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Hi everyone! Welcome to Thursday night. Do you think we'll have fun on tonight's ONT?
I haven't seen that stupid movie, and have no real desire to, but Ken memes have been popping up all over lately.
Tonight's Feelgood Story: FAFO Edition
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) August 18, 2023
Living In America
The Best Small Towns Across America
I dunno about this list. The choice for Texas, Marfa, is way the heck west. It's got artsy stuff for the weekenders out from Austin, but they've been having trouble with the water table and I think it's kinda close to the routes the coyotes use for human smuggling. Ocean City for Maryland is way off base. 300,000 people stuffed into a 4.5 sq mi spit of land is not exactly “small town living”, yet that's what you get all summer long. What do you think about the choices from your state?
Tonight's Debate Question Oregon’s Brutally Hard Lesson about Decriminalizing Drugs
Legalizing drugs. Where should the line be? I generally define my political leanings as “conservatarian”. Conservative, but with libertarian leanings. The more libertarian the solution to a problem is, the more likely it is to be the correct one. Doesn't mean it's the right one, but I think that generally speaking solutions with less government involvement are better than the opposite. So, legalize drugs then, right? Problem solved. Not so fast. The libertarian argument that resonates the most with me is “Hey, drugs were basically legal for the first 150 years of America, and caused far fewer problems that the war of drugs does for us now” (CatGirl Kulak makes this argument here) . And I'll concede the argument, but there are a few big problems with the it: #1. The moral character of the country in the 19th century was vastly different than the moral character of the country today. A work hard, seize opportunity, delayed gratification, personal responsibility society based upon Judaeo-Christian principles is very different from a me first, instant gratification, I deserve anything I want because I want it society whose “moral” foundations are hedonistic. The two will react to the availability of drugs in vastly different ways. #2. Social services. In the past they were provided by private, voluntary organizations. There was no 911, no Narcan, no ambulance ride to a million dollars worth of medial machinery to keep you alive, all of it funded by the government from the pockets of the productive citizens to the benefit of the non-productive ones. Sure you could buy laudanum from the pharmacist, but if you OD in an alley or checked out of life and wasted away, well, you did, that's all. Legalizing drugs with that level of safety net in place is an invitation for people to abuse it. #3. Drug strength. As I said, you could but laudanum easily. But nobody was selling fentanyl. Smoking pot with a natural THC level of 5-8% is a far cry from the 40-50% that we have today. LSD wasn't invented until the 1940. Meth goes back to the very end of the 19th century, but it wasn't widely used recreationally until much later. We're not talking about the same drugs. So what are your thoughts on this? Where's the line? Related: The fall of a great American city: The societal and political decay that has upended Pittsburgh From The Bee The Biggest Pros And Cons Of Living In Each State
Maine
Pro: Lobsters and the world's largest globe.
Con: Stephen King could appear at any moment to lecture you about Trump. Utah
Pro: Lots of big families and friendly people. Con: Hard to remember if your neighbor's 7th kid is named Rayleighlynn or Reighlynnleigh. West Virginia
Pro: The mountains are gorgeous. Con: You have to spend your entire life inside the mountains getting coal.
Musical Interlude
Please understand that I am in no way being critical of these people and their song ministry. They are lifting up their voices to the Lord, and more power to them if their brand of Christian pop reaches people. Personally, however, I just don't enjoy Christian pop. Church music should sound like Bach, not ZZ Top. Related: Read. The. Room. I have no idea who this woman is, but addressing the prayer meeting by saying “I was so eager to get here that I didn't even stop to bang my boyfriend this morning” is being tone deaf on an impressive scale.
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace tells audience she declined sex this morning to show up at a prayer breakfast: pic.twitter.com/8wwE2lxIMT
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) July 27, 2023
Women as diverse as former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and Biden’s own daughter-in-law Kathleen Buhle, have both alleged in their memoirs that Biden made them feel uncomfortable through his intrusive touching and embraces. On several occasions, Biden developed a strange tic of becoming too physical with young girls. He habitually attempted to hug them while blowing in their hair. His daughter Ashley wrote in her diary that she feared her past adolescent showers with her father had been inappropriate. Even as president, Biden has weirdly called out young girls in his audiences to note their attractiveness. On one occasion, the president interrupted his speech to address a female acquaintance—enlightening the crowd that, “We go back a long way. She was 12 and I was 30, but anyway…” As a result, Biden has likely been warned repeatedly to forgo intimate references to young women. He has no doubt also been advised by his handlers to stop all close, supposedly innocent contact with young girls and children—if for no other reason than to prevent his political opponents from charging that Joe is “creepy,” “perverse,” or “sick.” And yet like some addict, Biden cannot stop—regardless of the eerie image he projects around the world.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 09:59 PM (mZ3xv)
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https://tinyurl.com/3cj8vx5k
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 17, 2023 10:02 PM (c5NKU)
That's a shocking result!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 10:03 PM (mZ3xv)
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Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at August 17, 2023 10:06 PM (URIv5)
I did not know Kirk put out a solo album a year ago, listened to it, it was really good.
It was like a mix of prog and classical.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 17, 2023 10:07 PM (up/3i)
Gatlinburg, TN?
Oh, please. And do you think the stupid f*ck that wrote that pos (or the editor as it may be) could have sorted the states in alphabetic order? Stupid f*ck.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:07 PM (SAX5G)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 10:07 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 10:08 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 17, 2023 10:08 PM (+o6KZ)
Posted by: whig at August 17, 2023 10:08 PM (gQdmS)
{{SMH}} That was just mean!!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 17, 2023 10:08 PM (a4EWo)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 17, 2023 10:09 PM (c5NKU)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:07 PM (SAX5G)
Journalism school gradiate.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 17, 2023 10:09 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 10:09 PM (amJF4)
- Driving left of the center of the isle
- Turning the cart without signaling
- Improperly secured load in the cart
- Failure to seatbelt child in cart
- Following to close to the cart in front of you
- Reckless carting
- Failure to yield to the cart on the right
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 10:09 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: That Guy That Always Says at August 17, 2023 10:09 PM (4bmXZ)
Big thunderstorm here -- wouldn't be surprised if Western NY is getting it hard too.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 10:03 PM (krqg6)
Nothing yet…
Posted by: browndog waiting for hockey season at August 17, 2023 10:09 PM (CCSxw)
Totally awesome. That pilot was a man's man. Rest in peace, sir.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 17, 2023 10:10 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 17, 2023 10:10 PM (ouTlx)
Gatlinburg, TN?
Oh, please. And do you think the stupid f*ck that wrote that pos (or the editor as it may be) could have sorted the states in alphabetic order? Stupid f*ck.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:07 PM
I'd say the asme for Helen, GA. Don't get me wrong, I like the place, but it's sort of a mini-Gatlinburg. But the beer is good, and you can tube down the river past the biergarten.
Posted by: Bert G at August 17, 2023 10:10 PM (VARTN)
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 10:10 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: chris+opher at August 17, 2023 10:11 PM (SWTnT)
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 10:11 PM (Oc5p4)
On the best small town list, VA's was Middleburg. A rich enclave in Hunt Country. Just the description of the boutique shops and and fancy restaurants and spas means that it's more like small town Martha's Vineyard than small town Middle America.
Now on the worst things about states list, VA is 'Con: You're getting a bit too close to those rich men north of Richmond.'
Middleburg is full of those rich men just north of Richmond.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 10:12 PM (emlEe)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WQzLrvz4DKQ
P.S. I thought it was "for fuck's sake."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 10:12 PM (FVME7)
You damn well should be. "The Way" is a cult.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 10:12 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 17, 2023 10:12 PM (/6GbT)
Oh, please
Yeah, somebody just goobled "small towns in X" and picked the ones with good Expedia reviews. Explains Marfa too.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 17, 2023 10:12 PM (4bmXZ)
Some intern was ordered to produce a listicle.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 17, 2023 10:13 PM (2tUFv)
also Sedona, Az ? Small town usually = somewhat approaching affordable. Sedona ain't that
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 17, 2023 10:13 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: chris+opher
When accidently kicking over the bong was the funniest thing in the universe.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:13 PM (SAX5G)
So what are your thoughts on this? Where's the line?
________
*puffs pipe thoughtfully*
Well, sonny. Reckon we're gonna learn what happens when you surrender the War on Drugs. Ain't gonna be pretty.
*rocks chair*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2023 10:13 PM (MoZTd)
SMH I saw your hello the other day but was very late getting back to the thread. Didn't want you to think I ignored you.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 17, 2023 10:13 PM (5iFFd)
Probably written by AI.
The internet is fake and ghey.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 10:13 PM (mZ3xv)
It's amazing how reading a list is so hard to resist, even if you know it's complete s***.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 17, 2023 10:14 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 10:14 PM (ptElO)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah
It's a damn shame the alien themed Diner closed awhile back.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:15 PM (SAX5G)
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Maybe it's just on the north side of the lake because Weather Channel here says the wind is from the west.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 10:15 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 10:12 PM (FVME7)
Who can afford apostrophes in this economy??
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 10:15 PM (mZ3xv)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 17, 2023 10:15 PM (c5NKU)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 17, 2023 10:16 PM (sJHOI)
Also, not funny, Babylon Bee. That's just...that's just mean.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 17, 2023 10:16 PM (m9hmt)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 17, 2023 10:16 PM (HjWhl)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 17, 2023 10:16 PM (5iFFd)
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 10:10 PM (Oc5p4)
Agreed. Put that man on the hellbound express train.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 10:16 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: t-bird
It simply went to hell soon after they changed the name from Mauch Chunk.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:16 PM (SAX5G)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 10:16 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 17, 2023 10:17 PM (c5NKU)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 17, 2023 10:16 PM (HjWhl)
Charlevoix
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 17, 2023 10:17 PM (/6GbT)
The "libertarian" response only succeeds if society is generally self-regulating and expects personal responsibility to be taken for your actions. If not, then ALL "libertarian" responses are moot.
Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (83DAm)
My nephew lives and works downtown. I worry about him every day.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (Xrfse)
The problem with using “but today’s drugs are stronger” is that the reason they’re stronger is the war on drugs. Heroin was an obscure medicine until opium became illegal. Crack was a direct result of cracking down on cocaine. The needs of smugglers are very different from the desires of consumers and lead to more concentrated product that take less space to traffic.
I don’t know whether the meth problem or the fentanyl problem can be put back in the bag by relegalizing more benign drugs. But I can be pretty sure that if we keep everything illegal, in another thirty years the new scourge will be even worse, drug warriors will continue using that as an excuse to continue propping up drug traffickers.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (EXyHK)
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Okay, I LOL'd!!!!
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (Gkog9)
Posted by: Roland F Hirsch at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (oMkPq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 10:12 PM (FVME7)
Who can afford apostrophes in this economy??
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 10:15 PM (mZ3xv)
Does the apostrophe come before or after the s?
Posted by: Dr. T at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (m9hmt)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 17, 2023 10:19 PM (HjWhl)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 10:19 PM (xSnmX)
Posted by: chris+opher at August 17, 2023 10:11 PM (SWTnT)
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*lowers stereo*
*sprays Glade*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 10:19 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 10:19 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 17, 2023 10:19 PM (8fpTj)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 10:15 PM (mZ3xv)
Does the apostrophe come before or after the s?
Posted by: Dr. T at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (m9hmt
Are you north or south of the equator?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 10:20 PM (mZ3xv)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 17, 2023 10:20 PM (5iFFd)
I checked three states - NJ, PA, and DE and my little town in PA is better. But taxes, OMG does our local school district know how to blow through the money. But the % of graduates going off to college is declining so that may be a good sign.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 10:20 PM (enJYY)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 17, 2023 10:20 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: DB - at August 17, 2023 10:20 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:21 PM (SAX5G)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 17, 2023 10:19 PM (HjWhl)
I believe I have passed through it going from point a to b..all I got
Posted by: A dude in MI at August 17, 2023 10:21 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: Veteran Pothead at August 17, 2023 10:21 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: Cosda at August 17, 2023 10:21 PM (eEa31)
Jackson sucks. Look at its airport. A lot of fucking private jets. Like Aspen.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:21 PM (T/Lqj)
when the last consensus was taken
So, I don't think much effort was put into the article. I stopped reading there (the 2d town, if you don't count that Sitka gets posted twice).
Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2023 10:21 PM (83DAm)
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 17, 2023 10:22 PM (c5NKU)
What is the most important thing at work? Doing a good job? No. Making sure laws are followed to the letter? Not quite.
So what is the most important? Snitching on anyone that might have done something unpolitically correct. Even if the "victim" of the "hate speech" doesn't want to report it...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:22 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 10:22 PM (mZ3xv)
Posted by: DB - at August 17, 2023 10:23 PM (geLO8)
In fact, it is the most well known Ghost Light site in the country, though there are many other locations with Spooklights such as Gurdon, Arkansas; Paulding, MI; Raynham, MA (right in the heart of the Bridgewater Triangle), Brown Mountain, NC; Oxford, OH; Bragg, TX; Joplin, MO; Bucks County, PA...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 17, 2023 10:23 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 17, 2023 10:23 PM (Xrfse)
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What's the music to smoke rope to these days? I'm only familiar with Old School standbys for mild hallucinogens (Floyd, duh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 17, 2023 10:23 PM (HjWhl)
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Ironically, a place named Whorehouse.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 10:23 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2023 10:24 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 10:24 PM (RIvkX)
Ocracoke is definitely small and fairly isolated (except for those summer tourists like myself). But then summer tourists pay the winter's bills.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 10:24 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: 29 y/o Pothead at August 17, 2023 10:24 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 10:24 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2023 10:25 PM (Vnu5T)
"There was a fire near Lahaina that has been put out, and we'd like to draw extra water from a local stream to refill the water tanks, since the fire department drained our water tanks fighting the fire."
Do you say:
"Absolutely! Take as much water as you need, and let me know when you've successfully refilled the water tanks!"
Or do you say:
"Gee, I don't know - you need to check with the farmer who also uses the stream to make sure he's OK with the extra water diversion, and you need to confirm with the Maui fire department that they need the water tanks refilled."
You then finally give permission to take the extra water from the stream five hours later, after the fire has restarted.
As bad as you think your state government is, Hawaii's is worse.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 17, 2023 10:25 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Cosda
Can't speak for the eastern half of PA but I'm pretty familiar with the western part. Ebensberg seems nice. I've driven through it often enough. Looks livable. Volant is nice and quaint.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 10:25 PM (xSnmX)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 17, 2023 10:25 PM (UsQA1)
Alas.
I'm so old, I 'membah when weeed smelled pleasant and decidedly UN-skunky.
It's a crying shame.
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2023 10:25 PM (Gkog9)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 10:26 PM (mZ3xv)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 10:26 PM (xTRSc)
also Sedona, Az ? Small town usually = somewhat approaching affordable. Sedona ain't that
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 17, 2023 10:13 PM (sJHOI)
Carmel By The Sea has entered the chat...
Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J Trump is or duly elected president at August 17, 2023 10:27 PM (l0Cy4)
Posted by: Cosda
But it's on the "Northeast Coast"!
Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 10:27 PM (amJF4)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 17, 2023 10:27 PM (fY84s)
Legalize all drugs for adults
Ban all social welfare programs for people on drugs
You'd see large number of dead junkies. Potentially enough to persuade some people of the dangers. But there is no way to reduce, let alone get rid of, social programs in Soviet America.
So then how to you handle a world when non drug addicts will be forced to pay to keep junkies in physical comfort and with enough money to get more drugs?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:27 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (EXyHK)
Opium was strong enough to completely pacify China to the point where it was effectively conquered for generations. They seem to be doing a lot better after they banned drugs and starting exporting them to us instead.
All those fentanyl addicts certainly aren't moderating themselves to safer, weaker alternatives that are de facto legal either. On the contrary, drug dealers are cutting it into even more of their products to create new addicts and new demand.
Posted by: Sjg at August 17, 2023 10:28 PM (Lstct)
Nothing smells as bad as one of those skunks from the U.N. !
And they have a lot of them
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 10:29 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 17, 2023 10:29 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 10:29 PM (RIvkX)
*sprays Glade*
*blocks crack at bottom of door with rolled up towel*
*visine*
Posted by: 29 y/o Pothead at August 17, 2023 10:24 PM (SYTee)
don't forget the phillpis screwdriver clocking the door.
I seen dazed and confuzed.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:29 PM (T/Lqj)
Alas.
I'm so old, I 'membah when weeed smelled pleasant and decidedly UN-skunky.
It's a crying shame.
Posted by: JQ
One word for you Son: Edibles
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:30 PM (SAX5G)
That listicle is full of stupid mistakes like this.
And it seems like the scales are tilted towards towns that might appeal to artsy-fartsy fags.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2023 10:30 PM (pYaTk)
Three hundred people will die from overdoses in Portland this year.
Normal people react to this with shock and horror.
Addicts say: "Wow! How do I get to Portland! They have the real stuff!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 17, 2023 10:30 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:30 PM (T/Lqj)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 10:31 PM (krqg6)
iirc, Heroin was developed to fight morphine addiction the way methadone was developed to fight heroin addiction. It was the, "Hero," to save morphine addicts.
Posted by: davidt at August 17, 2023 10:31 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 17, 2023 10:31 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Cosda
But it's on the "Northeast Coast"!
Posted by: t-bird
Yea, saw that. The 'Northeast Coast" of what? The Susquehanna?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 10:31 PM (xSnmX)
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Counterpoint on Christian music: Christian pop (and rock, etc.) isn't the same as ecumenical or liturgical music. I agree that the latter should sound like Bach, or John Owen, or John Ashcroft, or something you'd find in a hymnal.
I have several beefs with "Contemporary Christian" music, but none are related to genre. Mainly that almost anyone who makes it to the top has done it the same way as all the popular secular artists have, right down to the obligatory and ubiquitous one-eye photos which signify elite Club membership.
I grew up with CCM, went to the concerts, attended the festivals, bought all the cassettes and t shirts. After Amy Grant went secular, Stryper did too, Hillsong became a scandal, ASCAP became a racket, I'm done with all of it. Petra stayed true, I suppose.
But honestly, none of the artists even approached the quality of Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top. Not even Phil Keaggy.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 17, 2023 10:31 PM (kjOVp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2023 10:31 PM (Vnu5T)
Lucas is famous locally for the art of some twisted but fun artists.
Ocean City, just no.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:32 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Thanks but no thanks. thc ain't my bag, man.
'Bout finished with alkyhol too. Getting too old for this sh*t LOL
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2023 10:32 PM (Gkog9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2023 10:25 PM (Vnu5T)
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Hey. They didn't intend to kill the old man.
-MSM
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 10:32 PM (RIvkX)
Johnny: "...For fuck's sake, it's $20, same as in town!"
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 17, 2023 10:32 PM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 17, 2023 10:33 PM (kjOVp)
Posted by: Sjg at August 17, 2023 10:28 PM (Lstct)
I don't think fentanyl allows one enough time to become an addict; you're usually dead first.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 10:33 PM (emlEe)
Legalize "ALL" drugs...you must be one of those "COMMIE, PINKO, FAGGOTS...that they warned us about back in the 1960's
So your Dad's Son is here now??
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 17, 2023 10:33 PM (UsQA1)
Seems true of Gatlinburg, TN and Stillwater, MN. And I know of Marfa, TX from the Marfa lights (UFOs).
Posted by: No One of Consequence at August 17, 2023 10:33 PM (F4bAW)
Posted by: Cranked to 11! at August 17, 2023 10:33 PM (83IzV)
She gets in an interesting digression where she points out a larger portion of women get into science not to discover truth but to use it to backup whatever they see as "the moral good" and then they discuss what is the problem with it.
The male host makes the observation...what is the point of even doing science if you aren't trying to discover the truth? Why don't you just go write a fiction novel instead? And that not discovering the truth means that we will consistently make poor predictions of the future and have bad things happen "unexpectedly" to us...
And...that is the story of 2023 isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:33 PM (lc5cP)
... NEW French Toast & Maple flavour!
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 10:33 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:30 PM (SAX5G)
I hate edibles. I once overdid it because it took too long.
"It's not working. need moar!"
I took two days off from work afterward. Was pretty sure my boss knew I was stoned. Turns out the paranoia thing is real.
Booze for me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:34 PM (T/Lqj)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 17, 2023 10:34 PM (kjOVp)
I spoke to an EMT a while back. He said that one of the hazards of his job is that after they administer Narcan, they have to be prepared to deal with an angry junkie. He's furious that they ruined his high, and that that wasted his money that he spent on the drugs. Half the time they want to fight.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 17, 2023 10:34 PM (CcQ3S)
The 1991 Oakland fire was a forest fire that restarted the following day, after the Oakland fire department thought that they had put it out.
Professional forest fire fighters from a nearby California Division of Forestry station told the Oakland fire department that they needed to keep an overnight watch on the fire location, and keep playing water on it, even though it seemed out.
The Oakland fire department said: "Shut up, we know what we're doing", and removed their equipment overnight.
Turned out that the Oakland fire department didn't know what they were doing.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 17, 2023 10:35 PM (2tUFv)
These would appear on the face of it to be contradictory statements.
Also, why are users still going to drug traffickers for supposedly legal products? Because “de facto legal” means “still illegal”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 10:35 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (Sf2cq)
Eventually. And quickly, more than slowly.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (Xrfse)
*lowers stereo*
*sprays Glade*
*blocks crack at bottom of door with rolled up towel*
*visine*
*listerine mouth spray*
OG smoker
Posted by: Theo at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (7o/C+)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (Vnu5T)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (anMtU)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (Gkog9)
The local paper had an article about progress in the local city high school. They are down to 40% of students with a drug problem.
In my recent pediatric First Aid training, we practiced with Narcan. For the first time ever,
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (EXyHK)
Three strikes law for users. Third conviction gets you a bullet in the brain. If users die out, so do the dealers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (pYaTk)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 17, 2023 10:34 PM (CcQ3S)
The only way I would back drug legalization is if EMTs were no longer required to respond to OD calls. Precisely because of people like that (and the fact that fentanyl and other such substances can easily kill the responders if they're not careful).
Posted by: Dr. T at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (m9hmt)
Public health types say everyone in Portland should carry Narcan. They don't dwell on the high likelihood that you'll be punched out, after you've ruined the greatest high the junkie has had in his life.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 17, 2023 10:37 PM (2tUFv)
*sprays Glade*
*blocks crack at bottom of door with rolled up towel*
*visine*
Posted by: 29 y/o Pothead at August 17, 2023 10:24 PM (SYTee)
don't forget the phillpis screwdriver clocking the door.
I seen dazed and confuzed.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:29 PM (T/Lqj)
What, no one ever used a window fan to blow the smoke out of a window? It was funny to walk around campus and see all these big box fans in dorm windows.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 10:37 PM (emlEe)
NC's best small town was Ocracoke.
Great place to visit unless a hurricane is in the vicinity. Then you get the 'mandatory evacuation' edict and vacation ruined.
Considering a hurricane may be in the vicinity from about June to November, a bit of a risk. Thinking about an October visit myself - depending upon activity of butterfly's off of the African coast.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 10:37 PM (enJYY)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 17, 2023 10:37 PM (HjWhl)
Succeed in business? Hahah only if you are connected
Center yourself though a relationship with God? Sounds like hate speech, maybe we need to have the police talk with you...
Search for the truth independent of what the government wants you to believe? So...you hate science? Sorry, we have to fire you
So if you aren't connected you are supposed to live "The Life of Julia" only now with bug eating, not leaving your 15 minute city, and no AC/heat...I can see that driving people to drugs easily...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:37 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 10:33 PM (emlEe)
The dose makes the poison. It's obviously good for business or else they wouldn't be doing it so often.
Posted by: Sjg at August 17, 2023 10:38 PM (Lstct)
Posted by: Emmie
No, that was Lance Rentzel in 1970.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:38 PM (SAX5G)
We were cautioned about this as well. Evidently there is a group of friends that do near-death experiences.
Darwin nods.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:38 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:38 PM (33nmr)
I think that's essentially what Mao did. It apparently worked.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 17, 2023 10:38 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:29 PM (T/Lqj)
===
That movie is my "Big Chill"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 10:39 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 10:15 PM (mZ3xv)
Does the apostrophe come before or after the s?
Posted by: Dr. T
I have a barren filed where all of my fucks don't grow. Would that make it 'for fucks' sake' in my case? Since my fucks are plural, and possessive, and all that other literate shit that my magat conservative ass is too uneducated to get
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 17, 2023 10:39 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:39 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 17, 2023 10:34 PM (CcQ3S)
another reason I go out of the EMT field when I left the Army. Land survey is far less scary.
You know, except it's usually a land surveyor who finds a body in a culvert.
In my field days I ran across tweakers who were passed out. Did not want to find a corpse.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:39 PM (T/Lqj)
In America the first thing the elites would do is exempt themselves. Which...ruins the whole point.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:39 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 17, 2023 10:40 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:36 PM (33nmr)
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*flammenwerfs your ass*
*trebuchets charred remains into Indiana*
Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 17, 2023 10:40 PM (HjWhl)
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 10:40 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 10:40 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 10:30 PM (SAX5G)
The Incredible Edible Gummy.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 10:41 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 17, 2023 10:42 PM (kjOVp)
I think opium is less harmful, addicting, and more euphoric than heroine. that's a conjured option
Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 10:42 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:42 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 10:42 PM (MNhXM)
https://tinyurl.com/39befy4n
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 10:42 PM (KFhLj)
So eat meat? Are you crazy?!? Here smoke all this pot instead.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:42 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:43 PM (u82oZ)
I do not smoke pot. it was weird and dumb. *hoists glass of bourbon*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:43 PM (T/Lqj)
Nah brah, I'm good.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 17, 2023 10:43 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:43 PM (33nmr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PENxPxbogkg
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 17, 2023 10:44 PM (c5NKU)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 10:44 PM (MeG8a)
Yeah. They would exempt themselves, and then refuse to enforce it against favored underclasses. And then twist the law to kill those lesser people who disagree with them and who also used an aspirin without reading the fine print.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 10:45 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 10:45 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 10:45 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:45 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:45 PM (u82oZ)
A dozen? Not doubting you in the least but how in the hell did that happen? Bad parenting? I will withhold any further comment because it is not my place to do so.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 17, 2023 10:45 PM (Xrfse)
Sounds like you had a nice European trip, NaCly!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 17, 2023 10:45 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
"Excuse me, stewardess? I speak typo..."
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 17, 2023 10:46 PM (kjOVp)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 10:35 PM (EXyHK)
Even if it was made de jure legal, the products would still be trafficked in large quantities because the politicians would be taxing it to high heaven. That tax money would obviously all go to the politicians' cousins who happen to run NGOs that had out free Narcan though.
Posted by: Sjg at August 17, 2023 10:46 PM (Lstct)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:46 PM (33nmr)
at zerohedge there's a Ramaswamy stoty & a link to yesterday's interview that can be viewed there with Tucker
Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 10:46 PM (lCWOD)
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I worry about friends who buy the " " " legal " " " weeed next state over. How could they know whether that supply is clean? Jeez, everything is fenty now. Wish they'd just quit, but hey, guess it's not so easy.
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2023 10:47 PM (Gkog9)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 17, 2023 10:34 PM (CcQ3S)
EMT's need to wear body cams and show the footage to the ungrateful fuckers. "Here you are, dying."
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 10:47 PM (emlEe)
Until then, not so much.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 10:47 PM (adINt)
I only imbibe the finest vodka served with ice made from Camp Lejeune water before retiring to my Ukrainian beach house.
Posted by: Hunter's Dad at August 17, 2023 10:47 PM (enJYY)
I was on fentanyl during a surgical procedure. I wrote a story under it's influence, and sent it to the AoSHQ writers group.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:47 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 10:47 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: chris+opher at August 17, 2023 10:11 PM (SWTnT)
The difference being that alcohol can be enjoyed with a meal as an actual part of it. Weed, not so much.
(MEAL, people, not a munchies bender.)
Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2023 10:48 PM (83DAm)
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 10:47 PM (emlEe)
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Why waste good money?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 10:48 PM (adINt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:49 PM (u82oZ)
Fucking locusts ruin everything.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:49 PM (T/Lqj)
https://tinyurl.com/39befy4n
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 10:42 PM (KFhLj)
Favorite all time Hank Hill quote when talking to the singer of a speed metal Christian rock group.
‘ You aren’t making Christianity any better . You’re just making rock music worse ‘
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 10:49 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Infidel at August 17, 2023 10:49 PM (n2500)
I've got a big bucket of acquaintances who did that.
And yet, I'm still in CA. At least I didn't spend all that time and money and energy and PITA to move.
I accept my lot. I'll just live here with my ocean access, my views, my paid off house, my paid off cars, my elderly mom (for heaven's sake I'M elderly, my mom is north of 90 years) my low property taxes my 70 degree weather while most of the US is much hotter. I expect I'll be flamed for this post, so be it. Do your worst.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (u82oZ)
No there's no easy way to enforce it and yes I like certain addictions myself, and yes alcohol is legal and trying to make it illegal was a giant facepalm, and yes the War on Drugs like every other government boondoggle has been a miserable failure.
And I also agree that other things have the capacity to be a addictive - (relatedly, I also think programming Dopamine Websites like TikTok, FB and Twitter that treat users only like lab rats should be illegal for similar reasons) and we can't enforce *everything*.
BUT as a society we have to try. We have to try to keep people on some kind of balance between entertained, medicated and hard working. The bottom line is the country's gone and it little matters. However I do think the wide availability and legalization of certain substances is contributing somewhat to our recent terrors.
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (lX8VI)
Posted by: Sjg at August 17, 2023 10:46 PM (Lstct)
That is exactly how it is working out in Canada since they legalized pot. Every pothead and his brother figured they'd open a legal pot shop, and coin money. Bzzzzt! Wrong-O.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (pYaTk)
Seems true of Gatlinburg, TN and Stillwater, MN. And I know of Marfa, TX from the Marfa lights (UFOs).
Posted by: No One of Consequence
Yeah. Stillwater might have been a nice small town 30+ years ago, but now it's a Minneapolis/St Paul suburb. And it's always been a tourist trap.
Also, its name is stupid. "The Land of 10,000 Lakes," and Stillwater is built on a river.
Pick a lake country town instead. Brainerd, Park Rapids, Walker.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (DgGvY)
Sedona is extremely popular with New Age and spiritual personalities. That’s largely in part due to the energy vortexes, which draw visitors from all over the world.
Posted by: Splunge at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (O1uuu)
As a comparison the relationship of long term pot use to schizophrenia and lethargy are still unclear.
And those other drugs? We know far far less...except about the ones that kill you pretty much right away like fentanyl
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (lc5cP)
Put in a masoleum for his wife when she died. Town made him bury her in the cemetary. So he went out, dug her up and put her in the masoleum. Covered the casket in concrete. She's still there and he's buried there too.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (ouTlx)
Retire, and die a good death...you all have done enough damage to this point. Not that we have anyone in the wings to take over and give the REPUBLIC a fighting chance . Still, you...you quislings need to just die off...
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: Hal Dall MD at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (RZhtD)
Posted by: DB - at August 17, 2023 10:51 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:51 PM (33nmr)
You have made your local op area tolerable. Good for you!
But I bet you do not drive through Oakland on s Saturday night.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:51 PM (u82oZ)
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The obvious difference is the former is involuntary, while the latter is the freedom to choose dumb and bad things in life.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 10:52 PM (adINt)
I told her she was 100% getting abducted by aliens on her vacation. And...it seemed that she was actually really worried about it because it got her really worked up.
It was GREAT
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:52 PM (lc5cP)
I have a lot of friends.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 10:52 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 10:52 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:52 PM (33nmr)
Put in a masoleum for his wife when she died. Town made him bury her in the cemetary. So he went out, dug her up and put her in the masoleum. Covered the casket in concrete. She's still there and he's buried there too.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (ouT
Always wanted to buy a missile silo in Kansas. I think they’ve all been bought up by now.
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 10:53 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I got happily wasted before finishing the first paragraph.
Posted by: Miklos might wear gloves next time. Or probably not at August 17, 2023 10:53 PM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Hal Dall MD at August 17, 2023 10:53 PM (RZhtD)
Posted by: Roland F Hirsch at August 17, 2023 10:18 PM (oMkPq)
Interestingly, I'd put it on a list for TX, too.
Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2023 10:54 PM (83DAm)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 10:54 PM (KFhLj)
there is a regional aspect going on.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:54 PM (T/Lqj)
Glad to hear it. I pray that most of the rest of them avoid that suffering.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 17, 2023 10:54 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 10:55 PM (lCWOD)
So, uh, as long as I get Dr Fauci to approve we are good to go?
Posted by: Pete Bootyjizz in his alien costume at August 17, 2023 10:55 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: polynikes
I resent my CCM-restricted childhood, more than a little.
I never heard the best, most talented artists until after high school. Later in life I lost track of the number of times I silently said "Why was I denied this?" when hearing something great.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 17, 2023 10:55 PM (kjOVp)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:55 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 10:52 PM (adINt)
Once that choice is made, the user (many not all) is enslaved - against his will. I don't have an easy answer. My instinct is we still need to *try* and for many of the reasons Dave mentioned. If we were a society that encouraged personal responsibility over "systemic" blame than maybe yeah everyone's an adult, let them make dumb decisions kind of?
Or if our society was halfway educated.
But where we are now? Fuck no. Adding drugs to THIS mix is a fucking tinderbox.
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 10:56 PM (lX8VI)
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 17, 2023 10:56 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 10:56 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 17, 2023 10:56 PM (UsQA1)
Oakland? Vallejo? Not on your life.
Even downtown SF is for medical visits only.
My mom watching the news says hurricane Hillary could reach SF. Bring it. Wash some of the smell away.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 10:56 PM (MeG8a)
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Neither: it's the possessive "for fuck's sake."
[h/t The Wifey]
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 10:56 PM (JdE7W)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:57 PM (T/Lqj)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 10:58 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 10:58 PM (33nmr)
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Bite me! [grabs crotch]
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 10:59 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Gingy at August 17, 2023 10:59 PM (f0Xel)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:00 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 11:00 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: Infidel at August 17, 2023 11:00 PM (n2500)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:57 PM (T/Lqj)
Isn’t there a big desert in Kansas?
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: chance99 at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (HXNDP)
So eat meat? Are you crazy?!? Here smoke all this pot instead.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:42 PM (lc5cP)
I've been gobsmacked over the new narrative about vitamin D ever since it was discovered that D deficiency was a big factor in catching or getting seriously ill from Covid. Soon after that, all the "immune support" supplements removed it from their formulas and the word went out to doctors to discourage patients from taking D supplements because patients could hurt themselves. This is despite the nearly universal serious deficiencies in the population. We've got kids developing rickets, for goodness sake! The official guidance is to avoid all sun exposure and not take any supplements.
Meanwhile, vitamin D studies show that it is helpful for fighting viruses, avoiding cancer, supporting mood and mental function, avoiding diabetes, and a bunch of other benefits I can't recall right now.
Crazy.
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (33nmr)
I could go on in one about their somewhat interesting beliefs, or the utter commitment of their generally genial followers (though I will note, 8th grade me, crossing the street between buildings for classes as a kid really liked it when college-aged Way College coeds will chat me up in a flirtations manner and try to get me to attend their musical program that evening (never followed through, though some were stunners and a few of those students were professional models working out of NYC for designer clothing lines).
All of the students at the "Way College" were physically fit (it was required, for "the body is a temple" was a belief that was not questioned, and so the students were always jogging.
After Wierwile died, the ministry declined sharply (as it does with most cults), and they had to give up many of their properties.
Posted by: Big Sam at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (16Egt)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (ouTlx)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 10:54 PM (KFhLj)
Hey, Earth Boy, haven't seen you before. Why don't you take a ride in my spaceship?
Posted by: Your Friendly Flaming Alien at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (emlEe)
I got to see the last Dolittle raider, Dick Cole, at a talk at the Eisenhower Museum conference room. It was Teachers Night. He wanted to talk about his adventures in Burma, after flying over the Hump 300 times.
My friend, a plane captain for F-105s during a SE Asia government paid tour, and I asked relevant questions on maintenance, logistic chains, and morale. He liked our questions. After we sat down, the teachers asked the lamest "How did you feel when ..." questions. He excoriated them.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 11:02 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: chance99
His health, or the dead people's?
Posted by: Inquiring Mind of Miklos at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (6PEWs)
Fentanyl and oxycodone combined in that story. But my writing muse will not be drugs.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (u82oZ)
It was coherent, though. And probably something that will happen in the near future!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (Angsy)
.....
Or if our society was halfway educated.
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 10:56 PM (lX8VI)
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First, good education is 2nd most important. First on the list is moral family values. That is, education begins at home.
Second, read my first comment here about the subject. I'm not saying you have to execute everyone who commits a crime under narcotic influence but they need to be legally punished harshly for their choices and the actions they lead to.
Yeh, we're farther away from that world (faith, family, law & order) than ever before. And there lies the source of society's ills.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (adINt)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (MeG8a)
This year. Bad drought in Western Knsas. Wheat harvest yield was 122 million bushels below the average.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (u82oZ)
great road music.
you guys? I love good music. Got that from my Dad. Our tastes differed, but, dammit I love good music. I think Dad would have liked the Foo Fighters.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (T/Lqj)
And remember those complaints about COVID being racist against black people? Or however the FNM put it...anyway who gets less Vit D in the cold parts of the US? Black people or white people?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: polynikes
I have a lot to say on this, but I was eating lunch.
There is one very big difference Poly, the "war on drugs" has been perverted into a way to charge criminals for mere possession when they are caught with property or violent crimes. It is also a cash cow for local lawyers for kids caught with a joint in the car.
I hold that that is the main problem with the WOD. Possession of small quantities is doing no harm -- keep the laws against public intoxication, increase vagrancy laws to make that a crime (with drug testing) and eliminate all social services for a number of years if any drugs found in a person's system.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 17, 2023 11:04 PM (b9O/F)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 11:00 PM (xTRSc)
I had a range of 5 octaves but it has shrunk a little; I sing soprano mostly now. There are not professional choral opportunities here but I am starting with a civic chorus this fall.
Posted by: Gingy at August 17, 2023 11:04 PM (f0Xel)
Posted by: Wally at August 17, 2023 11:04 PM (VEm33)
Add deliberate Government policy to take Dads and intact families away from the Welfare crowd.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 11:04 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:04 PM (33nmr)
Evening, y'all. I haven't been to most of those small towns.
Plus, I hate tourist traps like Taos. Been there, bored in 5 minutes.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 17, 2023 11:05 PM (zHuJr)
Yes..no NARCAN...the process of Elimination by Darwinian construct.
Brutal but Relative.
Everybody makes choices...Some people make the ABSOLUTE wrong choices only once...that is how it goes.
Thank the "NO WAR ON DRUGS CROWD."
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 17, 2023 11:05 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: chance99 at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (HXNDP)
Yeah, right, health reasons. Health reasons due to smoke inhalation.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 11:05 PM (emlEe)
Add deliberate Government policy to take Dads and intact families away from the Welfare crowd.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 11:04 PM (u82oZ)
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I'm all for much less gubbernmint everywhere.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:06 PM (adINt)
"OK, he looks like a musician"
"Oh, he plays the piano really well"
"Wait. He thinks he can sing, but he can't sing."
"Is this guy a serial killer? Something's really off here."
Posted by: Splunge at August 17, 2023 11:06 PM (O1uuu)
Syracuse Sand Dunes , Sand Hills State Park and Little Gobi .
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:06 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 17, 2023 11:07 PM (ouTlx)
Johnny: "...For fuck's sake, it's $20, same as in town!"
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Racist Mormon friend back in elementary school (before '79 when the church's "prophet" decided it was a good year for blacks) would tell this joke about an inner-city English class:
Teacher: "LaKisha, can you spell 'before'?"
LaKisha: "Befo ... B-E-F-O ... Befo."
Teacher: "Da'Quonde, can YOU spell 'before'?"
Da'Quonde: "Befor ... B-E-F-O-R ... Befor."
Teacher: "DeShawn, can YOU spell 'before'?"
DeShawn: "Before ... B-E-F-O-R-E ... Before."
Teacher: "Very good, DeShawn! Can you use it in a sentence?"
DeShawn: "Two and two before."
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 11:07 PM (JdE7W)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 11:07 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: Splunge at August 17, 2023 11:08 PM (O1uuu)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 11:08 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: chance99 at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (HXNDP)
Yeah, right, health reasons. Health reasons due to smoke inhalation.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 11:05 PM (emlEe)
Health reasons. As in, some survivor is probably gonna kill me if I don't beat feet.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 11:08 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2023 10:31 PM (Vnu5T)
Seems to be an element of what makes a "good" small town to the writer.
Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2023 11:08 PM (83DAm)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (MeG8a
Can I come visit?
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 11:08 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:09 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 11:09 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:09 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Splunge at August 17, 2023 11:09 PM (O1uuu)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 11:10 PM (u82oZ)
The natives that live there are the ones who made them 'Best'. You know what ruins such small towns? Locusts moving in...frankly, most from the NE and northern midwest.
*grumble, grumble*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2023 11:10 PM (gUQwJ)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 10:50 PM (MeG8a
Can I come visit?
Posted by: Emmie
You'll need one of these
https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower
Posted by: Miklos wants one too at August 17, 2023 11:10 PM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:10 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:10 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2023 11:10 PM (u82oZ)
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Americans have to make it happen - and not by voting harder.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:11 PM (adINt)
Crazy.
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (Sf2cq)
It's not crazy. We want you to die, Emmie Bond.
Posted by: WEFinger at August 17, 2023 11:11 PM (Angsy)
Bull crap! Full of Californians in the summer and rains all winter. Reeks of liverals.
Go east, over the mountains. Cle Elum. Clean air, no crowds, good fishing and hunting. Great weather. Or go south to Patterson on the columbia river. Real small. Also good hunting and fishing. Great summers and a shit load of wineries.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2023 11:11 PM (hv9bm)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:11 PM (33nmr)
190 Ramaswamy is a good candidate except I couldn’t vote for him just based on his at the least tacit support on legalizing hard drugs.
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 10:45 PM (MNhXM)
The old I agree with him 95% of the time but that 5% is a deal breaker.
This is why the left wins long term. They’ll happily take a 60/40 split. While the right says fuck off to a 99/1 split because it’s 100/0 or nothing.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:12 PM (Oc5p4)
I agree adjustments should be made but my comment was in regard to eliminating the war on drugs . War on murder /rape also has a lot more injustices than I would like to see.
My point is mainly don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:12 PM (MNhXM)
Let's see if Joe can tell them apart and doesn't call anyone 'Chinese'.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 11:12 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:13 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:13 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: The Government at August 17, 2023 11:13 PM (KFhLj)
The real problem is how they used the War on Drugs, to subvert Civil Liberties. Asset Forfeiture laws? Where they seize cash if you have it and you have to SUE to get it back... oh, and the cops department gets a cut?
SWAT teams? No knock Raids? BANKS being told they do NOT have to give you an account, because the government does not like the business you are in? (started going after drugs, but now being used on guns).
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 17, 2023 11:13 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 11:12 PM (krqg6)
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Here's hoping a peace agreement is signed and the war will finally be over!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:14 PM (adINt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PENxPxbogkg
Posted by: SMH
Thanks for the link SMH. Apparently the guy had no experience. No surprise here. That’s how liberals operate. Whoever his boss is needs to go next. Then let the civil suits begin! Because we know there will be no criminal charges.
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 11:14 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 17, 2023 11:14 PM (bQKgA)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 17, 2023 10:37 PM (2tUFv)
Can you use it in an airgun? Like Marlin Perkins would shoot a rhino with?
Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2023 11:14 PM (83DAm)
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:14 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (V13WU)
A while ago, a comment by Ace caught my attention: "More Americans have died from fentanyl poisoning in the last couple years than have died in the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined but we never talk about it."
My totals were:
War Dead in those five wars: Around 119,100 KIA.
Fentanyl deaths from 2015-21: Around 250,000 deaths.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 11:14 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:13 PM (V13WU)
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Search for "vitamin d and k".
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:15 PM (adINt)
Yeah... but... mission creep... the WAR on Terror is now the legal rationale for us having troops in... Niger?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 17, 2023 11:15 PM (oHd/0)
If I shoot someone, that's an actual crime and should be prosecuted.
If I drive 75 in a 65 zone, that's still a crime, but it's a potential thing, since I've done nothing physically a crime. I haven't run anyone over or crashed into another car, but I get a ticket because I MIGHT have done so.
I think it's kind of the same with drugs. I might smoke weed and back my truck over some homeless person....hang on, that should merit a medal, but it's still considered a crime--or I might smoke week and do nothing harmful at all.
But if I'm caught smoking weed, I get charged with a crime.
PS: I've never smoked weed. Drugs scare me.
PSS: I've been drinking too much...which is essentially smoking weed!
It's just odd that there are laws about actual crimes (murder) and potential crimes (speeding).
I'm sure they're all there to keep us under various heels.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 17, 2023 11:15 PM (CHHv1)
Ah I thought we were disagreeing
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 11:15 PM (lX8VI)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (CHHv1)
"Why is it so easy for the Japanese to stay so thin??"
"That's easy. The last time there was a fat man in Japan, a whole city disappeared."
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: The Government at August 17, 2023 11:13 PM (KFhLj)
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Can EZ-Pass be used?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (adINt)
At times in Portland, people with heart attacks have to wait, because all the ambulances are tied up, with many of them reviving addicts.
The statistic I haven't seen is:
What is your expected life expectancy if you are Narcanned on the street in Portland?
I bet it is under a year.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Jonah
And Grohl was fine with that while with Nirvana. I think Foo Fighters are probably what Nirvana would have morphed to had Cobain not kill himself. Grohl is a better singer though.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (C7jzY)
Posted by: Wally at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (VEm33)
Posted by: Inquiring Mind of Miklos at August 17, 2023 11:03 PM (6PEWs)
He was feeling an impending constriction of his neck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (SVgR8)
Posted by: Miklos Day and the Knights at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (6PEWs)
America is a wondrous nation. And, I will say this: the movie Red Dawn. Imagine that times 10,000. America has a shit-ton of places like that. Except for that the cast had access to blow-combs and showers and razors, and clean clothes.
Other than that, we'll be like wolverines and stuff!!
Man, I would love a shave right now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (T/Lqj)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:09 PM (V13WU)
Please set into the handbasket.
Posted by: Guy with Pitchfork at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (Angsy)
Honor 'em. They died in our place, for us.
Fentanyl deaths from 2015-21: Around 250,000 deaths.
F*ck 'em. They died of self-indulgence.
Posted by: Splunge at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (O1uuu)
Posted by: It's Festivus in August at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 11:15 PM (lX8VI
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What did I write which made you think otherwise?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (adINt)
Crazy.
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (Sf2cq)
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About 15 years ago I considered becoming, and studied to become, a "medical transcriptionist" (isn't that what MP4 does?). [It seems that most doctors now just use voice translation.]
Anywho, my "practice physician" (after having studied anatomy, biology, pharmacology, et. al.) was based in Seattle -- and EVERY SINGLE PATIENT he saw was diagnosed with "Hypovitaminosis D" (Vitamin D deficiency).
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (JdE7W)
Posted by: Big Sam at August 17, 2023 11:01 PM (16Egt)
The Way was recruiting on my college campus. I checked it out to see what they had to say for themselves. They torture a lot of Greek to get the Bible to say what they want. It was interesting to see them make their case -- I had only had two years of Greek, but they had only had two weeks. Their basic heresy is that Jesus is not God the Son.
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 11:18 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 10:42 PM (lc5cP)
Yep.
Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2023 11:18 PM (83DAm)
Posted by: JB1000 at August 17, 2023 11:18 PM (lPzYT)
"That's easy. The last time there was a fat man in Japan, a whole city disappeared."
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (krqg6)
I'm going to burn in hell for laughing so hard.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2023 11:18 PM (hv9bm)
But the trip down I-81 to Blacksburg will be nice.
Goodnight.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 11:19 PM (xTRSc)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2023 11:18 PM (hv9bm)
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Here I was thinking the joke bombed.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:20 PM (adINt)
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (JdE7W)
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You know who else got daily placebo vitamin shots from his quack doctor?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 17, 2023 11:20 PM (bQKgA)
Posted by: Mookie Betts at August 17, 2023 11:20 PM (6PEWs)
F*ck 'em. They died of self-indulgence.
Posted by: Splunge at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (O1uuu)
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Biden is approaching Fauci levels of mass murder.
When the Left demolishes and refashions Mt. Rushmore in the visages of, and to honor, their heroes, it'll now be a "Murderer's Row" of Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Fauci, and Biden.
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 11:20 PM (JdE7W)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:20 PM (33nmr)
To give your point a proper legal explanation: "The distinction between malum in se and malum prohibitum offenses is best characterized as follows: a malum in se offense is "naturally evil as adjudged by the sense of a civilized community," whereas a malum prohibitum offense is wrong only because a statute makes it so."
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2023 11:21 PM (S6gqv)
They don't get caught raping, murdering or stealing, the cops knows who they are and can't or don't do shit, but they *do* get caught with drugs, and then they go away.
It's not a fantastic justification but it's a hard truth of our world. These criminals *ruin* lives by the millions. My thoughts on this are ever-shifting and I am less in favor of the "system" than I used to be, but still I retain a soft spot for this and cannot help it. "All poor innocent Johnny did was have a few crack rocks in his possession". No... poor innocent Johnny was a known criminal lowlife thug who had a few crack rocks in his possession.
Like I said, it's like getting Capone on tax evasion. Is it "right"? I don't fucking know, probably not, I just hate these asshole violent criminal shitfucks. If I had the power, I would do a lot worse than "get them" on possession, so I'm probably not the one to ask.
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 11:21 PM (lX8VI)
Why can’t one ever write a comment at aos without spelling out everything . You can never assume people will understand the obvious.
Of course I would vote for him if there wasn’t a better alternative . Right now based on his support to legalize hard drugs there are a number of better alternatives . I’m only a double issue voter on the Second Amendment and Pro Life.
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:21 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:21 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:22 PM (33nmr)
Romeo - Agreed.
So the question is, can any law against anything survive Government grifting to make it a source of income and power? Maybe the best solution is like Japan, where they try to keep secure at the border and death penalty if caught with large quantity. So primarily just border enforcement and legalize possession of small quantities.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 17, 2023 11:22 PM (b9O/F)
Posted by: Cicero
That's MISTER Betts to you
Posted by: Mookie Betts at August 17, 2023 11:20 PM (6PEWs)
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"Rickey don't play dat, homey!"
Posted by: Rickey Henderson at August 17, 2023 11:22 PM (JdE7W)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:22 PM (adINt)
Posted by: Wally
Small town as in the Post Office is one window over from the Board of Elections (where you can also pay your utility bills) and hard by the lunch counter small?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 11:23 PM (SAX5G)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 17, 2023 11:23 PM (f0XAF)
In the future, because you have decided that looking into your child`s eye and speaking to them like a normal human is outdated, they will, within a few years, look into your eye and tell you that you are outdated.
Posted by: irright at August 17, 2023 11:24 PM (7TGq0)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 11:24 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 11:24 PM (KFhLj)
I. Loathe. I 70.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 11:24 PM (T/Lqj)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:24 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:24 PM (MNhXM)
"That's easy. The last time there was a fat man in Japan, a whole city disappeared."
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 11:16 PM (krqg6)
I'm going to burn in hell for laughing so hard.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2023 11
You'll have company.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 11:24 PM (TZ75n)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:25 PM (V13WU)
In a town so small the North End Bar and the SouthSide Tap were across the street from each other.
Posted by: Wally at August 17, 2023 11:25 PM (VEm33)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2023 11:25 PM (gJagN)
And it seems like the scales are tilted towards towns that might appeal to artsy-fartsy fags.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The beauty of small towns centers around the people not the shiny stuff.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 17, 2023 11:26 PM (5p8mn)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 17, 2023 11:22 PM (b9O/F)
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Make
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 11:26 PM (JdE7W)
I. Loathe. I 70.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
The eastern part is worse than the western part. If that helps.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 11:26 PM (TZ75n)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:27 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:27 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 11:27 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 17, 2023 11:28 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:28 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: Splunge at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (O1uuu)
That is true but where did the fentanyl come from that was used to cut drugs? The same country that waged war on us by creating and releasing COVID on the world. And we may have been very lucky it was just COVID they 'gain-of-functioned', using it to inflict damage on the world.
China is at war with us. But we have a government compromised by China so no big deal.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 11:28 PM (emlEe)
Tell China and Mexico that there is a drug emergency, and hencforth all cargo will be searched at border. Shut them down. They will crack down on their drug and precursor industry in a heartbeat.
We could add drug charges to carriers and owners of trucks and ships caught (with death penalty) and that outlawing Narcan idea above is cracking good.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 17, 2023 11:28 PM (b9O/F)
I'm currently in Sarasota, which I guess qualifies as a small town. Just got Little moved in to his dorm and found a great Cuban cafe with a patio where I enjoyed a great lechon asado washed down with by a Modelo Negra. Not long after my first mojito arrived, I lit my cigar (La Perla Havana).
Had the patio to myself and was sheltered from the accompanying thunderstorm when the owner and his wife came out. He presented me with a Cuban corona. I now have family in Sarasota. Yeah, small town
Queue John Melloncamp..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2023 11:29 PM (anMtU)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:29 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
They claw up your couch and have kittens on your pants in the closet.
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 11:29 PM (wu87C)
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It's almost as if the tens of millions of third world illegal alien military-age peasants flooding across the southern border immediately go right on the dole ... or something.
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 11:29 PM (JdE7W)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 10:21 PM (T/Lqj)
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Cool town with a great name, Ten Sleep. I do like Cody better, however.
Posted by: scampydog at August 17, 2023 11:29 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Unkaren at August 17, 2023 11:29 PM (LPkjK)
I remember a leftwing candidate for the House years ago laying out his plan to end unemployment...namely the government would hire anyone that didn't have a job.
A reporter actually did his job that day and asked, "What if someone did want the job the government gave them?" And the answer? "They'd be forced to do it of course"
And if and when the left gets its fully socialist system this will be the fate of the FSA...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 11:30 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:30 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:30 PM (V13WU)
My doctor had me start taking daily vitamin D the summer after COVID hit. For the generic “it helps protect you from getting sick”.
You did have me freaked out for a moment about the other pills I take. Fortunately the Big Lots 29+ supplement hasn’t removed Vitamin D (yet). But it’s not marketed as an immune support supplement, just general health.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 11:31 PM (EXyHK)
They're already running things here.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 11:31 PM (MeG8a)
Of course I would vote for him if there wasn’t a better alternative . Right now based on his support to legalize hard drugs there are a number of better alternatives . I’m only a double issue voter on the Second Amendment and Pro Life.
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:21 PM (MNhXM)
Some policies are stupid enough that they have to be deal breakers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2023 11:32 PM (SVgR8)
Fentanyl deaths from 2015-21: Around 250,000 deaths.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 11:14 PM (emlEe)
And how many died of Covid and the jab?
Remember also, birth rates were flat in the US before Covid
Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 11:32 PM (xhaym)
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I am talking about the private industry that is begging for more foreign help, so I am offering to help them
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:32 PM (V13WU)
No anonymity. I hate that aspect. Teaching in a small town over the past year taught me this.
The way I corrected this (and it is quite easy as there is little to do there) is to conduct as much business as possible out of town. To prevent a store visit from turning into an impromptu parent-teacher or coach-teacher conference, I decided to buy groceries, etc in a neighboring county. And if I ran into anyone from the school there, I just went further out.
At graduation, which I had to attend, the whole town turned out, and the only thing I could think of was a poem by a world renowned Canadian poet and percussionist called "Limelight".
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 17, 2023 11:32 PM (f0XAF)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:32 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: runner
Lots of people who need drugs are fucked up either from mental illness or abuse, physical injuries, etc. Nobody gets up one day and thinks hmm let’s get addicted to some awful
Shit for fun.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:32 PM (Oc5p4)
That covers a lot of users. But what to do about the horrendous scenes in Philly and SF and Seattle?
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 17, 2023 11:33 PM (VqMPd)
Almost as if the ChiComms, Mexican Cartels, and their Biden Butt-Boy Junta has a Death Wish for America ... or something.
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 11:33 PM (JdE7W)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:29 PM (33nmr)
What’s that got to do with the Foo Fighters being better than Nirvana and Grohl having more talent.
Just in my opinion of course.
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:33 PM (MNhXM)
Grohl has twice the talent of Cobain .
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:24 PM (MNhXM)
Dave Grohl is cool as fuck. He once talked about hanging out with Dimebag Darrell. He saw how Darryl owned whatever room he was in, and not artificially. Dime was the real deal.
And I apologize if I spelled Darell's name wrong. My cousin spell his wrong too.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 11:33 PM (T/Lqj)
2024 is when the Democrates will attempt to secure 1 party rule in the United States...for ever.
Hope you all are ready for that.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 17, 2023 11:34 PM (UsQA1)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 17, 2023 11:34 PM (f0XAF)
There was a time when I could have believed that. Sadly, I now believer that it is not "solved" because a huge number of people in DC, and in the state governments of the worst hit areas, are actively facilitating the trafficking of it, and raking in the payoffs. And they are running interference at the highest levels, making sure that no serious attempt will ever be made to slow the traffic down.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2023 11:34 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:34 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 11:35 PM (T/Lqj)
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:27 PM (Oc5p4)
Who?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2023 11:35 PM (SVgR8)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 17, 2023 10:06 PM (HjWhl)
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^^This, for Pete's sake^^
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 17, 2023 11:35 PM (VqMPd)
I've been listening to them a lot lately.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 11:35 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 11:35 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:36 PM (33nmr)
They're already running things here.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 11:31 PM (MeG8a)
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TikTok has a lousy ROI.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 17, 2023 11:37 PM (bQKgA)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (adINt)
Fuck I don't know. Now you're just confusing me. And I don't do confusion at night. Catch me in the day sometime, I whittle the days away being befuddled but night is my fun time.
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 11:37 PM (lX8VI)
And for WI, New Glarus beats Mineral Point any day.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 17, 2023 11:37 PM (LOVUx)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 17, 2023 11:34 PM (f0XAF)
—-
Itbwas more than just the music. It was the anti-80/s hair band revolution that they led.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:37 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 11:35 PM (T/Lqj)
I noticed that too😀
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:37 PM (MNhXM)
A reporter actually did his job that day and asked, "What if someone did want the job the government gave them?" And the answer? "They'd be forced to do it of course"
And if and when the left gets its fully socialist system this will be the fate of the FSA...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 11:30 PM (lc5cP)
what if the unemployed guy is black and the job they give him is out in the field picking cotton?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2023 11:37 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 11:31 PM (EXyHK
I've only noticed it being taken out of immune support stuff, not regular multivitamins. I recently asked my husband's dermatologist, who had just treated a cancerous lesion, about the value of vitamin D and he specifically said not to take it because it's fat-soluble and it can hurt you if too much builds up in your system. And of course, the office handout said to avoid all sun exposure, especially during midday when your body can make D from it.
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 11:38 PM (Sf2cq)
2024 is when the Democrates will attempt to secure 1 party rule in the United States...for ever.
Hope you all are ready for that.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 17, 2023 11:34 PM (UsQA1)
They secured that in 2008 my friend, and possibly well before that.
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 11:38 PM (lX8VI)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:38 PM (33nmr)
What’s that got to do with the Foo Fighters being better than Nirvana and Grohl having more talent.
Just in my opinion of course.
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:33 PM (MNhXM)
We are agreeing on way too many things
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 11:39 PM (lX8VI)
It’s called “the web” and I’m pretty sure it’s being used. A (leftist) acquaintance at my writers group was recommending the Barbie movie and made a side complaint about how much she hates buying tickets on line. The web page showed all the good seats as taken! And then they went to theater and only like three people showed up. Clearly something wrong with their system.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 11:39 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 11:39 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 11:32 PM (xhaym)
Those numbers are still to be determined (long term). But I'm sure there will be no push to have 'the COVID jab' listed as a cause of death.
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 11:39 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11
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I was and still am.
Have seen them in concert several times over the years.
Billy is a conservative too. So double awesome.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:39 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: Splunge at August 17, 2023 11:17 PM (O1uuu)
Oh how I have tried
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 11:40 PM (lX8VI)
Posted by: Jonah
But “lost” it ti RINOs. So the didn’t really lose it.
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 11:41 PM (wu87C)
I went to the beach earlier and saw a seagull dying in the sand. It wasn't bloody or mangled. But it looked sad. And tired. I wanted to walk up and comfort it, but thought better and just stood there. And I said a prayer.
On my way back, it looked more tired, the tip of its beak touching the sand and its eyes mostly closed. It was a beautiful bird, Snow White and grey. I said another prayer and wished it well.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 17, 2023 11:41 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 11:41 PM (T/Lqj)
Fer Fuck's sake!! SMH, if I had your phone number I would be calling you at 430 tomorrow morning just so you could hear the screams from the nightmare I know is coming.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 17, 2023 11:41 PM (5p8mn)
To me, Foo Fighters is like someone heard The Toadies and said, "Let's make this way more commercial and then make the same album repeatedly."
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 11:41 PM (KFhLj)
Posted by: Johnny Lanctot at August 17, 2023 11:41 PM (EtRph)
Freaking Karens.
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:42 PM (MNhXM)
The price never changed so I shelved the idea.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 17, 2023 11:42 PM (f0XAF)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Uncanny.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 11:42 PM (bA3Ln)
Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 11:42 PM (lX8VI)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 11:42 PM (KFhLj)
See you
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 17, 2023 11:42 PM (fY84s)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 17, 2023 11:43 PM (f0XAF)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:43 PM (33nmr)
Fer Fuck's sake!! SMH, if I had your phone number I would be calling you at 430 tomorrow morning just so you could hear the screams from the nightmare I know is coming.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 17, 2023 11:41 PM (5p8mn)
Of course, I had to click SMH's link, and of course, the nightmares will also come for me...
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at August 17, 2023 11:43 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 11:43 PM (T/Lqj)
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:43 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:44 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Tom Servo
One jumps around, turns around, and picks a bale of cotton.
Picks a bale a day, Comrade
Posted by: Your and Everyone's Betters at August 17, 2023 11:44 PM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 11:44 PM (TZ75n)
When Prestonworld did their Saturday Nights In Dallas CCM broadcasts, I would do everything from chauffeuring the talent from airport to the Intercontinental Hotel to the venue, hang stage lighting and operate the stage camera I got to meet and dine with a lot of the big names in CCM (other than Amy Grant and Stryper).
Without a doubt the most genuine were Jerry Williams and Ed Kerr of Harvest. Those two would hang out until midnight and beyond to one-on-one with any of the concert goers afterwards if they thought that they could be of any spiritual help to them.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 11:44 PM (p8A+W)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 17, 2023 11:44 PM (f0XAF)
I once heard Nugent say that the idiot used a quail load
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 11:44 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: ...
MotherLoveBone.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 11:45 PM (bA3Ln)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:45 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 11:46 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
I did, too. Can't remember the name of it.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 11:46 PM (TZ75n)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 11:47 PM (krqg6)
That’s why they’re remembered so fondly.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:47 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 11:47 PM (T/Lqj)
Posted by: the Karens and their cuckmen at August 17, 2023 11:47 PM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:47 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Montec
Revolution? Upper middle class kids wearing blue collar clothes, doing hard drugs and bitching about mommy and daddy not paying attention to them. That's a revolution?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 17, 2023 11:47 PM (5p8mn)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 11:47 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 11:39 PM (EXyHK)
Warner Brothers buying up the tickets to make the movie look popular?
Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2023 11:48 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:49 PM (33nmr)
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If you can stomach a small bit of Howard Stern, here's Dave Grohl managing the drums in a rockin rendition of Walk This Way.
https://youtu.be/WrB9pVjFQio
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 17, 2023 11:49 PM (bQKgA)
Posted by: Sock Monkey
No
Because it was televised.
On MTV
Posted by: Gil Scott Miklos-Heron at August 17, 2023 11:49 PM (6PEWs)
Ouray, Cuchara, La Veta, Hotchkiss, Palisade.
Hell, even Slick Rock, Pagosa Springs, Paonia, the list goes on. Pinewood Springs, Monte Vista, South Fork
Lamar, birthplace of Ken Curtis (Festus).
Fruita, birthplace of Seamus Muldoon.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2023 11:50 PM (991eG)
More of this, please.
Accountants with deadly weapons, what could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 11:50 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:50 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 17, 2023 11:51 PM (b9O/F)
• drug addiction
• no work ethic
• undependable
• think they are grossly underpaid
This is the bane of any employer. I remember I was at a Jeep repair shop and noticed a small puddle of antifreeze on the floor in the small customer waiting area so I silently mopped it up with paper towel when the manager walked in, noticed, asked, and then told me that he couldn't get anyone who would care and take initiative to clean that spill.
Apparently most people just mail it in and do the minimum
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 11:51 PM (p8A+W)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:51 PM (33nmr)
And, while the grunge scene ruled the airwaves and Headbanger's Ball, one night on my way home from work my senior year I caught a song on the radio by some band from New York called Dream Theater...
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 17, 2023 11:52 PM (f0XAF)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:53 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Sock Monkey
No
—
Compare the top albums of 1990 and 1992.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 11:53 PM (Oc5p4)
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 11:38 PM (Sf2cq)
Doctors trust the big medical papers like Nature and so on. Now everyone is afraid of the sun and what it can do. What makes me excited is that for one, sun is supposed to cause cancer, which is why the oncologist inspects your skin all over including between your toes and scalp which generally don't get much sun.
Since D and Melatonin are both used in treatment of the Spike protein, and are actually hormones, I suspect they will soon be reclassified as prescription only, the way Quinine was.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 11:53 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 11:54 PM (33nmr)
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2023 11:50 PM (991eG)
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Nice, but I'd like to visit the birthplace of Seamus McFly.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 17, 2023 11:54 PM (bQKgA)
Posted by: Jonah”
Eddie Vedder thinks Jon Cusack is John Lennon?
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 11:54 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 11:54 PM (TZ75n)
No idea who, but I suspect someone is.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 11:55 PM (EXyHK)
It was pretty epic.
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 17, 2023 11:55 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: Jonah
That whole Facelift album is great.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 11:56 PM (TZ75n)
Mine is Overkill. No pun intended.
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:57 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 11:57 PM (wu87C)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 11:53 PM (xhaym)
The FDA was considering taking NAC back off the OTC market after it was touted for Covid, but apparently didn't follow through. I assume they would have if it caught on as a remedy.
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 11:58 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 17, 2023 11:58 PM (KFhLj)
Working title?
Throw Another Shrimp on the Barbie
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2023 11:58 PM (991eG)
Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 18, 2023 12:00 AM (wu87C)
Working title?
Throw Another Shrimp on the Barbie
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2023 11:58 PM (991eG)
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Wouldn't you know it. The SadOboe production crew has already left for the night.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 18, 2023 12:00 AM (bQKgA)
Picked up NAC, D, Zinc and Quercetin after getting COVID at the beginning of the year. Seemed to help. Will probably start taking it after Thanksgiving as a preventative..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 18, 2023 12:02 AM (anMtU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2023 12:02 AM (SVgR8)
Posted by: nogooddeed at August 18, 2023 12:03 AM (mFj/Q)
Posted by: nogooddeed at August 18, 2023 12:04 AM (mFj/Q)
Posted by: Infidel at August 17, 2023 11:00 PM (n2500)
Many years ago I drove - very slowly - through a herd of sheep being driven along US 40 somewhere west of Craig.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 18, 2023 12:04 AM (llON8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 18, 2023 12:05 AM (KFhLj)
https://www.youtube.com/@Campbellteaching/
search?query=vitamin%20d
Posted by: Emmie at August 18, 2023 12:05 AM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: nogooddeed at August 18, 2023 12:06 AM (mFj/Q)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
Not my cup of tea but admittedly an extremely talented band. Junior graduated from blasting Megadeath from his room to try to annoy me, to Dream Theater. I appreciated the change. Regarding Dave Grohl's talent, I seriously doubt John Paul Jones and Jon Hamm would have collaborated with Cobain
https://tinyurl.com/5ahrnypr
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 18, 2023 12:07 AM (5p8mn)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2023 12:07 AM (TZ75n)
Posted by: Emmie at August 17, 2023 11:58 PM (Sf2cq)
NAC is also part of the multi-vitamin treatment for post covid/jab, along with Nattokinase and L-Citrulline
Oh, and take aspirin for good luck.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 18, 2023 12:07 AM (xhaym)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 18, 2023 12:07 AM (fY84s)
So what are your thoughts on this? Where's the line?
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Sometimes people face situations where all the choices are bad. In those situations it is a guarantee that critics will point out that someone made a bad choice. Well, of course they did, because there was not a good choice available.
I feel that way about drugs. Legalization is a bad choice. Criminalization is also a bad choice. Which one is worse? Most likely that depends on a number of things that will change with the passage of time.
However, for now, I think criminalization is the worst choice of the bad choices, but that in now way makes me think that the other choice will ever become a good one.
Posted by: jc at August 18, 2023 12:08 AM (N1WXz)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 11:54 PM (TZ75n)
And, he really can't sing, but you know. He's famous. So, there's that.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 18, 2023 12:09 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 18, 2023 12:09 AM (KFhLj)
Oh, and take aspirin for good luck.
Posted by: Kindltot
I'll keep making them.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2023 12:09 AM (TZ75n)
My wife can me laughing on the porch. I'm not sharing that one.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at August 18, 2023 12:09 AM (5p8mn)
This based on my 1986- 1993 viewpoint.
Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2023 12:10 AM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2023 11:58 PM (991eG)
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LOL
Posted by: scampydog at August 18, 2023 12:11 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2023 12:12 AM (SVgR8)
And my thing about CCM is that while at least the lyrics aren't woke or perverted the music and singing and production is standard contemporary MOR women's clothes store music which I cannot stand. Best rock worship song ever is "Jesus Done Left Chicago" by ZZ Top. Read the lyrics, there's nothing disrespectful about it at all. Of course, you have to look the other way once "La Grange" or "Legs" start up...
Posted by: azjaeger at August 18, 2023 12:12 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 18, 2023 12:09 AM (KFhLj)
Northeast Texas have a lot of nice smaller towns. The hail and tornado weather keeps me from relocating there.
Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2023 12:14 AM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 18, 2023 12:16 AM (f0XAF)
We didn’t do it very long or widespread like the Nazis. It was even over the counter in Germany. And they did have big addiction issues. We just went back to the tried and true caffeine.
Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2023 12:16 AM (MNhXM)
Posted by: jc at August 18, 2023 12:08 AM (N1WXz)
The simple truth is that there are those with addictive personalities, who cannot avoid indulging, and cannot be trusted to not poison themselves, over and over and over.
I guess it depends on how many dead people you want to know, in the long run.
Can happen with food, or booze, but it's much quicker and devastating with hard drugs. Keep 'em illegal. Make it a crime. And for heaven's sake, keep 'em away from kids.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 18, 2023 12:17 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: gourmand du jour
Someday soon we may find out
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Accountant in recovery at August 18, 2023 12:17 AM (5p8mn)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 18, 2023 12:17 AM (hSa/7)
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 17, 2023 11:33 PM (VqMPd)
Issue the Last Responders some suppressed .22 pistols with subsonic ammo. The down n' outers have made their choices, let them eternally enjoy the outcomes.
Okay, that's an exaggeration, but not by much.
Issue the Last Responders with pens that LOOK like Narcan injectors, but aren't.
"...Hey, we TRIED!" brand injectors.
The few thousand taken from Seattle or Portland will slow to a trickle, and the cities can reclaim the tainted spaces, for commerce and NORMAL people, once more.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2023 12:18 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2023 12:18 AM (TZ75n)
Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2023 12:19 AM (n2500)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 18, 2023 12:19 AM (bQKgA)
Issue the Last Responders with pens that LOOK like Narcan injectors, but aren't.
"...Hey, we TRIED!" brand injectors.
The few thousand taken from Seattle or Portland will slow to a trickle, and the cities can reclaim the tainted spaces, for commerce and NORMAL people, once more.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
+++++++++++++
Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooo-hoooo. Stealing that for a piece of dystopian fiction. (Don't worry, as if. I don't write fiction.)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2023 12:22 AM (GfaCo)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2023 12:23 AM (TZ75n)
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:50 PM (MNhXM)
The version on Howard Stern was mindblowing.
Posted by: ... at August 18, 2023 12:24 AM (lX8VI)
* releases loud, satisfying fart*
Long live free range farts!
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Accountant in recovery at August 18, 2023 12:24 AM (5p8mn)
If a kid OD's at home, let the family administer all the Narcan they want, at their expense. I am just talking here about Narcan administered by "the system".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2023 12:25 AM (SVgR8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 18, 2023 12:09 AM (KFhLj)
*Waves hand*
Posted by: Robert at August 18, 2023 12:26 AM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: I still can't think of anything at August 18, 2023 12:26 AM (jTzHO)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 18, 2023 12:31 AM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: azjaeger at August 18, 2023 12:31 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Muldoon
The anatomically correct statue is real, and it's MAGNIFICENT
Posted by: as reported to Miklos at August 18, 2023 12:32 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2023 12:33 AM (S6gqv)
But all these years I thought Mary was on about Gerbil Warming.
My hearing is not what it used to be.
Posted by: Concerned Woman of Brattleboro at August 18, 2023 12:35 AM (6PEWs)
My hearing is not what it used to be.
Posted by: Concerned Woman of Brattleboro at August 18, 2023 12:35 AM (6PEWs)
If you don't worm your gerbils, they might crawl up your fart tube, and wreak havoc.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2023 12:37 AM (SVgR8)
Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 11:50 PM (MNhXM)
The version on Howard Stern was mindblowing.
Posted by: ... at August 18, 2023 12:24 AM (lX8VI)
Yes I remember that. They also performed My Hero.
Posted by: polynikes at August 18, 2023 12:37 AM (MNhXM)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2023 12:38 AM (f0liU)
Sadly, the Bastrop area is also very rapidly become Austin, SOUTH.
I would not be buying a homestead there, though INVESTING in land there might be the option of a lifetime.
In 20 years, it'll be joined at the hip to the Austin metroplex, which in it's own way, will join to San Antonio via what WAS "san marcos" and "new braunfels".
I-35 is a cancer which ate out Central Texas, is still claims victims to this day.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2023 12:39 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Late Nite with Prez Joe at August 18, 2023 12:40 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2023 12:42 AM (SVgR8)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 18, 2023 12:43 AM (f0XAF)
* Off the top of my head that list is Trader Joe's (for pizza dough), H-mart, professional sports and a good (hobby) fish store other than places like Petsmart.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 18, 2023 12:45 AM (CcQ3S)
https://tinyurl.com/22z54u6x
And I had to read the subtitles.
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There's another more extensive photo update #150 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
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Now most nights as well
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Posted by: Ciampino - Would a T-Rex be considered a small arms dealer...? at August 18, 2023 12:46 AM (qfLjt)
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Never trust a librarian
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 18, 2023 12:48 AM (bQKgA)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 18, 2023 12:53 AM (KFhLj)
Not even the sexy ones?
But they have the books!
Yes, and if you make one little mistake they'll throw the book at you.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 18, 2023 12:54 AM (Bd6X8)
https://tinyurl.com/2p9xaswb
Posted by: 13times at August 18, 2023 12:54 AM (wSxXC)
A reporter actually did his job that day and asked, "What if someone did want the job the government gave them?" And the answer? "They'd be forced to do it of course"
Posted by: 18-1
+++++++++++++++++
I don't get it. Person gets job that person wants, why is person "forced" to do it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2023 12:59 AM (GfaCo)
Just seen on Twitter:
At this point, I would feel safer if COVID held a press conference telling us how it's going to save us from the government.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2023 01:03 AM (GfaCo)
It is still personable. It's not small. My son is starting college there now. It is incredibly different than when I played vball matches there 28 years ago, but it still has personality. New Braunfels is so much bigger now too.
Posted by: nogooddeed at August 18, 2023 01:05 AM (mFj/Q)
Posted by: nogooddeed at August 18, 2023 01:06 AM (mFj/Q)
Posted by: nogooddeed
Me too
On my fully restored and airworthy B-24, fitted out as a flying Winnebago
Posted by: Miklos might need a license for that at August 18, 2023 01:10 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: SFGoth at August 18, 2023 01:10 AM (yx1nB)
Posted by: Sexy Librarian, removing glasses at August 18, 2023 01:11 AM (6PEWs)
I remember going to Canyon Lake repeatedly with the family on vacation and that definitely meant entering the countryside. Try that now.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 18, 2023 01:12 AM (f0XAF)
Discovering more fun people on Twitter.
Me: "Is this the alcoholic hotline?"
Answer: "Yes, it is."
Me: "How do I make a mojito?"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2023 01:14 AM (GfaCo)
Posted by: Miklosian Guessifications GmbH at August 18, 2023 01:15 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Rusty Trawler at August 18, 2023 01:17 AM (1gif2)
Posted by: chris+opher
Some of us listen to BOC rather than Foghat....
Posted by: SFGoth at August 18, 2023 01:18 AM (yx1nB)
"Behind the stacks", Young Man.
NOW
But first, remove my silken garments so that my heaving breasts may have the pleasure of your Manly touch
Posted by: Librarian who actually majored in Popular Literature at August 18, 2023 01:20 AM (6PEWs)
I have never read of a WWII B-24 pilot who actually reported enjoying the flying qualities of the airplane, nor being much in love with it as a machine with which they bonded.
Rather, they universally reported it as akin to flying an ill mannered dump truck, with few redeeming qualities other than payload and range.
The B-17 garnered MUCH love from those who flew it. Won't repeat it here, the histories are replete with it's praises.
But no WWII aircraft has been MORE converted to Flying Winnebago status than the PBY-5A Catalina.
Put THAT in yer Funk & Wagnalls and smoke it!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2023 01:20 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 18, 2023 01:21 AM (MeG8a)
Answer: "Yes, it is."
Me: "How do I make a mojito?"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Wax on, wax off?
Posted by: Pat Morito at August 18, 2023 01:23 AM (6PEWs)
Our cities are unlivable.
What we are witnessing is the collapse of civilization.
Posted by: Arradin at August 18, 2023 01:23 AM (5kvQv)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2023 01:23 AM (GfaCo)
Put THAT in yer Funk & Wagnalls and smoke it!
Jim
Thanx
Posted by: Miklos agrees, wastes another $3 on lottery tickets at August 18, 2023 01:24 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Hiro Hito at August 18, 2023 01:24 AM (6PEWs)
Sunk New Dawn
I only mentioned the B-24 because I know a little about them.
My uncle was killed when his Liberator was shot down over occupied France.
Posted by: Miklos at August 18, 2023 01:26 AM (6PEWs)
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Water landings did not much suit B-24's. I had a friend who participated in one. 11 men on board, 4 survivors.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2023 01:28 AM (VG0cN)
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Some of us listened to both. And more! We played the heck out of ALL THE ALBUMS
Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2023 01:32 AM (Gkog9)
Posted by: ... at August 18, 2023 01:35 AM (lX8VI)
Posted by: Miklos would quote Judge Learned Hand, but too long at August 18, 2023 01:37 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: JQ
Only counts if 8-track
Posted by: Miklos survived the 70s at August 18, 2023 01:38 AM (6PEWs)
Water landings did not much suit B-24's. I had a friend who participated in one. 11 men on board, 4 survivors.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
----
Things are slow, I'll post a little more:
Tuck served in WWII as a First LT. Navigator on B-24 Liberator Bombers in the 13th Air Force. He flew 42 combat missions and was awarded the Purple Heart, Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Cluster, Presidential Unit Citation, and the Pacific Theater Medal with 5 Battle Stars. After losing half his crew in action, he flew the remainder of his missions as squadron and group lead navigator with the squadron commander.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2023 01:38 AM (cALn2)
My uncle was killed when his Liberator was shot down over occupied France. Posted by: Miklos at August 18, 2023 01:26 AM (6PEWs)
God Bless your late Uncle.
My Uncle was a B-24 Waist Gunner. Survived the war, and went on to be a Master Tool & Die maker in the aerospace industry in the Los Angeles, CA area.
Before the war, he was an avid hunter. After? Never again. He had horrid tales of bombs raining down on Civilian neighborhoods. Never got over that.
Back then, the Army Air Corps called those "misses". Only in the mid 2010s, did they fess up and admit that those were TARGETED, as to deny the Krauts of workers in their munitions factories.
A B-29 carrying "Little Man" might've attained the 40,000 ft. necessary to avoid the flak. Carrying "Fat Man" would've been a suicide mission, the 88 mm Flak would've taken it out easily, much less the later marque FW-190s.
But ONE such mission over Schweinfurt might've taken a year or more off of the war.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2023 01:39 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: gourmand du jour
Damn. We live in the same city and i don't know anyone who's tried it (to my knowledge). I did have a very good lawyer friend who OD'd on laudanum a decade ago (probably intentionally).
Posted by: SFGoth at August 18, 2023 01:39 AM (yx1nB)
Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2023 01:39 AM (MOY79)
Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2023 01:39 AM (Gkog9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2023 01:40 AM (OpB28)
Posted by: Miklos, having begun a Battle of Attrition with the VA at August 18, 2023 01:41 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: CppThis at August 18, 2023 01:42 AM (PZvjL)
Posted by: Miklos & Miklos, Trademark Attorneys for JT at August 18, 2023 01:42 AM (6PEWs)
My uncle was killed when his Liberator was shot down over occupied France.
My grandfather's B-17 was shot down over occupied France. He dodged the Nazis with the French underground for about 6 months before advancing allied forces after D-day freed him. My mother is named after the little French girl who protected him, wheeling her bicycle slowly along the roads and keeping watch for Germans as he scurried along the ditch beside the road, going from one safehouse to another.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 18, 2023 01:44 AM (f0Xel)
Posted by: CppThis at August 18, 2023 01:42 AM (PZvjL)
++++++++++++
Works for me. Family is the first line against drugs AND against the government.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2023 01:47 AM (GfaCo)
Now see
Two members of the crew were killed; three injured and captured.
Apparently the other five, after several weeks, showed up reporting for duty in England.
I, or someone, should write a story based on how they got back. It seems the French Resistance was an actual Thing.
Posted by: Miklos used to write stuff at August 18, 2023 01:49 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
I said PUT THE FENTANYL ON THE EBT
Posted by: I takes care of all my 11 babies at August 18, 2023 01:50 AM (6PEWs)
Y'all should join up with Muldoon.
A Horde Compilation of WWII stories would be a helluva book.
I'll pledge to do my part, too. I can but pray that his kids, and grandkids, know the stories more fully?
Sgt. David Joy, AAC, B-24 Waist Gunner. RIP.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2023 01:53 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Miklos at August 18, 2023 01:56 AM (6PEWs)
Charlevoix, MI is wildly expensive and part of the NW Lower Peninsula "here's where assholes from Chicago and places downstate in MI come to price locals out of the housing market". I loathe such locusts.
There is an active old-timers v newcomers political war going on in my hometown further north in the sfate that has the "Why can't we all get along?" types wringing their hands. Consider the contempt the newbs have for the old-timers and you'll understand why, bub. It does not help that Northern Michigan University and the Regional Hospital now dominate the economy.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 18, 2023 01:57 AM (5pZqO)
Posted by: University of Miklos at August 18, 2023 02:01 AM (6PEWs)
Seems to have been a risky job.
Posted by: Miklos
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8th Air Force losses were grim. More, if I recollect correctly (?), than the Navy and Marines combined.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2023 02:10 AM (miw4b)
[punches out]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2023 02:11 AM (miw4b)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 18, 2023 02:13 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Now see?
We can have nice things
Posted by: Miklos is chipper-er at August 18, 2023 02:16 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2023 02:10 AM (miw4b)
I know for certain, more than the Marines in the Pacific Theater.
Add in the U.S. Navy, and I'm less than certain.
Add in the U.S Merchant Marine? Doff your hats and take a knee, Horde.
Merchant Marine seldom even got to fire back, and then, usually only when a U.S. Navy contingent was on board to fire the few deck guns allocated to the odd Liberty Ship, or such.
And our despicable Govt. didn't give them Veterans' Benefits till most were aged, dead and gone.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2023 02:17 AM (e6UQI)
The other grandpa was the second wave at Omaha. Would have been 103 this Sunday.
The were my heroes. Didn't have to look far.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2023 02:18 AM (TZ75n)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2023 02:19 AM (TZ75n)
Posted by: Miklos at August 18, 2023 02:23 AM (6PEWs)
He passed away 10-ish years ago, but even he mentioned how sad it was that you could no longer enjoy those kind of things anymore. So Cal was much less populated back in the day.
Posted by: Adriane the Partially Educated Vulcanology Critic . . . at August 18, 2023 02:25 AM (jonTH)
He passed away 10-ish years ago, but even he mentioned how sad it was that you could no longer enjoy those kind of things anymore. So Cal was much less populated back in the day.
Posted by: Adriane the Partially Educated Vulcanology Critic
I used to pick up ancient shark's teeth on the beach at Myrtle Beach. By the dozens, if not hundreds.
Kids don't find them much these days.
Guess I got 'em all
Posted by: Miklos, formerly very short at August 18, 2023 02:28 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 18, 2023 02:30 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 18, 2023 02:33 AM (a4EWo)
https://youtu.be/h8iPUK0AGRo
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Fine
*buys that classic 60s velvet smoking jacket from Ebay*
Posted by: Miklos, former attentionated K-Mart Shopper at August 18, 2023 02:37 AM (6PEWs)
Posted by: Skip
We will be in touch
Posted by: Miklos & Miklos, Trademark Attorneys for JT
That's okay; Skip's a good guy. (except when he tricks me into going outside.)
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 02:45 AM (T4tVD)
Y'all should join up with Muldoon
Nice idea, but I don't have much. He wrote his memoirs, but after the war he got involved in top secret research, suffered from a brain tumor and died in the late 50s. The entire contents of his office were collected and destroyed on his death, including his memoirs. I have maybe 30 pages, and while they're fascinating to read, it's not much. The story is incomplete.
What's interesting to me is that it's obvious to me that he suffered from the same disgraphia that I do. For me, with modern computers and spell check, it's a very minor annoyance. For him, on a typewriter...yeah, I can see it plainly.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 18, 2023 02:58 AM (f0Xel)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2023 02:58 AM (ZtUfI)
She's no Fen; that's fo' sho'.
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 03:08 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: SFGoth at August 18, 2023 03:09 AM (yx1nB)
It seems the French Resistance was an actual Thing.
Posted by: Miklos used to write stuff at August 18, 2023 01:49 AM (6PEWs)
Indeed. Read a book by a tailgunner- his daughter was in my sister’s high school class. He saw a Liberator take a direct flak hit over France. Looked like confetti. He never saw any parachutes and reported it back at base. Weeks later the two waist gunners arrive back at his base and are clearing out their gear. They survived with the help of the French Resistance. He had so much praise for them. If an airmen got shot down and captured they’re sent to a luft stalag. If a member if the FR is caught they would be tortured fir information and put to death. The two crewmen were sent home because they knew two much about the FR and werent allowed to fly again.
The author thought those two waist gunners were ghosts at first. Turns out the flak shell that destroyed their plane knocked them unconscious. They free fell that way for a while but came to about 5,000 feet above the earth and pulled the rip chords.
Posted by: Rex B at August 18, 2023 03:10 AM (y72mI)
Best Small Towns in Each State: Most of the ones I looked at sounded like tourist magnets. Great if you want to start a business catering to them, not so good if you want to get away from crowds. Lousy-ana's pick of St. Francisville, I've only heard of it and have never been there. But the pic of the gigantic oak trees is the kind of thing I can see right here in City Park. No thanks. And Spearfish, SD, sounds like this dump at Mardi Gras time (but the pic of the main street is attractive).
As for the Bee's view of the pros and cons of each state, LA's con of "You have just died of diabetes" is actually spot on. The number of fat people here . . . jeez.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 18, 2023 03:22 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Rex B at August 18, 2023 03:10 AM (y72mI)
That would suck.
This would be one of those: how does normal life compare for a lot of these guys. You spend your late teens and early 20s with something like that and then come home, start a family and deal with mundane crap. Office politics? It would give you a different perspective.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2023 03:23 AM (ZtUfI)
Pro to working out: This would make four times this week. Con: It's hot out there.
Pro to taking it easy: It's hot out there. Con: . . .
. . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 18, 2023 03:30 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 18, 2023 03:23 AM (ZtUfI)
Yeah, Aetius. “Tales of a Tail Gunner” by Eddy Picardo. That story left me wondering how many other airmen were knocked unconscious but didn’t wake up in time to use their chutes.
Posted by: Rex B at August 18, 2023 03:33 AM (y72mI)
Posted by: Rex B
I thought the chutes were set to open automatically at a certain altitude....
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 03:42 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 03:48 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 03:42 AM (T4tVD)
I don’t know if they had the tech for that on a ww2 bomber.
Posted by: Rex B at August 18, 2023 03:50 AM (y72mI)
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 03:52 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 03:42 AM (T4tVD)
I don’t know if they had the tech for that on a ww2 bomber.
Posted by: Rex B
Anna Puma would know....
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 03:53 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Rex B at August 18, 2023 03:56 AM (y72mI)
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 03:57 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2023 03:58 AM (MOY79)
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 04:01 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 04:02 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: m at August 18, 2023 04:11 AM (aWeTk)
Posted by: JT at August 18, 2023 04:12 AM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 18, 2023 04:12 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Skip
*begins making blueberry muffins the way Young Skip likes them*
Posted by: Aunt Miklos at August 18, 2023 04:13 AM (6PEWs)
"Although Saugatuck sits in what's known to be the state's Bible belt.."
GFY.
Posted by: Steel Gimlet at August 18, 2023 06:47 AM (1oWnj)
It's like some urban intern polled her friends. Swing and a miss.
Posted by: ChupaMe at August 18, 2023 09:52 AM (eHzVv)
It used to feature shops with wood carvers, glass blowers, pottery spinners and all manner of hippie types. Now it's mostly retail gift shops and "alternate lifestyle" types. Also motorcycle enthusiasts one weekend a year.
Posted by: Doc Lee at August 18, 2023 11:20 AM (B+6+J)
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