct lack of food in the house, and an oven that's not working to boot. No milk, no eggs, not bread, no meats. And I really don't feel like going out.
A conundrum. If I cut a frozen store brand pizza in half, would half fit in the toaster oven, and would it cook reasonably well?
May have to go out, either to a pub or the grocery store.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2024 05:32 PM (4780s)

Preheat the toaster oven and, if you have it, drizzle some oil and maybe some basil and/or oregano over the top. cook as directed.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 05:37 PM (Cbio9)

233 FUN FACT:

The Slave Trade was in large part about rum.

Sugar Cane harvested by slaves and made into molasses was shipped to America where it was made into rum that was shipped to Africa to trade for more slaves to be shipped to the new world. A constant circular trip. IIRC.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 05:37 PM (eDfFs)

234 Add scallions to mashed potatoes. Amazing.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2024 05:38 PM (lX8VI)

235 I assure you there is nothing genteel about rum.

Arr, matey.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:37 PM (LkLld)

Grog and that other stuff the pirates drank is not elegant!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 05:38 PM (d9fT1)

236 CBD - There was a request in the last 2-3 weeks for an alcohol thread. I don't know anything about alcohol, because I don't drink, so I couldn't write it.

I don't know if that's the food thread, an idea for a future Sunday, or someone creates a post for it. If it is the food thread, and I see the request again, I'll remember to direct them here.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 05:04 PM (VNX3d)

The answer is bourbon. It's always bourbon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:07 PM (xcxpd)

Maybe not ALWAYS. But 90+% for sure!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 05:39 PM (RFPHU)

237 Raisinjack has made an entered the room

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:40 PM (gGMRM)

238
Didn't we used to have a "Rum & ____" person here?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 05:42 PM (ySdDl)

239
Rum & Sodomy, was her name, I think??

Something like that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 05:44 PM (A681k)

240 Planning my usual Thanksgiving meal. I have the stuffing nailed down (it contains mashed potatoes and chicken livers, among other things). I have my turkey game mostly nailed down, but I will be experimenting with fat/garlic under the skin this time. The real unfulfilled quest is gravy. Never got that quite right. I have hope for this round, which is partly based on the pan sauce for pork chops that CBD featured recently. That turned out awesome. I think there are hints in there about how I should be approaching gravy, too.

Posted by: Splunge at November 24, 2024 05:44 PM (hmKaK)

241 Another very affordable bourbon recommendation....

For around $35-$40, Four Roses Small Batch (90 or 95 proof). Available everywhere. People sleep on the Four Roses line. Those people are fools.

For around $50, the upgrade to Single Barrel (100 proof) is well worth it.
For around $60, the upgrade to Small Batch Select (around 105 proof) gets you an outstanding bottle.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 05:44 PM (RFPHU)

242 237 Raisinjack has made an entered the room
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:40 PM (gGMRM)

My dearly departed next door neighbor was a proper Swedish lady who would sometimes make a fermented holiday drink that used raisins for the sugar. It was...ok.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 05:45 PM (Cbio9)

243 CBD - There was a request in the last 2-3 weeks for an alcohol thread. I don't know anything about alcohol, because I don't drink, so I couldn't write it.

I don't know if that's the food thread, an idea for a future Sunday, or someone creates a post for it. If it is the food thread, and I see the request again, I'll remember to direct them here.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 05:04 PM (VNX3d)

The answer is bourbon. It's always bourbon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:07 PM (xcxpd)

Maybe not ALWAYS. But 90+% for sure!
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 05:39 PM (RFPHU)

So, I'll redirect them here, since it's apparent that they'll get answers to their questions. Unless, of course, every thread is a booze thread....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 05:45 PM (VNX3d)

244 Emeril's site has a recipe for Butternut Squash and Italian Sausage soup. It may well be the best tasting soup Ive ever had. Recipe is ain't fun if you follow it strictly.

Posted by: javems at November 24, 2024 05:46 PM (8I4hW)

245 I am happy because I just found some chicken livers near me. I thought I was going to have to drive an hour to a Chinese store. Innards are just not properly appreciated enough these days.

Posted by: Splunge at November 24, 2024 05:46 PM (hmKaK)

246 238
Didn't we used to have a "Rum & ____" person here?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 05:42 PM (ySdDl)
Oh yeah, the rum coke and hooker trade.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 05:47 PM (LHPAg)

247 So, I'll redirect them here, since it's apparent that they'll get answers to their questions. Unless, of course, every thread is a booze thread....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 05:45 PM (VNX3d)

They don't all start out that way but I don't think it's ever considered off-topic!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 05:47 PM (RFPHU)

248 For the 23 years of our marriage, I have been making a homemade cranberry sauce with Port wine, fresh and candied ginger, and Swedish lingonberries. These philistines in my family would be happier with the canned ocean spray yelled version. Am tired of casting pearls before swine.

Posted by: MammaB at November 24, 2024 05:47 PM (kxK8l)

249 >>My dearly departed next door neighbor was a proper Swedish lady who would sometimes make a fermented holiday drink that used raisins for the sugar. It was...ok.

Akvavit laughs at tequila. There are nights of my life missing from that devils brew.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:48 PM (LkLld)

250 I wanted chiles rellenos for Thanksgiving but got out voted.

Ben Had

Help a brother out, Mr. Had. Post a recipe?

Also, I want to order Bueno brand green chile (roasted peeled diced frozen) online, and I swear to God it can't be done. If you have a source for authentic NM chile, please share!

Posted by: Bombadil at November 24, 2024 05:48 PM (MX0bI)

251 I enjoyed seeing people's home bars.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 05:49 PM (kpS4V)

252 >>> 199

+++++

I am holding my breath until Jan. 20th. That's the date that is important to me.
Posted by: washrivergal at November 24, 2024 05:21 PM (mzoqX)

8 weeks and 1 day.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 05:49 PM (KcwUg)

253 If 100 proof is too hot for you, add a splash of water or a single ice cube.

'Wrong' thread maybe, but perhaps the best advice given out today. I find 90 proof just a tad hot, straight, and 100 and above are for medicinal purposes or frostbite. When I want to taste whiskey, I cut it 1/3 to 1/2 with nice clear water. I won't apologize for this; you can tell what's going on in the mashbill, and you can taste quite a lot of it, all day long.

Why guys insist on throwing back barrel-proof straight, is up there with inhaling peppers, competitive hot sauce, and peeking at the urinal. Just weird guy stuff for tough boys.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 05:50 PM (zdLoL)

254 >>> 205 Buffalo Trace is a good bourbon at no more than $30 a bottle.
For not much more, grab a bottle of Knob Creek. The 9 year, 100 proof version is available everywhere. If 100 proof is too hot for you, add a splash of water or a single ice cube.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 05:23 PM (RFPHU)

istr Jack Daniels was 100 proof, even after I was 29, but now it's down to 80. I like (S)Knob Creek better anyway.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 05:51 PM (KcwUg)

255 For the 23 years of our marriage, I have been making a homemade cranberry sauce with Port wine, fresh and candied ginger, and Swedish lingonberries. These philistines in my family would be happier with the canned ocean spray yelled version. Am tired of casting pearls before swine.
Posted by: MammaB at November 24, 2024 05:47 PM (kxK8l)

Sometimes simple is what people want. Especially for something that's essentially a condiment. Perhaps your fancier version would be better received with a different dish on a random non-holiday evening.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 05:51 PM (RFPHU)

256 179 ... "The other reason for doing the full meal solo is that I can bust out mom's Corningware roasting pan."

Joe Kidd,
Wow! A blast from the past. Your comment reminded us we have one (white with the blue design) with the lid and a metal stand. It belonged to Mrs. JTB's mom and we got it after she passed. Time to get it out.

Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 05:51 PM (yTvNw)

257 One gallon of Carlo Rossi Burgundy, raisins and cinnamon sticks warmed. The raisins the next day will knock your socks off.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 05:52 PM (gGMRM)

258 In addition to my normal practice of giving thanks for my family and country, I'll be giving thanks for the nation electing President Trump and hopefully restoring the Republic.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2024 05:53 PM (IDphi)

259 Correct. There's a reason rum comes largely from where sugarcane grows.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:31 PM (LkLld)
Watch out there, you’re getting too close to the triangle trade.
Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 05:34 PM

*whistles innocently*

- Boston

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 05:54 PM (Wnv9h)

260 @238 Didn't we used to have a "Rum & ____" person here?

Where's The Rum. Congrats, you do go back a while.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 05:54 PM (zdLoL)

261 Innards are just not properly appreciated enough these days.

For good reasons.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 24, 2024 05:54 PM (mH6SG)

262 There's a Christmas version of Aquavit that's spiced a bit differently than the usual if you can find it.

To eat with your Swedish Christmas Ham!

But , if you just start throwing down shots, you're I Terra Incognito, son.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 05:54 PM (eDfFs)

263 Contra CBD, I like the green bean casserole.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 24, 2024 05:55 PM (XMwZJ)

264 Didn't we used to have a "Rum & ____" person here?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 05:42 PM

Wasn't that Rum, Goddess of Doom, or something similar?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 05:55 PM (Wnv9h)

265 The Slave Trade was in large part about rum.

Sugar Cane harvested by slaves and made into molasses was shipped to America where it was made into rum that was shipped to Africa to trade for more slaves to be shipped to the new world. A constant circular trip. IIRC.

Posted by: naturalfake

It was called the Triangular Trade. There was also a Circular Trade, but it involved an infinite number of stops so hardly anyone got rich that way.

Posted by: Bombadil at November 24, 2024 05:55 PM (MX0bI)

266 For the 23 years of our marriage, I have been making a homemade cranberry sauce with Port wine, fresh and candied ginger, and Swedish lingonberries. These philistines in my family would be happier with the canned ocean spray yelled version. Am tired of casting pearls before swine.
Posted by: MammaB at November 24, 2024 05:47 PM (kxK8l)

We have a friend who hosts thanksgiving for her siblings every year. They insist on cooking their Mother’s thanksgiving meal that never varied. Fifteen years after her Mother died they still make exactly the same meal, no variations allowed. Right down to the necessity for the cranberry to still have the ridges from the can.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 05:55 PM (sNCuU)

267 MammaB,

Your version sounds great.

Post the recipe.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 05:56 PM (eDfFs)

268 >>*whistles innocently*

>>- Boston

I know you've heard of Newport.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:56 PM (LkLld)

269 I do make a great cheesesteak if I do say myself

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 05:56 PM (fwDg9)

270
Wasn't that Rum, Goddess of Doom, or something similar?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

"Rum, Sodomy, & Lash, Bringer of Doom," I believe.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 05:57 PM (A681k)

271 269 I do make a great cheesesteak if I do say myself
Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 05:56 PM (fwDg9)

I'll be the judge of that!

Please?
I could really use a good cheesesteak sammish...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:58 PM (xcxpd)

272 263 Contra CBD, I like the green bean casserole.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 24, 2024 05:55 PM (XMwZJ)

+1
I'm no food snob

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:58 PM (xcxpd)

273 Right down to the necessity for the cranberry to still have the ridges from the can.
Posted by: Pete Bog

That's how my mom always served "cranberry sauce."

She was a terrible cook. But. We always had stragglers. Friends of my parents who would otherwise be alone. It made an impression on me.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:01 PM (infHK)

274 One of the side dishes for this years meal is brown/wild rice with roasted pine nuts and baby bella mushrooms.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:01 PM (gGMRM)

275 241 Another very affordable bourbon recommendation....

For around $35-$40, Four Roses Small Batch (90 or 95 proof). Available everywhere. People sleep on the Four Roses line. Those people are fools.

For around $50, the upgrade to Single Barrel (100 proof) is well worth it.
For around $60, the upgrade to Small Batch Select (around 105 proof) gets you an outstanding bottle.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 05:44 PM (RFPHU)

4 Roses is very good. (Their distillery tour is wonderful too) I mostly "just" stay at their common 'small batch' Small Batch Select is a good gift upgrade but not an everyday drinker.

I also want to put in a good word for Woodford Reserve. It's not hard to find but damn is it good bourbon. It hits a bit harder than other drinks, for some reason. But it's very tasty and not overproofed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 06:02 PM (xcxpd)

276 @267 MammaB, Your version sounds great.

Seconded. I babied "highbush" cranberries for years, just to say I could grow them here (without a bog). Proudly made several versions of cran-relish year after year, but you just can't compete with those can ridges.

This year wife borrowed a recipe for a cranberry/wine/brandy cordial. They're all in there. They will not go to waste.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 06:03 PM (zdLoL)

277 >>> 271 269 I do make a great cheesesteak if I do say myself
Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 05:56 PM (fwDg9)

I'll be the judge of that!

Please?
I could really use a good cheesesteak sammish...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 05:58 PM (xcxpd)

I've been using steak-eze because *lazy*, but I finally remembered to get some shaved prime rib at the butcher shop in Tyler. Haven't been in the mood for it yet - maybe Friday after turkey.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 06:03 PM (KcwUg)

278 Wow! A blast from the past. Your comment reminded us we have one (white with the blue design) with the lid and a metal stand. It belonged to Mrs. JTB's mom and we got it after she passed. Time to get it out.
Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 05:51 PM (yTvNw)

My mother had that one too, a full set with that design as I recall. That big ol' roaster with the stand was mostly reserved for her pork shoulder roasts. Hell yes, bust that one out and fill it with mashed potatoes!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 06:03 PM (Cbio9)

279 I do all cooking at our house. Thanksgiving is roast turkey with Bells traditional stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries, green beans, celery and carrot sticks, banana and pumpkin breads, apple and pumpkin pies.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2024 06:03 PM (IDphi)

280 Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 05:55 PM (sNCuU)

I think a lot of people do that. It's a way of sharing memories of the past through sight and smell and taste and connecting . They probably also have family china It's sweet but mamma gone to her reward probably wouldn't care if they varied the menu.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 06:03 PM (1q4kk)

281 Preheat the toaster oven and, if you have it, drizzle some oil and maybe some basil and/or oregano over the top. cook as directed.
Posted by: Joe Kidd
====
Neither me nor my kitchen shears are strong enough to cut the frozen pizza in two. It was a thought, would have fit.
Out it is.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2024 06:03 PM (4780s)

282 I also want to put in a good word for Woodford Reserve. It's not hard to find but damn is it good bourbon. It hits a bit harder than other drinks, for some reason. But it's very tasty and not overproofed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 24, 2024 06:02 PM (xcxpd)

Love Woodford. Especially the Double Oaked version. It's not for everyone -- definitely an oak bomb!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 06:04 PM (RFPHU)

283 I do have a work friend who recently figured out he's a Trumper 100%.

I would love to invite him to join us, my friends wouldn't care, but he's VEGAN and there is literally nothing he could eat.

Sad.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:04 PM (infHK)

284 I am very much a food snob. Soggy vegetables don't cut it. Green beans, sliced almonds and mushroom sauteed in pecan oil for me.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:06 PM (gGMRM)

285
Aldi sells thick sliced bacon.
Aldi sells cheese curds.
You do the math.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 24, 2024 06:07 PM (dg+HA)

286 I would love to invite him to join us, my friends wouldn't care, but he's VEGAN and there is literally nothing he could eat.

Sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:04 PM (infHK)

Invite him, anyway, and ask him to bring something special and vegan to share. He'd probably be delighted.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 06:07 PM (OX9vb)

287 It made an impression on me.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:01 PM (infHK)
----
You have ridges from the can?

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 06:07 PM (fghTy)

288 >>> 284 I am very much a food snob. Soggy vegetables don't cut it. Green beans, sliced almonds and mushroom sautéed in pecan oil for me.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:06 PM (gGMRM)

Oooooh, I bet this would work with mushroom powder and diced garlic too.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 06:07 PM (KcwUg)

289 Correct. There's a reason rum comes largely from where sugarcane grows.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:31 PM (LkLld)
Watch out there, you’re getting too close to the triangle trade.
Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 05:34 PM

In Colombia, aguardiente was traditionally brewed from sugarcane bagasse (left over canes after the juice had been squeezed out). It was fermented and distilled out with anise to kill the flavor. The downside was that if it cooked too high there was the risk of distilling wood alcohol as well as all the odd fusil oils, so now it is just cheap white rum with anise flavoring.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2024 06:07 PM (D7oie)

290 283 I do have a work friend who recently figured out he's a Trumper 100%.

I would love to invite him to join us, my friends wouldn't care, but he's VEGAN and there is literally nothing he could eat.

Sad.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:04 PM (infHK)

CBD posted a butternut squash soup...add black beans and make it chili and you've fed the vegan (who can still grab the cran sauce, too)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 06:07 PM (exHjb)

291 A "Spirits" thread would have to have rotation.

One week for Vodkas. Another for Rums. Another for Scotches. Another for Ryes.

Bourbon Month would overlap nicely though, with Zappafest.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 06:08 PM (Xo+UM)

292 Helena Handbasket, sure would.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:08 PM (gGMRM)

293 You have ridges from the can?
Posted by: Weasel at

Ah crap.

Honeylove promised me no ridges!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:08 PM (infHK)

294 I know you've heard of Newport.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:56 PM

But of course. But when you distill so much that you have a deadly molasses flood, I have to throw some shade.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 06:10 PM (Wnv9h)

295 Invite him, anyway, and ask him to bring something special and vegan to share. He'd probably be delighted.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November

I loathe vegan crap. It's ultra processed chemically induced fake food. He doesn't eat fresh fruit or veggies. He exists on takeout vegan burritos and pizza. Nothing he eats isn't chemically altered.

He is a great guy and I'm glad he's found out, even though he's a gay black man in Seattle, he doesn't have to be an idiot progtard. So he's found gay republicans. There's only so much I can do.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:13 PM (Aw8VT)

296 but you just can't compete with those can ridges.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 06:03 PM (zdLoL)

Did my T-day shopping today and one of the things I picked up was the obligatory can of jellied c'berry sauce. I've made sauce from scratch with whole cranberries, orange rind, and all manner of fussy ingredients. While the results were good, the work, IMO, just never matched the end result. Stovetop space might be one reason for this. Sauted brussels sprouts in bacon fat on a burner that would otherwise be occupied by a side that can be accomplished with a can opener? It's a no brainer...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 06:15 PM (Cbio9)

297 I know you've heard of Newport.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 05:56 PM (LkLld)

That's the gas station on the way to Boston?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 06:15 PM (d9fT1)

298 >>But of course. But when you distill so much that you have a deadly molasses flood, I have to throw some shade.

After you've gotten all necessary vaccinations and gotten a visa to visit come on down this winter. The tourists have left and it's nice and quiet and I know a place.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 06:16 PM (LkLld)

299 So he's found gay republicans. There's only so much I can do.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:13 PM (Aw8VT)

One of my oldest friends is a gay Republican, and he seems to have no trouble finding like-minded folks.

He also likes guns!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 06:17 PM (d9fT1)

300 >>That's the gas station on the way to Boston?

You must be thinking of a different place.

The one I'm talking about has an oyster farm right over there.

And they are wicked good.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 06:18 PM (LkLld)

301 The one I'm talking about has an oyster farm right over there.

And they are wicked good.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 06:18 PM (LkLld)

I'll give you that...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 06:19 PM (d9fT1)

302 295 Invite him, anyway, and ask him to bring something special and vegan to share. He'd probably be delighted.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November

I loathe vegan crap. It's ultra processed chemically induced fake food. He doesn't eat fresh fruit or veggies. He exists on takeout vegan burritos and pizza. Nothing he eats isn't chemically altered.

He is a great guy and I'm glad he's found out, even though he's a gay black man in Seattle, he doesn't have to be an idiot progtard. So he's found gay republicans. There's only so much I can do.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:13 PM (Aw8VT)

Exposure helps...and I bet he'd happily drink and have coffee...you can invite him for dessert and just have a pie filling around in a glass, so it looks planned as a "crustless" pie...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 06:19 PM (exHjb)

303 Did my T-day shopping today and one of the things I picked up was the obligatory can of jellied c'berry sauce. I've made sauce from scratch with whole cranberries, orange rind, and all manner of fussy ingredients. While the results were good, the work, IMO, just never matched the end result. Stovetop space might be one reason for this. Sauted brussels sprouts in bacon fat on a burner that would otherwise be occupied by a side that can be accomplished with a can opener? It's a no brainer...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 06:15 PM (Cbio9)

But you make cran sauce Wednesday...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 06:20 PM (exHjb)

304 He also likes guns!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November

I took my coworker to the range because he was curious. He now owns three pistols and is researching an AR.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:20 PM (Aw8VT)

305 I just made sourdough Parmesan crackers, and the entire house smells delicious!

The problem is that I can eat about 30 of them in five minutes.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 06:20 PM (d9fT1)

306 291 A "Spirits" thread would have to have rotation.

One week for Vodkas. Another for Rums. Another for Scotches. Another for Ryes.

Bourbon Month would overlap nicely though, with Zappafest.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 06:08 PM (Xo+UM)

I'm in for the bourbon, rye and scotch.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 24, 2024 06:23 PM (2AW7/)

307 I just pulled out cornbread from the oven. Now I have to not eat it so I can make stuffing later this week.

And there's a sourdough loaf from the bakery just going to go stale for the same endeavor.

Killmenow.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 06:23 PM (Aw8VT)

308 Now as far as stuffing, you want to get yourself a box of frozen White Castle hamburgers. Quarter them, and place in a lightly greased brownie pan (like a 9x9). Add a chopped celery stalk, half a can of chicken stock or a half cup of turkey drippings and a handful of dried sage. Bake for about 40 minutes at 350. Beats the hell out of Stove Top..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 06:24 PM (Cbio9)

309 Nurse, I need to make cornbread for stuffing too. Where do you keep it so it gets stale but not moldy?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 06:24 PM (kpS4V)

310 I just had a quick, simple stir fry. Boneless/skinless chicken thighs, red pepper and onion with an orange ginger sauce.

Yumm

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 24, 2024 06:26 PM (0XVad)

311 My mom would always fix an oyster casserole for Thanksgiving. Only a few of us would eat it, but how she loved it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 24, 2024 06:26 PM (2AW7/)

312 Taking the pork chops off the grill. Thanks for the thread, CBD.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2024 06:28 PM (41CYW)

313 Yeah, it's looking like a new Age of Tolerance is upon us. There are gay Republicans. I had to remind a guy, election day, that I know several "severely" conservative lesbians. Nods all around.
We're winning. We're going to remember how to be magnanimous. This will hurt a little.

Food adjacent: Alice Brock, of Alice's Restaurant, has passed on.
She was 83, meaning that when she had that memorable Thanksgiving dinner with Arlo that could not be beat, she was about 24.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 06:28 PM (zdLoL)

314 Joe Kidd, the trash panda in me loves these fast food Thanksgiving dishes. The revulsion they engender in purists is reward enough, but they're often really good! I did Dunksgiving one year, with coffee brined turkey and a doughnut stuffing, and by jiminy it was delish.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 06:28 PM (kpS4V)

315 Well guess I should start something for dinner since I fed my child brussel sprouts last night.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 06:28 PM (p4NUW)

316 But you make cran sauce Wednesday...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2024 06:20 PM (exHjb)

Fair point. It is a must for leftovers, too. In fact, I may not open my can until the next day when I'm making sammiches..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 06:29 PM (Cbio9)

317 Thanksgiving in our house is amazing. We mix traditional with Korean and Puerto Rican/Columbian. Dinner here is like a meeting at the UN but lots more fun.
I love my international family and every one of us is grateful for living in these United States.
I wish only the best for all of you Morons.
Posted by: RetSgtRN at November 24, 2024 05:07 PM (udfkQ)

Did you have ajiaco for the main dish, or a side? And what does Thanksgiving bibimbap taste like?
Ooh, and Morcilla, that is tasty stuff there.

Can I come for dinner?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2024 06:29 PM (D7oie)

318 nurse you should have made 2

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 06:31 PM (fwDg9)

319 You have ridges from the can?
Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 06:07 PM (fghTy)

Actually it’s more of a horseshoe pattern.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 06:31 PM (haw4/)

320 my family would be happier with the canned ocean spray yelled version.

The yelled version. Know how vee can tell you're a real Svede?
I yupe you didn't learn that in Yale, by gully.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 06:33 PM (zdLoL)

321 Fun fact. Ocean Spray is a 100 year old farmer's co-op made up of hundreds of small, independent farmers.

Eat more cranberries. Support small farms.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 06:36 PM (LkLld)

322 Nurse - for your vegan friend, Kite Hill makes a very good spinach ravioli with an almond milk based ricotta. It tastes pretty darn good, as a potential option.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 06:36 PM (p4NUW)

323 Happy thanksgiving to each of you. We all have much to be thankful for.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 24, 2024 06:37 PM (2AW7/)

324 * slides Piper another piece of deep fried bacon*

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:38 PM (gGMRM)

325 309 Nurse, I need to make cornbread for stuffing too. Where do you keep it so it gets stale but not moldy?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 06:24 PM (kpS4V)

Overnight will do. We keep it on the drainboard, covered with plastic wrap. But- we make dressing, not stuffing, so YMMV.
My sister and I, to whom dressing duty fell after Mom died, did an American Test Kitchen once to finalize the recipe. We made three different versions and I wrote the ingredients/ratios down in minute detail.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 06:39 PM (f+FmA)

326 324 * slides Piper another piece of deep fried bacon*
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:38 PM (gGMRM)

Haha!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 06:40 PM (p4NUW)

327 314 Joe Kidd, the trash panda in me loves these fast food Thanksgiving dishes. The revulsion they engender in purists is reward enough, but they're often really good! I did Dunksgiving one year, with coffee brined turkey and a doughnut stuffing, and by jiminy it was delish.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 06:28 PM (kpS4V)

I would try that!

Somewhat related, one of my favorite cookbooks was a gift from a friend. It's called the Best Recipes from the Backs of Boxes, Bottles, and Cans..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 06:41 PM (Cbio9)

328 Sourdough in dressing (which I make, since it cooks in its own dish and not "stuffed" into the turkey)? Yes, I make it all the time and it is delicious.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at November 24, 2024 06:41 PM (IQ6Gq)

329 Another cranberry fact, Wisconsin overtook Massachusetts as leading cranberry producer sometime in the last ten years or so.
Probably the last agriculture product New England had the lead in. Maybe still blueberries, but I doubt it.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2024 06:41 PM (4780s)

330 Ya gotta love this place. Cranberry facts.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:43 PM (gGMRM)

331 Ya gotta love this place. Cranberry facts.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:43 PM

Horde Knowledge is vast and deep.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 06:44 PM (Wnv9h)

332 >>Another cranberry fact, Wisconsin overtook Massachusetts as leading cranberry producer sometime in the last ten years or so.

Another fun fact. Many of those Wisconsin farms are part of the Ocean Spray co-op. So are many cranberry farms all over the US.

And the juice box? Yea.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 06:47 PM (LkLld)

333 The Cranberries sucked as a rock group.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:47 PM (gGMRM)

334 Blueberries come mostly from the west coast and Georgia.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 06:48 PM (aHqhe)

335

Dingleberries come mainly from Frisco!

Posted by: Peter Bootygig at November 24, 2024 06:50 PM (H4YoQ)

336 Kind of shocked to see I have two of the Cranberries albums on my laptop.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2024 06:50 PM (4780s)

337 Lot of blueberries up in Maine.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2024 06:51 PM (4780s)

338 With apologies to the food thread, I've got a delicious martini going on here.

Olives are a food, right?

Posted by: 496 at November 24, 2024 06:51 PM (t+VLa)

339 The Cranberries sucked as a rock group.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:47 PM

A 90's band? You're really letting that hate...linger.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 06:51 PM (Wnv9h)

340 With apologies to the food thread, I've got a delicious martini going on here.

Olives are a food, right?
Posted by: 496 at November 24, 2024 06:51 PM

Vegetable. I've already had one serving.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 06:52 PM (Wnv9h)

341 RMBS, I wish I had a witty reply but I'm out of lingerberries.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:54 PM (gGMRM)

342 Vegetable. I've already had one serving.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 06:52 PM (Wnv9h)
-------
You should have more. Your mother would want you to have your vegetables.

Posted by: 496 at November 24, 2024 06:54 PM (t+VLa)

343 Lot of blueberries up in Maine.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2024 06:51 PM

Can confirm.

- Sal

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 06:54 PM (Wnv9h)

344 RMBS, I wish I had a witty reply but I'm out of lingerberries.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:54 PM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 06:55 PM (Wnv9h)

345 329 Another cranberry fact, Wisconsin overtook Massachusetts as leading cranberry producer sometime in the last ten years or so.
Probably the last agriculture product New England had the lead in. Maybe still blueberries, but I doubt it.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2024 06:41 PM (4780s)

Cranberry bogs are a best-kept secret of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, and most things from the New Jersey Pine Barrens are best-kept secrets..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 06:56 PM (Cbio9)

346 311 My mom would always fix an oyster casserole for Thanksgiving. Only a few of us would eat it, but how she loved it.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 24, 2024 06:26 PM
Sounds good, like dressing but no bread? Because when I hear casserole I think green bean casserole.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 06:57 PM (LHPAg)

347 Blueberries come mostly from the west coast and Georgia.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 06:48 PM (aHqhe)

New Jersey has a pretty big blueberry industry.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 06:58 PM (d9fT1)

348 Okay folks...the shaker is singing its beautiful melody, so it's time for me to sign off.

Thanks for reading and commenting...even that Rhode Island Rummy!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 06:59 PM (d9fT1)

349 CBD, Cheers and Thanks

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 06:59 PM (gGMRM)

350 Thanks for a great Food Thread, CBD!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 06:59 PM (Wnv9h)

351 Many thanks as always, CBD.

Posted by: 496 at November 24, 2024 07:00 PM (t+VLa)

352 Florida Strawberry Festival.

Go.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 07:00 PM (LkLld)

353 New Jersey has a pretty big blueberry industry.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 06:58 PM (d9fT1)

Chatsworth. Picked blueberries there one summer. Mom made lots of pies. My first taste of homemade blueberry pie...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2024 07:00 PM (Cbio9)

354 Nurse, make a white sauce with margarine unsweetened almond milk or vegetable broth. Season heavily with sage, garlic and cayenne. Mix in black and pinto beans, and serve this over shortening biscuits also made with either the vegetable broth or almond milk- it's a vegan form of sausage gravy and biscuits that is less processed than the store bought stuff. Add mashed sweet potatoes with just margarine and a sprinkle of cinnamon, and he has a lovely meal. He also gets to be with like minded folks and be "witnessed" too by your embracing him.

Posted by: Moki at November 24, 2024 07:04 PM (wLjpr)

355 Keep on writing, great job!

Posted by: game online at November 25, 2024 12:19 PM (ftIMJ)

First-World Problems...

Saddle Soap is good stuff, and not just as a garnish!

If any of you Morons clean and polish your own shoes and other leather stuff, it is a wonderful thing, but...the damned stuff always shrinks that way. It starts out fat and happy and filling the tin, but soon it shrinks like a bitter and shriveled witch.

My options are:

1) Burn the house down and buy a new can.
b. Drop the old can into an active volcano and buy a new can.
iii. Make an explosive out of the soap and use it to blow up the house, and then buy a new can.
D. Suck it up and use the old stuff.

Choice D is just silly, but I do need some advice...

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 02:00 PM (fwDg9)

2 Oh my.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2024 02:01 PM (W6hoT)

3 Think only used saddle soap on new baseball gloves

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 02:02 PM (fwDg9)

4 Move to the rain forest

Posted by: Madhatter at November 24, 2024 02:02 PM (ZGeU+)

5 CBD
Such suffering and travails.
The obvious answer is, of course to have someone else do the leather cleaning and polishing around the house.
Perhaps a, "Guest worker"?

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at November 24, 2024 02:03 PM (TVStp)

6 Make saddle soap great again

Posted by: Madhatter at November 24, 2024 02:03 PM (ZGeU+)

7 Bet it could be melted in a microwave or oven

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 02:03 PM (fwDg9)

8

Melt it in a fire fueled with the rendered fat of your enemies.

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at November 24, 2024 02:04 PM (tBck8)

9 I'm a Dapper Dan man myself.

Posted by: Ulysses Everitt McGill at November 24, 2024 02:04 PM (nOjd9)

10 Did you try to add a little water (maybe distilled) and let it sit for a few days to re-hydrate?

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 02:05 PM (RFPHU)

11 It probably wouldn't shrink so much if you quit taking the lid off to huff the vapors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 02:05 PM (HTHrm)

12 Hmm. Methinks that can of saddle soap may have been around for a while...

It's the same with shoe polishes. There are volatiles in the mix, and they eventually evaporate.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:05 PM (XeU6L)

13 Saddle Soap
-

Childhood reference:

https://youtu.be/ol5w-PaZQTk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 02:08 PM (K3JKK)

14 Hmm. Methinks that can of saddle soap may have been around for a while...

It's the same with shoe polishes. There are volatiles in the mix, and they eventually evaporate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:05 PM (XeU6L)

I solved that problem by eschewing shoes that require polish.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 02:08 PM (HTHrm)

15 Get rid of your horse,
No need for a saddle,
No need for saddle soap.

Problem solved. What’s next?

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 02:08 PM (sNCuU)

16 I'm sensing a theme with "burn the house down." Not that I disagree, especially when I look at the poorly mitered crown molding in my bedroom. Sometimes fire is the only option.

Posted by: Moki at November 24, 2024 02:09 PM (wLjpr)

17 Option E: Seppuku for allowing this to occur.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2024 02:09 PM (aBgBM)

18 Carefully heat the can. A candle with do a good job. You can also low heat melt in a cradling pan. Despite many recommendations, do not directly ignite the saddle soap or like polishes. Yep everyone knows someone that does this with success and at least four to one you will have a story of "napalm" like incidents. Just one last caution, be aware of the heat of the can while handling or removing from heat as to avoid a napalm incident.

Posted by: Commander Cobra at November 24, 2024 02:09 PM (HIK27)

19 Add a little MEK, mush it up, and you'll be good for many more months of enjoyment.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 02:10 PM (/lPRQ)

20 Choice 'D' is always the right choice ...

Posted by: Dr_No at November 24, 2024 02:10 PM (ayRl+)

21 Saddle Soap make great shaving cream if your face is beaten leather hide like mine.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 02:10 PM (xcIvR)

22 Saddle soup?! Is it the Food Thread already?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 02:11 PM (kpS4V)

23 It's sunny here, now. But still ten degrees F, and a bit of a breeze. I am disinclined to go outside.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 02:12 PM (HTHrm)

24 Saddle soup?! Is it the Food Thread already?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos

You've already eaten the horses? Now you're down to saddles? I didn't think things were that bad.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 02:12 PM (VNX3d)

25 Order your shoes from a small cobbler in Warsaw.

They'll arrive, permanently Polish-ed.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 02:12 PM (Xo+UM)

26 Shave soap. I use this instead of cream, or whatever. It smells good, doesn't lather too much and provides a slick surface when I shave with my single blade razor.

But... it will shrink and crack in the soap dish if I go more than a couple days between shaves, which I will do because reasons. It takes hot water, lots of it, and some time to massage it back to usable form.

Whoa is me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 02:14 PM (Q4IgG)

27 Grabbing the 'gently heated' can. Ayyyeee

Posted by: Zeera , The People Are Coming at November 24, 2024 02:14 PM (EL0rn)

28 Order your shoes from a small cobbler in Warsaw.

They'll arrive, permanently Polish-ed.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 02:12 PM (Xo+UM)

Cobbler jokes. You must be feeling peachy!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 02:14 PM (RFPHU)

29 I tend to use beeswax, but saddle soap is cheap. Do you live near an active volcano?

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 02:15 PM (2NXcZ)

30 Condition the leather's deep grain with mink oil before applying the saddle soap. Saddle soap is to keep the stitching from rotting. Side note, none of these excellent natural preservatives will prevent formation of mildew as temperature goes up and down in storage area. Do not ask how I know this.

You put saddle soap on with a hot moist cloth. The heat re-forms the soap to fit the tin. The soap should be worked up to a mild frothing foam to be rubbed into the leather. Then you buff.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 02:15 PM (zdLoL)

31 25 Order your shoes from a small cobbler in Warsaw.

They'll arrive, permanently Polish-ed.

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 02:12 PM (Xo+UM)

You could also go the Spock route, and have them Vulcan-ized.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 02:15 PM (VNX3d)

32 Would get a double boiler, melt saddle soap, when liquid pour back into can

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 02:15 PM (fwDg9)

33 I see abundant opportunities for both shoe puns and horse puns in this thread.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 02:15 PM (nOjd9)

34 If mink oil is so good, why do the little bastards squeak?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 02:16 PM (HTHrm)

35 You could also go the Spock route, and have them Vulcan-ized.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 02:15 PM (VNX3d)

Is that your sole advice? You sir, are a heel and your impertinence cannot last.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 02:16 PM (nOjd9)

36 OT, for the woman wondering whether to take down the trump flag for thanksgiving,

Take up supporting NASCAR, and fly a “Let’s Go, Brandon!” flag…memorize a few finishes for Brandon, and you are good to go…

Posted by: Slash Buzz at November 24, 2024 02:17 PM (P3p+h)

37 Going on a more serious route, would putting it into a sealing container or a ziploc bag keep the volatiles in, and slow down the shrinkage?

I am not a chemist, nor do I play one on TV. I also did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 02:18 PM (VNX3d)

38 @34 That's nothing compared to neat's feet.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 02:18 PM (zdLoL)

39 You could also go the Spock route, and have them Vulcan-ized.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 02:15 PM (VNX3d)

Is that your sole advice? You sir, are a heel and your impertinence cannot last.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 02:16 PM (nOjd9)

Raises eyebrow. Fascinating.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 02:19 PM (VNX3d)

40 OT, for the woman wondering whether to take down the trump flag for thanksgiving,

Take up supporting NASCAR, and fly a “Let’s Go, Brandon!” flag…memorize a few finishes for Brandon, and you are good to go…
Posted by: Slash Buzz at November 24, 2024 02:17 PM (P3p+h)

Seriously, my advice to her would be leave the flag up. If the obnoxious relative complains, silently point towards the door.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 02:19 PM (HTHrm)

41

Add a little vanilla paste and slather on your French toast.

Posted by: Pendulating Richard at November 24, 2024 02:20 PM (H4YoQ)

42 "Would get a double boiler, melt saddle soap, when liquid pour back into can
Posted by: Skip "

Why not just melt it with a heat gun?

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 02:20 PM (vFG9F)

43 >>> 22 Saddle soup?! Is it the Food Thread already?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 02:11 PM (kpS4V)

NEIGH!

Posted by: John Kerry at November 24, 2024 02:22 PM (KcwUg)

44 Why not just melt it with a heat gun?
Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 02:20 PM (vFG9F)

I would assume the volatile that has gassed off to cause the shrinkage is somehow necessary to the proper performance of the product. So maybe melting and "re-casting" it would do no good at all?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 02:23 PM (HTHrm)

45 42 "Would get a double boiler, melt saddle soap, when liquid pour back into can
Posted by: Skip "

Why not just melt it with a heat gun?
----
Or hair dryer, but don't call the plumber's heat gun a hair dryer.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 02:23 PM (vd6bO)

46
Slap a hot iron on it. Oops, wrong FWP.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 02:25 PM (dxSpM)

47 Sheesh.
Simple solution.
Put the saddle soap into a smaller tin.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 24, 2024 02:25 PM (W/lyH)

48 The solution is obvious...buy a new can.

Posted by: Kiwi at November 24, 2024 02:26 PM (XeU6L)

49 fd well I have a heat gun of course, but assumed CBD would be more likely to have a double boiler

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 02:26 PM (fwDg9)

50 I always add a drop of mink oil or neatsfoot compound to that dried-out lump of color polish, and it replaces the other volatiles just fine. FWIW, can't recommend highly enough Blue Ribbon company, the oldest in the industry, and some of their stuff is in the Amazon catalogue. They make a dizzying array of washing, polishing, and upholstery fluids for the carriage trade.

Feed your leather. Feed it.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 02:27 PM (zdLoL)

51 What do you use on the horse? Mane n' Tail?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:27 PM (6ydKt)

52 They make a dizzying array of washing, polishing, and upholstery fluids for the carriage trade.

Feed your leather. Feed it.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver
----

I read that as 'carnage trade'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:28 PM (XeU6L)

53
The horse, the saddle, the man.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 02:28 PM (dxSpM)

54 1 Buy a smaller can of saddle soap

2. Open the full size can and polish every leather item you own including the dog. Toss remainder.

Of the soap not the dog.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 02:29 PM (sNCuU)

55 ...What do you use on the horse? Mane n' Tail?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:27 PM (6ydKt)

John Kerry uses Hoof in Mouth.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 02:29 PM (Xo+UM)

56 https://manentail.com/

If you scroll to the bottom, most of the customer comments are women swearing how awesome this is for their own hair.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:29 PM (6ydKt)

57 The horse, the saddle, the man.
Posted by: Hadrian
---------

Toss in a Marlboro, and we have a TV ad. Oh, wait...tobacco product. Never mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:30 PM (XeU6L)

58 Buy new shoes.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 02:30 PM (5vsma)

59 Here's a first world problem...

I have a Samsung gas stove. It has a control board with buttons so you can punch in the temperature you want the oven set to. The row that has the numbers 1, 4, and 7 died. I could care less about 1 and 7 but this means I can't set the temp to 400ish.

Now amusingly it has a "pizza" setting that sets it to exactly 400. I can do that, but I contacted my local guy to fix it and he told me they don't make that part any more - I have no idea how old the stove is, it was in the house when I bought it.

So am i just stuck never cooking at 425 or 450?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 02:31 PM (oZhjI)

60 A double boiler limits the heat to 212F (or, at my location about 201F). Can't control temperature very well with heat gun/hair dryer. Volatiles boil off at too high a temperature, which makes it worse.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2024 02:31 PM (EyY5h)

61 @52 And it really is, too, as far as the neats and minkies are concerned.

You think your job is tough? Try milking a mink.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 02:31 PM (zdLoL)

62 John Kerry uses Hoof in Mouth.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 02:29 PM (Xo+UM)

-- ---
lol

I pissed a lot of libs off in 2004 calling him "Horseface".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:32 PM (6ydKt)

63 A double boiler limits the heat to 212F (or, at my location about 201F). Can't control temperature very well with heat gun/hair dryer. Volatiles boil off at too high a temperature, which makes it worse.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2024 02:31 PM (EyY5h)

Sounds like a job for a sous vide machine. Precision temperature control at less than a boil.

Can we make booze out of something?

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 02:34 PM (sNCuU)

64 Mumblety years ago we were updating the kitchen in our 1938 house, and I found, among other things, a can of Shinola under the cabinets. It was still waxy, and had fairly pleasant scent. I lost it when we moved, but it was pretty cool.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at November 24, 2024 02:34 PM (Ad8y9)

65 I like my Korean auto, and Samsung makes decent phones, but Korean kitchen appliances have terrible customer support. Something goes wrong, TS.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2024 02:34 PM (EyY5h)

66 If you scroll to the bottom, most of the customer comments are women swearing how awesome this is for their own hair.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:29 PM (6ydKt)

Straight from the horse's mouth.
I used it on our (RIP Joy) Labradoodle and she looked like I gave her a perm. Then she wanted baths all the time.
Go into the back bedroom and she would jump into the tub.
I think it made her feel pretty.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 02:35 PM (xcIvR)

67
I have a Samsung gas stove. It has a control board with buttons so you can punch in the temperature you want the oven set to.
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*ponders the simple knobs on my 60's Frigdiaire oven and range*

18-1 -- Do you have a model number?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:35 PM (XeU6L)

68 Careful with all those oils as sooner or later they can go rancid.
Note: If your mink oil goes rancid it is probably over 30 years old.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 24, 2024 02:35 PM (5U0zv)

69 59 I sometimes can find older parts on eBay. I have a Myson 325 DV and a Honda EV4010 that I have to scrounge parts for occasionally, and have found eBay/craigslist/Facebook marketplace to be useful.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 02:36 PM (JK3o+)

70 Going on a more serious route, would putting it into a sealing container or a ziploc bag keep the volatiles in, and slow down the shrinkage?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 02:18 PM (VNX3d)

That's what SHE asked.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 24, 2024 02:36 PM (iODuv)

71 Mane and Tail really is made for horses! Wife used to have to buy it at the western shoppe. She guv it up after a while because she though it just conveyed too much fluffy voluptuous body but...ohjayzus. BBIAB.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 02:36 PM (zdLoL)

72 Mumblety years ago we were updating the kitchen in our 1938 house, and I found, among other things, a can of Shinola under the cabinets. It was still waxy, and had fairly pleasant scent. I lost it when we moved, but it was pretty cool.
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For the clueless, the "pleasant " scent is the way to tell.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2024 02:37 PM (EyY5h)

73 The pastor of the church I went to today probably used saddle soap to get into his skinny jeans.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 24, 2024 02:37 PM (kTd/k)

74 Going on a more serious route, would putting it into a sealing container or a ziploc bag keep the volatiles in, and slow down the shrinkage?

Posted by: Hour
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Yes. Remove as much air as possible.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:38 PM (XeU6L)

75 D. Suck it up and use the old stuff.

Choice D is just silly, but I do need some advice...

If its color has changed or it smells funny it has probably turned. Throw it out. Rancid saddle soap will actually screw with the natural ouls inthe leather. Store it tightly sealed in the fridge it will last longer.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 24, 2024 02:38 PM (F3SmE)

76 Oils

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 24, 2024 02:38 PM (F3SmE)

77 For the clueless, the "pleasant " scent is the way to tell.
Posted by: buddhaha
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If it looks like Shinola, and smells like Shinola, you don't have to taste it...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:40 PM (XeU6L)

78 My daughter was complaining about those digital oven interfaces in a rental place. She is used to our old propane stove where you just dial up the temperature and get with it. Had to connect to internet and download the user manual to figure it out. I sure would like to see manufacturers pursue making simplified products that are cheaper, easier to use, last longer, easier to repair, etc., but the world ain't going that way, it it?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 02:40 PM (vd6bO)

79 As for shoes I have not had to polish them since I left the Army.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at November 24, 2024 02:40 PM (Ad8y9)

80 but the world ain't going that way, it it?
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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Look, there's an app for that. Just scan this QR code...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:42 PM (XeU6L)

81 You are supposed to leave a slightly moistened natural sponge on top and then close the lid.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 02:42 PM (p4NUW)

82 >>iii. Make an explosive out of the soap and use it to blow up the house, and then buy a new can.

That would be your better option. Saddle soap breaks down over time.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 02:43 PM (LkLld)

83 Buy new shoes.

Pardon me Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 24, 2024 02:43 PM (e8Sk7)

84 I've found saddle soap tends to rehydrate okay. Just wet the rag a bit more. Or put a bit of water in the can and let it soak in for a day or two (after burning the house down, of course).

I suspect one could store the tin in a Ziploc bag to lessen this phenomenon, but have never tested the theory.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at November 24, 2024 02:43 PM (kOluj)

85 Buy smaller packages or tins or whatnot, so you use it up before the moisture in it evaporates.

It's science.

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2024 02:45 PM (/7KEl)

86 So am i just stuck never cooking at 425 or 450?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 02:31 PM (oZhjI)

If you're not making pastries, bread, homemade pizza, roast chicken, leg of lamb, sausages, or roasting vegetables, you'll probably never go above 375.

So yeah, other than that you're fine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:45 PM (6ydKt)

87 I would never allow a saddle into the shower so saddle soap is unnecessary...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 24, 2024 02:46 PM (1FWWQ)

88 I sure would like to see manufacturers pursue making simplified products that are cheaper, easier to use, last longer, easier to repair, etc., but the world ain't going that way, it it?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 02:40 PM (vd6bO)

Just scan the UPC code on the package, and we'll connect to our server to set up the correct cooking temperature and timer for you.

Oh, you want to make something from scratch. Sorry, our products no longer support anything but packaged meals.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 02:46 PM (VNX3d)

89 Do you have a model number?

Samsung NX58R4311SS

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 02:46 PM (oZhjI)

90
A thought occurred to me an hour ago: I wonder if someone sells a "Jet-Fuel" scented candle or air freshener?

Really. You know, to add realism to my PC Flight Simulator.

Guess what?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 02:46 PM (rabIu)

91 sorry only one s at the end so

Samsung NX58R4311S

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 02:46 PM (oZhjI)

92 also who uses saddle soap

get a tin of Kiwi and a soft rag and be done with it

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2024 02:46 PM (/7KEl)

93 Switched to using a bar of saddle soap or Murphys oil soap

Posted by: Nope! at November 24, 2024 02:47 PM (o06o3)

94 But seriously, 18-1:

I found some parts for an old clothes dryer on here -

https://www.repairclinic.com/

Try your model number and part number and you might find it on there.

Amazon sells appliance parts, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:48 PM (6ydKt)

95
Anyone remember when Amazon conned the whole world into believing that little drone aircraft would be delivering their packages?

I said it would Never Ever happen. I was the only one.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 02:48 PM (rabIu)

96 My FWP this week is my own damn fault. Being 29, I take a number of prescriptions and OTC vitamins and supplements twice daily. I got on of those weekly pill organizers to keep track. On Saturdays, I place the Saturday evening pills in another bottle so I can refill my dispenser for the next. All that's well and good but my 29 year old dog also takes twice daily pills. So I often use one of her empty pill bottles to hold my Saturday evening pills. Last night, I grabbed what I thought was my Saturday night pills and downed them. Then I found my actual pills and realized I had downed my dog's pill bottle overdosing on Gabapentin. I didn't panic because my dog weighs 15 lbs. and I weigh, uhhh, somewhat more. I looked up Gabapentin and it wasn't too scary considering I had only taken maybe twice an adult dose so I decided to just ride it out. I got higher than I've been for decades, stumbled to bed, and slept like a dog. I didn't wake to a host of Heavenly angels so I seem to have survived although I'm still a little more relaxed than usual.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 02:48 PM (L/fGl)

97 >>also who uses saddle soap

People with saddles. And all other horse stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 02:49 PM (LkLld)

98 88 Just scan the UPC code on the package, and we'll connect to our server to set up the correct cooking temperature and timer for you.

Oh, you want to make something from scratch. Sorry, our products no longer support anything but packaged meals
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Not covered in your end user license agreement..

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 02:49 PM (vd6bO)

99 Kind of shuttered thinking of a mink getting squeezed to juice between rollers

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 02:49 PM (fwDg9)

100
Amazon sells Hot Cocoa scented candles.

And "Fall" scented candles.

I like Pine scent.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 02:50 PM (rabIu)

101 On the one hand I hate the interference of government and graft and corruption that goes hand in hand with regulation. On the other hand, I hate that major appliance manufacturers are selling us very expensive, shoddily made shit products that break early and often, have inadequate or nonexistent support, and/or have arrangements that prohibit unrelated third-parties from fixing them. They're fucking the consumers to a point that's almost fraudulent, but I worry the cure may be worse than the disease.

Posted by: Why can't they just make a good washer and dryer? at November 24, 2024 02:51 PM (FEapg)

102 get a tin of Kiwi and a soft rag and be done with it

Posted by: Don Black

It's hard to get good Kiwis these days to get the proper squeezings.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 02:51 PM (WXNFJ)

103 I didn't wake to a host of Heavenly angels so I seem to have survived although I'm still a little more relaxed than usual.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 02:48

And just like that the Vet was informed of the dog's higher pain level and the necessity to double the dosage of Gabapentin!

Cute story and I am glad that it turned out okay. You could have dewormed yourself.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 24, 2024 02:52 PM (sNCuU)

104 I didn't wake to a host of Heavenly angels so I seem to have survived although I'm still a little more relaxed than usual.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 02:48 PM (L/fGl)

Instead you wake up to the Horde.
Is this a net gain, or loss?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 24, 2024 02:52 PM (W/lyH)

105 101 Speed Queen still makes a few not the simpler models.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 02:52 PM (vd6bO)

106 The row that has the numbers 1, 4, and 7 died.

10-key style keypads are a grid:

123
456
789

There's 3 vertical lines (1/4/7, 2/5/8, and 3/6/9) and 3 horizontal ones. You have a bad connection on the leftmost vertical line. Probably a cracked solder joint because RoHS lead-free solder is the devil. If you have a multimeter and a soldering iron you should be able to find where that line goes to (probably a pin on a microcontroller) and touch up the connection there.

Or, as someone else suggested, you can find a part number off the board and check eBay.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2024 02:53 PM (0A/JS)

107 It's hard to get good Kiwis these days to get the proper squeezings.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 02:51 PM

*hopes NZFrank doesn't read this*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2024 02:54 PM (Wnv9h)

108 101 On the one hand I hate the interference of government and graft and corruption that goes hand in hand with regulation. On the other hand, I hate that major appliance manufacturers are selling us very expensive, shoddily made shit products that break early and often, have inadequate or nonexistent support, and/or have arrangements that prohibit unrelated third-parties from fixing them. They're fucking the consumers to a point that's almost fraudulent, but I worry the cure may be worse than the disease.

Posted by: Why can't they just make a good washer and dryer? at November 24, 2024 02:51 PM (FEapg)

It's called "Planned Obsolescence".

They just never bothered to tell the rest of us the plan.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:54 PM (6ydKt)

109 On the other hand, I hate that major appliance manufacturers are selling us very expensive, shoddily made shit products that break early and often, have inadequate or nonexistent support, and/or have arrangements that prohibit unrelated third-parties from fixing them.

A not-insignificant amount of things being expensive and shoddy is because of government regulations.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2024 02:55 PM (0A/JS)

110 also who uses saddle soap

I used saddle soap on our tack when we had hay burners and rode them regularly. I learned a great deal about leather care from an older gentleman who still teaches leather working for kids in my wife's home school program. He also worked with my son's BS troop. Saddle soap is primarily a cleaner. It will condition to a certain degree, but if the leather needs to be restored, I use SS first to clean and follow up with Neats foot oil to condition. Never used it on dress shoes. Kiwi worked just fine for those.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 24, 2024 02:56 PM (F3SmE)

111 repairclinic

+1

Got the heating element for our Whirlpool stove/oven last year. Easy peasy to fix. They carry a bunch of parts, including Samsung.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 02:56 PM (Q4IgG)

112 101 105 They can only sell what we'll buy. 'course lots of people like the fancy stuff....reminds me of that old Kliban cartoon where the caveman is walking away from the fire and the other cavemen, saying "F@#$k this primitive sh@t!"

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 02:56 PM (vd6bO)

113 Wash it with soft soap like Dove then brush it with Neatsfoot Oil.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 02:56 PM (TDdfP)

114 I use Chemical Guys leather care products on my boots.
Bag Balm warmed in hot tap water bath if I need a water proofer.
Bickmore for the exotic stuff.
Meltonian for polish.
My FWP is the pile of PT lumber I can't take to the island garbage transfer station.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 02:56 PM (MeckE)

115 A thought occurred to me an hour ago: I wonder if someone sells a "Jet-Fuel" scented candle or air freshener?

Really. You know, to add realism to my PC Flight Simulator.

Guess what?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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My favorite scented candle
http://tiny.cc/7p3xzz

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:56 PM (XeU6L)

116 ^
tampon tim's wife, too

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 02:58 PM (rabIu)

117 Amazon had the vacuum filters for my 20 y/o Bissel. 15$ and came the next day.
Bexos is a snake but Amazon epitomizes what the internet does best.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 02:59 PM (MeckE)

118 I was sitting by the pool today, and the little umbrella in my tropical drink was swamped when I jostled the glass, and, wouldn't you know it, not an umbrella-gaff-handler in sight.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2024 03:00 PM (njExo)

119 How about oven temp=395

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:00 PM (MeckE)

120 scented candle

Warning for parrot owner morons,
scented candles can poison the air. Like "little tree" air freshener.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 24, 2024 03:00 PM (e8Sk7)

121 118 I was sitting by the pool today, and the little umbrella in my tropical drink was swamped when I jostled the glass, and, wouldn't you know it, not an umbrella-gaff-handler in sight.
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And when you do find good help, they're so coarse.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:01 PM (vd6bO)

122 111 repairclinic

+1

Got the heating element for our Whirlpool stove/oven last year. Easy peasy to fix. They carry a bunch of parts, including Samsung.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 02:56 PM (Q4IgG)

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Worked fine for me.
They were slower on delivery than Amazon but cheaper.

Most of the parts pages have videos attached to show you how to install them, as well.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 03:03 PM (6ydKt)

123 96 My FWP this week is my own damn fault. Being 29, I take a number of prescriptions and OTC vitamins and supplements twice daily.
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Got tired of it, I do six weeks a time - green for the morning, purple for the evening. And Gabapentin has zero affect on me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 03:03 PM (TDdfP)

124 109 Government regs. have screwed up dishwasher and washing machines to the point where they are problematic.

As for the Samsung gas ovens -- sucker! Buy American. They all essentially use the same parts. Minify features. The smarter/more digital they are the more there is to go wrong; usually involving a motherboard, which costs more than the residual value of the appliance.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2024 03:04 PM (wBaIH)

125 124 Complexity is not our friend.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:05 PM (vd6bO)

126 >>>So am i just stuck never cooking at 425 or 450?
Posted by: 18-1
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Buy an old Chambers Range and have it overhauled. Now you'll have a classic that won't break.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 03:06 PM (TDdfP)

127
Do you have a new fangled dishwasher?

If yes, you probably have a Filter that requires frequent rinsing. Check your manual.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 03:06 PM (rabIu)

128 Skidmore's leather cream. Accept no substitutes.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 03:07 PM (gGMRM)

129 They do the same thing with food. Some brands of sour cream have half a dozen or more ingredients, only the first one being the necessary one.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:07 PM (vd6bO)

130 Speed Queen still makes a few not the simpler models.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

I'm looking at their TC and TR model washers right now. The Samsung that we have that came with the house works pretty well but the damn thing has a rusted bleach cup. Momma is not happy. So, out it goes.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 03:08 PM (WXNFJ)

131 121 - And when you do find good help, they're so coarse. - Don in SoCo.

M'yes, and they carry on as if they view their tasks as being somehow infra dig. Savages.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2024 03:08 PM (njExo)

132 Saddle soap has many uses.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at November 24, 2024 03:08 PM (/U5Yz)

133 My FWP - I need a new Christmas Tree. Have you seen what they cost? Ugh.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 03:08 PM (pZEOD)

134 Don’t use saddle soap. Use BLACKROCK Leather ’N’ Rich. Much better. Doesn’t get hard.

Posted by: IndyBill at November 24, 2024 03:08 PM (+WI3k)

135 Speed Queen still makes a few not the simpler models.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

I'm looking at their TC and TR model washers right now. The Samsung that we have that came with the house works pretty well but the damn thing has a rusted bleach cup. Momma is not happy. So, out it goes.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 03:08 PM (WXNFJ)

Test equipment for your new trebuchet?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 03:09 PM (VNX3d)

136 I wonder if someone sells a "Jet-Fuel" scented candle or air freshener?

My dad worked nights at the refinery loading rack office ("Sales Department"). He'd come home in his company-blue coveralls to get me up for school. I thought JP-5 was a kind of aftershave.

One day he told me he'd just shipped the fuel for President Kennedy's airplane. Looking back later, I guess it didn't take much to make a special day at school in those days.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 03:10 PM (zdLoL)

137 Btw, is Ace really trying his hand at making beef jerky? I've been making my own for a few months now and it's delicious - and, I believe, marginally more economical than buying the stuff.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2024 03:10 PM (njExo)

138 Doesn’t get hard.
Posted by: IndyBill

Bob Dole is here to help.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 03:11 PM (WXNFJ)

139 >>>The smarter/more digital they are the more there is to go wrong; usually involving a motherboard, which costs more than the residual value of the appliance.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhuko
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Right. Gas is not complex, one needs air, a spark, an outlet (burner) and an adjustment valve.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 03:11 PM (TDdfP)

140 We were looking at Speed Queen washers, but Mrs. Paco insists that she needs one that will handle between 4 and 5 cubic feet, and I don't recollect seeing any of that size.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2024 03:13 PM (njExo)

141 I have no idea why I had this bookmarked, but it's funny, so sharing before I delete:
A Secret Meeting of the Grandmas
https://shorturl.at/lG5Td

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 03:13 PM (KcwUg)

142
Yes, always get the 5 cubic foot size. At least.

Unless you sleep in Twin Beds and have nothing large to wash.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 03:14 PM (rabIu)

143
$25 for candles??

Come on.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 03:15 PM (rabIu)

144 First world problem.

Christmas decorating. Alone. Boys have their own lives. Even when they were home, they HATED getting all the stuff out and helping. I tried every bribe imaginable. I even plied them with booze when they were in Jr High! Nope.

Oh well. I like the finished product. It takes me days to fluff everything and arrange and rearrange and fluff some more.

Lucy likes her heating pad under the tree.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 03:16 PM (3izFu)

145 139 The smarter/more digital they are the more there is to go wrong; usually involving a motherboard, which costs more than the residual value of the appliance.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhuko

Truer words were never spoken. Our washer broke down during the pandemic when supply chains were backed up and it took forever to get the right part (I believe the electronics got fried). We wound up washing our clothes in a bathtub. I was seriously thinking about buying a washboard. Fortunately, the machine was still under warranty; if I had been required to pay out of pocket, I'd have been better off just buying a new one.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2024 03:16 PM (njExo)

146
btw, You People do know that ~~Turkey~~ Smoked Pork Butt Day is in 4 days, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 03:17 PM (rabIu)

147 I'm coming inside for a few swigs of beer before going out and finishing mowing the lawn for the last time this year to mulch whatever leaves I can.

Back to it.....

Lawn mowing in Canada on Nov 24th.....

Grrrr....

Posted by: Stateless at November 24, 2024 03:17 PM (jvJvP)

148 A Secret Meeting of the Grandmas
https://shorturl.at/lG5Td

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 03:13 PM (KcwUg)

they're plotting their next Christmas Sweater heist.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 03:17 PM (6ydKt)

149
I'm having Ham.

From the Honey Baked Ham Co.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 03:17 PM (rabIu)

150 18-1, maybe buy a countertop toaster / convection oven and use that while you search for an aftermarket replacement part or a new oven.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 03:17 PM (KcwUg)

151 142 Yes, always get the 5 cubic foot size. At least.

Unless you sleep in Twin Beds and have nothing large to wash. - Soothsayer

Yeah, that's exactly the problem: we need big capacity for the comforter and king-size sheets.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2024 03:18 PM (njExo)

152 144
Christmas decorating. Alone.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November

Nobody helps me here, either. So I put on Christmas music, make some tea and do it myself. Bah humbug.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 03:18 PM (pZEOD)

153 140 Ours specifies load size as 16lbs. It was not particularly easy to find. Only one place up in Colorado Springs actually had one.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:19 PM (vd6bO)

154 >>>117 Amazon had the vacuum filters for my 20 y/o Bissel. 15$ and came the next day.
Bexos is a snake but Amazon epitomizes what the internet does best.
Posted by: Accomack
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Double on the snake and what the snake does best is sales. I ordered a replacement item from FoMoCo, it was wrong and they didn't have the original. Who on earth through all the shopping had it? Yeah, Amazon. caveat: I don't trust ebay or etsy for replacement parts or much else either.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 03:19 PM (TDdfP)

155 Can advertising beat reality?

They sure are spending a lot of money to make EVs look fabulous!!!

CBD should probably buy one, then the burning down the house option will be taken out of his hands.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 03:20 PM (eDfFs)

156 Not a lot of Christmas decorating in San Francisco. I definitely miss the colored lights that were everywhere back East this time of year.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 03:21 PM (RIvkX)

157 Linked in nic: pic of a carriage bolt that came from Mom's piano, a 70-some-year-old Knabe baby grand.

When the piano movers set it up about a year ago, they told us there was a bolt missing. Months later, we found a bolt on the floor under the piano. Wiggled out from wherever it was hiding.

In the photo, the bolt on the left is the original carriage bolt, which you may see is bent to unusability.

SonM shopped at Tractor Supply and Lowe's for possible matches. Thread was matched, but length - not quite but close enough. No match on the slotted head.

Settled on the bolt on the right, which you cannot see has a recessed hex head, as the most suitable, but necessarily using a smaller washer. SonM, of course, had the right tool for the job.

After years in storage and a year without that bolt, the piano is all together again.

Now it just needs tuning…

Posted by: mindful webworker - first world traveler at November 24, 2024 03:21 PM (vUvG1)

158 Buying a new can of saddle soap seems, well, boring.

All other options should be on the table and offered PPV.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 24, 2024 03:21 PM (tT6L1)

159 I'm coming inside for a few swigs of beer before going out and finishing mowing the lawn for the last time this year to mulch whatever leaves I can.

Back to it.....

Lawn mowing in Canada on Nov 24th.....

Grrrr....
Posted by: Stateless at November 24, 2024 03:17 PM (jvJvP)

Heh. Went outside for a bit, and used the snow shovel to clear about 2" of the white shit off my footpaths, and the ramp going into the big shop. Ten degrees F, but next to no wind, and there was bright sunshine, so it was not too bad. Not enough new snow to mandate the snow blower. Now, at least, I don't have to armor up in insulated coveralls and felt pac boots just to get to the shop or garage.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 03:22 PM (0IhkV)

160 Can advertising beat reality?

They sure are spending a lot of money to make EVs look fabulous!!!

CBD should probably buy one, then the burning down the house option will be taken out of his hands.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 03:20 PM (eDfFs)

It would have to support Sous Vide to interest him....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 03:22 PM (VNX3d)

161 naturalflake or at least be covered by insurance

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 03:22 PM (fwDg9)

162 Think only used saddle soap on new baseball gloves

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 02:02 PM (fwDg9)
______________

Neat's Foot Oil is traditional.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 24, 2024 03:24 PM (YqDXo)

163 Corsicana does a fabulous job of decorating the town. They put a huge Christmas tree right on the main street, wreaths all over and tons of lights. Beautiful at night.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 03:24 PM (gGMRM)

164 Can advertising beat reality?

They sure are spending a lot of money to make EVs look fabulous!!!

CBD should probably buy one, then the burning down the house option will be taken out of his hands.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 03:20 PM (eDfFs)
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How long before insurance company actuaries take notice of the fire problem, and thereby knock the EV crap right on the head?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 24, 2024 03:26 PM (YqDXo)

165 I’ll be moving to a new house at the end of January and am starting the process of packing up my current house. A job I’m not wanting to do at all and it actually delayed my decision to move for over a year . If I won just a small lottery I would take just what I could fit in my truck , sell my house at below market and just start over from scratch at the new house.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 03:27 PM (D6PGr)

166 Neatsfoot oil is not the best choice for any leather.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 03:27 PM (gGMRM)

167 We have a grandmother, not grandfather clock in need of new mechanicals. The difference between the two is mostly size. Ours is about 5'6" tall and about 10" wide in the neck and wider at the face and base.

The 8 day mechanicals with installation by a local clocksmith is almost $700.

Not sure it's worth it. But a new clock of similar size and style is over $1.5K.

Decisions... it's been broken for years.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 03:28 PM (Q4IgG)

168 166 Neatsfoot oil is not the best choice for any leather.
Posted by: Ben Had at November

Especially the compound. It will do very bad things to your stitching!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 03:28 PM (pZEOD)

169 RocketLab Launch - Ice AIS Baby
10:55 PM EST

https://www.youtube.com/live/fps-ilnHsEM

Pad : LC-1B
Location : Maria Peninsula, New Zealand
Rocket : Electron

Live stream starts at T-25:00.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 03:28 PM (VNX3d)

170 Saddle Soap. I loved the smell as a young man (well, below 50 anyway). It meant I was getting ready to play baseball.

Posted by: javems at November 24, 2024 03:28 PM (8I4hW)

171 I bought new car seats and a center console via eBay motors. Everything went well.
I get parts from Amazon. It took me a while to figure out why Amazon said the LuqiMoli I wanted was not recommended for my Kia. It was N+ instead of 2N++ or something.
Bezos is a snake but he does have good engineers.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:28 PM (aHqhe)

172 CBD should probably buy one, then the burning down the house option will be taken out of his hands.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 03:20 PM (eDfFs)

Excellent plan!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 03:29 PM (d9fT1)

173 Natural oils spoil and maybe acidic. Vaseline and lanolin are great.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:29 PM (aHqhe)

174
btw, I saw an ingenious Youtube video on how to make your own Stud/Nail Finder.

So Simple. So Elegant.

Tie a good Magnet to a string and dangle it over the wall.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 03:30 PM (rabIu)

175 After years in storage and a year without that bolt, the piano is all together again.

Now it just needs tuning…
Posted by: mindful webworker - first world traveler at November 24, 2024 03:21 PM (vUvG1)

A quibble: the original bolt is almost assuredly not a carriage bolt, since it has a slotted head, which implies it is meant to be turned by a screwdriver. Second one is a carriage bolt, since it has no slot, and it has a squared shank immediately beneath the head, which is intended to wedge tightly in the drilled hole in a piece of wood, locking the bolt from turning as the nut is tightened.

I would characterize the piano bolt as a truss-head slotted machine screw, and it is probably obsolete. Myself, if appearance were an issue, I would go with a black iron carriage bolt of suitable size, grind the square shank round and smooth, and slot the head. If it is out sight, the hex socket-head bolt is is perfectly fine, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 03:30 PM (0IhkV)

176 My FWP - I need a new Christmas Tree. Have you seen what they cost? Ugh.
Posted by: Piper

Had to buy a new one this year as the puppy chewed the cord on the old one last year. Bought a small pre lit flocked tree. Yikes. The price. Some of the big ones get into the thousands of dollars.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2024 03:30 PM (oaGWv)

177
I'm coming inside for a few swigs of beer before going out and finishing mowing the lawn for the last time this year to mulch whatever leaves I can.

Back to it.....

Lawn mowing in Canada on Nov 24th.....

Grrrr....
Posted by: Stateless

Doing the same here except it's Gatorade and I'm in central Indiana. Temp is 57 and I'm sweating.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 03:31 PM (63Dwl)

178 CBD should probably buy one, then the burning down the house option will be taken out of his hands.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 03:20 PM (eDfFs)

Excellent plan!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 03:29 PM (d9fT1)

If you want to increase the odds, have it painted like the General Lee, and drive like Bo Duke.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 03:31 PM (VNX3d)

179
Chris Christiansen > Cowboy Magic > Mane and Tail

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 03:32 PM (O0faj)

180 We were looking at Speed Queen washers, but Mrs. Paco insists that she needs one that will handle between 4 and 5 cubic feet, and I don't recollect seeing any of that size.
Posted by: Paco

Paco, she's right- they don't. However, you can fill the SQ using 100% capacity of the drum. Most other manufacturers advise against going over 65-70% of their drum capacity.

So, it pretty much evens out.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 03:32 PM (WXNFJ)

181 CBD should probably buy one, then the burning down the house option will be taken out of his hands.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 03:20 PM (eDfFs)

Excellent plan!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 03:29 PM (d9fT1)

If you want to increase the odds, have it painted like the General Lee, and drive like Bo Duke.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 03:31 PM (VNX3d)

Just make sure to call it the General Electric.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 03:32 PM (VNX3d)

182 Natural oils spoil and maybe acidic. Vaseline and lanolin are great.
Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:29 PM (aHqhe)

Lanolin will never go baaaad!

Posted by: The Sheep at November 24, 2024 03:33 PM (0IhkV)

183 Our little town decorates. The Tree Lighting is Dec 2. The Tree Lighting for Fairhope already happened. We bring in fake snow makers. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 03:33 PM (pZEOD)

184 51 What do you use on the horse? Mane n' Tail?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:27 PM (6ydKt)
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Nah, Head 'n Shoulders. That's why after a gallop the horse's mane is always lathered.

Posted by: Ciampino - what a quandary at November 24, 2024 03:35 PM (i0xsb)

185 At my new development it’s a golf cart friendly community . I wouldn’t consider one except they also have a private golf course where you would have to rent as not included in membership.

So I went on line to see what a refurbished used cart would cost. Shocked. But what I did note is that most of the newer carts are Ion lithium which I wouldn’t buy even if I thought it was affordable.

If I buy one it will be the lead acid battery model. Decent refurbished used cart is 4k. WTF.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 03:35 PM (D6PGr)

186 This time of year the cedar trees have the purple berries on the branches and make great swags and wreaths. I will put the wooden reindeer on the gates the day after Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 03:35 PM (gGMRM)

187 I’ll be moving to a new house at the end of January and am starting the process of packing up my current house. A job I’m not wanting to do at all and it actually delayed my decision to move for over a year . If I won just a small lottery I would take just what I could fit in my truck , sell my house at below market and just start over from scratch at the new house.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Packing and moving sucks. Unpacking sucks more.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2024 03:35 PM (oaGWv)

188 Either use it more frequently, buy more items to use it on, or purchase smaller quantity containers.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 24, 2024 03:35 PM (hKoQL)

189 CBD, one word, sous vide ..... two words.

Posted by: Ciampino - what quandaries at November 24, 2024 03:36 PM (i0xsb)

190 Lanolin will never go baaaad!
Posted by: The Sheep at November 24, 2024 03:33 PM (0IhkV)
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Sheep - they get a little lanolin, they think they rule the world.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 03:36 PM (z0QHk)

191 >>Corsicana does a fabulous job of decorating the town. They put a huge Christmas tree right on the main street, wreaths all over and tons of lights. Beautiful at night.

But does Santa and Mrs. Claus come by boat to light the tree?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 03:36 PM (LkLld)

192
Everyone's snowblowers ready to go?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2024 03:36 PM (rabIu)

193 Waukesha recently dedicated their memorial to those affected by the Waukesha Christmas Parade ruined by the nut driving through it.

For at least a time on Google, they showed it named after the nut, not the parade or the people it was meant to commemorate. I need to find more ways to de-google my life - they don't deserve any of my traffic or data.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 03:36 PM (VNX3d)

194 Lanolin collects dirt and grime. I wouldn't touch a bridle that had it used on it.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 03:37 PM (gGMRM)

195
Packing and moving sucks. Unpacking sucks more.
Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2024 03:35 PM (oaGWv)

_________

Unpacking is like Christmas in reverse. You know what's in the boxes and you don't want to open them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 03:37 PM (O0faj)

196 Here is a pic of Fairhope all lit up.

https://tinyurl.com/ys9xxywy

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 03:37 PM (pZEOD)

197 180 Paco, she's right- they don't. However, you can fill the SQ using 100% capacity of the drum. Most other manufacturers advise against going over 65-70% of their drum capacity.

So, it pretty much evens out. - TonyPete

Thanks! That's news I can use.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2024 03:37 PM (njExo)

198 Warning - FWP: Wife is now on the road driving to assist butthead daughter near Orlando. Thanksgiving here is seriously in doubt. If spotted, do not approach. Wife is monumentally pissed off and wants to kill a certain someone - but will settle for anyone.

Perhaps try to pacify by throwing chocolate offerings in her general direction. But still, don't say I didn't warn you.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (WXNFJ)

199 So I went on line to see what a refurbished used cart would cost. Shocked. But what I did note is that most of the newer carts are Ion lithium which I wouldn’t buy even if I thought it was affordable.

If I buy one it will be the lead acid battery model. Decent refurbished used cart is 4k. WTF.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 03:35 PM (D6PGr)

Do they allow gasoline-powered golf carts? They are pretty quiet and trouble-free. Just sit down, put your foot on the accelerator, and go.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (0IhkV)

200 186. Too bad there is not much you can do with juniper berries...have a lot this year.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (vd6bO)

201 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (0IhkV)

Unfortunately not allowed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (D6PGr)

202
Too bad there is not much you can do with juniper berries.

________

You can go into the gin business.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 03:39 PM (O0faj)

203 Brunette: "I think for his birthday I'll give my boyfriend Head and Shoulders."
Blonde: is silent for a while, then "How do you give shoulders?"

Posted by: Ciampino - Compendium of Blonde Humor at November 24, 2024 03:40 PM (i0xsb)

204 200 186. Too bad there is not much you can do with juniper berries...have a lot this year.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (vd6bO)

Don’t you flavor gin with those?

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2024 03:40 PM (W6hoT)

205 Too bad there is not much you can do with juniper berries.

________

You can go into the gin business.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I don't cotton to that.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 03:40 PM (WXNFJ)

206 Too bad there is not much you can do with juniper berries...have a lot this year.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (vd6bO)

Now every time I hear juniper berries/tree I think of the movie Mud. The girlfriend was named Juniper.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 03:40 PM (D6PGr)

207 Perhaps try to pacify by throwing chocolate offerings in her general direction. But still, don't say I didn't warn you.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (WXNFJ)

You could at least list recommended minimums here. One level for minimal safety, and another to be left alone.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 03:41 PM (VNX3d)

208 Unfortunately not allowed.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (D6PGr)

Respectfully suggest you find another community. Or troll them. Get a lead-acid battery cart, install one battery, and put a gasoline-powered genset in the cart's cargo space to charge the battery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 03:42 PM (0IhkV)

209 176
Had to buy a new one this year as the puppy chewed the cord on the old one last year. Bought a small pre lit flocked tree. Yikes. The price. Some of the big ones get into the thousands of dollars.
Posted by: Tuna at November

I have 10 foot ceilings. Maybe I just let the fiasco of a real tree happen.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 03:42 PM (pZEOD)

210 According to Wiki, Alliance Laundry makes SQ and Huebsch machines. My local laundries use Huebsch.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:42 PM (MeckE)

211 Now every time I hear juniper berries/tree I think of the movie Mud. The girlfriend was named Juniper.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 03:40 PM (D6PGr)
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Nothing wrong with that.

Posted by: Donovan Leitch at November 24, 2024 03:42 PM (z0QHk)

212 Buy smaller packages or tins or whatnot, so you use it up before the moisture in it evaporates.

It's science.

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2024 02:45 PM (/7KEl)
_________________

Pro tip: store things that tend to dry out (e.g., plastic wood, spackle, etc.) upside down, so that the contents descend to the cap. Then the stuff right around the edge of the cap dries out, it forms a seal that keeps the rest of the contents fresh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 24, 2024 03:43 PM (YqDXo)

213 I live in a golf cart community too.

Autonomous golf carts.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 03:43 PM (RIvkX)

214 Soon to be a real 1WP, having to pay the entire cost of a EV and not getting tax money to help.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 03:44 PM (fwDg9)

215 Mane n Tail is a great hair conditioner. I have used nothing but Orvus shampoo for years. One 4 lb tub at 20 bucks last for years. It cleans your hair without stripping the natural oils.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 03:44 PM (gGMRM)

216 Too bad there is not much you can do with juniper berries...have a lot this year.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:38 PM (vd6bO)

Juniper goes well with pork...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 03:44 PM (d9fT1)

217 Babylon Bee: Local Man Passes Bar Exam After Just One Week Of Watching 'The View'

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 03:45 PM (VNX3d)

218 212
Pro tip: store things that tend to dry out (e.g., plastic wood, spackle, etc.) upside down, so that the contents descend to the cap. Then the stuff right around the edge of the cap dries out, it forms a seal that keeps the rest of the contents fresh.
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Heh. Or it leaks out onto the cabinet shelf.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:45 PM (vd6bO)

219 Nothing wrong with that.
Posted by: Donovan Leitch at November 24, 2024 03:42 PM (z0QHk)

Hah ! Until just this minute I thought the lyrics were
Jennifer, Jennifer…

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 03:46 PM (D6PGr)

220 It's going to be Thanksgiving in 4 days and California is still counting ballots.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 03:46 PM (LkLld)

221 Pro tip: store things that tend to dry out (e.g., plastic wood, spackle, etc.) upside down, so that the contents descend to the cap. Then the stuff right around the edge of the cap dries out, it forms a seal that keeps the rest of the contents fresh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 24, 2024 03:43 PM (YqDXo)

Good advice! I always invert paint cans with the friction-fit lids for a few seconds after reclosing them, to get a film of paint to seal any leaks in the lid. POR-15 is notorious for going hard in the can. What I did for it was use the CO2 cylinder on my welder to fill the headspace on the can with CO2, and then close the lid. Kept oxygen and/or moisture in the air from catalyzing the unused paint into hardening.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 03:47 PM (0IhkV)

222 Isn't there a Donovan song about Jennifer, Juniper?

Posted by: Ciampino - Oldies? at November 24, 2024 03:47 PM (i0xsb)

223 True. Vaseline is cleaner but I find it doesn't last. I use them on my work boots. The dress boots get different stuff.
Lanolin works on power tool spindles. I found Bag Balm is the only thing that heals my skin when using plaster .

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:47 PM (GxmKP)

224 Heh. Or it leaks out onto the cabinet shelf.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:45 PM (vd6bO)
________________

Not if you put the cap on properly. If worried about it, put the whole thing into a baggie.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 24, 2024 03:48 PM (YqDXo)

225 People on Chincoteague have 6 seat golf carts.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:49 PM (GxmKP)

226 Lanolin works on power tool spindles. I found Bag Balm is the only thing that heals my skin when using plaster .
Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:47 PM (GxmKP)

Your plastering technique intrigues me. Tell me more!

Posted by: Pete Buttigeig at November 24, 2024 03:49 PM (0IhkV)

227 You put saddle soap on with a hot moist cloth. The heat re-forms the soap to fit the tin. The soap should be worked up to a mild frothing foam to be rubbed into the leather. Then you buff.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 02:15 PM (zdLoL)

Rubbing the saddle soap until it is foamy in the buff . . .

Kinky.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2024 03:49 PM (D7oie)

228 Just got back from the supermarket to buy the turkey day essentials. I remarked to the checkout lady that it seemed pretty subdued; I'd expected more craziness.

"Shhhhhhhhh!! Don't say that out loud!", she pleaded. "People are gettin' all agitated over ONE MEAL!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 03:49 PM (kpS4V)

229 Dried out paint is also my headache on the move. I thought I had paint to do touch ups but some of the room colors had dried out.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 03:50 PM (D6PGr)

230 226 Lanolin works on power tool spindles. I found Bag Balm is the only thing that heals my skin when using plaster .
Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:47 PM (GxmKP)

Your plastering technique intrigues me. Tell me more!
Posted by: Pete Buttigeig

Yes, much more.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at November 24, 2024 03:50 PM (/U5Yz)

231 My artificial tree is 18 years old. Most of the lights still work. It doesn't fluff as well as it used to.

I will look and see what prices are after the holidays when stuff goes on sale.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 03:51 PM (SCmha)

232 Heh. Or it leaks out onto the cabinet shelf.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:45 PM (vd6bO)
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And you wonder why the container's contents dry out when the container is right side up ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 24, 2024 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

233 @ 38 @34 That's nothing compared to neat's feet.
_________________________________________

Been a long time since I saw my last neat ...

Posted by: Dr_No at November 24, 2024 03:52 PM (ayRl+)

234 A quibble: the original bolt is almost assuredly not a carriage bolt… If it is out sight, the hex socket-head bolt is is perfectly fine, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Thanks for the bolt knowledge. Yes, fortunately, the bolt is out of sight. "Good enough" repair.

Posted by: mindful webworker - what is the second world? at November 24, 2024 03:53 PM (vUvG1)

235 >>>If I buy one it will be the lead acid battery model. Decent refurbished used cart is 4k. WTF.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Be exclusive, buy one with an old Cushman kick start.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 03:53 PM (TDdfP)

236 Invert your own rectum, Senator.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:54 PM (GxmKP)

237 232
Some guys would say this glass if half full. Some would say it's half empty. I say you didn't put the lid on right.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:54 PM (vd6bO)

238 230 226 Lanolin works on power tool spindles. I found Bag Balm is the only thing that heals my skin when using plaster .
Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 03:47 PM (GxmKP)

Your plastering technique intrigues me. Tell me more!
Posted by: Pete Buttigeig

Yes, much more.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at November 24, 2024 03:50 PM (/U5Yz)
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Pictures even.

Posted by: Ciampino - Oldies at November 24, 2024 03:54 PM (i0xsb)

239 My horse nut sister uses Lexol for her leather saddles and tack. Swears by it. I think she buys it by the gallon.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at November 24, 2024 03:57 PM (/U5Yz)

240 off balm filled sock

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2024 03:58 PM (/U5Yz)

241 Be exclusive, buy one with an old Cushman kick start.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 24, 2024 03:53 PM (TDdfP)

Harley-Davidson made (electric) golf carts, once upon a time:

https://tinyurl.com/yfetbjp6

You could get one of those, equip it with an amp and speaker to make the "potato, potato" sound, and even rig a small bottle to drip a few drops of dirty oil every time it gets parked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 03:58 PM (0IhkV)

242 231 My artificial tree is 18 years old. Most of the lights still work. It doesn't fluff as well as it used to.

I will look and see what prices are after the holidays when stuff goes on sale.
Posted by: nurse ratched

The cats sent mine to the dump last year. They had the branches pointing straight down to the floor, it was beyond Charlie Brown Tree status. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 03:58 PM (p4NUW)

243 The nice thing about endurance world is its okay to have brightly colored biothane or my preference betathane bridles and reins.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 03:59 PM (CKOCg)

244 Nood Food

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 04:00 PM (VNX3d)

245 FOODIE NOODIE TIME
get cleaned up and upstairs

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

246 Marketing idea for someone: make a virtual Christmas tree. Not sure if a hologram would work, but you could make a telescoping metal pole, with conical covering of white fabric, like a teepee, and then project images of a Christmas on its interior from projectors in the base.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 04:03 PM (0IhkV)

247 Some guys would say this glass if half full. Some would say it's half empty. I say you didn't put the lid on right.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 24, 2024 03:54 PM (vd6bO

My father subscribed to Readers Digest when I was a kid. I noted that they paid for submissions on jokes , military humor ,things kids say,etc.

I decided I would try and make up a ‘things kids say’ and submit like my Father sent it and try and get $50 !

After thinking awhile I came up with

Father: you can look at things either negatively or positively. Is the glass half full or half empty ?

Kid: it depends. Were you filling the glass or pouring it out?

I thought for sure the money was mine. The young mind has no self awareness.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 04:06 PM (D6PGr)

248 Our, now my, artificial tree is so old it is not pre-lit and it drops a few needles. I had thought about replacing it but it has more natural looking needles then most trees and I'm not sure what brand to look for to get that. Plus its sentimental now.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 04:09 PM (CKOCg)

249 Our, now my, artificial tree is so old it is not pre-lit and it drops a few needles. I had thought about replacing it but it has more natural looking needles then most trees and I'm not sure what brand to look for to get that. Plus its sentimental now.
Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 04:09 PM (CKOCg)

If the bottom part of the tree is what looks bad, why not continue using just the top half of the tree, perhaps on a table? It isn't as much work to put together, but keeps the sentiment alive for more years.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 04:12 PM (VNX3d)

250 249. I did that last year and set the tree on coffee table that had been pushed against the wall to reduce the amount of space needed for the tree since the hospital bed and etc. for dad didn't leave floor space for the full tree. But it is the top bit of the tree that is the most worn. But, sentimental and its not like I have to impress guests with a spectacular tree.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 04:18 PM (CKOCg)

251 We were looking at Speed Queen washers, but Mrs. Paco insists that she needs one that will handle between 4 and 5 cubic feet, and I don't recollect seeing any of that size.
Posted by: Paco
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I bought a S.Q. about a year ago. TR5003WN. It's very quiet and cleans well, but small. It will do king sheets, but not comforter.

Also-- control board failed once already. 5yr warranty, so we didn't have to pay, but PITA.

Not sure it's worth $1200.

Posted by: JQ at November 24, 2024 04:21 PM (njWTi)

252 Saddle Soaps
https://www.doversaddlery.com/search.aspx?ss=saddle%20soap

Posted by: Eric at November 24, 2024 04:35 PM (a2F+C)

253 sign in

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 08:42 PM (hovnC)

254 Squirt a little (yes, a little) lighter fluid onto that shrunken cake, put the lid back on and let it set for a week. It will be back pretty close to normal when you open it back up. (If you don't have lighter fluid, use naphtha or even coleman fuel instead. It's pretty much the same thing)

Posted by: DaveK at November 24, 2024 09:18 PM (02wD0)

255 Oh... saddle soap! For that, just put some water in there with it. You use the lighter fluid for the polish when that shrinks in the can.

Posted by: DaveK at November 24, 2024 09:20 PM (02wD0)

Americans Are Amazingly Generous, But...

This post was going to be a simple request to hit Ace's tip jar to keep him in shelving supplies and jerky-making equipment. And maybe even buy a copy or three of The Deplorable Gourmet, 100% of whose profits go to two carefully vetted charities! But as usual, it morphed into something else...

By most measures Americans are among the most generous people in the world. The data available are a bit weird, sometimes reporting Indonesia, Kenya and Ukraine at or near the top, so they are perhaps suspect. Draw your own conclusions!

But it is undeniable that America is deeply invested in the welfare of those among us who need help, and it is a testament to American Exceptionalism that we give freely and often to the vast number of charitable endeavors that purport to help those in need. And anecdotally? We help strangers far more than most other countries. From stopping to help fix a tire, to lifting some heavy groceries into a harried mother's car, we like to help!

Inevitably however, that generosity is seen as a vulnerability, and some charitable organizations are nothing more than a vehicle to funnel money to venal and acquisitive freeloaders.

Charity Watch seems to be doing good work in ferreting out the bad apples, and even the charities that do good work but aren't efficient, wasting too much of their donor's money on non-charitable expenses.

These Nonprofits Pay Some Executives Up to $8.1 Million in Compensation
Sure...that is clickbait, and a pretty good one too! Does Memorial Sloan Kettering really need to pay its president $8,104,960? Their revenue for that year was $6.6 billion! Maybe...maybe not. But it is certainly an impressive number!

I think many Americans, including this humble writer, prefer to think of their charitable contributions as going directly to the scientist in his lab, or the volunteer buying supplies for a food pantry helping flood victims. That is a romantic view, and one that I suspect most of us do not really believe. Any organization of a certain size needs professional managers to create and maintain the process that takes the donated funds and converts it to effective behavior, whether that is scientific research or delivering food or helping with the medical bills.

It's when the charity seems to have crossed over that line between "Nonprofit" and "Profit" that it becomes distasteful. There is a saying about the missionaries who went to Hawaii: "They went to the islands to do good, and they did right well!"

Does Sloan Kettering do good work? Of course! Is it as efficient as it could be, and are salaries in line with other equally competent but less famous medical centers? That's a tough one. I have donated to them in the past, and I might in the future, but it is not reflexive...as Ronald Reagan famously said, "Trust, but verify!"

None of this means that we should give less. I would rather give, with the understanding that some of my money is going to be wasted, and maybe even stolen (Clinton Foundation anyone?), than not give.

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 12:02 PM (fwDg9)

2 I'm stingy.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 24, 2024 12:03 PM (6stbc)

3 I would rather give, with the understanding that some of my money is going to be wasted, and maybe even stolen
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There is no need for this. You can give wisely to myriads of reputable causes in all fields.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 12:03 PM (K3JKK)

4
The proof is always in the pudding.

Best dollar I ever contributed, was to the homeless panhandler on the subway who asked for contributions to the "United Negro Pastrami Fund."

Laughing about that encounter for nearly 50 years!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2024 12:05 PM (x0n13)

5 The one thing I insist on when I give is that I control where the money goes.

The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia implemented a new rule that a steadily increasing percentage of plate and pledge goes to them, to spend as they see fit.

I used to give a very substantial amount of money to my church, because I knew where it went. I no longer give to the funds that can in any way be grabbed by the Diocese. There are still specific charitable and maintenance functions I support, so the amount given is about the same, but the greedheads at the Diocese can KMA.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:07 PM (xCA6C)

6 You can give wisely to myriads of reputable causes in all fields.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 12:03 PM (K3JKK)

I am less trusting than you. My default assumption is that there is going to be waste.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 12:07 PM (d9fT1)

7 Tat somewhere in the last decade got turned off in charities. Alway hear stories even ones you think do good work the managers make very good salary. Worth it?
But your donation paying for a vacation in Bora-Bora or that Ferrari seems to be a turn off.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 12:08 PM (fwDg9)

8 I gave at the office.

Posted by: Milton In The Basement at November 24, 2024 12:08 PM (nS6qG)

9 In case anyone uses Charity Navigator to vet their charities, this is the link to the Bill, Hillary, Chelsea, and Jasper Institute for Advanced Griftological Research.

https://is.gd/X6O1uN

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 12:09 PM (PiwSw)

10 I recently got a beg for a charity that included, among other things, assistance to marginalized communities for help with "climate fragility".

Flyer, meet my trash can.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:10 PM (xCA6C)

11 " I would rather give, with the understanding that some of my money is going to be wasted, and maybe even stolen" CBD

You're a good man Charlie Brown!

Thank you Mr Sefton! Now I'm going to be laughing about it too. Probably not for as long though.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 12:10 PM (4XwPj)

12 I've never owned one and maybe shouldn't opine, but does anyone know how expensive it is to keep a Vespa running in top order?

Posted by: Bidenomics at November 24, 2024 12:12 PM (nS6qG)

13 6 I am less trusting than you. My default assumption is that there is going to be waste.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 12:07 PM (d9fT1)

In college, I worked in student government and we hosted a dance marathon event to raise $ for Muscular Dystrophy.

The two "gentlemen" who were our contacts (allegedly) looked like Luca Brasi's scary cousins and they likely got away with the entire proceeds.

Almost verbatim " You don't pay us you're going to be walking worse than Jerry's kids."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2024 12:13 PM (x0n13)

14 Some "charities" are flat out evil. There's a big one in the UK you may have heard of, Oxfam. A lot of their money goes straight to Hamas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2024 12:13 PM (W6hoT)

15 PRO TIP: The Cicero Fund for the Support of Viewing Wayward Girls boasts a remarkable 98 percent pass-through to the object of the foundation.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 12:13 PM (guGkK)

16 Somewhat related:

Almost every year, a customer of our tries to haggle to not raise their annual license fee, as per agreement. It's like a Middle Eastern bazaar email back-and-forth!

They're technically a non-profit but when we show them what their humongous net earnings are every year, they shut up and pay.

Now, just for fun, I looked up the NP's executive salaries. That gives us something else to shoot them down with when the time comes.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 12:14 PM (K3JKK)

17 And I feel that fellows pain. I, too, am without pastrami. It's a sad day when one is pastrami free.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 12:14 PM (4XwPj)

18 My multi billion dollar multi national corporation insists we participate in the United away fundraisers.

I was once the lone holdout. Now there are several of us. And, let me tell you about the guilt trips management puts on us to participate.... it's disgusting. And the company doesn't even match our contributions. Not that I would give United Way a single dime.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 12:14 PM (OdaX4)

19 I'd like to see the VA reformed to the point that veteran's charities like Wounded Warriors and T2T aren't needed.

Posted by: Cosda at November 24, 2024 12:15 PM (obyht)

20 Reminds me of a Robert Klein bit where he's watching late night TV and see's a PSA:

"This is Koom-Sock and she hasn't eaten for 15 years. Only you can help!"

"Damn, I missed the Korean orphan, and last week I missed the Heart Fund and CP!!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2024 12:16 PM (x0n13)

21 I gave a goodly sum during the telethon, but my stupid son Leo canceled my gift!

Posted by: Nana, On A Very Fixed Income at November 24, 2024 12:16 PM (nS6qG)

22 18 My multi billion dollar multi national corporation insists we participate in the United away fundraisers.

I was once the lone holdout. Now there are several of us. And, let me tell you about the guilt trips management puts on us to participate.... it's disgusting. And the company doesn't even match our contributions. Not that I would give United Way a single dime.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 12:14 PM (OdaX4

Yeah, I worked at a casino here in Canada and I remember once or twice they had united way shakedown tour. What the hell? I felt coerced.

The worst are phone callers and people walking around going door to door. You know they aren't doing that for free....

Posted by: Stateless at November 24, 2024 12:18 PM (jvJvP)

23 I'd like to see the VA reformed to the point that veteran's charities like Wounded Warriors and T2T aren't needed.

I gave to WW once abut 20 years ago. I still get requests for money. After 20 years, that's not a charity, it's a lifestyle for the administrators.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:18 PM (xCA6C)

24 I give directly to the scholarship funds that support the parochial school and the all boys Catholic high school my boys attended.

We were the recipients of some of those dollars, so I give back. If I ever win the lottery, those two schools would receive a bundle.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 12:19 PM (/juIx)

25 My utopian reform would be to end government "charity". There are three evils associated with the government providing charity. 1) It is mandatory in that the government uses force to take your contribution. 2) Recipients have an enforceable right to receive your money. 3) The system is rife with corruption. True charity is voluntary, not coerced.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

26 It is an immutable law of organizations that charitable endeavors begin as causes, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 12:21 PM (guGkK)

27 Won't you help?

Posted by: Sally Struthers at November 24, 2024 12:21 PM (guGkK)

28 Good morning, good people from the Adirondacks. Chilly here today, but still warmer than usual. La Nina at work, apparently.

I think, for me at least, the answer to charitable giving has been to concentrate on the local aspect. It's easier to see exactly where to help. And if anything goes awry, easier to rectify.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 24, 2024 12:22 PM (hKoQL)

29 27 Won't you help?

Sure, have some raw vegetables.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:22 PM (xCA6C)

30 >>> 18 My multi billion dollar multi national corporation insists we participate in the United away fundraisers.

I was once the lone holdout. Now there are several of us. And, let me tell you about the guilt trips management puts on us to participate.... it's disgusting. And the company doesn't even match our contributions. Not that I would give United Way a single dime.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 12:14 PM (OdaX4)

*fistbump*

I have never liked that shit. Does the company get to claim a tax deduction from *my* donation (same if they push employees to volunteer)? Do they really pass 100% of what they collect to the charity? How do they pick the charity(ies) listed?

Same for the "round up" option at various stores, it's almost always some generic sounding thing I've never heard of.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 12:23 PM (KcwUg)

31 I have no problem telling beggars to be gone. I will not ever be coerced in to giving my money to a cause that I do not support. People have tried to convince me to give with guilt. I laughed and told them, "Honey, my kids tried that crap when they were 5yrs old and just HAD to have what they wanted. You aren't as good at it as they were. No. Now go away."

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 12:23 PM (4XwPj)

32 I give to my local HS band and football boosters.
I know from experience nobody but the kids get money from those.
Being VP of one of for 3 years probably cost me $2000 easy.
My view is if any do gooders, doing good "not for profit" are making money off it, it's not a "non profit".
I looked once and there at the time was over 3 million "non profits" in America. Golf seems to be a very non profitable thing.
It's mostly a giant scam.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 12:23 PM (xcIvR)

33 BTW, Sally Struthers is now 77. She is no longer the hot little blond you remember from All in the Family.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:23 PM (xCA6C)

34 Ace tip jar link is wrong?

Posted by: oneisnotprime at November 24, 2024 12:24 PM (osoMS)

35 There are 3 charities I think are good after researching them years ago:

St Jude Children's Hospital
Shriner's Children's Hospital
Salvation Army( not sure about them now since they went woke a few years ago.)

At the time I looked, the pass through was over 90% for each.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 12:24 PM (eDfFs)

36 I was once the lone holdout. Now there are several of us. And, let me tell you about the guilt trips management puts on us to participate.... it's disgusting. And the company doesn't even match our contributions. Not that I would give United Way a single dime.

I remember that crap. When I was a law clerk at 20th Century Insurance in the '80s the squeeze was relentless. Even then I knew United Way was a leftist racket and I refused to participate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 12:25 PM (guGkK)

37 St Jude Children's Hospital
Shriner's Children's Hospital
Salvation Army( not sure about them now since they went woke a few years ago.)

They went woke and have never apologized for it. No bucks for you!

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:25 PM (xCA6C)

38 My charitable contributions are heavily weighted towards local charities for the simple reason that I have a much better opportunity to keep an eye on what they are doing with the money. In some cases, national-level donations are important because the scale of the operations/services are such that local charities simply cannot deal with it.

Tough choice sometimes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 12:25 PM (XeU6L)

39 Those St. Jude Children's Hospital ads really tug at my heartstrings.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2024 12:25 PM (NpAcC)

40 I was known as a philanthropist and supporter of wayward girls until I wasn't.

Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Savile at November 24, 2024 12:25 PM (nS6qG)

41

I used to give to The Salvation Army until...

"Along with coins this Christmas, Salvation Army wants white donors to offer a "sincere apology" for their racism"

https://t.ly/fN930

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 12:26 PM (63Dwl)

42 Speaking of rackets, anyone remember back in the 70s when there was a push for kids to spend Halloween collecting for UNICEF? I wonder where all *that* money went.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 12:26 PM (KcwUg)

43 Those St. Jude Children's Hospital ads really tug at my heartstrings.

That's another thing. I hate, Hate, HATE! emotional blackmail and manipulation. No bucks for you either!

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:26 PM (xCA6C)

44 Same for the "round up" option at various stores, it's almost always some generic sounding thing I've never heard of.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 12:23 PM (KcwUg)

You can make a cardboard sign that says "Teen Challenge" on it and stand outside a grocery store and people will give you money.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 12:27 PM (guGkK)

45 Speaking of charity, didja see that yesterday we agreed, along with other "rich" countries, to give $300 billion to vulnerable countries to shield them from the scourge of global warming? I assume massive numbers of bureaucrats, here and abroad, need new swimming pools for their mansions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 12:28 PM (L/fGl)

46 Tunnel to Towers is a good charity.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2024 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

47 Ace has to be right up there with Tunnels2Towers with admitting and documenting where-all your contributions are going other than "original defined purpose." I haven't heard one whimper yet about Ol' Frank branching out into housing for indigent veterans. Nobody's going to bitch about those shelves either.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 12:28 PM (zdLoL)

48 I'm lying here under a goodly supply of adowable Love To The Rescue Blankets.

Posted by: Big Spender at November 24, 2024 12:28 PM (nS6qG)

49
BTW, Sally Struthers is now 77. She is no longer the hot little blond you remember from All in the Family.
Posted by: Archimedes

Meat head is still a meat head.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 12:29 PM (63Dwl)

50 Speaking of rackets, anyone remember back in the 70s when there was a push for kids to spend Halloween collecting for UNICEF?

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At least it wasn't UNRWA.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 12:30 PM (L/fGl)

51 Shriner's Children's Hospital

The Squeaky Freak grift.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 24, 2024 12:30 PM (6stbc)

52 Meat head is still a meat head.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 12:29 PM (63Dwl)

Meathead has been forced to commit himself over his intense anxiety in the wake of the Trump landslide.

Poor Meathead.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 12:30 PM (nOjd9)

53 Charity?

Local first, then county, then state. National? Eh, at some point accountability evaporates and the charity becomes a malicious force.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 24, 2024 12:31 PM (IG4Id)

54 St. Jude
Shrines
American Legion
Local church
Local school clubs such as the jr. ROTC kid to help finance their trips to competition events. These kids help out at the Legion too.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 12:31 PM (4XwPj)

55 Trick or Treat for UNICEF!

Posted by: Gimme A Quarter! at November 24, 2024 12:31 PM (nS6qG)

56 Samaritan's Purse is another one I have donated to.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2024 12:31 PM (NpAcC)

57 I switched from Salvation Army to Samaritan's Purse. Some of their stuff is overseas but they did a lot in North Carolina this year for Hurricane relief.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 12:31 PM (63Dwl)

58 Speaking of charity, didja see that yesterday we agreed, along with other "rich" countries, to give $300 billion to vulnerable countries to shield them from the scourge of global warming?

Gotta link? I thought the whole conference fell apart because the poors weren't getting money. I think they know that money will not be forthcoming.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:31 PM (xCA6C)

59 I switched from Salvation Army to Samaritan's Purse. Some of their stuff is overseas but they did a lot in North Carolina this year for Hurricane relief.

I've heard good things about them. (SP)

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:32 PM (xCA6C)

60 One kind of charitable donation that doesn't involve actual money is the donation of frequent flyer miles. Most airlines offer these programs and you get to choose which charity gets your miles. Also Fisher House, which provides housing for family of hospitalized service members and veterans, has links on how to donate for several different airlines.

Back when we used to fly, we never had enough miles to get any rewards so I always donated our American Airlines miles to what's now called Miles for Heroes. (FYI AA's other options these days are all for lefty causes. Quelle surprise!)

When I searched for this info Google's AI listed several options, the first of which was "Miles4Migrants." I'm pretty sure that program is NOT to send them back to their home countries. Yuk!

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at November 24, 2024 12:33 PM (FEVMW)

61 Speaking of rackets, anyone remember back in the 70s when there was a push for kids to spend Halloween collecting for UNICEF? I wonder where all *that* money went.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2024 12:26 PM (KcwUg)
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Trick.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 12:33 PM (K3JKK)

62 33 BTW, Sally Struthers is now 77. She is no longer the hot little blond you remember from All in the Family.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:23 PM (xCA6C)

If only she married a Smothers brother . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 24, 2024 12:33 PM (x0n13)

63 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

Yeah, I really really hate the commiecrat mindset of "need to lobby the government to help these poor people because I'm not going to help them out of my own wallet".

and thanks to your nic, I now want a peppermint hate shake from CfA. One year I tried to get one in early Jan and they didn't have them anymore, I felt so cheated.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 12:34 PM (CKOCg)

64 Samaritan's Purse is another one I have donated to.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2024 12:31 PM (NpAcC)

57 I switched from Salvation Army to Samaritan's Purse. Some of their stuff is overseas but they did a lot in North Carolina this year for Hurricane relief.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Golly, how can a dinky little charity located in Boone, NC be so effective? No good explanation.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 12:35 PM (XeU6L)

65 57 I switched from Salvation Army to Samaritan's Purse. Some of their stuff is overseas but they did a lot in North Carolina this year for Hurricane relief.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Golly, how can a dinky little charity located in Boone, NC be so effective? No good explanation.

It won't happen again. We'll make sure of it.

Posted by: FEMA at November 24, 2024 12:36 PM (xCA6C)

66 42 Speaking of rackets, anyone remember back in the 70s when there was a push for kids to spend Halloween collecting for UNICEF? I wonder where all *that* money went.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Ha Ha, remember a couple teen girls in the neighborhood doing that without bothering to get into costume. But they were cute so I forked over.

Posted by: Auspex at November 24, 2024 12:37 PM (j4U/Z)

67 My church and local food pantry here. I'm very wary of these large charities and foundations.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 24, 2024 12:37 PM (dR6yv)

68 Fun Fact: Sally Struthers consumes more calories than the entire nation of Bechuanaland.

Posted by: Nuts To Them at November 24, 2024 12:37 PM (nS6qG)

69 Trick or Treat for UNICEF!
Posted by: Gimme A Quarter!

Trick or Treat for UNRWA wouldn't be for quarters. Just put a few unspent rounds in the sack.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 12:37 PM (L/fGl)

70 I'd second the motion to support Samaritan's Purse. They have been heavily involved with with hurricane recovery in western North Carolina; they are actually located in Boone, NC. I'm sure they could particularly use donations this year.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at November 24, 2024 12:37 PM (FEVMW)

71 Samaritan's Purse does great work.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 24, 2024 12:40 PM (dR6yv)

72 Gotta link? I thought the whole conference fell apart because the poors weren't getting money. I think they know that money will not be forthcoming.
Posted by: Archimedes

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UN climate deal will send $300 billion to developing countries - NPR

https://is.gd/AdoKhv

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 12:42 PM (L/fGl)

73 71 Samaritan's Purse does great work.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 24, 2024 12:40 PM (dR6yv)

Yes.. And St. Jude's is supposedly good.. Skip Red Cross and United Way

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2024 12:43 PM (IyPmt)

74 "Non Profit" means they have to spend all of the money they make in any given year, which means excess funds are divvied up and HUGE "bonuses" are given to staff come Christmas time.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, Plucky Comic Relief, Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade at November 24, 2024 12:43 PM (SRRAx)

75 18 My multi billion dollar multi national corporation insists we participate in the United away fundraisers.

I was once the lone holdout. Now there are several of us. And, let me tell you about the guilt trips management puts on us to participate.

I went through that as well. This was back in the day when direct deposit wasn't a thing. I got called into HR to deal with the pressure tactics.

After two repetitions of "I am not going to donate," I leaned over his desk and said "Give me my check or I am going to jump over this desk and take it from you by force."

Never got bothered again.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 24, 2024 12:43 PM (lXCUP)

76 I'd second the motion to support Samaritan's Purse. They have been heavily involved with with hurricane recovery in western North Carolina; they are actually located in Boone, NC. I'm sure they could particularly use donations this year.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at November 24, 2024 12:37 PM (FEVMW)
*******
People are living in tents in NC and a baby died of hypothermia.
No one should have to live in a tent. I would rather my tax dollars go to mobile homes for these people than going to Ukraine.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2024 12:44 PM (NpAcC)

77 Relevant anecdote. Years back, while in guvamint, my little office was one of the first (probably first) US donors to a new, UK-based outfit that was quite interesting. Halo Trust. Former British Army engineers and ordnance guys who did de-mining in the places where Soviet/Chinese/Third World idiocy had made mines a national catastrophe (note: mines are fine, and no big deal, properly used = for military purposes, with markings, and MAPS, so they can be easily removed later).

Our office worked in various s-holes with mine problems, mostly former USSR.

So not long ago I decided to go visit their webpage, see how they were doing (think they were mentioned in something I read recently). Wow. Right there in the first blurb on the homepage ..... some delusional idiocy about "climate change" (!).

Yep, mines and climate change, two inter-twined problems of our era. FFS. Fairly spectacular example of how degraded and brainwashed and lysenkoist society has become.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 24, 2024 12:45 PM (1m82a)

78 We am very, very selective as to whom we give our charitable $$ these days. As often as possible, we try to give directly to the needy.

One thing my wife got me started doing is carrying goodie bags for the homeless in our car. We hand them directly to the folks we see that clearly are in need.

Contents usually are; Gift cards from McDonald's or Wendy's, baby wipes, TP, some candy bars and canned food, a toothbrush and toothpaste, and some personal items for the ladies.

Our big $$ donations go to local orgs that help with pregnancy care and outfits that help little kids.

Also, Our region has a database that we all use to try and vet recipients of charity. It certainly isn't perfect, but it has gone a long way to eradicate the professional looters of the local charitable orgs. You know, they drive from agency to agency getting help from all.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 12:46 PM (WXNFJ)

79 As soon as anyone within a 'charity' starts getting paid for 'administering' said charity, it becomes suspect.

Posted by: davidt at November 24, 2024 12:46 PM (i0F8b)

80 It’s amazing how many subsequent appeals for more money arrive from an organization after you make one donation. Most seem to spend at least 20-25% of our donations asking for more money. I know donations pay admin costs including marketing but they seem to be spending too much on the marketing, not their charitable ends.

Posted by: Leander at November 24, 2024 12:46 PM (CVEwp)

81 The feds have the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) that pops up every holiday season. It's probably one of the biggest government rip-offs on the planet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 12:46 PM (Q4IgG)

82
Samaritan's Purse. They have been heavily involved with with hurricane recovery in western North Carolina;
-------

For example:
t.ly/tuEdI

The 'government' was still yawning and scratching its privates, 'Oh, there was a storm? Big deal.'

"More than 13,000 volunteers have served over 700 families in need by mudding out flooded homes, clearing debris, removing downed trees, and tarping damaged roofs."

FEMA: "Look, fill out this paperwork, and you may get a check for $750. I mean, that's a week's wages, right?"

Quote from Operation Airlift guy, 'We're not the government, we get things done'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 12:46 PM (XeU6L)

83 Sometimes, the best donations are the ones you don't make...

MILO
@Nero
I loaned someone you all know high six figures, all the cash I could get in a hurry, so he could realize a lifelong dream

That was a week before I was cancelled. He has never taken my calls since and in 8 years has not repaid a dollar

My friends just... decided I was dead

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 24, 2024 12:47 PM (TGPs7)

84 Thank you, President Trump, for choosing Sebastian Gorka:

https://tinyurl.com/neazjkub

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 12:47 PM (K3JKK)

85 back when my budget was tight I once gave just $35 to St Judes. They have probably spent $350 over the years since then sending me trinkets and crap in the mail. So no dollars to them ever since, I absolutely hate it when an outfit uses my donation to try to guilt me into giving them more money.

Some supposed watchdog dinged Samaritans Purse for Franklin Graham's and others taking salary but it was an outrageous amount; I took that one as finding an excuse to bash the icky evangelical charity.

Locally to me is the "Wild Animal Sanctuary". The wife used to work at my employer and they were an option for paycheck deduction giving along with United Way etc. and were a wolf and wolf hybrid sanctuary. They have now gotten HUGE, charge $50 to look at all the lions and tigers and bears they specialize in now (so basically private zoo) and are arrogant liberal snobs (only They do things right with the critters they keep). So I haven't donated to them in many years.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 12:48 PM (CKOCg)

86 70. I had a relative who worked for Samaritan's Purse, they were as good or better than anyone short of Catholic Relief (I think Catholic Relief had a 90 for every dollar donated). But Samaritan has a better and faster distribution. Those are the two I gave money to for Helene.
One of my first neighbors one I was on my own was a Korean War vet and he told me. I give Blood to the Red Cross because they know how to use it, I give my Money to Salivation Army, they know how to stretch it.

Posted by: Picric at November 24, 2024 12:48 PM (HzuMl)

87 UN climate deal will send $300 billion to developing countries - NPR

https://is.gd/AdoKhv

Yeah, that's what I thought. A quick read shows that "negotiators" aspire to $300B, and the 3rd world grifters are very unhappy at the amount. In fact, though, I predict they'll get nothing, and like it. The last time I checked, "negotiators" have no power to commit funds.

We sent something like 420 people on this boondoggle, and the Brits sent even more. They don't have the money to give. This particular grift is running out of road.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:49 PM (xCA6C)

88 I trust new administration will nix US contribution to that preposterous "climate" deal. If, as I fear, they won't even attempt to do the urgent and critical work of debunking and deprogramming society on the issue (the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity and common sense they face), at least they can do the easy thing.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 24, 2024 12:49 PM (1m82a)

89 Meathead has been forced to commit himself over his intense anxiety in the wake of the Trump landslide.

Poor Meathead.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43

And then the other posters at Pedosky hated on him for that. Poor baby!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2024 12:49 PM (TAHLa)

90
I myself give mostly to my parish: weekly contributions, monthly capital fund and assorted second collections. My rule of thumb is not to let the collection plate pass by without putting something in it.

I also make an annual contribution of $100 or so to the Diocesan Services Fund because the Archdiocese gives my parish a quota to fill and if the congregation doesn't do it, the balance has to come out of parish funds.

Almost all the rest from our household are money and goods for dog related activities: Southern Handlers Association, Take the Lead, trophy donations, rescue organizations, etc. We also put in for raffle items we pray we don't win, eat horrible lunches prepared by breed clubs, buy things from vendors, especially those having a hard time. Her Majesty is unwinding her collection of Borzoi items as donations for specialty clubs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 12:50 PM (dxSpM)

91 >>I gave to WW once abut 20 years ago. I still get requests for money. After 20 years, that's not a charity, it's a lifestyle for the administrators.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Donated, long ago, to EWTN with an included letter saying, among other things, not to solicit a donation. Solicitations for the next three years.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 24, 2024 12:51 PM (TDdfP)

92 I’ll gladly aspire to give you $300 Billion tomorrow, for a hamburger today!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2024 12:51 PM (TAHLa)

93 Salvation Army is a particularly sad case. I happened to work with their overseas branch for a while, and they were the real deal: nearly unpaid volunteers in bad situations doing targeted compassionate work that most larger NGOs generally avoided. Their budgets were hilarious - as in how small they were for what they were doing.

Then, the racist-totalitarian mind virus infiltrated, and you have the kerfuffle and fall of a few years back.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 24, 2024 12:51 PM (1m82a)

94 84 Thank you, President Trump, for choosing Sebastian Gorka:

https://tinyurl.com/neazjkub
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 12:47 PM (K3JKK)

The Intellectualist
@highbrow_nobrow
Former Trump NSA John Bolton on Sebastian Gorka:

“Sebastian Gorka is a con man… He needs a full field FBI background investigation about his educational claims and things like that.”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 24, 2024 12:51 PM (TGPs7)

95 Yeah, I need to donate to Ewoks United. Found out the other day that I can't get a reloadable credit card with cash. It's like the govt wants to know where everybody's money is going except that which is forcibly taken by them as "voluntary" taxes.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 12:52 PM (SSBCb)

96 Ugh. SP admin salaries NOT an outrageous amount.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 12:52 PM (CKOCg)

97 I'm not sure if I should upgrade to the NRA Sooper Lifetime Patriot Eagle Liberty Freedom support level....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 12:52 PM (PiwSw)

98 Old and busted: Tyson v. Paul

New and cool: Geraldo v. Bongino

Tim Young@TimRunsHisMouth
Geraldo says he's "square off" with Dan Bongino if he ran into him in a bar...
I'd pay to see that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 12:52 PM (L/fGl)

99 United Way is the biggest scam "charity" around. Our company participates, but, thankfully, aren't too aggressive in their proselytizing.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 24, 2024 12:53 PM (XMwZJ)

100 It’s amazing how many subsequent appeals for more money arrive from an organization after you make one donation. Most seem to spend at least 20-25% of our donations asking for more money. I know donations pay admin costs including marketing but they seem to be spending too much on the marketing, not their charitable ends.

My favorite example is Judicial Watch; a charity I respect and which I think does excellent work. However, I don't want to get endless begs after this that burn through whatever I give them. I didn't donate to Trump for the same reason.

When, oh when, will charities get with the program and implement a button or checkbox that allows you to opt out of all further requests? Alternatively, a single request per year would be acceptable, and I would give far more to them.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:54 PM (xCA6C)

101 "FEMA: "Look, fill out this paperwork, and you may get a check for $750. I mean, that's a week's wages, right?""

No, I need $11,400 per week to get by.

Posted by: Unemployeed Mileniell at November 24, 2024 12:54 PM (vFG9F)

102 My company redefined the term "participate" so they could claim 100% participation. If you were employed there, you automatically "participated" even if you didn't give them any money.

Fine. Whatever.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 12:55 PM (PiwSw)

103 And then the other posters at Pedosky hated on him for that. Poor baby!

Did they skeet all over him?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2024 12:56 PM (OyOhQ)

104 49
BTW, Sally Struthers is now 77. She is no longer the hot little blond you remember from All in the Family.
Posted by: Archimedes
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One of the shows in series for some argumentative reason she put her whole hand in her mouth. Amazing.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 24, 2024 12:56 PM (TDdfP)

105 94

I liked John Bolton better when he had his singing/songwriting carreer. Hits like,
"How can I Live Without War"
"A Warhawk is a Wonderful Thing"
And many others.
...

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 12:56 PM (SSBCb)

106 I trust new administration will nix US contribution to that preposterous "climate" deal. If, as I fear, they won't even attempt to do the urgent and critical work of debunking and deprogramming society on the issue (the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity and common sense they face), at least they can do the easy thing.

I worry about lots of things. I don't worry that Trump will tell the climate hysterics to get bent.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:56 PM (xCA6C)

107 Speaking of charity, didja see that yesterday we agreed, along with other "rich" countries, to give $300 billion to vulnerable countries to shield them from the scourge of global warming?

Gotta link? I thought the whole conference fell apart because the poors weren't getting money. I think they know that money will not be forthcoming.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:31 PM (xCA6C)

Goes to Breitbart.
https://tinyurl.com/v29r28s6

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 24, 2024 12:57 PM (iODuv)

108 I’ll gladly aspire to give you $300 Billion tomorrow, for a hamburger today!
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Seems like a wimpy offer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 12:57 PM (XeU6L)

109 United Way is the biggest scam "charity" around. Our company participates, but, thankfully, aren't too aggressive in their proselytizing.

Didn't it turn out United Way money went pretty much exclusively to left-wing non-profits?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2024 12:57 PM (OyOhQ)

110 " I came across an old issue of Analog magazine published in 1973. There was an article about "mini-computers" and the marvels of the integrated circuit."

September 1975 the first "Byte" magazine came out. The first magazine exclusively for microcomputers. I have all the issues for the first two years here on a shelf. What we did back then were just baby steps.
Posted by: fd
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And people carry George Orwell two-way tele in their palms 24-7 most willingly. Even signing up for programs that will only work if you do carry it with you 24-7.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 12:57 PM (/lPRQ)

111 Former Trump NSA John Bolton on Sebastian Gorka:

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 24, 2024 12:51 PM (TGPs7)
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Another one of the folks Trump 1 was conned into appointing.

I remember reading Bull-ton's book, Surrender Is Not an Option, just when it came out. What a whimp. He could not spell out I-S-L-A-M.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 12:58 PM (K3JKK)

112 17 And I feel that fellows pain. I, too, am without pastrami. It's a sad day when one is pastrami free.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 12:14 PM (4XwPj)

Is the person who socks "The Paolo" on vacation?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 12:58 PM (PiwSw)

113 Gotta link? I thought the whole conference fell apart because the poors weren't getting money. I think they know that money will not be forthcoming.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:31 PM (xCA6C)

Goes to Breitbart.
https://tinyurl.com/v29r28s6

Environmental negotiators at the U.N.’s COP29 climate alarmism summit issued their once and final demand Sunday for a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy countries to gift poorer countries between now and 2035.

Climate doomers quickly wailed that was not nearly enough and demanded more – much more – to take the sum to $400 billion at least.

How many divisions do the "environmental negotiators' have?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:59 PM (xCA6C)

114 108 I’ll gladly aspire to give you $300 Billion tomorrow, for a hamburger today!
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Seems like a wimpy offer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 12:57 PM (XeU6L)

How about some olives to oil the deal?

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 12:59 PM (SSBCb)

115 However, I don't want to get endless begs after this that burn through whatever I give them. I didn't donate to Trump for the same reason.

I made a several donations to Trump (winred, actually) and in the last few weeks of the campaign I was getting roughly 40 messages per day, email and text.

I took it as a positive sign that Trump's campaign was squeezing every last dime out of every possible source out there. The cause was a good one and emails and text messages cost essentially nothing, so I tolerated it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 01:00 PM (nOjd9)

116 My dad gave a donation to Judicial Watch. He kept getting beg letters for two years after he passed away. We even contacted them and explained the situation. They offered condolences and continued sending beg letters with his name on them. I still get crap in his name from NRA. He also gave to March of Dimes who continued to beg and send a new calendar for a few years.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 01:00 PM (4XwPj)

117 How many divisions do the "environmental negotiators' have?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 12:59 PM (xCA6C)

The commenters at Breitbart were pretty much in an "eff YOU!" chorus. LOL!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 24, 2024 01:01 PM (iODuv)

118
September 1975 the first "Byte" magazine came out. The first magazine exclusively for microcomputers. I have all the issues for the first two years here on a shelf. What we did back then were just baby steps.
Posted by: fd
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Wayne Green comes to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 01:01 PM (XeU6L)

119 >>>Skip Red Cross and United Way
Posted by: It's me donna
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Gramp's was in France, said the Red Cross charged for donuts while the Salvation Army was giving them away. Several stories like that and, sadly, the SA has gone QWERTY.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 24, 2024 01:02 PM (TDdfP)

120 I liked John Bolton better when he had his singing/songwriting carreer. Hits like,
"How can I Live Without War"
"A Warhawk is a Wonderful Thing"
And many others.

Bolton is a sad war-mongering joke. Another mask ripped off by Trump.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 01:02 PM (nOjd9)

121 I personally donate to my parish, the fraternity that staffs my old parish, and an order of Benedictine sisters, but not to diocesan appeals because our bishop is terrible and I disagree with a lot of their programs.
I know we get assessed, so I feel a little guilty but not enough to send them anything.
We do Samaritan's Purse for disaster relief.
Locally, we support the Food Bank, the Volunteer Fire Dept. and the school fundraisers.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 01:03 PM (f+FmA)

122 If some panhandle is hungry and ask me for food,I'll go to Food 4 Less and buy him some food. Many want cash.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (SSBCb)

123 Bolton is so pathetically jealous - he hates Tulsi Gabbard, too. He can’t stand knowing he’s never gonna work in DC again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (W6hoT)

124 "I don't worry that Trump will tell the climate hysterics to get bent."

Climate hysterics are the tiny histrionic tip of the iceberg. The iceberg is the integration of absurd "climate" nonsense into everything, from "education" to calamitously expensive (and growing) fake energy and baseless emissions controls.

When exiting the Paris Accord back in 2017, don't believe a word was said about the substance of the issue, which is everything. It was a "bad deal for the US". A ridiculous dodge, or evidence of an unserious approach.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (1m82a)

125
I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
According to former Polish Deputy Minister Piotr Kulpa, Ukrainian authorities have allegedly siphoned off up to half of the U.S. aid money sent to their country and redirected a portion of it back to the Democratic Party through laundering schemes.

Is anyone surprised?

https://tinyurl.com/3umrxjmj

Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (NpAcC)

126 Do we have any Dear Abbys or Ann Landers among the horde?

TONY™@TONYxTWO
Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

127 Panhandler. Damn Autocucumber

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 01:06 PM (SSBCb)

128

The best charities help young Asian women get a leg up...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at November 24, 2024 01:06 PM (tBck8)

129 We gave a substantial amount of money to the Episcopal Relief and Development fund for North Carolina assistance. In checking their webpage, I came across this:

Long-term recovery: ERD partners with dioceses to address long-term recovery needs after disasters. They work in low-income, undocumented, and migrant communities

That's the last dime of my money they'll see.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 01:07 PM (xCA6C)

130 After the hurricane Helene flooding I donated to SP, to the Cajun Navy, and to Mercy Chefs. I got a voice mail from someone at Mercy Chefs thanking me for my gift and so far nothing asking for more money so they get an A+ for that.

Mike Hammer if you are still around could you post the link to the group for homeless vets that was flooded out. I didn't get that saved at the time and sounded like a good outfit.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 01:07 PM (CKOCg)

131 Climate hysterics are the tiny histrionic tip of the iceberg. The iceberg is the integration of absurd "climate" nonsense into everything, from "education" to calamitously expensive (and growing) fake energy and baseless emissions controls.

Yeah, I can imagine Elon and Vivek laughing at that stuff, and then cutting it enthusiastically.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 01:08 PM (xCA6C)

132 Bolton was much beloved by commenters here back in the bad old days.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 01:08 PM (63Dwl)

133 My employer has an annual drive to get employees to give contributions to United Way. I checked the United Way disclosure documents. They take a 15% cut before the so called charities and nonprofits get their cut. What value added does the United Way do? My answer was zero so I never gave a cent.

Posted by: Michael K at November 24, 2024 01:08 PM (1djFo)

134 128

The best charities help young Asian women get a leg up...
Posted by: Dirty Frank at November 24, 2024 01:06 PM (tBck

https://youtu.be/c8qnu2bqMY

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 01:09 PM (SSBCb)

135 campaign I was getting roughly 40 messages per day, email and text.Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

I got those text and emails. I have never donated to any political campaign. Ever. Hubbymayhem bought a "Never Surrender" coffee mug with Trump mugshot. But, they sent the begging to me. Vivek, Scott Presler, Don Jr., Ted Cruz..... Everybody wanted me! I was very, very popular and didn't even have to put out!

Now it's the fucking Medicare scammers that plague me incessantly. Seriously, I'm gonna hafta carve someone's heart out with a spork if it doesn't stop.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 01:09 PM (4XwPj)

136 TONY™@TONYxTWO
Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

Derek Hunter of Townhall has an answer:

https://is.gd/fIB25Q

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 01:10 PM (PiwSw)

137 My employer has an annual drive to get employees to give contributions to United Way. I checked the United Way disclosure documents. They take a 15% cut before the so called charities and nonprofits get their cut. What value added does the United Way do? My answer was zero so I never gave a cent.

Same. Feds were subjected to months of browbeating to contribute to the Combined Federal Campaign. They got nothing from me.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 01:10 PM (xCA6C)

138 If you want financial data on tax-exempt orgs, guidestar dot org is a good site. They maintain scans of the organization's IRS990s which will show a lot of revenue information as well as identify their most highly paid employees and how much they make.

Posted by: Helpful information at November 24, 2024 01:10 PM (4Vs89)

139 The IRS can enforce all 501C restrictions, but they do not want to.

Revenue lost is no big deal for them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2024 01:10 PM (u82oZ)

140 I'm skeptical of most charities

Posted by: Sent at November 24, 2024 01:11 PM (/7KEl)

141 "None of this means that we should give less. I would rather give, with the understanding that some of my money is going to be wasted, and maybe even stolen (Clinton Foundation anyone?), than not give."

How much does CJN pay it's top dog? Whatever it is, it aint enough!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 01:11 PM (RFPHU)

142 126 Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM
***
The answer is to take it down, replace with a clean and fresh one that ensures everyone can read it clearly (because the old one has been flying for some time, no doubt), and add a Gadsden flag.

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 01:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

143 TONY™@TONYxTWO
Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

Add a second one

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2024 01:12 PM (IyPmt)

144 Bolton was much beloved by commenters here back in the bad old days.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

To be fair, I used to love my former-wife, so there's that.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 01:12 PM (WXNFJ)

145 Byron York@ByronYork
Big automakers want to ask Trump to keep Biden EV mandates in place. Consumers don't want the cars, but the companies have already sunk so much money in EVs to comply with federal regulations. Now, they don't want to compete with gas cars.

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There's a shocker. They want to keep the grift going.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:12 PM (L/fGl)

146
Her Majesty was stopped at a light. There was a panhandler there with a dog. She opened the window and gave him a handful of dog biscuits. He was not grateful.

On the other hand, she keeps in her car and purse a number of small-denomination CfA gift cards she gives to law enforcement and soldiers in uniform. They are grateful.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 01:12 PM (dxSpM)

147 Do we have any Dear Abbys or Ann Landers among the horde?

TONY™@TONYxTWO
Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha!

Add an "Elections Have Consequences!" flag, along with the US flag and the state flag (if it hasn't been wussified).

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 01:12 PM (VNX3d)

148 What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Put up 37 more Trump flags, one ginormous Trump banner, and pave the yard and sidewalk with Trump signs.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 01:13 PM (4XwPj)

149
Put up 37 more Trump flags, one ginormous Trump banner, and pave the yard and sidewalk with Trump signs.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 01:13 PM (4XwPj)

LOL.. I like you're thinking

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2024 01:13 PM (IyPmt)

150 Bolton was much beloved by commenters here back in the bad old days.

So were Darth Cheney, General Mattis, and Karl Rove.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 01:14 PM (xCA6C)

151 On the subject of 'charitable ' organizations, has anyone else seen the PSA's for USAID which encourage you to make donations in cash? WTF?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 24, 2024 01:14 PM (F3SmE)

152 148 What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Put up 37 more Trump flags, one ginormous Trump banner, and pave the yard and sidewalk with Trump signs.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 01:13 PM (4XwPj)

Add a Gadsen Flag and answer the door doing the Trump Dance wearing a MAGA hat.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 01:14 PM (PiwSw)

153 What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Put up 37 more Trump flags, one ginormous Trump banner, and pave the yard and sidewalk with Trump signs.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 01:13 PM (4XwPj)

If she's of an artistic bent, include a giant portrait of Trump on the driveway, in chalk.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 01:14 PM (nOjd9)

154
LOL.. I like you're thinking
Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2024 01:13 PM (IyPmt)

"Your" not you're

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2024 01:14 PM (IyPmt)

155 My employer has an annual drive to get employees to give contributions to United Way. I checked the United Way disclosure documents. They take a 15% cut before the so called charities and nonprofits get their cut. What value added does the United Way do? My answer was zero so I never gave a cent.

One of my long ago employers, after I told them 'No', that it was a condition of my employment. Turns out it wasn't.

Not. A. Penny!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 01:14 PM (WXNFJ)

156 A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor, it is a fixed characteristic of human nature; and, when he has fifty or a hundred others to back him, he will show it.

Posted by: George Orwell, Down And Out In Paris And London at November 24, 2024 01:15 PM (R/m4+)

157 The best charities help young Asian women get a leg up...
Posted by: Dirty Frank at November 24, 2024 01:06 PM (tBck

https://youtu.be/c8qnu2bqMY
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

Heh, as soon as I read that post "One Night in Bangkok" came on the radio.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 01:15 PM (/lPRQ)

158 Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

Tell him that that guest can......well, you get my drift. Yes, I am serious. That guest can stay the hell home.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 24, 2024 01:15 PM (iODuv)

159 150 Bolton was much beloved by commenters here back in the bad old days.

So were Darth Cheney, General Mattis, and Karl Rove.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 01:14 PM (xCA6C)

THE Rick Wilson, cuck extraordinaire, used to be a Friend of the Blog™, so, you know, things change.

Posted by: Ch ch changes at November 24, 2024 01:15 PM (4Vs89)

160 Personally, I'd take down all political things, and tell your guests that politics are off limits.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 01:15 PM (xCA6C)

161 LOL.. I like you're thinking
Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2024 01:13 PM (IyPmt)

"Your" not you're
Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2024 01:14 PM (IyPmt)

We like that you're thinking. We also like the content of your thinking.

Posted by: Trying to help! at November 24, 2024 01:17 PM (4Vs89)

162 These Nonprofits Pay Some Executives Up to $8.1 Million in Compensation
Sure...that is clickbait, and a pretty good one too! Does Memorial Sloan Kettering really need to pay its president $8,104,960? Their revenue for that year was $6.6 billion! Maybe...maybe not. But it is certainly an impressive number!

If that was a private company the left would be up in arms about "corporate greed".

At this point most non profits exist merely to launder money so that you can get it tax free.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 01:17 PM (oZhjI)

163 THE Rick Wilson, cuck extraordinaire, used to be a Friend of the Blog™, so, you know, things change.

Yeah. Completely unnecessarily bringing it back on topic, there were a lot of political charities I stopped giving to after 2020. Crises can highlight what people and orgs really stand for. And whether they’re willing to stand at all.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 01:17 PM (olroh)

164 My employer has an annual drive to get employees to give contributions to United Way. I checked the United Way disclosure documents. They take a 15% cut before the so called charities and nonprofits get their cut. What value added does the United Way do? My answer was zero so I never gave a cent.
Posted by: Michael K
+++
Another thing that pissed me off about the United way was they told me how much I should donate. Because it was my 'far share.'

Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 24, 2024 01:17 PM (Lo97M)

165 The earliest manual for Christians, the Didache, focuses on charitable giving. It sums up with these words, "let your alms sweat in your hand until you are sure you are giving as God wants you to give."

Posted by: emil turner at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (BLv30)

166 What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

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Greet her at the front door wearing a suit, bright red tie, and a blond wig. Put the turkey on the table and then do the Trump dance.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (2UnvF)

167 I forget who said it, but being charitable costs money.

Ironically, true. *depending on how you define "charitable."

But the point being made was that nearly everything has a monetary value tied to it; time for one. Someone's time to do whatever charitable thing needs being done. Putting exorbitant value on one's time is a huge issue in the corporate/charity arena.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (Q4IgG)

168 We like that you're thinking. We also like the content of your thinking.
Posted by: Trying to help! at November 24, 2024 01:17 PM (4Vs89)
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In the days of yore.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (z0QHk)

169 >Same. Feds were subjected to months of browbeating to contribute to the Combined Federal Campaign. They got nothing from me.
Posted by: Archimedes

1st Shirt says if we contribute you'll get off the duty roster for a month of so... Which is no different than saying you will get extra duty if you don't 'contribute'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (/lPRQ)

170 >>On the subject of 'charitable ' organizations, has anyone else seen the PSA's for USAID which encourage you to make donations in cash? WTF?

Might just be me but I don't give money to CIA cut outs.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (LkLld)

171 My favorite was Clinton Global Initiative. Back around the time they were looting a recently devastated Haiti down to its last plugged nickel, I think it was somewhere in the neighborhood of an 8% passthrough. A truly astounding, brazen grift.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (7oYYI)

172 A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor,

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Insider Paper@TheInsiderPaper
NEW: A Venezuelan migrant who crossed illegally into the US has been accused of raping his boss’s 14-year-old daughter while he was living in the family’s basement in Colorado, Homeland Security sources told New York Post

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (L/fGl)

173 THE Rick Wilson, cuck extraordinaire, used to be a Friend of the Blog™, so, you know, things change.

As one old snakehead put it, "Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a nepo-pundit park, you never know what you’ll find"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 01:19 PM (oZhjI)

174 I don't know wrt to the Trump flag. Thanksgiving should be non-political. But probably the burden is on the liberal guest to simply ignore the flag and talk about sports, or recipes or whatever. If this person has a history of trying to push DNC talking points at the t-day table I'd leave the flag up as a caution to just shut up and eat. If they are liberal but polite about it I might take the flag down for a day to be polite in return.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 01:19 PM (CKOCg)

175 131 Yeah, I can imagine Elon and Vivek laughing at that stuff, and then cutting it enthusiastically.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2024 01:08 PM (xCA6C)

Elon has floating the notion of a "carbon tax" multiple times, so I'm not so sure.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at November 24, 2024 01:19 PM (DTX3h)

176 Yeah. Completely unnecessarily bringing it back on topic, there were a lot of political charities I stopped giving to after 2020. Crises can highlight what people and orgs really stand for. And whether they’re willing to stand at all.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 01:17 PM (olroh)

For sure. True colors and all that.

Posted by: Can't go back once you see their true faces at November 24, 2024 01:19 PM (4Vs89)

177 Taxes in order of fairness

Head tax
Tariffs
Sales Tax
Flat Tax
All the ridiculous crap we have now - you are taxing working and investing? Well, I guess you want LESS of that right?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 01:21 PM (oZhjI)

178 Not for profits are very profitable for those who work there or who consultant with them. There should be no not for profits and everything should be taxed, except religiously orgs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2024 01:21 PM (FxDm7)

179 We like that you're thinking.

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I just wish progs would.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:21 PM (L/fGl)

180 On Black Friday, we are doing a retail resale event, much like Lulu Like New. The donator gets 60%, we keep 40%. I am donating the full 40% to MercuryOne, I am not subtracting out processing fees, the cost to tag the items or the salaries of the staff to man the event. I know some of you don’t like Glen Beck, but 100% of the donated money goes to charity, and they do a heck of a lot of good things.

I am giving the option of donating all the proceeds instead of keeping the 60%. I hope most people do this.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 01:22 PM (GMx4K)

181 177 Taxes in order of fairness

Head tax

Sex workers and johns hardest hit.

Posted by: Tax revolt time! at November 24, 2024 01:22 PM (4Vs89)

182 My favorite was Clinton Global Initiative. Back around the time they were looting a recently devastated Haiti down to its last plugged nickel, I think it was somewhere in the neighborhood of an 8% passthrough. A truly astounding, brazen grift.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (7oYYI)
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Their travel expenditures were higher than their outlays for charity. Fully 50%+ of expenditures were marked "Miscellaneous."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 01:22 PM (z0QHk)

183 There should be no not for profits and everything should be taxed, except religiously orgs
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Scientology has entered the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 01:22 PM (WXNFJ)

184 If I give to an individual, I don't fret over whether or not they really need it. That's on them if they are fake. I try to give to the two folks documenting the homeless problem in Portland. They are really helping folks on the street so not money wasted. I like Samaritans Purse because they help people where they are. If you read posts on X about Helene cleanup, they always mention Samaritans Purse is there.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 24, 2024 01:23 PM (gfViB)

185 The WeaselAcres Foundation For Unemployed Victoria Secret Models is not a scam!

Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 01:23 PM (fghTy)

186 Great points. Give, but give wisely. And watch for charities that have gone woke. Even Salvation Army did that a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at November 24, 2024 01:23 PM (ULKp+)

187 I have been following the debate about Britain new draconian farmer tax.

Looking at the pro-tax side on social media some argue this is just "closing a loophole" but really the arguments for are two fold:

1) The farmers have money, we want it
2) The farmers voted for Brexit and/or the Tories so how we get to hurt you

And on this second note, I really think it is time here in the US that the right stop thinking about taxes in terms of a way to fund the government. The point of taxes, when you are running trillion dollar deficits anyway, is to harm you political enemies.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 01:23 PM (oZhjI)

188 Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Take 1/2 in divorce?

Posted by: SFGoth at November 24, 2024 01:23 PM (KAi1n)

189 The WeaselAcres Foundation For Unemployed Victoria Secret Models is not a scam!
Posted by: Weasel at November 24, 2024 01:23 PM (fghTy)
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Those women are chilly!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 01:24 PM (z0QHk)

190 Those St. Jude Children's Hospital ads really tug at my heartstrings.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 24, 2024 12:25 PM (NpAcC)

Great work they do. But if you donate to them, be warned. They will hound you for more constantly. ALL. THE. TIME!!! I get it -- they live off of donations. But the relentless haranguing for more takes a lot of the joy out of the act of giving.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 01:24 PM (RFPHU)

191 Head tax
Posted by: 18-1

Is that when you put your head down and get to work?

Posted by: SFGoth at November 24, 2024 01:24 PM (KAi1n)

192 Take the Trump flag down. But put a limestone bust of Augusto Pinochet in its place.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2024 01:25 PM (7oYYI)

193 Those women are chilly!
Posted by: Captain Obvious

We could tell!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 01:25 PM (WXNFJ)

194 I have only 4 Charities I donate to. My mother donated small amounts to over 50 charities. I still get solicitations / gifts mail over two years after her death. They could save money by stopping these solicitations after a year or so.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 01:25 PM (D6PGr)

195 Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…

Do the friends in question have leftwing crap in their yards? Gay flags, "in this house we believe in...", or any of the like?

TBH if they don't? I might. If they do not only would I leave the flag up I'd have the pre-meal prayer be to bless the food, the gathering, and the new president that will end our national nightmare...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 01:25 PM (oZhjI)

196 Mike Hammer if you are still around could you post the link to the group for homeless vets that was flooded out. I didn't get that saved at the time and sounded like a good outfit.
Posted by: PaleRider
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It is an excellent outfit. For the record, Admin costs are 3.2%. I'm probably wearing out my welcome by harping on the Veteran's Restoration Quarters, but my heart is with these guys.

If you haven't, and if you are interested watch the short vid about the VRQ. Note partcularly the physical surroundings. Note also that while ABCCM is a coalition of the county churchs, it is strictly non-denominatonal in its services to the community. Note in the dining room, there are the flags of each of the services, as well as an Israeli flag. Links to 'after' pics forthcoming.
t.ly/v3dtI

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 01:26 PM (XeU6L)

197 181 177 Taxes in order of fairness

Head tax

Now hold on here!

Posted by: Willie Brown at November 24, 2024 01:26 PM (PiwSw)

198 On Black Friday, we are doing a retail resale event, much like Lulu Like New. The donator gets 60%, we keep 40%. I am donating the full 40% to MercuryOne, I am not subtracting out processing fees, the cost to tag the items or the salaries of the staff to man the event. I know some of you don’t like Glen Beck, but 100% of the donated money goes to charity, and they do a heck of a lot of good things.

I am giving the option of donating all the proceeds instead of keeping the 60%. I hope most people do this.
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 01:22 PM (GMx4K)

No "10% for the Big Guy"??

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 01:26 PM (RFPHU)

199 Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2024 01:21 PM (FxDm7)

liberals think churches are fully untaxed. I was once chatting with a pastor who had to pay taxes for the church provided housing. So when anyone says churches should be taxed I usually agree but add "yes, ALL non-profits should be taxed, many of them are just scams to fund lavish travel tax free"

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2024 01:26 PM (CKOCg)

200 There must be a "we got a live one fellas" list that charities pass around. Donate to one charity and ten more send you mailers.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 01:26 PM (wRXdM)

201 Is that when you put your head down and get to work?

Head tax = equal tax on every adult or household. If you did the latter it would encourage marriage as well of course.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 01:26 PM (oZhjI)

202 Especially large Trump signs haven't diminished around here

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 01:27 PM (fwDg9)

203 What kind of people is Trump appointing?

New York Post@nypost
Trump AG nominee Pam Bondi was once accused of stealing a couple’s St. Bernard in long legal battle

The sordid spat goes back to 2005, when Tank’s owners, Steve and Dorreen Couture, put the St. Bernard in an animal shelter in Louisiana to ride out Hurricane Katrina.

Tank was later turned over to the Pinellas Humane Society in Florida and ultimately adopted by Bondi, 59, who renamed him Noah,

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:27 PM (L/fGl)

204 Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Cover the walls of the interior and exterior of the house, floor to ceiling, with Trump flags, signs, stickers, posters, and all the rest. And add a yuuuuge, beautiful, terrific "fuck Biden" flag to the Trump flag outside.

Posted by: Yep. Thats's what I would do. at November 24, 2024 01:27 PM (4Vs89)

205 Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

Find a new husband

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2024 01:27 PM (RFPHU)

206 I do Soldiers Angels, PizzaIDF, and did a few others during the hurricanes, like the Cajun Navy.

Posted by: Lirio100 at November 24, 2024 01:28 PM (izAv/)

207
And on this second note, I really think it is time here in the US that the right stop thinking about taxes in terms of a way to fund the government. The point of taxes, when you are running trillion dollar deficits anyway, is to harm you political enemies.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 01:23 PM (oZhjI)

Not a new notion.

"In 1945, [Beardsley] Ruml made a famous speech to the ABA, asserting that since the end of the gold standard, 'Taxes for Revenue are Obsolete'. The real purposes of taxes, he asserted, were: to 'stabilize the purchasing power of the dollar,' to 'express public policy in the distribution of wealth and of income,' 'in subsidizing or in penalizing various industries and economic groups' and to 'isolate and assess directly the costs of certain national benefits, such as highways and social security.'"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 01:28 PM (dxSpM)

208 198
No "10% for the Big Guy"??
Posted by: Doof at November 24

Nope! Even if the “big guy” or gal, as the case may be, is broke as hades!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 01:28 PM (GMx4K)

209 Head tax = equal tax on every adult or household. If you did the latter it would encourage marriage as well of course.
Posted by: 18-1

Not really, because in order to be big enough to do that, there would be riots that dwarf anything we've ever seen.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 24, 2024 01:28 PM (KAi1n)

210 "In This House, We Believe in El Caudillo, Generalissimo Francisco Franco."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2024 01:28 PM (7oYYI)

211 What would you do if you were her??
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

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Greet her at the front door wearing a suit, bright red tie, and a blond wig. Put the turkey on the table and then do the Trump dance.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 24, 2024 01:18 PM (2UnvF)

Trump rallies playing in a loop on your TV. Heh.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 24, 2024 01:29 PM (iODuv)

212 Might just be me but I don't give money to CIA cut outs.
Posted by: JackStraw

Outside of the missionaries tied to our church we give to Samaritan's Purse and St. Jude. I just thought it was brazen to actually encourage cash giving. They actually funded a position paper on the effectiveness of distributing aid in cash. Why not put up a billboard asking for help in building our money laundering empire. I'm not sure who is in charge , the CIA or the State Department? Mike Benz has some interesting theories on that.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 24, 2024 01:29 PM (F3SmE)

213 The feds probably still have a list, but the CFC used to contain mostly leftist "charities" and there wasn't really anyway to pick and choose which ones you did, or didn't contribute to.

So I never contributed. And... at one point I think you could have a small amount skimmed off your paycheck each pay period to "bundle" and give to CFC at whatever time of the year the feds to this shit now.

Guilt grift.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2024 01:30 PM (Q4IgG)

214 Ace tip jar link is wrong?
Posted by: oneisnotprime at November 24, 2024 12:24 PM (osoMS)

To beat a dead horse: many of us quit PayPal because of their political leanings. Ace really needs to find an alternative way to accept donations. Many banks now have way to send e-transfers to anyone with an e-mail address.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2024 01:30 PM (HTHrm)

215 Not really, because in order to be big enough to do that, there would be riots that dwarf anything we've ever seen.

It certainly would require a massive change in federal spending. There are about 260M adults in the US. A $10K head tax would "only" yield $2.6T, less then half of what the Junta is spending yearly.

TBH, I'd like to see the head tax at around $5K per household, so even much less then that.

If we were ever to get to this point it would get people very very interested in keeping the federal budget as low as possible as EVERYONE would directly pay for it...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2024 01:32 PM (oZhjI)

216 Denver's mayor says he'd happily go to jail to protect illegal immigrants from being deported

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And we'd be happy to put you in jail so win /win.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:33 PM (L/fGl)

217 But the relentless haranguing for more takes a lot of the joy out of the act of giving.

I am at the point of throwing all junk mail out unopened and unread. The only ones I open are ones that have something in them. If it’s stamps, I keep them. If it’s money, I keep it and the org goes onto my “never donate” list. If it’s a calendar it goes into the free calendar pile, from which I choose the four best on January 1. If it’s a bag or something else big, it goes where they go and I decide whether it’s too gimmicky to keep donating to this org. If it’s useful reading material (almost all, and only, Judicial Watch mailings and the occasional Hillsdale College mailing) it goes into the bathroom.

In general I don’t mind mailings. They’re cheap. But my time isn’t.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 01:33 PM (olroh)

218 Shriners
St Judes
Semper Fi Fund
Sunshine Kids

I occasionally donate to animal shelters .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 01:33 PM (D6PGr)

219 In case you aren't following what is happening in NC, private parties are donating RVs to get families out of tents. And they are donating tents now that can take a wood heater. The baby freezing to death story was bogus but it could happen. There are documented stories of the state removing kids to foster care because the shelter was closed and they had to move to a tent. Meanwhile FEMA has trailers that should be used for this. Some are being used to house FEMA employees but most sit unused. They put in exactly one mobile to date.

The road that the WV guys put into Bat Cave was blocked off. Was said it went on private property. Someone took down the gate. They put in a new $280,000 gate and fencing plus security patrols it. You cannot hate these folks enough.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 24, 2024 01:34 PM (gfViB)

220 "In This House, We Believe in El Caudillo, Generalissimo Francisco Franco."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2024 01:28 PM (7oYYI)

"This House Is A Cackle-Free Zone"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 01:34 PM (nOjd9)

221 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:27 PM (L/fGl)

Adopting from shelter = Stealing

More newspeak from the Left.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 01:35 PM (D6PGr)

222 >>> THE Rick Wilson, cuck extraordinaire, used to be a Friend of the Blog™, so, you know, things change.
Posted by: Ch ch changes

But that was when Ace thought 'cuck' was racist name calling.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 01:35 PM (/lPRQ)

223 But that was when Ace thought 'cuck' was racist name calling.

IIRC, that lasted like, a week. Then we learned that the entire cast of GOP grifters were cucks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 01:36 PM (nOjd9)

224 In this house, we believe....

That you are trespassing to read this sign and you should be running before you hear the round chambered. Oops! Too late!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 01:37 PM (4XwPj)

225 >>Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??

What did Conan teach us is best in life?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 01:39 PM (LkLld)

226 The WeaselAcres Foundation For Unemployed Victoria Secret Models is not a scam!
Posted by: Weasel

Word is after the election they let go the fatties and trannies.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 01:39 PM (/lPRQ)

227 >>Her husband wants her to take down their Trump Flag for Thanksgiving because one of their relatives is a LiberaI, but she doesn’t want to…
What would you do if you were her??

What did Conan teach us is best in life?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 01:39 PM (LkLld)

Parlay a writing gig for The Simpsons into your own late night talk show?

Posted by: It's not a bad gig at November 24, 2024 01:40 PM (4Vs89)

228 Public service has been very, very good to him.

Gavin Newsom Buys $9.1 Million Bay Area Home

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:41 PM (L/fGl)

229 Any Moron or 'Ette who might donate to the Sunk New Dawn sustenance fund, can be assured that said funds will be spent on bourbon, seegars and some whoppin' good times.

The rest, I'll just squander and waste. You know, like on food, gaps in care that the VA might not cover, and such.

But mostly, bourbon, seegars and some whoppin' good times!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 01:41 PM (Xo+UM)

230 take down all political things, and tell your guests that politics are off limits.

This is a tender sentiment, a sort you seldom see anymore.
By all means, this is the soul of polite manners. Do it, and the very first time one of your mouthy relatives goes over the line anyway, just excuse yourself for a moment, run up the flag, put on your hat and T-shirt, and put John Philip Sousa on the stereo. Maybe you could rig a tripwire to let all the posters unfurl on the dining room walls at once.

FWIW, "sports" and "weather" have not been non-political chat for a whole generation now.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 01:41 PM (zdLoL)

231 So much charity is now gimmick or graft connected and when it comes to importing illegals, the churches cannot be trusted.
Is there a fund to pay to ship bums and skels to our west coast concentration camps? That's the one I'll get behind.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2024 01:41 PM (wBaIH)

232 Poland said half of our "donations to Ukraine was donated to US politicians.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 01:42 PM (2NXcZ)

233 Public service has been very, very good to him.
Gavin Newsom Buys $9.1 Million Bay Area Home
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

He was a rich, cocaine-sniffing upper-cruster before politics.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 24, 2024 01:42 PM (KAi1n)

234 VRQ 'After' pics:

https://go.ly/sRCux

Dammit. Having trouble shortening links.

https://go.ly/ETSyj

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 01:43 PM (XeU6L)

235 231 So much charity is now gimmick or graft connected and when it comes to importing illegals, the churches cannot be trusted.
Is there a fund to pay to ship bums and skels to our west coast concentration camps? That's the one I'll get behind.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2024 01:41 PM (wBaIH)

I'd like to see the "charities" who support the illegals, go under and their leadership locked up for life.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 01:43 PM (2NXcZ)

236 I would leave the Trump flag up and avoid politics at the table.

I had to explain TDS to a cow orker. It's the inability to discuss politics and policy without bringing up and prefacing every statement with how much they hate and despise Trump.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 24, 2024 01:43 PM (dt3AQ)

237 I took Ry for her last day of cat sitting and picked up the orange fatty cat for a snuggle. Sabi is not having this and has spent the last 10 minutes sniffing my hands, even after I washed them. I think he is planning a fundraiser for Cats Against Cheating Mamas.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2024 01:44 PM (p4NUW)

238 All of those companies that are discarding DEI/woke crap clearly didn't believe one fucking word of that bullshit and only put it in place because of...

A) fear that the left would unleash hell on them.
B) some high muckety muck in the company has a gay/lesbian/trans kid and wants everyone to bow to the mental illness.
C) they are retarded and thought it was the "new way forever".

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 01:44 PM (4XwPj)

239

https://www.rileychildrens.org

They don't spend all their money on TV ads.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2024 01:44 PM (63Dwl)

240 Gavin Newsom Buys $9.1 Million Bay Area Home
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:41 PM (L/fGl)

Did he visit kiev?

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 01:45 PM (2NXcZ)

241 I would rather give, with the understanding that some of my money is going to be wasted, and maybe even stolen (Clinton Foundation anyone?), than not give.

Well said

Posted by: Catherine at November 24, 2024 01:46 PM (JUpL6)

242 Cher Savagely Trashes Famous Movie Director [Peter Bogdanovich]: “He Was a Pig”

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A swine flu pox on both your houses!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:46 PM (L/fGl)

243 Gavin Newsom Buys $9.1 Million Bay Area Home
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:41 PM (L/fGl)

Attacking the scourge of homelessness, one case at a time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 01:46 PM (nOjd9)

244 The rest, I'll just squander and waste. You know, like on food, gaps in care that the VA might not cover, and such.

But mostly, bourbon, seegars and some whoppin' good times!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2024 01:41 PM (Xo+UM)

You mean, like this...

Tracy Lawrence, I Threw the Rest Away

He said some was spent on gamblin' a lot was spent women
A little on some good Cabernet
Three or four divorces at least as many horses that never left the startin' gates
Diamond rings and furs swamp land in New Jersey that week I spent a year in LA
I hate to admit I threw the rest away

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 01:48 PM (VNX3d)

245 >>>What kind of people is Trump appointing?

New York Post@nypost
Trump AG nominee Pam Bondi was once accused of stealing a couple’s St. Bernard in long legal battle....

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Bondi personally qss-raped Zimmerman for political gain.
I like Trump's platform but with Bondi nomination lost any hope for this term to do any better than the last.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 01:49 PM (/lPRQ)

246 Leftists have inserted politics into every single thing in our lives. They have gone so far off the edge of the map that they demand we allow children to be mutilated to satiate their insane world view. They lost the plot long ago and demand we either agree or shut up.

The Biden/Harris administration has turned over 300,000 immigrant children over to "sponsors" who have proceeded to disappear. That's who they are.

The worst possible thing we can do is to remain silent. Say whatever the fuck you want to say. Never give in to bullies particular those who want to bully you emotionally. We didn't go through all of this shit to be quiet.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 01:50 PM (LkLld)

247 Poland said half of our "donations to Ukraine was donated to US politicians.
Posted by: long night ending, dawn

Proving that Judas was a sucker for settling for a mere 30 pieces of silver.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:51 PM (L/fGl)

248 Bondi personally qss-raped Zimmerman for political gain.
I like Trump's platform but with Bondi nomination lost any hope for this term to do any better than the last.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 01:49 PM (/lPRQ)

A special prosecutor was appointed and he was found innocent.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 01:52 PM (D6PGr)

249
The worst possible thing we can do is to remain silent. Say whatever the fuck you want to say. Never give in to bullies particular those who want to bully you emotionally. We didn't go through all of this shit to be quiet.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 01:50 PM (LkLld)

Applause! I linked that GP article about the Georgulus woman and her desire to castrate her son, to ever pol I could think of and plenty of others. But what is a mutilated boy compared with pockets full of pharma and AMA graft?

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 01:53 PM (2NXcZ)

250 Proving that Judas was a sucker for settling for a mere 30 pieces of silver.

Convincing him to take the money was one of the best songs in Jesus Christ Superstar.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 01:53 PM (olroh)

251 >>>What kind of people is Trump appointing?

New York Post@nypost
Trump AG nominee Pam Bondi was once accused of stealing a couple’s St. Bernard in long legal battle.

Don't forget, NY Post is owned by the Murdochs. Miranda Devine is only tolerated there because she has a following.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 01:54 PM (nOjd9)

252 Proving that Judas was a sucker for settling for a mere 30 pieces of silver.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:51 PM (L/fGl)

And all those kickbacks and embezzled money was our tax dollars. They need to be torn down. I also hear that Mayorkas wants "immunity" from investigation?

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 01:54 PM (2NXcZ)

253 Denzel Washington Says “It’s Not Fashionable” to Be Religious in Hollywood: “I Don’t Care What Anyone Thinks”

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That does it! I'm gonna go see Gladiator II!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:55 PM (L/fGl)

254 For the person above asking about Vespas, they are quite reasonable to run, IMHO

I have had 2, a 2006 and a 2009. Here in RI, you can probably find a good LX150 for @ $2500 with

Biggest issue is finding a local repair shop or mechanic who does good work. Check with people you know who have a Vespa nearby, and stop by the repair shops mentioned ( repair shops may also have used vespas available for sale)

Posted by: Slash Buzz at November 24, 2024 01:55 PM (P3p+h)

255 Convincing him to take the money was one of the best songs in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 01:53 PM (olroh)

"Choose any charity, give to the poor"...Lloyd Weber and Rice are geniuses.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 01:55 PM (2NXcZ)

256 The head of FEMA being a weasel when questioned by Congress

https://tinyurl.com/5n736abr

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 24, 2024 01:56 PM (gfViB)

257 For a variety of reasons (many mentioned above) I keep it local here, youth sports, food shelf, battered women's shelter, HS scholarships, jackets/gloves/boots for elementary students, and a few other things.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2024 01:57 PM (41CYW)

258 A special prosecutor was appointed and he was found innocent.

…and then they returned the money spent defending him, extended his life to match the time lost to defending him, and restored his anonymity.

There are times when the process does not and cannot have a successful outcome even if it comes to the correct conclusion.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 01:57 PM (olroh)

259 A battle of wits.

Bill Maher Clashes With Alleged Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson for Refusing to Admit Men's Sports Advantage Over Women

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:57 PM (L/fGl)

260 245 Jesus titty-fucking Christ; read the article. The owners abandoned the dog to a shelter, where Bondi eventually rescued him. The owners brought out this bullshit suit years later.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2024 01:59 PM (wBaIH)

261 Bill Maher Clashes With Alleged Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson for Refusing to Admit Men's Sports Advantage Over Women
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Bill Nye could explain this, and global warming.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 02:00 PM (XeU6L)

262 Oregon Poised To Force Health Insurers To Cover Trans Genital Surgeries for Children, or Risk Losing Their Licenses

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Satan laughs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 02:00 PM (L/fGl)

263 >>Applause! I linked that GP article about the Georgulus woman and her desire to castrate her son, to ever pol I could think of and plenty of others. But what is a mutilated boy compared with pockets full of pharma and AMA graft?

As we speak the Biden DOJ is trying to get a court to order the doctor in Texas who blew the whistle on his hospitals illegal gender surgeries on children to stop posting on X claiming it is causing doctors who performed this monstrous surgeries harm. They want us silent. That's how they win.

In this house we say what we believe and if you don't like it then don't come here.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 02:00 PM (LkLld)

264 260 245 Jesus titty-fucking Christ; read the article. The owners abandoned the dog to a shelter, where Bondi eventually rescued him. The owners brought out this bullshit suit years later.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2024 01:59 PM (wBaIH)

And had she not been well known and a potential source of money, they never would have sued.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 02:00 PM (2NXcZ)

265 1WP NOOD

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

266 For the person above asking about Vespas,
their newest model is 278cc and 23 HP. I expected to see a review here. If you think that's tawdry, it's about four times the power of the ones you see in movies flitting about the piazza.

It's like a monster Vespa. And I know who wants one.

You have to own the album to know the cover and notes, but Simon and Garfunkel's second (if you don't count "Tom and Jerry") had an ungrammatical note from London, and a wide-angle shot of Paul and Art riding a motor scooter together, very Euro. After that you never thought of them the same way again.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 02:02 PM (zdLoL)

267 This all is one of the reasons I like charity work, for example working at a foodbank sorting and packing up food donations. I know my labor (work or $$$) is going towards to the end result.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at November 24, 2024 02:02 PM (lg881)

268 The head of FEMA being a weasel when questioned by Congress

https://tinyurl.com/5n736abr
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 24, 2024 01:56 PM (gfViB)

I wonder if the Deep State are as gullible as marketers

https://tinyurl.com/mrx2wxup

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at November 24, 2024 02:02 PM (VNX3d)

269 In this house we say what we believe and if you don't like it then don't come here.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2024 02:00 PM (LkLld)

Is there anyone who truly believes a 12yo can make an "informed decision?"
Some poster on GP told others never to look at the post-op pictures of these surgeries. I say, we have an obligation to do so and shatter the mythology of gender change.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 02:03 PM (2NXcZ)

270 Only one pol ever blocked me for linking articles about issues to his X account.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 02:04 PM (2NXcZ)

271 Bondi personally qss-raped Zimmerman for political gain.
I like Trump's platform but with Bondi nomination lost any hope for this term to do any better than the last.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 01:49 PM (/lPRQ)

A special prosecutor was appointed and he was found innocent.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
====

Local jurisdiction found it justified and refused to prosecute.
Bondi chose to pursue it and was personally involved up to her eyebrows.

I tracked the case day-to-day and found it to be a ludicrous political prosecution.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 02:05 PM (/lPRQ)

272 New York Post@nypost
Trump AG nominee Pam Bondi was once accused of stealing a couple’s St. Bernard in long legal battle

The sordid spat goes back to 2005, when Tank’s owners, Steve and Dorreen Couture, put the St. Bernard in an animal shelter in Louisiana to ride out Hurricane Katrina.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:27 PM (L/fGl)

Now let me be clear, I think Bondi is a terrible appointment, but I have to say that in this instance I think she was unfairly accused. Mike and I have rescued many dogs from shelters. They are often unwanted, unloved, and *wink* unmissed. *lip smack*

Posted by: Barry S at November 24, 2024 02:07 PM (lg881)

273 Greg Price
@greg_price11

President Trump has now officially nominated someone for every single executive branch agency in his Cabinet and California is still counting votes.
5:23 PM · Nov 23, 2024

That is truly ridiculous in 2024 America.
Nations like France & the UK can count millions of hand-marked ballots in one night.

It's a sad reflection on us when our largest state, and largest economy (est. $4.1 trillion and the 4th or 5th largest GDP in the world if counted as it's own) can't count votes in a month.

This leaves itself wide open to fraud and the suspicion of fraud even if none has occurred.

Trump & Team need to really work on putting together a bill for Congress with a national election law that has a 24-hour count requirement and other ballot reforms (mail-in, voter I.D., ballot harvesting, etc.) ASAP.

I won't get my hopes up, but something has to be done.
It's only the length of time Dems are given after election day that allows them to try to steal elections after the fact.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:12 PM (6ydKt)

274 259 A battle of wits.

Bill Maher Clashes With Alleged Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson for Refusing to Admit Men's Sports Advantage Over Women

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 01:57 PM (L/fGl)

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Even Maher was stupefied.
"Well, I'm going to file you under 'part of the problem'."

I'm more convinced than ever that Tyson is gay (I don't know his bio, maybe he's out?) because it seems he takes every LBGTQwerty issue extremely personally.

Why ask Tyson anything about actual science anyhow?
His specialty is astrophysics, but as far as I can tell he's the far inferior, woke, version of Carl Sagan playing a scientist on TV and the net.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 02:23 PM (6ydKt)

275 May have been said already, but my favorite charity is St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. If I'm not mistaken, Danny Thomas founded it. God bless his soul for that.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 24, 2024 02:34 PM (7GSTP)

276 >>>Does Memorial Sloan Kettering really need to pay its president $8,104,960?

That's about what Rachel Maddow makes!

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 02:45 PM (VnUSN)

277 222 >>> THE Rick Wilson, cuck extraordinaire, used to be a Friend of the Blog™, so, you know, things change.
Posted by: Ch ch changes

But that was when Ace thought 'cuck' was racist name calling.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2024 01:35 PM (/lPRQ)

223 But that was when Ace thought 'cuck' was racist name calling.

IIRC, that lasted like, a week. Then we learned that the entire cast of GOP grifters were cucks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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And Vic's still missing.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 24, 2024 02:48 PM (TDdfP)

278 I'd love to help but use Paypal as a last resort only. Is there an address to send a check, and who to make it payable to, I'll gladly gebn etlekhe gelt.

Posted by: Dennis P Keating at November 24, 2024 03:35 PM (93/uy)

279 Very true, the NGO is out of control.

My favorite local "charity" is the guy who takes in used kitchen utensils and then gives them to poor people or homeless setting up an apartment.

$185,000 per year salary.

Posted by: PJ at November 24, 2024 03:41 PM (RRCAT)

280 Is there ANY other way to hit Ace's tip jar other than Paypal? Because I had planned to do so but Paypal is not an option for me. I will check back here, I'm sure I'm not the only one in this position. Like, even an Amazon gift card (they do have shelving supplies!).

Posted by: Peaches at November 24, 2024 05:17 PM (14URa)

281 I don't give to charities that hate me (remember the Salvation Army a few years ago?) or are destroying America (Catholic charities importing 3rd world welfare dependents).

Posted by: butch at November 24, 2024 05:17 PM (98xTj)

282 Never donate to a charity whose CEO has a driver.

Posted by: emil turner at November 24, 2024 05:35 PM (BLv30)

283 I'm in the process of redo-ing my estate plan (i.e., my will) to remove all charities as recipoents. Hopefully, if the medical-industrial complex doesn't suck me dry (and not in the good way) in my last three months on this planet -- whenever those months end up happening -- I'll have a decent amount to pass on to an actual live human or two. At least then I know to whom the fruits of my life's work will be going.

Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2024 06:46 PM (5Pci1)

284 I understand the concern, since there are so many charities to pick and choose. Therefore I include as many local charities as possible to the mix, while still donating to the large national ones. Since I've been doing this for many years I have gotten to know and trust all of the people who run our local charities... I believe Feeding America is probably a very good organizational but I donate to 2 of our local charities affiliated with Feeding America. The good thing about the locals is that in addition to donating money I can buy and deliver groceries as needed as well as doing other volunteer work for them.

Posted by: ADK46er at November 25, 2024 10:56 AM (Dk6GG)

285 Thаnks for finally talking about >Americans Are Amazingly Generοus, But...

<Loved it!

Posted by: denebola at November 26, 2024 04:14 AM (CJYR9)

Sunday Morning Book Thread - 11-24-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

PIC NOTE

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I am very thankful for each and every one of you Morons that stops by this scruffy corner of a smart, military blog to comment on books and reading. It's been a truly wonderful experience these past couple years.

HOW TIKTOK RUINED BOOKS

The YouTuber above raises some interesting points about how social media has changed the ways in which people read books. According to his research, people on TikTok can feel enormous social pressure to conform to the latest trends in book reading in order to conform to the current zeitgeist. So you see many, many TikTok videos that cover the same book again and again and again. I think you can see this to a lesser extent among BookTubers who always seem to talk about the same books that have been published in recent years.

The idea that BookTokkers feel compelled to buy tens of books per month is disturbing, as it means the industry is cultivating hording behavior among readers. Now, I like to collect books as much as the next person, and I have hundreds of books in my TBR pile. But in recent years, the vast majority of those books have been from library books sales or used bookstores as much as anything. I also find it a bit weird that people will buy books just so they can produce a "book haul" video. I see a bunch of these in my YouTube feed as well, but I generally ignore them because I don't care. I'll post a picture of my own book hauls on this here website (see below!) but that's as far as it goes.

It will be interesting to see how the changes wrought by social media on reading habits plays out in the next few years. AI-written books are certainly going to become a thing. I remember last year after the Maui wildfire, I suddenly saw a book written about the wildfire that was published on Amazon only a few days after the start of the wildfire. Investigating the author revealed "he" was writing a book a month, which seems very unlikely. My conclusion was someone was experimenting with AI-produced books to push the boundaries of AI's capabilities in that area. Oh, and all of the books had several 5-star ratings on Amazon, of course.

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READ WHAT YOU OWN CHALLENGE

Last week we talked about "gamification" in reading. One gamification strategy is the read-what-you-own challenge, where the goal is to read a set number of books before you buy any more. Dutch Greybeard accepted this challenge and now shares the results. Although he didn't quite meet his original goal of reading 50 books before buying any new ones, he did accomplish a deeper goal of reflecting on his reading habits and motivations. Before the challenge, he was buying dozens of books a month, but didn't know when--or if--he'd ever get around to reading them. Now, he has a much better understanding of how much he reads in a given year. He also sees the wisdom is putting off books that you may NOT actually read, but only purchased because of the FOMO--the fear of missing out. Everyone else was reading these books, so he felt like he was falling behind if he didn't at least own them himself with the intent to read them.

After going through this experience, Dutch Greybeard can now pace himself better and moderate his reading habits. Much of what he talks about is touched upon in the first video I posted above about TikTok ruining reading. Dutch Greybeard was trying to keep up with the cool kids instead of focusing in on his own motivations for reading good books. Sounds like he will have more enriching reading experiences going forward.

BOOKS BY MORONS

"Max Cossack" has a new book out in his Wilder Bunch series:

High Jingo begins with a young couple in love "spelunking" in a cave that isn't really a cave, but an abandoned mineshaft, a relic of a Gold Rush that wasn't really a "rush" but more of a Gold Kerfuffle that never materialized. The couple is assisted by a beer-loving husky dog which eschews the normal protocols of an archaeological dig and willy-nilly unearths an artifact with Hebrew letters on it. And the reader thinks, "This is not your every-day story!"
And that reader is correct. Once again, three generations of the Wilder Bunch take us on an historical, occasionally hysterical, adventure. The story is as old as pogroms in Eastern Europe and as new as Jewish students being abused by pro-terrorist elements paying full tuition even at 4th rate diploma mills. A ripping yarn, full of love, courage and righteous anger, it careens from Medieval Hungary to Israel to a small rural town in Minnesota and up the road to St. Paul. As the old movie line goes, "Fasten your seatbelts; You're in for a bumpy ride."
Available in eBook or Paperback or Audiobook at Amazon.com
Or only in paperback directly from the author on the author's own store, VWAM Books
PLUS: There is a 15% discount at VWAM Books for ACE people, good for all Max Cossack novels and all Ammo Grrrll collections as well. Just enter ACEDISCOUNT (one word, all CAPS) at checkout.

PROPER USE OF BOOKMARKS

Biden's Dog sent me an email recently asking me if he was the only one who used a bookmark to not only mark the page where he last stopped, but also indicated where on the page he stopped. He uses a simple post-it-note with arrows indicating his place on that page.

Me, I'll stick with repurposing land cards from Magic: The Gathering as I have thousands of them. They are also cheap (about $0.10 from your local game store) and sturdy enough to last through several books.

MORON RECOMMENDATIONS

I continue to dip into George MacDonald (in this case The Princess and the Goblin) and GK Chesterton. They were both prolific so I'll be doing this for years. Chesterton for his insight, wit and humor and superb writing which is a pleasure of its own. MacDonald for his ability to create worlds and characters that a small child can follow and enjoy but also appeal to adults. His imagination is as creative as any in literature and his ability to express that imagination is beyond my ability to praise sufficiently. It is easy to understand his influence on Lewis, Tolkien and others. If Shakespeare had written prose he might have approached MacDonald's level. Think of A Midsummer Night's Dream as a novel.
I find it interesting that there seem to be a lot of new editions of MacDonald's works. Apparently, there is a demand.
Posted by: JTB at November 17, 2024 09:26 AM (yTvNw)

Comment: As a lover of fantasy literature, I really, really need to read some George MacDonald. I keep hearing how he influenced great authors like Tolkien and Lewis. I like to read the stories that inspired others. I think it's great that there's an apparent demand--makes the author more accessible to modern readers.

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Persuasion by Jane Austen is my latest foray into early 19th century English society. The story is a good one, featuring the middle child of a titled spendthrift widower who has no male heirs but does have an ego as big as Dallas (as we say). This middle child was nearly engaged but family objected to the young naval officer who proposed so the relationship was called off. Fortunately, love abides and the young couple meets after several years apart and each discovers their feelings have not changed. Boy gets girl in the end. The society is tightly structured and I found myself wondering how these people were able to endure it.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 17, 2024 10:32 AM (rxCpr)

Comment: Jane Austen seems to have timeless appeal. I read Mansfield Park in college and was pleasantly surprised at how engaging the story was for me. As I get older, perhaps I shall revisit Austen's other works...

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Last week I read for escapism and Christopher Taylor's Life Unworthy delivered. It opens with a scene from a Nazi death camp. The soldiers assigned to operate the gas chamber sense that something did not go right with their last group execution. When they open the door to the chamber, they're attacked and killed by a werewolf which escapes into Nazi-occupied Warsaw. This beast is then hunted by the Nazis, a doctor who wants to learn how to reproduce the beast, and a spiritualist whose motives are a mystery for most of the book. The man who has been cursed, is doing his best to keep the beast inside him under control while running from the Nazis and then becomes involved with a young Gypsy widow. Lots of interesting characters whose stories are woven together to create a very entertaining story.
Posted by: KatieFloyd at November 17, 2024 11:01 AM (FkuFp)

Comment: As usual, I like to highlight recommendations of Moron-authored books. Christopher R. Taylor took a long hiatus from the blog, but he's been posting regularly now, and it's good to have him back. I, too, enjoyed Life Unworthy. It gave us a sympathetic, if cursed, protagonist who knows he contains a terrible rage inside him, but he uses it for good by killing Nazis. Who can argue with that?

More Moron-recommended reading material can be found HERE! (1000+ Moron-recommended books!)

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WHAT I'VE ACQUIRED THIS PAST WEEK:

Well, I went to my local library's book sale this week. I saw several folks I know, as usual. And I made out like a bandit, as usual.

Star Wars - Han Solor at Stars' End by Brian Daley - This is one of the earliest novels in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, before there *was* such a thing as an EU.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois

The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom

The City by Dean Koontz

Demon Seed by Dean Koontz

Midnight by Dean Koontz

Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz

Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz

Saint Odd by Dean Koontz

The Forbidden Door by Dean Koontz

Seize the Night by Dean Koontz

Strange Highways edited by Dean Koontz

Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston

Blasphemy by Douglas Preston

The Majipoor Chronicles by Robert Silverberg

The Unwilling Warlord by Lawrence Watt-Evans

Lords of the Sky by Angus Wells

This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams

The Select by F. Paul Wilson

A Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk: Being a Compilation of Linguistic Fig Leaves and Verbal Flourishes for Artful Uses of the English Language by Hugh Rawson

WHAT I'VE BEEN READING THIS PAST WEEK:

After reviewing some of OregonMuse's old Book Threads, I thought I'd try something a bit different. Instead of just listing WHAT I'm reading, I'll include commentary as well. Unless otherwise specified, you can interpret this as an implied recommendation, though as always your mileage may vary.

Saga of the Forgotten Warrior Book 4 - Tower of Silence by Larry Correia

As Correia reveals details about his world, we find out that there's a lot of hidden backstory, but Larry is pretty good about slowly doling out the exposition over time. We can now see that the history between humans and demons is vast and complicated. Much of what the humans believe has turned out to be lies and misinformation as the current ruling caste uses its power to remain in power. To acknowledge the claims of the casteless as the true heirs of the hero Ramorowan would overthrow society, though it's already teetering on the brink.

Saga of the Forgotten Warrior Book 5 - Graveyard of Demons by Larry Correia

Now that the demons believe the casteless have all been eliminated through the Great Extermination orchestrated by Grand Inquisitor Ormand, they are launching a major offensive operation against the humans, striking at the very heart of civilization deep in the middle of the continent, as far away from the hellish oceans as possible. Meanwhile, Ormand seeks to claim godhood by finding the source of the demons' power. Ashok and his allies continue to fight both the demons and the oppressive society that has led to the slaughter of countless innocents.

Weirdly, this series reminds me of both the Wizardry and Might and Magic computer games. I wonder if Larry every played those...

The Last King of Osten Ard Book 4 - The Navigator's Children by Tad Williams

One thing I really like about Tad Williams' epic series is that he always includes a synopsis of the previous books in the series so I don't feel like I have to re-read them in order to know what's going on. This means I can dive right into his last book in the series and feel like I'm all caught up. This books reveals the hidden history of the Tinukeda'ya, the mysterious changelings that traveled to Osten Ard countless aeons ago enslaved to the Sithi and Norns, who were all one people back then. The Norn Queen Utuk'ku wages war on both the mortals and Sithi to reach the Valley of Mists, where she hopes to accomplish her ultimate act of vengeance.

True to form, Williams provides plenty of exposition in the final book in the series, explaining just exactly what's been going on throughout the entire series up until this point. He still leaves plenty of mysteries for the characters, though, as there is so much background knowledge required, the main human characters are often befuddled and confused by events far beyond their understanding.

PREVIOUS SUNDAY MORNING BOOK THREAD - 11-17-2024 (NOTE: Do NOT comment on old threads!)

Tips, suggestions, recommendations, etc., can all be directed to perfessor -dot- squirrel -at- gmail -dot- com.

Disclaimer: No Morons were physically harmed in the making of this Sunday Morning Book Thread. It's a lot easier to hunt for books than it is for deer.

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1 Did some beta reading this week. Does that count? Thanksgiving week, so not much time for anything but getting ready for Christmas.

Preteen a little sick, so might have to cut out early.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 08:59 AM (0eaVi)

2 Trying to read Hegseths book.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

3 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:01 AM (omVj0)

4 Perf, both vids are the same.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:01 AM (0eaVi)

5 Perf, both vids are the same.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:01 AM (0eaVi)
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Thanks!
I think I've fixed it!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2024 09:04 AM (BpYfr)

6 According to his research, people on TikTok can feel enormous social pressure to conform to the latest trends in book reading in order to conform to the current zeitgeist. So you see many, many TikTok videos that cover the same book again and again and again.

That holds the same for YTers who "try" things or react to others. See one vid of a foreigner who's gone to some bbq place, then multiple others post their visit to the same blinking place. Usually a day or two after the first one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:05 AM (0eaVi)

7 Tolle Lege
But didn't read a thing all week

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 09:05 AM (Niu9o)

8 BOOKEN MORGEN HORDEN!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:07 AM (WL2lA)

9 "but in recent years, the vast majority of those books have been from library books sales or used bookstores as much as anything"

In my case, the number of used books is approximately 100 percent. It isn't that I'm cheap as much as the dearth of new books worth buying.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2024 09:07 AM (tSsb6)

10 Started my annual re-reading of LOTR. Tolkien certainly had a way with words. His writing always impressed me ever since I first read the Hobbit as a teen.
Also been watching Malcolm Guite on the Utube. He is one interesting fellow. Makes me wish I had a room to myself for all my books and a nice chair to sit in. And a bottle of bourbon. Can’t forget the bourbon.

Posted by: RetSgtRN at November 24, 2024 09:07 AM (enxwN)

11 This week I finished some short stories in The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume Two, edited by Gordon Van Gelder. The later stories, post 1990, are not to my taste -- too literary and "What did I just read?" But there is "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison, "-- All You Zombies --" by Heinlein (a story I've never understood), and "The Friendship Light" by Gene Wolfe. The latter is creepy and effective. While there are a couple of interpretations you can put on the tale, which is sorta literary, you can simply enjoy it as a weird-fest.

Oh, and there is a good Stephen King short story too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:08 AM (omVj0)

12 I am thankful for the Book Thread, a shining interlude of sanity and joy in the darkest of years.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:09 AM (WL2lA)

13 Perfesser, I beg to differ with your disclaimer:

Disclaimer: No Morons were physically harmed in the making of this Sunday Morning Book Thread. It's a lot easier to hunt for books than it is for deer.

The deer show up in the yard every morning, but it's a pain in the ass trying to figure out which box in the garage contains volume x of the series I'm currently reading. Maybe I need to hit IKEA for more bookshelves....

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 24, 2024 09:09 AM (e/Osv)

14 I'm visiting family this week, so I won't have time to actually participate in this week's conversation. So, have fun, all!

Posted by: Castle Guy at November 24, 2024 09:09 AM (0UoT+)

15 It gave us a sympathetic, if cursed, protagonist who knows he contains a terrible rage inside him, but he uses it for good by killing Nazis. Who can argue with that?

Well, he could have killed Reds too....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:10 AM (0eaVi)

16 I dipped into Juvenal and Martial recently. They wrote savage satire and insult comedy. Now those guys were cruel!

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at November 24, 2024 09:11 AM (5G6LU)

17 Good morning again morons and thanks perfesser

I might read Hegseth's book but that "Dictionary of Euphemisms" has caught my interest.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 09:11 AM (RIvkX)

18 I heard Cormac McCarthy died. I realize it was a while back but his name keeps popping up on news sites. I know he was controversial here but I am glad I read him. My favorite book was “All the Pretty Horses”. The weirdest book was “The Crossing”. The one book I will never forget Blood Meridian. I know everyone says that, but you don’t forget that book. I still say all the pretty horses was better.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 09:11 AM (y1Yk9)

19 Hah!

Read What You Own must have been reading my mind, because after a year of nearly filling out classic mystery and SF series collections, one of my resolutions for the coming new year is to suspend book purchases and, um, read what I own.

This will have one exception: The trip to Half Price Books during the TxMoMe.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 24, 2024 09:11 AM (p/isN)

20 Thanks for the Book Thread, Perfessor!

And a happy and blessed Thanksgiving to you and all the Moron Horde! I am thankful to have this thread each week, and thankful for the hard work that goes into creating it. And most thankful for the lively repartee that makes each Book Thread so special!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 24, 2024 09:12 AM (rxCpr)

21 Earlier this week I finished Agatha Christie's Murder in Retrospect, aka Five Little Pigs. A Poirot story, it features solid plotting and surprises, good analysis by Hercule, and much better characterization of the people involved than I expected. I'm beginning to think that Christie deserves the reputation she has as a mystery writer, and that she deserves better regarding her portraits of people.

I've picked up Curtain Up, an examination of Christie's work in the theatre, and a couple more of her own works.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:12 AM (omVj0)

22 Those Hebrew letters on the book cover are the last two letter in the word for truth

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 09:12 AM (RIvkX)

23 "The Weed Agency" continues to grow and thrive. We're now into the Clinton administration, and the Reaganaut budget cutter who was outfoxed by the agency's director has just come into Congress as part of the GOP red wave. He vows to wipe out the agency.

However, he's probably doomed to disappointment because an IT whiz at the agency plans to create a searchable online database of weed species, and new Speaker Gingrich is besotten with the concept.

And the game goes on.

(What happened to the Red Wave folks, anyway?)

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 24, 2024 09:12 AM (p/isN)

24 Thanks!
I think I've fixed it!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2024 09:04 AM (BpYfr)

Ye did!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:12 AM (0eaVi)

25 According to his research, people on TikTok can feel enormous social pressure to conform to the latest trends in book reading in order to conform to the current zeitgeist.

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Maybe this is why I see ridiculously long hold lists on some new books of dubious quality at the library.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:12 AM (WL2lA)

26 "Oh dear," he told himself. "This will never do: they're going to cook me without tucking some thyme and bayleaves into the sacking, and I am sure I would taste better if they covered me with a rasher or two of fatty bacon. O my, to be cooked is not good, to be sure, but to be cooked badly is a tragic way to end one's days!"

He swooned once more, and when he next emerged into consciousness he found himself crying out, "Make sure you put some cranberry and onion confit on the table, for I'll taste a good bit better with that!"

-- Mole, who has been kidnapped and trussed by hungry weasels and stoats, in "The Willows at Christmas" by William Horwood

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 09:14 AM (kpS4V)

27 Maybe I need to hit IKEA for more bookshelves....

-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at November 24, 2024 09:09 AM (e/Osv)

makes phone hand

Call us!

Posted by: Ace Shelving Co. at November 24, 2024 09:15 AM (0eaVi)

28 Bookmarks to me are whatever is at hand, from the receipt for the book to a piece of an envelope from the day's junk mail. I am not one of those phillistines who folds pages over.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2024 09:15 AM (tSsb6)

29 Morning, Horde.

Mostly short pieces this week, skimming through a few short stories and essays. Acquired a hardcover copy of Dana Gioia's 99 Poems, ebook of which I'd picked up on the kindle and decided I'd like a print edition for the shelf. I don't read a lot of poetry and can't recall how I came across his work, but I find quite a few of his pieces just lovely. There are some videos of him reading samples of his poetry, and farther down the page links to several you can read online, at:

https://danagioia.com/poems-2/

Check out "Summer Storm" and "Unsaid" in particular -- those were the ones that made me a fan. His essays are pretty good too.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 09:15 AM (q3u5l)

30 like colleen hoover, who apparently has a niche audience,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:15 AM (pGTZo)

31 I just use a scrap piece of paper for a bookmark.

Posted by: dantesed at November 24, 2024 09:15 AM (Oy/m2)

32 I just remember where I left off.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 09:18 AM (RIvkX)

33 Yay Book Thread!

Still working through Gilbert's Churchill. Kind of a long book, actually, but continues to entertain.

Churchill was a total workaholic, always moving onto the next thing. Conversely, he mixed his work with two-week long vacations in southern France or Spain. Even when "working" he like to commandeer Navy ships and cruise about in them.

Anyhow, we're in the 1920s and he's at low ebb, having lost his office, his seat, and his appendix. This is the second time his career was pronounced over (the first was in 1915). I don't think he's done, though.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)

34 Last night, moviegique reviewed "The Prime of Miss Jean Brody" in the Movie Thread.

"The Prime of Miss Jean Brody" was a very good novel written by Muriel Sharp before it was a movie.

Sharp was greatly admired by Evelyn Waugh and wrote several excellent novels.

If you're curious give "The Girls of Slender Means" a whirl. It's a good intro to what she's all about. And, BONUS! Anthony Burgess considered it one of his "99 Great Novels of the 20th Century. He also listed her "The Mandelbaum Gate" as well.

Sharp has that same Catholic-informed dark humor that infuses the writings of Evelyn Waugh and Flannery O'Connor. If you like their writings, you'll
probably like her's.

Check her out.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 09:20 AM (eDfFs)

35 Almost finished with Tim Sullivan's "The Dentist," featuring his new character, DS George Cross, a middle aged single man, autistic, homicide detective in Bristol, out on the Atlantic coast of Britain.

Sullivan has done a lot of screenwriting, and this story has a cast made for a limited series on one of the streaming channels. His partner is a divorced black woman with two kids, the squad room has a boss (here it would be a lieutenant) who is a political climber, there is a fresh young face, a young woman fresh from the uni, and a bereaved family that tics all the boxes.

Three adult sisters grieve for their murdered dad, a dentist, who seven years ago did a runner, disappeared, never found, who turns up dead not far from his home, had been living homeless the entire time.

Youngest sis is a lesbian, she and her partner have two biracial kids, middle sis always dresses as if she is an exec at Fox News, oldest wears black suits.

But the show is George Cross, who cannot relate socially to anyone at all, cannot get a joke, only speaks when directly addressed, he's severely beset with autism. But shines as a detective, particularly in interviewing witnesses and suspects.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 24, 2024 09:20 AM (KiBMU)

36 So, I happened to be in the library and found a few novels to read. First up is Open Carry by Marc Cameron. Not familiar with this author but it appears he has done a couple of Jack Ryan books and a series, so I will put him on my list for future purchases. Open Carry is a murder mystery set in southeast Alaska. The hero is a former military man turned U.S. Marshal. The guy is gruff but likeable and very capable but also has a lot of personal baggage. Three people go missing off a remote island, and the Marshals are called in to arrest a fugitive who appears to be a likely suspect. Tangled plot, likeable characters (except for the bad guys who are very bad), surprises around each corner and very descriptive prose. Looks like there is a second book which I will also be on the lookout for.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 24, 2024 09:21 AM (rxCpr)

37 Is it possible to hate-read a book? Yes, yes it is. I started to dislike this book within the first five pages, then turned to strong dislike, followed by disgust and then even self-loathing. By the end I kept reading as punishment for buying the damn thing.

So, I just finished up 'the book of elsewhere' by Keanu Reeves and China Mieville. I confess to buying it because I love Keanu, even though I have read Mieville in the past and loathed his work.

I am extremely sorry to say that Keanu did not improve the book. Imagine ChatGPT swallowed the thesaurus and then got the prompt to 'make a hyper-pretentious novel about death and immortality and a tusked pig that will not die, with a wide cast of characters that are pretty indistinguishable, with stream-of-consciousness intellectualoid writing. And make it lame'.

That would have been a step up from this drek. Aaagh.

Posted by: Candidus at November 24, 2024 09:21 AM (zGvse)

38 During one of my visits to our local used-book store, a grade-school girl was selling custom bookmarks, which were blank note cards that she colored on one side with markers.

I bought two (50 cents each) to reward the entreprenurial spirit.

It irks me that Nero Wolfe dog-ears the pages of most of the books he read. Philistine.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 24, 2024 09:21 AM (p/isN)

39 Sharp has that same Catholic-informed dark humor that infuses the writings of Evelyn Waugh and Flannery O'Connor. If you like their writings, you'll
probably like her's.

Check her out.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024

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I read Brodie earlier this year, I think it was, and liked it. Can't recall if I read another one of hers earlier; the titles you mention sound familiar.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:22 AM (omVj0)

40 well that was one way of looking at things, because of his stance on India, he didn't get the leadership posts like baldwin and chamberlain, but he had the last laugh,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:22 AM (pGTZo)

41 Yeah, the book haul phenomenon is weird.

I respect speed readers - like Harriet Klausner, hall of fame reviewer- but some booktok haulers don't just NOT read the books they buy, they return it gor refunds at the bookstore.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:22 AM (WL2lA)

42 Bookmarks to me are whatever is at hand, from the receipt for the book to a piece of an envelope from the day's junk mail. I am not one of those phillistines who folds pages over.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2024 09:15 AM (tSsb6)
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Pretty much. I have a few bookmarks that came from the bookstores, and now I hesitate to use them because so many are gone. The well-used Jocundry's in particular brings me the sadz. The Archives in now gone, so no more of those, I guess.

Slips of paper, expired membership cards, magazine reply cards all have their uses.

The key determinant is the size of the book.

When I was writing Long Live Death and Walls of Men, I took scrap paper from work or junk mail, folded repeatedly and came up with 16 bookmarks per 8 1/2x 11 sheet. These I folded in half and used to mark my citations. I kept a stack of them ready at hand because you never knew when you'd hit upon something interesting.

Part of the ritual of finishing the book was the removal of these and their shelving.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)

43 You want to inherit your grandfather's extensive library, being someone who treasures books.
You'd settle for a portion, because it's up to the non-book-loving executor.
What you get is a truckload of Reader's Digest condensed books and paperback romance novels.

Posted by: Why the long face, fellow? at November 24, 2024 09:23 AM (UyyOe)

44 oh that was a deeply cringe book, but mieville is a cringe character,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:23 AM (pGTZo)

45 Finished Alan Smale's "Radiant Sky", the follow-on to "Hot Moon". Can't wait for the next in this alt-Space Race history series.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 09:23 AM (kpS4V)

46 I hoard pretty bookmarks but use scraps of paper as actual bookmarks.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:23 AM (WL2lA)

47
It irks me that Nero Wolfe dog-ears the pages of most of the books he read. Philistine.
Posted by: Weak Geek at November 24, 2024

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He also has a gold-plated book mark given him by a grateful client, and when he uses that, Archie concludes the book is something special.

Part of the Wolfe Effect is that he talks like a superman, yes, but he never uses a long word if the exact right one is short. And he does very human things like dog-earing book pages, patting his hands dry with a paper towel in the plant rooms, playing billiards with Archie on Sundays on occasion, and indulging his love of the color yellow even in furniture and shirts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:25 AM (omVj0)

48 Juvenal complains about what's become of Rome: "Put no trust in appearances; after all isn’t every street packed With sad-looking perverts? How can you castigate sin, when you Yourself are the most notorious of all the Socratic sodomite holes?"

Martial, the insult comic: "Cinna, I am told, is a writer of small squibs against me. A man cannot be called a writer, whose effusions no one reads. ... Nestor, you wonder that Marius' ear smells unpleasantly. You are the cause of this, Nestor; you whisper into it."

Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at November 24, 2024 09:26 AM (5G6LU)

49 Over the years I've never tried to have a favorite bookmark. Whenever I've used one I invariably lose it and wind up using whatever's at hand. When I do use a bookmark of whatever kind, it's to remind me of the correct page. I always know what paragraph I read last.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:27 AM (omVj0)

50 For those of use that love Audiobooks, you get a program called MusicFab that will let you download the books that you own from you library, in case Audible decided to edit or change the audiobooks.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 24, 2024 09:28 AM (YLyhv)

51 I have a drawer full of bookmarks and I like to match the feel of the book to the bookmark.

Some are from long-kaput book stores, some are library gimmes, but most are ones I made from old greeting cards, illustrations, and whatnot.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 09:28 AM (kpS4V)

52 You want to inherit your grandfather's extensive library, being someone who treasures books.
Posted by: Why the long face, fellow? at November 24, 2024 09:23 AM (UyyOe)
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None of my grandparents were much for books. They mostly read magazines, had lots of subscriptions, but didn't hang on to them. I found that my father's father did have an extensive collection of clippings, neatly sorted into files. Topics included Korea, Vietnam, even the first Gulf War. I inherited those.

My father has a massive library (also crates of vinyl) and I will have to have it trucked somewhere. Way too much for me to absorb and it will likely take days to high-grade it. He just turned 82 but is in good health and expects to reach his 90s as his parents did.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)

53 It is not often that a story about chasing a criminal begins with the viewing of his body on a morgue table, yet this is the impetus for Charles Latimer's pursuit in A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler.

Latimer, a writer, is intrigued by the mysterious life Dimitrios must have led, so he follows the trail from Istanbul through eastern Europe, to Geneva, and finally to Paris. Dimitrios had peddled in trafficking, drugs, and assassinations and Latimer is driven to know his full story.

Ambler cleverly takes the reader back in time through the story, as witnesses and accomplices are found and questioned. And, of course, near the end, Ambler throws a twist in, where Latimer finds himself in a situation way over his head. This is another clever story that captures your attention within the first few pages, and keeps surprising you.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2024 09:28 AM (vwOEY)

54 I might read Hegseth's book but that "Dictionary of Euphemisms" has caught my interest.

I have it. It’s a great bathroom reader as well as general reference. However, I disagree with the author on what counts as a “euphemism or other double talk”. A lot of the words he thinks are double talk I suspect are more a matter of different times being different cultures and requiring different mindsets to speak clearly.

I don’t have the book at hand right now, but something modern cooks complain about in old recipes is that they don’t give temperatures. They instead use misleading terms like “quiet oven” or “gentle oven” or “sharp oven”. They’re very misleading now but weren’t then. I don’t think he uses that as a specific example but he does write from a similar modern perspective.

That said, the book is definitely a keeper. It’s not a Bill Bryson-style completely fictional language history. It just has its own very modern perspective.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 09:29 AM (olroh)

55 I've got a ton of index cards in a small box on my work table -- if I need a bookmark chances are I'll use one of those. Never could bring myself to fold down a page corner. If it's only going to be for an hour or two and the book's a hardcover, I might use the front or end flap of the dust jacket if I think I might forget where I was.

One nice thing about the ebook reader is that it holds your place in the book.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 09:30 AM (q3u5l)

56 Good Sunday morning, horde!

If I read what I own, I'll never buy another book or visit the library again. I should get started on that. Problem is, sparkly suggestions capture my interest and fit my mood, so off to the library and kindle I go!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 09:30 AM (OX9vb)

57 Our local library had a bunch of books written by China Mieville. I never got more than 50 pages into his books. He’s mainstream hard left which makes him a trite boor.

Posted by: 13times at November 24, 2024 09:31 AM (cdwVa)

58 Last week I read for escapism and Christopher Taylor's Life Unworthy delivered.
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Still my all time favorite Moron written book

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:31 AM (7gFa4)

59 Dimitrios is based on a real life character, Zaharoff the salesman for Vickers,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:31 AM (pGTZo)

60 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading.

Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 09:32 AM (yTvNw)

61 "FOMO--the fear of missing out. Everyone else was reading these books, so he felt like he was falling behind if he didn't at least own them himself with the intent to read them."

For me, it's nothing to do with what everyone else is reading. It's that something looks interesting to me, and I want to read it, but maybe not just right now, and I don't want to miss my opportunity to acquire it. For later.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 09:32 AM (OX9vb)

62 Yes, Dash, I blame Perfessor and the Horde for the sad state of my TBR pile! Something new and shiny always distracts me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 09:32 AM (kpS4V)

63 (What happened to the Red Wave folks, anyway?)
Posted by: Weak Geek at November 24, 2024 09:12 AM (p/isN)
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The Contract With America Republics listed among their goals congressional term limits. This effort failed, but they included in their platform a vow not to serve more than three terms. This meant the most honest among them refused to run for re-election and disappeared.

The only ones to retain office beyond 2000 were therefore the ones who broke their word, which explains a lot about the GOP establishment.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:33 AM (ZOv7s)

64 I don’t have the book at hand right now, but something modern cooks complain about in old recipes is that they don’t give temperatures. They instead use misleading terms like “quiet oven” or “gentle oven” or “sharp oven”. They’re very misleading now but weren’t then. I don’t think he uses that as a specific example but he does write from a similar modern perspective.

That said, the book is definitely a keeper. It’s not a Bill Bryson-style completely fictional language history. It just has its own very modern perspective.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024

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Old recipes, at least those I used to read in TV Guide, always used "Yield" as the indicator of how much food the recipe was expected to provide. Now we see simply "Makes."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:33 AM (omVj0)

65 The book turkey in the picture is neat. Upon close examination, it appears that pieces were inserted between the pages, and the book wasn't damaged in the making. Kudos!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 09:33 AM (OX9vb)

66 Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2024 09:28 AM (vwOEY)

I think that was made into an OTR show. I wonder how true the script was to the story. In the show the hero was constantly tying himself into knots to excuse the femme fatal accomplice, which was frustrating and annoying.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2024 09:33 AM (s9EYN)

67 I read "A Coffin for Dimitrios" a few years ago and enjoyed it.

However, I don't remember how it ended, and I no longer have it.

"Oh, well" or "Phooey!" -- take your pick.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 24, 2024 09:36 AM (p/isN)

68 Glad to see the jaunty hat back on the squirrel, Perfessor.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:37 AM (a3Q+t)

69 The book turkey in the picture is neat. Upon close examination, it appears that pieces were inserted between the pages, and the book wasn't damaged in the making. Kudos!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 09:33 AM

Or, he could be jiving us.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:37 AM (a3Q+t)

70 Ambler's Dimitrios I know I've read, but don't recall much in the way of details. Journey Into Fear, which someone mentioned here recently, is much more memorable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:38 AM (omVj0)

71 Glad to see the jaunty hat back on the squirrel
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Squirrel's got bills to pay, honey!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 09:38 AM (kpS4V)

72 Dash at 56 --

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger on that. Between what's on my bookshelves and what's already on the Kindle, I'll never finish the Amazing Colossal To-Be-Read Pile. If I never buy another book, I've still got more than enough on hand to last me until I'm planted. (Maybe I should have the Kindle and a few favorites buried with me, just in case...) But I'll still browse a bookshop if I happen to get near one, and I spend an inordinate amount of time/cash in the Kindle store and assorted publisher and used book sites.

Of course, I'm not hooked -- I can quit any time I want...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 09:39 AM (q3u5l)

73 Don't know if I mentioned this one already: I'm reading a bio of General Candido Rondon, a Brazilian explorer and military man -- probably best known in this country for being the co-leader of Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon expedition. For Rondon that whole journey was basically another day at the office -- he spent his whole career exploring the Brazilian interior and building telegraph lines through impassable terrain. Oh, and single-handedly reforming Brazil's policy toward the Indians of the Amazon.

He came from a dirt-poor background in the most remote and impoverished province of Amazonian Brazil, but showed such energy and intelligence that he got an appointment to the military academy in Rio, where he impressed his professors and commanders (and picked the right side in the revolution that ended the monarchy). One of those geniuses who come out of nowhere -- kind of messes up both heredity and environment theories of intelligence.

Posted by: Trimegistus at November 24, 2024 09:39 AM (ZzAjc)

74 the twist in dimitrious is you can't rely on any account by any of the relaters like Colonel Haki or Peters, they all have agendas, reasons to hide Dimitrious dark doings,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:39 AM (pGTZo)

75 I noticed you have Walter Jon Williams "This Is Not A Game" as one of your book sale buys. This is the first of a good series (some four books to date). I am particularly fond of the 4th in the series "The Fourth Wall". That one is a deft combination of a near future techno thriller, a murder mystery and a merciless satire of Hollywood.

Posted by: John F. MacMichael at November 24, 2024 09:39 AM (aYnHS)

76 Old recipes, at least those I used to read in TV Guide, always used "Yield" as the indicator of how much food the recipe was expected to provide. Now we see simply "Makes."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:33 AM (omVj0)
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I imagine the appliances/ovens of those days simply did not have the precision measurement of temperature that we do now, so one had to use judgement rather than just stare at the instruction manual and follow the steps.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:40 AM (ZOv7s)

77 Me trying to decide which books to pack for the next ~~day~~week just in case I read the remaining 300 pages of the book I'm currently reading…

This is me. I know damn well I’m going to buy books on the trip, but just in case I have to pack at least three big hardcovers (I don’t generally deliberately travel with paperbacks).

On my current trip alone I’ve acquired:

- Bill Mendelez’s A Charlie Brown Christmas
- Agatha Christie’s Cat Among the Pigeons
- Winston Graham’s Marnie
- Robert Tralins’s Supernatural Strangers
- Arthur Conan Doyle’s Tales of Terror and Mystery
- Algernon Blackwood’s Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre
- Asimov et al’s Twelve Frights of Christmas

One book, for the first night of travel, is all I needed to pack.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 09:40 AM (olroh)

78 If you have TUBI through streaming...

I stumbled across a neat short(28 minute) video made when Public TV wasn't just a grist mill for progtards,

that had Christopher Plummer depicting Vladimir Nabokov giving a lecture on Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis".

It was excellent and made me wish that old Nabby was still alive, so I could take one of his literature classes.

I highly recommend seeking it out if you're interested in either Kafka or Nabokov.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 09:40 AM (eDfFs)

79 Eris, I read Last One at the Wedding- it is a trap book- one of those you don't put down once you start.
I thought the main character was exasperating but relatable.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:40 AM (7gFa4)

80 I'm working my way through "Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche" by Haruki Murakami. Not for everyone but well done and eye opening.

Folks were talking about Fruitcake. Near Copper Harbor Michigan is a monastery where the monks make several flavors of very good fruit cake, or alcohol in log form.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at November 24, 2024 09:41 AM (jPdyB)

81 you can think of him a little like a prototype for Blofeld, who had murky origins, how does one get into the arms trade, the soghnanalians the khashoggis more closer to the point the victor bouts of the world

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:42 AM (pGTZo)

82 There's a book I read years ago. I've forgotten the title and author. It's a strange book and it bugs me that I can't track it down. The author may be an SF author, but it's not an SF book. If I had to put it in a genre, it would be "private detective", but I don't remember if the protagonist is actually a private dick or just a guy who accidentally got involved in a crime. The title probably contains the word "Hell".

The main antagonist is a violent hillbilly with a tumor on his upper lip that looks like tentacles.

The antagonist tries to kill the protagonist twice, and both times the protagonist fights back and wins using a found object. The first time, it's a live snapping turtle. The second time, it's a billiard ball which happens to be on the river bank, because decades ago a steam ship carrying a shipment of billiard balls had a boiler explosion which threw the balls all over the place. At one point, the conspirators capture the protagonist and gouge one of his eyes out, but an old lady with a hunting rifle comes to the rescue.

I'm pretty sure it's a good book. Any ideas what this might be, or how to find it?

Posted by: Bombadil at November 24, 2024 09:42 AM (MX0bI)

83 kind of messes up both heredity and environment theories of intelligence.

This is why I detest the conjecture that Nero Wolfe is a descendant of Sherlock Holmes.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 24, 2024 09:42 AM (p/isN)

84 I've been rereading Michael Gilbert this week, with a mixed response. I think his first book came out of his experience in a POW camp in WWII. He wrote into his eighties and maintained a full-time career as a lawyer (barrister?). I've read some of them so often I anticipate favorite sentences.

But this time I'm underwhelmed by the amount of time he spends on geography, chiefly of London. Loooong paragraphs of specific neighborhoods that don't convey a lot of mood to a non-Londoner.

Obviously he's still the great writer he always was. I think I've changed as a reader. I want short paras of description that let me imagine them. I want more white space on the page. I'm not sure how to think about it.

Posted by: Wenda at November 24, 2024 09:42 AM (YzCJt)

85 78 https://tinyurl.com/4hcwk7ya

Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at November 24, 2024 09:42 AM (5G6LU)

86 I've never read Stephen King, but one day checking out the books at Target, just to see how many were Big Five published, I paged through one of his novels. I was surprised how short his chapters were. I saw one was barely a page long. Is that standard for him?

Makes me think it might not be so bad to have shorter chapters in my writing, than trying to get at least twenty-five to thirty pages out of one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:43 AM (0eaVi)

87 Hopefully get to more of Martin Gilbert's Churchill, A Lfe today

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 09:43 AM (fwDg9)

88 I didn't know Aum Shinrikyo were into fruitcake.

Posted by: Trimegistus at November 24, 2024 09:43 AM (ZzAjc)

89 Or, he could be jiving us.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2024 09:37 AM (a3Q+t)

If so, that's one cold turkey.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:44 AM (0eaVi)

90 master of war, was perhaps the silliest take on the matter,
for reasons that bout served the purposes of many, from african warlords to the Northern Alliance to their opposite party,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:44 AM (pGTZo)

91 https://tinyurl.com/4hcwk7ya
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at November 24, 2024 09:42 AM (5G6LU)

Ah! Well, there you go. Thanks, gp!

Kafka via Nabokov via Plummer.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 09:45 AM (eDfFs)

92 Perfessor,
If you want to start reading George MacDonald fantasy, start with "The Princess and the Goblin" as an example of his ability to appeal to every age group. Also, "Phantastes" which was CS Lewis' introduction to MacDonald. Don't read "Phantastes" if you are distracted. Be in the mood to absorb and appreciate the subtle transitions from everyday life to his fantasy world and to enjoy the incredibly rich descriptions, savoring the word images. It is a book to get lost in.

Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 09:45 AM (yTvNw)

93 Vmom, agree.

I think the lead character had normalcy bias -- or maybe niceness bias -- and he just didn't want to make the leap to admitting what was going on.

I admired his patience with his sister and her weird young ward, which paid off in the end.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 09:46 AM (kpS4V)

94 Arms merchants were a convenient scapegoat for the idiots who started World War I.

Posted by: Trimegistus at November 24, 2024 09:46 AM (ZzAjc)

95 Makes me think it might not be so bad to have shorter chapters in my writing, than trying to get at least twenty-five to thirty pages out of one.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:43 AM (0eaVi)
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It depends on what your chapters are supposed to do. In fiction, I have chapters that cover an event or particular plot either emerging or coming to fruition. They are of variable length.

In non-fiction, it's about the topic and again, it may vary considerably.

Also: is it just a number or does it have a title. Seems that ones with numbers are often much shorter.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)

96 Arms merchants were a convenient scapegoat for the idiots who started World War I.
Posted by: Trimegistus at November 24, 2024 09:46 AM (ZzAjc)
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Old and Busted: Merchants of Death.

New Hotness: Arms Sales Boost the Economy!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)

97 I highly recommend seeking it out if you're interested in either Kafka or Nabokov.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 09:40 AM (eDfFs)

I dunno, it might be a trap.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:47 AM (0eaVi)

98 I try to make my chapters about the same length, and make each one a kind of mini-story within the book.

Posted by: Trimegistus at November 24, 2024 09:48 AM (ZzAjc)

99 Bookmarks to me are whatever is at hand, from the receipt for the book to a piece of an envelope from the day's junk mail.

I now have a drawer full of bookmarks acquired at bookstores and other places. But I used to use whatever was at hand. Commonly a concert stub or the receipt for the book. But often more important things that I’d assured myself I’d only be using temporarily until I had time to get a less important marker.

I’m constantly finding things in my older books that I should never have used as a bookmark. A few months ago I was searching through a book for a reference and ran across the bookmark I’d left in it. A recipe for cheesecake from The Smoking Goat in San Diego (which I recommend). I tried the recipe. It was great. That bookmark is no longer being used as a bookmark.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 09:48 AM (olroh)

100 80 A poorly formatted copy, free at archive.org:
https://tinyurl.com/39r46y9a

Posted by: Please Put The gp In The Bag at November 24, 2024 09:48 AM (5G6LU)

101 I finished Everest: The West Ridge by Thomas Hornbein. This is a climb from the 60s, that was different from the standard route, done by two rock climbers. It has some of the best photos I've seen. I am not a climber, so the technical bits go right by me. But it does showcase the obsessive thinking that you usually see at Everest.

Which leads to book 2, that I've almost finished, A Day to Die For, by Graham Ratcliffe. This is about the 1996 FUBAR climb. He was not part of the Hall or Fischer teams, but a smaller group that was asked to delay their summit to let the two bigger groups go through. If you have an interest in this, please avoid Krakauer's Into Thin Air and watch the You Tube videos by Michael Tracy instead. He catches a lot of Krakauer's lies. Anyway, Graham successfully summited twice, but became obessed with an interview that indicated their team was asked to wait because the other two teams knew that the weather would worsen. It's pretty clear they ignored the worsening weather, which blew in earlier than expected. People died as a result. This book was a nice change, since he was an outsider to it all.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 24, 2024 09:49 AM (gfViB)

102 You sound as excited about your book purchases as I was as a 2nd grader ordering the paper back books from Scholastic Readers and having them come in a few weeks later. It was almost better than Christmas.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 09:49 AM (D6PGr)

103 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 09:40 AM (olroh)

I liked Cat Among the Pigeons enough to read it multiple times.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2024 09:49 AM (s9EYN)

104 I've never read Stephen King, but one day checking out the books at Target, just to see how many were Big Five published, I paged through one of his novels. I was surprised how short his chapters were. I saw one was barely a page long. Is that standard for him?

Makes me think it might not be so bad to have shorter chapters in my writing, than trying to get at least twenty-five to thirty pages out of one.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024

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As his books grew longer, I think his chapter page count often decreased. It's kind of a standard nowadays in bestsellerdom, to have a number of one- to three-page chapters. It's a useful technique if you want to change the viewpoint character for a short period before returning to the main narrator or protagonist. And short chapters make modern readers think they are flashing through even a long book.

I like to end a chapter with something of a hook to keep the reader turning pages, so if a crisis emerges on page three of Chapter Three, maybe that's a hint to break there. Maybe switch to another viewpoint for a few pages, keep the reader hanging, then come back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:49 AM (omVj0)

105 I brought the examples to the current day, Bout apparently was released in that cunning deal, sarc, and he' brokering weapons for the Houthis, the Russian John Wick, will probably start knocking people off,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:50 AM (pGTZo)

106 Paperbacks get dog-eared as a bookmark for me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 09:50 AM (D6PGr)

107 kind of messes up both heredity and environment theories of intelligence.

This is why I detest the conjecture that Nero Wolfe is a descendant of Sherlock Holmes.
Posted by: Weak Geek at November 24, 2024 09:42 AM (p/isN)

Like how could some regular school boy from the sticks write fantastic plays? It must have been really done by an elite person.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:51 AM (0eaVi)

108 I liked Cat Among the Pigeons enough to read it multiple times.

Thanks. That’s likely to be one of the ones I get to sooner rather than later.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 09:51 AM (olroh)

109 Without going back to verify -- if memory serves, King's chapter lengths tend to vary with the book in question. The novellas' chapters tend to be pretty short, but the longer the novel the longer the chapter. This is, again, from memory.

I think Lawrence Block had a chapter in one of his Chip Harrison novels that consisted of one sentence: "The gun jammed."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 09:51 AM (q3u5l)

110 Stephen King has had over 90 movies made from his books /novelettes.

That’s quite an accomplishment.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 09:51 AM (D6PGr)

111 The book turkey in the picture is neat. Upon close examination, it appears that pieces were inserted between the pages, and the book wasn't damaged in the making. Kudos!

'Tis the season for craft fairs and my wife likes them so I go to a lot of them. There's always a brief cringe when I see decorative... "stuff" made from books (sometimes very artfully). But on inspection the books are always things that would have eventually ended up in the landfill anyway so I grudgingly admit that it's a good use for them.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 09:52 AM (/y8xj)

112 I want more white space on the page.

Posted by: Wenda at November 24, 2024 09:42 AM (YzCJt)

You'll love my book of accomplishments! Out soon!

Posted by: Kamala at November 24, 2024 09:52 AM (0eaVi)

113 Anyone else not particularly like or get the fuss about Confederacy of Dunces?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 09:53 AM (D6PGr)

114 Good morning Horde. Thanks much Perfessor. Your reading volume and retention continues to be impressive. Our library has books that we've read a long time ago. No way that I remember everything, they'll probably feel new when I go back and read again.

Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:53 AM (IQ6Gq)

115 only a detective like a nero wolfe would really risk investigating these characters, certainly none of the organs,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:54 AM (pGTZo)

116 Just a warning for those of you who like a lot of bookmarks.
I have a hardback cookbook, The Yankee Cookbook by Imogene Wolcott, that I put in so many bookmarks that they split the endpapers and separated the cover from the pages.
I have been putting of doing a repair on it

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2024 09:55 AM (D7oie)

117 In my mysteries, I've titled my chapters, which tend to be a bit longer, by quoting a line of dialogue (comic, often, but not always) from that chapter. For instance, "I'll Have His Kidneys for Hood Ornaments" or "Is That a Boy Dog?"

It's fun for me and the reader, I think. I grabbed that from David McDaniel's technique in his Man From U.N.C.L.E. original novels of the 1960s. A variant of it is still older, i.e., "In Which the Queens* Take Stock," or "How Mr. Waverly Spoke Severely of Rainbows, and Illya Kuryakin Remained Unimpressed."

(* Ellery Queen and his father the Inspector, that is)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:55 AM (omVj0)

118 Posted by: TRex at November 24, 2024 09:53 AM (IQ6Gq)

I’m due to read Gates of Fire and Armor again. Enough time has passed where I can enjoy again the parts I remember and revisit the parts I had forgotten.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 09:55 AM (D6PGr)

119 Anyone else not particularly like or get the fuss about Confederacy of Dunces?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 09:53 AM (D6PGr)
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When it came out, I started it and immediately put it down within a page or two.

Instant dislike.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)

120 113 Anyone else not particularly like or get the fuss about Confederacy of Dunces?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

--

*raises hand*
Someone gave me a copy because it was their favorite book; I didn't finish it but lied and said it was funny.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:56 AM (J5RCE)

121 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)

A.H., I've done both. One western has chapter titles, most of the others are numbered.

The current project of my own, not the epistolary for ALH, I think each chapter is based on scenes. Typing on the computer give about five to eight pages for each chapter.

Posted by: Kamala at November 24, 2024 09:56 AM (0eaVi)

122 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)

I got about half way before I put it down. Was waiting for it to hit me and it just never did.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 09:57 AM (D6PGr)

123 You sound as excited about your book purchases as I was as a 2nd grader ordering the paper back books from Scholastic Readers and having them come in a few weeks later.

And now we order stuff online with 2-3 day delivery and check the shipping status twice a day to see where it is.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 09:57 AM (/y8xj)

124 Anyone else not particularly like or get the fuss about Confederacy of Dunces?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024

***
It is occasionally funny, with eccentric characters, and a good portrait of New Orleans during the time I grew up here. There are more hilarious novels like Richard Bradford's Red Sky at Morning, which deserves to be better known. I'd recommend RSaM over ACoD anytime.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:58 AM (omVj0)

125 wolfe was montenegrin, so much like an ambler character, I think the late maury chaykin couldn't pull of that part of the character,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 09:58 AM (pGTZo)

126 116 this is where those sticky note tabs that go at the outer edge of the page are useful.
Having said that, I better convert my old Joy of Cooking bookmarks to that

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:58 AM (J5RCE)

127 Tried twice to read A Confederacy of Dunces and just couldn't get into it. Decades ago, though, so maybe I'd like it now. But it ain't anywhere near the top of the reading priority list.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 09:58 AM (q3u5l)

128 I try to make my chapters about the same length, and make each one a kind of mini-story within the book.
Posted by: Trimegistus at November 24, 2024 09:48 AM (ZzAjc)

It seems to work out that way for some reason. I've also noticed if I'm not careful, the paragraphs all are the same number of lines.

Posted by: Kamala at November 24, 2024 09:58 AM (0eaVi)

129 Like how could some regular school boy from the sticks write fantastic plays? It must have been really done by an elite person.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 09:51 AM (0eaVi)
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New Men are always a threat to the existing order. They are free of preconceptions and will do the unexpected.

They also undermine the notion that credentialism (which comes in many forms, used to be ancestry, now its college degrees) has any link with competence.

I will say that I'm increasingly seeing the virtue of aristocracy insofar as there were demands put on the sons of the family to wear the uniform and stop a bullet for the sake of family honor.

Our "meritocracy" contains zero personal stake on the part of the elites.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)

130 "Is That a Boy Dog?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:55 AM

And is that how he identifies?

Posted by: Democrats at November 24, 2024 09:59 AM (a3Q+t)

131 only a detective like a nero wolfe would really risk investigating these characters, certainly none of the organs,
Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024

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It would depend on who was paying Wolfe's fee. I believe he once said, "It takes a fillip on the flank for my mare to dance."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:59 AM (omVj0)

132 A few months ago I was searching through a book for a reference and ran across the bookmark I’d left in it. A recipe for cheesecake from The Smoking Goat in San Diego (which I recommend).
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 09:48 AM (olroh)

Middle Eastern restaurant, huh?

Posted by: Kamala at November 24, 2024 10:00 AM (0eaVi)

133 A.H., I've done both. One western has chapter titles, most of the others are numbered.

Posted by: Kamala at November 24, 2024 09:56 AM (0eaVi)
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Good thing I'd already finished my coffee, or I would have spilled it.

"I will be your huckleberry because we cannot be bound by the huckleberries of the past, but those of the future. Huckleberries are very important, which is why I chose to be one of the future, unburderned by the past."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)

134 Another book that I know is good because I trust the people who tell me so , that I couldn’t get through was Lucifer’s Hammer.

I guess I’m like the few people who didn’t like the movie , The Godfather. ( looking at garrett)

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:03 AM (D6PGr)

135 "Is That a Boy Dog?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:55 AM

And is that how he identifies?
Posted by: Democrats at November 24, 2024

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In my scene, one of the leads' dog, a male Afghan hound named Witt, meets a Newfoundland. They sniff each other and then settle down next to each other, instant friends.

"Is that a boy dog?"
"I think so."
"Then it's happened. Witt's come out of the closet at last."
"You must be so proud."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:03 AM (omVj0)

136 'Tis the season for craft fairs and my wife likes them so I go to a lot of them. There's always a brief cringe when I see decorative... "stuff" made from books (sometimes very artfully). But on inspection the books are always things that would have eventually ended up in the landfill anyway so I grudgingly admit that it's a good use for them.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 09:52 AM (/y8xj)

The one crafter I follow does this- she once made a table lamp by drilling holes in vintage "dumpster books" and sticking a metal rod through them.
Kind of cool, oddly.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:03 AM (f+FmA)

137 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:49 AM (omVj0)

Well, I try to do that. Hoping readers see it that way. Not that I've had many readers yet because I haven't published any novels at this point.

Posted by: Kamala at November 24, 2024 10:03 AM (0eaVi)

138 I will say that I'm increasingly seeing the virtue of aristocracy insofar as there were demands put on the sons of the family to wear the uniform and stop a bullet for the sake of family honor.

Our "meritocracy" contains zero personal stake on the part of the elites.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:59 AM (ZOv7s)

Doesn't help when the government ruins the most loyal families through death taxes on those killed in battle. Iniquitous!

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2024 10:03 AM (s9EYN)

139 I just bend the corner of the page over for a bookmark.

*runs for cover.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 10:03 AM (xcIvR)

140 Ken Burns' recent documentary (I know, I know) about Leonardo Da Vinci was an okay overview of the man but two episodes are not sufficient to cover the topic. But it did lead me to some books on Da Vinci and his art. "Leonardo Da Vinci, the Complete Paitnings" by Frank Zollner is a wonderful exploration of his paintings, especially compared to his contemporaries, and the techniques that make his paintings so extraordinary. This is a huge, heavy book that calls for a reading pillow or some support but it's worth the effort. The large format allows for many enlarged details and allows you to note the subtleties in his art. (His ability with skin tones is wonderful.) There is so much more to Da Vinci than the Mona Lisa.

To my amazement, the local library had this book and "Leonardo's Notebooks" which looks to be as interesting if you have any interest in the man.

Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 10:04 AM (yTvNw)

141 Other great moments in Harris' westerns:

"Now is the time when we must fill our hands, not because you are a son of a bitch, but because we must be unburdened by what came before."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 10:04 AM (ZOv7s)

142 I read the box on the book High Jingo.

What's the the Hebrew word for "dead" ("מת") on the cover?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 10:04 AM (K3JKK)

143 Doesn't help when the government ruins the most loyal families through death taxes on those killed in battle. Iniquitous!
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2024 10:03 AM (s9EYN)
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State-run farms are much easier to control. Nice to see Labour is moving ahead with collectivization, right on schedule.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)

144 Bookmarks.
When Mr. S retired- he was a big city librarian- he had brought home all the leftover time-relevant reading club bookmarks over the years.
We're good for bookmarks forever.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:06 AM (f+FmA)

145 I'm on sort of a 'read what you have already' kick. At present, going through the Sharyn McCrumb mysteries that I have in paperback on my shelves - the Ballad series, and the Elizabeth McPherson series. Some of them I haven't read in ages, to the point where I have forgotten who the murderer is.
I'm waiting for the cover of my latest book to be finished - can't do much until it is, and the designer is a friend who is doing me a great favor, so I can't bug her too much.
Another matter for the Great Minds of the Horde: it's a book, a YA from the 1930s that was one of my mother's favorites. I can't remember the author or the title! It's a juvenile mystery, the boy main character is named Billy Deane, and his family lives on a small ranch in the back country of San Diego county, near the border with Mexico. He has a visiting female cousin, and a best friend from the local reservation, and the water source for the ranch has mysteriously dried up. Does that ring a bell with anyone? I'd love to find a copy of it. (The original copy was destroyed in the fire that burned through where my parents lived in 2003.)

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at November 24, 2024 10:06 AM (Ew3fm)

146 Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 10:04 AM (yTvNw)

I think I recommended to you the Biography by Walter Isaacson. I really enjoyed it but it did change my conventional wisdom perception of DaVinci.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:07 AM (D6PGr)

147 Stephen King has had over 90 movies made from his books /novelettes.

I recently bought a collection of King movies. It includes The Running Man which I already owned and have seen several times. Just watched it again last night with my dad. What unexpectedly made it even more interesting is that the night before we’d watched Network. It could easily be a sequel. It also, sadly, has held up amazingly well. The man protesting government violence was, through “edited” video, turned into the scapegoat for it.

But even more striking to me was when Maria Conchita Alonzo’s character heard the news report about the capture of Ben Richards, which she had been a part of. It was filled not with inaccuracies but with outright lies. And they weren’t even important lies. Just pointless.

Having been in DC on during the “insurrection” it really hit home.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:07 AM (olroh)

148 In recent weeks, I haven't always had time to thank our illustrious host before vanishing into the ether, so I'm going to do so now, just to be safe. Thanks, Perfesser!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 10:08 AM (ZOv7s)

149 Without going back to verify -- if memory serves, King's chapter lengths tend to vary with the book in question. The novellas' chapters tend to be pretty short, but the longer the novel the longer the chapter. This is, again, from memory.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 09:51 AM (q3u5l)

I don't remember what it was, but it wasn't a short book. A couple inches thick, I think.

Opened the book to one page, a chapter ended near the top, another one started, and a third was down near the bottom of the opposite page.

Posted by: Kamala at November 24, 2024 10:08 AM (0eaVi)

150 Good morning Hordemates.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 24, 2024 10:09 AM (W/lyH)

151 113 Anyone else not particularly like or get the fuss about Confederacy of Dunces?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 09:53 AM (D6PGr)

*raises hand

My sister, whom I adore, loved this book in high school (lo, these many years ago). I have tried reading it twice, and both times was so annoyed with the main character that I couldn't continue. Ugh. I guess it's really funny, but I didn't laugh. At all.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:09 AM (OX9vb)

152 Hornbein and Unsoeld climbed the West Ridge of Everest and rendezvoused with another two-man team on the South route. They were all forced to bivouac at about 25,000 feet. It is windy on Everest roughly 364 nights of the year, and if it had been windy that night all four men would have died. By a miracle, it was calm and they made it. In the middle of the night, Unsoeld took Hornbein's boots off and took Hornbein's frozen feet into his own jacket to warm them.

The best book about Himalayan mountaineering is Annapurna by Maurice Herzog. That expedition was in 1950(?) and it was a way bigger adventure than any dumb tourist could have in the Himalayas today.

Posted by: Bombadil at November 24, 2024 10:10 AM (MX0bI)

153 TX Mo-Me folk,
If you have time to go to Waco, check out Gold's Used Books on Franklin.
There is also a H-P Books remainder store. As our son, the H-P warehouse manager puts it- "last stop before the chipper." It's a fun treasure hunt.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:10 AM (f+FmA)

154 Good thing I'd already finished my coffee, or I would have spilled it.

"I will be your huckleberry because we cannot be bound by the huckleberries of the past, but those of the future. Huckleberries are very important, which is why I chose to be one of the future, unburderned by the past."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)

Just distracted. Forgot to change socks. Kinda like Wolfus on the Tech thread....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 10:12 AM (0eaVi)

155 Middle Eastern restaurant, huh?

French. Probably best French restaurant in SD.

Although soon enough France probably will be middle eastern, and without the good food.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:12 AM (olroh)

156 What's the the Hebrew word for "dead" ("מת") on the cover?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 10:04 AM (K3JKK)
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There is a missing aleph in front.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 10:13 AM (RIvkX)

157 My current bookmark is one that was given to my late father. Plastic, with a tassel, it is printed with An Irish Blessing. Which is why Dad had it. The plastic has now been taped many times, but it is still serviceable.

Another bookmark looks like a playing card and I've had it since childhood. It says to read for knowledge and pleasure, and to play cards for relaxation.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 24, 2024 10:13 AM (rxCpr)

158 I have a hardback cookbook, The Yankee Cookbook by Imogene Wolcott, that I put in so many bookmarks that they split the endpapers and separated the cover from the pages.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2024 09:55 AM (D7oie)

May I suggest Post-it flags? I use these a lot, and I can even write a small note on it, like the recipe title, if I write small. They don't have to go into the binding area, but can stick out anywhere, and are much thinner than a piece of paper.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:13 AM (OX9vb)

159 The one crafter I follow does this- she once made a table lamp by drilling holes in vintage "dumpster books" and sticking a metal rod through them.
Kind of cool, oddly.

Yeah, stuff like that. Which would be cool in a dedicated library space. Half Price Books used to (may still) sell books by the pound sorted roughly by size and color.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 10:14 AM (/y8xj)

160 Robert B. Parker was also one for short chapters, though his viewpoint character in the Spenser novels and the Sunny Randall ones was always Spenser or Sunny -- first person narration. (Of which more in a moment.) The Jesse Stones are third person, and I think he shifted viewpoint on occasion, but again he tended to shorter chapters as the years went on. And in his Westerns too.

One modern trend seems to be to intersperse a first person narration with occasional jumps into third from a different character's POV -- in other words, something the first person narrator couldn't possibly be present to tell us about. Not sure if I always like it, though it gives you a chance to open the story up a bit.

Lawrence Block did it to open one novel, but then had his narrator, Matt Scudder, continue with, "At least, that's how I imagine it happened."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:15 AM (omVj0)

161
The "Blue Max" and "Blood Order" paperbacks just arrived.

Posted by: Auspex at November 24, 2024 10:15 AM (j4U/Z)

162 yes that part of running man rang true, of course the books are grimmer than the film,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 10:16 AM (pGTZo)

163 Yeah, stuff like that. Which would be cool in a dedicated library space. Half Price Books used to (may still) sell books by the pound sorted roughly by size and color.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 24, 2024 10:14 AM (/y8xj)

I have never bought by the pound there but I’ve bought a ton of books from them.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:16 AM (D6PGr)

164 Currently on book 3 in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series. Book 2 felt like a slow burn, I was hoping for more progression in the general story, but it still ended up being a good read. I generally really like Larry Correia's writings, his monster hunter books are very pulpy. The Forgotten Warrior series is very good, his writing style seems to get better and better over time. I would also recommend Servants of War with Steve Diamond, imagine WWI but with magic and battle mechs.

Posted by: Drew in MO at November 24, 2024 10:17 AM (EfGoi)

165 Running Man is the only work by Stephen King that I have read and at the time I didn’t know it was Stephen King.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:17 AM (D6PGr)

166 Another "No" on "Confederacy of Dunces".

Synchronicity- I spent last week re-reading "Main Street" for probably the third time in 50 years. It amazes me that when I first read it, it was only 50 years old, but it could have been a century as far as societal changes.

Yesterday, I went to the 'Crossroads" traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian where they had a collection of American fiction about small town/rural life. Sure enough, "Main Street' was right there.
Re: the protagonist, Carol Kennicott- I guess Karens are forever.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:18 AM (f+FmA)

167 Bookmarks!? You don’t just memorize what page number you are on?

Posted by: PMRich at November 24, 2024 10:18 AM (eh5ud)

168 If you have time to go to Waco, check out Gold's Used Books on Franklin.

I’ve picked up some very nice books from Golden’s Book Exchange in Waco, including John the Balladeer and First Lensman. And one of Sarah Hoyt’s “Shakespeare” trilogy which even she has disowned but I thoroughly enjoyed.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:19 AM (olroh)

169 Had to look it up .

King’s pseudonym for Running Man was Richard Bachman.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:19 AM (D6PGr)

170 My sister, whom I adore, loved this book in high school (lo, these many years ago). I have tried reading it twice, and both times was so annoyed with the main character that I couldn't continue. Ugh. I guess it's really funny, but I didn't laugh. At all.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024

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Ignatius defines "eccentric," but he lacks loveable qualities, at least to me. Though I will admit, near the end, I did not want to see him seized and carted off to an insane asylum.

His mother, now, is much like many lower-middle-class white women I've known, mothers of my friends. And Toole did one thing I'd never seen in fiction before: He has Mrs. Reilly and others refer to young humans as "chirren," which is how "children" is pronounced here among many black and white people. Nearly every Southern dialect I'd ever seen in print before, including things that were supposed to be set in Noo Awlins, used "chillun" -- which I have never heard a living human say.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:20 AM (omVj0)

171 Running Man is the only work by Stephen King that I have read and at the time I didn’t know it was Stephen King.

Yeah, even the movie was credited to Richard Bachman.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:21 AM (olroh)

172 10 ... "Started my annual re-reading of LOTR. Tolkien certainly had a way with words. His writing always impressed me ever since I first read the Hobbit as a teen.

Also been watching Malcolm Guite on the Utube. He is one interesting fellow. Makes me wish I had a room to myself for all my books and a nice chair to sit in. And a bottle of bourbon. Can’t forget the bourbon."

Oh yes! My annual reading of LOTR, (the 59th if I did the arithmetic right) begins in a week or so. It is a treasured tradition.

Malcolm Guite is a gem. He is, by far, my favorite living poet. Also, he has the ability to see and discuss the wonders of literature and what makes it so effective. His insights into Tolkien, Lewis, MacDonald, the Romantic poets, and much more is beautiful. People are richer for his videos and books. Look for his videos about the importance of imagination as a means to enhance being human. The man is an erudite and pleasant delight. Check out his books "Mariner" about Coleridge and his poetry and "Lifting the Veil". I'll be discussing the latter next week.

BTW, Guite prefers Lagavulin 16 single malt which further proves his moral superiority and good taste.

Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 10:21 AM (yTvNw)

173 A couple weeks ago, I bought a heaping bag of books at the library sale. $2 a bag, so I stacked 14 hardbacks in there. Someone must have been cleaning out an estate, because there were more of the "World's Greatest Literature" (1944) series. Took them all, because the two poetry books I found last time were top-notch. I also got "Modern British Poetry" (1920) which Monica received as a Christmas present in 1928.

I like old books that are well-made. The WGL books are in great shape, despite clearly being used and abused. A couple have water-damaged covers (used as coasters!) but the pages are intact. Someone left a bobbypin as a bookmark in "Treasure Island".

It's also fun to see what was considered "best" before the birth of YT and social media. Irving's Sketchbook, Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, and Scott's Ivanhoe - does anyone read those anymore?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 24, 2024 10:21 AM (IzT+7)

174 Running Man is the only work by Stephen King that I have read and at the time I didn’t know it was Stephen King.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024

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Have you read the novelettes in Different Seasons? "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," "The Body," and "Apt Pupil" were all made into films, and people are amazed when I tell them King wrote the originals.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:22 AM (omVj0)

175 You don’t just memorize what page number you are on?

“When I was twenty-nine…”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:22 AM (olroh)

176 Anyhow, we're in the 1920s and he's at low ebb, having lost his office, his seat, and his appendix. This is the second time his career was pronounced over (the first was in 1915). I don't think he's done, though.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Keep reading, he finds an antagonists and things get interesting to say the least.

Posted by: Dandalo at November 24, 2024 10:23 AM (3QsZU)

177 It's also fun to see what was considered "best" before the birth of YT and social media. Irving's Sketchbook, Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, and Scott's Ivanhoe - does anyone read those anymore?
Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 24, 2024 10:21 AM (IzT+7)

I think I was the only kid that really liked Silas Marner when we were required to read it in the 9th grade.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:24 AM (D6PGr)

178 Earlier printings of King's The Bachman Books included 4 novels; later printings have only 3. One of the Bachman's, Rage, has been pulled and King decided it won't be reprinted on finding out that a number of school shooters seemed to have read it and he didn't want to give any more of 'em any ideas.

The book wasn't a bad read if memory serves.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 10:25 AM (q3u5l)

179 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:22 AM (omVj0)

Hah. Only have seen the movies.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:25 AM (D6PGr)

180 yes they are stylistically different from much of kings work, most have castle rock as a reference point but obliquely,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 10:25 AM (pGTZo)

181 171 Running Man is the only work by Stephen King that I have read and at the time I didn’t know it was Stephen King.

Yeah, even the movie was credited to Richard Bachman.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:21 AM (olroh)

And here I thought he just the guy who sang You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at November 24, 2024 10:25 AM (YrTFn)

182 146 ... "I think I recommended to you the Biography by Walter Isaacson. I really enjoyed it but it did change my conventional wisdom perception of DaVinci."

Hi Sebastian,

Yes you did and thanks. I have it on my list for future reading. The more I learn about the man and his works the more I want to learn.

Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 10:26 AM (yTvNw)

183 Also I have to respectfully disagree about needing AI to write a book in a month. You don't know the circumstances. In the years my husband struggled with Parkinson's and dementia my world got very small. My New Year's resolution one year was to set my alarm for four am and write until he woke up.

I wrote well over six hundred thousand words that year--I even posted about it on a gains thread. Seven novels. The seventh came so fast it seemed that I was taking dictation.

Could I do it again? I doubt it.

Posted by: Wenda at November 24, 2024 10:26 AM (YzCJt)

184 Bookmarks!? You don’t just memorize what page number you are on?
Posted by: PMRich

I usually have four or five books going at once.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2024 10:28 AM (47OwT)

185 Earlier printings of King's The Bachman Books included 4 novels; later printings have only 3. One of the Bachman's, Rage, has been pulled and King decided it won't be reprinted on finding out that a number of school shooters seemed to have read it and he didn't want to give any more of 'em any ideas.

The book wasn't a bad read if memory serves.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024

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I have an earlier edition with the four novels. Rage (originally titled, he said, Getting It On) is not bad, but I recall being a little tired of it by the time it ended. The same with The Long Walk, which is dystopian SF, and Roadwork too, which bored me when I tried to reread it during the Sniffle Scare. The Running Man is very good, but casting Arnold was probably a big mistake -- I've never seen the movie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:28 AM (omVj0)

186 I think I was the only kid that really liked Silas Marner when we were required to read it in the 9th grade.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:24 AM (D6PGr)
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It wasn't required reading in my high school, but I found a beautiful old copy at the UGLI and was swept up in the lush writing. 19th Century lit can be very dense but if you can just sit back and read for pleasure it's a wonderful story. That scene where the old miser sees little Effie's golden hair and his heart breaks and opens up is such a moving chapter.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 10:29 AM (BbEYi)

187 Regarding bookmarks, I just checked: Gilbert's Churchill has a piece of scrap paper upon which I wrote out a list of online ammo purchases that I ended up not making.

During that break I took some quality time and Churchill tried to re-enter politics only to be soundly defeated. That's it! His career is OVAH!

Or is it...?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 10:30 AM (ZOv7s)

188 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:22 AM (omVj0)
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Hah. Only have seen the movies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024

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Then I highly recommend reading all three. The fourth, "The Breathing Method," is creepy, but utterly fascinating.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:30 AM (omVj0)

189 Dunces. I know I read it, put it down, and haven't thought about it again until now, and have essentially no recall of it. And I love humorous books.
So, meh.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 24, 2024 10:30 AM (4780s)

190 Yes you did and thanks. I have it on my list for future reading. The more I learn about the man and his works the more I want to learn.
Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 10:26 AM (yTvNw)

In the biography you will also learn about the many works that he started but never completed. And too bad because the art world and engineering world would have really benefitted .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:30 AM (D6PGr)

191 I wrote well over six hundred thousand words that year…

Philip K. Dick wrote similarly quickly under very stressful conditions, although in his case they were self-inflicted. It can be done and with great results.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:31 AM (olroh)

192 'Arghhh!" GOLDENS, of course.
We use both, but we're old.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:31 AM (f+FmA)

193 You don’t just memorize what page number you are on?

“When I was twenty-nine…”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024

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". . . it was a very good year . . ."

Posted by: F. Sinatra at November 24, 2024 10:31 AM (omVj0)

194 I wrote well over six hundred thousand words that year--I even posted about it on a gains thread. Seven novels. The seventh came so fast it seemed that I was taking dictation.

Could I do it again? I doubt it.
Posted by: Wenda at November 24, 2024 10:26 AM (YzCJt)
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Long Live Death was written in less than six weeks, and it felt very much the same - I wasn't writing it, just taking it down.

Writing like that is very specific to circumstances.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)

195 And here I thought he just the guy who sang You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.

B-b-b-aby you just ain’t seen Killian yet.
Here’s something you ain’t never gonna forget, viewers!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:36 AM (olroh)

196 A book a month...

The writers who came out of the pulp era could do that easily. The guys doing paperback originals for Gold Medal and other houses were that prolific. I believe Robert Silverberg said that he wrote his novel Thorns in 9 days, and Thorns wasn't a short book like the average Ace Double. And I think Harlan Ellison said in an interview that there were whole issues of magazines done by one or two people using their own names and pseudonyms. Can't recall which writer was said to have done a novel in three days...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 10:36 AM (q3u5l)

197 Ok, I guess today I am permitted an orderly retreat. Thanks, Perfesser!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 10:36 AM (ZOv7s)

198 I bought a heaping bag of hardcover books at the library sale for $2. Someone must have been cleaning out an estate. I cleared out all copies of the "World's Greatest Literature" (1944) series. I also got "Modern British Poetry" (1920) which Monica received as a Christmas present from Lauri in 1928.

The WGL books are in great shape, despite clearly being used and abused. A couple have water-damaged covers (used as coasters!) but the pages are intact. Someone left a bobbypin as a bookmark in "Treasure Island".

It's also fun to see what was considered "best" before the birth of YT and social media. Irving's Sketchbook, Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, and Scott's Ivanhoe - does anyone read those anymore?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 24, 2024 10:36 AM (IzT+7)

199 Nice to know I share that with others.

Posted by: Wenda at November 24, 2024 10:37 AM (YzCJt)

200 ". . . it was a very good year . . ."

It was a very good year for folding back spines on paperback books …

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:37 AM (olroh)

201 Long Live Death was written in less than six weeks, and it felt very much the same - I wasn't writing it, just taking it down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)

The author of one of my favorite novels of family life said that one day the whole book just appeared in her imagination and she simply wrote it down.
"Reason for Gladness" by Mary Wallace. OOP, alas, and my pb copy is fading fast.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:38 AM (f+FmA)

202 He has Mrs. Reilly and others refer to young humans as "chirren," which is how "children" is pronounced here among many black and white people. ..."chillun" -- which I have never heard a living human say.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:20 AM (omVj0)

True that! I married into a black family with recent Mississippi roots, and my MIL used the "chirren" pronunciation. Her northeastern grandchildren were also bemused with the "-er" ending on words and names. Jessica did not appreciate "Jessicur."

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:39 AM (OX9vb)

203 I read Last of the Mohicans. Not my favorite read but I slogged through it because that was my favorite genre as a kid.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:39 AM (D6PGr)

204 Can't recall which writer was said to have done a novel in three days...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024

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A tiny worm in the back of my brain is piping up to suggest it was "Frank Gruber," who also wrote Westerns and screenplays.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:41 AM (omVj0)

205 Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at November 24, 2024 10:25 AM (YrTFn)

Good to "see" you. I hope all is well in your world.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2024 10:41 AM (s9EYN)

206 And I think Harlan Ellison said in an interview that there were whole issues of magazines done by one or two people using their own names and pseudonyms. Can't recall which writer was said to have done a novel in three days...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 10:36 AM (q3u5l)

"Blonde Inspiration" is a comedy about this very thing.
Look for it on TCM- it's a "writer's movie".

"Get the plotter!"

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:41 AM (f+FmA)

207 Speaking of 19th century writers , I think Rudyard Kipling is on the nomination list for Greatest Writer of All Time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:43 AM (D6PGr)

208 I think I was the only kid that really liked Silas Marner when we were required to read it in the 9th grade.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:24 AM (D6PGr)

We read it in Great Books, but not in school. I remember liking it and should read it again.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2024 10:44 AM (s9EYN)

209 19th Century lit can be very dense but if you can just sit back and read for pleasure it's a wonderful story. That scene where the old miser sees little Effie's golden hair and his heart breaks and opens up is such a moving chapter.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 10:29 AM (BbEYi)

This is the kind of reading I like for the porch on pleasant days. Too dense for bedtime, and no quiet place inside. TV is on as soon as Mr. Dmlw! wakes up, and the only thing I can read then is AOSHQ.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:44 AM (OX9vb)

210 And to think these people who wrote so fast and prolifically were using typewriters without easy correction methods. (I remember Wite-Out, and correction tape before that. Ugh.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:44 AM (omVj0)

211 Yeah. The Bachman Books.
Sort of memory holed those are. Apt Pupil was a particularly sick story.
A friend and I found the newly erected set for Misery at the time I was reading that book. Walking through a forest we had been playing in for years and all of a sudden there was this house. Looked like it had been there forever.
We tripped. WTF? So we creep up on it and discover it's almost all Fiberglass. Took some pics, procured a lantern and left.
About a year later we found out what it was all about when the poster came out and we had pics of that house inside and out.
This was about the time the movie for The Running Man came out which as hard as it is to believe is WAY worse than the novella in Bachman Books. Which is why I remember all this. It was forced on me after seeing the movie by my friend as a defense for dragging me to that horrible 90 minutes of my teen years I wasted.
I really don't like King much. Never have. I think he is a very sick man and don't find him entertaining in any way.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 10:44 AM (xcIvR)

212 Dash @202, got a chuckle out of that. My dad was born and raised in New England, then moved south, and he would add the "-er" endings as well. We always kidded him about it.

Posted by: skywch at November 24, 2024 10:44 AM (uqhmb)

213 It irks me that Nero Wolfe dog-ears the pages of most of the books he read. Philistine.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 24, 2024 09:21 AM (p/isN)

When Wolfe starts reading a book, he has a gold (18K? 24k?) bookmark. As the book disappoints him, he moves down through the quality level of his bookmarks, finally ending up dog-earing the pages.

Or so I remember.

Posted by: Ronald Kornblow at November 24, 2024 10:44 AM (pXRYM)

214 I know Thanksgiving isn't written about as much as Christmas, but I always read the last two chapters of Alcott's "Little Men" describing the celebration at Plumfield.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:45 AM (f+FmA)

215 I read Persuasion and Mansfield Park back-to-back this past summer. Loved them both!

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 24, 2024 10:46 AM (rbKZ6)

216 205 Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at November 24, 2024 10:25 AM (YrTFn)

Good to "see" you. I hope all is well in your world.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2024 10:41 AM (s9EYN)

Hi, Polli! Good to see you, too!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at November 24, 2024 10:46 AM (YrTFn)

217 know Thanksgiving isn't written about as much as Christmas, but I always read the last two chapters of Alcott's "Little Men" describing the celebration at Plumfield.
Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:45 AM (f+FmA)

Would that be about Thanksgiving? Didn’t it become an official Holiday in 1860’s ?

Admittedly I don’t know when Alcott wrote.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:48 AM (D6PGr)

218 Her northeastern grandchildren were also bemused with the "-er" ending on words and names. Jessica did not appreciate "Jessicur."
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:39 AM (OX9vb)

Interesting. In Missouri the older folks pronounced every word ending in a vowel with an "uh" sound instead. So, Missouruh, tomatuh, etc.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2024 10:50 AM (s9EYN)

219 Finished Paradise Lost, Dave Mason's autobiography, and the second of 4 Len Deighton spy novels. Makes me feel productive. Horse Under Water was better than the Ipcress File IMO, so now I'm expecting god things out of the last two. Paradise Lost, I can now say I read it, and at times I really enjoyed it, but I didn't read it at a deep enough level to fully 'get' it. But I get why it is timeless. Mason's book was just a fun read.

Posted by: who knew at November 24, 2024 10:51 AM (+ViXu)

220 The Alcott is set in the 1870's and the feast is actually called Thanksgiving.
The menu is what became the classic meal- but the children all contributed to it, a nice touch.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:51 AM (f+FmA)

221 I have a lot of funny stories of my Louisiana accent interacting with the NY accent when I moved there in the 80’s.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:52 AM (D6PGr)

222 its the one deighton novel that was not turned into a film

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 10:52 AM (pGTZo)

223 The Alcott is set in the 1870's and the feast is actually called Thanksgiving.
The menu is what became the classic meal- but the children all contributed to it, a nice touch.
Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:51 AM (f+FmA)

Cool and it was probably even more of a celebration since it was recently declared a national holiday.

Learn something at aos everyday.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:53 AM (D6PGr)

224 deighton put little notes about things that were not in the public domain, like the gehlen org

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 24, 2024 10:53 AM (pGTZo)

225 113 Anyone else not particularly like or get the fuss about Confederacy of Dunces?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 09:53 AM

Based on Moron comments over the years, I think I might be the only one who loved that book.

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 24, 2024 10:54 AM (rbKZ6)

226 My father has a massive library (also crates of vinyl) and I will have to have it trucked somewhere. Way too much for me to absorb and it will likely take days to high-grade it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 24, 2024 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)

Mr S has already thoughtfully compiled detailed instructions for the dispersal of his ginormous Texana collection.
I should send a photo sometime.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:54 AM (f+FmA)

227 Legally Sufficient said "And a happy and blessed Thanksgiving to you and all the Moron Horde! I am thankful to have this thread each week, and thankful for the hard work that goes into creating it. And most thankful for the lively repartee that makes each Book Thread so special!"
I second that!

Posted by: who knew at November 24, 2024 10:54 AM (+ViXu)

228 My dad was born and raised in New England, then moved south, and he would add the "-er" endings as well. We always kidded him about it.
Posted by: skywch at November 24, 2024 10:44 AM (uqhmb)

Oh, I forgot some areas of New England do this, too. The kids were in PA, so not that far north.

And Polliwog, it's funny about that. People think there is one southern accent, when there are dozens. I watched a movie once where the characters were supposed to be from KY, but they were (poorly) speaking a SC gentleman dialect. They had it so wrong.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:54 AM (OX9vb)

229 “It is not Christians who oppose the world, but rather the world which opposes itself to them when the truth about God, about Christ and about man is proclaimed. The world waxes indignant when sin and grace are called by their names.”—Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, “A Council to Be Rediscovered”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 10:55 AM (olroh)

230 Interesting. In Missouri the older folks pronounced every word ending in a vowel with an "uh" sound instead. So, Missouruh, tomatuh, etc.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 24, 2024

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Da Swamp has, or had, the same influences that led to the classic Brooklyn "dese, dem, dose" dialect. So you used to hear those in many neighborhoods here, along with most voiced "th" sounds turned into "d" (e.g., "father" became "fadda," "the" became "da") and "er" into "oi" ("first" into "foist") and vice versa ("oil" became "erl"). Mayor Maestri in the 1940s was supposed to have asked FDR, "How'd ya like dem ersters, Chief?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:55 AM (omVj0)

231 So fun to get to be here in real time.
A blessed and Happy Thanksgiving to you all and special thanks to the Perfesser!

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 10:56 AM (f+FmA)

232 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:55 AM (omVj0)

Yeah I grew up in South Louisiana but I sounded nothing like people who grew up in New Orleans. .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024 10:57 AM (D6PGr)

233
Based on Moron comments over the years, I think I might be the only one who loved [Dunces].
Posted by: Moonbeam at November 24, 2024

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Oh, I enjoyed it and admire Toole's writing skill. It would have been interesting to see how he might have developed as a writer. But it is not on my favorites list.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:57 AM (omVj0)

234 For the record, I think Reforger should be banned from this thread , also anyone writing on a book as well.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 10:57 AM (fwDg9)

235 Thanks for the thread, Perfessor. Gotta go.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 10:58 AM (0eaVi)

236 Yeah I grew up in South Louisiana but I sounded nothing like people who grew up in New Orleans. .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 24, 2024

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Same here. My mother was western Canadian, so I sound more like William Shatner and Michael J. Fox. Over the years I've observed the quaint cultural artifacts of the natives here, like an anthropologist living among an African or South Pacific tribe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 10:59 AM (omVj0)

237
Back from my Christian Nationalist meeting. The news were full of a Rainbow Coalition of White Supremacists. A very good sermon by one of the curates on what we might find in Heaven.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 10:59 AM (dxSpM)

238 It would take me years to read what I own, well into the Vance Presidency.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 11:01 AM (LHPAg)

239 I watched a movie once where the characters were supposed to be from KY, but they were (poorly) speaking a SC gentleman dialect. They had it so wrong.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:54 AM (OX9vb)

Saw that a lot when Justified was on. Half the cast sounded like they were from Savannah or Richmond.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Part of the E-4 Mafia at November 24, 2024 11:01 AM (Ad8y9)

240 lI think I might be the only one who loved that book.

I haven’t read it for a long time but I remember thoroughly enjoying it. I also liked The Neon Bible, but not as much.

Through a curious confluence of friends of relatives of friends I got to spend an evening with said friends talking with Kenneth Holditch in his house in New Orleans, and drinking his bourbon. He was, ironically, a very Toole-ish character.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 11:01 AM (olroh)

241 Since we don't have family nearby the holidays are a quiet time for us. I've already picked out the reading for this week.

I hope everyone has a lovely Thanksgiving.

Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 11:01 AM (yTvNw)

242 Through a curious confluence of friends of relatives of friends I got to spend an evening with said friends talking with Kenneth Holditch in his house in New Orleans, and drinking his bourbon. He was, ironically, a very Toole-ish character.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024

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Do you know what part of town he lived in?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 11:03 AM (omVj0)

243 sal --

Thanks for the mention of "Blonde Inspiration" -- I don't have TCM any more (wasn't going to shell out for cable here after they took TCM off the basic package), but will see if I can turn it up on YT or archive.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 11:03 AM (q3u5l)

244
For the record, I think Reforger should be banned from this thread , also anyone writing on a book as well.
Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 10:57 AM (fwDg9)

_________

I use old show ribbons for bookmarks. Of which we have an ample supply. My Missal needs about six, what with all the jumping around in it during Mass as well as the very thin pages which are hard to turn.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 11:03 AM (dxSpM)

245 I've got a few actual bookmarks that I use, but I'm not picky and any scrap of paper close to hand will do. When I was younger and sharper I never needed them because I could always remember where I left off. Father Time has sapped me of that ability and now bookmarks are a necessity .It also might help to read just one book at a time.

Posted by: who knew at November 24, 2024 11:03 AM (+ViXu)

246 Holditch was teaching at UNO during the time I was there, and I took a few English classes, but I don't recall ever hearing his name.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 11:04 AM (omVj0)

247 Glancing at the book shelves and boxes of books that don't fit on the shelves, I estimate, conservatively, that I have about five gazillion years worth of quality reading in my possession already. And that doesn't count the hundreds of books on Kindle that I forgot I had.

Posted by: JTB at November 24, 2024 11:06 AM (yTvNw)

248 I really enjoyed CoDunces. The crossroads of crazy and genius. I’d look for, and thought I found the characters every trip to NOLA.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 11:06 AM (LHPAg)

249 And that's why I wanted to read about their climb. It's a pretty chatty book, with lots of dialogue. Most Everest books aren't in that style. He talks a lot about the process of acclimating.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 24, 2024 11:07 AM (gfViB)

250 "Confederacy of Dunces" is a book set in a very specific time and place. You almost have to read it like you would "Satyricon"if you read

I enjoyed it and laughed a lot when I read it long ago and far away. I even read it twice. However, my folks moved to NO when I went to college and I spent summers there. The characters are exaggerated but very recognizable as NO types if that time.

This isn't a plot driven novel. It's the sort of novel where the author sets up the characters and they bounce off one another and there isn't any real character development. Think PG Wodehouse in that regard though he does it better cuz he includes a plot.

And last, there isn't anyone likable in the novel. If you're someone who needs that, you're out of luck. But, the title kinda tells you that.

Ignatius is someone who thinks he's always the smartest person in the room, but he's not. That's a big part of the joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 11:08 AM (idn/6)

251 What's the the Hebrew word for "dead" ("מת") on the cover?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 10:04 AM (K3JKK)
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There is a missing aleph in front.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 10:13 AM (RIvkX)
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Curiouser and curiouser!

What is the reason for the word "Emet" ("truth") on the cover?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 11:09 AM (K3JKK)

252 And last, there isn't anyone likable in the novel. If you're someone who needs that, you're out of luck. But, the title kinda tells you that.

Ignatius is someone who thinks he's always the smartest person in the room, but he's not. That's a big part of the joke.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024

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His mother is pretty likeable. How she put up with "My Ignatius" through the years is hard to imagine. And yes, you're exactly right about him, and the joke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 11:11 AM (omVj0)

253
I've always enjoyed A Confederacy of Dunces, even though it drags later in the book. I don't know what it would have been like if Toole had an editor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 11:12 AM (dxSpM)

254 I watched a movie once where the characters were supposed to be from KY, but they were (poorly) speaking a SC gentleman dialect. They had it so wrong.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:54 AM (OX9vb)

Saw that a lot when Justified was on. Half the cast sounded like they were from Savannah or Richmond.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Part of the E-4 Mafia at November 24, 2024 11:01 AM (Ad8y9)

The two dumbasses, Dicky and his compadre (?) did pretty well with the redneck accent.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 24, 2024 11:12 AM (g8Ew8)

255 There's a monastery near Copper Harbor? Who knew! If the monks wanted to remove themselves from the world, you couldn't pick a much better place in the lower48 than Copper Harbor. I love the UP, and almost every trip there, something new surprises me.

Posted by: who knew at November 24, 2024 11:12 AM (+ViXu)

256 People think there is one southern accent, when there are dozens. I watched a movie once where the characters were supposed to be from KY, but they were (poorly) speaking a SC gentleman dialect. They had it so wrong.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:54 A

One of the (many) reasons I disliked "Love, Actually" was the Minnesotan women's various Southern accents. At least attempt it, "actresses".

Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 24, 2024 11:13 AM (IzT+7)

257 I am kidding of course, my mother writes in books profusely, of which I am agast. But they are her books to do what she wants.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 11:14 AM (fwDg9)

258 234 For the record, I think Reforger should be banned from this thread , also anyone writing on a book as well.
Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 10:57 AM (fwDg9)
Heh.
I was kidding about the dog earing pages.
As for writing on books. I use a sharpie to write copyright dates on the cover all of my history books. Also note when started and (sometimes) finished on the liner page. I also sometimes do a biography on the author and fold it up inside the cover.
History is written from a perspective and who wrote it and when is as important as the subject itself.
I think anyway.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2024 11:15 AM (xcIvR)

259
Speaking of books and editors, Matthew Briccoli reconstructed Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel as it was before Maxwell Perkins took an axe to it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 11:15 AM (dxSpM)

260
The problem I have with the character of Ignatius J. Reilly is that he bears a strong resemblance to... me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 11:17 AM (dxSpM)

261 I've been doing the read what you own challenge too. I have been failing badly -- for a couple of reasons: I belong to 2 book clubs so I have to read those, but I almost always borrow them on the Libby App, and I re-read several books on my kindle (altho' I do "own" them, so maybe they count?), and I have been buying vintage books by classic American and British authors to stock our library in our big new house (20 bookcases) I haven't read them yet, but if I was sticking to the read what you own/don't buy any more, that was cheating. I have been posting my reads on FB with blurbs and rating.

Posted by: Delilah at November 24, 2024 11:18 AM (/XUPT)

262 Do you know what part of town he lived in?

No. I vaguely recall we had to take a cab from our vaguely French quarter courtyard motel but that’s it. It would have been around 2004.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2024 11:20 AM (olroh)

263 Slow going on Paradise Lost. I have the deeply ingrained habit of zipping through fun/interesting SF and other genre, so forcing myself to slow down for poetry is a struggle. It helps to move my lips when reading. :^)

I am through Book 2, with accompanying Notes. I don't need a bookmark because I mark up the text (!!!) a la Mortimer Adler.

I love the book thread; thanks Perf.

Posted by: sinmi at November 24, 2024 11:20 AM (/30kX)

264 256 People think there is one southern accent, when there are dozens. I watched a movie once where the characters were supposed to be from KY, but they were (poorly) speaking a SC gentleman dialect. They had it so wrong.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2024 10:54 AM

One of the many things I liked about Slingblade is that it’s set in Southern Arkansas, and Thornton hired locals for all the parts, so the accents are perfect for the setting.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2024 11:21 AM (W6hoT)

265 The problem I have with the character of Ignatius J. Reilly is that he bears a strong resemblance to... me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 11:17 AM (dxSpM)

And speaking of Justified, I found my past self in some of those characters too.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 24, 2024 11:21 AM (g8Ew8)

266 Chuck Woolery, game-show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble', dies at age 83.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 24, 2024 11:24 AM (hovnC)

267 Good morning again, Book Thread Cognoscenti.

I am still reading The Two Towers. Ripping good yarn. I can see the WWI roots of the book.

I was reading it during muted commercials while watching Kansas State University redeem their wretched performance of last week. Not a lot of time for reading, alas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2024 11:25 AM (u82oZ)

268

While preserving an authentic accent is important, what really matters is the size of a characters wang.

Posted by: Joey Bidet at November 24, 2024 11:28 AM (tBck8)

269 One of the worst accent/dialect productions was The Walking Dead. The undead turned in a good effort, though.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 11:29 AM (LHPAg)

270 Naughty Pine: I'll be starting Irving's Sketchbook soon. Just finished his History of New York which is overlong but consistently funny. They are both in the Library of America volume of his works.

Posted by: who knew at November 24, 2024 11:29 AM (+ViXu)

271 Re Sinmi at 263 --

From the time I chanced on Heinlein's Puppet Masters around 1963/4, sf (and mystery/horror) was almost all I read for pleasure for a decade. Got used to fast-paced storytelling, and still, decades later, often find 19th century work harder going than I might have except for that long addiction to well-done contemporary popular. Loved that stuff and still do, but I think it did a real number on my attention span.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 11:30 AM (q3u5l)

272 I'm currently prowling through The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fourth Series, from 1955. This is when the writers told real stories. There's "Fondly Fahrenheit" from Alfred Bester, a comic short called "I Never Ast No Favors" from C.M. Kornbluth, a Robert Sheckley, a Richard Matheson that, like a lot of his, would have made a good Twilight Zone a few years later, and even a short time-travel bit from Shirley Jackson, of all people. Quite readable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 11:32 AM (omVj0)

273 The real world (in the form of the delightful Mrs Some Guy) beckons, so this kid's outta here.

Thanks for the thread, Perfessor.

Have a good one, gang.

And a Happy Thanksgiving to the Horde.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 11:33 AM (q3u5l)

274 256- One of the (many) reasons I disliked "Love, Actually" was the Minnesotan women's various Southern accents. At least attempt it, "actresses".
Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 24, 2024 11:13 AM

They were "from" Wisconsin, which made the accents even worse, LOL!

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 24, 2024 11:39 AM (rbKZ6)

275 Thanks for the entertaining thread, "Perfessor" Squirrel.

I can see you wearing that hat for stalking deer.
FWIW, I killed a yearling last Wednesday. But with my car, not a rifle. Some damage to the car needs to be repaired. My first deer kill. But no antlers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2024 11:39 AM (u82oZ)

276 Anyone here ever read any Neal Shusterman works? I'm trying to decide if a humble bundle is worth it. It doesn't have Unwind which looks like his most popular book. It has the Scythe books.

I just wanted to see if anyone had a thumbs up/down on the author.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2024 11:40 AM (Y6IkP)

277 I lose bookmarks (and find a lot of them later in some book I finished), so I've usually used anything handy, but now, I've started using my old business cards. Every time I changed jobs or got a new title - another box of 200 cards. That quantity was probably correct for the sales and marketing types, but way too many for an engineer. I probably have over a thousand with different titles, companies, and names - some companies allowed nicknames (which I go by) and others were very formal: honorific, first, middle initial, and last.
(Rant)
I hate short paragraphs, probably because of the association, to me, with James Patterson. His writing, at approximately fifth grade level, and resulatant popularity rub in the failure of the Education Industry.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2024 11:41 AM (EyY5h)

278 Naughty Pine: I'll be starting Irving's Sketchbook soon. Just finished his History of New York which is overlong but consistently funny. They are both in the Library of America volume of his works.
Posted by: who knew at November 24, 2024 11:29 AM (+ViXu)

Travel broadens the mind...

When we visited Spain this year, I found out that Washington Irving is highly regarded as a great man of letters there, because of his "Tales of the Alhambra".

Which was pretty much a complete ruin while he was there as ambassador to Spain.

Anyway, his book brought new international interest about the grotty old alhambra and played a major role in it being restored.

Start writing about ruins, and you too may become a cultural hero!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 24, 2024 11:41 AM (eDfFs)

279 For as long as we have had books, and for all the thousands of books being written, I wonder...are all the good titles taken?
How does one come up with an original title?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 24, 2024 11:42 AM (W/lyH)

280 One of the many things I liked about Slingblade is that it’s set in Southern Arkansas, and Thornton hired locals for all the parts, so the accents are perfect for the setting.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2024 11:21 AM (W6hoT)

Dwight Yoakam's from southern Arkysaw?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2024 11:47 AM (lH8E4)

281 People think there is one southern accent, when there are dozens.

You ("one") often hear it said that the BBC destroyed all the local British accents within one generation. The US had regional accents all to hell over, not just he south, and they got bulldozed by commercial travelers and then broadcasting. Parts of the south had less contact, or more resistance. Dare one say "pride"?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at November 24, 2024 11:47 AM (zdLoL)

282 I don't know what it would have been like if Toole had an editor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 11:12 AM (dxSpM)

I do.

Readable.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 24, 2024 11:50 AM (d9fT1)

283 I read Last of the Mohicans. Not my favorite read but I slogged through it because that was my favorite genre as a kid.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

One of the few movies that was better than the book. Doesn't happen often.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2024 11:50 AM (oaGWv)

284 How does one come up with an original title?
Posted by: Diogenes at November 24, 2024

***
Make it a complete sentence? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Wait Until Dark, All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By, for example.

Titles, thank goodness, are not copyrightable (?). Otherwise we would not have more than one Murder by the Book.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 11:51 AM (omVj0)

285 One of the worst accent/dialect productions was The Walking Dead. The undead turned in a good effort, though.
Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2024 11:29 AM (LHPAg)

Rick Grimes is also one of the leads in the aforementioned Love, Actually, where he at least gets to be British, but everyone behaves like dickheads. A bunch of gay British dickheads.

So yeah, the accents are the least of it.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2024 11:51 AM (lH8E4)

286 Can't recall which writer was said to have done a novel in three days...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024 10:36 AM (q3u5l)
#################################

Sounds like either Philip K. Dick or Michael Moorcock, though I can't recall the record low time spent writing a novel for either.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at November 24, 2024 11:52 AM (MYVh7)

287 I use Last of the Mohicans as a literary disaster that movie makers cleaned up vastly

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 11:52 AM (fwDg9)

288 Time for chores, I guess. Thanks to all for another week's great Book Thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 11:53 AM (omVj0)

289 I don’t have the book at hand right now, but something modern cooks complain about in old recipes is that they don’t give temperatures. They instead use misleading terms like “quiet oven” or “gentle oven” or “sharp oven”. They’re very misleading now but weren’t then. I don’t think he uses that as a specific example but he does write from a similar modern perspective.

If I had to guess, I'd say those were perfectly good description of the heat from a wood, coal, or gas oven, before thermometers were widely used and/or invented.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 24, 2024 11:57 AM (cSS7r)

290 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 12:02 PM (PiwSw)

291 Thanks again for a lovely Book Thread, Perf!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 24, 2024 12:02 PM (kpS4V)

292 NOOD
Thanks I, am the shoutout Mapes

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 12:04 PM (fwDg9)

293 Speaking of books and editors, Matthew Briccoli reconstructed Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel as it was before Maxwell Perkins took an axe to it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 11:15 AM (dxSpM)

Thank God for Perkins!

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 12:04 PM (2NXcZ)

294 My current non-fiction read is 'Blacklisted by History', Evans.

A tip-o-the-hat to the Moron who recommended it, it is proving to be a *very* interesting read.

Goodreads reviews:

https://t.ly/evBzw

Current fiction read : 'The Dollmaker', Arnow.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 12:05 PM (XeU6L)

295 I wondered last week whether Anthony Horowitz could write a third book in his Susan Ryeland series given it's unusual premise that editor Ryeland solves contemporary murders by relying on Atticus Pund mystery novels written by Alan Conway. This week I discovered I could preorder the third in the series, Marble Hall Murders, to be released in May. The story concerns a new Pund novel written by a new author given Alan Conway's death and, wouldn't you know it?, the new author also has murder problems.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at November 24, 2024 12:07 PM (L/fGl)

296 Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel.

-------

As an aside, he is buried just down the street at Riverside Cemetary, Asheville...above the flood plain, but lots of very old trees lost:
t.ly/tJKJv

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 12:12 PM (XeU6L)

297 *cemetery

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 12:13 PM (XeU6L)

298 I asked the wife, who grew up using a coal oven (which also supplied hot water and heat for the house) how the temp was controlled. She said, " Poorly. I burnt a lot of things. It had a little dial in front - 'warm, medium, hot'. You never wanted "hot" for cooking, but that was good for heating and water."
I asked how the temperature was controlled, she said it was by a sliding grate in the front. "Load it up with coal, then adjust the air."

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2024 12:14 PM (EyY5h)

299 296: O ghost, lost, and grieved by the wind, come back again.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 12:14 PM (2NXcZ)

300 "Can't recall which writer was said to have done a novel in three days...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 24, 2024"

***
"A tiny worm in the back of my brain is piping up to suggest it was "Frank Gruber," who also wrote Westerns and screenplays."

It could well have been Gruber. In his book "The Pulp Jungle," Gruber claims that he earned $10,000/year writing for magazines prewar-making him one of the country's highest earning writers. IIRC, he then had no use for book writing as magazine stories paid better for words written and time spent writing, albeit he later wrote quite a few books. One story he told..a magazine editor contacted him on Monday to write a story due on Wednesday. Gruber finished the story on time and it was printed as written. Like many of the pulp writers of the period he cheated. For example, many of his Johnny Fletcher books were lifted wholesale from his Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia, magazine stories published years before.

cont...

Posted by: Pope John 20th at November 24, 2024 12:14 PM (uk4V/)

301 And awfully late because my phone shut off:

Thanks for the replies and especially thanks for the thread!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 24, 2024 12:25 PM (Ne4j5)

302 I recall that Jack Kerouac wrote 'On the Road' in just three weeks. I suspect that speed was involved.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 12:32 PM (XeU6L)

303 Gruber cont...

In The Pulp Jungle, Gruber was also pretty negative about selling books to Hollywood, as they didn't pay pulp writers very much for film rights. Inasmuch as pulp-type novels without a popular following were pretty much interchangeable by Hollywood standards (compare the Falcon movies to the Lone Wolf movies to Boston Blackie movies, etc), it seems Hollywood had a point.

Cyril Kornbluth was another very quick writer. He and the other Futurians were drinkers and all around party guys. One time Kornbluth wanted a companion to go drinking with him, and dropped in on a fellow Futurian. The friend had a magazine story due the next day, and had barely started on it, so he was unavailable to go. To free up his friend for a drinking bout, Kornbluth took his place at the typewriter, asked his friend for the story's theme and needed length, and began typing. A half-hour or so later Kornbluth had finished a publishable story, and the two went drinking. During his short life Kornbluth wrote quite a few stories and novels in collaboration with other writers; Merrill, Pohl, etc. I sometimes wonder if the collaborators contributed much beyond an idea or so to those collaborations.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at November 24, 2024 12:32 PM (uk4V/)

304 Eris, I read Last One at the Wedding- it is a trap book- one of those you don't put down once you start.
I thought the main character was exasperating but relatable.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 24, 2024 09:40 AM (7gFa4)

Yes, I lost precious sleep devouring this book. Review follows hereforewith:

Unlike other reviews I've read, I liked the protagonist. I've known and worked woth lots of guys like him and got along well. It was interesting to explore the concept of loving someone who turns out to be a narcissistic sociopath. The father's unconditional love for his daughter was a great theme.

Posted by: pookysgirl reads too much at November 24, 2024 12:41 PM (KBVl9)

305 . It isn't that I'm cheap as much as the dearth of new books worth buying.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2024 09:07 AM (tSsb6

A thousand times THIS.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at November 24, 2024 12:58 PM (Vvh2V)

306 Hmm. Left at comment 230 and the thread barely made 300.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 01:01 PM (Pgs69)

307 Ron Hubbard was also reportedly a very fast writer of (barely) publishable prose. I'm read that he used rolls of white butcher's paper fed into his typewriter, rather than typing paper, so he wouldn't have to waste time changing paper as he came to the end of a page. Like many stories told about Hubbard, however, it is probably no more than an a remote approximation of the truth.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at November 24, 2024 01:07 PM (uk4V/)

308 Also, if you tried Confederacy of Dunces, and wondered what the fuss was about (I think you have to be Truly Deeply Madly Southern to appreciate it, and a certain Flavor of Southern, at that) try Handling Sin by Mike Malone. A much easier read, and funnier right out the gate.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at November 24, 2024 01:07 PM (Vvh2V)

309 Willowed? Is this the book that Sgt Mom is looking for?

The Singing Cave is a children's novel by Margaret Carver Leighton and illustrated by Manning de V. Lee. It was published in 1945 by Houghton Mifflin.

Southern California ranch boy Billy Deane dreads the arrival of Penny, a visitor from New York. Eventually, he befriends her, and they search for artifacts around the area with their Native American friend Felipe. They encounter smugglers and the mystery of the singing cave, and they discover rare artifacts. Eventually, they find the Singing Cave and discover its mystery.

Posted by: badgerwx, VIP lurker at November 24, 2024 02:51 PM (50Aqj)

310 I missed hanging out with you all this morning as I had to drive down to Rhode Island to see Oldest Daughter. Still, in case any of you are still checking in, I wanted to stop by and wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.

Thank you, Perfessor, for another excellent Book Thread, and thank you Book Lovers for making this such a interesting and welcoming place.

Posted by: KatieFloyd at November 24, 2024 03:12 PM (ZGNOr)

311 Badgerwx! Thank you! That's exactly the book that I was trying to remember! My mother loved that story, and it was set around the area that she and my father built their retirement home!
Yay - the Horde strikes another home run!

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at November 24, 2024 03:22 PM (Ew3fm)

312
Sgt Mom, glad that Brave search was right. This book had its own wikipedia entry.

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Posted by: eyepiece at November 26, 2024 04:06 AM (5gaqS)

Daily Tech News 24 November 2024

Top Story

Elon Musk is directing harassment towards individual federal workers. (The Verge)

Is he indeed, O Verge?

The example cited - the only example cited - is of Musk suggesting that Director of Climate Diversification at the International Development Finance Corporation was a "fake job".

Now, "climate diversification" in this sense means recommending alternative crops to grow to make the food supply more robust against short and long term changes in weather.

Which is a task that could easily by filled by a fairly small book.

And in this case, it involves making those recommendations to other countries.

So, never mind "individual workers".

USAID, its 10,000 employees, and its $50 billion budget: Afuera!

Tech News

In a small bit of welcome news in the never-ending shitfest that is Australian federal politics, the government has abandoned one of its attempts to strangle free speech across the entire world. (ABC)

The so-called "misinformation bill" would have set up the government as the arbiter of truth, and anything untrue would have become illegal speech. The bill did not specify how this was supposed to work; it just legislated it into reality.

And now it's dead for the current session of Parliament, and the left-wing Labor government is likely to be out of power before Parliament votes on any new legislation.

Still moving forward is the government's Won't Somebody Think of the Children Act, which bans minors under the age of 16 from using social networks, though again it never specifies how this is supposed to be achieved. This has the support of the nominally conservative Liberal Party and is likely to pass in some form, even though it is obviously completely unworkable.

That's the same party that previously wanted to ban encryption, claiming that Australia's laws superseded mathematics, so this betrayal of conservative principles comes as no surprise.
Lenovo's ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 uses the new CAMM2 memory module in place of SO-DIMMs, but with a twist. (WCCFTech)

Not only does it use the new, more compact modules, it uses LPDDR5X memory rather than regular DDR5.

This reduces power (LP = low power) and also runs faster at 7500MHz.

This is particularly welcome as AMD's Zen 5 laptop chips don't support regular DDR5, so without these modules, laptops based on those chips would not have any path for memory upgrades.
I don't remember if I wrote about this - the story is from six months ago - but yes, LPDDR6 is on its way. (Hot Hardware)

LPDDR6 promises initial transfer rates of 10.6GHz and eventually 14.4GHz, which is not dramatically faster than the best LPDDR5X chips available now.

Except that the bus is also 50% wider, and instead of fetching 8 words at a time it fetches 12.

Which makes 288 bits, which is not very useful for 64-bit computers, so the extra 32 bits at the end is used for very strong ECC (DECDED guaranteed).

Which makes 10.6GHz LPDDR6 90% faster than 7500MHz LPDDR5.

This matters because current integrated graphics solutions from AMD and Intel are bottlenecked not by the chips but by memory speeds. Apple's higher-end M-series chips have (as far as I can tell) 256-bit or even 384-bit buses, and AMD's upcoming Strix Halo chips will also have a 256-bit bus, but regular laptops only offer 128-bit memory.

So when LPDDR6 arrives we can expect a big jump in integrated graphics performance.

(My new laptop has DDR4 memory running at 3200MHz. So... Yeah.)
Can ChatGPT-o1 complete a junior front-end developer's task? (Charbel Ghossain)

Well, yes, if you aren't worried about it working properly.

The code produced for this example sort of works, in that it doesn't break the page. But on a scale of 0 to 100, it only does anything at all for the range from 20 to 80.
It is shockingly easy to jailbreak LLM-driven robots. (Hot Hardware)

This is not shocking. LLMs are notoriously insecure and unreliable.

Simple solution: Don't fucking build LLM-driven robots.
Who the heck is the M4 iMac aimed at? (The Verge)

It's a lovely piece of engineering, but the screen is too small for serious work, the memory cannot ever be upgraded, and the network speed is limited to 1Gbit when even the Mac Mini has a 10Gbit option. And Apple has long since abandoned monitor mode, where an aging iMac with a perfectly good screen could serve as a monitor for another computer.

Which would all be forgivable if it were cheap.

The 10 core model with 16GB RAM and 512GB of SSD costs $1699.
Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? (GitHub)

Yes, says GitHub.

No, says literally everyone else.

Disclaimer: I accidentally threw out the fruit cake.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 Hello Pixy

Posted by: Ciampino - Meows all asleep at November 24, 2024 04:01 AM (i0xsb)

2 Hello!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 24, 2024 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

3 Maybe the Aussie politicians have had run-ins with one too many poisonous creatures native there.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 04:03 AM (SSBCb)

4 Or maybe not enough

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 04:03 AM (SSBCb)

5 BOING!

Just passing by.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 04:04 AM (K3JKK)

6 Hey, Pixy... Thanks for the techie stuff & hilarious commentary on US politics. Heh!

Cat finally returned. Soaking wet, LOL.

Time for shut-eye here.

Good night, all.

Prayin' for ya, jim in Kali!!!

Posted by: JQ at November 24, 2024 04:11 AM (njWTi)

7 Mysterious find could prove THIS about life on Mars, scientists say

https://mol.im/a/14117691

I love this fixation of life on Mars.

Posted by: Ciampino - Green or Blue men? at November 24, 2024 04:11 AM (i0xsb)

8 Wealthy West Coast suburb is living in fear as South American gang uses sinister tech to track their every move

https://mol.im/a/14117763

Posted by: Ciampino - cops cops at November 24, 2024 04:13 AM (i0xsb)

9 7 Mysterious find could prove THIS about life on Mars, scientists say

https://mol.im/a/14117691

I love this fixation of life on Mars.
Posted by: Ciampino - Green or Blue men? at November 24, 2024 04:11 AM (i0xsb)

The one that made me chuckle was the one about conditions for life on one of the moons of Uranus (or was it Neptune).
Klingons, maybe.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 04:23 AM (SSBCb)

10 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 24, 2024 04:23 AM (6PUpl)

11 8 Wealthy West Coast suburb is living in fear as South American gang uses sinister tech to track their every move

https://mol.im/a/14117763
Posted by: Ciampino - cops cops at November 24, 2024 04:13 AM (i0xsb)

Why shooting drones over your property should be legal.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 04:25 AM (SSBCb)

12 Definitely could happen...

Whitney Webb
@_whitneywebb

Between now and 2030, expect most global leaders - whether "left" or "right" - to introduce and implement insanely authoritarian policies. Doesn't matter what crisis appears (or "polycrisis"), efforts will soon be made to ram through the much promised "digital transformation"

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 24, 2024 04:33 AM (TGPs7)

13 7 Mysterious find could prove THIS about life on Mars, scientists say

https://mol.im/a/14117691

I love this fixation of life on Mars.
Posted by: Ciampino - Green or Blue men? at November 24, 2024 04:11 AM (i0xsb)

Muslims make the Hajj to make circles around what is most likely a meteorite. Are scientists gonna do the same with this black rock?

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 04:34 AM (SSBCb)

14 Well, back to sleep for me. Night.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 04:35 AM (SSBCb)

15 Pixy, you should seriously consider a substack. Your posts are 1000% than anything else I read anywhere in the tech media.

Posted by: Viso Latte at November 24, 2024 04:36 AM (hN6Cc)

16 Apparently there's a new TV show in the UK called....

The XXXXXXXXXX Factor:

https://tinyurl.com/mpb2jyy7

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 04:42 AM (K3JKK)

17 Speaking of the UK, cheerio:

https://tinyurl.com/bdf4c6dx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 04:45 AM (K3JKK)

18 G'mornin' everyone!

couldn't get back to sleep for thinking about lentil soup, so around 0200 I got up and made a big pot of it. Guess that's what I'm'a have for breakfast when it cools down a bit ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 24, 2024 05:00 AM (gY0JQ)

19 Laos government breaks silence on 'mass poisoning' that left six dead

https://mol.im/a/14117271

Posted by: Ciampino - methanol poisoning at November 24, 2024 05:01 AM (i0xsb)

20 18 G'mornin' everyone!

couldn't get back to sleep for thinking about lentil soup, so around 0200 I got up and made a big pot of it. Guess that's what I'm'a have for breakfast when it cools down a bit ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 24, 2024 05:00 AM (gY0JQ)
----
It will be better tomorrow.

Posted by: Ciampino - lentils are yummy at November 24, 2024 05:03 AM (i0xsb)

21 Absolutely right! a basic principle, that should be right up there with the 6 simple machines and Newtonian physics.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 24, 2024 05:08 AM (gY0JQ)

22 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 24, 2024 05:12 AM (dg+HA)

23 "Disclaimer: I accidentally threw out the fruit cake."

"accidentally"

*heh*

G'morning Pixy and Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 24, 2024 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

24 G'morning, all.

36.2 degrees out, with pretty chilly water in the birdbath.

The kittens decided that 4:45am is a perfectly good time to begin Romper Room in our bedroom.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 05:25 AM (a1415)

25 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 24, 2024 05:29 AM (hoCmQ)

26 Evening and morning, early risers and Sunday toilers! I'm taking it easy this morning thanks to my bruised (?) rib, so coffee and breakfast, no workout. Outside, 53 F., the kind of temps I've been waiting for since March, and I can't really enjoy them. Grrrr.

Dreamed something last night about leaving a party, going across from the office building to collect a woman (who was neither Miss Linda nor my date), and walking with her, only to lose her down a corridor where a family I'd known in grammar school lived (in an apartment, now, not camping in the hallway). I told them it's impossible to drink all evening without getting dirty or sticky hands, and they found this to be deep wisdom.

Later I woke in what was supposed to be my apartment, but it was profoundly changed, with the separator between living room and kitchen torn out, panoramic windows in the front, and my coffee maker sitting on my ironing board. And there was a dachshund there, not mine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 05:37 AM (omVj0)

27 Time to feed the Killer Kittenz From Outer Space!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 05:37 AM (omVj0)

28
Up and getting the dogs taken care of before heading to Mass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 24, 2024 05:42 AM (dxSpM)

29 Disclaimer: I accidentally threw out the fruit cake.

Well, it was probably over thirty years old anyway.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 05:42 AM (0eaVi)

30 Volvo shifter bushing arrived too late to install yesterday. So once the morning walk is done, and it warms up, I'll go ahead and try to finish that up, and get the wagon back on the road.

Then....I think I'm gonna take a stab at making an 8 foot climbing pole for the kittens with PVC pipe and sisal rope. Leveling legs arrive today, and with the wagon operational, I have a way to get a ten foot length of PVC to the house.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 05:44 AM (a1415)

31 I'm one of the weirdos who likes fruitcakes. Send em my way!

Posted by: Maybe someday i'll choose a nick and stick with it! Today is not that day. Dangerous Radical at November 24, 2024 05:44 AM (89Sog)

32 Details emerge about family who froze to death at Canada border

https://mol.im/a/14114653

Posted by: Ciampino - appalling at November 24, 2024 05:44 AM (i0xsb)

33 Apparently there's a new TV show in the UK called....

The XXXXXXXXXX Factor:

https://tinyurl.com/mpb2jyy7
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 04:42 AM (K3JKK)

Trigglypuff's slimmer, younger sister?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 05:45 AM (0eaVi)

34 " Hello, Ace!"

Ace typically gets up right at the crack of noon(ish).

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 05:45 AM (a1415)

35 It will be better tomorrow.
Posted by: Ciampino - lentils are yummy at November 24, 2024 05:03 AM (i0xsb)

It is tomorrow.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 05:46 AM (0eaVi)

36 "I'm one of the weirdos who likes fruitcakes. Send em my way"

( Raises Paw )

Another member of the Fruitcake Enjoyment Club.

With reducing carbs though, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to give them up, as well as homemade bread.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 05:47 AM (a1415)

37 Gavin Newsom learned a lesson after I exposed the truth about his gifted mansion in Fair Oaks, CA, and used a Registered Agent service for the LLC he formed to purchase his new mansion instead of using the Plumpjack registered agent.[…] MHBD Farms, LLC purchased the home from Daniel Pritzker, cousin of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and billionaire Hyatt Hotels heir. Newsom and Co. were a little cagier with how they named this LLC.”

Threaded twitter. Jennifer brings the receipts.

https://tinyurl.com/48j6rued

Posted by: 13times at November 24, 2024 05:48 AM (rPxEz)

38 "It will be better tomorrow.
Posted by: Ciampino - lentils are yummy at November 24, 2024 05:03 AM (i0xsb)

It is tomorrow."

Tomorrow never gets here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 05:48 AM (a1415)

39 Caught an article over at Slashdot this morning about Meta trying to force Apple and Google to do age-verification on anyone downloading from their respective app-stores. (This ties in with Pixy's information about the Australian government trying to prevent anyone under 16 from accessing social media.)

In the United States, SCOTUS has repeatedly affirmed the right to anonymity as being part of freedom of speech. How does age verification square with anonymity? It doesn't.

"Oh but it's just companies doing this" - then it's not a legal requirement and Google and Apple can tell Meta to pound sand.

"But we can require big tech to do this via regulation!"

Ah yes, but SCOTUS recently gutted the Chevron doctrine, so regulation that doesn't have the power of an actual act of Congress (ie, a law) behind it is moot and can be ignored, and once again Google and Apple can tell Meta to pound sand.

"Then we'll make a law requiring age verification."

And that law would be utterly unconstitutional based on repeated SCOTUS decisions.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 24, 2024 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

40 "Accidentally threw out the fruitcake" made me think of this story in the little paper which I picked up at the Amish market:

Some neighbors of my grandparents gave them a pumpkin pie as a dessert. As lovely as the gesture was, it was clear from the first bite that the pie tasted bad. In fact, it was so inedible that my grandmother had to throw it away.

Ever gracious and tactful, my grandmother still felt obligated to send the neighbors a note. It read, "Thank you very much for the pumpkin pie. Something like that doesn't last very long in our house."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 05:50 AM (VVT+c)

41 "Another member of the Fruitcake Enjoyment Club.

With reducing carbs though, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to give them up, as well as homemade bread."

MOAR fer meezz!!!

You can have a small one. Enjoy the Christmas Season. Take an extra walk with your Lady if you worried about the carbs.

Fair trade!

Posted by: Maybe someday i'll choose a nick and stick with it! Today is not that day. Dangerous Radical at November 24, 2024 05:50 AM (89Sog)

42 How are you feeling today, Grumpy and Reclcitrant?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 05:51 AM (VVT+c)

43 Tomorrow never gets here.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 05:48 AM (a1415)

I never knew that!

Posted by: Tomorrow at November 24, 2024 05:53 AM (0eaVi)

44 I suppose I should get upat some point today
G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 05:54 AM (fwDg9)

45 Mass job losses as major NY State tire factory owner moves business overseas

https://mol.im/a/14118307

Posted by: Ciampino - NY State is bad got business at November 24, 2024 05:54 AM (i0xsb)

46 I love fruitcake. My late Wife made an excellent one.
Also like to soak it with Cinzano.

Posted by: Ciampino - the booze is great at November 24, 2024 05:56 AM (i0xsb)

47 Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow.

Posted by: Ciampino - what a philosophy at November 24, 2024 05:58 AM (i0xsb)

48 "Peace in stillness. A devotional based on " Psalm 46:1-11

https://tinyurl.com/ymhzbuwp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 05:59 AM (VVT+c)

49 The Maher/Tyson fight went about as expected.

https://tinyurl.com/mr26s7ps

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 05:59 AM (a1415)

50 Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow.
Posted by: Ciampino - what a philosophy at November 24, 2024 05:58 AM (i0xsb)

And this week was next week last week.

Posted by: B Bunny at November 24, 2024 05:59 AM (0eaVi)

51 @44/FenelonSpoke: Much better. I actually had some appetite this morning and ate breakfast, and the body-aches and chills are done. I feel mostly normal. Friday and Saturday were lost, but I still have Sunday. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 24, 2024 06:00 AM (O7YUW)

52 "Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow."

If we knew today what we know tomorrow...

We could buy winning lottery tickets.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:00 AM (a1415)

53 "I suppose I should get upat some point today "

Do it tomorrow.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:04 AM (a1415)

54 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 24, 2024 06:00 AM (O7YUW)

I am glad you are feeling better. Will pray for your continued recovery.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 06:05 AM (VVT+c)

55 This is this week's next week's last week

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 06:05 AM (fwDg9)

56 Today is Tomorrow's Yesterday.

Posted by: Ciampino - what a philosophy 2 at November 24, 2024 06:08 AM (i0xsb)

57 Grumpy, glad you're feeling better. As you say, there's Sunday to enjoy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 06:08 AM (omVj0)

58 Yesterday......all my troubles seemed so far away..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:09 AM (a1415)

59 Yesterday......all my troubles seemed so far away..
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024

***
Gib Mir Deine Hand

Posted by: Four Guys in Hamburg at November 24, 2024 06:11 AM (omVj0)

60 Some neighbors of my grandparents gave them a pumpkin pie as a dessert. As lovely as the gesture was, it was clear from the first bite that the pie tasted bad. In fact, it was so inedible that my grandmother had to throw it away.

Ever gracious and tactful, my grandmother still felt obligated to send the neighbors a note. It read, "Thank you very much for the pumpkin pie. Something like that doesn't last very long in our house."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024

***
A classic response, Fen!

Posted by: Four Guys in Hamburg at November 24, 2024 06:12 AM (omVj0)

61 45 Mass job losses as major NY State tire factory owner moves business overseas

https://mol.im/a/14118307
Posted by: Ciampino - NY State is bad got business at November 24, 2024 05:54 AM (i0xsb)

That's a local story here. Fifteen hunert jobs gone overnight. I can't help but wonder if NY State's $15 minimum wage helped drive up costs.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 24, 2024 06:14 AM (pIfcn)

62 Gib Mir Deine Hand
Posted by: Four Guys in Hamburg at November 24, 2024 06:11 AM (omVj0)

Yeah yeah yeah.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 06:14 AM (0eaVi)

63 And there was a dachshund there, not mine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 05:37

Can I get the number of your dealer Wolf?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 24, 2024 06:15 AM (55Qr6)

64 >>>O Verge

Love that!

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 06:17 AM (VnUSN)

65 Coffee is on, it's a start

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 06:22 AM (fwDg9)

66 And there was a dachshund there, not mine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 05:37
*
Can I get the number of your dealer Wolf?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 24, 2024

***
Walmart has the best melatonin. Or at least the best prices.

And it was a long-haired dachshund, too.

Posted by: Four Guys in Hamburg at November 24, 2024 06:23 AM (omVj0)

67 >>>USAID, its 10,000 employees, and its $50 billion budget: Afuera!

Google translate ain't liking the task of translating that word, but wiktionary's up to it:

Etymology
From Spanish afuera, the English definition originates from a video where Javier Milei removes the names of government agencies off a board.

Interjection
afuera

(politics, chiefly used by libertarians) used aggressively towards leftist and statist views as a form of get out!

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 06:24 AM (VnUSN)

68 Gib Mir Deine Hand
Posted by: Four Guys in Hamburg at November 24, 2024
*
Yeah yeah yeah.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024

***
Sie Liebe Dich, yah, yah, yah

Posted by: Four Guys in Hamburg at November 24, 2024 06:24 AM (omVj0)

69 Wikipedia:

Notable moments in Milei's campaign included a viral video of him tearing cards from a wallboard with the names of ministries that he wants to abolish and tossing them into the air as he said afuera ("out"),[81] wielding a chainsaw on stage,[82] smashing a piñata on air to symbolize his plans, calling Pope Francis "a filthy leftist", and praising American gangster Al Capone as "a hero".[83]

Who could not love this man.

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 06:25 AM (VnUSN)

70 Sie Liebe Dich, yah, yah, yah
Posted by: Four Guys in Hamburg at November 24, 2024 06:24 AM (omVj0)

Sorry, I don't speak Greek.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 06:27 AM (0eaVi)

71 praising American gangster Al Capone as "a hero".[83]

Who could not love this man.
Posted by: m at November 24, 2024

***
Al Capone a hero? Bit over the top, there, Milei old man. I say, draw it mild, what?

Must admit, though, this Milei chap has more backbone than most of the people who've been leading us since the war.

Posted by: Four Guys in Hamburg at November 24, 2024 06:28 AM (omVj0)

72 So sunrise is currently scheduled for exactly 7:00am today.

And the sky is beginning to get that pre-dawn lightening that announces the beginning of a new day.

Interestingly, our back yard weather station compares current conditions to exactly 24 hours age. And todays temps are trending to within .2 degrees of yesterdays conditions. Darn near a perfect match.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:29 AM (a1415)

73 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

The Maher/Tyson fight went about as expected.
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Tyson fought Bill Maher? I wish I'd known!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 06:33 AM (z0QHk)

74 Al Capone a hero? Bit over the top, there, Milei old man. I say, draw it mild, what?
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Steady on, old chap.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 06:34 AM (z0QHk)

75 31 I'm one of the weirdos who likes fruitcakes. Send em my way!
Posted by: Maybe someday i'll choose a nick and stick with it! Today is not that day. Dangerous Radical at November 24, 2024 05:44 AM (89Sog)

Yeah, o.k., but how many of them could you eat over the course of a year?

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 06:34 AM (VnUSN)

76 Four Guys in Hamburg at November 24, 2024 06:28 AM (omVj0)

Gonna keep that sock on all day, Wolfus?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 06:35 AM (0eaVi)

77 So sunrise is currently scheduled for exactly 7:00am today.
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0723 here. You must be at least 10 degrees further south than my.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 06:35 AM (z0QHk)

78 To be fair, Al Capone was a passionate advocate of smaller government.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 06:36 AM (hY4dx)

79 To be fair, Al Capone was a passionate advocate of smaller government.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2024 06:36 AM (hY4dx)
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Did pretty well

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 06:37 AM (z0QHk)

80 ...for a second-hand furniture dealer.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 06:37 AM (z0QHk)

81 "Gonna keep that sock on all day, Wolfus?"

Forget it. He's rolling.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:38 AM (a1415)

82 "It's a lovely piece of engineering, but the screen is too small for serious work"

The Apple Macintosh has entered the chat.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 06:38 AM (PiwSw)

83 "You must be at least 10 degrees further south than my."

Summerville, just outside of, and slightly west of Charleston S.C.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:39 AM (a1415)

84 @54/Fen: Thank you! And now I can make good on a promise I made to someone to give them a lift this Sunday.

@57/Wolfus: Yup, just gonna look forward and make the most of the day that I can, while being thankful for the blessings that I have.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 24, 2024 06:39 AM (O7YUW)

85 1. You get more of what you subsidize.

2. If you house them, they will come.

https://tinyurl.com/78k7tpsj

Dumbass.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:42 AM (a1415)

86 Summerville, just outside of, and slightly west of Charleston S.C.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:39 AM (a1415)
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About 12 degrees south of Portland. *pats self on back*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 06:43 AM (z0QHk)

87 Sock duly deposed. I forget sometimes in the rush to comment!

As part of the last night's dream scenario, too, I recall I was trying to straighten my place up when some people, apparently maintenance guys, appeared at the door. The longhaired dachshund tried to trot out. One of the crew said, "We're not allowed to touch him; call him back." I did, though I can't recall the name I used, and he did trot back to me. In the dream I concluded that he was a pedigreed dog and well-trained, whoever he belonged to.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 06:45 AM (omVj0)

88 Good morning.
I make a good fruit cake, but it's not like the commercial ones. I use an old Imperial Sugar applesauce cake recipe with two types of raisins, dried apricots and pecans.

No crystalized fruit- sorry, not sorry.
It's pretty versatile- I bake it in little loaf pans or mini-muffin tins or as drop cookies.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 06:46 AM (f+FmA)

89 "In the dream I concluded that he was a pedigreed dog and well-trained, whoever he belonged to."

How much for your hot-dog?

Posted by: The Somalis in the apartment next door at November 24, 2024 06:48 AM (a1415)

90 In high school, my youth choir sang at a church in Summerville.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 24, 2024 06:48 AM (PiwSw)

91 Happy Sunday

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 06:49 AM (gbOdA)

92 If Portland is like Bath, it's too cold for my southern weather loving butt.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)

93 Last night we watched the David Mamet thriller The Spanish Prisoner from '98. Campbell Scott (George C.'s son), Steve Martin (playing it absolutely straight, and very well), and the Ricky Jay character actor who has been in a lot of Mamet films all contributed to a superb quiet crime film. Rebecca Pidgeon (no relation to Walter), Mamet's wife at the time, has a wonderful turn too, and one of my new favorite movie lines. Someone asks her how she's been, and she replies, "My troika was pursued by wolves."

How good was the movie? I didn't move for two hours, afraid I would miss something.

I need to see more of Mamet's writing or directing projects. The only other I've seen was his '87 House of Games, with his then-wife, Lindsay Crouse. Another tale of con artists and their world, and of an everyday person being caught up in it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 06:51 AM (omVj0)

94 If Portland is like Bath, it's too cold for my southern weather loving butt.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)
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43 degrees and raining out, right now - probably so.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 06:51 AM (z0QHk)

95 "In high school, my youth choir sang at a church in Summerville."

Small world, in't it?

Come on back, visit for a spell.

It's growing by leaps and bounds, but downtown is still small town America.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:52 AM (a1415)

96 A Latin American restaurant in Brooklyn with a laundry list of revolting health-code violations is at the center of an illegal vending scheme where dozens of migrant women brazenly hawk hot meals on street corners across the Big Apple

Them Here=There Here

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 06:52 AM (gbOdA)

97 I need to see more of Mamet's writing or directing projects. The only other I've seen was his '87 House of Games, with his then-wife, Lindsay Crouse. Another tale of con artists and their world, and of an everyday person being caught up in it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 06:51 AM (omVj0)
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You'd probably like "Spartan" starring Val Kilmer, also penned by Mamet.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 06:52 AM (z0QHk)

98 Little boy who had never celebrated a birthday gets a wonderful surprise at school:

https://tinyurl.com/fh5pas2x

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 06:52 AM (9m3QV)

99 Fruitcake for Prime Minister of Australia, can't be any worse.

And I just noticed that I got a mention in the side-bar.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2024 06:53 AM (pieFP)

100 100

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 06:53 AM (VnUSN)

101 "43 degrees and raining out, right now - probably so."

You're warmer than we are right now.

35.1 degrees and no rain.
But a very damp 99% R.H.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:53 AM (a1415)

102 Good Sunday Morning to all. 37 degrees in Western NC and expecting a clear day in the 60s.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at November 24, 2024 06:54 AM (CXFY/)

103 Yellen has been moving away from long-term debt to finance the shortfalls to shorter-dated securities, essentially rolling over deficits with more and more Treasury bills instead of the normal way of debt issuance through 10- and 30-year debt.
Bear Traps Report, who estimates that around 30% of all debt is the short-term variety — aka 2-year and shorter notes — compared to 15% in 2023.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 06:55 AM (gbOdA)

104 99 Fruitcake for Prime Minister of Australia, can't be any worse.

And I just noticed that I got a mention in the side-bar.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2024 06:53 AM (pieFP)

Cool!

Star Trek "Unification" short film seems to be hitting people in the feels
Thanks to Anna Puma. Personally, I don't really get it. It's just a lot of fan service and images created by AI deepfaking Shatner and Nimoy. But people seem to like it.

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 06:55 AM (VnUSN)

105 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024 06:55 AM (z0QHk)

106 Portland could use a visit by a Roman Legion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2024 06:55 AM (pieFP)

107 I too like fruit cake, not that I'm in any shape to have any now. Created as a winter food with tons of calories (and a bit o booze) to keep you warm. Not into the alcoholic version though

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 06:55 AM (SSBCb)

108 Legend gone Chuck Woolery, original ‘Wheel of Fortune’ host, dead at 83

RIP

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 06:56 AM (gbOdA)

109 You'd probably like "Spartan" starring Val Kilmer, also penned by Mamet.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 24, 2024

***
Indeed, I think I would. Ed "Al Bundy" O'Neill is in that one, and he was in Prisoner too, playing it absolutely straight. Mamet likes to cast against type and then gets solid performances out of actors who are usually known for comedy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 06:56 AM (omVj0)

110 "Legend gone Chuck Woolery, original ‘Wheel of Fortune’ host, dead at 83

RIP"

Another grim milestone for the Biden/Harris administration.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 06:57 AM (a1415)

111 On youtooob

Racket Squad - The Spanish Prisoner - Reed Hadley

Posted by: 13times at November 24, 2024 07:00 AM (rz8gk)

112 103 Yellen has been moving away from long-term debt to finance the shortfalls to shorter-dated securities, essentially rolling over deficits with more and more Treasury bills instead of the normal way of debt issuance through 10- and 30-year debt.
Bear Traps Report, who estimates that around 30% of all debt is the short-term variety — aka 2-year and shorter notes — compared to 15% in 2023.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 06:55 AM (gbOdA)

Um, that seems kinda problematic somehow...

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:01 AM (SSBCb)

113 Good morning from the fruitcake capitol of the world.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2024 07:02 AM (gGMRM)

114 Good morning from the state of nuts, fruits, and flakes.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:03 AM (SSBCb)

115 bans minors under the age of 16 from using social networks
Once again, people are wanting the government to be your nanny. This is the job of a parent. They can (to some extent) do this. A government would have to have the same close relationship and monitoring ability as a very nosey parent to achieve that. *shudder*

Also, is it wrong of me to always read "LPDDR" as "lap diddler"?

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2024 07:04 AM (GR9H0)

116 Silly tech joke;

Why did the boss ignore his assistant's suggestion on Zoom?

It was a mute point.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2024 07:05 AM (9m3QV)

117 and the Ricky Jay character actor who has been in a lot of Mamet films

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 06:51 AM (omVj0)

Ricky Jay was primarily a magician, and a really good one. He even had a special on maybe HBO? Here it is, now on YouTube.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3k8bkn

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 24, 2024 07:06 AM (pIfcn)

118 Helloooo, Corsicana!
Talk about your quintessential fruitcake.
Love their tins- I have a couple I only use at Christmas.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 07:07 AM (f+FmA)

119 115 bans minors under the age of 16 from using social networks
Once again, people are wanting the government to be your nanny. This is the job of a parent. They can (to some extent) do this.
Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2024 07:04 AM (GR9H0)

And here are a lot of ideas about how to do that.

Jonathan Haidt

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 07:07 AM (VnUSN)

120 OK. Mike Lindell made me giggle a bit:

https://tinyurl.com/yrze3d76

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 07:07 AM (K3JKK)

121 Hope you're feeling better, jim.
I know this has been lousy for you. Prayers up.

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2024 07:08 AM (f+FmA)

122 120 OK. Mike Lindell made me giggle a bit:

https://tinyurl.com/yrze3d76
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 07:07 AM (K3JKK)

Ha! All those tired people with bedhead.

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 07:10 AM (VnUSN)

123 Perversely, the new Jaguar woke ads give me the urge to watch videos of one of the old ones, say the Mk II from 1959-1967. Not to buy a newer Jag -- not that I could -- but to watch videos of the old ones.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:12 AM (omVj0)

124 Ben Had, good morning.

The kittens seem to be committed to slap-shoting their catnip mice under the fridge.

And then getting into my face to inform me that the mice need fetching.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:13 AM (a1415)

125 58 days until the inauguration

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 07:14 AM (fwDg9)

126 Festivus this year is gonna be so LIT!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:16 AM (a1415)

127 Morning all. The movie and play of Mamet's Glengarry Glenross are classics. The cast of the movie makes the writing come alive

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2024 07:16 AM (FxDm7)

128 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I'm currently reading the longest epilogue ever written.

The finale happened about 60% of the way into the book and the remaining 40% is just dealing with the aftermath.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2024 07:17 AM (BpYfr)

129 123 the new Jaguar woke ads
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:12 AM (omVj0)

Now with a very non-woke Part II
@Marcus_Byrne

https://tinyurl.com/42cj29e4

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 07:20 AM (VnUSN)

130 Getting light outside.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:20 AM (omVj0)

131 All this cake talk… even though it’s fruitcake, eck.

Now I want a cupcake.

With sprinkles.

My brother gets some awesome little cupcakes from a bakery called “Nothing Bundt Cakes” in Summerville.

They are shaped like little Bundt cakes and are delicious as they are addictive.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 07:20 AM (6ydKt)

132 I think Apple just wants to build tablets and phones. The dest top stuff is legacy niche work, like VW's involvement with Bugatti.

Posted by: Accomack at November 24, 2024 07:21 AM (+OnsA)

133 "My brother gets some awesome little cupcakes from a bakery called “Nothing Bundt Cakes” in Summerville. "

Every time we go past that place, I wonder if we should stop in.

Thanks!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:22 AM (a1415)

134 . . . The kittens seem to be committed to slap-shoting their catnip mice under the fridge.

And then getting into my face to inform me that the mice need fetching.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024

***
My furry thugs are playing with a small cardboard box I put on the floor for them. They don't always need expensive new toys; a box, or a toy they haven't seen in a while, works just as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:23 AM (omVj0)

135 I liked the Bad Blue Jaguar ad

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 07:24 AM (fwDg9)

136 "My brother gets some awesome little cupcakes from a bakery called “Nothing Bundt Cakes” in Summerville. "
*
Every time we go past that place, I wonder if we should stop in.

Thanks!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024

***
We have a couple of those here. I always thought they were only local.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:24 AM (omVj0)

137 "They don't always need expensive new toys; a box, or a toy they haven't seen in a while, works just as well."

Tiny little Margo keeps all her cat toys in her cat-bed in the TV room.

And at the beginning of the day she roots through them to se what she wants to play with that day.

And usually, it is her Golf-Tee. Her absolute favorite toy is a simple Golf-Tee, which she will carry around and play with for hours.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:25 AM (a1415)

138 I'm currently reading the longest epilogue ever written.

The finale happened about 60% of the way into the book and the remaining 40% is just dealing with the aftermath.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2024

***
I thought that, and was supposed to, with Ellery Queen's serial killer novel Cat of Many Tails. There turned out to be a "true solution" stinger to come, though. Maybe yours has a surprise or two in store.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:26 AM (omVj0)

139 "I always thought they were only local."

I thought this one was local as well.

The things you learn around here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:26 AM (a1415)

140 The downfall of America's 'most hated mayor' as he sparks fresh outrage among despairing residents

https://mol.im/a/14110225

I thought the most hated mayor was that woman somewhere around Chicago area.

Posted by: Ciampino - what a maroon at November 24, 2024 07:26 AM (i0xsb)

141 127, I love the movie Glengarry Glennross. It kind of stands out because a boss in a telemarketing firm recommended it to us. Kind of like Full Metal Jacket stands out to me because my drill sergeant recommended it to us during basic training in the Summer of ‘87.

The play sounds cool. Is it online?

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:28 AM (gKpOq)

142 127 Morning all. The movie and play of Mamet's Glengarry Glenross are classics. The cast of the movie makes the writing come alive
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2024 07:16 AM (FxDm7)

—- —-

Never seen the play, but love the movie.
Mamet is a master of dialogue.

It’s probably one of the few films that I like Alec Baldwin in, other than say Beetlejuice or Hunt For Red October.

Ya know, the stuff before everyone realized he’s a total asshole.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 07:28 AM (6ydKt)

143 Tiny little Margo keeps all her cat toys in her cat-bed in the TV room.

And at the beginning of the day she roots through them to se what she wants to play with that day.

And usually, it is her Golf-Tee. Her absolute favorite toy is a simple Golf-Tee, which she will carry around and play with for hours.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024

***
Dagny La Siberienne is enamored of a piece of red plastic bag, the part I cut off the top to open the package of whatever it was. She keeps re-finding it in a coat closet or under one of the throw rugs, where I'm guessing she left it after the last play session.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:28 AM (omVj0)

144 I thought that, and was supposed to, with Ellery Queen's serial killer novel Cat of Many Tails. There turned out to be a "true solution" stinger to come, though. Maybe yours has a surprise or two in store.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:26 AM (omVj0)
---
Oh, there are still a few twists and turns left, but mostly Tad Williams is wrapping up all of the loose ends in his Osten Ard series. It just takes a while.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2024 07:29 AM (BpYfr)

145 "Dagny La Siberienne is enamored of a piece of red plastic bag, "

Clearly, we hoomans do not decide what is a cat toy.

Cats do.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:30 AM (a1415)

146 133 Every time we go past that place, I wonder if we should stop in.

Thanks!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:22 AM (a1415)

— —

I can only attest to the cupcakes but they are really good. I can imagine their full size cakes are also worth it.

You and the Mrs should try them if you get a sweet tooth.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 07:30 AM (6ydKt)

147 "Dagny La Siberienne is enamored of a piece of red plastic bag, "
*
Clearly, we hoomans do not decide what is a cat toy.

Cats do.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024

***
If it crackles, it qualifies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:31 AM (omVj0)

148 I used to drive a jaguar and my dad had two of them. He hated Jaguars because they always broke down and of course I had to have one.

All Jag has to do is be sleek and show some video of James Bond or the Prime Minister, it is not hard.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:31 AM (gKpOq)

149 We have a couple of those here. I always thought they were only local.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:24 AM (omVj0)

Seen them way out west, too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 07:32 AM (0eaVi)

150 136 We have a couple of those here. I always thought they were only local.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:24 AM (omVj0)

— —-

So it’s a chain?
I didn’t know that either.

Very creative name for a specialty cake shop, I’ll give them that!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 07:32 AM (6ydKt)

151 "You and the Mrs should try them if you get a sweet tooth."

Gonna do that.

They have the Moron stamp of approval.

Thanks

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:32 AM (a1415)

152 Thanks, Sal. Feeling better. Guts slowly starting to un-fubar.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:35 AM (SSBCb)

153 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2024 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

154 Was thinking in my long work commute yesterday all these zippy EVs will soon be less in number if people have to front tje entire cost.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 07:37 AM (fwDg9)

155 "Carol and Jeff Starr had locked away their wedding rings, as well as highly valuable heirlooms passed down from Carol's late mother, in a six-foot-tall safe."

Wedding rings are meant to be worn, idiots.

Posted by: pookysgirl lost sympathy at that point at November 24, 2024 07:37 AM (dtlDP)

156 140 The downfall of America's 'most hated mayor' as he sparks fresh outrage among despairing residents

https://mol.im/a/14110225

I thought the most hated mayor was that woman somewhere around Chicago area.
Posted by: Ciampino - what a maroon at November 24, 2024 07:26 AM (i0xsb)

Beetlejui...

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:37 AM (SSBCb)

157 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:38 AM (a1415)

158 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

We are doing well so far with no central HVAC heating. My adaptations worked. My non-stoic wife is even complaining less. She needs support more and more.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2024 07:38 AM (u82oZ)

159 Nice "justice is served" news from Jack Posobiec, if you recall the event:

https://tinyurl.com/267szv6f

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 07:39 AM (K3JKK)

160 148 All Jag has to do is be sleek and show some video of James Bond or the Prime Minister, it is not hard.
Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:31 AM (gKpOq)

— —

Or at least show the car in the commercial.

As it is, the best guess you could make is that Jaguar is some kind of women’s fashion or makeup brand.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 07:39 AM (6ydKt)

161 Have a great day, everyone. Chores continue at Festung Salty.

May you all reap the blessing of the common sense of the majority of the American people.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 24, 2024 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

162 The Congressional Budget Office estimates that without significant intervention, the Social Security trust funds are due to run dry in 2033, at which point the law calls for a 23 percent cut in benefits.

Maybe DOGE can come up with a simple buyout plan.
Let those with $500K or more net worth leave their SS funds in exchange for no taxes on 401 or IRA.
The simplest solution is just truth. Print all annual statement with the real check amount today and in 8 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

163 "She needs support more and more."

I know this is a hard journey for you both, but it speaks of love and commitment to your relationship.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:41 AM (a1415)

164 154 Was thinking in my long work commute yesterday all these zippy EVs will soon be less in number if people have to front tje entire cost.
Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 07:37 AM (fwDg9)

It will be the only option other than public transportation for you peons--Gavin Newsome

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:42 AM (SSBCb)

165 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:42 AM (a1415)

166 Netflix's algorithm is broken:

https://tinyurl.com/run8kpxr

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 07:43 AM (K3JKK)

167 160 148 All Jag has to do is be sleek and show some video of James Bond or the Prime Minister, it is not hard.
Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:31 AM (gKpOq)

— —

Or at least show the car in the commercial.

As it is, the best guess you could make is that Jaguar is some kind of women’s fashion or makeup brand.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 07:39 AM (6ydKt)

Aren't jaguars a kind of cougar? Those are generally dangerous to men under 30.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:44 AM (SSBCb)

168 Nice "justice is served" news from Jack Posobiec, if you recall the event:

https://tinyurl.com/267szv6f

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 07:39 AM (K3JKK)

I don't think that's the same SWATter that was trying to get The Quartering, because that kid just agreed to a plea deal. The FBI must be frantically trying to justify part of their budget.

Posted by: pookysgirl needs to make BEWARE OF DOGE signs at November 24, 2024 07:44 AM (dtlDP)

169 162 The Congressional Budget Office estimates that without significant intervention, the Social Security trust funds are due to run dry in 2033, at which point the law calls for a 23 percent cut in benefits.

Maybe DOGE can come up with a simple buyout plan.
Let those with $500K or more net worth leave their SS funds in exchange for no taxes on 401 or IRA.
The simplest solution is just truth. Print all annual statement with the real check amount today and in 8 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

Lefty solution: Govt take over of all retirement accounts for your own good, will promise to dole it out to you with interest. They have a whole pile of broken Indian treaties to prove their sincerity.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:47 AM (SSBCb)

170 160, that is why I gave up on all diageo brands like Jonnie Walker. I went to their page and you could scroll the entire thing and think it was an all women company from a the third world. I am not overstating the situation. I literally went to the site and scrolled all the way down and at no point did they mention alcoholic beverages.

This was a year ago maybe they have changed it but my guess is they have not.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:47 AM (gKpOq)

171 159 Nice "justice is served" news from Jack Posobiec, if you recall the event:

https://tinyurl.com/267szv6f
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 07:39 AM (K3JKK)

— —-

Swatting is one of the crappiest things gamers ever came up with.

Imagine being so humiliated and pissed off at losing a game of Call of Duty that you sic the SWAT team on your opponent,

Then it caught on with the rest of the dregs of society and here we are, random conservatives have SWAT called on their parents.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

172 So that 23% cut in SS benefits...

Will that apply to existing SS recipients as well as new recipients after that date?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:49 AM (a1415)

173 The hackers were not able to listen to conversations on encrypted applications, like those carried over WhatsApp or Signal. Nor could they read encrypted messages, such as those sent from one iPhone to another over Apple’s iMessage system. But they could read regular text messages between an iPhone and an Android phone, for example, or listen to phone calls over the ordinary telephone networks, much as the government can if it has a legal order.

So the hackers got the US ORDERED back doors.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 07:49 AM (gbOdA)

174 The FBI must be frantically trying to justify part of their budget.
Posted by: pookysgirl needs to make BEWARE OF DOGE signs at November 24, 2024 07:44 AM (dtlDP)
-

Or someone is trying to remain unemployed.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 07:50 AM (K3JKK)

175 I'm one of the weirdos who likes fruitcakes. Send em my way!
Posted by: Maybe someday i'll choose a nick and stick with it!

Love fruitcake especially the ones soaked in booze.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2024 07:50 AM (oaGWv)

176 I just went to the Dios site and assured they’ve changed it from the year ago. Before they didn’t show a single bottle of blue, it was only women and women of color and nothing else. Now it is bottles of alcohol and women. If you scold the entire front page from top to bottom, not a single man. Because of course we know no men are involved in the making of scotch whisky.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:51 AM (gKpOq)

177 Will that apply to existing SS recipients as well as new recipients after that date?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:49 AM (a1415)

Yes It was always funds in-funds out system but for years the fund in exceeded the funds out. But alas, the money was not invested but spent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

178 What cut in SS benefits?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:52 AM (omVj0)

179 167 Aren't jaguars a kind of cougar? Those are generally dangerous to men under 30.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:44 AM (SSBCb)

— —

I dunno, MILFs have been a thing for awhile now.
Dangerous if the hubby finds out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 07:52 AM (6ydKt)

180 That's the same party that previously wanted to ban encryption, claiming that Australia's laws superseded mathematics, so this betrayal of conservative principles comes as no surprise.

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

They can always repeal the Laws of Gravity and Causation ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 24, 2024 07:52 AM (MpEy/)

181 Love fruitcake especially the ones soaked in booze.
Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2024 07:50 AM (oaGWv)

If you have to soak food in alcohol, is it fit to eat?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 07:53 AM (0eaVi)

182 Lefty solution: Govt take over of all retirement accounts for your own good, will promise to dole it out to you with interest. They have a whole pile of broken Indian treaties to prove their sincerity.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:47 AM (SSBCb)

As I thot that would happen I have move much money out (and paid taxes) into my private funds.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

183 175, it is like both things, People hate fruitcakes because the average fruitcake is terrible though the really well-made ones like you said was booze are great. In this country, we had the entire generation, the one before mine the hated lamb or mutton, Because the stuff they were served was awful. There are good fruit cakes, But the stuff most American sent to each other to the mail or not good, the irony.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:54 AM (gKpOq)

184 Time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 24, 2024 07:55 AM (a1415)

185 182 Lefty solution: Govt take over of all retirement accounts for your own good, will promise to dole it out to you with interest. They have a whole pile of broken Indian treaties to prove their sincerity.
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:47 AM (SSBCb)

As I thot that would happen I have move much money out (and paid taxes) into my private funds.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

Technically a negative interest rate is still interest, just not to you.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:55 AM (SSBCb)

186 135 I liked the Bad Blue Jaguar ad
Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 07:24 AM (fwDg9)

Shoot! I missed that one! I don't see it on the Bad Blues from Nov. 16th or Nov. 23rd.

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 07:55 AM (VnUSN)

187 What cut in SS benefits?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:52 AM (omVj0)

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

See # 162 (anticipated cut as the "trust fund" goes into the red in 2033 by the CBO).

Posted by: ShainS -- We shot them under DOD Directive 5240.01 at November 24, 2024 07:57 AM (MpEy/)

188 Fruitcakes. My Dad, the baker, used port wine with a little light rum for the soak. Maybe a Sangria would be flavorful.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2024 07:57 AM (gm9Sb)

189 178 What cut in SS benefits?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 07:52 AM (omVj0)

SS was always a SS taxes pay SS benefits plan. That is collections in any year equal payout that year. There was a buffer called the SS trust which was a stack of IOUs. So since around 2009 (it has been argued earlier than that) the trust have been sold off to pay.
Current taxes + Trust Sell off = Promised Benefits.
In or around 2033 the Trust will be ZERO.
So then the formula is
Current taxes + Zero = Promised Benefits
Current taxes = 77% or Promised Benefits.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 07:58 AM (gbOdA)

190 181, I say yes, the Romans used to do that with lots of desserts. Love to be that guy, but most fruitcakes suck because the average cook sucks. Really good fruit cakes are awesome ever try a really good German stolllen? The reality is most brownies suck because the people that make them are bad at cooking. Really good brownies are wonderful, but a rarity. There are good fruit cakes, but you normally don’t get them in the mail unless you get them from Texas.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:58 AM (gKpOq)

191 The Congressional Budget Office estimates that without significant intervention, the Social Security trust funds are due to run dry in 2033, at which point the law calls for a 23 percent cut in benefits.

Like not automatically enrolling each and every illegal alien that steps foot in the cuntry into receiving benefits?

Like not handing out checks to the dead, fictitious, in prison, or hasn't worked in decades if at all?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2024 07:58 AM (rHxhM)

192 I'm one of the weirdos who likes fruitcakes. Send em my way!
Posted by: Maybe someday i'll choose a nick and stick with it!

Love fruitcake especially the ones soaked in booze.
Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2024 07:50 AM (oaGWv)

Can I join your alliance?

Posted by: Count de Monet loves the fruitcake at November 24, 2024 07:59 AM (Aqu9a)

193 I have a good article on the entire Ponzi scheme.

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/
social-security-trust-fund-myth

PS Read it either drunk or stone cold sober. Anything in the middle will make you cry.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

194 Flag is up
🫡

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2024 08:01 AM (fwDg9)

195 Is this cut going to happen next year, or not until 2033? If it's 2025, it looks like my retirement is going to be on hold.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 08:01 AM (omVj0)

196 @143/Wolfus: "Dagny La Siberienne is enamored of a piece of red plastic bag... "

Ah yes, the game of "Hunt the noisy bag", best done at 3 am in hallway just outside the master bedroom, when you are trying to sleep.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 24, 2024 08:02 AM (O7YUW)

197 Fruitcakes in the kitchen, fruitcakes on the street
Struttin' naked through the crosswalk in the middle of the week
Half-baked cookies in the oven, half-baked people on the bus
There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

198 176 I just went to the Dios site and assured they’ve changed it from the year ago. Before they didn’t show a single bottle of blue, it was only women and women of color and nothing else. Now it is bottles of alcohol and women. If you scold the entire front page from top to bottom, not a single man. Because of course we know no men are involved in the making of scotch whisky.
Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:51 AM (gKpOq)

— —-

I looked at the Johnnie Walker site just now.
After having to enter a birth date (just to look? why? If I could buy a bottle off the site, sure, but why does every alcohol site have a birth date requirement just to look at pictures, I’ve never gotten drunk off of a photo of a whiskey bottle in my life).

You’re right, looks like the same ad agency for Jaguar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 08:02 AM (6ydKt)

199 148 I used to drive a jaguar and my dad had two of them. He hated Jaguars because they always broke down and of course I had to have one.

All Jag has to do is be sleek and show some video of James Bond or the Prime Minister, it is not hard.
Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 07:31 AM (gKpOq)

I recall my grandfather working for a very wealthy family as their estate manager. They had a Jaguar which I never heard a kind word about. Had to take it out on the highway to run it hard on a regular basis to "clean it out".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 24, 2024 08:03 AM (2AW7/)

200 Is this cut going to happen next year, or not until 2033? If it's 2025, it looks like my retirement is going to be on hold.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 08:01 AM (omVj0)

I believe the projected date is 2033.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 24, 2024 08:04 AM (SfhV1)

201 When I go to a wine store they say they don’t carry good sherry because Americans don’t like Sherry. I ask them why Americans don’t like sherry, and they say it is because they can’t get good sherry.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:05 AM (gKpOq)

202 140 The downfall of America's 'most hated mayor' as he sparks fresh outrage among despairing residents

https://mol.im/a/14110225

I thought the most hated mayor was that woman somewhere around Chicago area.
Posted by: Ciampino - what a maroon at November 24, 2024 07:26 AM (i0xsb)

Beetlejui...
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 07:37 AM (SSBCb)

Super Mayor Henyard from Dolton Village? She does double duty as the Supervisor for the Thornton Township, an area comprising 17 villages including Dolton.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2024 08:05 AM (Aqu9a)

203 Johnnie Walker Blew.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 24, 2024 08:05 AM (dR6yv)

204 I will use sherry when making crab soup.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 24, 2024 08:06 AM (dR6yv)

205 Brennan's of Houston uses a splash of sherry in their turtle soup.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2024 08:08 AM (Aqu9a)

206 Damn. Chuck Woolery died. That sucks.

We'll see you in 2 and 2.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at November 24, 2024 08:12 AM (dR6yv)

207 mornin yall. My MIL tried to walk to our house late yesterday afternoon. It's only a mile but she is 85 and needs a cane to walk. This is not a good sign. A lady picked her up about 1/3 of the way here and brought her to our house.

She has problems making it from one side of the house to the other. I have maintained for some time that she needs to be somewhere with constant supervision, but that is not going to be easy. She thought she could walk back home last night, even though the Sun was almost down and it was already about 50 degrees.

I can't tell Mrs fd what to do about her though. I've learned to hold my tongue with those suggestions. Maybe this incident will finally cause some changes.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:12 AM (vFG9F)

208 The Climate Diversification Scam reminds me of the TV commercial where the engineer talks to the prefesser who talks to the UN field rapist who is helping the savage in Chad dig a water well, all on the internet. They are all so pleased with themselves that the Chadian savage now has nasty old well water to drink as they celebrate in their air conditioned orifices.

Posted by: Condescending Assholes at November 24, 2024 08:13 AM (R/m4+)

209 When I reach retirement age SS promised I'd get at least $3k/mo in the last statement they sent me...should I not believe them?
I think I'm eligible in the early 2030s...

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 08:13 AM (SSBCb)

210 Still counting votes in California.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 24, 2024 08:13 AM (Lo97M)

211 When I go to a wine store they say they don’t carry good sherry because Americans don’t like Sherry. I ask them why Americans don’t like sherry, and they say it is because they can’t get good sherry.
Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:05 AM (gKpOq)
-

Have (kosher) Tio Pepe Palomino Fino from Xeres. It is a taste Mrs. BD and I acquired from my late parents who were introduced to it by family in England.

I full understand how mainly the Brits enjoy this stuff.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 08:13 AM (K3JKK)

212 207 mornin yall. My MIL tried to walk to our house late yesterday afternoon. It's only a mile but she is 85 and needs a cane to walk. This is not a good sign. A lady picked her up about 1/3 of the way here and brought her to our house.

She has problems making it from one side of the house to the other. I have maintained for some time that she needs to be somewhere with constant supervision, but that is not going to be easy. She thought she could walk back home last night, even though the Sun was almost down and it was already about 50 degrees.

I can't tell Mrs fd what to do about her though. I've learned to hold my tongue with those suggestions. Maybe this incident will finally cause some changes.
Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:12 AM (vFG9F)

I had my Mom walking a mile a day and by now she must be close to OKC.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

213 Along time ago I almost bought a XK-140 for $500. I'll never know if that was a good decision or bad. Probably good, they were not that great.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

214 207
...
Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:12 AM (vFG9F)

Would she wear a device that allows you to track where she is?

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 08:16 AM (SSBCb)

215 For them as do like fruitcake, my favorite store-bought brand is Benson's, if you csn find it...

https://www.bensonsbakery.com/about.html

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 08:17 AM (XeU6L)

216 *can

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2024 08:17 AM (XeU6L)

217 "Would she wear a device that allows you to track where she is?
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)"

If she could not remove it. Otherwise it would be like the emergency pendent we got her, and end up lying somewhere where she can't find it.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

218 217 "Would she wear a device that allows you to track where she is?
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)"

If she could not remove it. Otherwise it would be like the emergency pendent we got her, and end up lying somewhere where she can't find it.
Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

So more of an ankle bracelet...sorry.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 08:20 AM (SSBCb)

219 “I feel I’m smart. My parents call me smart. I mean, I almost have a 4.0 [GPA]. That’s until I’m against them," Crystal says. "Then, suddenly, it means nothing.”

Crystal is a 14-year-old growing up near Omaha. Her parents are immigrants from Cuba who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, along with her grandma, great grandpa, cousin, and aunt. … “You could argue with them for years, and they still wouldn’t think differently,” the eighth grader tells Teen Vogue.

https://tinyurl.com/yc5vz4dh

The first thing we need to do is to stop giving teenagers the impression that they are the smartest people in the room.

All this brainwashing and indoctrination in their schools turns every idiot teenager with an I.Q. above 100 into those haughty socialist know-it-all professors we’ve despised since the 1960s.

And children’s media makes every kid think they are smarter than their parents and parents are around to be manipulated and tricked.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 08:20 AM (6ydKt)

220 206, yeah that really sucks. Someone should do an hommage to him. For many years here, too many to count, I have brought up the anomaly that game show hosts are disproportionally conservative. If you look at Hollyweird, Game Show hosts are by far the most conservative. After that you have comedians and SNL shows players.

Woolery was one of them, one of the best. I don’t think I’m up to a posting, our better writers should do it. This is not a random observation, this is stone cold reality.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:21 AM (gKpOq)

221 I just looked up prices on XK-140s. The low end is about $20k, for a car that is in worse shape than the $500 one I passed up, 40 years or so ago..

High end is about $180k. Sheesh.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

222 209 When I reach retirement age SS promised I'd get at least $3k/mo in the last statement they sent me...should I not believe them?
I think I'm eligible in the early 2030s...
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 08:13 AM (SSBCb)

From SS Bulletin
The combined OASI and
DI Trust Funds will be able
to pay all benefits in full
and on time until 2035.

Even if legislative changes are not made before 2035,
we’ll still be able to pay 83% of scheduled benefits.

This was for year 2023. It will change at next printing.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

223 212 I had my Mom walking a mile a day and by now she must be close to OKC.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:14 AM (gbOdA)

— —

Man I hope you’re not in Brownsville or McAllen because that would be one helluva stroll.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 08:24 AM (6ydKt)

224 nd children’s media makes every kid think they are smarter than their parents and parents are around to be manipulated and tricked.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 08:20 AM (6ydKt)

I'd hazard a guess that 86.7%+ of 14 yos think they are vastly smarter than their parents, who are old, doddering, and confused by modern marvels. Then years later, around age 22 - 25, there is a sudden flash of understanding that their parents were pretty danged smart after all. It's the nature of 14 yos.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2024 08:25 AM (Aqu9a)

225 Going back to sleep.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 08:26 AM (SSBCb)

226 Man I hope you’re not in Brownsville or McAllen because that would be one helluva stroll.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 08:24 AM (6ydKt)

South of H town

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

227 fd. If your wife is the only child taking care of mom she has to come to the conclusion that things need to change. Hopefully before her mom is harmed in some way. I finally had to speak with my mom after she fell in the parking lot of her condo complex. She had her dog on a leash, was trying to carry a box from her mailbox and using a cane. I was the only living child and took the initiative, my husband backed me on the decision. If there are other children involved maybe a sibling pow wow is needed.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 24, 2024 08:27 AM (2NHgQ)

228 Supposedly an XK 140 could run 140 MPH.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:27 AM (gbOdA)

229 South of H town
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

Still a pretty good hike.
I hope you at least gave her a canteen.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 24, 2024 08:28 AM (6ydKt)

230 211, the Brits used to drink it in droves. There is a reason sherry casked Scotch is so famous and considered to be a traditional Scotch. The Brits had so many sherry casks left over from importing sherry, they aged their Scotch in it.

Á dirty little secret. The Spanish stopped exporting sherry in barrels, only in bottles. Now the Scotch Makers have to recreate these barrels because people are used to the flavor. Now they buy barrels and pour cheap sherry in them for a few months so they then can fill them with scotch whisky.

Actually, I should do the story, but I don’t think by writing is up to the level of the great people who post here.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:30 AM (gKpOq)

231 Good morning morons

Bureaucrats afuera!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

232 "Supposedly an XK 140 could run 140 MPH."

That would have been pretty scary.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:30 AM (vFG9F)

233 " If your wife is the only child taking care of mom she has to come to the conclusion that things need to change."

She is. We have some part time help and Mrs fd spends a lot of time over there, but yes, something has to change.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:31 AM (vFG9F)

234 I'd hazard a guess that 86.7%+ of 14 yos think they are vastly smarter than their parents, who are old, doddering, and confused by modern marvels. Then years later, around age 22 - 25, there is a sudden flash of understanding that their parents were pretty danged smart after all. It's the nature of 14 yos.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2024 08:25 AM (Aqu9a)

The good news is that I've convinced Pookette that I'm wiser than she is, the bad news is that she uses it as an excuse to never use good judgment.

Posted by: pookysgirl can't win at November 24, 2024 08:32 AM (dtlDP)

235 Á dirty little secret. The Spanish stopped exporting sherry in barrels, only in bottles. Now the Scotch Makers have to recreate these barrels because people are used to the flavor. Now they buy barrels and pour cheap sherry in them for a few months so they then can fill them with scotch whisky.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:30 AM (gKpOq)
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To the best of my knowledge, used casks with a market are disassembled and shipped to their buyers for reassembly.

I know that's done here in Israel, both for import and export of old casks.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 08:33 AM (K3JKK)

236 " If your wife is the only child taking care of mom she has to come to the conclusion that things need to change."

She is. We have some part time help and Mrs fd spends a lot of time over there, but yes, something has to change.
Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:31 AM (vFG9F)

That is a difficult situation. Good luck working through it as a couple for mom's protection.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2024 08:35 AM (Aqu9a)

237 troll level 1000

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/
1849843871502451146

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:36 AM (gbOdA)

238 jaguar commercial

https://x.com/Marcus_Byrne/status/
1859931383831081188

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

239 "To the best of my knowledge, used casks with a market are disassembled and shipped to their buyers for reassembly.

I know that's done here in Israel, both for import and export of old casks."

Interesting. That makes sense.

Extrapolating that a bit. You could just soak the stays in a vat of conditioning sherry (maybe even heat it and pressurize it) rather than filling individual casks.

Posted by: pawn at November 24, 2024 08:38 AM (QB+5g)

240 The good news is that I've convinced Pookette that I'm wiser than she is, the bad news is that she uses it as an excuse to never use good judgment.
Posted by: pookysgirl can't win at November 24, 2024 08:32 AM (dtlDP)

But think of all the exciting life stories and experiences she'll be able to tell later. However, may she grow out of that as she matures.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2024 08:38 AM (Aqu9a)

241 my chance to greet all the early morning horde since I normally read Pixy about 8 am or so.
Jim ((hugs)) and prayers from Indiana. Praying for healing and peace and comfort.

Wolfus, come on over here to Indiana. It's a good place to live. Stop prevaricating and just jump into the retirement pool. You know you want to. Also, I hope you and Miss Linda figure it out. You seem so kind.

Teresa, prayers for healing and peace. So many here urged you to look into fenbendazole/ivermectin, I sincerely hope you are doing that. Looks promising.

And to all the rest of you Pixy regulars, I love reading your comments and wish I could join in but I am not an early morning person. I am a regular lurker, ususally show up on the later threads if I can get a word in edgewise.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 24, 2024 08:39 AM (1TzeS)

242 235, I hear ya. But it was actually many decades ago with the Spanish wanted to protect the name Sherry and they stop selling the wine in barrels, it is only sold by the bottle. The barrels used to create Sherry are useless because they are used for 100 years or so, and the barrel offers nothing to the wine. What we call Sherry barrels or the barrel used to ship it to the UK, But that has happened for many decades.

No, the scotch makers want to re-create the flavor of Sherry casked whiskey So they buy super cheap Sherry or type of Sherry resident that they create two “season” barrels, To give off the Sherry flavor. I am not saying it’s fake, but it is a bit fake. The real reality is is the best we can do.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:39 AM (gKpOq)

243 When Scotch makers say they use various Sherry barrels now you know the truth. They are not sourcing barrels that Sherry was aged in, except for the ones they use specifically to make their whiskey.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:41 AM (gKpOq)

244 Wolfus, come on over here to Indiana. It's a good place to live. Stop prevaricating and just jump into the retirement pool. You know you want to. Also, I hope you and Miss Linda figure it out. You seem so kind.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 24, 2024 08:39 AM (1TzeS)

That's what I've been saying. Stop spinning your wheels and get the to the Hoosier stat! We had snow flurries on Friday!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024 08:43 AM (4XwPj)

245 The McRib is returning for the holidays.

McRibbed for her pleasure.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

246 "No, the scotch makers want to re-create the flavor of Sherry casked whiskey So they buy super cheap Sherry or type of Sherry resident that they create two “season” barrels, To give off the Sherry flavor."

This isn't clear.

Posted by: pawn at November 24, 2024 08:44 AM (QB+5g)

247 I'd hazard a guess that 86.7%+ of 14 yos think they are vastly smarter than their parents, who are old, doddering, and confused by modern marvels. Then years later, around age 22 - 25, there is a sudden flash of understanding that their parents were pretty danged smart after all. It's the nature of 14 yos.

Posted by: Count de Monet
+++
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain

Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 24, 2024 08:45 AM (Lo97M)

248 The good news is that I've convinced Pookette that I'm wiser than she is, the bad news is that she uses it as an excuse to never use good judgment.
Posted by: pookysgirl can't win at November 24, 2024 08:32 AM (dtlDP)

Seems there's an epidemic of female poor judgement.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at November 24, 2024 08:46 AM (2NXcZ)

249 "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain

This is a classic.

Posted by: pawn at November 24, 2024 08:46 AM (QB+5g)

250 jaguar commercial

https://x.com/Marcus_Byrne/status/
1859931383831081188

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:38 AM (gbOdA)
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LOL! From the comments:

https://tinyurl.com/mrye54p8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2024 08:48 AM (K3JKK)

251 "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain
Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 24, 2024 08:45 AM (Lo97M)

Twain said it more better and eloquently. Thanks for bringing it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2024 08:51 AM (Aqu9a)

252 246, pawn fair. I am saying the Sherry barrels that Scott used to be aged in no longer exist. So now the scotch whiskey makers have to come up with Sherry barrels. They build their own barrels and they “season” Them with cheap Sherry or a Sherry must that they create. Sherry barrels never met the barrels that Sherry was aged in because those never leave Spain. Sherry barrel used to ship Sherry to the UK, But that hasn’t been done in many many decades.

I hope I’m clear now. I know I screwed up, but I get to the point of it lol. No, the horde knows about Sherry barrels whether they asked or not.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:51 AM (gKpOq)

253 fd, trackers are available in jewelry form (bracelet or necklace) that looks nice and cannot be removed. Sorry I don't remember the brand.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 08:51 AM (RIvkX)

254 “ You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.”

Colossians 3:7-10

Posted by: Marcus T at November 24, 2024 08:51 AM (9hg+r)

255 Anyone else seen the USAID PSA's promoting donations in cash? Anyone else else wonder WTF?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Peanut at November 24, 2024 08:52 AM (F3SmE)

256 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 08:52 AM (WXNFJ)

257 "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain
Posted by: Florida Peasant at November 24, 2024 08:45 AM (Lo97M)
----

This is me, except I was not 21, I was 41.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

258 fd, trackers are available in jewelry form (bracelet or necklace) that looks nice and cannot be removed. Sorry I don't remember the brand.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 08:51 AM (RIvkX)

My grandfather had one in watch form, I believe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 24, 2024 08:53 AM (dR6yv)

259 Woolery was one of them, one of the best. I don’t think I’m up to a posting, our better writers should do it. This is not a random observation, this is stone cold reality.
Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 0

***
My mother was never impressed with most game show hosts, except for Hugh Downs . . . and Woolery. When he was on the original Wheel of Fortune in daytime, she'd often watch. She said he seemed real and likable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 08:53 AM (omVj0)

260 Sherry barrel used to ship Sherry to the UK, But that hasn’t been done in many many decades.

Posted by: Quint

So, would it be fair to say it's Sherry's turn in the barrel?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 08:54 AM (WXNFJ)

261 GREG GUTFELD: ‘MSNBC Now Stands for Must Sell Network Before Christmas’

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 24, 2024 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

262 260,for sure everyone one gets their time in the barrel.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:56 AM (y1Yk9)

263 Sherry?

Posted by: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at November 24, 2024 08:57 AM (Aqu9a)

264 Wolfus, come on over here to Indiana. It's a good place to live. Stop prevaricating and just jump into the retirement pool. You know you want to. Also, I hope you and Miss Linda figure it out. You seem so kind.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 24, 2024 08:39 AM (1TzeS)
*
That's what I've been saying. Stop spinning your wheels and get the to the Hoosier stat! We had snow flurries on Friday!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 24, 2024

***
I'm telling Linda tonight that I plan to tell my boss tomorrow and give him until 1/31. She ain't gonna like it, but my recent brush with the bruised rib has made me realize that my good health won't last forever, and I want to have some time to enjoy life instead of slogging to and from an office.

Im still thinking Evansville. If the retirement thing works out, I could drive up in early Feb., probably not the best time of the year, or March.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 08:58 AM (omVj0)

265 Livestock RFID ear tags?

j/k

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2024 08:58 AM (Aqu9a)

266 Wolfus, always check out a place at the worst time of the year. Don't get fooled by good weather. Trouble starts when cooler weather starts.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024 08:59 AM (0eaVi)

267 Fancy people call it Jerez, for the town they make it in. Sherry is an Anglicism.

Posted by: Quint at November 24, 2024 08:59 AM (y1Yk9)

268 fd, if she can't keep herself safe, you have to do it for her.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2024 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

269 Wolfus, always check out a place at the worst time of the year. Don't get fooled by good weather. Trouble starts when cooler weather starts.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2024

***
True. My car is FWD, and I've driven in CO snow, so I'm not too worried unless I run into a blizzard on the way up or back down.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:00 AM (omVj0)

270 see this photo of Chuck Woolery posted by his brother Mark

https://x.com/MarkYoungTruth/status/
1860516705086157107

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2024 09:01 AM (/7KEl)

271 Noodus biblios!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:01 AM (omVj0)

272 Welp - #1 daughter has, once again, screwed up this adulting thing big time. As a result, R. is leaving for sunny FL this afternoon to try to unf**k this situation. I doubt she'll be bad before Thanksgiving.

Just as a reminder, this is the daughter who had two pigs living in their house for a few years. No, not little, cute pigmy pigs, but rather two monster farm pigs. In. The. F*cking. House.

I can't even.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 09:01 AM (WXNFJ)

273 272 Welp - #1 daughter has, once again, screwed up this adulting thing big time. As a result, R. is leaving for sunny FL this afternoon to try to unf**k this situation. I doubt she'll be bad before Thanksgiving.

Just as a reminder, this is the daughter who had two pigs living in their house for a few years. No, not little, cute pigmy pigs, but rather two monster farm pigs. In. The. F*cking. House.

I can't even.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2024 09:01 AM (WXNFJ)

Sorry this got willowed, Tonypete.

Posted by: m at November 24, 2024 09:04 AM (VnUSN)

274 Wolfus,

I think it's a good idea to go and see it when it's not optimal but..

you need to appreciate what living though an entire season cycle is like. By around February folk there are sometimes severely depressed. Cabin fever is a real thing.

I personally wouldn't commit to buying anything up there in your position. Too many uncontrolable unknowns.

Plus the RE market is primed for a collapse.

Posted by: pawn at November 24, 2024 09:12 AM (QB+5g)

275 Wolfus,

I think it's a good idea to go and see it when it's not optimal but..

you need to appreciate what living though an entire season cycle is like. By around February folk there are sometimes severely depressed. Cabin fever is a real thing.

I personally wouldn't commit to buying anything up there in your position. Too many uncontrolable unknowns.

Plus the RE market is primed for a collapse.
Posted by: pawn at November 24, 2024

***
If it collapses, won't that mean lower prices? No, I won't commit to anything until I see what it's like. I suppose I'll have to rent for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 24, 2024 09:14 AM (omVj0)

276 232 "Supposedly an XK 140 could run 140 MPH."

That would have been pretty scary.
Posted by: fd at November 24, 2024 08:30 AM (vFG9F)

Why, Yes!*-- Joe Isuzu
*downhill with hurricane force winds blowing in same direction

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2024 09:23 AM (SSBCb)

277 Every time a bell rings a bureaucrat loses his job.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at November 24, 2024 09:26 AM (jPdyB)

278 Lost me at "nominally conservative Liberal party". Um...

Posted by: Ss at November 24, 2024 09:46 AM (2vaNI)

279 M4 iMac is aimed at people in the market for a Mac, looks at the M4 and reasons that all of the other models don't look so expensive and limited afterall.

Posted by: JTSmith at November 24, 2024 11:53 AM (QBfV+)

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