Mid-Morning Art Thread

Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602
Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023 09:31 AM (Yqtqd)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at August 08, 2023 09:32 AM (aD39U)

3 More binnacles and spinnakers than I can count!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at August 08, 2023 09:32 AM (MvF+J)

4 2

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 09:32 AM (f6UzA)

5 Wordy...and descriptive title there.

Posted by: BignJames at August 08, 2023 09:32 AM (AwYPR)

6 Ahoy!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2023 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

7 Vroom Vroom!

Posted by: dantesed at August 08, 2023 09:32 AM (88xKn)

8 Hoist the davits and secure the foc's'les.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at August 08, 2023 09:32 AM (MvF+J)

9 Dutch
Spanish
Flemish

This painting covers a lot of territory.

I like ships. Would hang.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 09:33 AM (zZu0s)

10 Barnacle Bill approved art.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2023 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

11 "No Pride flag? No Ukranian flag?

This painting will have to be burned ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 09:33 AM (f6UzA)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

13 But what does it represent?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 08, 2023 09:33 AM (LHlmZ)

14 Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602

Dutch is asshoe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

15 Tag the bags, tap the sacks, and make those sheets tight.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at August 08, 2023 09:34 AM (MvF+J)

16
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2023 09:34 AM (MoZTd)

17 The Flemish coast seems snotty.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

18 Carronades will come along soon enough

Watched Billy Budd again last night, not the best hurrah movie about man-o-war sailing movies

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023 09:34 AM (Yqtqd)

19 In before Muldoon's phlegmish pun or limerick.

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 09:34 AM (f6UzA)

20 The Dutch ramming the Spanish. I bet the cabin boys are needing some comfort today. Do you think they trade off for shits and giggles?

And happy Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 09:35 AM (U2p+3)

21 Gentlemen start your engines... Vroom Vroom.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2023 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

22 In before Muldoon's phlegmish pun or limerick.

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But not Sponge's, alas ...

heh.

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 09:36 AM (f6UzA)

23 "I hear there's a wicked war a-blazin',
And the taste of war I know so very well.
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising,
Their guns on fire as we sail into Hell!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:36 AM (J2vNu)

24 Nederlander!

Used to listen to "Top of the Pop" (I think it was called that - memory fades) radio program. While TDY in Netherlands during the cold war. The DJ spoke Flemish, but the music was good.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 09:36 AM (gmo/4)

25 They didn't want any Goya?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:36 AM (ByQRa)

26 In before Muldoon's phlegmish pun or limerick.
Posted by: ShainS

"There once was a man from ‘s-Hertogenbosch. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2023 09:36 AM (WSTFK)

27 After a naval victory, the Dutch affix a Vroom to their masts.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2023 09:36 AM (Wnv9h)

28 Lots of wooden shoes on deck.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2023 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

29 Nurse's tummy rub Tuesday > Diogenes' tee time Tuesday

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 09:37 AM (f6UzA)

30 Well, no wonder the ship sank. There's too many people on it.

Posted by: dantesed at August 08, 2023 09:37 AM (88xKn)

31 Rev the capstan! Full speed ahead!

Vroom! Vroom!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 09:37 AM (xTRSc)

32 Would look nice in the office.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2023 09:37 AM (TZ75n)

33 Die Nederlanders verpesten alles

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2023 09:38 AM (JvZF+)

34 There is a brass section on the deck of the ramming ship blowing their horns.

Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2023 09:38 AM (ziC6j)

35 "Reef the main tops'l, Mr. Bush!"

"But we're Dutch, sir."

"Then reef the main tops'l, Mr. Beenhouwer, and be gone to hell with you!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

36 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Mighty ships with tall masts! Kinda like the mighty shaft of my driver. Today is Tee TimeTuesday! And did you notice how I didn't break the hundred comment rule too?? Woohoo!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2023 09:38 AM (e4fEA)

37 This is bullying.

*triggered*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

38 Lots of cannon on the Dutch boat...wonder if they ever fired them all at once?

Posted by: BignJames at August 08, 2023 09:38 AM (AwYPR)

39

Meh...

Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at August 08, 2023 09:39 AM (5hfjS)

40 Sink me the ship, Master Gunner—sink her, split her in twain!

Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!

Posted by: Sir Richard Grenville at August 08, 2023 09:39 AM (aD39U)

41 "Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602"

The artist coyly leaves it up to the viewer whether this depicts a naval battle or a mere navigational SNAFU.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at August 08, 2023 09:39 AM (MvF+J)

42 Dutch sailors - "No we don't want your teeming masses. England is to the West."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:39 AM (ByQRa)

43 The men in the water will be eaten by sharks.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2023 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

44 "Though death and darkness gather all about me
And my ship be torn apart upon the seas,
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:39 AM (J2vNu)

45 In before Muldoon's phlegmish pun or limerick.
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club

I'm sure it's hard living up to the horde's expectorations.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 08, 2023 09:39 AM (LHlmZ)

46 Make the Netherlands Spanish again!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 09:40 AM (krqg6)

47 Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602
Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

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Giddyup - a lamerick

In smoke and fog the Spanish ships did loom
While cannon fire resounded with a "Boom!"
The painter said, "Indeed!
Let's get up to ramming speed!
Row faster boys! Vroom! Vroom! Vroom!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 09:40 AM (l4B/J)

48 The men in the water will be eaten by sharks.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2023 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

That's gouda.

Posted by: BignJames at August 08, 2023 09:40 AM (AwYPR)

49 Some Mucinex will help with that flem.

Posted by: According to the commercials at August 08, 2023 09:40 AM (/UxnF)

50 Holds filled to the hatches with precious tulips, the Dutch ships ride low in the water.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at August 08, 2023 09:41 AM (MvF+J)

51 Wow! Would definitely hang.

Posted by: Gref at August 08, 2023 09:41 AM (AMIL/)

52 I'm sure it's hard living up to the horde's expectorations.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 08, 2023

***
(Hork! P-tooie!) "What was that again?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

53 Crazy that they built those ships without engineering degrees or CAD software.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 08, 2023 09:41 AM (H/pcU)

54 Lotta Dutch courage on that ship.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 09:41 AM (xTRSc)

55 I windmill offshore would have been a nice touch.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2023 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

56 Make the Netherlands Spanish again!

I thought Orangeman was bad?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:41 AM (ByQRa)

57 This has quite a specific title.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2023 09:42 AM (AW0uW)

58 I like the cut of their jib.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 08, 2023 09:42 AM (H/pcU)

59 RAMMING SPEED!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2023 09:42 AM (YIVH2)

60 Oktoberfest!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 08, 2023 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

61 (Hork! P-tooie!) "What was that again?

Some kind of flem-flan

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:43 AM (ByQRa)

62 Sniper on the poop deck!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 08, 2023 09:43 AM (H/pcU)

63 Hmm. In the back it looks like a galley is ramming a Dutch ship. [Caravel, whatever.]

Can dish out but can you take it, Low Counts??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 09:43 AM (krqg6)

64 So, did the ships just hang out there on the open ocean while Hendrick painted this?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2023 09:44 AM (YIVH2)

65 Farewell and ado to you fair Spanish Ladies...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 09:44 AM (zZu0s)

66 damn, the whole nine yards !!

Posted by: REDACTED at August 08, 2023 09:44 AM (us2H3)

67 In before Muldoon's phlegmish pun or limerick.
Posted by: ShainS

********

This one comes up so often I have it on speed dial. From the archives:

FLANDERS FEELZ

A Belgian hooker with nary a blemish
Had a Frenchman who stayed 'til the finish
She was heard to emote
"I've a Frog in my throat,
So excuse me, if I'm just a bit Phlegmish"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 09:44 AM (l4B/J)

68 Vroom later depicted scenes portraying the Dutch conquest of Enginesia.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 09:44 AM (xTRSc)

69 Those Spanish galleys are teeming with sailors.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

70 The Belgian space shuttle is nicknamed the Snot Rocket.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2023 09:44 AM (TZ75n)

71 The Frisians!

- Chrysagon de la Crux

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 09:44 AM (gmo/4)

72 Looks like a touchdown for Holland. They have a strong running game against the undersized Spaniards.

Posted by: t-bird at August 08, 2023 09:45 AM (Sv58p)

73 What does that yellow flag in the middle represent?

Posted by: dantesed at August 08, 2023 09:45 AM (88xKn)

74 Sniper on the poop deck!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 08, 2023 09:43 AM (H/pcU)
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Would not be surprised to find crossbowmen or archers hanging out in the rigging, shooting down in the ramming boats...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2023 09:45 AM (YIVH2)

75 The Dutch are I have read been the ones who started keelhauling

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023 09:46 AM (Yqtqd)

76 I am impressed. The way Vroom (love that name) captures the colors of sky, water and smoke of battle combined with an incredible level of detail brings the viewer into the scene. And the viewpoint, just above water level, keeps the action in front of the viewer's face. Also, the bright upper portion of the painting with it's bright sky and billowing sails contrasts with the desperate action in the lower third, dark and crowded. Very effective.

I need to learn more about this artist and his technique.

Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2023 09:46 AM (7EjX1)

77 dutch rudder

Posted by: REDACTED at August 08, 2023 09:46 AM (us2H3)

78 Hmm. In the back it looks like a galley is ramming a Dutch ship. [Caravel, whatever.]

Can dish out but can you take it, Low Counts??
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023

***
"Kraft caravel apples -- they're the most in the fall!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:46 AM (J2vNu)

79 stroke, stroke, stroke...

Posted by: Little Dutch boy in the Captain's quarters at August 08, 2023 09:46 AM (ziC6j)

80 Those ships are going Vroom Vroom!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 09:47 AM (lc5cP)

81 Flempop was a bad dude.....

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

82 I got in trouble for ramming a Spanish galley (wench)

Posted by: Arnold Schwarzenegger at August 08, 2023 09:48 AM (VEm33)

83 Those Spanish galleys are teeming with sailors.

And they are going to need comforting when they swim to shore!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke biting her lip at August 08, 2023 09:48 AM (lc5cP)

84 75 The Dutch are I have read been the ones who started keelhauling
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023 09:46 AM (Yqtqd)

The Brits had focused on perfecting sodomy.

Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2023 09:48 AM (ziC6j)

85 What is that structure off to the far right, with a ship poised in front of it? It doesn't look like a natural bluff or cliff, but more like a fortress. Or maybe a hill with a town on top.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:48 AM (J2vNu)

86 Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom (c.1562 – February 4, 1640 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter credited with being the founder of Dutch marine art or seascape painting.[1] Beginning with the "birds-eye" viewpoint of earlier Netherlandish marine art, his later works show a view from lower down, and more realistic depiction of the seas themselves. He is not to be confused with his son and pupil Cornelis Vroom.

Vroom was born in Haarlem.
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Buried while yelling "I'm not dead yet!"??

Interesting life of adventure:
https://tinyurl.com/2wv4d5j6

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 09:48 AM (krqg6)

87
And they are going to need comforting when they swim to shore!
Posted by: Sandra Fluke biting her lip at August 08, 2023 09:48 AM (lc5cP)

Comforting, yes. Gonorrhea? Not so much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

88 The Dutch defeating the Spanish to gain their independence was an interesting precursor to the US doing the same to Britain.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 09:49 AM (lc5cP)

89 The Dutch are I have read been the ones who started keelhauling
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023
*
The Brits had focused on perfecting sodomy.
Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2023

***
Rum and the lash came later. Both of those required some technology and infrastructure to produce.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:49 AM (J2vNu)

90 It's International Cat Day!

Fuzzy bellies of all the kitties....... rub them all! With special attention to Spanish and Futch cats to keep with the theme of todays art.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 09:49 AM (U2p+3)

91 Was Vroom familiar with Ka-boom Cereal?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:49 AM (ByQRa)

92 What's a Futch cat?

Nyah?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:50 AM (ByQRa)

93 Vroom was born in Haarlem.

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In the gheeto, I presume?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:51 AM (J2vNu)

94 Rum and the lash came later. Both of those required some technology and infrastructure to produce.

I don't know what this rum thing is but the lash? My slaves know all about that...

Posted by: Caligula at August 08, 2023 09:51 AM (lc5cP)

95 Ace,
I've been traveling - but not by a ship with mighty sails.

Regarding Jack Smith's actions you posted on yesterday from Hot Air - Smith isn't doing any of this to put Trump in jail - Trump is in no danger of that, even crazy lefty lawyers have reported none of this has a chance of doing anything personally damaging to Trump.

It is meant to make sure Trump is the nominee, because he has a ceiling (albeit a high one) they believe they can overcome. One, it ensures cooperation with GOPe faction to throw Arizona, and restrict legal fights in the other swing states. Two, it motivates democrats to vote, and also depresses Independents to vote GOP, Trump is actually losing ground with them, they are tired of the theatrics. Three, they realize DeSantis could win Georgia and Virginia while Trump has no prayer in either.

This is all to make sure Trump is the GOP nominee.

Posted by: Black JEM at August 08, 2023 09:51 AM (UVyKP)

96 > 46 Make the Netherlands Spanish again!
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 09:40 AM (krqg6)

We will never give up our waffles with orange marmalade.

Posted by: The Belgians and Dutch at August 08, 2023 09:51 AM (Y6AXb)

97 Morning.

Man, everyone sure had it in for Spain.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 09:52 AM (1Yy3c)

98 It's International Cat Day!

Fuzzy bellies of all the kitties....... rub them all! With special attention to Spanish and Futch cats to keep with the theme of todays art.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023

***
One of my kittens might technically be called "international," as her lineage is from Russia. The other is an "interstate" cat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:52 AM (J2vNu)

99 The Dutch Navy was a remarkable force. It was the Dutch that taught the British how to do Navy and make money from colonies.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 09:52 AM (LQjWA)

100 Break, break , break
On thy cold, grey stones, o sea.....

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 09:53 AM (U2p+3)

101 The Dutch are I have read been the ones who started keelhauling

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023 09:46 AM (Yqtqd)

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"Silence. I keel-haul you!"

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 09:53 AM (f6UzA)

102 The Dutch Navy was a remarkable force. It was the Dutch that taught the British how to do Navy and make money from colonies.

Also what you should do when your dykes need attention!

Posted by: The Dutch at August 08, 2023 09:53 AM (lc5cP)

103 Ace,
Posted by: Black JEM at August 08, 2023 09:51 AM (UVyKP)

Ace doesn't wake up until noon.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 09:53 AM (1Yy3c)

104 (raises hand)

Could you hold the lash? I just want the rum and sodomy.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 08, 2023 09:53 AM (Y6AXb)

105 Could you hold the lash? I just want the rum and sodomy.

NO!

Posted by: Club Vandersex at August 08, 2023 09:53 AM (lc5cP)

106 The Dutch also taught the Russians how to build ships. Peter the Great studied shipbuilding in Holland.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 09:53 AM (xTRSc)

107 "I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow;
But how bitter will be this last farewell!

"For you are beautiful, and I have loved you dearly,
More dearly than the spoken word can tell. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 09:54 AM (J2vNu)

108 #87 There are a few interesting maritime paintings at the Wiki page too.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 09:54 AM (krqg6)

109 Those Spanish galleys are teeming with sailors.

At this time in history, Spanish galleys had both, oarsmen and sails. So, yes, a lot of men on their ships.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 09:54 AM (gmo/4)

110 > Peter the Great

Would be an excellent name for a well-endowed male porn star.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2023 09:54 AM (Y6AXb)

111 It is meant to make sure Trump is the nominee, because he has a ceiling (albeit a high one) they believe they can overcome.
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Yes, but their gonna need a shit ton of globalist money to get Black Lesbian Mayors back on the street burning, looting and murdering to insure the steal. Not sure BLM are up to that come 2024. This is what happens when you make the Leaders of Obama's Domestic Army millionaires.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 09:54 AM (LQjWA)

112 So there was also a Spanish Haarlem? With a roose, I assume?

Posted by: Wally at August 08, 2023 09:55 AM (VEm33)

113 Three, they realize DeSantis could win Georgia and Virginia while Trump has no prayer in either.

This is all to make sure Trump is the GOP nominee.
Posted by: Black JEM at August 08, 2023 09:51 AM (UVyKP)

Nailed it.

Posted by: Miss issippi at August 08, 2023 09:55 AM (9CTr8)

114 Wolfus, I remember that song. Roger Whitaker, I think.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 09:55 AM (xTRSc)

115 The Dutch Navy was a remarkable force. It was the Dutch that taught the British how to do Navy and make money from colonies.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 09:52 AM (LQjWA)

They even taught them how to monarch properly by putting a Dutchie on the English throne.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 09:55 AM (1Yy3c)

116 And I would that my
Tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 09:55 AM (U2p+3)

117 Young lad takes his pet turtle back to the pet store.

Lad: Mister? This turtle is defective.
Owner: Why? What's the matter with it?
Lad: He's got blisters on the bottom of his feet.
Owner: Let me take a look. (Inspects turtle's feet) Well I'll be darned, he sure does. Let me get you a new turtle in exchange.
Lad: Gee! Thanks mister!

(Lad picks up new turtle by the shell and excitedly slides it repeatedly across the counter.

"Vroom! Vroom! Vroom!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (l4B/J)

118 The Brits had focused on perfecting sodomy.
Posted by: Roy at August 08, 2023

***
"Sodiumy? I beg your pardon, sir. I am on a low-salt diet."

Posted by: Capt. Wm. Bligh, RN at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

119 > Also what you should do when your dykes need attention!

Anyone but a Dutch boy would get the taste slapped out of his mouth for trying to stick a finger in a dyke.

Posted by: Paint Can Mascot at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (Y6AXb)

120 Modern Dutch art

https://tinyurl.com/KLUF16AMa

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (ByQRa)

121 Man, everyone sure had it in for Spain.

Catholic Spain was fighting against Protestant Holland.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (gmo/4)

122 Get Some you Spanish dogs!

Diclosure: Spanish >>>>>>>>* Dutch

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (fTg5O)

123 Did a comment get removed?? #86

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (krqg6)

124 109 Those Spanish galleys are teeming with sailors.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 09:54 AM (gmo/4)

Swollen with seamen.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 09:57 AM (1Yy3c)

125 Disney gonna Disney.

Disney Teams Up With Transgender TikTok Influencer To Promote Girls Apparel

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 09:57 AM (FVME7)

126 Dutch did teach the British then Prussians how to do platoon fire for infantry

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023 09:57 AM (Yqtqd)

127 > Swollen with seamen.
Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 09:57 AM (1Yy3c)

Go on...

Posted by: Barack "Gaylord" Obama at August 08, 2023 09:57 AM (Y6AXb)

128 110 LOL. I never thought of that, but you’re right. It’s probably been used already.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 09:57 AM (xTRSc)

129 Remember this is the same Democrat brain trust who thought Donald Trump could easily be beaten by Hillary.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:58 AM (ByQRa)

130 Wolfus, I remember that song. Roger Whitaker, I think.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023

***
Yes, "The Last Farewell." I've wondered for years which time period that song is set in. The narrator is clearly British, the location he's leaving is somewhere tropical. But which "wicked war" is a-blazin'?

Posted by: Capt. Wm. Bligh, RN at August 08, 2023 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

131 Mikementum!

Mike Pence Meets Donor Threshold for First Debate

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 09:58 AM (FVME7)

132 I think Disney has an earnings report due. And it will be dismal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:58 AM (ByQRa)

133 120 Modern Dutch art

https://tinyurl.com/KLUF16AMa
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (ByQRa)

Why only one tit exposed? Is two exposed tits against regulations?

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 09:59 AM (1Yy3c)

134 I guess the DeSantis hacks are finally awake.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 09:59 AM (krqg6)

135 They even taught them how to monarch properly by putting a Dutchie on the English throne.
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That was after the Normans who conquered England in one day.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 09:59 AM (DmtxH)

136 Runs in the family.

Cousin of Uvalde School Shooter Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Up School

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 09:59 AM (FVME7)

137 > 128 110 LOL. I never thought of that, but you’re right. It’s probably been used already.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 09:57 AM (xTRSc)

Continuing the nautical theme...

Posted by: Long Dong Silver at August 08, 2023 09:59 AM (Y6AXb)

138 131 Mikementum!

Mike Pence Meets Donor Threshold for First Debate
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 09:58 AM (FVME7)

His tide is rising!

Posted by: Inogame at August 08, 2023 09:59 AM (53oGX)

139 "Why only one tit exposed? Is two exposed tits against regulations?"

Aerodynamic limits.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at August 08, 2023 09:59 AM (MvF+J)

140 Cousin of Uvalde School Shooter Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Up Schoo

What a coincidence!

Posted by: Armand, the Uvalde shooter's handler at August 08, 2023 10:00 AM (lc5cP)

141 130 Wolfus/Bligh, I think it’s set in the Pacific during WWII.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 10:00 AM (xTRSc)

142 > Why only one tit exposed? Is two exposed tits against regulations?
Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 09:59 AM (1Yy3c)

If it's just one tit, it's automatically Art.

Two tits may or may not be.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 08, 2023 10:00 AM (Y6AXb)

143 Nice.

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 08, 2023 10:01 AM (5L/TD)

144 Vote Pence, because if you are going to fail you should do it with aplomb!

Posted by: Pence '24 at August 08, 2023 10:01 AM (lc5cP)

145 Virginia Library Director Resigns After Parents Push for Defunding Over Pornographic Children's Books

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I, for one, am shocked that pornography is not improving student test scores!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 10:01 AM (FVME7)

146 Mike Pence Meets Donor Threshold for First Debate
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 09:58 AM (FVME7)

Our threshold was one (1) United States dollar.

Posted by: GOP Debate Committee at August 08, 2023 10:01 AM (iG1Nf)

147 The Dutch were a real force for a time-politically, culturally and spiritually.

Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:01 AM (PCK5/)

148 Christopher Cross approved.

Chris-Craft approved as well.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 08, 2023 10:02 AM (w9Wax)

149 Mikementum!

Mike Pence Meets Donor Threshold for First Debate

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 09:58 AM (FVME7)

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Pencedemonium!

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:02 AM (f6UzA)

150 Virginia Library Director Resigns After Parents Push for Defunding Over Pornographic Children's Books

Remember when Different Strokes made a "very special episode" about a pedophile and he was grooming boys by showing them pron?

Funny how that's now a completely normal thing to do according to the FNM

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:02 AM (lc5cP)

151 Could someone please tell Mike Pence he has BO?

He's ruining the party.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 10:03 AM (mZ3xv)

152 This art is pretty good- tall ships in battle
points off for the Dutch connection

would hang in hallway adjacent to head butler's quarters

Posted by: DB - at August 08, 2023 10:03 AM (geLO8)

153 I think we should stop using "influencer" and go back to the original spelling "influenza."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2023 10:03 AM (H9sxy)

154 Yes, "The Last Farewell." I've wondered for years which time period that song is set in. The narrator is clearly British, the location he's leaving is somewhere tropical. But which "wicked war" is a-blazin'?
Posted by: Capt. Wm. Bligh, RN at August 08, 2023 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

I think the Brits were at war with at least one somebody between say 1625 and 1815, either HMG, the John Company, or some other agglomeration of English, Welch, Scots and Irish.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 08, 2023 10:03 AM (vpT5O)

155 Our threshold was one (1) United States dollar.
Posted by: GOP Debate Committee

*Pulls dollar bill at either end, makes popping noises

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 08, 2023 10:03 AM (w9Wax)

156 Modern Dutch art

https://tinyurl.com/KLUF16AMa
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (ByQRa)

Why only one tit exposed? Is two exposed tits against regulations?
Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 09:59

Reminds everyone what they're fighting for.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2023 10:04 AM (e4fEA)

157 The Eighty Years' War[7] or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–164

[note 3] was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands[note 4] between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Reformation, centralisation, taxation, and the rights and privileges of the nobility and cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Eighty_Years%27_War

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:04 AM (krqg6)

158 Remember when Different Strokes made a "very special episode" about a pedophile and he was grooming boys by showing them pron?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:02 AM (lc5cP)

Well it *was* called Different Strokes.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:04 AM (1Yy3c)

159 We will never give up our waffles with orange marmalade.

***********

Reminds me of the farm boy who was playing a prank on his mom by sneaking a navel orange under one of the hens in the henhouse? A young chicken came along, saw the fruit in the hen's cubby and exclaimed, "Wow! Look at the orange Momma laid!!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 10:04 AM (l4B/J)

160 Remember when Different Strokes made a "very special episode" about a pedophile and he was grooming boys by showing them pron?

Funny how that's now a completely normal thing to do according to the FNM
Posted by: 18-1

Some folks learned the wrong lesson, it seems.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 08, 2023 10:04 AM (LHlmZ)

161 Was Hendrick a Mazda owner?

Posted by: Mishdog at August 08, 2023 10:04 AM (YXEoM)

162 If the modern dutch go to war aren't they fighting for drugs, muslim immigrants, and making people go hungry?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:04 AM (lc5cP)

163 The other tit is on the other side of the plane. Duh.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (mZ3xv)

164 121 Man, everyone sure had it in for Spain.

Catholic Spain was fighting against Protestant Holland.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (gmo/4)

Four years before this battle, Catholic Spain attempted to invade and conquer Protestant England. The Spanish Armada. Unlike the Inquisition, the English expected the Spanish Armada!

Posted by: Gref at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (AMIL/)

165 Willowed

I don't think Midwestern people are that naive, even if they live in a place that's not very ethnically diverse, If they read news they obviously know about thuggish behavior amongst certain African Americans. They were not asleep during the George Floyd riots some of which happened in blue cities In Midwestern states. Just because they wanted "Sandford and Son" and "Oprah" it doesn't mean they're ignorant.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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You accidentally made the point here. Lots of midwesterners probably wouldn't think twice about being in a food court or similar setting surrounded by "certain" young people.

The reality is that you don't get in those situations, and if you find yourself in them you figure out how to get out.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (tAFR1)

166 Pass the Dutchie 'pon the left hand side
Pass the Dutchie 'pon the left hand side
It a go bun (give me the music, make me jump and prance)
It a go dung, ya know? (Give me the music, make me rockin' at the dance)

Posted by: Musical Youth at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (5L/TD)

167 Reminds everyone what they're fighting for.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2023 10:04 AM (e4fEA)

I think I understand. Fight and win and *then* you get to see the other tit.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (1Yy3c)

168 > Why only one tit exposed? Is two exposed tits against regulations?
___________

The other tit is exposed on the other side of the tail?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (Q4IgG)

169 If it's just one tit, it's automatically Art

See Marianne. No, not Mary Anne.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (vpT5O)

170 155 Our threshold was one (1) United States dollar.
Posted by: GOP Debate Committee

*Pulls dollar bill at either end, makes popping noises
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 08, 2023 10:03 AM (w9Wax)

=======

I think it's number of donors, not amount of money. He's got some big dollar donors, especially behind his Super PAC, but not enough small dollar donors were donating.

I bet the big dollar guys did their part by laundering their donations in the names of Republican voters who have long histories of never donating. We saw evidence that Democrats do it a few months ago. I always suspected that the reason no Republican AG made hay out of it was because the GOP does it all the time, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (LvTSG)

171 I-uh, uh-I-uh,, I'm g-going to the-uh the-uh J-J-Jimmy Carter and-uh, and-uh Chuck Norris f-f-fight. My-uh, m-my-uh money's on-uh,, on-uh-uh Jimmy

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at August 08, 2023 10:06 AM (5hfjS)

172 One of my kittens might technically be called "international," as her lineage is from Russia. The other is an "interstate" cat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Pretty sure my new kitty's lineage is hillbilly.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 08, 2023 10:06 AM (tjmGT)

173 Man, everyone sure had it in for Spain.

They had become the greatest power in Europe so they found themselves in conflicts everywhere - wars with France, the Ottomans, Protestants, pirates, New World Indians, Africa, etc.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:06 AM (lc5cP)

174 164 121 Man, everyone sure had it in for Spain.

Catholic Spain was fighting against Protestant Holland.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 09:56 AM (gmo/4)

Four years before this battle, Catholic Spain attempted to invade and conquer Protestant England. The Spanish Armada. Unlike the Inquisition, the English expected the Spanish Armada!
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Bruegel the Elder did a couple of paintings depicting the war with Spain which was also a Cat Lick v Protestant thing. Very bloody. See his Corruption of Death as an example.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 10:07 AM (DmtxH)

175 The Dutch still run everything they just don't want you to know. Also, they don't want you to know they all speak English.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2023 10:07 AM (JvZF+)

176 The Dutch were a real force for a time-politically, culturally and spiritually.

Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:01 AM (PCK5/)

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They once held the World's Reserve Currency:

. Portugal (1450–1530);
. Spain (1530–1640);
. Netherlands (1640–1720);
. France (1720–1815);
. Great Britain (1815–1920); and
. United States (1921-present).

What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:07 AM (f6UzA)

177 173 Man, everyone sure had it in for Spain.

They had become the greatest power in Europe so they found themselves in conflicts everywhere - wars with France, the Ottomans, Protestants, pirates, New World Indians, Africa, etc.
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As with all empires they ran out of Spaniards.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 10:08 AM (LQjWA)

178 Four years before this battle, Catholic Spain attempted to invade and conquer Protestant England. The Spanish Armada. Unlike the Inquisition, the English expected the Spanish Armada!
Posted by: Gref at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (AMIL/)

Would have been awesome if they had landed and razed The City of London.

Spain shoulda backed Henry VIII in his quest for an heir.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:08 AM (yYW11)

179 Catholicism has killed some folks. So have the Protestants, for that matter.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 10:08 AM (mZ3xv)

180 As with all empires they ran out of Spaniards.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 10:08 AM (LQjWA)

Nah. The debt service got too high. Despite all the gold flowing in.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:09 AM (yYW11)

181 130 Wolfus/Bligh, I think it’s set in the Pacific during WWII.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023

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It could be; we use the terms "sail" and "rigged" even now with powered craft, not just with sailing ships. Though I've always pictured it as more the 1700s or thereabouts, Cook's and Bligh's time, when the English traveled to South Sea islands and "fraternized" with the natives. ". . . a wicked war" does not sound like what a Royal Navy officer would have said in 1942; he would have been more specific, "this damned war."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 10:09 AM (J2vNu)

182 176

What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:07 AM (f6UzA)

The Yuan springs to mind Shain… the Euro running a distant second..

Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:09 AM (PCK5/)

183 The Hapsburgs had the chance to peacefully allow Protestantism to come about - it would have saved them wars with the Dutch and in Germany that cost them so many lives and money.

They chose poorly.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:09 AM (lc5cP)

184 Dutch 323 Sqn F-16s have sported some of the most eye catching tail art ever seen on the Viper. And this rendition of the squadron's namesake Diana seems the most popular.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:09 AM (ByQRa)

185 > Man, everyone sure had it in for Spain.

They were being dicks

Posted by: DB - at August 08, 2023 10:10 AM (geLO8)

186 . Portugal (1450–1530);
. Spain (1530–1640);
. Netherlands (1640–1720);
. France (1720–1815);
. Great Britain (1815–1920); and
. United States (1921-present).

What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
Posted by: ShainS

It would appear that a standard is a standard for roughly 100 years and then . . .poof!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2023 10:10 AM (WSTFK)

187 The Dutch are in Holland.

The Spanish are in Spain.

Community Banks are in the Community.

Kamalalala's words of wisdom

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 10:10 AM (gmo/4)

188 What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
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The loonie!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:10 AM (krqg6)

189 Remember when Different Strokes made a "very special episode" about a pedophile and he was grooming boys by showing them pron?

Funny how that's now a completely normal thing to do according to the FNM

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:02 AM (lc5cP)

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"Just like we've always been at war with Eastasia, it's always been a completely normal thing, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:10 AM (f6UzA)

190 Sea Beggars on the go! That Spanish galleon's cargo is going to benefit the Dutch people instead.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 08, 2023 10:11 AM (W+kMI)

191 What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:07 AM (f6UzA)

Quatloos.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 08, 2023 10:11 AM (5L/TD)

192 Would have been awesome if they had landed and razed The City of London.

Spain shoulda backed Henry VIII in his quest for an heir.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023

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There is an alternate history novel focusing on that, in which the Spanish do indeed land, conquer southern England, execute Elizabeth, and add the "auld sod" to their empire. Shakespeare is the hero, I think. Can't recall the title or author, but it's pretty recent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 10:12 AM (J2vNu)

193 150 Virginia Library Director Resigns After Parents Push for Defunding Over Pornographic Children's Books

Remember when Different Strokes made a "very special episode" about a pedophile and he was grooming boys by showing them pron?

Funny how that's now a completely normal thing to do according to the FNM
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:02 AM (lc5cP)

Teacher certification now requires watching the episode as an instructional.

Posted by: See, bicycle man starts by gaining trust and making them feel special... at August 08, 2023 10:12 AM (q1Zxb)

194 Catholicism has killed some folks. So have the Protestants, for that matter.
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LOL.

Posted by: Islam at August 08, 2023 10:12 AM (krqg6)

195 There is an alternate history novel focusing on that, in which the Spanish do indeed land, conquer southern England, execute Elizabeth, and add the "auld sod" to their empire. Shakespeare is the hero, I think. Can't recall the title or author, but it's pretty recent.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 10:12 AM (J2vNu)

Awesome. *chef's kiss*

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:12 AM (yYW11)

196 Dutch 323 Sqn F-16s have sported some of the most eye catching tail art ever seen on the Viper.

I'm convinced the Dutch and Belgians spend 95% of their defense budget on funky paint schemes for their F-16s.

Posted by: spindrift at August 08, 2023 10:12 AM (iG1Nf)

197 The title is very descriptive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:13 AM (WkNQM)

198 Here's a little more Dutch tail art.

https://tinyurl.com/mpejhk4t

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:13 AM (1Yy3c)

199 What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:07 AM (f6UzA)

The Yuan springs to mind Shain… the Euro running a distant second..
Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:09 AM (PCK5/)

They are all funny money.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 10:13 AM (zZu0s)

200 I bet the big dollar guys did their part by laundering their donations in the names of Republican voters who have long histories of never donating. We saw evidence that Democrats do it a few months ago. I always suspected that the reason no Republican AG made hay out of it was because the GOP does it all the time, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:05 AM (LvTSG)
++++
Yup. O'Keefe demonstrated massive, routine fraud and money laundering in political finance and nobody is even remotely interested.

Odd, innit?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (WkNQM)

201 Sea Beggars on the go! That Spanish galleon's cargo is going to benefit the Dutch people instead.
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Hey! The Spanish got that silver fair and square from the Americas!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (krqg6)

202 Reminds me of the farm boy who was playing a prank on his mom by sneaking a navel orange under one of the hens in the henhouse? A young chicken came along, saw the fruit in the hen's cubby and exclaimed, "Wow! Look at the orange Momma laid!!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 10:04 AM (l4B/J)

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When the British Navy was remedying scurvy, did they use naval oranges?

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (f6UzA)

203 199 What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:07 AM (f6UzA)

The Yuan springs to mind Shain… the Euro running a distant second..
Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:09 AM (PCK5/)

They are all funny money.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 10:13 AM (zZu0s)

Funny??? Like a Clown??

Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (PCK5/)

204 What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
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The loonie!
Posted by: andycanuck

Ammo

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (tjmGT)

205 180

Nah. The debt service got too high. Despite all the gold flowing in.
Posted by: Thesokorus

Yes, plus nepotism and lack of meritocracy have painful consequences.

Posted by: Floridachick at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (B5Hv0)

206 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (u82oZ)

207 206 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (u82oZ)

That’s not who we are… Harumph!

Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:15 AM (PCK5/)

208 More Dutch tail art

http://www.dacoproducts.com/KAst19F.html

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:16 AM (ByQRa)

209 When the British Navy was remedying scurvy, did they use naval oranges?
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023

***
Pricey little buggers, those oranges. Lemons and limes worked quite well.

Posted by: Capt. James Cook, RN at August 08, 2023 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

210 Yes, plus nepotism and lack of meritocracy have painful consequences.
Posted by: Floridachick at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (B5Hv0)

See also WW I; also the current state of American business and politics.

Posted by: In the end, connections beat competence at August 08, 2023 10:17 AM (q1Zxb)

211 Sock Monkey * Ungovernable *

Drugs

This was explored in James Blish's Cities in Flight series. It ends poorly.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2023 10:17 AM (u82oZ)

212 The global reserve goes to the greatest Naval Power. The one that can secure the trade routes.

RUS closing in on US very very very fast.

RUS and US are going to have some sea battles soon.

Disgusting baby boomer Adms going to get their life-long wish.

Not a Navy Officer fan.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:17 AM (yYW11)

213 205 180

Nah. The debt service got too high. Despite all the gold flowing in.
Posted by: Thesokorus

Yes, plus nepotism and lack of meritocracy have painful consequences.
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Add to it that they really never invested in their colonies. Its was always a trade not an investment.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 10:17 AM (DmtxH)

214 It would appear that a standard is a standard for roughly 100 years and then . . .poof!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2023 10:10 AM (WSTFK)

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Indeed. First time I'd seen that history it was via a bar chart -- and that was the implication ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:18 AM (f6UzA)

215 BTW, here's the MFM spinning the Euro July crap as in the AFP Xtwat I quoted in the EMT:

European climate experts confirm that July was Earth's hottest month on record by a wide margin.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:18 AM (krqg6)

216 Gays Against Groomers
@againstgrmrs
BASED.
@NeYoCompound
walks back his apology and stands his ground against the Alphabet Mafia. We cannot remain silent while children are being chemically castrated a butchered. This is the way! Thank you Ne-Yo!

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:18 AM (RHGPo)

217 214 It would appear that a standard is a standard for roughly 100 years and then . . .poof!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2023 10:10 AM (WSTFK)

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Indeed. First time I'd seen that history it was via a bar chart -- and that was the implication ...
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:18 AM (f6UzA)

It is almost like history is cyclical or something..

Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:19 AM (PCK5/)

218 The Spanish mostly got precious metals from their colonies. This have a short term boon but long term inflationary pressure.

And they invested that initial boon in...fighting with their neighbors for little gain.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:19 AM (lc5cP)

219 BLS reported that in July the number of full-time jobs plunged by 585,000 to 134.274 million, the biggest monthly drop since record COVID crash of 14.7 million jobs!

In July, the number of part-timers exploded by almost one million - 972K to be precise - to 27.153 million.

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:19 AM (RHGPo)

220 164 The Spanish Armada was in 1588. So, fourteen years before this painting, not four.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 10:19 AM (xTRSc)

221 RUS closing in on US very very very fast.

Not this again.

As long as they keep their flagships away from third-rate regional basket-cases, the Russians are a ferocious naval force.

Posted by: spindrift at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (iG1Nf)

222 Yes, plus nepotism and lack of meritocracy have painful consequences.
Posted by: Floridachick at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (B5Hv0)

Ehhhh. There's been no evidence supporting a meritocratic officer corps over a purchase or aristocratic system. Prob more going the opposite way.

The Spanish had incredible commanding officers in this period.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (yYW11)

223 Can we get an update to this with American frigates ramming commercial boats?

Posted by: TexasDan at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (75y46)

224 Nah. The debt service got too high. Despite all the gold flowing in.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:09 AM (yYW11)
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And in a final bit of ecstatic excess, King Philip II committed what was left of his treasury to a massive military undertaking (the Spanish Armada action against England) without strong odds of success, which then turned into a world-historic military disaster that ultimately ruined the empire.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (WkNQM)

225 Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602

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And so ended the Dutch initiative to install female skippers on its first line warships.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (bQKgA)

226 Pricey little buggers, those oranges. Lemons and limes worked quite well.

Oranges and lemons again:

https://tinyurl.com/mj2aymau

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (AW0uW)

227 220 164 The Spanish Armada was in 1588. So, fourteen years before this painting, not four.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 10:19 AM (xTRSc)

This is the HQ… and you drag in Math!!

Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (PCK5/)

228 As long as they keep their flagships away from third-rate regional basket-cases, the Russians are a ferocious naval force.
Posted by: spindrift at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (iG1Nf)

Whistling past graveyard.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (Wcm38)

229 Drugs

This was explored in James Blish's Cities in Flight series. It ends poorly.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Barter with booze and bullets . Let em sample the booze, show em the bullets, take their stuff.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (tjmGT)

230 The Yuan springs to mind Shain… the Euro running a distant second..
Posted by: tubal

If you don't already have a bottle cap collection, you're behind.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (LHlmZ)

231 Gateway Pundit:

NOW WE HAVE PROOF! TGP EXCLUSIVE: Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered in Michigan – Police Find: TENS OF THOUSANDS of Fake Registrations, Bags of Pre-Paid Gift Cards, Guns with Silencers, Burner Phones, and a Democrat-Funded Organization with Multiple Temporary Facilities in Several States

Hope there is more here than the typical hype

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (RHGPo)

232
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2023 10:14 AM (u82oZ)

we’re sending angry letters every day, so totally on board.
- GOP

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (N9tGb)

233 As long as the Russians don't name a ship Kamchatka they seem to do okay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (ByQRa)

234 Greg Price
@greg_price11
Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, a Marine who survived the explosion in Kabul that killed 13 Americans, says that when Joe and Jill Biden came to his hospital room, the president reached out to shake his hand even though his arm was gone, immediately started talking about his son, and then leaned into his face and asked him "what do you want."
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"How someone could honestly be so heartless": Mother of Marine killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal says Biden lied to her about his son Beau dying in action, a lie he keeps repeating

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That Beau sure do get around!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 10:22 AM (FVME7)

235 176
. Portugal (1450–1530);
. Spain (1530–1640);
. Netherlands (1640–1720);
. France (1720–1815);
. Great Britain (1815–1920); and
. United States (1921-present).

What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
======
None. The next dark age awaits, if our lack of production and consumption pulls the rest of the world down into conflict and want.
PRC: About to collapse already, without making it to the top. Japan: ditto. Russia: Has-been, declining badly. Iran: Shallow economy, perpetual unrest. India: Too many barefoot peasants. EU: Committing cultural and industrial suicide.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 08, 2023 10:22 AM (W+kMI)

236 As long as they keep their flagships away from third-rate regional basket-cases, the Russians are a ferocious naval force.
Posted by: spindrift at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (iG1Nf)

Do they still operate that tire burner Admiral Kissoff or whatever it's name is? They could sail that around the world and all the democrat ecowarriors would faint dead away from the black smoke.

The horror, the horror...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 08, 2023 10:22 AM (5L/TD)

237 RUS closing in on US very very very fast.
===

"Can I purchase sone marijuana from you?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2023 10:22 AM (JvZF+)

238 Police Find: TENS OF THOUSANDS of Fake Registrations, Bags of Pre-Paid Gift Cards, Guns with Silencers, Burner Phones, and a Democrat-Funded Organization with Multiple Temporary Facilities in Several States

Hope there is more here than the typical hype
Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (RHGPo)

They're SUPPRESSORS damn it..........NOT 'silencers.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

239 Drugs
*
This was explored in James Blish's Cities in Flight series. It ends poorly.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2023

***
Those weren't recreational drugs, but anti-aging/anti-death drugs, right? Still, I'd guess that might not be a very stable basis for an economy. Gold coins don't deteriorate the way a drug can while in storage.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

240 183 The Hapsburgs had the chance to peacefully allow Protestantism to come about - it would have saved them wars with the Dutch and in Germany that cost them so many lives and money.

They chose poorly.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:09 AM (lc5cP)

Several Popes were egging-on the Hapsburgs to crush the Protestants. Papal urging and threats of excommunication were among the weapons of a Pope. Those weapons ain't what they used to be.

Posted by: Gref at August 08, 2023 10:23 AM (AMIL/)

241 My family hails from the Flemish Coast.

Posted by: NED FLANDERS at August 08, 2023 10:23 AM (2znMt)

242 || Collin Rugg @CollinRugg 12h
NEW: FBI agent Charles McGonigal who investigated Donald Trump for colluding with Russia, is set to plead guilty for colluding with Russia.

Read that again.

McGonigal, who was a key figure in the Trump-Russia hoax investigation, will be pleading guilty after being accused of illegally working for a Russian oligarch.

The ex-FBI agent was indicted in January for money laundering and violating US sanctions by working on behalf of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

McGonigal also tried getting Deripaska off of the United States sanctions list.

You can't make this up.||

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:23 AM (krqg6)

243 The cruiser Moskva is unavailable for comment, but hey lets interview Aurora.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:23 AM (ByQRa)

244 If you don't already have a bottle cap collection, you're behind.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (LHlmZ)

Nuka-Cola. Warm and flat, just like post-apocalypse Earth.

Posted by: What's a little Fallout among friends? at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (q1Zxb)

245 And in a final bit of ecstatic excess, King Philip II committed what was left of his treasury to a massive military undertaking (the Spanish Armada action against England) without strong odds of success, which then turned into a world-historic military disaster that ultimately ruined the empire.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) atAnd in a final bit of ecstatic excess, King Philip II committed what was left of his treasury to a massive military undertaking (the Spanish Armada action against England) without strong odds of success, which then turned into a world-historic military disaster that ultimately ruined the empire.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (WkNQM) August 08, 2023 10:20 AM (WkNQM)

Meh. William Thomas Walsh has the best book on The Spider of the Escorial.

It had to be done. It should have been done. It damn near worked. Too bad it didn't.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (Wcm38)

246 It's always shoot first, ask questions later!

Family of black man shot by San Fran police after POINTING A GUN AT THEM says officers should have said, “Hey, let’s talk” before firing

https://tinyurl.com/24pk9bys

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (FVME7)

247 -
That Beau sure do get around!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 10:22 AM (FVME7)

Biden told one mom his son was brought home in a 'flag draped coffin.' This is absolutely NOT the case.

Lying sack of shit needs to be judged by God, VERY soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

248 Guns with silencers?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (zZu0s)

249 Amusingly the US's currency's best trait is that most of the alternatives are worse.

Euros? Ha. Rubles? Ha. Yaun? Ha!

Reserve currency is up for grabs but no political entity wants to turn down the corruption they'll have to to get to that point.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (lc5cP)

250 What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:07 AM (f6UzA)
++++
None. For a goodly while, anyway.

Or, rather, several. The USD will still be one, used primarily with our regional trading partners. The Euro might be another one, but there's a chance the Euro will break up. If that happens, it will be French or German or English, per usual. The Ruble will probably be one, too. The Dinar and the Yuan will likely also serve regional roles. Inter-regional settlement will likely happen with the "basket of currencies" concept or commodities (gold or oil, for example).

A single "global reserve" currency requires a global empire, and nobody is in a good position to build one as ours wanes. It will happen eventually, but I doubt it happens quickly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (WkNQM)

251 The other tit is on the other side of the plane. Duh.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

*******

This comment could have used a Picasso sock.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (l4B/J)

252 231 Gateway Pundit:

NOW WE HAVE PROOF! TGP EXCLUSIVE: Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered in Michigan – Police Find: TENS OF THOUSANDS of Fake Registrations, Bags of Pre-Paid Gift Cards, Guns with Silencers, Burner Phones, and a Democrat-Funded Organization with Multiple Temporary Facilities in Several States

Hope there is more here than the typical hype
Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (RHGPo)

========

There was proof in 2016 with Jill Stein's lawsuit. They uncovered that Detroit precincts were saying there were 1,000 ballots in a box with 10. In 2016. The lawsuit disappeared for some reason.

The powers that be, even then in MI, were invested in maintaining fraud, for some reason. I'm sure they're more amenable to undoing it now, though, for reasons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (LvTSG)

253 Don't mess with the Dutch. They'll make you pay.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (TR3i7)

254 It is almost like history is cyclical or something..

Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:19 AM (PCK5/)

--------

* "The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny" has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (f6UzA)

255 Can we get an update to this with American frigates ramming commercial boats?
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If you use the enlarge tool and ctrl+ alot you can see where Vroom painted the female Captain arguing with the female Officer of the Watch!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (krqg6)

256
Family of black man shot by San Fran police after POINTING A GUN AT THEM says officers should have said, “Hey, let’s talk” before firing

https://tinyurl.com/24pk9bys
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (FVME7)

His desire for suicide by cop, be it tragic, is NOT the fault of the cops.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

257 When the cop body camera footage shows a deranged guy ranting profanely while pointing a gun at me...

Talking is over.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (ByQRa)

258 Philip II was kind of an idiot.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (xTRSc)

259 The FBI is now a parody of itself,

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (N9tGb)

260 The Spanish mostly got precious metals from their colonies. This have a short term boon but long term inflationary pressure.

And they invested that initial boon in...fighting with their neighbors for little gain.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023

***
The Spanish came to the New World looking for plunder. The French and English came to stay (trapping, trading, farming, etc.).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

261 Family of black man shot by San Fran police after POINTING A GUN AT THEM says officers should have said, “Hey, let’s talk” before firing

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They couldn't have just shot the gun out of the kid's hand? It works in the movies.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (bQKgA)

262 Hope there is more here than the typical hype
Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:21 AM (RHGPo)

Forget it, SMOD. It's Gateway Pundit.

Posted by: His breaking story accuracy rate is pretty abysmal at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (q1Zxb)

263 Don't mess with the Dutch. They'll make you pay.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (TR3i7)

With added hidden fees and surcharges.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:27 AM (1Yy3c)

264 I cannot fathom the mentality of someone who wants to be a cop in a shithole like SF. Yeah pension. But come on man.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:27 AM (N9tGb)

265 >>McGonigal also tried getting Deripaska off of the United States sanctions list.

Imagine that.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:27 AM (ZLI7S)

266 261 Family of black man shot by San Fran police after POINTING A GUN AT THEM says officers should have said, “Hey, let’s talk” before firing

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They couldn't have just shot the gun out of the kid's hand? It works in the movies.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (bQKgA)

========

"YES! This is what I'm voting for now! Mandatory shooting out of hands of guns! It's the only way to make San Francisco more safe!"
-That chick from the TikTok video yesterday who got spit on in the face

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:27 AM (LvTSG)

267 If you use the enlarge tool and ctrl+ alot you can see where Vroom painted the female Captain arguing with the female Officer of the Watch!
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023

***
"Well! If you don't know how you violated regulations, *I'm* certainly not going to tell you!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 10:27 AM (J2vNu)

268
He was the world's fastest painter...Vroom! Vroom!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2023 10:28 AM (QzZeQ)

269 They couldn't have just shot the gun out of the kid's hand? It works in the movies.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Not the last Alec Baldwin movie....

Posted by: JT at August 08, 2023 10:28 AM (T4tVD)

270 *sings*

We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ship's a beauty;
We're sober men and true, and attentive to our duty.

When the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea,
We stand to our guns all day;
When at anchor we ride on the Portsmouth tide,
We've plenty of time for play.

Ahoy! Ahoy!
The balls whistle free
Ahoy! Ahoy!
O'er the bright blue sea,
We stand to our guns, to our guns all day.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2023 10:28 AM (QzZeQ)

271 Of you want some really dark schadenfreud humor?

There is a video out there of this Leftist white female Karen about to completely come apart on camera because in broad daylight some person, she never says the race naturally, literally spat in her face.

She lives in San Francisco.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:28 AM (ByQRa)

272 Biden told one mom his son was brought home in a 'flag draped coffin.' This is absolutely NOT the case.

Lying sack of shit needs to be judged by God, VERY soon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Here this country was all shook up when Trump said "pussy" yet no outrage over this.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 08, 2023 10:28 AM (N39Ws)

273 219 BLS reported that in July the number of full-time jobs plunged by 585,000 to 134.274 million, the biggest monthly drop since record COVID crash of 14.7 million jobs!

In July, the number of part-timers exploded by almost one million - 972K to be precise - to 27.153 million.
---

MSM: "Bidenomics is Working! Record number of Americans no longer have to work full time as Biden's policies are reducing inflation and costs!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2023 10:29 AM (TzW+Y)

274 Family of black man shot by San Fran police after POINTING A GUN AT THEM says officers should have said, “Hey, let’s talk” before firing

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They couldn't have just shot the gun out of the kid's hand? It works in the movies.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (bQKgA)

And then followed it up with a wisecrack and a wink.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:29 AM (1Yy3c)

275 Spain shoulda backed Henry VIII in his quest for an heir.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:08 AM (yYW11)

He had one, Mary, his Daughter with Catherine of Aragon.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 08, 2023 10:29 AM (vpT5O)

276 247 -
That Beau sure do get around!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 10:22 AM (FVME7)

Biden told one mom his son was brought home in a 'flag draped coffin.' This is absolutely NOT the case.

Lying sack of shit needs to be judged by God, VERY soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Joe is all about Joe. Every time he opens his pie-hole. FJB.

Posted by: Gref at August 08, 2023 10:29 AM (AMIL/)

277 Breaking911 @Breaking911
Cheryl Rex, mother of Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola:

"When [Biden] approached me, his words to me were, 'My wife, Jill & I, know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag draped coffin.'"

"My heart started beating faster & I started shaking, knowing that their son died from cancer & they were able to be by his side."

"How could someone be so heartless to say he knew how I felt."

https://tinyurl.com/3bx5hbmz
1:04 minutes; very moving

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:29 AM (krqg6)

278
Nice limerick upstairs, Muldoon!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2023 10:29 AM (QzZeQ)

279 ========

"YES! This is what I'm voting for now! Mandatory shooting out of hands of guns! It's the only way to make San Francisco more safe!"
-That chick from the TikTok video yesterday who got spit on in the face
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:27 AM (LvTSG)

There's an article out there about the kids in St. Louis treating life like Grand Theft Auto where they quote a neighbor as saying "I think there needs to be more gun control. I went to Cabela's to get something and came home with my first gun!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

280 >NOW WE HAVE PROOF! TGP EXCLUSIVE: Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered in Michigan

too late

Posted by: DB - at August 08, 2023 10:30 AM (geLO8)

281 They couldn't have just shot the gun out of the kid's hand? It works in the movies.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

To teach him a lesson I'd put a bullet in his shoulder, then send him up to Doc's.

Posted by: MATT DILLON at August 08, 2023 10:30 AM (2znMt)

282 272 Biden told one mom his son was brought home in a 'flag draped coffin.' This is absolutely NOT the case.

Lying sack of shit needs to be judged by God, VERY soon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Here this country was all shook up when Trump said "pussy" yet no outrage over this.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 08, 2023 10:28 AM (N39Ws)

=======

The country was all shook up when some anonymous source said that Trump said that the Americans buried at Normandy were stupid, including a lot of people on the right.

But, remember, it's Trump that is his own worst enemy, the media will never do this so easily to another candidate, and we just need a quality candidate to beat the guy who said black people aren't black.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:30 AM (LvTSG)

283
Dutch Ram > Dodge Ram

Posted by: naturalfake at August 08, 2023 10:30 AM (QzZeQ)

284 217 214

It is almost like history is cyclical or something..
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the scholars of the Victorian Age by and large departed from the cyclical theories of Aristotle and posited that Humanity could free themselves from the perpetual rise and decline cycle by the proper application of education, industrialization, public works & services, and striving to rid themselves of the "baser impulses" of human behavior. The new literature of science fiction upheld this belief in the "perpetual rise", and even after two world wars Star Trek still optimistically posited that we humans could overcome our past and zoom off into the boundless future at warp speed. Alas! In this decade Aristotle is looking very wise again.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 08, 2023 10:30 AM (W+kMI)

285 >>There is a video out there of this Leftist white female Karen about to completely come apart on camera because in broad daylight some person, she never says the race naturally, literally spat in her face.

But wait, there's more!

She came out with a new video today claiming the person who spit in her face and threatened to rape her was "a well dressed white man".

Sure Jan.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:30 AM (ZLI7S)

286 His desire for suicide by cop, be it tragic, is NOT the fault of the cops.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

...

Plus collect $2M or so from the city for the fam. Cheaper than life insurance

Posted by: TexasDan at August 08, 2023 10:31 AM (HW2Gb)

287 Here this country was all shook up when Trump said "pussy" yet no outrage over this.

If you go read people like Althouse, Trump talking about gold diggers is beyond the pale. Why? Because people like Althouse wish gold diggers didn't exist so talking about them is a sin.

Biden lying about how his son died though? That's just normal politics.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:31 AM (lc5cP)

288
And then followed it up with a wisecrack and a wink.
Posted by: Robert

"Put down that pop gun, you little scamp!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at August 08, 2023 10:31 AM (xG4kz)

289 285 But wait, there's more!

She came out with a new video today claiming the person who spit in her face and threatened to rape her was "a well dressed white man".

Sure Jan.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:30 AM (ZLI7S)

======

"And he had a MAGA hat and said that SF was MAGA country!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

290 Tells lie often enough you believe it. I think Joe truly believed Beau died in combat.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:31 AM (N9tGb)

291 Have a great day, everyone.

Enjoy rainbows, not unicorn poop. Let's return rainbows to the covenant from God.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 08, 2023 10:31 AM (u82oZ)

292 Moody's on a tear.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2023 10:32 AM (rj6Yv)

293 287 If you go read people like Althouse, Trump talking about gold diggers is beyond the pale. Why? Because people like Althouse wish gold diggers didn't exist so talking about them is a sin.

Biden lying about how his son died though? That's just normal politics.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:31 AM (lc5cP)

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Oh, she'll write something eventually that references it briefly. It'll become a "both sides" thing, and then she'll bravely sit out the 2024 election like she says she did for 2020.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:32 AM (LvTSG)

294 My work here for today is done. Bye kids! Have fun moping around the castle!!

Endeavour to persevere!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 10:32 AM (l4B/J)

295 A Fed rate hike would be the cherry on the top.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2023 10:32 AM (rj6Yv)

296 Wow Jan sure needs her medications upped. NOT

What will she do when this 'well dressed white man' really does rape her?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:32 AM (ByQRa)

297 Well dressed white men are well known for spitting the face of random white women. It’s #TheScience,

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:33 AM (N9tGb)

298 294 My work here for today is done. Bye kids! Have fun moping around the castle!!

Endeavour to persevere!
Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 10:32 AM (l4B/J)

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Hey...

that's not a limerick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:33 AM (LvTSG)

299 263 Don't mess with the Dutch. They'll make you pay.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (TR3i7)

With added hidden fees and surcharges.
Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:27 AM (1Yy3c)

And nothing but mayonnaise for your french fries.

Posted by: The horror at August 08, 2023 10:33 AM (q1Zxb)

300 Mooch’s on a tear.

He’s reviewing the situation?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 10:33 AM (xTRSc)

301 How can it be rape when EVERY girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

302 *sighs*

Robert did you scroll to the bottom of the second tail art link?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:34 AM (ByQRa)

303
Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the ~~Flemish~~ Phlegmish Coast in October 1602

The short-lived War of Spittle and Loogies ended with a glorious victory for the Dutch.
* hocks a loogie at a Phlegmish person *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at August 08, 2023 10:34 AM (xG4kz)

304 How can it be rape when EVERY girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man?

I dunno but look at her LEGS. She knows how to use them.

Posted by: 18-1 now with an extra long beard at August 08, 2023 10:34 AM (lc5cP)

305 *ZZ Top waves bye, puts pedal to the metal, and peels out.*

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:34 AM (ByQRa)

306 “ Oh, she'll write something eventually that references”

Yes he lied and that’s bad. But Trump lied 1836,837 times according to the NYT so it evens out.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:34 AM (N9tGb)

307 In fairness, every crazy girl goes for a well dressed man.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:34 AM (ZLI7S)

308 And another one!

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg 19h
JUST IN: Father of fallen Marine Darin Taylor Hoover, Jr. who was killed in Afghanistan due to the disastrous withdrawal calls for Biden to resign in emotional speech.

“Our sons and daughters have more integrity in their little toes than every one of them combined”

“Be a grown ass man. Admit to your mistakes, learn from them so that this doesn't happen ever, ever again. You all need to resign immediately,” Darin Hoover said of Biden, General Milley and others.

🔥🔥🔥
https://tinyurl.com/48n2hza4
1:23 minutes; also very moving and with greater details of Biden's fuckup.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (krqg6)

309 I've got a work meeting on Chinese spyware coming up in about twenty minutes. Gah. Budget stuff.

"I'm going in. Tell Mother I died game!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (J2vNu)

310 On my way to the golf course.
What happens when a Kia T-bones a Subaru in the intersection? You get a real interesting fight between a Karen and a purple haired lesbian in the street. And laughing cops.
Would have stuck around but tee time coming up, and I didn't witness the accident.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (Axizx)

311 305 *ZZ Top waves bye, puts pedal to the metal, and peels out.*
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:34 AM (ByQRa)

Cause they’re Baaaaad… they’re Nationwide!!

Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (PCK5/)

312 Some of you people are fast. A bit too fast.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (ZLI7S)

313
. United States (1921-present).

What'll be next when ours eventually collapses?
======

WEF credits

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (63Dwl)

314 Robert did you scroll to the bottom of the second tail art link?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:34 AM (ByQRa)

Mmmmmmm hmMmMmMmMmMmMmMm

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (1Yy3c)

315 But will you get egg rolls with the Chinese spyware?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (ByQRa)

316 312 Some of you people are fast. A bit too fast.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (ZLI7S)

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That's what she said.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:36 AM (LvTSG)

317
282 272 Biden told one mom his son was brought home in a 'flag draped coffin.' This is absolutely NOT the case.

Lying sack of shit needs to be judged by God, VERY soon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Here this country was all shook up when Trump said "pussy" yet no outrage over this.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 08, 2023 10:28 AM (N39Ws)

Both have sinned and fallen short of my glory. They are both equally evil and condemned in my sight.

Posted by: God at August 08, 2023 10:36 AM (q1Zxb)

318
Her she comes now singing, "Moody, Moody!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at August 08, 2023 10:36 AM (xG4kz)

319 There was proof in 2016 with Jill Stein's lawsuit. They uncovered that Detroit precincts were saying there were 1,000 ballots in a box with 10. In 2016. The lawsuit disappeared for some reason

Tge suit may have been filed by Stein, but there were reports it was funded by Hillary. I have expect that more than 900 of those 10 votes were for Hills.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 08, 2023 10:36 AM (vpT5O)

320 "And he had a MAGA hat and said that SF was MAGA country!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

Three piece suit and a MAGA hat is a bold style choice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 10:36 AM (zZu0s)

321 310 Take the geezers to the cleaners, Diogenes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 10:36 AM (xTRSc)

322 317 Both have sinned and fallen short of my glory. They are both equally evil and condemned in my sight.
Posted by: God at August 08, 2023 10:36 AM (q1Zxb)

=======

"Hold on there, bub. Biden is a saint. No less than an authority than me has deemed it so."
-David French

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:36 AM (LvTSG)

323 It's always shoot first, ask questions later!

Family of black man shot by San Fran police after POINTING A GUN AT THEM says officers should have said, “Hey, let’s talk” before firing

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Out: "No Justice, No Peace!"
In: "MOAR Social Workers, NO Police!"

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:37 AM (f6UzA)

324 Robert is dreaming of a flight suit...

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:37 AM (ByQRa)

325 There was proof in 2016 with Jill Stein's lawsuit. They uncovered that Detroit precincts were saying there were 1,000 ballots in a box with 10. In 2016. The lawsuit disappeared for some reason.

The powers that be, even then in MI, were invested in maintaining fraud, for some reason. I'm sure they're more amenable to undoing it now, though, for reasons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (LvTSG)

Aside from the obvious, was one of my favorite parts of the 2016 election. Watching Stein make a bunch of noise only to be told, "Quiet, you idiot! What are you doing?!" by the lefties in power was a sight to behold.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 10:37 AM (KbCG3)

326 In fairness, every crazy girl goes for a well dressed man.

That would explain much of my love life.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2023 10:37 AM (AW0uW)

327 The Spanish came to the New World looking for plunder. The French and English came to stay (trapping, trading, farming, etc.).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (J2vNu)
A big conflict leading to the American Revolution was that those in America wanted to build a country, but the English Government just wanted to rape the colonies for resources and revenue.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2023 10:38 AM (i9ffA)

328 On my way to the golf course.
What happens when a Kia T-bones a Subaru in the intersection? You get a real interesting fight between a Karen and a purple haired lesbian in the street. And laughing cops.
Would have stuck around but tee time coming up, and I didn't witness the accident.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (Axizx)

punches?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 08, 2023 10:38 AM (vxMiC)

329 Spithead is off of San Francisco??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:38 AM (krqg6)

330 What happens when a Kia T-bones a Subaru in the intersection? You get a real interesting fight between a Karen and a purple haired lesbian in the street. And laughing cops.

//

I know Subarus are stereotype lesbian purple hair mobiles. But in parts of the country where it snows a lot they’re like Camrys. Everyone has one. In my area it’s not uncommon to see 3 of them parked next to each other in a parking lot. My neighbors next door have 3. And we’re a reddish county.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:38 AM (N9tGb)

331
You get a real interesting fight between a Karen and a purple haired lesbian in the street.

"Karen and the Purple Haired Lesbian" is the long awaited sequel to "Harold and the Purple Crayon".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at August 08, 2023 10:38 AM (xG4kz)

332 258 Philip II was kind of an idiot.
========
Philip II was a good example of C.S. Lewis's claim that the worst tyrants are those who torment us for our own good. He was personally a good man with a genuine Roman Catholic faith. Unfortunately, his desire was to erase the Protestant Reformation and re-unite Europe under one religion (and the singular direction of himself, natch) which he felt he could do with the wealth of New Spain in his possession. The result was successive waves of intrigue, wars, coups, wars, failed coups, and more wars, on and on. Meanwhile New Spain stagnated from lack of development, and his enemies moved into the New World and East Indies, determined to put limits on Spanish power.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 08, 2023 10:39 AM (W+kMI)

333 Hey...

that's not a limerick.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

**********

Hey...

That's not a movie reference.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 10:39 AM (l4B/J)

334 > There is a video out there of this Leftist white female Karen about to completely come apart on camera because in broad daylight some person, she never says the race naturally, literally spat in her face.
___________

IIRC she's been outed as having done a TikTok or similar video a couple years ago when she's recording herself going on and on about defunding the police, decriminalizing all the things and, literally pleading everyone to vote for this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2023 10:39 AM (Q4IgG)

335 One of my favorite moments from the totally above board 2020 election was 3 tranches of mail in ballots being counted in a row in one of the close states (WI maybe?) that had the same EXACT vote count. Something like 1235 to 10. Remember in a state that voted 50-50.

Yes yes there are blue enclaves in purple states. But 3 tranches of votes that are more then 99 to 1 with the exact same numbers?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 10:39 AM (lc5cP)

336 327 A big conflict leading to the American Revolution was that those in America wanted to build a country, but the English Government just wanted to rape the colonies for resources and revenue.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2023 10:38 AM (i9ffA)

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This feels like a misreading of the taxation of colonies to pay for the Seven Years' War, of which American colonies were a part.

The taxation was unjust, representation was nil, but that doesn't mean that England was here for plunder and not building something, especially considering the infrastructure built up by the English both physical and governmental.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:39 AM (LvTSG)

337 The FBI is now a parody of itself,

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:26 AM (N9tGb)

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The Keystone Kops meets the Deep State Stooges.

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (f6UzA)

338 So. The boat from Bremerton was late and there's only two slips for the water taxi, so we are bobbing around in the bay waiting for a spot to open up.

Entertain me.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (pAbDW)

339 I did get to see what happens when an F150 t-bones a Tesla yesterday......

It didn't end well for the Tesla, but I arrived late and do not know who ran the red light.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

340
Everyone has one. In my area it’s not uncommon to see 3 of them parked next to each other in a parking lot. My neighbors next door have 3. And we’re a reddish county.
Posted by: Montec

Suburu thruples won't you come out tonight?
Come out tonight, come out tonight?
Suburu thruples won't you come out tonight,
And dance by the light of the moon?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (xG4kz)

341 >>That's what she said.

Oh I'm sorry. But don't worry, I'm told that happens to some guys.

I'm told.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (ZLI7S)

342 we are bobbing around in the bay waiting for a spot to open up.

Entertain me.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (pAbDW)

Beware the otter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

343 No sea otters?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (ByQRa)

344 333 Hey...

That's not a movie reference.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 10:39 AM (l4B/J)

=======

Ah, it's a reference to the 1961 Stanley Kramer film Judgment at Nuremburg.

Spencer Tracy said it to the defense attorney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (LvTSG)

345 Moody, as in Moody downgrades the credit ratings of several small and medium-sized banks and lending institutions and threatens several of the big lending institutions. This, on top of China's trade numbers:

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/3s7ecp3j

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2023 10:41 AM (rj6Yv)

346 And the zombeavers

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:41 AM (ByQRa)

347 You get a real interesting fight between a Karen and a purple haired lesbian in the street.

First they pull hair...then clothes...then....they kiss.

Posted by: Some Pron Hub director at August 08, 2023 10:41 AM (lc5cP)

348 >>McGonigal also tried getting Deripaska off of the United States sanctions list.

Imagine that.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:27 AM (ZLI7S)

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Next you'll be telling me that Victoria Nuland's fingerprints are all over the Russia Russia Russia hoax and The Obama/Biden Crime Family operations.

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:41 AM (f6UzA)

349 Back from cataract surgery. All seems to be going well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 10:42 AM (isNL8)

350 So. The boat from Bremerton was late and there's only two slips for the water taxi, so we are bobbing around in the bay waiting for a spot to open up.

Entertain me.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (pAbDW)
++++
:: dances like a marionette ::
:: loses balance ::
:: topples over rail ::
:: thrashes desperately in the sea ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:42 AM (WkNQM)

351
The boat from Bremerton was late and there's only two slips for the water taxi, so we are bobbing around in the bay waiting for a spot to open up.

What do you call nurse in a PFD in the water off the pier?

"Bob"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at August 08, 2023 10:42 AM (xG4kz)

352 Hey...

that's not a limerick.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

**********

Hey...

That's not a movie reference.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 08, 2023 10:39 AM (l4B/J)

Come now, fellas.

I think we can all agree that both of your comments are both limericks and movie references.

Posted by: naturalfake making stuff all peaceful-like on an NYC subway at August 08, 2023 10:42 AM (QzZeQ)

353 Mike Pence better watch his back!

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg 56m
JUST IN: Chris Christie says the United States has *not* done enough for Ukraine as he voices his support for President Joe Biden over Donald Trump.

“Two thirds of the audience was very supportive of my position on Ukraine, which is that we haven't done enough.”

Just last week, the overweight candidate made a campaign stop in Ukraine where he gifted Ukranian President Volodymr Zelenskyy a hand written note from Jon Bon Jovi.

Clown show 🤡

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:42 AM (krqg6)

354 I was thiiiiiiis close to working at Moody’s after college. Went through 4 rounds of interviews. But didn’t get an offer. Bastaaaaahds!!!

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:43 AM (N9tGb)

355 "pedal to the metal" is an interesting phrase

so many ways to fvck up

"petal to the medal"

"Peddle to the meddle"

Oh well, carry on. I got nothin'

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 08, 2023 10:43 AM (vxMiC)

356 Back from cataract surgery. All seems to be going well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 10:42 AM (isNL

My wife went through that - both eyes last month. She's now 20/20 in both eyes and only needs readers.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 10:43 AM (gmo/4)

357
Just last week, the overweight candidate made a campaign stop in Ukraine where he gifted Ukranian President Volodymr Zelenskyy a hand written note from Jon Bon Jovi.

Clown show 🤡
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:42 AM (krqg6)

Good lord. Where's a plane crash when you need one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

358 353 Mike Pence better watch his back!

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg 56m
JUST IN: Chris Christie says the United States has *not* done enough for Ukraine as he voices his support for President Joe Biden over Donald Trump.

“Two thirds of the audience was very supportive of my position on Ukraine, which is that we haven't done enough.”

Just last week, the overweight candidate made a campaign stop in Ukraine where he gifted Ukranian President Volodymr Zelenskyy a hand written note from Jon Bon Jovi.

Clown show 🤡
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:42 AM (krqg6)

2/3rds of Christie's audience?

Hey, six people can't be wrong!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (KbCG3)

359 Mike Pence better watch his back!

That's right baby! - Yong girl with water balloon.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (gmo/4)

360 Christie is friends with liberal shittard Jon Bon Jovi. As if I needed another reason to utterly dislike that fat f*ck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

361 Entertain me.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (pAbDW)

Squats
Lights a match
Flamethrower

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (1Yy3c)

362 2/3rds of Christie's audience?

Hey, six people can't be wrong!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (KbCG3)
++++
You think he managed to pull in nine people?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (WkNQM)

363 310 On my way to the golf course.
What happens when a Kia T-bones a Subaru in the intersection? You get a real interesting fight between a Karen and a purple haired lesbian in the street. And laughing cops.
Would have stuck around but tee time coming up, and I didn't witness the accident.
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"The things you see when you haven't got your gun." Also is it me or is our current society getting rather short-fused? When I was a wee lad in the Seventies brawls only took place at rock concerts, taverns, and public parks in the "urban center". Everybody else was willing to talk things out, or at worst hire a lawyer.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 08, 2023 10:45 AM (W+kMI)

364 Yong Girl.

Was she on ML 370 with Ho Lee Fuk and Wi Tu Lo?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

365
293
Oh, she'll write something eventually that references it briefly. It'll become a "both sides" thing, and then she'll bravely sit out the 2024 election like she says she did for 2020.

Althouse. My refugee from communism mind cannot grasp the self immolation mindset of most college educated white women in the USA and other western countries. No matter how hard I try it is unbelievable and frustrating that they could be so daft.

Posted by: Floridachick at August 08, 2023 10:45 AM (B5Hv0)

366 >>Next you'll be telling me that Victoria Nuland's fingerprints are all over the Russia Russia Russia hoax and The Obama/Biden Crime Family operations.

What do you suppose the odds are of both a senior FBI agent and the Biden Crime Family both taking money from the same overseas countries at the same time and the Bidens also having a mole in the FBI warning them of potential investigations into their criminal doings and it all just being one big coincidence?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:45 AM (ZLI7S)

367 362 2/3rds of Christie's audience?

Hey, six people can't be wrong!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (KbCG3)
++++
You think he managed to pull in nine people?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (WkNQM)

Hey, you see a human land whale up on a stage and you tell me you're not going to stop to see what happens next?

Nine people decided to stop.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 10:45 AM (KbCG3)

368 At this point Chris Christie is just a stale donut of a sad joke.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:46 AM (ByQRa)

369
The powers that be, even then in MI, were invested in maintaining fraud, for some reason. I'm sure they're more amenable to undoing it now, though, for reasons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:25 AM (LvTSG)

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Because Ron DeSantis never said "pussy," duh.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2023 10:46 AM (TzW+Y)

370 Could have been worse.
Krispy could have sent a note from that other NJ douchebag singer, Bruce.
At least Bon Jovi has some cool nostalgic 80s tunes.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:46 AM (N9tGb)

371 Entertain me.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (pAbDW)

You know what I look like. That should provide hours of laughter.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2023 10:46 AM (AW0uW)

372
Bremerton, oh, Bremerton
I still see your water taxis crashin',
while I watch the handguns flashin'.
I clean my gun, and dream of Bremerton.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at August 08, 2023 10:46 AM (xG4kz)

373 Yong Girl.

Was she on ML 370 with Ho Lee Fuk and Wi Tu Lo?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

LOL

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 10:46 AM (gmo/4)

374 This feels like a misreading of the taxation of colonies to pay for the Seven Years' War, of which American colonies were a part.
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The Seven Years war was probably the first World War. The target was control of the Inland Empire - Great Lakes. French, Dutch, English and the emerging Americans, not to mention the Indians.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 10:47 AM (3FiQa)

375 Just last week, the overweight candidate made a campaign stop in Ukraine where he gifted Ukranian President Volodymr Zelenskyy a hand written note from Jon Bon Jovi.

Clown show 🤡
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:42 AM (krqg6)

Zelensky must have a 300,000 square foot bunker with all the swag he picks up from his buddies.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 08, 2023 10:47 AM (5acdM)

376
“Two thirds of the audience was very supportive of my position on Ukraine, which is that we haven't done enough.”

You are the MOST disliked of all R candidates for president, backfat. The audience wasn't 2/3 of your FAMILY, much less anything any other human should care about.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

377 I always thought nurse water-skied to work behind a team of otters.

Posted by: spindrift at August 08, 2023 10:47 AM (iG1Nf)

378 Whatever you do, don't chop up onions while reading this.

https://tinyurl.com/yh3yxn5e

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:47 AM (1Yy3c)

379 347 You get a real interesting fight between a Karen and a purple haired lesbian in the street.

First they pull hair...then clothes...then....they kiss.
Posted by: Some Pron Hub director at August 08, 2023 10:41 AM (lc5cP)

And then some scissoring! Scissor me timbers!

Posted by: Mrs. Garrison at August 08, 2023 10:47 AM (q1Zxb)

380 367 362 2/3rds of Christie's audience?

Hey, six people can't be wrong!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (KbCG3)
++++
You think he managed to pull in nine people?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:44 AM (WkNQM)

Hey, you see a human land whale up on a stage and you tell me you're not going to stop to see what happens next?

Nine people decided to stop.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 10:45 AM (KbCG3)

Pull in nine people...dang. Slam dunk gravitational joke lobbed up to me and I whiffed. And now I'm mixing metaphors! Bah!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 10:48 AM (KbCG3)

381 374 This feels like a misreading of the taxation of colonies to pay for the Seven Years' War, of which American colonies were a part.
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The Seven Years war was probably the first World War. The target was control of the Inland Empire - Great Lakes. French, Dutch, English and the emerging Americans, not to mention the Indians.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 10:47 AM (3FiQa)

========

I wrote a book about some events that led up to it!

With a monster!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:48 AM (LvTSG)

382 I wonder if Krispy is deluded enough to think he has a chance. He’s s mart guy but smart guys can also be very dumb sometimes.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:48 AM (N9tGb)

383 I always thought nurse water-skied to work behind a team of otters.

Posted by: spindrift at August 08, 2023 10:47 AM (iG1Nf)

Surfs. Captain of team surfing otters.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 10:48 AM (gmo/4)

384 340: a pleasant fragrance in the light of the moon
Dance with the dead in my dreams
Listen to their hallowed screams
The dead have taken my soul
Temptation’s lost all control

Posted by: Slayer at August 08, 2023 10:48 AM (f0XAF)

385 This feels like a misreading of the taxation of colonies to pay for the Seven Years' War, of which American colonies were a part.

The taxation was unjust, representation was nil, but that doesn't mean that England was here for plunder and not building something, especially considering the infrastructure built up by the English both physical and governmental.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:39 AM (LvTSG)

British taxation was only a part of the Britain's heavy-handed mercantilist policies. What particularly irked colonial merchant class were the trade and manufacturing restrictions. The colonies, for instance, could only manufacture pig iron, which was then shipped to England for making finished goods, which the colonists were forced to buy after big mark ups. The colonies couldn't trade directly with foreign countries. Imports from foreign countries were subjected to ruinous tarrifs, etc.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2023 10:48 AM (rj6Yv)

386 "My wife went through that - both eyes last month. She's now 20/20 in both eyes and only needs readers. "

Yep, this is the second eye. First eye will probably still need corrective lens for distance, plus reader due to prior retina surgery. This eye should just be readers. So I expect bifocal right lens, and plain upper with reader lower for the left when it all settles out. So IOW...glasses.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 10:49 AM (isNL8)

387 Some of you people are fast. A bit too fast.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (ZLI7S)

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I'm not saying they're Russian bots, but ...

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:49 AM (f6UzA)

388 WEF credits

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2023 10:35 AM (63Dwl)

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Read that as "WEF crickets" ... which works just as well.

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (f6UzA)

389 Nancy Pelosi Declares America Will Cease To Exist If Trump Becomes President Again

...claims it would be like “the world being on fire"...

Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

390 389 Nancy Pelosi Declares America Will Cease To Exist If Trump Becomes President Again

...claims it would be like “the world being on fire"...
Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

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I remember the nuclear holocaust of the Trump presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (LvTSG)

391 Dance with the dead in my dreams
Listen to their hallowed screams
The dead have taken my soul
Temptation’s lost all control
Posted by: Slayer at August 08, 2023 10:48 AM (f0XAF)

\m/

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (1Yy3c)

392 What happens if an EV catches fire with Nancy Pelosi in it?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (ByQRa)

393 Nancy Pelosi Declares America Will Cease To Exist If Trump Becomes President Again

...claims it would be like “the world being on fire"...
Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

Everything they accuse others of, they're doing tenfold. This is proof.

They're destroying America and setting the world on fire, yet declaring Trump would do it should he be re-elected.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

394 Read that as "WEF crickets" ... which works just as well.
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (f6UzA)

Our sole food source, should they get their way.

Posted by: For the peons of course, not the elites at August 08, 2023 10:51 AM (q1Zxb)

395 “Hey little girl…

Posted by: Sandra at August 08, 2023 10:51 AM (f0XAF)

396 Nancy Pelosi Declares America Will Cease To Exist If Trump Becomes President Again

...claims it would be like “the world being on fire"...
Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (RHGPo)
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G-d willing and if the creek don't rise.

America, as it exists today, is a nightmarish fake of a republic. If voting for Trump brings about the end of it, then sign me up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:51 AM (WkNQM)

397 What happens if an EV catches fire with Nancy Pelosi in it?

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Does it happen in a forest where nobody can hear it?

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:51 AM (N9tGb)

398 What happens if an EV catches fire with Nancy Pelosi in it?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (ByQRa)

S'mores for everyone!

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 10:51 AM (gmo/4)

399 Christie is friends with liberal shittard Jon Bon Jovi. As if I needed another reason to utterly dislike that fat f*ck.
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I was wondering if he/the band was from N.J.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:52 AM (krqg6)

400 "What happens if an EV catches fire with Nancy Pelosi in it?"

Another angel gets it's wings?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 10:52 AM (isNL8)

401 I know Subarus are stereotype lesbian purple hair mobiles. But in parts of the country where it snows a lot they’re like Camrys. Everyone has one. In my area it’s not uncommon to see 3 of them parked next to each other in a parking lot. My neighbors next door have 3. And we’re a reddish county.
Posted by: Montec

We're on Subaru Outback no5. We live in a snow belt. Last years snow fall was in the 110 inch neighborhood. Had his and hers up till this spring when we "sold" mine to Sock Jr. My every day rig is now the 1990 farm truck or whichever rig Mrs. Sock doesn't drive to work.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 08, 2023 10:52 AM (tjmGT)

402 390 389 Nancy Pelosi Declares America Will Cease To Exist If Trump Becomes President Again

...claims it would be like “the world being on fire"...
Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

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I remember the nuclear holocaust of the Trump presidency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (LvTSG)

Which, ironically, seems to have spared all the gays, trannies and groomers.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 10:52 AM (KbCG3)

403 396 G-d willing and if the creek don't rise.

America, as it exists today, is a nightmarish fake of a republic. If voting for Trump brings about the end of it, then sign me up.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:51 AM (WkNQM)

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Here is what may be a realistic play out of things getting sporty:

The outer counties of PA refuse to report their numbers until Philly does. Philly obviously doesn't, but the PA governor sends out the national guard to get the ballots from the outer counties while not sending anything into Philly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:52 AM (LvTSG)

404 SLAYER!

Posted by: garrett at August 08, 2023 10:52 AM (SJqZJ)

405 The left keeps saying America is the worst country on the planet. You’d think they’d line up to vote for Trump so he can make it no longer exist.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:53 AM (N9tGb)

406 I was wondering if he/the band was from N.J.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 10:52 AM (krqg6)
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Uhhh, yes.

Bon Jovi is one the pop culture patron saints of New Jersey. Christie is also from NJ and was its governor.

Politics aside, if you're from NJ, you have some Bon Jovi and Springsteen records somewhere in your house.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:53 AM (WkNQM)

407 385: in other words, the colonists wanted free trade.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 08, 2023 10:53 AM (f0XAF)

408 "I was wondering if he/the band was from N.J."

Yes, Bon Jovi is a Jersey band

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 10:53 AM (isNL8)

409 392 What happens if an EV catches fire with Nancy Pelosi in it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (ByQRa)

Unfortunately the flames only make her stronger.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:53 AM (1Yy3c)

410 the scholars of the Victorian Age by and large departed from the cyclical theories of Aristotle and posited that Humanity could free themselves from the perpetual rise and decline cycle by the proper application of education, industrialization, public works & services, and striving to rid themselves of the "baser impulses" of human behavior. The new literature of science fiction upheld this belief in the "perpetual rise", and even after two world wars Star Trek still optimistically posited that we humans could overcome our past and zoom off into the boundless future at warp speed. Alas! In this decade Aristotle is looking very wise again.
Posted by: exdem13 at August 08, 2023 10:30 AM (W+kMI)

There was also an overlap with Millenial Christianity, very popular in the 19th century. That was the belief that Man would get better and better until a new, holy, Millenium was instituted on Earth with universal peace and love. The first half of the 20th Century pretty much killed all of that out, but the ideas persisted and merged with marxism and ended up with the ridiculous pseudo-religion that's rampant today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2023 10:53 AM (i9ffA)

411 I was wondering if he/the band was from N.J.
Posted by: andycanuck
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The lead singer is or was if not all of the band.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 10:54 AM (bk5GW)

412 What happens if an EV catches fire with Nancy Pelosi in it?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (ByQRa)

You get a 2-fer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2023 10:54 AM (VwHCD)

413 >>Nancy Pelosi Declares America Will Cease To Exist If Trump Becomes President Again

>>...claims it would be like “the world being on fire"...

Such a bizarre strategy. Do they think we don't remember Trump's first term?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 10:54 AM (ZLI7S)

414 "My wife went through that - both eyes last month. She's now 20/20 in both eyes and only needs readers. "

Yep, this is the second eye. First eye will probably still need corrective lens for distance, plus reader due to prior retina surgery. This eye should just be readers. So I expect bifocal right lens, and plain upper with reader lower for the left when it all settles out. So IOW...glasses.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 10:49 AM (isNL

I had my second eye worked on last week. The first eye now has 20/15 vision, and No. 2 looks like the same or maybe a bit better.

Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2023 10:54 AM (rj6Yv)

415 I wrote a book about some events that led up to it!

With a monster!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:48 AM (LvTSG)

"Wrote a book with a monster."

I can't be the only one that had an image of TJM slamming his schwanz against the keyboard over and over.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (1Yy3c)

416 336 327 A big conflict leading to the American Revolution was that those in America wanted to build a country, but the English Government just wanted to rape the colonies for resources and revenue.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2023 10:38 AM (i9ffA)

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This feels like a misreading of the taxation of colonies to pay for the Seven Years' War, of which American colonies were a part.
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I think Tom Servo nicely replicates the general feeling among the Colonial radicals circa 1773-1775. for the rest, King George's ministers had several chances to do fairly by the Colonials, and blew them all, leaving the Original Thirteen to think that not only were their pleas for redress and fair government were being ignored, but that Parliament, with the King's hearty consent, was planning to turn them into perpetual second-rate resource stores with all the self-governing choices of Peru or Ireland. At any rate, the move to bind America to Great Britain via taxation, regulation, and legislation was about a century too late. The "mere colonials" had become Americans, and thus were ready to run their own affairs.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (W+kMI)

417 What happens if an EV catches fire with Nancy Pelosi in it?

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Which is kinda retarded being FWD. lol.
Snow cars are awd or 4wd. That’s the rule.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (N9tGb)

418 Politics aside, if you're from NJ, you have some Bon Jovi and Springsteen records somewhere in your house.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:53 AM (WkNQM)

Uh...no.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (VwHCD)

419 Nancy is once again peddling the snake-oil spiel of FEAR.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (ByQRa)

420 IT'S RAINING BLOOOOOOOD
FROM A LACERATED SKY

Posted by: \m/ \m/ at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (q1Zxb)

421 Saabs are the hillbilly aristocrat Northern Kingdom snow sedan.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (Wcm38)

422 389 Nancy Pelosi Declares America Will Cease To Exist If Trump Becomes President Again

...claims it would be like “the world being on fire"...
Posted by: SMOD at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

That presumes Biden doesn't end up getting us nuked by Russia first. Outside of that, bring on the burning times.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (N39Ws)

423 Uh...no.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (VwHCD)
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Oh, they're there. They might not be yours, but a previous owner secured them in a wall cavity or under some insulation or something. Just in case.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (WkNQM)

424 I get paid over $85 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home.

Imagine how much you'd make if you had 4 kids!

Posted by: spindrift at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (iG1Nf)

425 Cut and paste fail. Lol. The fwd reply was for Saabs.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (N9tGb)

426 British taxation was only a part of the Britain's heavy-handed mercantilist policies. What particularly irked colonial merchant class were the trade and manufacturing restrictions. The colonies, for instance, could only manufacture pig iron, which was then shipped to England for making finished goods, which the colonists were forced to buy after big mark ups. The colonies couldn't trade directly with foreign countries. Imports from foreign countries were subjected to ruinous tarrifs, etc.
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2023 10:48 AM (rj6Yv)

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, was an eloquent and convincing argument against such a system.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (i9ffA)

427 "I had my second eye worked on last week. The first eye now has 20/15 vision, and No. 2 looks like the same or maybe a bit better."

Outstanding!

Have retinal distortion in the right eye that was greatly reduced, but not eliminated by the retina surgery back in November.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (isNL8)

428 418 Politics aside, if you're from NJ, you have some Bon Jovi and Springsteen records somewhere in your house.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:53 AM (WkNQM)
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Moar like a tarp, shovel and quicklime in the trunk of your car.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (3FiQa)

429 Politics aside, if you're from NJ, you have some Bon Jovi and Springsteen records somewhere in your house.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:53 AM (WkNQM)

Everyone from Jersey is like Steve Martin in My Blue Heaven.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (Wcm38)

430 >>Politics aside, if you're from NJ, you have some Bon Jovi and Springsteen records somewhere in your house.

Or, in Berserker's case, every LP he made while with Poison.

Posted by: garrett at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (SJqZJ)

431 Philip II pursued idiotic policies that ruined his country. He should’ve just ignored the Protestants and gone pedal to the metal in developing his New World and Far-Eastern empire.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (xTRSc)

432 So. The boat from Bremerton was late and there's only two slips for the water taxi, so we are bobbing around in the bay waiting for a spot to open up.

Entertain me.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 10:40 AM (pAbDW)

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* Searches for link to Weird Al video of "Smells Like Nirvana" *

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:57 AM (f6UzA)

433 Think it is time to go do things. Got local elections today. Yay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:58 AM (ByQRa)

434 * Searches for link to Weird Al video of "Smells Like Nirvana" *
Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 10:57 AM (f6UzA)
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I once heard the original multi-track recording of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." With *just* Cobain's voice track playing, he is actually comprehensible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:58 AM (WkNQM)

435
Hey, you see a human land whale up on a stage and you tell me you're not going to stop to see what happens next?

Dy-no-MITE!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2023 10:58 AM (63Dwl)

436 Oh, they're there. They might not be yours, but a previous owner secured them in a wall cavity or under some insulation or something. Just in case.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:55 AM (WkNQM)

No, the bonjovi/springbean inspection came before the termite inspection. This house is clean. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2023 10:58 AM (VwHCD)

437 What happens if an EV catches fire with Nancy Pelosi in it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:50 AM (ByQRa)

I dunno, but don't you think we should find out? For science.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (H9e90)

438 No, the bonjovi/springbean inspection came before the termite inspection. This house is clean. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2023 10:58 AM (VwHCD)
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Well, keep your hex markers up just in case.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (WkNQM)

439 the scholars of the Victorian Age by and large departed from the cyclical theories of Aristotle and posited that Humanity could free themselves from the perpetual rise and decline cycle by the proper application of education, industrialization, public works & services, and striving to rid themselves of the "baser impulses" of human behavior.
Posted by: exdem13

That was the belief that Man would get better and better until a new, holy, Millenium was instituted on Earth with universal peace and love.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Rotten fruits of the Enlightenment because the focus was upon mankind, not our relationship with our maker. The wiser ones, like the Framers, knew that individuals can conquer their human passions with reason but not society in general. There is no perfectibility of man.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (bk5GW)

440 Richie Sambora deserved better.

Posted by: Just one man's opinion at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (q1Zxb)

441 NOODE GUEST APE

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (WkNQM)

442 439 Rotten fruits of the Enlightenment because the focus was upon mankind, not our relationship with our maker. The wiser ones, like the Framers, knew that individuals can conquer their human passions with reason but not society in general. There is no perfectibility of man.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (bk5GW)

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"Fuck you, buddy."
-David French

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (LvTSG)

443 Richie Sambora deserved better.
Posted by: Just one man's opinion at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (q1Zxb)

Be banged Heather Locklear for YEARS. It doesn't get better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

444 Yes, I know Christie was NJ governor, Einstein. It's music I don't follow at all.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 11:00 AM (krqg6)

445 >>Richie Sambora deserved better.

Neil Schon and Brian May nod.

Posted by: garrett at August 08, 2023 11:00 AM (SJqZJ)

446
No, the bonjovi/springbean inspection came before the termite inspection. This house is clean. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

What about that overgrown tangle of shrubs and briars out along your back fence?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Vote for Fen (then do it again)! at August 08, 2023 11:00 AM (xG4kz)

447 Think it is time to go do things. Got local elections today. Yay.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2023 10:58 AM (ByQRa)

All the candidates are probably massive disappointments.

Just write in Frylock, Meatball and Master Shake.

Posted by: Robert at August 08, 2023 11:00 AM (1Yy3c)

448 If Nancy is truly a witch, she is made of wood.

What do we know about wood and fires?

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at August 08, 2023 11:00 AM (Vu7A1)

449 The guy in Bon Jovi who was also in The Sopranos is a rabid Trump /Republican hater.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 11:00 AM (N9tGb)

450 Some other Moron mentioned the classic 'Bowel Move yesterday.

Found it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o9N_voWegw

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 11:01 AM (isNL8)

451 431 Philip II pursued idiotic policies that ruined his country. He should’ve just ignored the Protestants and gone pedal to the metal in developing his New World and Far-Eastern empire.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Someone that viewed themselves as defender of the faith against the Ottomans and Protestants would just never do that. The resources gathered from the Empire would be used to finance Spanish activities on the Continent.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 11:01 AM (bk5GW)

452 Philip II pursued idiotic policies that ruined his country. He should’ve just ignored the Protestants and gone pedal to the metal in developing his New World and Far-Eastern empire.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (xTRSc)

Lol. Ignore London? Ignore Gresham? Silly talk. Childish.

Do you also think Haig should have fought WWI via manuever and trench warfare was dumb?

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 11:01 AM (Wcm38)

453 Saabs are the hillbilly aristocrat Northern Kingdom snow sedan.
Posted by: Thesokorus

* eyeballs Thesokorus, spits, goes back to whittling *

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 08, 2023 11:02 AM (tjmGT)

454 "Fuck you, buddy."
-David French
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Even Pharisees can see the light after a life of persecution of others; Paul is an example.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 11:03 AM (bk5GW)

455 Be banged Heather Locklear for YEARS. It doesn't get better.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 08, 2023 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

Heather Thomas, Morgan Fairchild, Jennifer Connelly, the Fast Times Bikini girl....

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 11:03 AM (Wcm38)

456 Can we get a welfare check on Nancy Pelosi? She seems a little overwrought.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2023 11:03 AM (Z8Zd8)

457 "She seems a little overwrought."

She sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 11:05 AM (isNL8)

458 456 Can we get a welfare check on Nancy Pelosi? She seems a little overwrought.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Dry drunk rages--send her some Value Rite vodka and she will be herself again--a right nasty cobber.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 11:07 AM (bk5GW)

459 'Jill and I know exactly how you feel. Our son returned home in a flag draped coffin.'

Stolen valor - also know as F'ing lying from the Commander in Chief. Anyone in the media going to call him on this? What a disgrace.

Posted by: Cheri at August 08, 2023 11:07 AM (oiNtH)

460 Nothing of truth or substance has come out of Brandon's man-pleaser for the last 40 years.

Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2023 11:11 AM (oXNqT)

461 Everyone from Jersey is like Steve Martin in My Blue Heaven.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 10:56 AM (Wcm3

Watched that movie last weekend on IFC. I love that movie. Very, funny.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 11:13 AM (gmo/4)

462 An inspiration for Pirates of the Caribbean? Kidding. It's very spirited & appears the Dutch took no nonsense from any other country. I like it & would love to see more of a historical nature but doubt I'd hang this particular painting.

Read the Flemish North Sea Coast remains a thing of great beauty. Also, Belgium apologized but is still in a go-around about reparations from its colonial past while the debate over the Spanish and Portuguese conquests goes hot to cold and back again. And, NYT article July 24, 2021, "In 2015, Spain said it would give citizenship to the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled during the Spanish Inquisition. Then rejections started pouring in this summer."

The cry for reparations worldwide is strong. Thanks.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 08, 2023 11:17 AM (GshMh)

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at August 08, 2023 03:30 PM (nHs3g)

464 Damn the Torpedo's Full Speed Ahead

Posted by: Tamaa the Dromgo bird at August 08, 2023 04:21 PM (wGqjj)

465 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Deadman Dublloons a Pirate Ship is getting all blown to bits dying captain puts Curse on the Treasure

Posted by: Tamaa the Dromgo bird at August 08, 2023 04:24 PM (wGqjj)

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