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Morons Of The World Unite! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your ONT!
Greetings Horde! You think you hate the media enough, but you don't
The Great Revival
The Tin Gods Have Failed Us
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “[M]an everywhere appears as a worshiping creature.” This applies not only to the faithful, but to the unbeliever as well. A person who rejects the divine merely redirects his worship to something else: money, politics, ideology, romantic love, knowledge. The list goes on. In a peaceful, prosperous nation, it’s easy to live that way. But what happens when the West’s centuries-long experiment with secularism proves each of these replacement faiths to be tin gods? Look to Europe, where it all began. This Easter, the Catholic Church in France baptized 10,384 adults, along with about 7,400 new members aged 11 to 17. This is the highest number of entrants in more than 20 years, and a 45% increase in adult catechumens compared to last year. Father Benoist de Sinety, a parish priest in Lille, noted that this year’s Ash Wednesday masses “shattered attendance records,” with many congregants being “young people attending for the first time.”Guess which denominations aren't seeing a rise in attendance? “Progressive” ones. Hee hee.
Axis Of Evil Russia to fund construction of new nuclear plant in Iran
Russia will fund the construction of a new nuclear plant in Iran, Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said at the closing ceremony of the 18th Joint Economic Cooperation Commission on Friday. The two countries will undertake "the construction of new nuclear energy facilities and the completion of phases two and three of the Bushehr power plant using Moscow's credit line," Paknejad said. Russia has helped Iran build its first nuclear reactor at Bushehr, in the south of the country. Paknejad's comments came as US and Iran officials met in Oman on Saturday for a third round of nuclear talks. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff held the talks in Muscat through Omani mediators, a week after a second round of talks took place in Rome that both sides described as constructive. Expert indirect talks took place in Muscat to design a framework for a potential nuclear day prior to the lead negotiators' meeting.That's nice. It will be good to see a nice, peaceful country like Iran prosper.
How To End A Police Chase
I have been told some people find the video disturbing, so I am putting it behind this link. Here's the story behind the video: Police chase leads to suicide
USA! USA! 50 Totally Wild Things Basically Every Single Person In America Believes Are Completely Normal But Are Actually Very, Very, Very Strange
It's so strange to see guns just casually displayed on shelves at Walmart, like they're no different from everyday groceries. It's wild how you can spend five hours on the road in America and barely notice a change in your surroundings. Meanwhile, a five-hour drive in Europe lands you somewhere where the language is completely different and they have their own unique take on cheese. Chanting 'USA!' for no apparent reason.
This Is Wild
Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning a part of a body other than one's own. This is the famous rubber hand experiment and it tricks your brain.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 27, 2025
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Wildlife Management High Island quits a highly endangered Amur tiger, replaced by a younger male
Zoo Korkeasaari has quit the nearly 13-year-old Amur tiger Tamuri. Tamur lived in Korkeasaari for 11 years, the zoo says in a Facebook post. The decision to kill a highly endangered animal is justified by reproduction. In the summer, a junior amur tiger male from Germany is coming to Korkeasaari, chosen as the companion of Tamuri’s descendant, Odeya female. They wanted a peaceful start to a young male in Korkeasaari. In nature, a young and old male would struggle for his territory. According to Korkeasaari, organising such a competition would not be good for animals.You'll have to hit the “English” option at the top of the page. Fallout From Covid Scientists Find Measles Likely to Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years
With vaccination rates among US kindergarteners steadily declining in recent years and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowing to reexamine the childhood vaccination schedule, measles and other previously eliminated infectious diseases could become more common. A new analysis published today by epidemiologists at Stanford University attempts to quantify those impacts. Using a computer model, the authors found that with current state-level vaccination rates, measles could reestablish itself and become consistently present in the United States in the next two decades. Their model predicted this outcome in 83 percent of simulations. If current vaccination rates stay the same, the model estimated that the US could see more than 850,000 cases, 170,000 hospitalizations, and 2,500 deaths over the next 25 years. The results appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association.Calling that mRNA crap a “vaccine” is going to have years of consequences.
Coming Soon To A Town Near You Islamic Terrorism is Genocide
When Muslim terrorists began their latest massacre in Kashmir, they first checked IDs and asked their victims to recite the ‘Kalmas’ one of several Islamic recitations used by Indian Muslims, beginning with, “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger.”Question: Can/should the 1st Amendment be re-written to exclude religions like Islam? Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by boobies:
Those who could not recite the Islamic doctrine were killed.
“Are you Muslim? If yes, then recite the Kalma,” victims were told by the Jihadis.
“He asked my husband’s name and religion. Then he shot him,” one female survivor testified.
Describing the massacre of 26 innocent people, including an American citizen, in a Kashmir meadow as terrorism is misleading. The targets were not selected because they were government officials. They were not screened for their politics. The location was not a strategic target. The only thing that the victims had in common was that they were non-Muslims.
This is not terrorism. It’s genocide.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)I know it's true 'cause I wrote it on the Internet.
Posted by: mindful webworker - illogical! illogical! at May 01, 2025 10:00 PM (IcX7N)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 10:01 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 10:02 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 10:03 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:03 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 10:03 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 10:04 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 10:03 PM (uksS7)
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A whole lot of us Catholics are hoping the same thing, but not holding our breath.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 01, 2025 10:05 PM (QdGJh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 10:05 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: mikeski at May 01, 2025 10:05 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 10:06 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 10:06 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 10:06 PM (RIvkX)
Bar none.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 10:06 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 01, 2025 10:07 PM (GhZY8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 10:06 PM (63Dwl
And with that, the collective IQ of the view will rise to 9.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 10:07 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 10:08 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 10:08 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 10:03 PM (uksS7)
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That limits the candidates to Sister Bertrille.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 10:08 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 10:09 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 10:08 PM (dDmld)
Is that the Flying Nun? I'm not Catholic. But wish the best anyhow.
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 10:12 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 01, 2025 10:12 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:14 PM (vKNmo)
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Islam cannot be considered religion if it preaches war against non-believers. It is an eliminationist political ideology and blasphemy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 10:14 PM (RIvkX)
It is true.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 10:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:15 PM (vKNmo)
😉
Posted by: mindful webworker - gotta hand it to 'em at May 01, 2025 10:15 PM (IcX7N)
No. Islam is not a religion it is a cult. It should and its adherents should be banned from America and banned from any intercourse (don't giggle) or commerce with us.
Those here should be immediately deported, those who have, seemingly, obeyed our laws should be made whole as they depart.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 10:15 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 10:16 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 10:16 PM (GlyvH)
Yet I'll go to jail for removing a common pest apex predator (alligator) from my cattle pond in Florida?
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2025 10:16 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: TRex at May 01, 2025 10:17 PM (cCn4/)
I don't get the hysteria about what Trump wore. So what, he wore a blue suit.
I hate the media, they are so critical of everything Trump does.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 10:18 PM (3ek7K)
Somebody fucking reel Dave in.
Posted by: Long time douchebag at May 01, 2025 10:18 PM (IRPUu)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 10:09 PM (0eaVi)
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I read through the article and yeah, that's pretty much what it is.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 10:18 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 10:06 PM (63Dwl
And with that, the collective IQ of the view will rise to 9.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 10:07 PM (q7hip)
Will Jill be on stage, or in the audience, as his cheerleader? Will the producers let her "You answered the question, Joe!" yells out on the airwaves?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 10:18 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 10:18 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 10:19 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 10:18 PM (GlyvH)
Well, to be fair, one or two of them sounded pleased with what they saw. But most were whiners.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)
And do the priests and pastors even care, or are they like the one in California Dreamin' -- you know the preacher loves a storm / he knows I'm gonna stay ??
Pass the collection plate, followed by the "tip selection" iPad.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what, me cynical? at May 01, 2025 10:19 PM (IcX7N)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 10:20 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 10:20 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 01, 2025 10:20 PM (n/wJo)
Islam built off of Judaism and Near Eastern Christianity, and proceeded to miss the entire points of both. Replacing all their good points with bloodshed and raw tribalism; the exact parts of the "Old Testament" which both the New Testament and the Mishnah were trying to get past.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 10:21 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 01, 2025 10:21 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Ah dew think you've got that back'erds.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 10:22 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 01, 2025 10:23 PM (ohOaC)
Not to point out the obvious but Europe will have civil wars or be conquered by Islam in the next 15- 20 years
The USA, prolly 80 based on the Bush, Clinton,Bush,Obama,Biden immigration
Posted by: Toby, in Finance at May 01, 2025 10:24 PM (xZ7Ly)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 10:14 PM (RIvkX)
This country was founded (partly) by Puritans. It was already an eliminationist political ideology and blasphemy.
But, yes, today that can’t be tolerated. Especially in new arrivals.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 10:24 PM (l3YAf)
Not just years...generations.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 01, 2025 10:25 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 10:20 PM
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Thanks! Appreciate all the prayers. Lots of changes.
Posted by: TRex at May 01, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)
Link takes you to Buzzfeed. I didn't realize they were still around.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 01, 2025 10:25 PM (ohOaC)
_____________________________
"As part of our new outreach program. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) will be providing tours of Iran's new nuclear plant. Hold on...just a second. Sorry, correction. As part of our new outreach program, the IAF will give a SINGLE tour of Iran's new nuclear plant."
Posted by: Orson at May 01, 2025 10:27 PM (dIske)
Good evening, all!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 01, 2025 10:27 PM (jMurV)
That was my crabby oldest brother's reason for disliking being asked "How are you?"
Knowing this about him, Daughter used to tease her uncle instead of just saying "How are you?"
He mellowed a bit in his old age before he passed. RIP, big brother.
My Dad would answer with a laundry list of ailments.
Posted by: mindful webworker - but I sincerely was asking!! Now I don't care. at May 01, 2025 10:27 PM (IcX7N)
To this DAY, not a single Democrat has gone to GAZA to ask for the release of American Hostages...
Yet... MS 13 members?
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 10:27 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Toby, in Finance at May 01, 2025 10:24 PM (xZ7Ly)
Naw, most of our growth immigration is Hispanic. We’ll be majority Catholic in 40 years. With the Muslims, Amish and Mormons close behind.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 10:27 PM (l3YAf)
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
_Winston Churchill
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 10:27 PM (0duCh)
Wait until Canada becomes the 51st state.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 01, 2025 10:28 PM (0Htd1)
Good evening, all!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 01, 2025 10:27 PM (jMurV)
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*checks clipboard*
Line on the left. One cross each.
Posted by: Centurion #4 at May 01, 2025 10:29 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 10:29 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 01, 2025 10:21 PM (0Htd1)
He ate one of his own shells.
Posted by: Kwak! at May 01, 2025 10:30 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 01, 2025 10:30 PM (0Htd1)
Their hierarchy will need to choose whether to become some Orthodox division in Christianity, or just to lean into their "prophetic" claim and become paraAhmadi Muslims or something like that. Some kind of Shiite anyway.
I'm sufficiently misanthropic that I'll predict the latter.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 10:27 PM (l3YAf)
Sorry... in an area that has had the 'reconquista' already happen... I hear more Spanish in public, than English now here in Central Calif.
Catholic Church? Full, but only of older first Gen 'immigrants'... younger folks stay home and watch football...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 10:31 PM (QAkQ3)
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Did you start the car?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 10:31 PM (dDmld)
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Did you start the car?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 10:31 PM (dDmld)
They rented an EV, and it's still charging.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 10:32 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE)
I think they’ll remain Mormon. They’re not giving up that easily. They thrive on being outsiders.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 10:32 PM (l3YAf)
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Did you start the car?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 10:31 PM (dDmld)
totally dependent on what part of the country you are in.
East Coast? 5 hours is YUGE... Yew yawk to Bahston? to Virigina?
But... out West? 5 hours aint shit unless its the 1 mile from the Beach culture, to the rest of us.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 10:33 PM (QAkQ3)
We will be fighting them here too unless we can ban/deport/sterilize all of them
There are the most violent , welfare dependent group on this planet
Posted by: Toby, in Finance at May 01, 2025 10:34 PM (xZ7Ly)
Not Poland, Ohio but Poland, Europe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 10:34 PM (0duCh)
Catholic Church? Full, but only of older first Gen 'immigrants'... younger folks stay home and watch football...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 10:31 PM (QAkQ3)
Well, of course. They’ve been insufficiently radicalized. It’s not the future yet, man.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 10:34 PM (l3YAf)
I'm having a bacon wrapped turkey sandwich. If you see that at your deli, try it. It is so delicious.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 10:35 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 01, 2025 10:35 PM (cCn4/)
Which was the one Hitler invaded? Because I don’t think that guy should have access to nukes.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 10:36 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Ciampino - also Km instead of Miles at May 01, 2025 10:36 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 10:36 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 10:37 PM (0duCh)
The acting and the plot. What did you think I was talking about?
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 01, 2025 10:37 PM (144I4)
The Monty Hall Problem
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:09 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 01, 2025 08:09 PM (fxCK2)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 01, 2025 08:10 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 01, 2025 08:11 PM (fxCK2)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 08:11 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Ahmed Pashtunwala at May 01, 2025 08:12 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:12 PM (aOqEy)
I loved Let's Make a Deal. It was so much fun.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:12 PM (3ek7K)
Goodnight Skip, you hardworking man!
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:13 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:14 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 08:14 PM (ypFCm)
Dating game.
Posted by: Mohammed M Mohammed at May 01, 2025 08:15 PM (SYD5S)
I got willowed.
213 so here's a Post Office experience:
ordered some clothes for granddaughter from LandsEnd. Shipped from WI, made it to Indy. Then it seemed to get stuck in Indy.
For days. But then it got unstuck and moved on to . . . Puerto Rico.
MrTea contacted the PO, who did not respond, until one day he got a survey asking how their customer service was. He responded with a scathing reply that there had been NO customer service, or even a reply.
BUT, suddenly, the package found its way back to the States and is now here in town, supposedly coming our way tomorrow.
Puerto Rico
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 01, 2025 08:15 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 08:15 PM (ypFCm)
Jonny, Tell her what she's won!!
Well Monty, A Speed Queen washer and dryer pair, a year's supply of Alpo Dog Food, and A. BRAND. NEW. CAR!!!!!
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 08:16 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 08:16 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 08:16 PM (uksS7)
The second choice is separate from the first, a choice between two doors, making it a 50/50 chance of success.
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 08:16 PM (i0F8b)
Have a great evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 08:17 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 08:16 PM
That's what I thought, too. Like Russian roulette towards the end.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 01, 2025 08:18 PM (fxCK2)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 08:18 PM (SYD5S)
Posted by: Tuna at May 01, 2025 08:18 PM (lJ0H4)
Your crime, hanky panky with the Princess.
The King's sentence is you choose:
Two doors, behind one a beautiful lady you will immediately be married to.
Behind the other, a hungry tiger.
You look at the princess, she subtly nods toward the door on the right.
Which door fo you open?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 01, 2025 08:19 PM (XkKkf)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:19 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 08:19 PM (uksS7)
Once the goat is revealed, you still have 50/50 odds since you picked one of two doors. You automatically moved up from 33 to 50 percent chance of the car.
Picked right, no change = you win
Picked right, change = you lose
Picked wrong, you change = you win
Picked wrong, no change = you lose
There’s only 4 options left after you see the goat. And you only win in 1/2 of them.
Posted by: Trump at May 01, 2025 08:19 PM (O+Wek)
Posted by: Achmed at May 01, 2025 08:20 PM (mH6SG)
For days.
For some reason, the Indianapolis USPS is the pits. I sent a first class letter from Lincoln, NE on Tuesday the 22 and it arrived yesterday. The recipient tells me that this is "normal" for him.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:20 PM (/y8xj)
CHARLES! NELSON! REILLY!!
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 01, 2025 08:21 PM (wzAuc)
When you watch enough Arab and Dot-Indians wash their filthy feet in the sink in the men's room at truck stops and rest areas you can't help but conclude Arabs and Dot-Indians are filthy people who lack any and all consideration of others. Then they cry like children because no one likes them.
Of course I already knew Dot-Indians were total scumbags because I've worked for too many.
Dear President Trump,
Are you looking for more people to deport? Please?
Posted by: Robert at May 01, 2025 08:21 PM (ajzBr)
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On the odds not changing on opening a door..
What if an insane Monty offered a game where he opened YOUR door? The odds sure do change then, right?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:22 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 08:22 PM (vPZg0)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:22 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: Tuna at May 01, 2025 08:18 PM (lJ0H4)
IIRC, she was getting discharged. The pain is muscular, not heart or lungs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 08:22 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 08:22 PM (ZmEVT)
The Price is Right was my favorite game show...
It also seemed to incorporate some of those Monty Hall elements into the games.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 08:23 PM (GlyvH)
Here's how I got it through to me. Imagine there are 100 doors, not 3. And you guess one door. Then they open 98 empty doors, and ask if you want to stick to your original one, or switch. It's the same principle. Only it seems so much more obvious that your chances of picking the right door out of 100 is remote.
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at May 01, 2025 08:23 PM (8iNlE)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 08:23 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 08:22 PM (ZmEVT)
You get a camel, and you get a camel, and you get a camel!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 08:23 PM (VNX3d)
https://tinyurl.com/23t993zv
Hank Johnson is the gift that keeps giving.
Via Instapundit.
Posted by: Robert at May 01, 2025 08:23 PM (ajzBr)
A. Hamsa
Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2025 08:24 PM (LHPAg)
This is incorrect. Play the game yourself with 3 playing cards and a second person to be Monty and you'll find that you win twice as often if you switch.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:24 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 08:24 PM (viF8m)
Preach it, brother. Diaperheads. Caste system scum.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 08:24 PM (vPZg0)
sent home.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 08:25 PM (D7yNd)
Punch ole Monty in the face, grab the keys and the showcase girl, jump in the car and vamanos!
Posted by: Robert at May 01, 2025 08:25 PM (ajzBr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 08:26 PM (W/MBp)
Posted by: irright at May 01, 2025 08:27 PM (292UM)
I'd take the goats.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 08:27 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:28 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 08:28 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:29 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 08:29 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 08:29 PM (W/MBp)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 08:22 PM (ZmEVT)
He will say his first mass at the BAAAAHsilica.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 08:29 PM (SYD5S)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 08:30 PM (vPZg0)
Preach it, brother. Diaperheads. Caste system scum.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 08:24 PM (vPZg0)
Of course the Dot-Indians aren't trying to genocide you like the mohammedans are.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 08:30 PM (3a5ey)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 08:27 PM (Q4IgG)
And you could always sell your lightly used goat to your new Muslim neighbor.
Kind of a cross between let's make a deal and love connection.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 08:30 PM (W/MBp)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 08:30 PM (gKWVE)
Once the goat is revealed, you still have 50/50 odds since you picked one of two doors. You automatically moved up from 33 to 50 percent chance of the car.
Picked right, no change = you win
Picked right, change = you lose
Picked wrong, you change = you win
Picked wrong, no change = you lose
There’s only 4 options left after you see the goat. And you only win in 1/2 of them.
Posted by: Trump at May 01, 2025 08:19 PM (O+Wek)
You never had 50/50 odds, since you selected one door of three.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:30 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 08:30 PM (/lPRQ)
This is incorrect. Play the game yourself with 3 playing cards and a second person to be Monty and you'll find that you win twice as often if you switch.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:24 PM (/y8xj)
I’m willing to take your word for it, though damn if I understand lol
Posted by: Trump at May 01, 2025 08:31 PM (fQ92+)
Posted by: Tuna at May 01, 2025 08:31 PM (lJ0H4)
I was reading the memorial a while ago and saw her name there.
Fuck cancer.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:31 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: Guy who likes goats but won a car at May 01, 2025 08:32 PM (vFG9F)
Honestly, don't take my word for it. As Muldoon used to say, for all you know, I'm just the night clerk at 7-11. Play the game and see it for yourself.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:33 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 08:34 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 08:34 PM (Axc90)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 08:34 PM (uksS7)
Trump lyed and Childrin of Coler Died !!!!!!
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at May 01, 2025 08:34 PM (FDlb9)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 08:34 PM (Axc90)
I did not know Thomas Kincade got arrested for peeing on a bush at Disneyland/world.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 08:35 PM (W/MBp)
Posted by: Weasel"
Have you discovered shrooms in your retirement?
Posted by: That's far out, man at May 01, 2025 08:35 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 01, 2025 08:36 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 08:36 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 08:30 PM (/lPRQ)
unless you pick the revealed goat door.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:36 PM (8avO+)
It's normal for things to sit for a couple of days in Lenexa or Wichita. Would be nice if the post office would just acknowledge that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 01, 2025 08:37 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 08:37 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 08:38 PM (Axc90)
Hockey- Gretzky
Boxing- Ali
Basketball- Jordan
Baseball- Ruth
Golf- Woods
Football- Payton
Posted by: coyne at May 01, 2025 08:39 PM (b8Y5B)
Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 08:39 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:24 PM (/y8xj)
I’m willing to take your word for it, though damn if I understand lol
Posted by: Trump at May 01, 2025 08:31 PM (fQ
No way Its 50/50 whether you switch or not Switching cant possibly improve your odds
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 08:39 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Achmed at May 01, 2025 08:39 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 08:39 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 08:36 PM (dg+HA)
My mother had a lovely Lady Kenmore hair dryer, complete with the hood.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 08:40 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 08:39 PM (qUkBO)
How so?
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 08:40 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 08:40 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:28 PM (/y8xj)
no, there is only one goat and one monty.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:41 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:24 PM (/y8xj)
I’m willing to take your word for it, though damn if I understand lol
Posted by: Trump at May 01, 2025 08:31 PM (fQ
No way Its 50/50 whether you switch or not Switching cant possibly improve your odds
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 08:39 PM (lCppi)
Think of the case of 100 doors. You pick one, have 1 percent chance. Monty opens 98 doors leaving 2 left. You'd switch then, right?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:42 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 08:42 PM (Axc90)
Posted by: The Cat at May 01, 2025 08:43 PM (joRsu)
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 08:40 PM (i0F8b)
Monty is evil and only gives you the offer if you picked the right door.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:44 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Borg Picard at May 01, 2025 08:44 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 08:44 PM (W/MBp)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 08:42 PM (Axc90
That's udderly ridiculous.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:44 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 01, 2025 08:37 PM (cvWHI)
Shipping up here is sometimes a trial. Some companies just state up front that they don't ship to Alaska. Others don't say so, but just try to order from them, and it will be rejected. Then there are those that won't send anything to a Post Office Box in Alaska, but will to one in the Lower 48. WTF? So they ask for my physical address, but the post office doesn't deliver here, so they have to send it UPS or Fedex, and that is more expensive. A flat rate box is the same rate to Alaska as it is anywhere in the Lower 48.... grr...
Ikea won't ship here, neither will the people who make the wood umbrella clothes dryers, etc. If you want that stuff, you have to have it drop shipped to an expediter in Seattle, who then pallets it up with other folks' stuff and sends it on a barge, that takes a week, etc.
You would think we aren't even a state or something.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 08:44 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 01, 2025 08:45 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 08:45 PM (YdnOv)
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 08:40 PM (i0F8b)
Monty is evil and only gives you the offer if you picked the right door.
Posted by: Oldcat
Funny how nobody noticed that before.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 08:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 08:39 PM (qUkBO)
How so?
____
There were two unpicked doors. Either both unpicked doors have goats, in which case Monty can pick either, or only one unpicked door has a goat, in which case Monty has only one option. The increased probability of picking right by switching doors reflects that latter possibility.
Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 08:46 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:44 PM (q7hip)
And so it begins.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 08:46 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Door number three goat at May 01, 2025 08:46 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 08:30 PM
They're just disrupting your workplace by telling the white people deserve fewer benefits AND being horrified that the best-looking white guy of our group is dating a sweet black lady.
One of my bff's husband worked in IT. A new-hire Indian was sent for HR training for having difficulties working with a guy "belonged" to a low caste. "Difficulties" in this case meant refusing to work with the guy and demanding their co-workers explain how he was allowed to immigrate to the US.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 01, 2025 08:47 PM (fxCK2)
Posted by: Elderly Git at May 01, 2025 08:47 PM (joRsu)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 08:47 PM (a4NoL)
https://tinyurl.com/43eufh2k
Watch how fast leftists forget all about Maryland Man.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 08:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:44 PM (q7hip)
And so it begins.
Posted by: tcn in AK"
It would behoove us to stop now.
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 08:47 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 08:48 PM (YdnOv)
Posted by: Prize Models Rule! at May 01, 2025 08:49 PM (G5+As)
I know, when we first started doing voice over internet phone service, there was no charge on calls to the lower 48 but they did charge to Alaska. Had to explain it to customers but it made no sense to me.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 01, 2025 08:49 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 01, 2025 08:49 PM (fxCK2)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 08:49 PM (YdnOv)
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at M
The odds of each scenario are statistically independent Like flipping a coin You can flip a coin and have it land heads 39 times On the 40th flip, the odds are still 50/50 it will be heads. Whats happened before has no bearing on your future odds
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 08:50 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at May 01, 2025 08:50 PM (FDlb9)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 01, 2025 08:45 PM (CWTWj)
There are only 2 classes of doors. The one you pick, and the others. You have a one third, the other doors 2/3 chance of the prize. Monty essentially allows you to swap your one third for the two thirds
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Warai-otoko"
Will you trade your 1972 Vega for what I have in this sock?
Posted by: Mystery Sock at May 01, 2025 08:50 PM (vFG9F)
https://tinyurl.com/23t993zv
Hank Johnson is the gift that keeps giving.
Via Instapundit.
Posted by: Robert
SAVE US HANK JOHNSON!! YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!!!
Posted by: Guam at May 01, 2025 08:50 PM (ohOaC)
I never thought about it but now I wonder if they let people do that if they wanted to or just said, "Here's a c-note, thanks for being a good sport."
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:51 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Mystery Sock at May 01, 2025 08:50 PM (vFG9F)
I'd trade a '72 Vega for the damn sock itself.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 08:52 PM (YdnOv)
Anyone?
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at May 01, 2025 08:52 PM (ey6uh)
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 08:50 PM (lCppi)
Monty opening doors is not a probabilistic event. He has perfect knowledge and will never open a goat, or a prize.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: 13times at May 01, 2025 08:52 PM (4Kfy7)
___
It does here because they have not "reshuffled" the remaining goat after the initial goat reveal. A new fact that affects the odds. Thus it is not like a coin flip.
Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 08:52 PM (qUkBO)
Anyone?
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at May 01, 2025 08:52 PM (ey6uh)
He was urged to the point of forcing to take a vacation.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: pookysgirl, starting to hover more at May 01, 2025 08:53 PM (c4WVb)
Posted by: H. Johnson at May 01, 2025 08:53 PM (joRsu)
Posted by: Split Second at May 01, 2025 08:53 PM (G5+As)
Ace needed a vacation. I have no idea how he can read the shitty news all day long day after day. JJ also.
I'd be depressed.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:53 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Warai-otoko"
Will you trade your 1972 Vega for what I have in this sock?
Posted by: Mystery Sock at May 01, 2025 08:50 PM (vFG9F)
Just about nobody took a car. They got a cash equivalent that could have taxes taken out of it.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:54 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 08:54 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 08:55 PM (i0F8b)
Bah. We didn't even get a retirement dinner.
Posted by: The Goats at May 01, 2025 08:55 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 08:56 PM (YdnOv)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 08:56 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: pookysgirl, starting to hover more at May 01, 2025 08:53 PM (c4WVb)
Most cats I know see mobile babies and toddlers as a completely new form of life. Only later when they are more reliable to they become people again.
My cats were more scared of wee tykes thru the patio door than the time a huge hawk caught and ate a rabbit on the lawn.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:57 PM (8avO+)
Ace needed a vacation. I have no idea how he can read the shitty news all day long day after day. JJ also.
I'd be depressed.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:53 PM (3ek7K)
I barely survived the Biden term. Just bad news after bad news. Ace can't stop posting so he's forced to look.
He's like the dude from Clockwork Orange with his eyes forced open.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:57 PM (q7hip)
Seriously, just prove it yourself by enlisting a Monty and using playing cards or coins under Solo cups as "doors." Once you see the results for yourself, you'll be able to work out the logic.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:57 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Gref at May 01, 2025 08:57 PM (aBgBM)
Speed Queen machines used to be the best you could buy.
We bought one for our son and his wife and after three years it crapped out. They called for service, it was still under warranty. They were told if they used bleach and something else, I can't remember what, it voids the warranty.
Needless to say, they had to buy another machine. Not Speed Queen though. I'm sure the one they bought will crap out just like the other one.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:58 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 08:58 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 08:58 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:44 PM (q7hip)
And so it begins.
Posted by: tcn in AK"
It would behoove us to stop now.
Posted by: fd
We pun be-cud we love it.
Posted by: Tuna at May 01, 2025 08:58 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 08:48 PM (YdnOv)
Monty or the show probably did not own the goat.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:59 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:42 PM (8avO+)
Of the two doors left, one has the car and one has the goat, A person coming off the street has a 50/50 chance if asked to pick a door for the car. Correct?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 08:59 PM (VofaG)
Or did he??
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:00 PM (q7hip)
Seriously, just prove it yourself by enlisting a Monty and using playing cards or coins under Solo cups as "doors." Once you see the results for yourself, you'll be able to work out the logic.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:57 PM (/y8xj)
Nobody ever just does that lol. Not at the start when probability professors got the wrong answer and not now. Even I never got out the cards.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 09:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: The Goats at May 01, 2025 08:55 PM (mH6SG)
----
You *became* the retirement dinner...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 09:01 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:02 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Pick Me! Pick Me! at May 01, 2025 09:02 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 01, 2025 09:03 PM (ufFY8)
Correct and that is the nub of the problem. The player didn't just come off the street and choose from 2 doors, he chose from 3 (or 100 or whatever) doors.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 09:03 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 09:03 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: D. Hogger at May 01, 2025 09:03 PM (joRsu)
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 09:04 PM (i0F8b)
Or did he??
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:00 PM (q7hip)
He figured out the pattern.
That is not cheating.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 09:05 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: davidt"
And soup.
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 09:05 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:42 PM (8avO+)
Of the two doors left, one has the car and one has the goat, A person coming off the street has a 50/50 chance if asked to pick a door for the car. Correct?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 08:59 PM (VofaG)
That's not the game. You know that your door has 1 percent chance of winning. the other doors had the remaining chance. by switching you improve your odds tremendously.
But yes a guy with no knowledge would have 50/50
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 09:05 PM (8avO+)
Goat is a great meat to eat.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:05 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 09:03 PM (D7yNd
Really? I'd think it would be a tougher meat.
Curious to try it some day.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:05 PM (q7hip)
Control board fried after just less than 1 year.
No charge for service call or part but for $1200, that wasn't the point, was it?!
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 09:06 PM (rdVOm)
Or did he??
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:00 PM (q7hip)
He figured out the pattern.
That is not cheating.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 09:05 PM (ufFY8
I thought the same! Smart guy. He didn't do anything wrong. It's like counting cards.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:06 PM (q7hip)
I read as much of it as they do and I'm just the opposite. This is the most optimistic time in my adult life. We've never been this close to breaking them and Trump is just warming up.
ace is fine. He's off doing pon farr or moulting or whatever his kind do.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 09:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 09:07 PM (D7yNd)
When we lived in Florida and Hubbie and the other men would take the scouts camping for the weekend they would stop on the drive down at a guy's ranch and he would butcher a goat for them to take with.
They always loved roasting and eating it.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:07 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 09:08 PM (vFG9F)
No charge for service call or part but for $1200, that wasn't the point, was it?!
Posted by: JQ
What's a control board?
Posted by: 1998 Kenmore W/Dial at May 01, 2025 09:08 PM (G5+As)
Correct and that is the nub of the problem. The player didn't just come off the street and choose from 2 doors, he chose from 3 (or 100 or whatever) doors.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 09:03 PM (/y8xj)
So why would two people have different odds making the same bet?
It’s like the casinos show the run of numbers on the roulette wheel so it will entice people to make larger bets when it’s shows red coming up 9 times in a row. Surely the next roll the odds would say black would be a great bet . The law of large numbers would say nay.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 09:08 PM (VofaG)
ace is fine. He's off doing pon farr or moulting or whatever his kind do.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 09:07 PM (viF8m
He's laying on the couch in a dirty tshirt with Cheeto stains on it watching reruns of Love Boat and Fantasy Island.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:09 PM (q7hip)
JQ,
Yeah, the service man said the washers now are made with most of the innards in one piece and you can't replace parts like you used to be able to do.
He told them it would be cheaper for them to buy a new machine.
Ya know what!!! Appliance manufacturers are screwing people!!
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:09 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:10 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Piper at May 01, 2025 09:10 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:33 PM (/y8xj)
------------
Oddbob is right!
I just did this -- and you empirically come to realize that THE ONLY TIME YOU LOSE is if you INITIALLY PICK THE DOOR WITH THE CAR (1/3 initial probability) -- meaning you have a 2/3 chance of winning by changing your pick to the other door after the goat is revealed.
Fascinating ...
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 09:12 PM (acnyG)
Because one of them chose 1 of 2 and one of them chose 1 of 100.
OK, I'm dropping this topic. If you are open to learning, play the game yourself and learn.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 09:12 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 09:13 PM (SYD5S)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 09:14 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 01, 2025 09:14 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:14 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
They have those Win a Dream Home lotteries.
Everyone who took the house instead of the cash loses the house in a couple of years. Probably more just after a year when the tx bills come after the utilities already ate everything up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 09:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Do you really think Monty had no idea what was behind each door? That he was not coached?
I would venture $1000 on the premise that good looking chicks, won much more then they statistically should have...
Why? Not cause Monty was getting some, but because of the optics of Winning...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 09:14 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 09:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:10 PM (q7hip)
------------
[Performs quick interwebz search:]
These early instances illustrate how planned obsolescence began to influence manufacturing and consumer behavior in the early 20th century:
. The concept of planned obsolescence can be traced back to the 1920s, but one of the earliest notable examples occurred in 1924 when major lightbulb manufacturers formed the Phoebus Cartel. This cartel aimed to increase profits and sales by reducing the lifespan of incandescent lightbulbs from 1500-2000 hours to 1000 hours;
Additionally, Bernard London's 1932 pamphlet "Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence" suggested government-imposed obsolescence on consumer goods, although this legislative proposal did not come to fruition; and
In the context of product design and marketing, General Motors introduced the concept of annual model-year design changes in the 1920s to encourage car owners to buy new replacements each year, which is often misattributed to Alfred P. Sloan Jr..
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 09:15 PM (acnyG)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 09:15 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 08:45 PM (YdnOv)
There is iron in the words of Warai-otoko for all men to see.
-Ten Bears
Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2025 09:17 PM (LHPAg)
We have a fridge in this house we bought last August. I hated it as soon as I saw it. It's one of those high tech pieces of shit that people buy to show off to their friends.
Manufactured in 2021 and it is dead as a doornail. We've been sick here, so we haven't made the hour and half journey to buy a new one.
We have a fridge in the garage and Hubbie said, well, we're getting exercise going out there and back, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:17 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Never had hobo ass, but I bet it tastes like goat. A well cleaned goat.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 09:18 PM (/lPRQ)
182 Evenin’, All. What’s shakin’?
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:16 PM (77rzZ)
Ace won a goat on Press Your Luck and now his fridge ain't working cause the lightbulb cartel are bastards.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:19 PM (q7hip)
I'm not much of a meat eater, but I have to say goat and moose are my favorite meats.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:19 PM (3ek7K)
Now I know how Navin Johnson felt when he saw his name in the new phone book. My existence is validated.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 09:20 PM (/y8xj)
there is a lightbulb that has been constantly running for over 100 years... they say they won't take it apart because they don't want to screw up a historic item...
No, they don't want to take it apart, because it has lasted 100 years.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 09:20 PM (QAkQ3)
Shopping for light bulbs is a royal pain in the ass. Hopefully Trump will correct that.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:21 PM (3ek7K)
Monty opens one of the doors you didn't pick and it's one of the zonks. If Monty didn't give you the opportunity to change your guess, the odds do not change.
Because there are only two doors left and one has the zonk and the other is the prize, and because the contestant has a chance to choose again--one out of two doors, the odds are now 50-50. Sue from LA was correct. Because the contestant is given another chance to choose, the events are statistically independent.
Posted by: Eaton Morgina at May 01, 2025 09:21 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:22 PM (q7hip)
https://www.panix.com/~mshaw/3door.txt
(Can't copy/paste here, too long)
Posted by: Mark Shaw at May 01, 2025 09:22 PM (HWNLc)
Bet he did.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 09:22 PM (QAkQ3)
The more often a light bulb is turned on and off the quicker it fails?
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 09:22 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 09:15 PM (0aYVJ)
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It's a target rich environment. Ace's motto for aces: If it flies, it dies!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 09:22 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:10 PM (q7hip)
Fuck Big Tungsten.
Wolfram, my ass.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 09:22 PM (YdnOv)
Now Beat the Clock there was a real game show.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 09:22 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:09 PM (q7hip)
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I was wondering who was making that racket in the living room...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 09:23 PM (GlyvH)
Now I know how Navin Johnson felt when he saw his name in the new phone book. My existence is validated.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 09:20 PM (/y8xj)
Howard Johnson is Right!
Posted by: Ivan Johnson at May 01, 2025 09:24 PM (QAkQ3)
I'm not much of a meat eater, but I have to say goat and moose are my favorite meats.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:19 PM (3ek7K)
Dicks. They're pretty yummy!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg and His Mom at May 01, 2025 09:24 PM (JXTT6)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:09 PM (q7hip)
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I was wondering who was making that racket in the living room...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 09:23 PM (GlyvH)
Hey now... don't Dis Fantasy Island... Mr. Rourke faced down the Debil Hiself!
Posted by: Ivan Johnson at May 01, 2025 09:24 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:25 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Paul Pelosi at May 01, 2025 09:25 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:24 PM (77rzZ)
Get off my lawn Junior...
Posted by: 64,000 dollar question at May 01, 2025 09:26 PM (QAkQ3)
CFLs are the tepid fire in Beelzebub's turdcutter after Taco Tuesday night in Dis.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 09:26 PM (YdnOv)
Now I know how Navin Johnson felt when he saw his name in the new phone book. My existence is validated.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 09:20 PM (/y8xj)
Howard Johnson is Right!
Posted by: Ivan Johnson at May 01, 2025 09:24 PM (QAkQ3)
...and the governor is the leading asshoe in the state!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 01, 2025 09:26 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:27 PM (3ek7K)
What was the game show where the weirdo celebrities sat in cubes? It was stupid.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:27 PM (3ek7K
Laugh in?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:27 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 09:27 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: four seasons
Hollywood Squares.
Or the other one.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 09:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:28 PM (3ek7K)
CFLs are the tepid fire in Beelzebub's turdcutter after Taco Tuesday night in Dis.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 09:26 PM (YdnOv)
_-_-_
I refuse to attempt to say it better myself.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 01, 2025 09:28 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:28 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 08:18 PM (SYD5S)
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FUN FACT: If Hannibal had access to Speed Queens the Roman Empire would have been strangled in its infancy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 09:29 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:28 PM (3ek7K)
Oh man, let's have a thread on the Liar's Paradox next. That'll be fun for hours.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 09:29 PM (YdnOv)
Yes it would!!
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:30 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:28 PM (3ek7K)
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I have learned to be incredulous.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 09:30 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Eaton Morgina at May 01, 2025 09:30 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: 'Mo Hammad at May 01, 2025 09:30 PM (X8wmX)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:30 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:30 PM (3ek7K)
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Is incredulous better than stupid?
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:30 PM (3ek7K
It costs more anyway.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:31 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: Geo. Washington at May 01, 2025 09:31 PM (JkO4W)
Is incredulous better than stupid?
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:30 PM (3ek7K)
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I do both with similar aplomb.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 09:32 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Harry Mudd at May 01, 2025 09:32 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 09:32 PM (YdnOv)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 09:33 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: The Guard Who Always Lies at May 01, 2025 09:33 PM (JkO4W)
Save that for the book thread and those pants wearing folk.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:33 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:33 PM (3ek7K)
Second-best was College Bowl.
Third-best was that debate where the Democrat was given the questions beforehand and Romney wasn't.
Posted by: mindful webworker - a long time ago when the earth was new at May 01, 2025 09:34 PM (IcX7N)
Posted by: mindful webworker - a long time ago when the earth was new at May 01, 2025 09:34 PM (IcX7N)
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Is that something wrong?
Posted by: Donna Brazile at May 01, 2025 09:36 PM (JkO4W)
Same problem with different numbers. Now it's obvious.
Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatick at May 01, 2025 09:36 PM (fgkXD)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:37 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 01, 2025 09:37 PM (vd6bO)
If somebody deals a card face down to you, the odds of it being a heart are 25%. But if he looks at it and tells you that it's red, the odds change to 50%, just based on the additional information you just learned. Same thing that knowing that door #1 contained a goat.
Posted by: MrJimm at May 01, 2025 09:37 PM (/QiHS)
Posted by: four seasons
You're making that up!
Posted by: mindful webworker - slip-slidin' away at May 01, 2025 09:37 PM (IcX7N)
Posted by: Savage Henry at May 01, 2025 09:37 PM (AOsQT)
I'm lying!
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:37 PM (3ek7K)
Save that for the book thread and those pants wearing folk.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:33 PM (q7hip)
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Fancy pants are always cromulent on the Sunday Morning Book Thread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 09:38 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: mindful webworker - a long time ago when the earth was new at May 01, 2025 09:34 PM (IcX7N)
Lol
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 09:39 PM (lCppi)
At the first deal the odds of choosing the correct door is 33% (1 in three)
After a non-random goat door is exposed, (a choice beyond the influence of the contestant) the contestant is given a second opportunity to choose. The new odds are 50:50. The contestant can no longer choose the exposed goat door and is only given a choice between the two unknowns.
The lesson learned past flips of the coin do not affect future results.
Posted by: Setsoru at May 01, 2025 09:39 PM (EQ18D)
Posted by: Savage Henry at May 01, 2025 09:39 PM (AOsQT)
Best game show ever was Young Ones University Challenge. There's a remastered version on youtube. Make sure you watch the four minute thirty six second version...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 01, 2025 09:39 PM (joRsu)
Posted by: Jimmy Buffett at May 01, 2025 09:40 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: MrJimm at May 01, 2025 09:37 PM (/QiHS)
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This is an excellent point. Gaining information in a card game where part of the information is usually hidden from you can result in significant advantage.
Magic: The Gathering uses this all the time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 09:40 PM (GlyvH)
All the innuendo was fun. Even as a kid I knew what they were talking about.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:41 PM (q7hip)
What was the game show where the weirdo celebrities sat in cubes? It was stupid.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:27 PM (3ek7K
Name that douchebag with your Host Charles Nelson Reiley
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at May 01, 2025 09:41 PM (ey6uh)
Posted by: Jimmy Buffett at May 01, 2025 09:40 PM (r5tfK)
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Door #3 means you get ass-raped by otters.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 09:42 PM (JkO4W)
Innuendo is a lost art these days.
Everything today is in your face disgusting. I do look at the Daily Mail site every day, but, boy howdy, wtf is it with the disgusting things you see on there? I see pictures and am like, ewwwwwwwwww, no way I'm reading that article.
Social Media has erased couth and whatever other words apply.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:44 PM (3ek7K)
Your initial odds a a clear 1 in 3.
Monty will always eliminate one of the goats.
Goating you into changing your decision which is now 1 in 2.
Your decision was always 1 in 2. Changing that decision does not increase your odds.
This has nothing to do with Schrodenger's cat who likes living in the box with your indecision until it's dead.
Posted by: john at May 01, 2025 09:44 PM (nEWxZ)
Name that smell.
It only ran one episode when special guest Charles Laughton
did his Hunchback schtick.
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at May 01, 2025 09:45 PM (ey6uh)
Your crime, hanky panky with the Princess.
The King's sentence is you choose:
Two doors, behind one a beautiful lady you will immediately be married to.
Behind the other, a hungry tiger.
You look at the princess, she subtly nods toward the door on the right.
Which door do you open?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
I think the answer depends on how much fun the Princess had.
https://xkcd.com/246/
Posted by: mikeski at May 01, 2025 09:45 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 01, 2025 09:45 PM (144I4)
Sure hope you poke airholes in the box! Bet you've never heard that one before!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 01, 2025 09:45 PM (vd6bO)
It's not a simple math problem with choices that never changed. They did. That's why the odds changed.
Don't ever play 3 card monty if you've never been to New York City.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 09:46 PM (viF8m)
Our oldest grandson is 11. He's not allowed to have a cellphone and access to the crap on the internet. I salute my son and daughter-in-law for enforcing that rule. He's not happy of course, because all his friends have had access for years.
Kids do not need to see the shit.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 09:47 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: four seasons
Norman: You say you are lying but if everything you say is a lie … please explain… *FFZZZT*
https://youtu.be/wlMegqgGORY
Posted by: mindful webworker - illogical! illogical! at May 01, 2025 09:47 PM (IcX7N)
The show failed due to only having Jews as guests .
They knew all the right prices!
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at May 01, 2025 09:47 PM (ey6uh)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 01, 2025 08:11 PM (fxCK2)
The parable of the sheep and the goats comes to mind.
Posted by: Spoiler: Francis wasn't a sheep at May 01, 2025 09:47 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Voter theater. at May 01, 2025 09:48 PM (FCPbW)
All the innuendo was fun. Even as a kid I knew what they were talking about.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Q: Where is the strangest place you made whoopie?
A: In the butt, Bob.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 09:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 09:49 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Kamala Harris at May 01, 2025 09:50 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 09:50 PM (NWr1F)
A: In the butt, Bob.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 09:49 PM (/lPRQ
Blondes have more fun.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 09:50 PM (q7hip)
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 09:50 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 09:51 PM (E0p3T)
8 Be happy. It makes the misery that much more intense and delicious when I visit disaster upon you.
Posted by: God at May 01, 2025 08:16 PM (aE3vh
And no, I did not write it/obviously. I am so sorry this person is having such a miserable time and I hope that there is some easing of the pain, ( They obviously need prayer ) but God is not a sadist .We used to have a poster here who would make those kinds of statements . Maybe it's the same poster under a new handle I suggest he take it to "Got Questions" which is a Christian question and answer site and post it in question form , although they may not answer if it they consider it trolling. An alternative is finding a clergypetson in his area
and asking to see them and talking things out .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 09:51 PM (YqHdp)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 09:53 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 08:42 PM (Axc90)
We were in the same stat class. In the back. WAY in the back.
Posted by: Voter theater. at May 01, 2025 09:53 PM (FCPbW)
Posted by: nato at May 01, 2025 09:54 PM (vSrCW)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 09:55 PM (NWr1F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 01, 2025 09:55 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 01, 2025 09:55 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 09:50 PM (NWr1F)
All you have to do is look at this:
It's in 1:
OXX
You choose 1 - Monty tells you 3 is the wrong door. You switch. You lose. (or you stick and you win)
You choose 2 - Monty tells you 3 is the wrong door. You switch. You win. (or you stick and you lose)
You choose 3 - Monty tells you 2 is the wrong door. You switch. You win. (or you stick and you lose)
That's every possibility in a nutshell. 2 out of 3 times you win by switching. There are no other possibilities unless you want to play with what door it is behind which doesn't change anything but the labels.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 09:55 PM (E0p3T)
and asking to see them and talking things out .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 09:51 PM (YqHdp)
Yes. A very kind suggestion I hope they heed it
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 09:55 PM (lCppi)
It is always better to switch and I provide a better example. What if Monty had 100 doors and the contestant picked one. (99 goats and 1 car). After the initial decision Monty will expose 98 goats and never expose a car. There is no randomness involved. In that case the contestant should always switch to an unopened door his odds improve from 1 in 100 to 99 in 100. The contestant is taking Monty's 98 goat doors plus chance for car as his option, after Monty exposed all the goats.
Posted by: Setsoru at May 01, 2025 09:56 PM (EQ18D)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 09:57 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: mindful webworker - illogical! illogical! at May 01, 2025 09:57 PM (IcX7N)
Your initial odds a a clear 1 in 3.
Monty will always eliminate one of the goats.
Goating you into changing your decision which is now 1 in 2.
Your decision was always 1 in 2. Changing that decision does not increase your odds.
This has nothing to do with Schrodenger's cat who likes living in the box with your indecision until it's dead.
Posted by: john at May 01, 2025 09:44 PM (nEWxZ)
Sorry... no.. this was TV... they wanted a certain amount of winners, and a certain amount of losers...
And what those winners looked like, probably mattered.
It's like the stupid 'Voice' contestants... who are ALL suddenly from dysfunctional backgrounds.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 09:57 PM (QAkQ3)
Q: Where is the strangest place you made whoopie?
A: In the butt, Bob.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 09:49 PM (/lPRQ)
That was the Newlywed Game
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 09:58 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2025 09:58 PM (hGxWW)
No, they improve to.. uh, wait..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 09:59 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 01, 2025 09:55 PM (XeU6L)
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The great thing about the Opel Manta is that it had a left-foot pedal that operated the windshield wipers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 09:59 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 01, 2025 09:59 PM (P5BPp)
The Pacer was a POS. We had those in the car pool many years ago and it was like driving a goldfish bowl.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 10:00 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 10:00 PM (NWr1F)
The choice you have is your one-third chance or Monty's two-thirds.
Posted by: irright at May 01, 2025 10:01 PM (292UM)
It just feels worse to switch and lose when you know you had the right door. No sane person wants to go against their "gut" and be wrong. Yes it will hurt worse than sticking with a wrong answer. But that's not the nature of the question.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 10:02 PM (E0p3T)
Nope. Monty throws out one of the bad choices, improving your odds to 50/50. Two doors left; one good, one bad. Everything that preceded is irrelevant. You do not get better than 50/50 by switching or by standing pat. 50/50 is what it is.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 01, 2025 10:03 PM (klJTj)
So...which did I pick?
Well, both! I mean, you have to make sure you get the right one you know?
Posted by: David French at May 01, 2025 10:03 PM (t0Rmr)
And of course the odds change from the start of the game.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 10:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 10:04 PM (YqHdp)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 01, 2025 10:03 PM (klJTj)
NO!! It's not 50/50. If it was 50/50 then most people would just want to stick. It's 67% in your favor if you switch. 33% if you don't.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 10:05 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 10:05 PM (YqHdp)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 10:05 PM (YqHdp)
This is AoS. Every thread is derailed before it starts. Usually to boobs.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 10:06 PM (E0p3T)
Correct. The issue isn't with the odds changing, it's with the assumption of the game changing.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 10:07 PM (viF8m)
You needn't worry. I see no rails here, and you're right. People matter.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 01, 2025 10:07 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: irright at May 01, 2025 10:07 PM (292UM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 10:05 PM (YqHdp)
I appreciate your posts, Fen. And I like Philip Yancey. I will look up your recommendation. Thank You.
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 10:08 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 01, 2025 10:09 PM (P5BPp)
How do you know you wouldn't have won with your first bet if you hadn't chicken shitted out and changed because Monty made you nervous?
As I said, don't ever play 3 Card Monty if you fall for this fallacy.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 10:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 10:05 PM (E0p3T)
Let me guess... You think that if you flip a coin 9 times in a row and get heads every time, that if you flip the coin one more time, it will most likely come up tails.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 01, 2025 10:09 PM (klJTj)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 10:10 PM (uksS7)
The reason they show you the goat is to hide the fact that your odds are 67% if you switch. They make you think your odds are 50%.
Posted by: Editor at May 01, 2025 10:10 PM (bbqkM)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 01, 2025 10:09 PM (klJTj)
Are you making fun of *me* for not understanding probability here? See 278 and then flash your sky high IQ again.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 10:12 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: ...
Good table. Now expand to four doors originally and whittle down to the last two. 75% to win by switching?
Five doors, whittle down to two. 80% to by switching?
So on and so forth.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 10:13 PM (/lPRQ)
They meet weekly on Wednesdays at 10pm. It was 11pm when they were filming, and they were all going back to work afterwards.
Meanwhile, it's not even 10:30 and I'm on my way to bed, exhausted. Ha!
Posted by: IrishEi at May 01, 2025 10:14 PM (3ImbR)
That's the entire point. Once he shows the door the game and odds have changed. It becomes a 50/50 bet. The odds didn't change, the game did.
Judging the results of a changed game without changing the odds is meaningless.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 10:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 10:14 PM (E0p3T)
Judging the results of a changed game without changing the odds is meaningless.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 10:14 PM (viF8m)
If it became a 50/50 game at that point then everyone would just want to stay and there would be no correct answer to the problem. But there is a correct answer which means it's not 50/50.
There is no better answer to a true coin flip. But there IS a better answer here because the contestant has been given an advantage by the host. It's not 50/50. It's not just a choice between 2 doors. It's 33/67.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 10:17 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: irright at May 01, 2025 10:18 PM (292UM)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 10:19 PM (E0p3T)
You are once again missing the point. Once Monty opened door of a wrong answer the odds changed. So did the odds of winning.
Marylin's gigantic brain didn't seem to understand this but bettors do.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 10:22 PM (viF8m)
315 Has the first door Monty reveals EVER been the real prize? I am not familiar enough to know. If not, that by itself should explain it.
Posted by: irright at May 01, 2025 10:18 PM-
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And at what percentage? Less than about 1/3 will demonstrate deception.
Posted by: irright at May 01, 2025 10:23 PM (292UM)
Posted by: irright
Monty only reveals non-events.
He never opened a random door and exposed the guest's guess or the automobile if it's behind one of the other doors.
Changing your guess is no different than not guessing until you are down to two doors.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 10:23 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 10:22 PM (viF8m)
If it's 50/50 why wouldn't it be equally good at that point to stick or to change? Is that what you are saying? That they become two equivalent choices? If they are, the problem has no correct answer and any normal human would want to "stick with their gut", and all those lecturing liberal professors were right.
And btw bettors by and large don't understand jack shit. That's why the casinos are so big.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 10:27 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 10:34 PM (t0Rmr)
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Got the lawn, pens and back acreage mowed. For the last of these, I managed not to set it all on fire like I accidentally did last time.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:21 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: huerfano at May 01, 2025 06:22 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:22 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:19 PM (D7yNd)
Thank you, my good friend! Much appreciated always!
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 06:23 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 06:23 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Carl Wheezer - Llama lover extraordinaire at May 01, 2025 06:23 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Gref at May 01, 2025 06:24 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:24 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 06:25 PM (W/lyH)
Damn dust!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 06:26 PM (W/lyH)
Hadrian, I thought I was the only one to do that.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:22 PM (D7yNd)
_________
I was mowing the badly overgrown back acreage with the riding mower and stopped to brush it off. Some of the dried cuttings hit the manifold, ignited and fell to the ground. There was a 20 mph wind blowing and off it went. About five acres burned up. The VFD did a great job containing it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:26 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 06:26 PM (ypFCm)
Not sure which I find less intelligent.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 06:27 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Gref at May 01, 2025 06:24 PM (aBgBM)
Well, to be fair - I can be kindler and gentler in my content. Ace has to deal with the likes of us all day, so he probably needs to be a little feisty with his Cafe choices to allow himself to decompress.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 06:28 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:28 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 06:26 PM (ypFCm)
Not my lane. I stick to what I know.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 06:29 PM (RFPHU)
Almost a lifetime ago.
Posted by: Ciampino - that's almost a lifetime ago at May 01, 2025 06:29 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 06:30 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 06:30 PM (ypFCm)
Hadrian , same conditions but I was at the end of the barn so I just had to turn on the hose.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:28 PM (D7yNd)
________
I was about 100 feet from the nearest hose. Another episode of My Stupid Life.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:30 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 06:31 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: SimoHayha at May 01, 2025 06:32 PM (5/e+B)
In all honesty ace could take two weeks.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:33 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:33 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Gref at May 01, 2025 06:34 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Gref at May 01, 2025 06:24 PM (aBg
Spiders have entered the conversation.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 06:35 PM (W/lyH)
Gref, I agree.
Posted by: Ciampino - that's acceptable at May 01, 2025 06:35 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:36 PM (D7yNd)
In all honesty ace could take two weeks.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:33 PM (D7yNd)
Well done guys.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 06:37 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: TJM's phone at May 01, 2025 06:38 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 01, 2025 06:39 PM (2NHgQ)
But I guess it's alight.
I guess.
Posted by: TJM's phone at May 01, 2025 06:38 PM (GBKbO)
Not my fault you don't get it
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 06:41 PM (RFPHU)
In all honesty ace could take two weeks.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:33 PM (D7yNd)
Well done guys.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 06:37 PM (W/lyH)
NOOOOOOO!!!!!
Posted by: hobos everywhere at May 01, 2025 06:41 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Ben Had
______
He's gonna read that and it'll be like when Aunt Bee thought Andy and Opie didn't need her. So now we have to hurry and create a shambles.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 06:41 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 06:42 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:43 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 06:42 PM (uksS7
So sorry.. I know how hard that is...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 06:43 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 06:43 PM (EuI33)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:45 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Blue Hair at May 01, 2025 06:46 PM (X8wmX)
ScaryMary,
I am very sorry about the loss of your dog. We lost our old guy a month ago and we still look for him.
Making the final decision for them is so tough, but we make the right decision.
Hopefully your guy and mine are playing together now.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 06:48 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 06:42 PM (uksS7)
So sorry, SM. We drink in his honor this evening.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 06:50 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 06:51 PM (jHien)
We haven't always been *happy* but we're together.
And happy about that.
48 years this summer.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 01, 2025 06:51 PM (Eo96p)
His last memory was being hugged and a piece of ribeye.
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 06:42 PM (uksS7)
_________
I never cry during the last act of love. I don't want their final memory to be seeing us sad.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:51 PM (QnmlO)
Yet, we wouldn't change a thing about having them in our life.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 06:52 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 06:52 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 06:52 PM (VphID)
I was very attached to my old hound dog. He was devoted to me.and vice versa. He was family and he will be missed.
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 06:53 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 06:55 PM (14URa)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 06:55 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 06:55 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Savage Henry at May 01, 2025 06:55 PM (AOsQT)
I have seen and eased many dogs ,cats and horses home in 63 years.
More doesn't make it easier.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:57 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Savage Henry"
It's been 35 years for me and I still want one now and then.
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 06:57 PM (vFG9F)
Given I'm old enough to be this cynical, I will validate the correctness of this statement.
* checks content *
Nothing containing anything mephitic Spheniscidae-related.
I rate Doof's statement True.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 01, 2025 06:58 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Case at May 01, 2025 06:59 PM (OrSPY)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 01, 2025 07:00 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:57 PM (D7yNd)
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Yep.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 07:00 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:00 PM (D7yNd)
Theologians would say that dogs do not go to heaven because they do not have immortal souls. We have dominion over the beasts of the earth and for them to go to heaven is to make them our equals.
But I think we will see them there. Are their beauty, devotion and loyalty, are the things that created a bond, are what they were that made us love them and take care of them to be lost forever or are they to be treasured eternally?
They're in heaven, not for them but for us. They are our reward for what we did for them and the love we gave them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 07:00 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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No, I was calm. He had Bluebell vanilla and brisket sundae before the rural vet arrived. He was old and had a good goodbye.
Hadrian, RIP for your young pup that passed. I'm sorry. I've been in a cloud recently but RIP for your pup.
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 07:00 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:01 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 01, 2025 07:02 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Savage Henry
__________
Me too, especially with coffee. But I bet you've already noticed a difference in your breathing/coughing. And no more lingering smell on your hands and clothes.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 07:02 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:03 PM (3ek7K)
I've been in a cloud recently but RIP for your pup.
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 07:00 PM (uksS7)
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Thank you. You have your own burden. We hope Fitz's death won't be in vain but will help teach us something about how to improve the health of the breed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 07:03 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: DanMa'am at May 01, 2025 07:04 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 01, 2025 07:04 PM (4C4pO)
Life would be much easier for the rest of us if you would learn to speak English.
Posted by: Kwak! at May 01, 2025 07:04 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 07:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:05 PM (3ek7K)
Got the lawn, pens and back acreage mowed. For the last of these, I managed not to set it all on fire like I accidentally did last time.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Been mowing this plot since 1988. Never set it on fire. Was it from mower exhaust or careless smoking?
Posted by: Firefighter Fred Scuttle at May 01, 2025 07:06 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:06 PM (D7yNd)
Doesn't matter how long we have them, how many years we get, it's not ever really enough.
So sorry, ScaryMary and Hadrian.
Hadrian, I think animals/pets are in heaven. They make our lives richer here, and they are God's creation, why wouldn't they be on the new earth?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 01, 2025 07:07 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 07:07 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
It will, in short order, be evident that we not only exist, but are moving on all fronts in juggernaut fashion.
Posted by: Big Penguin Is Our Friend at May 01, 2025 07:10 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 01, 2025 07:11 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 07:12 PM (RIvkX)
We were out in the yard this morning spraying and digging up dandelions. Why are they so prolific and not stuff you plant?
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:12 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 01, 2025 07:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Uncle Pervy at May 01, 2025 07:13 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:13 PM (D7yNd)
x.com/HouseGOP/status/1918045723968315735
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 07:14 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: DanMa'am at May 01, 2025 07:14 PM (8uzBS)
Damn I miss him.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 07:14 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 07:15 PM (vm8sq)
"A staple of the death metal music genre was gunned down by police in South San Francisco Monday after a dispute with a neighbor over trim clippings turned violent."
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Uncle Pervy at May 01, 2025 07:13 PM (G5+As)
Club ONT. Saturday nights. Hive of scum and villainy.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:15 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:16 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:00 PM (D7yNd)
You and me both, girl! Absolutely nothing I can do about it so I don't stress on it.
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 07:16 PM (14URa)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 01, 2025 07:18 PM (hKoQL)
We've had 4 Great Danes. The last two were half sisters and were always up to something.
One morning they had vet appointments. What a riot that was. They got loose before we could get them in the truck and ran all over the neighborhood. Luckily a neighbor a couple of streets over corralled them in his backyard, lol.
Memories, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:19 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 01, 2025 07:19 PM (Eo96p)
our Representatives are showcasing their tradition of existence to themselves and to their constituents at large
x.com/HouseGOP/status/1918045723968315735
Posted by: gKWVE
They pose, therefore they are.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 07:19 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:20 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Uncle Pervy at May 01, 2025 07:13 PM (G5+As)
The Turtles are OK. But on my play list, a slew of hits follow, starting with Creedance.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 07:20 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:21 PM (D7yNd)
I am crazy about dogs. One time hubbie suggested I volunteer at the rescue place. I told him he had lost his mind, we would end up with lots of dogs.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:21 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had
_______
Couldn't you substitute some other activity for smoking, and they'd pick up on that as well?
Don't get me wrong. It's been ten years, and I'd love to start again tomorrow. And I continued dipping Copenhagen for five years after I quit.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 07:22 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 01, 2025 07:23 PM (3CPWC)
Posted by: SimoHayha at May 01, 2025 07:23 PM (5/e+B)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 07:24 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 01, 2025 07:25 PM (Eo96p)
56 years!!! That is amazing.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:26 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:26 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Ben Had
_______
Couldn't you substitute some other activity for smoking, and they'd pick up on that as well?
Don't get me wrong. It's been ten years, and I'd love to start again tomorrow. And I continued dipping Copenhagen for five years after I quit.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Chain smoker for years here. I switched to vaping maybe 10 years ago and found it cumbersome. Now I use ON! or Zyn packs between cheek and gum. Totally satisfying.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 07:26 PM (/U5Yz)
Horses are intuitive.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:26 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 07:27 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Hi, Ben Had... I think it was by mistake
What I saw: raindodojerk showed up, and Miklos socked, but didn't add the usual "on tap" but used the identical nick as dodo.
And then *shazzam* they were both gone from the ONT.
If Miklos was out of line in any way, I did not see it.
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 07:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 01, 2025 07:28 PM (mH6SG)
I firmly believe that it is the planned moment of relaxation and release of stress that this offers outweighs any physical harm.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 07:29 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:29 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:30 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 07:12 PM (RIvkX)
All the girls wore short shorts and tube tops, and nobody was fat! It was awesome.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 07:31 PM (3xZyM)
123 years ago today my maternal grandfather immigrated - legally! - into this country. He returned to Italy in 1911 to marry before returning for good in 1912.
His wife (my grandmother) was to emigrate with her son in 1915 but just as she was about to leave Italy entered the war and she didn't make it here until 1919.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 07:31 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Adriane the Hope de Bat Dont Come Out & Fly in the Face Tonight Critic . . . at May 01, 2025 07:31 PM (tcomi)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:33 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:33 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:34 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:35 PM (D7yNd)
Hadrian, what part of Italy?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:33 PM (D7yNd)
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Lazio, just south of Rome. Specifically, Carpineto Romano, also the birthplace of Pope Leo XIII.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 07:35 PM (QnmlO)
My childhood dog died on my 13th birthday.
Do you see why I am like I am?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 07:35 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 07:35 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:36 PM (3ek7K)
Looked back a few ONT's. I think that's the one he had last night, too
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 07:37 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 07:37 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:37 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 07:37 PM (g47mK)
https://tinyurl.com/mwws8evk
Posted by: jsg at May 01, 2025 07:37 PM (SATZE)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 07:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:38 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:39 PM (3ek7K)
I do know there was a big wave of German migration at the time. (1870’s - 1880’s)
Good thing I got birthright citizenship!
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 07:39 PM (3xZyM)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:34 PM (3ek7K)
It was the wholesome content. Got them to let their guard down.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:40 PM (RFPHU)
https://tinyurl.com/mwws8evk
Posted by: jsg at May 01, 2025 07:37 PM (SATZE)
VIOLENT EMOTION
SCREAMING “REVOLUTION”
SPASMATIC CONVULSIONS
DEATH! AN EMPTY GUN
Posted by: Slayer at May 01, 2025 07:40 PM (vm8sq)
LOL Doof!
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:41 PM (3ek7K)
One of the last Willd West internet sites.
Posted by: coyne at May 01, 2025 07:41 PM (b8Y5B)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 07:41 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:41 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:40 PM (RFPHU)
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Wholesome content? Doof? I do not understand these words in this order.....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 07:41 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 07:42 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:43 PM (D7yNd)
One of the last Willd West internet sites.
Posted by: coyne"
You have to put in the extra effort.
Posted by: Bl*zz*r at May 01, 2025 07:43 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 07:41 PM (vm8sq)
Fistbump to ya, brother!
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:43 PM (RFPHU)
Luckily her ship didn't get torpedoed or I wouldn't be typing this.
Posted by: jsg at May 01, 2025 07:43 PM (SATZE)
All my ancestors came here as indentured servants, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:43 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 07:43 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 01, 2025 07:44 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:44 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 07:41 PM (tT6L1)
I'm full of surprises
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:45 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 07:45 PM (rJ7Hd)
https://youtu.be/ElqCHiw-K6M
The second works for most of us who are 29.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 07:45 PM (VNX3d)
I've done that. CBD can fix you up if you're nice.
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 07:46 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:43 PM (D7yNd)
*stands behind Ben Had and flexes*
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:46 PM (RFPHU)
Reality:
@TheKevinDalton
Felons are stealing the literal infrastructure of Los Angeles:
Copper wire thefts have caused tens of millions of dollars in damage across Southern California, and passenger rail and commuter train systems have been among the most heavily targeted by vandals.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 07:46 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:47 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:46 PM (RFPHU)
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Maybe I stand behind you and flex so you look like you got something by comparison?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 07:47 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 07:49 PM (rJ7Hd)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:49 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:50 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:52 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 07:52 PM (aOqEy)
I know we all joke with each other here and it's fun.
I sometimes read the comments at Breitbart and man those people can be complete assholes. It's kinda scary.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:53 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 07:54 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 07:54 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:43 PM (D7yNd)
*stands behind Ben Had and flexes*
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:46 PM
* stands in front of Ben Had and doesn't flex, in order to make Ace's shelves proud *
Posted by: Ben Had's Kitchen Table at May 01, 2025 07:54 PM (elO/o)
I sometimes read the comments at Breitbart and man those people can be complete assholes. It's kinda scary.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:53 PM (3ek7K)
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The MoMe's make a difference, I believe. Once you meet the people behind the boxes, it changes things.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 07:54 PM (tT6L1)
I'm sure Doof is a very nice gentleman.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:54 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 07:46 PM (mlg/3)
Imagine criminals, let's say horse theives, doing something like this in the 1870s doing something like this.
What would the consequences be?
Posted by: coyne at May 01, 2025 07:55 PM (b8Y5B)
Ace once, maybe more than once, banned himself.
Posted by: davidt at May 01, 2025 07:55 PM (i0F8b)
Just today saw evidence of two streetlights with wires ripped out.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 07:55 PM (vPZg0)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:55 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:54 PM (3ek7K)
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You know the term "wry grin?" Doof could give lessons on that one.
Most excellent person in person.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 07:55 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: four seasons
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Ben Had and AlaBAMA at your door, eh?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 07:56 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 07:56 PM (3ek7K)
Spoiler alert:
Women decided how much their vaginas were worth. Men viewed this action by the women, agreed with the determination women, and then men were left to decide how much the women were worth.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Ladies, you weren't liberated. You were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 07:56 PM (aj2DA)
I can never thank you all enough.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:57 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Ladies, you weren't liberated. You were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 07:58 PM (aj2DA)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 07:47 PM
Stay in your lane!
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard Graduate at May 01, 2025 07:58 PM (elO/o)
Most excellent person in person.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 07:55 PM (tT6L1)
Thank you, brother. You ae so correct about meeting people at a MoMe. It's the secret sauce of this place.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 07:59 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 08:00 PM (gKWVE)
This is the best place on the internet. Ace is amazing and I hope he knows how much we appreciate him.
He works his ass off and we benefit.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:01 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 08:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:02 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 08:02 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 08:03 PM (D7yNd)
It is very rural here where we live. Driving around today we saw many baby calves and tiny horses still wobbly on their legs. Baby sheep and buffalo too.
It's awesome.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:03 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA
What an apt description of marriage.
Love and endurance.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 01, 2025 08:04 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 08:04 PM (l3YAf)
Thanks for the condolences for my hound.
Thank you. I appreciate you people very much. Hope to see you at TX MoMe X.
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 08:04 PM (uksS7)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:05 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 08:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:05 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 08:07 PM (D7yNd)
AlaBAMA,
That part suck ass, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:05 PM (3ek7K)
Yes it does. I love the spring. Renewal is the best part of God's design but for me, Fall is the best. The twilight of life before the long nap of winter.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:07 PM (aOqEy)
Spring is my favorite. Hubbie loves fall. I think he's mostly happy about yardwork season ending, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:08 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 08:09 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 08:09 PM (D7yNd)
The twilight of life before the long nap of winter.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 01, 2025 08:07 PM (aOqEy)
_________
*sees word "nap"*
*instantly dozes off*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 08:10 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:10 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 08:07 PM (D7yNd)
Thanks Ben Had, I am looking forward to it!
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 08:11 PM (uksS7)
ordered some clothes for granddaughter from LandsEnd. Shipped from WI, made it to Indy. Then it seemed to get stuck in Indy.
For days. But then it got unstuck and moved on to . . . Puerto Rico.
MrTea contacted the PO, who did not respond, until one day he got a survey asking how their customer service was. He responded with a scathing reply that there had been NO customer service, or even a reply.
BUT, suddenly, the package found its way back to the States and is now here in town, supposedly coming our way tomorrow.
Puerto Rico
sheesh
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 01, 2025 08:13 PM (Eo96p)
Love and endurance.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 01, 2025 08:04
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Love and endurance are two sides of the same coin. Think of Christ on the cross... And marriage is taking up a cross for the sake of our beloved.
Posted by: Bigsmith at May 01, 2025 08:13 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 07:43 PM
Yup. The Doof! Army has their brother's back.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 01, 2025 08:15 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 01, 2025 08:16 PM (mH6SG)
He works his ass off and we benefit.
Posted by: four seasons at May 01, 2025 08:01 PM (3ek7K)
Works his ass off? Ace is notoriously lazy. First post by noon is the over-under.
But he is supremely talented and runs the really open political si
Posted by: coyne at May 01, 2025 08:16 PM (b8Y5B)
Posted by: God at May 01, 2025 08:16 PM (aE3vh)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 08:19 PM (vPZg0)
Posted by: ScaryMary at May 01, 2025 06:42 PM (uksS7)
I maintain that if I don't see all of my dogs in heaven, then it won't really be heaven, at all.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 08:20 PM (a4NoL)
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Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 01, 2025 08:32 PM (cvWHI)
It's normal for things to sit for a couple of days in Lenexa or Wichita. Would be nice if the post office would just acknowledge that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 01, 2025 08:35 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 08:39 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: GWB at May 01, 2025 10:13 PM (wbjSL)
No, I Will Not Be Doing That
My company moved to a new email system for some damn reason, and today was the day they switched over. They sent clear, detailed instructions on how to get it set up on your phone (No, really. Step by step, screenshots and everything. Should have been bulletproof). I was following them when suddenly I was not seeing what the instructions said I should be seeing, so I called the help desk.
The guy that answered was friendly, and he asked me to download an ap called Beyondtrust which would allow him to remotely control my phone and finish the install. I said no. “Look, can you just tell me how to fix it? I trust you (and I do) but I just really hate giving remote control of my electronics to anyone. I'm not an idiot, I first went online in the early 90s with an Atari ST series computer. I've never been phished, never been hacked because I'm really leery of stuff like this, always have been. Can you talk me through it please?” And he did, and we resolved the install. I get that it would have been easier for him to just take over, but... Is it just me? Am I being stupid in a world where NSA knows everything about me and I carry a device around with me that tracks my location 24/7 and can easily be used to eavesdrop on me? My college age son thinks I'm nuts (Dad, anyone can find anything about you any time they want, why bother trying to hide?). He's not wrong, yet still I persist with my instincts from the stone age of the world wide web. Thoughts?Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)They can pry my furlongs per fortnight from my cold dead hands!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Cubits. I like cubits.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 05:00 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 05:00 PM (BgNAf)
Posted by: Bob from NSA at May 01, 2025 05:01 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: garrett at May 01, 2025 05:01 PM (Ruu2t)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:01 PM (C4BAC)
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Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 05:02 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:02 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 05:02 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ryan Frank at May 01, 2025 05:03 PM (fgmuN)
Is it just me? Am I being stupid in a world where NSA knows everything about me and I carry a device around with me that tracks my location 24/7 and can easily be used to eavesdrop on me? My college age son thinks I'm nuts (Dad, anyone can find anything about you any time they want, why bother trying to hide?). He's not wrong, yet still I persist with my instincts from the stone age of the world wide web. Thoughts?
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Yes and no.
Remote access is a godsend for a lot of tech stuff. I used it on a literal daily basis when I was doing support. But that was strictly business-to-business, and that is where the "but" comes in.
On my work computer? So. If it's compliant with company policy, no problem. Internal helpdesk wants remote access? Okay. Vendor? So long as they comply with the requirements, sure.
My personal equipment? No. Never, for any reason. I don't trust anyone company that much.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 05:04 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: WarEagle82 at May 01, 2025 05:04 PM (YcfMX)
I am informed that for the first time, evil Trump and DOGE are building dossiers on every person in the United States.
Because Biden and Obama would never do anything like that.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 05:04 PM (xTIDn)
I would not let someone take remote control of my phone, as that's a personal device.
If it was company-issued, that would be different.
My work computer is owned by the university, so I have NO expectation of privacy there.
I do trust our help desk and will let them do what they need to for my computer. We aren't allowed to install our own apps anyway.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 05:04 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Bib from the NSA at May 01, 2025 05:05 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:05 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 01, 2025 05:05 PM (Vj4xA)
Posted by: Kratwurst at May 01, 2025 05:05 PM (nIRE6)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:06 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 05:07 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 01, 2025 05:07 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:07 PM (PCK5/)
He has a point
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:07 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 05:07 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:08 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:08 PM (CQE5S)
And there should be nothing you care about being hacked on it anyway.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (NWr1F)
1) try and hide, or
2) cut such a wide swath through the digi-sphere that no one can decipher what the hell you're doing or why.
I think I'm conducting behavior #2 but not consciously...
Posted by: Mudshark at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (M8TvI)
I trust no one. When my netlfix account got hacked I called them to sort it all out and they started asking me all sorts of personal information to prove my identity. I gave them the account number and my address but that wasn't good enough. They started asking for the card info that I paid the account with and I refused. I told the lady that she could see that on the screen and I was not giving it to her. She said she needed it to verify it was me and that I was the one who initiated the call. I said nope cancel my account. I called my bank and cancelled that card.
I do not trust anyone.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (eFnJ7)
And yet. F*ck them. I do not consent.
My kids think I'm a fool. (Not that they're wrong, but not for that reason).
Posted by: WaitingForMartel at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (U3fVU)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (PCK5/)
Your name is Dave. I'd be terrified of having any computer related conversation with a Hal 9000 carrying that handle.
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (j4U/Z)
PDT giving the commencement address at Univ of Alabammy
That's rare, unfortunately. All these faggot colleges never invite our favorite president to do commencements.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (qKvR9)
I have an addon to my Brave browser that does that. Any site that has a search window it randomly sends data to, constantly, so the AI cannot figure out what you are interested in or are looking for, for real.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:10 PM (2VST1)
Say, brave heros of the Republic in Black Robes?
Where were you bitches when my Constitutional right to travel was infringed?
Where were you, to fire off midnight orders to protect the "rule of law" and "due process?"
But please do go on about how you're not political.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 05:10 PM (NwfFc)
It's an alias.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:10 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:10 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 05:10 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:11 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:10 PM (14URa)
Do fear the Israeli-sourced beeper.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 05:11 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (qKvR9)
He better not say anything about fooball!
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:12 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Crouching Chigger at May 01, 2025 05:12 PM (iZoyQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 05:12 PM (jHien)
Never use your real name online. Use a screename.
YouTube after Google bought it:
Use your real name so everyone can find you! Link your social media accounts!!
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 05:13 PM (jGJov)
I honestly don't know. In my case, I avoid providing biometrics, like face scanning or fingerprint recognition. If that kind of stuff gets "stolen" I can't get replacements.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 01, 2025 05:13 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: lin-duh of the garbage clan at May 01, 2025 05:13 PM (K2iv3)
WATCH: Trump marks first 100 days in office with focus on grudges and grievances
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:13 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:13 PM (omVj0)
I guess that's because in Hillary's (and her adherent's) twisted world's, the private is political. And consequently fair game. Or some such thing.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:13 PM (C4BAC)
That is also clever camouflage for true positives. "Pay no attention to those ads for carrots and peanut butter, honey. That's just from the addon."
Posted by: WaitingForMartel at May 01, 2025 05:14 PM (U3fVU)
NSA is probably more concerned about those who go radio silent than those blindly going about their business.
More concerned about 'smart' devices eavesdropping and trying to sell me weird shit because I mentioned something odd out of the blue next to the t-stat that has no reason to have a microphone.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 05:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Trip at May 01, 2025 05:14 PM (87k/1)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:14 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 01, 2025 05:15 PM (paSBy)
European Cubits or African Cubits?
Posted by: WaitingForMartel at May 01, 2025 05:15 PM (U3fVU)
This is mine. My employer can give me a phone if it wants to control what's on it. Also, I don't want to be in touch 24/7. I don't get paid for that.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 01, 2025 05:15 PM (V9cMX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:15 PM (Vnr18)
Trump meets with Cabinet and praises policies that have sparked pushback
WATCH: Trump delivers remarks on investments in America as economy slightly shrinks
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:16 PM (CQE5S)
European Cubits or African Cubits?
African swallows or European swallows?
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:16 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:17 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: DaveA at May 01, 2025 05:17 PM (FhXTo)
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Nope, not just you! Me not having Venmo drives my kids crazy.
Posted by: scampydog at May 01, 2025 05:17 PM (2bFN5)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:17 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: old chick at May 01, 2025 05:17 PM (F3Dlr)
I do not trust anyone.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 01, 2025
***
Capita One pulled that on me ("We need a picture of your driver's license") when I called to ask why their website would not let me in this month, after years of my logging in and taking a text message to confirm on my current phone. Seems they think I have only my old phone, that I've never updated the number, and there have been no text messages sent to me this year for verification. All untrue. Something is funny on their end, and they won't admit it.
I don't need the website to use the card and will use Cap One as little as possible in the future.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:18 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:18 PM (Vnr18)
...team at Oligo Security discovered 23 vulnerabilities in AirPlay,
which allows users to stream audio, video and photos from Apple
devices to other smart devices."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 05:18 PM (0duCh)
I flat refused. Told them if they wanted me that accessible, they can supply the phone, and do whatever they wanted to that device. That's what they did.
Posted by: AB at May 01, 2025 05:19 PM (/Ndpf)
samsung and google have made such pigs of the 16gb it came with that I have to juggle anything new.
Posted by: DaveA at May 01, 2025 05:19 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:17 PM (2J/Lj)
What are we talking here, peppers, garlic?? Sounds very nice!
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:19 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:17 PM (2VST1)
Me too! Of course, my freaking fridge is probably photographing me. But at least it'll be a sideways view of me.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:19 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:19 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:19 PM (CQE5S)
@Breaking911
·
2m
BREAKING: Trump administration requests Supreme Court terminate protected status for over 600,000 Venezuelans
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (PCK5/)
I’m going to be discharged in a bit. Nothing cardiac or pulmonary related
Musculoskeletal only.
Still hurts like a bitch.
I love you all. Thank you for the prayers.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (G0nDz)
WATCH: Trump marks first 100 days in office with focus on grudges and grievances
Posted by: m
Sweet!
Hope he goes on a world class tirade.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Crouching Chigger at May 01, 2025
***
The only app I've downloaded is a calculator. Funny that the Galaxy phone didn't come with one -- or at least I couldn't find it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:17 PM (2J/Lj)
Yogurt, maybe?
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:21 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:21 PM (Vnr18)
I’m going to be discharged in a bit. Nothing cardiac or pulmonary related
Musculoskeletal only.
Still hurts like a bitch.
I love you all. Thank you for the prayers.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (G0nDz)
That's good news. Great news would be that you were no longer in pain.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (VNX3d)
I’m going to be discharged in a bit. Nothing cardiac or pulmonary related
Musculoskeletal only.
Still hurts like a bitch.
I love you all. Thank you for the prayers.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (G0nDz)
Yay! On balance.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (W/lyH)
If the company needs me via email they can provide me a managed company phone. Otherwise, pound sand.
Posted by: ballistic at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (a9uQg)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (mlg/3)
Venezuelans are a tax. Motion denied.
- Roberts
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (NWr1F)
I mean, not really good news but at least not bad news. Still in my prayers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (G0nDz)
Oh Em Gee, Ratched! Just amended my prayer list. Sounds like it coulda been a whole lot worse, though. xxx
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (14URa)
Posted by: The_Hoser at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (f4jia)
If we don't resist, then it will become pervasive and we will have lost more freedom.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (xwWkK)
Trump meets with Cabinet and praises policies that have sparked pushback
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So say the Push Back Surrogates. Laughable.
Everybody better realize how bad this situation is. The soporific, dimwitted eunuchs of PBS pushed back ... And Donald Trump didn't even stop everything he's doing and condemn it all ...
This is the ugly face of the American Reich. Behold it and tremble.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 05:23 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:23 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (mlg/3)
Venezuelans are a tax. Motion denied.
- Roberts
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 05:22 PM (NWr1F)
Yeah like that’s gonna happen…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:23 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:23 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 01, 2025 05:23 PM (V9cMX)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:23 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (D7yNd)
Ben!!! How are the horses? You still living the dream in SoCal?
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:23 PM (14URa)
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Yeah, the govt is one thing, those trolling to take your savings, your I.D. etc. and by their misdeeds screw up your life, are the worries.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 05:24 PM (0duCh)
You fight the power when you can. Keep on tilting at windmills.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 05:24 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: AB
Did you leave it on your desk went you were done for the day?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 05:24 PM (/lPRQ)
Tonight Miss Linda is going out for movie night for the girls from church. She doesn't know what movie it will be -- so the story on that should be interesting. In any event, it's just me and the cats tonight. Maybe I'll dig up a classic film to watch on YooToob.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:25 PM (omVj0)
Apparently they received over $100 million from USAID to assist countries like Georgia and Egypt with food safety.
So, we know why they removed the princess from their packaging" so they could get their "grant" to help with "food safety."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:25 PM (2VST1)
I'm sorry Weird Dave, I cannot do that.
Open the blog bay doors, HAL.
...silence
...sounds of Weird Dave breathing...
Posted by: A.C. Clark at May 01, 2025 05:25 PM (DsA2n)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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They add up.
Glad you're well.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 05:25 PM (0duCh)
While the White House has described Trump’s speech as a commencement address, it is actually a special event that was created before graduation ceremonies that begin Friday. Graduating students have the option of attending the event, but it is not required.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (CQE5S)
Years ago, I used Thunderbird and found it far superior.
But all government agencies must use Microsuck and so we're all stuck.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (vFG9F)
@Breaking911
·
2m
BREAKING: Trump administration requests Supreme Court terminate protected status for over 600,000 Venezuelans
Posted by: weft cut-loop
===
What?
Entry made in error, deliberate or not?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (/lPRQ)
Refuse to take calls from unknown numbers or which have caller ID disabled, and I refuse to talk to anyone who does not identify himself in the first sentence.
Posted by: RS at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (rk5vz)
____
Land O Lakes removed the Indian, kept the land. (stolen)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:19 PM (14URa)
Chicken and bean with onion, garlic, mushrooms, crushed red pepper, white pepper and a sprinkle of salt. I didn't have any jalapeno to throw in but have done in the past.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Trip
This. Worked for company that got sideways with the feds. they came in and took all day timers, palm pilots, and personal phones that had been used in business dealings. It sucked to figure out what you had lost and needed.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (eFnJ7)
You are not being stupid.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (ZmEVT)
Apparently they received over $100 million from USAID to assist countries like Georgia and Egypt with food safety.
So, we know why they removed the princess from their packaging" so they could get their "grant" to help with "food safety."
Soooo...you're saying the little Georgian and Egyptian boys figured out how to fold the box to make her cup her breasts?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (NWr1F)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025
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Yogurt, maybe?
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025
***
Some honey will kill the burning. Ancient Southwestern secret.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ryan Frank at May 01, 2025 05:03 PM (fgmuN)
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Exactly. That a company presumes they can require you to use your own phone for their business is unacceptable. You want me to use a phone to do your work you supply it.
Posted by: Decaf at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (G0nDz)
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I've been off a lot so didn't know you had problems. Will pray for you and hope the pain goes away.
Posted by: Ciampino - wait it is later today at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (sPQoU)
This is, IMO.... by design.
Hell I'm what I would consider tech savvy having been in the field for 30+ years and some of the shit on my new phone is... unfathomable to me.
So I either disable it... or don't use it.
For fuck's sake... I still use Ethernet in the house for computers rather than the built-in WiFi.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (2J/Lj)
Like, white beans?
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 05:28 PM (Axc90)
And on a related front, I'd avoid using QR codes. What a code does once it has system access via your camera isn't aways clear. Sure they promise they're sending a simple URL, but QR codes can have fairly deep access into your device's workings. So unless you know and trust the source, the safest thing is to say "No."
Posted by: YellowBird at May 01, 2025 05:28 PM (MEbkQ)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:28 PM (PCK5/)
I’m going to be discharged in a bit. Nothing cardiac or pulmonary related
Musculoskeletal only.
Still hurts like a bitch.
I love you all. Thank you for the prayers.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 05:20 PM (G0nDz)
Good to hear, now get back to riding everyone's ass.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 01, 2025 05:28 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 05:28 PM (Axc90)
; )
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:28 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: RebeccaH at May 01, 2025 05:29 PM (nnkjY)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:26 PM (2J/Lj)
Like, white beans?
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (CQE5S)
It's nazi chili
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 01, 2025 05:29 PM (NtVYv)
They can pry my furlongs per fortnight from my cold dead hands!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
___________
I see this all the time: (*whiny voice*) "The US is the only country that doesn't use the metric system."
To begin, it's only part true. I was a scientist for 35 years and never thought of the English system in the lab or the metric system out of it.
Furthermore, the English system is an organic one, developed, accepted and refined by society over time. The metric system, on the other hand, is an artificial construct imposed on countries whether their people liked it or not.
American system: that of a free people.
Metric system: that of the subjects of state power.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 05:29 PM (QnmlO)
One of the Biden administration's little tricks was to hand most illegal immigrants "refugee" status, no matter why or how they got to the USA, just to protect them from deportation and make them eligible for lots of benefits.
My guess is that Trump wants to yank that classification from them to make them easy and fast to deport.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:29 PM (2VST1)
Because Biden and Obama would never do anything like that.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 05:04 PM (xTIDn)
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As long as I can see what they have and can correct any mistakes or erroneous info.
Posted by: Decaf at May 01, 2025 05:30 PM (unUNN)
Yeah, somebody determined to get in to your house is going to get in 100% of the time.
Does that mean you just leave your front door unlocked and open?
Just because somebody can break in with intent doesn't mean you want every hobo on the street walking in whenever they feel like it.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at May 01, 2025 05:30 PM (lCHt6)
When I changed from the LG to a Samsung in '23, I carefully did not link up my work email, or any email for that matter. If my personal email has something important, it can wait until I check on a laptop.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:31 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 05:20 P
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Or what, Trump?
You're gonna kick some dirt clods and mutter "aw, shucks, skunked again?"
Because crawling on your belly to beg from the Court--again--is not working.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 05:31 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:32 PM (14URa)
‘Son of Blackbird’: US secret hypersonic jet may unleash 4,000 mph speed in 2025
https://is.gd/wMFz4b
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 05:32 PM (s8j++)
Olly Olly all in free again
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 05:32 PM (ypFCm)
What I found is Apple CarPlay pares better with my Hondas. And now I am iPhone for life; even though Apple ceased innovating back when Jobs died.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 05:33 PM (wBaIH)
One of the Biden administration's little tricks was to hand most illegal immigrants "refugee" status, no matter why or how they got to the USA, just to protect them from deportation and make them eligible for lots of benefits.
My guess is that Trump wants to yank that classification from them to make them easy and fast to deport.
Interesting that when Biden did that, even though nobody had voted for it, the courts were silent. But when Trump, who was elected primarily for this by a majority, tries to undo it...the Courts jump through their ass to stop him. And then they wonder that people are starting to hold them in contempt.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:34 PM (C4BAC)
This is, IMO.... by design.
Hell I'm what I would consider tech savvy having been in the field for 30+ years and some of the shit on my new phone is... unfathomable to me. . . .
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025
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Well said. I've been using computers since 1988 and worked in the field as a programmer for a few years -- and this stuff is a wild tangle to me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:34 PM (omVj0)
Don't they know we've been invaded?
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 05:34 PM (XWtWQ)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:34 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Cubits. I like cubits.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 05:00 PM
No love for stadia?
"And the winepress is trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, for as far as 1600 stadia."
-- Revelation 14:20:
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 01, 2025 05:34 PM (0sNs1)
https://youtu.be/sdPcjIrSvcs
Nurse - save this for when you up to laughing really hard!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 05:34 PM (VNX3d)
You're gonna kick some dirt clods and mutter "aw, shucks, skunked again?"
Because crawling on your belly to beg from the Court--again--is not working.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Patience Padiwan. You have to build a political case that the courts are intentionally allowing criminals, etc. to stay and people like Abrego Garcia are the means to do so.
That way, when Trump goes Andy Jackson on Scotus, they will have no one other than the lefty Dems.
Lincoln did as much to the Taney court as a presidential candidate and the people in the North sided with him rather than Stephen Douglas whose actions were seen as complicit with that decision.
You build political support BEFORE ignoring the court and by the courts continuing their idiocy, they are losing support by the day from the people, if not the asshole elites.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:35 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (CQE5S)
Great northern beans. They soak up other flavors really well. And I ain't trying to kill the heat. I wanted it seriously spicy hot. I'm going to brutally burn my sinuses in to submission.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:35 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2025 05:35 PM (hGxWW)
Isn't "stadia" the plural of stadium?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 05:36 PM (qKvR9)
No. Sort of.
If the phone in question was provided by the employer, screw it, go with the support provided.
If it is a personal device - WTH? - why are you using it to for work? OK, fine, nothing is that cut and dried. With that out of the way. I wouldn't give remote access to anybody and would have approached getting technical support in a similar manner. Staying employed and not comprising your digital security is a balancing act. Right?
As inconvenient as it is to rebuild a pc/phone the only way I hand over a device for support is it has been flattened first; fortunately that happens rarely. It seems the critical issue is what damage could somebody do to you if they were able snap a copy of your data? The answer here, it seems, depends on how deeply one has integrated living a digital life for things like banking, medical, bill payment, taxes, and so on. In my case that risk is wildly unacceptable hence the bright line "hell no" approach to handing over to 3rd parties my byte life.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My Presi as it dent has convictions at May 01, 2025 05:36 PM (amnH6)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (CQE5S)
Great northern beans. They soak up other flavors really well. And I ain't trying to kill the heat. I wanted it seriously spicy hot. I'm going to brutally burn my sinuses in to submission.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:35 PM (2J/Lj)
Sounds great.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:36 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:32 PM (14URa)
Oh it’s out there for most people who use tech… price of living in the Tech Age I guess.
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:36 PM (PCK5/)
The #1-rated C-Ration, as rated by generations of grunts.
#AcceptNoSubstitutes
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 01, 2025 05:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:37 PM (C4BAC)
Don't they know we've been invaded?
Posted by: torabora
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GOP in Congress is a follower, not a leader and that has been true since Boehner and McConnell. The important thing for them to do is continue to work on budget bills and tax acts and leave Trump alone while he confronts the courts. If necessary, then Trump can unleash them via riders, etc. to must pass bills immune from the filibuster.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:37 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:38 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:38 PM (Vnr18)
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There's a pretty gal on the toks that can do a perfect Siri voice.
She delights in frustrating scammers.
With "Siri" interrupting.
She often pretends to be an old woman. Who can't understand it's "." and not "dot" to be typed into the URL.
They frequently end up yelling and cursing at her.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 05:38 PM (NwfFc)
My work computer is different, I give access to anyone in my company, but then again it doesn't belong to me anyway.
Posted by: Pooklord at May 01, 2025 05:38 PM (asU3w)
noun (plural stadiums or plural stadia)
1 a sports arena with tiers of seats for spectators.
• (in ancient Rome or Greece) a track for a foot race or chariot race.
2 (plural stadia) an ancient Roman or Greek measure of length, about 185 meters.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:38 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 01, 2025 05:39 PM (eFnJ7)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (Q4IgG)
Me too. At least the two work computers.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2025 05:39 PM (xwWkK)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:32 PM (14URa)
Oh it’s out there for most people who use tech… price of living in the Tech Age I guess.
Posted by: tubal
I have a service that deletes my information online periodically from databrokers and notifies me of any credit requests, etc. Have my credit frozen but predatory lending companies still let assholes try to get loans or liens on properties they do not own which causes the homeowner grief.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:39 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 05:36 PM
No, as noted in the Style Guide, it's the plural form of stadion.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 01, 2025 05:39 PM (0sNs1)
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I saw the movie.
But I also think this is likely, in some manner, shape or form to be true. Because balloons are one thing... satellites another and spies something else entirely.
Plus it's badass.
We (America) needs to be more badass.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 05:40 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:40 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: sam i am at May 01, 2025 05:40 PM (sGtp+)
If you are in need of a clumsy but enthusiastic massage, I am but a 12 hour flight away.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 05:41 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:41 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 01, 2025 05:41 PM (hKoQL)
Try black-eyed peas, they make a lovely soup! In fact, my personal recipe is in the moron's cookbook.
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 05:41 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 05:41 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 01, 2025 05:41 PM (lg881)
what about ham, spam, spam, eggs, ham and spam? it doesn't have as much spam in it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:42 PM (2VST1)
it is easier to have a company phone and a personal device
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:42 PM (sNg1R)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:42 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 05:42 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Semper Why at May 01, 2025 05:42 PM (nKug+)
Posted by: pookysgirl, watching Lil Pooky army-crawl at May 01, 2025 05:42 PM (0xpWf)
My address book consists of index cards.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 05:43 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:43 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:43 PM (PCK5/)
this being english, "stadium" has many plurals (plurales).
Posted by: anachronda at May 01, 2025 05:43 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 05:43 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:44 PM (sNg1R)
Unless it's going on a hotdog.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 05:44 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 05:44 PM (jHien)
The only time I get on the interwebs (AoS) is when i am stuck in a waiting room of some kind, or waiting on food.
Otherwise I am on my desktop - or my iPad if I am "watching" TV or something.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 05:44 PM (0aYVJ)
Hawaiians love them some Spam. Seriously.
And... it not as bad as its reputation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:44 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (Q4IgG)
Me too. At least the two work computers.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
I put in Class 7 and 8 shielded coax wiring when I did a remodel. Still have wifi for guest on a guest network and for phones but security in depth is used here. All computers have their own firewalls up, router firewall uses Open WRT and so on. Security patches applied regularly and I use Linux for my primary web browsing instead of Windows.
Immutable Linux O/S are also coming around and for the highest level of security, those seem to be a bit better than even container systems.
Cachy OS (based on Arch) is now working on a fair number of laptops and it much more secure than Windoze that it can replace as OS. Reporting some blazing speeds on benchmarks compared with Windoze 11.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:44 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Victor
that is the same as some guy deciding hes tired of getting gay raped so he decides to do gay rape gangbangs
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:45 PM (sNg1R)
Unless it's going on a hotdog.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 05:44 PM (Q4IgG)
Yeah really the best of all types… throw in a little masa harina to thicken it mmmm!!
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:45 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 05:27 PM (Q4IgG)
Me too. At least the two work computers.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
smart, faster, more secure
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:45 PM (sNg1R)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 05:46 PM (qKvR9)
Or she'll pretend to get the gift cards and then "accidently" cash them back into her account, "well you told me to click submit."
[thick Indian accent]
"NO, NO, NO I DID NOT!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 05:46 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:46 PM (CQE5S)
For work devices, if they want it installed, they should have handed it to you with it installed or had a way to remotely install whatever's needed.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 01, 2025 05:46 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 05:46 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:45 PM
Oh, my!
Posted by: George T. and Lindsay G. at May 01, 2025 05:46 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:46 PM (omVj0)
does feather color have any difference with the taste of the chili?
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:46 PM (sNg1R)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:47 PM (C4BAC)
I countered with... provide me with a government phone, laptop and do not consider me "on leave."
It was... enlightening.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 05:47 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:47 PM (C4BAC)
Actually sounds pretty good… of course I like fried bologna sandwiches a lot…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:48 PM (PCK5/)
So even if a malicious character got on it, they could not do much. Nevertheless, I kept security up on them and encrypted their hd.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:48 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:49 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: Bill Cosby as Noah, long ago at May 01, 2025 05:49 PM (omVj0)
I don't even surf the internet for personal reasons on my work devices.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 05:49 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:49 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (C4BAC)
This is the way.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (lUFok)
Yes, this is Wisdom…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (PCK5/)
And it will end.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (C4BAC)
Perhaps, but I think they do get divided on occasion.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:51 PM (sNg1R)
I bet a survey would show they're divided. Assuming the numbers add up.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 01, 2025 05:51 PM (lUFok)
For work devices, if they want it installed, they should have handed it to you with it installed or had a way to remotely install whatever's needed.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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Remote access software is actually built into Windoze btw for the last several iterations (starting 7 mebbe?) and you have to check it periodically to make sure some program, Microsux, or hacker asshole did not turn it on.
Built into a lot of Linux builds as well but easy to get rid of if you don't want it.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:51 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (VNX3d)
Now you're going off on a tangent.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:51 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:52 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:46 PM
What about dot color?
Posted by: Apu from Bengaluru at May 01, 2025 05:52 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025
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When our teacher introduced the word "minus" to us in first grade, it sounded dirty to me. Not that I knew specifically about anything dirty, then. But it sounded . . . odd.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:52 PM (omVj0)
That's the long and the short of it, I guess.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:53 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:53 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:53 PM (sNg1R)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!
You’re just being irrational
Posted by: Kratwurst at May 01, 2025 05:53 PM (nIRE6)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (VNX3d)
Now you're going off on a tangent.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:51 PM (C4BAC)
At least some of them multiply.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 05:53 PM (VNX3d)
Boys have a minus, girls live in Virginia
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:53 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025
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Perhaps, but I think they do get divided on occasion.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025
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REMEMBER THE SUBTRAHEND!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:54 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:52 PM
We do accept gold rings on deposit.
Posted by: Minas Thrift at May 01, 2025 05:54 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:54 PM (2J/Lj)
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Boys have a minus, girls live in Virginia
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025
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That's approximately it!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 05:54 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:54 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: n
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Pretty much, same with smart tvs. But, I use both of them to provide informal feedback to their masters on suckitude on ads, etc by verbalizing complaints.
Kamala political ads got the "fake, gay, and put a woman it" in treatment for example.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:54 PM (ctrM5)
somebody said hey, shovel that stuff off the floor and shove it in the loaf machine
Posted by: n at May 01, 2025 05:55 PM (sNg1R)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:56 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:56 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025
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Carry me back to ol' Minas Troney!
Posted by: Bromosel (or Faraslax) at May 01, 2025 05:56 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:56 PM (PCK5/)
Win11 Home does not have remote connection, only Pro and Enterprise. I use UltraVNC for that.
Posted by: Ciampino - VNC is great at May 01, 2025 05:57 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:58 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:58 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025
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Carry me back to ol' Minas Troney!
Posted by: Bromosel (or Faraslax) at May 01, 2025 05:56 PM (omVj0)
Heh.. well done
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:58 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:59 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 05:59 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:58 PM (C4BAC)
Hell, it’s dead as a hammer anyway…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:59 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025
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I was amused and horrified when I found the guy in my former writing group who acted as if he knew everything about writing had a terrible howler. He had a character say about another one that "He's rich as Croesus." A cliche, but okay --
-- but he'd spelled it "CREASES." And it was right there in his published book.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:00 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:00 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 06:00 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Bonecrusher at May 01, 2025 06:01 PM (6KkyI)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025
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I was amused and horrified when I found the guy in my former writing group who acted as if he knew everything about writing had a terrible howler. He had a character say about another one that "He's rich as Croesus." A cliche, but okay --
-- but he'd spelled it "CREASES." And it was right there in his published book.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:00 PM (omVj0)
Aw man… I spit tea on my iPad!!!!
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 06:01 PM (PCK5/)
Wireless Internet is a convenience for devices like phones, or a laptop when you're out and about. It's not for real work. I have my office TV on Ethernet, even.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 06:01 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:02 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:02 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Ciampino - VNC is great - peer to peer at May 01, 2025 06:02 PM (sPQoU)
So glad it wasn't more serious even if it hurts. Our prayers will continue but it looks like their major work has been done.
Posted by: JTB at May 01, 2025 06:03 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Only a fool trusts blindly at May 01, 2025 06:03 PM (TbWk/)
Then the sons wanted to sell it. I was key to operations and could not tell any friends and co-workers during the 90 day proctology they puts us through. It sold. To a Canadian company.
A few months in they demanded we put their company app on our phones. I asked if it had any tracking features and was told no. I knew they lied.
They provided a brand new iPhone16 or whatever was new in 2023 and I never took out of the office. Every time I wanted access on the network I had to receive a 6 digit number on that phone to get in.
I lasted 18 months and told 'em I was done.
Posted by: DanMan at May 01, 2025 06:03 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:02 PM
She's doing great. Pestering me as we speak
Thanks for asking
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 06:04 PM (BI5O2)
Wireless Internet is a convenience for devices like phones, or a laptop when you're out and about. It's not for real work. I have my office TV on Ethernet, even.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 06:01 PM (BI5O2)
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I guess you are not up for Pixy's blog then.
Posted by: Ciampino - uVNC is great - peer to peer at May 01, 2025 06:05 PM (sPQoU)
-- but he'd spelled it "CREASES." And it was right there in his published book.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:00 PM (omVj0)
Aw man… I spit tea on my iPad!!!!
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025
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I stopped listening to most of his advice right then. And I didn't finish reading the novel either. It was a pretty bog-standard police crime novel of the type we've read and seen many times. Then, halfway through, I found he'd suddenly switched to third person from first person, just for two or three chapters, then back to first again. WTF?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:05 PM (omVj0)
Because Biden and Obama would never do anything like that.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 05:04 PM (xTIDn)
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As long as I can see what they have and can correct any mistakes or erroneous info.
Posted by: Decaf
*IRS & Social Security has entered the chat.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 06:06 PM (fUDLX)
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As nefarious as the federal government is, they're not the only bad actor around.
A guy I know got a popup on his PC from Norton AV detailing a problem and a phone number to call to deal with it. He made the call, and gave them remote access and before giving them his credit card over the phone, felt something was hinky and hang up on them.
He then googled Norton, and called the first number that came up as a result, gave them remote access, and didn't figure out that was *also* a scam untill he realized the window that showed up after they got access 'proving' them was just a notepad file they were typing in.
We he finally went through Norton (on his cell phone) and gave them remote access, they found stuff from both of the others still hanging around, but they did (as far as I know) clean it up. But it meant he had to do the routing of cancelling credit cards and stopping that weekend's payments and so on.
Posted by: Methos at May 01, 2025 06:06 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:07 PM (Vnr18)
Yeah that can work, but its hard to do well and should be used very sparingly. It takes real talent and skill to pull off.
One thing I had never considered but ran into with writing is people who hate a certain POV. "I hate third person!" okay...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 06:07 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Ciampino - VNC is great - peer to peer at May 01, 2025
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From Doon:
ERG: a broad flat plain. Also a unit of energy. Also a unit of energy expended on a broad flat plain.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:07 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Methos at May 01, 2025 06:07 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:09 PM (D7yNd)
What are you hiding, Citizen? Never mind, we will find out in thirty seconds...
Posted by: Big Employer at May 01, 2025 06:09 PM (4Nep/)
One thing I had never considered but ran into with writing is people who hate a certain POV. "I hate third person!" okay...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025
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It can work, but I thought it's usually employed to give a new perspective on your first-person narrator from a different character -- his partner, say, in third person, narrates and shows us what the first-person guy looks and acts like. But this was the *same* character, suddenly in third, and then back to first.
I think my former colleague forgot and left those chapters in from an earlier draft. Embarrassing in a published work.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:11 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 05:54 PM (PCK5/)
Subtract a day or two but yeah, he livered there.
Posted by: Kwak! at May 01, 2025 06:11 PM (89Sog)
I have a payment button on my invoices through QuickBooks when I charge customers for work. Something like 20% of the companies won't let their techs use a company credit card online so they have to call it in for manual entry.
I used to have a couple of government customers who were paranoid and wouldn't let their radio techs buy equipment via ebay, so they'd have us buy it because we were an approved vendor and we'd invoice them with an agreed upon markup and shipping. It was a pain in the rear for them, but easy money for us.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 06:12 PM (y9nCu)
I lasted 18 months and told 'em I was done.
Posted by: DanMan at May 01, 2025 06:03 PM (8uzBS)
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Was the app Teamviewer?
Posted by: Ciampino - how to tell at May 01, 2025 06:12 PM (sPQoU)
No, you were not out of line, WD. Your tech support person was no doubt reliable and trustworthy, but who knows what Jugdesh from Bangalore added to the watcher app that would grant him access to your system at some point down the road.
This is the death of trust of which folks speak when it comes to failing societies.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2025 06:12 PM (Tv15w)
Sounds like yeah probably. I am struggling with a story trying to figure out the POV, have changed several times and I have had to edit a ton to fix it. Probably some will slip through if I don't go through it again a few times.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 06:12 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Chuck Moss at May 01, 2025 06:12 PM (dtMfe)
Same rules for my laptop vs. theirs.
Posted by: Rick T at May 01, 2025 06:13 PM (xeXUW)
Posted by: Case at May 01, 2025 06:13 PM (OrSPY)
Posted by: Unclever Name at May 01, 2025 06:14 PM (1hRKT)
A guy I know got a popup on his PC from Norton AV detailing a problem and a phone number to call to deal with it. He made the call, and gave them remote access and before giving them his credit card over the phone, felt something was hinky and hang up on them.
Posted by: Methos at May 01, 2025 06:06 PM (Dnobf)
Sounds like your friend may have been hacked. I can help with this if you give me his name and phone number. Oh, and his mother's maiden name. And birthdate.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 01, 2025 06:14 PM (liwjr)
It cost $$$ but it does help to remove your digital footprint/info from the internet on a continual basis
Posted by: Pepe The Artist at May 01, 2025 06:16 PM (PzK0U)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 01, 2025 06:14 PM (liwjr)
His name is Joe Biden, his phone number is 302-555-1212, and his SSN is 5.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 06:17 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Ben Had at May 01, 2025 06:18 PM (D7yNd)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 06:18 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:18 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:00 PM (omVj0)
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At least he didn't go with "As rich as Jesus."
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 06:19 PM (1gU1e)
I've had my phone since the 90s or so and didn't want that mess on it at all.
Posted by: DanMan at May 01, 2025 06:20 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 06:21 PM (VE6XX)
He asked for my user ID and that was fine. Then he asked for the last 4 numbers of my SSN. Nope. Hard stop. I told him that was not happening and he said nobody else had a problem giving them. I'm not everybody else. The only person in the company that needs it is HR so she can do my stuff for taxes.
Rather than test dial it himself he ended up running an update which took me away from work for an hour and reset a bunch of my crap. Turns out the issue was with the host for those voice customers; needed to dial a 1 before their number.
Posted by: Colonel32 at May 01, 2025 06:21 PM (9jyKc)
A guy I know got a popup on his PC from Norton AV detailing a problem and a phone number to call to deal with it. He made the call, and gave them remote access and before giving them his credit card over the phone, felt something was hinky and hang up on them.
Posted by: Methos at May 01, 2025 06:06 PM (Dnobf)
I get the occasional email from some random-looking address about an account I have but rarely use, and stuff like this makes me extremely leery of even opening the email, much less following the link.
Posted by: Octochicken at May 01, 2025 06:32 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 01, 2025 06:36 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Mr_Fastbucks at May 01, 2025 06:41 PM (7m2Jh)
I get where you are coming from, but your son is right. Go watch Tucker Carlson’s interview with Catherine Austin Fitts. We are so far beyond that, sadly.
Posted by: La Troienne at May 01, 2025 06:54 PM (MLpTv)
Posted by: john at May 01, 2025 07:14 PM (nEWxZ)
Posted by: Next2Nothing at May 01, 2025 07:33 PM (tA1/w)
Posted by: Augusto Perez at May 01, 2025 07:38 PM (np59N)
Amirite?
Posted by: jimmymcnulty at May 01, 2025 07:40 PM (EAGie)
Posted by: Unclezip at May 01, 2025 07:51 PM (wjdVy)
Posted by: Eric2 at May 01, 2025 08:53 PM (q7Vou)
Posted by: S. Lynn at May 01, 2025 09:05 PM (1Qdnu)
Posted by: Eric2 at May 01, 2025 08:53 PM (q7Vou)
Yeah they know everything so who cares.
Posted by: dudley at May 01, 2025 09:05 PM (r2ymA)
Posted by: Thomas Mahoney at May 01, 2025 09:30 PM (MhC3h)
You never know when they'll install a backdoor, and even if they work for your company, if they're an H1B Visa, NEVER give them access to your device.
EVER!!!!
Posted by: Naqamel at May 01, 2025 09:58 PM (PUJLA)
Trash News
Earlier this month, Bloomberg published an article about declining male enrollment in American colleges and universities. They weren't alone - the story was also available on wire services and popped up on various newspapers - but Bloomberg's article was notable in how messy it is and what it attempts to raise in reader's mind - and what it attempts to have the reader never consider.
The pattern usually goes like this: state some facts, state some more tangentially-related or unrelated facts, stoke some fear and depend on nobody saying to himself, "wait a moment, what's missing? Are these things actually related? Why is this article trying to scare me?" We see this all the time in the American press.Men opting out of college isn't a new phenomenon: Women have outnumbered men in undergraduate enrollment for about 40 years, and the gap continues to widen. Almost half of women age 25-34 have earned a bachelor's degree, according to Pew Research Center data; for men the rate is 37%. Between 2011 and 2022, the number of Americans attending college dropped by 1.2 million, with men accounting for almost the entirety of that drop.
As US men forgo higher education, the demographic group as a whole has lost ground in other areas too. Working-class men today are less likely to be employed than they were four decades ago, their inflation-adjusted wages have barely budged in more than 50 years ... Men with a college degree or higher still earn roughly 200% of what men without a diploma do, census data show.
Those are interesting comparisons. Can you spot a missing fact? One that stands out immediately is: "how was 'working class male' employment 40 years ago versus college education rates?" Bloomberg has made an assertion that "working-class men" have a bad deal, and it's because of falling college attendance creating too many "working-class men." Did it? Let's see.
In 1965, around 13%-15% of men aged 25 to 64 had a college degree. Looking at birth years of 1935-1950, we see soaring higher ed, with male degree attainment in those birth cohorts moving from between about 22% to about 32%. So degree attainment was quite a bit lower than it is today at the end of the period, but not by as much as you might think based on the scary headlines. According to a 2017 study, "blue-collar" employment fell by more than half in terms of total employment as compared to the 1970s. So is the problem "men aren't going to college anymore" as Bloomberg asserts, or is the problem "employment prospects suck for non-white-collar people" as the data indicate? The two are not wholly unrelated. If there are fewer blue-collar jobs, it would be good to pursue a white-collar job if you can, and that means college. Bloomberg, however, after framing the argument, fails to discuss the broader historical picture. Instead, they go for scare tactics. This is under the ellipse in the first quote:... they're less prone to get married or have children, and an increasing number report having no close friends. Men are also four times more likely than women to die by suicide. Data show that men age 18-30 spent an average of 6.6 nonsleeping hours alone each day in 2023, 18% more than they did in 2019 and over an hour more than women did, according to a report by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.Not only are they poor and underemployed, they're lonely and suicidal and it's because they didn't go to college! Bloomberg also spends hardly any time on the cost problem. This article spends one paragraph plus a single quote from a high school student on the cost problem with college. It spends four paragraphs - plus an insert quote - on YouTube and social media "influencers" (and Trump, of course) conspiring to get men to reject college. It would all be fine if it weren't for those meddlers on YouTube and in the Oval Office! They also claim - in another three paragraphs - that men skip out on college because they're bored and it takes too long and there's too much bias in favor of instant gratification. A few words on needing a mortgage to go to college, literally nothing about education quality, and a pint of digital ink on "influencers" and "boredom" with a chaser of "you'll be miserable and suicidal if you don't go." No. Men aren't increasingly lonely because they're not going to college. Blue collar jobs didn't vanish because not enough men went to college. Marriage rates aren't declining because not enough men go to college. Birth rates aren't approaching fertility trap territory because not enough men go to college. Bloomberg wants you to think those things, using the oldest trick in the book. The data they provide are unrelated, and the data they choose not provide are related. All of those key metrics were better when male educational attainment was lower. But college - whether men go or not - is not the core problem. The problems described in the article - declining male enrollment, declining blue collar career prospects, declining marriage, declining reproduction, high loneliness, male suicide, etc. - are real but they are far less tightly correlated to the enrollment changes than Bloomberg wants to acknowledge. These are broad social problems that can't be boiled down to "foolish young men who spend too much time on YouTube aren't going to college because evil influencers tell them not to and they think it might be boring" or likewise boiled down to "men going to college collapses marriage and birth rates and the industrial economy." The attempt to pin all our problems on declining enrollment is insane, and there is one line in the article that exposes what Bloomberg is really concerned about:
Returning Gen X students such as Wilson won't be enough to keep higher ed afloat.Ah, there it is. Can't be having colleges fail because they priced themselves out of the market and drove away half their customers by offering poor value and low quality and a bad experience. Instead, get those young men to do their duty and go to college by making them (or, more likely, their parents) think they'll be underemployed, poor, lonely and suicidal if they don't. Gotta save the higher ed racket at all costs. This article is egregious, but it isn't really special. This is how the press works and, despite the press' declining influence, it remains fairly effective.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:32 PM (pMi6S)
Upon review, I was an ass, particularly to Harry, but also to Joe, whose thread it was.
I apologize to you both.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 03:33 PM (oSeBJ)
The stats are real.
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:34 PM (pMi6S)
That they don't gives away the game.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 03:34 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 03:34 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 03:35 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Feminists at May 01, 2025 03:35 PM (Hkcdp)
The stats are real.
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:34 PM (pMi6S)
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Best to go the University of Tennessee and have a good time with some southern belles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Feminists at May 01, 2025 03:37 PM (Hkcdp)
Play with federal aid to force them to comply.
Note, most colleges could do this pretty easily though it would mean firing most of the non-teaching staff.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:37 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 03:37 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 01, 2025 03:38 PM (e5NfL)
"'Equal,' and 'identical,' are not synonyms."
In the great drive to convince (at least) two generations of boys that they're just defective females, we've deliberately created an entirely new set of concerns which, of course, the government has set out to fix.
Entirely ignoring that government intervention is what created these problems in the first place...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 03:38 PM (oSeBJ)
When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw, I had to keep runnin' from one end to the other
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at May 01, 2025 03:38 PM (5hfjS)
Play with federal aid to force them to comply.
Note, most colleges could do this pretty easily though it would mean firing most of the non-teaching staff.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:37 PM (t0Rmr)
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Just end government backed loans and let private student loans be dischargeable in bankruptcy with a provision that some material percentage of the bankrupted cost has to be paid by the college that accepted the loans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 03:39 PM (SYD5S)
I mean since all the Left ever fucking talks about is race, I'm sure the article has some very interesting things to note about it. Just go to the article and do a ctrl-F for "white", "black", "hispanic" and "asian" and let me know what you find.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 03:39 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:39 PM (2VST1)
More than 75 percent of students at two-year colleges and more than 50 percent of students at four-year colleges do not score at the proficient level of literacy. This means that they lack the skills to perform complex literacy tasks, such as comparing credit card offers with different interest rates or summarizing the arguments of newspaper editorials.
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Get yourself into high debt and still come out dumb as a rock. Sounds like a great deal.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (eNdzY)
If getting a peice of paper to enable hire wages comes at the price of contracting the communist brain virus, then it isn't worth it. Earn less but with a clear kind and an intact soul.
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (KtPtl)
1) No federal student grants.
2) The institution must co-sign any student loan its students receive.
3) All student visas are revoked, and none are issued for at least four years.
4) All visas for university staff are revoked, and none are issued for at least four years.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (pMi6S)
I guess they’ve finally figured out that men have value.
Exit question: Hey Bloomberg, did you evaluate the population growth and change in campus administrators????
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 03:41 PM (Hkcdp)
meanwhile, colleges raise tuition far outpacing inflation and an entire generation gets mired in debt with little return
limit grants and scholarships to women (even though they have outnumbered men at college for decades) and DEI
oh no, men aren't going to college!
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 03:41 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (eNdzY)
I'm not sure now is a good time to get people to stop hating the rich.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 03:42 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)
I like this idea much better. I’d imagine if the student loan program was fully privatized, we’d see the purging of a lot of degrees offered by colleges and universities.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 03:42 PM (eNdzY)
Since there are fewer men in college it leads the female population in those colleges to have to compromise which means more sex and less relationship stuff.
And worse yet those men in college are more leftwing then average so they are getting a high portion of leftwing sneaky f*ckers.
So when you hear these women say things like "all men are rapists" its because the one guy they know*, who is in their feminist club had sex with all of them and not necessarily consensually.
*The science/math students don't count because they don't move in the same social circles as people pursuing less rigorous degrees like teaching or English....
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 03:42 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 01, 2025 03:38 PM (e5NfL)
A few years back, I had an exchange with a new female employee I'd hired.
She checked in, and I was showing her around the shop - where to go for certain things, the bathrooms, et al. I asked if she wanted to grab a coffee from the ground floor and she said yes.
The elevator came, and there was nobody on it. I told her to take it, and that I'd take another one.
When we got back, she accused me of being sexist because I wouldn't deign to ride the elevator with a woman. I told her that I chose not to because she could destroy me if I did. "If you told HR I smacked your ass, no amount of truth would save my job. I might even end up in prison. So no, until we know each other better, I won't ride the elevator with a woman I don't know."
She was absolutely gobsmacked, and an hour or two later came into my office to apologize and told me she'd never even considered those situations from a man's perspective.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 03:42 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
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There are problems with FOIA as conceptualized and part of it is that if you try to scrutinize behavior more, they simply go off record via a multitude of messaging apps nowadays even places like Discord.
And yes, part of that issue is nat sec in nature with its overclassification of everything.
It is also the problem that FOIA is essentially an unfunded mandate for agencies and as such extremely low on the priority list.
There is also the fact that agencies simply do not have good paperwork/email/data management practices and thus finding information becomes something requiring people like DOGE data managers rather than the ill equipped staffs at these agencies.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 03:42 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 03:42 PM (M/tYi)
Yeah, but envy is an absolutely stupid emotion. It has killed millions, if not billions, and for what?
Quit getting pissed off at people for simply making a penny more than you do a year.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 03:43 PM (eNdzY)
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The college should co-sign the loan.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)
No respect at all. When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide and seek. They wouldn't even look for me
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at May 01, 2025 03:44 PM (5hfjS)
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The college should co-sign the loan.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 03:43 PM (Dv3i1)
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A much cleaner way to explain my disorganized mind-thoughts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 03:44 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 03:44 PM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 03:44 PM (s8j++)
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Why when there are horny milfs down the street?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Feminists at May 01, 2025 03:35 PM (Hkcdp)
I'd stick with the smart ones, myself.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (a4NoL)
I'm betting a clear and obvious inverse relationship.
Increasing the workforce means that each individual worker is less valuable, making wages stagnate.
Now a working class family, to have the same standard of living a similar family had in the 1970s, needs two incomes to survive.
So, we decrease their value as a worker, we decrease their value to the family as a breadwinner, we decrease their value to potential spouses and start wondering why there is a problem with lonliness, suicide, lack of family formation, lack of children, etc...
I'll be pilloried for saying it, but the movement pushing women to join the workforce was massively wrong and harmed both men and women.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (N1tpc)
There are zero academic scholarships for men only.
If people are really serious about men in college they need to make it equal.
Posted by: Chemist at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (HJMJw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla
Will they pay for drinks?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 03:43 PM (eNdzY)
Oh no, I'm pissed at them for being uppity leftard scum.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Feminists
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Foreign students often are paying the full ride of tuition, fees, etc. (or various exchange programs, AID, etc. were doing so for them). Domestic is basically a price discriminatory model where ability to pay and whether they want that 'demo' as a student.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 03:46 PM (ctrM5)
So much needs to happen regarding the cash cows that colleges have become, because it’s probably just as bad as AUAID with the fraud, graft, and waste on do-nothing jobs that simply exist to scoop up money.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 03:46 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Fenderbender at May 01, 2025 03:46 PM (1FEc1)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 03:46 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)
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The Rhodes Scholarship was until the paid managers of it decided Rhodes sucked.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 03:47 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Chemist at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (HJMJw)
Why would they be serious about it. It's easier to turn a woman into a lifelong commie in college so why should a man ever take up that space?
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 03:47 PM (M/tYi)
Plus, you can make beaucoup bucks as a welder or a plumber these days. No college necessary, and State of Alaska even provides pre-training and access to apprenticeships. I suspect other states are the same.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 03:47 PM (a4NoL)
C. 1985 we called it MRS degree.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 03:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Drink your Koolaidge.
Posted by: irright at May 01, 2025 03:48 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 03:47 PM (pZ64F)
Rhodes? Where were going, we don't need Rhodes.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 03:48 PM (M/tYi)
So, we decrease their value as a worker, we decrease their value to the family as a breadwinner, we decrease their value to potential spouses and start wondering why there is a problem with lonliness, suicide, lack of family formation, lack of children, etc... ...
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (N1tpc)
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I think the causality might be inverted in the first part of that.
Women entered the workforce en masse in the 70s as a result of need first, not desire first. A lot of Boomer women were all about girl-bossing, but it wasn't yet the default standard.
Inflation destroyed wages. Wives went to work to help out the family. That *did* help in the immediate term, but helped compound things silently in the long term. And the bad behavior helping to drive inflation - that is, unchecked government spending a severing of ties between the federal budget and economic reality - continued unabated, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 03:48 PM (WkNQM)
I'll be pilloried for saying it, but the movement pushing women to join the workforce was massively wrong and harmed both men and women.
People were promised basically twice the income and don't worry daycare/schools would raise your kids better then you could.
And...what ended up happening is salaries were halved and the daycares/schools ended up producing illiterate hoodlums.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:48 PM (t0Rmr)
Yeah,, when I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at May 01, 2025 03:49 PM (5hfjS)
Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 03:49 PM (bbuBP)
Anyway, he's kicking ass as an HVAC apprentice and making seriously good coin. So eff you, college cartels.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 03:50 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Can't do that by statutory interpretation. Either Scotus makes a constitutional ruling that the 14th Amendment Equal Protection clause forbids it or Congress has to change the law itself.
Basically any statute gets one facial interpretation by Scotus with the premise if the legislature doesn't like it, it can change the law. Subsequent as applied challenges can and do occur but the main doctrine stays put until either Scotus or Congress acts to kill it.
Disparate impact was written into a renewal of Civil Rights statutes to codify Griggs during the 1990's by a Dem Congress and GHWB.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 03:50 PM (ctrM5)
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Imagine the hundreds of billions of dollars spent in constant ad campaigns, research, and interventions in trying to prevent this if the sexes were reversed.
As it is? Probably not even 1 in 10 people know it's even happening.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 03:50 PM (/wLGm)
Posted by: Mad Max in VA at May 01, 2025 03:50 PM (8iNlE)
Go to Reddit and read the threads in the "Professors" subreddit. What is happening in universities these days is beyond belief. Thousands of professors chime in daily on thread after thread, andnthey all agree that:
-- Almost 100% of modern college students cheat, using AI -- some cheat on every assignment, some cheatmostof the time, and a few cheat only occasionaly--but they all cheat one way or another.
-- Modern students generally show up t college functionally illiterate, and unable to perform or comprehend basic math.
-- Mot students seem to have brain ndamage caused by iPhoje addictions: Most are incapable of concentrating mpre than 20n seconds in a row, most cannot understand lesson instruction, and they seem incapable of retaining information -- whatever you teach them one day, they have frgotten by the following day.
-- A substation majority of students are rude, dismissive, verbally aggressive, insulting, and seems to all have severe personality disorders, and are unable to function as adults.
[cont't]
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:50 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (pZ64F)
Won't fix all the issues, but will at least stop people who should have never gone to college from getting 200K in debt to find out they are pretty stupid to have taken out 200k in nondischargeable debt.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 03:50 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Francis
Doesn't compare to the rise in veterinarian care.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:47 PM (t0Rmr)
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Not uncommon, and not just in cases where lesbianism is a thinly-veiled recruitment boast.
When men fall below some level - IIRC, it's somewhere around 40% or so - of the student body, women quit going, too. Fewer women than ever are out there trying to earn an MRS degree, but wanting to meet men is at least part of the equation, consciously or not.
If male enrollment generally falls too far below parity, enrollment is going to start crashing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (WkNQM)
Behold the formula for Heather Cox Richardson to make $1M per year from her daily Substack TDS "letters to America", on top of her $60K salary as a professor of "American Studies", and the occasional $300K speaking fee.
She is the Bible of the self-anointed aging "liberal" and yard sign Calvinist.
Posted by: barbarausa at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: PabloD at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (hc59r)
It’s a complete loop, yet again ensuring Americans lose out to foreigners from the first step, and can never catch up once excluded.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (Hkcdp)
So when you hear a younger person complaining that college in real costs was 1/10 of what it is now you can point out that's because they didn't have a gym, vegan cafeteria, and mental health counselors...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)
I think people are figuring it out. Being able to afford for your wife to stay at home with the children is seen as a positive these days. Maybe AWFLs sneer at it but amongst my peers with young children those of us who can make it work do it. I don't know of any of the wives who rejected the idea of staying at home.
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 01, 2025 03:53 PM (+xH0d)
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:50 PM (pMi6S)
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I've seen this referred to as "phone brain" and, sometimes, "digital dementia." From some early studies I read a while back, extensive or continuous smartphone use (which isn't a phone, but a high-throughput data transfer device) throughout one's teens has similar effects to dementia (no retention, no focus, losing train of thought all the time, etc.). Probably not permanent, though. Or at least, hopefully.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 03:53 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 03:45 PM (N1tpc)
Probably not pilloried here. I was sold that lie. I did very well as an Architect, retired after 40 years of it. I put up with a fair amount of crap for being a woman in a man's profession for the first 10 years or so, but after that it pretty much stopped.
I also met other women in the profession who thought they had to be ball-busters to get ahead. Ruined themselves as women, IMO. I never had to do any of that to be successful. I was a mentor, not a dementor. For that I had very loyal people working for me, rather than a house of henpecked, miserable slobs.
I see no reason why a woman can't choose between working and raising a family, and why she is supposed to do both. Makes most women frazzled and miserable. I wouldn't have put up with it except society told me that was my "fulfillment." I'd have been perfectly happy as a domestic goddess. And now I am one.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 03:54 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 03:42 PM (oSeBJ)
To even superficially puncture female solipsism is quite a feat. Well done.
Posted by: We're all just one lie away from firing or prison at May 01, 2025 03:54 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 01, 2025 03:53 PM (+xH0d)
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I thought it was Education majors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
Of course they'd be fools if they did.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 03:54 PM (C4BAC)
I see an endless complaints from younger women then they can't find "quality guys their age
Well, this is the hypergamy game, if the government oppresses men and rewards women, then women will find ever fewer "quality" guys - leaving them with the options of sharing some high status man, marrying a much older man, or de facto marrying their cats.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:54 PM (t0Rmr)
-- Ifn you give any student a bad grade (which tyey all deserve), they will first beg for a better grade, and if that doesn't work, they will threaten to write a bad evaluation of you as blackmail unless you bump up their grade and if that does'tt work they will go to the administration and accuse you of abuse, incompetence, bigotry, racism, sexual harassment, homophobia, "ablism" --anythihg to get you to cav.e
-- TH4yn never recover from their illieteracy, and by the time they graduate they're generally still illiterate, merely better skilled at using AI to hide this fact.
-- Despite all this, all student have sky-ihgh self-esteem, and are all smug narcissists.
Reading these professor thread is the most depressing thing imaginable. Really makes you thinbk ourn civilization is domed.
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (pMi6S)
Not only because it benefited them to have the labor, but if women are Strong and Independent and Aint Need No Man then they will have their own apartment/house, car, pantry, etc.
Not only did they halve the workforce but they roughly doubled consumption. Ka-ching.
Brilliant when you think about it.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (/wLGm)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 03:53 PM (WkNQM)
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Junior may end up getting a flip phone at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)
So when you hear a younger person complaining that college in real costs was 1/10 of what it is now you can point out that's because they didn't have a gym, vegan cafeteria, and mental health counselors...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)
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The facilities are crazy, but that's capital expense. It has to be serviced when debt is involved (there often is, and my alma mater is a great example). Compound it with all the "programs" - the operational version of the nice facilities - and it gets completely out of control fast.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Doof
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The thing about college (or law school, med school, etc) is that they will ALWAYS take your money if you choose to enroll later.
In many cases, people can and do go back to get degrees or even specific certifications (like para legals in some states, etc) that require some college course work.
Our educational system in general is set up on the old German industrial model including K12 and not actually on education itself. We would do far better if K12+college became a more individualized process rather our current model.
The biggest opponents to such moves are oriented on sports, etc. as if you let students go to where their education requires, it destroys the whole freshman, sophomore, junior, etc. model that sports relies upon.
Those might be better off as club activities outside of school proper than keeping kids from doing what they need to do as individuals to learn.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)
meanwhile, colleges raise tuition far outpacing inflation and an entire generation gets mired in debt with little return
limit grants and scholarships to women (even though they have outnumbered men at college for decades) and DEI
oh no, men aren't going to college!
Posted by: brak
All they do is skulk around in the woods and kill things...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 01, 2025 03:53 PM (+xH0d)
Education majors. Even dumber than journalism majors. Bottom of the barrel.
Why do you need four years of college to be able to figure out how to teach 3rd grade math? Didn't you take that already?
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (pMi6S)
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What if the smartest of the newest generation...
aren't going to college?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mad Max in VA
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The system was designed this way by the Patriarchy!
Smash the Patriarchy!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 03:56 PM (Dv3i1)
Communications majors
Preparing you for a career of forwarding emails in HR
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 03:56 PM (jGJov)
Corporations wanted more wage slaves for less pay and the government wanted more tax cattle. They won. We lost.
Posted by: This was not accidental at May 01, 2025 03:56 PM (TbWk/)
Now of course anything that helps American taxpayers is evil and rayciss and they should be proud to spend all their money paying for welfare for illegals.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:56 PM (t0Rmr)
I've always found it blackly humorous that Karl Marx, self-described expert on the "working class", never worked a day in his life.
His children starved until he started mooching off his buddy Engels' (capitalist) dad, because he was too busy thinking Deep Thoughts and sexually abusing his servant girl to get a fucking job.
A real hero of the proletariat, that Marx.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 03:57 PM (W5ArC)
She was absolutely gobsmacked, and an hour or two later came into my office to apologize and told me she'd never even considered those situations from a man's perspective.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 03:42 PM (oSeBJ)
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The only time I'll be alone with a woman at work is she's my boss and I have no choice. I've been asked to - and agreed to - train and mentor women, but I have also always made sure to have another coworker with me. "George knows this stuff really well, too. I want his help" or "Steve is ready to move up, too. Let's get him in on this, too."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 03:57 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (jGJov)
My wife is a stay-at-home mom, as well, but we are by no means blue-collar.
Some of our friends also have stay-at-home moms, but it is a clear minority. And that is among a massively overbalanced population sample of mainly conservative Christians.
It's worth the sacrifice, but for most people it's a scary sacrifice. (We moved to be able to afford it when we were younger.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 03:58 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 03:57 PM (WkNQM)
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Tangentially, how's your health these days?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)
Interesting…
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 03:58 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: But I don't care any more at May 01, 2025 03:58 PM (dg+HA)
I guess maybe if you are a brain surgeon or something, but I've worked most of my life in the corporate world and the only think I've gotten is a paycheck from those companies. That's not nothing certainly...but it in no way gives your life meaning.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:58 PM (t0Rmr)
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For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky
Posted by: Obscure Star Trek reference at May 01, 2025 03:59 PM (Dv3i1)
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The appropriate thing for older women to do is to teach younger women that there are no long-term benefits to years of (ahem) "experience" and single life.
But for some reason that doesn't happen. Matter of fact, parents teach them the opposite. Take on massive debt! Go out and be workers! Postpone the important stuff in order to gain STDs and trauma! Yay!
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 03:59 PM (/wLGm)
The biggest opponents to such moves are oriented on sports, etc. as if you let students go to where their education requires, it destroys the whole freshman, sophomore, junior, etc. model that sports relies upon.
Those might be better off as club activities outside of school proper than keeping kids from doing what they need to do as individuals to learn.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (ctrM5)
Well said.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 03:59 PM (vf0Y9)
So when you hear a younger person complaining that college in real costs was 1/10 of what it is now you can point out that's because they didn't have a gym, vegan cafeteria, and mental health counselors...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)
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The facilities are crazy, but that's capital expense. It has to be serviced when debt is involved (there often is, and my alma mater is a great example). Compound it with all the "programs" - the operational version of the nice facilities - and it gets completely out of control fast.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Many universities are overleveraged with debt for capital building projects based on student fees and tuition income designated for bond repayment. Drop in enrollment means increased fees/tuition and that could mean a spiraling drop in enrollment for being overpriced.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 03:59 PM (ctrM5)
The M:F ratio here is still hovering around 3:1.
There's literally nothing stopping women from going to a STEM school and they will gladly hand out incentives to bring in women, but women simply don't sign up in the same numbers as men.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 01, 2025 03:53 PM (+xH0d)
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I thought it was Education majors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla
Journalism is what you major in when you can't hack it in any other major. Education is what you major in when you can't hack it in Journalism.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (hB7mE)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (VofaG)
You'll get pilloried for mentioning this, but EVERY former African colony was immensely better off before the colonial powers exited (especially the former British colonies).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (pMi6S)
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I can't fathom that. I don't doubt it, but I don't (maybe can't) get it.
When I got a bad grade on something, I absolutely went to see the professor to ask what I needed to do to keep from getting a bad grade next time. If it was something objective (math, etc.), it would be "what should I study to help me get this better" and if something subjective (writing, etc.), I used it to learn what the professor wanted so I could try to make my next assignment fit.
Demanding a grade change would never have occurred to me. Dropping classes happened a few times (prof was a dick who hated me from the start, for example, and I had no expectation that he or she would be fair in grading), though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:54 PM (t0Rmr)
And don't forget the effect of dating apps. The data show the women find 80% of men to be below average, and are all hooking up with the same guys who represent a tiny fraction of men but that satisfy their absurd "standards." So they've haremed themselves to a small group of "high-value" men who will gladly pipe them but ain't gonna marry them.
Posted by: Maybe we deserve extinction at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (TbWk/)
How about some data supporting that assertion?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:01 PM (tT6L1)
I prefer this structure: the dependent class, the productive class, the governing class - it more accurately reflects the real world.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 04:01 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)
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Okay, I think. Backslid a bit but working on it. Thanks for asking!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:01 PM (WkNQM)
Don't keep us in suspense. How was she in the sack?
Posted by: one hour sober at May 01, 2025 04:01 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 03:59 PM (ctrM5)
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Yup. For every Harvard, there are dozens of Antiochs. The college where I went is not going to survive what's coming.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:02 PM (WkNQM)
Interesting…
Posted by: Lizzy
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Hillsdale gets all the press but Grove City in PA was actually the plaintiff college that prevailed at Scotus causing the Dems and GHWB to rewrite the law so that all functions of a university are covered under federal scrutiny.
Grove City also does not accept any federal funds and fwiw, I have a friend that has taught there for many years.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:02 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (hB7mE)
I can top that. "Human Resource Education" is a thing nowadays.
Although I'm not sure those are actually the worst, if you count the various Angry Studies majors, which primarily exist so the college can graduate enough minorities to keep the gummint off their asses.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 04:02 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:55 PM (GBKbO)
We let our oldest (14) take an older smartphone on a trip to DC this week so she can call us if need be. (First time she's been allowed out of the house with one.)
From what I can glean, that's been a disaster. Definitely not ready to have one and not be controlled by it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 04:02 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: But I don't care any more at May 01, 2025 03:58 PM (dg+HA)
Fewer. In all other respects I agree.
Posted by: Grammar nazi at May 01, 2025 04:03 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: But I don't care any more
.....
Except for the ones that fail the elbow test.
Put your elbows out, fists up. Walk towards that wall.
Your breasts touched first. You fail.
When can you start?
Posted by: a surfer at May 01, 2025 04:03 PM (v0R5T)
Also, yes Canada is back-door F'ed:
For fun, find Know Fake News on the tictok for honest reporting on their mayor.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 04:03 PM (NwfFc)
http://tiny.cc/wdei001
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 04:04 PM (jGJov)
Back when I was an academic (I got better), I actually had a student have his mom call me and ask for a better grade.
When I was an undergrad, I would have died rather than have my mom contact the professor.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 04:04 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: But I don't care any more at May 01, 2025 03:58 PM (dg+HA)
Fewer. In all other respects I agree.
Posted by: Grammar nazi
They are trouble makers.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:04 PM (/U5Yz)
When I was an undergrad, I would have died rather than have my mom contact the professor.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 04:04 PM (W5ArC)
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The Coen Brothers made the movie for you:
A Serious Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDKHWRbK2_Q
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)
When I got a bad grade on something, I absolutely went to see the professor to ask what I needed to do to keep from getting a bad grade next time. If it was something objective (math, etc.), it would be "what should I study to help me get this better" and if something subjective (writing, etc.), I used it to learn what the professor wanted so I could try to make my next assignment fit.
Demanding a grade change would never have occurred to me. Dropping classes happened a few times (prof was a dick who hated me from the start, for example, and I had no expectation that he or she would be fair in grading), though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (WkNQM)
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It absolutely happens. I've dealt with a couple of faculty this semester to whom it's happened. They are good teachers and they care about their students' learning.
However, if a student doesn't get a good grade, they'll shred the professor in end-of-course evaluations, even though the students earned their poor grade through low attendance and little-to-no engagement in the course.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 04:04 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (dk77l)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 04:04 PM (W5ArC)
If I had considered it, it would have meant I was in the hospital.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 04:04 PM (W5ArC)
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I got screwed by a combination of a bizarre corner case and an intractable administration. I fought it all the way to board or regents and lost. Is what it is.
But I learned *long* after - just a few years ago - that my dad called the school and lit 'em up, too, for their absurdity. I was kinda mortified when I learned that LOL.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 03:58 PM (N1tpc)
Here's the equation, though. A stay at home mom is also the person who figures out how to not spend all the money. That's why they used to teach home economics in junior high school. My mom raised five kids, kept the house, did the shopping and cooking and cleaning, and managed the household finances so that when my folks passed away, they still had over 2M in various accounts, this after several years in care.
We didn't waste food, but there was plenty of it. We didn't waste time, either, and all five of us learned everything there was to know about planting a produce garden, putting up food for the winter, processing moose and salmon, managing a huge freezer, sewing our own clothes, knitting our own sweaters and mittens, etc.
Otherwise, there was no way Dad could have supported us one one salary. It is a team effort, and plenty of work.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (a4NoL)
Everything on them is intentionally made to be as addictive as possible. Most adults don't know how not to be controlled by it.
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (jGJov)
What is Zimbabwe's real name? Rhodesia?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (qKvR9)
You can get by on one income. But that means budgeting, and people do not want to to that because IT’s TOO HARD.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 04:06 PM (eNdzY)
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Wait until she finds out that men do things for her either because they're paid for the labor or because they want to have sex with her.
(the third option is avoiding potential wife/girlfriend friction if her request to help isn't met, but it's much less common)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:06 PM (/wLGm)
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (jGJov)
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My RSS feed app controls me!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
Any of these professors consider what’s been happening in public schools as the cause, or do they blame the parents?
As for cheating, different cultures have different values for cheating. Wonder if they’ve considered that cheating became much more prevalent due to the increase in students from cheater cultures, as opposed to simply the AI tech being available?
And if your class is cheating, then why wouldn’t you, too? Not to endorse, but what choice do they have - drop out or join in. Colleges have to take some responsibility for that situation.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 04:07 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: DaveA at May 01, 2025 04:07 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:07 PM (42Vb+)
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In what subject(s), pray tell? I'm guessing most of them have degrees in bullshit subjects.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (jHien)
Posted by: Professors can be tards too at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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I dealt with some foreign universities such as in Italy, etc. (not the prestigious ones but the more easily attainable ones). Many rent space in commercial buildings, activities are on a voluntary club basis, and your housing is your own business.
Many of our urban state universities had similar origins but have moved to the high cost models as well with dorms, defined campuses, student services, etc.
Ultimately, I think online and hybrid universities are going to gain from the coming failures as education is just deriving down to a credential for most jobs.
Universities and colleges simply need to redefine themselves into working for their students rather than for themselves.
Part of that is that colleges/universities are now run by a managerial class of presidents, provosts, deans, etc. that float between schools despite truly awful records. Same system exists for large school district managers--they get fired in Phoenix but hired in Memphis sort of thing.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Having trouble w/second semester, same prof. I visited him, questioning why my essays, all of a sudden, were less well received than they were first semester. After receiving much circumlocution I asked, "you have a new grader, don't you?" - Affirmative.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (0duCh)
(the third option is avoiding potential wife/girlfriend friction if her request to help isn't met, but it's much less common)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:06 PM (/wLGm)
Was it you who said "If they do boyfriend things FOR you, it's because they want to do boyfriend things TO you."?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (oSeBJ)
I worked for the man for 35 years but wish I had pursued starting a business that I had some passion about. I would have been no worse off even if it had failed. You can always go work for the man. That said , I’ve never been motivated by money which is a hindrance to making money unsurprisingly.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: DaveA at May 01, 2025 04:07 PM (FhXTo)
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MSM keeps coming back for more. I believe that's known as a "tell."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Obscure Star Trek reference at May 01, 2025 03:59 PM (Dv3i1)
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I'm here for it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:08 PM (/U5Yz)
From what I can glean, that's been a disaster. Definitely not ready to have one and not be controlled by it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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We're test running one for similar situations.
House rules: No internet-connected electronics in your room with the door closed, and you put the device down if other people are around.
Big differences in the concerns between boys and girls, though. Social media for girls is the big killer. Literally. That stuff will destroy the psyche.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:09 PM (/wLGm)
Here's a good men rule: ever go into a room with a closed door alone with a woman that isn't family or a wife. Never. If it comes down to he said/she said, no amount of apology or retractions saves your reputation or chances of advancement or even employment.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:09 PM (2VST1)
(the third option is avoiding potential wife/girlfriend friction if her request to help isn't met, but it's much less common)
You just described my prime motivation. I occasionally do things for chivilrous reasons too.
Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 04:09 PM (bbuBP)
Lulz??
New fake poll out of Texas shows matchup between colin allred beating Ken Paxton 52-37.
lulz or no lulz?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:09 PM (qKvR9)
SUCCESS!!!!
i got a rocking chair at CLT right in front of the paino, which not being played right now, and am people watching for the next two hours while I wait on my flight to HSV.
there sure is a lot of yoga pants on parade, most of them are well fitted too. many with bactrian dromedary feet.
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2025 04:10 PM (q9Puu)
Posted by: J. Peterman at May 01, 2025 04:10 PM (dg+HA)
There's literally nothing stopping women from going to a STEM school and they will gladly hand out incentives to bring in women, but women simply don't sign up in the same numbers as men.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (7fElN)
This, right here, encapsulates why this “not enough girls are going into STEM fields drives me up the wall. The idea that “many just don’t want to” never computes with the elites.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 04:10 PM (eNdzY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:09 PM (2VST1)
THAT'S WHAT I SAID!!
- M. Pence
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:10 PM (oSeBJ)
Word is that commie allred didn't put out that fake poll, but cuck cornyn did.
What is this, 1980??
These Republicans are so lame.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:10 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: What a terrible destination at May 01, 2025 04:11 PM (TbWk/)
Nasty filters. Dirty air handlers. High roof or ground temperatures. Sometimes freezing sometimes you're getting soaked. Crawling in ridiculous tight spaces. Spiders scorpions. Asshole bosses.
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 04:11 PM (XWtWQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:11 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:09 PM (2VST1)
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I worked IT for a high school. During lunch, I was in an empty classroom doing some work and two girls walked in, I looked at them, pointed at the door and said, "Out!" They looked startled but complied.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:11 PM (tT6L1)
- M. Pence
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:10 PM (oSeBJ)
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Everybody gets one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:11 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 04:10 PM (eNdzY)
It's the same with women's sports.
"Why don't men watch women's sports?!?!?"
Uh, WOMEN don't watch women's sports. Why should we?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:11 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (WkNQM)
I didn't demand anything, but I did speak with my Chemistry professor in college. I asked if he could do anything about my grade, since I was forever working with the assistant to figure out what in hell I was trying to learn. I spent hours trying to fit it into my piss-poor brain and it just didn't take. He gave me a C- instead of a fail grade because of the effort, and I promised I would not take another chemistry class as long as I lived.
I was fine until the uncertainty thing, and beyond that it was all gibberish to me.
Physics made sense, but chemistry is just magic, sort of like electricity.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:11 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:12 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:12 PM (qKvR9)
You want people to research a subject?! They don’t know how! The old ways of taking 3’ x 5’ cards and taking notes on them from documented sources, and _paraphrasing_ the ideas in your own words is, apparently, no longer taught. That’s why they are always plagiarizing. They look up the references digitally then copy without restating ideas in their own words (that’s crucial - that makes sure you know the ideas, but use your own words), then they just pluck the copied bit, with or without citation, with or without understanding, into their presentation that they pass off as their own thoughts on the subject. Instant plagiarism! I saw it a lot in my latter years as a teacher.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 04:12 PM (jHien)
there sure is a lot of yoga pants on parade, most of them are well fitted too. many with bactrian dromedary feet.
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2025 04:10 PM (q9Puu)
One night on my job will have you campaigning to have yoga pants banned.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 04:12 PM (eNdzY)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:11 PM (oSeBJ)
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I dunno, I liked pro beach volleyball back in the day.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:12 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:11 PM (42Vb+)
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Yup. I'm not advocating for "no college." I *do* think college is pushed far too hard on far too many people, and has become a cargo cult "I must go because I must go because others before went" and it's stuid.
But the press *does* cover it that way. It's part of that vast complex pushing college at all costs, damn the value and damn the consequences.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:12 PM (WkNQM)
Whining "we are not political actors."
Yeah bitch, you are. You 1,000% are.
You're rotten through and through with politics.
You're just so pig-ignorant of reality that you deceive yourself that your political beliefs are just "common sense."
You know who doesn't have to prove they aren't political actors?
People who are not whining about being accused of being political actors.
PS: If you stupid bitches weren't all disgusting, craven political actors--how come every article has to refer to the President that appointed you?
If you stupid dripping brain sharts weren't political actors, the President who appointed you would be irrelevant.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 04:13 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 01, 2025 04:13 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 04:12 PM (jHien)
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Flash cards are really helpful for the rote part of education. Loved 'em.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:13 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating
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Yep. And I suspect 100% are aware of it and that they're knowingly using the men.
Which was fine in the past, but I suspect Gen X is about the last bunch that's going to pretend and play along. Which is kind of hilarious, but careful what you wish for.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (/wLGm)
The amount of incompetence I see from them is just staggering, and they continued to get hired for plushy jobs over men because muy dei vaginas
Even funnier, women can’t stand working with other women. I work in a small team of all males, we had a new female coworker who was temporarily assigned to us, after her assignment ended she literally cried about having to leave us and go back to working in divisions filled with catty Karens.
I’ve worked for various different companies and it strikes me how I tend to see this pattern repeat itself
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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I had a Economics professor who hated me because I was unavoidably late once to class and as I sat down he told me I had to leave . I told him no , I paid for the class. That this wasn’t high school. Worst grade I got in college but I wasn’t going to drop the class after that.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (VofaG)
Daily Caller@DailyCaller
Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson: “I’m not a Latino at the Home Depot”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 03:48 PM
The minimum wage in the US in 1963 was $1.25. In 1963 I could go to the neighborhood bar down the street from my grandmothers house and buy a Reese cup for a nickel. I could buy 25 Reese cups for one hours work at minimum wage in 1963.
In 2025 the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a Reese cup cost $1.25. In 2025 I can't even buy 6 Reese cups for one hours minimum wage. The average starting wage in my area is about $14.00, I still can't buy half of the number of Reese cups with one hours worth of work that I was able to buy in 1963.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (q9Puu)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Fen, did you meet your husband in college?
Posted by: wth at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 01, 2025 04:15 PM (dk77l)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (7fElN)
This, right here, encapsulates why this “not enough girls are going into STEM fields drives me up the wall. The idea that “many just don’t want to” never computes with the elites.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
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Those $60,000 sociology degrees aren't going to pay for themselves, h8rs.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:15 PM (/wLGm)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 01, 2025 04:13 PM (Sf2cq)
In theory? By manufacturing generations of women who are good progressives. That way, in our pursuit of boobs, we'll say/do/vote for anything.
In reality, the political gender gap is massive, and still opening.
Like Anna Navarro's mouth.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:15 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 01, 2025 04:13 PM (Sf2cq)
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That's the real problem. Young people don't watch much TV anymore, don't read newspapers and increasingly check out of school. Why do you think they're so monomaniacal about controlling social media, and why do you think big, mainstream outfits like Bloomberg blame the problem of falling enrollment (insofar as it is a problem, and I do agree that it is in some ways, though for very different reasons) almost entirely on "influencers" leading people astray?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:15 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Professors
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A lot of professors were the smartest kids in the room in their k-12 and somewhat in their undergrad degrees. But the truth is in grad school, a lot of really bright people into it for the learning get turned off when exposed to the sausage factory making grad students into Phds. Lots of informal hazing, meetings, and other things, to turn off people that had the brains to succeed but not the actually desire to do so.
Closest you can say about a lot of college faculty is midwits of about 130+ iq. Some are much brighter but often those are treated badly within systems by their less gifted colleagues and often by students in evaluations etc.
You have to want to do it and very bright people often have other options--some bad like coffee barista and some good such as industry, etc
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:15 PM (ctrM5)
Corporations wanted more wage slaves for less pay and the government wanted more tax cattle. They won. We lost.
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So, how would that work exactly ? Woman/young woman becomes of age and..? what? how will she live? stay with her aging parents ? Get married and become her husband's ward ? Forever depend on someone for a handout ?
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:16 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Case at May 01, 2025 04:16 PM (OrSPY)
Posted by: What a terrible destination
huntsville, alabama
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (q9Puu)
Eh. Same same.
Posted by: I denounce myself. Sorta. at May 01, 2025 04:16 PM (TbWk/)
The appropriate thing for older men to do is to teach younger men that there are no long-term benefits to marriage. Not as "no fault "divorce is set up now, with 80% of divorce initiated by women, where it's almost a guarantee you will lose half of everything you own.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 04:16 PM (fUDLX)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Must be a spinoff of DoggieCoin.
Posted by: wth at May 01, 2025 04:16 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (KtPtl)
That would be the fire hydrant behind the red cape.
Posted by: Bugs Bunny knows things at May 01, 2025 04:16 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (VNX3d)
Sure, that would be a valid reason.
> But I learned *long* after - just a few years ago - that my dad called the school and lit 'em up, too, for their absurdity. I was kinda mortified when I learned that LOL.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (WkNQM)
OTOH, this sounds like it was a bit more serious than the fact that you got a well-justified B.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Cray Cray at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (wfKZW)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 01, 2025 04:13 PM (Sf2cq)
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That's the real problem. Young people don't watch much TV anymore, don't read newspapers and increasingly check out of school. Why do you think they're so monomaniacal about controlling social media, and why do you think big, mainstream outfits like Bloomberg blame the problem of falling enrollment (insofar as it is a problem, and I do agree that it is in some ways, though for very different reasons) almost entirely on "influencers" leading people astray?
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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It's dead Jim. The 20th Century industrialized control model is going to fail . The internet was the new printing press in effect.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 04:05 PM (jGJov)
And here we are posting on this site....
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (a4NoL)
They don't want women in STEM because they want more girl electricians and computer engineers. They want women in STEM because they believe that women can take over and change them into relativist emotion-driven fields like they did everything else.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (14URa)
This is another one of those ways that men and women are different that modern young women are largely ignorant of.
Men are less interested in relationships and more interested in sex. So just because you can get Chad Hammerbone III to have sex with you doesn't mean you are getting a relationship out of him. Because from his perspective he might just want you for sex.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
do you work in an inner city blue shit hole where ebonics is the primary language?
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2025 04:18 PM (q9Puu)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:15 PM (oSeBJ)
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That might be the math, but it doesn't work that way. Would it, in a vacuum? I don't know. But it isn't a vacuum. In order for the scheme to work for, men have to have a chance to get some, and increasing numbers don't. The whole "believe what I believe if you want to go to bed with me" thing only works - insofar as it works at all - if the "go to bed" part happens.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:18 PM (WkNQM)
No; I met him after college. We worked together. He was paying his own way through college and so was taking longer than the standard four years, and we both worked at the writing and math lab (for students who needed help) at the school where my mother was a professor,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:19 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Cray Cray
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As a prof, I did not see that much actually in my particular students. Same with excessive drinking or drugs but in fairness, my students took my classes planning to be in law, federal workers, etc.
Have much less of an idea about the ones in Art, Theater, etc.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:19 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
do you work in an inner city blue shit hole where ebonics is the primary language?
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2025 04:18 PM (q9Puu)
Any WalMart graveyard shift.
Posted by: People of Walmart is real and horrifying at May 01, 2025 04:19 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (14URa)
Abducted by Amazons.
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM
A Peaches sighting!
Ace is on vacation this week.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 04:19 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:19 PM (42Vb+)
In 2025 the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a Reese cup cost $1.25. In 2025 I can't even buy 6 Reese cups for one hours minimum wage...
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Something I thought was neat when it was shown to me?
A popular value meal at a fast food restaurant (Big Mac, Whopper, etc) always roughly corresponds to one hour of unskilled labor. It's minimum wage normally, but this whole $15 / inflation thing found it's level, too.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (/wLGm)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (14URa)
On leave. In Burma. Or Rhodesia.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (oSeBJ)
Two trends that are getting a lot of discussion that amuse me...
1) Leftwing women that lament that the men they are attracted to have politics they hate.
2) Leftwing women that lament that men "pretend" to be progressive that use that to get them to have sex with them
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Peaches
Vacay in Bangkok.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 04:19 PM (kgE5c)
Gracias, amigo! One can only hope this involves Thai tranny hookers.
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (14URa)
Corporations wanted more wage slaves for less pay and the government wanted more tax cattle. They won. We lost.
You're not wrong. I am fine with women getting a job if they want to, but pushing for them ALL to get a job, attacking women for wanting to be married, describing marriage as drudgery and misery at best and in most cases slavery and rape... that's where the problems came.
Women will seriously claim they will not submit to any man or do what he says, while bowing to their boss and obeying them. They will do it for money, but not love and family?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (2VST1)
College is a scam pretending to be a non-racial aptitude exam.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (14URa)
ace and garrett are on a romantic getaway
Posted by: The LOOOOOVE BOOOOAT at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Cray Cray at May 01, 2025 04:17 PM (wfKZW)
To be fair, it isn't just college doing this. The culture apparently thinks the only way women can interact with men is sexually. We know that is absolute crap. It is quite possible for a woman to know here worth and keep her legs firmly together in social situations.
It is also a man's responsibility to behave like a gentleman even in the confrontation of some oversexed harpy. It just doesn't happen much.
I have several men, particularly coworkers, whom I consider friends, and the feeling is mutual. I would never even consider having sex with any of them. I think the bullshit 60's sex crap has ruined that for most people. It is a shame.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (a4NoL)
You’re never going to get an institution to place somebody else in place of their own self-interest. The wouldn’t survive if they did! What you need to do is make the self-interest of the institution coincide with the interests of the students. That should be doable, with the right incentives.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (jHien)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (VofaG)
Ace joined the Foreign Legion.
Said he wanted to see new lands, meet new people, shower with men.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (qKvR9)
When I was in college you couldn't drink till you were 21 and I was busy doing theatre. The only time I got drunk in college was at a cast party.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (2VST1)
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The disparagement and humiliation of women who wanted to be wives and mothers was spectacularly damaging.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (Axc90)
You can find old fast food/grocery store ads on youtube and the like to see what the real inflation rate has been.
And it is many, many times higher then the official rate.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (t0Rmr)
These liberal "thinkpieces" would never want to discuss these issues as root causes because it runs counter to their mantras like "implicit bias," the "glass ceiling," colonialism, et al.
Posted by: Paladin at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (zIa5F)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
I've often said that those should be subject to regulations similar to those for tires -- i.e., a maximum PSI rating.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too
And that's why Starbucks venti latte should cost $25.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: rickb223
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Depends on the persons involved and the marriage itself. Been happily married, more or less, for over thirty years and together as a couple for longer than that.
A clue is stability of marriage in the parents of both couples. Not perfect, but a clue.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)
130 is midwit?
Huh. I guess I assumed mid-wit was someone just above average, 105-115 as a rough guide, and studied hard.
Posted by: Bugs Bunny knows things at May 01, 2025 04:22 PM (FCbAQ)
Ace joined the Foreign Legion.
Said he wanted to see new lands, meet new people, shower with men.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (qKvR9)
So THAT'S why he's been learning French!
Posted by: It all makes sense now at May 01, 2025 04:22 PM (TbWk/)
I LIKE being alone with women. But its professionally unwise and unsafe to do so.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:22 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (NwfFc)
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I worked in my field of study for about three months. Total. At the beginning.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:22 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:14 PM (/U5Yz)
That is like saying there is a Coke named Pepsi.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 04:22 PM (vf0Y9)
Yup. For every Harvard, there are dozens of Antiochs. The college where I went is not going to survive what's coming.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:02 PM (WkNQM)
I used to date an Antioch grad. MA in Women's Studies, worked in her company's HR for a few years before leaving to be an HR consultant for more $. Weird chick, but a tiger in the sack. All her friends were lefty lesbians, except for the men she dated. After a brief period of bi exploration in college, she was enthusiastically heterosexual and had an odd, blue-collar guy fetish.
She dumped me because she found out I'd voted for Dubya in '04.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 04:23 PM (y9nCu)
Some well-meaning journalist went to Zimbabwe and was shocked to learn that there was considerable nostalgia for the old government among the black population.
Sure, the old government was racist and oppressive, but there was always enough to eat, and the white government didn't engage in the wholesale slaughter of dissidents the way Mugabe's government did.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 04:23 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (jHien)
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What's funny is that if you were to ask them, most will say it's exactly this that's bankrupting them.
See the stuff from Whig above on things like the swanky facilities. All there to draw in the customer, and crushing them in debt.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:23 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:23 PM (2VST1)
It must be a day that ends in Y.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:23 PM (/U5Yz)
The appropriate thing for older men to do is to teach younger men that there are no long-term benefits to marriage. Not as "no fault "divorce is set up now, with 80% of divorce initiated by women, where it's almost a guarantee you will lose half of everything you own.
Posted by: rickb223 a
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This isn't wrong. Outside of religious values, in modern America there is no benefit to the man that can't be had by simply living with the woman.
Related: It's interesting how every older man I know does everything he can to help pass on wisdom and experience to younger men. Yes they'll tease and have fun, but they really do want the young men to learn/gain from their mistakes and move ahead. Advance society. Make their own lives better, make the community better, and make everyones lives better.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:24 PM (/wLGm)
Posted by: Peaches
Vacay in Bangkok.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
So yes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 04:24 PM (L/fGl)
I LIKE being alone with women. But its professionally unwise and unsafe to do so.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:22 PM (2VST1)
Never had a problem with it professionally .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 04:24 PM (VofaG)
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What, no boobs of the good kind?
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:24 PM (Axc90)
College is a scam pretending to be a non-racial aptitude exam.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 04:20 PM (NwfFc)
I would add architects and engineers to that list. There are plenty of professions besides doctors and lawyers that require higher education. Architects need either a five year or six year degree to become registered. That notwithstanding, I've met some seriously idiotic architects in my career.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:24 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:24 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:24 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 04:23 PM (y9nCu)
Bullet status - dodged.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 04:24 PM (L/fGl)
I said prayers, not antibiotics.
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (14URa)
Saw a female comedian that said she got tired of dating guys because of the emotional mismatch and decided to try dating another girl.
And it went great until it was sexy time and her GF dropped trou and she found she was 100% straight.
Ha ha.
But, I suspect a lot of college aged women get told men are evil and horrible and they shouldn't date them only to find out that their own biology disagrees with that assessment.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (14URa)
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Hah!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (tT6L1)
I think it's pretty high for engineers.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (dg+HA)
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Why exclude those two professions ?
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (oSeBJ)
Even Charlie Brown wouldn't fall for that
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (RIvkX)
Top shelf Val-U-Rite?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (VNX3d)
Boron Cobbie -
It sure was generous of some corporations to offer to pay for abortion travel for their women cogs/employees.
Posted by: fozzy at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (zH2yS)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (RIvkX)
That's been my fear since I realized he was MIA - that there had been some horrible, under-reported shelving tragedy. Whew!
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (14URa)
Posted by: David French at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (RIvkX)
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Thankfully, the shelf has a strong chance of collapsing soon!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:27 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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I think more of the problem is binge drinking and based on my previous grad student and undergrad observations centered to some extent on the fraternities and sororities. Socialization revolving around alcohol to lessen inhibitions and regular parties at the campuses I have been on.
The place I taught was a striving school with a fair number of non traditional students (less so as time went on) that were goal oriented and the traditional 18-24 year olds and because it was at the right place at the right time, it exploded in enrollment during a time when most schools were beginning to lose students.
Our campus did not have formal Greek organizations until about ten years after I started teaching there and Greek is still not really a big item there as a lot of our students worked.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:27 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2025 04:27 PM (hGxWW)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:24 PM (/wLGm)
You have to be careful about that too. Following the "wisdom and experience" of certain older men fucked me over pretty hard, because I was overly credulous and their understanding of the world and society was, in retrospect, extremely ossified. And they aren't necessarily out to help you either. So, listen to what they have to say but carefully examine it and make sure it matches reality. And don't ignore your gut, especially if it's screaming at you to throw on the brakes.
Posted by: Older and wiser aren't synonymous. at May 01, 2025 04:27 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: David French at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (t0Rmr)
There ya go, assuming gender . . .
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:27 PM (14URa)
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The trick being that this doesn't happen for men.
A lot of women (I'm not directing this at you) think men can have sex / access to sex as easily as they can. Nothing can be farther from the truth.
IIRC an average looking nobody woman walking down the street has the equivalent sexual draw / opportunity to a world-famous multimillionaire A-list celebrity male. That's how big the gap is.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (/wLGm)
The White House Launches Familiar Looking Website for 'Trusted News Sites and Resources'
townhall.com/ tipsheet/ leahbarkoukis/ 2025/05/01/ the-white-house- wire- n2656378
that's the source
here's a link:
https://tinyurl.com/bdzeja53
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (WkNQM)
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No one wants to explain to these future girl bosses that it's nearly impossible due to evolution and hormones for her to pair-bond after more than one maybe 2 partners.
But that biological drive to have a husband who takes care of her children never goes away.
And Daddy Government is a piss-poor substitute.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (2VST1)
_________.
I bet it's actually higher for engineering graduates than lawyers. At least a quarter of law school grads probably never do anything law related.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (qke8h)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (Axc90)
Truly staggers the imagination.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (Q4IgG)
Look at $1.25 in 90% silver quarters in 1962, the last year we were on full silver coinage. The amount of silver in those coins is about $30 in USD today (based on the recent surge in precious metal spot prices). That’s the real inflation.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (jHien)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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I haven't either.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (ctrM5)
Bullet status - dodged.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (oSeBJ)
Nah. I knew it was just a matter of time.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (y9nCu)
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phrasing or no phrasing ?
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (WkNQM)
I grew up in the heart of that. Having babies would have been the end of the world as we knew it. Utter malarkey in every respect.
Now women are going to great lengths to have the babies they can no longer produce the old fashioned way, because they didn't do so during their fertile years. That's monumentally sad, and equally damaging. Particularly to the kids. It is a whole different thing to give up sleep and ease when you are 40 than it is when you are 20. Not good for mom, not at all good for the kid.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (g47mK)
They also develop substance abuse problems and kill themselves at very high rates. Doctors, lawyers, and dentists I believe have the worst incidence of mental health, substance abuse, and suicide of all "white collar" professions.
Posted by: Sometimes there's just so much you can take at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (/wLGm)
I have pointed this out to women in the past.
"If you went outside right now and just screamed 'who wants free, no-strings sex?' you'd have a line around the building.
If I did it, I'd go to prison."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (NwfFc)
http://tiny.cc/kfei001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:30 PM (WkNQM)
Boron Cobbie -
It sure was generous of some corporations to offer to pay for abortion travel for their women cogs/employees.
Posted by: fozzy
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Good point, I forgot about that. And it was celebrated.
Lots of people don't realize that a week after you've left your job nobody even misses you. A month after you're gone most people don't remember you worked there. A year? They don't remember your name.
But yeah, that's a lot better than a family and laughing children.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:30 PM (/wLGm)
The dirty R's:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME),
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:30 PM (/U5Yz)
Yeah I shrug at the man bashing stuff, whatever, enjoy your future with 15 cats. But I can see where some poor guy that grew up his entire life being told to shut up and stop being a boy and all men are evil and we need to eliminate men from history and culture might suffer from it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:30 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (Axc90)
I hear he looks fabulous in the blue bell bottoms.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:30 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:26 PM (g47mK)
I find that a lot of lawyers get involved in other businesses or start ups through their contacts being an attorney.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 04:30 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:30 PM (Axc90)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 04:31 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)
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I was thinking euphemism.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:31 PM (tT6L1)
Truly staggers the imagination.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 04:28 PM (Q4IgG)
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Utterly baffling.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:31 PM (WkNQM)
Now women are going to great lengths to have the babies they can no longer produce the old fashioned way, because they didn't do so during their fertile years. That's monumentally sad, and equally damaging. Particularly to the kids. It is a whole different thing to give up sleep and ease when you are 40 than it is when you are 20. Not good for mom, not at all good for the kid.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:29 PM (a4NoL)
Not to mention the higher risks of pregnancy complications and birth defects.
Posted by: Not good for anyone at May 01, 2025 04:31 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 04:31 PM (0duCh)
Lets put it this way: when you're lying in bed dying, your coworkers are not gonna surround you and send you off with love and memories. You might get a card.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:31 PM (2VST1)
I’m getting ready to fire my doctor.
Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2025 04:27 PM (hGxWW)
Going with HordeCare, I see...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 04:31 PM (y9nCu)
A decade ago, a male attending my old college had about a 5% annual chance of being formally charged with sexual assault.
Who would send their son to a place like that?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 04:31 PM (xTIDn)
http://tiny.cc/kfei001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Nice hourglass shape.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:31 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence. Even if your neighbor is Bob Mugabe.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 04:32 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:30 PM (2VST1)
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It takes a toll. Even if you shrug it off and laugh at them - and a lot of men thankfully do exactly that - it isn't going to be an inducement to go spend six figures and mortgage your future to get it in big doses.
A big part of "why don't men to college" is money, but another really big part is alienation.
Congrats! You alienated your customers!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:32 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 04:32 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Nice hourglass shape.
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She knows what time it is!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (Dv3i1)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME),
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 04:30 PM (/U5Yz)
The republican party up here has been censuring Murky along with the turncoats in the state legislature. At some point, we WILL be rid of this turbulent idiot.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (a4NoL)
Anyway she is suing the state to win the ghetto lottery.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (Br9ks)
A friend of mine had her two kids in her early 40s.
She's glad she had them, but it was really, really difficult for her physically.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (xTIDn)
Yeah I always think of that when some 60 year old guy or something has a kid. OK fine, you're still packing ammunition but are you gonna be the one that wakes up in the middle of the night to feed the baby? Are you gonna be the one that changes his diaper when you want to take a nap?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (a4NoL)
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Yeah.
When she's dead. Of old age.
At 134.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (GBKbO)
"Cybersecurity researchers uncovered dangerous iPhone flaws that let hackers infiltrate any device linked to the same Wi-Fi network.
The team at Oligo Security discovered 23 vulnerabilities in AirPlay, which allows users to stream audio, video and photos from Apple devices to other smart devices."
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:34 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (2VST1)
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If you're over age 60, good chance you're awake anyway.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:34 PM (tT6L1)
When she's dead. Of old age.
At 134.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (GBKbO)
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Hmmmm. Maybe. It won't surprise me if the median expiry age of senators currently under 70 is only around 115 or 120.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:34 PM (WkNQM)
Apparently she used a program to translate speech into text and sent that in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:35 PM (2VST1)
I hate many things, as you know, but I really do hate the Metric System bullshit. It's commie faggot bullshit.
Remember this shit from the 80's?
https://is.gd/Wx9r0x
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:35 PM (qKvR9)
Not that anybody by me is looking at her hands, but why is that a number of the women whose pictures you post seem to have unnaturally long fingers (), which makes me think that some of them aren't actually women.
I'm glad her MRS degree allowed her to send out her photo to generic sexy women site on the net,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:35 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:34 PM (WkNQM)
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Someone has to be the higher end of the range that creates that median.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (a4NoL)
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Yeah.
When she's dead. Of old age.
At 134.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (GBKbO)
AK GOP could buy her a new house in the Yukon, and move her in there while she's in DC. Since her primary residence isn't in AK, she can't represent them anymore.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 04:36 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 04:36 PM (VofaG)
I've seen this come up on the Whatever Podcast.
Average Jane is comparing herself to her "boyfriend" Chad McRichyrich III. Said boyfriend is wealthy, charismatic and good looking and has several other "girlfriends" she doesn't what to think about. She isn't comparing herself to Average John, let alone Bob her coworker at Starbucks.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 04:36 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (RIvkX)
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Killing others and/or yourself is the ultimate way to "play God."
* AAAAAAAND ... once again, the Nihilistic Satanic Leftist Death Cult has entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 04:36 PM (Br9ks)
Yeah, true, John Wayne wasn't changing any diapers, he had Consuela for that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:36 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:36 PM (qKvR9)
As someone said up-thread, both government and big business are in thrall to the Marxist theory that everyone is an interchangeable widget, and any difference in outcomes is due to racism/sexism/shelf-ism, etc.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 04:36 PM (noPDf)
When she's dead. Of old age.
At 134.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 04:33 PM (GBKbO)
Have you noticed that she now looks like a spawned-out humpy? That frown... very salmon-like. And nobody eats humpies anyway. Mushy pink garbage.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:37 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 04:37 PM (Vnr18)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 04:35 PM (GBKbO)
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Yeah, but I don't think she's evil enough to hit the top of the range. Just run-of-the-mill "Senate Evil" gets you the median.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:37 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 04:21 PM (jHien)
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What's funny is that if you were to ask them, most will say it's exactly this that's bankrupting them.
See the stuff from Whig above on things like the swanky facilities. All there to draw in the customer, and crushing them in debt.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Funny thing. Roughly ten years ago or so, all the college presidents got together with consultants informing them of declining male enrollment and interest in college. Turns out, these consultants pushed colleges that did not already have one, to get football teams (and damn the deficits and additional student fees added) in order to draw male students. Turns out surveys of average male students did not view a university as desirable if it did not have a football team. Females viewed a college as undesirable if the male enrollment was less than 45-40 percent as well. So our university and some others I know squandered money in football as a loss leader for male students.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:37 PM (ctrM5)
The 60 year old guy married to a much younger woman has enough money to get "help". Its why she's with him to begin with.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 04:37 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 04:37 PM (dg+HA)
If you doubt that, consider a 20 year old's response to drinking and partying all night compared to a 40 year old's.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 04:38 PM (s8j++)
Sure, but its not surprising. Young women are almost without exception lovely to look at, and they get to say when the naughty events happen. So their options are many and they don't know any better. Guys their age are idiots as well, you notice they never have some 19 year old guest talking to the ladies on there, its always guys in their 30s and older. Sometimes much older.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:38 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 04:37 PM (t0Rmr)
And, we have a winner.
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:38 PM (14URa)
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:37 PM (ctrM5)
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I assume by "squandered" you mean that it didn't work?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:38 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:37 PM (WkNQM)
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Her secret sauce is spite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 04:38 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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I can see him right now. Cucumbers on his eyes. Mud mask. Lounging on a chair drinking a Corona. Pedicure at 2:00. Massage at 3:00.
Posted by: wth at May 01, 2025 04:38 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:35 PM (g47mK)
I doubt Gutfeld is changing diapers.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:39 PM (a4NoL)
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Odds of getting a card are long.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 04:39 PM (pZ64F)
No matter if this space _____ is a 1/2 inch, or 12 millimeters, it doesn't matter. The metric system doesn't make that space any "easier" to express or negotiate.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:39 PM (qKvR9)
should've bought a monorail
Posted by: leonard nimoy at May 01, 2025 04:39 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Ian S.
They don't have to be Marxist to think that. Simply put, the industrialized age viewed people as disposable (except for the elites). The ostensible reasons changed from the oligarchs and their servants in gubmint, but the motivation behind elites was always yearning for feudalism and serfs.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:39 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 04:40 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 04:40 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Bill B. at May 01, 2025 04:40 PM (14URa)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:39 PM (a4NoL)
I doubt his wife is changing diapers either.
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:40 PM (g47mK)
You misspelled "groaning on the floor with a bunch of collapsed shelves on top of him."
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 04:40 PM (noPDf)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:41 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:39 PM (a4NoL)
I feel like he probably is. I could be wrong, it's happened.
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:41 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:41 PM (WkNQM)
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Yep.
Women were industrialized. Nothing more, nothing less. They had the most powerful, influential, crucial roles in the world, and they chose drudgery and wage-slavery because Mary Tyler Moore threw a hat into the air. Or something.
Oh yeah, and the CIA op.
Y'all did know Gloria Steinem was a confirmed CIA operative, right?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:41 PM (/wLGm)
My concern in all this isn't that young people are ignorant, it is basically a tautology, but the media/schools/culture lie to them constantly about the differences between men and women.
There was another segment I saw where a male guest mentioned that women's fertility starts to decline in the late 20s and none of the female guests would believe him. Why not? Because some 40 year old female celebrity just had a kid.
Yes, all this information is there on the internet...but where these young women are getting their information from is intentionally misleading them
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 04:41 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (Axc90)
Posted by: Draki at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (XhQKZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (Axc90)
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Now THAT Is spite!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (WkNQM)
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Do they look like gerbils?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (pZ64F)
Any of you watch the video I posted above?
What The Fuck is that bitch talking about??
She makes no sense.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (qKvR9)
A number of liberal arts colleges quietly engage in affirmative action for males, because the general belief is that if the percentage of females goes over 60%, women also stop wanting to attend.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (xTIDn)
No matter if this space _____ is a 1/2 inch, or 12 millimeters, it doesn't matter. The metric system doesn't make that space any "easier" to express or negotiate.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:39 PM (qKvR9)
When the government demanded that all units on drawings should be in metric and English units, they missed the point by a mile. What is a 2x4 in metric? And having done work on projects in Korea, a 3'-0" x 7'-0" door is not 3' x 7', it is a different size entirely, expressed in millimeters. Standards in metric countries are entirely different than standards in English countries.
So, drawings for US projects had nonsense millimeter units on them for no good purpose whatsoever. Your government dollars at work.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:43 PM (a4NoL)
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Do they look like gerbils?
Can't get pregnant from using the back hole
Posted by: Your kid's sex ed book page 32 at May 01, 2025 04:43 PM (t0Rmr)
Well nobody is taught reason in school except some home schooled kids. So they cannot comprehend things like exceptions and statistics and science.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:43 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: leonard nimoy
I drolly proposed in a faculty meeting of building a stadium over a major roadway so that entrance, parking, and exits would be very convenient to fans after we lost another game.
Starting programs in programs at the major level lose quite often for years until it gets established.
I am not a collegiate or pro even sportsball fan despite playing football for years K-12.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:43 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (2VST1)
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Did she bet on herself?
An athlete betting on his own contests is unseemly but I don't see how it's corrupt unless he's betting against himself.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:44 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:41 PM (g47mK)
I absolutely adore her! She has a X account and seems to be doing well - not that she'd admit otherwise, bless her snarky heart.
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:44 PM (14URa)
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It's a shame we have to re-learn everything each generation in Modern America, but we would do well to once again teach our daughters that men have to earn their fortunes, but women are born with theirs.
The currency needs to be spent wisely.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:44 PM (/wLGm)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (Axc90)
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Now THAT Is spite!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:42 PM (WkNQM)
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If there were justice in this world I could time it so that I die on their front porch while they're away for a weekend.
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:44 PM (Axc90)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 04:44 PM (VofaG)
can read their handwriting.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Did you check to see if he wrote the reason why in the handwritten suicide note?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 04:45 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 04:45 PM (ypFCm)
The basic facts of female biology subvert The Official Narrative, Comrade.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 04:45 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Bill B. at May 01, 2025 04:40 PM (14URa)
I'm put in mind of the old tee shirt that explained that bald heads are solar panels for sex machines.
I didn't buy it then, either.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 04:45 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: anachronda at May 01, 2025 04:45 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 04:45 PM (Vnr18)
I'm in the one who came up with that term and she really doesn't qualify as her boobs aren't hanging out of her dress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:45 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: whig
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Y'all had a kindergarten football team?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 04:46 PM (qke8h)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:44 PM (Axc90)
I just totally fuckin' lost it, reading that. So not worthy . . .
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:46 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:44 PM (Axc90)
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In the middle of summer, no less, when the heat and humidity would make things particularly memorable.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:46 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 04:46 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:41 PM (WkNQM)
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Great! What time do you want us there?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 04:46 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:46 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Explicitly in one state for state colleges and universities, that was ended by an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision. It was before Gratz and Grutter.
The whole stinking court created victimhood index based on disparate impact and codified as suspect, semi suspect, and not protected classes needs to be junked as evil and vile. It is unAmerican and creates a caste system which is as bad as the Plessy v. Ferguson decision created.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:47 PM (ctrM5)
Great! What time do you want us there?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 04:46 PM (2UnvF)
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Whenever. I'm easy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:48 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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Flag football in 1st and 2nd, Tackle from 3rd though high school.
We did not yet have public kindergartens in my state when I went to a private one.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:49 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:49 PM (Axc90)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 04:46 PM (qke8h)
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I think, in some areas of the country, football helmets are considered appropriate baby shower gifts.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:49 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Weasel
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Family Vacation! movie shows that might not be a good idea. They simply put ole Aunt Edna on top of the station wagon and hauled her around to dump on another cousin.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:50 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2025 04:51 PM (hGxWW)
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(waves from Tuscaloosa)
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Ladies, you weren't liberated. You were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 04:51 PM (aj2DA)
What difference does it make if I buy 10 gallons of gas or 38 gay "liters" of gas, or 15 doozydaps of gas if it's all the same amount?
A rose is a rose...
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:51 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Aerosmith at May 01, 2025 04:52 PM (XWtWQ)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 04:52 PM (qke8h)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Vaguely, wasn't he a cob or something at AOS at one time or another?
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:52 PM (ctrM5)
I wouldn't think it's that high.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 04:52 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (2VST1)
Women are still doing the same jobs today--after decades in the workforce, trillions lavished on them in enticements to college and other careers--as they were 100 years ago.
Secretaries, social workers, assistants, education, nursing; those are the same jobs now and 100 years ago most women were doing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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All my football years are on Super 8 movies and yeah, the first couple of years were like that.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (ctrM5)
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It seemed like magic until you played two or three times. Then it sucked forever.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:49 PM (Axc90)
Hey, you! I was freaking out about the absence of the head ewok, so I dove in. But really saddened to see that Jewells has left us, cripes, I hate that shit.
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:54 PM (14URa)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (XV/Pl)
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Your hangover's gonna be a nightmare!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:54 PM (WkNQM)
Supposedly, when there was an error in calculation, which was known by the people charged with setting up the metric system, but, it was covered up.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:54 PM (tT6L1)
Vaguely, wasn't he a cob or something at AOS at one time or another?
Posted by: whig
JeffB was a liberal-ish commenter here a long time ago, and he'd get roasted every day for his stupid takes.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:54 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Drug dealers everywhere at May 01, 2025 04:54 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I taught both reason and logic in our law course and in a senior capstone research class. My school's degree program used to require it until Philosophy decided they no longer wanted to teach it.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:55 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:54 PM (14URa)
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Yeah, me too. But nice to see you!
Posted by: Weasel at May 01, 2025 04:55 PM (Axc90)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (XV/Pl)
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Can't you outsource that to AI yet?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 04:55 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (XV/Pl)
So . . . not AA meetings, then?
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:56 PM (14URa)
Here's one. Scroll down. She's also a robbery suspect, and the clever headline in the "NYPost" says , "Hey this is some kinda bust"
https://tinyurl.com/bdycdht
Don't say I never gave you anything.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 04:56 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: zombie at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (pMi6S)
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True as was seen in the recent election, young men are not voting left as much as young college educated women.
Posted by: Decaf at May 01, 2025 04:56 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 04:56 PM (jHien)
Posted by: garrett at May 01, 2025 04:56 PM (Ruu2t)
Standard measures are better for things involving people. More sensibly-sized units and the boundaries tend to make sense in people terms.
Our temperature scale is approximately the range of survivability from 0-100. 0 in metric is tepid and 100 is "you've dead for a long time" and the degree is huge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:56 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:55 PM (ctrM5)
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Hey, who needs reason and logic? Feelings are a more than adequate substitute for rigor and thought, right?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 04:56 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Drug dealers everywhere at May 01, 2025 04:54 PM (dg+HA)
It’s why you can’t order a quarter pounder with cheese in a McDonald’s in Paris.
Posted by: Vincent Vega at May 01, 2025 04:56 PM (eNdzY)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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I tend to only remember the good ones like Maet, Dave in Tx, and so on. I generally don't try to talk bad about AOS cobs as it is a pita to run a forum and even more so with a forum using the latest technology from 2000 or so.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:57 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 04:56 PM (jHien)
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They can pry my furlongs per fortnight from my cold dead hands!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 04:57 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:57 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:57 PM (WkNQM)
I just got off two phone calls to the Chase card people. The first guy (prob. in Bombay, no doubt; he sounded like Apu's cousin) tried to tell me that my minimum payment was always to be $40, even though my balance this month was ~$28. I quickly realized if that's true, I would have three options: charge $0 in a period, charge exactly $40, or always charge more than $40. This did not sound right. I called back, and this woman assured me my balance of ~$28 was the payment to make, and there would be no extra charges next month.
We'll see if she knew what *she* was talking about.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 04:58 PM (omVj0)
There's a new cover sheet for the TPS reports.
Posted by: Bill Lumbergh at May 01, 2025 04:58 PM (dg+HA)
It's sick.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 04:58 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:59 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 04:57 PM (WkNQM)
I bet it smells amazing!
Posted by: Peaches at May 01, 2025 04:59 PM (14URa)
Posted by: blake
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Some students had trouble with the concept of logical fallacies and its effect on research design for crafting their research papers in my class.
The legal students wanted to be advocates, the rest of them, IR, etc. wanted to base theirs on opinion rather than objective research.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:59 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 04:59 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (NwfFc)
And that's why nobody's baking any cookies anymore. We have a Global Cookie Dearth.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 04:59 PM (C4BAC)
Remember the old movie and TV show Paper Chase? That is what everyone wants to believe law school is like, the teachers are brutal and strict, they required logic and truth, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 05:00 PM (2VST1)
It's sick.
Posted by: m
Reflects our media. Everything they push is sick, demented, and twisted with few exceptions.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:00 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:57 PM (g47mK)
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What is a "state?"
I suspect the Church had chartered institutions for female education a long damn time ago, and the Church then was *also* the state.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 01, 2025 05:01 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 05:01 PM (2J/Lj)
The legal students wanted to be advocates, the rest of them, IR, etc. wanted to base theirs on opinion rather than objective research.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 04:59 PM (ctrM5)
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Argument by assertion unsupported by underlying facts. Did you tell any of them the supply of politicians far exceeds demand?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 05:01 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:57 PM (g47mK)
In the US or not?
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:01 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 04:59 PM (g47mK)
Catholic church? Nuns?
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:03 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Personally, I thought Kingfield was a jerk as you can get across concepts without beating them over the head. You can do Socratic questioning without playing the infallible sage on the stage.
I only resorted to direct confrontation in open class if the student escalates the issue claiming what is wrong is actually right by their opinion. I certainly can be wrong or ignorant of some circumstance and do not mind a student asking questions or issuing statements to that effect. But, I was there to teach them and that is more like jazz than science. Each class and personality that you deal with are different and distinct and should be shown courtesy and respect unless they do something to destroy that.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:05 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 05:05 PM (jHien)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 05:07 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 05:08 PM (jHien)
Posted by: blake
I lead them gently in class but saved such remarks for grading their papers. I required a LOT of writing including essay exams on our basic class. I hated multiple choice, fill in the blank, t/f etc. because I preferred for students to tell me coherently what they did know versus what they did not. The M/C, T/F, etc were simply time savers for profs in grading, not a good pedagogical device. Figured out late in my career how to use them better at times but still preferred written assignments.
Also screwed those frats and sororities that gathered test banks for their houses though that was not the intent. Past exams told them little about future ones. They had to come to class to pass.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 05:09 PM (jHien)
I thought his wife's name was Pilar?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 01, 2025 05:37 PM (XDJiH)
Go pound sand ladies and learn to kill your own spiders.
Posted by: Tracy at May 01, 2025 05:48 PM (x58Cx)
Posted by: Lex at May 01, 2025 05:59 PM (MYYw0)
The appropriate thing for older men to do is to teach younger men that there are no long-term benefits to marriage. Not as "no fault "divorce is set up now, with 80% of divorce initiated by women, where it's almost a guarantee you will lose half of everything you own.
Posted by: rickb223
Good God. Pick a side and stick with it. Either tell both sexes to stay chaste and get or stay married if they want to do married-people things, or tell both sexes to avoid marriage and do whatever they want with their lives.
Telling one sex to be chaste and the other sex to avoid marriage has created the morass that out sexual culture is these days, switching which sex gets told what won't fix that.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 06:35 PM (hB7mE)
My money is on a lot of them playing video games, generally on line, and generally multi-player games.
So, are they really alone? Physically, yes, but my experience with playing a couple online multi-player games is that you're not really alone. You're interacting often, and people link up on social media with the contacts they make playing games.
Posted by: p-squared at May 01, 2025 07:17 PM (0prFs)
Disney Thread!
"TJM, you've posted so much this week, but nary a word about movies? Are you okay?"
Yes, I'm fine. All is well, but I've held off long enough. The boss put out Disney threads from time to time, so I will limit myself to one Disney thread this whole week. So, let's talk about Thunderbolts*. It comes out this week, and tracking is...not great:Currently, U.S. and Canada presales for Thunderbolts* stands at $12M+, which is on pace with another first installment MCU movie, 2021's Eternals ($71.2M). The presales figure is also ahead of that year's Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings ($75.3M) and behind this year's Captain America: Brave New World ($88.8M). Hence, the current opening projection on Thunderbolts* is $70M-$75M domestic at 4,300 theaters, with another $90M-$100M abroad. How to Watch the Marvel Movies in Chronological OrderLook at these star-fucking losers thinking that Florence Pugh is a box office draw. Assuming a $70 million opening, one can expect the film to end up with somewhere between $200 and $250 million total US box office. Maybe the same worldwide for a total between $400 million and $500 million. That's a lot of money. But then you have to do the actual calculation to figure out how much Disney needs to make to break even. The marketing budget will be at least $100 million. The purported budget is $180 million (though, that number is old and there were at least two sets of reshoots, last summer and then last November, reportedly not nearly as extensive as the last Captain America movie). So, that's, bare minimum, a $280 million investment that Disney needs to get back from box office receipts it shares with theaters. It needs to make, at least, $466 million to break even. Disney may get that. Maybe. And that's why major studios greenlight giant films: to maybe make their money back. Out of the top ten movies so far of 2025, Disney has four of them. That's not bad, is it? Well, one of them is Moana 2, which came out last year (and is a genuine, big hit for the studio, lots of cash). The other three are Snow White with $200 million total worldwide so far (on a $350 million, at least, budget), Mufasa: The Lion King (also released last year and a solid, though not great, hit, for the studio, it most likely made its money back at $722 million total worldwide), and Captain America: Brave New World ($414 million at a cost of, most likely $350-380 million to produce, not even market).
Like previous MCU titles, the expected draws are males over and under 25. Given that Thunderbolts* is largely Florence Pugh's movie, it will be interesting to see if her Little Women and Don't Worry Darling female fanbase shows up; women under 25 are currently trailing men under 25 in first choice.
Disney more and more reminds me of MGM from the 1950s, easily the biggest movie studio of the time with the biggest hits, but unable to actually turn a profit because their spectacle musicals were so expensive and their sets so badly run that the studio under Louis B. Meyer simply could not make enough money. It's why they sold their library to television that decade. They needed the money. Disney is a deeply unhealthy film studio right now, and Thunderbolts* does not look like it's going to reverse any of the issues. Maybe Fantastic Four: The First Steps will do it? Early tracking is not clear (I saw something about a $64 million opening, which would be horrible, but marketing has only started and the number will probably go up, assuming that number is accurate at all), but I'm sure the cast is on board with trying to expand the fanbase as much as possible. Let's see what Pedro Pascal, Mr. Fantastic himself Reed Richards, had to say recently. He couldn't possibly have done something like Rachel Zeigler in the run-up to Snow White's opening, right?
Okay...maybe not. Below, I saw Captain America: Brave New World, and I had thoughts. I felt like this was the best place for them.Pedro Pascal blasted #HarryPotter author J.K. Rowling for her latest trans tweets, calling the author a "heinous loser" in a comment on Instagram https://t.co/Eqoo5oceZq pic.twitter.com/osbWOLbyfx
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) April 24, 2025
Captain America: Serious Degradation
I've largely disengaged from modern blockbusters, especially comic book movies, out of sheer disinterest. However, I got a chance to see Captain America: Brave New World last week for free, and I took the chance out of curiosity.
Bleh.
However, it made me think about the degradation of the Marvel brand from an internal perspective mostly because the movie was making very explicit efforts to tie back to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, often considered one of the best Marvel films. The Winter Soldier was made in the veins of 70s political thrillers with an antagonist with no head (the Hydra organization's name says it all) and a hero on the run and against the corrupt system. Its action is more muted and grounded by Marvel standards (it still includes three flying aircraft carriers, so it's a comparative thing).
Brave New World is about political intrigue, centering on the actions of the newly elected US President, General Thaddeus Ross played by Harrison Ford, and some subplots from some previous movies like The Eternals and The Incredible Hulk. It's supposed to be filled with intrigue and has this 70s thriller feel to it, but it doesn't work nearly as well.
The reasons the film doesn't work as a movie interest me less than how the idea of making this kind of movie has changed over the last ten years or so.
Main Ideas
So, let's pull together what I'm talking about, the connective tissue, the things both movies try to do similarly.
There's the serious tone, the effort to ground the film in something approaching reality, the use of politicians as movers of the plot, and an embrace of conspiracy.
In The Winter Soldier, those are accomplished through a story about Steve Rogers having to adapt to this new time after having been frozen for 70 years and only brought back right before the big fight in the first Avengersmovie. He believes in America as it was in the 40s when he was frozen, but he's faced with an America controlled by shadowy elements. That gets centers on a cabinet secretary played by Robert Redford who is one of the most powerful members of Hydra, the shadowy, deep state organization that wants to use a program in their new helicarriers to target and potentially kill every potential threat in the world.
In Brave New World it's about a treaty effort by Ross to equitably share the adamantium (the metal that will go into making Wolverine's claws at some point) with the world as discovered in the giant alien thing partially submerged in The Indian Ocean at the end of The Eternals (I think, I haven't seen it). This gets sidelined when Sam Wilson's friend, Isaiah Bradley (I think he was introduced in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but I never watched it), suddenly stands up in the White House and tries to kill Ross. Turns out he was being mind controlled by someone from Ross's past, the gamma infused super genius Samuel Sterns whom Ross had held illegally imprisoned for decades to help craft his rise to power. Also, Ross has a small subplot about his daughter, Betty, not liking him because of the events from The Incredible Hulk.
Why does it work in one and not the other?
Focus
One thing I always have in my mind is the Classical Unities, three concepts that are considered to be ideals for telling stories. The one I care about is Unity of Action (Unity of time and place are more appropriate for Greek drama than much of anything else), saying that there should be one principle action in a story. This can be renamed as a film having a Core Idea, the one central driving force and reason the story exists.
Both The Winter Soldier and Braven New World have this, but the first works a whole lot better than the second.
In The Winter Soldier, it's about Cap rejecting the American government of the day, about how it's being manipulated by shadowy forces. Cap must fight the good fight, a constantly re-evolving and growing organization, and against all odds. This meshes well with his character, a man out of time, while, despite the nebulous nature of the threat, the path towards discovery of the conspiracy is clearly written and outlined. There's a series of steps that Cap must take to find out what's going on, going deeper into a black hole of conspiracy until he must punch things better. It works.
It's tight. It's good stuff. And it has the added interesting wrinkle of being against the executive being able to kill anyone in the world without oversight, and it was released during the Obama administration when he did just that...to two American citizens. I don't think the Russo Brothers are at all anything other than left-wing, but it's an interesting wrinkle.
Now, Brave New World does not have this strength, but I will give it some kind of credit. If you want to distill the film down to one word, you can. It's "legacy". Mostly the legacy of America, as manifested in Isaiah's story, and General Ross's ambitions for legacy as president (he says it explicitly at one point). You can also throw in Sam Wilson himself since he's taken on the mantle of Captain America from Steve Rogers and has to deal with it. But, honestly, none of it actually works because the legacy idea on any of them doesn't actually...say anything. It's thin and pushed aside for plot mechanics and never really resolved. I suspect a lot of it has to do with reshoots (so many reshoots, reportedly). It's why Sam himself never...seems very important to the movie. He's a plot device to get us from one storythread to the next, and not a whole lot else. He's caught in Ross's movie, at best.
What does Ross's need for a treaty, his need for resolution with Betty (I'm certain this entire subplot was added in reshoots to make Ross more sympathetic), or Ross's treatment of Sterns have to do with Wilson or his emotional journey...at all? If you can say that both are dealing with the idea of legacy, the two actually still don't mesh. Wilson's story is supposed to be about living up to someone else's reputation while Ross's is about facing his own. It's a real clash that doesn't work.
Plot
One wouldn't expect an MCU movie to have terrible action (questionable CGI, sure, but not terrible action), and Brave New World delivers fine on it. The problem, though, is that the story stringing these perfectly...fine action sequences is just so...uncompelling. A lot of it has to do with the last section, about how Sam Wilson doesn't feel like he's anything more than a cog in a plot machine dedicated to Ross's character journey, but more has to do with the fact that the string of clues to uncover is just...not well hidden.
The only thing that's really a secret is that Ross becomes Red Hulk in the final act, which the marketing spoiled. However, everything else about Ross hiding stuff is obvious and even explicit from the get-go. The specifics end up revolving around a hidden character, Sterns, who has no history in the franchise as far as I can tell. The mystery is around the specifics of Sterns, and they're just not that interesting or, again, tied at all to our main character.
So, Wilson goes on this journey of discovery of plot details, but none of it relates to his own journey at all. He's essentially a cop in a procedural. Except the movie isn't treated like a procedural. It's treated like a 4-quadrant action-adventure with a main character with an arc. It's just more to create this disconnect with the audience, something that The Winter Soldier does not share.
In The Winter Soldier, the entire plot revolves around a personal issue to Steve Rogers: his relationship to his childhood friend Bucky Barnes, who was discovered by Soviets during WWII and turned into a brainless, dangerous super soldier. He's become the spear tip of Hydra, the bad organization of the film, and Steve has to fight him, but also try and redeem him. It's solid storytelling mechanics to tie a plot to a character. It's clean. It's efficient. It works.
By comparison, Brave New World is just a complete mess.
Brand
Of course, that doesn't explain the box office of Brave New World. Captain Marvel was kind of crappy, and it made more than a billion dollars.
No, the problem is that the brand got broke. Years of mismanagement, bad larger directional decisions (the multi-verse was a very expensive bust), and general distaste for the most loyal members of its traditional fanbase. Outright antagonism towards your own customers ends up creating an effect, and a movie reportedly costing at least $380 million to produce (and, probably another $150-200 million to market) needs to make A LOT of money to break even at the box office when you include the theatrical distributors get a cut of every ticket (general rule people use is that theaters get 40% of ticket sales on average, the contracts are weird).
You can pull off antagonism against your audience in Captain Marvel at the height of the MCU's popularity, but you can't with Brave New World when the MCU's popularity is obviously much lower than before. There's still something to be said for a film that can make $400 million at the box office worldwide, but...Disney isn't happy about it.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 02:21 PM (N1tpc)
And the new fake "Superman" is gonna suck, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:21 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:22 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:22 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:22 PM (6ydKt)
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You're not supposed to read the content at all!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)
Leaks for the new fake Superman show that Superman will be vexed by "online trolls."
This is why Superman, James Bond, etc. belong in the 50's & 60's. You can't "modernize" everything. It doesn't work.
Would you "modernize" a Western? Of course not.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:23 PM (qKvR9)
It wasn't free and it wasn't worth the 3 hours of your life that are now gone.
But we appreciate your sacrifice.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 02:24 PM (N1tpc)
But we appreciate your sacrifice.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 02:24 PM (N1tpc)
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Sub-2 hours actually.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)
Chris Gore suspects the studio sent out "plants" to the theaters to loudly pretend they enjoyed the movie.
Also, Thunderbolts is about depression and mental illness. Fun, right!?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:25 PM (qKvR9)
Ahhh my wife, my wife uuggg! With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand, she lit it
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at May 01, 2025 02:26 PM (5hfjS)
Well, some might say you could. Some people. You know.
Posted by: Capt Mal Reynolds at May 01, 2025 02:26 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 02:26 PM (qBdHI)
*Those trailers: constant lame millennial snark humor with no story discernable, complete with the lame and overused "slow version of old pop song" in the background... yeah.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:26 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:26 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 02:27 PM (jGJov)
>>@EricLDaugh
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>>3m
🚨 BREAKING: Mike Waltz is moved to being the Next US Ambassador to the United Nations after being out as National Security Advisor.
>>Marco Rubio is now the Interim National Security Advisor.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 02:27 PM (viF8m)
He's not the only one, I have heard it from several different reviewers, one group of people in the audience cheering and laughing loudly at EVERYTHING. I am reminded of the Mister Hilter sketch on Monty Python "you know, he's right!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:27 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:28 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:28 PM (PCK5/)
Imagine if Disney made the corrupt American government one of the left. The president would be a demented, senile crapweasel, manipulated by shadowy leftists and the media, whose only goal is to destroy the country they hate.
I mean, sure, the odds of that happening are very, very low, but still. It's just a movie.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 02:28 PM (s8j++)
YMMV
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:28 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 02:28 PM (ypFCm)
ok so this tells me Waltz was not a mole, just a doofus who hired a bad egg (Wong).
so he gets dinged but not totally out in the wilderness
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (Pv3Rg)
YMMV
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:28 PM (17s+e)
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The number I always see is that studios get 60% of ticket sales on average.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
The problem with that kind of joke is that its too plausible to be funny. You could really see them do it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (2VST1)
Spoilers: Superman gets tired of criminals going in and out of Arkam Asylum and killing people and starts killed villains then "induces order" on the world governments and anyone that gets in his way. Batman tries to convince him to step down, then puts together a team of super heroes/villains to fight him
And if you added nuance to it you could make a compelling case that both Superman and Batman are right in some ways.
Though...Hollywood can't do nuance.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: bearski at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (Bhsk7)
It's impossible, I tells ya.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 02:30 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Person who doesn't read comic books at May 01, 2025 02:30 PM (dg+HA)
disney will right itself I think, it just might take a while. it's a big ship, like the USA, it will take a while to turn. Moana II was good, they can still do good stuff. stopping the live action nonsense is a step in the right direction
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 02:30 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 02:30 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 01, 2025 02:30 PM (EynyL)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 02:30 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)
Perfect illustration of how little I know about Marvel today.
Like you, I just don't care about the blockbusters anymore.
Endgame was the end. (And it wasn't great, but at least it had a lot of great things about it.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (N1tpc)
Its probably just a one-off quick gag, likely poking fun at Zach Snyder fans. Its not like Lex Luthor hasn't done this in the past in the comics, using media to attack Superman.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 02:28 PM (ypFCm)
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The film division got a shot in the arm last year with three big hits (Inside Out 2, Deadpool and Wolverine, and Moana 2).
But Disney is much bigger than the film division, and it reverting to recent form of underperforming mega-investments won't topple the whole company.
Best case, realistic scenario is probably Disney selling off major properties to try and inject cash into the film division.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (qBdHI)
The problem with that kind of joke is that its too plausible to be funny. You could really see them do it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (2VST1)
Their most lethal weapon - the criminals die of laughter.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (VNX3d)
Roger Corman made entertaining movies for $50,000.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: bearski at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (Bhsk7)
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Should I fix this...?
Ugh...I'll fix it...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)
Lara Loomer is... a bit unstable and desperate for clicks.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:32 PM (2VST1)
Unless the WEF which is totally a different thing.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 02:32 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (qBdHI)
And just like that, it once again becomes an Emily Kaplan thread.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 02:32 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
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Thanks. Is that in aggregate international, domestic, opening versus opening? It's hollywood baby so we will never really know.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:32 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 02:30 PM (wBaIH)
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He's been working regularly the whole time.
He's just taking Disney paycheck money now. They must be big paydays.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:32 PM (GBKbO)
I'm into Tales of Wells Fargo and Bat Masterson, at the moment.
Also just downloaded a 1987 movie called The Time Guardian. Anyone know of this?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:32 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 01, 2025 02:34 PM (Vj4xA)
I'm into Tales of Wells Fargo and Bat Masterson, at the moment.
Also just downloaded a 1987 movie called The Time Guardian. Anyone know of this?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:32 PM (qKvR9)
Just started watching Tales of Wells Fargo. Finished Bat Masterson last year.
My favorite part about Bat was that the woman in each episode was related to the main character in a way so that she was still accessible to Bat as a love interest. A whole lot of nieces trying to save their uncles back in the day.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 02:34 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:32 PM (17s+e)
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It's American box office.
China is something like 90-10, 10 going to the studio. Europe, I think, trends more towards theaters as well.
Contracts are surprisingly individualized with heavier studio takes for bigger movies that taper off over weeks.
But, the generally accepted guesstimate is 60-40 split overall. But that's really what it is: a guesstimate. The contracts aren't public.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)
Its worse than that. Marvel literally has a different team doing action scenes than the rest of the movie. Directors are given the movie, but they only direct the non-action parts. The action parts are filmed sometimes before the other parts are shot.
The rumor is -- and is likely true -- that Avengers Doomsday is already filming without a finished script
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:34 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:35 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:26 PM (2VST1)
I'm just tired of the whole thing. It's another "existential threat to life as we know it," for the 87th time. You can't always be ratcheting up the stakes in these movies; you're never going to get another Thanos. At some point, Disney is going to have to reduce the wannabe epic scale of these movies and tell more contained stories if it wants the franchise to survive.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 01, 2025 02:35 PM (EynyL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:34 PM (2VST1)
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I don't think that's a rumor. I think that's confirmed.
They don't have a finished cast either.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 02:35 PM (63Dwl)
>>Marco Rubio is now the Interim National Security Advisor.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Second chances?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:36 PM (0duCh)
Re: Tales
Dale Robertson is a very likable screen presence.
Anyone remember the short-lived 80's series J.J. Starbuck? Good show...for a Stephen Cannell product.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:36 PM (qKvR9)
I'm not saying pre-woke was perfect, but it got really noticeable how bad the writing, and entire production itself, had gotten worse in so many projects.
I haven't seen Brave New World, but I might check it after reading your great review here, TJM.
And I agree, The Winter Soldier was one of the best of the MCU in its prime. It was much better than its contemporary, Iron Man 2.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:37 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:37 PM (PCK5/)
Endgame was the end. (And it wasn't great, but at least it had a lot of great things about it.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (N1tpc)
More succinct version of what I was trying to say. For me, the MCU was all wrapped up with Endgame, and (much as I did like Guardians of the Galaxy 3) nothing afterward really counted.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 01, 2025 02:37 PM (EynyL)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 02:38 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:38 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 02:38 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:37 PM (PCK5/)
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He has overperformed in light of his previous 14 years in the senate. I am more than surprised at the job he has done. My only question is "Where was this Marco Rubio the last 14 years?"
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:39 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: JuJuBee at May 01, 2025 02:39 PM (tM5h4)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 02:39 PM (C4BAC)
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Who is 'Disney'? Bob Iger? His board? Shareholders? All support Iger who's been driving the Disney herd off the cliff for years now to show he's the most influential servant of woke on the planet... I mean, they're probably not happy to lose money, but they probably view it as a 'goodwill' cost of being moral, while the parks etc. prop the rest of the company up... Are they even truly effective businessmen? Would they consider it better for Disney to go bankrupt than to champion traditional American (and Disney) values? I think they would. In which case, maybe they're not happy, but they ain't gonna change much...
Posted by: bearski at May 01, 2025 02:39 PM (Bhsk7)
I'd like to believe that but they seem incapable of even considering a smaller, character-driven story.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:40 PM (2VST1)
I suspect quality was deprioritized compared to getting Trump/Republicans and full time promoting globohomo.
Hollywood has been leftwing forever and has made plenty of horrible narrative driving movies. But...there was a notion that they wanted to make *good* narrative driving movies until recently. Now this objective notion of good is racist or something
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 02:40 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: bearski at May 01, 2025 02:39 PM (Bhsk7)
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Reshoots completely changed the point of the film, from what I understand.
Their messaging was muddled, at best.
They didn't get their narrative joy out of the movie.
The debased themselves to try and appeal to the lost fans, and they're going to lose money for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
You can, certainly.
Once.
Once you rip the mask off, there's no putting it back on.
Posted by: Gaff at May 01, 2025 02:41 PM (EqzMw)
How about a little Quick Jeopardy trivia!
Answer: African country whose Portuguese name means "mountains of the lion."
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:41 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 02:42 PM (Er3Q7)
Spoilers: Superman gets tired of criminals going in and out of Arkam Asylum and killing people and starts killed villains then "induces order" on the world governments and anyone that gets in his way. Batman tries to convince him to step down, then puts together a team of super heroes/villains to fight him
And if you added nuance to it you could make a compelling case that both Superman and Batman are right in some ways.
Though...Hollywood can't do nuance.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (t0Rmr)
DC's animation arm tried adapting the game/comics and came up with... something... but it wasn't a very good effort.
Posted by: Octochicken at May 01, 2025 02:42 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: bearski at May 01, 2025 02:39 PM (Bhsk7)
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A good 60% of America would be ecstatic if Disney went bankrupt.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:42 PM (17s+e)
And following it up?
Ironheart, the little girl genius nobody likes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:42 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 02:42 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:42 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 01, 2025 02:43 PM (WPL6O)
This is a problem with movie series of the type their superhero movies are.
Their last main villain, Thanos, wanted to kill half the universe and Kang, if you consider him, wanted to control the multiverse.
What goes beyond that? Oh Galactacus wants to destroy just earth? BORING.
Heck, I remember Buffy the Vampire Slayer made fun of this at one point 20 years ago...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 02:43 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 02:42 PM (Er3Q7)
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First time I heard of him was his role in one season of Game of Thrones.
From everything I understand, he's a SJW through and through, including having a tranny sister (brother? don't care). And that's how he's ingratiated himself into Hollywood's executive levels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Octochicken at May 01, 2025 02:44 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 02:42 PM (qBdHI)
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Oldboy was based on a manga.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
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Ha, sorry. A true movie geek couldn't let that detail go by without popping off... 'The Lion Kind' wasn't important though... ;-)
Posted by: bearski at May 01, 2025 02:44 PM (Bhsk7)
Speaking of which, how is Nurse and her chest pains? I can't bear the thought of it being serious. There's too much sorrow on this site these days.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 02:44 PM (wBaIH)
Revenge of the Sith was in theaters again last week and made like $28 million.
That should be a huge message to Disney and Lucasfilm.
They've got to hire people based on talent and not a checklist or they'll just keep going downhill.
Waiting it out for the political tide to turn might just bankrupt a lot of studios.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:44 PM (6ydKt)
I assume he became successful in the normal way - blowing directors.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 02:44 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 02:44 PM (tgTrV)
One of the major factors was that most of the old time writers were fired or sideboarded for being too "male, pale, and stale." Newer writers were brought on largely for their physical characteristics and ideology rather than talent, experience, and skill.
Lacking depth of experience and lived years, they write mostly self-inserts about them and what little life they have lived, or politically-driven narratives. So you get She Hulk attorney at law by people who know nothing about court drama or law and all she does is complain, drink, sleep around, and feel sorry for herself
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:44 PM (2VST1)
Bolt- A term used to describe the substance/appearance of lightning
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Thunder is a reaction to lightning and oxygen. Not the other way around. Therefore, there is no such thing as a thunderbolt. There is, arguably, a Boltthunder.
You're welcome.
Posted by: Orson at May 01, 2025 02:45 PM (dIske)
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This is the super creative's super creativeness of creation by the creative people of creative Hollywood creating some creation!!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:45 PM (17s+e)
Answer: African country whose Portuguese name means "mountains of the lion."
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:41 PM (qKvR9)
Without looking it up, I'm going to guess, Angola.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:46 PM (6ydKt)
I don't understand Disney's $90 stock price in light of the broadcast and amusement properties problems on top of the movie wokefest failures.
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 02:46 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:47 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 02:47 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla
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Yeah, and I wonder which they feel more bad about: losing money or 'debasing' their wokeness? Kinda feel like it's more the latter...
Posted by: bearski at May 01, 2025 02:47 PM (Bhsk7)
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Demosthenes put pebbles in his mouth to help him speak clearly.
Jeff should take a hint and take the rocks out of his.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:47 PM (0duCh)
>>Marco Rubio is now the Interim National Security Advisor.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Second chances?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:36 PM (0duCh)
It keeps Waltz on the reservation, rather than him getting requests to do the Sunday talk show circuit, dealing with the MSM trying to have him dump on Trump.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 02:47 PM (0CU3H)
Where's Jackstraw?
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 02:47 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:41 PM (qKvR9)
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Minneapolis?
Posted by: Orson at May 01, 2025 02:47 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:48 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger
trapped by a turtle!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 01, 2025 02:48 PM (eFnJ7)
Am I stupid for not knowing this until now?
It is possible to get from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic by boat.
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 02:49 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:49 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:48 PM (2VST1)
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I think their cruise line is doing great, actually.
They added a new ship last year. They're adding another ship later this year.
That's aggressive expansion. Those ships ain't cheap.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 02:49 PM (tgTrV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:44 PM (2VST1)
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You're right, and it's obvious how shallow a lot of writing has become lately.
Without experience you can still research a lot of topics and it seems they don't even both with that.
It's like soap opera level plotting and dialogue for everything.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:49 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 01, 2025 02:30 PM (EynyL)
Winter Soldier was the single best Marvel MCU movie. The first Cap movie was the second best one. I don't need to see any of the others.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 02:50 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 02:41 PM (qKvR9)
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Minneapolis?
Posted by: Orson
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SNORT
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:50 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at May 01, 2025 02:50 PM (V362x)
The Great Loop
I never heard of this before. The Great Loop is, like, a 6000 mile trip, by small boat, from the Great Lakes to Florida (or New York) and vice versa.
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 02:50 PM (qKvR9)
@GuntherEagleman
🚨HOLY SH*T!! We know why Fauci requested a preemptive pardon!
The biolabs in Ukraine are REAL!
Tulsi Gabbard: "We are working with Jay Bhattacharya, the new NIH director on this, as well as Secretary Kennedy is looking at the gain of function research that in the case of the Wuhan Lab, as well as many others."
"Many of these other biolabs around the world were actually US-funded and led to this dangerous kind of research that, in many examples, has resulted in either a pandemic or some other major health crisis."
"It's because this gain-of-function research is happening in biolabs around the world. That by the way is still on the US Embassy Ukraine's website today about how the US has funded these biolabs."
"US -unded bio labs in Ukraine when the Russia-Ukraine war kicked off for this very reason. Who knows what kinds of pathogens are in these labs and if released could create another Covid like pandemic. And for that I was called a Russian asset. You're, you know, trumpeting Putin's talking points."
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 02:50 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 02:50 PM (M/tYi)
Yeah it was kind of interesting, once. But they keep redoing it over and over and over and over. The Boys is entirely "what if Superheroes were horrendous jerks?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:50 PM (2VST1)
Sierra Leone.
Which makes sense, I just literally never think of Sierra Leone unless there's a war on the news or something.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:51 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 02:51 PM (M/tYi)
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* = Balloon Knot = Starfish = Crispy Star
Just like in town.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:52 PM (17s+e)
If people don't care here I can give a lot of spoilers and a basic story rundown. They do explain it, sort of.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:53 PM (2VST1)
https://youtu.be/9tfCOsfqcnk
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 02:53 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 02:50 PM (qKvR9)
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Mississippi River, the Erie Canal, or the St. Lawrence Seaway
So, three ways to do it from Chicago.
Posted by: Orson at May 01, 2025 02:53 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:48 PM (2VST1)
or a trillion dollar online retail business.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:53 PM (6ydKt)
Here's my plan.
1.) Find out which of the third world hellholes we have extradition treaties with treats prisoners the very worst. Bone saw interrogations, that sort of thing.
2.) Use tariff negotiations to give them a very, very generous, preferential trade deal - *before* they pass their "anyone who irritates Donald Trump is a felon in Shitcanistan" law. Wouldn't want an appearance of a quid pro quo.
3.) Shitcanistan issues warrants on half a million or so federal scumbags, and the State Department makes good on our treaty obligations by packing them like sardines into overseas shipping containers, and rendering these felons up to the tender mercies of Shitcanistani Justice.
4.) Profit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 02:54 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 02:54 PM (NMEps)
Well, this is why I think it would require nuance.
Batman's take - where the Joker and the rest get loose every so often and get to mass murder people - because heroes aren't allowed to kill and apparently neither is the justice system, is also wrong.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 02:54 PM (t0Rmr)
So you could buy a little 30' speed boat, with a v-berth to sleep in, small galley, and travel all over the Great Lakes, down the Mississipi (I think), then out to the Gulf of America. Or you could start in Boston and go down the coast and then up the river to the Great Lakes and finish in Chicago.
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 02:54 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Time to get put down, Mickey at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 02:50 PM (M/tYi)
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Which was an all-around fun, funny, flick with some great, diverse, characters.
And not an ounce of woke, that I can remember, in any of it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (6ydKt)
Personnel is policy.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (PSEDc)
Mississippi River, the Erie Canal, or the St. Lawrence Seaway
So, three ways to do it from Chicago.
Posted by: Orson
Amazing. Did not know this.
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Time to get put down, Mickey at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (TbWk/)
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Disney's response is to remodel a bunch of Magic Kingdom.
So, they're going to shut down something like a third of the footprint of their major theme park for months and months.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (GBKbO)
He's the next guy who's going to dump Jennifer Aniston after getting sick of her shit.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (Y1sOo)
Yeah but that's a flaw with how the villains are written. Batman's moral code was created and established back when the villains did zany and mean spirited crimes, not brutal mass murdering horror crimes. Each writer had to take THEIR Joker to a worse place, he's even more badass!!! SEEE MY JOKER IS SCARIER THAN YOURS.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:56 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (6ydKt)
Came out before the magic year of 2015 when the plan to infest culture with every ounce of their pungent bullshit really took off.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 02:57 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 02:57 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 01, 2025 02:57 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 02:59 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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They're trying, but I'm not seeing it surpassing Disney World. Yeah, Disney is kinda stale, but not to grade schoolers who don't know much better, and Disney has a bench of characters deeper than Universal can touch. Minions, Mario Bros... they can't compete with Mickey & pals, Toy Story, the princesses, Star Wars, Marvel... Even as much as Disney tries to destroy them, kids and grown ups still know the originals and the attractions themselves reflect them more than the 'woke revisions'... I'd love to punish Disney and Universal looks fun, but still doesn't feel like more than 2nd tier compared to Disney. Unless you're crazy for Harry Potter. None of our kids are though...
But it will be good for some competition to slice some of Disney's park share and put more pressure on the studios to be profitable and not woke...
Posted by: bearski at May 01, 2025 02:59 PM (Bhsk7)
And yes, mental health features strongly in the plot and story, the characters, etc. They beat the big bad guy with the power of love.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:00 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 01, 2025 03:00 PM (Vj4xA)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (XeU6L)
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Already sick to death of him.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 03:00 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: bearski at May 01, 2025 02:59 PM (Bhsk7)
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Added wrinkle:
Universal also has Marvel rights.
A large section of Islands of Adventure is Marvel comics.
But it's only comics, not the movies. But, since the costumes are the same and Universal has all of the main characters from X-Men to F4, it's a distinction without much of a difference.
One of their best coasters is The Hulk.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)
So its a sequel to the Carebears movie?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:01 PM (t0Rmr)
lol, wait!
Did PDT just punk the Democrats AGAIN??
Temu obama shot his stupid dollar-store-obama mouth off, taking a victory lap about Mike Waltz getting the heave-ho, only to find out the President is moving Waltz to a new, high-up position?!?!
lol, the Democrats thought they got their "scalp," today. Nope, only their pal Wong was shit-canned, lololololol.
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 03:01 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:00 PM (2VST1)
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Sounds cringeworthy
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 03:01 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:02 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 03:03 PM (tgTrV)
Anybody know what it is without Googling? I had never heard this word.
Posted by: Mark1971
Portophone?
Lisbophone?
Goose-o-phone?
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 03:03 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM
If you factor in inflation it is about one quarter what it was 5 years ago.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 01, 2025 03:03 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:02 PM (2VST1)
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Betty should have shown up in that scene. It's the only way Red Hulk calming down makes any sense.
Hell, they reshot a bunch of shit in that very scene (it's incredibly obvious, the green screen work is not great). I suspect the original cut had Cap beating Red Hulk into submission.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mark1971
Lusophone. (Portugal = Lusitania to the Romans, yeah I know)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 01, 2025 03:04 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 03:04 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 01, 2025 03:05 PM (OKalV)
I suspect that probably that was the original story but then its Cap needing help from a white person or whatever. There's zero reason for her to even be in the movie at all other than to calm president Hulk down. The entire movie feels like it was a Hulk script that they adapted to be Cap.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:05 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 03:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:05 PM (2VST1)
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I think Betty's addition was entirely added in reshoots.
She integrates so badly with the movie around her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
it's what Africa would be if white people never went there
Posted by: ESPN at May 01, 2025 03:06 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 03:07 PM (XV/Pl)
The guy isn't terrible, he's just... meh. He's not leading man material.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:07 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Come and see at May 01, 2025 03:07 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 03:08 PM (M/tYi)
it's what Africa would be if white people never went there
Posted by: ESPN at May 01, 2025 03:06 PM
If the white man never went to Africa where would have been able to sell each other into slavery?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 01, 2025 03:08 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 03:09 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 03:09 PM (tgTrV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
On first run it used to be 100% for the first few weeks, PLUS a fairly large fee from the theater chain to play the movie. When I worked part time as a projectionist back in the 70's, 80's and early 90's, that was normal. And that was with General Cinema, Fox, and Redstone as well as others. The entire profit was gained through the concession stand.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 01, 2025 03:09 PM (5xuJ/)
And stop killing off the antagonist, for crying out loud.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:10 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 01, 2025 03:09 PM (5xuJ/)
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I remember reading that Lucas' contract for Episode 1 was very, very unusual in that he got 90% for the first 2-3 weeks of release.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 01, 2025 03:10 PM (YLdqf)
Last night I watched a crappy one called Gloria that starred Sharon Stone. She did a great job acting but the movie was just crap.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 03:12 PM (VofaG)
One of the least effective parts of the movies was trying to pretend that Captain America was this beloved figure that everyone was awed by and adored. He was around for a few months at the end of WW2 and then was lost in ice. There was not TIME for him to be remembered and beloved.
There was one scene that was proper in Avengers: the cop going "who the hell are you and why should we listen?" The rest of the time everyone is in awe of Cap. He hadn't earned it by that point.
Its like the grand love story for all time between Scarlet Witch and Vision, all of which happened... off camera between movies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:12 PM (2VST1)
And stop killing off the antagonist, for crying out loud.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Wait until you find out what the asterisk in the title means.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 03:13 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 03:14 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 01, 2025 03:14 PM (0sNs1)
I find myself really enjoying old movies without characters using their cellphones and internet to get things done.
For example, I dunno, Bullit. If a character wanted to talk to someone they stopped at a payphone or showed up in person.
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 03:15 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 01, 2025 03:15 PM (+OXMa)
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Wait until you find out what the asterisk in the title means.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 03:13 PM (mlg/3)
It's a strike-shortened season; fewer games played than usual.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 01, 2025 03:15 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 03:16 PM (VofaG)
They would have sold them to the Arabs, or do you consider Arabs white?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 03:16 PM (jHien)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 03:17 PM (tgTrV)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
From what I've heard from the Youtube reviewers is that it's full of idiot characters to progress the idiot plot. So, exactly like the last two.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 03:18 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:18 PM (2VST1)
Game of Thrones is a GREAT illustration of modern hollywood punks not being able to deal with pre-cellphone/pre-jet plane circumstances.
Those idiot producers had characters travelling thousands of miles by boat in minutes. They had crows flying thousands of miles to deliver messages...in minutes
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 03:18 PM (qKvR9)
Next movie did not even have Captain America... not the old school patriot... he was replaced with the 'new Hotness'...
They paved Paradise and put in a Parking lot.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 03:18 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 02:49 PM (tgTrV)
There was the Injustice timeline from the likewise named fighting game where Superman takes over the world after the Joker nukes Metropolis and kills a pregnant(?) Lois Lane in the process. That was a more believable motivation than the other Injustice timelines I've read about.
Posted by: Farquad at May 01, 2025 03:18 PM (bwvMs)
Without experience you can still research a lot of topics and it seems they don't even both with that.
Posted by: SpeakingO"
They make for lack of depth and experiencing by putting in lots of f-bombs. More than you would hear in a biker bar. It's bizarre because rarely hear most people speaking like that in normal conversation. I suppose this is considered edgy.
Posted by: Riply at May 01, 2025 03:18 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 03:09 PM (tgTrV)
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#GreenManBad!
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 03:18 PM (mY0cx)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 03:09 PM (tgTrV)
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#GreenManBad!
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 03:18 PM (mY0cx)
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Red Hulk.
RedManBad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 02:55 PM (PSEDc)
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Same. I'd add in The Critical Drinker and Space Ice as well.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 03:20 PM (2UnvF)
Well, we was certainly beloved at the end of WW2, according to First Avenger. So, if you put him back then, hiding out with his sweetie, he would need a disguise. Thus, vaguely Steve-ish new actor. Also, it looks like they’re playing up his fame still, I saw a trailer for a new Hawkeye series, and they’re showing a Cap broadway show in the background.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 01, 2025 03:20 PM (YLdqf)
They wouldn't know how to set James Bond in the 60's, where he belongs. They wouldn't know how to make a movie without internet, cellphones, and other plot crutches.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 03:20 PM (qKvR9)
And they started to focus on very obscure, minor, and not favorite characters. Instead of Thor you got Ms Marvel. Instead of Captain America, you got Ghost. The entire focus shifted from established, beloved heroes to unliked or unknown characters.
James Gunn made that work with Guardians of the Galaxy because he's really good at that kind of thing: making a large cast interesting and entertaining, even if its not a very good movie overall. But they thought they could do that with ANYTHING, so we get absolutely woeful crap like Eternals (which even the most devoted Marvel Comics fans are a bit unclear on), and super side nobody characters like US Agent.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:21 PM (2VST1)
One of the least effective parts of the movies was trying to pretend that Captain America was this beloved figure that everyone was awed by and adored. He was around for a few months at the end of WW2 and then was lost in ice. There was not TIME for him to be remembered and beloved.
There was one scene that was proper in Avengers: the cop going "who the hell are you and why should we listen?" The rest of the time everyone is in awe of Cap. He hadn't earned it by that point.
Its like the grand love story for all time between Scarlet Witch and Vision, all of which happened... off camera between movies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:12 PM (2VST1)
Err, you do remember all the stuff he did in promoting the war in the first movie, right? It was one of the bigger plot points....
Posted by: Farquad at May 01, 2025 03:21 PM (bwvMs)
I have not seen the show because I thought the book was not very good, but from what I understand the distances and times were more plausible early on and it was at the end of the show that suddenly everything was just around the corner
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:22 PM (2VST1)
To give a serious answer, they sold more slaves to the Muslims then they did to the Europeans.
But the Muslims generally castrated the male slaves so they didn't have long living black populations.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:23 PM (t0Rmr)
I have not seen the show because I thought the book was not very good, but from what I understand the distances and times were more plausible early on and it was at the end of the show that suddenly everything was just around the corner
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:22 PM (2VST1)
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Passage of time was never clear. Every cut could be weeks. I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)
Sure. So did a lot of 40's celebrities. You remember them? Do you know them and can you name them? If Will Rogers was thawed out of ice, who'd even know his name now??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:23 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 03:24 PM (VofaG)
it's what Africa would be if white people never went there
Posted by: ESPN at May 01, 2025 03:06 PM
You got it exactly backwards. Wakanda is what Africa would have been if it was populated by Europeans.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 03:25 PM (uWKK8)
Shifting Cap to 2011 means the time shift is huge now, its nearly 70 years. The guys who fought with Cap are dead or in retirement homes. Their KIDS are retired.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:26 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 03:26 PM (tgTrV)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 03:26 PM (gKWVE)
Even if Capt America was very popular in 1945 most people in modern 2025 wouldn't know about him because he'd be one of those old white people that the schools don't want to teach about anymore...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:26 PM (t0Rmr)
Exactly. I’m not talking about now. I’m saying you could continue the series, with Steve Rogers, after he jumped back in time. He was famous then.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 01, 2025 03:26 PM (YLdqf)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 03:27 PM (g47mK)
Game of Thrones is a GREAT illustration of modern hollywood punks not being able to deal with pre-cellphone/pre-jet plane circumstances.
Those idiot producers had characters travelling thousands of miles by boat in minutes. They had crows flying thousands of miles to deliver messages...in minutes
Posted by: Soothsayer Trebek at May 01, 2025 03:18 PM (qKvR9)
Star Trek TOS had subspace messages going back and forth across the galaxy practically instantaneously. Come to think of it, all the Treks did.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 03:27 PM (dvjAC)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 03:27 PM (VofaG)
Look at these star-fucking losers thinking that Florence Pugh is a box office draw.
Because she's willing to do nude and topless scenes. And everyone knows that nerdy comicbook fans have never seen boobs or a vajayjay.
But judging by Oppenheimer, she's doughy and has underwhelming ta-tas.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 03:28 PM (y9nCu)
Sure. So did a lot of 40's celebrities. You remember them? Do you know them and can you name them? If Will Rogers was thawed out of ice, who'd even know his name now??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:23 PM (2VST1)
How many of them were war heroes? And there was the story of his sacrifice and all of that. They built an entire mythology around him. And then he's thawed out decades later. An interesting take would be how he deals with the hero worship (like with Agent Coulson). He was sick and tired of the war promotion in the first movie and had to beg Howard Stark to smuggle him back to Europe IIRC.
Posted by: Farquad at May 01, 2025 03:28 PM (bwvMs)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 03:27 PM (dvjAC)
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I like it better when it's called the Ansible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 03:28 PM (jHien)
During the Cold War, South Africa was an important country - the most important one in Africa. They probably even had nukes.
Since the rise of the ANC they've become just another African shithole country.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:28 PM (t0Rmr)
We've been wanting something like this.
townhall.com/ tipsheet/ leahbarkoukis/ 2025/05/01/ the-white-house- wire- n2656378
that's the source
here's a link:
https://tinyurl.com/bdzeja53
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 03:28 PM (0duCh)
lol, anyone remember this when you were a kid watching Superman?
The walls are closing in. Superman is weakened by kryptonite. So to save Lois & Jimmy, Superman...well, Superman does the unthinkable to Lois:
https://is.gd/dsnqP5
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 03:28 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 03:29 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 03:29 PM (a4NoL)
That whole thing makes my brain hurt. Were there two captain Americas around at the same time? One of them just utterly ignoring all the horrendous stuff happening in the world while he danced with the girl he barely knew?
Yeah, having him active behind the scenes (maybe as Nomad, although that concept sucked) would work better.
But he shouldn't have aged like that. The super soldier serum slows aging, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:29 PM (2VST1)
Star Trek TOS had subspace messages going back and forth across the galaxy practically instantaneously. Come to think of it, all the Treks did.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Only when it was absolutely necessary!
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 03:30 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:28 PM (t0Rmr)
The problem with Africa is that it is full of Africans. The smart ones moved to the West.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 03:30 PM (a4NoL)
I also loved how Star Wars' "transporters" had unlimited range.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 03:31 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 03:31 PM (gKWVE)
In fact, I can't think of any time when "range" of the transporter was an issue. Maybe once.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 03:31 PM (qKvR9)
The range and ability of the tech depended tremendously on the needs of the plot.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:32 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:32 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Open Channel D at May 01, 2025 03:32 PM (tgTrV)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:32 PM (t0Rmr)
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Yes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:32 PM (2VST1)
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The Breakfast Klub in Houston, fantastic chicken and waffles.
Entire outside painted with a Wakanda mural.
I don't know what to think of that, if serious or aspirational, both lead to sad conclusions
I can't think of a whitey equivalant.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 03:33 PM (NwfFc)
The did have nukes. Only nuclear power to give them up. They didn't like the though of them being used to settle tribal disagreements and personal blood feuds once they turned the government over.
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 03:33 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 03:23 PM (2VST1)
There is an airport named after him in Alaska. So, somebody would.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 03:33 PM (a4NoL)
>>I probably won't be voting for Pedro.
If you don't, Tina won't get and ham and La Fawnda will get deported, and that will make Uncle Rico sad.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 03:33 PM (XV/Pl)
Entire outside painted with a Wakanda mural.
I don't know what to think of that, if serious or aspirational, both lead to sad conclusions
they painted over the giant Obama mural? that's what it was for years -- funny that repalced it
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 03:33 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 03:33 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 03:34 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 01, 2025 03:34 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 03:35 PM (jGJov)
Little of that is taken seriously today.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 01, 2025 03:35 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Farquad at May 01, 2025 03:36 PM (bwvMs)
Posted by: 18-1
Hey, if it's not real then where's all the world's supply of Vibranium come from?
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 03:37 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 03:34 PM (pZ64F)
hard to give up that which you never owned
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 03:37 PM (g47mK)
Well Hollywood is in deep shit then. I would rather watch an older movie than most of anything Hollywood puts out anymore. Their movies suck and their remakes suck even worse. All this pc crap has ruined movies. I don't want to be preached at by lefty assholes issues. I just want to be entertained. That is what they are supposed to do. I mean you really have to search to find a good movie anymore.
Posted by: Case at May 01, 2025 03:37 PM (OrSPY)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 01, 2025 03:39 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 03:39 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 01, 2025 03:41 PM (bXbFr)
Ukraine had nukes and gave them up on the promise the US would defend them. Sounds like some other treaties the US made, with the various tribes…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 03:48 PM (jHien)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 03:53 PM (jHien)
Any "political thriller", especially of the the superhero variety, can't compete. And if they rip the story from the headlines invariably the movie falls short.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 01, 2025 03:53 PM (Wzq2W)
Daily Caller@DailyCaller
Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson: “I’m not a Latino at the Home Depot”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Epobirs at May 01, 2025 04:25 PM (/0z9K)
The Joker was leaving a trail of bodies in his very first appearance. The coolest one was the guy publicly threatened, in his home under police protection. The phone rings, a voice shouts "JOKER!", and he keels over dead. The phone receiver had been rigged before the threat was made with a poisoned dart that was pushed into the victim's ear by sheer volume of the shout.
As for mass murder, that really didn't happen a lot until Frank Miller had the supposedly rehabilitated Joker kill the entire audience of a David Letterman-esque late night talk show. Depictions of the Joker changed after that.
Posted by: Epobirs at May 01, 2025 04:44 PM (/0z9K)
You know..
the power of love, it's a curious thing. It makes one man weak; it makes another man sing. It can change a hawk to a little white dove. Why are you still reading? Go download this awesome, timeless hit by Huey Lewis and the News!
Posted by: Nelly at May 01, 2025 04:53 PM (pSknm)
Posted by: hurricane567 at May 01, 2025 04:58 PM (Qxzn5)
I think she is ok in a character actor or secondary role, or maybe in some period dramas, where an English accent helps. Her looks are those that would fit in as pretty normal as opposed to bombshell. But most of her movies, where she is a lead, are not very good.
Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at May 01, 2025 05:50 PM (8yM+6)
Britain obtained nuclear weapons in 1952.
Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at May 01, 2025 05:52 PM (8yM+6)
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 01, 2025 06:02 PM (FLiOE)
The problem with that kind of joke is that its too plausible to be funny. You could really see them do it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (2VST1)
They probably wouldn't use Ziegler. They actually do seem pissed at her this time for her contributions to tanking the show.
Otherwise, sure.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:00 PM (8avO+)
Ukraine had nukes and gave them up on the promise the US would defend them. Sounds like some other treaties the US made, with the various tribes…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 03:48 PM (jHien)
No, several countries have given up nukes as part of nuclear non-proliferation.
Wiki: Several NPT states parties have given up nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons programs. South Africa undertook a nuclear weapons program, but has since renounced it and acceded to the treaty in 1991 after destroying its small nuclear arsenal; after this, the remaining African countries signed the treaty.
The former Soviet Republics where nuclear weapons had been based, namely Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, transferred those weapons to Russia and joined the NPT by 1994 following the signature of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.[36][37][38]"
And Ukraine had the USSR's nukes, they never made them on their own.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:06 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 03:32 PM (t0Rmr)
air time as much as money, but yes.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 02:31 PM (qBdHI)
And just like that, it once again becomes an Emily Kaplan thread.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 02:32 PM (KbCG3)
He's the only male lead Disney will hire these days.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 08:10 PM (8avO+)
Mike Waltz Rumored to be Leaving his position as NSA, along with his aide, Alex Wong
From Trent Crimm, the Independent:
Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their roles, CBS News first reported, in the first major shakeup of Trump's White House. It was "made clear" to Waltz earlier this week that his time leading the National Security Council had come to an end," CNN reported. Questions have swirled about Waltz's role after it was revealed that he added a journalist to a chat on the Signal app detailing military strikes. The chat involved high-ranking military and administration members and news of the breach became a blunder for the White House.(No, it was not written by Trent Crimm. I chose The Independent story to quote for the Ted Lasso reference purely.) I was intrigued to discover that the Signal controversy has actually continued in the past few weeks, mostly with news that Hegseth...has another controversy! He might have shared sensitive information with former Fox News personalities! (All of whom work for him at the DOD).
This third Signal chat involved not only Hegseth's wife, who was also a former Fox News producer Jennifer Rauchet, but also his senior adviser and spokesperson Sean Parnell, and Tami Radabaugh, who was a former Fox executive producer and close friend of Rauchet's, and now works as Hegseth's deputy assistant for public affairs at the Department of Defense, according to The Washington Post. While, it is unclear what was precisely being discussed in this third group and it is not known if that chat remains active or not, as per Washington Post.Adam Smith, representative from Washington, is very mad that Republicans won't repeat Russian Collusion and spend years of committee time looking into this.
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., told Morning Edition that House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans blocked any inquiry resolutions into the matter because they know Hegseth and his actions are "indefensible." Smith filed a resolution of inquiry, which allows a member of the House to force an investigation even when they're in the minority.It should be remembered that Waltz was never the target of calls for resignation and investigation. Here's Elizabeth Warren calling for Hegseth to resign:
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (SYD5S)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (BQz2K)
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at May 01, 2025 01:13 PM (gxokI)
That choice was WONG, Bitch!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Not craw, CRAW!
Posted by: Alex Wong at May 01, 2025 01:13 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 01:14 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 01:14 PM (BY07X)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 01:14 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:15 PM (QSsNn)
R's should do this to D's going forward.
That way the government can never do anything and we're just free to go about our lives as we want.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 01:15 PM (hB7mE)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 01:16 PM (SYD5S)
Posted by: Cockpit Voice at May 01, 2025 01:16 PM (BY07X)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:16 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 01, 2025 01:16 PM (6YdsJ)
I'm shocked... shocked, I tells ya, that the media would mislead everyone like that.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 01:17 PM (dGCAG)
I LOVE this bit. Huge Get Smart fan...
"every time he does not answer a question, break a finger. OWWW, his! Not Mine!"
Posted by: Gunslinger at May 01, 2025 01:17 PM (R2gO3)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:16 PM (vf0Y9)
I would be on board for tappin' Kathryn.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 01:17 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 01:18 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 01:18 PM (g47mK)
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Woman can chug a long neck.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 01:18 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (E2I8c)
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Yeah well. Eat shit. Next.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 01:17 PM (2UnvF)
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$5 says she runs for president in 2028.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
He was on a podcast and said he wouldn't mind a threesome with her and his wife, in jest. He, his wife and Tappen are best of friends and they often vacation together.
He was fired and she was reassigned to other duties.
I really hate what the left has done to this world.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)
In Chris Berman style, I suggest her middle name be whoIwishIwas
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (vf0Y9)
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Yeah well. Eat shit. Next.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (M/tYi)
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I wonder if he would support a congressional inquiry on Biden's DHS losing 300,000 children illegal immigrants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (E2I8c)
cut, jib ... newsletter?
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 01:20 PM (uH1zk)
yeah that sucked and was unfair!
love Roenick
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:20 PM (Pv3Rg)
Who is the blonde I saw during one if the playoff games? Only got a glimpse of her interviewing someone.
Gotta rank them as follows (purely on looks, because guy)
Jackie Redmond/Emily Kaplan (about a tie)
Unknown blonde
AJ ??? (got the MILF thing going)
Leah Hextall (holy shit, those creepy ass bangs and the Chucky Doll look)
That is all
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 01, 2025 01:20 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (vf0Y9)
Well played.
Kathryn "Wouldn't Mind" Tappen
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
I bet he knows where a dozen ended up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 01:21 PM (E2I8c)
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Yeah well. Eat shit. Next.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (M/tYi)
I don't trust any Democrat calling for investigations into this administration, unless they have a bear skin wig, and sound like Apu from The Simpsons.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 01:21 PM (dGCAG)
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Yeah well. Eat shit. Next.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (M/tYi)
He's afraid of the invisible hand reaching out with the vaudeville hook to take him off stage.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 01:21 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:21 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 01, 2025 01:21 PM (5M/Mg)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 01:22 PM (Hkcdp)
>>
This kind of numbskullery is why the 2028 Dem nominee will be a governor or former governor. The Senate and House Dems have a taint that just won't wear off over time.
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:22 PM (rj6Yv)
Why would anyone call for heir mole to resign?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 01:22 PM (/lPRQ)
bit young
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:22 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:22 PM (rj6Yv)
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Kamala or AOC, it seems, at this point.
Name recognition rules presidential politics like no other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: The rest sounds like BS at May 01, 2025 01:22 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Cockpit Voice at May 01, 2025 01:23 PM (BY07X)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 01:24 PM (2VST1)
He was asked yesterday who's the better player.
"She's in the Hall of Fame, I'm not. There's no discussion there."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 01:24 PM (E2I8c)
Name recognition rules presidential politics like no other.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:22 PM (GBKbO)
Neither of them will be in the running in 2028. Not after 4 years of DJT.
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:24 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 01:24 PM (SYD5S)
It's rough out there horde, rough I tell ya'. I got no respect in the army, no respect at all. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at May 01, 2025 01:24 PM (5hfjS)
Posted by: PJ at May 01, 2025 01:25 PM (RRCAT)
Posted by: Your Friendly Senate Aide at May 01, 2025 01:25 PM (BY07X)
yeah nope
will be josh or some other gov
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:25 PM (Pv3Rg)
Elections have consequences. Alinsky #4 goooood and haaaaaard.
Kindest regards,
America
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 01:25 PM (Hkcdp)
Well, that, and sitting congressmen have a really really bad historical record of winning and staying in office. Obama is the only one who survived one term, and he made it through two.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 01:25 PM (2VST1)
I'm watching House of Cards for the first time, too. Up to season 3, now.
What a sickening cast of actors playing horrible characters. I hate Everyone. Season 3 is so bad I might just quit hate-watching this dumb show.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:25 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
I will lead my People on a March of Tears to restore honor to this land. -- Elizabeth Warren, totally a Native American who's never claimed to be Native American although there's known documentary evidence of her doing so... and Senator.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (pZ64F)
Dummkopf !
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (/U5Yz)
he's perfect, they hate him so he's the biggest target PLUS his enemies are still military so they are not joke enemies
he's doing really well all things considered. step one (and the rest of the steps) is go balls out and don't apologize
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Hypertext follies at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (TbWk/)
Jackie Redmond/Emily Kaplan (about a tie)
Unknown blonde
AJ ??? (got the MILF thing going)
Leah Hextall (holy shit, those creepy ass bangs and the Chucky Doll look)
That is all
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 01, 2025 01:20 PM (ufFY
WTF?!?!?!?!
Jackie Redmond >>>> (times a jillion) Emily Kaplan
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (vf0Y9)
Mercedes announced new line of cars will be built at their AlabamaFacility to avoid Tarriffs.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (NWr1F)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:24 PM (rj6Yv)
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Democrat primaries have a strange way of aligning quite closely with polling 3-4 years out.
Look at 2017 polling of 2020, like this graph from Wikipedia:
https://is.gd/SpUDxp
The only real change was Warren blipping up above Biden for a couple of weeks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
bit young
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:22 PM (Pv3Rg)
Please tell me that was an intentional Shoresy reference.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:27 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:27 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (vf0Y9)
I need to do more investigating.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 01, 2025 01:27 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:27 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 01:21 PM (dGCAG)
Do not redeem, sir! Do not redeeem!!
Posted by: Rep. Pajeet at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (l3YAf)
Jackie Redmond >>>> (times a jillion) Emily Kaplan
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (vf0Y9)/i]
Seems it depends on if you like plastic vs. natural.
The Redmond broad seems man made.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
will be josh or some other gov
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:25 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Shapiro, white, Jewish, former Israeli military officer, won't even get 5th place in SC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (BY07X)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (M/tYi)
honestly TJM, I hope you're right
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (Pv3Rg)
She is a nut and is toxic.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (Hkcdp)
simmer down
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:27 PM (Pv3Rg)
Pitter patter.
Posted by: That other Canadian show at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (PCK5/)
honestly TJM, I hope you're right
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (Pv3Rg)
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He's the candidate of a small sliver of white progressives. A very small sliver.
And no one else.
The Democrat primary will be 60% female overall, and the early voting will be defined by black women.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:27 PM (Pv3Rg)
*raises arm*
2 minutes for misquoting
It's "settle down"
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (g47mK)
Need prayers. I’m heading to the ER with some really bad chest pain.
I think it’s costrochondritis, but I’m scared shitless.
Boy #1 coming to take me in.
Love yall
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (n9Tky)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Try the original, Brit version. Much better.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (qke8h)
Posted by: Jonesy at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (Sfmjp)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: That other Canadian show at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
To be FAAAAIIIIIRRRR
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (vf0Y9)
Need prayers. I’m heading to the ER with some really bad chest pain.
I think it’s costrochondritis, but I’m scared shitless.
Boy #1 coming to take me in.
Love yall
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (n9Tky)
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God speed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (QSsNn)
I think it’s costrochondritis, but I’m scared shitless.
Boy #1 coming to take me in.
Love yall
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (n9Tky)
Done.
Keep me posted please........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)
omg you're right!
oops
I am watching letterkenny now to enhance my vocabulary so I can speak entirely with shoresy/letterkenny bits
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Roger Waters at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (eNdzY)
Scalp No. 2
Posted by: Unkaren at May 01, 2025 01:31 PM (NIno8)
Posted by: Bruce at May 01, 2025 01:31 PM (RAohp)
I think it’s costrochondritis, but I’m scared shitless.
Boy #1 coming to take me in.
Love yall
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (n9Tky)
Prayers up. Please keep us updated.
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 01:31 PM (lCppi)
She is a nut and is toxic.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 01:28 PM (NpAcC)
Even a blind nut finds a mole one in awhile.
Posted by: Rep. Pajeet at May 01, 2025 01:31 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: That other Canadian show at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
To be FAAAAIIIIIRRRR
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (vf0Y9)
You were huckin' comments with your pals the other daaaaaay...
Posted by: That other Canadian show at May 01, 2025 01:31 PM (TbWk/)
And this is a scandal?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 01:31 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: DBCooper at May 01, 2025 01:31 PM (3oMnW)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Lloyd Austin at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (gMI5R)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: PJ at May 01, 2025 01:25 PM (RRCAT)
If we force out an appointee every time they get fucked over by an underling, we'll be out of people in about a week.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (Pv3Rg)
Please tell me you are coming to NoVa and/or Texas MoMes. We could annoy 99% of the attendees.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (vf0Y9)
>>I'm shocked... shocked, I tells ya, that the media would mislead everyone like that.
It's of a piece with the ABC Urinalist, screeching the the photos of the illegal aliens Gang Tattoos, the "photoshops" in question were labels point out and designating his gang tattoos, you, know like what is done to every exhibit presented at literally every court proceeding where evidence is introduced.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Piper at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Random Shoresy Reference at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (PCK5/)
hmm I may have to. as of now I'm just annoying my poor husband
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (Pv3Rg)
Trump needs more guys and none of those communist judges stat.
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (BY07X)
Please tell me you are coming to NoVa and/or Texas MoMes. We could annoy 99% of the attendees.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (vf0Y9)
To be fair, you already do that.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: because I am twelve at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 01:29 PM (Hkcdp)
If you didn't like that, uou would have really hated the rest of the seasons. I loved the early parts but even I couldn't finish the last 2 seasons.
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (QSsNn)
Please tell me you are coming to NoVa and/or Texas MoMes. We could annoy 99% of the attendees.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:32 PM (vf0Y9)
To be fair, you already do that.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)
You'll snatch up all kinds of attention
Posted by: That other other Canadian show at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (TbWk/)
I think it’s costrochondritis, but I’m scared shitless.
Boy #1 coming to take me in.
Love yall
Posted by: nurse ratched
Oh no! Definitely praying. If I can do something from here, shoot me a text / email.
Posted by: Piper at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (p4NUW)
I think it’s costrochondritis, but I’m scared shitless.
Boy #1 coming to take me in.
Love yall
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (n9Tky)
=================
The horde loves you right back Nurse! Prayers up!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (gMI5R)
I bet Michelle Obama has the balls to enter the race, pound home her message and not just dick around.
She could really schlong all of the other Democrats with her large, powerful, package...of err...policies.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)
LMAO!!
*submits comment to the other 2 D's for Club ONT C.O.W. consideration*
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (vf0Y9)
I hated everyone in House of Cards. I tapped out after the reporterette… died. Kept waiting for it to get better.
Posted by: Lizzy
That was great. Loved it. But the show gets worse.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:35 PM (QSsNn)
*submits comment to the other 2 D's for Club ONT C.O.W. consideration*
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (vf0Y9)
Thanks!
Never made that honor......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (Pv3Rg)
Allegedly
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:35 PM (vf0Y9)
Why aren't bills in the hopper to shut down the rogue communist judges. Eliminate their court.
This should be order of business every day until we're in the clear.
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 01:35 PM (BY07X)
The guy is a pedo but worse yet he literally got away with murder
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (Pv3Rg)
We're strangely loveable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (Pv3Rg)
And here I thought it was my personality.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:36 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 01:36 PM (l3YAf)
It should be remembered that Waltz was never the target of calls for resignation and investigation.
Surest way to identify a Donk commie cocksucker mole.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (y9nCu)
The guy is a pedo but worse yet he literally got away with murder
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)
Speaking of, the guy who slashed the throat of the former NHL player with his skate in a London hockey game will NOT face any charges.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
I bet Michelle Obama has the balls to enter the race, pound home her message and not just dick around.
She could really schlong all of the other Democrats with her large, powerful, package...of err...policies.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01,
****
Men win again.
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (BY07X)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 01:34 PM (Pv3Rg)
We're strangely loveable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)
For being pixels on a screen we’re not too bad….
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (PCK5/)
I think it’s costrochondritis, but I’m scared shitless.
Boy #1 coming to take me in.
Love yall
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (n9Tky)
Prayers up.
Remember, you're the patient this time, not the nurse....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:36 PM (M/tYi)
Braggart.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
What has happened to the NHL? The nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Don Cherry.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (wBaIH)
I mean unless they've got some kind of hacking team that rivals China's over at the WP, it's gotta be somebody withing a very small circle of people who are leaking this info.
My advice, get off of Signal Pete, ASAP.
It's the Pentagon, find some programming nerds there and build your own secure app to chat on.
Which makes me wonder why, in 2025, the federal government doesn't already have something like this?
$2.5 trillion a year deficit and you people can't scrounge a few billion to build an encrypted messaging app?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (6ydKt)
Puppy Dog Liam is being written off the show by giving him an inoperable condition. Stuffy Steffy boohooing will be incoming.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 01, 2025 01:38 PM (ufFY8)
Yeah its a straight house vote, super easy. They can do almost anything they want, too. They can impeach but they can also change what the judges have jurisdiction over, the size and location of their district, topics that they can deal with, etc. The federal courts are entirely a creation of the house.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 01:38 PM (2VST1)
This should be order of business every day until we're in the clear.
Posted by: torabora
Miss Lindsey and Republican colleagues are looking for ways to cross the aisle and come to a compromise tirelessly.
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 01:38 PM (j4U/Z)
What has happened to the NHL? The nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Don Cherry.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (wBaIH)
Canada banned him. He's of no use.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)
How do you know when you're not having a heart attack?
They quit paying attention to you in the ER.
Posted by: DaveA at May 01, 2025 01:39 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 01:39 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 01:38 PM (j4U/Z)
They just love bending over.
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 01:39 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 01:39 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 01:40 PM (3xZyM)
You People have short/bad mammaries. Mike Waltz was certainly the center of the "demands" for firings. Fake News repeatedly asked PDT if he was going to fire Waltz and if he still had confidence in Waltz.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:40 PM (QSsNn)
C-ya L8rs.
Be excellent to each other.
Sid's an inbred retard with a 3rd ear in his taint.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Regardless of what Waltz did or didn't do...
Posted by: Defenestratus at May 01, 2025 01:40 PM (WYStd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
=======
He just wants to vote for Vance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 01:41 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (PCK5/)
I identify as a diode.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:41 PM (M/tYi)
Not for Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Biden. About a hundred years of presidents deporting people, sometimes huge numbers... none of this needed.
Now, suddenly, Trump's administration has to do all this?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 01:41 PM (2VST1)
Never made that honor......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)
We have a conclave where we each bring our suggestions. There's intense shouting and finger pointing. T Rex struggles with the latter.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:42 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (PCK5/)
I identify as a diode.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:41 PM (M/tYi)
I prefer to be a resistor.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 01:42 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: 18-1
The original with Ian Richardson clawing his way to the Prime minister-ship of Great Britain was 1000X better
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 01:42 PM (j4U/Z)
Which makes me wonder why, in 2025, the federal government doesn't already have something like this?
Because the government would either do a shit job at it, or start with Signal - which is open source - and modify it as needed - which it likely isn't. At a guess, they use a custom server and retain logs of the conversation as required. Even if a mole couldn't see the contents of the messages they could likely see the participant list.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 01:42 PM (ExV1e)
Need prayers. I’m heading to the ER with some really bad chest pain.
I think it’s costrochondritis, but I’m scared shitless.
Boy #1 coming to take me in.
Love yall
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (n9Tky)
Best Wishes.
I have suffered from costrochondritis for years. Lets pray that that is all it is.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 01, 2025 01:43 PM (NtVYv)
I might just quit hate-watching this dumb show.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Try the original, Brit version. Much better.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 01:30 PM (qke8h)
First season of the US version is the only one worth a damn, because it's a direct remake.
The one original bit in the US version that I actually enjoyed was where Underwood bitches about a meeting with a couple of his own party's committee chairs, fantasizing about their faces frying in oil and salting the skin. They sid down at lunch and the two of them start bickering with Underwood looking on and Spacey wearily looks at the camera and salts his plate.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 01:43 PM (y9nCu)
Ring ...ring
Stall stall
Ring ring
Posted by: Cockpit Voice
......
Alex Wong, middle name Sum Ting
Posted by: wth at May 01, 2025 01:44 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Nelly at May 01, 2025 01:44 PM (pSknm)
Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 01:45 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: PabloD at May 01, 2025 01:45 PM (hc59r)
Anyone see similarities between the Russia Hoax and the House of Cards scandal the show used to bring down the president?
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:47 PM (QSsNn)
My daughter works in an ER and hates the place.
Posted by: wth at May 01, 2025 01:47 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:48 PM (QSsNn)
I like Miller, he'd probably do a great job, but I think he's much better on domestic policy than international and I'd want him right where he is.
Gorka has been loyal to Trump since the get go.
He's got the experience, so I'd hope it's him over Miller.
Trump may surprise them all, though.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 01:48 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SQUANTO at May 01, 2025 01:48 PM (Ak2xC)
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In the past, a meeting that discussed potentially secret military plans was done in person.
Maybe do that again?
They're discussing strikes on the Houthi's, not Iran, China or Russia. It should be fairly automatic at this point for the crews at sea and in the air to determine who, what and when shit needs to be blown up on the ground.
I mean the orders should have been pretty explicit, "kill everyone and bomb everything in this area for two weeks." No need to babysit the Navy and Air Force after that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 01:49 PM (Q4IgG)
he article on Waltz from CBS is suggesting he might be replaced as NSA by Stephen Miller or Seb Gorka.
They're just throwing names out there to start shit. Oldest trick in the book -- also in the House of Cards show.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:49 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 01:50 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 01:50 PM (Z4B3V)
Posted by: SQUANTO at May 01, 2025 01:48 PM (Ak2xC)
She not brave, either! - Sitting Bull
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 01:51 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 01:17 PM (2UnvF)
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$5 says she runs for president in 2028.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
==
Why not - they don't have anyone else with half a chance.
Posted by: Black JEM at May 01, 2025 01:51 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Orson at May 01, 2025 01:51 PM (dIske)
Best Wishes.
I have suffered from costrochondritis for years. Lets pray that that is all it is.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 01, 2025 01:43 PM (NtVYv)
Some people have hiatl hernias that can mimic heart issues I have heard.
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:51 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 01:52 PM (Er3Q7)
President Donald Trump’s invocation of a wartime power to summarily deport Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador was “unlawful,” a federal judge ruled Thursday, blocking the administration from further deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. ...
Rodriguez said Trump had improperly invoked the law — which gives the president the power to quickly expel nationals of invading countries — to target alleged members of a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua.
The Alien Enemies Act applies only when the country is facing an armed, organized attack, Rodriguez ruled. Trump’s claims about Tren de Aragua’s activities in the United States fall short of that bar, the judge added.
This has got to be solved.
Through SCOTUS, through Congress, somebody needs to fix this.
Nobody elected left-wing, activist, judges to overrule any president over his attempts to stop their comrades' previous disastrous decisions and actions.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 01:52 PM (6ydKt)
Our next favorite president is in South Carolina today touring a steel plant. Livestream to commence shortly...
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:52 PM (qKvR9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 01, 2025 01:53 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 01, 2025 01:53 PM (7aURE)
Posted by: yoda, noted valve expert at May 01, 2025 01:53 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:49 PM (QSsNn)
-- --
Could be, but they're not bad possibilities.
The article also said that Ric Grenell said he doesn't want the job.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 01:53 PM (6ydKt)
Our next favorite president is in South Carolina today touring a steel plant. Livestream to commence shortly...
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:52 PM (qKvR9)
Big Mike is in South Carolina????
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:53 PM (PCK5/)
Rodriguez said Trump had improperly invoked the law
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HAHAHAHA
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 01:53 PM (AluPP)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 01:54 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 01:54 PM (tT6L1)
@WesternLensman
Chris Van Hollen is pathetically begging people not to visit El Salvador; says he’ll be announcing 'sanctions legislation’ over deported MS13 alien Abrego-Garcia —
“Targeting
@nayibbukele
and all those who are part of his government conspiring with Donald Trump."
They really want to keep going with this.
https://tinyurl.com/ms5fvvfa
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 01:54 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:54 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Black JEM at May 01, 2025 01:51 PM (GZYu7)
JB Pritzker will squash Warren like a bug.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 01:55 PM (3xZyM)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
=======
He just wants to vote for Vance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla
......
or date him.
Posted by: wth at May 01, 2025 01:55 PM (v0R5T)
“I am not afraid of you,” he said, according to the Associated Press.
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You should be afraid, fvcker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 01:55 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Black JEM at May 01, 2025 01:51 PM (GZYu7)
JB Pritzker will squash Warren like a bug.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 01:55 PM (3xZyM)
Jabba squash Squaw all flat!! HoHoHo!!!
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:56 PM (PCK5/)
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Wait, was El Salvador a big tourist destination?
I would assume it's like almost every other place in central and south America and you go to a resort and stay in the resort and if you leave the resort you go with the tour group that has already paid off the locals for safe travels.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 01:57 PM (AluPP)
“I am not afraid of you,” he said, according to the Associated Press.
====
You should be afraid, fvcker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 01:55 PM (RIvkX)
Sometimes, fleetingly, I wish there was a Lubyanka for these types…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:57 PM (PCK5/)
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Classic sloganeering.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:57 PM (M/tYi)
Being a Congressman isn't exactly a stellar endorsement for not being a security risk.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 01:58 PM (Q4IgG)
I mean unless they've got some kind of hacking team that rivals China's over at the WP, it's gotta be somebody withing a very small circle of people who are leaking this info.
My advice, get off of Signal Pete, ASAP.
It's the Pentagon, find some programming nerds there and build your own secure app to chat on.
Which makes me wonder why, in 2025, the federal government doesn't already have something like this?
$2.5 trillion a year deficit and you people can't scrounge a few billion to build an encrypted messaging app?
*****
The IRS Started an IT modernization project *thirty years ago* that is still unfinished. So... uh... yeah.
They can totally scrounge the money up for the app. Spend it too. Weather the project gets finished, or works.... well thats another question entirely.
Posted by: FrozenTech at May 01, 2025 01:58 PM (Q6XEv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 01:58 PM (RIvkX)
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He's not an American.
Send him home. Or better, send him to El Salvador.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 01:58 PM (AluPP)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 01:59 PM (PCK5/)
If this is true, it is pretty wild:
https://x.com/Prolotario1/status/1917963967580041667
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 01, 2025 01:59 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 02:00 PM (RIvkX)
****
Pikers
Posted by: California DMV at May 01, 2025 02:00 PM (BY07X)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:52 PM (qKvR9)
-- --
He's over at Nucor Steel today, about thirty miles from me.
They're a mini-mill that's been there since the 90s.
Nucor's always done well, compared to the major producers up North.
Smart of JD to start working SC early, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:00 PM (6ydKt)
But George Santos went to prison.
You don't hate Democrats (and RINO's) enough.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 02:00 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: tubal
Citizens and LEGAL aliens have due process rights.
People here illegally do not really have those rights.
This is not that complicated.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 01, 2025 02:01 PM (vcOmj)
Yall probably don't like his politics on Israel, but he loves America, he's an America First guy, and he wouldn't sell out Trump like the rest of the bastards in the Deep State pool of "talent".
Posted by: For What It's Worth at May 01, 2025 02:01 PM (PWZG1)
Puppy Dog Liam is being written off the show by giving him an inoperable condition. Stuffy Steffy boohooing will be incoming.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 01, 2025 01:38 PM (ufFY
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I use these references to freak out Mrs. F. who demands to know how I know.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 02:02 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 02:03 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 02:03 PM (RIvkX)
Neeson can be tiresome…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:03 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:04 PM (0duCh)
14th amendment is not clear on much and needs rewriting but it basically states that only people who are citizens get civil rights and due process protection.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:04 PM (2VST1)
14th amendment is not clear on much and needs rewriting but it basically states that only people who are citizens get civil rights and due process protection.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:04 PM (2VST1)
Something we need to be mindful of when traveling abroad..
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:05 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 01, 2025 02:05 PM (xzrfl)
Posted by: FrozenTech at May 01, 2025 01:58 PM (Q6XEv)
-- --
They can get it done if they need to.
Remember how fast they finished the Obamacare website for like $750 million or whatever it was??
oh, wait... i just proved your point.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:05 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:04 PM (0duCh)
The Land Leviathan Model??
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:05 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 01, 2025 01:38 PM (ufFY
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Does this puppy have a special set of skills?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 02:05 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 01:37 PM (6ydKt)
You could build an encrypted app to rival Signal for less than a million.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 02:06 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: PJ at May 01, 2025 01:25 PM (RRCAT)
Hegseth's job is to 1) get enrollment up, and 2) de-wokify the military, with 3) uprooting the antiquated and logrolly procurement/financial revolving door system of generals coming and going between Defense and the contracting biz.
Hegseth's flak-taking as of late is definitely coming from 3). Enrollment is already up, so he's done his duty. He's not going anywhere.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 02:07 PM (0CU3H)
ete Hegseth talking with friends
Nothing To See Here: Hunter Biden palling around with CCP members when his dad is prez, the Taliban taking possession of $billions in equipment, Chinese spy balloons traversing the country, John Kerry speaking on behalf of the US government during Trump's 1st term...
Posted by: red speck at May 01, 2025 02:07 PM (0Id0S)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:04 PM (0duCh)
The Land Leviathan Model??
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:05 PM (PCK5/)
Must have been a Panzer Kitty driving.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 02:07 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:07 PM (2VST1)
Remember how fast they finished the Obamacare website for like $750 million or whatever it was??
oh, wait... i just proved your point.
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Whatever happened to Cruella di Vil after she shit the Obamacare Punch Bowl?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 02:07 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 01, 2025 02:07 PM (KiydY)
Posted by: red speck at May 01, 2025 02:08 PM (0Id0S)
Posted by: a surfer at May 01, 2025 02:08 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:09 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 02:03 PM (RIvkX)
Ditto x1000
Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 01, 2025 02:11 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:11 PM (PCK5/)
F U dude.
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Given a choice between Baltimore or El Salvador I'd go with El Salvador.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 02:12 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 01, 2025 02:12 PM (yode1)
Must have been a Panzer Kitty driving.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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or some kind of demon
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:12 PM (0duCh)
F U dude.
Posted by: a surfer at May 01, 2025 02:08 PM (v0R5T)
Typical do as I say not as I do lib.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 02:12 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 01, 2025 02:12 PM (ckQml)
1) courts become too powerful because nobody reins them in
2) courts become irrelevant because they keep overstepping and people ignore them
3) step in and control things to avoid the above two possibilities.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:13 PM (2VST1)
he's not running.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)
Barra’s strategy centers on launching 30 new EV models by 2025 and converting major facilities—most notably the Orion Assembly plant in Michigan—to support next-generation electric trucks. Flagship vehicles like the Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV are at the heart of this shift. However, production delays have pushed the timeline to late 2025, raising concerns about whether GM can meet its aggressive electrification targets.
https://tinyurl.com/46d865nt
(c-suiteinsider.com)
WTF is this lady smoking?
Where does she think she is going to sell 30 new EV models this year?
I honestly do not get it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:13 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:09 PM (2VST1)
And the little punkass attention whore will walk around preening, receiving accolades for being stunning and brave…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:13 PM (PCK5/)
Thinking this opens a path for Blondi.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:13 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 02:12 PM (pZ64F
Bukele has really fixed things up in El Salvador. It's a garden spot compared to Baltimore. Much, much safer.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 02:14 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:07 PM (2VST1)
They're just taking the Clowrd-Pivening of America to its logical conclusion. Fire and dis-bar them all.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 02:15 PM (C4BAC)
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
It pretty clearly says that due process is required to deprive people of the free expression of their rights subject to the jurisdiction thereof. If you're here illegally, you are not under jurisdiction of the government, you're an alien.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:15 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 02:15 PM (PCK5/)
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He might change his tune if someone should perform some "gender affirming care" on him.
I'm totally against this by the way.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 02:16 PM (Dv3i1)
he's not running.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)
He's too busy turning Maryland into CaliNoisAchussets
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 02:16 PM (vf0Y9)
he's not running.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)
He's too busy turning Maryland into CaliNoisAchussets
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 02:16 PM (vf0Y9)
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Kamala's gonna be the only black person to run, and she's not even black!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 01:52 PM (qKvR9)
SC is fine but what JD needs to do is walk into the Senate and beat the shit out of one of them, let's say Dick Blumenthal - decorated war hero like that should be able to put up a fight. Afterwards, tell them that some judges are getting impeached and they've got six hours to convict.
Then go have a chat with the House.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 02:17 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 01, 2025 02:17 PM (WkVgz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)
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I guess it's all up to Stephen A. Smith now!
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:17 PM (6ydKt)
Shri Thanedar, the Democrat Rep who filed impeachment charges against Trump, reportedly left over 150 dogs and monkeys to starve to death at an abandoned NJ testing lab that HE OWNED.
https://tinyurl.com/58fxw9ea
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:17 PM (2VST1)
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He might change his tune if someone should perform some "gender affirming care" on him.
I'm totally against this by the way.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 02:16 PM (Dv3i1)
Or he might change his tune if someone performed a late term abortion on him.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 01, 2025 02:19 PM (C4BAC)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 02:19 PM (M/tYi)
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Uh sir, that is your circus and those uh, are your monkeys.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 02:19 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 02:19 PM (M/tYi)
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He makes my skin crawl like Jessica Tarlov.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 02:20 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 02:17 PM (ExV1e)
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So you're saying we need to just get on with the Roman Empire era of America?
Send Marc Antony in to whip the boys in shape before Caesar gets really pissed?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:20 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 02:20 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 01, 2025 02:21 PM (cvWHI)
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As an aside, one of my ancients had the name Electra St. John. I've seen a portrait of her. Quite the Victorian lady.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 01, 2025 02:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 01, 2025 02:21 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 02:21 PM (6ydKt)
Or black men. Or hispanics. Or asians. Or white men....
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:23 PM (2VST1)
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To read any X post by Laura Loomer, the Trump administration is hiring so many leftists, it sounds like nearly the whole lot of them is suspect. Or maybe she's overreacting. I hope it's the latter.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 02:23 PM (qBdHI)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks
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Depends, Si or Ge.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 01, 2025 02:23 PM (XeU6L)
205 Mohsen Mahdawi, 34, a student who led anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, issued a message to U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration on Wednesday after a judge released him from federal custody.
“I am not afraid of you,” he said, according to the Associated Press.
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You should be afraid, fvcker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Ten percent of the population and they take it to a new level.
Frisco, TX area has 10% population and they want their own community with their own (sharia) law. It's being litigated right now.
Tell me this mentality didn't influence the Black Track Stabber.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:24 PM (0duCh)
https://tinyurl.com/58fxw9ea
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 02:17 PM (2VST1)
He's from India...those bloody savages have no regard for human or animal lives.
Posted by: Zombie Sir William Henry Sleeman at May 01, 2025 02:24 PM (979V4)
I'm glad about this.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 02:24 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 02:24 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 02:25 PM (RHGPo)
To read any X post by Laura Loomer, the Trump administration is hiring so many leftists, it sounds like nearly the whole lot of them is suspect. Or maybe she's overreacting. I hope it's the latter.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Please post an X link to something of Loomer's.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:26 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at May 01, 2025 02:28 PM (yTvNw)
@realDonaldTrump
I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations. From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role. In the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor, while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department. Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 02:28 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SMOD
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Second chances?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (0duCh)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 01, 2025 02:29 PM (xAP/Y)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 01, 2025 02:21 PM (cvWHI)
What does it matter?
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 02:33 PM (M/tYi)
Here's Elizabeth Warren calling for Hegseth to resign:
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Voice sounds like a brick being thrown through a window.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 01, 2025 02:34 PM (QwK6F)
Posted by: Ryan Frank at May 01, 2025 02:35 PM (fgmuN)
Mercedes announced new line of cars will be built at their AlabamaFacility to avoid Tarriffs.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 01:26 PM (NWr1F)
I just saw a Mercedes-Benz TV add yesterday in which the tag line was something to the effect, "We're not just made in America, we're American." Curious ... the tariffs are already having an effect.
But all the Dems say that tariffs are bad, and the Bad Orange Man doesn't know what he's doing.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 01, 2025 03:29 PM (pJWtt)
And this is a scandal?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 01:31 PM (t0Rmr)
Technically, it's "Controlled Unclassified Information." It is permissible to use encrypted comms for CUI. Signal is end-to-end encrypted, so permissible messaging app.
The "controversy" is an op to get the Trump Admin to not use Signal. The Deep State apparently doesn't like not being able to read over those messages.
That reporter, Goldberg, getting access was actually espionage. He should have immediately notified the National Security Team that he was inadvertently getting messages. But he's a little spy, so he was listening-in for dirt.
It was a data-spill and sounds like Walz is being made to walk the plank.
The whole "Secret War Plans!!!ree!!!" narrative fell appart, and now the Donks are screeching about "Sensitive Information!!!reee!!!"
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 01, 2025 03:40 PM (pJWtt)
EPA cancels 781 Environmental Justice Grants because Trump is a big ole meanie who ran on just this sort of thing, and you should be super mad about it
You regretting your vote yet, MAGAts?!
The agency plans to send cancellation notifications to an additional 404 - meaning a total of 781 grants are being canceled, said the filing, a declaration from Daniel Coogan, the EPA's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Infrastructure and Extramural Resources. The grants are primarily related to programs that deal with environmental justice - that is, dealing with pollution in communities that face disproportionate impacts and have limited resources. This includes low-income and minority communities. The Trump administration has targeted environmental justice programs - firing 280 staffers and reassigning another 175 who worked on the issue, saying it's part of a broader effort against diversity initiatives.This push to kill government grants to leftist organizations, I think, has the potential for being the largest, undertold story of the second Trump administration. I see numbers like 781 grants being canceled, and I just...wonder. There's no information about how much money that represents, but the EPA gives out $4 billion a year in grants. Those grants can be less than $100,000 to small orgs, $1 million to other governments, or bigger. So, this could be maybe a few million dollars or a couple of billion. Probably somewhere in between. I would guess the 781 represents a few tens of millions, tops. But, that's tens of millions of dollars designed to prop up a leftist ecosystem of lawyers and activists to fight for leftist causes. This creates a system of support for government action and social coercion that wouldn't exist otherwise. And grants are being cut everywhere. The USAID cuts got the most attention ($40 billion), but every agency has this sort of thing, and every agency is cutting back. Combine that with the Democrats' efforts to alienate as much of the American public as possible since the Obama's first election, and you've got an interesting mix that we haven't seen the fruits of yet. I can't make predictions, but I can say...it might be interesting. We'll see.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)
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Gold King Mine is nothing compared to the destruction wrought by capitalism!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:02 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
And what about the price of eggs? And blue suits??
Posted by: Authentic Trump Voter at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:02 PM (M/tYi)
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The Atlanta Fed, which predicted -2.7% Q1 2025 growth, now predicts +2.4% growth for Q2.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Joe Mama at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (FWAED)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
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It always amused me the EPA experts went ahead even after actual mining experts warned them they were wrong.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
Communism. Same as “social justice”, “food justice”, “gender justice”, etc..
Posted by: Authentic Trump Voter at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
F*ck taking my tax money and giving it away to some rando who things they've got the 'next big thing.'
Get a loan or get a rich person to fund it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:04 PM (BI5O2)
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"There's not enough X to prevent Y in business! We're suing!"
-Plaintiffs
"We agree. We settle and agree to write regulation that requires the use of X, the main provider of whom is a Democrat donor."
-EPA
"Sounds good to me."
-some district judge, most powerful man in the world
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (N8VXB)
This "environmental justice" thing has me baffled. Is it that meanie corporations opened up plants and polluted and dumped waste next to where poor black folk had lived for time immemorial? Or is it that poor black folk set up shop next to plants owned by meanie corporations because the land was cheap?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)
Align my chakras!
Posted by: Al Gore at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
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It's a disclosure of an already running lawsuit about terminating grants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
If you ever wonder how things have gotten so crazy over the last 20 years or so the answer is you've been paying for it. Through the nose.
$8T a year from Uncle Sugar buys a lot of globohomo, illegal immigration, and enviro-doom mongering
Good thing we plebes didn't need that money for anything important, like housing, food, or health care
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (mxyji)
Posted by: tubal
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Communism aka oppressed and oppressors. That is where Buttplug came up with the idea of removing urban interstates because they were intended to oppress the PoC residents.
Basically though a pseudo revolution from the top down by latte sipping Marxists grifting on public funds aka Democrats.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (+xH0d)
Posted by: Al Gore at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)
“And them he asked me to help open his third eye..”
Posted by: Traumatized Masseuse at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (l3YAf)
It means, at face value, that it's OK if straight white people die from pollution but it's a global emergency if it happens to a quadriplegic black lesbian.
Which, in the words of Rachel Dolezal, is retarded, sir.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (jjoN6)
Sounds like a lifestyle choice.
Maybe be areas chock full of Newcomers who like the homey touch of garbage in the streets.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Eternity Matters at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (Dpc98)
What progress by DOGE investigating how people in Gov. got rich?
Posted by: Ciampino - Any results yet? at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (sPQoU)
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Which, in part, is why the administration should make that very point. Upsets the gimmedats because bureauc-rats in DC are eating their cheese.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)
Wait until June for fruits.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
Pride Month?
Posted by: Joe Mama at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (FWAED)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:08 PM (N8VXB)
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 12:08 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
The Honorable John J. Wormtongue III: Putative recipients of discretionary grants are being denied due process. Pay my friends right now!
*bangs little faggoty mallet thing*
Trump Administration: Dang it! You heard the guy in the dress. Get the checkbook.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:08 PM (BI5O2)
Breaking: Mike Waltz will be the next Pope, sources familiar with hoaxes say.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (QSsNn)
The actual issue, which of course they won't state, is that urban interstates often serve as handy containment walls for the "youths". Knocking them down allows the Democrat-approved crime to spread out and get comfortable.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (QZThv)
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*zzzzzzzz* *snort*
Huh? What?... Uh, yeah we know about this.... Go away, important.... work .... to do....
*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
Posted by: Congressional Republicans at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 12:08 PM (rj6Yv)
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They can always dig ditches.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)
DOGE said $4.7 trillion was disbursed with no tracking information.
We're lucky that only $40 billion got away! Thank goodness for our brave First Responder accountants in all the government agencies and NGOs that held the line.
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:10 PM (1q8GR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:10 PM (N8VXB)
Wannabe Governor Abrams
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 01, 2025 12:10 PM (gm9Sb)
Which, in the words of Rachel Dolezal, is retarded, sir.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:07 PM (QZThv)
Rachel Jeantel.
Dolezal is the fake black NAACP chapter pres.
Posted by: Al Gore at May 01, 2025 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (pZ64F)
I'll bet my left nut Alex Wong was the villain, but Mike Waltz vouched for him and had to go, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: Anna Puma
And those judges are like Wil_E_Coyote--Super Genuis. All Congress has to do in reconciliation is kill that spending and voila--courts got nuttin and even Scotus won't save them.
The judges are going wild because their friendz and their party is going to take a massive hit in the pocketbook while Mr. John Q. Public won't care. After all, homeless bureaucrats look pretty similar to all the other homeless people afflicted on the general public by Democrat policy.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)
Earlier than...than...
Say, what was the name of that guy who would post here at 12:20 PM or so during the week, after rolling out of bed sometime in the late morning? His name is escaping me at the moment.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (0CU3H)
I'll bet my left nut Alex Wong was the villain, but Mike Waltz vouched for him and had to go, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Are you saying Alex is the Wong man for the job?
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (+xH0d)
Townhall.com@townhallcom
Karoline Leavitt on Kamala Harris:
"We encourage Kamala Harris to continue going out and do speaking engagements."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (5TCMh)
Earlier than...than...
Say, what was the name of that guy who would post here at 12:20 PM or so during the week, after rolling out of bed sometime in the late morning? His name is escaping me at the moment.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 12:11 PM (0CU3H)
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Gabe?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)
Oh, right, yeah..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (l3YAf)
Most likely. It was an obvious attempt to get rid of Hegseth and it sure hasn't worked out for them.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Soothsayer
A local radio guy has Frank Stallone as his dark horse pick.
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (1q8GR)
I haven't seen everything RFK Jr. said, but, from what I gather, he really laid the lumber to the previous administration for allowing child trafficking to reach the level it did.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Lamont, the big dummy?
Posted by: MkY at May 01, 2025 12:13 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: The Snail Darter at May 01, 2025 12:13 PM (dIske)
I've seen first hand how the EPA has destroyed American manufacturing, now they need to be destroyed. Yeah, it's personal with me.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at May 01, 2025 12:13 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Ian S.
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How else can yutes live out Grand Theft Auto fantasies during high speed chases for felonies. Harshing their mellow.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (ctrM5)
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Isn't the plural of Lexus, Lexi?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (pZ64F)
Rock on, man. You bringin' it!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Are you saying Alex is the Wong man for the job?
Posted by: whig
No offense!
https://is.gd/sOO8Zs
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (QSsNn)
Good thing we plebes didn't need that money for anything important, like housing, food, or health care
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)
Don't forget killing people in third world shitholes, all over the globe.
Raytheon's gotta eat too.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 12:15 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:15 PM (N8VXB)
In land-locked eastern Europe where this phenomenon doesn't exist.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Soothsayer
A local radio guy has Frank Stallone as his dark horse pick.
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:12 PM (1q8GR)
In the "not tired of smelling shit filled pants of libtards" department, Trump says he wouldn't mind being pope.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:16 PM (l3YAf)
The "They target poor areas" shit is so stupid.
Helped build the Watsonville dump in Ca. Surrounded by strawberry fields. I will never forget the strawberry smell. Could see the ocean. Good job except for the commute.
Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 12:16 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (N8VXB)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (QSsNn)
And something that never, ever would have happened under Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, or Nikki Haley.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Rock on, man. You bringin' it!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)
What, like Lou Gehrig subbing for Wally Pipp?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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That way they're safe from sudden climate- change driven sea level changes.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:18 PM (R548X)
What, like Lou Gehrig subbing for Wally Pipp?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 01, 2025 12:17 PM (0CU3H)
https://youtu.be/CahNAauFgys?t=15
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Related: TGP has piece illustrating that Raskin is really a Red Diaper Doper Baby. Dad still alive.
The doo rag is a stand in for his commie beret.
We've gone from execution of communists to election of them in my lifetime.
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (BY07X)
Dolezal is the fake black NAACP chapter pres.
Dolezal ended up setting up an OnlyFans account where you could see just how not black her butt was...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (2UnvF)
He had never heard of the Pigford settlement before our conversation.
Pretty sure learning about that one left a crack in his facade...
Posted by: garrett at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (Ruu2t)
Here's the nuclear bomb he dropped on air during the 100 Days cabinet meeting. 29 seconds
x.com/johnrich/status/1917661110809027061
And many asses were clenched...
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (9tkmY)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I have read that Ziegler has a nice voice.
Haven't heard it yet.
Can she read a teleprompter?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (BY07X)
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Because they're doing the actual budget process for 25-26. Once that's done, then they can pass rescission bills to eliminate funding.
It's Congressional rules stuff.
Whether they do it or not, is yet to be seen. But they have a good excuse for the inaction right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
‘What the hell is “ Environmental Justice” anyway??’
Like any _____+ Justice, it is any thing but justice.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (tT6L1)
I've seen first hand how the EPA has destroyed American manufacturing, now they need to be destroyed. Yeah, it's personal with me.
Posted by: Ganowicz
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Well, to give you tingles, The EPA was created by executive order drolly named the Reorganization Plan of 1970 by Nixon. There are statutory requirements to administer different Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act provisions but not an authorizing requirement by Congress to create the EPA as an agency.
The laws requiring various anti pollution requirements being removed would take Congress. But technically, it appears that the EPA, like AID, could be shut down and its regulatory assignments sent to other agencies by another Executive Order. A great deal could be delegated to the states as is already the case--every state has an antipollution agency already.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (N8VXB)
WTF??
Some sports agent lawyer (all of them are scumbags, btw) died at 62 yesterday from a "fall" from a "head injury." Why am I telling you this, you axe.
Wait, there's more. This guy "fell off a golf cart" on a golf course (natch), and the golf cart was being driven by...
John Elway.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (QSsNn)
Under no circumstances may she go off script. Bad things tend to happen.
Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (bbuBP)
Enough of the bullshit.
Posted by: It's All Bullshit at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (979V4)
Posted by: Greta Thunberg at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Black Footed Ferret Spokesferret at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (7Q0e+)
Posted by: Greta Thunberg at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (l3YAf)
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Needs more Jew-hate to feel like a real Greta quote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
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LOL here's a Darwin Award for you.
Two teens in Chattanooga are dead and one is critically injured after being chased by the cops for an auto theft.
These Geniuses Three bailed from the car on I-75 and climbed the median, attempting to lose the cops by darting into the opposite lanes in the dark.
That's a risky proposition under any circumstances. But what our would-be Rhodes Scholars didn't realize until too late, was that the Tennessee River Bridge is a divided carriageway.
They figured it out when they sailed 80ft down to the surface of the river and dashed themselves to bits.
Whoops! Whoopsie!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:22 PM (BI5O2)
On April 26, 2025, Sperbeck was riding in the back of a golf cart driven by John Elway at The Madison Club in La Quinta, California, when he fell off and struck his head. He was taken to a hospital in Palm Springs, where he remained on life support before dying on April 30, at the age of 62.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: blake
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Because no one stuffed these jokers into lockers enough when they were in middle and high school. These dweebs took revenge of the nerds as a serious political statement and foreigners in office revenging themselves on the native population is a common theme in history.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (ctrM5)
The kids today have no idea what pollution is.
Posted by: Riply at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (GUOwU)
But I, like the average American, have yet to see the tangible benefits of them.
This will be Trump's biggest problem to solve before the mid-terms.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (bbuBP)
Wait, there's more. This guy "fell off a golf cart" on a golf course (natch), and the golf cart was being driven by...
John Elway.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:21 PM (QSsNn)
I know a girl that died falling from a golf cart. She was stone sober at the time. The driver of the cart hasn't been the same since.
She was the mother of 2 and married to a Texas State Trooper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Spongebob Squarepants at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (G5+As)
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That's why I bought my .22 rifle. Lot of fun and you find stuff to take home, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: blake
Right.. Where was their "Due process"? . Oh.. They weren't illegals...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
If they copped a plea deal they could have gotten out sooner.
See, it's their own fault, being insurrectiony and all.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:25 PM (/lPRQ)
John Elway.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Either Elway drives like a maniac and/or alcohol was involved from both parties. Expect a big lawsuit forthcoming that will bring up what happened.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:25 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (NiYfU)
That whole "use the rope we sell them" thing seems to be being reversed.
RIP David Horowitz btw, he was a huge part of my awakening. Sad to see him go.
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (et1vG)
https://jetson.com
also:
https://volonaut.com
Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (g47mK)
Nice......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)
x.com/johnrich/status/1917661110809027061
And many asses were clenched...
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (9tkmY)
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Wow. I really hope some of the ass clenching was by current and former HHS employees.
Of course, the media says nothing about this. But, MS-13 Gang Banger Maryland man must be freed!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (QSsNn)
Please God please please please make this the end of the Sunrise Movement.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (jMurV)
Nice......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Trump needs to make him wait
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (17s+e)
But I, like the average American, have yet to see the tangible benefits of them.
This will be Trump's biggest problem to solve before the mid-terms.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
The problem is they are a drop in the bucket in comparison to what needs to be done. They wont make much of difference from an economic/budget standpoint but will hurt the Dem grift machine.
Posted by: Riply at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (N8VXB)
Posted by: Spongebob Squarepants at May 01, 2025 12:24 PM (G5+As)
Are you still angry that Stephen left out your genitals when your were drawn?
Posted by: Squidward Tentacles at May 01, 2025 12:27 PM (979V4)
John Elway.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Either Elway drives like a maniac and/or alcohol was involved from both parties. Expect a big lawsuit forthcoming that will bring up what happened.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:25 PM (ctrM5)
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Guy supposedly cracked his head on asphalt, so it wasn’t on the greens. Something odd about this story. There’s surely more.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 01, 2025 12:28 PM (NiYfU)
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 12:28 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 12:23 PM (KbCG3)
No. The biggest problem by far is Republican Retirements and Other Chicanery. We would have held the House in 2018 easily if they weren't scumbags on the take.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:28 PM (M/tYi)
Apparently, we humans can't quit spilling shit into waterways til it turns colors.
Posted by: DaveA at May 01, 2025 12:29 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:29 PM (yzPgp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (N8VXB)
You People won't believe this but I often ride an electric scooter in the city to evade high parking fees, but my scooter goes 30+ mph. No helmet. I should know better.
This golf cart thing is making me think again -- because who knows if John Elway is out there on the same road as me.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (qUkBO)
But I, like the average American, have yet to see the tangible benefits of them.
This will be Trump's biggest problem to solve before the mid-terms.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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You will, tariff revenue is coming in and Trump tax cuts will continue including non taxation of Social Security benefits and tips. US inflation is dropping far faster than 'experts' thought it could to less than 2.5 percent, gas is down in many places well below $3 per gallon and oil is at $59 bucks per barrel (hurting Russia and Iran btw in their pocketbooks).
Originally, Fedgov was supposed to run out of funds requiring the borrowing limit be raised by no later than June. It is now in August or thereabouts because of decreases in government borrowing from cutting these contracts/employees, etc.
Lots of good things are happening along with some no so good as in disorderly conduct of Dems and their pet judges.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
If you think about it, Sandy Cheeks was always partially nude - she only wore a two cup top.
Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: whig
About twenty years ago EPA lost a big case at SCROTUS.
Many states crapped their pants as they relied on the Fed Gov on whatever niche issue it was. Had to make their own laws on that issue. Some may have overkill, but generally people don't like pollution, at least that which they can see.
Back OT with the 'hood being an open dump - do what most cities do and force the property owners to maintain adjacent right-of-ways - like mowing grass, removing snow and ice, picking up the trash...
Or is that only enforced in the nice neighborhoods? [Rhtorical]
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (ctrM5)
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I did not know this bit.
Feels like it should be bigger news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
Cart paths are paved and you're not allowed on the greens with a golf cart.
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:31 PM (yzPgp)
Feels like it should be bigger news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
Which is why the media isn't covering it...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: ...
Wait for filings by Dem groups which from memory are quarterly. I think that ActBlue's shuck and jive will dry up and some of the money spent on footsoldiers for vote fraud are also at risk.
I think the 2 Billion bucks that Abrams was supposed to get was to buttress up Ossoff and win the GA governor race via fraud. Now that is in limbo.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)
Here's the nuclear bomb he dropped on air during the 100 Days cabinet meeting. 29 seconds
x.com/johnrich/status/1917661110809027061
And many asses were clenched...
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:20 PM (9tkmY)
300,000 kids missing under Biden. A scandal to beat all scandals.
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)
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Poutine has a magical, secret Canadian ingredient that cannot be replicated in America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)
They figured it out when they sailed 80ft down to the surface of the river and dashed themselves to bits.
Whoops! Whoopsie!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Will their familes win the Ghetto Lotto? Stay tuned!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (/lPRQ)
These Geniuses Three bailed from the car on I-75 and climbed the median, attempting to lose the cops by darting into the opposite lanes in the dark.
That's a risky proposition under any circumstances. But what our would-be Rhodes Scholars didn't realize until too late, was that the Tennessee River Bridge is a divided carriageway.
I subscribe to one of the original Arkansas police chase YouTube channels. It's a real thing that if a black criminal makes it across the bridge to Memphis no charges will be brought, so there are some *wild* PIT maneuvers on that bridge.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Guy who really likes snail darters at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (uH1zk)
Was watching hockey last night and one of the DEI women hires was in the booth doing color commentary. She drones "he took one where the sun doesn't shine" after a play.
Um, lady.....he was hit in the nuts. He didn't have a stick shoved up his ass......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
I did not know this bit.
Feels like it should be bigger news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
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We now have two stories which should be a big deal: HHS was facilitating child trafficking and far less borrowing by our government.
Nah, no way MSM would cover up successes by the Trump Administration, right?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (tT6L1)
Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:30 PM (vKNmo)
Don’t squirrels, like many mammals, have more than two teats, low on their bellies?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)
Asbestos.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: video sex viral at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (5z9B+)
I had to sweep the soot off the porch every week. It was just "normal" back then.
Now everything is gone.
You had to have balls to be an environmentalist back then. Our high school "Save the Earth Club" went down to the mills at shift change to pass out pamphlets and ended up running for their lives.
Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (QB+5g)
We're doomed. We better give Canada what it wants right away..
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Exactly my point.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (vKNmo)
Vivid Transparent Idea would be a great name for a polka band.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla
I would just like to say that these organizations and agencies should be explicitly forbidden from offering predictions.
They should be constrained to only ever report the actual numbers after they have them.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (hB7mE)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (R548X)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Guy who really likes snail darters at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (uH1zk)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Patrick Star at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (7Q0e+)
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Just throw the word "justice" in front or behind any word or phrase and watch the leftists flock to it. It doesn't have to make sense.
*throws power fist in the air*
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (R548X)
You misspelled "the direct result of uncle/niece inbreeding."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (dg+HA)
Nah, no way MSM would cover up successes by the Trump Administration, right?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (tT6L1)
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The borrowing thing is something I'd have expected to at least get a one-line headline from Instapundit, or something, not something I have to find out from whig in a comment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (BI5O2)
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Declare a national lumber emergency.
Tell CA their national forests are under the jurisdiction of the FedGov and tell lumber companies to have at it.
Watch Gavin and various democrats as their heads explode.
Merriment!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (tT6L1)
Gah! Was listening to that game too. Seriously, she just needs to STFU. No need to constantly interject some commentary.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (luW68)
Posted by: pawn
When I was working at YS&T, we had to sweep off our cars at the end of every shift. One of the older guys would say about that - "You know what that is? (he was referring to the dust) That's money!"
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (vKNmo)
Feels like it should be bigger news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Federal deficit spending is a dry topic but take a deeper look at government financial reports for the first quarter. Tariff revenue might not make the 1 trillion mark after all is said and done but it could very well reach the 250-500 billion level. Plus, government revenue on taxes is up for Q1 and that leaves out the traditional surplus in April-May from taxes.
You will have to piece it together from different sources. So far, I think something like $50 billion or so was cut in Q1 in real spending (not reflecting all the cuts yet as unrealized but simply less outlays in Q1).
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (ctrM5)
That’s because it’s not a crime, it’s a raid on an enemy state.
Posted by: Tennessee Legal Code at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 01, 2025 12:36 PM (luW6
Her VOICE! I swear she's the daughter of Doug and Wendy Whiner.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)
She was the mother of 2 and married to a Texas State Trooper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Know of a guy who submitted to some woman wanting a ride on his motorcycle. No spare helment so he left his off too to show 'it's safe' (no helmet law). Somebody pulled out into them... He skidded cross pavement. She did too until she cracked her head on the curb.
He got road rash. She will never recover.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (17s+e)
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Canadian Smug has a uniquely fetid odor, but there are plenty of high grade alternatives in the US, primarily in the Northeast and on the West Coast.
Posted by: Hockey Stick Insertion Service, LLC at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Should have known at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (vKNmo)
Good news
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (NpAcC)
New Hampshire has no helmet law.
I see lots of kids in my (semi-rural suburban) neighborhood riding bikes with no helmets.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:38 PM (vKNmo)
Praise The Lord!
What wonderful news.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:34 PM (R548X)
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Never attribute to drunkenness which is really stupidity.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (NpAcC)
Always liked him.. Too bad for NY that they didn't elect him Gov....
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:39 PM (VE6XX)
??? Back in the day, we just showed them the seat. What is the test ?
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 12:40 PM (McYvC)
Know of a guy who submitted to some woman wanting a ride on his motorcycle. No spare helment so he left his off too to show 'it's safe' (no helmet law). Somebody pulled out into them... He skidded cross pavement. She did too until she cracked her head on the curb.
He got road rash. She will never recover.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:37 PM (/lPRQ)/i]
You always give the woman the helmet. Always. It's like opening the door for them. It's just something you do.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Dean Wormer at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (l3YAf)
??? Back in the day, we just showed them the seat. What is the test ?
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson
Preemies have to sit in the damn thing for 90 minutes without showing any sign of breathing/heart/O2 level issues.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I read it yesterday but it could have been a deep dive in reading something at Insty or some other aggregator. I'll try to dig up the original source for the borrowing (the search term is extraordinary measures btw). Got a doc appt.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)
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I wasn't asking you to do work!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)
Ace is demonstrating for shelving justice.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (noPDf)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QSsNn)
Hell ... my kids wouldn't have stayed in it that long. Good luck.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: Francis at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (ufFY8)
5 major cities, each 20 Billion... hell, even I could probably do it, and I'm not politically savvy at all!
These cuts are hurting politicians where it really counts... friends, families, flunkies.
Posted by: MkY at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: E-Z-GO at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
There was a gal in my HS whose mother never allowed her to ride in the car with anyone as mom felt it was too dangerous. Finally, mom relented and allowed her to go out to prom with her bf. Naturally, they got into a bad accident and during the rollover, girl was ejected and thrown onto the roof of a house. She made a full recovery but, talk about bad luck.
Mrs. Salveno never got over it though.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QSsNn)
He did something that angered Trump... Can't remember what...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Eeyore at May 01, 2025 12:45 PM (1bNHn)
5 major cities, each 20 Billion... hell, even I could probably do it, and I'm not politically savvy at all!
These cuts are hurting politicians where it really counts... friends, families, flunkies.
Posted by: MkY at May 01, 2025 12:44 PM (cPGH3)
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I suspect most went to things like home building for the receivers of the funds. Maintaining their lifestyles.
But a significant chunk of what was left over went to political causes.
1% of that $100 billion would be...$1 billion. In donations to candidates up and down the political spectrum.
Removing that would be...not small.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
??? Back in the day, we just showed them the seat. What is the test ?
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson
Solid wall at 25mph.
It's no rocket sled. But you still won't want to do it twice.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Does anyone remember the American Climate Corps? It was started in 2023 and funded 20,000 paying jobs to, you know, go around saving the climate. The heads of the org quietly shut it down after November 2024, seeing the writing on the wall, and doubtless realizing NOW was the time to empty out the bank account and split.
Trump shut it down formally in January.
The Sunrise Movement hasn't updated their website yet and still has it on their WINS page. Donate now! We get it done!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 01, 2025 12:46 PM (jMurV)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords at May 01, 2025 12:46 PM (G5+As)
Pompeo said something (about J6?) that pissed off some on Our Side, but I didn't find it too bad.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:46 PM (QSsNn)
RFK Jr. says HHS was a collaborator in 300,000 kids missing under Biden. A scandal to beat all scandals.
Where are the indictments?
Where are the indictments?
x.com/johnrich/status/1917661110809027061
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 12:47 PM (dg+HA)
So many times, normal coverage of a storm or fire will end with "and with climate changes, these fires/storms will only become worse and more frequent".
They must get some $1000 kickback every time they mention the "inevitable climate change, unless we ban all coal and oil".
Posted by: illiniwek at May 01, 2025 12:47 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)
That's not work for him that's play time. Also I think he's an AI from the year 2040.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:48 PM (M/tYi)
Welp, that tells me all I need to know
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 12:48 PM (2VST1)
Welp, that tells me all I need to know
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 01, 2025 12:48 PM (2VST1)
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That cutting them will lead to the death of poor people everywhere and Trump is a monster?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)
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I did that with my son but used my RAM Pickup when he was in his colic mood. Put Future Leader in the kid's seat in the back seat and drove around. He'd fall asleep in less than 10 minutes. Momma was pleased.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:50 PM (pZ64F)
I believe I read 4.7 TRILLION dollars had no tracking data, as in no audit trail.
Guarantee DOGE type data weenies can match the dates and amounts to dates and amounts deposited.
Slow, laborious, but do-able.
Posted by: MkY at May 01, 2025 12:50 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:51 PM (R548X)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QSsNn)
He did something that angered Trump... Can't remember what...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)
Well he's a Deep State prick, but aside from my opinion, Trump specifically named two people who would NOT be part of his administration: Pompeo and Nikki the Knife.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (dGCAG)
As I recall the EPA denied Abbott the waiver to go to 100% on his oil and gas fired power plants when the cold wave caused the green energy to lock up a couple of years ago. A couple hundred died. Fire an equal number of EPA drones
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:51 PM (R548X)
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The Trump administration has been slashing regulations since day one, explicitly citing Loper in their reasoning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)
Some sports agent lawyer (all of them are scumbags, btw) died at 62 yesterday from a "fall" from a "head injury." Why am I telling you this, you axe.
Wait, there's more. This guy "fell off a golf cart" on a golf course (natch), and the golf cart was being driven by...
John Elway.
I'd be more suspicious if he'd died after being pegged in the head by a football. Falling off a golf cart..i'm trying hard not to laugh; luckily I'm at work and that sucks all my joy out of me.
Posted by: Nelly at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (pSknm)
Ask the Yellowstone Caldera about Justice.
Or Krakatoa.
A War without quarter or mercy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 01, 2025 12:52 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen at May 01, 2025 12:53 PM (7Q0e+)
I used to have to lay on the floor and reach my arm up so kid #1 could hold a finger and go to sleep. Wife would come in later to get me up. Arm wouldn't move for a bit. Good times.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 12:53 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 12:54 PM (M/tYi)
F*ck taking my tax money and giving it away to some rando who things they've got the 'next big thing.'
Get a loan or get a rich person to fund it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)
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I agree, except for things that actually help the gov to do things it's supposed to be doing, like a sorting system that doesn't send your mail halfway across the country or an artillery piece that shoots rabid kevlar-coated poisonous spiders or something.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (QdGJh)
I'd be more suspicious if he'd died after being pegged in the head by a football. Falling off a golf cart..i'm trying hard not to laugh; luckily I'm at work and that sucks all my joy out of me.
Posted by: Nelly
He died doing what he loved...
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (QSsNn)
Great way to spend some of that cancelled grant money. The rest send back to taxpayers.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (eISTN)
The Trump administration has been slashing regulations since day one, explicitly citing Loper in their reasoning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I want to believe. But if it was the big stuff (CAFE, endangered species protection, etc) I would have expected there to be front page garment rending.
Is he just nibbling at the edges?
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (R548X)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Yeah, I bet Alberta wants to sell that oil (over $100 billion in 2023) rather than sit on it.
Posted by: t-bird at May 01, 2025 12:55 PM (VfMZK)
Posted by: brak at May 01, 2025 12:57 PM (jGJov)
Folks in Alberta could probably all retire.
Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 12:57 PM (QB+5g)
Basically though a pseudo revolution from the top down by latte sipping Marxists grifting on public funds aka Democrats.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (ctrM5)
I will repeat the old Radio Yerevan saw:
We respond, "Under Capitalism, man oppresses man. Under Socialism the reverse is true"
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 12:57 PM (D7oie)
@amuse
DRIVE-BY MEDIA: Negligence or malfeasance? Why did the Wall Street Journal report fake news about $TSLA replacing Elon Musk despite knowing the reporting was false? The false report sent the market cap of the 9th largest company down 3-5% temporarily erasing $36 billion in market cap
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 12:58 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: one hour sober at May 01, 2025 12:59 PM (Y1sOo)
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Nice. Imma steal that.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:59 PM (pZ64F)
DRIVE-BY MEDIA: Negligence or malfeasance? Why did the Wall Street Journal report fake news about $TSLA replacing Elon Musk despite knowing the reporting was false? The false report sent the market cap of the 9th largest company down 3-5% temporarily erasing $36 billion in market cap
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 01, 2025 12:58 PM (mlg/3)
Arrest them. This is market tampering.
However, Musk does this shit too, and so does Trump......
People need to be smarter.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well, Mother's Day is coming and Hitler had a Mother.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 01:00 PM (pZ64F)
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Feb 10
Replying to @ChelseaClinton
Ms. Clinton, am I correct in reading that out of your reported $57,597,174 in expenses, $8,176,112 went to conferences and meetings, plus an additional $1,996,121 on travel?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (63Dwl)
The US has cheap beer, a strong agricultural base, a larger First World population, a more robust manufacturing base, a far stronger military, and
... the Stanley Cup.
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (rj6Yv)
Feb 10
Replying to @ChelseaClinton
Ms. Clinton, am I correct in reading that out of your reported $57,597,174 in expenses, $8,176,112 went to conferences and meetings, plus an additional $1,996,121 on travel?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (D7oie)
Do NOT go to the park, sir. You've got a hit on you already.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 01, 2025 12:28 PM (NiYfU)
Do a YouTube search for "Golf Fails". Lots of funny golf cart antics
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QSsNn)
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Not just, NO. But, HELL NO. Pompeo was actively working against Trump in the first term relative to Iran. Pompeo was, actually, stirring things up which initiated third party actions. Hamas...Houthies...etc.
Pompeo deserves to be dropped off in Tehran without security and a note pinned to his lapel. "Here...a present."
Posted by: Orson at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (dIske)
... the Stanley Cup.
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:01 PM (rj6Yv)
Canada hasn't had that thing since, what, '96?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)
TBH that sounds more like a child test than a car seat test.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (hB7mE)
>>193 comments and no one mentioned Hitler?
Or boomers
Posted by: one hour sober
Hitler was the first boomer.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (63Dwl)
Experts say it will reduce ambient temps by 14 degrees.
Posted by: DanMan at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)
When I was little my mom would always stock of on some kind of strong aspirin that was aavaialhe in BC but not in Washington. Maybe Excedrin Extra? Hardly a trade issue.
Posted by: LASue at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)
1993, I believe. I just looked it up this morning
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Was that the halfway decent looking woman with dirty blonde hair? I looked her up, she is an Olympic medalist back in 2000 or so. So, I rate her as not *quite* a DEI hire, but very, very close.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 01:04 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Sid just wants to vote for Vance at May 01, 2025 01:04 PM (Yji1v)
Posted by: wth at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: DanMan at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (8uzBS)
Um, lady.....he was hit in the nuts. He didn't have a stick shoved up his ass......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
I'll be listening to the Caps radio call from now on. The national broadcasts are horrible since Doc Emric retired
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Sid at May 01, 2025 01:04 PM (Yji1v)
They don't care in the PRC, that's for sure. That's for dang sure.
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (/U5Yz)
Was that the halfway decent looking woman with dirty blonde hair? I looked her up, she is an Olympic medalist back in 2000 or so. So, I rate her as not *quite* a DEI hire, but very, very close.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM
Both ladies in the booth, AJ whatever and the droning one, have skins on the wall and know the game, sure, but I don't need the drone in the booth. Whomever reviewed that one and said "Yeah man. She's HIRED!" should be kicked in the nuts and fired.
She's not listenable. At all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)
1993, I believe. I just looked it up this morning
Posted by: mrp at May 01, 2025 01:03 PM (rj6Yv)
An American team (Baltimore Stallions, 1995) has won the CFL Grey Cup more recently than a Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup (Montreal 1993).
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (vf0Y9)
I'd be more suspicious if he'd died after being pegged in the head by a football. Falling off a golf cart..i'm trying hard not to laugh; luckily I'm at work and that sucks all my joy out of me.
Posted by: Nelly
the safety Nazis and Concern Karens are trying tonget legislature and laws for seatbelts in golf carts.
Posted by: BifBewalski at May 01, 2025 01:07 PM (oIkGM)
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I guess. Seemingly puts them on equal footing though.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 01:07 PM (M/tYi)
Posted by: One of Nixon's follies at May 01, 2025 01:07 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: One of Nixon's follies
Don't forget us.
Posted by: China at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (/U5Yz)
Would you rather have the conference on diatoms on an idyllic Greek island, since, yes, there are diatoms right down at the beach? By the way I’ve been to a week long conference on an idyllic Greek island, but I paid my own way (it was tax deductible since work related).
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (Z4B3V)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 01, 2025 12:32 PM (2UnvF)
________________________
A significant number of exports from Canada to the US are, also, available from Argentina.
Relative to oil, the Canadian product is primarily Heavy Crude. About 75% of our refineries in the US are set up for Heavy Crude. The primary oil domestically in the US is Sweet Light Crude. To switch over and become more self-sufficient, we would have to either retool the refineries, or build new ones. Posted by: Orson at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (dIske)
I'll be listening to the Caps radio call from now on. The national broadcasts are horrible since Doc Emric retired
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (vf0Y9)
I figured you were doing that already. I've enjoyed that Victory+ had the first round so I get Josh and Razor......Razor is the best in the business and we're blessed to have him every game.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (vf0Y9)
Emily Kaplan is also great. Though she often looks like she's going bald.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)
Emily Kaplan is also great. Though she often looks like she's going bald.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)
SpongeBro has a bit of a crush on her.
And yes, it seems her hair is thinning. And she's only in her mid 30s.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:05 PM (vf0Y9)
I figured you were doing that already. I've enjoyed that Victory+ had the first round so I get Josh and Razor......Razor is the best in the business and we're blessed to have him every game.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Caps TV broadcasters are top notch. But they only get the first round. Now it's national TV. So I will switch to the radio call.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: DanMan
Not unless they're planting fully grown trees it won't. Not for several years at any rate.
Why not just encourage residents to plant trees in their own yards?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (hB7mE)
We respond, "Under Capitalism, man oppresses man. Under Socialism the reverse is true"
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 12:57 PM (D7oie)
We don't have capitalism, in the sense of a free-market economy. We have a quasi-fascist oligopoly and oligopsony, with the greater mass of people being ground into the meal that feeds it.
Posted by: And yet people cry out for more of the same at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)
Really - you think she's great??? I think she sounds like a 3rd grader reading a book report. And the way she stares at the guys she's interviewing is stalker-esque.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (vf0Y9)
Emily Kaplan is also great. Though she often looks like she's going bald.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)
SpongeBro has a bit of a crush on her.
And yes, it seems her hair is thinning. And she's only in her mid 30s.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)
She strikes me as someone who is beyond attainable but not a traditional chick in any way. Basically, a grown up tomboy trying to play a girl on TV.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (SYD5S)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 01, 2025 01:04 PM (/U5Yz)
They really only work good six hours a day. In 25 years they're landfill. Can't be recycled into anything.
All those used photovotaic cells 'cheap' on craigslist is because their lifespan is shot. The P-N junctions diffuse spontaneously into each other. No more electrons can be pushed across the barrier because it's gone.
We're also greatly increasing reroofing cost because another contractor has to R&R the panels. They won't want to touch them because they're old. They want to upset another new system. $50 grand?
.it's a scam
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (BY07X)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (63Dwl)
Why not just encourage residents to plant trees in their own yards?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 01:10 PM (hB7mE)
Only if you have a lot big enough. The roots wrap around pipes and move them. Plus, they get under the foundation and move things there as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:09 PM (KbCG3)
Really - you think she's great??? I think she sounds like a 3rd grader reading a book report. And the way she stares at the guys she's interviewing is stalker-esque.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (vf0Y9)
Good reporter. Does not offend me. Leah Hextall is the absolutely worst. Emily Kaplan is 180-degrees from Leah Hextall.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:12 PM (KbCG3)
She strikes me as someone who is beyond attainable but not a traditional chick in any way. Basically, a grown up tomboy trying to play a girl on TV.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 01, 2025 01:11 PM (KbCG3)
And I don't believe she's married, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 01:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Yeah, the AJ chick was the one I was thinking of.
I agree their voices (both chicks) are annoying.
It is the higher register that makes them sound like nails on a chalkboard.
But, I am not a fan of continuous masturbatory chatter either.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 01, 2025 01:12 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 01, 2025 01:13 PM (hB7mE)
Dolezal is the fake black NAACP chapter pres.
Dolezal ended up setting up an OnlyFans account where you could see just how not black her butt was...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 12:19 PM (t0Rmr)
I'm pretty sure that I saw her on XHamster long before OF was even founded. Which doesn't surprise me at all.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 01:15 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: t-bird
Sanction it, then arranged under the table deals to bring it into the U.S. below market price.
No Canadian banks allowed in the deal.
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 01:16 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: TJ Jackson at May 01, 2025 01:20 PM (bXvrr)
He used to joke about it.
Now he's got a full government retirement to waste the rest of his life on.
Posted by: pawn at May 01, 2025 01:21 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 01:43 PM (Z4B3V)
The trough people feeding off of them are going to have to find another grift for at least the next couple years, 'cause their current gig just dried up.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 01, 2025 04:00 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: waelse1 at May 01, 2025 05:43 PM (topXw)
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 01, 2025 06:07 PM (FLiOE)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)
John Elway.
Posted by: Soothsayer
Either Elway drives like a maniac and/or alcohol was involved from both parties. Expect a big lawsuit forthcoming that will bring up what happened.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:25 PM (ctrM5)
Elway hugs his side of the path, say, and drops a front wheel off his side into a dip and the cart stops quickly. The other guy would likely be pitched out the other side onto the concrete path.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 06:55 PM (8avO+)
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney reached out to him personally just one day after winning the country’s recent election, which proves that Canada is already eager to re-engage on trade. Speaking to reporters, Trump described the conversation in clear terms: “He called me up yesterday. He said, ‘Let’s make a deal.’” Trump explained that the outreach came even though, during the election campaign, both leading Canadian candidates had publicly taken anti-Trump positions. “They both hated Trump,” he said. “And it was the one that hated Trump, I think, the least that won.”
Whether this is wishcasting on President Trump's part remains to be seen, but the damage to the Canadian economy if Carney does not negotiate a comprehensive fair trade agreement will be profound, and much worse than any damage done to our economy. Carney is a globalist technocrat, with a soft spot in his heart (but not his wallet) for anti-capitalist nonsense, like "Occupy Wall Street!" He is a liberal who is not a fan of American dominance of the world economy. Or, if one wants to be less polite, he is a "Champagne Socialist." But the Canadian economy is circling the drain, so Carney must act. And the only sane policy for an economy with a GDP smaller than that of Texas is to accommodate President Trump's requirements. Sure, there will be negotiation so that Carney doesn't look like he is bending the knee, but if he is smart, he will indeed bend the knee. And I want to see the video!
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 11:01 AM (M8lTh)
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at May 01, 2025 11:02 AM (Nmmyc)
"Politically" survive.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 01, 2025 11:03 AM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 11:03 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Bob and Doug McKenzie at May 01, 2025 11:04 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 11:04 AM (0eaVi)
Stop the fentanyl - Trudeau refused
Stop the illegals - Trudeau refused
Stop the pass-through of Chinese manufactured goods posing as Canadian manufacture - Trudeau refused
Reduce the trade barriers to importation or at least negotiate on them - Trudeau increased them
I suspect the terms will remain the same plus an additional amount because screw you for pissing me off.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 11:04 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 01, 2025 11:05 AM (d0T5a)
"We don't want to deal with that fascist totalitarian Trump. We'll do one with the Chinese instead."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 11:05 AM (QnmlO)
https://tinyurl.com/h4trn3c5
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 11:05 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 01, 2025 11:05 AM (d0T5a)
For some reason I'm recalling Kirk's thoughts about the Klingons....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 11:06 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Oglebay at May 01, 2025 11:07 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at May 01, 2025 11:07 AM (Ce7ou)
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 11:08 AM (noPDf)
Posted by: So there's that at May 01, 2025 11:08 AM (dg+HA)
Just seal the border with Canada and walk in in 45 days when they have all starved to death.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 01, 2025 11:08 AM (d0T5a)
Stop the fentanyl - Trudeau refused
Stop the illegals - Trudeau refused
Stop the pass-through of Chinese manufactured goods posing as Canadian manufacture - Trudeau refused
Reduce the trade barriers to importation or at least negotiate on them - Trudeau increased them
I suspect the terms will remain the same plus an additional amount because screw you for pissing me off.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 11:04 AM
You left out....
Remove the 300% tariff on US dairy products.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 01, 2025 11:08 AM (e5NfL)
Principal Canadian exports:
1) Smugness
2) Self-regard
3) Posturing
4) Crappy pop singers
5) Extractables
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 11:08 AM (QnmlO)
https://tinyurl.com/h4trn3c5
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 11:05 AM (NpAcC)
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Deep State Scalp: Colluder, Victim, or Other?
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 11:09 AM (LBpnK)
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Only Christian nationalists worship the constitution!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at May 01, 2025 11:10 AM (1GdJ3)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 11:10 AM (eNdzY)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 11:10 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 01, 2025 11:11 AM (d0T5a)
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Fair and Fare sound exactly alike.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:11 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Oglebay at May 01, 2025 11:11 AM (2ap+5)
https://tinyurl.com/h4trn3c5
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 11:05 AM (NpAcC)
I expected that but he was at the Cabinet meeting yesterday...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:11 AM (VE6XX)
1) Smugness
2) Self-regard
3) Posturing
4) Crappy pop singers
5) Extractables
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 11:08 AM (QnmlO)
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6) Curling!
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 11:12 AM (LBpnK)
Jasmine Crockett: "How would they feel if some other country decided that they were gonna just start throwing people randomly in our country?" 🥴
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Yeah, boy, imagine if that happened!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 10:59 AM
"Moroni Deported to Sweden: Claims He's Not From There!"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 11:12 AM (kgE5c)
Trump could pretty devastate the Canadian economy if he so chose, but being the magnanimous guy that he is, he's going to be fair to those beady eyed, syrup swilling, poutine eating, flapping head all full of lies, uncle f**kers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:12 AM (XV/Pl)
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I hated Barack before it was cool!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: You're in hell, the world ended at May 01, 2025 11:10 AM (1GdJ3)
Trump needs to bump him to the back of the line in tariff negotiations...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:13 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Black JEM at May 01, 2025 11:13 AM (GZYu7)
Posted by: F*ck the Canucks at May 01, 2025 11:12 AM (gwPRL)
If Canada has outlawed the purchase of Canadian land by Americans, sure.
I think Vancouver has done so because they blame foreigners for their rising housing costs. Therefore, if you are from Vancouver, or BC if it is provincial law, you don’t get to own U.S. property.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 11:14 AM (eNdzY)
Posted by: ShainS at May 01, 2025 11:09 AM (LBpnK)
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Mike Waltz was always pro-Trump. I am really shocked.
I liked him a lot.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 11:14 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Oglebay at May 01, 2025 11:14 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Oglebay at May 01, 2025 11:11 AM (2ap+5)
Yes. With a Russian keeping it company. The Russian guy who now holds the all-time goal scoring record.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 11:14 AM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:14 AM (NWr1F)
Suddenly, I hear Entry of the Gladiators playing to the north.
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By Czech composer Julius Fučík (1872-1916). Truly a one-hit wonder, but I haven't heard anything from him that wasn't sparkling and witty.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 11:15 AM (QnmlO)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 11:15 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
However, I do not want it to become our 51st state. It would be like inviting Jane Doe's lefty SIL to move into the basement. No, we have enough radical lefties already, thanks, we're full!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 11:15 AM (KHnV4)
Carney's already babbling about climate change and Net Zero as his Number One priority, and talking about putting punitive "carbon taxes" on airline tickets.
Oh, and Net Zero will destroy the economy of Alberta, strengthening the independence movement there.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 11:15 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 01, 2025 11:15 AM (pIfcn)
4) Crappy pop singers
Hold on. They have Celine Dion, so...never mind.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (s8j++)
Why, it's the chilly con Carney.
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (144I4)
>>Mike Waltz was always pro-Trump. I am really shocked.
I liked him a lot.
IDK, he's the guy who had The Atlanic Dude's number in his Signal Account, he was photographed at a talk The Atlantic dude was giving, so ipso facto, Mike Waltz is a snake.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (XV/Pl)
Canadians love Cuba and seem to share their politics, so let them elope.
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (j4U/Z)
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I hated Barack before it was cool!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)
Probably knew all along, but the perks and power and spending was good enough before. All that's fading away, so she doesn't want to be around an old queen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (0eaVi)
Uh oh... Big Mike is tired of pretending to be the "little woman"! I presume he wants everyone to know who has the bigger dick in that relationship. And uses it.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: You're in hell
I want Carney to play Ned Beatty and squeal.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (fUDLX)
Yet another Hollywood kid goes trans.
Something weird going on in tinseltown. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (eNdzY)
Take Alberta and Saskatchewan, and leave the rest of Canada to its own devices.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (xTIDn)
It’s the Chinese they’re targeting not Americans.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:17 AM (NWr1F)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 11:17 AM (t0Rmr)
I tell ya' horde, I tell ya' I get no respect. I get no respect even when traveling abroad. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at May 01, 2025 11:17 AM (5hfjS)
Msm Evening News,
Oh, my! What will we do to make up tourism dollars when the Canadians stop visiting Florida and East Coast shore communities!?
Yes, block off the border. Now. Stay home and then we'll get a nice break at the beach this summer.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 01, 2025 11:17 AM (gBq7s)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 01, 2025 11:17 AM (d0T5a)
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Oddly, Americans are not allowed to purchase waterfront property in Canada and Mexico. But Mexicans and Canadians can buy waterfront property in America.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:17 AM (pZ64F)
Uh oh... Big Mike is tired of pretending to be the "little woman"! I presume he wants everyone to know who has the bigger dick in that relationship. And uses it.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (2J/Lj)
I heard their Martha's Vineyard Home is for sale
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:18 AM (VE6XX)
1) Smugness
2) Self-regard
3) Posturing
4) Crappy pop singers
5) Extractables
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
6) Unfunny comedians
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:18 AM (fUDLX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:19 AM (NWr1F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 11:08 AM (QnmlO)
You left out Lord Stanley's cup....
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 01, 2025 11:19 AM (luW68)
Has everyone forgotten how Michelle has ALWAYS been a complainer, and since 2008 all we've heard her complain about was America, Americans, "the system," the WH (it's a prison!), DC, and so on?
This is her default mode, she's just recently focused it on Barack. The contempt for him was always there (recall her complaining about how he was "stinky" and left dirty socks on the floor).
Yawn. Let her b#tch -- it's so nice not being in her crosshairs for once!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 11:20 AM (KHnV4)
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Oddly, Americans are not allowed to purchase waterfront property in Canada and Mexico. But Mexicans and Canadians can buy waterfront property in America.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:17 AM (pZ64F)
The concept of Tit-For-Tat seems too difficult for DC to grasp… until now, maybe, but I am not optimistic about that long term…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:20 AM (PCK5/)
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I think it was important to find out who was talking to Goldberg before this Signal Chat thing blew-up. I mean, everyone knew who and what Goldberg was... so why on earth would someone in Trump's inner circle associate with him?
Did Waltz take the fall for someone else, or was he dirty?
Politics is never clearcut.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 01, 2025 11:20 AM (gm9Sb)
Actually, it should be worse. Harris is a drunk and a moron. Carney is sober and well, intelligent enough.
If you are getting a socialist better to get an incompetent one.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 11:21 AM (t0Rmr)
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We should agree to take BC too, ex Vancouver. No worries about adding leftist voters since the population of the territory outside the city numbers in the hundreds, so immaterial.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 11:21 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 11:08 AM (QnmlO)
You left out Lord Stanley's cup....
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
If it hasn't went back in 32 years, is it really an export?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:21 AM (fUDLX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:21 AM (NWr1F)
This is her default mode, she's just recently focused it on Barack. The contempt for him was always there (recall her complaining about how he was "stinky" and left dirty socks on the floor).
Yawn. Let her b#tch -- it's so nice not being in her crosshairs for once!
And to think, people were talking seriously about her running for POTUS.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 11:21 AM (s8j++)
1) Smugness
2) Self-regard
3) Posturing
4) Crappy pop singers
5) Extractables
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 11:08 AM (QnmlO)
If they start exporting poutine, we need to respond proportionally and spin up the SLBMs
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 01, 2025 11:22 AM (FoIOl)
Neil Young's head.
It's high time whiny Neil went back home to Winnipeg.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 11:22 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 11:22 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:22 AM (PCK5/)
I'll have you know, I beat Bob Dylan to win the top Grammy Folk Song award in 1965. (Though I was born in New Zealand and moved to Canada, age 11).
Posted by: Gale Garnett at May 01, 2025 11:22 AM (G5+As)
"Moroni Deported to Sweden: Claims He's Not From There!"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 11:12 AM (kgE5c)
Those fargin' iceholes!!
Posted by: Moroni at May 01, 2025 11:23 AM (5xuJ/)
Politics is never clearcut.
Its easy to fall into the DC corruption trap.
It starts with something small and eventually you are arguing that injecting people with poison or protecting MS-13 member from deportation because of due process is the only logical thing to do
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 11:23 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 01, 2025 11:23 AM (gm9Sb)
>>Did Waltz take the fall for someone else, or was he dirty?
It was Waltz who added Goldberg to the chat, which means Goldberg's information was in Walt'z phone, there is no good reason to associate with Goldberg a well known Trump hater and Democrat apparatchik.
As I noted, Waltz was also at conference that Goldberg was giving a speech, and when Goldberg was asked what his relationship with Waltz was, he said he was not going to discuss his relationship.
Waltz is a rat.
Good bye and don't let the door him on the way out.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:23 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:19 AM (NWr1F)
Neither Canada nor Australia are serious countries anymore. They are isolated former provinces of no real importance in the world, and therefore have the luxury (for the moment) of letting their politics be based on nothing but fads and whims. Whatever fate is to befall them will be decided by others, not they themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 11:23 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 01, 2025 11:24 AM (paSBy)
I can see no reason why that would be a problem.
Posted by: The Polish Corridor at May 01, 2025 11:24 AM (s8j++)
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Don't leave out stupid. Maybe Goldberg promised him free drinks at the cool kids table at the DC cocktail parties and free handies under the Chain Bridge.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 11:24 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 11:24 AM (jUN6x)
Politics is never clearcut.
Rumor is they wanted him out before Signalgate..
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (Ce7ou)
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China bought them. Immigration will destroy them.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (pZ64F)
Sang well, weird as hell…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:18 AM (VE6XX)
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Of course they're selling. They're getting out before the property is under water. I mean, the sea level rise started again, once Barack left office, right?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (tT6L1)
and wanted the shit to land on the Liberals.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 11:16 AM (j4U/Z)
canadians have been using Cuba as a sex tourist destination for years. Most Cubans now have multiple STD's due to the canadians taking advantage of poor Cuban men and woman to use for their perverse and unnatural sex acts.
Posted by: World Health Organization at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (979V4)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (XV/Pl)
Knees down, Canada.
Sorry - this doesn't work like you want it to. You ain't China. You'll do as told.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 01, 2025 11:23 AM (uWKK
I'm betting on China to decide Australian fate. Canada? No way an American President allows China to rule our northern border.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (2J/Lj)
Do you think they can outrun the water?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (u82oZ)
Except she's got another 2 inches, and lil Ving isn't all that little to begin with
Speaking of which, does anyone have one of those seat rings so your butt won't have to touch anything?
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (t0Rmr)
I think the reckoning is in play...
Posted by: Danimal28 at May 01, 2025 11:27 AM (1E4GV)
As I noted, Waltz was also at conference that Goldberg was giving a speech, and when Goldberg was asked what his relationship with Waltz was, he said he was not going to discuss his relationship.
Waltz is a rat.
Good bye and don't let the door him on the way out.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:23 AM (XV/Pl)
Yep. He was a Deep Stater, and one of those guys who schmoozes well enough to fool Trump.
Until Trump figures it out.
Good riddance.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:27 AM (dGCAG)
I once thought of Canada as America’s little brother or sister. A nation of American mini-mes. I now see it as much closer to a nation of European mini-mes.
Canadians are closer to Euros in their commie- and fascism-curiosity, and their overall weakness and willingness to obey.
Too bad. Canada is a beautiful country.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 01, 2025 11:27 AM (NiYfU)
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The house is haunted by the chef that died mysteriously?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 11:27 AM (Dv3i1)
In movies the left would often have some evil autocrat ordering his hussars to ride down protestors that just wanted basic human rights.
Trudeau actually did that
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 11:28 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Archimedes at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (s8j++)
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They have a late personal chef who found out otherwise.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 11:28 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: President Preznit at May 01, 2025 11:29 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:29 AM (PCK5/)
and wanted the shit to land on the Liberals.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (jbnUc)
I'm not sure he thought it through that far, but yeah, he was definitely trolling them.
A whole nation of neurotics, and all he had to do was call them America's hat.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:29 AM (dGCAG)
It's this kind of insanity that got us $36 trillion in debt.
Q: where's Congress? Where's that near useless Speaker? Where's Thune?
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 11:30 AM (BY07X)
Canadians are closer to Euros in their commie- and fascism-curiosity, and their overall weakness and willingness to obey.
Too bad. Canada is a beautiful country.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 01, 2025 11:27 AM (NiYfU)
Parts of it.
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:30 AM (PCK5/)
Both Australia and Canada have squish "conservative" political parties, that don't intend to do anything about mass migration.
Think of Jeb! as an American example.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 01, 2025 11:30 AM (xTIDn)
"My analyst told me I was right out of my head"
Joni Mitchell
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Chick liked to fuck, write songs and perform. Great songwriter, great vocal range, and created her own sound. All around grade A Hippie Chick.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:30 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (XV/Pl)
Seconded.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:31 AM (dGCAG)
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Ah, the Constitution's Good and Plenty clause.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 11:31 AM (Dv3i1)
... Pakistan does have more credibility than Pardoned Criminal Adam Schiff
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:31 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (Dv3i1)
Immigration already has. Canada is basically rural legacy Canada with all the cities either Chinese or Indian/Pakistani.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:31 AM (NWr1F)
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 11:30 AM (BY07X)
A: they don't care. they support the judges.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 11:32 AM (0eaVi)
Trudeau actually did that
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Yep, and Liberals applauded.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:32 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 11:15 AM
So we're not the only ones telling Robert DeNiro to fuck off, then? Good to know.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 11:32 AM (Wnv9h)
Q: where's Congress? Where's that near useless Speaker? Where's Thune?
Posted by: torabora at May 01, 2025 11:30 AM (BY07X)
Why am I thinking when they finally pass that big bad beautiful bill, it's gonna have all that funding in place?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:32 AM (dGCAG)
They do deserve it...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 11:32 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:31 AM (NWr1F)
Trump should be building a big beautiful wall between us and Canada...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)
Too bad. Canada is a beautiful country.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
Canaduh is Temu Britain.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 11:32 AM (2J/Lj)
Canadians are closer to Euros in their commie- and fascism-curiosity, and their overall weakness and willingness to obey.
Too bad. Canada is a beautiful country.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
Was in London, Ontario about 10 years ago. Beautiful country. Nice people. We adopted them and started calling them "really far North Texas".
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:32 AM (fUDLX)
I see rich Americans buying Canadian citizens. Not as slaves, as pets.
It's good way to meet chicks in the park.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at May 01, 2025 11:33 AM (Ce7ou)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:33 AM (pZ64F)
>>Both Australia and Canada have squish "conservative" political parties, that don't intend to do anything about mass migration.
The West Anglosphere's seeming fixation on mass migration is based on the fundamental underpinnings of the Global Economic World Order of unlimited economic growth, you cannot have unlimited economic growth without concomitant, unlimited population growth.
And since indigenous populations are not producing the necessary population growth, exogenous sources must fill the gap.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:33 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 11:34 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:34 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (VE6XX)
Who is they?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)
While canada and in general canadian's shortcomings and assholeishness is well know, not many people realize most australians are descended from violent, mentally ill criminals who were deported from Great Britain and over the years inbred while isolated on that forgotten shore. The movie "The Hills Have Eyes" was actually based on daily life in australia.
Posted by: World Health Organization at May 01, 2025 11:35 AM (979V4)
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:25 AM (VE6XX)
Who is they?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)
I'm assuming Trump
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:35 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:35 AM (NWr1F)
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Which is right before the Mike and Ike clause.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 11:34 AM (dg+HA)
Feels more like the Ike and Tina clause... with us being Tina.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:36 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: President Preznit at May 01, 2025 11:29 AM (t0Rmr)
Barry always struck me as a catcher.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)
Buchanan’s dismissal was “for cause,” a rare rebuke of a business leader that carries serious weight in the business community. It comes after an investigation from an outside counsel found that he “violated company policies by directing the company to engage in vendor transactions that involved undisclosed conflicts of interest,” according to a press release.
Kohl’s added that his termination is “unrelated to the company’s performance, financial reporting, results of operations and did not involve any other company personnel.”
.. perhaps a few on the recruiting committee should also seek other pursuits
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:36 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:37 AM (PCK5/)
Same, but also for Australia. I knew Canada was full commie, but I always thought the Aussies were more independent and rough-and-tumble. More like frontier America.
Australia was one of the few foreign countries I was looking forward to visiting, but nope, covid showed they were nuts.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 11:37 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 11:37 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:34 AM (RHGPo)
The Hooties are the Tollybon of the Arabian peninsula.
You can put all the military hardware you want at your disposal, blow up their rubble as many times as you like, and after you spend your nations wealth on it, they'll still be there when you get sick and tired of trying to "teach them a lesson."
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:37 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Donald J. Trump, First of His Name at May 01, 2025 11:37 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:38 AM (NWr1F)
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Aussies do come with a chip on their shoulder.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:39 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: President Preznit at May 01, 2025 11:29 AM (t0Rmr)
Barry always struck me as a catcher.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)
Not according to Larry Sinclair. Bobama's enough of a narcissist, I don't really think he cares one bit whether the other guy gets off or not.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:39 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:34 AM (RHGPo)
Date line 2040.....
Archeology student on flight: hey professor! What's that giant hole down there?
Professor: it was once the country known as Yemen. Then some damn fool retarded terrorists decided to fuck around. The American bombs all had the words "time to find out!" written on them.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 11:39 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:39 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:39 AM (pZ64F)
I think they call them “crisps”.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 11:40 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:40 AM (fUDLX)
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Subjects don't think like citizens. They think like subjects.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:41 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2025 11:41 AM (Tv15w)
1) Smugness
2) Self-regard
3) Posturing
4) Crappy pop singers
5) Extractables
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
6) Unfunny comedians
William Shatner would be on the plus side of the column.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 01, 2025 11:41 AM (WPL6O)
.. hmm
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:41 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 01, 2025 11:42 AM (jbnUc)
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I think, politically, he must resist.
But, governing-wise, he has to make a deal.
I think making a deal could dissolve whatever coalition he cobbles together. Could be amusing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
Sounds good until you get there.
Posted by: Old Dennis Miller line at May 01, 2025 11:42 AM (dg+HA)
.. hmm
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:41 AM (RHGPo)
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What if...she's a double agent?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: tubal
The outback.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:40 AM (fUDLX)
Hmmm… sounds like downstate Illinois where some friends live… they just do their thing there, ignoring upstate and Shitcago as much as possible.
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:42 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:42 AM (NWr1F)
Archeology student on flight: hey professor! What's that giant hole down there?
Professor: it was once the country known as Yemen. Then some damn fool retarded terrorists decided to fuck around. The American bombs all had the words "time to find out!" written on them.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 11:39 AM (2J/Lj)
Nah, dateline 2040 is going to be a bunch of people on this side of the globe trying to figure out how to bomb the shit out of a bunch of Hooties on the other side of the globe.
No one will have the brain cells to figure out... hey, why don't we just stop bombing people on the other side of the globe, and maybe they won't hate us so much.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:42 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: BurtTC
________
Not even the common courtesy to give him a reach-around.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 01, 2025 11:43 AM (qke8h)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 11:43 AM (ZmEVT)
The "crimes" were often debt, and other petty crimes.
They weren't all what you and I would consider a criminal class.
Posted by: MkY at May 01, 2025 11:43 AM (cPGH3)
Sorry - this doesn't work like you want it to. You ain't China. You'll do as told.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 11:26 AM (BI5O2)
Canada explained in 1 minute and 7 seconds
https://tinyurl.com/3phxb37n
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 11:44 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 11:43 AM (ZmEVT)
So.. Prison Continent??
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:44 AM (PCK5/)
Puerto Rico Norte.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 11:44 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:39 AM
Back in the 1980s Australia was on the short list of places where we might consider retiring. They went downhill quick.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 01, 2025 11:44 AM (e5NfL)
Same goes for Australia.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 01, 2025 11:44 AM (QdGJh)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:44 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:45 AM (NWr1F)
Posted by: Darius Rucker, almost at May 01, 2025 11:45 AM (pAhFN)
>>I think making a deal could dissolve whatever coalition he cobbles together. Could be amusing.
I'm not even sure Carney has formed a government or even been sworn in as PM, so I'm not quite sure what authority he has at the moment to offer or accept anything.
So, it looks like it's simply an effort to make himself look important and be in the same room as Colossus.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:45 AM (XV/Pl)
1) Smugness
2) Self-regard
3) Posturing
4) Crappy pop singers
5) Extractables
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
6) Green, greasy blobs of shit all over the grounds of pubic parks and golf courses from their worthless Canada geese
Posted by: one hour sober at May 01, 2025 11:45 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: tubal
The outback.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:40 AM (fUDLX)
Just wait until they come out with Bloomin’ Kale. Yech.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 11:45 AM (l3YAf)
On Twitter there were some actors from ST Discovery soliciting donations on Star Trek Day for some stupid reason.
I responded that I'd kick in $20 if they used it to hire new writers.
Shatner, or his media person, blocked me over that. Along with pretty much the entire Discovery cast.
Heh.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 11:45 AM (NmwHz)
Tomorrow morning, 11:45 am, the phone rings in the Presidential Palace. Cautiously, an aide answers the call...
A heavy Indian voice speaks, "Hello, this is Jeremy from Microsoft tech support. We see that you have a virus on your computer."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 11:46 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:17 AM (pZ64F)
The concept of Tit-For-Tat seems too difficult for DC to grasp… until now, maybe, but I am not optimistic about that long term…
Posted by: tubal
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DC has been run by bottoms far too long.
Even a power bottoms like Joihn McCain are still bottoms
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 11:46 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:47 AM (NWr1F)
So, it looks like it's simply an effort to make himself look important and be in the same room as Colossus.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:45 AM (XV/Pl)
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It'd be hilarious if he couldn't even form a coalition.
Like, 5 Labor say, "Nah, bruh. Resist forever or we switch parties." The other parties are like, "Make French the only official language of Canada, or we tank you, mon amie."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:47 AM (NWr1F)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:48 AM (PCK5/)
Gambit was way more cool.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 11:48 AM (McYvC)
>>We all know Dana Carvey is beloved by all.
Danny Carvey, like Michael Bolton, is a national treasure.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:48 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:48 AM (PCK5/)
Weeps…
- Zombie Alex Trebek
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:49 AM (NWr1F)
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Their respective navies are at sea, Indian Ocean, practicing live fire exercises not all that far from each other. But, presumably far enough...
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 11:49 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:18 AM (fUDLX)
This fella doesn’t own a doghouse.
Posted by: Zombie Norm Macdonald at May 01, 2025 11:49 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:49 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 01, 2025 11:50 AM (cWffP)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:50 AM (NWr1F)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:48 AM (PCK5/)
Weeps…
- Zombie Alex Trebek
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:49 AM (NWr1F)
Norm MacDonald enters the zombie chat.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:50 AM (dGCAG)
Same goes for Australia.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 01, 2025 11:44 AM (QdGJh)
No sympathy here. Once again, they voted for the shit sandwich.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 01, 2025 11:51 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 01, 2025 11:51 AM (N39Ws)
They said in 2020 we voted for Joe Biden..
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:52 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:50 AM (NWr1F)
That's how I felt about Norm. It was physically painful.
He essentially kept his illness from everyone, except apparently some close family members. All his friends in comedy world were shocked.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:52 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 11:17 AM (pZ64F)
Easy peasy. Or it should be. If we can’t buy waterfront property in you country, you can’t in ours.
Mexico forbids foreign ownership of land within 50 km of the coasts and the borders. Fine. We do the same to them. Well, we should.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 11:52 AM (eNdzY)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 11:43 AM (ZmEVT)
So.. Prison Continent??
Posted by: tubal
It was. No joke.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:53 AM (fUDLX)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith just wants to vote for Vance at May 01, 2025 11:53 AM (74WFy)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 11:54 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 01, 2025 11:54 AM (6YdsJ)
Mexico forbids foreign ownership of land within 50 km of the coasts and the borders. Fine. We do the same to them. Well, we should.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
Only property foreigners can own is in East St. Louis or Detroit.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:54 AM (fUDLX)
and my dogs getting gardia from those mofos!
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 11:54 AM (Pv3Rg)
The guy is hilarious, and another one of those guys who, everyone in the comedy world looks up to, even if he has nowhere near the number of fans as many others.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:54 AM (dGCAG)
and my dogs getting gardia from those mofos!
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 11:54 AM (Pv3Rg)
They’re not even fit to eat…
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:54 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 01, 2025 11:51 AM (N39Ws)
They said in 2020 we voted for Joe Biden..
Posted by: It's me donna
And we did, whether you know it or not, maybe even twice.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (/lPRQ)
me too
oh and David Horowitz hit me hard, I didn't realize how old he was
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (Pv3Rg)
So.. Prison Continent??
Posted by: tubal
It was. No joke.
Posted by: rickb223
_________
It was used because America was no longer available. No, really.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (QnmlO)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:48 AM (PCK5/)
Weeps…
- Zombie Alex Trebek
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:49 AM (NWr1F)
Norm MacDonald enters the zombie chat.
Posted by: BurtTC
Let's Make A Deal!
Posted by: Monty Hall at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (NWr1F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (Er3Q7)
That's an interesting precedent...
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 11:56 AM (QZThv)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 11:56 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (QnmlO)
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Yup. Georgia was started as a penal colony.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 01, 2025 11:56 AM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 11:53 AM (fUDLX)
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes.
First rate book about Australia's founding.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:56 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (NWr1F)
The old 96'er
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:56 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (NWr1F)
The 50 pund steak….
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:56 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:56 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (Er3Q7)
Agreed
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:57 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 01, 2025 11:57 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 11:56 AM (RHGPo)
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Let's be fair on this one:
Andor isn't a kids show. I'd be shocked if anyone under 13 managed to get through an entire episode.
It's Star Wars for people who need Star Wars to be serious and adult, and it's not marketed any other way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 11:57 AM (GBKbO)
Checks out.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 11:57 AM (NWr1F)
And Canada wouldn't be the first, or only country we've dicked with like that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 11:57 AM (Q4IgG)
As opposed to what they've been doing forever?
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 11:58 AM (QZThv)
The guy is hilarious, and another one of those guys who, everyone in the comedy world looks up to, even if he has nowhere near the number of fans as many others.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:54 AM (dGCAG)
Yes! He was great as the urine drinking cop in "Dumb & Dumber" and as the new fish who Nasty Nate wanted to rape in "Half Baked".
He also has podcasts too I believe.
Posted by: Canada Sucks! at May 01, 2025 11:58 AM (979V4)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Barack Of Kenya at May 01, 2025 11:58 AM (G5+As)
Interesting.
PDT recently agreed to allow that Atlantic Fake News Hoaxer cocksucker greenberg to "interview" (lie about) him.
IS IT POSSIBLE that one of the conditions on agreeing to the interview was greenfieldberg admitting Who Added him to the Signal list??
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 11:58 AM (QSsNn)
interesting!
anyway it was Waltz and he knew what he was doing
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 11:58 AM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 01, 2025 11:58 AM (OKalV)
That's an interesting precedent...
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 11:56 AM (QZThv)
FIFY
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 11:59 AM (eNdzY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 01, 2025 11:55 AM (Er3Q7)
Looks to me like there was an intense media push to make Hegseth the scapegoat, by neocons and other Deep Staters who didn't want the blame to land on Waltz.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:59 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 11:59 AM (dGCAG)
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Elizabeth Warren was screaming for Hegseth to resign for about 2 weeks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)
You know?
What if: PDT said okay Atlantic Fake News, I'll sit down with you, but only if you tell me who added you to the Signal room.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 11:59 AM (QSsNn)
Developing ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 01, 2025 12:00 PM (Gqoy+)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 11:48 AM (XV/Pl)
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I dunno, Michael seems to have trouble with decimal points when he writes programs.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 01, 2025 12:00 PM (tT6L1)
And Canada wouldn't be the first, or only country we've dicked with like that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Vice versa, Dominion, purveyor of electronic votings systems, is a Canadian company
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)
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Because in most of the world the people consider themselves subordinated to their governments.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Because in most of the world the people consider themselves subordinated to their governments.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (QnmlO)
And unarmed...
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 01, 2025 12:01 PM (QSsNn)
Posted by: Canada Sucks! at May 01, 2025 11:58 AM (979V4)
His podcasts are terrific! He gets other comedians on there, and generally treats them well, but he sorta expects them to "get" his schtick. Those who can't keep up end up looking foolish, but those who do, he makes them look extremely likeable.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 01, 2025 12:02 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Ciampino - Any results? at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (17s+e)
That's an interesting precedent...
Posted by: Ian S.
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Gag rule in the US House of Representatives during the 1830-1840's. Adopted to prevent discussion of slavery on the floor.
However, in modern jurisprudence, eventually the Maine legislature is going to be schooled in the courts by a lawsuit as political speech is given the highest protection. Might even be reversed by state courts under the Maine Constitution.
Basically, the only justification for prior restraint on speech is national security which troon discussion certainly is not related.
Posted by: whig at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)
From what I've read, Canada has no election systems. It's pure paper ballots, the way it was meant to be.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: RADinVA at May 01, 2025 12:03 PM (YoT4f)
‘maybe they won't hate us so much.’
Islam has been and will continue to be at war with the rest of the world. The most only that stops is when they’re either dead or too far away to affect you.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (jbnUc)
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Finally, some climate change.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 12:06 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 12:08 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 01, 2025 12:09 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)
Somehow, the streets of New York City being flooded by rising ocean levels feels like environmental justice being served.
Posted by: Auspex at May 01, 2025 12:42 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: TJ Jackson at May 01, 2025 01:21 PM (bXvrr)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 03:43 PM (RHGPo)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Henry Lee McFee
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 09:30 AM (Oq5OE)
Posted by: Kwak! at May 01, 2025 09:31 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 01, 2025 09:31 AM (0nHVk)
Dirty, disgustin', lice-ridden buids.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)
Date
1928
Classification
Paintings
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 30 3/8 × 24 3/16in. (77.2 × 61.4 cm)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 09:32 AM (Oq5OE)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Counting Crows at May 01, 2025 09:32 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)
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Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 09:33 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: From Ballamore at May 01, 2025 09:34 AM (dg+HA)
Also I don't think anyone should eat that bread now.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 01, 2025 09:34 AM (WPL6O)
Posted by: rhennigantx
Missed opportunity to sock Wesley Crusher.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Wasn’t that a dainty dish,
To set before the king?
The king was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 09:35 AM (Oq5OE)
Posted by: Punz? Already? at May 01, 2025 09:35 AM (dg+HA)
But there are tons of theories and stories about how this saying came to be. Some claim it came about during the early 19th century with hunting parties. They’d make bets on who’d get the most kills, and the loser had to shoot and eat a crow.
There’s also a running joke from the 1800s where a man said he could literally eat anything, and to settle a bet, he agreed to eat crow meat. He had a hard time swallowing his words as well as the meat but suffered through it just to prove his point.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Alfred Hitchcock at May 01, 2025 09:35 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Just the punchline at May 01, 2025 09:36 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Czeck Chick at May 01, 2025 09:36 AM (vK/Ja)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 09:36 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 09:37 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Tweety Bird at May 01, 2025 09:37 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 01, 2025 09:37 AM (Z4B3V)
Posted by: And a Hundred Pounds at May 01, 2025 09:37 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:32 AM
Reunited. And it feels so good!
Posted by: From back in the day at May 01, 2025 09:38 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 01, 2025 09:38 AM (WYfiA)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:38 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (LPS7w)
Posted by: Punz? Already? at May 01, 2025 09:35 AM
At this point it's still only attempted murder.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rockin' Robin at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (dg+HA)
Avian Influenza for dessert!
It's the new covid.
Briefing, yesterday, we now have to screen everyone for it. And have six foot distancing and ppe mask gown glove cart available... absolutely the plan is to wreck the recovering economy...
Posted by: Elderly Git at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (HRQvT)
Posted by: Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: bluebell at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (79pEw)
Posted by: Elderly Git at May 01, 2025 09:40 AM (HRQvT)
Posted by: From Ballamore at May 01, 2025 09:34 AM (dg+HA)
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Would you rather it had been a pigeon?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 01, 2025 09:40 AM (LPS7w)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:38 AM (pZ64F)
Heavy syrup, Lite syrup, Natural Juices, or No Sugar Added?
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 01, 2025 09:40 AM (Aqu9a)
Im gonna eat a lot of peaches
Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 01, 2025 09:40 AM (BHrzb)
Posted by: Karen at May 01, 2025 09:40 AM (Oq5OE)
Posted by: Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM
Good even-ing...
Posted by: Alfred Hitchcock at May 01, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)
Im gonna eat a lot of peaches
Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 01, 2025 09:40 AM (BHrzb)
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That's the ear worm playing through the crow's head.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 01, 2025 09:42 AM (LPS7w)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Needs persimmons.
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No one needs persimmons. An occasional pomegranate is nice, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:42 AM (pZ64F)
Sorry to be complain-y. For some reason, stuff like this annoys me.
Posted by: red speck at May 01, 2025 09:42 AM (0Id0S)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:43 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (Y1sOo)
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Pfffffffttt
Posted by: Timothy Treadwell at May 01, 2025 09:43 AM (1FWWQ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:38 AM (pZ64F)
Heavy syrup, Lite syrup, Natural Juices, or No Sugar Added?
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Heavy syrup for the win.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:44 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Ice Cream For Crow at May 01, 2025 09:44 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Edith Bunker at May 01, 2025 09:44 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 01, 2025 09:44 AM (LPS7w)
Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2025 09:44 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2025 09:45 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:45 AM (pZ64F)
1 Kings 17:4
Posted by: Marcus T at May 01, 2025 09:45 AM (82U+n)
Posted by: The Crow at May 01, 2025 09:46 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Needs persimmons.
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No one needs persimmons. An occasional pomegranate is nice, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:42 AM (pZ64F)
Eric 'Otter' Stratton: Fruits can be really sensuous, don't you think?
Marion Wormer: No, fruits are sensual. People are sensuous.
Eric 'Otter' Stratton: Right. Sensual. That's what I meant.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 01, 2025 09:46 AM (Aqu9a)
-- Maxwell Klinger
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:46 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: The Man who knows Ottomans at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Myv15 year old self at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (McYvC)
Marion Wormer: No, fruits are sensual. People are sensuous.
Eric 'Otter' Stratton: Right. Sensual. That's what I meant.
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Wasn't Otter played by Mozart?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 01, 2025 09:48 AM (Pv3Rg)
Im gonna eat a lot of peaches
Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 01, 2025 09:40 AM (BHrzb)
Obligatory. Well done nonetheless.
I offer this one as an alternative. Underrated song from a highly underrated band.
https://youtu.be/b5IIgxfX9cQ
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 09:48 AM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Cheri at May 01, 2025 09:48 AM (oiNtH)
I refused to accepr that it was bread, now that a crow has perched on it. Doesn't explain the book being there.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 01, 2025 09:48 AM (LPS7w)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 01, 2025 09:49 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Cheri
Carrying ammo to Britain.
Wilson was asshoe.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)
I refused to accepr that it was bread, now that a crow has perched on it. Doesn't explain the book being there.
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Its a cook book. How to Serve Crow.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:49 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (pZ64F)
That was Pinto, the pledge.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 01, 2025 09:50 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 01, 2025 09:50 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 01, 2025 09:50 AM (PTy0w)
All seriousness aside, this is well-rendered. The crow is given a rather evil, sneering posture, as if he were saying, "Silly humans, refusing to put screens on their windows! Ha!"
Oh, and what is the curled red-and-white strip at the edge of the table?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 09:50 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Peach peel.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 09:51 AM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (pZ64F)
Pinto and Wolfgang same actor
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:52 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 09:52 AM (NpAcC)
Want to shake your tree
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:53 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:53 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: bluebell at May 01, 2025
***
"Who let them crows in?
Caw, caw, caw, caw!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 09:53 AM (DIweC)
Actually, that's a lie. I made it up.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 01, 2025 09:53 AM (BHrzb)
Posted by: Bird punz? at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (dg+HA)
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Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025
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Pinto and Wolfgang same actor
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025
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Tom Hulce, I believe was his name.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:47 AM (pZ64F)
Pinto and Wolfgang same actor
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Who knew Mozart had that kind of range?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025
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I see it, but it looks more like Snoopy to me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Needs persimmons.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)
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they were in the earlier sketches but someone was robin them.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 09:55 AM (W/lyH)
Pears are here too.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at May 01, 2025 09:56 AM (Ce7ou)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (omVj0)
Sounds right
Also voice of Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:56 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Peach peel.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025
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I knew crows were clever, but they can handle a knife? Wow. Don't get them mad at you.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 09:56 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Bird punz... at May 01, 2025 09:56 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 09:56 AM (DIweC)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
He was seeing if the crow would be right for the part of Woodstock.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 01, 2025 09:57 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 09:57 AM (Oq5OE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (omVj0)
Sounds right
Also voice of Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Posted by: rhennigantx
Also in Parenthood. An underrated movie.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cheri at May 01, 2025 09:58 AM (oiNtH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 01, 2025 09:50 AM (kpS4V)
Excellent name for a folk singer.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 01, 2025 09:58 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: red speck at May 01, 2025 09:42 AM (0Id0S)
Nope. That wasn't a complaint.
I appreciate the commentary, even if you didn't like the art!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2025 09:58 AM (mWSu4)
Can crows play ice hockey?
Posted by: Charles Schulz at May 01, 2025 09:58 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025
***
Hello, B,
Yes! Today is the beginning of Month Two. I used to post more on Ace *before* I retired, huh? I'm usually out running errands in the morning and miss the Art Thread, and in the afternoon I'm dealing with emails and trying to construct a new story for one of Raconteur's anthologies. Once my finances are all secured (I should have begun the process a month before I retired), I'll take my trip to Indiana and Kentucky.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 09:59 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2025 09:59 AM (x0n13)
For the worst economy in 100,000years (per msm) you’d never know it. Microsoft and Meta both had blowout quarters. Stocks have been up for 8 straight trading days. YTD s&p500 is down a whopping 4%.
The latest freakout is unemployment claims were 241k last week. See, we’re in a recession man!!! Oh really? 241k was the exact number in the second week of October 2024.when I was assured by every economist that the economy had never been better.
Every fucking thing the media says is a lie.
You don’t hate them enough and never will.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 09:59 AM (S4ZTs)
the kind with a microwave mounted above the stove, right?
Posted by: anachronda at May 01, 2025 09:59 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hint, hint at May 01, 2025 10:00 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025
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Doesn't that have Lauren Graham in it? Or am I thinking of a TV series with a similar name?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 10:00 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: toby928 at May 01, 2025 10:01 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Hint, hint at May 01, 2025 10:00 AM (dg+HA)
That or from Spoon River Anthology.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2025 10:01 AM (x0n13)
Dolley got it in her craw that we all need to get Global Entry in preparation for our Italy trip.
She's had it for about a year. Now, it's time for me an the boys.
I've done the online portion. The Charlotte airport has a Global Entry office for the interview (essentially just verifying your identity to a DHS officer, including fingerprinting), so I set out the second Junior got back from school to hit our appointments, three in a row, 10 minutes each, starting at 3:40.
Get in the car, GPS says we should get there at 3:42, ten minutes longer than expected. Well, crap. Oh well, gotta try to shave off minutes.
Holy shit...this is the first time I've dealt with Charlotte rush hour traffic since I've moved here. It...sucks...It's Atlanta bad.
3:42 climbed up to 3:45 for no reason. I had to take a backroad just to get to the Interstate. Suddenly, 3:45 is climbing up to 3:50. I see a lot of red ahead of my on the route. It's getting worse. Ask for alternate routes. Get off half a mile later to shave off 8 minutes. Instant savings.
Instant regret.
I'm not the only one with the idea. 8 minute savings becomes 8 minute delay. (cont)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
System says I'm at the wrong parking lot.
Shit.
I don't have time for this. Pay for parking right there. Eventually find a spot. Pick up Second Junior and carry him so we can go faster. Go down a set of stairs only to realize...I had to go up to get to the bridge.
I've memorized where the global entry office should be...but will it be good enough? Directions can suck.
Well, that's when it finally began to work in my favor because the directions were spot on.
And, surprise of all surprises, the DHS officer was cool with us showing up late, pronounced our last name correctly on the first try, and just went through the whole thing for all three of us in 10 minutes.
Then...all that was left was the 80 minute drive home?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:01 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Do I have to do EVERYTHING for you people? at May 01, 2025 10:01 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 10:02 AM (vf0Y9)
Every fucking thing the media says is a lie.
You don’t hate them enough and never will.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Here's the thing.
Unemployment going up needs to be put in the context of it counting only people who are ACTIVELY looking for work. There could very well be a situation where people dropped out of the labor market due to not finding job opportunities, but when they perceive the economy turning around will reenter the labor market.
Not saying that's the case here, necessarily, but it is a factor that needs to be considered. I always looked at MoM Unemployment changes against the total jobs in the market to kind of gauge who is dropping out.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:02 AM (Oq5OE)
Between 3:30 PM ET and 4:00 PM ET, S&P 500 futures rallied +75 points without ANY major news.
5 minutes later, Meta, $META, and Microsoft, $MSFT, posted massive earnings beats.…
Looks like the SEC should do some investigatin'.
https://tinyurl.com/57tucuv2+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 10:02 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:02 AM (vKNmo)
Not saying that's the case here, necessarily, but it is a factor that needs to be considered. I always looked at MoM Unemployment changes against the total jobs in the market to kind of gauge who is dropping out.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:02 AM (Oq5OE)
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Unemployment is also going to be affected by illegals choosing to go home or getting deported.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)
now i can't unsee it
Posted by: anachronda at May 01, 2025 10:03 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025
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*Shudders at the thought of a trip that should take thirty minutes taking over an hour*
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 10:04 AM (omVj0)
Grok is pretty terrible at art. Has been quite useful for the written stuff I've done with it though.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 01, 2025 10:04 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025
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*Shudders at the thought of a trip that should take thirty minutes taking over an hour*
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 10:04 AM (omVj0)
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It should take 45 minutes. But yeah...at least I wasn't trying to beat the clock on the way back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)
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So, how many hours would you say you've spent getting a number that will save you 20 minutes in the TSA lines?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 10:05 AM (JkO4W)
And you may tell yourself, This is not my beautiful crow.
Posted by: David Byrne at May 01, 2025 10:05 AM (7lLhn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)
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Not to a measurable extent, really. They are leaving the job market totally. Will the jobs generally continue to exist when they leave, or were they only there because the labor was so cheap that it made a particular job worth filling...?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:05 AM (Oq5OE)
now i can't unsee it
Posted by: anachronda at May 01, 2025 10:03 AM
I can't see it, Elaine!
Posted by: Mr. Pitt at May 01, 2025 10:05 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 10:02 AM (vf0Y9)
Good idea. It's been a couple of years or so since I've watched it.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 01, 2025 10:05 AM (g8Ew8)
Alvord Fire Department officials confirmed to FOX 4 Dallas that eight million loose dimes were being carried by a tractor-trailer when it overturned on U.S. Highway 287 in Wise County, Texas.
Guess we do not need to ride back to town.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (gbOdA)
In a 15-minute speech to an elite audience of Democrats in a gold-trimmed ballroom at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, the former vice-president was making her first major speech since consuming cases of gin after losing November’s election.
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 01, 2025 10:05 AM (JkO4W)
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Too much.
But, it'll make the airport process smoother with all of us having it, and Dolley is happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)
There's also a following for Crow with Peaches...clothing, signs, etc. 🤷♀️
Thanks
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (NFX2v)
-- Theodosius Atrocius
Posted by: Terminus Eldorado at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (W5ArC)
In a 15-minute speech to an elite audience of Democrats in a gold-trimmed ballroom at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, the former vice-president was making her first major speech since consuming cases of gin after losing November’s election.
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (RHGPo)
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I remember when change was good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 10:07 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
This is why I live way, way, way out in the country. I've grown to loathe big city traffic.
Two cars in front of me at a stop light? Damn - rush hour was horrible!
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:07 AM (vKNmo)
Simple math: 8,000,000 dimes
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 10:07 AM (RHGPo)
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Finally, we can reach Rock Ridge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 10:07 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (gbOdA)
Think of how many go-rounds that would purchase with Kamala Harris.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 10:07 AM (W5ArC)
Later this month they will have Hitchcock's Rope, which I haven't seen in decades.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 10:08 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 10:02 AM (vf0Y9)
Good idea. It's been a couple of years or so since I've watched it.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 01, 2025 10:05 AM (g8Ew
5 times all the way through for me. Gets better every time. Especially Season 4. The Drew Thompson storyline is so good.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 10:08 AM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: There's even a website at May 01, 2025 10:08 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 10:08 AM (RHGPo)
Not saying that's the case here, necessarily, but it is a factor that needs to be considered. I always looked at MoM Unemployment changes against the total jobs in the market to kind of gauge who is dropping out.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:02 AM (Oq5OE)
Taking eco in biz school around 1981 6% was considered a good number for both employees and employers. It would go to about 8 or 9% in 84 or 85.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 10:08 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025
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Doesn't that have Lauren Graham in it? Or am I thinking of a TV series with a similar name?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 10:00 AM (omVj0)
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She's in the TV show by the same name. The movie has a bunch of well-known actors - Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Keanu Reeves, Diane Wiest, to name a few.
And since you brought her up, let me just say that Lauren Graham has aged like fine wine. Always loved her eyes.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 01, 2025 10:09 AM (OGOaV)
now i can't unsee it
Posted by: anachronda at May 01, 2025 10:03 AM
I can't see it, Elaine!
flower at top is on the top of his head. leaves below that flower are his eyes. he also has flowers on his shoulders.
Posted by: anachronda at May 01, 2025 10:09 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Pon Raul at May 01, 2025 10:09 AM (jc0TO)
Unemployment going up needs to be put in the context of it counting only people who are ACTIVELY looking for work. There could very well be a situation where people dropped out of the labor market due to not finding job opportunities, but when they perceive the economy turning around will reenter the labor market.
Not saying that's the case here, necessarily, but it is a factor that needs to be considered. I always looked at MoM Unemployment changes against the total jobs in the market to kind of gauge who is dropping out.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:02 AM (Oq5OE)
This is unemployment claims. The number of people laid off. Doesn’t really apply to what you said. That’s a different discussion and relevant as well to the broader economy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 10:09 AM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: Creepy Joe Biden at May 01, 2025 10:10 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: toby928 at May 01, 2025 10:11 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 10:08 AM (gbOdA)
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Yep - there's always a floor for unemployment called Structural Unemployment. This is based on the regular and expected ebb and flow of an economy.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:11 AM (Oq5OE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 10:04 AM
It is a known fact that every point in Boston is an hour from Boston.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 10:11 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (GBKbO)
Global Entry is absolutely fantastic.
The difference at Newark airport is shocking. I barely slow down while walking through the checkpoint, and that is compared to a few hundred people on line to go through three or four stations for those without Global Entry.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2025 10:11 AM (mWSu4)
Is that 15 minute speech the one she was charging people a couple hundred bucks to watch online?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 01, 2025 10:11 AM (lFFaq)
The difference at Newark airport is shocking. I barely slow down while walking through the checkpoint, and that is compared to a few hundred people on line to go through three or four stations for those without Global Entry.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2025 10:11 AM (mWSu4)
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My boys are gonna have them fancy cards.
They're gonna make all the others in the airports jealous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 01, 2025 09:58 AM (g8Ew
Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' fer a train
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 01, 2025 10:13 AM (144I4)
At the farmhouse of Old Farmer Kitts
On the table a big black crow sits
He muses, "What's the buzz about all of this fuzz?
These peaches are really the pits!"
Posted by: muldoon at May 01, 2025 10:13 AM (uCfKO)
The 241k number the left is freaking out over is a 1 week data point t. It’s the number of people who filed for UE benefits. It’s jumped a little from last week. But the week to week number bounced around all the time. The more valid number is a 4 week moving average which has consistently been in the 220k range for the last few months. And that number is a historically low number.
Even 250k would be considered a healthy number. It’s when you start getting close to 300k that it gets into “oh shit” territory.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 10:14 AM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)
It's facial recognition at Newark. No passport, no card.
Just a slight pause as the system works. It actually recognizes me as I walk up to the camera.
It is amazing and terrifying at the same time.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2025 10:15 AM (mWSu4)
at the crowbar.
Posted by: Make it stop at May 01, 2025 10:15 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: muldoon at May 01, 2025 10:15 AM (uCfKO)
Also left: Trump is putting everyone out of work
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 10:16 AM (S4ZTs)
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Wait until they integrate the Taser.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 10:16 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: troyriser at May 01, 2025 10:16 AM (DPeYO)
Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2025 10:16 AM (LHPAg)
Just a slight pause as the system works. It actually recognizes me as I walk up to the camera.
It is amazing and terrifying at the same time.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2025 10:15 AM (mWSu4)
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Customs at the Port Canaveral terminal coming off a cruise boat is facial recognition, so I've seen the system outside the context of airport lines.
It is neat and fast.
Couldn't recognize Second Junior, though, because his passport photo...probably shouldn't have been accepted. He was 1.5. He didn't want to stand in front of the white wall. There are extended arms and anguish in his eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)
You pick out what you want on the website and pay for it. They pull your items and put them in a locker just inside the store entrance. When you get there, you scan the bar code from their email on your phone. The correct locker pops open automatically, you grab your shizzle and walk right out the door.
Nifty.
Obviously this isn't going to work if you're buying two-bys or sheets of plywood or something, but it's a serious time saver if you have several smaller purchases.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 10:17 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: haffhowershower
How'd she afford the train ticket?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:17 AM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 10:17 AM (aeW5W)
To me the neatest thing to me about the loose style technique I like is making combined single brush strokes come together to give you the impression of a subject when viewed from 4 or 5 feet away.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at May 01, 2025 10:17 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 01, 2025 10:18 AM (144I4)
You pick out what you want on the website and pay for it. They pull your items and put them in a locker just inside the store entrance. When you get there, you scan the bar code from their email on your phone. The correct locker pops open automatically, you grab your shizzle and walk right out the door.
Nifty.
Obviously this isn't going to work if you're buying two-bys or sheets of plywood or something, but it's a serious time saver if you have several smaller purchases.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 10:17 AM (W5ArC)
I never once has the gas tank exchange lockers work at the HD.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 10:19 AM (gbOdA)
I've heard "churn". Same thing ? About 5% ?
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 10:19 AM (McYvC)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 10:20 AM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: Art Maven at May 01, 2025 10:20 AM (G5+As)
I never once has the gas tank exchange lockers work at the HD.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 10:19 AM (gbOdA)
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A kid at Publix tried to give me an empty propane tank the last time I exchanged one.
He just didn't know what he was doing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2025 10:20 AM (mWSu4)
Red Letter Day at Bluebonnet Detention Facility as Tren de Aragua Spells Out SOS for Reuters’ Drone
https://shorturl.at/nHumb
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I guess they're the June Taylor Dancers wing of Tren de Aragua.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 01, 2025 10:21 AM (AAyv9)
at the crowbar.
Posted by: Make it stop at May 01, 2025 10:15 AM (dg+HA)
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I suspect he's on the phone right now, planning a murder.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 01, 2025 10:21 AM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
The reason I always hated the "all else equal" assumption is that all else is, in fact, not equal. Everything is connected to everything else.
Jobless claims remaining static and unemployment rates changing provides context for other metrics.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:21 AM (Oq5OE)
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) argued that President Donald Trump “continued to close the border,” after President Joe Biden “used his extraordinary powers, emergency powers to close down the border and the drop in border crossings started with President Biden, dramatically.”
... if only Kamala had been able to communicate this unseen phantom turnaround in immigration to voters, but ...
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 10:21 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 10:17 AM (aeW5W)
Not US ones, only Canadian ones. Same with quarters and nickels. Canadian dimes are either pure nickel (older ones) or nickel-plated steel, both of which are ferrormagnetic.
US dimes are only about 8% nickel.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 10:22 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:17 AM (vKNmo)
Joplin was a bit of a ho'bo.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 01, 2025 10:22 AM (mWSu4)
FYI - some asshoe visited the hospital with a case of measles the other day. As a result, all the babies in the NICU have been isolated and their parental units and grandparental units have to go through an Andromeda Strain style decontamination routine. The littles also have been given some injection of magic juice (but not the measles vaccination). THAT was fun. We gotta get C. out of that place.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:22 AM (vKNmo)
It's the first of the month (wake up, wake up)
So get up, get up, get up
So cash your checks and come up (get up, get up)
Wake up, wake up, wake up
It's the first of the month (wake up, wake up)
So get up, get up, get up...
Posted by: Boomers, Thugs-N-Harmony at May 01, 2025 10:22 AM (979V4)
"Crow Plays the SEF Game: "So, I'll shit on the bread. Eat the peaches. And fuck the pears."
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 10:23 AM (iJfKG)
That’s why you will never have 0% unemployment. 3-5% depending on who you ask is the real 0%.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 10:23 AM (S4ZTs)
I've heard "churn". Same thing ? About 5% ?
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 10:19 AM (McYvC)
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Yeah, the concept is basically the same. People leave and reenter the market all the time in ways that have nothing to do with the job market itself. Leaving work to get a degree, learn a new skill, etc etc.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:23 AM (Oq5OE)
I was gonna' explain it all ... but then I got high.
Posted by: Kamala at May 01, 2025 10:23 AM (McYvC)
Posted by: cmeat at May 01, 2025 10:24 AM (a3K02)
That is extremely unsanitary. Birds are nasty and if someone strolls by and, not realizing that icky bird was hopping all over it, grabs a peach to eat.... Ewww.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 10:24 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:22 AM (vKNmo)
"No hospitals. They take away your pants. Then they hurt you and starve you and expose you to diseases.
Then they bill you for it. A lot."
Posted by: Spider Robinson at May 01, 2025 10:24 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
*fistbump*
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 10:22 AM (W5ArC)
Ah, OK.
Train crows to do it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 10:25 AM (aeW5W)
Canada’s Defense Department Will Not Tolerate Tampon Dispensers Being Removed From Men’s Restrooms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 10:25 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: muldoon at May 01, 2025 10:26 AM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 10:26 AM (McYvC)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hat
The lusty month of May!
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)
Then they bill you for it. A lot."
Posted by: Spider Robinson
Four/five weeks in the NICU should run what, about $500,000? I told the kids - Don't freak when you open that bill. It will all get worked out.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:26 AM (vKNmo)
I was just wondering if someone had made a Poe reference. The horde abides.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 10:27 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)
Yeah. Birds are fun to watch outside, but they're nasty up close.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 10:27 AM (S4ZTs)
I never once has the gas tank exchange lockers work at the HD.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 10:19 AM (gbOdA)
I haven't tried that -- I buy my propane at one of the few remaining full-service gas stations in my town (wash windows, check oil, quadruple mechanics bay with decent mechanics on duty... all that stuff). An actual human being who knows what he's doing comes out and fills your propane tank.
Posted by: Spider Robinson at May 01, 2025 10:27 AM (W5ArC)
to be pedantic, they were magpies.
Posted by: cmeat at May 01, 2025 10:28 AM (a3K02)
Posted by: javems at May 01, 2025 10:28 AM (8I4hW)
"Do I dare..."
Posted by: muldoon at May 01, 2025 10:26 AM (uCfKO)
For want of a consonant, a joke has failed.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 10:28 AM (iJfKG)
I've never felt good about the prospect of going to work. I just do it for the money.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 10:29 AM (McYvC)
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 10:29 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 10:29 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 10:27 AM (S4ZTs)
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Yes, as mentioned, unemployment is based on those actively looking for work.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:29 AM (Oq5OE)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 01, 2025 10:26 AM (vKNmo)
More than that, I'd think... FIL was in for some stents a few months ago. $600K for less than a week's stay. Granted, there was some actual surgery involved there.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 01, 2025 10:30 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 10:31 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hat
The lusty month of May!
Posted by: Bulg
Yeah, come on and try it!
Posted by: Snakes and Ticks at May 01, 2025 10:31 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at May 01, 2025 10:31 AM (Ce7ou)
https://shorturl.at/lTwju
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 10:31 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 10:31 AM (eNdzY)
Posted by: The Labor Participation Rate at May 01, 2025 10:32 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: The Labor Participation Rate at May 01, 2025 10:32 AM (pIfcn)
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"Puny metric."
-The Big Mac Index
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:32 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at May 01, 2025 10:31 AM
Even five of them won't get the taste out of your mouth.
Posted by: toby928 at May 01, 2025 10:33 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: muldoon at May 01, 2025 10:33 AM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 01, 2025 10:33 AM (kzHlT)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 10:31 AM
Attempted murder.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 10:33 AM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 10:33 AM (McYvC)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 01, 2025 10:33 AM (kzHlT)
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Probably considered a delicacy in some corner of the world.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: muldoon
You been lookin' at my back?
Posted by: Rachel Zegler at May 01, 2025 10:35 AM (G5+As)
Ah, memories ...
Posted by: 70s Porn Stars at May 01, 2025 10:35 AM (McYvC)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 01, 2025 10:33 AM (kzHlT)
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Probably considered a delicacy in some corner of the world.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:33 AM
No doubt enjoyed with civet coffee.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 01, 2025 10:35 AM (kgE5c)
to be pedantic, they were magpies.
Posted by: cmeat at May 01, 2025 10:28 AM (a3K02)
They were crows in the Heckle and Jeckle precursor, the original Dumbo movie.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 01, 2025 10:36 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Chiggers at May 01, 2025 10:36 AM (5hfjS)
Heh, I have a friend whose infrequent joke is: "I just saw a murder! [horrified response]. . . a murder of crows!"
Ba-dum-bum-tshhhhhh!
Given we're in Denver, it works every time.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 10:36 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 10:37 AM (4AQNO)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 01, 2025 09:50 AM (kpS4V)
Excellent name for a folk singer.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons
There's a rocker here in Indiana named Henry Lee Summer. Got some national attention in the 80's. MTV played some of his stuff for awhile. Looked like a cheap knock off of Daryl Hall. He's still performing in Indiana. Looks like Hell on the half shell.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 10:37 AM (2J/Lj)
The last time she had little ones a couple managed to get on the back porch. Then my cat would bring them inside. "That's a big lizard.... wait that's not a lizard it's a snake. It's still alive! Oh my goodness!" Then I have to rescue the little guy and turn it loose in the rose bush.
Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at May 01, 2025 10:38 AM (wa0T/)
"Nah, we just like to boil down their nests! So technically, bird spit *and* poop."
-- Asia
Posted by: Lizzy at May 01, 2025 10:38 AM (KHnV4)
James Carville@JamesCarville
Just called @DavidHogg111. He reminded me of the story of, after the battle of Shiloh, Henry Halleck urged President Lincoln to fire Ulysses Grant. Lincoln said: “I can’t fire him. This man fights.” David Hogg fights. The DNC needs him.
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Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)
And you may tell yourself, This is not my beautiful crow.
Posted by: David Byrne at May 01, 2025 10:05 AM (7lLhn)
Same as it ever was
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 10:38 AM (eNdzY)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 01, 2025 10:39 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 01, 2025 10:39 AM (McYvC)
James Carville@JamesCarville
Just called @DavidHogg111. He reminded me of the story of, after the battle of Shiloh, Henry Halleck urged President Lincoln to fire Ulysses Grant. Lincoln said: “I can’t fire him. This man fights.” David Hogg fights. The DNC needs him.
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Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 10:38 AM (L/fGl)
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The only reason Carville would back Hogg over the Native American woman is racism.
Oh, also sexism.
Carville should be destroyed and every Democrat should be made to prostrate themselves before the Native American woman to atone for the sin of having employed Carville for decades.
Snap snap. Get to it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 01, 2025 10:40 AM (GBKbO)
James Carville@JamesCarville
Just called @DavidHogg111. He reminded me of the story of, after the battle of Shiloh, Henry Halleck urged President Lincoln to fire Ulysses Grant. Lincoln said: “I can’t fire him. This man fights.” David Hogg fights. The DNC needs him.
Far cry from the showdown between them the other day.. Who got to Snakehead ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 10:40 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Chiggers at May 01, 2025 10:36 AM (5hfjS)
*shivers* *scratches phantom itching*
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 01, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)
Then they bill you for it. A lot."
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My heart specialist talks to the folder when consulting me on my health. I don't take my pants off, though.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 10:43 AM (pZ64F)
"OK, with all of these options the price comes out to $258,338."
"Well, I guess we can start negotiating from the top. I had to deal with Nurse Ratched and I'm not paying for it. I also didn't ask for the catheter option but you're throwing it in there anyway. $75,000."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:46 AM (Oq5OE)
Posted by: muldoon
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Try installing insulation in a house all day in Carolina in August.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 10:46 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at May 01, 2025 10:46 AM (Ce7ou)
Then they bill you for it. A lot."
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And, if at all possible, will make you piss and shit yourself.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 01, 2025 10:46 AM (g8Ew8)
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He's referring to having Hogg bent over a chair while he ass rapes him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Banya at May 01, 2025 10:47 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 10:06 AM (RHGPo)
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Stephen Miller responds:
https://tinyurl.com/53ecbrzy
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 10:48 AM (sTuNG)
I do not like crows.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 01, 2025 10:49 AM (t/2Uw)
Yeah ... if you were paying for your car and somebody else's car.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at May 01, 2025 10:49 AM (McYvC)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 10:49 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at May 01, 2025 10:31 AM
https://is.gd/Todp90 - just the recipe for the drink, SFW but for the name.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 10:50 AM (ExV1e)
Yeah ... if you were paying for your car and somebody else's car.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson
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Ha!
"What, I don't get fleet pricing?!?!"
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 10:50 AM (Oq5OE)
*******
Going blind has certain consequences..
Ah well. I shall endeavor to persevere...
When life gives you lemons, make failed internet jokes.
Posted by: muldoon at May 01, 2025 10:50 AM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Chiggers at May 01, 2025 10:36 AM (5hfjS)
*shivers* *scratches phantom itching*
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at May 01, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew
Right?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 01, 2025 10:50 AM (lFFaq)
I do not like crows.
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They are scary smart and they like the company of humans. My cats don't like them. They stay under the porch or furniture when the crows are around.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 10:50 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)
Oh, so fu...err...I mean how horrible!
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at May 01, 2025 10:51 AM (979V4)
Neil Young attacks Elon Musk [to the tune of This Land Is Your Land]: “If you’re a fascist, get a Tesla - It’s electric, it doesn’t matter. If you’re a Democrat, taste your freedom - get whatever you want, taste your freedom.”
https://shorturl.at/XsOVb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 10:52 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 10:52 AM (42Vb+)
*whistles innocently*
Posted by: the epstein list at May 01, 2025 10:53 AM (sGtp+)
I do not like crows.
*********
What's that, Dad?
Carrion my wayward son!
Posted by: muldoon at May 01, 2025 10:53 AM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 10:53 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Oglebay at May 01, 2025 10:53 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: crow liberation front at May 01, 2025 10:54 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 10:54 AM (pZ64F)
more humans = more french fries
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The squirrels worship me. I have peanuts.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 10:55 AM (pZ64F)
https://tinyurl.com/5cut72tm
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
He must be on the Donk Entertainment Committee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 10:55 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 10:50 AM (pZ64F)
An old timer told me they used to shoot them with .25-250's because they were smart enough to not get close to the people. They didn't get away far enough according to that caliber I guess.
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 01, 2025 10:56 AM (144I4)
https://tinyurl.com/53ecbrzy
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 10:48 AM (sTuNG)
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Stephen Miller is absolutely correct in his pride serving alongside a President whose every waking thought and action is to protect and enrich the citizens of this Republic.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 01, 2025 10:57 AM (r7+k8)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 10:58 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 10:59 AM (NpAcC)
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Yeah, boy, imagine if that happened!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 10:58 AM (dg+HA)
You will be hearing from Our Lawyers
Posted by: Crows Antidefamation League at May 01, 2025 10:59 AM (VE6XX)
Seriously ? That's not from the Bee ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:00 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 11:01 AM (aeW5W)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 11:01 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 11:01 AM (aeW5W)
Safe travels
Posted by: It's me donna at May 01, 2025 11:01 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
A group of crows is obnoxious.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 01, 2025 11:01 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 11:02 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at May 01, 2025 11:03 AM (L/fGl)
read "dead wake" if you haven't.
Posted by: cmeat at May 01, 2025 12:26 PM (a3K02)
know why they called him pinto?
Posted by: cmeat at May 01, 2025 12:29 PM (a3K02)
They were crows in the Heckle and Jeckle precursor, the original Dumbo movie.
in the movie dumbo, the crows were named jim and dandy.
Posted by: cmeat at May 01, 2025 12:59 PM (a3K02)
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The Morning Report — 5/ 1 /25
A federal judge ordered that the suspect behind the firebombing of a Tesla dealership in Kansas City, Missouri, be released from federal custody ahead of his upcoming court date. . . . . . McIntire’s lawyers also argued that he be released, noting his “medical and mental health needs.”McIntire has reportedly “been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder,” Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression, and gender dysphoria, according to court records.Even if this cupcake doesn't firebomb other Tesla dealerships before he shows up to court, that is IF he ever shows up for a court date. The message this judge sent is quite clear. As clear as the red flag waved by Jamie Raskin:
Union workers are much like activists — they do the bidding of their slave masters. The “master” in this instance is Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.). Journalist and conservative commentator Jack Posobiec was assaulted by a bunch of union cowards on Tuesday after Posobiec asked Raskin two questions during a “Democrat union workers rally,” according to The Post Millennial. “Jamie, why did you lose the popular vote?” Posobiec asked before following up. “Why did you lose every single swing state?” Once Raskin pointed Posobiec out and began non-sensically chanting “USA! USA!” multiple union workers engulfed Posobiec, began swearing at him, and assaulted him, also knocking his camera phone out of his hand.Well, cancer is as cancer does. And F*ck Cancer. Literally. And then there is plain old insurrection.
Police in Florida have been ordered to stop enforcing immigration law in that state, a federal judge ruled this week. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that an order blocking police from enforcing state immigration law applies to all local authorities. According to Fox News, Williams also told “attorneys for the state during a hearing in Miami on Tuesday that she planned to issue a preliminary injunction against a statute that makes it a misdemeanor for undocumented migrants to enter Florida by eluding immigration officials.”Over to you Governor De Santis. Why have you not directed your state agencies to ignore this judge and why has US AG Pam Bondi not had this hack in black sacked, arrested, defrocked and appropriately charged with dereliction of duty or whatever the crime may be. This is how the civil society breaks down. And the Democrat/Leftists are loudly and proudly embracing it, as their party, causes and worldview are being rejected by more and more Americans. Despite this as we discussed on the latest episode of the podcast, they are choosing to rally around terrorists and illegal alien thugs while putting the most radical/insane people out there as the face and future of their party. Bernie Sanders, an ancient old white communist and the big bombed booby barmaid Titty-Caca Ocasio Cortez. And yet, Little Shitler David Hogg the co-chair of the party is about to be sacked. Either the Dems aren't bust out radical enough or they can't bamboozle America effectively enough to convince us that they're the sane choice. On a different note, for those of you in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where severe storms moved through on Wednesday, causing several deaths and major power outages, we're hoping you and your loved ones were minimally affected and that you're back to normal routines this morning. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- A swift-moving line of severe thunderstorms developed into a derecho on the evening of April 29, wreaking havoc across the Ohio Valley and the interior Northeast. This weather phenomenon resulted in at least three deaths and widespread power outages. Pennsylvania bore the brunt with the highest number of outages.Particularly hard-hit areas included southeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Areas saw speeds typically associated with low-end tornadoes, but affected a broader region in this instance. “Wind gusts in some areas were nearly 80 mph. For some communities, this derecho could be a once-in-10-year or even a once-in-20-year event,” stated AccuWeather Meteorologist Alan Reppert.
Destructive Derecho Claims 3 Lives, Leaves 700,000 Powerless
- Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s counterrevolution presses on—quietly, methodically, and morally—while a flailing opposition offers only chaos, debt, and deflection in response.
The Trump Counterrevolution and the Moral Ledger
- DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
- Sen. Chuck Grassley hails agency’s decision to reverse Biden’s 'outrageous' award
HHS To Reevaluate $89 Billion Contract Awarded to Shadowy University of California Nonprofit - Do we really want to give China an internal mechanism to also invalidate state laws they don’t like? Because that’s what Congress is trying to do.
Congress Keeps Trying to Overturn State Agriculture Laws THE ECONOMY, STUPID - The country’s economy slipped from growth to contraction after the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell below 50 in April. New export orders sank to their lowest level since December 2022 when China was still under lockdown, according to figures reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. Major financial institutions including UBS and Goldman Sachs have slashed their growth forecasts for China.
China’s Export Economy Under Trump’s Tariff Onslaught The Worst Since COVID - Since President Donald J. Trump took office 100 days ago, it has been a nonstop deluge of hoaxes and lies from Democrats and their allies in the Fake News suffering from terminal cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome. (Hat tip to Commenter Biden's Dog Sniffs Malarkey - jjs)
100 DAYS OF HOAXES: Cutting Through the Fake News
- "NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS."
Trump: This Is Biden’s Stock Market
- Europe’s billion-euro fines on Apple and Meta aren’t about fairness—they’re a digital power grab that hands American innovation to rivals like China under the guise of “openness.”
President Trump’s Stake in Europe’s Mauling of Apple
- The new fab — backed by some $6.6 billion in CHIPS Act grants and part of a broader $100 billion expansion pledge TSMC made in March — is slated to provide thousands of local jobs and anchor a domestic supply chain for everything from smartphones to fighter jet avionics, according to a TSMC press release. (RELATED: Another Chips Giant Commits To Manufacturing In US)
‘It’s The Key’: Chips Giant Breaks Ground On Third US Plant
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION - U.S. Magistrate Judge Jessica Hedges agreed that Owen McIntire, 19, a student at the University of Massachusetts Boston, should be released after McIntire’s lawyers “argued” he be released, noting that “he has no criminal record” and that he has “strong ties to his community in Missouri,” according to KMBC News. (Give him a seat on the NYC subway and let the illegal alien immolator sit next to it!!!! - jjs)
Judge Orders Suspect Behind Firebombing of Missouri Tesla Released from Federal Custody - Take a look (Notice how Raskin doesn’t do a thing to stop the mob from attacking an American just exercising their rights that he pretends to defend): (Cancer is as cancer does - jjs)
Cowardly Dem Union Mob Attacks Conservative Jack Posobiec After Jamie Raskin Points Him Out
- Victor Davis Hanson: No one on the left ever complained about Biden endangering the "rule of law."
What Is Democratic Legality?
- The parallels between the state of our country and the spectacular fall of Athens are too disturbing to ignore.
America as a New Athens (the Bad Kind) "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY - U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that an order blocking police from enforcing state immigration law applies to all local authorities. According to Fox News, Williams also told “attorneys for the state during a hearing in Miami on Tuesday that she planned to issue a preliminary injunction against a statute that makes it a misdemeanor for undocumented migrants to enter Florida by eluding immigration officials.” (Governor DeSanits, do your duty and sack this treasonous slag - jjs)
Florida: Federal Judge Orders Police to Stop Enforcing State Immigration Law - “We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking,” Kennedy said during a White House Cabinet meeting with President Trump and other top administration officials to mark the first 100 days of the president’s second term.
RFK Jr: HHS Became a ‘Collaborator in Child Trafficking’ Under Biden
- Robert Spencer: And the Left has yet another pathetic meltdown.
Still More Winning: Trump Sends Back 4,000 Foreign Criminals Who Were Here on Student Visas
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has reaffirmed the Trump administration’s unwavering focus on deporting dangerous migrants, stating that Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a Salvadoran illegal immigrant deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador—would face immediate deportation again if returned to the U.S. In a CBS News interview on April 30, 2025, Noem stated, “We’re focused on going after the worst of the worst and doing it the right way.”
Kristi Noem Vows Immediate Deportation if Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returns to U.S.
- This isn’t about the truth. It's about optics and emotion.
The Questions Democrats Will Not Ask
- The following are some of the significant achievements of the Trump administration’s efforts to deliver on the president’s promises of a secure border and a safer America during his first 100 days in office.
TRUMP EFFECT: First 100 Days Yields Mass Deportations, Record-Low Border Crossings
- In 2018, Abrego Garcia’s wife’s ex-husband told the court she “is dating a gang member.”
More Evidence Sheds Light on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Alleged MS-13 Affiliation
- The arrests of the agitators left the locals upset with…ICE.
Leftist Agitators Physically Impeded ICE During Virginia Courthouse Arrest
- If we don’t insist on the total assimilation and Americanization of our immigrants, we’ll cease to be America and become something else.
Mass Immigration Without Assimilation Is A Recipe For National Suicide ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN - "Burn them with your Molotov cocktails and set fire to the grass near the settlement outposts.”
Dangerous Fires Rage In Israel, National Emergency Declared. Palestinians Call For More Arson.
- Robert Spencer: Pro-Hamas activists like to claim the Palestinians are being “dehumanized.” Actually their foes are.
The Dehumanization of the Jews
- The deceitful al-Sharaa.
Syrians Arrest Two 'Palestinian' Leaders
- The Trump administration is transferring grantmaking authority from career bureaucrats to appointees who align with the president's foreign policy mission
State Department To Dismantle Anti-Israel Grantmaking Office in Effort To Rein In ‘Rogue People’ at Agency - “the Los Angeles city attorney’s office said it would not file criminal charges against the vast majority of students and protesters arrested because of a lack of evidence”
Hundreds Arrested at UCLA Anti-Israel Encampment, But Only Two Pro-Israel Students Being Prosecuted
- Diana Buttu called Hamas a 'movement for freedom, for liberation'
Harvard 'Human Rights' Lecturer Fawned Over ‘Hero’ Hamas Leader
- "Martyrs" and "Israeli aggression".
CBS Channels Hamas Propaganda WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - Witnessing the self-torture and prolonged suicide of an entire nation, as yet unwilling to grasp the enormity of the “rape gang scandal”, the question lingers: What became of the faith, drive, and heroism that formed the backbone of British imperialism?
From Imperialism to Defeatism OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY - The first words of the First Amendment to the US Constitution are: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” That’s pretty clear. We know what Congress is. We know what a law is. We know what religion is. But too often people have interpreted this to mean that government and religion must be completely separate — which was not the intention.
Dr. Phil reveals why this Supreme Court case could upend religious freedom - Our Founders wanted America to have religious freedom, not freedom from religion.
The Modern Corruption of Separating Church from State CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Johnson, 29, played for the Nottingham Panthers and was killed after a collision during a game against the Sheffield Steelers in late 2023.
No charges for hockey player who killed opponent with skate blade in gruesome 2023 on-ice incident
- New legislation seeks to hold fentanyl dealers accountable for the dangerous drug they peddle by allowing them to be charged with felony murder if their distribution results in death. Introduced simultaneously in the House and Senate, the proposed law aims to increase the severity of punishment for those involved in fentanyl trafficking. Under existing U.S. law, such offenses currently carry a minimum 20-year prison sentence but are not prosecuted as murder cases.
New Bill Targets Fentanyl Dealers with Felony Murder Charges.
- It calls for funding to boost recruitment and retention, enhance training, and expand legal protections for police officers.
Trump’s Executive Order Is a Big Win for Policing RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
- February report warned grid a risk of “disconnections due to the high penetration of renewables without the technical capacities necessary for an adequate response in the face of disturbances”.
Spanish Grid Operator Warned of Nation’s Heavy Reliance on Renewable Energy in February
- The collapse was predictable and could have been prevented—for a price.
Nukes, Renewables, and the European Grid Collapse - “The Trump Administration’s first one hundred days have been historic. The American public made themselves heard last November, and we are delivering on this mandate. Promises made, promises kept. At EPA, we are doing our part to Power the Great American Comeback. To mark this momentous day, we are proudly highlighting 100 environmental actions we have taken since January 20th to protect human health and the environment,” Zeldin said in a video post. . .
Exclusive: Lee Zeldin Details 100 Environmental Actions EPA Took to ‘Power the American Comeback’ Under Trump EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - Federal funding cuts to elite universities spotlight a deeper crisis: politicized science, failed peer review, and the urgent need for reform and accountability in U.S. research.
Accountability for Big Science - A new open letter denounces administrative bloat and stresses the importance of focusing on the academic mission.
Yale Professors Call out University’s Bureaucracy SECOND AMENDMENT - He claimed there have been “486 mass shootings involving ‘assault weapons'” since 2006, but did not provide any sources to substantiate the figures. He did reference Feinstein’s introduction of the first “assault weapons” ban over three decades ago, then claimed her ban “had a dramatic impact on mass shootings” during the ten years in which it was in place. Schiff’s claim runs counter to the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice report which indicated the ban could not be credited with any reduction in crime.
Adam Schiff-for-brains Pays Homage to Dianne Feinstein, Introduces ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban of 2025 THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH - Former Madison Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl was derelict in her duties in a scandal involving nearly 200 uncounted ballots, a new report finds.
Report: Wisconsin Elections Official Committed ‘Significant Violations’ In Uncounted Ballot Scandal
- The Ukrainian women — 53-year-old Svitlana Demydenko and her 22-year-old daughter, Yelyzaveta Demydenko — are accused of voting in the 2024 presidential election in Palm Beach, Florida, on Oct. 31, according to the Justice Department. The pair made their initial appearance in West Palm Beach federal court Tuesday. (Find out who gave them the ballots and charge them! - jjs)
Federal Prosecutors Charge Two Ukrainian Nationals With Illegally Voting In US Presidential Election BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS - “It’s always been clear that the lawsuit was an attempt to intimidate us,” the two men said in a statement. “Intimidation and retaliation were never going to work. We truly wanted our day in court to provide the complete story, but it appears Mr. Biden was afraid to actually fight this case in a court of law after all.”
Hunter Biden abruptly drops lawsuit against IRS — a move the whistleblowers say shows ‘everything you need to know’ DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY - The former VP described a dystopian view of the nation under her former 2024 foe — before bizarrely shifting focus to a lighthearted video of elephants at the San Diego Zoo during an earthquake.
DYSTOPIAN DUMBO: Kamala Harris bizarrely references viral elephant video in speech attacking Trump’s ‘vision for America’ after first 100 days: ‘Google it’ - “This is going to anger a lot of people,” he told The New York Times, adding, “People say they want change in the Democrat Party, but really they want change so long as it doesn’t potentially endanger their position of power.”
Democrats Beat David Hogg Into Six-Figure Ransom Payment After He Tried To Destroy Party From Within POLITICS - And what are Democrats doing in the face of this revolution of common sense? They are losing their minds.
Common Sense Is Highly Contagious — Except Among Dems
- “Look, I knew I was on the ticket, I would argue, because we did a lot of amazing progressive things in Minnesota to improve people's lives," he said. "But I also was on the ticket, quite honestly, because I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that, that I could put them at ease. I was the permission structure to say, 'Look you can do this and vote for this,' and and you look across those swing states with the exception of Minnesota, we didn't get enough of those votes.”
Tim Walz Explains Why Kamala Harris Picked Him, and I Can’t Stop Laughing
- Hopefully, a backroom deal can be brokered between Reid and the GOP, post-haste. Politics isn’t a game of fairness but of perception, and Reid can’t win if his base is divided. But if he doesn’t drop out, it’s a bad look for Earle-Sears and Miyares to be seen as passive. This is a moment that calls for bold, decisive leadership.
What Is Going on With the Virginia GOP?!
- Earlier this year, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced his intention to retire. Now, Scott Jennings, the CNN commentator who's become a conservative sensation for his epic takedowns of liberal talking heads, isn't shutting down rumors about a potential Senate run in Kentucky.
The Battle for Mitch McConnell’s Senate Seat Might Get More Interesting
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT" - "Today's agreement signals clearly to Russian leadership that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process..."
Done Deal: U.S. Signs Minerals Agreement With Ukraine
- Susie Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff, says President Donald J. Trump‘s first 100 days in office have been notably productive. Speaking to the New York Post on Tuesday, Wiles noted the America First leader has signed 142 executive orders since January 20 and mentioned the administration’s focus on trade agreements and curbing illegal immigration.
Trump Chief of Staff Gives Rare Interview Signaling Frustration With Ukraine, Russia.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - International leftist leaders have touted BRICS as a potential alternative to Western economic groups such as the G-20 and security coalitions such as NATO, though the countries do not enjoy any mutual security agreements altogether. Following the election of President Donald Trump, BRICS was touted as one of the most robust institutions to fight for globalism against Trump’s policies. Trump replied by threatening to impose a 100 percent tariff on BRICS nations if they pursued their goal of creating a unified currency to overthrow the dominance of the U.S. dollar.
BRICS Newcomers Egypt & Ethiopia Derail Summit Meant to Show Unity Against Trump
- “Carney’s electoral victory happened on Trumpian terrain.”
How Trump Won the Canadian Election
- Tehran’s regional influence imploded with the collapse of key proxies: Hezbollah, shattered after Hassan Nasrallah’s death, lost its grip on Lebanon as the country appointed a new president and prime minister, while the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria obliterated Iran’s strategic depth. The regime’s warmongering facade, cynically propped up after October 7, proved futile.
The End Of Iran’s Theocracy: Seizing The Moment For Freedom
- The administration aims to drive "Iran's illicit oil and petrochemical exports—including exports to China—to zero," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said
Trump Admin Targets $500-Million Iranian Smuggling Network in Fresh Batch of Sanctions ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - This mission has been plagued with problems.
Psyche asteroid probe experiences an unexplained engine problem
- Isaacman’s nomination still has to be confirmed by the full senate. Expect him to be approved handily, with the vote breaking down along similar party lines.
Jared Isaacman’s nomination approved by Senate committee CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - We would do well to consider how our choices in Vietnam affected our military and society in ways still felt today.
50 Years After Vietnam, Our Troops Remain Demoralized By Defeat
- Christian Toto: Failed late-night host pushes conspiracy theories on, where else, 'The View'
Amber Ruffin’s Trump Derangement Spikes in ‘View’ Tirade
- As anyone who is a victim of cancel culture can attest, the damage is often profound and long-lasting.
How cancel culture punishes the innocent
- Daniel Greenfield: Bombs come in threes.
Disney’s Heading for a Very Bad Summer HITHER & YON - She also cited the "bulls*** sand" "bulls*** not having no snacks," as well as the fact that if she forgets to pay the electric bill in the U.S., she can still get her lights turned back on instantly, but that it takes hours if not days in Ghana.
Woman Who Moved to Ghana to Escape U.S. 'Racism' Begs to Come Back Due to Poverty and 'Big Ass Spiders'
- The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible in existence, the Sassoon Codex, will be on permanent display at ANU, the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv for the first time. The holy book arrived in Israel on October 5, 2023; just two days before the war broke out.
Sassoon Codex, world’s oldest Hebrew Bible to date, to join ANU permanent collection
- One of the most radical and bloodiest revolutions of the 20th century. (and enabled by the Democrats for letting Saigon fall - jjs)
Prager U Video: The Hall of Evil — Pol Pot
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 01, 2025 07:01 AM (BW+Gb)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 07:02 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 07:02 AM (HxdNq)
First mistake was moving. Second was Ghana when Liberia was there. Third is not researching the wildlife.
Wakanda Never.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 07:04 AM (HxdNq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 07:05 AM (HxdNq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 07:05 AM (HxdNq)
I'm okay. Thanks for axing!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2025 07:09 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 07:15 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:16 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:17 AM (ExV1e)
Because it sure does seem like a coordinated effort by federal judges to prevent the enforcement of federal immigration laws, and now state laws as well.
Meanwhile, Congress and SCOTUS just sit back and watch.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 07:17 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 01, 2025 07:18 AM (/Ghsb)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 07:18 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:19 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 07:19 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:21 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 07:22 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:23 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 07:23 AM (6ydKt)
Nope. Government employees.
Posted by: JROD at May 01, 2025 07:24 AM (IlL6s)
I suppose because you cannot articulate "whatever the crime may be".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:24 AM (ExV1e)
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I don't know what DeSantis will do, probably nothing, but in a general sense - people need to stop asking "where is the GOP on XYZ?!"
Yes, I know the GOP is infuriating and it makes people indignant. So what?
We all knew from bitter experience what would happen. The GOP hates Trump, and us, and will never work for his our agenda - ever.
Luckily the GOP is finally dying, and is rapidly being displaced. But as of now, it's still the GOP, and it won't be any less cunty and smug and worthless in its death throes than it was in its vigor.
The administration and its surrogates, etc. can only disregard them, and shouldn't waste even one second looking to those criminals for help, or gnashing their teeth when it never materializes. It's annoying. It's like a dad complaining that his junkie son who steals from his wallet didn't mow the lawn - AGAIN!!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 07:25 AM (BI5O2)
Trump’s Executive Order Is a Big Win for Policing"
LOL, rly? big win for cops maybe; us, not so much ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 01, 2025 07:25 AM (/Ghsb)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:24 AM (ExV1e)
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Howabout violating her oath of office and the constitutional limits on her authority.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 07:26 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:27 AM (VWf79)
I moved my ass over to Ghana
In my room was a creepy iguana
He said, when you're asleep,
To your bed I will creep
And play hide the Ghana banana!
TL/DR: Ghanan animals are weird!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 07:27 AM (iJfKG)
"Permission structure" sounds like a term created from whole cloth by some HR drone whose pride and joy are her three cats.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 07:28 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:29 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 07:30 AM (vFG9F)
Oh, for fuck's sake...
Derecho in Ohio, massive death and destruction
Derecho in Texas, It's Tuesday!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 07:31 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:31 AM (VWf79)
There was this Nigerian woman I would chat with every so often on another site. It was almost a running joke about the folks that thought they were moving to a Holy Land that was so much better than the pit of racism this country is and then learning the truth within a few weeks.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 07:31 AM (jjoN6)
These judges are out of control. It’s so ridiculous that it’s clearly time to start ignoring court orders and state openly you’re doing so. WTH… can’t even fathom the logic behind such an order
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 01, 2025 07:32 AM (6RwsA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:33 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 07:31 AM (jjoN6)
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Yet that woman will return and still hate this country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 07:33 AM (RIvkX)
Um, if you don't have "freedom from religion", you don't have religious freedom. "Pick one" is not freedom. "Believe whatever the hell you want" is freedom.
Posted by: MrExcitement at May 01, 2025 07:33 AM (hOOi9)
I bet every f'n Democrat votes against it.
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 07:34 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 01, 2025 07:34 AM (6RwsA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
She's a corrupt bitch doing what she's told. Or ad-libbing and following the others.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 07:35 AM (SYD5S)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 01, 2025 07:25 AM (/Ghsb)
Yeah, if I'm the admin, I'm looking to strangle federal grants to any police agency that I suspect of Party loyalty, and divert it all to departments who make it clear they're loyal to us, not give these punks more money.
IOW, the LAPD gets a lump of coal with which to fight their throng of maneating dope zombies and Aztec street warriors, while Sheriff Bob's deputies in Lower Nowheresville get a fat raise to make sure they only have the best men to fight their growing problem with jaywalking and treed cats.
Let these cities rot. Better yet, seal them off and blockade them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 07:35 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Some people are very determined to not learn from experience.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 07:36 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 01, 2025 07:36 AM (/Ghsb)
In which a silly limerick joke is confused with a serious scientific statement of fact:
Ghana does not have iguanas.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:29 AM (VWf79)
Iguanas are found in the Americas.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:31 AM (VWf79)
Though to be fair, the iguana was creepy.
And perhaps had left the Americas due to the horrible anti-reptile speciism.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 07:37 AM (iJfKG)
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If you'd like to hear AG Bondi's "status report" on her first 100 days go watch Trump's cabinet meeting video from yesterday. It's basically a staff meeting where each cabinet member/appointee tells the President what their accomplishments were thus far.
It's on YouTube. Various sources. Runs about 2 hours.
TL;DR version: lots of cheerleading and chest thumping. Some interesting tidbits did come out, specifically RFK Jr's statement about *biden's Health and Human Services department being involved with child trafficking. Rubio's revelation about the State Dept. having dossiers on people they believed were passing 'misinformation.' A current Trump cabinet member is one. As for Bondi, her focus at this meeting was on the DEA. My take. General "we'll get you" comments on the Tesla bombers and a single "we'll win in court" comment on the lawfare.
YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 07:38 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:24 AM (ExV1e)
I'm no lawyer. But surely Ordering law enforcement to not cooperate with Federal authorities to uphold the law is a crime. Or is it merely a Bazooka Joe comic?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2025 07:38 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 07:26 AM (RIvkX)
Those would be grounds for Impeachment and Bondi has nothing to do with that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)
Where did she think she was going, Wakanda?
“Ahite ya’ll I’m moovin to Africa to get away from all you racists, white, devils!”
“Wait, whatchu mean you ain’t got no Cheese Puffs and Bon Bons and deep fried Snickers bars?”
“What, Africa has wild animals?? Nobody said mutton bout no bigass lizards, y’all!”
“Savages! Take me back to the racists, I’m outta here yallz!”
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 07:39 AM (6ydKt)
"Democratic workers union rally"
Remarkably, the Democrats have been able to continue the fiction that "unions" are poor workers exploited by Mister Mister and Harry Bennett is still busting heads on the Rouge. Instead of "public service" drones playing with house money.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 07:39 AM (QnmlO)
What do they need it for? To build a shiny new gas chamber for cute YouTube squirrels while sex-trafficking cannibal warlords from some jungle hellhole take over apartment blocks in their foetid cities?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 07:41 AM (BI5O2)
Posobiec needs to take some combat classes or something.
Posted by: JROD at May 01, 2025 07:42 AM (IlL6s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 01, 2025 07:42 AM (/Ghsb)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:24 AM (ExV1e)
I'm no lawyer. But surely Ordering law enforcement to not cooperate with Federal authorities to uphold the law is a crime. Or is it merely a Bazooka Joe comic?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2025 07:38 AM (x0n13)
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Seems like a textbook case of obstruction of justice, if nothing else.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 07:43 AM (7fElN)
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These judges are out of control. It’s so ridiculous that it’s clearly time to start ignoring court orders and state openly you’re doing so. WTH… can’t even fathom the logic behind such an order
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 01, 2025 07:32 AM (6RwsA)
Back during the Biden Administration (IIRC), Arizona decided that they would check citizenship and, when illegals were found, hold illegals for the feds to come pick up. They were sued and the courts ruled that immigration is entirely and uniquely a federal matter and if the feds choose to ignore the law there's nothing the state can do about it. I would assume that it's some derivation of that.
It's the same basis on which Texas was being sued over the razor wire at the border. SCOTUS has managed to duck the issue so there are a hodgepodge of ruling depending on what Democrat was miraculously assigned the case this time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 01, 2025 07:44 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 01, 2025 07:45 AM (KaCLm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:45 AM (VWf79)
The "Move to Ghana" Retard is surely in the running for:
The Entitled Dumb-Fuck of the Year Award.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 07:46 AM (iJfKG)
They both seemed quite happy with living and working in my little town.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 07:46 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 07:46 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 07:46 AM (AluPP)
A lot of starry eyed immigrants seem to think exactly that. But it is fun pointing out that Wakanda was created by a white man because he knew that black people read comics too.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 07:46 AM (jjoN6)
So, Bondi, who oversees what might be the most corrupt agency in the federal government, and who has to deal with not only internal corruption but constant harassment and interference from the judiciary isn't moving fast enough?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 01, 2025 07:36 AM (/Ghsb)
Correct grammer and speling are very impertinent to me!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 07:47 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 07:48 AM (O7YUW)
It had plenty of chilling photos of what's become of the place. There was a time when I'd have been furious at that. Now, I just shrug. Not my country, not my countrymen. They bought their ticket, and they can take their ride.
If you come to San Francisco, be sure to wear a dirty needle through the sole of your foot.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 07:48 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 07:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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A similar phenomenon to the Canary Islands.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 07:46 AM (AluPP)
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Snake Island earned its name fair and square, however.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 07:48 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2025 07:48 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:49 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 07:49 AM (ZoLdO)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 07:49 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 01, 2025 07:49 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 07:50 AM (jgHGn)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2025 07:38 AM (x0n13)
The judge didn't order state/local law enforcement to not cooperate with the feds. She ordered them to stop enforcing a state law dealing with immigration. Right or wrong, this is in line with prior judicial rulings.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:50 AM (VWf79)
Have a miserable May Day you fkin Communists
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 07:51 AM (jgHGn)
Congress could write a law limiting judges powers to issue restraining orders today, pass it, and Trump could sign it next week.
I don’t see any other way around it.
And if you go with that option imagine the amount of stupid things the next Democrat administration can do with no way to hold them back.
It’s a nuclear option, but if Roberts and SCOTUS won’t step up and stop their rogues, what else can be done?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 07:51 AM (6ydKt)
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Et Tu?
Posted by: runner at May 01, 2025 07:52 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 07:52 AM (M/tYi)
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Okay, I watched the video.
It's weird because that woman looks like a prime candidate for the nation and things she's griping about. I can only assume the problem is the suddenness of it vs growing up in her own similar terrible community that she and her families created.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 07:52 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Slang term for homeless people. Term taken from the movie of the same name (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers).
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 07:52 AM (jjoN6)
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(smoke alarm chirps in the background)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 07:53 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 07:53 AM (ZoLdO)
“I would rather go back to America and deal with racism in America before I sit here in Africa and deal with the bulls*** bribery, the bulls** fraud, the bulls** scams, the bulls** too expensive, the bulls** not having no snacks, the bulls** not having no food, the bulls** electricity, the bulls** hot water, the bulls**…what’s that shit called?
Hey, toots, let me give you some advice. Most Americans aren't racists. But they like people who share their values. It doesn't make any difference what race, color or creed they are.
If you're black and you maintain those silly bourgeois values and behaviors you were taught were repressive - stuff like stable marriages, taking responsibility for yourself, going to church, being polite and friendly - those white people are the same who you thought hated you will think well of you. But sit in a pile of your own midden, whine and screech about how nobody loves you and fly your freak, they'll avoid you at all hazards.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 07:53 AM (QnmlO)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 07:54 AM (uH1zk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:54 AM (VWf79)
The Senate would filibuster it but it's interesting that the House hasn't passed it. Guess they have more important things on their mind... like planning their next extended vacation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:54 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 07:54 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: Foreskin Lint at May 01, 2025 07:54 AM (979V4)
So, Bondi, who oversees what might be the most corrupt agency in the federal government, and who has to deal with not only internal corruption but constant harassment and interference from the judiciary isn't moving fast enough?
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My take on the substance of her report to the President. Go look at one of the videos and make your own decision on whether she's moving fast enough. I don't have an opinion on that particular aspect of her job performance right now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 07:55 AM (Q4IgG)
Look for "Timcon Walz: Code Talker" in theaters in 2027.
"Oh, yeah. you code."
-- Kamala Lisa Vito
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 01, 2025 07:57 AM (Tv15w)
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Oh man, watch the video if you haven't. It's hilarious.
She was apparently going to open her dental office in Wakanda but in the next moment talks about how in America she can put money on her prepaid electricity bill and if she forgets to pay the bill it aint get cut off they just take it out of the prepaid money.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 07:57 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 07:57 AM (AluPP)
It's a an elaborate parody site but ironically it's got more insight than what you'll find in official media.
Basically the NSA hoovers up everything on the internet and stores it in Utah. I mean everything. Batman had his own version you'll recall.
Put on your tinfoil hat and it connects into FISA. SCOTUS Roberts has outsized influenced at FISA, just sayin'
Now imagine you could use modern AI to sift through those oceans of data to connect dots to show that a sitting Senator was on NGO boards and got lots of fees for a no-show position. I'm looking at you Lindsay!
Or how Chelsea came to be worth $100 million. Or the exact pattern of stock trades that made Nancy a fortune.
Surfer Girl Tulsi is now head of the NSA, just sayin'
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 01, 2025 07:57 AM (Gqoy+)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 07:59 AM (ZoLdO)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 07:54 AM (uH1zk)
Trannies? Yeah, I can help you with that.
I'll get the lipstick.
Posted by: Tim Walz at May 01, 2025 08:00 AM (iJfKG)
The thesis of this article is not supported by the facts it presents. It even quotes Thomas Jefferson coining the phrase "separation between Church and State" as his interpretation of the religious part of the 1st Amendment, but then goes on to say that it's some sort of modern Leftist idea.
The Geo Washington quote, he actually says that INDIVIDUALS (including politicians) should be religious and moral - not the STATE.
In the 1st SCOTUS quote, it says govt can't interfere with "traditional religious practices" and gives Biblical references as an example, but that does not mean the govt is REQUIRED to SUPPORT Biblical religions. In the 2nd one, SCOTUS gets it right, banning KY schools from implicitly ENDORSING Biblical religions.
It also uses the dishonest "public square" terminology, which tries to make it sound like you can't do religious things "in public". Religious endorsements are prohibited on govt property, so as not to imply any religious endorsements by the govt. That's NOT "the public square".
The Founders didn't say "biblical religions" were essential - several key Founders were Deists, for cryin' out loud!
Posted by: MrExcitement at May 01, 2025 08:00 AM (hOOi9)
"I love the people but you go outside and there's nothing but ducks and sheeps and malnourished cows"
Ma'am, that place has existed for pretty much the same amount of time as America. Heck, we've probably given wherever you're living a few billion dollars.
What do you think the crucial variable is?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 08:01 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 01, 2025 08:03 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 08:03 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)
Just finished stitching the 14th stocking that I have made in my lifetime. I have made lots of other cross-stitch items over the years, but I love the joy that my family takes in each of their Christmas stockings.
I put a lot of love in every one, and it gives me great joy to know that long after I am gone, my loved ones will have something special that was made just for them by someone who loved them very much 💕💕💕.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 01, 2025 08:03 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 07:47 AM (ExV1e)
3 months in. Aside from her previous support of red flag laws and her Epstein binders stunt, what can we name as her accomplishments?
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 08:04 AM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 08:04 AM (ZoLdO)
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The sports loudmouth guy? Yikes.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 08:05 AM (AluPP)
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, James Sessoms, 60, of Philadelphia, pled guilty today to one count of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fraud, seven counts of false statements in connection with health care benefits, and seven counts of Social Security fraud.
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 08:06 AM (ZoLdO)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 01, 2025 08:06 AM (cvWHI)
About that judge that released the Tesla arsonist...
MA judge and loony leftist.
Scroll down to the bottom paragraph.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at May 01, 2025 08:07 AM (elaR+)
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The Agency got its start recording phone calls. All of them. Then they branched out into intercepting radio transmissions. Mostly directed at Russia, later China... then everyone. They developed some pretty unique tools to gather intel... mostly computer related. And later the products to interrogate all that info.
Seymour Cray (Cray Supercomputers) was on of NSA's first, if not the first, IT contractor. My dad worked with his shop as a NSA analyst.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 08:08 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 01, 2025 08:09 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 08:10 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at May 01, 2025 08:11 AM (dg+HA)
Sorry to be a bit of a downer today.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 08:12 AM (+OnsA)
23-year-old daughter can stay if she's hot.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 01, 2025 08:14 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Bert G at May 01, 2025 08:14 AM (VARTN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 08:15 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 08:15 AM (ZoLdO)
This article also has that stupid painting of George Washington kneeling in prayer at Valley Forge.
The story behind that is that sometime in the 1800s, a farmer in the Valley Forge area claimed that his gt-grandfather witnessed this. It should tell you something, that this is apparently the only time that Washington was ever seen praying.
Except that it was a hoax. The family didn't even live there when George Washington was there.
They try to make Washington out to be some sort of Bible-thumper, but the truth is that he was disinterested in organized religion altogether. There are all kinds of writings by Washington, and none of it says anything about his religious beliefs - otherwise they wouldn't be clinging to this ridiculous story of the ONE TIME Washington supposedly prayed.
The Constitution literally says "no religious test" for POTUS. The idea that the Founders that wrote it thought that "biblical religions" were essential is a load of BS.
Posted by: MrExcitement at May 01, 2025 08:15 AM (hOOi9)
>>Meanwhile, Congress and SCOTUS just sit back and watch.
Well, congress has spent most of 2025 in recess, also, per one congress critter I heard on the Mike Slater show, are only now getting around to dealing with the CR that's coming down the pike, again, they are not working on a budget or in regular order, nor actually doing anything substantive to advance Trump's agenda.
As ever, the GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.
And don't get me started on SCOTUS.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 08:16 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 08:04 AM (vf0Y9)
People like to compare her to Garland. Aside from persecuting the J6th people, an activity which had the wholehearted support of the entire DOJ, Congress, judiciary, and media, what did he accomplish in the first 100 days?
Look, I get that a lot of people don't like her. She's insufficiently pro-gun... she made a poor theatrical choice... fine. Say you don't like her and move on but the daily shrieking (not, necessarily, by you) that she hasn't done a bunch of illegal shit because we fantasize that Garland would have done the opposing illegal shit in her place is tiring.
People will get emotional about an issue and say "why hasn't Bondi had these people executed in the streets!" Well, because it isn't in her purview. I try to remain rational on all this shit and will respond accordingly. I don't particularly care for Bondi but I doubt any other Republican could have done much better. And, if they could, they wouldn't have been confirmed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)
Also, Thom Tillis is holding up Ed Martin's confirmation because Thom wants all J6 prisoners back in prison.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 08:16 AM (t5upi)
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:17 AM (M/tYi)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 08:17 AM (ZoLdO)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 08:17 AM (+OnsA)
Posted by: Big Ass Spider at May 01, 2025 08:18 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 08:18 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 08:18 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: MrExcitement at May 01, 2025 08:15 AM (hOOi9)
You sound perturbed.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 01, 2025 08:18 AM (SfhV1)
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Those photos are really fascinating.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 08:19 AM (qBdHI)
So the court has ruled what? That being a tranny is a disorder? So severe that incarceration is cruel and unusual? Or being a tranny means that the laws that bind everyone else don't apply?
How can a tranny be treated equal in every other circumstance of life, but here they are more equal?
I'm trying to figure out the legal logic behind this.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 01, 2025 08:21 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Bert G at May 01, 2025 08:14 AM (VARTN)
It will never happen. Executive action, suspension of habeas corpus, is the only and inevitable course of action for a president serious and committed to deportation on the scale required. I just hope Trump embraces it with total conviction, goes to the people with it, and directly challenges the democrats (and Republican squishes) to go ahead, impeach me.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 01, 2025 08:21 AM (vsTPo)
Posted by: Jonah at May 01, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 08:22 AM (VWf79)
They will impeach and remove and it'll be President Kamala. Be careful what you wish for.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 08:22 AM (t5upi)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 08:23 AM (fUDLX)
"Yes We Can!"
"Fired Up! Ready to Go!"
The shit what? It was the mindlessness not the chanting that I found spine-jangling. I knew exactly what they were.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:23 AM (M/tYi)
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 01, 2025 08:23 AM (+mW6S)
Posted by: Jonah at May 01, 2025 08:23 AM (YCxFk)
Wait'll you see THIS pianist! *unzips*
Posted by: Volomyr Zelensky at May 01, 2025 08:23 AM (t5upi)
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 01, 2025 08:25 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:25 AM (77rzZ)
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Meh. It was good. Would not say great.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 08:26 AM (pZ64F)
Except we have their actual writings that say that biblical religions are essential for a Constitutional Republic.
Here are a few examples:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
"Virtue or moralisty is a necessary spring of popular governance" - George Washington
"No government can continue good but under the people's control; and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and wrong; to be encouraged in virtuous habits and deterred from vice." - Thomas Jefferson
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 01, 2025 08:26 AM (a4flb)
Read up on what this "friend of Ben Crump" did to that idiot Zimmerman. The case that intentionally fractured a nation - and she was right in the middle of it. After the police and everyone else had decided there was no case. Then the jury decided there was no case. Not good.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:26 AM (M/tYi)
"Hope And Change". The idiots never axed what was the change hoped for and just wanted more free stuff. Obammy was going to pay for their mortgage, their gas, their health care all outta his stash!
Posted by: Sub 80 IQs... at May 01, 2025 08:27 AM (979V4)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:27 AM (M/tYi)
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That's wonderful Teresa. I never learned how to cross-stitch because I don't have the patience.
I love hand-made Christmas stockings.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Jonah at May 01, 2025 08:28 AM (YCxFk)
Save the Rhino Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 08:29 AM (NpAcC)
Sure. But what was the code part and more importantly how did he know the code that racist whites all use?
He could have said "appeal". He said code talk.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:29 AM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Marcus Gravey at May 01, 2025 08:29 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Jonah at May 01, 2025 08:29 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 08:30 AM (DIweC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 08:30 AM (VWf79)
My favorite detail is that the fake JD Vance they used to prep him for debate was Pete Buttgigger. And that he was "terrified" of Vance.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 08:30 AM (t5upi)
Posted by: Jonah at May 01, 2025 08:31 AM (YCxFk)
He said it because Harris was accurately fingered as using code switching and he doesn't actually understand what that means.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 08:31 AM (t5upi)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 08:31 AM (fUDLX)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:32 AM (M/tYi)
We need to rein in those judges who would reign over us.
Posted by: Ciampino - there, a gooder example at May 01, 2025 08:32 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 08:31 AM (t5upi)
Ah so he's an idiot. I can buy that.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:32 AM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 08:32 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 08:33 AM (fUDLX)
European leaders hate him because he will tell them hard truths they desperately want to deny. German diplomats literally laughed when Trump warned them that they were too dependent on Russian gas, but after the invasion of Ukraine and the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline (conducted by Ukraine with the assistance of the United States' Joe Biden!) they were not laughing.
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 08:34 AM (RHGPo)
People will get emotional about an issue and say "why hasn't Bondi had these people executed in the streets!" Well, because it isn't in her purview. I try to remain rational on all this shit and will respond accordingly. I don't particularly care for Bondi but I doubt any other Republican could have done much better. And, if they could, they wouldn't have been confirmed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)
Nothing to do with liking her. And even if it did, none of us need to state an opinion once and move on.
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 08:34 AM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 08:34 AM (VWf79)
ISWYDT.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 08:33 AM (fUDLX)
The rein of reign falls mainly with the pain.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:34 AM (M/tYi)
I haven't heard someone called a pud since high school. I went to school with a family that had 5 boys, the oldest was a year ahead of me and another was a year behind. The youngest of the 5 was a pretty good kid but he was always trying to tag along with his older brothers and that got annoying at times so they nicknamed him Pud. Even his parents started calling him Pud.
I don't even remember his real name, he was just Pud. He probably became an ax murderer.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m)
What was the alternative? Matt Gaetz?
Could he have done any more? You have to have a vision, and then you have to have a plan, and then you need to have people willing to go with that plan, and it helps if We The People are behind it, or at least a whole tone of activist judges and persecutors who have zero hesitancy at forcing a revolution.
Bondi and Gaetz are good at articulating The Vision™ I'm not so sure that any of the other components to success are there.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 01, 2025 08:35 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: one hour sober at May 01, 2025 08:35 AM (Y1sOo)
Happy birthday!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 08:31 AM (fUDLX)
*****
Ditto!
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 08:35 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Fugitive From Board of Mental Health at May 01, 2025 08:36 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2025 08:36 AM (Oy/m2)
Happy birthday!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 08:31 AM (fUDLX)
I hope you have a marvelous day!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 01, 2025 08:37 AM (SfhV1)
We need to rein in those judges who would reign over us.
Posted by: Ciampino - there, a gooder example at May 01, 2025 08:32 AM (sPQoU)
It's raining men! Hallelujah!
It's raining men! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at May 01, 2025 08:38 AM (979V4)
Watched the Pianist
for the first time last night, and was blown away. A Masterpiece
Posted by: Jonah at May 01, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
Is that the movie about the guy who drinks 10 gallons of coffee in one hour?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 08:38 AM (iJfKG)
Instead of diversity moderating people, people become more extreme. One Palestinian student showed up [at Harvard], talking with Israelis. By the end [of their time at Harvard, the student] cut off ties with Israelis and posted [on social media] in favor of Hamas.
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 08:38 AM (RHGPo)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at May 01, 2025 08:40 AM (53oGX)
Nothing is better to start your next trip around the sun than a good case of triggering metabolic dysfunction.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 01, 2025 08:40 AM (a4flb)
The Obama administration literally had an (unannounced) policy that it would not take cases in which the victims of civil rights laws violations were white. It stacked DOJ's CRD with lawyers who were on board with this. Good riddance.
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 08:40 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Aruba Liberace, Play Mambo for Me at May 01, 2025 08:40 AM (G5+As)
So, Bondi, who oversees what might be the most corrupt agency in the federal government, and who has to deal with not only internal corruption but constant harassment and interference from the judiciary isn't moving fast enough?
Don't forget - literally HALF her department has quit (see the Civil Rights Department article with Harmeet)...and the feds have a hiring freeze. The half quitting is GREAT, but it does mean they don't have the resources to pursue everything everywhere til they can hire the right folks...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 01, 2025 08:41 AM (tOcjL)
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I think he used Gay White Pedo Guys code talk. As far as I can tell anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 01, 2025 08:41 AM (Dv3i1)
Judging by the reaction of leftists they don't care for her much. Her gutting of the DOJ Civil Rights division seems to have really upset them.
Congress still hasn't confirmed many US Attorneys indulging Ed Martin in DC. Her visions seems to include a complete overhaul of the most corrupt agency in DC. Will she pull it off? Don't know but it is definitely too soon for me to make a judgement one way of the other.
But in addition to being involved with the remake of the DOJ and all of the mass deportations she is also overseeing the numerous court battles across the country with rogue judges trying to shut down Trump. Be nice of SCOTUS got off their asses and stoped it but in the meantime it's left up to her to fight them for the Trump administration.
Leftists have stoped firebombing Tesla dealerships and that didn't happen by magic.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 08:42 AM (viF8m)
Right. So you don't like Bondi. So she's a typical political lawyer. Fine. Try to separate your distaste for her from your analysis of her performance as AG.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)
First mistake was moving. Second was Ghana when Liberia was there. Third is not researching the wildlife.
Wakanda Never.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 01, 2025 07:04 AM (HxdNq)
5,000 quatloos she believed that she would escape racism and being an American, she'd be treated like a queen and outwit everyone in Ghana, making a zillion dollars in no time.
Posted by: Gref at May 01, 2025 08:42 AM (aBgBM)
That dude stopped being funny a while ago.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:43 AM (77rzZ)
Nothing is better to start your next trip around the sun than a good case of triggering metabolic dysfunction.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
One cupcake should be the limit. Needs to be codified into law!
Posted by: The Noodge at May 01, 2025 08:43 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 08:30 AM (DIweC)
Many happy returns.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 08:43 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 01, 2025 07:44 AM (gm9Sb)
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In Africa sandals are made out of rubber from car tires - sturdy stuff. No crocs except for the Nile types and their genre.
https://tinyurl.com/4cm7fa5j
Posted by: Ciampino - the tough sandal 80,000 miles at May 01, 2025 08:44 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
So I take it that your still not of legal drinking age.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:44 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Doof at May 01, 2025 08:34 AM (vf0Y9)
And that's fine. People will continue to complain. I will continue to inform them that they're being unreasonable.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 08:45 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: fd at May 01, 2025 08:45 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Rip N Read at May 01, 2025 08:45 AM (fr4zq)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 01, 2025 08:45 AM (Aqu9a)
Tillis is holding that up because he wants the death penalty for J6 or some such nonsense. He needs to be primaried.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 01, 2025 08:46 AM (t5upi)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Gref at May 01, 2025 08:42 AM (aBgBM)
Uganda kidding me, who you Ghana believe now?
Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2025 08:47 AM (Oy/m2)
The FNM gave them a very different view of what life is like outside of the Christian West and in this case they were dumb enough to believe it.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 01, 2025 08:47 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Not always. Sometimes CBD gives us really nice art.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Happy 29th
From one Taurus to another.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 01, 2025 08:48 AM (FxH7T)
Acts 5:29-32
Posted by: Marcus T at May 01, 2025 08:49 AM (cjsfX)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:49 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Gref at May 01, 2025 08:42 AM (aBgBM)
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What's the exchange rate between Ghanan quatloos and American quatloos?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 08:50 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 08:50 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Shall we sing at the top of our lungs about your simian scent and visage?
Posted by: Count de Monet, reverting to 8 years old at May 01, 2025 08:51 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 08:50 AM (7fElN)
Not sure, but I do know you can't sell quatloosies on the street in NYC.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 01, 2025 08:51 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 01, 2025 08:51 AM (vsTPo)
YD, how is your daughter doing? Wasn't she having some health issues a while back?
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:51 AM (77rzZ)
This kind of shit happens daily. It's why I try to give a bit more patience and time to politicos than I do to business folks. I've been on both sides of business reorganizations where a new CEO came in and laid waste to companies with a snap of a finger. No rogue judge or back stabbing senator had a say.
If there's one thing we learned from the DOGE fallout with a lot more to come there were a whole lot of people on both sides of the aisle making bank under the old uniparty rule and they are going to fight to the death to keep the graft flowing.
They didn't try and bankrupt, imprison and then murder Trump over mean tweets.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 08:52 AM (viF8m)
At what point can the DOJ use mercenaries ("consultants") to pick up the slack? "US Attorney" is a title, can't most of the work be delegated out and overseen by a bona-fide "US Attorney"?
And by "consultants" I'm not necessarily ruling out those familar with wet work.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 01, 2025 08:52 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)
Absolutely. People can change. It doesn't have to color my opinion - but it can and will inform it.
Again that bs case was the destruction of the country and she stoked the flames. She could have been involved in 100 different ones that I wouldn't care about. But it's *that* one. The one that rolled out the welcome mat for BLM and everything that came with it. Her bad luck I suppose.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:52 AM (M/tYi)
Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2025 08:47 AM (Oy/m2)
Kenya give a guy a break?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 08:53 AM (iJfKG)
I think it would help if one or more of these overstepping judges were arrested for something pertaining to said overreach, and actually had to spend a weekend in jail waiting for a Monday court appearance, as happens to many 'civilians' arrested on a Friday.
Frankly we The People are long overdue to be shown a perp walk by a recognizable Dem or two. Judges, DAs, governors, mayors, local police chiefs - any will do.
Posted by: Ciampino - Any Mister Big at May 01, 2025 08:53 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 08:55 AM (M/tYi)
Posted by: dantesed at May 01, 2025 08:47 AM (Oy/m2)
Kenya give a guy a break?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 08:53 AM (iJfKG)
*something* Nairobi *something*
Posted by: Count de Monet, reverting to 8 years old at May 01, 2025 08:55 AM (Aqu9a)
Tell the judge to pound sand, you have no authority or jurisdiction here, and then the judge can do exactly what about it?
Issue more orders? Hold DeSantis in contempt?
Trump's DOJ is not going to move against DeSantis, so that's were it has to start.
Again, the only problem is that it's going to start an Arms Race, but this is where the left has put us, smack dab on the precipace of a true constitutional crisis.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 08:55 AM (XV/Pl)
First, it's got a picture of a Barbie doll with some quotes from Trump about tariffs raising some prices and causing shortages and his saying, "Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls." That is followed by the headline:
SKIMP ON THE BARBIE.
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LOL.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 08:56 AM (42Vb+)
But actually removing him would mean sacrificing their political careers in an act of political courage, which won't ever happen.
They're not Democrats. They're not ideologues. They don't want real power. They're just furtive, timid little sneakthieves at heart. Trump needn't fear them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 08:56 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 01, 2025 08:56 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: naturalfak
Guinea one good reason why I should.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)
Well, it would be different if Egypt you.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 01, 2025 08:56 AM (iJfKG)
One has. The judge in Wisconsin who helped an illegal evade ICE. Everyone forgot about that in 15 minutes.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 08:56 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 01, 2025 08:56 AM (VJc7E)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 08:56 AM (pZ64F)
"You have no power here! Begone, before somebody drops a house on you!"
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)
In an email to University of Texas at San Antonio neurobiologist George Perry — who is critical of the “amyloid mafia” — Hardy downplayed the impact of revelations of alleged fraud on the field.
“Sometimes you have to know when to say you were wrong,” Hardy said to his critic in the April 5, 2025, email. “It is time to fold because now you are doing harm.”
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 08:57 AM (RHGPo)
When any of Satan's avatars proclaims "This is a fight between Good and Evil" it isn't a lie. Its actually, in my opinion speaking a literal truth, that this is a secular and physical expression of a long standing spiritual war.
But the phrase is meant to be conveyed with the idea that the demon expects the listener to believe that the demon represents "Good" and any oppose are "Evil".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 01, 2025 08:57 AM (a4flb)
It’s a nuclear option, but if Roberts and SCOTUS won’t step up and stop their rogues, what else can be done?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 07:51 AM (6ydKt)
Eventually, they may not like the answer to that question.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 01, 2025 08:58 AM (5xuJ/)
Same goes for Kash.
Trump realistically has less than two years to get the bulk of his agenda enacted or set in motion, we have no time for baby steps, training wheels or loose sh*t.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 08:58 AM (XV/Pl)
Carry a gun.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 08:58 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Stopped following it when he played the race card and it was pointed out that the first 24 picks of the draft were black.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 01, 2025 08:59 AM (fUDLX)
Its because Congress Critter Ratskin and other demoniacs in Congress don't see it that way and view the activist judge as merely laying the impeachment snare for Trump to walk into.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 01, 2025 08:59 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:51 AM (
Yes, a couple of back-to-back corrective surgeries, very unpleasant, but nothing directly life threatening this time around.
The wounds just finished healing nicely. Just waiting for the hair to grow in, now. She's healthy. More energetic and belligerent than ever, if I do say so.
Thanks for asking
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 09:00 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Pudinhead
I'm more concerned about the new Eagles player named "Jihaad."
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)
What was truly miraculous was prior to it I never considered what an encounter with the Holy Spirit would be like or even that they actually occur - I guess I was sheltered - but when He came upon me I knew Him like my oldest most familiar friend. And it was the most elegant and peaceful feeling I've probably ever had. It came from outside of myself, not within. Indescribable.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 09:00 AM (M/tYi)
Carry a gun.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 08:58 AM (jjoN6)
Or a modern Mr. Microphone.
Posted by: Michael Winslow and his sound effects at May 01, 2025 09:01 AM (Aqu9a)
Belligerent? Are you certain she's yours?
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 09:01 AM (M/tYi)
>>Its because Congress Critter Ratskin and other demoniacs in Congress don't see it that way and view the activist judge as merely laying the impeachment snare for Trump to walk into.
The Donks showed the way when it comes to impeachment, when Mayorkas was impeached, the simply had a floor vote and deemed the articles of impeachment were unconstitutional and, bingo, bango, boongo, Mayorka's articles of impeachment were dispatched toot sweet.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 09:01 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: CFA Franc at May 01, 2025 09:02 AM (979V4)
Thanks for asking
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Good to hear, YD.
Gee, I wonder where she gets the belligerence from?
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: one hour sober at May 01, 2025 09:03 AM (Y1sOo)
Being that the Left hates the Constitution, this is exactly where they want to be.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 01, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 01, 2025 09:04 AM (vsTPo)
Thanks for asking
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Good to hear, YD.
Gee, I wonder where she gets the belligerence from?
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:02 AM (77rzZ)
Random mutation, no doubt. Has to be.
Enjoy e-v-e-r-y bit of it.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 01, 2025 09:04 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Whitehall at May 01, 2025 09:04 AM (OcCuK)
NASA sure talks a lot about Thrusting
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:04 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 09:05 AM (M/tYi)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)
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Also the insects, from mosquitos to scorpions to millipedes, thorns, rocks, etc.
You know the baby toes on your feet are the built-in furniture finders in the dark, right? Now put them in an environment such as a rain forest.
However the locals go barefoot or wear these
https://tinyurl.com/4cm7fa5j
Note: snakebites are more common on the shin/calf than on the foot. Also the green mamba and black mamba likes to bite you from a bush (not a shrubbery) thus arms and torso. Sometimes they hide in golf holes on the greens. You will notice after sinking a putt, the player will stick the club in the hole and move it about for a bit, before putting a hand in to retrieve the ball. That's not a superstitious ritual.
Posted by: Ciampino - Any snakes? at May 01, 2025 09:10 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 09:10 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Groan at May 01, 2025 09:11 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:09 AM (77rzZ)
I tried but I'm afraid I'm just a Bwana-be punster.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 01, 2025 09:11 AM (vsTPo)
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Illegal migrant kiIIs Texas dad in front of his family. He was able to stay here despite 2 prior kiIIs + prior arrests.
https://tinyurl.com/28hp4nxe
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 09:12 AM (NpAcC)
And it's only getting worse.
Not immediately firing the attorney that "admitted" the error in the Maryland Man case and filing an amendment withdrawing that statement. F up.
Not retroactively revoking that order of withholding--even still. F up.
Not aggressively appealing the illegal assertion of jurisdiction and venue by the east coast judges. F up, f up, f up.
I'm not going to pretend this is some big-brain multi-dimensional chess.
Lawfare was always going to be their strongest fight.
And he's still going into their dungeons, playing by their rules--even as they aren't--and giving them wins.
Yes, they were always going to get some wins.
What's concerning is the loss of momentum, the lack of taking the offensive.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 09:12 AM (NwfFc)
Same goes for Kash.
Trump realistically has less than two years to get the bulk of his agenda enacted or set in motion, we have no time for baby steps, training wheels or loose sh*t.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Bondi needs to call the left's bluff. They either are, or are not ready for the war they declared years ago to "go hot."
Do it. Their move.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 01, 2025 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Oh, no... at May 01, 2025 09:13 AM (dg+HA)
That's one benefit of living in a very cold climate, like our Inuit family from yesterday's art. No venomous critters.
Posted by: Bulg at May 01, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ciampino - Any snakes? at May 01, 2025 09:10 AM
The black mamba is named such because the interior of its mouth is black, not because the snake itself is black.
Also, Mom just said that something biting you from the bush is a good argument for hardwood. What does she mean?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 01, 2025 09:14 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 01, 2025 09:15 AM (vsTPo)
Same goes for Kash.
Trump realistically has less than two years to get the bulk of his agenda enacted or set in motion, we have no time for baby steps, training wheels or loose sh*t.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 01, 2025 08:58 AM (XV/Pl)
Rudy Giuliani and General Mike Flynn share your view—strongly . They have written extremely forceful opinions on the lack of speed and urgency. . But what do those two stiffs know?
Posted by: Voter theater. at May 01, 2025 09:16 AM (FCPbW)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 01, 2025 09:16 AM (dPQhL)
……… Yes, they were always going to get some wins.
What's concerning is the loss of momentum, the lack of taking the offensive.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 01, 2025 09:12 AM (NwfFc)
That’s been my concern from the start.
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 09:16 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Perry Como at May 01, 2025 09:16 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 09:16 AM (M/tYi)
Job 9:24
Posted by: Marcus T at May 01, 2025 09:17 AM (cjsfX)
Kind of dumb. You are correct. I don't like her.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 09:18 AM (M/tYi)
One has. The judge in Wisconsin who helped an illegal evade ICE. Everyone forgot about that in 15 minutes.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 08:56 AM (viF8m)
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Yes but was there a perp walk? And no I hadn't forgotten it. Just that the judge was an unknown.
Posted by: Ciampino - Any snakes in the grass? at May 01, 2025 09:18 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Toto at May 01, 2025 09:18 AM (dg+HA)
>>@BreannaMorello
>>🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
>>FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Elvis Chan has been placed on “terminal leave” and has not accessed his agency devices for over a month, sources confirm.
>>Chan served as the main censorship liaison between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and social media companies before the 2020 presidential election.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 09:21 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: tubal at May 01, 2025 09:10 AM (PCK5/)
You want lyrics?
Lagos, Casablanca, ooh, I wanna take ya
Abidjan, Luanda, come on pretty mama
Cape Town, Morocco, baby, why don't we go
Seychelles, off the Cape Verde
There's a place called Kokomo
That's where you wanna go to get away from it all
And bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand
We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a
Steel drum band, down in Kokomo
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 01, 2025 09:21 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: American Hawkman at May 01, 2025 09:21 AM (9VDxG)
Posted by: Toto at May 01, 2025 09:18 AM (dg+HA)
Shake-shake-shake
Shake Djibouti
Posted by: K.C. and the Sunshine Band at May 01, 2025 09:22 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 01, 2025 09:23 AM (vsTPo)
Most of them are. Does anyone know who the judge in CA who ruled yesterday that Trump needed to get a warrant for every single illegal he wants to deport is?
I'm aware it dangles. I'm multi-tasking.
And I saw the WI judges perp walk.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 01, 2025 09:24 AM (viF8m)
@IanJaeger29
Legendary Golfer Phil Mickelson calls out Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer says that he’s betrayed his country and that he’s a “traitor.”
https://tinyurl.com/edvphmn8
Posted by: redridinghood at May 01, 2025 09:25 AM (NpAcC)
Kind of dumb. You are correct. I don't like her.
Posted by: ... at May 01, 2025 09:18 AM (M/tYi)
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I agree. I don't like her either. That in and of itself doesn't make criticism invalid.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 01, 2025 09:28 AM (Oq5OE)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 01, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Eromero at May 01, 2025 09:31 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 01, 2025 09:32 AM (vsTPo)
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What country was Phil referencing?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 09:36 AM (pZ64F)
Staffordshire Police have opened an investigation into an anonymous TikTok account over posts appearing to show a private drone being used to target supposed asylum seekers in Tamworth, LBC reported.
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 09:39 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 01, 2025 09:44 AM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 01, 2025 08:56 AM
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Yawn. White guys running a business where over half the employees are black must be racists if every decision they make doesn't favor blacks.
Posted by: Bigsmith at May 01, 2025 09:44 AM (1Au9i)
Posted by: SD at May 01, 2025 09:45 AM (O3qZY)
.. I'm sure his friends call him Pyrite-man
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 09:48 AM (RHGPo)
From above, "McIntire’s lawyers also argued that he be released, noting his “medical and mental health needs.” McIntire has reportedly “been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder,” Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression,..."
But, 10WJAR, Dylann Roof likely has autism, but preferred death over that label, court records show by Drew Tripp, WCIV, Wed, May 10, 2017
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) - Convicted Emanuel AME Church gunman and death row inmate Dylann Roof may have autism spectrum disorder, in addition to several other mental health issues.
Court documents unsealed Wednesday show Roof’s attorneys planned to use his possible mental health problems as a defense in his federal hate crimes trial last year.
Roof balked at the entire notion, telling a judge he would rather die than be labeled as having autism.
“If the price is that people think I'm autistic, then it's not worth it,” Roof told U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel during a hearing in November 2016, only days before the scheduled start of his trial.
Not comparing the two crimes - vastly different in nature - but the use of autism as a defense in some ...
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (NFX2v)
>'Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court wants new ruling in case involving convicted murderer with low IQ'
Alabama said an appeals court 'bent law and logic' when ruling the state can’t execute Joseph Clifton Smith, whose IQ is in the 70s. He has been on death row since 1997.
By Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, Updated Nov. 11, 2024
In small part, "In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that executing someone with an intellectual disability violates the 8th Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Later decisions in 2014 and 2016 faulted Florida and Texas for how they evaluated the disability.
Alabama law defines intellectual disability as an IQ of 70 or below, “significant or substantial deficits in adaptive behavior” and the onset of those qualities before age 18."
>jaapl.org, IQ in Miranda Waivers and Death Penalty, 2009
'Low IQ per se Does Not Render a Waiver of Miranda Rights Invalid or Preclude the Imposition of the Death Penalty'
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Also from above, "...Jack Posobiec was assaulted by a bunch of union cowards on Tuesday after Posobiec asked Raskin two questions..."
Sen. Van Hollen spoke, too, ...
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (NFX2v)
Members of the International Association of Aerospace Workers, IAM, & National Federation of Federal Workers, among others, participated. (NBC4 Washington, 'Hundreds rally to support federal workers on Trump's 100th day in office.')
It's been built in:
>National Archives, FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces 1.2 Million Pensions Protected Under Biden-Harris Administration, Celebrates Historic Support for Unions, 11/24/24
>The Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law on 02/05/2025, has significantly impacted Social Security benefits and union involvement. This act restores full benefits to some public-sector employees who were previously affected by the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). This change has been championed by unions representing public sector workers like teachers, firefighters, and law enforcement officers.
>AFL-CIO, Every Worker Deserves a Union: The Working People Weekly List, 04/10/25
Baltimore Sun, 04/15/2025
Protestors, including unions, rally in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who is, allegedly, a member of a union.
"We Must Resist" tags seen on signs. !!
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (NFX2v)
"Multiple protests happening in and around Philly today; Bernie Sanders to headline May Day rally"
Protesters will take to the streets in Philadelphia and across the country to call out President Donald Trump's policies on the economy and immigration.
Sanders will hold more events in Pennsylvania this week
"Sanders is scheduled to hold two more rallies in Pennsylvania as part of his Fighting Oligarchy tour.
On Friday he’ll headline an event at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg at 6 p.m., while Saturday he’ll travel to Bethlehem to speak at a rally at the Stabler Athletic & Convocation Center at Lehigh University.
Both rallies will take place in districts currently represented in Congress by Republicans, part of Sanders’ strategy to highlight vulnerable House members ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
“The goal is to build a grass-roots movement who will not only take on Republican incumbents but also will demand that whoever represents districts in this country stands for the working class,” Sanders told the New York Times. “If you have incumbent Democrats who are not prepared to do that, they’re going to be challenged.”
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 01, 2025 09:54 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 10:03 AM (RHGPo)
Can someone tell me when exactly we became a country with a unitary government?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 01, 2025 10:27 AM (eNdzY)
"“What I am offended by is someone suggesting you don’t have to follow my order, that it’s not legitimate,” Williams said."
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 01, 2025 10:44 AM (gDbHk)
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 01, 2025 06:22 PM (FLiOE)
Daily Tech News 1 May 2025
Top Story
- AMD is reportedly preparing Ryzen 9000G desktop processors. (Tom's Hardware)
These will be repurposed laptop chips just like previous G-series CPUs. The difference is that these will offer up to twelve Zen 5 cores (or more specifically four Zen 5 cores and eight of the slower Zen 5c cores) plus up to 16 GPU cores.
And up to 256GB of RAM, since they are after all desktop chips and that's how much you can put in a regular desktop system these days.
Judging by the prices of the laptops though I expect the top models to be expensive.
Tech News
- Samsung plans to enter full production with its own 2nm process node in the second half of this year. (WCCFTech)
Now they just need to find customers.
- Microsoft's profits grew by 18% in the latest quarter, buoyed by rising sales of its key product, Slurm. (AP News)
It has electrolytes.
- Google is spending $10 million to train 100,000 new electricians. (Yahoo)
Yeah, I don't think that's quite enough, guys.
- The Minisforum N5 Pro is a NAS. (Liliputing)
It has the familiar twelve core Ryzen 370 and supports five SATA drives and three NVMe drives.
And OCuLink, without which it would be able to support five NVMe drives, and which is kind of useless in a device like this.
- Moved my Minecraft server from a VirtualBox VM on my laptop to an LXC container on my server. I expected to see some improvement: They're both Zen 3 cores, but the server is a full desktop system rather than a low-power laptop.
It's four times as fast, which I was not expecting.
I'm not sure why it is so fast, or more accurately, why my laptop is so slow. I'll play around and see if I can work out what is going on there but I am not unhappy with the outcome.
Musical Interlude
From Mirror, Mirror, a Snow White remake that just has fun with the story rather than trying to tie it into knots.
Disclaimer: Somewhere, beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me, my lover stands on gold sands, and says "Heya, stinky."
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:30 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 04:32 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:33 AM (sTuNG)
Yesterday, I had a scheduled MS Team meeting with a client. Fire up team and told it needs to be updated. Update never happened and Team refused to start. Meeting delayed for 2 hours and I had to call in.
Garbage company!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:35 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:36 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:39 AM (sTuNG)
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 04:42 AM (jgHGn)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 04:45 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:47 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 04:50 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Tuna at May 01, 2025 04:52 AM (lJ0H4)
Really behind on yardwork. But, not flooded where I am.
Posted by: OkJohn at May 01, 2025 04:54 AM (NC/it)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 04:55 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 01, 2025 04:56 AM (K861k)
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Interesting wording. Usually it would be "American"
Hmm...
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 04:57 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 04:57 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 04:58 AM (AluPP)
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Interesting wording. Usually it would be "American"
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 04:57 AM (AluPP)
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There's a gulf in Google's vocabulary.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:59 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:00 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 04:58 AM (AluPP)
Americans are too stupid and lazy to fill our electrician needs.
Posted by: Vivek "H1B Visas Forever" Ramaswamy at May 01, 2025 05:05 AM (s522d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:06 AM (VWf79)
https://tinyurl.com/c427txfu
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 05:06 AM (6AO0T)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:30 AM (sTuNG)
Makes my morning when BOING! shows up in first place.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:07 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:08 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Please to be the green wire, sar.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 05:08 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:10 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:10 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 05:12 AM (AluPP)
https://tinyurl.com/bdfck37h
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 05:12 AM (6AO0T)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 05:12 AM (AluPP)
Pray The Rosary
@PrayTheRosary12
19h
Pope Pius XII speaks in English to Allied soldiers in 1944
https://nitter.net/PrayTheRosary12/status/
1917568954031014092#m
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:14 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:15 AM (VWf79)
It has electrolytes."
Futurama + Idiocracy crossover. I understood those references.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 05:16 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:18 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: Biden's Dog ... (sTuNG)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:00 AM (CQE5S)
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https://youtu.be/2gI6yX9lHzg
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 05:20 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Biden's Dog ... (sTuNG)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:00 AM (CQE5S)
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https://youtu.be/2gI6yX9lHzg
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 05:20 AM (sTuNG)
HAH! GOAT.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:23 AM (CQE5S)
Nice to see Google realizing that they are going to need people to make the magic smoke happen but I agree that it should be US only.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 05:23 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 05:24 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at May 01, 2025 05:25 AM (AluPP)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:29 AM (CQE5S)
Anyway, here 's the country/gospel song "Have a little talk with Jesus". Many artists have recorded it including Loretta Lynn but here it's done by the Gaithers:
https://tinyurl.com/42ec8e8u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 05:31 AM (63ddr)
I'd go with Mathew 7:18 and then John 8:44.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)
As I get older, I start thinking that "demonic possession" is a good explanation for certain behaviors.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 05:38 AM (jjoN6)
Super-cute!
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 04:55 AM (CQE5S)
... and ear-wormy.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 05:41 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 05:31 AM (63ddr)
Depends on your 'religion'. Commies killed a lot in the name of their religion. Same with the Allahu Snackbars of the world.
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 05:41 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 05:41 AM (n5ytK)
https://tinyurl.com/49u48brm
(goes to nist.gov) "New Atomic Fountain Clock Joins Elite Group That Keeps the World on Time"
Watch the second video that describes how this thing works. Very cool.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 05:42 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 205 05:38 AM (jjoN6)
Simpler: Liberalism. Get's 'em every time.
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 05:42 AM (gKDq2)
https://tinyurl.com/yccra538
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 05:45 AM (n5ytK)
I was of course thinking of her not being a practicing Jew or Christian, but you are correct .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 05:46 AM (n5ytK)
That was me.
325 Woke Maine teacher calls for Trump and ALL his supporters to be killed
https://mol.im/a/14665291
Posted by: Ciampino - wait it is later right? at May 01, 2025 05:48 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: olddog in mo at May 01, 2025 05:49 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 01, 2025 05:52 AM (/Ghsb)
We were dosed from time to time by Mom with magnesium citrate as a purgative. Divalent ions are hardly absorbed as such by the gut and need help. D2 and D3 vitamins help Calcium absorption I believe.
Posted by: Ciampino - am I right? at May 01, 2025 05:54 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 01, 2025 06:00 AM (3Ope8)
Hrm. Interesting question. I'm taking magnesium oxide pills as suggested by my pharmacist as a way to prevent leg cramps. (I'd been leaning towards potassium, ie what's in bananas, but he said this is a better option.) It seems to be working well, so ... ?
Next time I talk to him, I'll ask him about the interaction with the acid in the stomach and why that doesn't react/cancel out the magnesium oxide.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 06:05 AM (O7YUW)
Any parent (who's sane) of any kid in that school district ought to be calling for her ouster. Suppose she decided to "take out" kids of Trump voters.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 06:07 AM (42Vb+)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 06:08 AM (6ydKt)
Because whoever thought 6 to 8 thousand dollars for hearing aids was a fair price needs to be nut-kicked.
When I was a wee child, I remember my great grandparents carrying around what looked to be a little transistor radio (was a battery powered amplifier with microphones) in a front breast pocket, with wires going up to ear pieces they'd insert in their ears.
These were the hearing aids of the day, and they weren't prohibitively expensive. I do remember moments where they'd wince and have to turn the thing quickly down due to high pitched feedback though.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 06:09 AM (O7YUW)
Next week: Surprised Pikachu face: "I never thought they'd actually fire me!"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 06:11 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 06:13 AM (RIvkX)
Is there a word for the feeling you get when you wake up thinking it's Friday, but then realizing it's only Thursday?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 06:13 AM (GlyvH)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 06:15 AM (X2Rtx)
Xiao Wang
@xiaowang1984
19h
There were 15 volt oscillations every 1.5 seconds leading up to the event? 👀😲😱
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 06:15 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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The Mondays
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 06:16 AM (X2Rtx)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 06:16 AM (O7YUW)
@xiaowang1984
Principal Research Scientist Semiconductor Industry, Boston Area, Cornell PhD ECE. Opinions Own
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 06:16 AM (CQE5S)
Just woke from a dream where I was siting in a downtown office building lobby with several people, including Sean Hannity (?!!). It was raining and we were waiting (no idea why) for the 5 o'clock crowd to come down in the elevators. Sean and I were commenting on the other people sitting around the lobby. "That red-haired guy with the white patch in his hair? He looks like a really clean collie." I also discovered I had a small box of pipes that belonged to me, and I was wondering which ones to keep, when I woke up.
(Sean Hannity . . .???)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)
https://tinyurl.com/2ak9h56u
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:47 AM (sTuNG)
He really is reaching here.
Literally nobody had problems with president’s setting tariff rates until Trump.
So now he wants Congress to take over a job that they’ve abandoned for my entire lifetime, just because Trump decided to use the powers granted to him as president?
Hey Rand, Congress clearly has the power to declare war in the Constitution, so why haven’t your buddies there declared a war since 1941?
We’ve surely fought a few wars in the last 80 years, so where’s your dedication to the constitution on that issue?
Is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce not interested in that little quandary as much as they are in tariff policy, or something?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 06:19 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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"Are we ever going to reach the bottom of this hill?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:20 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 06:13 AM (GlyvH)
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*stops twirling*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 06:20 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 01, 2025 06:13 AM (GlyvH)
Premature elation?
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 06:22 AM (CQE5S)
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I'm halfway beginning to think that Trump is doing all of this on purpose in an attempt to get Congress' and the Judiciary to do their jobs as intended so that when he leaves office the roles of the branches are closer to what they're supposed to be.
I have a feeling he would smile as he signed the laws that reach his desk limiting the president's power. And the judges and representatives would looks at each other and wonder why he was so happy about something that was tying his hands.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 06:23 AM (X2Rtx)
In the evening we saw the 1956 movie There's Always Tomorrow on a big screen at the local library. Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in a tale about a successful middle-aged businessman, feeling unappreciated by his family, who falls in love with a woman who once worked for him and is now a big-time clothing designer. Good drama in black-and-white -- and an interesting picture of S. California seventy years ago.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)
It seems to be in the US Trade Represtatives hands after that.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:25 AM (VWf79)
Good morning, Hordians. Hoping to get the lawn mowed today before rain this weekend.
Miss Rosalind has adapted to being a house dog with remarkable speed. She's learned all the important lessons (don't go into the kitchen, wait on a mat for a treat) and is enjoying the privileges (bed time with Mommy!).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:25 AM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:26 AM (QnmlO)
To be honest, I am off tomorrow so this is my Friday.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 06:26 AM (jjoN6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:27 AM (VWf79)
That's only $100 per electrician. Can you train an electrician for that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 05:06 AM (VWf79)
They're supposed to be smart. They'll figure it out on their own.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:27 AM (QnmlO)
His daughter was Sarah was a member of my minyan. They had been estranged for 20 years.
"In 2007, David was crushed by the passing of his beloved daughter Sarah Rose who, more than any of his other children, inherited his indomitable spirit and passion for politics. She had finally succumbed to long-time chronic degeneration from her genetic condition Turner’s Syndrome. He captured the experience in his most intimate, and perhaps his best, book A Cracking of the Heart in 2009."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 06:29 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 06:29 AM (RIvkX)
A nice 6-minute video retrospective here:
https://nitter.net/horowitz39
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 06:33 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:35 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 06:23 AM (X2Rtx)
I don’t think Congress wants the powers they’re entitled to.
They keep avoiding the difficult decisions to save their butts for the next election that’s coming down the pike,
Why make a budget when you can do CRs?
Why declare war when the president can do it so much more easily?
Why do anything when you can blame everything that goes wrong on the opposite party, the judiciary and the president?
Congress turned itself into the Coward Branch decades ago, so the executive and judiciary filled the gaps.
They don’t want powers back because then they’d have to make more decisions and take more blame.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 06:35 AM (6ydKt)
Pray for Trump. Pray for the U.S. Pray for the Church.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 06:36 AM (ZmEVT)
https://tinyurl.com/tjw6mydd
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 06:36 AM (RIvkX)
https://tinyurl.com/2ak9h56u
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:47 AM (sTuNG)
He really is reaching here.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 06:19 AM (6ydKt)
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Not a pretty portrait of the Senator. From 2 days ago:
https://tinyurl.com/46tr84vj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 06:37 AM (sTuNG)
https://tinyurl.com/tjw6mydd
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 06:36 AM (RIvkX)
Thanks, San Franpsycho!
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 06:37 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 06:38 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:35 AM (VWf79)
To repeal a law requires a new law so 50% + 1 (in both houses)... assuming the President agrees. If the President vetoes, 2/3 (in both houses).
Or, 1 district court judge.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:39 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 06:41 AM (u82oZ)
That post yesterday about DEI in Medical Schools made me realize that things really, really are much, much worse than I thought.
Sometimes I think I'd like to draw up a living will where I say, "Every heroic measure is to be taken to preserve my life."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:41 AM (QnmlO)
When Congress passes a regular budget, then I will sorta respect them. Otherwise it is criminals and grifters all the way down.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 06:43 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 06:43 AM (42Vb+)
Ann Coulter
@AnnCoulter
Would it be possible to have a cabinet meeting without the Kim Jong il-style tributes?
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 06:43 AM (CQE5S)
Quality of life should matter. But we have a death cult at the center of power, that want to erase others to save on medical expenses.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 06:45 AM (u82oZ)
https://tinyurl.com/46tr84vj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 06:37 AM (sTuNG)
Oh, I figured it had something to do with some donor money from somewhere.
Rand can go after Obama and Fauci for free, but taking on Trump requires some campaign cash, because he knows if he keeps it up he’s going to be primaried by somebody who doesn’t have a religious devotion to “free trade”.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 06:45 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 06:45 AM (CQE5S)
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Sometimes I think I'd like to draw up a living will where I say, "Every heroic measure is to be taken to preserve my life."
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Yo, what that note say? Nah, we good, he got a kidney? We need a kidney. Yeah, go ahead and pull it. He dead anyway. Naw I ain't about to put no extra work into this if he got a kidney we can sell. Put "natrul cauzes" on that def cer.. cret... paperwork.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 06:45 AM (X2Rtx)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 06:46 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:47 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 06:47 AM (ZmEVT)
There is a lot of suffering that happens with medical care near the end of life. Seen it up close.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 06:48 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:39 AM (VWf79)
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Or maybe just another self-interest Uniparty Congress critter.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 06:48 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 06:47 AM (ZmEVT)
Why? If you don't mind saying.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 06:49 AM (CQE5S)
Just say you were in Europe during the early '80s. Mad Cow Disease cautions preclude donation of any organ, including corneas. I am uncertain why this probation is still in place.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)
I was delighted yesterday to find on YouTube a recording of Mendelssohn's concert overture The Fair Melusine with the Chamber Orchestra of the Saar conducted by Karl Ristenpart.
Another example of what I call the "first heard phenomenon," where the first interpretation of a piece is the one that sticks with you, even though there might be other, superior ones better recorded. Only rarely are these others able to displace the first as a favorite.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:50 AM (QnmlO)
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This, like blood, has been the most amazing thing to watch in the switch from Heritage America to post 2000 Modern America.
I get the spirit behind it, but that free unit of blood makes the hospital $1000+ off of something that was given to them for free. There is no discount for you donating. Pay up.
Setting aside the motivations to change treatment based on organ donation needs, the kidney or eye or whatever is a billable item, right? Does the departed's family get anything other than a Heritage America feeling of wholesome goodwill as the corporation pockets $50K+ or whatever?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 06:51 AM (X2Rtx)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 06:43 AM (u82oZ)
1. Work at least 180 days per year.
2. Undo every single enabling act and require that all laws/rules/regulations must be affirmatively approved by Congress.
3. No votes on bills until they have been posted, publicly, for a minimum of 5 business days without modification.
4. No stock trading, not personal or close family members.
5. No family members in positions to benefit from the member's election.
6. Pass a budget every year which spends no more than the revenue brought in during the previous year.
Then, I would consider them above pond scum. I suppose you could call that a sort of respect.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 01, 2025 06:51 AM (ExV1e)
Here's Sean Davis' snipe today about the GOP:
https://tinyurl.com/2cfeud3z
He's right, ya know!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 06:52 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:52 AM (VWf79)
@AnnCoulter
Would it be possible to have a cabinet meeting without the Kim Jong il-style tributes?
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 06:43 AM (CQE5S)
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Oh, give me a break, Ann,
This is typical with any new administration and cabinet.
Like Obama & Biden’s cabinets weren’t kissing boss butt during every cabinet meeting early on?
I thought we’d never stop hearing about how wonderful O was in 2009 & 2010.
Then the shellacking happened and suddenly the fawning had toned down to manageable levels.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 06:53 AM (6ydKt)
Just say you were in Europe during the early '80s. Mad Cow Disease cautions preclude donation of any organ, including corneas. I am uncertain why this probation is still in place.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)
Until just recently I couldn't give blood because I lived in England for 18 months in the early '80s.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:53 AM (QnmlO)
Pay the donors' families.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Ladies, you weren't liberated, you were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at May 01, 2025 06:54 AM (X2Rtx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:41 AM (QnmlO)
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https://polst.org/
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 06:55 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:55 AM (VWf79)
This is a good list. Maybe for Constitution 2.0 and Congress 2.1.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 06:56 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:55 AM (VWf79)
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Now if Coulter would have said that about Irish Scotch, I would have agreed.
OK. It's alright in coffee and for cooking. But that's it!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 06:57 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 01, 2025 06:58 AM (5hfjS)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 01, 2025 07:00 AM (BI5O2)
As a species, we are already very long lived, compared with other species.
An analysis of Deep State and WEF insiders could reveal if there is existing, but secret, biotechnology that extends life.
George Soros, for example. Not high quality life, but he is not dead yet. Nor is Hillary.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)
https://tinyurl.com/4t7a9zwy
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 01, 2025 07:01 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 01, 2025 06:58 AM (5hfjS)
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Glad you're here. About your daughter, Chelsea. Willowed from the ONT:
To the voice of Tevya in Fiddler on the Roof:
If I was Chelsea Clinton...
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum
If I were Chelsea Clinton!
I wouldn't have to work hard
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
If I were a biddy biddy rich
Idle-diddle-didle-didle grifter
https://tinyurl.com/57janp8r
Better link, so that you see what DataRepublican was responding to. OUCH!
https://tinyurl.com/455pn7je
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 07:01 AM (sTuNG)
And then I wondered why you’d want it in coffee or cooking it?
It’s early and my brain is playing tricks on me,
Either that or I got some Freudian thing going on that I’m vaguely aware of.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 07:02 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 06:55 AM (VWf79)
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Scots only use Scotch to mean Scottish whisky and consider it insulting when used to mean Scottish people.
Posted by: Ciampino - honorary Scot at May 01, 2025 07:03 AM (sPQoU)
If that's true, I wonder if the push for longer lifespans is because people like that subconsciously know what is waiting for them on the other side.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 07:03 AM (jjoN6)
https://tinyurl.com/2cfeud3z
He's right, ya know!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 06:52 AM (sTuNG)
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He is right. It's sobering to think those grifty losers are our best hope for passing the laws needed for Trump to do his job most effectively.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 01, 2025 07:03 AM (Tc1d8)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 06:47 AM (ZmEVT)
Why? If you don't mind saying."
It's a moral hazard. They are motivated to harvest your organs even if you are still using them.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 07:04 AM (ZmEVT)
Still day drinking and posting. WTF?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)
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All women do it.
It's called multi-tasking.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 07:04 AM (sTuNG)
No data for that comforting conjecture that gets small tolerances in big electrical systems off the blame hook.
It would be an unusual solar event that only hits a small part of Spain.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 01, 2025 06:41 AM (QnmlO)
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Mine would say "morphine please, and then leave me alone"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 01, 2025 07:07 AM (Tc1d8)
They are rabid unbelievers in ever being called out for their actions on Earth. They do not fear judgement.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 07:07 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:07 AM (VWf79)
I stand corrected.
But drinking at 7 AM, out of a box wine?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)
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Otherwise it would be like a day without sunshine.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 07:09 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 06:47 AM (ZmEVT)
Why? If you don't mind saying."
It's a moral hazard. They are motivated to harvest your organs even if you are still using them.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 07:04 AM (ZmEVT)
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 07:09 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 07:09 AM (O7YUW)
So the donations to the Clinton Foundation for the Hatian earthquake didn’t pay for your wedding, Chelsea?
Can we get an audit?
Because your last name is Clinton, and that fact, alone, pretty much screams AUDIT.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 07:10 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 01, 2025 07:10 AM (Tc1d8)
beg to disagree, NaCly ... their words are always lies; it's all about increasing the pain and suffering.
demonic, in short.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 01, 2025 07:10 AM (/Ghsb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 07:11 AM (RIvkX)
Time for the daily fastwalk around the neighborhood to get rid of those cookie calories.
l8r.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 07:11 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 01, 2025 07:12 AM (Tc1d8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 07:12 AM (VWf79)
Well, killing a squirrel and a racoon did wonders for our last Presidential election.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 01, 2025 07:12 AM (jjoN6)
Because your last name is Clinton, and that fact, alone, pretty much screams AUDIT.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 01, 2025 07:10 AM (6ydKt)
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The comments there are to die for!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 07:13 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Just Wondering at May 01, 2025 07:13 AM (dg+HA)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 01, 2025 07:14 AM (ZmEVT)
Answered John Van Stry.
He has a cogent response. I may want to give him a few ideas for incorporation into the third novel. Would that be a good idea?
Like Diamond Age books for education of the elite. Plus Dave having to stay in Ceres while other people he trained go out and adventure. And EMP protected electronics.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 07:15 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 01, 2025 07:15 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 01, 2025 07:11 AM (RIvkX)
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Fires are still burning and international teams still on way, if I understood correctly.
Here in Jerusalem, we're OK. Yesterday I could see the smoke billowing 10s of kilometers away over the mountains.
Horrific damage. Miracle no casualties. As far as I'm concerned, Arab villages need to be napalmed.
l8r.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 07:15 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025
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Spanish omelets hardest hit
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 01, 2025 07:16 AM (omVj0)
The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome
@TheMossadIL
17h
Who here believes in the hand of Elohim?
Because rain is falling on the fires right now.
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 07:21 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: SMOD at May 01, 2025 07:31 AM (ZoLdO)
I'm not surprised John had a cogent response. He really thinks things through.
"I may want to give him a few ideas for incorporation into the third novel. Would that be a good idea?"
No, absolutely not, and here's why: Once an author has read your suggestion, they can't use it because it's yours, and opens them to copyright claims as well as accusations of plagiarism and idea stealing.
Several authors have made posts along these lines, because it's not something eager fans/readers tend to realize, so it needs to be pointed out.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 01, 2025 07:45 AM (O7YUW)
“Hey, guys, you know what would be really good for business? Blocking free advertising for our movies and making ourselves look like humourless penny-pinching misers on the internet. People love that.”
Get bent, StudioCanal.
Posted by: Sam Duncan at May 01, 2025 08:13 AM (ZBurU)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 01, 2025 09:51 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Epobirs at May 01, 2025 10:10 AM (/0z9K)
I could see using a memory heavy toaster as a relatively affordable CAD or AI box too.
Posted by: Voyager at May 01, 2025 11:22 AM (WcNzu)
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - April 30, 2025 [TRex]
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
This is the Wednesday night ONT. [Top photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 5335; photo credit to NASA via the Hubble Telescope]
If you’ve never had a Golden Retriever, You’ve missed out 😂 pic.twitter.com/8gSCTuwD13
— G-PA (@IndianaGPA) April 25, 2025
"Paddle Smackdown: Granny's Backhand Leaves Opponents in a Pickle!"
"Court Clowns: Team's New 'Synchronized Scream' Strategy Backfires!"
Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking? Come out and play. Discount tickets to the conclave go on sale tomorrow. Cash only. No refunds.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)YAY!!!
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 10:02 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 10:02 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - continuing Dave Barry thread at April 30, 2025 10:03 PM (IcX7N)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 30, 2025 10:03 PM (U6Q8K)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 30, 2025 10:04 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 10:02 PM
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AZ! Good to "see you." Hope all is well in your world.
Posted by: TRex at April 30, 2025 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 30, 2025 10:04 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 30, 2025 10:05 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Obi Wan Baloney at April 30, 2025 10:05 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 30, 2025 10:05 PM
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Congrats!
Posted by: TRex at April 30, 2025 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
Good evening all🤪!
Hiya T!
Now, onto content...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 30, 2025 10:07 PM (GhZY8)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 30, 2025 10:07 PM
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That's one way to make an entrance! Good evening COMM!
Posted by: TRex at April 30, 2025 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)
*assumes the stance of One In Charge*
I have the Ruler of Dread! Don't make me use it!
(please!)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 30, 2025 10:08 PM (rxCpr)
2001: A Space Odyssey i remember he movie well; at the drive. I had read the book, my date had not. he was not pleased that i paid so much attention to the movie.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 10:09 PM (EafHQ)
Burn in hell, Shickie.
*clink*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:09 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 10:10 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 10:10 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 10:11 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 10:10 PM
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Thank you Commodore Deal!
Posted by: TRex at April 30, 2025 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)
I spend too much time here.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 30, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 10:12 PM (mH6SG)
NGC 5335 is flocculant. A flocculant barred spiral.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 10:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 10:12 PM (wwsl/)
Posted by: davidt at April 30, 2025 10:13 PM (i0F8b)
And we sign a mineral deal with Uke? Which puts more political pressure on to defend them?
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
Posted by: Romeo13
The Evil Trump lays a little truth down.
https://shorturl.at/A9hiu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 10:13 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 10:14 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: logprof at April 30, 2025 10:14 PM (QoM/G)
Dad's family was from Pittsburgh but I don't recall hearing "Yinz." It was always "you" or "you guys."
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 30, 2025 10:15 PM (rxCpr)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 10:15 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 30, 2025 10:16 PM (K861k)
Burn in hell, Shickie.
*clink*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:09 PM (JkO4W)
I was just going to mention that. I'm celebrating by watching Downfall again on YouTube.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 30, 2025 10:16 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 10:16 PM (UCYpC)
@CBSNews 49m
BREAKING: A fan was carted off the field after falling from the stands at a Pirates-Cubs game in Pittsburgh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 30, 2025 10:16 PM (mlg/3)
Went to see the Astros play the Tigers this afternoon. The stadium is downtown. It took me an hour to get from the parking lot to the freeway, a distance of 100 yards.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 10:17 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Bombadil at April 30, 2025 10:17 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 10:18 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 10:18 PM
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Shhh....
Posted by: TRex at April 30, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 30, 2025 10:19 PM (GhZY8)
But he painted, had an interest in architecture and loved Wagner's music. A cultivated man, unlike us American barbarians with our pizza and Mickey Mouse movies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 10:19 PM (QnmlO)
BREAKING: A fan was carted off the field after falling from the stands at a Pirates-Cubs game in Pittsburgh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 30, 2025 10:16 PM (mlg/3)
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FUN FACT: A fat Pirates fan falls from the second tier of the stadium at exactly the same rate as a skinny Pirates fan.
You're welcome.
Posted by: Galileo at April 30, 2025 10:20 PM (dDmld)
Now that's how you speak to the enemies of humankind. No bullshit, just steadfast resolve.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 10:21 PM (mH6SG)
https://shorturl.at/OLZFS
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 30, 2025 10:22 PM (Vqx30)
You're welcome.
Posted by: Galileo at April 30, 2025 10:20 PM (dDmld)
________
It's a different story if you're the person who the guy falls on.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 10:22 PM (QnmlO)
I have the Ruler of Dread! Don't make me use it!
(please!)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 30, 2025 10:08 PM (rxCpr)
I didn't know you were a nun.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 10:22 PM (UCYpC)
Posted by: TRex
Good to be here!
Thanks, I'm doing well/PT is progressing well.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 10:23 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 30, 2025 10:05 PM (QGaXH)
The hairdresser asked me today what I do for a living and I blurted out, "Fuck-all." Probably not what she was looking for, but we both ended up laughing.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 10:23 PM (a4NoL)
Please send a prayer up for him (and me).
He can be such a baby when he's sick.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 10:23 PM (GhIJO)
Let us hope that his request for longer arms was granted.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 10:23 PM (mH6SG)
great, the colonoscopy thread continues!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025
Yeah, but we learned about a great fudge company (Uranus)!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 30, 2025 10:24 PM (GhZY8)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 30, 2025 10:25 PM (dg+HA)
I spend too much time here.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 30, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
How did the gastroenterologist write THAT up?
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 10:26 PM (a4NoL)
BREAKING: A fan was carted off the field after falling from the stands at a Pirates-Cubs game in Pittsburgh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 30, 2025 10:16 PM (mlg/3)
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FUN FACT: A fat Pirates fan falls from the second tier of the stadium at exactly the same rate as a skinny Pirates fan.
You're welcome.
Posted by: Galileo
Pirates won the game, 4-3. Maybe they more fat people need to fall..... Ok, that's a bit extreme.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 30, 2025 10:27 PM (K861k)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 10:26 PM (a4NoL)
Probably just ticketed it
Posted by: gKWVE at April 30, 2025 10:27 PM (gKWVE)
This short video started up after it. It’s pretty good but an obvious set-up:
https://is.gd/9Fzg88
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 10:27 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 10:27 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 10:29 PM (a4NoL)
Did Miley get her chicken soup recipe? I have it as a .pdf ...
Posted by: Lurk at April 30, 2025 10:29 PM (FIL9P)
Take it up with the Lord God.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 10:29 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Carl Sagan at April 30, 2025 10:30 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:30 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 30, 2025 10:30 PM (QnmlO)
I have the Ruler of Dread! Don't make me use it!
(please!)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 30, 2025 10:08 PM (rxCpr)
I didn't know you were a nun.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 10:22 PM (UCYpC)
* * * *
Ha hahahahaha! Aunt was a nun, so even though the nuns at school scared me sh!tles(and they were mean!) I, I knew better!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 30, 2025 10:31 PM (rxCpr)
*Takes bow*
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 30, 2025 10:25 PM (dg+HA)
*golf clap*
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 10:31 PM (Aqu9a)
Please send a prayer up for him (and me).
He can be such a baby when he's sick.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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Give him some ivermectin.
Ask Grok about it.
I asked Grok about using ivermectin and fenbendazole for cancer.
Very interesting.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 10:31 PM (wwsl/)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 10:31 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 10:31 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025
I have a Studio Ghibli dog! My very own Doge. He is smarter than golden retrievers. But goldens are crazy cute.
Posted by: Piper at April 30, 2025 10:32 PM (pRpzT)
After much consternation, we got it. Just finished eating some. Had garlic toast with it, damned good stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 10:33 PM (w6EFb)
Did Miley get her chicken soup recipe? I have it as a .pdf ...
Posted by: Lurk
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Chicken soups helps, especially if you use an old hen.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 10:33 PM (wwsl/)
The real one, not the one who thought he was president for four years.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 30, 2025 10:33 PM (lUFok)
And BTW, that's "flocculent" with an 'e'. That's just an unseemly sounding word.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 10:31 PM (a4NoL)
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Did the city slicker from the Lower 48 show up asking about the Eskimo woman he's got to kill?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:34 PM (dDmld)
Please send a prayer up for him (and me).
He can be such a baby when he's sick.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 10:23 PM (GhIJO)
For the flavor of a Pringles?
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 10:34 PM (Aqu9a)
Yeah, I hear ya ... You know the soup's particularly good for nursing mothers, right?
Posted by: lurk at April 30, 2025 10:35 PM (FIL9P)
David Horowitz z"l
A luminary and guiding light who helped cure me of my communism.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 10:35 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:34 PM (dDmld)
Well,
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold....
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 10:35 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: fourseasons at April 30, 2025 10:37 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 10:33 PM (wwsl/)
Please, a modicum of respect for our grandmothers. And so close to Mother's Day, too!
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 10:37 PM (Aqu9a)
And we sign a mineral deal with Uke? Which puts more political pressure on to defend them?
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
Posted by: Romeo13
The Evil Trump lays a little truth down.
https://shorturl.at/A9hiu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence
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Trump should make a real estate deal and flip the mineral rights to Russia for the amount that we 'loaned' Ukraine. Generous terms.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 10:37 PM (/lPRQ)
1) My thumb is as long as my grandson's forearm and hand and,
2) My Grandfathers are the little guy's great-great-grandfathers.
#2 really blew my mind.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:38 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 10:38 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Piper at April 30, 2025 10:32 PM (pRpzT)
Those Shiba inu do look like cartoon characters.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 10:38 PM (UCYpC)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 10:38 PM (GhIJO)
As Johnny Carson would often say, I did not know that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 10:38 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 10:39 PM (XeU6L)
Our country is so wealthy that we made a game out of destroying food.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:39 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Car nerd at April 30, 2025 10:40 PM (dg+HA)
It says right in the owner's manual.
You can't do that to a Cybertruck.
You probably shouldn't charge it after midnight, either.
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 10:40 PM (DgGvY)
Our country is so wealthy that we made a game out of destroying food.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:39 PM (vKNmo)
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Studies show that 44% of cucumbers are purchased for purposes other than eating.
Make of it what you will.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:40 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 10:41 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:41 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 10:41 PM (W/lyH)
Speaking of the midnight sun, I stumbled on a hilarious video about a trip to Antarctica someone put together. For flat earthers. They thought you couldn't go to Antarctica.
Anyway, they went down there (with all sort of stuff to make sure they weren't being fooled), and saw the sun circle overhead.
Their buddies back home began to accuse them of being in on the conspiracy....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 10:41 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 10:42 PM (wwsl/)
Those Shiba inu do look like cartoon characters.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 10:38 PM (UCYpC)
They act like it, too!
Good night y’all!
Posted by: Piper at April 30, 2025 10:42 PM (pRpzT)
Make of it what you will.
She's got a pickle to ride.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 30, 2025 10:43 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: publius
Can you use that in a sentence?
"Mohammed, that flocculent me didn't have a single virgin in it."
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 10:43 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 10:41 PM (sagpo)
Huh. Must be another Mandela Effect re Sagan. I clearly hear his voice saying that in my head.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 10:44 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 10:44 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 10:44 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 10:43 PM (DgGvY)
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Well done!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:45 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 10:46 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 10:47 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: 1979 at April 30, 2025 10:47 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: GWB at April 30, 2025 10:48 PM (wbjSL)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Me too!
The laughing, not the fuck-all. I'm looking forward to my next career doing that.
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 10:48 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Zombie Mr. PItt at April 30, 2025 10:48 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Zombie Mr. PItt at April 30, 2025 10:48 PM (G5+As)
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Give it least a half hour, then come back with a report.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 30, 2025 10:49 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 10:50 PM (KdQXl)
https://youtu.be/RCVd2Bx0Zpk
Whadyya know!
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 10:50 PM (Aqu9a)
If you want to see really insane motorcycle races and crashes watch the vids on YouTube about the Isle of Man TT. The race is insane as over 200 racers and spectators have been killed since 1909. Crazy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 10:52 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Goober (George Lindsey) was a college graduate and was a high school teacher for a little while before striking it rich as Goober.
Posted by: No Rube, He at April 30, 2025 10:53 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
I attended a lecture given by Sagan at Haaaavad a million years ago. He gave a great talk and at the end asked for questions. Naturally, the first 'question' was to sya "billions and billions". He laughed and did. And then laughed even more.
Fate is a funny thing - you never know what you might be known for.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:53 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: 1979 at April 30, 2025 10:47 PM (G5+As)
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Thank a Quaalude.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 10:53 PM (RIvkX)
I'm deep in the heart of Y'all territory, but there are local variations, such as "You'n's." Which is what I presume that NY "yinz" is trying to be.
Remember back when that fruity COB insisted that y'all was supposed to be punctuated ya'll?? Caleb Malice I think his name was.😜 Very insistent and argumentative about it (and other things), as I recall. Not missed.
Posted by: mindful webworker - how you'n's doin'? at April 30, 2025 10:54 PM (IcX7N)
Posted by: mindful webworker - howz alla y'all doin'? at April 30, 2025 10:56 PM (IcX7N)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Goober (George Lindsey) was a college graduate and was a high school teacher for a little while before striking it rich as Goober.
Posted by: No Rube, He at April 30, 2025 10:53 PM (G5+As)
An inspiration to many.
Posted by: Larry the Cable Guy at April 30, 2025 10:56 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 10:56 PM (RIvkX)
_WSJ
Caveat:
The Wall Street Journal is owned by Dow Jones & Company,
which is a subsidiary of News Corp. News Corp, controlled by the
Murdoch family, is one of the world’s largest media owners.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 10:57 PM (wwsl/)
Pittsburgh Poisons Pennsylvania, and it ain't just the water.
Posted by: Bobby Vinton's Acerbic Ghost at April 30, 2025 10:57 PM (7lLhn)
Posted by: mindful webworker - howz alla y'all doin'? at April 30, 2025 10:56 PM (IcX7N)
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Doubleplus y'all.
Posted by: Orwell at April 30, 2025 10:57 PM (RIvkX)
Yeah, brother, its all going to shit. Sing that song about The Rainbow Connection though, if you don't mind.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 10:58 PM (ZSWqg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 10:58 PM (wwsl/)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 10:58 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 10:58 PM (wwsl/)
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A bridge too far!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 11:00 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 11:02 PM (RIvkX)
It's bait. Because it works.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 11:03 PM (ZSWqg)
As a native speaker of it, I can tell you "y'all" is never singular. It may sound that way to some non-natives. I may ask a single person something like, "Y'all doin' okay?"
I am not addressing him as a singular, "y'all" means I'm asking about a group he's with, usually his family, but it could be another group, his work crew, etc.
Another one is "all y'all" or "y'all all". That implies unanimity.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 11:03 PM (w6EFb)
Howze ya mom and them
Goweat ?
Fixin to
I’ll tell ya what
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:05 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 10:46 PM (XeU6L)
Merced CA 1977... they had a 'Mystery Rally' where they gave you clues... AND... had two divisions... one most cars.... the other division, nothing but Volkswagen Bugs.
Was a hoot.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 11:06 PM (QAkQ3)
I see you've never heard them talk about steel production, or the Steelers, or a general comment about education that Pitt couldn't provide rather than Ohio State.
But if you make me live in a city ? Pittsburgh or Buffalo.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 11:06 PM (ZSWqg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 11:06 PM (wwsl/)
Posted by: davidt at April 30, 2025 11:07 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 11:03 PM (w6EFb)
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In Brooklyn: "tell your mother I said 'hello'"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 11:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Rodney K at April 30, 2025 11:07 PM (mH6SG)
Yes
They do all of that.
****
Now transplant that fake woman into a woman's athletic facility.
*shudder*
Posted by: torabora at April 30, 2025 11:08 PM (BY07X)
https://tinyurl.com/5c8rydyj
Posted by: Methos at April 30, 2025 11:08 PM (Dnobf)
Now, it may be my 29 year old brain mis-remembering, but for my formative years in Allegheny County, it was pronounced "younz", which made its derivation obvious: you-uns contracted tightly..
You-uns is a southern term, heard through West Virginia, and down the Appalachian highlands of Virginia and the Piedmont and up into southern Kentucky. Its derivation, of course is obvious: you ones, a sort of grammatical adaption to try to establish a distinct plural form of "you".
Posted by: buddhaha at April 30, 2025 11:17 PM (WbSUI)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 11:17 PM (3xZyM)
Okay, not literally laughing my ass off. My ass is still firmly attached to my body, but it does have a crack in it.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 11:18 PM (UCYpC)
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...recent demotion
https://tinyurl.com/yn6apyx6
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 11:20 PM (wwsl/)
Posted by: Algie at April 30, 2025 11:21 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 11:23 PM (dE3DB)
I spend too much time here.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 30, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
*********
Zimtokians refer to that galaxy as The Sparkling Butthole Galaxy.
Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at April 30, 2025 11:23 PM (ItW09)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:23 PM (VofaG)
For instance, in German class, when learning the verb “sein” (to be), we had to learn the various forms. For “ihr”, the instructor said “This means ‘y’all’”.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:25 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 11:26 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: scampydog at April 30, 2025 11:26 PM (V8VQK)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:27 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 11:29 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 30, 2025 11:29 PM (qYbxT)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 10:41 PM (sagpo)
Huh. Must be another Mandela Effect re Sagan. I clearly hear his voice saying that in my head.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 10:44 PM (Aqu9a)
This began with Johnny Carson. Remember that Sagan would make appearances on The Tonight Show. Carson started the “billions and billions” thing.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:30 PM (vm8sq)
1. Cocaine is a hell of a drug. Zelensky is threatening to attack the May 9 parade in Red Square (which will be packed with foreign dignitaries) unless he gets an immediate 30 day ceasefire.
2. Scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel, the "recruiters" of the Ukrainian conscription service will now be subject to being drafted. A 30 day ceasefire would come in handy for training them and shipping them to the front.
3. The Russians continue to grind forward at multiple locations, capturing a village or a few potato fields whenever they find a weak spot in the defense. Ukrainian counterattacks are few and smaller now.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 30, 2025 11:30 PM (LEq1k)
The old "ye" form was plural, wasn't it, as in "abandon all hope, ye who enter here".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 11:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 11:29 PM (mT+6a)
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*puts hand over microphone*
*thrusts phone at nurse*
It's the grammar police, they'd like a word.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 11:32 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at April 30, 2025 11:33 PM (ItW09)
Posted by: publius
Can't have it. I got copyright.
Posted by: Kanye or Ye or whatever I'm callin' myself today at April 30, 2025 11:33 PM (DgGvY)
I always remembered it as "millions and billions". I thought I remembered him actually using that phrase in the Cosmos series, but I'll take his word for it.
Reminds me of the story about Marlin Perkins getting pissed at Johnny for joking about how Jim had to wrestle the rhino while Marlin sat in the Jeep drinking martinis.
They told him, Marlin, when Carson is poking fun at you, it means you've hit the big time. Enjoy it, and have fun with it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 11:33 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at April 30, 2025 11:34 PM (ItW09)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 30, 2025 11:38 PM (bss/y)
Looking him up, Jim, Jim Fowler, died in 2019. He was 89.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 11:38 PM (w6EFb)
They told him, Marlin, when Carson is poking fun at you, it means you've hit the big time. Enjoy it, and have fun with it.
Marlin was no Rambo. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Jim at April 30, 2025 11:39 PM (mH6SG)
I really hope she was trolling them.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:40 PM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: GWB at April 30, 2025 10:48 PM (wbjSL)
(autopilot. astronauts hate it...they want to fly the crate and have little opportunity to do so (none when there are no rendezvous and/or docking ops on a mission)...the space shuttle orbiter was designed with the capability to auto-land but the commanders refused to use it...my memory is fuzzy but i think the astronaut office actually got the shuttle program to disable the auto-land software routine or delete it from the flight software altogether...anyway auto-landing was never used for an orbiter landing)
Posted by: Gref at April 30, 2025 11:41 PM (aBgBM)
Here's Marlin actually getting down in it with an anaconda. That's not Jim with him, but some other guy.
https://tinyurl.com/2akmcec5
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 11:42 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 30, 2025 11:44 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at April 30, 2025 11:44 PM (ItW09)
Posted by: Jerry Saves at April 30, 2025 11:45 PM (/hCWo)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 11:45 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
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Probably because he worked at getting rid of it. 70 years ago, anywhere outside of W. Pa. it sounded sort of illiterate. Today, it's recognized as a regional thing, rather than a sign of backwardness.
How did he pronounce "wash", as in "wash your hands for dinner"? I really had to work to get rid of "warsh up", which made everyone look at you like," Are you auditioning for The Beverly Hillbillies?"
They poke a lot of fun at hillbillies, but most people in Southwestern Pennsylvania are a lot closer to West-by-god-Virginians than they care to admit.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 30, 2025 11:45 PM (WbSUI)
Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at April 30, 2025 11:34 PM (ItW09)
This is about us isn't it?
Posted by: Trans men who've had all the surgery at April 30, 2025 11:48 PM (RFhjS)
Here's Marlin actually getting down in it with an anaconda. That's not Jim with him, but some other guy.
https://tinyurl.com/2akmcec5
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 11:42 PM (w6EFb)
Marlin and his producer on the scene were idiots if they didn't have five huge guys with razor-sharp machetes 8 feet away and just out of view of the camera.
Posted by: Gref at April 30, 2025 11:49 PM (aBgBM)
____________________________
(Let's keep it simple. As long as we adhere to rule #6 in the HOBO CODE, we'll be fine.)
6. Do not allow yourself to become a stupid drunk and set a bad example for locals' treatment of other hobos.
Posted by: Orson at April 30, 2025 11:50 PM (dIske)
@JoshMBlackman 22h
Florida Judge Seeks To Enjoin Parties Not Before Her Court. And she is considering holding the Florida Attorney General in contempt for pointing out the limits of the judge's order.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 30, 2025 11:50 PM (mlg/3)
Hence the Mary Month of May
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 11:23 PM (dE3DB)
Cross-eyed Mary?
Posted by: Jethro Tull at April 30, 2025 11:52 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5
Not so fast, Blor, Spaceman Spiff has his blaster at the ready.
Posted by: Spaceman Spiff at April 30, 2025 11:52 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 30, 2025 11:54 PM (azsgQ)
Posted by: JQ at April 30, 2025 11:54 PM (rdVOm)
I really hope she was trolling them.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:40 PM (S4ZTs)
Uh oh, what now?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 11:55 PM (l3YAf)
truck with 8 MILLION Dimes runs off the road in Texas and crashes
Topping that one:
A security truck in Chicago accidentally dropped several bags of cash on its rounds that resulted in scores of passersby making off with $300,000 as they scrambled to leave with the money lying on the street.
https://bit.ly/4jQ2DAE
…the back door of the truck – operated by Brinks Home Security – “opened by unknown means” as it drove down South Austin Boulevard in the city.
MiladyJo, native Chicagoan, remarked that the people of S Austin Blvd would really appreciate $300K.
But then, who wouldn't‽
Honesty check: You see a big bag of bucks fall out of a Brinks truck. What do you do??
Posted by: mindful webworker - Honesty is its own reward, right? Right? at April 30, 2025 11:55 PM (IcX7N)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:56 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: NGC 5335 at April 30, 2025 11:57 PM (ItW09)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Honesty is its own reward, right? Right? at April 30, 2025 11:55 PM (IcX7N)
Throw it back at them and say “Only gold and Bitcoin are Real Money, Fedbois! Don’t leave your trash in my city!”
And then belatedly realize I’d just thrown away a big sack of America Papers that could be used to purchase lots of gold.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 11:59 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 12:00 AM (bW09W)
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 12:01 AM (rdVOm)
I have a bunch of friends from BC that I've heard from, but I don't really know anyone on the other side of the Rockies.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 01, 2025 12:01 AM (WbSUI)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Honesty is its own reward, right? Right?
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That's a moral dilemma. The security guards are going to lose their jobs either way. The money is insured and we all know how upright insurance companies are.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 12:01 AM (wwsl/)
Huge line of geese heading North.
Pulled a tiny, tiny tick out of my thigh last night.
Heavy rains and thunderstorms keep on coming.
Albert Oil Peon migrates to Canada.
Posted by: mindful webworker - April is over at long last at May 01, 2025 12:01 AM (IcX7N)
".... a concerning amount of prostitutes ..."
I am concerned about the bad grammar. Unless the pimps are bringing the girls in by the bucket-load**, then the above should properly read:
".... a concerning number of prostitutes ..."
** bucket-load - see rock quarry excavator bucket
Posted by: Ciampino - angry bees are abuzz at May 01, 2025 12:02 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 01, 2025 12:02 AM (wuYg+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 12:02 AM (bW09W)
Posted by: Sandra Flook at May 01, 2025 12:03 AM (mH6SG)
Posted by: DBCooper at May 01, 2025 12:05 AM (y1Mvi)
The onetime I'm put in charge of the horse whips and cat-o-nine-tails, I'm late to the party. I need prior warning man, I was delayed by mounds of prostitutes all over the road. I felt compelled to enumerate them.
Posted by: Ciampino - angry bees are abuzzing at May 01, 2025 12:06 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 10:09 PM (EafHQ)
I saw 2010: The Year We Make Contact in the theater with someone who had never seen the original and had no idea what was going on or why.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 12:06 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: DBCooper at May 01, 2025 12:06 AM (y1Mvi)
The onetime I'm put in charge of the horse whips and cat-o-nine-tails, I'm late to the party. I need prior warning man, I was delayed by mounds of prostitutes all over the road. I felt compelled to enumerate them.
Posted by: Ciampino - angry bees are abuzzing at May 01, 2025 12:06 AM (sPQoU)
You should have ordered Insomniac brand tire irons.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 12:06 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Ciampino - angry bees are abuzzing at May 01, 2025 12:06 AM (sPQoU)
I guess I'll need to find a replacement opening line for tomorrow.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 01, 2025 12:10 AM (VSht7)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Yeah, Ciampino! Those are better than the cheapo house-grade pool cues. Damn things break on the first strike (and then the crooks live & sue you for dental repairs.) *grumble grumble*
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/cK5G8fPmWeA
G'nite, y'all. Alla y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - April showers leave May swampy at May 01, 2025 12:10 AM (IcX7N)
I have a bunch of friends from BC that I've heard from, but I don't really know anyone on the other side of the Rockies.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 01, 2025 12:01 AM (WbSUI)
I don't know how many the number is, so cannot estimate chances of success. If it's handed to me, I will sign.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:11 AM (azsgQ)
Dave Barry wrote the book "Big Trouble". The movie with Tim Allen is a riot. Recommended. Great cast. Even the toad.
Posted by: Ciampino - hitman is not an easy job at May 01, 2025 12:14 AM (sPQoU)
".... a concerning amount of prostitutes ..."
the above should properly read:
".... a concerning number of prostitutes ..."
Posted by: Ciampino
I'm unfamiliar with formal measurement of prostitutes. Perhaps they measure them by dollar amount and not headcount?
Posted by: mikeski at May 01, 2025 12:16 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Count Orlok at May 01, 2025 12:17 AM (N7CNt)
great, the colonoscopy thread continues!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
>With this snapshot of Blackholio, I believe the COBs are attempting to groom the horde away from Ace for their own nefarious cross-purposes.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at May 01, 2025 12:18 AM (fY84s)
Posted by: Ciampino - hitman is not an easy job at May 01, 2025 12:14 AM (sPQoU)
I’ll have to check that out. I remember the Dave Barry TV show which was pretty good. I don’t know what he had to do with it, if anything.
I like Tim Allen. Solid comedian.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:18 AM (l3YAf)
And the left went whaaaaaaaa that’s like impossible man. The math!! Republicans are line sooooo dumb dude.
Because they’re children.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:19 AM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: NGC 5335 at April 30, 2025 11:57 PM (ItW09)
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Who cleans your bathroom?
Posted by: Ciampino - Beyond Taco Bell at May 01, 2025 12:20 AM (sPQoU)
We roared with laughter at that show!
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 12:21 AM (rdVOm)
".... a concerning amount of prostitutes ..."
the above should properly read:
".... a concerning number of prostitutes ..."
Posted by: Ciampino
I'm unfamiliar with formal measurement of prostitutes. Perhaps they measure them by dollar amount and not headcount?
Posted by: mikeski
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Normally headcount.
Amount suggests total mass.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:21 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 10:37 PM (/lPRQ)
The rumor is that Z already pledged the mineral rights against the loans the Brits gave him, loans the Brits got from the Bank of England, who wants to be repaid. Without those dubious reserves, the only way Starmer can repay the loans is to crank up the taxes on the citizens, reduce their welfare payments, and expand the North Sea oil fields. Or do whatever the EU demands of him. Or the Bank is in a world of hurt, and the City of London is not far behind.
For example, I am told that about 30% of the world's foreign exchange is done in Pound Sterling, and if the pound inflates or gets defaulted on, the international transactions will find a currency that is more stable.
Like Dollars. Or stablecoins and Etherium blockchain transfers.
(then again this might be total BS and Trump got sold a pig in a poke)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 12:21 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 01, 2025 12:21 AM (VNX3d)
And the left went whaaaaaaaa that’s like impossible man. The math!! Republicans are line sooooo dumb dude.
Because they’re children.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:19 AM (S4ZTs)
Or her prepared statement was sabotaged by someone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:22 AM (azsgQ)
Posted by: Count Orlok at May 01, 2025 12:17 AM (N7CNt)
I honestly don’t know about Quentin Tarantino or Taylor Swift. Maybe they’re just the products of mass formation psychosis and never existed.
But I played pickleball in school. I was actually not bad at it. It’s like tennis crossed with ping pong, but way easier.
So it is real.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:22 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: mikeski
it is either "a flourish of strumpets" or " a flurry of tarts" though "a tangle of hookers" is acceptable though considered of low class.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 12:23 AM (D7oie)
Amount suggests total mass.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:21 AM (/lPRQ)
Or tail count.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:23 AM (azsgQ)
I'm unfamiliar with formal measurement of prostitutes. Perhaps they measure them by dollar amount and not headcount?
Hole buncha
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 12:25 AM (63Dwl)
And the left went whaaaaaaaa that’s like impossible man. The math!! Republicans are line sooooo dumb dude.
Because they’re children.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:19 AM (S4ZTs)
Or her prepared statement was sabotaged by someone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Lives Saved is a silly claim right up there with Obama's Jobs Saved.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:26 AM (/lPRQ)
1) My thumb is as long as my grandson's forearm and hand and,
2) My Grandfathers are the little guy's great-great-grandfathers.
#2 really blew my mind.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 10:38 PM (vKNmo)
My great great Grandfather fought in the Civil War.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:26 AM (asFox)
Bondi said 258 million lives were saved from the fentanyl that was taken off the streets in the first 100 days. Obviously a wrong number and she misspoke.
It was a stutter.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 12:27 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (wwsl/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:19 AM (S4ZTs)
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If the LD50 is 1mg then if 258kg of fentanyl were confiscated then that number would be correct.
Posted by: Ciampino - Beyond Space at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (63Dwl)
And the left went whaaaaaaaa that’s like impossible man. The math!! Republicans are line sooooo dumb dude.
Because they’re children.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:19 AM (S4ZTs)
Or her prepared statement was sabotaged by someone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:22 AM (azsgQ)
Might not be wrong, they always mention how small a fatal does is by saying a haul is 'enough to kill X people'
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (S4ZTs)
or Ice Dancing to Figure Skating in the Olympics
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:29 AM (asFox)
I'm thinking off the idiotic romper room 'rithmetic fails the Democrats have done, like the idiot reporter who said Bloomberg spent enough money on his campaign to give every American $1M.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 01, 2025 12:29 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:32 AM (azsgQ)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 10:09 PM (EafHQ)
I saw 2010: The Year We Make Contact in the theater with someone who had never seen the original and had no idea what was going on or why.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 12:06 AM (D7oie)
2001 had no need for a sequel : the space baby (new demigod Bowman's idea of himself) was home and in charge and would be guiding things from then on. In the book he got rid of an orbiting nuke because he willed it. (he preferred a cleaner sky)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:33 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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One marquee thing, one judge arrested. The fentenyl thing is not worthy of a DoJ press conference. She was a middling prosecutor in a middling job. And that's how she' performing now. Up your game, Pam.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 12:34 AM (wwsl/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (S4ZTs)
Pickleball is like Badminton on concrete
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:34 AM (asFox)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:35 AM (1m82a)
And twice?
I don’t like her. I’m fine with most of Trump’s picks, but she’s just not a war time consigliere. In what was, IMHO, the most important pick.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:35 AM (l3YAf)
Police body cams remain undefeated
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https://tinyurl.com/mr3vd7e2
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (wwsl/)
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Asking for a supervisor is straight sovereign citizen playbook. I'm surprised that many cops allow that. I would reply that a simple [ speeding, tag, tint, no-stop ] did not warrant the time and expense of a senior officer's presence.
Posted by: Ciampino - I dinnado nuffin at May 01, 2025 12:35 AM (sPQoU)
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Wasn’t a press conference, it was during a cabinet meeting.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:36 AM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:26 AM (/lPRQ)
"Potential lives saved" sort of implies that every dose of fent taken by an addict is lethal. Regrettably, mostly it's not.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:37 AM (azsgQ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (S4ZTs)
Pickleball is like Badminton on concrete
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:34 AM (asFox)
Pickleball is ping-pong on a tennis-ish court with a whiffle ball and very large ping-pong paddles.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:39 AM (l3YAf)
Hear that? We gonna have *empty shelves* people!
No more cheap plastic crap from Chy-nah! Oh, the humanity!
Pffft.
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 12:39 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:35 AM (1m82a)
On the road, so not keeping up with the news.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:39 AM (azsgQ)
It was a stutter.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Dude.
Lives saved or created.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Duuude.
.....I love this place.
Posted by: mikeski at May 01, 2025 12:39 AM (DgGvY)
Asking for a supervisor is straight sovereign citizen playbook. I'm surprised that many cops allow that. I would reply that a simple [ speeding, tag, tint, no-stop ] did not warrant the time and expense of a senior officer's presence.
Posted by: Ciampino
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That's what he did. Busted her window and dragged her out of the car. Arrested her.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 12:39 AM (wwsl/)
Pickleball injuries.
This was on the way in. After my scan, we talked about it a bit more. Ankles, knees, lower leg injuries.
It sort of makes sense. Lots of older, not recently active, or never active, or not very athletic people taking it up. Easy to see lots of foot/ankle/knee problems.
Couple of years ago saw an ortho after a shoulder thing (hockey) wouldn't go away (it did eventually). He confirmed that he/his kind are seeing large numbers of people injured falling off electric scooters. He volunteered the observation that so many young people today are not just obese, but unathletic and uncoordinated.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:40 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:41 AM (azsgQ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 12:28 AM (S4ZTs)
Pickleball is like Badminton on concrete
Posted by: Oldcat
Amp it up a notch - use the pickleball paddles in a racketball court with golf balls. Each body hit on the opponant is a point. Headshots are three points. Play continues until one player conceeds.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:42 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 01, 2025 12:42 AM (BuwaS)
The law will also extend the signature collection time for citizens’ initiatives, from 90 to 120 days, and get rid of the existing riding-level threshold for signatures."
Funny, in Snow Mexico "tabled a bill" appears to mean introduced. In the World's Greatest Deliberative Body, it means to kill an item before the Senate. Anyway, looks like AB might have a fairly low bar to getting a direct vote on the matter, if that bill becomes law.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:44 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Ciampino - I dinnado nuffin
Sign the ticket, which you will pay or contest in court, instructions on the ticket. Refuse and you get a free ride to see the magistrate right... Now. Time's up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:44 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner
Have some respect.
S/he/it might run for president.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 01, 2025 12:48 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:48 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Can I buy some pot from you?
Posted by: Pinto at May 01, 2025 12:50 AM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 30, 2025 11:30 PM (LEq1k)
By now there are only weak spots in the defense. Defense is pretty much only in villages, so the Russians dash to the border of one and dig in, or bypass it between villages. When one is cut off, they assault the demoralized men with low ammo and food.
In the rare cases now when a strongpoint is too tough, they have FABs that can incinerate a village or town block
I think much of the methodical nature is just logistics. Roads are poor and a large convoy can still be taken out by Ukraine drones, so they use more subtle methods to get supplies to support the next set of advances. After a few weeks to a month, they swap out units to rest.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:50 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Oldcat
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As an old pond hockey player who often made fun of guys with toe picks on their skates, I will still repeat what a friend who was a serious competitor in Ice Dancing said to me, " Pairs is to display gross musculature, Dancing requires fine motor control."
Considering that he could skate rings around me, I had to take his word for it.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 01, 2025 12:51 AM (WbSUI)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:52 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:44 AM (1m82a)
It should. Alberta's "tories" have a big majority in the legislature, and there is no Senate to deal with.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:53 AM (azsgQ)
Rand Paul getting yelled at by his pro-China donors right now
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@EricLDaugh 6h
Measure to block Trump's tariffs fails in the Senate, 49-49.
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This looks good.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 01, 2025 12:54 AM (wwsl/)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:44 AM (1m82a)
It should. Alberta's "tories" have a big majority in the legislature, and there is no Senate to deal with.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:53 AM (azsgQ)
I believe that comes from common UK law. I'm not sure when the US meaning came into use here, post revolution or in the colonial governments.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:55 AM (asFox)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:55 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:52 AM (1m82a)
You can probably blame the explosion of putting tennis courts into public parks far beyond the actual interest in tennis. At some point they want to get some use out of them
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:57 AM (asFox)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:57 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:50 AM (asFox)
I’ve been thinking this, too. Drones are like the WWII-equivalent of tanks of this war. They’ve completely transformed the landscape. From what I’ve followed, there’s nothing the US has that can counter this over a massive front. If we were in Ukraine we’d probably end up dodging drones and bootstrapping a drone industry.
It’s interesting to see the evolution.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 12:59 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 12:57 AM (1m82a)
Ottawa or Edmonton?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 12:59 AM (azsgQ)
In the rare cases now when a strongpoint is too tough, they have FABs that can incinerate a village or town block
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:50 AM (asFox)
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What's a FAB?
Posted by: Ciampino - I dinnado nuffin! at May 01, 2025 01:01 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:02 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 01:02 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:03 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Make it interesting. Add a long handle to the paddle al.la a squash racket, in which case you'll need to account for deaths on the court. I've had squash bruises that took weeks to fade.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 01, 2025 01:03 AM (WbSUI)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:03 AM (1m82a)
Considering that he could skate rings around me, I had to take his word for it.
Posted by: buddhaha at May 01, 2025 12:51 AM (WbSUI)
I have to be convinced that anything judges have to vote to see who wins based on unobjective critera is not a sport for the olympics. Even more so in the Olympics when judges cheating is common.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:06 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 01:06 AM (azsgQ)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 12:50 AM (asFox)
I most definitely agree. There was a columnist early in the war who loudly proclaimed that the Russians were doomed, because they weren't using giant pallets of supplies moved by forklifts. Little did he know that today, if you stack more than three ammo cans together, you will be hit by a drone.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 01, 2025 01:07 AM (LEq1k)
Z man was dropping hints of an attack on the Victory Day parade next week. He never fails to amaze.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:08 AM (1m82a)
This is why I like Trump. I don’t always know what he’s doing, but at least he doesn’t give the NPC reaction to everything. The bland goop we’ve come to expect from American leaders. The “We’re stronger together, diversity is our strength, love one another” slop.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 01:08 AM (l3YAf)
I’m not feeling well, so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but did Trump actually say that- and I totally agree with it- or that is a faked video?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:09 AM (zCp7U)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:03 AM (1m82a)
Ralph Klein's Conservatives, and one lone NDP'er, I guess.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 01:11 AM (z4tLP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 01:06 AM (azsgQ)
Copper is valuable.. We could send the Midwestern Methhead Division and strip B.C. bare of copper in six months..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 01:11 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:12 AM (zCp7U)
Z man was dropping hints of an attack on the Victory Day parade next week. He never fails to amaze.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:08 AM (1m82a)
He's done that a few times before, certainly to a naval parade at Sevastopol a few years ago. We will see what happens. You'd think he'd be using these to save the lives of his own men conscripted from the streets, but an empty guesture seems always to be his first plan.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:12 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 01:13 AM (S4ZTs)
AOP, it sounds like it has been an annoying trip back so far. Here's hoping for a smooth drive tomorrow.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 01, 2025 01:14 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:15 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Ciampino - maybe not new at May 01, 2025 01:17 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 01, 2025 01:14 AM (0nHVk)
Should be. I have about 580 miles to go.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 01:17 AM (z4tLP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:17 AM (zCp7U)
The enhancement they have introduced (both range and accuracy) is called a UMPK (expansion of that is a mouthful), basically a kit similar to a JDAM kit.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:17 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 01:18 AM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:18 AM (zCp7U)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:19 AM (zCp7U)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:19 AM (zCp7U)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:03 AM (1m82a)
Its a fuel air bomb. The payload is a huge mass of fuel that gets spread for plenty of oxygen then ignited. It consumes and sucks the oxygen out of bunkers and fortified buildings so that those who don't burn may suffocate.
This makes the defenders evacuate positions once they think the Russians are losing patience with the defense.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:21 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Ciampino - how to tell? at May 01, 2025 01:22 AM (sPQoU)
The enhancement they have introduced (both range and accuracy) is called a UMPK (expansion of that is a mouthful), basically a kit similar to a JDAM kit.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:17 AM (1m82a)
They've also made the explosion larger....a lot larger.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:22 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 01:23 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:23 AM (zCp7U)
And "political risk" is a huge factor in mineral and oil exploration; even in "stable" jurisdictions like Canada or the USA.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 01:23 AM (z4tLP)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:26 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 01:23 AM (D7oie)
My sister's husband is from there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 01:26 AM (z4tLP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 01:27 AM (z4tLP)
That is one reason I am glad that that I can mostly just bury the deceased animals in the backyard and have done this for a long time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:29 AM (zCp7U)
Posted by: Jethro Tull at April 30, 2025 11:52 PM (vm8sq)
If anyone tries to mess with Aqualung, we will stand by him.
At taxpayer expense, of course.
Posted by: Democrats at May 01, 2025 01:29 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:17 AM (zCp7U)
Z is kind of caught there. His nazi stormtrooper units are the strongest part of the armed forces and some are defending Kiev. They won't let him wander far from inflexible terms. They might also be willing to chase him down post war and interrupt his retirement
At some point total defeat or the army evaporating will let Russia occupy the area they want - my guess is to the Dnepr, Odessa, and Kharkov at a minimum, possibly Kiev too and a buffer zone to keep the successor states from shelling dams on the river or the nuke plant. The rest will be split into small chunks, some protected by Russia, some eaten by NATO countries, perhaps a true Ukraine to join NATO for stupid symbolic reasons. Then the EU can pretend they won.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:29 AM (asFox)
Just makes me nothing in comparison.
(I may have mangled that quote - but I have the whip tonight!)
Posted by: Ciampino - and don't you forget it at May 01, 2025 01:30 AM (sPQoU)
Poland, Romania, and Hungary get chunks of the west.
New Ukraine will be about the size of Ohio, with a Russian-controlled government. Its army will just be a heavily armed police force, which will be kept busy dealing with Banderite extremists.
This will be a very bitter pill for the US and the EU to swallow, but anything short of that will just mean more butchery in another 10 years or so.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 01, 2025 01:31 AM (LEq1k)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:17 AM (zCp7U)
I think it was stupid on OUR part. Z just said there would be no Peace deal at all unless Crimea was given back... which aint gonna happen.
But by us signing that deal, it will put political pressure on Trump to continue military support.... we should have waited to sign that deal AFTER a peace deal was done.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 01:32 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:26 AM (1m82a)
Don't think so.. their first use in Bakmut really hastened the fall of the inner city core. Something changed there and they have put out 2 generations of bombs in the last years.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:32 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 01:33 AM (l3YAf)
But by us signing that deal, it will put political pressure on Trump to continue military support.... we should have waited to sign that deal AFTER a peace deal was done.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 01:32 AM (QAkQ3)
I think the idea of the minerals deal is that it lets Trump act as an agent in negotiations and let Z stay home and rot.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:33 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:33 AM (asFox)
but unless you overthrow Z? There will be no Peace deal as long as Z thinks he has support.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 01:34 AM (QAkQ3)
I unlocked the liquor cabinet quite a while ago. Help yourself to anything you like-- assuming there's anything left-- I'm getting sleepy & Miklos got zapped...
What a night, huh?
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm)
I don’t think it’s pressure. I think by signing that deal Trump was trying to make clear he is willing to continue support.
I think he has limited options here. Congress is all-in on Ukraine. Trump is trying to ask reasonable questions, but there’s only so much he can do.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 01, 2025 01:36 AM (l3YAf)
DeNiro’s daughter came out as trans.
Raise your hand if you’re shocked.
🙃
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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I hope DeNiro is totally frosted by this.
And good evening!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 01, 2025 01:36 AM (MsIhu)
Mineral deal: no comment. Other than to chuckle, and wonder what the discussion was like first time this idea was broached.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:37 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 01, 2025 01:31 AM (LEq1k)
I'm not a fancy Pentagon staffer, but I knew there was no way a war on Russia's gates could be supplied over Ukraine and eastern Europe's crap road and rail system. That was even before finding out how treasonous or lack of military industry really was.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:37 AM (asFox)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAB-500
Posted by: Kwak! at May 01, 2025 01:37 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: Ciampino - nasty at May 01, 2025 01:38 AM (sPQoU)
Mineral deal: no comment. Other than to chuckle, and wonder what the discussion was like first time this idea was broached.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:37 AM (1m82a)
Russia absolutely will NOT leave a NATO controlled port on the Black Sea. Maybe some token 'free port' for trade and grain shipments, but under Russian rule. Kiev is more likely to stay Ukraine than Odessa
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:39 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 01, 2025 01:39 AM (S4ZTs)
My vocabulary on conventional systems is deplorable, past work was always on the big nuke stuff and there the memory's still working.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:41 AM (1m82a)
Mineral deal: no comment. Other than to chuckle, and wonder what the discussion was like first time this idea was broached.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:37 AM (1m82a)
He will sign as soon as he's more scared of his local opposition and the US dropping him. He thinks he can trim using the EU, but they will betray him because they can't defend him themselves.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:42 AM (asFox)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 01, 2025 01:42 AM (z4tLP)
Posted by: Ciampino - someone needs to at May 01, 2025 01:45 AM (sPQoU)
But by us signing that deal, it will put political pressure on Trump to continue military support.... we should have waited to sign that deal AFTER a peace deal was done.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 01, 2025 01:32 AM (QAkQ3)
I have heard that the Ukes had pledged those reserves to the Brits in exchange for the loans from the UK Govt. That loan was originated by the Bank of England, who wants to be repaid, even if it is in imaginary resources. No now Carney has no loans, no resources to claim as collateral, and the Bank of England can pull the UK Government credit rating at a whim, and the BoE is facing a shortfall that can be covered by selling off assets, printing pounds, or defaulting.
A major foreign exchange currency in the world, for resolving payments between minor currencies is the Pound. If it suddenly becomes insecure due to financial problems, then everyone will start moving to the Dollar.
Then the City of London as a banking centre is back on its heels
Trump and Bessant may have managed a major leg sweep here.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 01:45 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:41 AM (1m82a)
Ok, i stand corrected. Then the improvement is in the accuracy and larger size. And like the smart bombs in Iraq they are cheap to convert, and Russia never throws away munitions or munition factories incase a neighbor gets frisky
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:45 AM (asFox)
https://mol.im/a/14665291
Posted by: Ciampino - someone needs a visit at May 01, 2025 01:46 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 01:45 AM (D7oie)
Yeah, there was an announcement of that, snuck in in haste, with a 100 year timeline...tho England can back out in a few weeks.
A British commentator i follow who has been pretty wise these last 4 years or so was very dismissive of it - it has almost no details of what is covered, any terms or details that all real treaties point out in full. I judge it as a stunt that failed, and if push comes to shove Trump will get them to drop it or cut them in for some marginal part.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:50 AM (asFox)
However, as far as I know, Secretary Bessent has never indicated a taste for eating cats.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 01:50 AM (D7oie)
https://mol.im/a/14665359
Posted by: Ciampino - someone needs to at May 01, 2025 01:45 AM (sPQoU)
More likely they will rent the 515,000 dollar house and blow the rest...and get evicted when the rent comes due.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:54 AM (asFox)
The ODAB uses I have seen (some time ago) were in open areas, or above forest belts, with Uke forces deployed there. FAB strikes seem pretty common, and as originally noted by you or Idaho Spud the Russian solution to a prickly village defense is to either go around or erase part of the village with a FAB.
I personally have benefited from the Russian practice you mention (rarely getting rid of military gear, but storing it away "just in case"). My oldest Mosin-Nagant rifle turned 100 this year. But I think most of the Mosins (and ammo) that came out prior to 2014 (when they sort of stopped) actually came out of warehouses in Ukraine.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:54 AM (1m82a)
They need to fire her pronto. And I always just roll my eyes at very angry people who talk about others "having a little talk with Jesus" ( which is actually a very sweet little song) because I doubt they even are Christians or if they are, Jesus would simply agree with all their progressive political viewpoints.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:57 AM (1SFyz)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 01:54 AM (1m82a)
Almost nothing in these last years of rush to war shocked me, but finding out that we can't even make artillery ammo enough to keep up in a conventional war for years and that we needed foreign suppliers surely did it. That inattention is actual treason and no mistake.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 01:59 AM (asFox)
They need to fire her pronto. And I always just roll my eyes at very angry people who talk about others "having a little talk with Jesus" ( which is actually a very sweet little song) because I doubt they even are Christians or if they are, Jesus would simply agree with all their progressive political viewpoints.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 01:57 AM (1SFyz)
Yes, though they have their levels of firing...shunting to a different school, out of the class into admin. And even if she's so unlucky as to be expended, every other teacher there believes it too.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 02:01 AM (asFox)
James Carville
@JamesCarville
6h
Just called @DavidHogg111. He reminded me of the story of, after the battle of Shiloh, Henry Halleck urged President Lincoln to fire Ulysses Grant. Lincoln said: “I can’t fire him. This man fights.” David Hogg fights. The DNC needs him.
Apr 30, 2025 · 11:07 PM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 02:02 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 01, 2025 02:04 AM (1m82a)
I would not want that teaching teaching English to my high school kid even I didn't like Trump and didn't vote for him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 02:05 AM (1SFyz)
@JamesCarville
6h
Just called @DavidHogg111. He reminded me of the story of, after the battle of Shiloh, Henry Halleck urged President Lincoln to fire Ulysses Grant. Lincoln said: “I can’t fire him. This man fights.” David Hogg fights. The DNC needs him.
Apr 30, 2025 · 11:07 PM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot at May 01, 2025 02:02 AM (D7oie)
Piglet is a little clever, but he isn't any ally of Carville's type. In fact, his idea is to primary more of those fellows and ladies out the way AOC did (or her handlers did while she smiled and waved). Carville's generation is dead or dying, and their successors failed to hold the line against the zealot armies they used as tools.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 02:07 AM (asFox)
I would not want that teaching teaching English to my high school kid even I didn't like Trump and didn't vote for him.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 02:05 AM (1SFyz)
I think in this day and age a sane couple has to commit to homeschooling their kids and not sending them to college in any mainstream uni. or at all. There is no reality based education anywhere, and STEM will soon follow suit.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 01, 2025 02:10 AM (asFox)
Posted by: JQ at May 01, 2025 01:02 AM (rdVOm)
IIRC, Miklos has the keys to rainmandodo, a parody nonsense poster. I forget which cob set that up.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 01, 2025 02:20 AM (w6EFb)
My son somehow managed to escape most of the indoctrination probably because he had conservative parents, he was homeschooled for a couple of years and went to community college and a niche school for the last years and taking no liberal arts classes for the last two years.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 01, 2025 02:22 AM (Oxvlc)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 01, 2025 02:22 AM (0nHVk)
https://tinyurl.com/ykcmmuzc
Posted by: Ciampino
Happened in CA a few years ago. Levy vs Only Cremations for Pets
Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 01, 2025 02:29 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 02:32 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 02:33 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 02:39 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 02:40 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 02:41 AM (VWf79)
Moose out front toldja. Miklos was manning the troll guns when some person banned him.
That needs to be fixed, pronto.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 01, 2025 02:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 02:44 AM (VWf79)
Been having leg cramps. Hope they don't cramp up while in/on the machine.
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 02:46 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 01, 2025 02:47 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 02:47 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 02:46 AM (gKDq2)
Prayers sent.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 02:50 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 01, 2025 02:50 AM (a4NoL)
Thanks. Thing is, I can't even eat bananas to help wth the cramps thanks to the potassium. Oh well.
Sucks getting old. The alternative is . . . worse.
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 02:55 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 01, 2025 02:56 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 02:46 AM (gKDq2)
You been eating any potassium rich foods or getting enough salts? (Back in olden times when I ran, for fun no less, I had to really watch this to avoid horrid leg cramps.)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 01, 2025 02:57 AM (DL7HR)
Apr 30, 2025 · 11:07 PM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot
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Uh, right. Pillow fights.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 01, 2025 02:57 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 01, 2025 02:57 AM (DL7HR)
I've been warned by doctors about my potassium intake.
Fix opne thing, something else goes wrong.
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 03:00 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 03:01 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 01, 2025 02:57 AM (DL7HR)
I've been warned by doctors about my potassium intake.
Fix opne thing, something else goes wrong.
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 03:00 AM (gKDq2)
lol
It's like our bodies are trying to kill us.
(Maybe magnesium? I assume it's out too.)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 01, 2025 03:03 AM (DL7HR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 03:01 AM (VWf79)
It's weird. I've been told by so many I've met since I've had the heart attack that, for me, salt is poison.
Cooking at home is the only way I can avoid the high salt foods, frozen, canned, prepared, whatever.
When I watch (or used to watch as they don't exist anymore) cooking shows, the amount of salt used in a dish would gag me. I mean handfuls. I season with salt lightly, just to bring out the other flavors.
My one rebellious act are salt bagels. Sorry, Doc(s).
Posted by: RickZ at May 01, 2025 03:06 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 03:09 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 01, 2025 03:19 AM (DL7HR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 03:22 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 03:43 AM (ypFCm)
If I was Chelsea Clinton...
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum
If I were Chelsea Clinton!
I wouldn't have to work hard
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
If I were a biddy biddy rich
Idle-diddle-didle-didle grifter
https://tinyurl.com/57janp8r
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 03:52 AM (sTuNG)
If I was Chelsea Clinton...
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum
If I were Chelsea Clinton!
I wouldn't have to work hard
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
If I were a biddy biddy rich
Idle-diddle-didle-didle grifter
https://tinyurl.com/57janp8r
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 03:52 AM (sTuNG)
-
Better link, so that you see what DataRepublican was responding to. OUCH!
https://tinyurl.com/455pn7je
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 03:55 AM (sTuNG)
https://tinyurl.com/mv55xmdb
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:12 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 01, 2025 04:13 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 04:14 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: Skip at May 01, 2025 03:43 AM (ypFCm)
Keep a watchful eye, Skip. Your subcontractor may be three Amazonian rainforest monkeys in a trenchcoat.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 01, 2025 04:20 AM (s522d)
https://is.gd/NrSDXU
3:41
Here's a video.
Magnesium Oxide is 96% worthless.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 04:20 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: Count Orlok at May 01, 2025 04:28 AM (N7CNt)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 01, 2025 04:28 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 04:30 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 01, 2025 04:33 AM (VWf79)
Posted by: m at May 01, 2025 04:57 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 01, 2025 06:26 PM (FLiOE)
Welcome Back, Dave Barry!
For those of us who have taken 50 or more spins around the sun, there are many sources of entertainment that once gave us great pleasure, but which have long since been consigned to our memories. We accept that they were from a different era and are permanently lost. In my case there were certain sports broadcasts, radio shows, and newspaper columnists with whom I felt a personal connection, even if it was only just listening to their show or reading their column.
Among these was Dave Barry and his weekly humor column. It went away in 2005, but after a 20-year absence, it’s back! Rather than being syndicated from the Miami Herald as it was in the old days. Mr. Barry’s revived humor column is now on Substack. My hometown newspaper carried Dave Barry’s column in my younger days, and my father and I would read it every Sunday, laughing together at Mr. Barry’s humor. A few years after college, in the early 1990s, my employer relocated me to Los Angeles. It was a rough transition for me, as I went from living large in Texas to feeling very alone in California. My father tried to pick me up by connecting with me in one of the ways he knew how – he’d mail me Dave Barry’s humor column each week, then call me a few days later so we could laugh about it. Some 20 years later my father was in a nursing home, with a cruel, paralyzing disease that left him unable to speak, even though he could still hear and comprehend. I was back in Texas and living in the same city as my father, so I’d visit him a couple times per week. In addition to updating him about what was going on in my life, I’d read him a story from Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits on each visit. Although though my father couldn’t speak, he could still laugh, and he laughed heartily as I read to him.
In another of his recent columns, I’m pretty sure that Dave Barry is the first person to have analogized a prostate exam with accessing Tallahassee from a backroad in Alabama.
So in two crucial areas of our married life — plumbing and remote controls — my brain handles the thinking for both of us. I also am in charge of some other areas, including: - Turning off every single light in the house at least six times a day.
- Opening any mail we receive from financial institutions and, after frowning thoughtfully at the contents for 8 to 10 seconds, putting them in a "file."
- Spiders. But there are other areas that my brain does not concern itself with, because I have come to rely on Michelle to think about them. One example is pillows. I never have to think about pillows, because Michelle apparently thinks about them 24/7, the result being that we have acquired enough pillows to blockade the Canadian border. Michelle is also extremely good at detecting odors, so I don't have to. Here's a conversation we have often: MICHELLE: Do you smell that? ME: Smell what? MICHELLE: You can't smell that? But Michelle's biggest mental responsibility is thinking for both of us about other people. I used to be involved with other people, but over time I outsourced pretty much all social interactions to Michelle, to the point where my only regular human contact, aside from Michelle, is the plumber. As a result, the social part of my brain now has the same level of neural activity as a rutabaga. This means that whenever we encounter another person, I depend on Michelle to supply me with critical information such as: - Who is this person?
- Do I know this person?
- Am I related to this person?
- Do I have to talk to this person?
- If so, what should I say?
With that thought in my mind, I’d like to thank Dave Barry again for reviving his humor column, and also thank him for his special role in how my father and I used Mr. Barry’s humor to lift each other up at difficult times in our lives. Dave Barry can also be followed on Twitter at @rayadverb. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
There are times when it's not easy to be a male. I experienced one of these times a few days ago when, within a span of 20 minutes, three different people, two of whom I had not previously met and one of whom was a member of a completely different biological sex, asked me to lower my pants so they could handle parts of my body that I will refer to here, out of respect for their privacy, as my festicles (not their real name). This happened at the office of my urologist. Like many older men, I see a urologist regularly, and I believe I speak for all of these men when I make the following urgent plea to the urology community: For the love of God, please find a way to get to the prostate gland other than the way you're getting to it now. When you visit your urologist, he or she always examines your prostate, which is a tricky procedure because of where it's located. If we envision the male reproductive system as a map of Florida, the prostate would be Tallahassee. The problem is, there is no easy way to get to Tallahassee. So the current procedure is for the urologist to approach it via the back road from Alabama.This means that the prostate examination is quite unpleasant for everyone involved. Q. How unpleasant is it?
A. When it's about to happen, both you and the urologist are quietly hoping for a direct meteor strike.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 07:33 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 30, 2025 07:34 PM (GYt5+)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 30, 2025 07:34 PM (7uM8h)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 07:37 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 07:37 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at April 30, 2025 07:38 PM (liwjr)
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Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 30, 2025 07:39 PM (7uM8h)
Posted by: Nemo at April 30, 2025 07:39 PM (4RPgu)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 07:39 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 07:40 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 07:42 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 07:39 PM (2VST1)
I haven’t gotten to the point I’m supposed to do those things yet, but I intend to refuse. Blood tests or CT, sure.
Same with colonoscopy. It ain’t worth it.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 07:42 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 07:42 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 07:42 PM (LHPAg)
"Gulf of Canada"
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 07:43 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 07:43 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at April 30, 2025 07:45 PM (jxv5/)
I'm pretty sure that it was a fundamental part of Obamacare.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 30, 2025 07:45 PM (jqIY4)
"Gulf of Canada"
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 07:43 PM (v0R5T)
Don't tell Trump. He will be PISSED.
Posted by: Indy Bill at April 30, 2025 07:45 PM (+WI3k)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 07:46 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at April 30, 2025 07:47 PM (jxv5/)
Posted by: Kris at April 30, 2025 07:48 PM (m8ELN)
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 07:48 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Moki at April 30, 2025 07:48 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 07:48 PM (DgGvY)
Not cold in Florida
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 07:50 PM (SATZE)
Posted by: X at April 30, 2025 07:50 PM (UCYpC)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 07:50 PM (mH6SG)
I'll believe it when all the Jews living in Miami have it circumcised.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 30, 2025 07:51 PM (jqIY4)
It's pretty funny, though a bit dated as it was published back in 1991.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:51 PM (GlyvH)
Same with colonoscopy. It ain’t worth it.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 07:42 PM (scBt+)
Except...if they find polyps. It's better to get them early and if they show up on one of the tests, you have to do the colonoscopy anyway. I absolutely agree it is one of the worst diagnostic exams ever, along with pain determinations in your spinal cord. I don't recommend having one of those if you can help it.
Posted by: Moki at April 30, 2025 07:52 PM (wLjpr)
It's pretty funny, though a bit dated as it was published back in 1991.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:51 PM (GlyvH)
Looking back 1991 was a pretty good time.
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 07:53 PM (LHPAg)
Unfortunately, I have an upcoming test for my male bits. Maybe the world will end first. Let's hope.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 07:53 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 30, 2025 07:54 PM (7uM8h)
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 07:54 PM (UCYpC)
- Do I know this person?
- Am I related to this person?
- Do I have to talk to this person?
- If so, what should I say?
If they don't get an Airplane quote I throw out there during the conversation I'm pretty much done with them.
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 07:54 PM (SATZE)
Dave Barry was funny, but like a lot of humor, a little goes a long way.
Posted by: MkY at April 30, 2025 07:54 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 07:55 PM (sagpo)
Good, but he's no Erma Bombeck.
Posted by: Miklos, Connoisseur of Bodily Humours at April 30, 2025 07:53 PM (IKhKt)
One hot mama.
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 07:55 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 07:56 PM (fY84s)
Surely you don't mean that
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 07:57 PM (2VST1)
It's pretty funny, though a bit dated as it was published back in 1991.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:51 PM (GlyvH)
_______
You consider 1991 "dated"? To me, that's new. Hell, anything since the Battle of Navarino is new.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 07:57 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 07:58 PM (sagpo)
Who's buying dinner?
It got a laugh.
Posted by: MkY at April 30, 2025 07:58 PM (cPGH3)
Great post, Buck! Thank you!
Posted by: FINGERS at April 30, 2025 08:00 PM (C8ve7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 08:00 PM (XeU6L)
Surely you don't mean that
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 07:57 PM (2VST1)
I do. And you know the line
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 08:00 PM (SATZE)
Posted by: Fritzy at April 30, 2025 08:01 PM (T5dpv)
Big Trouble
The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:01 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 07:39 PM (2VST1)
That's just for screening dating prospects now.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 08:01 PM (V1u5y)
Who's buying dinner?
It got a laugh.
Posted by: MkY at April 30, 2025 07:58 PM (cPGH3)
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Considering how undignified many medical tests and procedures can be, it's always good when you have a sense of humor about the situation.
I went in for an "undignified" test once and discovered that the lab tech was a young woman who used to work with me at Subway. It was a bit awkward, but we both laughed about it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:01 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: Fritzy at April 30, 2025 08:01 PM (T5dpv)
Brace yourself is way up there.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:02 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
>Sounds like somebody needs to deprogram his reflex to clench.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 08:02 PM (fY84s)
Who's buying dinner?
It got a laugh.
Posted by: MkY at April 30, 2025 07:58 PM (cPGH3)
My retirement physical was done by a female doctor and she was easy on the eyes. She seemed to enjoy her work,
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 08:02 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 30, 2025 08:03 PM (dg+HA)
Surely you don't mean that
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 07:57 PM
I think he does. And don't call him Shirley.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 08:04 PM (Wnv9h)
Think about the person in Shipping and Receiving who has to check that in and be thankful you made better life choices than them.
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 08:04 PM (SATZE)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:04 PM (gbOdA)
>Sounds like somebody needs to deprogram his reflex to clench.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone
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No worries anymore, Mr. Prostate has been neutralized. The ungrateful little bastard.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 08:04 PM (XeU6L)
Think about the person in Shipping and Receiving who has to check that in and be thankful you made better life choices than them.
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 08:04 PM (SATZE)
They call that an R o V.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:05 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Alabama at April 30, 2025 08:06 PM (3KSvz)
"That job really sucks, I'd never tell anyone about it"
--Guy who packs fudge for a living
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:07 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 07:39 PM (2VST1)
I got the blood test... really high.
Doctor did the finger test... nothing found.
Did an MRI (or CAT, whatever)... nothing found.
Doctor wanted to do a biopsy... I asked, on what? Oh, he said, we'll just poke random areas. I declined.
Next year blood test was even higher. Urologist didn't even return my phone call.
I assume it'll be something this upcoming year but I'm at the point where I don't know if I trust any of the system.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 08:07 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: The Flora-Bama Lounge at April 30, 2025 08:07 PM (dg+HA)
Laura Powell@LauraPowellEsq
State Senator Scott Wiener considers sex offender registries to be some sort of conspiracy against LGBTQ people by punishing them for perfectly normal things like having sex in public.
He argues that a categorical ban on allowing male sex offenders in women’s prisons is “incredibly overbroad and discriminatory.”
You can always count on him to put the rights of sex offenders over the rights of vulnerable groups like incarcerated women!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 08:07 PM (L/fGl)
I go to doctor and they decide to feel my ball
So about 11teen people proceed to feel my right ball
Then they decide (over sammiches I guess) that they all need to stick a finger up my ass.
So they then proceed to stick a finger up my ass. Yep
Same 11teen.
The last person walked away and I asked, OUT LOUD, who else wants to stick their finger up my ass.
They then asked my to get dressed.
It was a piano recital.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)
Next year blood test was even higher. Urologist didn't even return my phone call.
I assume it'll be something this upcoming year but I'm at the point where I don't know if I trust any of the system.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
My doc says the blood tests give too many false positives.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 08:09 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Qwerty adjacent at April 30, 2025 08:09 PM (dg+HA)
This is the same approach that says we should stop reporting the ethnic background of black criminals because too many show up in the news.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:10 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 08:10 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 08:11 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 08:10 PM (sagpo)
Pooh
Blood n Honey
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:12 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 07:57 PM (1bNHn)
Love Mediterranean sea battle humor.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 08:12 PM (asFox)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
24 hours before the exam, no sex and no bike riding
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 08:13 PM (6U1c2)
Nice, finger up the ass right at dinner time, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 08:14 PM (3ek7K)
--Guy who packs fudge for a living
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:07 PM (2VST1)
Have you heard of Uranus Fudge Factory ?
My BIL is a long hauler and gets us fudge there everytime he happens by. It's in Indiana. The last package he gave us had 'Lovingly Packed by Joe' inside the box. LOL
It's great fudge, too.
https://tinyurl.com/2hpmjjnb
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 08:14 PM (SATZE)
Posted by: Eternity Matters at April 30, 2025 08:14 PM (yT7Wa)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 08:11 PM (/y8xj)
I think in the same part he mentions having a price range, then assimilating the process of going Way, Way, Way outside your price range.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 08:15 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 07:42 PM
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Re-think your position on colonoscopy. They really are no big deal. The prep is worse than the actual procedure, and even it isn't that bad. I had all this fear built up before my first colonoscopy and discovered it was totally overblown.
Cologard has a far greater false negative rate than a colonoscopy, and it also yields false positives. If you get a positive Cologard result you end up getting a colonoscopy anyway.
Colon cancer is one of the most treatable cancers when caught early. Don't wuss out on this one
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 08:15 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: Eternity Matters at April 30, 2025 08:14 PM (yT7Wa)
I have one in a bathroom because they are a good length to read one or 2 in there without having to remember.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 08:16 PM (asFox)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 30, 2025 08:17 PM (USyCi)
Old italian guy on SUV
He drops golf bag at rental car center
Rifle falls out
We play with cheaters
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:17 PM (gbOdA)
My urologist had a sculpture of a gigantic had with an extended finger in his waiting room.
I am not kidding.
When I was finally diagnosed after the biopsy (not fun) he said that he and I were going to become "best friends".
That is the last thing I ever heard from him as I found another urologist.
Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 08:18 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 08:15 PM
This.
And read Dave Barry's colonoscopy column first.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 08:19 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 08:13 PM (6U1c2)
advised against vs prohibited
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:19 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 30, 2025 08:20 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 08:15 PM
This.
And read Dave Barry's colonoscopy column first.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 08:19 PM (Wnv9h)
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Seconded. And Dave Barry's column should be included in the packet of preparation instructions every time. Just because.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:21 PM (GlyvH)
Dad's parents lived in a small town during the Depression. Railroad went through there & sometimes hobos did too.
Grandma said her apple pies started "disappearing" from the windowsill. She'd wait & watch, but couldn't catch the culprit.
So, she made another "apple" pie-- out of potato peelings-- with cinnamon & spices to make it smell right.
Sure enough, it disappeared too, but no more pies were stolen after that. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at April 30, 2025 08:23 PM (rdVOm)
Which leads me to this:
September 2024
"A rare, smelly and yellow-eyed penguin species has been crowned New Zealand’s bird of the year for the second time in less than a decade."
Posted by: fd at April 30, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 08:25 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 07:48 PM (DgGvY)
Nah.... America's front legs...
Maine is the nose on the Hefalump... Texas the Back Legs...
Making San Fran? Yup, the Ass hole.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 08:25 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 08:26 PM (GhIJO)
Having lived in Tampa, Plant City, Tallahassee and Gainesville Florida, I think I am allowed to say I HATE FLORIDA!
Just my opinion, yours might differ.
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 08:28 PM (3ek7K)
It be forbiddeded!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 08:26 PM (GhIJO)
Why did I read that as ForBidened?
which I guess would be defined as something so brain dead it should not be done?
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 08:28 PM (QAkQ3)
Having lived in Tampa, Plant City, Tallahassee and Gainesville Florida, I think I am allowed to say I HATE FLORIDA!
Just my opinion, yours might differ.
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 08:28 PM (3ek7K)
I have lived in TLH and Destin
Destin 2x
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:29 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 08:30 PM (sagpo)
Europe Promises To Get The Electricity Back Up ASAP So Everyone Can Hear The Muslim Calls To Prayer
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:30 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 08:32 PM (QAkQ3)
We had a lot of relocations with my husbands job. We lived in Tampa first, then Plant City. When we were transferred to Atlanta and the movers left I told my husband, drive until we are out of Florida.
Corporate life takes you places you don't want to live. We moved twice after that back to Florida.
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 08:32 PM (3ek7K)
"that is not how you do it"
--JD Rockefeller
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:33 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Frank Zappa at April 30, 2025 08:34 PM (QB+5g)
Dimes everywhere...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 08:32 PM (QAkQ3)
Hi Ho Silver !
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 08:34 PM (SATZE)
Actually cut of half her face.
So I go online to be hospital in DFW, Zale assoc. woth UTMB.
He wants her case. He wants it to be study.
He cuts into gum inside mouth and about a dime sized tumor fell out.
Her body had calcified the tumor.
It was over in 10 minutes.
Always get SECOND.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 30, 2025 08:35 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: pawn
>It's probably not the snapping of a glove you hear, - Tallahassee is famous for its Alabama Dry Rub.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 08:35 PM (fY84s)
Sounds like the driver will have to change his occupation.
Posted by: fd at April 30, 2025 08:35 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:21 PM
Just read it before you take the prep stuff. Just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 08:36 PM (Wnv9h)
"that is not how you do it"
--JD Rockefeller
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:33 PM (2VST1)
I'll pick up those dimes at 25 cents finder's fee each.
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 08:36 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:36 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:01 PM (GlyvH)
Did you make a “five dollar footlong” joke? Or was it not that kind of test?
When I was a teen they had to feel my junk to see if it was developing right. They had this rosary-like loop consisting of different sized plastic balls.
The doctor was an old guy. He explained the test. I thought “Oh God, please be quick..”
He leaves, in comes a stunning, busty young woman. Of course I got a boner. It interfered with her measurements. She wasn’t flustered at all, just sort of exhausted seeming.
I don’t know why they bothered with the measurements. There was obviously nothing wrong. I guess they got to bill insurance that way.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 08:37 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 08:37 PM (wwsl/)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 30, 2025 08:38 PM (eYyUS)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 08:37 PM (wwsl/)
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/nvrzUngEQRw
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 08:39 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 08:39 PM (bW09W)
Made it race against time
Once I trucked a big load, now it's upside down
Posted by: gKWVE at April 30, 2025 08:39 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Jerry Kazynski at April 30, 2025 08:39 PM (C0f+C)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 08:39 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:39 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 08:40 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 08:40 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 08:41 PM (sagpo)
This is the flaw with the system. There are more than a few men, probably the majority, who'd rather die in agony than have some doctor shove stuff up their dumper.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:41 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 08:37 PM (wwsl/)
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Congratulations! The worst of it is over. I still remember how easy the first glass was, and how not easy the last glass was. Made me think of that scene from Harry Potter 6, when Dumbledore had to drink all the water in the basin.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 08:41 PM (OGOaV)
Shoot, that's enough for the whole gang to get to Rock Ridge!
Posted by: Slim Pickens at April 30, 2025 08:42 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:42 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Boss Moss
My fave was Cappy Dick.
Posted by: Secretary of Trans. Emeritus at April 30, 2025 08:43 PM (G5+As)
Looking over the available options, my wife chose a Dave Barry essay. She laughed so hard through it, we had to start over with a different essay.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 08:44 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 08:44 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 08:45 PM (7umJ5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 08:45 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Iron Lung Ira at April 30, 2025 08:45 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: gKWVE at April 30, 2025 08:46 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 08:47 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 08:47 PM (Tw+JN)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 08:48 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 08:50 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 30, 2025 08:50 PM (ZQOYp)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 30, 2025 08:51 PM (E2I8c)
This is the flaw with the system. There are more than a few men, probably the majority, who'd rather die in agony than have some doctor shove stuff up their dumper.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:41 PM
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Your body, your choice...but they give you light sedation before the colonoscopy and I have zero recollection of what happened, including that part.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 08:51 PM (1Au9i)
Low effort din-din
Posted by: Miklos has less energy than Jeb! at April 30, 2025 08:48 PM (IKhKt)
At least it’s not from a gas station.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 08:51 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 08:37 PM (wwsl/)
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I've gone through the process multiple times and only ONCE have I had todo the GoLYTELY.
The last time, they gave me two smallish bottles of fluid and told me to drink one the night before and one the morning of my colonoscopy. Both turned the SOUR level up to 11--like jamming a lemon down my throat--but I managed to choke them both down without too much trouble. Much better than GoLYTELY.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:52 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 08:52 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:52 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 08:51 PM (1Au9i)
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Propofol is a helluva drug...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:52 PM (GlyvH)
This is the flaw with the system. There are more than a few men, probably the majority, who'd rather die in agony than have some doctor shove stuff up their dumper.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:41 PM
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Your body, your choice...but they give you light sedation before the colonoscopy and I have zero recollection of what happened, including that part.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 08:51 PM (1Au9i)
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Light sedation? I was out cold. Just remember that part as a pleasant nap.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 08:53 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 08:51 PM (1Au9i)
I dimly remember her to start counting down from ten. Do not think I made it to 9.
Even the sedation for my wisdom teeth was not that door shuttingly sudden.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 30, 2025 08:53 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 30, 2025 08:53 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 08:51 PM (1Au9i)
I dimly remember her to start counting down from ten. Do not think I made it to 9.
Even the sedation for my wisdom teeth was not that door shuttingly sudden.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 30, 2025 08:53 PM (E2I8c)
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For me, the room starts to spin, I say, "WHEEE!!!" and then it's light's out.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM (GlyvH)
Yes but you're missing the point. Maybe the way they are doing things is not ideal if your remedy is so unpleasant people would rather die in agony.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM (2VST1)
So, you want to date my daughter. What is it you do for a living?
Well...
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM (a4NoL)
12 Changes Trump Would Make As Pope
https://shorturl.at/YOHeN
1. Communion wine will now be replaced with Diet Coke
4. The face of Trump will be painted over the face of Adam in the Sistine Chapel
9. Orange will now be the liturgical color of Easter, Pentecost, and Advent
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM (mH6SG)
Lewis Gizzard was awesome.
He had many great essays. The one I always remember is about taking baths.
He couldn't understand why people take baths to sit in bath water that was full of their shit.
I've hate baths because, why do you want to sit in your shit remnants and he nailed it.
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 08:55 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at April 30, 2025 08:55 PM (v23vE)
Yeah, the Dutch would love that
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:55 PM (2VST1)
And then I discovered Peter Egan, which was a whole different type of specialization.
Do people like that exist anymore? I assume not since no one reads newspapers. They're like made-for-TV movies or special episodes of TV shows that everyone would watch and talk about at work the next day.
It's sort of interesting to observe the death of shared experiences leading to the decline of a shared culture. I mean, it sucks to be standing in the middle of it while observing, but still.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 08:56 PM (yWTRD)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at April 30, 2025 08:17 PM (USyCi)
Same here, GotC. Thinking about it makes me want to shoot someone in the thigh and set up a perimeter.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at April 30, 2025 08:56 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:56 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 08:57 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Iris at April 30, 2025 08:57 PM (bOJ2I)
Urologist: You know, it's not unusual for a man to uncontrollably become sexually aroused during this process.
Patient: Not me, Doc. I'm straight.
Urologist: I wasn't talking about the patient.
Posted by: davidt at April 30, 2025 08:58 PM (i0F8b)
Gah! I couldn't finish my prep-kit with SuPrep-- had to go pick up an "alternate" one at the ER.
SuPrep was so absolutely VILE that... I could not manage to choke it down. I mean, have you ever tried to swallow while your body was actively puking?
Posted by: JQ at April 30, 2025 08:58 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 30, 2025 08:58 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 08:59 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 08:59 PM (sagpo)
That'll suck for the hymn composers.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 30, 2025 09:01 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: JQ
With practice, you can swallow anything.
Posted by: Mrs. Emhoff at April 30, 2025 09:01 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 09:01 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 09:01 PM (OGOaV)
I said, "But Doc, I don't have an erection."
He said, "Well, I do."
Posted by: Bombadil at April 30, 2025 09:02 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 09:02 PM (QB+5g)
Yes. Much more palatable. That's what saved me from a last-minute cancellation.
Posted by: JQ at April 30, 2025 09:03 PM (rdVOm)
Per Bing, a dime weighs 2.268 grams and a quarter 5.67 so the ratio is exactly 2.5:1. It's possible that one coin could have more air space than the other when piled randomly so that the barrels wouldn't weigh the same but I couldn't begin to even guess which. So, flip a coin?
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 09:03 PM (/y8xj)
Well, to change the subject, if you've never bought Johnny's Garlic spread, you should try it.
I melt some butter and mix it with the spread and put it on bread and anything else you want.
It is awesome.
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 09:03 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM
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I think people tend to exaggerate how awful colonoscopy is for some reason-- Oh I survived this terrible ordeal, aren't I a mensch -- which scares people into making bad choices. I don't know anyone that had a colonoscopy that really, honestly, thought it was so terrible that they wouldn't do it again. I'm sure there are some that feel this way but I think it's mostly legend.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 09:04 PM (1Au9i)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 30, 2025 09:04 PM (kpS4V)
I'll read through whatever is linked and see what's what.
Posted by: From about That Time at April 30, 2025 09:04 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 30, 2025 09:06 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 09:06 PM (sagpo)
Sperbeck, 61, was reported to have a prognosis of "not good" and doctors reportedly notified his family that "there's no hope he will recover." The agent was riding on the back of the cart driven by Elway -- who was seated next to another business partner -- before falling off and hitting his head on asphalt at The Madison Club, a private country club in La Quinta, California.
Elway reportedly called 911 and Sperbeck was taken to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, according to TMZ . Elway and Sperbeck had attended Stagecoach music festival earlier in the day with their wives and had left a party just prior to the accident occurring.
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Plus Elway up and got old.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 09:06 PM (L/fGl)
Have they considered not committing sex offenses?
I know this is a radical suggestion that will infringe on their self-expression...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 30, 2025 09:07 PM (+JCh0)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 09:01 PM (OGOaV)
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That's what I've done too, after taking a couple of Dulcolax tablets. It's not that bad, albeit a lot to drink at a time.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 09:08 PM (1Au9i)
https://tinyurl.com/4bhxxub
"So I was in my yard, cutting and dragging trees, which is pretty much what I do these days, and I stopped to listen to the battery-powered radio, and the announcer informed me that there were 300 baboons on the loose.
And I thought to myself: Of course! Loose baboons! The one inconvenience we have not yet encountered this week!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 30, 2025 09:08 PM (kpS4V)
I think people tend to exaggerate how awful colonoscopy is for some reason-- Oh I survived this terrible ordeal, aren't I a mensch -- which scares people into making bad choices. I don't know anyone that had a colonoscopy that really, honestly, thought it was so terrible that they wouldn't do it again. I'm sure there are some that feel this way but I think it's mostly legend.
Posted by: Bigsmith
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I think this is pretty close to the mark.
Similar to root canals. I had to have one a decade or so ago and it was a piece of cake. I absolutely dreaded it going in, and it was probably easier than just having a cavity filled since there was better anesthesia.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 09:09 PM (yWTRD)
Your body, your choice...but they give you light sedation before the colonoscopy and I have zero recollection of what happened, including that part.
Posted by: Bigsmith
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Propofol, as she empties the milky solution into the manifold she says, take a deep breath, it's just oxygen. Lights out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 09:09 PM (wwsl/)
According to him. He was out for a couple of months.
Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 09:09 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM
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I think people tend to exaggerate how awful colonoscopy is for some reason-- Oh I survived this terrible ordeal, aren't I a mensch -- which scares people into making bad choices. I don't know anyone that had a colonoscopy that really, honestly, thought it was so terrible that they wouldn't do it again. I'm sure there are some that feel this way but I think it's mostly legend.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 09:04 PM (1Au9i)
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Yeah, it's the prep that sucks. The procedure itself, you won't even remember it.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 09:09 PM (OGOaV)
So, you want to date my daughter. What is it you do for a living?
Well...
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM (a4NoL
Ha! That's my nephew-in-law! Sweet guy, good musician, great husband and father.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at April 30, 2025 09:10 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 09:11 PM (sagpo)
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Exactly.
Posted by: JQ at April 30, 2025 09:12 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 30, 2025 09:12 PM (PU21p)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 30, 2025 09:12 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 09:13 PM (yWTRD)
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 08:51 PM (1Au9i)
My last colonoscopy, as the anesthesia nurse was about to administer the sleepy juice I said "see you on the other side." He got a horrified look on his face and said "don't say that!"
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 09:13 PM (ExV1e)
How are you feeling, Moki? Healing?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 30, 2025 07:54 PM (7uM8h)
i stepped away and saw your comment! how are you? husband can walk well now after his hip replacement, my broken rib is healed, and the tumor in my thyroid has shrunk, so i'm doing great!
Posted by: Moki at April 30, 2025 09:14 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 09:14 PM (2VST1)
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To this day, Gatorade gives me the runs after having done that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 09:15 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Guess he was old enough to watch the first Flatliners and too old to see the disgrace of the remake
Posted by: gKWVE at April 30, 2025 09:16 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 09:17 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 08:54 PM (mH6SG)
Last great doctor I had (early 2000's) used a sonagram to check my prostate. Surprised this hasn't caught on...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 30, 2025 09:17 PM (bA75n)
Similar to root canals. I had to have one a decade or so ago and it was a piece of cake. I absolutely dreaded it going in, and it was probably easier than just having a cavity filled since there was better anesthesia.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 09:09 PM (yWTRD)
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I can have problems with root canals, depending on where they are, but that's just because my back teeth are notoriously difficult to numb up. Last filling I had back there, I could still feel the drill (much dimished, to be fair), even after multiple injections of novocaine). I finally told her to just get it done.
I first discovered this fact about myself when having my wisdom teeth removed. That was a very unpleasant experience. Since then, I've always warned dentists that I'm going to need more novocaine than they think.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 09:17 PM (OGOaV)
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You mean the assholologist?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 09:17 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 09:09 PM (yWTRD)
Last root canal I had the doctor put a bite block in and I fell asleep for a bit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 09:17 PM (ExV1e)
And for funny writers (non-fiction) its hard to be Chesterton.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 09:18 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 09:09 PM (OGOaV)
And the prep consists of... don't eat today, drink som unpleasant stuff, poop - a lot. It's mildly annoying.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 09:19 PM (ExV1e)
Save us cobloggers.
It's way past time for a fun thread that doesn't involve sticking things up people's asses.
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 09:20 PM (3ek7K)
It will supplement, not replace, AoS in my daily reading.
I used to read him in the paper, read his books but didn't like his tv show too much.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 30, 2025 09:20 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 09:20 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Miklos opines at April 30, 2025 09:18 PM (IKhKt)
Better than "My Next Colonoscopy".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 09:21 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 09:22 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 09:20 PM (3ek7K)
Tonight's Cafe... the giant list of stuff doctor's have pulled out of people's asses.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 09:22 PM (ExV1e)
https://tinyurl.com/295o7wxz
Posted by: Clio Weeps at April 30, 2025 09:23 PM (kSAM8)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 09:09 PM (OGOaV)
And the prep consists of... don't eat today, drink som unpleasant stuff, poop - a lot. It's mildly annoying.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 09:19 PM (ExV1e)
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And it wasn't even the pooping that was a problem. Drinking 32oz of the mixture in the space of about 45 minutes is what did it for me. The first glass was no problem. I thought, this'll be easy. By the 4th glass, it was deep breaths and small little sips.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 09:24 PM (OGOaV)
According to him. He was out for a couple of months.
Posted by: pawn at April 30, 2025 09:09 PM (QB+5g)
That's a damn thorough colonoscopy! Did they have to use teams?
Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 30, 2025 09:24 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 09:20 PM (3ek7K)
Tonight's Cafe... the giant list of stuff doctor's have pulled out of people's asses.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 09:22 PM (ExV1e)
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"It was a million-to-one shot, doc..."
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 09:25 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 09:22 PM (sagpo)
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Nah, I have a soul. Though I will admit a healthy attraction to redheaded ladies.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 30, 2025 09:27 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 09:28 PM (NehaE)
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The dude with several Hot Wheels toy cars shoved up there would be pretty high on the list of WTF.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 09:30 PM (Q4IgG)
Hi. I’m a moron. I’m a bit over 29.
But I grew up in the 70s listening to Dr Demento. On short road trips back from Grandpa’s, mostly on Sunday evenings, I talked dad into tuning in once. He loved it!! Somehow he had heard Alan Sherman previously and knew about those songs. Mom and Dad laughed about most of the bits, thought some were stupid ( but not 13 year old me), and it became a thing on our trips back.
Was this just a So Cal thing, or was it syndicated ?
Who else here enjoyed this as a yute?
Posted by: Gunslinger at April 30, 2025 09:36 PM (65a8d)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 09:22 PM (sagpo)
That is backwards. Redheads have a notably higher tolerance for pain that makes anesthesiologists have to work harder and doc / pharmacists adjust pain meds doses and intervals.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 09:36 PM (Aqu9a)
Thank yoo Presdent obama and we still loves yoo.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 30, 2025 09:39 PM (FDlb9)
Fuck off Mary
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 09:39 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 09:40 PM (GITLP)
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 09:41 PM (LHPAg)
Half the volume of prep would have been enough to do the job.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 09:42 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Miklos opines at April 30, 2025 09:18 PM (IKhKt)
Better than "My Next Colonoscopy".
Posted by: I used to have a
My Little Oscopy
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 09:43 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Archer at April 30, 2025 09:44 PM (IDphi)
Israel has launched airstrikes against the militias, trying to stop their attacks
https://tinyurl.com/yru7daxy
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 09:45 PM (wwsl/)
And we sign a mineral deal with Uke? Which puts more political pressure on to defend them?
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 09:45 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: DenverGregg at April 30, 2025 09:45 PM (d/3RC)
Those "kids" are all parents now, and tell me they torture their children with those copies.
Posted by: Crouching chigger at April 30, 2025 09:47 PM (LjJ5Y)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 09:48 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 09:49 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 09:51 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 09:30 PM (Q4IgG)
Hey! I'm walkin' here!
Posted by: the gerbil at April 30, 2025 09:51 PM (gKWVE)
49 degrees here in SW Wyoming. What is the temperature in your area?
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 09:51 PM (3ek7K)
61 degrees by the beach here in Huntington
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 30, 2025 09:54 PM (QGaXH)
Hi. I’m a moron. I’m a bit over 29.
But I grew up in the 70s listening to Dr Demento. On short road trips back from Grandpa’s, mostly on Sunday evenings, I talked dad into tuning in once. He loved it!! Somehow he had heard Alan Sherman previously and knew about those songs. Mom and Dad laughed about most of the bits, thought some were stupid ( but not 13 year old me), and it became a thing on our trips back.
Was this just a So Cal thing, or was it syndicated ?
Who else here enjoyed this as a yute?
Posted by: Gunslinger at April 30, 2025 09:36 PM (65a8d)
Dr. Demento was also on some station in the NoVa region.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 30, 2025 09:59 PM (Vqx30)
Somewhere along the line, either he went left or I went right, or something, I don't remember what (like a lot of things I moved away from), and I gave up on him. Didn't even read his 2024 year-in-review.
Also didn't read the quotes in the post, nor any comments after #50, but that was mostly so I could jump down here to comment before the ONT.
Too late?
Posted by: mindful webworker - would be a good name for a band at April 30, 2025 10:01 PM (IcX7N)
ONT
Posted by: four seasons at April 30, 2025 10:04 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Mudshark at April 30, 2025 10:33 PM (w8fax)
The prostate exam of Florida, on the Gulf of Canada, is about as funny as his colonoscopy column.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 30, 2025 11:36 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 01, 2025 06:28 PM (FLiOE)
Riding The Rails
Ever wanted to be a hobo? Riding the rails, no man your master, living life on your terms?
At the 1889 National Hobo Convention, held in St. Louis, they adopted a "Hobo Ethical Code" to provide guidelines for how hobos should behave. Here it is:
1. Decide your own life; don't let another person run or rule you.2. When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.
3. Don't take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable situation, locals or other hobos.
4. Always try to find work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. By doing so, you not only help a business along but ensure employment should you return to that town again.
5. When no employment is available, make your own work by using your added talents at crafts.
6. Do not allow yourself to become a stupid drunk and set a bad example for locals' treatment of other hobos.
7. When jungling in town, respect handouts and do not wear them out; another hobo will be coming along who will need them as badly, if not worse than you.
8. Always respect nature; do not leave garbage where you are jungling.
9. If in a community jungle, always pitch in and help.
10. Try to stay clean, and boil up wherever possible. 11. When traveling, ride your train respectfully. Take no personal chances, cause no problems with the operating crew or host railroad; act like an extra crew member.
12. Do not cause problems in a train yard; another hobo will be coming along who will need passage through that yard.
13. Do not allow other hobos to molest children; expose all molesters to authorities - they are the worst garbage to infest any society.
14. Help all runaway children, and try to induce them to return home.
15. Help your fellow hobos whenever and wherever needed; you may need their help someday.
16. If present at a hobo court and you have testimony, give it. Whether for or against the accused, your voice counts! What a country, huh? Even the vagabonds in 19th century America felt it important to have a code of ethics. Oh, I'm sure plenty of folks didn't abide by the code, but they very concept...Can you imagine a "Homeless Code of Ethics" today? The very idea is absurd, how many homeless would even think they needed one, and how many would follow it if it existed?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 05:10 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 30, 2025 05:11 PM (FxH7T)
A rule to live by, for sure.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 05:12 PM (uCjyK)
The democrats could learn a thing or two from our hobo's.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 05:12 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:14 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at April 30, 2025 05:14 PM (1bJbh)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 05:14 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:14 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 30, 2025 05:15 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at April 30, 2025 05:15 PM (CDS5Z)
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 05:15 PM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:15 PM (bW09W)
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I love this one. It implies that the locals generalize all hobos to be "stupid drunks" if one guy lays into the paint thinner.
You're on thin ice, mister.
Posted by: Orson at April 30, 2025 05:15 PM (dIske)
What about Presidents of the United States?
Asking for a friend.
J.R.Bumblefuck
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 05:16 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 05:16 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Rutger Hauer at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (Vj4xA)
He has a blopost on it and also an audio recording travelogue on YouTube.
https://tinyurl.com/27wketl4
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (XV/Pl)
I've learned my lesson - no more links. Write it down so they can't remove access.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (w6EFb)
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How does a "hobo court" work? Who is the adjudicator? Who acts as the prosecutor and who acts as the defense?
What sort of punishments are meted out?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (Uyvzb)
Posted by: Rutger Hauer at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (Vj4xA)
That's a fun flick.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Max Power at April 30, 2025 05:18 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 30, 2025 05:18 PM (YSnaO)
Thins should work out.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: steevy at April 30, 2025 05:19 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 30, 2025 05:19 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (CDS5Z)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (MGB5H)
Hobos travel and will work to earn their way.
Tramps will travel, but avoid work whenever possible.
Bums neither travel nor work and are basically looked down on by both hobos and tramps.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (7fElN)
Great film. Great cast. Slightly rail riding hobo related. Also, bare knuckle boxing.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (Uyvzb)
James Coburn and the might Charles Bronson.
Great film, unexpectedly good writing for Bronson's character.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:15 PM (bW09W)
From the context, I'm assuming it's slang for sleeping / camping in the woods.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (xcxpd)
If every homeless person actually lived by that Hobo Code (because they believe in personal freedom), how much better off would the U.S. be right now?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:15 PM (bW09W)
From the context, I'm assuming it's slang for sleeping / camping in the woods.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (uCjyK)
hobo jungle, their name for their makeshift camps.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: steevy at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (YwEeS)
Thins should work out.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)
They already are.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (uCjyK)
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It would begin and end with Valu-Rite Vodka.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (/k9od)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (qjkZ2)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (wBaIH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrEcPdA0hE
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (63Dwl)
Hobos travel and will work to earn their way.
Tramps will travel, but avoid work whenever possible.
Bums neither travel nor work and are basically looked down on by both hobos and tramps.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (7fElN)
I think Cher had an album about that.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (2cS/G)
Ok, I'm not looking up jungling at the urban dictionary.
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (Oy/m2)
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Dunno about the modern usage, but back then it was a slang term for the tent community hobos would set up as a temporary lodging. Hobos would come and go as they saw fit.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: steevy at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: raimondo at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (hb9ma)
The Canucks weren’t always metrosexual pansies.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 05:23 PM (77rzZ)
Hobo camps are clean??
I don't think so.
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 05:23 PM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: steevy at April 30, 2025 05:23 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 05:23 PM (2cS/G)
https://t.co/QNz3r6dxen
/ Go go boots catch hot brass
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM
Wow! In a bad way.
She even had a ND after she started dancing.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 30, 2025 05:23 PM (HlyYF)
Enough to require rules.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 05:23 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Indy Bill at April 30, 2025 05:24 PM (zsXOK)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 05:24 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 30, 2025 05:25 PM (2+BHm)
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I did - and now I have some mental images that'll stick with me. None of the 4 definitions for "Jungling" are remotely close to what the hobo code suggests.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 30, 2025 05:25 PM (eb5mD)
There's another guy Out Of Town On A Rail or something that still hops trains. Interesting lifestyle.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 05:26 PM (/U5Yz)
Some things never change.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 30, 2025 05:26 PM (vKNmo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:26 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: raimondo at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (hb9ma)
You misspelled "Happy 'Democrats and Communists kill free people" day.
But I get it. Spelling is hard.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 05:26 PM (oSeBJ)
A#1 TO PORTLAND
Posted by: Don Black at April 30, 2025 05:26 PM (AOsQT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrEcPdA0hE
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Terrific lyrics
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 05:27 PM (XeU6L)
Thins should work out.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)
They already are.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM
Zales is currently running an ad campaign in my area with 5'9" models that weigh 114# riding the subway by themselves wearing expensive jewelry, including a diamond of at least 2 carats.
Clearly no one that works in a big advertising firm has been near a subway for at least 20 years.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 30, 2025 05:27 PM (HlyYF)
https://tinyurl.com/44hjram2
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 30, 2025 05:27 PM (cvWHI)
Well, that's all right by me, yeah
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 05:21 PM (63Dwl)
That sounds gay.
Posted by: Indy Bill at April 30, 2025 05:27 PM (zsXOK)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 05:20 PM (MGB5H)
I saw a symbol carved into concrete outside of a house in a little town in West Texas. It was the sign for "man with a gun". My cousin thought I made it up, but I saw it in a Childcraft Encyclopedia so I know it was true.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 30, 2025 05:28 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (2cS/G)
This hobo jurist finds her not guilty by reason of the cops in this case are mighty sketch.
On the other hand, the woman does have crazy eyes and looks exactly like the type of woman who would get black out drunk, run her boyfriend over in a rage, leave him for dead and drive home then wake up in the morning not sure if that was real or not.
So maybe we'd need to empanel a full jury for this one.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 05:29 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 05:29 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 30, 2025 05:29 PM (eb5mD)
https://www.bonappetit.com/ recipe/fenugreek-turmeric-chicken-soup
Works on the way back machine if the direct link redirects you.
Posted by: none at April 30, 2025 05:29 PM (MxiJ/)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 05:30 PM (UBKzV)
And the jungle fires were burning
Along came a hobo hiking
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning
I'm going to a land that's far away
Beneath the crystal fountain
So come with me and you will see
The Big Rock Candy Mountain."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 05:30 PM (6YdsJ)
https://youtu.be/IGIHaKCeVYk
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 30, 2025 05:30 PM (Vj4xA)
Oh, and it's Skid Road, not Skid Row.
The road refers to a specific street in Seattle. There used to be a mill in Pioneer Square and logs were skidded to it from the hills above.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 30, 2025 05:30 PM (wlv8N)
Clearly no one that works in a big advertising firm has been near a subway for at least 20 years.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 30, 2025 05:27 PM (HlyYF)
lol.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 05:30 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:31 PM (bW09W)
We watched the Rumble In The Jungle
To see who be the targeted uncle,
to be the first to fall and fumble
'Nuff blows they getting thrown, like solid milestones
Internally shaking up niggas, imbalance your chromosomes
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 05:31 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:31 PM (4/BuS)
She thinks they're idiots, and that things up in the hat are going to get worse.
Posted by: Weirddave at April 30, 2025 05:31 PM (df/te)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:32 PM (bW09W)
The Canucks weren’t always metrosexual pansies.
Posted by: Bulg
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One of my favorites, 'Steel Rail Blues'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czRtMiSZxzw
Used to sing that to myself while out traveling over the horizon somewhere.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 05:32 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:32 PM (4/BuS)
I saw an interviewer (not MSM) a while back questioning the females that lived in the homeless population.
She asked a few of them about the rumors of "rare" sexual assaults in the homeless camps.
They all looked at the reporter as if she was a retard. Several of the women replied that they were assaulted about once every day! (I think that lumped together sexual assaults and physical assaults to just steal the stuff of the weaker people.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 30, 2025 05:32 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 05:33 PM (Ew+5k)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 05:33 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: Weirddave at April 30, 2025 05:33 PM (df/te)
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 30, 2025 05:34 PM (5SvjB)
Posted by: Weirddave at April 30, 2025 05:31 PM (df/te)
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You're married to a former Cunuckian too?
I'm sure my wife thinks the same as yours.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 05:34 PM (tT6L1)
I saw an interviewer (not MSM) a while back questioning the females that lived in the homeless population.
She asked a few of them about the rumors of "rare" sexual assaults in the homeless camps.
They all looked at the reporter as if she was a retard. Several of the women replied that they were assaulted about once every day! (I think that lumped together sexual assaults and physical assaults to just steal the stuff of the weaker people.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 30, 2025 05:32 PM (HlyYF)
This is why almost all shelters segregate male and female homeless.
Posted by: Nova Local at April 30, 2025 05:34 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at April 30, 2025 05:34 PM (ufJfM)
Maybe the hobos who wrote the code understood the "Shut up" part of S,S,S.
Besides, riding the rails is dangerous. You never know when you could get locked in a boxcar, or lose your grip and fall off a moving train.
Posted by: Chuck C at April 30, 2025 05:35 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 05:33 PM (Ew+5k)
It's short for Hobo Sapiens.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:35 PM (4/BuS)
One theory is that it came from "Hoe Boy," which makes sense considering that they did agricultural work.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at April 30, 2025 05:35 PM (VXSVh)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 05:36 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 05:36 PM (Ew+5k)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 05:36 PM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 05:37 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 05:37 PM (D7oie)
Coincidentally, these are also the rules for the NoVaMoMe on June 21st which I cordially invite all of you to attend. Email me at the address in my nic for the deets!
Posted by: bluebell at April 30, 2025 05:37 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 30, 2025 05:37 PM (Vj4xA)
Beware of furry midgets, they may be Ewoks, who hunt hobos for their delicious meat.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 30, 2025 05:38 PM (y9nCu)
Ewoks rely on the kindness of strangers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 05:38 PM (2VST1)
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But enough about lawyers.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 05:38 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 05:38 PM (2VST1)
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Yub yub!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 05:39 PM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 05:39 PM (Oy/m2)
Try, "Winston, I can't count to five"
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 05:40 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 05:39 PM (Oy/m2)
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Don't think you can catch a train to Hawaii.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 05:40 PM (6YdsJ)
Those crafty vagabonds will lure you into social acceptance with their toothless charms and mastery of puppets.
Further, if a hobo makes eye contact, this should automatically trigger a trouncing with a trusty blackjack.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 05:40 PM (fY84s)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 05:33 PM (Ew+5k)
Hodor?
Posted by: Hodor at April 30, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 05:41 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:41 PM (bW09W)
It was usually informal and unproductive. Somewhere near the outset, the lead spokeshobo would invite everyone to examine the contents of his briefs and the proceedings would descend into chaos.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:41 PM (4/BuS)
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at April 30, 2025 05:41 PM (VXSVh)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 05:41 PM (GhIJO)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 05:42 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 05:42 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:43 PM (bW09W)
Hobo court was like landlubbing pirate court.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 30, 2025 05:43 PM (y9nCu)
"Nonsense, you can totally cross the entire Mediterranean on the outside of a submarine!"
--Indiana Jones
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 05:43 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at April 30, 2025 05:43 PM (FLiOE)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 05:42 PM (e5NfL)
I don't think so. I don't recall ever seeing hobo code anywhere, for example.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:43 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 05:39 PM (Oy/m2)
The hobo courts worked on the spirit of Mahalo, which I think means either "trash can" or "please recycle" due to where it is posted
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 05:44 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:44 PM (bW09W)
Spurwing sign...
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 30, 2025 05:44 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: steevy at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (YwEeS)
Both of those are great movies; fun fact is that the pilot Jimmy Stewart played in "Flight of the Phoenix" was closer to the real-life Jimmy Stewart than any other part he played. (which is why he was perfect for the role) He piloted 25 B-17 missions over Germany, and I believe retired as a Brigadier General in the AF.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 05:45 PM (uWKK8)
They are now referred to as "undocumented passengers"
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 30, 2025 05:45 PM (Vj4xA)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at April 30, 2025 05:45 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:47 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Don Black at April 30, 2025 05:47 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:47 PM (4/BuS)
I used what I learned in the rail yards and hobo camps to become what every everyday Amercian wanted. A President who will grow the economy from the inside up and bottom out...wait, the outside out and the inside down....anyway, Uncle Bosey fought those cannibals for days before they ate him and his parachute! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!
Posted by: Joe at April 30, 2025 05:49 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Ciampino - it's an adventure at April 30, 2025 05:49 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 05:50 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 05:50 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 05:38 PM (2VST1)
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Yub yub!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 05:39 PM (6YdsJ)
Ewoks don't rely on Stormtroopers, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 05:50 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at April 30, 2025 05:50 PM (MZ+PY)
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How does a "hobo court" work? Who is the adjudicator? Who acts as the prosecutor and who acts as the defense?
What sort of punishments are meted out?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (7fElN)
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IK dunno, but probably more just than our current "judicial system".
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 05:51 PM (lJmmt)
We don't currently permit Hobos on the property, FWIW.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 05:52 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: kbdabear at April 30, 2025 05:53 PM (zBOzm)
My grandfather, he loved trains. He worked for the Union Pacific for like 50 years, working the freight yard.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 05:54 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Ciampino - it's an adventure a
Nobody rides the rails anymore.
But in the third rail the rides rooftop on the cars.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 05:54 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 05:55 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Don Black at April 30, 2025 05:55 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 05:55 PM (Ew+5k)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 05:33 PM (Ew+5k)
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I think it was a portmanteau of an old hotel chain called Howard Bowman's.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 05:55 PM (dBxkv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:55 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 05:57 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 30, 2025 05:57 PM (vOJ4/)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Sort of.
Homeless camps still observe kapu law and the only punishment for kapu is death. Death by bunga bunga.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 05:58 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: PabloD at April 30, 2025 05:59 PM (Z0gSs)
Prisoner: "That doesn't sound so bad"
Judge: "With Lizzo"
Prisoner: "NOOOOOOOOOOooOOO!!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 06:00 PM (2VST1)
The Insane Clown Posse has a "Gathering of the Juggalos" event where there is a court that apparently works pretty well. This and probably the hobo courts seem to be similar to the mercantile courts that some industries have set up outside of government.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at April 30, 2025 06:00 PM (VXSVh)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 05:50 PM (W/lyH)
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Pre-Welfare State.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 06:00 PM (A5ASI)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 06:01 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Boss Moss
>No, but they have the Lono Expresso which trafficks coffee and China White with a hobo escort armed with whiskey bottles.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 06:02 PM (fY84s)
Ok, I'm not looking up jungling at the urban dictionary.
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (Oy/m2)
Haven't read all the comments so maybe someone has already answered this. It means "temporary camp".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 06:03 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 06:03 PM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 06:03 PM (MmjDW)
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Lololol
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (2cS/G)
This hobo jurist finds her not guilty by reason of the cops in this case are mighty sketch.
I've watched bits and pieces on a couple of lawyers YT channels. "Sketch" would be an understatement. Those cops, especially that one bald trooper guy, are crooked AF.
Posted by: Noble heroes in blue, them at April 30, 2025 06:04 PM (TbWk/)
After all, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!!
Jurisdiction changes with the train schedule.
Posted by: mot at April 30, 2025 06:04 PM (fIPNY)
I cannot come up with the name of the comic. Too many great comics back in those days. I know I still have my copies of it, somewhere deep in the catacombs.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what was it? at April 30, 2025 06:05 PM (IcX7N)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 05:37 PM (Er3Q7)
Depressing Old Person Fact Of The Day
It came out farther back in the past than The Duke of Earl was before it.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 30, 2025 06:05 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:15 PM
A hobo camp is called a "jungle". "Jungling" is the verb form of that. Of course, as we all know, verbing weirds language.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at April 30, 2025 06:06 PM (2Insx)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
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He did not completely follow the hobo code.
Got Sloppy. Good piano and editing.
Posted by: CapeFear at April 30, 2025 06:06 PM (qhuez)
Posted by: Sloppy 222nds. No thanks. at April 30, 2025 06:06 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: cherries are the best at April 30, 2025 06:06 PM (TeOtI)
Posted by: Victor Tang
I heard thst it comes from the times when migrant workers would travel with tools of the trade; those carrying hoes would be referred to as "hoe boys" which eventually got shortened down.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 06:07 PM (UCYpC)
He was one of those boutique virtue signal adoptions, a little black boy! Raised by DeNiro no wonder he's crazy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 06:07 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 30, 2025 06:07 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 05:37 PM (Er3Q7)
A truly horrible song.
I wish the band plentiful suffering.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 06:07 PM (4/BuS)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:47 PM (4/BuS)
Sandra Fluke
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 06:08 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: tankdemon
Maybe where the stick came from... it was a hoe.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 06:09 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: birddog at April 30, 2025 06:09 PM (s5LY2)
I wish the band plentiful suffering.
This is how I feel about almost everything Paul McCartney did post-Beatles.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 30, 2025 06:09 PM (vOJ4/)
Posted by: Ciampino
Hard to jump a bullet train in Japan.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 06:09 PM (xsqwN)
Emperor of the North Pole is free to watch at archive.org.
Posted by: 13times at April 30, 2025 06:10 PM (U2XF+)
https://youtu.be/2doMXDFOXeM
Posted by: Chuck C at April 30, 2025 06:13 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:47 PM (4/BuS)
Sandra Fluke
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 06:08 PM (ExV1e)
Rod Stewart.
Allegedly.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Don Black at April 30, 2025 06:14 PM (AOsQT)
These nasty scum became divas when railfan, Cadaver Joe Biden, pumped the taxpayers and subsidized this 19th century loser passenger service.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 06:14 PM (fY84s)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 06:14 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:47 PM (4/BuS)
Sandra Fluke
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 06:08 PM (ExV1e)
Rod Stewart.
Allegedly.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)
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Donkey-Chompers.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 06:15 PM (iEoh7)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:47 PM (4/BuS)
Sandra Fluke
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 06:08 PM (ExV1e)
Rod Stewart.
Allegedly.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)
Definitely: https://tinyurl.com/29ypwrdn
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 06:16 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 06:16 PM (VNX3d)
I'm at work, I am NOT clicking that link.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:17 PM (dGCAG)
There's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 06:17 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 06:17 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 06:16 PM (VNX3d)
I'm at work, I am NOT clicking that link.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:17 PM (dGCAG)
Goes to the BBC, showing off his rather large model railroad.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 06:17 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Ciampino
Hard to jump a bullet train in Japan.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 06:09 PM (xsqwN)
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I'm visualizing Wiley Coyote splattered on the front of that.
Posted by: Ciampino - it's an adventure? at April 30, 2025 06:17 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 06:18 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 06:18 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Ciampino
It isn't a thing in Japan but I think it was in Canada for sure, maybe the UK and France.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 30, 2025 06:19 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Ciampino
Hard to jump a bullet train in Japan.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 06:09 PM (xsqwN)
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I'm visualizing Wiley Coyote splattered on the front of that.
Posted by: Ciampino - it's an adventure? at April 30, 2025 06:17 PM (sPQoU)
Currently most of Calif High Speed rail routes are homeless camps.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 06:19 PM (QAkQ3)
About an axe murderer who went from town to town, killing families as he went. Murders went unsolved, because local cops at the time didn't communicate with each other... and the kinds of things one might expect modern detectives to notice, they didn't have pro detectives back then either.
Interestingly, there was a DIFFERENT axe murderer, active at the dame time, concentrated mostly around the South, whereas the guy from James' book went all over, including the famous Villisca murders, with an alleged haunted house still standing today.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:19 PM (dGCAG)
Watch out for Kitchener Lesley.
Posted by: MikeN at April 30, 2025 06:20 PM (HVZOH)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 06:09 PM (xsqwN)
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I'm visualizing Wiley Coyote splattered on the front of that.
Posted by: Ciampino
*snort.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 06:20 PM (xsqwN)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSGVD2DgWy8
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 30, 2025 06:20 PM (wwsl/)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 06:17 PM (VNX3d)
Oh.
Not that kind of train.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:21 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Joe at April 30, 2025 06:21 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 06:24 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: Gref at April 30, 2025 06:25 PM (aBgBM)
Fruit of the vine
When you going to let me get sober
Leave me alone
Let me go home
Let me go home and start over
-zombie Box Car Willy
Posted by: Father Julius Santuci at April 30, 2025 06:27 PM (r3F/z)
Posted by: Leo Sayer at April 30, 2025 06:29 PM (kvDvI)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 06:24 PM (GlyvH)
You met Ronette Polaski in one?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:30 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 06:30 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 06:30 PM (ypFCm)
Has it started running, or is it still faster to walk?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 06:31 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Bob Crane at April 30, 2025 06:32 PM (OERWa)
Informative but tedious in sections.
Posted by: 13times at April 30, 2025 06:32 PM (djCLr)
I've never heard of them, so they must not outrank the President like our Federal courts do.
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 06:33 PM (Xm4LY)
Posted by: Weirddave
I'm seeing a lot of X posts assuming a split of east v west. Independent, not running to the embrace of the US. Then running to the embrace of the US.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 30, 2025 06:33 PM (b294k)
Posted by: fd at April 30, 2025 06:34 PM (uH1zk)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 06:35 PM (EafHQ)
Bugs in my bed
My pants are so old they shine
Out on the street
I tell the people I meet to buy me a bottle of wine
- zombie Burl Ives and the railrider Trio
Posted by: Father Julius Santuci at April 30, 2025 06:37 PM (r3F/z)
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How does a "hobo court" work? Who is the adjudicator? Who acts as the prosecutor and who acts as the defense?
What sort of punishments are meted out?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (7fElN)
James Blish wrote a series of novels where individual cities were ripped out of the earth and turned into faster than light vessels using Spindizzy motors. They use a hobo analogy for themselves, and bad character cities were called bindlestiffs - those who stole from other hobos.
My guess is there were places where multiple hobos would hang out to travel or get work. When they got together and swapped info, a hobo or group could raise issues about others who did bad things to them or others and some sort of frontier justice could be done.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 06:37 PM (asFox)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 06:38 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: Iwas Gu.by Damn It! at April 30, 2025 06:39 PM (r3F/z)
Ok, I'm not looking up jungling at the urban dictionary.
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 05:17 PM (Oy/m2)
staying in a hobo jungle, presumably areas hobo camped for a while while they did jobs or took handouts before moving on.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 06:40 PM (asFox)
And here is what was called 'riding the rails'
https://tinyurl.com/4h8dh5fw
Posted by: javems at April 30, 2025 06:41 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 05:47 PM (4/BuS)
Sandra Fluke
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 06:08 PM (ExV1e)
Rod Stewart.
Allegedly.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)
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Donkey-Chompers.
brett kavanaugh
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2025 06:42 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly
vs. bindlestiffs.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 06:42 PM (EafHQ)
Rooms to let $.50,
No phone, no shoes, no pets,
I ain't got no cigarettes
Oh, but two hours of pushing brooms
buys an 8 x 6 four bit room
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 06:44 PM (xsqwN)
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 06:46 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 06:01 PM (NtVYv)
Don't recall any actual hobos but a messy room or backyard with lots of bits of this or that waiting for reuse was compared to a hobo jungle.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 06:46 PM (asFox)
Interestingly, there was a DIFFERENT axe murderer, active at the dame time, concentrated mostly around the South, whereas the guy from James' book went all over, including the famous Villisca murders, with an alleged haunted house still standing today.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:19 PM (dGCAG)
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Even with all our technology and investigative techniques, cops estimate that there are somewhere between 200 and 300 active mass murderers on the loose at any one time.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 06:46 PM (lJmmt)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 06:46 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 06:47 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Oldcat
'Cities in flight', I liked the series way back when.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 06:48 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 06:18 PM (2cS/G)
I dont think so. The injuries and physical evidence don't match up at all. I think it was the German Shepard in the house with the Brians.
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 06:49 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 06:49 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
Mass murderers?
Serial killers, sure. All it takes is two at different times.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 06:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
Counting the FBI or not?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 06:49 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 06:46 PM (lJmmt)
Hmmm, I'm curious, because I've heard the number 100-200 SERIAL killers... would mass murderers include serial killers, and others not so designated?
Because yeah, truckers are good candidates for the task.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:50 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at April 30, 2025 06:51 PM (th/4a)
Cosmo 482 is in a decaying orbit and may impact the Earth.
Fun thing is Cosmo 482 has been in an elongated orbit around Earth since its booster stage failed in 1972. This satellite was supposed to go to Venus and penetrate the thick Venusian atmosphere.
No one knows which part of Cosmo 482 this is, but the speculation is it is the lander. Which means it stands a good chance of surviving reentry. We might see 500Kg of Soviet space probe crashing to Earth.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 06:51 PM (HxdNq)
Posted by: BurtTC
Door to door salemen.
Never trust the Kirby vacuum guy.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 06:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:50 PM (dGCAG)
This would be a perfect time for commenter Robert to post a *shifty eyes*.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 06:51 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 06:47 PM (lCppi)
The stereotypical hobo is sketchy on the home part. I suppose in reality there might be family men regularly travelling for seasonal work around the country.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 06:51 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Does it have a diamond lens for a camera?
Prize for whoever's house it lands on.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 06:52 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 06:51 PM (HxdNq)
Cool- except for whomever it lands on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 06:52 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director still hunts the North American Hobo at April 30, 2025 06:53 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 05:22 PM (2cS/G)
I watch Emily's live feed and The Lawyer you know recaps. Sometimes the other woman lawyer or the Bailey guy from Canada. Are any of those yours??
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 06:53 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 06:54 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: BurtTC
Door to door salemen.
Never trust the Kirby vacuum guy.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 06:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Too many Ring camera-doorbells these days.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:54 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Guy who likes thick Venusians at April 30, 2025 06:55 PM (vFG9F)
Tanned, rested, and ready, Oscar.
Posted by: Lee Majors, feeling like $6M again at April 30, 2025 06:55 PM (w6EFb)
Trump killed the economy! REEEE!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director still hunts the North American Hobo at April 30, 2025 06:55 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: Rock Candy Mountain at April 30, 2025 06:56 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 06:57 PM (2cS/G)
What parts of Earth landmasses might be in danger, Estonia all the way south to Cape Town South Africa are the danger zone.
Irony would be it hitting Baikonur.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 06:57 PM (HxdNq)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 06:17 PM (dGCAG)
A picture of his model railroad. Wish mine was 1/4 as nice as that. Damn.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 30, 2025 06:57 PM (5xuJ/)
Speaking of launch failures, Firefly Aerospace had a mishap yesterday (or day before) with their new orbital launch system. They were attempting to launch a Lockheed satellite of some sort.
During a rather robust staging event, turned out the 2nd stage engine nozzle extension got knocked off. Engine ignited, but without the nozzle, efficiency was way too low, and orbit was not achieved.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 06:57 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Guy who likes thick Venusians at April 30, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)
What this world needs is a good two dollar room and a good two dollar broom.
https://youtu.be/LX6ZLTFwSaw
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 06:58 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Anna Puma
......
Dibs on Laika.
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 06:59 PM (v0R5T)
Probably better chance of winning tonight's Powerball than that happening
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 06:59 PM (HxdNq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 07:00 PM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 07:00 PM (HxdNq)
Posted by: Guy who likes thick Venusians at April 30, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)
So what we need is our snidley whiplash costumes, some rope, and a target area...
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:00 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: Ciampino - it's an adventure at April 30, 2025 05:49 PM (sPQoU)
You'd need a large country but sparsely populated because in one case you either walk or stay in the same city.
Canada sure could qualify. Russia and parts of the East Europe, sre.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:00 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:02 PM (E2I8c)
You'll be thwarted by the Dover boys.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 07:02 PM (HxdNq)
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:00 PM (asFox)
Dress warm.
Posted by: Trans-Siberian Hobo at April 30, 2025 07:02 PM (scBt+)
https://www.youtube.com/@RanOutOnARail
Posted by: profligatewaste at April 30, 2025 07:02 PM (lkl+P)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 07:00 PM (HxdNq)
Shed be more freeze dried, right? Oh, when did she come down. I hope it was after....
Fuck, I hate the soviets.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:03 PM (E2I8c)
And said to the jocker, "Sandy,
I've hiked and hiked and wandered too,
But I ain't seen any candy.
I've hiked and hiked till my feet are sore
And I'll be damned if I hike any more
To be (blank)
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
The missing lyrics were never published. Some say it was "buggered". Big Homo was not active in those days.
Posted by: Rock Candy Mountain at April 30, 2025 07:03 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 07:03 PM (HxdNq)
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 07:04 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Guy who likes thick Venusians at April 30, 2025 07:04 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 07:04 PM (2cS/G)
Soviets.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 07:03 PM (HxdNq)
That was probably better than burning up, not knowing what was going on.
I don't know why, but I can't figure out why it pisses me off more than the chimps.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:05 PM (E2I8c)
We get a Wyoming coal train almost daily.
If'n I were adventerous...
Posted by: MkY at April 30, 2025 07:05 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 06:51 PM (HxdNq)
Cool- except for whomever it lands on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 06:52 PM (E2I8c)
Bets on landing on the Democrats seeking an audience with Kilmar in El Salvador?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 07:06 PM (VNX3d)
Soviets left Laika to die in space.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 07:06 PM (HxdNq)
Why? We sent a lot of critters into space. And we still experiment on dogs a whole bunch.
I guess if you’re PETA you’d only want to experiment on humans, but I’m comfortable with using animals, so long as it’s justifiable.
Posted by: Trans-Siberian Hobo at April 30, 2025 07:06 PM (scBt+)
Why? We sent a lot of critters into space. And we still experiment on dogs a whole bunch.
I guess if you’re PETA you’d only want to experiment on humans, but I’m comfortable with using animals, so long as it’s justifiable.
Posted by: Trans-Siberian Hobo at April 30, 2025 07:06 PM (scBt+)
I think the French sent a cat up on some test flight, but recovered her and she lived a while afterward
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:09 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Trans-Siberian Hobo at April 30, 2025 07:06 PM (scBt+)
PETA just hates competition, they want to kill the pets themselves.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:09 PM (asFox)
How long did the ground crew that opened the hatch survive after the cat's revenge?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: spike at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (g47mK)
Oh, I don't have a problem with animal testing in the main. But dogs are different. Like I said, I don't know why aside from I just love dogs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: fd at April 30, 2025 07:11 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:11 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 07:11 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 07:12 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:09 PM (asFox)
The Soviets sent up dogs and recovered them, too. Laika they didn’t bother trying to recover, but the chance of success was probably pretty low.
The US splatted a bunch of macaques before getting the parachutes right.
Posted by: Trans-Siberian Hobo at April 30, 2025 07:12 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:09 PM (asFox)
How long did the ground crew that opened the hatch survive after the cat's revenge?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (VNX3d)
They had mock beds in the recovery room the cat could piss on to get even.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:12 PM (asFox)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 07:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (E2I8c)
Fair enough. In the future we should just experiment on commies to avoid any ethical quandries.
Posted by: Trans-Siberian Hobo at April 30, 2025 07:13 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 07:13 PM (sYo2N)
Therefore: dogs >>> monkeys
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 07:15 PM (v0R5T)
Speaking of probes, the Dragonfly mission has received final approval. This is going fly a drone quadcopter to Titan. It will be battery powered, with the battery recharged by a RTGs. It will launch in 2028, and take a long, multiple gravity assist path around Venus and Earth and finally get to Saturn by 2034.
When it lands, it will start a 3 year mission of flying all over Titan and sampling everything.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 07:15 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 07:16 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 30, 2025 07:16 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: runner
......
In space no one can hear the monkeys scream
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 07:16 PM (v0R5T)
Oh, I don't have a problem with animal testing in the main. But dogs are different. Like I said, I don't know why aside from I just love dogs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (E2I8c)
What about convicts?
- something those guys said in the 30s and 40s
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 07:17 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 07:17 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 07:18 PM (g47mK)
- something those guys said in the 30s and 40s
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 07:17 PM (LHPAg)
Probably best not to get into that thicket. That is just a skip from forced organ donation- like the Chinese do now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:18 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 07:18 PM (lJmmt)
Flying on Titan is a breeze. 0.13g surface gravity and pressure about 1.5 atm, and 4x earth air density. It only takes 1/40th the power to fly the same mass. The low temp is a problem, and also increased drag.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 07:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 07:20 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 07:21 PM (v0R5T)
Based on what Elon said, the first crew to land on Mars is going to be Optimus robots.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 07:22 PM (w6EFb)
Better keep an eye on the petty cash.
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 07:22 PM (v0R5T)
Better keep an eye on the petty cash.
Posted by: wth
Has Vlad signed off yet?
Posted by: MkY at April 30, 2025 07:23 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: runner
......
In space no one can hear the monkeys scream
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 07:16 PM (v0R5T)
I wonder how well they dealt with flung poo....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 07:24 PM (VNX3d)
Better keep an eye on the petty cash.
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025
So, I get another billion, right?!
*twitches, wipes nose*
Posted by: Vladimir at April 30, 2025 07:24 PM (E2I8c)
Where in the Hell are they all hanging out ? Because the Soviet Union has been dead for about thirty years.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 07:25 PM (ZSWqg)
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 07:25 PM (ZSWqg)
LOT of them during covid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 30, 2025 07:25 PM (E2I8c)
Commanded by Zombie Dr. Smith.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 30, 2025 07:26 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 07:27 PM (2cS/G)
It would feel vindicated. "Look how special I am, doing things the stupid hoomans cant."
And it would totally love the emptiness. "At last! I am free of the stupidity I am forced to deal with."
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 30, 2025 07:27 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:09 PM (asFox)
How long did the ground crew that opened the hatch survive after the cat's revenge?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (VNX3d)
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Huh. A real life version of Schroedinger' s Cat.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 07:28 PM (GlyvH)
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 07:25 PM (ZSWqg)
LOT of them during covid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 30, 2025 07:25 PM (E2I8c)
Yeah - but they were all born and raised here. Which was ironic, because at least half of them were of the same generation so proud of winning the Cold War.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 07:28 PM (ZSWqg)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 06:57 PM (2cS/G)
I'll give it a listen! thanks
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 07:29 PM (lCppi)
It would feel vindicated. "Look how special I am, doing things the stupid hoomans cant."
And it would totally love the emptiness. "At last! I am free of the stupidity I am forced to deal with."
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 30, 2025 07:27 PM (8AONa)
How do we know they're not there neow?
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 07:30 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 07:18 PM (lJmmt)
I dont seek out War Porn, but I once saw a video of a Russian shot thru both legs in a trench line by a drone, a friendly drone was doing top cover and he was being directed which way to turn and drag himself along, and over a junction point where the medics could get him out without danger from another Ukraine drone shooting him.
It's nasty in a lot of new ways because the observation is universal and drones can follow you almost anywhere to blow you up.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:31 PM (asFox)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 07:18 PM (lJmmt)
It’s reminded me of that war in Star Trek where both planets just pretend to fight on their computers. They enforce casualties every so often to make people think they’re serious.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 07:32 PM (QULmo)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 07:32 PM (2cS/G)
They'd mark homes who would feed them somehow.
My grandmother did feed anyone who came to her house hungry. While not inviting them inside, they knew to go to her backdoor and she'd give them a meal.
The hobos of the past were polite and not robbers or bad men, or, apparently, Dimocrats, Auntifa, or BLM.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 30, 2025 07:33 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 07:32 PM (QULmo)
Very powerful episode.
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 07:33 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 07:25 PM (ZSWqg)
LOT of them during covid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 30, 2025 07:25 PM (E2I8c)
Never heard that. Lockdowns were mostly ignored from what I heard.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:33 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 07:33 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 07:34 PM (fY84s)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 07:27 PM (2cS/G)
Tell him yourself. Flights to Kiev every day. They're still taking volunteers.
Its the ultimate in Global Democracy and Independence, if you ask me. No more need for drafts and such. The ultimate opportunity for self-expression. Imagine, back in the 'Nam days - not even having to enlist or dodge the draft !!! Just hop a plane, land in Saigon, and do your part to stop the spread of the Red Menace !!! Really put your Geo-Political Personal Feelings to the test.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 07:34 PM (ZSWqg)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 07:34 PM (fY84s)
Did that.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 07:35 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 07:34 PM (fY84s)
Done!
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 07:35 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 07:35 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 07:43 PM (sagpo)
I have a would be SiL if he and our daughter ever got hitched.
He rides the rails hither and yon around the country going from place of work to place of work. He has talked about the life and which rail cars provide the best ride (hopper cars with horizontal platforms at both ends).
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 30, 2025 07:51 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Marooned at April 30, 2025 08:06 PM (kt8QE)
Oh, I don't have a problem with animal testing in the main. But dogs are different. Like I said, I don't know why aside from I just love dogs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (E2I8c)
What about convicts?
- something those guys said in the 30s and 40s
Have you seen the testing? They have done on primates and cows and horses and lions that have never seen the light of day or had their feet on the grass. Are you that crazy?
Posted by: Gonzotx at April 30, 2025 10:01 PM (nGraA)
Posted by: lcivacic at April 30, 2025 10:18 PM (Hqceu)
The Problem With FOIA
In a recent Morning Report, JJ had a link to an article about FOIA. In a surprise to nobody with a pulse, it turns out that the government is as recalcitrant as ever when it comes to FOIA requests. The linked article focuses on the delays in some agencies due to their gutting by DOGE, and the closure of some FOIA-focused offices in other agencies. The Trump administration is better in regard to transparency than others have been, but FOIA remains a poor process fraught with willful and coincidental delays.
FOIA is a bureaucratic process and one must expect delays with any bureaucratic process, but FOIA has long seemed particularly bad. Agencies despise FOIA and don't exactly bend over backwards to comply with it. FOIA violations are rarely punished and disclosures are always slow-waked whenever possible. This is part and parcel with FOIA and the Act has never worked the way its writers intended. This is at least part, I think, because FOIA was badly founded and hasn't kept pace with the times or technology.The problem with FOIA's basis is an assumption of secrecy. Agencies - all agencies - are allowed to keep secrets and everything is secret by default. If you make a FOIA request, it's right there in the name, at least colloquially: it's a request. A request is subject to denial. This should never have been permitted. It should have been a FOIA demand or a FOIA order. Demands can be rejected or orders disobeyed, but the expectation that it is a mere "request" should never have been the norm. But by this point in the state of common technology, however, even FOIA demands should be superfluous.
FOIA should have been repealed and replaced at least twenty years ago, and its assumption of secrecy thrown out with it. This country is, after all, a rePUBLIC. Governance should be performed in public, by default. There should be no default secrecy and no assumption that an agency is allowed to not disclose something. All government activities should be public and available to the public from the start, with no demand for information needed. No government document, E-Mail, contract, memo, etc. should be private in the first place. There should be no need to demand access. Access should be public. Access should be on the web, using the same organizational structure as the agency. If Agency X, Directorate Y, Group Z, Team 2 produced a document or a sent an E-Mail, it should just be immediately published unless it has to do with a contract currently in the bidding process (in which case it should be published - along with all other materials - the day the bid closes). The government has no trade secrets (it does not engage in trade). The government has no expectation of - or right to - privacy (they are public servants). Under normal circumstances, personally-identifiable information ("PII", which is both an industry and government standard) should be stripped and then the material published. Immediately. If information is formally classified, it can remain private. In that case, a stub entry should be created and published. The system should tell you that a document, memo, E-Mail, etc. exists and which part of which agency produced it, even if the document itself is not disclosed. This - inappropriate classification - should be the only place for a FOIA-type demand. "I know you made it, I know it exists, and I think it's BS that it's classified. I want a review." Other than that, or if you can argue public interest in the exposure of PII, the information should just be available from the start and as the norm. So "FOIA is under attack" per those paying attention, and I have no reason to assume that this is hyperbole. This is not, however, new in any way. FOIA has been "under attack" since the moment it was passed. FOIA has been the focus of obstruction and non-compliance as long as it has existed. No bureaucrat has ever wanted to comply with it in the first place, and no one sentenced to a FOIA office has ever gone out of his way to make the process smooth or effective. FOIA doesn't work, has never worked and never will work. Where you can drag information out of a FOIA office, it will be incomplete and redacted unless you bull-dog them for months and even then your odds are poor. So just get rid of it. FOIA is unfit for purpose. Repeal it and replace it with default-transparency laws, with demotions and terminations for non-compliance and jail time penalties for chronic non-compliance or inappropriately classifying materials. This is a public government, and we have the technology to enforce that. So do away with FOIA. Do away with default secrecy. Do away with "requests." Publish or perish.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 03:10 PM (Wx316)
Posted by: Canadian Gen Z at April 30, 2025 03:10 PM (sStKZ)
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: A dude in MI at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (AkyaN)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Speaking of documents that were supposed to be released, any update on those Epstein files we were promised many many months ago?
I don't know how that entire file is not subject to FOIA -- can't claim it's an active investigation. Epstein is dead, Ghislaine is in prison.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:12 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:13 PM (bW09W)
They'll hide documents on private servers. They'll mis-spell key words on documents (Obarna vs Obama). They'll redact mundane information that has no business being redacted. They'll flat out lie about having no responsive documents.
The problem is culture and politics.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 30, 2025 03:14 PM (lIio7)
Should have picked Paxton.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:14 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: torabora at April 30, 2025 03:14 PM (KtOUo)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (zyFko)
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (jGJov)
Should have picked Paxton.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:14 PM (/U5Yz)
I would have picked Zombie Pinochet, personally.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (uCjyK)
Marty! You have to come with me! Something's happened to the blog!
Posted by: Doc Brown at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (QBMHV)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (aG/2t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)
>>Speaking of documents that were supposed to be released, any update on those Epstein files we were promised many many months ago?
The Epstein Files a re a Macguffen, what I want to know is which IC Apparatues were running him.
Was he just a US asset, was he working for other IC's, who was monitoring and controlling him, etc.
Fun Fact:
Bill Barr's dad, yes that Bill Barr, gave Epstein his first job.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (XV/Pl)
feh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 30, 2025 03:16 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:16 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 03:16 PM (DF5Vx)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (aG/2t)
Are we still talking about FOIA?
I mean, I guess I can see your line of thought -- secrecy and everything being "classified" came out of the Cold War era. Or at least was turbocharged by that mindset.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:16 PM (uCjyK)
I would settle for the news report that the broad said they had in the can but were never allowed to release.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:17 PM (oXfCm)
Was he just a US asset, was he working for other IC's, who was monitoring and controlling him, etc.
Fun Fact:
Bill Barr's dad, yes that Bill Barr, gave Epstein his first job.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (XV/Pl)
Yes, agreed. I want his CIA / Mossad file, not the file the FBI has.
And yes, I'm aware of the Epstein-Barr Virus and the herpes we all got from that. (too far in my analogy?)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:18 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Buster Hymand at April 30, 2025 03:18 PM (Oal3t)
Yep, the time machine is acting up again.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 03:18 PM (w6EFb)
Look at the Epstein files. No, you can't.
There's a significant difference between information the government deems secret and what it deems the public would be better off not knowing.
It won't change anytime soon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 03:18 PM (Q4IgG)
FOUA seems about as quaint as concern that the government wants to access your library history.
They know everything about us (along with google, meta, etc.) but we must beg for redacted records that take months, years.
Posted by: Canadian Gen Z at April 30, 2025 03:19 PM (KQ27X)
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A rather cromulent and apropos typo ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 03:19 PM (wclo2)
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What is the proposition for critical infrastructure? Make the plans, locations and vulnerabilities available to anyone who asks because muh freedom?
I get that government is stupid and useless and faggy and trading security for liberty etc etc but I'm not feeling you, this is short bus territory. Unless I missed your solution.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:19 PM (M/gGe)
Should have picked Paxton.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:14 PM (/U5Yz)
I would have picked Zombie Pinochet, personally.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (uCjyK)
My original pick was John Eastman, but I am giving Bondi the benefit of the doubt. The DOJ is - by far - the worst agency in Gov't from a conservative perspective, and the engine room of the Deep State. It's going to take months to find out who the good apples are, then more time to get them to do the necessary work. Until then, it's like cleaning the Augean Stables.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 30, 2025 03:19 PM (QKabM)
Cold War is over. Yet the power structures remain.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 03:20 PM (McYvC)
In other stupid government tricks, TX legislature just passed the anti-meme bill. A bunch of RINOs joined it.
I can't see how this won't be effective, and all memes everywhere will stop.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 03:20 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 30, 2025 03:20 PM (cvWHI)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:20 PM (VofaG)
It adds: "For many converts, becoming Muslim isn't always a celebration, as many friends and relatives need some time to accept the good news." It has also been revealed that NHS staff were urged to fast for Ramadan in order to "understand and experience how Muslims feel". The network, which received at least £2,655 in public money in 2022/23, is believed to have been hiring for staff since January 2025, and says its vision is "inspiring, celebrating and championing the contribution of the NHS Muslim community".
... this just screams Occidentalphobia
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 03:20 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:21 PM (/U5Yz)
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking to make a trade deal and will visit the White House within the next week
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at April 30, 2025 03:21 PM (Oal3t)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:21 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Joe Mannix Johnson is RIGHT at April 30, 2025 03:21 PM (TbWk/)
The default should be "all information is publicly available unless classified"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:21 PM (2VST1)
Suppressed because he paid enough dough to 2 judges so the videos were destroyed to prevent the public from seeing what their tax money had paid to record.
Posted by: Me So Horny at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (979V4)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (VNX3d)
I tell ya' horde, I tell ya'. I get no respect, no respect at all. Even with my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (5hfjS)
God's lips, your ears, some assembly required.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (M/gGe)
... this just screams Occidentalphobia
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 03:20 PM (RHGPo)
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Do they also pass out copies of Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (7fElN)
Requesting the records triggered actio.
Posted by: Canadian Gen Z at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (KQ27X)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (bW09W)
St Paul's will have minarets within a generation.
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 03:23 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (5hfjS)
one of my favs:
"I told my dad I was tired of running in circles, so he nailed down the other foot."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)
I doubt it but hopefully Abbot will veto it. Or was he for it? I hadn't heard anything about it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:23 PM (VofaG)
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!!!! Except for you, Muslims. Mix all you want.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:24 PM (2VST1)
1) they would be redacted all to hell and over.
2) he's dead and can not be held liable or responsible for anything he did anymore.
3) any big names will be expunged or redacted and no one will face any consequences for whatever happened.
4) any actual kids that were abused are either dead or adults who might want to put that shit behind them and not wind up "famous" for it.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 03:24 PM (2J/Lj)
I doubt it but hopefully Abbot will veto it. Or was he for it? I hadn't heard anything about it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:23 PM (VofaG)
Here's hoping he does skidmarks on the bill, and sends it back with the veto. The resulting memes would be hilarious.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 03:24 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (bW09W)
Canada experiencing buyer's remorse yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Joe Mannix Johnson is RIGHT at April 30, 2025 03:21 PM (TbWk/)
The problem is, like anything, there is no accountability at any level of government.
In a previous life, I spent a lot of time filing the state-level version of FOIA requests in a state with, on paper, very transparency promoting laws.
If the clerk on the other end doesn't want to give you the info, you have to sue. They still might not turn over the info. You then need to get an order from a judge saying they have to turn it over. Then the state appeals. Then the state wants an ex parte in camera meeting with the judge to say god only knows what.
Eventually after years of time and lots of money wasted, you may get a heavily redacted document. Or they might say they destroyed the records in the course of business.
And nothing happens to anyone involved here. The Court says "well, shit. Guess you're out of luck, bud" and no one gets in any kind of trouble for ignoring the law.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:25 PM (uCjyK)
NHS staff have been told that converting to Scientology would be the "best decision you'll ever make" in a guide made by the organisation's Scientology Network. Its handbook for "New Scientologists" also reassures readers who are concerned that family members and friends "initially [do] not have a positive reaction". It was written by and handed out to staff, according to GB News, and addresses the reader as "convert". The guide adds that it is composed "with the intention of pleasing the Supreme Being by providing support to converts to Scientology, their peers and colleagues".
Like this?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 03:25 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 03:25 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:25 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 03:25 PM (KQ27X)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 03:25 PM (Er3Q7)
1) they would be redacted all to hell and over.
2) he's dead and can not be held liable or responsible for anything he did anymore.
3) any big names will be expunged or redacted and no one will face any consequences for whatever happened.
4) any actual kids that were abused are either dead or adults who might want to put that shit behind them and not wind up "famous" for it.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 03:24 PM (2J/Lj)
I don't care about Epstein. I want to know, for sure, in black ink, which agenc(ies) were behind Epstein and were trafficking young American girls to have sex with the worldwide rich and powerful to then videotape those encounters and use it as blackmail against those people.
It should be the biggest story of the last 100 years.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:26 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:26 PM (oXfCm)
Generally, our lawyers sided with caution when releasing information. Not everything can be told to everyone, and that is just a fact.
Outside of the military, however, I don't see a lot of things being held close to the vest once an award is made. Seems like EPA crap, regulatory crap, results of various studies and even most judicial stuff could be made public without too much damage.
Now, let's talk about Congress and the critters therein...
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 03:27 PM (a4NoL)
I care a lot about that. JFK stuff no, its nothing to me. But Epstein yeah, that matters a lot to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:27 PM (2VST1)
Shoot me now.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:26 PM (oXfCm)
Not mentioning all the functional powerplants residing in SOUTH Texas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 03:27 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 03:27 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 03:27 PM (ypFCm)
Shoot me now.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:26 PM (oXfCm)
You should be getting water right now......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Those memes the kids use on the internet are bad news I tell you. What with all the dark web and them bitcoins and the stealing your ID and stuff. First you see a cartoon frog, next thing you know someone sold your house to Blackrock. True story.
Posted by: Texas Legislators at April 30, 2025 03:28 PM (jGJov)
Shoot me now.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:26 PM
How about shots, instead? Hold your glass up to the USB port.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 03:28 PM (QBMHV)
I would guess that by now, the players and victims are dead, retired, etc.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 03:28 PM (KQ27X)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:28 PM (oXfCm)
Publish or perish.
Posted by: Joe Mannix at 03:10 PM
Joe - I'm bookmarking this post. I was just thinking about this today, as I'm considering running for a town office spot. My default setting on public records is just that - public. I think that (just like you wrote) every meeting that an official has should be public and viewable. Just post the Outlook calendar on the gov't website, so that everyone knows who is meeting with whom.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 30, 2025 03:29 PM (QKabM)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:25 PM (2VST1)
Do we have a "Siberia?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)
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Good point, Mannix. The judges would have also accepted "command!"
Speaking of Judges:
BREAKING: Feral District Clown Judge And De Facto POTUS Bozoberg Rules As Unconstitutional -- And Henceforth Bans -- FOIA. Developing ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 03:29 PM (0Tdve)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:27 PM (2VST1)
JFK is same as Epstein to me. I want it in writing that the CIA assassinated JFK. We all know that's what happened, but force them to admit it.
Would kind of force everyone to look at how DC has operated for the past 60+ years in a much different light, no?
LBJ, Nixon, and Ford certainly seemed to operate under the assumption that they couldn't cross the CIA or they'd also be whacked.
That's not healthy for a supposedly free country.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:29 PM (uCjyK)
You'll have to deal with/pay for the "Curious Idiot" problem somehow.
Posted by: Gladys Kravitz at April 30, 2025 03:29 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April
Good. Now do congress.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 03:29 PM (BVcPt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
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Default secrecy does and should apply to some government held information. Ongoing criminal investigations, communications with government attorneys, licensing test questions being developed. I'm sure there are many, many other areas involving non-classified information for which there is a blanket reason supporting non-disclosure.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 03:30 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:30 PM (oXfCm)
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:30 PM (asFox)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:31 PM (M/gGe)
Absolutely not.
In my position at DTRA, I create dozens of versions of a document before it is finalized. Those dozens of versions contain - obviously - different [read: incorrect] information than does the final version. The conversations back and forth during editing/staffing/legal review should not be automatically and immediately made public.
I would like all final, executed Government documents to be immediately made public, but the idea that the process by which that document became finalized should be public is asinine.
In my past position, as a supervisory agent, it was not at all unusual for a Report of Investigation to be drafted as 'substantiated' during the investigative process, only to have our Agency learn new and compelling information from a late witness/document and reverse our position - and vice versa.
That substantiated draft report is now slanderous and actionable.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 03:32 PM (oSeBJ)
Supposedly.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 30, 2025 03:32 PM (Jqczo)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 30, 2025 03:29 PM (QKabM)
In fact, I actually think it would benefit the public in other ways. Trump's WH, for instance, is fairly open - at least by the standards of the past. I'm actually pro- most leaks. That's because it's hard for a small group of people, no matter how smart, to look at all the unforeseen consequences of any decision. Having the public - and potentially your domestic adversaries - weigh in on it allows the best policy to come out, which can then get legislated on only if necessary. There is a lot of wisdom in crowds that should be exploited where possible.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 30, 2025 03:32 PM (QKabM)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:31 PM (M/gGe)
Woof......on it.
It's a long, rough road, for sure. Godspeed, Emm. Stay strong, keep your faith high and laugh whenever you can.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:33 PM (oXfCm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 03:33 PM (BVcPt)
Supposedly.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 30, 2025 03:32 PM (Jqczo)
Yes...because the government NEVER oversteps it's bounds when interpreting laws.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 03:34 PM (KQ27X)
The only solution is to shrink the size and scope of government and increase penalties on bad actors. "Make better laws" does not fucking work.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:34 PM (M/gGe)
I get no respect, none at all I tell ya' none at all. The way my luck's running, if I was a politician I would be honest
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at April 30, 2025 03:34 PM (5hfjS)
It should be the biggest story of the last 100 years.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:26 PM (uCjyK)
In most times and places that's a line item on the entertainment budget.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:34 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:34 PM (/U5Yz)
Yeah, but -- and this seems to be missed by everyone who works for the government -- you work for us.
My boss has full access to see my many, many, drafts of my legal documents, for example. Yes, some of the information or caselaw may be wrong in early drafts, but if he wants to look it over, he can.
Because he's paying me to do the work.
So why is it unreasonable for your bosses who are paying your salary (us, the taxpayers), to have full access to your work product? If only to ensure you are actually doing the work?
I'm being a bit extreme in my example here in purpose, but there seems to be a huggggge disconnect in how government employees view themselves and how private sector employees view themselves.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:35 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:36 PM (oXfCm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:36 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:34 PM (/U5Yz)
My plan is to station Lizzo in the Pacific with some burritos to counteract any effects.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:36 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:37 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 03:37 PM (ypFCm)
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I read this as underwear volcano.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 03:37 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:34 PM (/U5Yz)
We have volcanoes doing stuff up here all the time. 300 miles is a long way, but if it really does blow up, rather than just ooze magma, it could mean a nice little tidal wave....
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 03:37 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 03:37 PM (pZ64F)
Which brings us right back to Epstein....
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 03:38 PM (a4NoL)
I read this as underwear volcano.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 03:37 PM (pZ64F)
Isn't that what Hawaiians call a period?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:38 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 03:37 PM (ypFCm)
I think there are still a few names on the client list that are still in power, like John Roberts.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 03:38 PM (VNX3d)
FOIA love
FOIA love
FOIA love I give you everything and more, and that's for sure
FOIA love I bring you diamond rings and things right to your door
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 03:38 PM (v0R5T)
At one company I worked at, we made a request for a federal contract. The gov. sent us a document that was almost completely redacted -- which they're not supposed to do.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:39 PM (77rzZ)
I tell ya' when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at April 30, 2025 03:39 PM (5hfjS)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:39 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:39 PM (77rzZ)
Didn't stop 'em, did it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Had a friend who at a town council had to tell a resident "No we will not be checking on the town trash collector" who was salvaging while picking up the trash.
Posted by: DaveA at April 30, 2025 03:40 PM (FhXTo)
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Does Astoria know this?
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 03:40 PM (pZ64F)
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Hear! Hear!
OUT: WikiLeaks.
IN: WikiPeeks.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 03:40 PM (0Tdve)
Ha!
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:40 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 03:34 PM (KQ27X)
There are laws for that already. This potentially stops parodies and and things like the Bee does.
Michael Berry I believe has a funny segment called Drunk Dade calls into the show. That would now likely be illegal. But this law wont pass SC review.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:40 PM (VofaG)
During today's cabinet meeting RFK Jr made, to me, a rather stunning but not unbelievable remark. He mentioned that the *biden administration's HHS was involved with the trafficking of children. I think everyone knows that there were likely some people in his administration that are capable of this, but someone in an official position came out and said it, live.
There's a lot of nibbling around the edges of this topic and the degree of government involvement. But it will be kept from the public, not because it's a secret but because it'll embarrass a lot of people. That they'll face criminal prosecution over it is almost laughable.
FOIA the Health and Human Services agency. Let's see what happens.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 03:41 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:35 PM (uCjyK)
I don't work for you.
At the end of 2023, I got fired by my Agency for refusing to target classes of Americans with investigations and for refusing to order my subordinate agents to do the same.
I'm a contractor, but you're missing my point - maybe deliberately.
When the government finds a military officer guilty of a crime/UCMJ violation, that officer's career is typically over.
You want the substantiated draft report in the public for everyone to read even though it's entirely possible that the agency in question will learn a new set of facts, clearing the officer's name.
That's slander, and not only do you want it to happen, you're upset with people who don't want it to happen.
Working documents should never be public. Final documents always should be.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 03:41 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:35 PM (uCjyK)
Well, for those of us who took our promise seriously, there are reasons for secrecy in government operation, and following those rules means the enemies are kept at bay. Not all requests for information come from actors whose motives are pure as the driven snow. How do you feel about plans for hardened bunkers, or maybe missile silos? If you request plans of nuclear reactors, etc., to whom are those plans given, and for what purpose? You seem to think that government employees are all awful, which is not true, and that letting every Tom, LeeHo and Achmed access to all government information will somehow fix the situation. It won't.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 03:41 PM (a4NoL)
Most secrecy now falls under the rubric of "people would lose confidence in their government if they found out the truth" or "the people would never let us do this thing we must do if we didn't hide it"
But this is exactly the sort of information the voters need to make informed decisions.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 03:41 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
True, but if Abbot doesn't veto it, I guarantee TX cops will be more than excited to enforce it.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 30, 2025 03:41 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:42 PM (bW09W)
Hell, the government doesn't trust the government.
Posted by: Case at April 30, 2025 03:42 PM (OrSPY)
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Does Astoria know this?
Posted by: Pudinhead
We don't deal with tidal waves very well.
Posted by: Crescent City at April 30, 2025 03:42 PM (/U5Yz)
Half of the civil rights lawyers at DOJ resigned rather than press charges against Jew-haters. That's quite telling.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 03:43 PM (aLjiL)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 03:37 PM (pZ64F)
Isn't that what Hawaiians call a period?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Cliff Clavin trivia
The Hawaiian Capitol building is shaped like a volcano.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:43 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 30, 2025 03:19 PM (QKabM)
I wasn't Expecting the Impossible from her, and there has only been a few times a mole upset her applecart for a few weeks. I like the sound of her legal briefs (or her chosen lawyers) just the right amount of tweaking these rogue judges in the filings while pointing out their errors. If only most of the appeals judges werent traitors too.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:44 PM (asFox)
Right, and that's the key here, they cleverly came up with a way to seem as if they were giving information but that codified secrecy by default. Instead of "everything is available except critical state secrets" its "everything is classified except what you specifically ask for, and we'll decide what you get to see."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:44 PM (2VST1)
Half of the civil rights lawyers at DOJ resigned rather than press charges against Jew-haters. That's quite telling.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 03:43 PM (aLjiL)
And those were the Jewish ones.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (asFox)
https://tinyurl.com/3vkmcdbf
This is going to face immediate and, in my opinion, warranted challenge on a First Amendment basis.
Posted by: Strict scrutiny at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Boss Moss
He did all the time. It drove me nuts.
Posted by: Mary Todd at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (/U5Yz)
Even when I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother that Im gonna' run away from home and she said, On you mark!
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (5hfjS)
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Literally no other reason to open the border like a sieve the way they did.
Democrats may tell you it's for cheap labor but remember they lie about EVERYTHING. Even when it sounds like they must be telling the truth.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (M/gGe)
And...they looked at the legends from the tribes in the area they expected to have been hit by it and sure enough they had legends about great waves coming and destroying their villages...
Honestly it looks like oral history has a lot more accuracy in it then people expected...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:46 PM (2VST1)
-the Dulles brothers
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 03:46 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Strict scrutiny at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (TbWk/)
By who? Please don't say the Supreme Court.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:46 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 03:46 PM (77Bgk)
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Does Astoria know this?
more importantly, is lex luthor buying up property?
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2025 03:46 PM (sGtp+)
https://tinyurl.com/3vkmcdbf
This is going to face immediate and, in my opinion, warranted challenge on a First Amendment basis.
Posted by: Strict scrutiny at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (TbWk/)
It's by Phelan. That explains a LOT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 03:37 PM (pZ64F)
Isn't that what Hawaiians call a period?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Pretty sure that's a pseudonym for a Polynesian Wet Dream...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 03:46 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 03:41 PM (a4NoL)
I don't mean this personally against you -- I like you -- but this kind of thinking is kind of what I'm talking about.
Yes, there are legitimate concerns about things like leaking battle plans during a war. We can all agree on that.
However, and here's the problem, it quickly becomes a slippery slope to "we can't let the people who are supposed to be running the country (the voters) know what's going on because then THE ENEMY will know" which ... we're not in a declared war here. Who is this enemy? Does the risk of a vague enemy seeing this information outweigh the massive problem of the informed electorate who elect people and tell the government what to do not being informed?
And that a small self selected group of "insiders" CAN see this information, but the rest of us can't?
It doesn't seem like a great situation.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:47 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:42 PM (bW09W)
For a time, until congress could ratify war powers to him in the South and border states.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:47 PM (asFox)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:46 PM (M/gGe)
There are already clear rulings issued by the SC that gives a big leeway to political satire and parodies.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:47 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix at 03:10 PM
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Great turn of phrase.
And NO TENURE!
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 03:47 PM (0Tdve)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 03:48 PM (sagpo)
Add to the fact that they use this when we are not at war with anyone.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 03:48 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:48 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
The Brits were also behind it. I'm reading a book about it now.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
This is exactly why I think it was Britain.
Which explains why Clinton and the rest of the clients advanced British foreign interests as our own, and Prince Phillip, a non-entity for anyone outside of Britain got picked up by the operation as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (v0R5T)
And that a small self selected group of "insiders" CAN see this information, but the rest of us can't?
It doesn't seem like a great situation.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:47 PM (uCjyK)
Do you sincerely believe Osama didn't watch CNN?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (oSeBJ)
Oral history is much more reliable than modern people think of it. You always hear of the "telephone game" but the truth is, all it takes is at least one wise guy in the chain who thinks its absolutely hilarious to change the message to ruin the entire experiment.
But if your entire culture and heritage hinges on correctly and properly keeping exact and meticulous care in passing on these things, its very different.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:50 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (LHPAg)
Wife came in and said "I'm takin' a rainstorm nap," opened the windows and hit the couch.
It's currently 60 degrees in North Texas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:47 PM (VofaG)
Amy Bony Carrot, Lefty Roberts, or Kryin Kavanaugh on any of them?
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:50 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:46 PM (2VST1)
Oregon gets Mag 9 earthquakes at rare intervals. The last was dated because its Tsunamis wrecked the coast of Japan and they had records. The tsunami that didn't have to cross a huge ocean did horrible damage to the coast.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:50 PM (asFox)
With my doctor I get no respect, no respect at all. I told him I want a vasectomy. He said, with a face like mine, I don't need one
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at April 30, 2025 03:51 PM (5hfjS)
Notagreatplan
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:51 PM (M/gGe)
"Pikers, I suspended elections and changed the constitution several times in my country"
--Zelenskyyyyy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:51 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: 18-1
You mean Prince Andrew?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:52 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Gladys Kravitz
Charge a print fee.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 30, 2025 03:52 PM (hB7mE)
OT question, Bulg
Did you hear frm your son and his girlfriend in Spain. Are they o.k.?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 03:52 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (oSeBJ)
Who cares?
How can an electorate vote on issues if the very government the citizens cede power to to rule in their name keep secrets from the electorate?
Why even pretend to have elections at this point?
We can't know what's going on in the bowels of DC because Osama watches CNN from a Pakistani safehouse, we can't have opinions on anything if it disagrees with The Experts (tm), we can't ask questions how the integrity of elections.
And we're supposed to be the ones controlling the government and making informed decisions about how we vote every election?
So uh... what's our role here again?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:52 PM (uCjyK)
Yes. And during Democratic ones.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:52 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Rod Serling at April 30, 2025 03:52 PM (JRP2U)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:52 PM (2VST1)
Would you like a spoiler alert on how that will go?
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:53 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 30, 2025 03:54 PM (RIvkX)
And...they looked at the legends from the tribes in the area they expected to have been hit by it and sure enough they had legends about great waves coming and destroying their villages...
Honestly it looks like oral history has a lot more accuracy in it then people expected...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (t0Rmr)
they have geologic deposits from the earthquake - it was on the Oregon side. The Japanese were surprised there was a tsunami without an earthquake.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:54 PM (asFox)
Freedom always has a cost. Better to have embarrassing stuff released once in a while than to have everything be secrets we have to pry out of the government with a tire iron.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:55 PM (2VST1)
Which explains why Clinton and the rest of the clients advanced British foreign interests as our own, and Prince Phillip, a non-entity for anyone outside of Britain got picked up by the operation as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)
Maxwell Senior worked for Mossad, was buried in Israel in a state funeral, and the Prime Minister of Israel said he "has done more for Israel than can today be said."
Might he have also been involved with British intelligence? Sure. Do the CIA use the 5 eyes to get around domestic spying laws? At times, yes.
Was Mossad running an Op on US soil, in collaboration with the Brits, without the CIA and NSA knowing? No chance.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:55 PM (uCjyK)
Good way to eliminate over 90% of government electronic communication.
That or cc: their related Office of Council and label literally everything "Attourney Work Product".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 03:55 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 03:55 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 03:55 PM (jGJov)
Sounds about right.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:56 PM (uCjyK)
There are many other exceptions that would need a taxonomy of their own, but the default should be "public and published in a timely manner with PII redacted" rather than "private and never and disclosed."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 03:56 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (oSeBJ)
Who cares?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:52 PM (uCjyK)
The people targeted by jihadis would care.
Hey, look everyone, there's going to be a huge meeting between all the Combatant Command commanders and a bunch of GS-7/9/11 chem/bio weapons researchers at this office building in Springfield, VA next Thursday at 1000.
Too bad they're all fucking dead now, because Harry needed to read their calendars himself.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 03:56 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 03:49 PM (v0R5T)
It doesnt get warmer blasting the beachfront a few miles inland.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:56 PM (asFox)
Has there been any FOIA of late that didn't have redactions?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 03:57 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 03:57 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 30, 2025 03:57 PM (/U5Yz)
https://tinyurl.com/3vkmcdbf
This is going to face immediate and, in my opinion, warranted challenge on a First Amendment basis.
Posted by: Strict scrutiny at April 30, 2025 03:45 PM (TbWk/)
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If the MDM-MSM, politicians, celebrities, social media losers, et. al. can call Trump a Nazi, "literally Hitler," and for his assassination -- I'm thinking an Anti-Meme bill is DOA in any rational constitutional court (an unfortunately rather high bar, I know).
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 03:57 PM (0Tdve)
"You're raising a trans kid that warms my heart particularly as a black man would you care to share that journey"
Is it, "That warms my heart, particularly as a black man. Would you care to share that journey?"
Or, "That warms my heart. Particularly as a black man, would you care to share that journey?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:57 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Yes, they're fine. Thanks for asking. He texted us that the power was back up, and my wife texted back, "Must've been an interesting day." Son replied, "Yeah."
Can't wait to hear his stories when he gets back.
Hope his flight back on Sunday isn't delayed, though. According to what was posted on the Morning Rant, flight delays could continue throughout the week.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:58 PM (77rzZ)
pay your taxes and don't ask questions
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 03:55 PM (jGJov)
Pretty much. Shut the fuck up, obey authority, and say thank you sir may I have another.
Posted by: When did this become the American ethos? at April 30, 2025 03:58 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: mea culpa at April 30, 2025 03:58 PM (qtsw+)
Britain’s first transgender judge is taking the UK to the European court of human rights over the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 03:58 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 03:59 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:59 PM (bW09W)
Did anyone see Megyn Kelly's little tease clip about a parody she and a couple of her gal pals did, dubbed "Blonde Origin"? She's going to post in Friday.
Anyway, she and her friends took a ride on the Zero-g plane, goofing on Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez. They had lines like, "When big boobs reach for the stars", and "Where cluelessness meets weightlessness".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 03:59 PM (w6EFb)
That's why my position is, and has always been:
Working documents don't get released.
Final documents get released immediately.
But that's not what you were arguing for in the post.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 03:59 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)
Too bad they're all fucking dead now, because Harry needed to read their calendars himself.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 03:56 PM (oSeBJ)
Yes, I'm sure Al Qaeda has hit teams roaming the US looking for bio weapon researchers and their meetings. And that risk to the safety of our public servants far outweighs the benefit of us knowing how our taxpayer dollars are being spent and what's being done around the world in our name.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:00 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 03:58 PM (L/fGl)
I think it is a former judge. 'Trans former judge' was the headline I saw.
Robots in disguise.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 04:00 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 30, 2025 03:41 PM (a4NoL)
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Not all classification is illegitimate. I suspect a lot of it is but it has its place and this is one of them. In which case, just a stub entry.
"Department of Energy Nuclear Security Administration created a classified document." No content publicly viewable, but a public record of existence and fairy obvious why it would be classified. I am not opposed classification as such. There are many good reasons for it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:01 PM (WkNQM)
Michelle Obama: "You're raising a trans kid. That warms my heart, as a black man."
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Uhh, OK.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 04:01 PM (L/fGl)
Us rubes just have to live with it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (E2I8c)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)
For it, just not in it's current form.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 03:58 PM (L/fGl)
I think it is a former judge. 'Trans former judge' was the headline I saw.
Robots in disguise.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 04:00 PM (E2I8c)
I don't THINK Starmer has managed to crawl back into the EU enough that this suit would matter a lick.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (asFox)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
Michelle Obama: "You're raising a trans kid. That warms my heart, as a black man."
Did she laugh like Hermann Munster afterwards?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:00 PM (uCjyK)
Yes. Jihadis are using AI to scour government documents to learn things so they can kill Americans or damage our interests.
They would continue using AI to scour government documents to learn things, except now they're going to learn about every preparatory meeting, test, in-person review, et al.
Shit, just releasing every email from every Navy ship at sea would tell everyone - in real time - exactly where that ship is.
But you need to read 'em, so fuck those guys.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (oSeBJ)
I've always liked the word "foyer."
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
How do you feel about 'moist?'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Us rubes just have to live with it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (E2I8c)
We exist to give them land and title, I mean, power and privilege. They aren't supposed to serve us, we're supposed to serve them.
Posted by: Didn't you get the neo-feudalism memo? at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (TbWk/)
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Does the farmer respond to FOIA requests from the dairy cows? I thought not.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: torabora at April 30, 2025 03:14 PM (KtOUo)
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There’s a Steve Miller “Take the Money and Run” lyrics joke in there somehow.
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (iTLIU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:05 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)
I'd love to do an experiment. Put one of those candy stations using the honor system in a government coffee room....and a private business coffee room.
My guess is that the private business cash box will be pretty close at the end of the week. In a government office, the candy will be gone by lunch time the first day without a cent being found in the cash box.
Posted by: Orson at April 30, 2025 04:05 PM (dIske)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 03:56 PM (oSeBJ)
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That would be classified, but even so, the *future* can never reasonably be part of disclosure. Past is another story, perhaps even with a sliding scale. At some point, that meeting - in a less extreme example where classification is not a legitimate factor (say, "Secretary of Transportation meeting with General Motors representatives"), I agree that appointment books should be public record. Not in advance and not even close of business, but at the close of the next quarter or after a year or some other reasonable timeline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (WkNQM)
Glad they're o.k. Hope their flight back is smooth.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (1z+w8)
Us rubes just have to live with it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (E2I8c)
We exist to give them land and title, I mean, power and privilege. They aren't supposed to serve us, we're supposed to serve them.
Posted by: Didn't you get the neo-feudalism memo? at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (TbWk/)
Even the dumbest middle ages earl knew that if the farmers decided to quit, he and his men were all dead.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (asFox)
Like a National Geographic report on a tribe discovered in the Amazon jungle.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (2VST1)
I've always liked the word "foyer."
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
How do you feel about 'moist?'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Moist definitely. Put it on my Citibank Moistercard.
Posted by: Didn't you get the neo-feudalism memo? at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (TbWk/)
They would continue using AI to scour government documents to learn things, except now they're going to learn about every preparatory meeting, test, in-person review, et al.
Shit, just releasing every email from every Navy ship at sea would tell everyone - in real time - exactly where that ship is.
But you need to read 'em, so fuck those guys.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (oSeBJ)
Unfortunately, it's a risk they need to take if the very easily ascertainable position of their ship is released to these AI-enabled terrorists that our many many multi billion dollar a year "intel community" can't track down or thwart.
And before the terrorists, it was the Russians. And before the Russians, it was the Nazis and the Japs... etc. etc.
I guess that's how free societies operate, right? In secrecy. You have to, or the terrorists win.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 04:08 PM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: Sponge
Most words with the "oy" sound in them are pretty cool.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)
Us rubes just have to live with it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone bot at April 30, 2025 04:02 PM (E2I8c)
As with the cops, the most important thing is that they make it home at the end of the day.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:08 PM (uCjyK)
For us, not for you. If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about.
Posted by: NSA agent jacking it to tranny hentai in his cubicle at April 30, 2025 04:09 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:09 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:09 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:08 PM (uCjyK)
And us.
- pensions
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 04:09 PM (S4ZTs)
I guess that's how free societies operate, right? In secrecy. You have to, or the terrorists win.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (uCjyK)
From all the jokes about secrecy between Army and Navy, it isn't just foreigners they want to keep in the dark.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 04:09 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 04:09 PM (ypFCm)
Ask the victims. Also I hear they like to especially hurt gays.
Ask American drug dealers if they like ms14 whatever.
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at April 30, 2025 04:09 PM (n5OtF)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:09 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)
Yes.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 04:10 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 04:10 PM (Er3Q7)
Goddammit, Fred, I told you to reserve a conference room when you’re gonna do that.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at April 30, 2025 04:10 PM (scBt+)
@LeadingReport 11m
BREAKING: New York State is set to implement a “bell-to-bell” cellphone ban in schools.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 30, 2025 04:10 PM (mlg/3)
Michelle Obama: "You're raising a trans kid. That warms my heart, as a black man."
I guess that was supposed to be a joke?. If so, I don't think Michelle has a very good sense of humor.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 04:10 PM (o3Uyl)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (2VST1)
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"Displaying a cross is worse than African boobs, h8r!"
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 04:10 PM (4vd8A)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 04:11 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:11 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (2VST1)
More like the Cargo Cult natives trying to make magic imitations of things they don't understand.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 04:11 PM (asFox)
Like a National Geographic report on a tribe discovered in the Amazon jungle.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (2VST1)
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A Hot Accessory, at the Intersection of Faith and Culture
Seen on influencers, pop stars and White House staff, cross necklaces are popping up everywhere.
I am not going to pay to read it, but this isn't exactly a new phenomenon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:11 PM (WkNQM)
It was probably just a really poorly stated transition: "That warms my heart. Particularly as a black man, would you care to share that journey?"
But not done well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:12 PM (2VST1)
But NY does it? Not a peep.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 04:12 PM (S4ZTs)
@LeadingReport 11m
BREAKING: New York State is set to implement a “bell-to-bell” cellphone ban in schools.
teachers will go nuts.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 04:12 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:13 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:13 PM (77rzZ)
It was probably just a really poorly stated transition: "That warms my heart. Particularly as a black man, would you care to share that journey?"
But not done well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:12 PM (2VST1)
When you ask a question you don't need to insert information about yourself.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 04:14 PM (asFox)
When I was a kid, the biggest problem the schools had to deal with is Bubble Gum. And, they couldn't even ban that.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 04:14 PM (SFdpn)
All Big Mike does on her podcast is bitch about Barky. It's almost enough to kinda sorta make you feel sorry for the doofus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 30, 2025 04:14 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:13 PM (77rzZ)
+++++
This busty blonde in a dress is pretty sure the's been one:
http://tiny.cc/9oai001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:14 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 30, 2025 04:15 PM (/U5Yz)
When I was a kid, the biggest problem the schools had to deal with is Bubble Gum. And, they couldn't even ban that.
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There was a shit ton of it under my desk in English. Sort of repulsive.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 04:15 PM (pZ64F)
Seen on influencers, pop stars and White House staff, cross necklaces are popping up everywhere.
I am not going to pay to read it, but this isn't exactly a new phenomenon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:11 PM (WkNQM)
Remember the old Olive Garden article in that vein from forever ago. Sounded like Stanley meets Livingston.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 04:15 PM (asFox)
BREAKING: New York State is set to implement a “bell-to-bell” cellphone ban in schools.
Will teachers have to teach? I can't see that going over too well with the union.
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 04:15 PM (4Nep/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 04:15 PM (/U5Yz)
http://tiny.cc/9oai001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Oh my. Very nice. Thanks.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:16 PM (77rzZ)
But someone in the White House wears one and it’s OMG OMG OMG Christian Nationalism.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 04:16 PM (S4ZTs)
What was weird is how much kids absolutely needed to chew bubble gum in class, and it all had to do with Defiance.
It wasn't about bubble gum -- it was an act of defiance.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 04:16 PM (SFdpn)
All Big Mike does on her podcast is bitch about Barky. It's almost enough to kinda sorta make you feel sorry for the doofus.
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Nah.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 04:16 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 04:16 PM (M/gGe)
"You're raising a trans kid that warms my heart particularly as a black man would you care to share that journey"
Is it, "That warms my heart, particularly as a black man. Would you care to share that journey?"
Or, "That warms my heart. Particularly as a black man, would you care to share that journey?"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:57 PM (2VST1)
heh
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:16 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Oldcat
The one by Lileks?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)
Not for nothing, but why were you touching the bottom of your desk?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 04:17 PM (SFdpn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:17 PM (bW09W)
it's not teachers that hate this, it's parents
parents rage at the idea of not being able to text their kids at school
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 04:17 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 04:17 PM (M/gGe)
They should have used segway rather than transition.
Posted by: Boss Moss
Too slow...
Segway is a two-wheeled, self-balancing personal transporter device
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 04:17 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 04:16 PM (M/gGe)
And touchy.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:18 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (WkNQM)
No, it wouldn't be classified.
A stand-up meeting to get all the players on the same page so that, over the next year, or whatever, everyone's goals/funding/timing align ISN'T classified. It's just a meeting to discuss timing and transition periods, and there are thousands of meetings like that (and similarly mundane), the knowledge of which would identify what individuals are working on what projects, even years afterward, because that's how long it takes to develop new things.
There seems to be this general idea at the HQ that everything DoD touches is classified. That's simply false. Around 20% of DoD employees don't even have a clearance at all.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:18 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 04:18 PM (/U5Yz)
We have an outstanding FOIA request from 2018 with the Department of Energy. DOE sucks anyway, but their FOIA desk is never occupied by a living being in possession of a brain. When someone new comes along to "fill the position," then the request is moved back to the bottom of the stack, as though it was just received yesterday.
And this is for routine stuff, not sooper sekrit information.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (rxCpr)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (S4ZTs)
I don’t feel sorry for him at all - your turn, buddy!
Give the rest of us privileged, ungrateful haters a break!
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (77Bgk)
http://tiny.cc/9oai001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:14 PM (WkNQM)
I'd say she has a weird face. But I'm not sure she even has a face.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:13 PM (bW09W)
Segue.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: ...
Boobs were the best aides to concentration. Not necessarily on the material being taught, however.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oldcat
The one by Lileks?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:17 PM (77rzZ)
Think so, there might have been others too.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Bulg
It's been somme years but I think Hawaii's was the Sunshine Law.
Got laid off from a job there because 'no work'. While at unemployment office I caught a glimpse of the guys monitor and the company that laid me off for 'no work' had the same job listed... So I asked for a copy of my unemployment file... Was told "no can do as there is 'personel' information in it" my own information so it was exempt from disclosure...
Actually I suspect the office was not submitting my applications that I had to go through them for jobs that employers listed with them. Part of the 'system' was most employers could withhold their name so you didn't know who you were applying with... It's why I snuck a peak at the monitor in the first place.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (/lPRQ)
http://tiny.cc/9oai001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Her butt is a little large but, I'll overlook that.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 04:21 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 04:21 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:13 PM (bW09W)
Segue.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (CQE5S)
Let's roll!
Posted by: We usually walk moist places at April 30, 2025 04:21 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
Means that the boobs are likely natural.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:22 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:22 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:06 PM (uCjyK)
With some secrecy, yes. Most of us are arguing over to what degree the US Government should be able to operate in secret.
Not you, though. You're arguing that if our intelligence agencies can't stop every threat against every unit even when we spot them the live locations of same, then we shouldn't even bother.
Do you think your position leads to a bigger or smaller government intelligence cabal?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:22 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:18 PM (oSeBJ)
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Which is why future events would be out-of-scope and it would be fine for there to be a required time period before things like calendars would be made public. And I already acknowledged in the main post that PII would need to be stripped/redacted.
There are definitely some gaps in my original thought. I considered contracts but not drafts, as an obvious example. But "there needs to be a time gap for a lot of stuff before disclosure depending on agency and category" and "there must never be disclosure" are worlds apart.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:23 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:23 PM (bW09W)
Um...it's a scooter. Electronic, but still a scooter.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: the heat from burning strawmen at April 30, 2025 04:24 PM (TbWk/)
I was assured a 1929 style crash was gonna happen cuz Tarriffs.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 04:25 PM (S4ZTs)
Yeah they oversold the hell out of that goofy thing. Neat balancing tech, but just a scooter like you said.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:26 PM (2VST1)
@LeadingReport 11m
BREAKING: New York State is set to implement a “bell-to-bell” cellphone ban in schools.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Wouldn't it be better to tap into their comm with a Stingray and post everything on a big monitor at the main entrance?
They are in a public building...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 04:26 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:28 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:28 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:23 PM (WkNQM)
Concur.
Outside of active operational intelligence, once it's final, release it.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:28 PM (oSeBJ)
https://tinyurl.com/3ev4zhrt
James O'Keefe is not suicidal. Pray for him.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 30, 2025 04:15 PM (/U5Yz)
___________________________
It's funny because he's an atheist.
Posted by: Going for the Ben schtick at April 30, 2025 04:28 PM (dIske)
"4) any actual kids that were abused are either dead or adults who might want to put that shit behind them and not wind up "famous" for it. "
Instead of famous use notorious.
Posted by: Ciampino - it's a suggestion at April 30, 2025 04:28 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:29 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:22 PM (oSeBJ)
No, I'm not arguing that, and that is not a good faith reading of my arguments, and you know it.
I'm saying that once we accept this absurd premise that the all-important work being done in DC can't be made public because "the bad guys could find out!" then that's kind of the end of the argument. Because we can't even know about the alleged threats by the bad guys, because that's classified.
So if that's the end of the argument, fine. But don't pretend that we live in a free society where an informed electorate decides how our government operates.
And my argument, by the way, is the exact argument Congress made in passing the FOIA in the 1960's. And they put in the limited exemptions that you claim you need so that you're not hunted down by AI-enabled terrorists. And those exemptions swallowed the rule. And here we are.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:30 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: try the veal at April 30, 2025 04:30 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Soothsayer
How many Magic Nose Goblins?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 04:30 PM (/lPRQ)
https://tinyurl.com/3ev4zhrt
James O'Keefe is not suicidal. Pray for him.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 30, 2025 04:15 PM (/U5Yz)
At the beginning of that clip, is he saying, "I'm going dark"?
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:30 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:26 PM (2VST1)
++++
They were (and still are, for all I know) useful in a bunch of contexts, after modification. I saw an outfit that made them into a hands-free configuration of big, squishy tires for cameramen to quickly follow action over non-smooth terrain and leave his hands free to operate the camera (steer by leaning, partially seated/squatting when in use). Very neat.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:30 PM (WkNQM)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 04:31 PM (g47mK)
He didn't believe in dog.
Posted by: try the veal at April 30, 2025 04:30 PM (jGJov)
_______________________
I don't get it.
Posted by: James Madison's Apprentice at April 30, 2025 04:31 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:26 PM (2VST1)
The only good thing to come out of that fad was Paul Blart, Mall Cop.
The perfect end was when the owner of the company sailed off a cliff while riding one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 04:31 PM (QULmo)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at April 30, 2025 04:31 PM (WvGHv)
Instead of famous use notorious.
Posted by: Ciampino
I don't think "notorious" would be appropriate for the victims, only the perps. Perhaps a more neutral term like "well-known" for the victims
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:31 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 04:31 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:30 PM (uCjyK)
I don't see anyone saying that.
I see people - including me - saying that SOME government work can't be made public.
I've also said, over and over, that every final government document should be immediately released to the public.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:31 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:31 PM (bW09W)
https://tinyurl.com/2br9hmfb
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 04:32 PM (42Vb+)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 04:32 PM (scBt+)
Must be a thing in Korean schools.
Was a plot device in "All of Us Are Dead"...
How do you call for help when the school takes all your cell phones and it gets overrun by zombies?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 04:33 PM (/lPRQ)
Not for nothing, but why were you touching the bottom of your desk?
----------------
Cuz we were discussing Ethan Frome.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 04:33 PM (pZ64F)
"To complete the experiment, Henry and his mom, Kerry Hyde, bought non-toxic lipstick and applied it to each of their cat's anuses."
https://tinyurl.com/yf4rmsv9
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 04:33 PM (UBKzV)
Yeah they oversold the hell out of that goofy thing. Neat balancing tech, but just a scooter like you said.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 04:26 PM (2VST1)
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Now there are dozens of variations of those electric scooters/bicycles. I see students on campus zipping around on those all the time. Makes the Segway look lame by comparison.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 04:33 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:33 PM (bW09W)
I'm going dark.
I'm not suicidal.
Pray for me.
This one scares me, guys.
https://tinyurl.com/3ev4zhrt
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:34 PM (CQE5S)
I'm not suicidal.
Pray for me.
This one scares me, guys.
https://tinyurl.com/3ev4zhrt
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:34 PM (CQE5S)
Yeah, agreed. The multiple camera angles and production quality kind of detract from me thinking this is anything other than a marketing gimmick though.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:34 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
There would be no secert spy planes or materials....not a good idea
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 04:35 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Did you hear what caused the atheists' riot?
They found a blank piece of paper on a magazine artist's desk.
(Joke from the era of the Danish Mohammed cartoons.)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:35 PM (77rzZ)
I work with guys who can't seem to get their phone out of their hands.
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 04:35 PM (ypFCm)
Over the short run, things like timing of ICE raids and the like seem fair game.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 04:35 PM (scBt+)
321 270
Not for nothing, but why were you touching the bottom of your desk?
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Cuz we were discussing Ethan Frome.
Posted by: Pudinhead
/strokes chin
Ah.
Understood.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 04:35 PM (SFdpn)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 04:36 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 04:36 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 04:36 PM (42Vb+)
https://tinyurl.com/5fnj89bp
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 04:36 PM (D7oie)
Link did not work for me.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:37 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 04:35 PM (ypFCm)
It’s ver effeminate. I see these young dudes, even guys in construction and stuff, who are always checking their phones.
Heard some guy said he is always checking Instagram. I thought that was a girls’ site.
(I typed this on my phone, tho, so glass houses..)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 04:37 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 04:35 PM (EafHQ)
We had already established the caveats for classified programs/weapons/systems.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:38 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 30, 2025 04:38 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:38 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 04:35 PM (scBt+)
So you don't think Bondi should be prosecuting the government employees who leaked the dates/time/locations of ICE raids to obstruct the apprehension/deportation of illegals?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:39 PM (oSeBJ)
Instead of famous use notorious.
Posted by: Ciampino - it's a suggestion at April 30, 2025 04:28 PM (sPQoU)
Dead. If they try to open their mouths they will be dead.
Oh, by the way, RFK Jr's statement here is kind of important
https://tinyurl.com/5fnj89bp
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 04:39 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Boss Moss
......
But then you'd be missing out on all the babes.
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 04:39 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Max Power at April 30, 2025 04:39 PM (q177U)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at April 30, 2025 04:39 PM (WvGHv)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 04:40 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
Remember the ussr scientists that used robber soled shoes to gather metal shavings?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 04:40 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 04:40 PM (cMECq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:38 PM (bW09W)
O.k., thanks. I see it's on Libs of TikTok and I've found it there.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:40 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:40 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 04:34 PM (uCjyK)
_________________________
Same...but, on the other hand, the dude delivers time and time again. And, is relatively fearless. He seems to have a pretty good handle on targeting the insufferable blowhards who will brag about their endeavors.
Who knows. He might be playing around with something pretty nasty.
Posted by: Orson at April 30, 2025 04:40 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Orson
Lena Dunham doesn't sound like his type.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)
I work with guys who can't seem to get their phone out of their hands.
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 04:35 PM (ypFCm)
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I've got a couple of student workers who are chronically addicted to their phones. We've had to lay down some harsh ground rules about phone usage at work.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 04:42 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:39 PM (oSeBJ)
They should be deported, too.
I meant fair game for secrecy. In other words, the older info is the less likely I am to support redaction, unless it’s nuclear secrets.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 04:42 PM (scBt+)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 04:40 PM (EafHQ)
I remember reading about it - I'm only 44. That was for the Mig-15, I think.
Anna would know for sure.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:42 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 04:42 PM (scBt+)
Ah. I made a mistake reading your initial post.
I agree with this one.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 04:43 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Orson
Lena Dunham doesn't sound like his type.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)
ewwwwww
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:44 PM (CQE5S)
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
1h
"During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for s*x and for slavery" - RFK Jr
HOLY SHLIT
[video]
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 30, 2025 04:45 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Jan. 6'ers at April 30, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)
https://tinyurl.com/5fnj89bp
Posted by: Kindltot
Somebody had to fill the role after Epstein suicided.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 04:46 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 04:46 PM (ypFCm)
@libsoftiktok
1h
"During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for s*x and for slavery" - RFK Jr
this guy is just asking to get Kennedy-ed
Posted by: CIA at April 30, 2025 04:47 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 04:46 PM (ypFCm)
And still you make the top commenters list a lot!
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:47 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: CIA at April 30, 2025 04:47 PM (jGJov)
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I believe that the 21st century term is Epstein-ed.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 04:48 PM (WbV6R)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:50 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Jan. 6'ers at April 30, 2025 04:45 PM (VE6XX)
Dupe Process
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:50 PM (CQE5S)
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Why do these arrests only happen when Trump is in office?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: CIA at April 30, 2025 04:47 PM (jGJov)
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I believe that the 21st century term is Epstein-ed.
Posted by: ShainS
Since he's a Kennedy, he's asking to be John'd or Bobby'd.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 04:51 PM (xsqwN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:50 PM (bW09W)
++++
Apparently, 100%...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 30, 2025 04:52 PM (WkNQM)
.......
So Patel and Bondi are out making arrests as you speak?
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 04:53 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: CIA at April 30, 2025 04:47 PM (jGJov)
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I believe that the 21st century term is Epstein-ed.
Posted by: ShainS
Since he's a Kennedy, he's asking to be John'd or Bobby'd.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 04:51 PM (xsqwN)
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill
With Abraham, Martin, and John
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:53 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 04:54 PM (bW09W)
You rang?
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 30, 2025 04:55 PM (e7zAw)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 04:55 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 04:55 PM (2cS/G)
Ha!
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 04:56 PM (CQE5S)
30 Kinda funny when you consider how much metadata on every American’s activity, thought, purchase, health, etc.
FOUA seems about as quaint as concern that the government wants to access your library history.
They know everything about us (along with google, meta, etc.) but we must beg for redacted records that take months, years.
Posted by: Canadian Gen Z at April 30, 2025 03:19 PM (KQ27X)
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No, the FOUA is good stuff. Keep it.
Posted by: Bum Pissing on Your Car at April 30, 2025 04:58 PM (iTNuP)
FOIA should be no different. FFS.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 30, 2025 04:58 PM (ALUT+)
Anybody else have this problem??
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 04:59 PM (Oy/m2)
Anybody else have this problem??
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 04:59 PM (Oy/m2)
No
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 04:59 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 04:53 PM (v0R5T)
From post 367 it sounds like something is happening.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 05:00 PM (LJcNN)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:00 PM (bW09W)
Anybody else have this problem??
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 04:59 PM (Oy/m2)
People have talked about it on other threads and the (a?) solution is to turn off java(script?) or have an adblocker.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:00 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (S4ZTs)
Way to spoil the fantasy.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 05:01 PM (E0p3T)
...and the California legislature is making whoring legal for 16 and 17 year olds? Only with appropriate criminal supervision, I'm guessing.
Posted by: Auspex at April 30, 2025 05:01 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:01 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 04:19 PM (S4ZTs)
Way to spoil the fantasy.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 05:01 PM (E0p3T)
Oh, man, that hit my funnybone.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:02 PM (CQE5S)
Are you here?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 30, 2025 05:02 PM (w6EFb)
They've arrested Congress?????!!!!!!!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 30, 2025 05:02 PM (ALUT+)
They've arrested Congress?????!!!!!!!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 30, 2025 05:02 PM (ALUT+)
And their spouses.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:03 PM (CQE5S)
They've arrested Congress?????!!!!!!!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 30, 2025 05:02 PM (ALUT+)
Themselves
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 05:03 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above!
________
It would take tens of thousands of employees to do that given the number of FOIA requests.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 05:03 PM (UBKzV)
Looks like the FBI is arresting bad guys as opposed to Wray's going after parents at school board meetings..
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 05:03 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 05:03 PM (VE6XX)
Wonder how the FBI knew about them..........
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 05:04 PM (E0p3T)
I'm trying to make the numbers add up to 764:
Congress has a total of 535 voting members, a figure which includes 100 senators and 435 representatives; the House of Representatives has 6 additional non-voting members. The vice president of the United States, as President of the Senate, has a vote in the Senate only when there is a tie.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:04 PM (CQE5S)
There are no "teeth" baked into the cake. There's no penalties for failure to produce.
Make it "failure to provide information and documentation within ten days of request or the departmental director will spend 15 days in solitary at the closest federal detention facility".
Guarandamnteed it'll change toot sweet.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 05:04 PM (xsqwN)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 30, 2025 05:05 PM (e7zAw)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 30, 2025 05:05 PM (ALUT+)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 30, 2025 05:05 PM (e7zAw)
Might as well jump (jump)!
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:06 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 05:06 PM (bW09W)
That checks out.
Posted by: garrett at April 30, 2025 05:06 PM (Ruu2t)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April
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Can Abbott get wheelie skid marks with his chai
Posted by: From about That Time at April 30, 2025 05:06 PM (v5U2D)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:06 PM (CQE5S)
@libsoftiktok
1h
"During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for s*x and for slavery" - RFK Jr
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Why hasn't G*d smashed a fiery meteor of doom into Washington DC yet? If true, our Founders are spinning so fast their bones have turned to powder.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 05:07 PM (qBdHI)
There are no "teeth" baked into the cake. There's no penalties for failure to produce.
Make it "failure to provide information and documentation within ten days of request or the departmental director will spend 15 days in solitary at the closest federal detention facility".
Guarandamnteed it'll change toot sweet.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 05:04 PM (xsqwN)
See my 377. Whe Bn Cdrs were pulled out of the field to respond to "Congressionals" you knew it was damn serious. Not responding was not an option. It was a career ender.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 30, 2025 05:07 PM (ALUT+)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 05:08 PM (i24o9)
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Why do these arrests only happen when Trump is in office?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Next you'll try to tell me that actually enforcing laws we already have will really help slow illegal aliens coming to the US!
That'd just be crazy talk!
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 05:08 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 05:08 PM (cMECq)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 05:09 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Ciampino - it was a suggestion at April 30, 2025 05:09 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 05:10 PM (cMECq)
==
He found 10 righteous people there ?
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 05:10 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 05:07 PM (qBdHI)
I don't know, but we'll never know the whole story, which kind of relates back to the point of this post.
Suffice to say we already know that USAID was funding the human trafficking to get the immigrants up here, including a whole lot of "unaccompanied minors" and we know most of them just ... disappeared.
Now RFK is saying DHS was also involved.
Unfortunately, if we had access to the information here to know what is really going on, Al Qaeda would win, so we should just shut up like good serfs.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 05:10 PM (uCjyK)
Megatron Roasting Guests at Universal Studios
https://youtu.be/lkJK3c25JOA
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 05:08 PM (i24o9)
hahahahaha
Maybe it's Ace in there.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:11 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 05:12 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Skip at April 30, 2025 05:12 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at April 30, 2025 05:12 PM (oSeBJ)
As it were.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 05:14 PM (CQE5S)
Skip, what's a data comment?
Posted by: Ciampino - it's a FOIA demand at April 30, 2025 05:25 PM (sPQoU)
Should FBI files on people who are being investigated be released? While parts of those files can be classified most are protected from release in FOIA as "Law Enforcement Sensitive".
Posted by: Gutrender at April 30, 2025 05:59 PM (tM2/o)
Suffice to say that - according to the rules - most of those things are NOT supposed to be restricted distribution in any way.
But, asking the gov't to publish every dang email and such? Hoo boy. I'm not sure there's enough server space in Amazons cloud to hold it. Though they're trying.
Posted by: GWB at April 30, 2025 08:49 PM (wbjSL)
I have been a lifetime public employee(part time, Guard and volunteer firefighter), never once have I ever had any shame in opening the books.
Posted by: Danimal28 at April 30, 2025 10:19 PM (nT4HF)
1. Most FOIA requests are so broad they are impossible to answer. For example "give me all the unclassified information related to the M1 Abrams tank".
2. Many asks for historical information that is very difficult to track down. For example, "How many M1 rifles did the army field in 1944?"
3. There is no funding provided to track down the information, therefore the federal agency has to take the resources from another area.
4. FOIA request are free to submit. So you get a bunch of quacks asking questions for no particular reason other than curiosity.
Posted by: Jeff Windham at May 01, 2025 11:12 AM (m5P/4)
America's Hat decides to make its election about Trump because even Canadian Boomers are addicted to American news fear pron
But first, the actual results:
A single party needs 172 seats in Parliament for a majority. Labor has a lead in the counts of 168 seats. It looks like they'll have to create a coalition with one other third party to make a majority while the Conservative Party sits in second place with 144 seats. It's a win. It's a pretty strong win. But I think that the results are being oversold a bit. This feels more like Pierre Poilievre was a deeply underwhelming candidate who ran on no platform other than continuing immigration levels while not being Trudeau and giving conservative voters little reason to turn out for him and his party. Still, those high propensity Canadian Boomer-libs sure did find a reason to come out to the polls, something they were probably going to do anyway. Look at that second set of bars in the X post below. 50% of Canadians over 60 said that "Dealing with Donald Trump" was one of their main reasons for voting in this election. Dear lord. Don't you people have, like, your own country?But, now that you've had your data, how about a juicy bit of anecdote?It’s incredible the effect that man has on the boomers pic.twitter.com/2PKy2BwAYO
— memetic_sisyphus (@memeticsisyphus) April 29, 2025
But yes, the Liberal Party won:Canadian woman reveals her vote was entirely for who to "take care" best of Trump.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 29, 2025
Mental illness.pic.twitter.com/hSBSKnNIAL
Candian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who won the election Monday to officially replace former leader Justin Trudeau, warned that President Trump is “trying to break us.” In remarks following the victory, securing Carney a full term, he argued that Trump has “fundamentally changed” the world in recent months — pointing to sweeping tariffs and his proposal for Canada to merge with the U.S.I'm not too broken up about this. Why? It's not my damn country. If Canada wants to import the third world while selling 10% of its former exports to the world that's not the US (their economy is roughly 70% exports to us), then they can do that. Sorry good Morons north of the border. You watched us make some really dumb political choices at the top for a while, and we get to watch you continue to make some more because your olds are more concerned with Rachel Maddow's opinion of Donald Trump than your own housing problems...caused by the influx of immigration. Gotta make that GDP line go up, even that means importing hundreds of thousands of people a year who...don't contribute to the GDP. Also, here's a look at Mark Carney:
Ladies and gentlemen,
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 29, 2025
Meet the Prime Minister of Canada and his wife.
Canada has elected its own Tim and Gwen Walz. https://t.co/BrXkFO7nA1
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 02:02 PM (bW09W)
Which is good for me because I'm buying something there soon.
And less Canucks for me to deal with once I'm there.
Win win.
Posted by: Iasonas at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (gUzGB)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 30, 2025 02:04 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 02:05 PM (42Vb+)
Polievre should have taken the tack of "Only I can work with Trump to our advantage" not "Trump bad, I hates him too"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:05 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 30, 2025 02:04 PM (KiBMU)
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No beginning to predict how midterms will actually turn out until September of next year.
However, I think it's important to never, ever discount the sudden disappearance of USAID and other government grants to the leftist ecosystem.
USAID alone was $40 billion. A drop in the bucket of federal spending, but roughly 5 times the box office revenue of all of Hollywood in the US last year.
Harder to create narratives with that kind of hole in the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)
Is it the leaded gasoline they were exposed to as kids? Or just a profound selfishness and batshit insanity?
Look at the younger Canadians -- they're concerned with better future, lower cost of living, etc. You know, normal stuff.
Shouldn't their grandparents also be concerned with that stuff, if only so their grandkids could grow up and have a good life? I mean, yikes.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 02:06 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Judge Holden at April 30, 2025 02:06 PM (2LCZQ)
Polievre should have taken the tack of "Only I can work with Trump to our advantage" not "Trump bad, I hates him too"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:05 PM (2VST1)
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"You dumb fucks think that Trump is gonna invade? Dear lord, Canadians are stupid."
-probably would have done less damage to his campaign
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (bbuBP)
We all knew it, but now we have the number to back it up.
Yet the young people who aren't in power, control nothing, and pass no laws are to blame.
And in reality, the younger generations in the US are trending right.
There's a lesson in here somewhere, but I'll wait for someone to Boomerexplain it to me.
Posted by: Iasonas at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (gUzGB)
Posted by: American Hawkman at April 30, 2025 02:08 PM (9VDxG)
Posted by: That's a man baby at April 30, 2025 02:08 PM (9C9RZ)
Shouldn't their grandparents also be concerned with that stuff, if only so their grandkids could grow up and have a good life? I mean, yikes.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 02:06 PM (uCjyK)
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Boomers, according to some polling, are a uniquely terrible generation.
45% of Boomer respondents to one poll (spit) said that they plan on using every penny they have on themselves, leaving nothing for their next generation.
Gen-X agreed with that at only about 35%.
Yes, it's not everyone. I'm not trying to start the old generational warfare thing. But the Boomers have a VERY large strain of selfishness that's hard to ignore and much larger than in other generations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)
Almost certainly correct. But just a reminder of how utterly mindless most voters are. It's a perplexing miracle how the US (or any representative government system) survived for any length of time. And of course here (and in Canada, much worse - and Europe, ditto) we have a preposterous crude propaganda operation called "the press" creating an imaginary universe in which lazy, tribal, bigoted, unworldly, ignorant, self-dealing voters vote (speaking here mostly of "educated" cohorts BTW).
This imaginary universe is so pervasive and effective that key elements of it are swallowed or stipulated by even the least-clueless. Happens even here, can see it frequently.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 02:08 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 02:09 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Canada has elected its own Tim and Gwen Walz. https://t.co/BrXkFO7nA1
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His wife is kind of a spastic, no?
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 02:09 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: That's a man baby at April 30, 2025 02:08 PM (9C9RZ)
Hope she doesn't get too comfortable in that role...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:09 PM (VE6XX)
Canada has elected its own Tim and Gwen Walz. https://t.co/BrXkFO7nA1
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 29, 2025
Posted by TheJamesMadison at 02:01 PM Comments
OMG, that's proof POSITIVE she wears the strap-on.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)
My FL realtor is actually originally from Canada and she confirmed it, she even said it's because of Trump, but maybe it's relegated to certain areas of SoFlo.
In any event, it's a buyer's market there it seems.
Posted by: Iasonas at April 30, 2025 02:09 PM (gUzGB)
Our Favorite President had some remarks about Pee-air, today.
Said they were both anti-Trump, but the conservative candidate hated him more than the other one.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:10 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:10 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 02:10 PM (tT6L1)
Pretty stupid but...they are Canadians.
Posted by: 18-1
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It's not their fault. It's so damn cold all the time they have brain freeze.
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 02:11 PM (v0R5T)
Said they were both anti-Trump, but the conservative candidate hated him more than the other one.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:10 PM (yreN9)
Smart move... He has to deal with Carney...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:11 PM (VE6XX)
William Henry Harrison? Thought he was mort long ago.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)
I think boomers were the first youth-fixated generation, the first that decided young people are better and wiser than old people and that everyone should be forever young. Gen X is so bitter and cynical we don't have any delusions about our future, but Millennials picked up a lot of that, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:11 PM (2VST1)
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Is "handsome woman" a back-handed compliment? If so, I'll go with that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 02:11 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Ike in South Park at April 30, 2025 02:11 PM (2+BHm)
Do you understand what President Trump did, there?
He just told the fucking idiots in canada they just voted for the Wrong Guy (pronounced Gee). He just told them they voted for the More Pro-Trump candidate, lololololol.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:12 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 02:12 PM (25kK/)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 02:12 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:12 PM (2VST1)
Screw Canada. And I have tremendous respect for the Hordeans that live there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)
My FL realtor is actually originally from Canada and she confirmed it, she even said it's because of Trump, but maybe it's relegated to certain areas of SoFlo.
In any event, it's a buyer's market there it seems.
Posted by: Iasonas at April 30, 2025 02:09 PM (gUzGB)
Fine by me, I'm all for not allowing NON CITIZENS to buy a damn bit of property in the US.
And get rid of Dual Citizenship... which the Supreme Court forced upon us, even though Congress (who was given explicit power of citizenship) said otherwise.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 02:13 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:13 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 02:13 PM (bW09W)
we live rent free in their heads.
If Brokeback Mountain was a movie about countries instead of 2 sheep herders, Canada would be telling us:
"I can't quit you, USA"
Posted by: kallisto at April 30, 2025 02:13 PM (dCxaZ)
LAME CANADA!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 02:13 PM (qFAfu)
It's not their fault. It's so damn cold all the time they have brain freeze.
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 02:11 PM (v0R5T)
It is the excuse we use for Minnesota as well.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 30, 2025 02:13 PM (Vj4xA)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:13 PM (l3YAf)
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We can trade them for Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 02:14 PM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
We can always refight the Civil War. That's always fun.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:12 PM (2VST1)
I think he's serious.... When the shit hits the fan under Carney the price will be much cheaper...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:14 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 02:12 PM (25kK/)
Boomer Season...
Gen X season...
Boomer season...
Posted by: Looney Toons at April 30, 2025 02:14 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:11 PM (2VST1)
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As a late gen Boomer, I can't really argue with that. My only real argument is there are a lot of us who, as we got older, realized our "know it all" youth was a youth of foolishness once we grew up.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 02:14 PM (tT6L1)
Yes, it's astonishing that defensive voting isn't universal (vote for the pathetic but clearly preferable choice), but it isn't. High propensity idiot voters (and older cohorts typically are much higher propensity) can and do contribute to the degradation of their own societies. Canada this week a good example.
What I haven't seen, actually just a few snippets of - is good hard-core practical elections analysis of this election (how typical were turnout and results, based on recent history, actually meaningful stuff like that puts things in real perspective).
This demographic polling stuff is interesting and surely of value, but not sensing their is anything remotely surprising or anomalous in these results. Thus - the exogenous factor Orange Man Bad/Scary factor can't really be evaluated.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 02:14 PM (1m82a)
I do think that Trump going on pointlessly about taking over Canada did not help matters any, either. I can't work out why he did that, its just a dumb joke.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
To embarrass & humiliate true-doe. But PDT didn't expect truedough to step down before the election.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:14 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 02:14 PM (tT6L1)
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And there are so many Boomers who say they were at Woodstock and have never been to New York.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (pZ64F)
They didn't call them the Me Generation for nothing.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (McYvC)
It is just a dumb joke. People with no sense of humor are outraged.
Of course humor is based in reality, so that may mean Alberta.
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at April 30, 2025 02:16 PM (oWCdy)
Posted by: Harun at April 30, 2025 02:16 PM (IuIym)
Posted by: MrExcitement at April 30, 2025 02:16 PM (hOOi9)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla
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Coulda been the Orange Sunshine
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 02:17 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (pZ64F)
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The Phoenix area gets more than a few Michigan snowbirds, too.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 02:17 PM (tT6L1)
There's a lesson in here somewhere, but I'll wait for someone to Boomerexplain it to me.
Posted by: Iasonas
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Seems to be across the board in the West.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:17 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 02:17 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 02:17 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:17 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 30, 2025 02:17 PM (P4Pk9)
Like a cat chasing a laser dot. Ok Scogg . LOL . Enjoy yourself
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 02:17 PM (25kK/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (pZ64F)
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It's no Apache Junction.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (AkyaN)
Yeah, I think many if not most grew out of it, but enough didn't and worse, the early impact on culture and public perception was so pervasive that its just assumed now.
But it also means that aging people are horrified by how they are now getting ugly and weak and sick and there's nothing they can do about it. Look at how Instapundit goes on and on about every single "anti aging" discovery.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 30, 2025 02:04 PM (KiBMU)
Its funny because their previous lame, teary eyed "but we were such great friends when we ripped you off and neglected their defenses (at least the UK has some decent SAS and Paras).
This yapping puppy opposition lets Trump do what he wants to them.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (asFox)
Anyone want to guess why housing keeps going up in USA, Canada, Australia, London?
My personal guess is Chinese people moving their money abroad. Say you own a factory and make decent money and want to stash some overseas.
Bank account is nice, but...your kid can't live there. and you may want a bolthole. So you buy a house in chino hills.
Posted by: Harun at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (IuIym)
But I expect the Canadians like not having months of political ads, and they do seem to have much better ballot security than lots of U.S. states, so glass houses and stones.
Posted by: PaleRider at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (bP/i4)
It is just a dumb joke. People with no sense of humor are outraged.
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Exactly! Trump trolled the ‘nucks into shooting themselves in the balls again. Pretty funny, honestly.
Would the other feller have been better? Maybe, but hardly sounds compelling.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)
The libtard Boomers in my acquaintance just seem to be picking up steam. Even the ones in their late 70s seem to be indestructible.
Posted by: kallisto at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (dCxaZ)
Harsh. Fair.
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 02:19 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 02:19 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Pudinhead
They like the parched dry Earth in Dateland and love the date Hate Shakes?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 02:20 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 02:20 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 02:20 PM (L0lnW)
It's a Festive Little Hat!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
Can't match Trump's pimp hat.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)
She told me to change a date/time stamp on the website, that nobody on earth ever even sees, except a hawk-eyed Boomer type.
I even told her, "do you know you are behaving like a Boomer right now?
I had to actually show her the website dashboard to demonstrate what would happen if I changed the date to the one she specified.
Posted by: kallisto at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: kallisto at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (dCxaZ)
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I look at these people who are more than old enough to know better and think to myself, "Good grief, grow up, will you?"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: MrExcitement at April 30, 2025 02:16 PM (hOOi9)
They raised up Trudeau, like the French raised up Macron, to have a young dynamic leader like Obama.
Oops
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (asFox)
btw, I vowed to NEVER see "The Producers," or "Rent," and especially "Cats."
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (OUMaO)
Long story short, Canada is fucked. the USA doesn't want it outside of Alberta, Saskatchewan, northern BC and southwest Manitoba. Nuke the rest.
Posted by: Rick in SK at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (FZYNt)
This is an insane concern. Look out for your dang grandchildren, why don’t you?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (KQ27X)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (Vj4xA)
No homo, but you really should be providing more content during regularly scheduled programming.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:22 PM (2VST1)
Cacti?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (2VST1)
I imagine what they are looking for is no blizzards and 10 foot of snow. The rest is negoitiable.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:22 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's why I get paid the big bucks!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)
Never seen any of those.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 02:22 PM (KQ27X)
Germany had 4.7%; Japan 8.7%; US 20.7%
In the same time, they have imported over 5 million immigrants.
That's not a death spiral, that's dead.
And the biggest worry of the people least able to weather the shitty economy they're about to make worse?
Trump.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 02:22 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 30, 2025 02:23 PM (a6xW8)
Assisted suicide is now available at Tim Hortons: Americans will be so jealous of the convenience enjoyed by Canada's citizens.
All parents will be required to trans their kids: . . .
Double the size of Canada's military to 12: It's important for Canada to be ready in case Trump attacks.
The means of maple syrup production will be seized for the proletariat: A classless society can only be established by the equitable redistribution of maple syrup reserves. Glory to the Communist Republic of Canada.
Change the national anthem to "The Lumberjack Song" by Monty Python: Much more appropriate for modern Canadians.
Establish a war victory monument in case Canada ever wins a war: You never know. It could happen someday.
More unnecessary "u"s will be added to words: In addition to "humour" and "colour," we'll also get "elevatour," "authour," and "dictatour."
Will advance several exciting new hoaxes against the Catholic Church: It's the least we can do for the indigenous peoples who came before.
Will work closely with President Xi to bring Canada under the watchful protection of CCP.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 02:23 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:23 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 02:23 PM (bW09W)
This is an insane concern. Look out for your dang grandchildren, why don’t you?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (KQ27X)
A lot of them don't have any
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:23 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Mark1971
vote splitting between the new Wild Rose party and the old Progressive Conservatives.
Posted by: Rick in SK at April 30, 2025 02:23 PM (FZYNt)
Cacti?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (2VST1)
The only place in the world where those big arm cacti grow is in Arizona. It takes 70+ years for them to get that big. If one has an arm that droops downward, that means it hit a cold spell at some point in it's life.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Fair enough, I can see that argument. But there are better places to escape the snow in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:24 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Perhaps because Trudeau was involved in doing shady shit for Dems as part of Five Eyes. And politically in DC, it is easier to punish Canada trying to facilitate Chinese goods via transhipment if that government is a POS Liberal government.
Some of that trade deficit with Canada was actually hidden Chinese goods sent to Canada. Mexico was doing the same thing but saw advantage in letting Trump stop that in favor of still buying from Mexico. They have their own offshoring problem with China.
In sum, Canada, like the UK are going to get pimp slapped in trade talks. Basically, no one needs them much anymore because there are plenty of vendors in other countries for what Canada sells and Canada is refusing to take US imports but relying on the US shield of protection to keep their borders safe.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:24 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: MrExcitement at April 30, 2025 02:16 PM (hOOi9)
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Canada, the comic strip:
https://tinyurl.com/ktssa3s7
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 02:24 PM (qFAfu)
The best thing in the world right now would be places like Alberta voting to leave tyrannical countries they are attached to.
This would be a wake up call to the globalists that have vote fraud locked down in their enclaves that they can still pay a price for looting regions for their own benefit
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 02:24 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 02:25 PM (bW09W)
It's a Festive Little Hat!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
......
Like the ones the Canadian Army wears?
https://tinyurl.com/6v3bfvsa
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 02:25 PM (v0R5T)
This would be a wake up call to the globalists that have vote fraud locked down in their enclaves that they can still pay a price for looting regions for their own benefit
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 02:24 PM (t0Rmr)
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It's why I was rooting for Scottish independence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
Fair enough, I can see that argument. But there are better places to escape the snow in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:24 PM (2VST1)
Some of the Canadian Snowbirds can go to Cuba.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 02:25 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 30, 2025 02:25 PM (P4Pk9)
Which sounds a hell of a lot like the line a movie villain would give right before he ordered his minions to go put down the rag tag rebellion he is facing...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 02:26 PM (t0Rmr)
The entire country lives off the US.
Posted by: Vengeance at April 30, 2025 02:26 PM (pp/iw)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 02:26 PM (tT6L1)
Canada is for some reason part of NATO, and they have never kept up their proper payments. Trudeau promised to by.... 2032.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:26 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 02:26 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder are superior than Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.
Broderick has the wooden actor thing down and Nathan is gay personified.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:26 PM (ctrM5)
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"We're calling it The MAID (#MeanOrangeMan Assistance In Dying) Election, hoser!
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (CbFrP)
I generally agree but there it is Scotland looting England oddly enough. Well...the Scottish government at least...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (t0Rmr)
https://tinyurl.com/ktssa3s7
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 02:24 PM (qFAfu)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 02:20 PM (L0lnW)
Like the EU, Canada's idea of Strong does not include factories, jobs, a military, fidelity to national values or a responsible action on an international scale.
Its more smug moralism and self pity.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (asFox)
There are good shakes. Also an entire meal in themselves.
I don’t know that I’d drive all the way from Yuma and back for one.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (EXyHK)
Boomers seem to be the only generation who are so reflexively defensive. Like, deal with it. I’m not criticizing you, personally, but I know a lot of old white Boomers whose lives revolve around TDS, so the jokes will flow.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (l3YAf)
Its as stupidly left wing insane as the west coast of the USA, although it has some of the most stunning scenery on earth.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (2VST1)
Scotland is gone. It’s one of the most woke countries in the eurosphere.
Posted by: Vengeance at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (pp/iw)
Posted by: whig
Kenneth Mars was hilarious.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
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Scotland would destroy itself if it were independent.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)
Dry spells, too. Happens to all of us 29 year-olds at some point.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (q2NNn)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Since Canada's defense manufacturing industry has withered away along with other native manufacturing, Canada was supposed to buy American F35s to replace their old F-18 Hornets which Turdeau refused in order to spend money on his pet immigrants.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (ctrM5)
Can you do that ? Because I've been told for a decade, by both Repubs and Dems, that Red States here can't do that.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (/U5Yz)
This gives them another four years to bitch and blame the Nazis for another 70 years.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (aG/2t)
Posted by: USN Ballistic Missile Submarines at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 30, 2025 02:04 PM (KiBMU)
What was the alternative again? Losing gracefully with DeSantis and/or Haley?
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (M/gGe)
I generally agree but there it is Scotland looting England oddly enough. Well...the Scottish government at least...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (t0Rmr)
being on the dole is not looting. Its more like being hogs in the hog pen.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 02:20 PM (L0lnW)
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Anyone who thinks Trump is prepping to invade Canada should have their suffrage removed.
And then Trump should invade Canada.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
They voted for this shiat, let 'em have it good and hard.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (vOJ4/)
Yeah. Although to be fair, they have been kicked in the crotch for like 40 years so maybe it wears on a soul. As a GenXer, we've been almost completely ignored our whole lives, and we like it that way.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 30, 2025 02:29 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:13 PM (l3YAf)
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We can trade them for Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
BC, Yukon & the NW Territories for a $1.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 02:29 PM (xsqwN)
The same way Zelensky did?
Posted by: kallisto at April 30, 2025 02:29 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:29 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Bulg
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Yes he was. I see the whole movie as a madcap comedy similar to those screwball comedies in the 30's. America in the 60's was ready to laugh again.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:29 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
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Scotland would destroy itself if it were independent.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (6YdsJ)
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There was an outcry after Brexit (happened right after the Scottish referendum) that Scotland would start up the process again because they lurv the EU so much.
There have been some half-hearted attempts, but it seems like Boris Johnson's nixing of the new attempt in 2022 ended the whole thing.
Their hearts just aren't in it anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: whig
Kenneth Mars was hilarious.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)
He was the same in What's Up, Doc?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (VNX3d)
Can you do that ? Because I've been told for a decade, by both Repubs and Dems, that Red States here can't do that.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (McYvC)
Our precident is the Civil War. Canada has actual rules and processes for legal secession. And they can always just as the US to intervene the old fashioned way.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (asFox)
They are not our friends.
Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (fPxc5)
Now, think about their weather and obviously hothouses where most of that is grown. Then wonder why we are importing produce from Mexico and Canada at lower prices than we grow here.
Sorry but F them.
Posted by: Vengeance at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (pp/iw)
Its more smug moralism and self pity.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (asFox)
Nah, it's just mean tweets...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Just try saying something even mildly critical of the Beatles to one. Hoo boy.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)
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She's afraid of an Anschluss.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (L/fGl)
End women’s suffrage. ✊😔
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (2VST1)
the same way the Eurofegs did?
Posted by: kallisto at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Apparently including how not to find a treasure except fleecing the rubes watching the show.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Dudley Do Right, Asshole at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (979V4)
Yeah. Although to be fair, they have been kicked in the crotch for like 40 years so maybe it wears on a soul. As a GenXer, we've been almost completely ignored our whole lives, and we like it that way.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:28 PM (2VST1)
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I don't get offended at generalization of Millennials because I understand what generalizations are.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
Carney is going to "unofficially" try and tie Canada to the European Union. It's what he knows. It's where's he's been for the last decade. I'm betting that Carney will be ramrodding new rules, regulations, and requirements through the legislature to try and match them to the EU, which will allow and updated CETA agreement with the EU. The problem is that the western and central providences of Canada have "Sovereignty Acts" that allow scrutiny on tyrannical edicts.
Prediction: Western and central providences in Canada are going to start throwing the term "Sovereign Territory" around on a regular basis as time progresses.
Posted by: Orson at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (e+5nD)
btw, I vowed to NEVER see "The Producers," or "Rent," and especially "Cats."
Posted by: Soothsayer
How about Hamilton?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (63Dwl)
Meet the Prime Minister of Canada and his wife.
Canada has elected its own Tim and Gwen Walz.
Damn, I thought it was hard to get dorkier than generic pasty white guy trying to look street. I was wrong. It turns out that Canadian pasty white guy trying to look street has him beat hands down.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: Canadian Gen Z at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (CI8I+)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 02:29 PM (xsqwN)
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Only if Canada retains Vancouver.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (6YdsJ)
After four decades, maybe they'd figure out its not everybody else. Its them.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (McYvC)
The northern border, long obviously and famously quiet and secure, is no more. Two policy shifts in Canuckistan are among the big reasons. Visa waiver for Mexicans (resulted in quick/major cartel infestation) and mass importation of unvetted/unassimilating immigrants from jihadish latitudes. This is a quiet problem that underlies Trump's immediate and surprising thrusts at Canada after inauguration.
As noted the new regime up there might cooperate to some extent (border and intel services are still generally good and normal). The immigrant jihadi thing - don't see that getting addressed very much.
And the other factor is the pervasive Chinese "infiltration" ($, influence, people, ownership) in Canada. It's yuuuge, the worst ever really. No chance the weird arrogant banker PM does much about that.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:29 PM (pZ64F)
A. J. Cook from Criminal Minds is smokin' but Canadian.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)
yep
Posted by: kallisto at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (dCxaZ)
It is very odd that the founders never added anything into the constitution about how to let a state leave the union. I get it, the document was meant to be about the federal government but still... should have been some kind of system put in place.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)
Their early stuff was pretty good, but then they went crazy in India and turned into dirtball hippies.
Ringo was the best Beatle, of course. Certainly the least full of himself.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (l3YAf)
Polievre should have taken the tack of "Only I can work with Trump to our advantage" not "Trump bad, I hates him too"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:05 PM (2VST1)
The problem is that Pierre really does hate the US and Trump as much as he said in the campaign.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (asFox)
And the other factor is the pervasive Chinese "infiltration" ($, influence, people, ownership) in Canada. It's yuuuge, the worst ever really. No chance the weird arrogant banker PM does much about that.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (1m82a)
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Since their economic is almost wholly dependent on US exports just to function, bitch slapping Canada until they secure the border is going to be easy.
When Carney folds, it'll probably collapse his coalition government, and Canada will get new elections.
6 months. 12 max.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 02:26 PM
We're not hosers, buddy!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (QBMHV)
There are good shakes. Also an entire meal in themselves.
I don’t know that I’d drive all the way from Yuma and back for one.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
We stop for a couple every time we're passing through on our way to Los Algodones for cheap meds and dental work. I agree, they are wonderful.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (Vj4xA)
I agree... Carney will make Canada's demise come much faster than the other guy who might have bought them some time...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (VE6XX)
Never seen any of those.
Posted by: Lizzy
I'd rather consort with monkeys. And I think I made my feelings known on that subject.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (PzmHR)
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (e+5nD)
C'mon man, be fair. Give them some ACTUAL technology and give them Videodisc.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)
Their hearts just aren't in it anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Like Quebec, the reality of independence is far worse than the perception.
Both are like the kid in the basement that won't leave their parent's house even in their thirties.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Brother Tim
I don't see how a deeply unserious country (I agree) can cause the US extremely serious problems. ??
Posted by: Cheri at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (oiNtH)
We're not hosers, buddy!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (QBMHV)
I'm not your buddy, guy!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (QBMHV)
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Don't call me "buddy," pal!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 02:34 PM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (2VST1)
They didn’t want states to secede. The Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation, which forbade secession in Article X.
The purpose of the Constitution was to form a more perfect union. If secession had been permitted the country wouldn’t have made it past the 1830s.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:34 PM (l3YAf)
It's a Festive Little Hat!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats
......
Like the ones the Canadian Army wears?
https://tinyurl.com/6v3bfvsa
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 02:25 PM (v0R5T)
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Are those UN Blue Berets or The Paolo's Condoms on their heads?
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 02:34 PM (CbFrP)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:34 PM (SZD2V)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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FWIW, there wasn't one in the Articles of Confederation nor how to kick out a state (Rhode Island) that was shitting all over the other states and defaulting on all its obligations.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:35 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Apparently including how not to find a treasure except fleecing the rubes watching the show.
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She spoke of a green bead full of Potassium last night. It was erotic.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:35 PM (pZ64F)
You could not pick a better globalist tool if you tried. I am truly sad for the Canadian people.
Posted by: Canadian Gen Z at April 30, 2025 02:35 PM (CI8I+)
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 02:35 PM (jGJov)
Ringo was the best Beatle, of course. Certainly the least full of himself.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (l3YAf)
Ringo's son is currently the drummer for The Who.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
It is very odd that the founders never added anything into the constitution about how to let a state leave the union. I get it, the document was meant to be about the federal government but still... should have been some kind of system put in place.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (2VST1)
They did it by war themselves. They had no interest in letting the country dissolve into competing states that would either let the Europeans move in, or have our own internal wars forever.
Marriage says till death do you part. If you swore to stay until your wife really pissed you off or made a bad casserole, it would not have survived long at all.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (asFox)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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The first baseman?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Yeah. Wish he hadn't done that creepy "You're 16" song, though.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah they are super cringy and hard to watch. Worse than Elaine dancing
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (Vj4xA)
So it IS a suicide pact. Fantastic.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Well, when young they were gonna change the world, make a difference, upset the system and get The Man. They fucked up and it all came to naught. Now all that's left for them is death and then they will be quickly forgotten like all generations before them. Next time you see a Boomer, give them a hug. Their time is short.
Posted by: Pity The Boomer at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (979V4)
Posted by: Bulg
16 is way too young
Posted by: Winger at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (FZYNt)
I watched a few of Pierre's speeches and rallies on some Canadian YouTuber channels over the past few months.
Pierre had a good plan to help get Canada's economy moving. Opening up Alberta oil to the ocean to be shipped out instead of piped to us.
Building refineries so Canada could refine her own oil.
Opening up the "Ring of Fire" to mining to get that sector moving.
Ending the Climate regs and taxes.
Building millions of new homes and apartments to lower housing prices which are out of reach for most young Canadians.
Bringing back law & order to stop the out of control crime.
Pierre had a good plan & message.
He's kind of stiff on stage, but he's been around a long time and handles the press very well.
His biggest problem was the Canadian media, which is nearly all owned or lorded over by the Liberals. Pierre had Rebel News & YouTubers. Canadian Boomers all went left because they trust the CBC.
Canada is going to learn a hard lesson like Europe, now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (6ydKt)
You could not pick a better globalist tool if you tried. I am truly sad for the Canadian people.
Posted by: Canadian Gen Z at April 30, 2025 02:35 PM (CI8I+)
This.
He hasn't even lived in Canada for over a decade.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Brother Tim
I don't see how a deeply unserious country (I agree) can cause the US extremely serious problems. ??
Posted by: Cheri at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (oiNtH)
Canada could welcome foreign troops into their country, who wouldn't have to perform a seaborne invasion.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:35 PM (ctrM5)
Ah, the Articles. The first time anyone sat down to think about it they tore it up and wrote an entirely new document.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (asFox)
We're not hosers, buddy!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (QBMHV)
I'm not your buddy, guy!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)
190 We're not hosers, buddy!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (QBMHV)
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Don't call me "buddy," pal!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 02:34 PM (6YdsJ)
Hordemind...beautiful and terrible.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (QBMHV)
"Take care of Trump"
Hmmm. Sounds sorta like mob euphemism for a hit.
Hey! Temu Britain! You're America's hat. You're not a real country. Anything happens to our President and we will send the hunters in Michigan to kick your faggoty ass.
Regards
Mayhem
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (QBMHV)
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I'm not your buddy, guy!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)
I'm not your guy, friend!
Posted by: goozer at April 30, 2025 02:38 PM (V1MWf)
16 is way too young
Posted by: Winger at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (FZYNt)
At least 17 is at least legal in some states.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (SZD2V)
There are some good boomers as well. Problem is that generation has had an outsized negative contribution to our society from the Vietnam War, destroying the traditional family, liberalization of drugs, death of morality, feminism, etc. That’s a shitload of social destruction and they’re still doing it. To the point they want to subvert our constitution. They are insufferably and almost irreparably destructive.
Current company excluded, of course.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (9NZQU)
I'm not your guy, friend!
Posted by: goozer at April 30, 2025 02:38 PM (V1MWf)
I'm not your friend, buddy!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (sagpo)
NO? Yeah I didn't think so.
This election is why I am dead set against having Canadahstan join the USA. They are just too steeped in socialism.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (17s+e)
In the video I ALSO say that one of the reasons reporters were more trusting is because more reporters are Democrats than Republicans. And therefore were willing to give Biden the benefit of the doubt they wouldn't have given Trump.
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Assholes, Chris. You're assholes. Or, in Canadian, "asshoules".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (L/fGl)
Canada is a deeply unserious country in a position to cause us extremely serious problems. Very discouraging result but not unexpected.
Posted by: Brother Tim
I don't see how a deeply unserious country (I agree) can cause the US extremely serious problems. ??
Posted by: Cheri at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (oiNtH)
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It's rumored that there are Chinese troop deployments there just across the border of our Northwestern States.
/I seriously was hearing this from prepper group leaders during 2020 & 2021 -- but never saw it verified.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (CbFrP)
Yeah. There were a couple good ideas in the AofC, including much stronger states rights guarantees, but it wasn't really any better than the existing constitution in the end and was bizarrely fixated on slavery.
You would think that a new country entirely designed around seceding from another country would... include a way to do so in their own document.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (2VST1)
You don't go to a lot of parties, do you.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (s8j++)
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (SZD2V)
Posted by: goozer at April 30, 2025 02:38 PM (V1MWf)
I'm not your friend, buddy!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM
I'm not your buddy, pal!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (QBMHV)
Brilliant!!!
Posted by: Thatch at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (mzt7o)
Posted by: Cheri at April 30, 2025 02:33 PM (oiNtH)
Canada could welcome foreign troops into their country, who wouldn't have to perform a seaborne invasion.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 02:37 PM (VNX3d)
Trump is looking ahead to future issues with resources and conflict in the Arctic, so he wants the north flank of Fortress North (and South) America secured. Hence Greenland and Canada becoming important.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (1bNHn)
I really could see a province like Alberta seceding from Canada, and becoming their own sovereign territory. Not necessarily joining the US, but opening up a separate trade agreement that would allow them to develop, grow, and operate without intervention of the predominately leftist eastern part of Canada. I think the US would be open to taking this approach.
Posted by: Orson at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (dIske)
Passive aggressive weenies that love losing.
A big mouthed pussy. Isn’t that what a lot of Canadians are.
Posted by: E Buzz at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (Qj3Vv)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (/U5Yz)
Canada and other countries whining about Trump remind me of the perps being booked. Most are drunk and high and complain they are being mistreated as they spit , curse , resist and don't think the rules apply to them. Meanwhile while the jail deputies ( Trump) give them every chance to comply until they have no choice but to put the spit mask on them and put them in a restraint chair. That's when the perps really go ape. But after about an hour or two of sobering up they get compliant and wish to just get through the booking process.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)
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Originally, Johnny Burnette sang that back in 1960.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (qFAfu)
America's Hat decides to make its election about Trump because even Canadian Boomers are addicted to American news fear pron
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America is Canada's pants !
Posted by: Canadian Boomer addicted to pr0n at April 30, 2025 02:41 PM (g47mK)
Was stuck in Edmonton for a night by an exotic thing called "ice fog" at the airport (seemed appropriate for Canada). Unfortunately Wayne and the boys weren't in town then so didn't see a game, but did get a tour of the parliament.
It was hilarious. At the time there was a sole (1) "opposition" member. His chair sat there on the floor, opposite a huge bank of chairs of the ruling party. Suppose it made opposition party strategy a lot easier to decide.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 02:41 PM (1m82a)
NO? Yeah I didn't think so.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM
125% Tariff.
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 02:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Eeyore
Who was the last good-looking first lady of Canada? Margaret Trudeau?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:39 PM (2VST1)
We didn't secede we revolted. Its what the declaration says, we are kicking your ass out. There is nothing legal in it, just a justification.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:42 PM (asFox)
I agree, but there is something to the whole generational thing as a whole. Rush Limbaugh was a boomer, so clearly they were not as a group monolithic on their viewpoints but ENOUGH were to give a general cultural movement. not every Gen Xer is cynical, distrusting, and hopeless, but enough are to give a feel for that age group.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:42 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)
No, there’s no external forces at work, why would you ask?
Posted by: Advo at April 30, 2025 02:42 PM (jO4mz)
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America is Canada's pants !
Posted by: Canadian Boomer addicted to pr0n at April 30, 2025 02:41 PM
Florida is America's swinging cod.
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 02:43 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at April 30, 2025 02:43 PM (TizQb)
Posted by: Bulg
Justin's wife/beard was good looking, before she started getting serviced by her doctor or fitness instructor and left him
Posted by: Rick in SK at April 30, 2025 02:43 PM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah, that's just creepy, man.....
Posted by: KISS at April 30, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)
"Wait till they get a load of us"
--ZZ Top
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:44 PM (2VST1)
You know how every time you ask someone from Michigan where they come from, they hold up their hand and show you? Thankfully people from Florida don't do that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:44 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Oldcat
The Confederates never referred to their secession as a rebellion. Because if they claimed they had a right rebel, it might give their slaves the idea that they had the same right.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (VofaG)
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I'm a tail-end boomer ('61) who hated then -- and despise now -- the 60s hippies and identify with Gen X.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (CbFrP)
Posted by: Guy who never reads the content at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (vFG9F)
Or maybe it was more, enforcing the rules on the books?
Either way, the grey-hairs were all pissed and could barely drink their Ensure.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: Bulg
yes if one finds the petri dish irresistibly attractive
Posted by: kallisto at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (dCxaZ)
They really through they were gonna threaten people with weather machines?
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (dJwzg)
Posted by: Malcol at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (vfjNr)
I really could see a province like Alberta seceding from Canada, and becoming their own sovereign territory. Not necessarily joining the US, but opening up a separate trade agreement that would allow them to develop, grow, and operate without intervention of the predominately leftist eastern part of Canada. I think the US would be open to taking this approach.
Posted by: Orson at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (dIske)
Don't forget Alberta has to sign big checks to the Federal Govt that ignores their issues.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Guy who never reads the content at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (vFG9F)
OOOH! Sick burn!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
I was doing my own thing at the time....serving in the US Army. Compliments of Uncle Sam, and my local draft board.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 30, 2025 02:46 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
As a native Michigander, I rate this as true.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Malcol at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (vfjNr)
They're literally the only 2 on earth that dance like that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: whig
Kenneth Mars was hilarious.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (77rzZ)
He was the same in What's Up, Doc?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (VNX3d)
IIRC, Mars was doing his act at a club when he keeled over after suffering a heart attack. The crowd thought it was part of the act, and did nothing to help him.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 30, 2025 02:46 PM (QKabM)
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (CbFrP)
I’m an older Millennial who identifies as GenX. We’re transgen! (Trans-generational.)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:46 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 02:45 PM (W2Pud)
And so close to PRIDE MONTH!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Yeah, but the Nathan Lane version was worth it for Uma Thurman’s take on Ulla.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 30, 2025 02:46 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (jc0TO)
They are not our friends.
Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo
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I post, again, a link to the Canadian 'Defence Sheme No. 1' map. It's just an image. The Canadian plan to invade the U.S. Take a quick look. It is very interesting, circa 1921
https://shorter.me/bjQ97
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (jc0TO)
And we gave him fame and fortune and he never returned to Canada.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (wBaIH)
Lumber is all I can think of.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
I thought that was Dick Shawn.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 30, 2025 02:46 PM (QKabM)
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Mars was so ill from cancer that that's unlikely. Redd Foxx, OTOH...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: kallisto at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)
The Johnny Burnett version, 1960, was better. I was 13 when I bought that record. *sigh* Lusting over a 15 year old girl. *double sigh*
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Canadian Club
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (XeU6L)
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Hippies were the minority within the cohort. They just got spotlighted by media cuz it sold. Same thing happened the 'biker clubs'. They were just GI Joes having fun with surplus motorcycles and old Ford's. Hollywood turned them into something else.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:49 PM (UyNz8)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah, like they controlled the news like that. On some plantations slaves didn't work the day Lincoln was inaugurated because they figured they were free that day.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:49 PM (asFox)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 02:49 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: toby928
The Sutherlands, Shania Twain, Fay Wray, May Pickford, Marie Dressler, Alex Trebec...
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 02:49 PM (ETfPG)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (wBaIH)
We import a crapton of oil from the snowbacks.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
I was doing my own thing at the time....serving in the US Army. Compliments of Uncle Sam, and my local draft board.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 30, 2025 02:46 PM (5xuJ
I would have probably gone to WS for the girls alone, but certainly the music. But I was in the Navy somewheres else.
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (LHPAg)
And they did apologize for Brian Adams several times, but not once for Celine Dion
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)
https://shorter.me/bjQ97
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM
It's clever of the Canadians invading via Maine. No one would notice until they got to Massachusetts.
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (Er3Q7)
He wanted to get back to the way Canada used to do it until Trudeau opened the doors to anybody. Mentioned trying to get nurses from America, as an example, for their nursing staff shortages.
Canada used to select people based on job needs, skills, education, etc.
You know, Trump used to compliment Canada and Australia for their immigration system on selecting the best and wanted to imitate it.
Trudeau ruined all that.
Pierre wanted to go back to the old system.
And people would know that if the Canadian media hadn't been screaming "TRUMP TARIFFS 51st State!!" 24/7 to the exclusion of other important issues that predated January 20th.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (wBaIH)
Lumber is all I can think of.
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They keep the price of Maple Syrup in check.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Don Rickles at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Halfhand at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (GLzsD)
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (2VST1)
He wasn't bad till he started singing from his dick.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)
It's not that they have no sense of humor. It's that the nice talking head on the little box in their living room told them that they were outraged so outraged they were.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 02:51 PM (ExV1e)
Anyone see Grey Fox around?
Mort?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Not for a couple of years. Had coffee with him once.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 02:51 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:51 PM (VE6XX)
Speaking of Carol Burnett, who is 93...
Anyone remember her Star Wars parody skits?
https://is.gd/DY0PIg
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:51 PM (UyNz8)
Yeah its fun to bash Bryan Adams, but I like a lot of his music.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:52 PM (2VST1)
Anyone remember her Star Wars parody skits?
https://is.gd/DY0PIg
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:51 PM
Lord, I think those are what's known as torpedo tits on Spock, there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Not for a couple of years. Had coffee with him once.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Hmmm. I don't think it's been that long. Has it? Thought I saw him a few months ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:52 PM (UyNz8)
https://shorter.me/bjQ97
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (XeU6L)
It was like a snowbird invasion...run south, attack some little town in upper NY or North Dakota and retreat before the cops show up.
In reality we took over their entire defense from the Brits long before Pearl Harbor. We even set out the Atlantic Fleet to fight the Bismarck if it had headed in our direction.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:53 PM (asFox)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)
And they hide it behind "I'M JUST TRYING TO TOUGHEN YOU UP, MAKE YOU ABLE TO TAKE A FEW PUNCHES TO THE FACE, YOU WEAKLING!".
Posted by: XTC at April 30, 2025 02:53 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)
There's a lesson in here somewhere, but I'll wait for someone to Boomerexplain it to me.
Posted by: Iasonas
I was born in '64 but I don't claim the boomers... still, here goes. Most things in human existence act on a pendulum. Our politics have been, mostly, swinging left for the last 60 years. It corrected a bit in the 80s but then went hard left again. This cannot hold.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 02:53 PM (ExV1e)
btw, I think that's SCTV's Andrea Martin as Spock.
Did not know/remember she was on Carol Burnett.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:53 PM (UyNz8)
Posted by: toby928
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The most amusing comment re the invasion plan was by AOP. I commented that if they grabbed off Seattle, Portland, and Detroit I would wouldn't mind much. He said, 'We figured that it was more damaging to let you keep them'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: It's me donna
Fine. Start shooting them. Guaranteed, after the first dozen or so....
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (xsqwN)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:36 PM (77rzZ)
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Originally, Johnny Burnette sang that back in 1960.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 02:40 PM (qFAfu)
It's okay if the guy singing it is, you know, sixteen years old. Or, maybe 17-18.
After that it's pretty dicey and weird.
A 30 year old guy singing "You're 16" - Creepy
A 40 year old guy singing "You're 26" - Not particularly creepy.
It's like the Quantum Physics of Sex or something.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (McYvC)
Would you be upset if she asked everyone to lay off the Assholes?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mike Reno, Old And Fat Now at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (979V4)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (XeU6L)
He's a smart man.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:50 PM (2VST1)
He wasn't bad till he started singing from his dick.
but can it play the piano?
Posted by: zelenskyy at April 30, 2025 02:55 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Dr_No at April 30, 2025 02:55 PM (ayRl+)
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Au contraire!! You’ve identified the problem.
Boomers believe they will live forever if they outlaw tobacco, booze, lawnmowers, natural gas, meat, eggs, dairy, the internal combustion engine, natural gas, nuclear energy, and Republicans, to name but a few.
They smell a cigarette from 2 miles away they might call the EPA
Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 02:55 PM (ayI3s)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:55 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
I thought that was Dick Shawn.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)
You are right. So I didn't RC after all. I should look things up more often.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 30, 2025 02:56 PM (QKabM)
Posted by: Guy who is planning to marry Sydney Sweeney at April 30, 2025 02:56 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 02:56 PM (sagpo)
Andrea Martin was a Ferenghi on Star Wars Deep State Nine.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:56 PM (UyNz8)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:51 PM (VE6XX)
There is a dog that isn't barking at all regarding Maryland Man. That dog is named Wes Moore, Governor of MD.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 30, 2025 02:57 PM (QKabM)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:11 PM (2VST1)
And as they aged their beliefs grew more, uh, nuanced. They realized it was actually *them* who are better and wiser.
Posted by: front toward enemy at April 30, 2025 02:57 PM (TIizU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)
Hmmmm.
I'm too lazy and selfish to back read the whole thread.
How so?
Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 02:57 PM (iJfKG)
Boomers believe they will live forever if they outlaw tobacco, booze, lawnmowers, natural gas, meat, eggs, dairy, the internal combustion engine, natural gas, nuclear energy, and Republicans, to name but a few.
Quite the generalization.. I and lots of others here are Boomers
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:57 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
Ski-doo's
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 02:57 PM (/U5Yz)
Deep down they know its not true, but they hope maybe it might be.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:57 PM (2VST1)
divide your age by 2 and add 7. that's the youngest you can date
unless you're one of these bitter women on social media that says a man dating anyone even one year younger is "grooming" them because women are children who have no agency while simultaneously being ultra strong girl bosses
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 02:57 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)
You are right. So I didn't RC after all. I should look things up more often.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
Didn't something similar happen to Andy Kaufman?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:51 PM (VE6XX)
I see. Trump should inform SCOTUS that they need to provide the defenders from funds assigned to the Judiciary.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 02:58 PM (VNX3d)
They smell a cigarette from 2 miles away they might call the EPA
Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 02:55 PM (ayI3s)
They also do not want humanity to continue once they're gone, unless they are reduced to a primal, pre-civilized state.
Hence why they're jonesing for WW3 so hard.
Posted by: XTC at April 30, 2025 02:58 PM (UnA8+)
I thought that was Dick Shawn.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:48 PM (77rzZ)
Early ESPN sportscaster: Dick Schaap
Hollywood Crime TV Producer: Dick Wolf (I always thought that should've been a gay pron actor's name)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)
https://shorter.me/bjQ97
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 02:47 PM (XeU6L)
That doesn't look like a real plan. How could Canada get Japan to do anything, or Mexico, or the Royal Navy? The one i saw in a periodical had none of that stuff in it.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:58 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 30, 2025 02:58 PM (EXyHK)
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Twain was a Roundhead.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:58 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
Well, when young they were gonna change the world, make a difference, upset the system and get The Man. They fucked up and it all came to naught. Now all that's left for them is death and then they will be quickly forgotten like all generations before them. Next time you see a Boomer, give them a hug. Their time is short.
Posted by: Pity The Boomer
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Some of us were born during the last couple years of this "Boomer Generation." We'll likely be around for a another decade or two to fuck with the rest of you.
Something, something burning out or fading away.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 02:58 PM (Q4IgG)
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This morning I put away the bottle of Scotch from last night, made my breakfast of bacon and eggs, washed it down with a cup of whole milk, took the car to CostCo to resupply, and will be going outside to mow the lawn shortly.
Plplplplplplppl.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (6YdsJ)
They smell a cigarette from 2 miles away they might call the EPA
Posted by: Common Tater
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AWFL up the street proudly told me that she had written an angry letter to a dog food company because their dog food was packaged in plastic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (XeU6L)
Within the "half your age +7" formula, acceptable. But yeah, its a sliding scale. 18 year old dating 16 year old? OKay. 19 year old dating 16 year old? Skeevy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (oXfCm)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:56 PM (UyNz
Freudian Slip?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: lurkeraquirl at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (+TUCK)
Within the "half your age +7" formula, acceptable. But yeah, its a sliding scale. 18 year old dating 16 year old? OKay. 19 year old dating 16 year old? Skeevy.
haters gonna hate
Posted by: Bill Belicheck at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (jGJov)
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 #BREAKING: Secretary of State Rubio announced he located DOSSIERS created by the Biden regime with the intent to CENSOR certain Americans
“There's at least one person at THIS TABLE TODAY who had a dossier in that building...”
This was BLACKMAIL, and those responsible should be ARRESTED.
How much do you want to bet this specific dossier was on
@elonmusk?
https://is.gd/eu6rEX
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (wclo2)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (Wzq2W)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (bW09W)
Anyone see Grey Fox around?
The last post I see for him was on August 9 last year. Post 410984.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
I can't remember details, but I vaguely recall he might have mentioned a health issue. Hope I'm wrong, though.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (MSZFr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (2VST1)
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Hippies were the minority within the cohort. They just got spotlighted by media cuz it sold. Same thing happened the 'biker clubs'. They were just GI Joes having fun with surplus motorcycles and old Ford's. Hollywood turned them into something else.
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You're obviously referring to Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, yes ... ?
Posted by: Dr_No at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (ayRl+)
I hope Canada starves. Like literally people starving.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (VofaG)
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A fellow I met at dinner not too long ago grew up in Woodstock and his hippie parents and siblings used to move out whenever the Band came back to town, and they rented their house to Robbie Robertson and the boys. Their house was already a wreck, he said, so the Band couldn't really do much damage but they always gave it a good try. Hippies meet rock 'n roll.
Interesting guy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (jKGsh)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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Canadian Club
canadian bacon
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (sGtp+)
Grey Fox was a daily commenter. So...
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (MSZFr)
Deep down they know its not true, but they hope maybe it might be.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:57 PM
Considering we expected to die fighting communists, I think this isn't true.
But, remember to duck and cover!
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (jc0TO)
Something, something burning out or fading away.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Fist bump
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 03:01 PM (xsqwN)
Posted by: Ben Had
My parents were Greatest Generation. (Though I am Gen-X, but just barely.) I always identified more with the Greatests than with the Boomers.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:01 PM (77rzZ)
That doesn't look like a real plan. How could Canada get Japan to do anything, or Mexico, or the Royal Navy? The one i saw in a periodical had none of that stuff in it.
Posted by: Oldcat
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You got me. Here's wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 30, 2025 03:01 PM (XeU6L)
Don't get caught in the Presentism trap.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:01 PM (VofaG)
Ringo was the best Beatle, of course. Certainly the least full of himself.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 02:32 PM (l3YAf)
He had the best taste in women.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 30, 2025 03:01 PM (y9nCu)
I have little doubt that in 100 - 150 years all of Canada but Quebec will be part of the States. And add Greenland in there too.
It's inevitable if the world keeps arranging itself in larger economic & political confederations and alliances like the trend shows.
So yeah, I'll never live to see it, but it will happen.
Quebec will be like an independent French amusement park/casino/tax haven in the vein of Las Vegas and Monte Carlo, Macau or the Caymans.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 03:02 PM (6ydKt)
During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau , a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had crafted under harrowing circumstances — a message to the future that would remain undiscovered for more than 80 years.
"Trial instrument, made under difficult conditions with no tools and materials," the worn note read. "Dachau. Anno 1941, Franciszek Kempa."
The origins of the violin, built in 1941 by Franciszek "Franz" Kempa while imprisoned by the Nazis at Dachau in southern Germany, remained unnoticed for decades. It wasn't until art dealers in Hungary sent the instrument out for repairs — after having stored it for years among a set of purchased furniture — that its history came to light.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 03:02 PM (L/fGl)
My parents were silents, and while they were an exception, the Silents have an awful lot to answer for. Many Boomers wouldn't have turned out the way they did if the older silents had raised them better. Ditto with younger "Greatest" Gen. You dropped the ball big time.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:02 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (bW09W)
In Vietnam, Niedermeyer was shot by his own troops.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 02:56 PM (sagpo)
Gov Sam Houston was a Unionist, but was too stubborn to leave for anywhere. To their credit, the Rebs left him alone. There was another in SC, a Pettigrew I think.
Georgia made it a death penalty offense to oppose Secession.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:02 PM (asFox)
Posted by: anachronda
Uh oh. Now you've done it. And you thought our Civil-War discussions got heated.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 02:54 PM (iJfKG)
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There were several such songs at the time. "Sweet 16" and "Young Girl" come to mind.
And let's not talk about Jerry Lee Lewis!!!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 03:03 PM (qFAfu)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 03:03 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Don Rubio at April 30, 2025 03:03 PM (M/gGe)
Not a low-information voter, a zero-information voter.
Utterly clueless as to the cause of housing inflation. Hates Trump, of course.
Way many people I know don't see Trump as a bullshitter, and absolutely take the "51st state" trolling seriously, so they rallied around the center-left party instead of the center-right.
Posted by: fb at April 30, 2025 03:03 PM (D/cuw)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 03:03 PM (VE6XX)
Something, something burning out or fading away.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Nuntuk Gleebin Gloubin Globin......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Absolutely. You'll not find two more self-obsessed stereotypes. Their entire world view is based upon picking brands, projecting what little social force they can muster, and generally picking whatever directly benefits them and the Hell with the rest.
They'd rather stand on a pile of shit than share a bed of roses.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 03:04 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:04 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:04 PM (oXfCm)
Alberta is the flash point. Alberta by itself is contributes 17% of Canada's GDP. Carney has a stark choice: he can pander to the Liberal Party's bastions in Ontario and Quebec, or he can make nice to Alberta. He gets no votes in the Western provinces outside of Vancouver. Ottawa receives less revenue from Eastern Canada - not enough to cover social program costs.
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 03:04 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
Why don't you stop buying the avocado toast?! The money you'll save will be enough for a downpayment on a house, you lazy ne'er do well Millennial!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:05 PM (uCjyK)
Canadian Club
canadian bacon
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2025 03:00 PM (sGtp+)
Also known by it's proper name.... ham.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 30, 2025 03:05 PM (y9nCu)
Yeah it can work, and to be honest, 16 back then was a LOT different than it is today.
Hippies were the minority within the cohort. They just got spotlighted by media cuz it sold. Same thing happened the 'biker clubs'. They were just GI Joes having fun with surplus motorcycles and old Ford's. Hollywood turned them into something else.
Very much so, yeah. Hippies were a very small portion of the generation, but were sexy and exciting, to the media. That sappy monologue from Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas sums it up for the generation: small, hopeful, ended up doing nothing they claimed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:05 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 03:05 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Oldcat
And they either voted him out as governor, or he stepped down voluntarily. Don't remember exactly which it was.
Houston was a damned interesting guy.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:05 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:05 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:06 PM (/U5Yz)
They smell a cigarette from 2 miles away they might call the EPA
Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 02:55 PM (ayI3s)
I’m 76 and I don’t believe any of those things.
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 03:06 PM (LHPAg)
Then again Trump has appeared out of nowhere to try and right the ship somewhat. What generation is responsible for him?
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:06 PM (M/gGe)
I have little doubt that in 100 - 150 years all of Canada but Quebec will be part of the States. And add Greenland in there too.
It's inevitable if the world keeps arranging itself in larger economic & political confederations and alliances like the trend shows.
Quebec will be like an independent French amusement park/casino/tax haven in the vein of Las Vegas and Monte Carlo, Macau or the Caymans.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 03:02 PM (6ydKt)
He didn't jump any gun, he just made a crack at that contemptible Trudeau that he needed to act like a man over the Tariffs and take some responsibility and Canada handled it like a moody teenager rather than a national leader.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:06 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (oXfCm)
they were incredibly selfish and solipsistic. they had zero concern for any of the kids and basically ignored us, but we were rich so more "Ice Storm" than "Goonies" or whatever.
regardless I hung with other feral kids most of whom (but not all) were poorer than us. but we were all poor in the "having good parents" way.
So I can rag on boomers, they're getting really annoying, but then they were the young parents who actually seemed to give a crap about their kids. I was pretty jealous of my friends were were oldest kids of boomers rather than youngest ones of silents
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (VofaG)
Yes
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (VE6XX)
Yeah. Gen X had so much potential and we basically wasted it on apathy, computer games, and resignation that we're all gonna die in atomic fire anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (bW09W)
every generalization should be taken as personally as possible, and personal anecdotes should always be used to refute them
Posted by: rules for online commenting at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Case at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (OrSPY)
Posted by: Ben Had
Amen.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (xsqwN)
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 03:06 PM (LHPAg)
My parents didn't believe in any of those things either and took part in most of them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 03:08 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 03:08 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)
I used to drink the hell out of Blue........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 02:59 PM (oXfCm)
Considering that one was a Schizophrenic Alcoholic, and the other is a Sociopath with anger issues?
Yes, yes that's what I think of my parents.
Posted by: XTC at April 30, 2025 03:08 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Ben Had
That's what dogs are good for.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:08 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rules for online commenting at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (jGJov)
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How DARE you. And btw I know an online commenter who doesn't take things personally.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:08 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:05 PM (2VST1)
Not very popular in the Midwest. We already didn't like the attitude of the 2 coasts, this didn't help.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (asFox)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:51 PM (VE6XX)
I really want some idiot judge to haul Tom Homan in front of the bench and demand that he explains why he has authorized BP to continue arresting illegal aliens.
I want that more than I want chocolate!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (hB7mE)
Apropos of the topic, I had my annual physical yesterday, got the test result today, and yes, barring death by misadventure, I will probably get back all my SS investment.
Posted by: toby928
Glad to hear it.
But way to jinx yourself, einstein.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (o3PJz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (bW09W)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (Er3Q7)
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This is astonishing to me. That they really believed Trump was going to "buy" (or whatever scenario their brains could conjure) Canada. They really are brainwashed, and the media campaign to throw a black suit on Trump, give him a Snidley Whiplash moustache and tie Canada to the railroad tracks is hilariously sad. But the country bought it hook, line and sinker. Now we'll get to witness its further erosion. Glad I'm not them.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: wferrin at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (b7ztz)
Here's a hot take that will get me in trouble: women seem to have a harder time understanding this than men. Men on average seem to get that generalization is not a criticism of them in particular but women on average take any generalization personally.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)
I take it you never sampled Iron City?
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:10 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 03:02 PM (asFox)
Which is funnier than hell because GA's war-time Governor Joe Brown was such a recalcitrant States Rights politician that he drove Jefferson Davis crazy. After the war, Brown joined the Republican Party.
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 03:10 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
Why don't you stop buying the avocado toast?! The money you'll save will be enough for a downpayment on a house, you lazy ne'er do well Millennial!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:05 PM (uCjyK)
It's mostly the constant chugging of White Claw that keeps these spendthrifts from saving any money.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 03:10 PM (iJfKG)
yes of course
bc we cannot conceive of people thinking/acting differently from our own choices
we are the social cohesion-enforcing sex
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 03:10 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 03:07 PM (bW09W)
He took it out?
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at April 30, 2025 03:10 PM (979V4)
Posted by: wferrin at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (b7ztz)
Funderbuck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (o3PJz)
Posted by: wferrin at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM (b7ztz)
Fuck nut?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Bulg
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This is true. But they only had to be better than Miller and Bud.
Posted by: Ike in South Park at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (2+BHm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (2VST1)
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This has been one of the most effective things feminism accomplished.
The old ladies couldn't compete. That was the entire point of thst
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Ladies, you weren't liberated. You were industrialized. Now you're widgets, too. at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (Ykjmc)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (Wx316)
But way to jinx yourself, einstein.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 03:09 PM
The fates aren't listening.
But my annual visit is amusing because my doctor is always baffled that, considering my many bad habits and recklessness, I am not already dead.
I remain, in his words, Born to be Hanged.
Posted by: toby928 at April 30, 2025 03:11 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 30, 2025 03:12 PM (2+BHm)
I always thought of Canada as this quiet, open place where I could run off too to get away from the urbanization here
and then their govt froze their assets if they had the WrongThink
so yeah
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 03:12 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 03:12 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:12 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 03:13 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 03:10 PM (iJfKG)
Is that us? I think that's more of a Gen Z thing.
White Claws and Zyns.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 03:14 PM (uCjyK)
how long until they wheel in a steel cage for her?
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2025 03:14 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (pZ64F)
Fig milkshakes and wetbacks, but mostly wetbacks.
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 30, 2025 03:15 PM (5SvjB)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 03:16 PM (VofaG)
Millennials were Smirnoff Ice and Jaegar bombs
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 03:16 PM (jGJov)
Which is why women build cultures. Men build civilization, women make it work for people, we need each other. But its useful for us to understand our weaknesses and the blind spots we tend to have.
For example men tend to be so goal and utility oriented that we'll not notice what effect our ideas or actions are having on other people. Women help us see that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 03:17 PM (2VST1)
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They came later. The original movie was Brando and Lee Marvin.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 03:22 PM (pZ64F)
Yep - the Lefty-activists ALWAYS turn out. That's why I've been bitching about how the Left did not steal the school boards and the schools: school board elections usually only draw about a 5% turnout.
We GAVE them schools to the Lefties, because we could never be bothered to show up for those elections. But the Lefties sure-as-eggs did.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 30, 2025 03:52 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Sid at April 30, 2025 03:55 PM (Yji1v)
Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at April 30, 2025 03:56 PM (TaWok)
Meet the Prime Minister of Canada and his wife.
Canada has elected its own Tim and Gwen Walz.
oh my goodness
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 03:56 PM (CQE5S)
whoa
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 03:58 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 03:58 PM (CQE5S)
The problem is that the US border with Canada is fairly porous and we allow Canadians fairly easy access to the US. So this is a problem for us too.
Posted by: Liberty at April 30, 2025 04:03 PM (wmcPi)
Same spoiled fuckers that lived off of the gifts of freedom and prosperity that the Greatest Generation (US, UK, Canada, et al) gave them.
Fucking grifters, narcissistic brats who all thought they were the "dawning of the age of Aquarius", wanted to
'buy the world a Coke", and "were the people we've been waiting for".
Posted by: UncleJefe at April 30, 2025 04:11 PM (DzC+b)
Nonsense. Sucking up to women is one of the most repulsive aspects of western culture and probably why it's failing.
Women are mimics 'I'll have what she's having' herd animals. That's not culture, it's only useful in the nursery and men need to break free of it to mature.
Posted by: pakisa at April 30, 2025 04:38 PM (nNCNN)
So f-them in particular.
Posted by: Dano at April 30, 2025 05:38 PM (J/v2z)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at April 30, 2025 07:10 PM (nLgOr)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 07:47 PM (vm8sq)
DEI in a fire (or as history shows, a crematorium)
Report: Thanks To DEI, Most Medical Schools Now Teach Doctors To Damage Patients
Speech First has uncovered records from more than 50 public medical schools across 46 states, revealing that these institutions are training left-wing advocates who prioritize race in treatment, promote gender identities contrary to biology, and downplay obesity’s health risks. As its report shows, under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), medical schools enforce conformity to leftist ideologies, such as labeling all white men as racists or disconnecting gender from biological sex. It also shows that free speech is on life support, with dissenters of these ideas and practices facing far-reaching consequences. Speech First reviewed hundreds of documented reports, including the case of Dr. Norman Wang, who lost his teaching duties for criticizing affirmative action — which the left uses to admit less qualified minorities to meet racial quotas. Speech First’s report also detailed the case of Dr. Allan Josephson, who was fired for questioning pediatric transgender procedures — which the left champions as necessary for affirming so-called “gender identities.”
We've seen this movie before my friends. Between 1933 and 1945 in Germany, it was the doctors and medical professionals that were on the cutting edge of first the T-4 Euthanasia program that did away with thousands of "useless mouths to feed," primarily the mentally and physically handicapped. Thousands were put to death and many en masse in the first gas chambers. Which later became the model for the genocide of Europe's Jews and other racial and political undesirables. Considering that the American Left have dehumanized and vilified those of us who reject their worldview on every issue under the sun to the point where political violence aimed at us is justified as necessary and noble in order to preserve "our precious democracy." Trump and all of us who support him and his policies are equated with Nazis and an existential threat not only to them but even to the planet itself. And speaking of Euthanasia:
The New York State Senate is quietly considering a bill to allow euthanasia, which may be brought to a vote as early as this week. The bill would allow patients with a terminal illness or condition to request lethal medication if their doctors expect they have less than six months to live. (It is euphemistically called “medical aid in dying,” and the bill specifies that it is not to be considered euthanasia or suicide, but I will refer to it in those terms because that’s what it is.) . . When euthanasia is an available option, it becomes possible for hospitals to “eliminate” inconvenient and expensive patients—without going to such lengths. There are all sorts of ways to make your patients really unhappy, so many ways to make euthanasia look attractive. Do we really want to put euthanasia on the table for hospitals and insurance companies, for nursing homes and doctors? To give them even strong incentives to make their patients miserable?
And it's a very short walk indeed to euthanizing those who are politically dangerous to society as determined of course by another corrupted profession: the legal system and judges. And again, in Germany from '33-'45 the judges upheld laws that wiped out millions of "enemies of the state." And here we have the left bastardizing the concept of due process to protect actual foreign violent criminals and terrorist sympathizers and actual terrorist/cohorts. We also have states where parents who oppose their children having sex changes will lose their parental rights and have the children taken away from them. Next stop, Birkenau, my friends.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (yWTRD)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (Cv27U)
I have to believe that God spared Trump for a purpose. Fighting this terrible evil may be part of that purpose.
Posted by: jmel at April 30, 2025 01:05 PM (RWHIh)
However, the medical profession en masse seems to view MAID as a viable choice for non-medical issues, such as homelessness, depression, non-treatable/non-specific pain, among other horrors we hear of.
Posted by: Eddie Willers at April 30, 2025 01:05 PM (VjM9/)
I'm thinking there would be a stop at Bull Run first. (Or Battle of the First Manassas)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 01:06 PM (W/lyH)
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He also touched on the *biden administration's involvement in child trafficking.
We'll see if that observation gets any traction.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 01:06 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:00 PM (O8Bjy)
Not so young then.. The cast is all dead except Cloris Leachman I believe...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM
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Cloris Leachman is mort?
RIP
She was a great in Alice.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (Cv27U)
Did not know that
Posted by: It's me donna
Alice is mort?
Posted by: Soothsayer, Donna, Abbott, & Costello at April 30, 2025 01:06 PM (Cv27U)
https://is.gd/oe8UXd
(Really. He mentioned Froot Loops.)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (Cv27U)
It's a good way to illustrate his point. Froot Loops in Canada (and probably the rest of the world) are dyed with natural dyes from vegetables.
American Froot Loops are much more colorful, but they're dyed with lab created food dyes of dubious food safety.
The only difference is the vibrancy of the color of the cereal. So like... why take the risks here? Just dye the Froot Loops with beet extract instead of chemical dyes.
We'll all be Kaboom Kids now!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:08 PM (uCjyK)
Next time you hear a leftard railing against colonialism remember that it's 100% jealousy nothing more.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 01:08 PM (M/gGe)
After all, a patient cured is a patient lost.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 01:09 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:09 PM (VofaG)
Next time you hear a leftard railing against colonialism remember that it's 100% jealousy nothing more.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 01:08 PM (M/gGe)
Even more to the point -- they're fighting to keep children in slavery all over the third world to make the products they buy.
"Slaves in Vietnam need to know their place, shut up, and make my Nikes!" "how about we make Nikes in US, where people are paid well?" "Ha! You're living in the 1950's. We have slaves in Asia to do that kind of work that no American wants to do!"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:09 PM (uCjyK)
Like how policing attracts boy scouts and bullies. Sometimes outright thugs.
Medici. Same.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 01:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)
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Can someone please explain to me the difference between "a bill to allow euthanasia" and hospice care that all of us have seen where the person is kept doped up for a few days and just starves to death?
I mean, I guess hospice is better for the finances of the facility, so there's that.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:11 PM (yWTRD)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:11 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Stuff Chris Plante sez at April 30, 2025 01:11 PM (bRtkC)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM
Chloris Leachman died a while ago.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (L0lnW)
Speaking of all this, they're shredding Harvard in Trump's cabinet meeting. GOLD!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (PduQx)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Auspex at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (j4U/Z)
I'm actually surprised by the proposal to kill off patients. If they kill the patient, they cannot charge them for visits, tests, or prescriptions.
After all, a patient cured is a patient lost.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
There will always be more patients especially if you have open borders.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (63Dwl)
However, the medical profession en masse seems to view MAID as a viable choice for non-medical issues, such as homelessness, depression, non-treatable/non-specific pain, among other horrors we hear of.
Posted by: Eddie Willers at April 30, 2025 01:05 PM (VjM9/)
I joked the other night that Canada doesn't have the death penalty, but Kai-Ji Adam Lo might be the first involuntary participant in MAID.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (JFjh0)
After all, a patient cured is a patient lost.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 01:09 PM (VNX3d)
The argument is that there are many people who know they are dying, and have no quality of life. The way that is normally dealt with is to "manage their pain" by giving them increasing amounts of opiates until they stop breathing. We call that hospice care.
But what do you do with people who have no will to live, probably won't make it another 6 months, and will cost the system millions of dollars in those 6 months? Especially if they just want to die quickly instead of a slow painful death.
Personally, I have moral problems with this whole thing (including how our current hospice care system operates), but it's not a crazy discussion to have.
I also worry about the slippery slope, like we've seen in Canada. "oh you're young and healthy but depressed? Have you considered suicide?" is where that headed verrry quickly.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (Cv27U)
It's a good way to illustrate his point. Froot Loops in Canada (and probably the rest of the world) are dyed with natural dyes from vegetables.
American Froot Loops are much more colorful, but they're dyed with lab created food dyes of dubious food safety.
The only difference is the vibrancy of the color of the cereal. So like... why take the risks here? Just dye the Froot Loops with beet extract instead of chemical dyes.
We'll all be Kaboom Kids now!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:08 PM (uCjyK)
Yet people in Canada and the rest of the world die.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (eNdzY)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:13 PM (yWTRD)
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 30, 2025 01:13 PM (5SvjB)
I mean, I guess hospice is better for the finances of the facility, so there's that.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:11 PM (yWTR
Definite mischaracterization of Hospice.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:13 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:13 PM (L/fGl)
I mean, I guess hospice is better for the finances of the facility, so there's that.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:11 PM (yWTR
Definite mischaracterization of Hospice.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Not ALL women are like that!
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:14 PM (yWTRD)
They both worship death.
Posted by: Bulg
Not so sure some christian sects are outside that definition.
Posted by: Auspex at April 30, 2025 01:14 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (L0lnW)
Right, there's that, too. "Hey mom, you had a stroke. Rehab seems like a lot of work. Have you considered ... suicide? This nice doctor will be glad to talk about the options with you."
There will be marketing meetings, sales pitches, monthly goals to hit, sales people wandering the hallways of hospitals.
It is ... slimy and uncouth to say the least.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:14 PM (uCjyK)
I'll show you crazy!!!
https://tinyurl.com/yvwh829y
Someone needs to show her the
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (qFAfu)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (VofaG)
And that they cannot cast a ballot in any federal, state or local election after they are dead.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (Y1sOo)
However, the medical profession en masse seems to view MAID as a viable choice for non-medical issues, such as homelessness, depression, non-treatable/non-specific pain, among other horrors we hear of.
Posted by: Eddie Willers at April 30, 2025 01:05 PM (VjM9/)
I joked the other night that Canada doesn't have the death penalty, but Kai-Ji Adam Lo might be the first involuntary participant in MAID.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (JFjh0)
MAID makes murder sound SO NICE. Doesn’t it?
When you have to cover up morally wrong acts with cutesy language and acronyms…well, it tells me you KNOW what you are doing is morally wrong.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (eNdzY)
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I'm not dead yet. I'm feeling much better!
C'mon do us a favor.
Posted by: It's funny because it's true at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (9C9RZ)
Posted by: one hour sober
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Let's not start talking crazy
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (yWTRD)
Posted by: Archer at April 30, 2025 01:16 PM (IDphi)
321 290 on her sandwich. Sort of soured me on the other two. She was a slut anyway.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:59 PM (M/gGe)
uhhh, can I get her number ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 01:02 PM (NtVYv)
Jenny I got your number. 867 5309.
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 01:16 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 01:16 PM (bvwOM)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:08 PM (uCjyK)
I think kids could handle their cereal going from bright neon to soft pastel. It might make them sad a few times, but cover them in milk and they taste the same.
If the food industry wants to come up with a way to get bright colors without using dyes, they'll find it if it makes money.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 01:16 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (eNdzY)
Well, yes, everyone dies.
That's hardly an argument in favor of purposely poisoning the population, is it?
Canada has, on average, something like 3 years longer life expectancy than us and is healthier in virtually every measurement of population health.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:16 PM (uCjyK)
Because they arguably are loops but no one claims that they're fruit.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 01:17 PM (/y8xj)
There is one of those Mandela Effect examples.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (VofaG)
Yeah, thanks to me reading about this Mandela Effect, I never remember how to spell it properly. The internet is full of asshoes.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:17 PM (uCjyK)
Sold to us as voluntary, empowering us to make the hard call, yet always ends up being involuntary in sneaky ways. See: Groningen protocol, Liverpool Care Pathway, and whatever dystopian thing they’re doing in Canada getting teens to kill themselves.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 01:18 PM (pZ8E0)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:16 PM (uCjyK)
psst... check the mortality stats by race.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 01:18 PM (uWKK8)
But we all knew it was coming.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:18 PM (2VST1)
Death Panels
Posted by: Sarah Palin at April 30, 2025 01:18 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 01:16 PM (bvwOM)
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Looking at Pritzker, and the rest of his kooky family, I'd say he wants to eat all the euthanized and then turn their kids trans.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 01:18 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: It's funny because it's true at April 30, 2025 01:19 PM (9C9RZ)
American Froot Loops are much more colorful, but they're dyed with lab created food dyes of dubious food safety.
The only difference is the vibrancy of the color of the cereal. So like... why take the risks here? Just dye the Froot Loops with beet extract instead of chemical dyes.
We'll all be Kaboom Kids now!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Do they still use coal tar analine dyes?
That was the good stuff.
Articial vanilla and saccharin.
Maybe they found ways to synthesize it cheaper.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 01:19 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 01:18 PM (uWKK
Yes, yes, I know. Always a touchy subject.
But also, who do you think is eating all the Froot Loops anyways? Certainly isn't the guy wearing Patagonia jackets living in Brattleboro, VT or his kids.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:19 PM (uCjyK)
Kind of an all-purpose term.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (bvwOM)
https://is.gd/oe8UXd
(Really. He mentioned Froot Loops.)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (Cv27U)
This whole movement with RFKjr isn't impressing me. In fact, it's scaring me a bit. I don't want someone in DC mandating what will available to me for consumption. I want that freedom to choose what I eat. If he wants to encourage companies to process their foods a different way, that's fine. But if companies don't wish to participate, then let them have that freedom.
Again, I'm afraid this is just another abridgment in of American freedom.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (g8Ew8)
But also, who do you think is eating all the Froot Loops anyways? Certainly isn't the guy wearing Patagonia jackets living in Brattleboro, VT or his kids.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:19 PM (uCjyK)
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Second Junior.
He discovered them on the cruise.
Fucking loves 'em now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
Cookie Crisp, or Count Chocula don't need to bright colors.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Donna, Abbott, & Costello at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (O8Bjy)
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The cow is already in the cornfield, Extreme Hakeem. It's too late to shut the barn door.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (L/fGl)
Is someone in the pocket of Big Beet? Hmmmmm?
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (/y8xj)
Again, I'm afraid this is just another abridgment in of American freedom.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (g8Ew
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Complete deregulation of the food industry is not going to happen.
Now, given that reality, how best to move forward?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:09 PM (VofaG)
They haven't been pulling in millions of third worlders for decades. Only a few years.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:21 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:21 PM (VofaG)
And thanks to stories like this I won’t settle for anything but a white or especially a Jewish doctor.
I hate to be all rayciss n shit but I don’t want to be left wondering if my doctor secretly wants me dead.
Posted by: weew at April 30, 2025 01:21 PM (5w6it)
But we all knew it was coming.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Human Resources was always the key.
The moment we went from having a room with a simple PERSONNEL plaque on it to entire departments and likely college degrees related to it, that was the moment they'd figured it out.
Take HR, then place who you want where you want. HR vs consumers is parallel to what we're watching in our own government vs voters.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:21 PM (yWTRD)
Posted by: Pete Bootyboot at April 30, 2025 01:21 PM (bRtkC)
Again, I'm afraid this is just another abridgment in of American freedom.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (g8Ew
Unfortunately, that ship sailed a lonnng time ago. Government policy influences every aspect of what we eat, from the dept of agg subsidies to FDA approving additives, to school lunch requirements, to Michelle Obama strong arming companies to reduce salt (in favor of adding high fructose corn syrup, of course. Which only exists due to govt policy), etc. etc. etc.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:21 PM (uCjyK)
Jonny Quest had an episode on werewolfs terrorizing canadian lumberjacks. They yelled, "Loop Garoo! Loop Garoo!" when the werewolf was seen.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Donna, Abbott, & Costello at April 30, 2025 01:22 PM (rgxCF)
Lucky Charms > Fruit Loops
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 30, 2025 01:22 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Donna, Abbott, & Costello at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (O8Bjy)
Lupus is wolf, Lepus is rabbit.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:22 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)
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Birkenau or Birken-now?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:11 PM (L/fGl)
Burqa! NOW!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (x0n13)
This sort of takes the whole issue of euthanasia off the table... for you. Your spouse, if still alive, may have to make the hard decision to withhold care if your directive is so written.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (Q4IgG)
It's never lupus!
Posted by: Soothsayer, Donna, Abbott, & Costello at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (3TFdN)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (2VST1)
Yeah, agreed. But it's an easy one for everyone to understand and would cause almost no market disruption to switch it over.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (2VST1)
When I see hand wringing about this and other things concerning food, I just think this country needs to experience a famine just so people to learn to appreciate what they have.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (eNdzY)
Posted by: It's funny because it's true at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (9C9RZ)
or how many more states are considering Death with Dignity this year?
Posted by: old chick at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (2VST1)
Yeah. It seems silly to put potentially-toxic dyes in food for little benefit, but obscene amounts of added sugars is a much bigger health problem.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Calvin at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (bRtkC)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Donna, Abbott, & Costello at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (O8Bjy)
Lupus is wolf, Lepus is rabbit.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:22 PM (asFox)
———
“Yea, get it fucking right!”
— Night of the Lepus
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (L0lnW)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (eb5mD)
https://tinyurl.com/2v9rw4s8
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (qFAfu)
Because they can only wear wolf.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (77rzZ)
I used to have a fat old white guy.
Not pretentious or pushy.
Just listened and took care of my complaints.
Went through two since then. Like they all want to make you a 'better person'... must be in the 'protocols'.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (/lPRQ)
— Night of the Lepus
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (L0lnW)
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Ah...
Deforest Kelley's greatest moment as an actor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's funny because it's true at April 30, 2025 01:19 PM (9C9RZ)
Yasser Arafat on the box. . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (2VST1)
Yeah, agreed. But it's an easy one for everyone to understand and would cause almost no market disruption to switch it over.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (uCjyK)
And, more importantly, people will stop dying.
We need to defeat Big Death once and for all.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 01:25 PM (eNdzY)
Testosterone is a needed thing in Men... it makes us stronger, by helping create lean muscle mass... literally is the Man chemical, making Men act like Men. American Men's Testosterone has GREATLY decreased over the last few decades...
Oh... wait... look... Cholesterol is a building block of Testosterone, and US Big Pharma has almost EVERYONE on anti cholesterol Medication... they have continuously lowered the number needed to go on meds, consistently, for decades...
Almost like there is a connection between the Sissy Boy unManly culture we now see, and Testosterone decrease... and Big Pharma making bank off Cholesterol Meds.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 01:25 PM (QAkQ3)
And...they are delicious!
So I read the ingredients and they are 1/3 sugar by weight. It is natural and all but...that's a lot of sugar.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:25 PM (t0Rmr)
He discovered them on the cruise.
Fucking loves 'em now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
yeah? I never got in to cereal, the only stuff my mom would allow in the house growing up was cheerios, and mostly my breakfasts were sad unseasoned scrambled eggs.
I've eaten cereals as a college kid and adult, and never really understood it. Sugar and carbs first thing in the morning is not a great way to start your day. At least for me, I feel lethargic and hungry all day.
Also why I can't / don't eat bagels that often, even though I love them.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
Because they can only wear wolf.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (77rzZ)
The smaller ones are limited to wear rat or wear rabbit. The really small ones wear bumblebee.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 01:25 PM (VNX3d)
How much sycle cell anemia?
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (Er3Q7)
Microplastics. I've heard about enough.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
Which had DeForest Kelly in it.
What makes you the "Bladiest" all of a sudden?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (77rzZ)
"Canada performing more organ transplants from MAID donors than any country in the world"
https://is.gd/ZcGLhb
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (DIweC)
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But what if you have an expensive condition that won't kill you anytime soon??! How are we to stop that loss??!!!
Posted by: Hospitals and Insurers at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (9C9RZ)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)
Yep. There were 6 of us and you better get up early the next morning if you wanted to see any Froot Loops at all.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (asFox)
I just want them to get froggy & jump before I'm too old to pull a trigger.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (xsqwN)
Really?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (t0Rmr)
I'm afraid someday theyll find me
Just stretched out on my bed
With a handful of Pringles Potato Chips
And a Ding Dong by my head
In the daytime I'm Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I'm a junk food junkie
Good Lord have pity on me
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM (2+BHm)
Captain Crunch: i will excoriate the roof of your mouth.
Posted by: It's funny because it's true at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (9C9RZ)
free exfoliation
except not where you'd like it...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM (v6XNT)
I've eaten cereals as a college kid and adult, and never really understood it. Sugar and carbs first thing in the morning is not a great way to start your day. At least for me, I feel lethargic and hungry all day.
Also why I can't / don't eat bagels that often, even though I love them.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:25 PM (uCjyK)
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I remember Honey Nut Cheerios being a huge treat when we went to my dad's parents house because I only got regular Cheerios as a kid. It was more of a snack than a breakfast. The periods in my life when I've regularly eaten breakfast are very rare.
I trend more towards the less sweet ones, though. Cinnamon Toast Crunch is probably my favorite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
Sec Rubio just told a fake news "reporter" to STFU, pretty much.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Donna, Abbott, & Costello at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM (3TFdN)
On that note I recently learned the species of Tuna that is used for cat food is not the Tuna that is high in mercury.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
First off, stop listening to anal retentive food nazis. Secondly, let the markets and individual preferences decide. Do everything BUT but taking away our freedom of choice.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:28 PM (t0Rmr)
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Birkenau or Birken-now?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:11 PM (L/fGl)
Burqa! NOW!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (x0n13)
BIRKENAU! THE MEANING OF PAIN!!! THE WAY I WANT YOU TO DIE!!!
Wait a minute…
Posted by: Slayer at April 30, 2025 01:28 PM (eNdzY)
Posted by: Hospitals and Insurers at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (9C9RZ)
That's why you have insurance at all. You sign up lots of people without the disease.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:28 PM (asFox)
On that note I recently learned the species of Tuna that is used for cat food is not the Tuna that is high in mercury.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025
Which one has more mercury? Blue fin? Yellow fin?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 30, 2025 01:28 PM (s8M/c)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 01:23 PM (eNdzY)
Yes, the only options the richest country on the planet has is either for everyone to starve to death, or for everyone to eat food pumped full of chemicals.
No other options. We can't be like those socialist swine in Europe or Canada who both have plenty of food and nowhere near as many chemicals. That would be unamerican!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:28 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)
First off, stop listening to anal retentive food nazis. Secondly, let the markets and individual preferences decide. Do everything BUT but taking away our freedom of choice.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM (g8Ew
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Okay, but I said that the deregulation of the food industry isn't going to happen. And it's not. We can argue first principles all day, but that's not going to change the fact that the FDA is not going anywhere.
If the regulation of the food industry is going to continue to happen, what's the best path forward?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
or how many more states are considering Death with Dignity this year?
Posted by: old chick at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (F3Dlr)
I thought that was Hospice
Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (/lPRQ)
Yeah, my Doctor retired, although I'm still registered at the same clinic with 5 other Doctors...
Last time I was there was Pre Covid... when to 'update' their records, they asked me if I had any guns in the house.
Yeah... a YUGE 'none of your fucking business'
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (pZ64F)
It's fashionable to deny pain medication!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (AkyaN)
The bigger the more mercury. Albacore, Yellow Fin.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (VofaG)
Pro tip: Pour in the milk then find something to do for, like, two minutes until they soften.
You're welcome.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (Y1sOo)
Scott Jennings Roasts Chuck Schumer Over His “Strong Letter” to Trump’s Harvard Funding Freeze
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Calvin at April 30, 2025 01:24 PM (bRtkC)
not bad once you add some sugar to them...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (v6XNT)
Happy to see Michigan's Selfridge base hosting F-15EX's; a good place to begin the Canada bombing campaign from.
Posted by: Auspex at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (j4U/Z)
He's a Kennedy. Thus incapable of minding his own damn business.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:30 PM (McYvC)
I just love how when Kellogg's chose to rebrand/repackage a cereal for Alphabet Pride month, they chose Froot Loops.
https://is.gd/hkjcMv
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 01:30 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 30, 2025 01:22 PM (IifOV)
******
Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries > Lucky Charms > Fruit Loops
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 01:30 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
Abide a bit right now. The left right now is resembling the Massive Resistance in the South when segregation was ending. It ended whether the Southern (and some Northern) judges liked it or not.
Scotus is going to be dragged into it because simply put, federal district judges do not rule the nation nor its political branches.
So either the courts get ignored and neutered by the political branches plus the 70-80 percent of people in US or we get a possible ACW redux from a constitutional crisis if Scotus is stupid in joining in with muh Authoritah!
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 01:30 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 01:30 PM (W2Pud)
Honestly as a dessert they make perfect sense and for crap food they do taste good.
But as a breakfast food? Ugh
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:30 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 01:31 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:25 PM (t0Rmr)
That's what makes em a cookie. Look at croissants with all the butter in there.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:31 PM (asFox)
> tackling long-standing disparities in women's health research and care.
Please provide a list of these 'disparities.' I'll wait.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)
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"Everyone knows that white doctors intentionally kill their black and brown patients, h8r!"
/I mean, that's what they're teaching in medical schools these days ... and why the wifey doesn't trust any doctor under age 65 any longer.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 01:31 PM (UtEQe)
The bigger the more mercury. Albacore, Yellow Fin.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (VofaG)
I didn't know that. Thank you.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 30, 2025 01:31 PM (s8M/c)
Posted by: redridinghood
Coco Pebbles über alles.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 30, 2025 01:31 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Sea of the chicken at April 30, 2025 01:31 PM (bRtkC)
Also why I can't / don't eat bagels that often, even though I love them.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
As an 8 yr old boy with unlimited energy? Sugar was the gas and carbs kept the gas flowing all day long.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 01:32 PM (xsqwN)
Posted by: Hospitals and Insurers at April 30, 2025 01:26 PM (9C9RZ)
That's why you have insurance at all. You sign up lots of people without the disease.
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But insurance, Medicare only pays pennies on the dollar. We shouldn't have to use our resources on someone who isn't paying, I mean going to live a productive life. It's wasteful and they will be so much more comfortable dead....
Posted by: Hospitals and Insurers at April 30, 2025 01:32 PM (9C9RZ)
Happy to see Michigan's Selfridge base hosting F-15EX's; a good place to begin the Canada bombing campaign from.
Posted by: Auspex
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They are there to do what Canada's dying AF cannot do even if Xi allowed them do it.
Control the airspace over Canada from Chinese or other assholes.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 01:32 PM (ctrM5)
If it saves one life! No, wait - it’s their right to kill themselves, but we also must completely reorder society so they don’t. Maybe.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 01:32 PM (vqVw6)
Death with dignity is an end-of-life option that allows certain people with terminal illness to voluntarily and legally request and receive a prescription medication from their physician to hasten their death in a peaceful, humane, and dignified manner. It is based on a growing movement in the United States that believes terminally ill individuals should have the right to decide when, where, and how their death occurs.
Does the definition of terminal illness vary?
Posted by: old chick at April 30, 2025 01:32 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM (g8Ew
Yeah but the markets are dictated by the government. High fructose corn syrup is in all of our food because we have insanely high sugar tariffs (due to the sugar lobby in Florida), and insanely cheap corn that we need to get rid of (due to agg subsidies).
The free market has not existed in our food supply since the FDR days. And it will never exist again. And frankly, after the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, Holodomor and massive famines in Europe in that era, I can see why our government said "ehhh... we can't leave this up to the free market" because if they had, we would have exported all of our crop production to some third world shithole where everyone hates us and now they have us by the balls, just like we did with the rest of our domestic industries.
So ...?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:32 PM (uCjyK)
Poutine conquers cancer.
Posted by: Auspex at April 30, 2025 01:32 PM (j4U/Z)
My mom was am SDA cultist and went on the extreme vegetarian diet ... wound up dropping dead at 59 with abnormally low cholesterol.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (qwx/I)
it appears to have worked.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (17s+e)
I just love how when Kellogg's chose to rebrand/repackage a cereal for Alphabet Pride month, they chose Froot Loops.
Well its been clear that before Trump the easiest way for globo-corps to buy influence was to appeal to groomers and pedos. Way more cost effective then bribing people in the government...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM
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Me too!
Tip: the Aldi knockoff is just as good, for about half the price.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (1Au9i)
Hahahahahahahahahaha
*falls over*
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 01:30 PM (W2Pud)
Did you get back up? Do we need to send help?
Is Lucy breaking out the BBQ sauce?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (pZ64F)
Hey now... no need for that kind of crazy talk...
/hides his pop tart...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (QAkQ3)
Pro tip: Pour in the milk then find something to do for, like, two minutes until they soften.
You're welcome.
+++
Grape Nuts have entered the chat.
Posted by: Breakfast pea gravel at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (bRtkC)
Pro tip: Pour in the milk then find something to do for, like, two minutes until they soften.
You're welcome.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (Y1sOo)
I ate em dry with milk on the side. If you can't take the pain you don't deserve the captain.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (asFox)
If you remove the American welfare class what do the numbers look like?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:34 PM (VofaG)
Damn, dude, you weren’t allowed any salt?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:34 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Breakfast pea gravel at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (bRtkC)
I liked em
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:34 PM (asFox)
I'm talking about attempts by government to switch the organ donation process around 180 degrees to make it an "Opt Out" process instead of the normal and common "Opt In" process. IOW, they require you to remove yourself from organ donation after automatically signing you up.
In NY (which is the state above listed looking to instill Euthanasia) there have been a number of attempts at legislating the "Opt Out" process. They've been trying this since early in this century. The most recent in 2022. Don't kid yourselves. There is A LOT of money in organ donation for a number of different parties.
Posted by: Orson at April 30, 2025 01:34 PM (dIske)
Pro tip: Pour in the milk then find something to do for, like, two minutes until they soften.
You're welcome.
Posted by: one hour sober
Blasphemy! Hang the blasphemer!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 01:34 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 30, 2025 01:35 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 01:35 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:30 PM (77rzZ)
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FIFY
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 01:35 PM (qFAfu)
Pro tip: Pour in the milk then find something to do for, like, two minutes until they soften.
You're welcome.
Posted by: one hour sober
Then they'd be Captain soggy
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 01:35 PM (VE6XX)
We have "but somebody has to regulate it". We have " it will always be regulated". And we have "its for your own good" as the leaders in the clubhouse.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:35 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 01:36 PM (vqVw6)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (MGB5H)
Well, Owebama did say a part of Owebamacare would provide 'pain meds' to make you comfortable instead of treating you if deemed too unuseful.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Our industry was offshored because of government policy, not the free market.
And famines in Europe and the Holodomor were also the result of government policy.
Really makes you think.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:36 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Hospitals and Insurers
Palliative care, depending on the interpretation of it for whites in general, and older 'norm' whites specifically, by physicians, nurse practitioners, etc. often on the younger more progressive side.
You'll not ever be cured so gracing our doorstep is of no advantage to you and certainly not to us.
Go home, get help with pain management, nausea, fatigue, shortness of breath, anxiety, understanding medications. Also, physical and occupational therapy to maximize quality of life; after-hours emergency support via telephone or nurse visit; assistance in completing an advance directive or living will.
Support for family and caregivers
Telemedicine
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (NFX2v)
We have "but somebody has to regulate it". We have " it will always be regulated". And we have "its for your own good" as the leaders in the clubhouse.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:35 PM (McYvC)
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Or...the FDA is going to exist.
We're just assholes jabbering on the internet.
If the FDA is going to exist, what's the best way to run it?
Sorry we don't meet the anarcho-capitalist ideals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)
And now JellyBelly Pritzker wants to come after me....
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:34 PM (l3YAf)
I love my mom, I really do. But she is not much of a cook, and to this day, criminally underseasons everything she cooks.
I don't know if it was just the era she grew up in where fat + salt were considered unhealthy, or what. Or maybe she is particularly salt sensitive, I don't know.
But every time I visit her, I have to eat those same sad unseasoned eggs from my childhood.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (uCjyK)
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Strangers in a strange land.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (2VST1)
Granola over yogurt with some cinnamon dusted on the top is the best. Add a couple fresh raspberries.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (W2Pud)
Please provide a list of these 'disparities.' I'll wait.........
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So the demographic that stereotypically refuses to go to the doctor and dies early has the disproportionate amount of "research and care"
(looks up how many trillions of dollars that breast cancer ribbon ad campaign is worth)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (yWTRD)
I do remember even in my own childhood there were plenty of cereals that were just candy and poptarts of course - but watching older TV shows breakfast was always eggs and some sort of bread and protein.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 01:38 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 01:38 PM (/y8xj)
If the government pays for it via welfare, you only get ingredients, meat, cheese, and milk.
If I pay for it, then check on the producers that they are doing it in clean and sanitary conditions, and aren't introducing poisons. If it's prepared (not ingredients), then ensure that the ingredient list is accurate.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 01:38 PM (VNX3d)
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LEFT UNSPOKEN: we will put you on a gurney and roll you out into the back parking lot by the dumpsters so we can use you room while you die.
Posted by: Hospitals and Insurers at April 30, 2025 01:38 PM (9C9RZ)
Posted by: Stinky B.O. at April 30, 2025 01:38 PM (bRtkC)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)
This has already been going on under the guise of "hospice." The ER doctor suggested that to my sister and I when my mom was brought in during her late-stage cancer. Our stony-faced stares in response quickly dissuaded him.
Posted by: Halfhand at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (GLzsD)
Bet this guy would get along with Dr Gosnell.
What they do is ghoulish 👿
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (vqVw6)
Posted by: creeper at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (zFwIe)
Tip: the Aldi knockoff is just as good, for about half the price.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (1Au9i)
Aldi has honey glazed hickory smoked spiral cut hams.
Take the ham out of the wrapping, throw the honey glaze crap away and put the ham in the smoker with apple wood smoke for 3 hours at 225 degrees.
Datshit be addictive.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Breakfast pea gravel at April 30, 2025 01:33 PM (bRtkC)
I liked em
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:34 PM (asFox)
They were like eating rocks. You had to use 2 cups of sugar to make them somewhat palatable.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (s8M/c)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:20 PM (g8Ew
Yeah, I'd tend to agree with you on this generally, but when it comes to food & medicine, in particular, that's one area of this massive national & global economy I want regulated.
It ain't 1900 where most people walk out back to kill something to eat. We literally have no idea what companies are putting in our food, wittingly or unwittingly.
From e. coli to aspartame to food dyes in the food industry.
To contaminated drugs, to Vioxx to OxyContin to COVID vaccines in the pharmaceutical industry.
The list could go on and on of the stuff put on shelves that have injured or killed people.
I want to know if these chemicals we're all putting in our bodies are safe. We've been lied to a lot of times by industry and government on what is, and isn't, good for our health.
If RFK, Jr. can fix that problem, I'm all for it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (6ydKt)
Also, if I have to pay for all these fatties’ healthcare we’re outlawing added sugars and making everyone exercise at least three times a week.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (l3YAf)
Pretty much every woman I know will go into details on her health conditions and endless trips to the doctor - and I don't mean those that are pregnant. As far as I can tell its pretty much normal stuff, and especially aging.
But...we won't know for sure until she gets an MRI, a Catscan, and visits 3 specialists - which is all...free right?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (t0Rmr)
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Birkenau or Birken-now?
I saw Elvis Hitl3r open for The Suicide Machines at Birkenstock
Posted by: Dalton Doodah at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (Vu7A1)
NYT: Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won't. Trump, whose administration has insisted it could not bring Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador to the United States...
“You could get him back, there’s a phone on this desk,” said Terry Moran, an ABC News correspondent, noting a Supreme Court order to “facilitate” the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.
“I could,” Mr. Trump replied. “And if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that,” Mr. Trump said. “But he is not.”
Government lawyers have been making claims in court that the US is unable to get him back. Lawyers knowingly filing false claims in court are risking discipline up to and including a loss of their license.
We will see what the attack on the judiciary in Wisconsin brings. If the judges don't realize the moment they're in and get tough there will be more staged dramas, arrests of judges, refusal to comply with court orders etc.
SC has given Trump immunity from any contempt of court charges. Our only option is to win the midterms and investigate, impeach and remove him!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (JCZqz)
Funny how only 16 years after the creation of a National Bank to control the economy... we had the Great Depression...
What a Co Ink E Dink!
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (QAkQ3)
Wut? Did you just call the Holodomor a failure of the free market?
Posted by: bonhomme at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (lIio7)
Then give up and Trump was a waste of time. Because the FDA will exist and apparently can't be scaled back. Ditto for the FBI, CIA, BATF, you name it.
Lets call it what it is. Trump picked RFK Jr, so FDA is now good.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (McYvC)
What if Florida tells that federal district judge that she doesn't have jurisdiction to order the State to do anything? Specifically, her order that the State not enforce it's immigration laws. And that they will continue to enforce their immigration laws.
Because, what happens if she inevitably rules the State must comply?
Who will enforce it?
Trump.
Who can say, as the Executive, I am exercising prosecutorial discretion, the same as Obama and Biden invoked to create DACA, and I will not take action on the court's order.
No bigger "fuck you" to the federal courts
And they can't do shit to Trump in response because he's not a party to the order.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (NwfFc)
Without our traditions we would be as shaky as... a pickleballer on the roof.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 01:38 PM (/y8xj)
Is it hot tin? Rusted?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
If the regulation of the food industry is going to continue to happen, what's the best path forward?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)
The basic task of the FDA should be to make sure our foods are free of disease vectors and general sanitation measures in processing. Not trying to assuage the nit picking concerns of juvenile and adult children.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (77rzZ)
SC has given Trump immunity from any contempt of court charges. Our only option is to win the midterms and investigate, impeach and remove him!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (JCZqz)
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"Judges are above the law" is really interesting from people who want Clarence Thomas ejected from SCOTUS because his wife is an activist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
I've argued along a similiar line and apparently it is racist to demand people spend their own damn money on Doritos.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (t0Rmr)
80's Pop Star Boy George Blasts J.K. Rowling: “She Cannot Differentiate Between a Trans Woman and a Biological Male”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (L/fGl)
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You just don't understand the awesome and vibratory power...of color.
Posted by: Terry and Laurie Bohner at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (6YdsJ)
I do remember even in my own childhood there were plenty of cereals that were just candy and poptarts of course - but watching older TV shows breakfast was always eggs and some sort of bread and protein.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM
My favorite was breakfast at grandma's house. Either bacon and eggs with the eggs cooked over easy in the bacon fat or linguisa and eggs.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (s8M/c)
no, my sweet child, the US Constitution did.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (g8Ew
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And what if the artificial dyes are a disease vector?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)
But on the downside, you have spend three more years in Canada.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (DIweC)
SC has given Trump immunity from any contempt of court charges. Our only option is to win the midterms and investigate, impeach and remove him!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (JCZqz)
Ain't gonna happen even if you win....Oh you'll try
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (gxokI)
He fell down and broke his hip at 82, and got a replacement. He recovered but his mobility went way down for the last few years. He also started having UTI more often (going to the hospital a few times). He started falling down more often until the only option was to put him in a nursing home.
You could tell he was going down hill and his last 6 months he was bedridden. The nursing home food was about like school lunch food. He really was just waiting for death.
I have no doubt that if he had the option he would’ve taken the “assisted suicide” route and I would’ve been OK with it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (xzrfl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (L/fGl)
Hmmmmm.....lemme guess. The tranny is the one swinging the cock'n'balls......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)
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Okay we will build a building back there and call it palliative care. You can have all the feel good drugs we can push for 48 hours.
Posted by: Hospitals and Insurers at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (9C9RZ)
I do remember even in my own childhood there were plenty of cereals that were just candy and poptarts of course - but watching older TV shows breakfast was always eggs and some sort of bread and protein.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (t0Rmr)
/Hides his donuts...
Yeah... uh....
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
They want him off the courts because he's the wrong sort of Black Justice.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:43 PM (asFox)
This has already been going on under the guise of "hospice." The ER doctor suggested that to my sister and I when my mom was brought in during her late-stage cancer. Our stony-faced stares in response quickly dissuaded him.
Posted by: Halfhand at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (GLzsD)
How many patients with severe depression/mental illness would choose this option? My son was in a depressive state for thirteen years and tried many times to end his life. By the grace of God, he is starting school and is looking forward to living a full, productive life. But if this had been an option during those thirteen years, I would be without a son. Damn these demonic bloodthirsty ghouls.
Posted by: Moki at April 30, 2025 01:43 PM (wLjpr)
If the government pays for it via welfare, you only get ingredients, meat, cheese, and milk.
If I pay for it, then check on the producers that they are doing it in clean and sanitary conditions, and aren't introducing poisons. If it's prepared (not ingredients), then ensure that the ingredient list is accurate.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 30, 2025 01:38 PM (VNX3d)
That sounds reasonable.
Also: Kinder Surprise eggs should remain illegal. Not because they’re dangerous but because it makes European expats living in America really mad.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:43 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 30, 2025 01:43 PM (qwx/I)
Ahem, this one is easy guys....
Gay = sucking a man's penis
Not Gay = sucking a woman's penis
See? Easy? Also is it getting hot in here?
Posted by: David French at April 30, 2025 01:43 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
They want him off the courts because he's the wrong sort of Black Justice.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:43 PM (asFox)
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No...that's not what they say. They have good, moral, ethical reasons for it, not because they're secretly racist.
It can't be that.
They love black people so much that they only want what's best for them, whether black people agree or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 01:44 PM (pZ64F)
I don't trust the FDA "experts" any more than the FBI "experts" or the CDC "experts". And I certainly don't trust the FDA just because a Trump picked a Kennedy.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:44 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (t0Rmr)
/Hides his donuts...
Yeah... uh....
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (QAkQ3)
When mom was going off to work herself breakfast became more simple.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:44 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:44 PM (VofaG)
@TrumpWarRoom
@realDonaldTrump
"Elon, I love the double hat by the way."
@elonmusk
"Well, Mr. President, you know they say I wear a lot of hats. Even my hat has a hat!"
https://tinyurl.com/4ckxz6hx
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 01:44 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 30, 2025 01:45 PM (vsTPo)
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 01:45 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Moki
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At the end of the day, those gentler, kinder, ghouls share the same values as Islamic terrorists and the Not Sees and their supporters--insane death cults to remove what they consider inferiors by any means possible.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 01:45 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: The food pyramid at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (bRtkC)
@elonmusk
"Well, Mr. President, you know they say I wear a lot of hats. Even my hat has a hat!"
https://tinyurl.com/4ckxz6hx
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 01:44 PM (NpAcC)
However, his dick never wears the jimmy hat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)
It can't be that.
They love black people so much that they only want what's best for them, whether black people agree or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:44 PM (GBKbO)
We know people in Politics lie. I just told you what is so.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (asFox)
The real argument is that leftists are above the law...because anything they do is moral and right.
So Luigi the Murderer? Its ok because he is a leftist. But Kyle Rittenhouse? Should have gone to jail because he killed a leftist.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (t0Rmr)
“Iron Man” Star Terrence Howard Passed On Marvin Gaye Biopic After Finding Out He’d Have to Kiss a Man on Screen: “I Would Cut My Lips Off”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (s8M/c)
Same at my grandma's house, except add white gravy on toast !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
“Iron Man” Star Terrence Howard Passed On Marvin Gaye Biopic After Finding Out He’d Have to Kiss a Man on Screen: “I Would Cut My Lips Off”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (L/fGl)
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I suspect his career vanished because he turned down a gay producer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (GBKbO)
The most intolerant demographic there is, most likely.
I mean, so she disagrees, how is that the end of the world? Most people can live life without requiring everyone else completely agree with them. That’s life.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (vqVw6)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)
no one actually eats it so no one actually knows...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (v6XNT)
I would have made the same call but... Howard is a meh actor to begin with and doesn't have much of a career so maybe he ought not be too choosy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (2VST1)
Weekends and Summer was different though.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (VofaG)
Hey! Yeah you, you cross dressing faggot. You're a guy. I'm a guy. Not hard.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (xsqwN)
The most intolerant demographic there is, most likely.
I mean, so she disagrees, how is that the end of the world? Most people can live life without requiring everyone else completely agree with them. That’s life.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (vqVw6)
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To be fair, she hates white England as much as the lefties hate her.
She wants white England replaced with Syrian refugees post haste.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
Or Cream of Wheat?
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
My daughter LOVES that stuff. Says she can never make it as good as mom does, tho.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:41 PM (L/fGl)
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Sounds like he never became "Man George."
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (J9MCL)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)
Name one. I'm curious on what you consider a disease vector.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:48 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)
no one actually eats it so no one actually knows...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (v6XNT)
Being Swedish I was always threatened with it but I managed to avoid it...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 01:48 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Those law commenter idiots get judicial supremacy from Cooper v. Aaron (195
which was about federal/state relations in ending segregation in the South--not relations with the other federal branches.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 01:48 PM (ctrM5)
Sounds like he never became "Man George."
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (J9MCL)
His name reflects his preference, obviously.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bobby Hill at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (qwx/I)
Posted by: They creep me out at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (bRtkC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
my body, my choice ... my 92yo mother is suffering beyond comprehension as to why.
I have told her it's either her choice or God's choice. I'll be at peace with either.
Posted by: old chick at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (F3Dlr)
If you knew anything about business, you'd know that nothing is more valuable than repeat customers.
Posted by: John D. Rockefeller at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (4Nep/)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Bikini Team?
Posted by: A moron at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (9C9RZ)
I would have made the same call but... Howard is a meh actor to begin with and doesn't have much of a career so maybe he ought not be too choosy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (2VST1)
What, those TV residuals aren't going to see him through to retirement?
Posted by: Octochicken at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (s8M/c)
Same at my grandma's house, except add white gravy on toast !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway
Did she have the ever present cigarette hanging out of her mouth the whole time she was cooking too? Mine did. She was the best cook. Her pork chops were amazing.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (s8M/c)
Homodisgustic.
Posted by: They creep me out at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (bRtkC)
God fearing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:50 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Pudinhead
___________
Because yankees only have cream of wheat.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 01:50 PM (UBKzV)
“Iron Man” Star Terrence Howard Passed On Marvin Gaye Biopic After Finding Out He’d Have to Kiss a Man on Screen: “I Would Cut My Lips Off”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:46 PM (L/fGl)
And just like that... Iron Man was White agin..
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 30, 2025 01:50 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)
Name one. I'm curious on what you consider a disease vector.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:48 PM (g8Ew
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No idea.
But dismissing the concerns over dyes as juvenile concerns seems unnecessarily arbitrary when most of the rest of the world has banned them for consumption and we know that regulatory capture is a massive problem in our own country.
I mean...I trust corporate press releases about as much as I trust government press releases.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 01:50 PM (AkyaN)
I would have made the same call but... Howard is a meh actor to begin with and doesn't have much of a career so maybe he ought not be too choosy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (2VST1)
I was on board with him playing Ricardo Tubbs in the Miami Vice movie instead of the largely insufferable Jamie Foxx.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:39 PM (77rzZ)
no one actually eats it so no one actually knows...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (v6XNT)
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Pretty high on the lye scale, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 01:51 PM (6YdsJ)
She wants white England replaced with Syrian refugees post haste.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Importing swarthy barbarians and rape fantasies are a rather stupid reaction based on primal instincts rather than thinking rationally. It is almost as if these women are shit testing the native male populations in these countries to resist.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 01:51 PM (ctrM5)
They probably ought to but celebrities never seem to live within their means
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:51 PM (2VST1)
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team has argued that the 55-year-old music mogul may not have been mentally capable of committing crimes due to his substance use, as he faces a minimum of 15 years in prison on charges including sex trafficking, racketeering, and fraud, as reported by the New York Post.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:51 PM (L/fGl)
Drummer and bass player were not pleased.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:51 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:48 PM
Red Dye #5 or whatever has been known to cause cancer.
Cancer is a disease. Disease vector established.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 01:51 PM (AkyaN)
Posted by: 18-1
St. Kyle of Kenosha.
Four shots. Hit two pedophiles & a domestic abuser.
That's hard to beat.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 01:52 PM (xsqwN)
Posted by: Lizzy
Most AWFLs upset with her grew up on Harry Potter. It was a major part of their formative years, and they viewed it (and Rowling) as progressive, inclusive, and good guys (them) vs bad guys (Trumplicans like Voldamort...they even used to call Trump "he who shall not be named").
Then, Rowling didn't take the most recent Leftward step into lunacy, and it's like a great betrayal. Normally, the shaming and bullying is sufficient, but to have an icon resist....on PRINCIPLE...and have the money and clout to ignore you...and then STILL have her franchise grow and be successful...is infuriating to them.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 30, 2025 01:52 PM (JCZqz)
I could see that. It was a pretty miserable movie no matter who was in it, though so... I get it, Miami Vice typically was pretty rough on Crockett but it was like misery porn. There were light funny and enjoyable moments in Miami Vice, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:52 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:50 PM (t0Rmr)
Trotskys always meet the ice pick sooner or later.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:52 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: STACEY ABRAMS at April 30, 2025 01:53 PM (Ak2xC)
Posted by: MBCGA at April 30, 2025 01:53 PM (bRtkC)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:53 PM (VofaG)
Shorter version -- y'all are some weird MFers!
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 01:53 PM (vf0Y9)
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DU should put together a military plan to invade El Salvador to get this dude out, and lead it themselves.
Their assertion that the US should bully a sovereign country that is doing us a favor by guarding these prisoners is kinda colonialist when you think about it.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:53 PM (asFox)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 01:54 PM (sagpo)
I’m sorry to hear about your dad’s end of life care.
Peace be with you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 01:45 PM (W2Pud)
———
Thankfully my job allowed me to stay with him almost everyday for the last six months in the nursing home.
I felt so bad for the people in there that had no one visiting them and basically bedridden. People younger (50s and 60s) that you know will be there for 20 years. Most probably on SS disability and Medicaid.
I can see how the assisted suicide could be abused, a lot of these people aren’t the brightest and there wasn’t much to live for.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 01:54 PM (xzrfl)
Drummer and bass player were not pleased.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:51 PM (McYvC)
Last I heard about Boy George he had chained a male escort to a radiator and kept him prisoner or something. Someone should check the crawl spaces in his apt.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 30, 2025 01:54 PM (s8M/c)
Heh.
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 01:54 PM (v0R5T)
Their assertion that the US should bully a sovereign country that is doing us a favor by guarding these prisoners is kinda colonialist when you think about it.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:53 PM (asFox)
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Trump can exert leverage over El Salvador that DOJ lawyers cannot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)
I do remember even in my own childhood there were plenty of cereals that were just candy and poptarts of course - but watching older TV shows breakfast was always eggs and some sort of bread and protein.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:37 PM (t0Rmr)
Lucky Charms was released upon an unsuspecting public in 1964, so I'm going with that.
Posted by: Octochicken at April 30, 2025 01:54 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: It's me donna
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Bikini Team?
Posted by: A moron at April 30, 2025 01:49 PM (9C9RZ)
obligatory pics or....
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 01:54 PM (v6XNT)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:52 PM (2VST1)
I tried to watch the movie, but it was so bad, I only made it maybe 45 minutes.
I was thankful they didn't turn it into a f*cking goof like they did with Starsky and Hutch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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my body, my choice ... my 92yo mother is suffering beyond comprehension as to why.
I have told her it's either her choice or God's choice. I'll be at peace with either.
Posted by: old chick
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I extend my sorrows to both of you for what you have and are going through.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:54 PM (yWTRD)
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I think it's hilarious that book 5 can easily be read as an allegory for support of 2A rights.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (6YdsJ)
A side of grits and a side of biscuits with sawmill gravy.
Black coffee.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (77rzZ)
But dismissing the concerns over dyes as juvenile concerns seems unnecessarily arbitrary when most of the rest of the world has banned them for consumption and we know that regulatory capture is a massive problem in our own country.
I mean...I trust corporate press releases about as much as I trust government press releases.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)
I don't want to be like the rest of the world. This country attained it's greatness by not "being like the rest of the world".
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 01:53 PM
But lovable.
Posted by: According to some at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (bRtkC)
Posted by: Cheri at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (Er3Q7)
So they are saying you can be incompetent, dumb as a rock but still become ultra wealthy. Can't say I disagree.
The worst thing about capitalism.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 01:50 PM (t0Rmr)
Trotskys always meet the ice pick sooner or later.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:52 PM (l3YAf)
It was as predictable as the rising sun. No matter who you are as a leftist when you dissent its war to the knife. She hasn't won the war by any means but the transes will have to find a new way to attack young girls.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (asFox)
Dragnet, etc. There was a big push for a while in the 90s of taking classic beloved properties and making them idiot comedies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (2VST1)
She wants white England replaced with Syrian refugees post haste.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
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Coming #Soon: "Hijab Plotter and The Deathly Gallows."
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (Wq3RR)
I think I might have an idea of the difference, though.
"...more than 90% of hospice care in 2021 was to Medicare beneficiaries... Some 1.7 million Medicare beneficiaries received hospice care from 5,358 providers in 2021, for a total $23.1 billion in costs"
A 25c pill would certainly cut into that B on those billions.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (yWTRD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (Er3Q7)
Right...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (VE6XX)
(if you value your teeth)
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (Er3Q7)
It's prolly good he's not working on Spaceballs II......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:52 PM (l3YAf)
My favorite part of leftardism.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (P7Iz+)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (mRt60)
Mel Brooks is dead?
Posted by: Soothsayer, Donna, Abbott, & Costello at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (X2vu3)
Posted by: But that's just me at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (bRtkC)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (g8Ew
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Fine. It's argument by authority, I recognize that.
But, what about the idea that regulatory capture has led to corporations exerting undue influence over their regulators that allows them to write rules in their favor?
Might that be...a thing? Might that be used to...create regulations that allow them to get away with less than great things?
It's certainly possible, and I'm not willing to just dismiss the idea that giant corporations are using their influence over regulatory agencies to do things they shouldn't...like potentially including cheap ingredients that could knowingly cause cancer down the line.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: STACEY ABRAMS at April 30, 2025 01:53 PM (Ak2xC)
I'm sure he'll find something.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (g8Ew8)
=
They subconsciously think of themselves as a prize to be won. The fighting is a measure of their sexual market value. The horde invades to conquer their cootches, and they are repelled, or not. To the Victors goes the snootches. Woe is me, I am nothing but the sexual plaything of a swarthy animal who makes me do unspeakable things, like laundry.
Posted by: Hysterical physchosexology by Bernie Sanders at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (9C9RZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Well, he is the 2,000-year-old man.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (2VST1)
Tyranny of the Well Intentioned. People that are morally right can never grasp when they're being tyrannical and enforcing their goodness on people that just do not damn want it.
Like food puritans, for example. Here's a thought. You don't like the dyes in Fruit Loops ? Don't buy the damn things.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (McYvC)
Just so we're clear, boy george and george michael are the same person, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (X2vu3)
Posted by: jsg at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (DF5Vx)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
We STILL aint found shit!
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (vf0Y9)
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"sawmill gravy"? Is it made with sawdust?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Well, he is the 2,000-year-old man.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
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He's outlived his best friend, Carl Reiner, by 5 years, and his wife, Ann Bancroft, by 20.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (g8Ew
________________
This.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 30, 2025 01:59 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Cheri at April 30, 2025 01:55 PM (oiNtH)
It used to be competitive to get into SOME medical schools. The students from America when Grenada was invaded were going to med school in a spot having a communist uprising, which probably cut into their rigourous medical training.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 01:59 PM (asFox)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
We STILL aint found shit!
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM
I think you're taking that too literally.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 01:59 PM (QBMHV)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (mRt60)
i'll be over in the morning....
that sounds fantastic
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 01:59 PM (v6XNT)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
Ah, c'mon. You should know by now that EVERYTHING causes cancer.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
We STILL aint found shit!
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM
I think you're taking that too literally.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 01:59 PM (QBMHV)
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"We found some shit."
*pulls out Star Wars prequel VHS tapes from the sand*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bonhomme at April 30, 2025 01:40 PM (lIio7)
No, I'm saying there was legitimate famines going on across the world in the 1930's and 1940's, and the US was flirting with one due to the Dust Bowl.
That influenced the thinking of the era when it came to the food supply.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)
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...Didn't Mel Brooks do Men in Tights? I rather enjoyed that.
Posted by: FrozenTech at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (Q6XEv)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (g8Ew
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We should subsist on rain water and meditation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (GBKbO)
What do you think Ace is doing, right now?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (X2vu3)
You are openly critical of SOROS. As a 14yo for briefly delivering messages for the city Jewish council before going into hiding.
What is your position on those Jews who agreed to work for the Nazis making military equipment in slave labor industries. ?
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (Ika42)
She doesn't have to differentiate anything, the UK Supreme Court just did that for her by clearly differentiating that a biological woman and a transgender man are not, and have never been, the same thing.
You're not a woman, George, and nobody on the entire planet has ever considered you to be one - unless you paid them to or forced them to.
Try that for differentiation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (X2vu3)
Well one's dead and one isn't so, no.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (v0R5T)
We're all stupid and worthless, you see. We aren't smart enough to get real humor and he had to dumb it down. HIs genius work with Carl Reiner changed humor forever in Your Show of Shows lifting it up to be better and smarter but most Americans were too stupid and useless to get it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (2VST1)
Cancer is a disease. Disease vector established.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:51 PM
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And CO2 causes global warming. It's Science. QED
Sorry, but Science is now so corrupt that I don't buy blanket pronouncements about things being "known to cause cancer" anymore. Too much.of the research that leads to these conclusions is based on grossly exaggerated dosages, poor statistics, and political agendas.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (1Au9i)
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"sawmill gravy"? Is it made with sawdust?
it's magically delicious!
Posted by: kim jong un at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Oldcat
Things that the cabin boy said for $100, Alex.
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (5SvjB)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (UBKzV)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (VofaG)
Reduce the size and scope of the agency. Problem solved. Next ?
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:02 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: Soothsayer
......
Spa day. Cucumbers on his eyes and a mud mask.
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 02:02 PM (v0R5T)
Speaking of Pancakes...
Way back in 2020 I stocked up on 4 large boxes of Pancake Powder mix (Kodiak brand) from Costco. Never touched them.
Expired in 2021.
Should I Discard?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 02:02 PM (X2vu3)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 02:02 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
When my son was small there was an animated show (I think on PBS) called "Jakers!," which featured the adventures of a young pig, and young duck, and a young cow in Ireland. Mel was the voice of a sheep that was always causing some trouble or other.
Pretty good show.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM
Only in California.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (wBaIH)
3 or 4 meals for me but I've seen many get through the entire "breakfast".
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (+H0sG)
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (v0R5T)
not the lobster therbidor?
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (v6XNT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (bW09W)
Like food puritans, for example. Here's a thought. You don't like the dyes in Fruit Loops ? Don't buy the damn things.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (McYvC)
This is like the health insurance arguments all over again.
Dude, there is no free market here. The imprimatur of the government is on everything you eat.
We can change those standards to better suit reality.
Yes, in a perfect world, none of this regulatory structure would exist. But it does. That's the world we live in.
So we can say "fuck it, I'll eat whatever the government tells me to" and call it the free market or we can say "if the government is going to tell me what to eat, I want some input in to that" or we can say "on principle, I refuse to be involved in this conversation because I don't think the system as exists should exist" which is not helpful.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (uCjyK)
Sorry, but Science is now so corrupt that I don't buy blanket pronouncements about things being "known to cause cancer" anymore. Too much.of the research that leads to these conclusions is based on grossly exaggerated dosages, poor statistics, and political agendas.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 02:01 PM (1Au9i)
I cannot argue with you as I agree.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hysterical physchosexology by Bernie Sanders
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Unfortunately, DNA evidence is pretty grim. Most male DNA is lost over the centuries but female DNA persists. The Bell Beaker culture studies using DNA are pretty horrible in that respect.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (ctrM5)
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"Listen, we've figured out the cancer part, but - and hear me out on this one - what if we work on introducing common "food" items that will affect the genetic development of children born to women who wait until they're past 30 to start having babies? We wouldn't have to wait for end-of-life ages then, and could get those kids into the system right from the start and for their entire 80 years. And no one would want to discuss it or investigate it because it involves the women in the workforce. Get on that, Jim. We might have an opportunity here."
- Nestle, Pepsico, etc.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Satisfy your male boss, ignore your husband's desires at April 30, 2025 02:04 PM (yWTRD)
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (v6XNT)
Put it on Underhill
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 02:04 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz
It's possible your dear mother chose to go after you left and give you your last memory of her alive. I don't know how to put that properly in words, but, leaving loved ones might be the hardest thing a dying person has to do. No matter if they believe their everlasting life awaits.
Posted by: old chick at April 30, 2025 02:04 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: MrExcitement at April 30, 2025 02:05 PM (hOOi9)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 02:05 PM (VE6XX)
That is your argument, this time, because you are a food puritan. I'll make sure and remind you that alphabet agencies can never be reduced in size and scope the next time you want something regulated less.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 02:06 PM (McYvC)
"in the United States, physician-assisted suicide, also known as medical aid in dying or death with dignity, is legal in eleven states and the District of Columbia. These jurisdictions are California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington. It's important to note that active euthanasia, where a physician directly ends a patient's life, is illegal in all 50 states."
I'm not sure how much farther the Canuck's MAID law goes. I think the legally assisted suicide laws limit docs to prescribing a lethal pill or shot for the patient to take on their own.
Posted by: PaleRider at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Lizzy
Leftists aren't like most people. The people who you look up to are saints and the opponents (there are always opponents) are demons from hell. There is no middle ground and nobody is uninvolved.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (asFox)
>> that sounds fantastic
The only thing comparable is an Italian breakfast.
Being raised by polish and Italian grandmas has its benefits.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (mRt60)
Look him up on IMDb. He's written and produced a lot of stuff since then.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 30, 2025 02:08 PM (xsqwN)
I'm not sure how much farther the Canuck's MAID law goes. I think the legally assisted suicide laws limit docs to prescribing a lethal pill or shot for the patient to take on their own.
Posted by: PaleRider at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (bP/i4)
Funny how the dignity means having someone force you to die.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:09 PM (asFox)
We're all stupid and worthless, you see. We aren't smart enough to get real humor and he had to dumb it down. HIs genius work with Carl Reiner changed humor forever in Your Show of Shows lifting it up to be better and smarter but most Americans were too stupid and useless to get it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Old men have a tendency to lose their filters as they age and Mel is letting you see the real person here. Some open up in their autobiographies as almost penance for a life they lived; others try to create their own triumphal arch. Mel strikes me as the second type.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 02:09 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: PaleRider at April 30, 2025 02:07 PM (bP/i4)
I've heard how it is pushed pretty hard up there as you would expect if you know how these things go. So its no sort of 'last resort' any more than abortion is.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:10 PM (asFox)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Oh, sure! You Christian nationalists and your ban everything except missionary position!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 02:12 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM
Only in California.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)
We have actual stickers on everything saying it can kill you.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 30, 2025 02:14 PM (asFox)
Posted by: PaleRider
It allows more freedom for the person to change their mind rather than have to be present at a time and place of the maid physician.
Other than that, same, same.
Posted by: old chick at April 30, 2025 02:15 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 02:18 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:16 PM (uCjyK)
The also have 42 million people as opposed to over 330 million. How much diversity is there among the population and gene pool?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 30, 2025 02:19 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 02:21 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 02:00 PM (g8Ew
____________________
The most dangerous and toxic thing we're exposed to every day?
Oxygen. It's like the little brother of fluorine.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 30, 2025 02:25 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:58 PM (2VST1)
I don't need to! NYAH!
Posted by: M Brooks at April 30, 2025 02:27 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 01:57 PM (mRt60)
My Slovak side is calling me.
The Hungarian side is pretty much there as well. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 30, 2025 02:29 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 30, 2025 02:03 PM (wBaIH)
The outtakes on the DVD are hilarious! How they finally made it through some of those scenes is a miracle. And clever editing.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 30, 2025 02:31 PM (5xuJ/)
Q1 GDP drops 0.3%, first contraction in 3 years
Mostly because of a huge jump in imports.
I mean...huge. -5% GDP change just because of the imports.The decline was driven by a large surge in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP. Imports surged at an annualized rate of 41.3% in the first quarter as companies front-loaded orders ahead of anticipated tariffs from the Trump administration. The surge in imports was good for a -5% contribution to the GDP calculation in the first quarter.Other than that, how were things? Honestly...good.
Final sales of goods to domestic purchasers, another sign of demand in the economy, grew at a 3% annualized rate in the first quarter, above the 2.9% seen in the fourth quarter of 2024.And, remember, this is all happening while inflation is crashing to the point of touching on deflation. From a couple of weeks ago:
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The "core" Personal Consumption Expenditures index, which excludes the volatile food and energy categories, grew by 3.5% in the first quarter, above estimates for 3.2% and above the 2.6% seen in the prior quarter.
U.S. consumer prices fall for first time in almost three years U.S. consumer prices dipped in March, defying predictions that Trump's proposed tariffs would trigger higher inflation. The decline in the Consumer Price Index marks the first monthly drop in nearly three years--and only the second since inflation spiked under former President Biden. Key Details: March's 0.1% decline in overall prices came as a surprise to economists, who had expected a 0.1% increase. Core prices--excluding food and energy--rose by just 0.1%, well below the 0.3% that had been forecast.Which means that consumer spending is increasing...while prices are decreasing. The increase isn't because of inflation. Weird, huh? I can't find mention of government spending in that first Yahoo article, so I searched out and saw this on the actual BEA release:
The decrease in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected an increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, and a decrease in government spending. These movements were partly offset by increases in investment, consumer spending, and exports. For more information, refer to the "Technical Notes" below.So, essentially...this is kind of exactly what I imagined early Trump, post-Biden would be. A small contraction in the GDP measures while the economy itself actually does okay while waiting for longer-term effects to settle in.
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The decrease in government spending reflected a decrease in federal government spending (led by defense consumption expenditures) that was partly offset by an increase in state and local government spending (led by compensation of employees).
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 12:01 PM (qFAfu)
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:02 PM (80e4h)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (jh3Gu)
Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (WE1WX)
Hanging on to my stocks.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (qFAfu)
Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (WE1WX)
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Taxes one can avoid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)
Huh, I'm pretty sure that if 2 goods have different prices, I can choose the lower priced one, yes?
So I can avoid that tax by purchasing things from American companies? Huh.
Posted by: GMan at April 30, 2025 12:05 PM (R6wN8)
Posted by: GMan at April 30, 2025 12:05 PM
Weird, innit?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 12:06 PM (QBMHV)
Gee, I wonder if that had anything to do with the GDP shrinking.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 12:06 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (oXfCm)
Gee, I wonder if that had anything to do with the GDP shrinking.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 12:06 PM (e5NfL)
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GDP minus Government probably grew, even with the imports.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: GDP at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (wWIcc)
Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (WE1WX)
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"Lamont, you big dummy!"
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (1aiKR)
Posted by: MSM at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (S4ZTs)
"Unexpectedly" and "surprise" meanings have done a 180 degree change since 1/20/25. I wonder what happened??
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at April 30, 2025 12:09 PM (gxokI)
GDP is a bullshit statistic, esp. with Government spending added to the final number, a number that can only be positive with deficit spending, otherwise government spending is net extractive of the productive economy.
It's GNS, Gross National Spending. Spending is at best a 2nd derivative of output. It says nothing about the quality of that spending, how much went to future investment, etc. It only aggregates the total amount.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 12:09 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 12:06 PM (QBMHV)
"Weird, WEIRD!" - Rachel Zegler
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:09 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (wWIcc)
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He's experiencing a very bear market ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:10 PM (1aiKR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)
How? I’m not anti-tariff, but there are plenty of things that are imported for which there is insufficient domestic alternative.
I get that the goal is to build up domestic alternatives, which is good. I just dislike spin: Trump is raising taxes, some of which will be unavoidable for consumers, for the purposes of rebalancing global trade. The hope is to offset those tax increases with cuts in other taxes, making it relatively neutral for many Americans.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:10 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 12:10 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (wWIcc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (wWIcc)
I doubt he's taking very many forays outside the presidential compound nowadays.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (g8Ew8)
I will bet my Left Nut the 2nd or 3rd Revision will increase this figure.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (eGPz/)
I wish my bitches hurry up and get here. I ain't got no time to be sittin inside this cell with all y'all.
Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (979V4)
Also left: Trump is a monster for wanting to reduce imports because doing so will lower GDP.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (S4ZTs)
I get that the goal is to build up domestic alternatives, which is good. I just dislike spin: Trump is raising taxes, some of which will be unavoidable for consumers, for the purposes of rebalancing global trade. The hope is to offset those tax increases with cuts in other taxes, making it relatively neutral for many Americans.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:10 PM (l3YAf)
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By importers choosing different suppliers from different countries.
Lots of countries sell coffee beans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: deepelemblues at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (z9n5F)
Posted by: Bull Moose at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (qZcs8)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (L0lnW)
It's at "Ace in the pool seeing Nancy Pelosi" levels of flaccid.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (QZThv)
This is an "Estimate."
And these fuckfaces always have an uncanny knack of underestimating GDP for Republicans and overestimating for Democrats, evidenced by the subsequent Revisions.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (eGPz/)
Posted by: MSM at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (S4ZTs)
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Canada 2028.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (qFAfu)
Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (WE1WX)
Remember those people who looooved the Fair Tax (tm)?
Tariffs are the fair tax on imports.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bull Moose at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (qZcs
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GDP = C + I + G + (X - M)
C (Consumption):
I (Investment):
G (Government Spending):
(X - M) (Net Exports)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: MSM at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (S4ZTs)
*******
The only solution to right this ship is by electing AOC or Gavin Newsom in 2028.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 12:13 PM (NpAcC)
Shows was a bullshit number gdp is.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 12:13 PM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: MSM at April 30, 2025 12:08 PM (S4ZTs)
*******
The only solution to right this ship is by electing AOC or Gavin Newsom in 2028.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 12:13 PM (NpAcC)
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1. Impeach Trump.
2. Vance resigns.
3. President Hillary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 12:13 PM (wWIcc)
There is only one cure for this fever -
Crank up the printing presses!
It's worked for the 50 years
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 12:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM
Where are your bitches, Mr. Big Time Pimp?
Posted by: Big Black Guy at April 30, 2025 12:14 PM (QBMHV)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 12:14 PM (e5NfL)
Are the Dems planning 9/11 Part 2?
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:14 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Bull Moose at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (qZcs
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GDP = C + I + G + (X - M)
C (Consumption):
I (Investment):
G (Government Spending):
(X - M) (Net Exports)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)
Which as noted by Kindletot is determined by measuring what is spent on each.
Spending money on a meal adds to GDP as measured, cooking the same at home does not, despite the same production and wealth being involved.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 30, 2025 12:15 PM (okun6)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:15 PM (lFFaq)
Spending money on a meal adds to GDP as measured, cooking the same at home does not, despite the same production and wealth being involved.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 30, 2025 12:15 PM (okun6)
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It's not a good measure of the economy in a few different ways.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)
The economy's going to hell!!!
Get out of your stocks now!!!!!
Especially, the one that are stable with a consistent growth rate and a good dividend. Those are the worst!!! Get out now! So, the price will drop!!!
Save yourselves!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at April 30, 2025 12:16 PM (iJfKG)
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Global Birth Rates Hit Historic Lows As Elon Musk Busy With DOGE
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Must I do everything!! 🤣🤣
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:16 PM (1aiKR)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:15 PM (lFFaq)
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They increased before the tariffs were implemented.
It was precautionary/reactionary to events people were predicting would come to pass.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)
Which the people who rely on msm will never hear about!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 12:16 PM (EafHQ)
A lot of near-scam drop shippers had "last chance before the tariffs" sales.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:17 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: RM at April 30, 2025 12:17 PM (n/1Oj)
For a democratic president those rules do not apply.
Posted by: Redenzo at April 30, 2025 12:17 PM (jZ3ZM)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 12:17 PM (bbuBP)
Has government spending always been part of GDP? If not, when was it added and by whom?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:17 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: RM at April 30, 2025 12:17 PM (n/1Oj)
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-.3% is nothing like a crash, even with the worst mix of internal numbers to back it up.
Unless it's a crash in consumer spending offset by a massive increase in government spending.
That would be real bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)
Lots of countries sell coffee beans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
Coffee is only grown in one US state: Hawaii. And it’s already sold at a premium. With a base 10% tariff on every other country, how does that not amount to a tax on coffee?
Also, I tend to think in many cases some of the tariffs will be absorbed by producers. But coffee producers don’t make a whole lot so it’s harder for them to absorb the costs.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:18 PM (l3YAf)
Wrong!!! The economy is the worst it’s been in 100 years. Bread lines are stretching to miles long. Children are dying from starvation.
Posted by: MSM
Make Okies great again.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 12:18 PM (63Dwl)
For a democratic president those rules do not apply.
Posted by: Redenzo
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I'm thinking the rules for Trump will be only 1 qtr of negative growth is needed to have the press call it a recession.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:19 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:15 PM (lFFaq)
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It's likely that in anticipation of the upcoming tariffs, many American companies that purchase goods from China and other foreign countries were buying, importing, & stockpiling several months worth of goods for inventory.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:19 PM (1aiKR)
I imagine given the low margins on coffee a lot of those countries are in line to come to DC and sign a deal.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:19 PM (QZThv)
Has government spending always been part of GDP? If not, when was it added and by whom?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:17 PM (lFFaq)
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The modern concept was created in 1934, and it looks like it's always included government spending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 12:18 PM
"I'm Okie to my toes!"
- Elizabeth Warren D-
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 12:20 PM (QBMHV)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 30, 2025 12:20 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: creeper at April 30, 2025 12:20 PM (zFwIe)
Egg Price Update!
from the hive of scum & villainy known as Costco:
04/24/25: $7.69 for 2 dozen pack, no limit
Compared to 03/18/25: $8.99/2 dozen, limit 3
02/26/25: $8.49, limit 3.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:20 PM (jec0o)
If you take out the 2021 post-covid rebound, we’ve been in a recession since early 2020.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:21 PM (l3YAf)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRkFAmHFHHs
Palestinians are finally copy-catting California illegals.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:21 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:21 PM (Dv3i1)
So it's essentially been a progressive scam all along? Wish I'd known that a long time ago.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:22 PM (lFFaq)
Also, I tend to think in many cases some of the tariffs will be absorbed by producers. But coffee producers don’t make a whole lot so it’s harder for them to absorb the costs.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:18 PM (l3YAf)
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The country that makes the 0-tariff deal with Trump wins first.
And...one must always remember that this is coupled with Trump's promised attempts to try and eliminate the income tax on people making less than $200,000 per year.
He's trying to replace one tax (onerous, invasive, anti-liberty) with another (directed at foreigners).
It's a tradeoff that I'm willing to make.
Also, the effects of tariffs are massively oversold.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 12:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:22 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 12:22 PM (g47mK)
@unusual_whales
"Warren Buffett calls himself ‘cheap’ for still living in the same house he purchased for $31,500—despite having $168 billion to his name," per FORTUNE
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:21 PM
Healing power of "and"?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 12:22 PM (QBMHV)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:23 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 12:23 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 30, 2025 12:20 PM (gm9Sb)
So, step three is "go to jail"?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:23 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:14 PM (QZThv)
I wonder what defences Mara Lago actually has. I'd like to think it has tower mounted Dylans and maybe a mini Iron Dome set up.
But I suspect it has 6 or 8 lazy lesbian SS guards and some of those cameras that "fail" all the time.
Posted by: Reforger at April 30, 2025 12:23 PM (xcIvR)
Early reports are the muzzies set the fires, apparently inspired by the illegals arrested in California for doing the same.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:23 PM (QZThv)
no doubt in my mind
regardless, these look fine to me
of course the media will scream recession now, they already were
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 12:23 PM (Pv3Rg)
Bet Warren won't tell us that.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 12:24 PM (wWIcc)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:18 PM (l3YAf)
10% dude. Imports from those countries pretty much have Ten Percent Tariffs. You are setting your hair on fire over 10%
Better start drinking burnt field peas to deal with the one dollar increase in a pound of bulk beans from WinCo
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 12:24 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 30, 2025 12:24 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 12:24 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Lots of blackouts in Europe. But the real story is that the grid frequency got so low that the entire continent almost went down. That's what you get when you listen to Angela and Greta. Can't wait until the UK blocks out the sun.
The EU is on a path to ruin. Led by faceless gnomes, they're struggling to keep the lights on while Muslims are reaching the critical mass needed to take over.the juice to pursue AI dreams that will require losts over.
Meanwhile in the US I'm happy to report what I only know because of my day job. Trump has a massive deregulatory effort that's so far below the radar that it's stealth. It builds on favorable SCOTUS decisions in recent years. especially last year's decision in Loper Bright. This is both nerdish and momentous. New York's own Lee Zeldin is a key player at the EPA.
It's intended to reverse 40 years of regulatory bloat in the US. We'll have a huge competitive advantage over the EU. We only need to keep the lights on.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 30, 2025 12:09 PM (Gqoy+)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:24 PM (M/gGe)
If you take out the 2021 post-covid rebound, we’ve been in a recession since early 2020.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:21 PM (l3YAf)
Which tracks with the Biden cabal being in power. Sounds right.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:25 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30
Awwwww, man.
*puts down aqua net and bic lighter. *
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 30, 2025 12:25 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:25 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (wWIcc)
and I concur - loads is happening under the radar, plus a lot of good things are purposely being ignored/covered up by the media
stuff is happening all over
good stuff
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (Pv3Rg)
Government spending is illusory growth, but is very visible.
That's why our fool "elites" choose it. Because they are fools who do not think beyond the next news cycle.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (aPBRN)
If you take out the 2021 post-covid rebound, we’ve been in a recession since early 2020.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:21 PM (l3YAf)
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I'm still convinced that during much of DogEater's Reign of Error we were in a (what used to be the classic textbook definition of -- with of course rigged numbers for him) a depression.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (CbFrP)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:25 PM (M/gGe)
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Praise, honor, and glorification of the OP.
Merciless treatment of trolls.
Donuts, assuming Todd hasn't eaten them all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)
The rules are that you must own a copy of Prometheus.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:25 PM (M/gGe)
No comments about a certain movie?
Posted by: dantesed at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (Oy/m2)
https://tinyurl.com/4bfppn3x
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (GaW1s)
It's just lazy private pilots not checking NOTAMS for the TFRs that are issued for that airspace every time Trump is at Mar-a-Lago.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (Y1sOo)
Also, the effects of tariffs are massively oversold.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
How so? Tariffs funded the feds for a long,long, time!!!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (EafHQ)
Bet Warren won't tell us that.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 12:24 PM
Or what its appreciated value is.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (QBMHV)
Also, the effects of tariffs are massively oversold.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
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The one part about tariffs I really like is the 10% floor. I believe a lot of countries evade trade agreements and find other means to close their markets to the US.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (tT6L1)
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Battery factory fire or the usual muzzie murderers?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:21 PM (Dv3i1)
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The latter.
Can I borrow your hammer?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (qFAfu)
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In UK parliament, opposition asked the question, why are we building all these solar farms and at the same time experimenting on blocking the sun?
The response was, the opposition has no plan to tackle the climate emergency. Zing!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:15 PM (lFFaq)
They didn’t “increase”. They increased.
Remember this is q1, ie Jan-March before the tariffs kicked in. It was companies importing as much as they could before the tariffs kicked in.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (S4ZTs)
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Don't mention autistic mating habits.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Two Coffee States at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (G5+As)
Lots of countries sell coffee beans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
Coffee is only grown in one US state: Hawaii. And it’s already sold at a premium. With a base 10% tariff on every other country, how does that not amount to a tax on coffee?
Also, I tend to think in many cases some of the tariffs will be absorbed by producers. But coffee producers don’t make a whole lot so it’s harder for them to absorb the costs.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:18 PM (l3YAf)
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Or to be subsidized by host countries. I think Japan already said it would pay any tariff increases imposed on its car manufacturers, so that its cars aren’t uncompetitively priced. Others will follow suit if they can’t negotiate deals.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (L0lnW)
Posted by: runner at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (g47mK)
just wanted to mention bc I love the canes and HATE the devils
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 30, 2025 12:28 PM (PduQx)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:23 PM (lFFaq)
That's how you get housing for cheap. And they'll cook the moose for you.
Posted by: Reforger at April 30, 2025 12:28 PM (xcIvR)
Also, the effects of tariffs are massively oversold.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
How so? Tariffs funded the feds for a long,long, time!!!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (EafHQ)
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A fed much, much smaller.
But, the effects are never about how much they can fund the government, but about how they'll affect consumer pricing.
Apparently, CATO's analysis of the 2018 tariffs saw a $7 billion increase on $250 billion in imports. Statistical noise that never actually showed up for consumers.
Also, when people scream that tariffs are inflationary, I roll my eyes. Increased prices without actual monetary supply movement (actual cause of inflation), it's actually a deflationary move.
Just think of the standard supply/demand curve. It makes the price go up, so demand goes down. That's deflationary, if anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (WE1WX)
Yes we know. So is inflation. So is the corporate income tax. So are tolls on the highway. So are regulations. So are... etc. etc. etc.
If your argument is we need fewer taxes, I'm with ya. A great rebalance would be to pump up tariffs 2-3x what Trump is proposing to encourage domestic production, which in an of itself is a great goal, and any tariffs that are paid can and should offset other tax burdens (maybe get rid of the federal gas tax or something like that).
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:29 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 30, 2025 12:29 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 12:29 PM (S4ZTs)
Who’s setting his hair on fire? I said tariffs are taxes, and in some cases they are unavoidable. I said that the goal of those taxes was a good one, and that Trump is trying to offset the impact of the taxes on Americans.
Just be honest about what is being done.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:30 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 30, 2025 12:30 PM (GaW1s)
Pretty good. Trying to be more productive IRL so not around the HQ much. Have a fasting physical today at 3 though,so I'm conserving energy by not doing anything.
How goes it with you?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:30 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 12:30 PM (Pv3Rg)
Just be honest about what is being done.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:30 PM (l3YAf)
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Also, I think they're more like a fee than a tax.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
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Avoided use of "impact", twice in one sentence. Nicely done!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:30 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:30 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 12:23 PM (63Dwl)
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"Women know about positive shrinkage, right?"
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:30 PM (6/NZC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 30, 2025 12:31 PM (wWIcc)
Whoa! BREAKING!!
AG Blondi just said: President Trump saved 258 million lives.
I suspect the Fake News, right now, is orchestrating their next fake freak-out!
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:31 PM (pJdGK)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (aAsRy)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Elevation helps with coffee. Highest point in FL is 325 ft.
Posted by: Mountain Growned Mrs. Olson at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (MGB5H)
IMPEACH !!!
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Halfhand at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (GLzsD)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 12:29 PM (S4ZTs)
I don’t know why Florida doesn’t grow coffee. Maybe because it’s not a very profitable crop? PR does grow coffee, though.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:33 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Juan Valdez, hand picking only the best coffee beans in the hills at April 30, 2025 12:33 PM (Dv3i1)
The Fake News is going to fake "fact-check" AG Bondi for saying that and conclude: "false."
That will be the next fake freakout for the next fake news cycle.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:33 PM (pJdGK)
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (CbFrP)
John (late, first) Husband, a CPA, agreed with you in 2010. He said the issue was the amount of debt, but it's been long enough I don't remember more than that.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:33 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Halfhand at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (GLzsD)
And he cares about American Values ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:33 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Halfhand at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (GLzsD)
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I read that it was ordered by a judge, not that it was done. Maybe more has happened?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 30, 2025 12:34 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 12:34 PM (rj6Yv)
That will be the next fake freakout for the next fake news cycle.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:33 PM (pJdGK)
Wasn't that in regard to the huge drug/fentanyl bust ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:34 PM (VE6XX)
(The above was bullsit but darn it, it just feels right)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 12:35 PM (bbuBP)
The response was, the opposition has no plan to tackle the climate emergency. Zing!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:27 PM (Dv3i1)
It's just more money laundering. No one in the government really cares one way or the other.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 12:35 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Mountain Growned Mrs. Olson at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (G5+As)
Coffee in Hawaii is grown like 20ft above sea level. It’s grown on the dry side of the islands.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:35 PM (l3YAf)
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Moving the student in to the judge's bedroom is consistent with American values.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:35 PM (Dv3i1)
I'm a lifetime rightwing voter. McCain repelled me. Palin made it palatable to vote for the old shitbag.
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 30, 2025 12:35 PM (+H0sG)
Government spending is illusory growth, but is very visible.
That's why our fool "elites" choose it. Because they are fools who do not think beyond the next news cycle.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 30, 2025 12:26 PM (aPBRN)
I'm fine with it. GDP was never a good measure of "how is the middle class (who make up the vast majority of people in this country) doing?"
The basic formula has always been Consumer spending + Business investments (spending) + Government spending + (Exports - Imports).
So if everyone goes balls to the wall on spending money they don't have, GDP grows massively.
But is crippling credit card debt, business debt, and government debt, with massive export surpluses really a sign of a healthy economy and an improving standard of living? Hardly.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:35 PM (uCjyK)
Wasn't that in regard to the huge drug/fentanyl bust ?
Posted by: It's me donna
Yes. But context doesn't matter.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:36 PM (jGFTh)
But is crippling credit card debt, business debt, and government debt, with massive export surpluses really a sign of a healthy economy and an improving standard of living? Hardly.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:35 PM (uCjyK)
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GDP go up.
What else is there to know?
So easy, a journalist can do it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 12:37 PM (bbuBP)
Yeah, Diesel is down. That's big. And no one is talking about it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:37 PM (jGFTh)
......
because of a decrease in government spending?
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 12:37 PM (v0R5T)
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant.
Another activist judge who wants to protect criminal illegals. Unreal
https://tinyurl.com/euaarmes
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (NpAcC)
The CNN host stepped in, however, to correct the congresswoman.
“Just to be precise, congresswoman, I believe that in that soundbite Elon Musk was talking about fraud in those entitlement programs being the big ones that they have to tackle. That’s what he said in that soundbite,” host Boris Sanchez said.
... is Jayapal saying at all of Medicaid, Social Security, Medicare, the Department of Education are a fraud ?
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (RHGPo)
Yeah, Diesel is down. That's big. And no one is talking about it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:37 PM (jGFTh)
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Oil is at $59 a barrel.
It seems like no one is seeing a decrease in gas prices other than South Texas, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
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What happened to Vin Diesel?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:37 PM (jGFTh)
He'll be back though. They are working on the final Fast and Furious movie rn.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (MGB5H)
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant.
Seriously ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)
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What happened to Vin Diesel?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (Dv3i1)
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Busy begging Universal to greenlight another Fast and Furious movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant.
Seriously ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (VE6XX)
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This order will not be followed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:37 PM (jGFTh)
Prayers up for Mark Sinclair.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:39 PM (l3YAf)
It seems like no one is seeing a decrease in gas prices other than South Texas, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
We are down week over week. Even for 100%.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:39 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 12:39 PM (2KHP/)
Good here thanks. That's late for a fasting physical, ugh. Always good to see you popping around.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:39 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: SMOD at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (RHGPo)
That's probably closer to the truth than the "there is no fraud anywhere, unfortunately the only place to find cuts is by making the plebes work until they're 72 before they can retire" argument.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:39 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:39 PM (MGB5H)
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OKLAHOMA!!!!
I've seen a slight decrease in my little corner of NC, but it really should be about $2, not $2.85.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
Misleading at best. Spending on imports shows up in the accounts for domestic consumption. So they are subtracted on the right side of the national-income-accounts equation — Y = C+I+G +/- (X-M) — to correct numbers to reflect DOMESTIC production, as in GDP. You could look it up ...
Posted by: Axel Kassel at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (fu730)
Yeah, diesel factors into the price of almost everything else. The media doesn't know that, because everyone they know has an electric car.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (QZThv)
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant.
I'm no legal illuminary but even I know this is the most absurd ruling yet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (jGFTh)
If Trump obeys this one ? Piss on the fire and call in the dogs.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (McYvC)
*Spit..
"Da fuk is this?"
Posted by: Reforger at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (xcIvR)
Well, yeah, but now let's talk about ending the income tax ok? Once we get rid of all the other taxes we pay THEN we can talk about getting rid of the tariffs...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (M/gGe)
Hold on here. Are you saying that imports *hurt* our GDP numbers? Are you saying that next quarters numbers, with even less importing than normal, are going to be fantastic?
Well, I voted for it, so I'm not actually surprised.
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (yLThl)
Well, yeah, but now let's talk about ending the income tax ok? Once we get rid of all the other taxes we pay THEN we can talk about getting rid of the tariffs...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (t0Rmr)
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"Tariffs are big government!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: JB1000 at April 30, 2025 12:41 PM (U0iyS)
I wasn't using quotes. I was using asterisks for emphasis. Pre-tariff stockpiling makes sense.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:41 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (aAsRy)
No they're not. A solid 4-5% interest rate is preferred much more than 1-2%.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 12:41 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 30, 2025 12:09 PM (Gqoy+)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:24 PM (M/gGe)
Regulatory "bloat" was a lot smaller in January 2021. Then Barry III Term resumed and reversed all of President Trump's (45) deregulation EOs. Return of the Bloat. Congress needs to get off the dime and enact the President's deregulation EOs to give this country a fighting chance to survive and thrive.
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 12:41 PM (rj6Yv)
I've seen a slight decrease in my little corner of NC, but it really should be about $2, not $2.85.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
Ya we probably should be under 3$ for 100%. But keep hovering just over. Crappy E85 is under 3$ by quite a bit.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (MGB5H)
Can some illegals break into her house at 4 AM and then tell her she can't call the cops without a warrant? Asking for an entire nation.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (QZThv)
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant.
Another activist judge who wants to protect criminal illegals. Unreal
https://tinyurl.com/euaarmes
Posted by: redridinghood at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (NpAcC)
I'm gpmma bet Jennifer's friend was asked to the prom by the boy Jennifer wanted to go go toe the prom sith, already bought her dress and everything.
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (t0Rmr)
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As I said recently: that bullshit is justification for a nuclear first-strike threat -- and ultimately -- deterrent.
Fuck the EuroWeenie GloboHomo Nihilistic Satanic Suicidal Death Cult ...
* spit *
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (CbFrP)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
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First time in recorded history a Democrat found a tax they were against.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (tT6L1)
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant.
How about a Juan Doe warrant?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 30, 2025 12:43 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
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First time in recorded history a Democrat found a tax they were against.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (tT6L1)
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And they'll be screaming about how keeping lower taxes on the middle class through extension of the Trump tax cuts will only hurt the government by depriving it of revenue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)
It seems like no one is seeing a decrease in gas prices other than South Texas, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
We are down week over week. Even for 100%.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:39 PM (MGB5H)
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Hilariously, CNBC was fretting yesterday that oul prices are too low and big integrated oil producers aren't making enough profit. Elizabeth Warren, she who wanted to charge extra taxes to oil companies for profiteering, had no comment.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 12:43 PM (2KHP/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
I do believe I read that the SPR is being re-filled at a break-neck pace.
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant.
Okay Jennifer how about we just shoot them ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:43 PM (VE6XX)
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Except they don't. It's an admin issue not a legal issue.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:44 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
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First time in recorded history a Democrat found a tax they were against.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (tT6L1)
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And they'll be screaming about how keeping lower taxes on the middle class through extension of the Trump tax cuts will only hurt the government by depriving it of revenue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)
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Remember, tax cuts must be paid for.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:44 PM (tT6L1)
Well, yeah, but now let's talk about ending the income tax ok? Once we get rid of all the other taxes we pay THEN we can talk about getting rid of the tariffs...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 12:40 PM (t0Rmr)
The talking points are aimed at the LIVs, not us.
Obviously nearly everything government does is some kind of indirect or direct tax on someone.
They're just trying to trick the dummies.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:44 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:44 PM (tT6L1)
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With tariffs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)
>Who owns BSH? Booz Allen Hamilton is a publicly traded company, and its stock is owned by institutional and individual investors. Major institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and T. Rowe Price Associates. Carlyle Group previously held a significant stake, but not as of Mar. 12, 2025. The company is structured as a holding corporation with the parent company, Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, controlling Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Oh, the Carlyle Group but not as of 3/23/25.
Co-CEO of Carlyle, David Rubenstein, who has "donated substantial sums of money and loaned rare historical documents to agencies like the National Archives, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Library of Congress. He has also served on the boards of the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian."
The David M. Rubenstein Gallery, a prominent exhibition space within the National Archives Museum.
Housed the Bidens
>FNN, GSA ‘unimpressed,’ insulted by consulting* companies’ efforts to cut spending, Apr 17, '25.
*Some with USAID, too.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 12:44 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 12:45 PM (bbuBP)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:45 PM (M/gGe)
>>Gee, I wonder if that had anything to do with the GDP shrinking.
You have to remember that the entire economic order is predicated and undergirded by the assumption of never ending growth, anything else is calamity.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 12:45 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 12:45 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:45 PM (M/gGe)
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Or not wearing a mask.
Or not getting jabbed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
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In UK parliament, opposition asked the question, why are we building all these solar farms and at the same time experimenting on blocking the sun?
The response was, the opposition has no plan to tackle the climate emergency. Zing!
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Blackouts. It's what's for dinner.
Posted by: EU at April 30, 2025 12:46 PM (v0R5T)
Ooo, I believe I see some wiggle room for CBP there.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 12:46 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:37 PM (jGFTh)
Diesel down will bring *all* the other prices down.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 12:46 PM (lFFaq)
Right?
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 30, 2025 12:46 PM (ERYKL)
The president has complete authority to order the military and any other parts of the executive branch to do so. Just like in 1942.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 12:46 PM (t0Rmr)
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Have they called in Montgomery Burns to consult?
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:46 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:44 PM (tT6L1)
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With tariffs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm going play the #orangemanbad card.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:46 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (t0Rmr)
It's major financial players (banks, etc.) and major exporters (Boeing, John Deere, etc.) who are against tariffs.
They're just using their propaganda organs to convince the LIV's to be against tariffs, too.
Fortunately, the Deep States propaganda organs are much less effective in 2025 than they were in 1975 or whatever.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:47 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: their weather is shitty all the time anyway at April 30, 2025 12:47 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Kindltot
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True. There is actually an alternative way to figure GDP that is not used because the data to calculate it is much more involved.
For the most part, macroeconomics as in cause-effect relationships is problematic enough due to 2nd, 3rd, etc order effects, that other measures are probably better to calculate national well being.
Rousseau was a stone cold bastard and proto Commie, but his measurement of good economic policy was basically where the people in general were wealthier, healthier, and lived longer plus positive growth in the native population aka babies.
But, like most things, we are stuck with GDP simply because there is no other generally accepted measure worldwide in macroeconomics.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 12:48 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:48 PM (wRO3a)
And we will uphold that decision - as well as our pensions.
Posted by: The Blue ... Back Us !!! at April 30, 2025 12:48 PM (McYvC)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 12:41 PM (g8Ew
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Agreed. Incentives and encourages more Savings and less Borrowing Beyond Means ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:48 PM (CbFrP)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:48 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (MGB5H)
You forgot "Bombshell!" and "Beginning of the end!"
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 12:48 PM (vf0Y9)
Right?
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Exactly. We should have voted for Kamala. Or lost with honor with DeSantis.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:49 PM (M/gGe)
Just watched a video of the dirtbag strutting around outside the court.
https://youtu.be/Qo9c7cu42aE
Posted by: Halfhand at April 30, 2025 12:49 PM (GLzsD)
Posted by: their weather is shitty all the time anyway at April 30, 2025 12:47 PM (v0R5T)
It's the 'misery loves company' method.
If the UK sucks, so should the rest of the world. They've been trying to take it over since their inception.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 12:49 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 12:49 PM (rj6Yv)
Right?
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Exactly. We should have voted for Kamala. Or lost with honor with DeSantis.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:49 PM (M/gGe)
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Reading numbers below the topline is brainwashing.
Don't do that.
Just know GDP go down is bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: blake
That can only mean that it's exactly the right one.
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 12:49 PM (Xm4LY)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:32 PM (MGB5H)
You forgot "Bombshell!" and "Beginning of the end!"
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 12:48 PM (vf0Y9)
Hot singles in your area waiting to meet you.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (sagpo)
https://youtu.be/Qo9c7cu42aE
Posted by: Halfhand at April 30, 2025 12:49 PM (GLzsD)
"Inconsistent with American values."
Um, that's not how the LAW works, you dumb c*nt.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)
*sharpens axe*
Posted by: wth at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (v0R5T)
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The district courts have driven a super tanker of fuckery through the tiny opening, by that piss-yellow coward Roberts, of "minimal due process."
Completely ignoring that the statutes set out exactly and explicitly what that means.
And now the courts are illegally rewriting the laws to require full-fledged Constitutional criminal due process.
For illegal aliens!
Who never, ever had a right to be in this country!
He wrote that, "minimal due process," in his illegal Midnight Order on purpose.
Knowing damned full and well what would happen. Purposefully not referring to the statute in question.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (NwfFc)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:47 PM (uCjyK)
Are they? How the hell did Reagan win 49 states?
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (M/gGe)
If the US discards that and starts putting out numbers which are closer to reality, what does that due to the rest of the world with their accounting games?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:51 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 12:42 PM (t0Rmr)
It's major financial players (banks, etc.) and major exporters (Boeing, John Deere, etc.) who are against tariffs.
They're just using their propaganda organs to convince the LIV's to be against tariffs, too.
Fortunately, the Deep States propaganda organs are much less effective in 2025 than they were in 1975 or whatever.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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I consider both of these posts true. It is the Dems because income tax was a key measure to control the middle class and shape their behavior AND corporations (plus investors thereof) relying on offshoring are going to get hit.
Corporations and wealthy love a slave class or as close as they can get to one. And if they cannot get that here, they want to make it over there.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 12:51 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (sagpo)
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It should be subject to tariffs.
We should give Hawaii back to the natives, let them assume their monarchy and then a genocidal cleansing of the islands of all whities.
For racial justice and democracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Marooned at April 30, 2025 12:51 PM (kt8QE)
So the Border patrol would already have a warrant with Jose's name on it when he steps foot over the border ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:52 PM (VE6XX)
Right?
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 30, 2025 12:46 PM (ERYKL)
What is Trump doing that is a 4D chess move here?
This is just a campaign promise that he's following through on.
Shifting production from China to the US will obviously negatively impact GDP numbers. We all knew that going in to it. A trade war will also negatively impact both our exports and imports.
That's kind of the goal here if you haven't been paying attention.
We want GDP to drop as spending across government, consumers, and businesses are reduced because we're reigning in cheap money that leads to inflation and we're on-shoring industries. That will mean a stronger dollar and stronger middle class. Since we're the worlds reserve currency, that will mean we export less. With tariffs, we import less. We create massive industry growth in the US, which leads to a more prosperous middle class, and the only ones hurt in this deal are Wall Street bankers and export-heavy industries like airplane manufacturing.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:52 PM (uCjyK)
Trump fired Doug Emhoff from the Holocaust Memorial. Trump hates Jews and is a holocaust denier and the Memorial will not survive such an atrocity.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:52 PM (wRO3a)
What in the actual fuck.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 12:52 PM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 12:52 PM (rj6Yv)
If the US discards that and starts putting out numbers which are closer to reality, what does that due to the rest of the world with their accounting games?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:51 PM (tT6L1)
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A proposal:
GDP
and
GDP + G
The first is a new measure, Consumer spending + Business investments (spending) + (Exports - Imports).
The second is the old measure, Consumer spending + Business investments (spending) + Government spending + (Exports - Imports)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (MGB5H)
Giggity!
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 12:53 PM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:53 PM (M/gGe)
Secretary of the DOE Linda McMahon throws down on ABC reporter at Trumps televised Cabinet meeting.
McMahon tears off her suit jacket and whacks reporter from behind with a folding chair.
McMahon quoted as saying" OH YEAHHHHH!!! Take that bitch"!!
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! at April 30, 2025 12:53 PM (r3F/z)
We should give Hawaii back to the natives, let them assume their monarchy and then a genocidal cleansing of the islands of all whities.
For racial justice and democracy.
*****
Can we then re-annex it after they all starve in about 10-15 years? Or do we have to fight China for it?
Posted by: FrozenTech at April 30, 2025 12:53 PM (Q6XEv)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:52 PM (VE6XX)
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I'm trying to wrap my brain around the idea of having a warrant for someone who's here illegally, and, most likely, has rather sketchy documentation.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:53 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Dalton at April 30, 2025 12:53 PM (DF5Vx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (sagpo)
There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s just a very limited supply and it’s already a premium coffee. A lot of “Kona” coffee is only 10% Kona to keep the price manageable.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:54 PM (l3YAf)
oh they won't ALL starve
the small remaining population will be pretty aggressive tho
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 12:54 PM (Pv3Rg)
We should give Hawaii back to the natives, let them assume their monarchy and then a genocidal cleansing of the islands of all whities.
For racial justice and democracy.
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TJM, Hawaii is an Indian Reservation run by the Japanese for the benefit of DoD.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 12:54 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: FrozenTech at April 30, 2025 12:53 PM (Q6XEv)
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Their beaches suck. They produce nothing but pineapples.
Their only use is as a staging point for the Pacific Ocean.
Set up a cordon around it. Embargo it. And wait until they beg us for a Constitutional Republic again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)
Corporations and wealthy love a slave class or as close as they can get to one. And if they cannot get that here, they want to make it over there.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 12:51 PM (ctrM5)
That's fair.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:54 PM (uCjyK)
Trump fired Doug Emhoff from the Holocaust Memorial. Trump hates Jews and is a holocaust denier and the Memorial will not survive such an atrocity.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)
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The real reason Emhoff is mad it that he was in the chair barely long enough to get it warm, let alone get in on the graft train.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:55 PM (tT6L1)
If the US discards that and starts putting out numbers which are closer to reality, what does that due to the rest of the world with their accounting games?
Posted by: blake
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Economists are more or less a guild which all its virtues and vices. One of the problems for rulers in the medieval world was forcing change on guilds
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)
Honestly save the keystrokes you would be better off talking to your toaster.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:55 PM (M/gGe)
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I don't think the law requires a warrant in this situation.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 12:55 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 12:55 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:55 PM (tT6L1)
Well that and that he has to carry around Kumala's purse.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:56 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 12:56 PM (Pv3Rg)
btw,
4,005 Days Since that French foreign minister fag predicted "500 days until climate chaos."
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:56 PM (O8Bjy)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:44 PM (tT6L1)
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I love Trump's ideas of:
. on-shoring and Making Manufacturing Great Again!;
. a National Sovereign Wealth Fund;
. unleashing energy & mining production (parts of Wealth Fund?)
. very expensive golden visas for entrepreneurs; and
. a low-regulation and -tax business environment/ booming prosperous economy.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:56 PM (CbFrP)
It seems like no one is seeing a decrease in gas prices other than South Texas, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
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So gas should be a dollar a gallon?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 12:56 PM (xzrfl)
Posted by: John Roberts at April 30, 2025 12:57 PM (M/gGe)
There. I just wrote the CBP response to the shitlib Biden judge.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 12:57 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:50 PM (M/gGe)
You're asking the right questions.
But ultimately, I don't think the Deep State really cares who the president is. They have their preferences (Biden was perfect. A low IQ vegetable), but they do what they do regardless of who wins the election. Like Putin said in his Tucker Carlson interview (paraphrasing) -- he doesn't deal with US presidents, he deals with the CIA (deep state).
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 12:57 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:55 PM (tT6L1)
Well that and that he has to carry around Kumala's purse.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:56 PM (MGB5H)
I thought Emhoff and the other insider Dems were still awaiting Senate confirmation?
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 12:58 PM (rj6Yv)
well not for lack of geo-engineering!
it's crazy over PA skies
I know they think they're cloud seeding to help us with rain but it doesn't seem to be working dummies
just like their SARS-II, their magic rain planes disappoint
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 12:58 PM (Pv3Rg)
4,005 Days Since that French foreign minister fag predicted "500 days until climate chaos."
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 12:56 PM (O8Bjy)
And 1,838 days since Ohio State beat Michigan.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:58 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 30, 2025 12:56 PM (xzrfl)
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$1.50?
Probably about half the national average or so.
But, SOR refilling, time from oil to gas through refineries, futures contracts, and individual gas stations clinging to higher prices, and it'll take some time. The drop was pretty quick.
The places to watch for lower prices will probably be wholesaler stores like Costco. They seem to have policies of selling certain items at precise margins which see their gas prices fall faster than others.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:58 PM (GBKbO)
I find it encouraging that the gorilla population is committed to studying its adversary for the beatdown they are about to receive.
Prediction: 1 gorilla vs. 2 humans = mansplaining with weapons.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 30, 2025 12:58 PM (fY84s)
They grow a lot of coffee there.
People are paying what?, $7 or $8 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks? I honestly don't know, I don't drink coffee, that's one habit I never picked up.
I think 10% on a cup that high is going to be barely noticeable.
Unless you're drinking that Kopi Luwak coffee that's run through some civet intestines first?
If that's the case you deserve the tax if you're paying $650 for 1kg of civet shit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 12:58 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 12:58 PM (2VST1)
If you subtract the (wildly, recklessly spendthrift) guvamint spending of the last 4 years (actually commencing with the reckless, disastrous "stimulus" during The Great Idiocy, for which Trump bears some responsibility), the dead-flat economy becomes easier to see. Same same for the employment figures - almost entirely guvamint hiring, and "health care" (= mostly guvamint hiring, in effect).
Yet look at the equities markets the last 4 years. Their relationship to underlying economic activity and overall economic health has been diminishing for years, but the transformation into little more than a side effect of monetary policy + government borrowing/spending is kind of stark.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 12:59 PM (1m82a)
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Commercially? Yes.
However, there are currently some attempts to start growing coffee in the mountains of NC. Near Spruce Pine.
It's interesting as the altitude is correct and the summer temps aren't too high, as needed.
But, by my review, unless you're on the eastern side of the divide, you're still going to get winter temps too cold.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 12:59 PM (NwfFc)
The real reason Emhoff is mad it that he was in the chair barely long enough to get it warm, let alone get in on the graft train.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 12:55 PM (tT6L1)
I don't disagree......
Read his statement.
https://is.gd/dNX5PV
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)
that's a GenX-only name
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 30, 2025 12:56 PM (Pv3Rg)
It's true. I think I had a crush on three different Jennifers at one point. I only approached one and she looked at me like I was a cockroach that had just crawled on her sandwich. Sort of soured me on the other two. She was a slut anyway.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:59 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:55 PM (M/gGe)
You don't want to get in an argument with my toaster. He's a real asshole. The dial may look like it says slightly toasted, but my toaster decides what that means based on his mood.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:00 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:00 PM (O8Bjy)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 01:00 PM (VE6XX)
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She knows that.
They all know that.
That's why I say they are flat-out issuing illegal orders.
These are no more valid orders than if she ordered the President to assassinate Putin.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (NwfFc)
It seems like no one is seeing a decrease in gas prices other than South Texas, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
Oil price per barrel is a leading indicator, which as I understand it, probably has a 3-6 month lag on pump prices.
If we can keep it where it is, prices should have fallen across the board by mid summer. I'm mostly hoping Nat Gas see's a hit so my heating prices for next winter go back down to pre-2021 numbers.
Posted by: FrozenTech at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (Q6XEv)
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 12:58 PM (MGB5H)
What happens when UM's wins in 2021 to 2023 are vacated by the NCAA for cheating?
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (Y1sOo)
If the administration waits for a challenge they've already lost. There is no work around if the executive wants to be equal to the judiciary - the executive must ignore the judiciary.
Posted by: The Blue ... Back Us !!! at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (McYvC)
https://is.gd/dNX5PV
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)
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The Shawn Spicer firing is reaping wonderful rewards.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (tT6L1)
What happens when UM's wins in 2021 to 2023 are vacated by the NCAA for cheating?
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (Y1sOo)
Ohio State still sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:00 PM (O8Bjy)
Not so young then.. The cast is all dead except Cloris Leachman I believe...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (VE6XX)
So the Border patrol would already have a warrant with Jose's name on it when he steps foot over the border ?
Posted by: It's me donna
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Her batshit YOLO ruling is going to get crushed probably via an emergency ruling by a higher court.
I hate to say it but for us, the more the judiciary shows its ass through these grossly unconstitutional temper tantrums disguised as rulings, the better right now.
So let the freak flag fly on idiot leftist judges, it will force Congress and a reluctant Scotus to pimp slap those judges including removing them arbitrarily from hearing cases regarding the subject matter. Bricker amendment.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 01:02 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:02 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:59 PM (M/gGe)
uhhh, can I get her number ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 01:02 PM (NtVYv)
The Shawn Spicer firing is reaping wonderful rewards.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (tT6L1)
#Winning
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)
.003 = three thousandths
.3 % = three tenths of one one-hundredth = 3 thousandths
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (/y8xj)
But they can keep doing it until someone smacks them down like the SCOTUS, which while Roberts has any say isn't gonna.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (Cv27U)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (Cv27U)
Secretary of the DOE Linda McMahon throws down on ABC reporter at Trumps televised Cabinet meeting.
McMahon tears off her suit jacket and whacks reporter from behind with a folding chair.
McMahon quoted as saying" OH YEAHHHHH!!! Take that bitch"!!
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It!
Yeah? Well, has she scored a Hegseth?
https://shorturl.at/CTPhY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (L/fGl)
I think 10% on a cup that high is going to be barely noticeable.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 12:58 PM (6ydKt)
While I'm sure you can spend $7 or $8 on a Starbucks drink, a small black iced coffee at the starbucks near me in NYC is like $3.75 or something.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (Cv27U)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 01:02 PM (NtVYv)
Was it the slut thing or looking at you like you're a cockroach. Because depending on your answer, I may have some other numbers. Have your Venmo handy.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (M/gGe)
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Cloris did a masterly performance in Bad Santa.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (pZ64F)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (77rzZ)
Cloris Leachman is mort?
RIP
She was a great in Alice.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (Cv27U)
Did not know that
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (VE6XX)
noood
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (Cv27U)
Posted by: mrp at April 30, 2025 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)
That would be great.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (lFFaq)
NY Post, 'Chinese garment factories that supply Shein shut down amid Trump tariffs: ‘There are only risks to doing business with the US now’ By Ariel Zilber, Published April 21, 2025
Time Magazine, 'Shein Is the World’s Most Popular Fashion Brand—at a Huge Cost to Us All,' January 17, 2023
Cheap, non-sustainable, soon to be landfilled anyway. Buy wiser, keep longer.
>US-China trade tensions, particularly through tariffs, have impacted China's tilapia exports, especially to the United States, a major market for Chinese tilapia. These tariffs have increased costs for Chinese tilapia exports, potentially reducing competitiveness and impacting the livelihoods of tilapia farmers and processors.
But Tilapia farming in the U.S. is a growing industry, with farms located in various states, primarily in the South and Southwest, due to favorable climates.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 01:01 PM (Y1sOo)
scUM just loses victories. They other teams aren't retroactively given victories (tho they may drop loses) IIRC from the Fab Five stripping.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: It's me donna at April 30, 2025 12:52 PM (VE6XX)
To Whom It May Concern.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 01:04 PM (g8Ew8)
Seems to me that already exists. It's the national finances of the US government, overseen by the Congress and executive (with major mixed impact from Fed policies).
Who decides what a sovereign wealth fund does with its $? Right. One more way in which non-market forces would affect our economy. It's one thing for tiny states like Norway or the UAE to find places to park their oil wealth. But the US? Any money deemed extra by the Treasury should be used to buy down debt and "pay for" tax reductions.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 01:05 PM (1m82a)
>>Requiring warrants to arrest illegals is just hilarious, this won't survive challenge.
Who says it won't survive? The SCOTUS has shown no inclination to complying with logic, reason, historical norms or written law or statue.
They simply pull sh*t out of their asses and so shall it be written.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 01:05 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: ...
Sounds like more of a bitch to me.
slut = a woman who'll sleep with anyone
bitch = a woman who'll sleep with anyone but you
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 01:06 PM (77rzZ)
Yet when oil prices go up, prices at the pump rise instantly.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:06 PM (l3YAf)
https://shorturl.at/CTPhY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 30, 2025 01:03 PM (L/fGl)
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That's hilarious! How does the media counter that? I also think RFK Jr has enough of a sense of humor to laugh when he sees what Hegseth said.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 30, 2025 01:06 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison.
Urban areas are in the switch mode at refineries from winter to summer blends for EPA which are specific to each urban non attainment zone.
That is a particularly stupid and time bound regulation nowadays that causes consumers to pay more for no environmental benefit whatsoever.
All modern cars take into account temperatures, etc. by more sophisticated emissions monitoring and no longer require oxygenating the fuel which applied to cars roughly before OBD II was standard.
FWIW, I cannot remember if a statute mandates oxygenating fuel in the last major Clean Air Act revision in the 90's. I do remember that one particular petro additive turned out to be an environmental disaster so it was dropped by the EPA.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 01:08 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 30, 2025 01:05 PM (1m82a)
Imagine President AOC with her own BlackRock equivalent to manipulate the markets.
Any “sovereign wealth” belongs to the people, was taken from the people, and should be returned from the people.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 01:09 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Donna, Abbott, & Costello at April 30, 2025 01:09 PM (O8Bjy)
On April 30, 2025, Judge Thurston issued a ruling that Border Patrol agents in the Eastern District of California cannot arrest individuals suspected of being in the country illegally without a warrant or reasonable suspicion that the person might flee before a warrant can be obtained. Additionally, the ruling states that Border Patrol agents cannot deport immigrants through "voluntary departure" unless the person's rights are explained and they agree to leave.
These people are nuts.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 30, 2025 01:09 PM (6ydKt)
Contrast that with the case for tea drinkers. Almost all tea in the USA is imported. There are small tea plantations here and there in the US, but only the Bigelow Tea Company has any sizable production. They supply American grown Classic American Tea to the White House. You can also get this under a Sam’s Club brand. But really most tea here is imported. I am willing to pay a reasonable amount extra due to tariffs to get a good strong tea. Most Americans brew a weak tea, maybe that’s part of why Americans drink so much strong coffee. If you want a strong cup with some teas you need to use two teabags for a cup, not one, or the equivalent for loose tea. I always double up for Twinings teas, but don’t need to with a stronger tea like PG tea (my current favorite). What can I say, I had a grandmother who was an Anglophile, who lived in England for a while in the 50s, and who taught me how to brew tea the English way with a double boil, and so forth.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 01:11 PM (sagpo)
They simply pull sh*t out of their asses and so shall it be written.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Because when Scotus gets behind an 80/20 situation, people on the ground simply ignore their rulings. Happened before during the run up to the Civil War with Fugitive Slave Law etc. That is why Scotus and Taney did their stupid muh Authoritah! Dred Scott decision that helped set the stage for the ACW.
Posted by: whig at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 01:12 PM (sagpo)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:59 PM (M/gGe)
uhhh, can I get her number ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 01:02 PM (NtVYv)
Jenny I got your number. 867 5309.
Posted by: Eromero at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 30, 2025 01:15 PM (1Au9i)
In effect, the tariffs will replace an income tax with a consumption tax - though a consumption tax that is aimed at foreign producers rather than domestic ones. Given that "progressives" have been pining for a VAT in this country for as long as I can remember, they should be happy with this. Of course, they won't be, because Trump.
Posted by: Nemo at April 30, 2025 01:25 PM (4RPgu)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 01:02 PM (NtVYv)
867-5309.
Posted by: Reforger at April 30, 2025 01:27 PM (xcIvR)
I like the Republic of Tea's offering, in particular their Earl Greyer blend - it has more bergamon than the usual Earl Grey, hence the name. I find that if I drop the tea bag into a cup of water and then nuke it for two minutes, it makes a good strong cup - perhaps not the mahogany brown brew that the Brits like, but plenty strong enough for my taste. For a stronger cup, nuke it a big longer, or let the cup stand for a bit before drinking.
Posted by: Nemo at April 30, 2025 01:29 PM (4RPgu)
Furnace and A/C have shot caps. Knew this was coming, so I've been saving up for it and won't need to borrow to finance it. But there went my emergency fund for a while.
Gas here is $2.30. It helps when your state is floating on a pool of oil.
And that's the news from Oklahoma.
Posted by: creeper at April 30, 2025 01:34 PM (zFwIe)
Not to mention the adjustment factor they used was 3.7%. Q4 it was 2.4%. That alone caused the -.3% (which BTW is .075% in the quarter). 3.7% is abnormally large. They are trying to cook the books to make Trump look bad, as always. Watch for the revision to bring it back to growth.
Posted by: jk at April 30, 2025 07:36 PM (cpVs2)
Wednesday Morning Rant
I went looking for coverage on the Spain/Portugal power outage early this week to see if there were any early findings about causes. At the time of writing, there weren't. It has come down to "not terrorism or cyber attack" and the quote about the weather has been denied by authorities. My nickel is still on "Spain's unreliable 'green' grid failed" but time will tell. When I searched the web for articles, a top-5 hit from various search engines was from CNN. CNN may be grossly incompetent overall, but their SEO people are doing a good job.
The article is unalloyed garbage.The blackout’s impact was dramatic: transport hubs were shuttered and governments in both countries, which share a population of around 60 million people, hastily arranged emergency meetings to coordinate a response.I am sure the citizens of Spain and Portugal will be surprised to learn that they're a "shared population." These people write for a living.
But travel was hit harder. Flights at major airports in the region were suddenly delayed or canceled, with travelers scrambling to adapt; online flight trackers reported that several airports saw their frequent departures suddenly halted after midday. Portugal’s flag carrier TAP Air Portugal told people not to travel to the airport until further notice.It's curious that several airports saw only "their frequent departures" halted. I don't know what a "frequent departure" is or why "frequent departures" would bear the consequences of a power outage, but that's what's reported. These people write for a living.
Trains were also suspended in Spain. And darkness suddenly descended in subway tunnels; video posted on social media showed blackened train cars stuck in standstill on platforms in Madrid, where the metro was suspended and entrances to stations were taped off.I didn't know that Spanish trains are suspended from above instead of being on the ground, nor that a power outage can cause trains to levitate. Surely the writers didn't mean that service was suspended. If they meant that, they'd have written it. Added to the list of things I didn't know is that a power outage can make subway cars change color, but it's right there. They cars "blackened." Maybe they caught fire and it was char? I also didn't know that in Spain, trains stop on platforms, rather than at them. Foreign countries sure are odd. Next time I'm stuck in traffic, I will describe it as being "in standstill" so I'll sound all erudite like those wordsmiths at CNN. These people write for a living.
Sporting events were impacted too. Tennis fans at the Madrid Open filed out of courts after the outage caused play to be suspended. Some parts of southern France, near the Spanish border, felt a more sporadic impact.Ah, so play was suspended, not the tennis match itself. I guess Spanish trains really do hang from wires! Also, affect vs. effect: learn the difference. Quit misusing "impact" as a crutch, you professional writers, you. These people write for a living,
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Spain’s transportation minister said medium and long-distance trains won’t resume service until at least Tuesday, and the impact of a huge backlog in flights could stretch throughout the week.
By Rob Picheta, Vasco Cotovio and Michael Rios, CNNSix professional writers, and not even one of them can write. It would be bad enough if they were just unscrupulous liars, but it's far worse when you realize that the self-impressed propagandists in the newsrooms are also sub-literate idiots - and so are the people who exercise all that "editorial control."
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This story has been updated. CNN’s Jack Guy, Kara Fox and Saskya Vandoorne contributed reporting.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 11:00 AM (qFAfu)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:00 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: brak at April 30, 2025 11:01 AM (jGJov)
These people write for a living.
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It's not like there's a prominent separatist movement in Spain itself, or anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 11:02 AM (qFAfu)
Yeah, I've noticed this, too.
Most stories have at least three authors.
Why is that? All these J School grads can't write a silly article on their own? Is the MSM now story factories where one person starts, then multiple people massage it until it fits the narrative?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:02 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)
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Spain basques in separatism!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 11:04 AM (qFAfu)
Immediately drained of the joy I usually experience upon seeing Mannix' chimp.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)
These people write for a living."
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Are we sure this isn't AI writing? I'm not joking.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:05 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:05 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 11:04 AM (qFAfu)
Don't forget us.
Posted by: The Catalans at April 30, 2025 11:06 AM (W5ArC)
My son is supposed to fly back on Sunday. Hope he can get out on time.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:07 AM (M/gGe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:08 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:05 AM (VofaG)
I remember seeing a set of ground rules for a British golf course during WWII. Special rules applied if the course was bombed or strafed during play, rules for what happened if the ball went into a bomb crater, etc. It was written in humorous tone.
Posted by: The Catalans at April 30, 2025 11:08 AM (W5ArC)
Immediately drained of the joy I usually experience upon seeing Mannix' chimp.
Posted by: Bulg
Weird. I got the same ad, and immediately "drained" something else, with the usual joy from the experience (although seeing Mannix's chimp at the same time made it extra special).
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 30, 2025 11:08 AM (JCZqz)
AI can report, and the AI bots will move the markets, which will be duly reported by AI. Which will cause a nice feedback loop.
Let’s pray AI isn’t in charge of the nuclear triad
Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 11:08 AM (8pbdy)
I can't stand the "Key Details," and "Diving Deeper" headers to the paragraphs.
It's like approaching a pool, and having signs telling us the key details, that the water is wet, wet water makes you wet, and you get your clothes wet, if you are wearing any.
Down there, diving deeper, is the deep end, where it's safe to dive, because it's deeper.
Kindergarten level.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:09 AM (dGCAG)
Remember that the most important job of modern media is to KEEP you from knowing about unfortunate facts that do not fit the narrative. This will be swept under the rug, and only after it begins to happen once or twice a month for a couple of years will anyone in the media say "hey maybe there's a problem with this new system we built".
The most important fact, which I think should be obvious, is that the grid crashed for no real reason at all, which is why they can't (won't) explain what happens. What that means is that they now have a grid that is prone to crashing anytime due to a hundred trivial reasons that can never all be foreseen. Rather than a system that works even when under stress, they now have a system that *only* works when every thing is exactly perfect.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 11:09 AM (uWKK8)
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oglebay at April 30, 2025 11:09 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)
They don't have any lines people and all matches are electronic line calling.
Like playing a baseball game without umpires.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:09 AM (VofaG)
That’s what’s new, at least since the Internet, the WWW and AI became ubiquitous.
I would say it's that+ "the guild getting dumber and lazier." They could churn out a lame, poorly researched story, or better yet, reword a press release from some organization, and pretend to be writers. How would we know unless it was about our particular area of expertise (Gell-Mann
Not only do we have the tools to access a lot of the same information, we can see how little of their work is actually valuable and worthy of their degree/professional license.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:10 AM (KHnV4)
AI can report, and the AI bots will move the markets, which will be duly reported by AI. Which will cause a nice feedback loop.
Let’s pray AI isn’t in charge of the nuclear triad
Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 11:08 AM (8pbdy)
And the six names attached to it are just the people feeding the "key details."
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:10 AM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:10 AM (W/lyH)
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"Impact" is so pervasive that I often have to catch myself before using that word when writing work emails and replacing with "effect" instead.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 11:10 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:10 AM (W/lyH)
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Do they read good?
Because I know of a school they can attend.
They must be the size of ants, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Sponge
Like "first?"
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge
Like "first?"
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
They don't have any lines people and all matches are electronic line calling.
Like playing a baseball game without umpires.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:09 AM (VofaG)
Impossible to overcome......quite impossible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
That's impactful.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 11:13 AM (Q4IgG)
Activists repeating word for word the "Journo-list" narrative they have been sent.
Rush had a riot exposing this 20 years ago.
Posted by: Auspex at April 30, 2025 11:13 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)
It literally is in a professional tennis match.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:13 AM (VofaG)
These OTOH are written like the blackout was a mild inconvenience to all, like the restaurant not quite having the reservation table ready for several minutes, or one's shoelace becoming temporarily untied.
I would say this is the most frequent and dishonest game played by the media, as it is baked into everything. The use of language - especially emotional language - to convert hell to heaven and heaven to hell, depending on what is beneficial to the Left. Insidious.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:13 AM (M/gGe)
Kindergarten level.
I haaaaaate the new "explainer" label instead of story, and the "[something], and Why This Matters" headline.
Isn't it the job of the story to inherently include this?
And by putting that in the headline is like adding a flashing light announcing bias and/or politics ahead!
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:13 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: Downward Spiral at April 30, 2025 11:13 AM (G5+As)
I read the words, I think they say Deniro had twin sons, one went homo, and continued on to trans. She is now a proud black woman...or something.
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 11:13 AM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Sponge
Like "first?"
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
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Hmph.
Posted by: Humpty-Dumpty at April 30, 2025 11:14 AM (6YdsJ)
It literally is in a professional tennis match.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:13 AM (VofaG)
Because there was no tennis before the 'cyclops.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
All these nonsensical word salads mean is they are anti-family, anti-Christian, anti-male and anti-white.
Anything else, especially the muzzie, the gay and the black, is great! They never want to "change" the muzzie terrorists, or the damaging gay lifestyle which preys on the young or the violent culture among blacks in Da Ghetto.
Posted by: Yoko Ono's Dildo at April 30, 2025 11:14 AM (979V4)
Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (I69X4)
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At least you still layers and layers of fact checking
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (nRMcW)
But it's no better than AI can do because reporters--being uneducated in most things--simply don't understand the *context* of the words they are stringing together.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)
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You forget all the electronic gizmos that check for in/out ball impacts, net, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino - all I could do by hand at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)
It's not called cyclops and before that they had professional lines people just like the MLB has umpires.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)
Maybe time will tell or maybe Spain will prefer to let the cause stay a mystery rather than admit they screwed up on a grand scale.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (jbnUc)
Neither the contributors nor the Big Boss were amused.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (W5ArC)
The Boss: Our ratings and readership are in the toilet. Ideas?
The Ink-Stained Wretches: I know. We could stop being so obviously deceitful. Perhaps we could...oh, I don't know...give it to them straight.
The Boss: Brilliant! Let's do that.
You'd think, but you'd be wrong.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (s8j++)
You forget all the electronic gizmos that check for in/out ball impacts, net, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino - all I could do by hand at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (sPQoU)
No tennis matches were ever played before the 2000's then.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)
Meant to touch base earlier.
What flimsy excuse are you using to avoid the MoMe in Yakima this year?
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 30, 2025 11:16 AM (wlv8N)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 11:17 AM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
We spent a whole class session figuring out ages based on dates, figuring if the subject had had his birthday yet or not. Even after an hour, half the class was still getting it wrong.
The final was to write an obituary based on the information he provided. It was actually damned hard.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:17 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 11:17 AM (42Vb+)
I...have no words.
Posted by: John Howard Griffin at April 30, 2025 11:17 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)
Now you are just being obtuse. There were no lines people . They were replaced by electronic line calling.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (VofaG)
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I skip the "Why This Matters" part and go straight to lighting my hair on fire.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (bWcp9)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (t0Rmr)
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"I want to go green, unless it negatively affects me in any way shape or form."
-like, everyone
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)
Ah, what would they do without the passive voice?
And "a bit harder," seriously? Was air travel "a bit harder on 9/12/2001?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (KHnV4)
Isn't it the job of the story to inherently include this?
And by putting that in the headline is like adding a flashing light announcing bias and/or politics ahead!
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:13 AM (KHnV4)
The Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor (Why This Matters)
Key Details: Planed bombed, ships burned.
Diving deeper: Ships sank.
Here's a tweet from someone who says they know someone who was there.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:19 AM (dGCAG)
Now you are just being obtuse. There were no lines people . They were replaced by electronic line calling.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (VofaG)
Fully meaning that it's NOT impossible to have a tennis match WITHOUT electricity.
F*ck......I'm out.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)
“Key details”. “Diving deeper.”
Report the damn story and quit treating your readers like they are blithering idiots.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:19 AM (bWcp9)
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:19 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Chuck Martel
Wise. That's very efficient.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:20 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:19 AM (bWcp9)
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Remember, nearly half the population is below 100 IQ, and 100 IQ ain't what it used to be with our education system.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
Meant to touch base earlier.
What flimsy excuse are you using to avoid the MoMe in Yakima this year?
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 30, 2025 11:16 AM (wlv8N)
It's pretty flimsy I'll admit.
It's anniversary weekend and I will be floating down the Columbia (hopefully not face down) with Mrs D on a dinner cruise.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:20 AM (W/lyH)
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"AI" Bot ChatNPC FTW!
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 11:21 AM (TuuEq)
‘Quit misusing "impact" as a crutch, you professional writers, you.’
This is an impactful point.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 30, 2025 11:21 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: creeper at April 30, 2025 11:21 AM (zFwIe)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:21 AM (bWcp9)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 11:21 AM (oXfCm)
F*ck......I'm out.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)
It's impossible to have a professional tennis match without a medium to call lines . They had none.
Not that hard to understand.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:21 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:21 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:19 AM (bWcp9)
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These stories are being written by blithering idiots. Of course they're going to write for that audience.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 30, 2025 11:21 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: Oh, The Huge Manatee! at April 30, 2025 11:22 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 30, 2025 11:22 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (bWcp9)
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The late, lamented Los Angeles Herald Examiner had some crackerjack headline writers. When Orel Hershiser pitched a no-hitter, the front page headline was "000-000-00Orel!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 11:22 AM (6YdsJ)
It's pernicious. It presumes that you, the reader, are simply too ignorant to understand all the grown-up words and concepts in the story, so here are some easy, bite-sized chunks of instant information you can use to sound smart.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 30, 2025 11:22 AM (Dg2sF)
https://tinyurl.com/cbva5z3e
DON'T LOOK, ETHEL!!!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 11:02 AM (qFAfu)
They should print out cards with a QR code to direct people to that Xeet which you could hand to anyone who ever says "I have an (insert letters) from (insert name of overpriced college)" as an explanation for why you should accept their utterances as worthy of your consideration.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 11:22 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
Maybe, but I have read a book or two. I see that crap, I instantly stop reading.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:23 AM (bWcp9)
I mean you could just bring her along. Take her to the, "Palm Springs of the Northwet".
There's a sign and everything.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 30, 2025 11:23 AM (wlv8N)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (VofaG)
I'm pretty sure there are no obtuse lines in tennis.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:23 AM (dGCAG)
"Trump Turns on R.F.K. Jr.
Amid Concerns He Could Attract Republican Voters"
Posted by: Oglebay at April 30, 2025 11:23 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Ciampino - hate bad English when I do it at April 30, 2025 11:24 AM (sPQoU)
Ah, what would they do without the passive voice?
Actually, the passive voice is OK here. The flights were suddenly delayed or canceled by the outage.
It's not like a person ordered the delays or cancellations. It was a power outage, and thus low "in animacy," as the linguists say. So the passive voice is more acceptable here.
It might be overused, but the passive voice exists for a reason, and gets a bad rap.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:18 AM (VofaG)
*steps in front of Sponge*
Hey now - I'M the obtuse one around here, not my man Sponge!
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 11:24 AM (vf0Y9)
I mean you could just bring her along. Take her to the, "Palm Springs of the Northwet".
There's a sign and everything.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 30, 2025 11:23 AM (wlv8N)
If the sign says Palm Springs then I'd have to bring my golf clubs and that would go over like a fart in church.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:24 AM (W/lyH)
It's not SEO, it's institutional corruption of the institutions formerly known as search engines.
I use FreeSpoke, the "search engine" which touts itself as "The search engine built to be unbiased." (I also use qwant, yandex, DDG to varied results.)
Here are the top results for "Spain Power Outage."
"The Guardian, CNN, NY Times, BBC, Reuters, The Guardian, Sky News, NBC News, AP News, BBC, AP News, . . . ."
I shit you not.
I can't put my finger on a specific date, but sometime ca. 2006-2010, Search Engines began abandoning their role as unbiased fact crawlers and rankers based on search terms, and they began to take on their current role as propaganda delivery services, tools of the established order.
I don't have a catch name for it, yet, but I propose stopping the practice of calling them search engines and begin calling them ministers of truth or something more accurate.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 11:24 AM (i24o9)
Passive, passive, passive.
Who suspended the trains in Spain?
Who taped off the tunnels?
And blackness just. . . descended. From where?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (oXfCm)
Posted by: Oh, The Huge Manatee! at April 30, 2025 11:22 AM (G5+As)
They were replaced . Laid off. Not available. Probably sitting at home in another country.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (VofaG)
And they have degrees that prove it. So their information is reliable, unlike us lying liars with our dismalinformation.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (1bNHn)
We spent a whole class session figuring out ages based on dates, figuring if the subject had had his birthday yet or not. Even after an hour, half the class was still getting it wrong.
The final was to write an obituary based on the information he provided. It was actually damned hard.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:17 AM (W/lyH)
You actually had a journalism professor who knew his stuff and taught it. Mine recounted his exploits with the AP and flirted with the girls in class. I learned more about writing a newspaper article in fifth grade than anything in this required course.
Posted by: Moki at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (W5ArC)
It's not like a person ordered the delays or cancellations. It was a power outage, and thus low "in animacy," as the linguists say. So the passive voice is more acceptable here.
It might be overused, but the passive voice exists for a reason, and gets a bad rap.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)
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The main use of the passive voice is to emphasis who is receiving the action. In an article about a blackout, highlighting the victim of a blackout several paragraphs in is fine.
It's very different from paragraph one: "Pedestrians were hit yesterday."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)
Read Weasel’s gun thread on Sunday evenings.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:26 AM (bWcp9)
Posted by: Case at April 30, 2025 11:26 AM (OrSPY)
Posted by: BurtTC
But they're everywhere in pickleball. Or so Doof tells me.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 30, 2025 11:26 AM (W5ArC)
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Something Lost In Trranslation?
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 11:26 AM (TuuEq)
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U.S. taxpayers?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 11:27 AM (Dv3i1)
Agreed, I am not picking a good example, but it is overused. When I see passive voice it's generally an alert that they are finessing something.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:27 AM (KHnV4)
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 11:27 AM (JUV6P)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Serious question: have Spain and/or Portugal ever had an electricity grid that met the description "Works even when under stress"?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 30, 2025 11:27 AM (hB7mE)
-like, everyone
There was a survey a few years ago the FNM touted, with the question "Do you believe people should be willing to make sacrifices to reduce global warming?" And YES won by a lot.
But there was a second question in the same survey the FNM ignored, "How much are you personally willing to sacrifice in dollars to reduce global warming?" The average answer to this one? $7. Not a month. Total.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 30, 2025 11:27 AM (t0Rmr)
Sooo...you're saying mistakes were made?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:27 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 30, 2025 11:28 AM (W5ArC)
They can write but all stories must comport with an approved narrative and so stories as big as this must be distributed to many people in order to ensure compliance.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 11:28 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 11:28 AM (pZ64F)
Question 1 should be "do you think global warming is happening?". The next question should be "if so, how much would you sacrifice?".
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (s8j++)
I was going to bring some Bud Light ir White Claw for you.
Some Swishers for you to enjoy.
Sigh ...
Maybe next time.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (wlv8N)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (bbuBP)
Posted by: Moki at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (wLjpr)
Yes...I did and was a better writer for it. He also taught us how to ask questions. No simple yes or no answers but designed to draw the speaker out. It was fun.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (W/lyH)
Heh, no! I made the mistake!!
You could say I pounced on it, like a typical Republican
Posted by: Lizzy at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (KHnV4)
It's very different from paragraph one: "Pedestrians were hit yesterday."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)
So "some stuff was done by some people" vs "some people did some stuff"?
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (vf0Y9)
Sooo...you're saying mistakes were made?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:27 AM (s8j++)
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BY WHOM?!?!?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
The, umm, Sun went down unexpectedly...
Posted by: Spanish Officials at April 30, 2025 11:30 AM (Dphv/)
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Teaching "whole word reading" rather than phonics has had at least two generations of sub-literate consequences ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 11:30 AM (TuuEq)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 11:28 AM (pZ64F)
They need an Augusto Pinochet. Why waste time with with half-measures?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 30, 2025 11:30 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 30, 2025 11:30 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: One Million Chimpanzees at April 30, 2025 11:30 AM (6YdsJ)
Because if 75pct of your energy relies on the sun and the wind, well, the sun don't shine all the time and the wind don't blow all the time, and unicorn farts are in very limited supply.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 11:30 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (vf0Y9)
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Yeah.
I had a college professor who so hated the passive voice that he took off a point for every instance of the use of "to be" and its variants in any paper.
Now, you may wonder..."I am a good writer," is not passive, but it does also contain to be.
Didn't matter to this guy.
I had to write sentences like this: "I exist as a good writer." It made my writing SO much worse.
But I got my A.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BurtTC
But they're everywhere in pickleball. Or so Doof tells me.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)
There was tennis, and racquetball, and then there was ping pong. There's also badminton.
I'm not sure why we needed pickleball.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:31 AM (dGCAG)
Also, they clearly use autocorrect, why don't they use Grammerely or something like that to stop making so many grammatical blunders?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 11:31 AM (lFFaq)
I was going to bring some Bud Light ir White Claw for you.
Some Swishers for you to enjoy.
Sigh ...
Maybe next time.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (wlv8N)
I appreciate that but gotta tell ya...last time I smoked a Swisher Sweet I spewed my MRE lunch all over the Saudi desert.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Moki at April 30, 2025 11:25 AM (wLjpr)
A required course in news reading? I think I'd slit my wrists.
I took an elective logic course, which was largely facilitated by an DEI grad student in some basket-weaving discipline. More than once I was correcting her proofs as she delivered her explanations.
It was an eye-opening experience.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (i24o9)
It's very different from paragraph one: "Pedestrians were hit yesterday."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Yes, agreed.
We say things like "TJM got bitten by a dog" because we know who TJM is, and he's more important to us than the dog. But if it's my dog who bit some stranger that I don't know, I'm going to say, "Fido bit a man yesterday," because Fido, as my dog, is more important to me than the guy that he bit.
Also see the most frequently-used passive in the English language -- "I was born," "you were born," he/she was born," etc.
Posted by: Bulg at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)
It's what they had before candles.
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (cSMYS)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: MAGA LOL just wants to vote for Vance at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (E1whe)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:31 AM (dGCAG)
For oldies to break their hips.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (i24o9)
Posted by: Oglebay at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (2ap+5)
"They cars "blackened.""
You meant "the", not "they". A lot of COBs (and Master Ace) have typos in their blogs. I often wonder if they're being dictated, as I find it faster to dictate text messages and revise errors than type it all out by hand, and the errors I don't catch til after I hit send look like the typos on here. Not complaining, just saying, is this all due to the corrosion of education and/or culture and/or the journalism industry, or does the evolution of technology have a hand in writing standards dropping as well (as the population as a whole values speed over form, now that it's an option to get information in minutes instead of waiting for tomorrow's paper)? And if the latter, it affects us all; not really fair to take 'journalists' to task on it. Though there's plenty else to take them to task on...
Posted by: bearski at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:21 AM (bWcp9)
Front desk drone: Who is your insurance provider?
Me: I am.
Front desk drone: You self insure?
Me: No.
Front desk drone: I don't understand.
Me: I pay the insurance company with my money. They issue a policy based on that payment. I have provided my own insurance.
Front desk drone: May I see the card from your insurance company?
Me: Sure, hands over card.
Front desk drone: *under their breath* Asshole.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 11:33 AM (ExV1e)
Also, they clearly use autocorrect, why don't they use Grammerely or something like that to stop making so many grammatical blunders?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 11:31 AM (lFFaq)
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There's an interesting bit in a British movie about journalism and Iraq, Official Secrets about Katharine Gun.
The newspaper did a spell check on a leaked US memo, and it changed the American spelling of words to British spellings of words.
Apparently based on real life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
All simple mind control tricks. Once they get people used to needing them, it's easy to "teach" through them. The labels also give the writing that follows much needed "gravitas". It's like a shortcut to imprint stuff without having to do the heavy lifting of actually being persuasive, honest or even consistent.
Why it Matters = What to Think
Key Takeaways = Lies to Remember
Diving Deeper = Unproven Conclusions
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (M/gGe)
I want to make a difference in the world!!
Anyone with sense:
Picture that gif of the Witcher "F********ck.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (PMtkd)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:31 AM (dGCAG)
For oldies to break their hips.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 11:32 AM (i24o9)
So you're saying it's an insurance racket?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (dGCAG)
It was an eye-opening experience.
You failed to address the question which was on the minds of all of the morons (at least the male ones).
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (s8j++)
You forget all the electronic gizmos that check for in/out ball impacts, net, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino - all I could do by hand at April 30, 2025 11:15 AM (sPQoU)
No tennis matches were ever played before the 2000's then.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 30, 2025 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)
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You think they would be able to find qualified and still competent line judges at very short notice?
Would the losing player possibly raise post-match (legal) objections?
Posted by: Ciampino - too much fame & fortune is on balance at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (sPQoU)
There are unsubstantiated reports of an alleged and possibly justified dog bite yesterday!
Posted by: Fido at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (AJ8yr)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (ZTJjv)
I was going to bring the grape flavored ones.
I don't think there'll be any MRE's on the menu, if that helps.
Posted by: Winston, trying to think up a new nic at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (wlv8N)
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Great catch. Unfortunately, I do it all the time. I must have been sick the day we learned the difference. Even now, I frequently look it up but it doesn't stick. Unless I'm 90% confident I have it right, I use "impact." (*hangs head in shame*)
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 11:35 AM (lCppi)
Serious education has been abandoned. On purpose. Younger people have not been taught basic skills involving reading and writing. This is going to be a long-lasting problem.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 30, 2025 11:35 AM (4/BuS)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (dGCAG)
If the tennis shoe fits.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 11:35 AM (i24o9)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (g8Ew8)
Phil Holloway @PhilHollowayEsq
Walz said Harris chose him because, "I could code talk to White guys watching football, fixing their truck" and "put them at ease”
He said he was the "permission structure" for White men to vote for Democrats
I guess I don’t speak his “code”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (3kLUZ)
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I want to make it clear, I am not throwing stones around my glass house.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (PMtkd)
I disagree. Writing well is a basic skill for a journalist, and they should be proficient. It would be like me saying I'm a chemist, but not understanding pH.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: bearski at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (Bhsk7)
Anyone else bothered by the use of "pairs with" or "paired with"?
A pair is 2 similar things. Like a pair of 2s in poker. Or a pair of shoes which, aside from being left and right, look like each other.
What bugs me, for example, is when I see "pairs nicely with" on a menu - usually a suggestion for a beer or wine to have with an entree. A food item and the suggested beverage are NOT a pair.
OK, I'm done. There are some yutes approaching my lawn.
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 11:37 AM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (3kLUZ)
Need more sexually confused young boy in your presentation, maybe?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 11:37 AM (i24o9)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 30, 2025 11:37 AM (1onUH)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 30, 2025 11:37 AM (kTd/k)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:31 AM (dGCAG)
Pickleball is great! Blah Blah and I get all dressed up like pickleball warriors and hit the courts out for blood like we are teenagers again. You don't move a lot in pickleball and as far as athletics go it's pretty minimum, but we hang with our pickleball buddies and it fills the empty holes which we call our lives and gives it meaning when we are not trying to wring another dollar out of some government handout program or another. Pickleball Rules!
Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrats and moochers at April 30, 2025 11:37 AM (979V4)
It greatly helped me stand out vis-a-vis others throughout my career -- from compliments by coworkers & managers to job performance reviews.
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 11:37 AM (59/4m)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 30, 2025 11:37 AM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: Serious question at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (bRtkC)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 11:29 AM (bbuBP)
Assuming it is intended to restore its submerged / surfaced ratio to 1, that would depend on the class of submarine. If such is not the intention, the answer would depend on the depth of the local water.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 11:37 AM (vf0Y9)
It's obtuse, but we'll allow it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (i24o9)
Posted by: Oglebay at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (2ap+5)
Rein and reign are frequently misused. It happens so often that I stop and think about it every time I use one or the other.
See also; underestimate vs overestimate.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (s8j++)
Also spectator facilities - bars, food vendors, souvenirs, etc., as well as bathroom facilities would be affected by lack of electricity other than porta-potties.
Posted by: Ciampino - too much fame & fortune is on balance? at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (sPQoU)
Phil Holloway @PhilHollowayEsq
Walz said Harris chose him because, "I could code talk to White guys watching football, fixing their truck" and "put them at ease”
He said he was the "permission structure" for White men to vote for Democrats
I guess I don’t speak his “code”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (3kLUZ)
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Which is why white men voted for Trump 60-38.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
On Twitter someone used the metaphor of two hyper Chihuahuas (wind and solar) set off by a Corgi ( what ever the almost certainly minor incident was) with the fat grumpy cat (basic nuclear or coal) who usually kept them in line being out of the room.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (eNdzY)
The reporters have no respect for the profession. Sad.
Posted by: Case at April 30, 2025 11:26 AM (OrSPY)
When I was in Somalia I was ordered to give the daily briefing to the Press. The Boss wanted to put an Intelligence guy in front of them to make them feel like they were getting "the real stuff!" I hated it and only did it once. They media folks (about 20) were complete and total assholes. The only guy there worth a shit was a writer for some paper in Rome. The rest were scumbags.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (W/lyH)
Would the losing player possibly raise post-match (legal) objections?
Posted by: Ciampino - too much fame & fortune is on balance at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (sPQoU
No it's not logistically possible. This is not just a pick up match in the park. They are playing for a million dollars and more. Again it's like an MLB game that suddenly had no umpires. They wouldn't just continue with the game or go search for competent people to take over the umpire duties. They would cancel the game.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (bbuBP)
Rein and reign are frequently misused. It happens so often that I stop and think about it every time I use one or the other.
See also; underestimate vs overestimate.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (s8j++)
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"Hones in on." It's "Homes," like a missile or a pigeon.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:31 AM (dGCAG)
Pickleball is great! Blah Blah and I get all dressed up like pickleball warriors and hit the courts out for blood like we are teenagers again. You don't move a lot in pickleball and as far as athletics go it's pretty minimum, but we hang with our pickleball buddies and it fills the empty holes which we call our lives and gives it meaning when we are not trying to wring another dollar out of some government handout program or another. Pickleball Rules!
Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Lifelong democrats and moochers at April 30, 2025 11:37 AM (979V4)
*resists bait*
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (vf0Y9)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (dGCAG)
I think Pickleball uses paddles
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 11:40 AM (D7oie)
Let’s pray AI isn’t in charge of the nuclear triad
Posted by: Common Tater
Where would you get an idea like that?
And what was your address again?
Posted by: Skynet Uber Alles! at April 30, 2025 11:40 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (Q4IgG)
They have zero intention of doing so. So more lies I would guess since that seems to be their fashion.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:40 AM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 11:38 AM (i24o9)
Well played
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 11:40 AM (vf0Y9)
Sooo...you're saying mistakes were made?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:27 AM (s8j++)
Several pedestrians were killed by a car. .
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (lCppi)
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (vf0Y9)
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Manfully, I'm sure.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (6YdsJ)
Apparently based on real life.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla
That's one way to give the US plausible deniability.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (hB7mE)
Posted by: Don't get me started at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (bRtkC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (Er3Q7)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (7aURE)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (eNdzY)
Are those the same thing?
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Archimedes
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That's if you still confer some sort of educational standing to the title of "journalist".
Sure, this is a fair bone to pick. Just pointing out the irony of a post critiquing people for poor grammar / typos in a post that itself has typos...
Posted by: bearski at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (Bhsk7)
Would the losing player possibly raise post-match (legal) objections?
Posted by: Ciampino - too much fame & fortune is on balance at April 30, 2025 11:34 AM (sPQoU)
Tennis would be a far more interesting sport if they drafted line judges from the spectators and each player could execute one line judge per match.
Still not interesting enough to watch, but closer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:42 AM (eNdzY)
Posted by: pookysgirl knows what the score is... and it's tied at April 30, 2025 11:42 AM (cscNe)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 11:42 AM (pZ64F)
Posted by: No that doesn't work at April 30, 2025 11:42 AM (bRtkC)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:42 AM (eNdzY)
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It used to be that every noun was capitalized.
The subtitles in Assassin's Creed III use that casing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 11:42 AM (Y1sOo)
>>Writing to a rigid agenda must make it hard to write well.
That's generally why most things in the cultural zeitgeist suck.
Literature, movies, books, news reporting, etc.
For instance, the last culturally important book series were The Harry Potter Books, and the last of the books was published 18 years ago.
Let's not get started on movies or television.
As South Park Sagely put it, everything is woke, lame and gay.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 11:42 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 30, 2025 11:41 AM (7aURE)
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When you mentioned subliterate imbeciles I thought you were referring to sports announcers/reporters.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 30, 2025 11:43 AM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Oglebay at April 30, 2025 11:43 AM (2ap+5)
Walz said Harris chose him because
He said he was the "permission structure" for White men to vote for Democrats
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 30, 2025 11:43 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (6YdsJ)
Hmm. Just the other day I learned that it's "all told," not the more logical (at least in the usual context) "all tolled."
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 11:43 AM (lCppi)
You did great among antifa, pedos, and gov't employees. You sure you used the right code book?
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 11:43 AM (pvvko)
Or: A friend suggested to me that maybe the problems were created by an internal testing of the system; attacking it to practice putting it back up. And then I saw this, at BBC:
The impact of the outage was not as great as it could have been, they add, as yesterday's incident happened midweek and airliines are in a quiet period after Easter--so they have capacity. It would have been more problematic if this had happened at the weekend.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (CQE5S)
The newspaper did a spell check on a leaked US memo, and it changed the American spelling of words to
Posted by: Ciampino - edited for consistency at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (sPQoU)
You did great among antifa, pedos, and gov't employees. You sure you used the right code book?
Posted by: t-bird at April 30, 2025 11:43 AM (pvvko)
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Also, VPs don't bring in votes on any material level.
Never have.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
Those words mean different things. "Expensive" just means "costs a lot." "Overpriced" means "costs more than its worth" (in the speaker's opinion of course). Some things, like say a house, can be expensive but worth their price. Some things can be inexpensive but still overpriced, like a bad fast food burger.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: bearski at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (Bhsk7)
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Magic Johnson's NBA announcing career -- after retiring with HIV -- didn't last very long, especially after he kept using and being publicly mocked & ridiculed for the phrase "mo' better."
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (59/4m)
Also, cops, firemen, etc. can QUIT and go home any time they want.
Every Memorial Day, some idiot of a news reader, school teacher, or preacher will equate "first responders" with killed, wounded, or missing servicemen. F. U.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (9X60i)
So lots of imports is bad for the economy. OK cool. But Trump wanting to slow down imports is also bad for the economy.
It’s a neat trick they came up with.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:45 AM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 30, 2025 11:45 AM (ERYKL)
Walz said Harris chose him because, "I could code talk to White guys watching football, fixing their truck" and "put them at ease”
I just love the way that Democrats approach Flyover Country as though it's an anthropological expedition to Darkest Africa, or something.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 30, 2025 11:45 AM (hB7mE)
Walz said Harris chose him because, "I could code talk to White guys watching football, fixing their truck" and "put them at ease”
He said he was the "permission structure" for White men to vote for Democrats
I guess I don’t speak his “code”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 30, 2025 11:36 AM (3kLUZ)
If by "code talk" he means offer to suck their weeners, then yeah.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:45 AM (dGCAG)
A Stephen King novel.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 1
Also, a recent WSJ headline.
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 11:45 AM (lCppi)
3 (hone in on) [no object] another way of saying home, (see home): the detectives honed in on the suspect | I started to hone in on the problem.
2 (home in on) move or be aimed toward (a target or destination) with great accuracy: more than 100 missiles were launched, homing in on radar emissions.
• focus attention on: a teaching style that homes in on what is of central importance for each student.
USAGE
The traditional form for the verbal phrase meaning ‘move accurately toward a target’ is home in on, not hone in on. More than a third of citations for this expression in the Oxford English Corpus are for hone in on, however, and in the US this form has become common even in edited text. Nonetheless, hone in on is still regarded by many as incorrect, and it remains relatively rare in British use
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 11:46 AM (CQE5S)
Never have.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
Rules always have exceptions. Palin probably brought votes to McCain . Just an assumption on my part.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:46 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:46 AM (VofaG)
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And McCain lost in a landslide.
What's your point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 30, 2025 11:28 AM (pZ64F)
Hola! It needs me!
Posted by: Queen Letizia at April 30, 2025 11:46 AM (eNdzY)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 11:46 AM (CQE5S)
>>The newspaper did a spell check on a leaked US memo, and it changed the American spelling of words to British English spellings of words.
To be fare, American spellings are typically the historical spelling, pronunciation or meaning and it's the Brits who changed it and whine about how Americans spell or say things funny.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 30, 2025 11:46 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 30, 2025 11:45 AM (ERYKL)
Much like how people generally say they want cuts to government. But the second even the smallest cut is made they freak out. No I meant cut stuff that doesn’t affect me. Don’t touch my shit.
Yes people generally are stupid.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (S4ZTs)
I guess I don’t speak his “code”
It’s like when your wife unlocks the weenie cage and gives you permission to fap while the bull takes her.
Posted by: David French at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (eNdzY)
Pfft. I hate it when things are referred to as "pricey" when the actual term is "spendy"
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (CQE5S)
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Shutting down the ENTIRE FUCKING IBERIAN PENINSULA - not so bad, is it?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (2cS/G)
Those words mean different things. "Expensive" just means "costs a lot." "Overpriced" means "costs more than its worth" (in the speaker's opinion of course). Some things, like say a house, can be expensive but worth their price. Some things can be inexpensive but still overpriced, like a bad fast food burger.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (/y8xj)
Gifted. ARGGHHH!!!!
Posted by: LASue at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (lCppi)
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Put them at ease for WHAT.
I realize the implication here is that All White Men Are Racist and Misogynist (so original!!) but the world these people inhabit and create is so fucking alien to me. It's like being on another planet full of hateful faggot assholes.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (M/gGe)
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Wait 'till you see my manifesto. It will be amazing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 30, 2025 11:48 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 30, 2025 11:45 AM (hB7mE)
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Nailed it.
So they thought adding Walz would appeal to real men because their choice, Harris didn't appeal to them at all.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 30, 2025 11:48 AM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:49 AM (S4ZTs)
He said he was the "permission structure" for White men to vote for Democrats
I guess I don’t speak his “code”
As silly as his babbling about "code" is, there's no way he came up with that himself. It sound like an emission from some political consultant who, believe it or not, gets paid to produce such dreck.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:49 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:49 AM (eNdzY)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 11:40 AM (D7oie)
They play it on water?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:49 AM (dGCAG)
Yes people generally are stupid.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (S4ZTs)
Have you ever seen polls of what Americans think tax dollars are spent on? They think it’s like 25% on foreign aid and 2% on welfare.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 11:49 AM (l3YAf)
Walz said Harris chose him because, "I could code talk to White guys watching football, fixing their truck" and "put them at ease”
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So what this tells me is that the local Judy Garland Fan Club has sportsball Watch Parties.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 30, 2025 11:50 AM (2+BHm)
What's your point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April e. 30, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKb
That Palin brought McCain a significant amount of votes that he otherwise wouldn't have gotten.
I agreed with you by showing the exception proves the rule.
Settle down.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:50 AM (VofaG)
Bullshit !!!
Posted by: Never Off Duty Cop at April 30, 2025 11:50 AM (McYvC)
Imagine seeing a flyer for a black person speaking somewhere and the topic ISN'T about diversity or being black. Imagine a black person being a respected expert in anything else.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:51 AM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 11:40 AM (D7oie)
They play it on water?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:49 AM (dGCAG)
They play it using defibrillators.
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 11:51 AM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (2cS/G)
Clay Travis and Jason Whitlock - outkick.com
Posted by: Doof at April 30, 2025 11:51 AM (vf0Y9)
I don't know what this number means.
Posted by: Oglebay at April 30, 2025 11:51 AM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (eNdzY)
This is a subtle weapon the left used. Overpriced implies some nefarious plot by evil capitalist to charge more than they should. And of course we all know,According to comrades Bernie and AOC, everything should be free. So if an item costs $1 it’s de facto overpriced in their eyes.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:51 AM (S4ZTs)
I agreed with you by showing the exception proves the rule.
Settle down.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:50 AM (VofaG)
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I don't think it's an exception at all.
I think it's prima facie evidence that VPs don't actually affect tickets at all. That ticket rose and fell on McCain's and the GOP as a whole's strengths and weaknesses regarding prominent issues of 2008, and nothing else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:39 AM (W/lyH)
You met one worth a fuck? I lost ALL respect for the press (not that I had much before) after the dog and pony show reporting on how we had completed "Victory Base". "4.5 million sandbags filled to build..." blah blah. Like we soldiers filled them ourselves.
The staged pictures. The whole thing was entirely bullshit.
Posted by: Reforger at April 30, 2025 11:51 AM (xcIvR)
There was a giant drop in power, according to the Spanish paper El Pais, it was referred to a drop greater than the combined output of the country's five nuke plants, that lasted a minute. Either something glitched on the Solar, or was a false report on some computer, or there is a giant singe somewhere in Spain from a dead-short.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 11:52 AM (D7oie)
As a synonym for "talented" or as a pretentious sounding substitute for "given?" Yeah, either way it's not
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 11:52 AM (/y8xj)
Just relax, no need to be so tense..
Long Island iced tea?
I think I’ve got some ludes in my sock drawer. Kinda old but they probably still work..
Posted by: Tim Walz, in a bathrobe, holding a bottle of baby oil at April 30, 2025 11:52 AM (l3YAf)
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You’re high. I think the authorities should bring a cadaver dog around and check out the crawlspace under your house.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 30, 2025 11:52 AM (z1t++)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 11:40 AM (D7oie)
They play it on water?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 30, 2025 11:49 AM (dGCAG)
I thought the name pickle ball came from combining the words Paddle and Whiffle ball. Phiffle ball which morphed into pickle ball.
Come to find out it was just named after the creators dog.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:53 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:53 AM (M/gGe)
Here's an example of the exception that proves the rule.
The Truth about Drone Deliveries!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88yQTzlmsiA&t=12s
Posted by: Archimedes at April 30, 2025 11:53 AM (s8j++)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 11:52 AM (/y8xj
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FiFY
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 11:53 AM (6YdsJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Hunter plays tennis. At least he's into white lines and playing with his balls.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 30, 2025 11:54 AM (3kLUZ)
‘Which is why white men voted for Trump 60-38.’
That’s still closer than it should have been.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 30, 2025 11:54 AM (jbnUc)
I don't think it's an exception at all.
I think it's prima facie evidence that VPs don't actually affect tickets at all. That ticket rose and fell on McCain's and the GOP as a whole's strengths and weaknesses regarding prominent issues of 2008, and nothing else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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McCain's campaign worked diligently to repel any voters Palin brought on board.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 30, 2025 11:55 AM (2+BHm)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 30, 2025 11:04 AM (qFAfu)
Don't forget us.
Posted by: The Catalans at April 30, 2025 11:06 AM (W5ArC)
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Basking sharks have entered the room, so to speak.
Posted by: Ciampino - remember sunblock at April 30, 2025 11:55 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 30, 2025 11:55 AM (/y8xj)
Long Island iced tea?
I think I’ve got some ludes in my sock drawer. Kinda old but they probably still work..
Posted by: Tim Walz, in a bathrobe, holding a bottle of baby oil at April 30, 2025 11:52 AM (l3YAf)
Sounds fabulous!
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at April 30, 2025 11:55 AM (979V4)
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Closeted?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 30, 2025 11:56 AM (PMtkd)
If they push it, give them the 'ol "Everybody knows this, even those that pretend otherwise, you know, political white lies and all that, or they are just stupid... Oops.. did not mean... Nevermind."
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 11:56 AM (/lPRQ)
Yeah. He's a good dude but I don't watch him a lot.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:56 AM (M/gGe)
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Put them at ease for WHAT.
I realize the implication here is that All White Men Are Racist and Misogynist (so original!!) but the world these people inhabit and create is so fucking alien to me. It's like being on another planet full of hateful faggot assholes.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 11:47 AM (M/gGe)
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That is a very insightful question.
What were they planning that might make most Americans uneasy?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:56 AM (W/lyH)
Also, VPs don't bring in votes on any material level.
If you were referring to something other than just number of votes you lost me.
Carry on.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:56 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:57 AM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 30, 2025 11:57 AM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
It's an entirely different art today than it was 30 years ago.
30 years ago, you bought a newspaper. They had your money at that point, so they could put information in the headline. You could use that information to decide if you wanted to read the story. "Dewey Defeats Truman."
Today, it's online. Headlines are clickbait to get you to see more ads. They can't contain information that would allow you to skip checking the article. " Did Dewey Defeat Truman?"
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 11:57 AM (i1rF7)
What were they planning that might make most Americans uneasy?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 30, 2025 11:56 AM (W/lyH)
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The comment is probably coming from the idea that white men are uncomfortable with minority women in power and not a whole lot else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:57 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 30, 2025 11:57 AM (7hx0x)
Then what is it when a country goes 100% 'Green'?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 30, 2025 11:58 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 30, 2025 11:58 AM (+kWhq)
Also, VPs don't bring in votes on any material level.
If you were referring to something other than just number of votes you lost me.
Carry on.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 11:56 AM (VofaG)
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And you used the McCain/Palin ticket, which was one of the worst blowouts in a presidential election in the past 40 years, as evidence that VPs can sometimes.
I don't understand the logic beyond the hypothetical, "It would have been worse."
Worse than the worst blowout in 40 years?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:57 AM (S4ZTs)
And I am sure they are Canadian and we wouldn't know them. Sure, Jan.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 11:59 AM (D7oie)
Mark Hamill just apologized to Canada because Trump is bad or something
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 30, 2025 11:59 AM (3kLUZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:59 AM (S4ZTs)
I regret voting for him. Shoulda stayed home.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 11:59 AM (l3YAf)
I regret voting for him. Shoulda stayed home.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 11:59 AM (l3YAf)
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There will always be individual examples.
I could find you examples of people voting for McCain because "he looks like my grandpappy."
But material numbers? To swing a state? To overcome a statistically material deficit in votes?
Nope.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at April 30, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 30, 2025 11:58 AM (+kWhq)
Same. But I also knew it was moot. Obama was going to win in 2008 regardless of who was running on the other side.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 12:00 PM (S4ZTs)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 12:00 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 30, 2025 12:01 PM (3kLUZ)
Come to find out it was just named after the creators dog.
i never did figure out what the dill was with the name.
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2025 12:01 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 30, 2025 11:58 AM (+kWhq)
I agree with you but I also believe she brought McCain more votes . Yes TMJ , it didn't matter.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 12:01 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 12:02 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 30, 2025 11:57 AM (S4ZTs)
Ditto.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 30, 2025 12:02 PM (l3YAf)
Come to find out it was just named after the creators dog.
i never did figure out what the dill was with the name.
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2025 12:01 PM (sGtp+)
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*tries to come up with a pun involving "gherkin"*
*fails*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 30, 2025 12:02 PM (6YdsJ)
Don't punk Baby Deion.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 12:02 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (80e4h)
McCain was a garbage candidate against a Historic Narrative that was going to heal racism forever. It was never going to be close. Palin probably brought him 8 million votes. It matters and it could have won him a different closer election.
Posted by: ... at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (M/gGe)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 12:00 PM
At least a Canadian civil war would be a very polite one.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (QBMHV)
She was ripped apart by the media and McCain scum. That tells me she was probably someone who could have done some good.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 30, 2025 12:04 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Don Black at April 30, 2025 12:04 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Francis at April 30, 2025 12:04 PM (bbuBP)
it tempts one to axe you how you feel about "excetera".
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2025 12:04 PM (sGtp+)
Also, cops, firemen, etc. can QUIT and go home any time they want.
Every Memorial Day, some idiot of a news reader, school teacher, or preacher will equate "first responders" with killed, wounded, or missing servicemen. F. U.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 30, 2025 11:44 AM (9X60i)
Agree.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 30, 2025 12:05 PM (g8Ew8)
Come to find out it was just named after the creators dog.
i never did figure out what the dill was with the name.
Posted by: anachronda at April 30, 2025 12:01 PM (sGtp+)
I recall seeing Euros play a similar sort of activity - I won't call it a sport mumbledy years ago. Seems too Euro, like soccer and gay pride parades.
I refuse to participate.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 12:05 PM (i24o9)
I don't understand the logic beyond the hypothetical, "It would have been worse."
Worse than the worst blowout in 40 years?
****
I would argue yes. McCain saw a pretty serious bump in polling when he added her to the ticket... and watched it disappear when they put a muzzle on her and specifically walked away from anything she said. I can confidently say I was more willing to vote for Palin, issues and all, then McCain at the time.
Does that mean they would have won if they would have leaned into her? No. I don't think a VP can carry a ticket. But if the VP had been standard GOP flag carrier number six, instead of Palin - the poll bump would have likely never happened and the 'Principled loss' would have been even more epic.
Probably best it wasn't. Giving Obama even more of a mandate would have sucked.
Posted by: FrozenTech at April 30, 2025 12:05 PM (Q6XEv)
Don't punk Baby Deion.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 30, 2025 12:02 PM (Y1sOo)
If that were my kid I would be beyond enraged… even in the NFL (with some exceptions) assistant coaches don’t make tons of money. That kid cost his dad $100K… sheesh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 30, 2025 12:05 PM (ZtAny)
The left is going to run with "recession" today. I found this little tidbit in the article that I think is very interesting:
"Federal government spending shrank at a 5.1 percent rate, the largest decline since pandemic support spending began to wind down in 2022."
I wonder if that could have anything to do with the GDP shrinking.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 30, 2025 12:06 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Don Black at April 30, 2025 12:04 PM (AOsQT)
I don't mind being corrected. I write comments like I talk but when writing business letters I change into a proper educated English speaker.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 30, 2025 12:07 PM (VofaG)
The EU is on a path to ruin. Led by faceless gnomes, they're struggling to keep the lights on while Muslims are reaching the critical mass needed to take over.the juice to pursue AI dreams that will require losts over.
Meanwhile in the US I'm happy to report what I only know because of my day job. Trump has a massive deregulatory effort that's so far below the radar that it's stealth. It builds on favorable SCOTUS decisions in recent years. especially last year's decision in Loper Bright. This is both nerdish and momentous. New York's own Lee Zeldin is a key player at the EPA.
It's intended to reverse 40 years of regulatory bloat in the US. We'll have a huge competitive advantage over the EU. We only need to keep the lights on.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 30, 2025 12:09 PM (Gqoy+)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 12:10 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 30, 2025 12:11 PM (EafHQ)
Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (WE1WX)
Remember those people who looooved the Fair Tax (tm)?
Tariffs are the fair tax on imports.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 30, 2025 12:05 PM (i24o9)
LOL
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 12:12 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 30, 2025 12:13 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: ShainS at April 30, 2025 12:03 PM (80e4h)
Posted by: m at April 30, 2025 12:14 PM (CQE5S)
Posted by: Ciampino - it's allowed at April 30, 2025 12:16 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 30, 2025 12:22 PM (+H0sG)
Posted by: mikeski at April 30, 2025 11:57 AM (i1rF7)
The point of a headline is to pull the reader into the story or to draw attention. All Drudge did back in the day was write good headlines. And it worked!
Headlines today are crap.
I’d further issue a challenge to today’s headline writers: write a headline without using “this” anywhere.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 01:00 PM (eNdzY)
It's a Cajun thing. Maybe CBD can explain it.
(Also, thanks for the rant. That's what I've been on about for over a decade now.)
Posted by: GWB at April 30, 2025 09:12 PM (wbjSL)
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