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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (8/4/21)

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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. Vaclav Havel

Quote II

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato


Quote III

I think being a writer is recognizing in the publication cycle there’s going to be a lot of unpaid labor and how to protect yourself so that you can actually still write, and have a life and have something left for you, which I think has become increasingly hard for all of us. To have anything left. Author, Kate Zambreno


Quote IV

“Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.” Economist Ludwig von Mises


Quote V

“There’s a long history in this country of people needing to show their papers. During slavery, post-slavery, as recent as—you know what immigrant population has to go through here. We heard [former President Donald] Trump with the birth certificate nonsense. Here we want to make sure that we are not doing anything that would further create a barrier for residents of Boston or disproportionally impact BIPOC communities.” Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey


Quote VI

If I were in charge, I'd turn the entire planet against China and make them beg for mercy, even if it meant getting into bed with every piece of shit tyrant, dictator, kleptocrat or miscreant on Earth. Matthew Noto


Quote VII

"What they're doing to him isn't right for anybody, whether he's my brother or anybody's brother. He's 81 years old. Leave him alone." Vincent Lidstone, 77, of Lafayette, Georgia.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is Da Man!

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A hard case of Not In My Back Yard. Poor woman just feels so powerless.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Crowds of bikers are rumbling their way towards South Dakota’s Black Hills this week, raising fears that COVID-19 infections will be unleashed among the 700,000 people expected to show up at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

The rally, which starts Friday, has become a haven for those eager to escape coronavirus precautions. Last year, the rally hardly slowed down, with roughly 460,000 people attending. Masks were mostly ditched as bikers crowded into bars, tattoo parlors and rock shows, offering a lesson in how massive gatherings could spread waves of the virus across the country.

The city of Sturgis, usually a sleepy community of under 7,000, tried to tamp things down last year, canceling most city-sponsored events and promotion, but hordes of bikers showed up anyway.

“The rally is a behemoth, and you cannot stop it,” said Carol Fellner, a local who worried that this year’s event would cause a fresh outbreak of cases. “I feel absolutely powerless.”

This year, the city is embracing the crowds. Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has given the rally her blessing and will appear in a charity ride. The event is a boon for tourism, powering over $800 million in sales, according to the state Department of Tourism.

A couple of quick guesses here on my part:
1) The motorcycle rally has been going on longer than Carol has been a resident;
2) She's too cheap to leave Sturgis for a week;
3) You could substitute the name Karen for Carol and she would answer to it.

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Before you get off my lawn, you better not piss on it.

Some people take the states of their front lawns incredibly seriously — to the point where they'll scream at any cute dog who dares to slow down and sniff the grass.

It can be (rightfully) argued that doggies mean no harm when they make yellow patches, but humans know better... most of us, anyway.

Police in London, Ontario, are seeking the public's assistance with a "Dangerous Operation causing Bodily Harm" investigation after a 38-year-old man hit one of his neighbours with his car.


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Clashing over masks keeps getting interesting. Judge boots commissioner out of meeting for refusing to wear a face diaper.

Dallas County Commissioner J.J. Koch escorted out of meeting after refusing to wear a mask
Koch’s attorneys said he planned to sue Clay Jenkins over the removal, and that he should follow rules set by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott


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Honestly, I've never had these birds at my house.

Five parrots separated at UK zoo after encouraging each other to swear at guests

"We are quite used to parrots swearing, but we've never had five at the same time," the centre's chief executive, Steve Nichols, told AP.

"Most parrots clam up outside, but for some reason these five relish it."

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***SNORT***

Not even the USA winning the gold for all-around gymnastics lifted the ratings for the 2020 Woke Olympics anywhere close to respectable territory.

“NBC said Friday that Thursday’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Summer Olympics averaged a 10.8 rating and 19.5 million viewers across all of its platforms, down 43% in ratings and 41% in viewership from the comparable night of the Rio Games in 2016 (18.9, 33.0M),” Sports Media Watch reported. “Versus the most recent Olympics, the Pyeongchang Winter Games three years ago, ratings fell 5% and viewership 1% from an 11.4 and 19.3 million.”


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Good luck Congressman. California Republican Devin Nunes is suing cable news network MSNBC over an attack from their star host Rachel Maddow.

Per the NY Post Nunes ‘claims Maddow and MSNBC have shown “hostility, hatred, extreme bias, spite and ill-will” in their coverage of him, the suit says’

Nunes says in the lawsuit she target him because he’s “the most prominent skeptic in Congress of Maddow’s marquee news narrative from 2017 to 2019: that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to hack the 2016 presidential elections.”

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The wonderful thing about US Commie leftists? They wave their magic wands and all of societal ills are cured. No, just kidding.

Portland city officials “shocked” that no cops want to volunteer for the resurrected gun violence unit

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Fine dining with Charlie...................


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What is wrong with this picture? Countries with highest vaccination rates have highest infection rates

A series of graphs compiled by Twitter user @holmenkollin (Corona Realism) document that "the most-vaccinated countries in the world are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases, while the least-vaccinated countries are not."

Iceland, Gibraltar, Malta, and Cyprus, for example, have vaccination rates of 90–98% and are experiencing surging virus cases. European countries with high vaccination rates are experiencing increasing infection rates, while those graphs show minimal infection rates among the countries with the lowest vaccination rates.

In Israel, where COVID cases are spiking despite a vaccination rate of 80%, the government is launching a campaign to inoculate its population with a third jab. The vaccines' effectiveness may very well be wearing off after a few months, but doubling down on booster shots may prove counterproductive if something else is at work.

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The ONT Musical Interlude


Born on this day: 4 Aug 1901
Louis Armstrong, singer, bandleader, trumpet. Had many hits including the 1964 US No.1 'Hello Dolly!', 1968 UK No.1 'What A Wonderful World’ plus ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’, ‘Ain't Misbehavin’, and ‘We Have All the Time in the World.’ Died 6th July 1971. via thisdayinmusic.com

Still after all these years, a great song.


&&&


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Blind? He was hoping for death. Genius Award Winner.

Prior case studies have reported that sex — including the autoerotic variety — “was the immediate preceding activity before a ruptured aneurysm in up to 14 percent of patients,” according to clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Amee Baird, author of “Sex in the Brain: How Your Brain Controls Your Sex Life” (Columbia University Press, 2020). The risk of death by sex-induced stroke can be compounded by taking cocaine or Viagra before the act.

The man survived his near-fatal orgasm ordeal and was released from the hospital within two weeks in excellent condition, according to doctors.

However, he should thank his lucky stars he didn’t achieve the opposite of a happy ending, as a ruptured brain aneurysm causes “death in 40 percent of cases,” Baird reported. Meanwhile, two-thirds of survivors are left with serious neurological deficits.

This isn’t the first time someone has suffered a vascular mishap during an act of self-gratification. In 2016, a Bronx hospital worker allegedly died of a heart attack while masturbating to porn at work, according to police sources.


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This guy understands malicious persecution. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Dinesh and Debbie D’Souza will donate $100,000 to a nonprofit fund that will give immediate financial relief to the families of Americans detained for their involvement in the Capitol protest on January 6.

Dozens of Americans who’ve been arrested and charged have languished in jail for months awaiting trial, denied bail by federal judges as Joe Biden’s Justice Department repeatedly seeks pre-trial detention even for nonviolent offenders. Many remain held in a D.C. jail used specifically to house January 6 protesters, creating a class of political prisoners who face an unequal system of justice based on their political views and activity. This group includes veterans, former law enforcement officers, and active military personnel.


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1 Worst

Posted by: blaster at August 04, 2021 08:47 PM (mbFEM)

2 frist

Posted by: james kolman at August 04, 2021 08:47 PM (3+Cmz)

3 Also convertibles are awesome for toting things like that.

Posted by: blaster at August 04, 2021 08:47 PM (mbFEM)

4 dammit misswd it by

Posted by: james kolman at August 04, 2021 08:48 PM (3+Cmz)

5 good evening

Posted by: wing at August 04, 2021 08:49 PM (PlW9M)

6 Oh I got to meet Greg Gadson today that was cool.

Posted by: blaster at August 04, 2021 08:50 PM (mbFEM)

7 Early ONT!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 08:51 PM (i9ZF7)

8 Doesn't the old man squatter have adverse possession rights? He has lived there openly for many years and made permanent improvements.

In Alabama the legal owner would have to give him a deed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:51 PM (yQpMk)

9 I would totally live in that water mill.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 08:52 PM (i9ZF7)

10 Wonder if Mr Noto has a newsletter.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 08:52 PM (i9ZF7)

11 I don't think Plato had the benefit of Yoko Ono.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 08:53 PM (QU5/8)

12 So I just watched "The Changeling" (the one with Nomad). Given that we know the transporter makes a copy and destroys the original, and that (as evidenced by the holodeck) Starfleet engineers have never met a safeguard they couldn't disable, why didn't they just start to transport Nomad, cut the power halfway through, and clear the buffer?

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 08:53 PM (8548M)

13 why didn't they just start to transport Nomad, cut the power halfway through, and clear the buffer?
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 08:53 PM (8548M)


Spoiler much?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 08:54 PM (aA3+G)

14 I liked it better when UTC was more than just a concept!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 08:54 PM (hOUT3)

15 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (SchxB)

16 Oh here you all are. Happy ONT!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (Dc2NZ)

17 why didn't they just start to transport Nomad, cut the power halfway through, and clear the buffer?
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 08:53 PM (8548M)


Why don't they use the transporter record to resurrect crewmen killed on away teams?

It's a mystery.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (yQpMk)

18 14 I liked it better when UTC was more than just a concept!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 08:54 PM (hOUT3)

It's my "Friday" night, felt like leaving work early.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (aA3+G)

19 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (K5n5d)

20 More accurately, Starfleet engineers have never met a safeguard they actually bothered to implement. As an engineer myself, working in an organization that prioritizes safety, I wince a lot. Like in "Mira". They beam down to the planet with no PPE, having learned NOT A DAMNED THING from "The Naked Time".

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 08:56 PM (8548M)

21 early to bed
early to rise
Makes a CoB healthy, humanitarian and wise

Posted by: Ye Olde Miklos Almanack at August 04, 2021 08:56 PM (QzkSJ)

22 why didn't they just start to transport Nomad, cut the power halfway through, and clear the buffer?
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 08:53 PM (8548M)

Why don't they use the transporter record to resurrect crewmen killed on away teams?

It's a mystery.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (yQpMk)
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Sometimes it's best to simply lie back and enjoy the nonsense. Don't think about it too much...That's the only way I can enjoy movies that are completely ridiculous, but also crazy awesome (*cough*Pacific Rim*cough*)

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (K5n5d)

23 Why not use the transporter as a replicator to staff star ships with fully trained crews?

I think that Roddenberry didn't like the idea of transporters at all, but shuttle shots were too expensive for the series.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (yQpMk)

24 17 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (yQpMk)

You would think boarding parties would be a huge deal what with knocking out shields and all, the peaceniks made TNG literally retarded militarily and tried to pretend Starfleet was never "a military" despite you know the Romulan War and 4 years war.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (Lzpvj)

25 Mark Levine going off on the feckless, ballless, toothless Republicans.

A for effort but no amount of yelling is going to stir them to action.

So, there's that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (WZ6QY)

26 Why don't they use the transporter record to resurrect crewmen killed on away teams?

It's a mystery.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (yQpMk)


How does the transporter make clothes?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (i9ZF7)

27 "Zambreno details her struggles as an author and mother as she researches Guibert - the difficulty of finding uninterrupted time to think"

Bless her heart.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (49Exr)

28 23 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (yQpMk)

Initially he envisioned Enterprise landing on planets, but the costs would have been way high.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (Lzpvj)

29

Bonsoir, fappeurs et fappettes!

Posted by: Zettai at August 04, 2021 08:59 PM (GsLZF)

30 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Oh just peachy. My little burb just reintstated the mask mandate. I'll be shopping in the next county over from me. Not doing this shit again.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 04, 2021 08:59 PM (nxdel)

31 27 "Zambreno details her struggles as an author and mother as she researches Guibert - the difficulty of finding uninterrupted time to think"

Bless her heart.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (49Exr)


I love it when the Horde speaks Southernese

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 08:59 PM (aA3+G)

32 I mean, let's not panic. It was only a near-fatal orgasm.

Also, I claim Fatal Orgasm for my shoegazer metal band name.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 08:59 PM (Dc2NZ)

33 Hot today, so I have an excuse to get some ice cream.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 04, 2021 08:59 PM (SchxB)

34 What's a dumb sci-fi movie/series that you just love watching?


Battle star Galactica for me.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:00 PM (i9ZF7)

35 So many thoughts about quote 7. It is interesting that whomever they reach out to, they can't do anything. The owner says he didn't even know the guy existed there. My guess is this is land for tree cutting or something. It is not like the guy is in someone's yard.

Obviously there is a lot more too this and I don't know any of the details. But it would be nice to think there are still areas of this country where a man can build something and live his own way if he is willing to do it and pay the price of that isolation. People live on city streets and are they better off?

Posted by: Quint at August 04, 2021 09:00 PM (ZS6f0)

36 Initially he envisioned Enterprise landing on planets, but the costs would have been way high.
Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (Lzpvj)
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Yup. Sometimes TV has to invent things on the fly to save costs, but that invention can then take on a life of its own. The Doctor's regeneration cycle from Doctor Who is also one of those things (they wanted to continue the show but William Hartnell was old and sick).

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:01 PM (K5n5d)

37 Funny how Dinesh and Debbie D'Souza can find the courage to try and right a grievous insult to Constitutional liberties while ALL elected Republicans seem to stand mute.

A very calibrating moment!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:01 PM (hOUT3)

38 Coming in early, continuing the NERD! from late last night... all our 'Mechs, Gundams, and what-have-you's are no match for a fully functional Eliminator, in Afterburner form, crewed by that Little Ol' Band from Texas...

A little late here, but Rest well Dusty...

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at August 04, 2021 09:02 PM (iJCGt)

39 (I had to fight with pixie so much just to post this I'm putting it here A 75-page PDF about masks not working with stats from around the world (including U.S. states) in charts. https://tinyurl.com/yj9dj26d Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 04, 2021 08:41 PM (UHVv4)


I try to tell people the following but no one listens to me because what I'm saying makes complete sense and is contrary to everything they've heard so they just null what I say from their memory. But # of cases is completely irrelevant and is no more of an indicator by its self than the color of people's shoestrings. Here is an example: (pixie will puke over this so no line feeds sorry)

# of cases (period 1: 50, period 2:51, period 3:52, period 4:53)

Here's one more slightly important bit of information: (period 1:100 tests, period 2:1000 tests, period 3:10000 tests, period 4:100000 tests)

So number of cases are increasing oh no!! What's the sample % trend? 50%, 5%, .5%, .05%

Without knowing how the number of people rushing out to get their self tested changed the # of cases is useless info. Positive normalized to total tested only matters

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 09:02 PM (2xiYd)

40 Are there any positions still available in the AoS Ladies Brigade?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:02 PM (Dc2NZ)

41 36 Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:01 PM (K5n5d)

and now magically the regeneration can turn you into an uninteresting Aspie SJW Chick....

"Extermin-ate"

https://youtu.be/h-bGlNP_BlY

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:03 PM (Lzpvj)

42 The transporter merely "disassembles" the object, runs the particles through a modulator, then into the transmitter and beams said stuff to wherever. There is no copy. Geez people, learn some science.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:03 PM (r1z5A)

43 Oh here you all are. Happy ONT!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM


It was reported earlier today that you obtained and exercised naming rights for the AtC stadium.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:03 PM (a3Q+t)

44 40 Are there any positions still available in the AoS Ladies Brigade?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:02 PM (Dc2NZ


I think Full Bird Colonel is still up for grabs.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:03 PM (i9ZF7)

45 37 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:01 PM (hOUT3)

The amount of Kompromot the donks have on the GOP Go Along Gang must beggar the imagination....

we can play word games in the camps guessing what is on whom.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:04 PM (Lzpvj)

46 Why don't they use the transporter record to resurrect crewmen killed on away teams?



It's a mystery.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (yQpMk)

They just need to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

Posted by: Jon Pertwee at August 04, 2021 09:04 PM (ufFY8)

47 Evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2021 09:04 PM (mD/uy)

48 It's my "Friday" night, felt like leaving work early.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM (aA3+G)


A perfect rationale understood and accepted, I'm actually happy there is an ONT!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:04 PM (hOUT3)

49 Posted it before but my, my did we have a time at the Chicago Blues Fests in the early 80s. People would come from all over the world to play for free at the home of the blues. Good times. Now you'd get robbed.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 09:05 PM (+ya+t)

50 The transporter merely "disassembles" the object, runs the particles through a modulator, then into the transmitter and beams said stuff to wherever. There is no copy. Geez people, learn some science.
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:03 PM (r1z5A)
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Isn't that why the transporter has a "Heisenberg Compensator"? To get around some pesky laws of physics regarding the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:05 PM (K5n5d)

51 - -
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I sincerely disagree with Plato. I find music to be mostly an amusing talent, like juggling. I don't believe the music we humans are capable of to be profound or important.

Posted by: irright at August 04, 2021 09:05 PM (BB7pQ)

52 Bonsoir, fappeurs et fappettes!
Posted by: Zettai

The accepted term is "fappetiste" or "fappateur"

Posted by: Le Mikleuse at August 04, 2021 09:06 PM (QzkSJ)

53 Are there any positions still available in the AoS Ladies Brigade?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Threa



missinary?

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:06 PM (QBCNp)

54 *Why don't they use the transporter record to resurrect crewmen killed on away teams?*

More expensive than a new Red Shirt, what with insurance and all...

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at August 04, 2021 09:06 PM (iJCGt)

55 That sinking feeling you get when you look at the post timestamp, and recognize that you are gonna come into the thread in late Sponge territory.

Top 200?

Posted by: GnuBreed (FoYaR) at August 04, 2021 09:06 PM (F0YaR)

56 48

A perfect rationale understood and accepted, I'm actually happy there is an ONT!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:04 PM (hOUT3)

Of course there is an ONT

Since Sept 2008 as a matter of fact. I'm just another Cob in the long line of Overnight Entertainment.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:06 PM (aA3+G)

57 The transporter (replicator) makes clothing using blocks of raw material it's pulling from a storeroom somewhere. Presumably, they have to stock up on said raw material periodically. I don't know if they can, for example, harvest whatever's left of the Klingon ship they just blew apart.

*gets idea for sci-fi horror story*

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 09:06 PM (8548M)

58 Isn't that why the transporter has a "Heisenberg Compensator"? To get around some pesky laws of physics regarding the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:05 PM (K5n5d


I don't know what Breaking Bad has to do with Star Wars.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:07 PM (i9ZF7)

59 42 Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:03 PM (r1z5A)

Eh "kind of" at some point they decided that the entire "post scarcity economy" ran on rearranging random molecules using replication tech of course a few things- 1) given that anyone can have anything what motivates anyone to endure doing anything? We see a lot of officer types in Star Trek, but who the fuck is a janitor?

2) Why is there ever any conflict between anyone, come to think on it why the fuck are they galivanting across the cosmos in the first place? If anything is there for the asking why would anyone ever have to explore brave new worlds?

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:07 PM (Lzpvj)

60 What's a dumb sci-fi movie/series that you just love watching?


Battle star Galactica for me.
Posted by: AlaBAMA


All those marionette ones. I really love those shows.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:07 PM (r1z5A)

61 49 Posted it before but my, my did we have a time at the Chicago Blues Fests in the early 80s. People would come from all over the world to play for free at the home of the blues. Good times. Now you'd get robbed.
Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 09:05 PM (+ya+t)

What a shame.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:07 PM (aA3+G)

62 https://theluckystars.com/

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at August 04, 2021 09:07 PM (yrDQV)

63 I would definitely vote for DeSantis as POTUS '24. Assuming we can have a national election by then and the Red States aren't shooting at the Blue States.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 04, 2021 09:07 PM (W+kMI)

64 Wow -- 55th? Slow nite on the ONT. Thanks for all your efforts, Mis Hum.

Being gone all day, I'm still working on the links from JJS. I haz many open tabs.

Posted by: GnuBreed (FoYaR) at August 04, 2021 09:08 PM (F0YaR)

65 IIRC, one of them Rockefellers went and died in the saddle, as they say.

Thankfully, this was in the days before twidder, instagram n' farcebook.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 04, 2021 09:08 PM (QzJWU)

66 Of course there is an ONT

Since Sept 2008 as a matter of fact. I'm just another Cob in the long line of Overnight Entertainment.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:06 PM (aA3+G)


Did y'all draw straws?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:08 PM (i9ZF7)

67 Why don't they use the transporter record to resurrect crewmen killed on away teams?

It's a mystery.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:55 PM


Naw, it's the lobbying of Big Redshirt.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:08 PM (a3Q+t)

68 51...I don't believe the music we humans are capable of to be profound or important.
Posted by: irright at August 04, 2021 09:05 PM (BB7pQ)

There's more to music than modern pop. I assume you have never listened to Bach's works for solo violin.

Posted by: Flyover at August 04, 2021 09:08 PM (Rbu5d)

69 I sincerely disagree with Plato. I find music to be
mostly an amusing talent, like juggling. I don't believe the music we
humans are capable of to be profound or important.


Posted by: irright at August 04, 2021 09:05 PM (BB7pQ)

I prefer talk radio and sports radio, even though I watch very few sports these days. The vast majority of the world would disagree however, music is one of the things pretty much all respond too, regardless of the time and where they live.

Posted by: Quint at August 04, 2021 09:09 PM (ZS6f0)

70 It was reported earlier today that you obtained and exercised naming rights for the AtC stadium.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:03 PM (a3Q+t)
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Are we talking about Lefty and Scamp?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:09 PM (Dc2NZ)

71 His home is in violation of local and state zoning and environmental regulations, and there is no access to a road.

Scotty, beam me up.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 09:09 PM (H/umX)

72 I find music to be mostly an amusing talent, like juggling. I don't believe the music we humans are capable of to be profound or important.
Posted by: irright at August 04, 2021 09:05 PM (BB7pQ)


So you have never listened to Bach, Beethoven, Handel, or Mozart?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:09 PM (hOUT3)

73 If anything is there for the asking why would anyone ever have to explore brave new worlds?
Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:07 PM (Lzpvj)
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I think the answer alluded to a few times is, "Because it's there." If YOU had the opportunity and the ability to gallivant across the universe schtupping green-skinned space babes, even though all of your material needs were met at home, would you take it?

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:09 PM (K5n5d)

74 68 72 Hive Mind...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (hOUT3)

75 Quote VII?
Fuck him. It's called squatting. And it's theft of someone's private property. I don't give a shit that he is some 21st century Thoreau...he is stealing from the owners of the land.

What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (Q9lwr)

76 71 Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 09:09 PM (H/umX)

It really is pretty amazing that they can't wrap their heads around the fact he probably goes to town once or twice a month.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (Lzpvj)

77 gallivant across the universe schtupping
green-skinned space babes, even though all of your material needs were
met at home, would you take it?

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:09 PM (K5n5d)

you had me at space babe

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (ufFY8)

78
I do not as a rule allow myself to be photographed, but allowed myself to be persuaded at the Houston shows to sit for a family portrait.

https://soyaraborzoi.com/FamilyPicture2021.jpg

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (/U27+)

79 What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (Q9lwr)


Pssst....


Communists

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:11 PM (i9ZF7)

80 Did y'all draw straws?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:08 PM (i9ZF7)


It is still unclear if the "winner" or the "loser" was the next ONT host!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:11 PM (hOUT3)

81 Are there any positions still available in the AoS Ladies Brigade?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:02 PM


garrett seemed to think the sammich maker billet was open.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:11 PM (a3Q+t)

82 20 More accurately, Starfleet engineers have never met a safeguard they actually bothered to implement. As an engineer myself, working in an organization that prioritizes safety, I wince a lot. Like in "Mira". They beam down to the planet with no PPE, having learned NOT A DAMNED THING from "The Naked Time".
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Well, you know the adventure truly begins when everything is not running smoothly per SOP. The way I see it, every Star Trek adventure of whatever series that we watch is one where something goes wrong, or is too anomalous, or too new to be covered by the book. Or Starfleet tells them to do something foolish, dangerous, or both.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 04, 2021 09:11 PM (W+kMI)

83 78
I do not as a rule allow myself to be photographed, but allowed myself to be persuaded at the Houston shows to sit for a family portrait.

https://soyaraborzoi.com/FamilyPicture2021.jpg
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (/U27+)
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I'd take him for a trot around the ring!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:11 PM (Dc2NZ)

84 What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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^/this

Posted by: From that time at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (4780s)

85 @51

Watch a video of Luciano Pavarotti performing Nessun Dorma and watch the expression on his face after he hit s the last Vinecero, he's transported to another place.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (WZ6QY)

86 All those marionette ones

Like Thunderbirds? Loved that kinda thing as a kid.

For a dumb sci-fi show I like: Killjoys.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (QU5/8)

87 Remember when Jay and Silent Bob (the characters, not the personalities) come into a little money, and they use it to travel around the US, and beat up random movie fans who wrote about how they hated The Adventures of Bluntman and Chronic?

No reason.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (ybIRR)

88 Hadrian the 7th - you closely resemble some guy but I just can't put my finger on him.

I'll get a P.I. on the case.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (mD/uy)

89 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (/U27+)

Awesome 'stache there Hadrian.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (aA3+G)

90 I would be in the brig were I a member of Star Fleet.


The shit I would do with the holodeck...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (i9ZF7)

91 garrett seemed to think the sammich maker billet was open.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:11 PM (a3Q+t)
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He can have it. He has Crocs, just like Mario Batali.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (Dc2NZ)

92 73 Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:09 PM (K5n5d)

Right except the space angst evidently unleashes genocidal weapons beyond our imagining like star cluster bombs and solar system devouring mad AIs.

Remember "space hippies" became the new norm, so other than the absolute Ode to fucking joy moonbats get inflicting their idiocies on the innocent why would they be "braving new worlds?"

Me I drive to Canada on occasion just to get a milkshake...but I am hardly SPACE HIPPIE

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (Lzpvj)

93 How does the transporter make clothes?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (i9ZF7)


Now that would make for interesting TV.

Posted by: Javems at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (vW9Vw)

94 1) given that anyone can have anything what motivates anyone to endure doing anything? We see a lot of officer types in Star Trek, but who the fuck is a janitor?

2) Why is there ever any conflict between anyone, come to think on it why the fuck are they galivanting across the cosmos in the first place? If anything is there for the asking why would anyone ever have to explore brave new worlds?
Posted by: sven


Co-workers would joke worst job on the Enterprise NG was cleaning up the Holodeck after Worfs "adult" time...

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (r1z5A)

95 Well done Hadrian, a very commanding presence you present!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:13 PM (hOUT3)

96 80 Did y'all draw straws?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:08 PM (i9ZF7)

It is still unclear if the "winner" or the "loser" was the next ONT host!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:11 PM (hOUT3)


I volunteered, I guess that says my meds weren't fully working then.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:13 PM (aA3+G)

97 Posted by: irright at August 04, 2021 09:05 PM (BB7pQ)

You simply aren't listening to good music.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:13 PM (Q9lwr)

98 Are we talking about Lefty and Scamp?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:09 PM


We are.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:13 PM (a3Q+t)

99 Fuck him. It's called squatting.


Adverse possession has a long history in this country. One of the benefits is it forces absentee owners to keep an interest in their sometimes vast holdings. Plus, the squatter only get the part they have improved, not the whole parcel. So in this case, the guy should get maybe half an acre with access rights.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:14 PM (yQpMk)

100 What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?
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Eminent domain coming to a property near us all soon.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 09:14 PM (+ya+t)

101 Ranch on pizza is the first thing I've seen here identified as Midwest that I claim zero knowledge of. There must be some latitude above which things start getting weird.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 09:14 PM (2xiYd)

102 75 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (Q9lwr)

Psst the government gives away billions in no bid contracts to favored donors with wild printing press money....

step one to property rights is solvent fucking money and limited fucking government no offense meant.

We are so debauched as a culture it is beyond kenning.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:14 PM (Lzpvj)

103 No newsletter, but soon to start podcasting.

Posted by: Matt Noto at August 04, 2021 09:15 PM (ZaYq5)

104 Girl928 actually lost a strip of her property in the WV mountains because the farmer at the top of the mountain had built his barn across the property line.

It's just a thing that happens.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:15 PM (yQpMk)

105 40 Are there any positions still available in the AoS Ladies Brigade?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:02 PM (Dc2NZ)

I guess we aren't doing "phrasing" anymore.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at August 04, 2021 09:15 PM (II3Gr)

106 Yet another example where all the rules and regulations are mis-applied or ignored when convenient yet applied with rigorous zeal when desired.

See "adverse posession"; I don't care for it necessarily, but it is most definitely a thing in terms of the law.

Now pay attention to the current "eviction moratorium" - because, any dwelling without electricity, or running water, is considered "uninhabitable" by the local codes. Just try building a house from scratch and say "Nah brah, we don't need any of that stuff". They will not let you.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2021 09:15 PM (feFsi)

107 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (Q9lwr)

I agree on property rights. I said I would like to think there are still places that someone can live that are not private. I know there are massive national forests. You can camp in them, but is there a time limit? Look at truckers who sleep where they park their trucks, and also people who travel around in RV's. I know of construction guys who spends months "camping" near wealthy areas where they make their money.

I bet there are parts of Alaska you could live in an not be bothered if you could survive. My opinion is something could likely be worked out. If the guy works that hard certainly they could find a way for him to pay. Some people are off, they walk to a different drum. Some want to be Jerimiah Jonson. the thing that stood out to me was the number of people who said they could not help.

Posted by: Quint at August 04, 2021 09:16 PM (ZS6f0)

108 Ranch on pizza must be some Squarehead Wisconsin thing.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:16 PM (Dc2NZ)

109 38 Coming in early, continuing the NERD! from late last night... all our 'Mechs, Gundams, and what-have-you's are no match for a fully functional Eliminator, in Afterburner form, crewed by that Little Ol' Band from Texas...

A little late here, but Rest well Dusty...
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RIP Dusty, the world is a less cool place. And yeah, that red Eliminator was a real dream machine back in the day. Sadly, it never showed up at home or at school for the 3 hot babes to sweep me away to some never-never land where I'd be transformed into someone cool and exciting.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 04, 2021 09:16 PM (W+kMI)

110 94 Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (r1z5A)

Sanitized for your protection...

//Big Mike Soetoro

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:16 PM (Lzpvj)

111 -So you have never listened to Bach, Beethoven, Handel, or Mozart?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar----
No. Their music is an interesting diversion. Not much else.

Posted by: irright at August 04, 2021 09:16 PM (BB7pQ)

112 You have to know that all of Punchy's nurses, from Jenny "Col. Kleb" Psuckoff to Shit Stain Klain, as well as all the other other puffed up Soviet style henchmen oiling around the WH now, are meeting tonight over pizza about what to do about this DeSantis guy. He's ruining everything - no one told them there would be adult opposition, dammit!

Posted by: Boswell at August 04, 2021 09:16 PM (5iUNf)

113 78
I do not as a rule allow myself to be photographed, but allowed myself to be persuaded at the Houston shows to sit for a family portrait.

https://soyaraborzoi.com/FamilyPicture2021.jpg
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (/U27+)

Sire, you were great in that movie about the cowboy in Australia! Love that movie!!

Posted by: Flyover at August 04, 2021 09:16 PM (Rbu5d)

114 Ranch on pizza must be some Squarehead Wisconsin thing.

Or something perverted at Comet Pizza.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 04, 2021 09:17 PM (+LCoQ)

115 I would be in the brig were I a member of Star Fleet.


The shit I would do with the holodeck...
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (i9ZF7)



Imagine hacking the replicator to make you your own Orion Slave Girl.

It is like the ultimate 3D printing technology.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:17 PM (yQpMk)

116 108 Ranch on pizza must be some Squarehead Wisconsin thing.
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The pizza joints keep trying to push it in Ohio too. Which is stupid of course, since everyone knows ranch is for tenders and wings.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 04, 2021 09:17 PM (W+kMI)

117 I guess we aren't doing "phrasing" anymore.
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at August 04, 2021 09:15 PM (II3Gr)
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I had to choose between "slot" and "position". Both are fraught with peril at the HQ.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:17 PM (Dc2NZ)

118 Old dude squatting needs to go.
If the structure was legal, and he contributed in some way to the upkeep/capital maintenance of it, then he *might* be entitled to some compensation (at least in MI). But, the damned thing is in violation just existing, and if the new owners want him out, then GTFO. Otherwise, buy the land from the owners and deal with getting the shack legal.

Don't give me a fucking sob story.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 04, 2021 09:18 PM (ufFY8)

119 Sorry, I can't stay for the Star Trek symposium, but it's past my bed time.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher, Ensign, UFP at August 04, 2021 09:18 PM (a3Q+t)

120 Ranch on pizza must be some Squarehead Wisconsin thing.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:16 PM (Dc2NZ)
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Can it even rightly be called "pizza" at that point? Next thing you know, people will be putting syrup on French toast! Then it's the end of everything!

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:18 PM (K5n5d)

121 Imagine hacking the replicator to make you your own Orion Slave Girl.

It is like the ultimate 3D printing technology.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:17 PM (yQpMk)


Why have one Orion Slave Girl when you can have ten?

And many pillows.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:18 PM (i9ZF7)

122 Yup, I'm pretty certain that the 1% motorcycle clubs who make Sturgis an annual must-run (like the Hells Angels and the Outlaws, IIRC) won't be deterred by Covid, so Carol should simply find a nice place to take a week's vacation lest she finds herself duct-taped to a tree somewhere in SW South Dakota.

Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at August 04, 2021 09:19 PM (xxG/v)

123 The music video for Plato is perfect.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:19 PM (Nt0u1)

124 I volunteered, I guess that says my meds weren't fully working then.
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Glad you did MisHum. This place wouldn't be the same without your Packer loving a**.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 09:19 PM (+ya+t)

125 That's not Ranch!!!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:19 PM (i9ZF7)

126 Since Sept 2008 as a matter of fact. I'm just another Cob in the long line of Overnight Entertainment.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Thank you!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 04, 2021 09:19 PM (gylQA)

127 Girl928 actually lost a strip of her property in the WV mountains because the farmer at the top of the mountain had built his barn across the property line.

It's just a thing that happens.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)


Here one would have to tear down that portion which encroached on someone elses property.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:19 PM (r1z5A)

128 A while back, I read a fan theory that the Enterprise was the only ship any of this crazy shit was happening to. Everyone else had perfectly routine missions, but Kirk was a weirdness magnet. His reports back to Starfleet were ignored/assumed to be his imagination. But students at the Academy managed to get bootleg copies and are still passing them around. Riker, of course, read every one. This is why in "The Naked Now" it's Riker who says, "Hey, this happened to the original Enterprise!" I love that theory.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 09:20 PM (8548M)

129 Here one would have to tear down that portion which encroached on someone elses property.
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:19 PM (r1z5A)


Where is here?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:20 PM (yQpMk)

130 119 Posted by: Wesley Crusher, Ensign, UFP at August 04, 2021 09:18 PM (a3Q+t)

Damn it Wesley....

Crush-a explain to the class how in the hell we managed to forget that Federation credits were a recurring thing until your and my idiot hippie fest?

Bonus points for working the Yoga bit your mom and the shrink had.

//Jean Lucky Peecard

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:20 PM (Lzpvj)

131 75 Quote VII?
Fuck him. It's called squatting. And it's theft of someone's private property. I don't give a shit that he is some 21st century Thoreau...he is stealing from the owners of the land.

What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?
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We keep letting pinko Commiecrats get elected and stay in office. That's what's happened to property rights. Oddly enough, the Commiecrats' wealthy leaders never seem to worry about someone squatting on or infringing upon their extensive real estate...

Posted by: exdem13 at August 04, 2021 09:21 PM (W+kMI)

132 -You simply aren't listening to good music.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:13 PM-
Define "good music" and how it's superior to "good barbecue". I personally would trade all music in the history of the world for good barbecue.

Posted by: irright at August 04, 2021 09:21 PM (BB7pQ)

133 Imagine hacking the replicator to make you your own Orion Slave Girl.

It is like the ultimate 3D printing technology.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:17 PM (yQpMk)
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Hmmm. Can the replicators make living, animate objects? The holodecks simulate it through the application of some sort of field technology, not true replication of physical objects. The replicators are creating true matter...But can they make it "alive?" Interesting philosophical/technical question...

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:21 PM (K5n5d)

134 Good evening y'all!

Colorado Morondezvous
Saturday August 21st
6:30pm til ........
Central Denver (not downtown)

wds dot aoshq at proton mail dot com

You know you want to be there! Special guests abound

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 04, 2021 09:21 PM (/UQ/R)

135 I'm fine with the concept of adverse possession; it has long roots. But the old nutter claims he lived there by permission of the former owner, which blows adverse possession out of the water.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 09:21 PM (QU5/8)

136 I don't know if ranch dressing on pizza is a Midwestern thing or if some other region is to blame.

However, ranch on Ding-Dongs can be isolated to a single trailer park in Mississippi.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2021 09:21 PM (ACi07)

137 I think it would be good for thousands to squat Bill Gates' farmland.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:21 PM (yQpMk)

138 65 IIRC, one of them Rockefellers went and died in the saddle, as they say.

Thankfully, this was in the days before twidder, instagram n' farcebook.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim


That would be Nelson, IIRC.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2021 09:22 PM (+lVUW)

139 Where is here?
Posted by: G'rump928(c)


State of Wa.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:22 PM (r1z5A)

140 What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (Q9lwr)

Property rights, Free Speech, Taxation without representation (latest dictate about rent)
Gun Rights (California where I need permission to buy ammo).
Equal application of the law.
Religious Freedom (they used CoVids to shut down churches).
Free Assembly (Covids)
Right to petition for redress (Supremes said they would not second guess executives during a crises, that the Executive declared).
Free Press (censoring some, giving those who agree with them access).
Even a Republican form of Government is now moot.

I'm trying to figure out if I have any RIGHTS left.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:22 PM (oHd/0)

141 133 Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:21 PM (K5n5d)

You can make a green chick Positronic Robot that is not an annoying twathammer....

Data and Lore I guess my Andorian Robot Chick would be "Audit."

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:22 PM (Lzpvj)

142 Great ONT, Mis Hum! Many thanks for it.

Great tune behind the photo.

Clay Jenkins of Dallas is an ass. He distinguished himself during their Ebola fiasco, and yet keeps getting re-elected.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 04, 2021 09:22 PM (rwusL)

143 So in this case, the guy should get maybe half an acre with access rights.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:14 PM (yQpMk)

This is so insanely wrong it shocks me. It is owned by someone else. How on earth is there any sane justification for some fucking wandering hippie lunatic to gain some claim on the property simply because he has time to hang out and build some fucking shithole of a shack?

Maybe I want to grow hardwood trees which I harvest once every 20 years. So I have to waste time and money showing up on my land to keep some fucking communist scumbag from expropriating it based on bullshit progressive law?

Fuck that. That is what shovels and quicklime are for.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:23 PM (Q9lwr)

144 Where is here?

Yes. It depends.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2021 09:23 PM (feFsi)

145 "Have you read Kirk's latest?" "Yeah, he traveled back in time and met the father of the guy who piloted the first mission to Saturn. *makes jerking off motion*"

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 09:23 PM (8548M)

146 >>> What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?
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Eminent domain coming to a property near us all soon.
Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 09:14 PM (+ya+t)


Unfortunately, I had to do some legal research regarding a squatter situation. Being at some place for a considerable period of time actually gives you a lot of leverage against a property owner. While just trespassing and immediately claiming some place is your home now doesn't work very well, generally. If you are a property owner and act fast you can take care of things much easier.

But I'm really surprised this old dude is being shuffled off so quickly. The current property owners must be high-up communist party officials to get this sort of quick service in NH.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 09:24 PM (2xiYd)

147 36 Initially he envisioned Enterprise landing on planets, but the costs would have been way high.
Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (Lzpvj)


The construction of the shuttlecraft set wasn't completed.

Posted by: blaster at August 04, 2021 09:24 PM (mbFEM)

148 Where is here?
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Even here in Crook County, IL you can't do that.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 09:24 PM (+ya+t)

149 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Just as I envisioned you!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 04, 2021 09:24 PM (gylQA)

150 I'm fine with the concept of adverse possession; it has long roots. But the old nutter claims he lived there by permission of the former owner, which blows adverse possession out of the water.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 09:21 PM (QU5/



Indeed, saying that was his one mistake.

In Alabama, as I understand it and I'm no lawyer, adverse possession requires that you know that you don't have rights, you do everything openly, not attempting to hide your possession, you make permanent improvements, and you have to do this for a certain number of years. 7, I think here.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:24 PM (yQpMk)

151 122 Yup, I'm pretty certain that the 1% motorcycle clubs who make Sturgis an annual must-run (like the Hells Angels and the Outlaws, IIRC) won't be deterred by Covid, so Carol should simply find a nice place to take a week's vacation lest she finds herself duct-taped to a tree somewhere in SW South Dakota.
Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at August 04, 2021 09:19 PM (xxG/v)

And could rent her house for WAY more than a trip to Hawaii would cost.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:24 PM (oHd/0)

152 You can make a green chick Positronic Robot that is not an annoying twathammer....

Data and Lore I guess my Andorian Robot Chick would be "Audit."
Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:22 PM (Lzpvj)
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That didn't work out too well for a certain Harcourt Fenton Mudd, as I recall...

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:25 PM (K5n5d)

153 Ah, Federation credits, always a mystery about how they exactly work. I prefer the DS9 explantion: Quark do what I say or I charge rent or bust a phaser in your ass.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:25 PM (Nt0u1)

154 Yeah, if old hippie build that himself, then fuck him, kick his ass out.If the previous owners built it, then THEY built it illegally, and fuck him, GTFO.

Old guy can chalk it up to a good 30y run of grift, and find a commune..

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 04, 2021 09:26 PM (ufFY8)

155 What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

the tyranny of compromise

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:26 PM (QBCNp)

156 In Alabama, as I understand it and I'm no lawyer, adverse possession requires that you know that you don't have rights, you do everything openly, not attempting to hide your possession, you make permanent improvements, and you have to do this for a certain number of years. 7, I think here.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)


I believe one must also pay the taxes on said adverse property for a set period of time.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:27 PM (r1z5A)

157 Maybe I want to grow hardwood trees which I harvest once every 20 years. So I have to waste time and money showing up on my land to keep some fucking communist scumbag from expropriating it based on bullshit progressive law?
Fuck that. That is what shovels and quicklime are for.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I'm wit ya - but, here in Ahia, adverse possession can be a thing. It's more than what I'll lay out but one of the points being if the trespasser occupies the property in question for 21 years, they can make an adverse possession claim on your shit.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2021 09:27 PM (mD/uy)

158 I wanted a Star Trek episode where a saboteur made the holodeck spray a flood of water into the ship. Kirk does what Gene Hackman does in a Poseidon Adventure. Scotty is Ernest Borgnine. McCoy is Grampa Joe. The other Grampa Joe. Kirk's wig holds up under water, because his wigs are quality.

Badger from Breaking Bad has an idea

https://youtu.be/fX1AGFHIros

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 09:27 PM (ybIRR)

159 Initially he envisioned Enterprise landing on planets, but the costs would have been way high.
Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (Lzpvj)

The construction of the shuttlecraft set wasn't completed.
Posted by: blaster at August 04, 2021 09:24 PM (mbFEM)

Budget restraints can sometimes cause great creativity.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:27 PM (Nt0u1)

160 155 What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

the tyranny of compromise
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:26 PM (QBCNp)

The tyranny of being nice.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:27 PM (oHd/0)

161 >>some fucking wandering hippie lunatic to gain some claim on the property simply because he has time to hang out and build some fucking shithole of a shack?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:23 PM (Q9lwr)

Concur. Dura lex, sed lex.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:28 PM (xK9An)

162 I think that Roddenberry didn't like the idea of transporters at all, but shuttle shots were too expensive for the series.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 08:58 PM (yQpMk)

I don't buy that. They had a shuttle set, would have cost them nothing to make more use of it. I think it was more a case of not wasting program time on a flight.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 09:28 PM (kxUIB)

163 Howdy Horde. Great ONT.

Die Olympics, die.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 04, 2021 09:28 PM (jvt6t)

164 I don't care as long as Skeletor is in every episode.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 09:29 PM (ybIRR)

165 My property is a shooting range. Signs should have warned you.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:29 PM (i9ZF7)

166 155 What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

the tyranny of compromise
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:26 PM (QBCNp)

The tyranny of being nice.
Posted by: R


then there is the stupidity

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:29 PM (QBCNp)

167 I don't buy that. They had a shuttle set, would have cost them nothing to make more use of it. I think it was more a case of not wasting program time on a flight.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 09:28 PM (kxUIB)

Could have easily written some of the set up happening on the shuttle craft, vice on the bridge.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:29 PM (oHd/0)

168 The transporter merely "disassembles" the object, runs the particles through a modulator, then into the transmitter and beams said stuff to wherever. There is no copy. Geez people, learn some science.
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:03 PM (r1z5A)

this is contradicted by The Naked Time, where Kirk gets duped into a wimpy good Kirk and a mean Kirk.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 09:29 PM (EJbIh)

169 It'll be interesting to see what the eviction moratorium does to the cost of rental housing in the long run. There's a concept: "actions have consequences".

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2021 09:30 PM (+lVUW)

170 the tyranny of compromise
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:26 PM (QBCNp)

The tyranny of being nice.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:27 PM (oHd/0)

Don't worry, Blackrock ain't being nice to their renters.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:30 PM (Nt0u1)

171 Squatting may increase as the CCP and the oligarchs buy up all the land.

Posted by: davidt at August 04, 2021 09:30 PM (F7Ght)

172 I volunteered, I guess that says my meds weren't fully working then.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:13 PM (aA3+G)


The script said take them twice a day!

Posted by: Doctor Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:30 PM (hOUT3)

173 164 I don't care as long as Skeletor is in every episode.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 09:29 PM (ybIRR)

Here the latest about the HeMan series... where they killed him off in the first episode, and made it all about some Lesbian Warrior?

/facepalm

Talk about false advertising.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:30 PM (oHd/0)

174 "Versus the most recent Olympics, the Pyeongchang Winter Games three years ago, ratings fell 5% and viewership 1% from an 11.4 and 19.3 million."
-------------

Uh, I know about the math rules, but somehow that looks illogical. Have I missed something?

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 09:31 PM (9Fwwf)

175 In other Star Trek news, it looks like Alex Kurtzman has secured another five year contract to develop Star Trek content. Critical Drinker and others are officially stating that Star Trek died on August 1, 2021 based on this news.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:31 PM (K5n5d)

176 Don't worry, Blackrock ain't being nice to their renters.
Posted by: Draki


their biggest clients are pensin funds, underfunded pensin funds, investing in something stupid is not going to work for their pensiners.

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:31 PM (QBCNp)

177 Had a MRI today.

That's some medieval torture shit right there. The noise that damn machine makes, good Lord.

It's like a electric tuba metal death band had sex with that theme song from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:31 PM (i9ZF7)

178 Relevant to My Interests ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (qAR6u)

179 Mark Levine going off on the feckless, ballless, toothless Republicans.


I like how the Controlled Opposition are restrained from speaking out loud who is really in charge.

Everyone knows its not pudding head, but there is some sort of news blackout or some sort of agreed upon censorship that prevents any broadcaster from telling us who.

When Biden was threatening Ukrainian officials, he referred to Obama as the ultimate authority who the Ukrainians would have to answer to. When the Department of Hate goes out to negotiate with foreign nations, by whose authority do they claim policy?

Can an ambassador declare war or commit the former United States to some resolution?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (+LCoQ)

180 Oh just peachy. My little burb just reintstated the mask mandate. I'll be shopping in the next county over from me. Not doing this shit again.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 04, 2021 08:59 PM (nxdel)

Well, be sure to tell the town and the town's businesses, that you are doing that. If enough people do, they might realize it is a stupid idea.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (kxUIB)

181 162 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 09:28 PM (kxUIB)

I suspect they had to literally rebuild the damn thing each time they used it.

It was a lot of schlock but one cool thing about the animated series was the lack of budget constraints....

and Caitians.....ah Caitians.

https://youtu.be/T-EoyUtdLdc

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (Lzpvj)

182 >>adverse possession

Of course, if his shitty deep-woods birdhouse plot is encircled on the landowner's property by chain-link fence...

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (xK9An)

183 174 "Versus the most recent Olympics, the Pyeongchang Winter Games three years ago, ratings fell 5% and viewership 1% from an 11.4 and 19.3 million."
-------------

Uh, I know about the math rules, but somehow that looks illogical. Have I missed something?
Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 09:31 PM (9Fwwf)

Winter games ALWAYS had less viewers than the Summer Games... so its an apple to Pineapple comparison.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (oHd/0)

184 this is contradicted by The Naked Time, where Kirk gets duped into a wimpy good Kirk and a mean Kirk.
Posted by: Oldcat


They went all in on the "other" dimension nonsense...

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (r1z5A)

185
It'll be interesting to see what the eviction moratorium does to the
cost of rental housing in the long run. There's a concept: "actions have
consequences".

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2021 09:30 PM (+lVUW)

true. for one, rent control always reduces the amount of places available for rent. High minimum wages reduce jobs, at least they used to. Now everything costs so much it is just a race to the top.

Posted by: Quint at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (ZS6f0)

186 175 Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:31 PM (K5n5d)

Yup they made it quite plain, "fuck you the fans and audience" so fuck them.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (Lzpvj)

187 I don't care as long as Skeletor is in every episode.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 09:29 PM (ybIRR)


Agree, and doubly so if we're still talking about Star Trek.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 04, 2021 09:33 PM (ghoDT)

188 Concur. Dura lex, sed lex.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:28 PM (xK9An)

I'm buying some land soon, probably not far from this hippie scumbag's theft.

I will wander it with a shotgun and a sidearm, and it will be posted "no trespass." I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:33 PM (Q9lwr)

189 Don't worry, Blackrock ain't being nice to their renters.
Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:30 PM (Nt0u1)
---
I was wondering earlier today about how long it will be before mortgages are sold out from underneath the homeowners to banks/organizations that then simply ignore the original terms of the mortgage for their own profit and benefit. Every other law is being ignored these days, why not contract law?

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:33 PM (K5n5d)

190 180 Oh just peachy. My little burb just reintstated the mask mandate. I'll be shopping in the next county over from me. Not doing this shit again.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 04, 2021 08:59 PM (nxdel)

Well, be sure to tell the town and the town's businesses, that you are doing that. If enough people do, they might realize it is a stupid idea.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (kxUIB)

My experience is, they don't care

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:34 PM (aA3+G)

191 Given the large number of other ships destroyed in shows that Kirk finds, wierd stuff happens to other ships but only if Kirk will be showing up soon.

"For Gods sake route us 10 weeks flight time away from Enterprise!"

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 09:34 PM (EJbIh)

192 Squatting may increase as the CCP and the oligarchs buy up all the land.
Posted by: davidt at August 04, 2021 09:30 PM (F7Ght)


Rousting non-paying renters/squatter will soon become the de facto "law" of the land, once we have crushed the kulaks, comrade!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:34 PM (hOUT3)

193 Budget restraints can sometimes cause great creativity.

and weed.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 04, 2021 09:34 PM (+LCoQ)

194 their biggest clients are pensin funds, underfunded pensin funds, investing in something stupid is not going to work for their pensiners.
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:31 PM (QBCNp)

The state govts continually get the federal govt to bail out the pension fund, who then continues to lose that money to autists. It's a fun cycle and taxpayers are essentially giving tendies to the autists.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:34 PM (Nt0u1)

195 >>I will wander it with a shotgun and a sidearm, and it will be posted "no trespass." I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:33 PM (Q9lwr)

It'd be a shame to set bear traps and just, umm, not check them.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:35 PM (xK9An)

196 I went round and round with my business law professor about adverse possession. I consider it stealing. My property period. Too bad you built your structure on my land. You don't get shit.

The wife's great aunt lost a lot of property to an Oklahoma school district. They deliberately kept moving the fence further into her property. She wasn't in a position to check her property and after they had fenced off about 60 % they filed adverse position.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 04, 2021 09:35 PM (Mo2gk)

197 Can an ambassador declare war or commit the former United States to some resolution?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (+LCoQ)

No, see Ben Ghazi. No one cared he died.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:35 PM (Nt0u1)

198 Every other law is being ignored these days, why not contract law?
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:33 PM (K5n5d)

You'd think 2021 would be the year of the lawsuits by now.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:35 PM (i9ZF7)

199 Yup they made it quite plain, "fuck you the fans and audience" so fuck them.
Posted by: sven


Funny how that attitude pisses off the fan base, the product buying fan base.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:35 PM (r1z5A)

200 I will wander it with a shotgun and a sidearm, and it will be posted "no trespass." I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:33 PM (Q9lwr)


Might I suggest you purchase some farm equipment, in particular one with a backhoe?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:35 PM (hOUT3)

201 191 Given the large number of other ships destroyed in shows that Kirk finds, wierd stuff happens to other ships but only if Kirk will be showing up soon.

"For Gods sake route us 10 weeks flight time away from Enterprise!"
Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 09:34 PM (EJbIh)

And Wait! You are related to Jessica Fletcher????

GET AWAY FROM ME!

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:35 PM (oHd/0)

202 I do not as a rule allow myself to be photographed, but allowed myself to be persuaded at the Houston shows to sit for a family portrait.

https://soyaraborzoi.com/FamilyPicture2021.jpg
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (/U27+)
* * * *
Awesome! Say.... you remind me of someone famous...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (rwusL)

203 Good news, people! The Infrastructure bill currently has It has $110 billion (less than 10%) for what's historically been considered infrastructure -- roads and bridges.

Of course, it's still being amended, so that could go down even more!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (a3Q+t)

204 Those countries are probably experiencing higher rates because as "conspiracy theorist" claimed, the vaccine doesn't last that long (which was admitted by Pfizer last week) and that it actually makes you weaker, because your body isn't fighting off the virus in it's earlier stages, instead waiting until you've contracted it before starting the process.

We keep seeing the claims that "less than 1% of vaccinated people have tested positive" ummmm less than 1% of unvaccinated have also tested positive. Those vaccinated are also much less likely to get tested as they believe they are now invincible, so the numbers are highly skewed.

We know the vaccine doesn't stop you from getting Covid, that's admitted by all the manufacturers, so vaxed and unvaxed should be treated the same. If you're sick don't go out, as you shouldn't be doing even with the flu.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (XwTyM)

205 The Plato quote is fake. Someone may have said that but not Plato.

http://ianchadwick.com/blog/plato-music-and-misquotes/

Posted by: donnyf at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (fTdo6)

206 I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo \

Is Mr. dildo aware of the Penal Code in this state?

Posted by: Kentucky Fried Miklos at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (QzkSJ)

207 this is contradicted by The Naked Time, where Kirk gets duped into a wimpy good Kirk and a mean Kirk.
Posted by: Oldcat


They went all in on the "other" dimension nonsense...
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:32 PM (r1z5A)

No, the other dimension one was the Evil Spock in Mirror Mirror.

The accident in Naked Time was psychological - half of Kirk's mental traits were in one, half in the other in 2 bodies. Neither could live without being merged back together.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (EJbIh)

208 It'd be a shame to set bear traps and just, umm, not check them.
Posted by: ZOD


Spontaneous fires in the middle of the woods can be a thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (mD/uy)

209 ...My experience is, they don't care
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:34 PM (aA3+G)

And a majority of meek sheeple, cash in hand, enables them not to care.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (xK9An)

210 In other Star Trek news, it looks like Alex Kurtzman has secured another five year contract to develop Star Trek content. Critical Drinker and others are officially stating that Star Trek died on August 1, 2021 based on this news.
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:31 PM (K5n5d)

After watching Picard, I'm done. Maybe I'll see another movie with Karl Urban and Simon Pegg in it, but the tv shows are pretty pieces of garbage.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (Nt0u1)

211 >>>188 I will wander it with a shotgun and a sidearm, and it will be posted "no trespass." I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.

Can I have your food thread gig?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (aA3+G)

212 Alex Kurtzman is a unbeatable champion King Kong of wrecking old franchises.

If Amazon invited him to ruin Lord of the Rings, he could lay waste upon Middle Earth like Ungoliant devouring the Two Trees. That would be a 3-foot putt for him.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 09:37 PM (ybIRR)

213 Is Mr. dildo aware of the Penal Code in this state?
Posted by: Kentucky Fried Miklos at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (QzkSJ)


Nice.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 04, 2021 09:37 PM (ghoDT)

214 Sven, in a post-scarcity world the limiting factor is people's attention and ability to endure things.

Asimov dealt with that in the robot books by forcing people to use their "share" of the goods produced, and wound up having robots use up the goods, in a way inventing the self-licking ice cream cone.

Not sure what Start Trek was doing, though it clearly has a drive for novelty and adventure.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 04, 2021 09:37 PM (0dhMv)

215 And Wait! You are related to Jessica Fletcher????

GET AWAY FROM ME!
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:35 PM (oHd/0)

Fletcher was a mass murderer who hated her relatives.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 09:37 PM (EJbIh)

216 210 Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (Nt0u1)

The x-rated parodies are better trek than Discovery and Picard...

stone cold truth.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (Lzpvj)

217 It'd be a shame to set bear traps and just, umm, not check them.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:35 PM (xK9An)

This has always puzzled me. I read about squatters, and my first thought is, "why doesn't the homeowner go down to the nearest thug bar with a few thousand dollars and buy 10 thugs to kick the shit out of the squatters...enough to put them in the hospital long enough to secure the property?"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (Q9lwr)

218 203 Good news, people! The Infrastructure bill currently has It has $110 billion (less than 10%) for what's historically been considered infrastructure -- roads and bridges.

Of course, it's still being amended, so that could go down even more!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (a3Q+t)


I've never seen a major bill come out of Congress that didn't fill the pig trough.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (i9ZF7)

219 "perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."

Havel is still looking for his navel.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (qpX6U)

220 >>> I'm trying to figure out if I have any RIGHTS left.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 09:22 PM (oHd/0)


You have rights. They've been granted by divine providence.

But your rights and their supreme mandate are not acknowledged by those who've decided that they are your master and, by logical extension, master of heaven and earth.

This will not end well for them, for many.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (2xiYd)

221 I'll be surprised if Biden doesn't start taking property to house these fucking illegal immigrants soon too.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 09:39 PM (+ya+t)

222 Yeah, Plato was more of a spoken word/beat poetry kinda guy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 09:39 PM (QU5/8)

223 I was wondering earlier today about how long it will be before mortgages are sold out from underneath the homeowners to banks/organizations that then simply ignore the original terms of the mortgage for their own profit and benefit. Every other law is being ignored these days, why not contract law?
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:33 PM (K5n5d)

It's being ignored, but some of the eviction moratoriums are holding...... the catch is that back rent and the juice on the back rent doesn't stop. Blackrock will get their cash even if the renter goes bankrupt, if it needs to happen they'll be bailed out again like 2008.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:39 PM (Nt0u1)

224 214 Posted by: Kindltot at August 04, 2021 09:37 PM (0dhMv)

Oddly that sounds very suspiciously like "capitalism" which SPACE HIPPIE swears he got past.

Someone winds up being the janitor to Kirk banging the green chick.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:39 PM (Lzpvj)

225 "It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

And that's just the Ramones. Don't forget about all the other music.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (qpX6U)

226 A neighbor's car was stolen while parked downtown. The police just took the information over the phone. Case closed.

We've lost 92 out of 174 officers. DA is a 'decline to prosecute Dem'.

The City Council is a coven of Commies.

Asheville.

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (CTJwJ)

227 Obviously there is a lot more too this and I don't know any of the details. But it would be nice to think there are still areas of this country where a man can build something and live his own way if he is willing to do it and pay the price of that isolation. People live on city streets and are they better off?
Posted by: Quint at August 04, 2021 09:00 PM (ZS6f0)

Seems to me this could be solved by the landowner giving him a lifetime lease on the land he occupies (not the whole parcel) for a nominal sum, say $100, and the town/county giving him an occupancy permit and zoning variance, also for the rest of his natural life.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (kxUIB)

228 I will wander it with a shotgun and a sidearm, and it will be posted "no trespass." I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at

That's hot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (U2p+3)

229 The x-rated parodies are better trek than Discovery and Picard...

stone cold truth.
Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (Lzpvj)

I keep hearing great storied about Orville, just haven't found the time, plus watching DS9 again right now.

I could see some orion girl parodies being fantastic!

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (Nt0u1)

230 If Amazon invited him to ruin Lord of the Rings, he could lay waste upon Middle Earth like Ungoliant devouring the Two Trees. That would be a 3-foot putt for him.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 09:37 PM (ybIRR)
---
Well, if they actually FILMED Ungoliant devouring the Two Trees, that might be pretty awesome and terrifying to watch. But I'm sure they'd still screw it up somehow...Probably try to give Ungoliant a sympathetic backstory of some kind. She ("it?") was just trying to get some of that sweet, sweet light that she was denied due to racism or something...

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (K5n5d)

231 Is Mr. dildo aware of the Penal Code in this state?
Posted by: Kentucky Fried Miklos at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (QzkSJ)


I am convinced that he is aware of the three S's concept of property management!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (hOUT3)

232 It's being ignored, but some of the eviction moratoriums are holding...... the catch is that back rent and the juice on the back rent doesn't stop. Blackrock will get their cash even if the renter goes bankrupt, if it needs to happen they'll be bailed out again like 2008.
Posted by: Draki


blackrock doew not have that much $, they have assests under mgmt.

fun is going to ensue.

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:41 PM (QBCNp)

233 Theft has a long history in this country too. Doesn't make it right.

Squatter's literally shitting up the area, and that's improving the land?

Don't plop your ass down on my land and I won't be tempted to have your ass thrown off it. Pretty simple really.

Posted by: McLurkerson at August 04, 2021 09:41 PM (wNDOJ)

234 Heh.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato

Thinking of Plato with a good set of headphones listening to Little Milton The Blues is Alright.

Posted by: mindful webworker - in the key of B# at August 04, 2021 09:41 PM (JtBPN)

235 This has always puzzled me. I read about squatters, and my first thought is, "why doesn't the homeowner go down to the nearest thug bar with a few thousand dollars and buy 10 thugs to kick the shit out of the squatters...enough to put them in the hospital long enough to secure the property?"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (Q9lwr)


Because now that's ten loose ends to tie up. One, maybe two other people, tops.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 04, 2021 09:42 PM (ghoDT)

236 This will not end well for them, for many.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (2xiYd)
---
I'd like to believe that, but there's ample evidence to suggest otherwise...

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at August 04, 2021 09:42 PM (K5n5d)

237 South Park running the "Rain Forest" episode. One of the best.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:43 PM (r1z5A)

238 I've never seen a major bill come out of Congress that didn't fill the pig trough.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (i9ZF7)


Why would you ever think any Congressional "legislation" had any other purpose?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:43 PM (hOUT3)

239 I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


If you're on good terms with bluebell, she might bake you a special cake.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:43 PM (a3Q+t)

240 Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato

Thinking of Plato with a good set of headphones listening to Little Milton The Blues is Alright.

Posted by: mindful webworker - in the key of B# at August 04, 2021 09:41 PM (JtBPN)

dust.... wind.... oh wait, that's your teacher...

Posted by: Bill S. Preston, Esq.... at August 04, 2021 09:43 PM (oHd/0)

241 blackrock doew not have that much $, they have assests under mgmt.

fun is going to ensue.
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:41 PM (QBCNp)

Know what their biggest funds under mgmt is?

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:44 PM (Nt0u1)

242 Clay Jenkins of Dallas is an ass. He distinguished himself during their Ebola fiasco, and yet keeps getting re-elected.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 04, 2021 09:22 PM (rwusL)

He's my idol role model hero!

Posted by: Harris County Emperor Hidalgo at August 04, 2021 09:44 PM (4I/2K)

243 >>Because now that's ten loose ends to tie up. One, maybe two other people, tops.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 04, 2021 09:42 PM (ghoDT)

We're gonna need a bigger hole.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:44 PM (xK9An)

244 QV Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey seemed to be spouting some genuine Boston gibberish there. From the quote provided, I did not feel compelled to click through and see if there was more sense at the link.

Posted by: mindful webworker - properly paper-trained at August 04, 2021 09:44 PM (JtBPN)

245 Howdy Hordelings! Happy "Friday" to you Mis Hum!

Love that quote from Plato. You won't find a moron who loves music more than I do.

As for the song behind the Plato quote, here's an homage to it from The Simpsons. (It might be either rock and/or roll!)
https://youtu.be/ulDC1w1ydLI

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 04, 2021 09:44 PM (mZUr4)

246 I've got a bad feeling about all of this.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 09:44 PM (ybIRR)

247 We went to the Black Hills last September for a short vacation. Lovely.....no masks, lots of Trump support and beautiful landscape.

The Monday morning I got back, I got a text from my boss saying that he was concerned about where I had been and that I would bring Wuhan into our office. UGH! I had to have Mr WDS talk to him because I was so pissed off!

Oh and btw.....we got to spend time with the lovely SnailRacer and Mr SnailRacer

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 04, 2021 09:44 PM (/UQ/R)

248 I bought some frozen pizza that had ranch and chicken on it, just to see what it was like. It was truly horrible. I like ranch dressing on salad and all, but salad dressing and chicken DO NOT belong on pizza.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (+lVUW)

249 I got mixed feelings on the squatter. Of course it's not his land but he claims he had a verbal agreement. It's not a black and white issue but surely he must have known not having a written agreement would come back on him some day. This was in the 1980's not the 1880's.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (qH6FZ)

250 Good evening. Watching the wokelympics. US shot putter is crushing the field

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (bzrNB)

251 Squatters should get a surprise visit at 5 am, shot and buried in a hole dug by a backhoe the day prior. Covered up and the site burned to the ground. Collect insurance dollars and build a tiny home off the grid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (U2p+3)

252 "I've got a bad feeling about all of this."

It's quiet. A little too quiet.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (qpX6U)

253 I'd like to believe that, but there's ample evidence to suggest otherwise...
Posted by: Lord Squirrel


Thousands and thousands years of Kings, tyranny, despots and dictators...200 years of us...yeah, looks a little bleak.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (r1z5A)

254 Frank Zappa appeared on Miami Vice.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (a3Q+t)

255 We're gonna need a bigger hole.
Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:44 PM (xK9An)


Alternately, spread rumors about the weird old hobo who lives in the woods and stashed a lot of cash and jewelry a few miles away by the railroad tracks, but is hesitant to reveal exactly where.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 04, 2021 09:46 PM (ghoDT)

256 >>Plato

I keep thinking of the 'Allegory of the Cave' while watching Uncle Milton's Ant Farm to see if one ant ever tries to convince the others that they're in an ant-prison in reality.

Nope.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:46 PM (xK9An)

257 Seems to me this could be solved by the landowner
giving him a lifetime lease on the land

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (kxUIB)

To reward his theft? Fuck that. It's called communism. And I reject it in its entirety.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:46 PM (Q9lwr)

258 iirc, Strugis is for the posers, the real bikers go to another place nearby.

Posted by: davidt at August 04, 2021 09:47 PM (F7Ght)

259 1) given that anyone can have anything what motivates anyone to endure doing anything? We see a lot of officer types in Star Trek, but who the fuck is a janitor?

2) Why is there ever any conflict between anyone, come to think on it why the fuck are they galivanting across the cosmos in the first place? If anything is there for the asking why would anyone ever have to explore brave new worlds?
Posted by: sven


Co-workers would joke worst job on the Enterprise NG was cleaning up the Holodeck after Worfs "adult" time...
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:12 PM (r1z5A)

Well in the only real Trek, the Feds had recently had a war with the Romulans, so savage they had no idea what the other side even looked like. And then the Klingons were always on the verge of war, until the Organians decided to put a stop to it for both sides.
So real military vessels on real missions to defend and find other threats was very plausible.

I used to call Next Gen "The Love Boat" because of the Inexplicable kid on board, the bald captain and female cruise director, and the black bartender.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 09:47 PM (EJbIh)

260 Know what their biggest funds under mgmt is?


offhand no

calpers calstrs?

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:47 PM (QBCNp)

261 Squatters should get a surprise visit at 5 am, shot
and buried in a hole dug by a backhoe the day prior.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (U2p+3)

And that's hot!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:48 PM (Q9lwr)

262 Here one would have to tear down that portion which encroached on someone elses property.
Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp


My understanding is that it depends on how long the encroachment has been there. I've always understood that you need to deal with it quickly.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2021 09:48 PM (+lVUW)

263 Squatters should get a surprise visit at 5 am, shot and buried in a hole dug by a backhoe the day prior. Covered up and the site burned to the ground. Collect insurance dollars and build a tiny home off the grid.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (U2p+3)


I should have known nurse would be familiar with the three S's principles of property management!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:48 PM (hOUT3)

264 188 I will wander it with a shotgun and a sidearm, and it will be posted "no trespass." I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.

Can I have your food thread gig?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (aA3+G)
* * * *
*SNORT*

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 04, 2021 09:49 PM (rwusL)

265 I used to call Next Gen "The Love Boat" because of the Inexplicable kid on board, the bald captain and female cruise director, and the black bartender.
Posted by: Oldcat


Heh! Very good!

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:49 PM (r1z5A)

266 Seems to me this could be solved by the landowner giving him a lifetime lease on the land he occupies (not the whole parcel) for a nominal sum, say $100, and the town/county giving him an occupancy permit and zoning variance, also for the rest of his natural life.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (kxUIB)



That would make too much sense.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:49 PM (yQpMk)

267 offhand no

calpers calstrs?
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:47 PM (QBCNp)

The TSP or the federal government 401ks. Think Blackrock are angels and aren't leveraging to the tits and playing shell games with assets under management?

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:50 PM (Nt0u1)

268 Frank Zappa appeared on Miami Vice.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (a3Q+t)


I still miss that show, I was living in FL at the time!!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 09:50 PM (hOUT3)

269 Rat! You swampy bastard! How the hell are you?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 09:50 PM (U2p+3)

270 Can I have your food thread gig?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (aA3+G)

I've met you. You don't fool me. You would do the same thing, only in a friendly Midwesterner sort of way.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:50 PM (Q9lwr)

271 The Curse of Oak Island Shack.

Wherein two brothers with money and scant intelligence drill a huge fucking hole with heavy mining equipment 150 deep in the middle of Rip Van Winkle's shanty.

"One more has to die before we discover the Shakespeare-Scientology-Rosicrucian-Liberace Stone
Codex."

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:50 PM (xK9An)

272 You have rights. They've been granted by divine providence.

But your rights and their supreme mandate are not acknowledged by those who've decided that they are your master and, by logical extension, master of heaven and earth.

This will not end well for them, for many.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (2xiYd)
* * * *
Amen. This is speaking truth to power.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at August 04, 2021 09:51 PM (rwusL)

273 I'm looking at a funny wedding compilation and a couple had two "beer burros" at their ceremony walking around with baskets of brewskies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at August 04, 2021 09:51 PM (Dc2NZ)

274 Can I have your food thread gig?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM


What are your thoughts regarding maple syrup and French Toast?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 09:51 PM (a3Q+t)

275 Girl928 actually lost a strip of her property in the WV mountains because the farmer at the top of the mountain had built his barn across the property line.

It's just a thing that happens.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:15 PM (yQpMk)

When I bought stately Peon Manor, I had a land survey done. Turned out my garage was a yard over the north property line. I did a land swap with my neighbor to get everything kosher. Now the legal boundaries jibe with the physical boundaries, as demarcated by hedges.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 09:51 PM (kxUIB)

276 Well, yeah. Obviously not first or 12th, or 27th and a half.
But! Hi everyone!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 09:51 PM (MViHT)

277 Stopped to read the content. @Hoyt, I'm with you. If the author wants to be a mommy and complains about how much health insurance costs and how being an author doesn't pay much, then she should get a job. That's not a tough call. 99 percent of the human race understands that.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 04, 2021 09:51 PM (BMmaB)

278 I used to call Next Gen "The Love Boat" because of the Inexplicable kid on board, the bald captain and female cruise director, and the black bartender.
Posted by: Oldcat

You forgot the soul-sucking Ginger!

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:52 PM (Nt0u1)

279 188 I will wander it with a shotgun and a sidearm, and it will be posted "no trespass." I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.

Can I have your food thread gig?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:36

Now this is an unusual case of the COBS being funnier than the posters. You guys crack me up sometimes.

And speaking of food, we just had a delish serving of chipped beef. Jules' stomach has been queasy and she thought that might work. I'm loving it.

Posted by: Farmer at August 04, 2021 09:52 PM (55Qr6)

280 >>> I bought some frozen pizza that had ranch and chicken on it, just to see what it was like. It was truly horrible. I like ranch dressing on salad and all, but salad dressing and chicken DO NOT belong on pizza.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (+lVUW)


It's starting to get me thinking about pizza/spaghetti sauce on salad. It couldn't be horrible. I mean it's made out of tomatoes. That's kind of salady. A tomato gravy. Ok, now I'm thinking of gravy on salad and that's going too far. But tomato sauce on spaghetti might not be too bad. French/catalina dressing is almost there. Well, I really don't know what those dressings are made of but they are red, ergo tomato. I think Socrates said "red ergo tomato" once which shows I'm on the right path here.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 09:52 PM (2xiYd)

281 You gotta have some fucking perspective.

Squatter is 81, there's no development plans for the land he's on, and it doesn't sound like he's done much in the way of damage.

So you can: (1) engage in self-help, which will get you put in prison in all likelihood; (2) pay a lawyer like me $350 an hour or so to litigate this case for God knows how long; or (3) pour yourself a drink and wait for this crazy coot to die. Different circumstances might call for a different plan, but option (3) is likely what I'd recommend here.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 09:52 PM (QU5/8)

282 But! Hi everyone!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 09:51 PM (MViHT)

Howdy COMM!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 04, 2021 09:52 PM (mZUr4)

283 >>266 Seems to me this could be solved by the landowner giving him a lifetime lease on the land he occupies

Could be solved by the landowner giving him a crucifixion on the land as a warning to similarly rootless, trespassing vagrants, with a little sign that reads "This Is Not A Good Place For Gypsies To Live."

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 09:54 PM (xK9An)

284 Good evening morons and thanks mh

Who is most creepy perverted?
Clinton, Newsom, Biden, or the real slick Willie Brown

Posted by: SAn Franpsycho at August 04, 2021 09:54 PM (EZebt)

285 nic fail

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2021 09:54 PM (EZebt)

286 BTW
As always...fantastic content. Thank you Mr. MisHum for sharing....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 09:54 PM (MViHT)

287 Sven, in a post-scarcity world the limiting factor is people's attention and ability to endure things.

Asimov dealt with that in the robot books by forcing people to use their "share" of the goods produced, and wound up having robots use up the goods, in a way inventing the self-licking ice cream cone.

Not sure what Start Trek was doing, though it clearly has a drive for novelty and adventure.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 04, 2021 09:37 PM (0dhMv)

John Brunner wrote a series of short stories about a "Galactic Consumer Reports" with review comparisons of "Inexpensive Time Machines", "Automatic Twin Tube Wishing Machines" and maybe one or two more I forget. But one was a letter to the editor of a planet so rich everyone had a huge allowance, but they had to spend it each quarter or else it would go to the government. So all right thinking persons would want to avoid that and were sweating bullets trying to waste money. The final bit was GSR bringing out a magazine in lead plate with words picked out with diamonds to help out.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 09:54 PM (EJbIh)

288 You have rights. They've been granted by divine providence.

But your rights and their supreme mandate are not acknowledged by those who've decided that they are your master and, by logical extension, master of heaven and earth.

This will not end well for them, for many.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 09:38 PM (2xiYd)

A lesson we teach every new civilization we encounter. Forget the prime directive, it's just words on a paper.

Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at August 04, 2021 09:55 PM (Nt0u1)

289 The moratorium won't hurt BlackRock too badly. It kills the little guy who has a couple of units and now has three mortgages to pay. It's total bullshit. We give everyone impacted by Covid lots of money to replace their lost income then say don't bother paying your rent with the free money.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 09:55 PM (bzrNB)

290 The TSP or the federal government 401ks. Think Blackrock are angels and aren't leveraging to the tits and playing shell games with assets under management?
Posted by: Draki


I think they are it is just that things with big financial and real estate never stay the same. thing of the biggest cos 20 years ago and now.

blackrock is big, but it is not their $, the faangm guys are running their $.

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:55 PM (QBCNp)

291 I had a neighbor erroneously claim that my chainlink fence was a few inches across her property line. I invited her to challenge it but reminded her that her survey would have to start from the actual township corner, not just the end of the block and surveying from 3 miles away was going to cost her.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 09:55 PM (yQpMk)

292 It sure is hot in here.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 04, 2021 09:55 PM (jvt6t)

293 Posted halfheartedly...
by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


Well, of course. The misanthropic and the humanitarian.

So, thanks, MH.

Off to lurk in the comments.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Every glass is full to the brim. Content may be mixed. at August 04, 2021 09:56 PM (JtBPN)

294 Can't even stand to turn on the TV or radio anymore. Within a year we will need AM and PM booster shots to keep your passport valid and the CDC and Fauci requiring 4 masks plus face shield. They are not giving up on this insanity without violence.

Posted by: Ripley at August 04, 2021 09:56 PM (PTDkx)

295 Nurse!! Just being acknowledged by you makes my night!

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 09:56 PM (r1z5A)

296 You know, Squatter Removal Services might not be a bad business opportunity, these days.

Have to develop some pretty creative "rate structures" as well as some Lloyd's Insurance and all the best attorneys on speed dial.

But if the TV Rights bring in COPS grade revenues, it'll all work out in the end.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 04, 2021 09:56 PM (QzJWU)

297 We've lost 92 out of 174 officers. DA is a 'decline to prosecute Dem'.

The City Council is a coven of Commies.

Asheville.
Posted by: Mike Hammer.

Visited Ashville a few weeks ago. Ate at a restaurant or two downtown directly across from the homeless encampment at the square. A couple guys were wearing only underwear.

No thanks. We won't be back.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2021 09:56 PM (mD/uy)

298 most guys have been getting paid their rent throughout this.

there are some that are not and they should be.

in fairness, some of the guys with the shittiest tenants are the shittiest landlords.

not that that means they should get screwed by the gov.

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:57 PM (QBCNp)

299 Most adverse possession cases involve family. Cousin Jethro's been living on the farm, which he knows belongs to Cousin Lucy who lives on the other side of the country because she inherited it from great-aunt Colleen who couldn't stand Jethro, but Lucy hasn't been back home in 20 years, then Lucy dies and her son Waylon inherits the farm, but Waylon has never even been there, then one day a few years later Waylon finds out that Jethro owns it. Jethro's been paying the taxes all this time and everybody in town thought he owned it all along, but the title and the tax records are still in Colleen's name and she's been dead for 25 years.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 04, 2021 09:57 PM (BMmaB)

300 I've met you. You don't fool me. You would do the same thing, only in a friendly Midwesterner sort of way.
----------
Watch out for those guys on the east coast MisHum, I think it's the raw seafood.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 09:57 PM (+ya+t)

301 Perhaps CBD and Mis Hum can do "crossover" threads one day. Like they do crossover episodes on some TV shows. Like NCIS, CSI, Law and Order, etc.

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 04, 2021 09:57 PM (mZUr4)

302 I may be finding out the details about un-permitted houses on property, formerly used for years, as a rental.
My new neighbor has what we call a back house. It was a garage, mutated into a one bedroom living space for the neer-do-well son of the renters at the time. Without, the knowledge or permission of the owner.
No permits, water and electric drawn from the main house.
It has a post office address but it is not shown on city plats.
The new owner wants to expand it because his mother wants her own place not in his house. I explained about how this came to be. I suspect there may be covert construction happening.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 04, 2021 09:57 PM (FtJ1S)

303 I think they are it is just that things with big financial and real estate never stay the same. thing of the biggest cos 20 years ago and now.

blackrock is big, but it is not their $, the faangm guys are running their $.

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:55 PM (QBCNp)

You're right. If the real estate investments die, the federal government will bail them out like 20 years ago. The small landlord or retired vet with a couple of retirement properties won't be bailed out.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:58 PM (Nt0u1)

304 urse!! Just being acknowledged by you makes my night!
Posted by: S


she is not going to have sex with you

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 09:58 PM (QBCNp)

305 When the burning times comes, I'm squatting on a nice Blackrock property.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 04, 2021 09:58 PM (qH6FZ)

306 It sure is hot in here.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 04, 2021 09:55 PM (jvt6t)

Nelly agrees!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 04, 2021 09:59 PM (mZUr4)

307 My experience is, they don't care
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


Because they're keeping us safe, or some such nonsense.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2021 09:59 PM (+lVUW)

308 It sure is hot in here.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 04, 2021 09:55 PM (jvt6t)

And we haven't even started arguing about who had the best beard in Star Trek.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:59 PM (Nt0u1)

309 Howdy Doof!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 04, 2021 10:00 PM (jvt6t)

310 "You'll own nothing, and be happy" -- Great Reset maniacs

You ain't seen nothin yet, folks. The Great Reset lunatics have plans for your private property.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 04, 2021 10:00 PM (vKPR2)

311 Howdy Doof!
Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 04, 2021 10:00 PM (jvt6t)

Yo!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 04, 2021 10:00 PM (mZUr4)

312 there is a reasn that institutional investors have not been in singl family homes and small multifamily before and they are going to be reminded of that.

the biggest thing that having institunial investors in singl family homes might do is move the minorities into the burbs.

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 10:00 PM (QBCNp)

313 When the burning times comes, I'm squatting on a nice Blackrock property.
Posted by: lowandslow at August 04, 2021 09:58 PM (qH6FZ)

That's where we are heading. Nothing wrong with it, when the law is immoral.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 10:01 PM (Nt0u1)

314 And we haven't even started arguing about who had the best beard in Star Trek.
Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:59 PM (Nt0u1)

Evil Spock.

"What does it take to buy you, Spock? Is it power??!!"

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:01 PM (EJbIh)

315 Doof!
Always awesome to see your smiling face!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:02 PM (MViHT)

316 Evil Spock.

"What does it take to buy you, Spock? Is it power??!!"
Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:01 PM (EJbIh)

Oh, great contender. Could definitely compete with Riker.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 10:02 PM (Nt0u1)

317 The small landlord or retired vet with a couple of retirement properties won't be bailed out.
Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:58 PM (Nt0u1)


Anyone that is not able to kick back a substantial "donation" to one or more politicians is SooL in this great adventure we are just beginning to appreciate!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

318 she is not going to have sex with you
Posted by: confederatefifth


Golly no, I like her too much.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 10:02 PM (r1z5A)

319 Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (U2p+3)

And that's hot!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Thus begins the Legend of Bonny and Dildo!

Hot hot hot

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 10:02 PM (bzrNB)

320 there is a reasn that institutional investors have not been in singl family homes and small multifamily before and they are going to be reminded of that.

the biggest thing that having institunial investors in singl family homes might do is move the minorities into the burbs.
Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 10:00 PM (QBCNp)

There is already examples of odd attempts to change zoning in areas to put is "stack a prole" housing in regular neighborhoods.

Liberals have always hated the suburbs.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:03 PM (EJbIh)

321 I bought some frozen pizza that had ranch and chicken on it, just to see what it was like. It was truly horrible. I like ranch dressing on salad and all, but salad dressing and chicken DO NOT belong on pizza.
Posted by: nerdygirl

I can't tell you how many pizzas with chicken with ranch dressing we sell at the shop. In TX. It's a cult I tell you!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2021 10:03 PM (mD/uy)

322 Most adverse possession cases involve family. Cousin Jethro's been living on the farm, which he knows belongs to Cousin Lucy who lives on the other side of the country because she inherited it from great-aunt Colleen who couldn't stand Jethro, but Lucy hasn't been back home in 20 years, then Lucy dies and her son Waylon inherits the farm, but Waylon has never even been there, then one day a few years later Waylon finds out that Jethro owns it. Jethro's been paying the taxes all this time and everybody in town thought he owned it all along, but the title and the tax records are still in Colleen's name and she's been dead for 25 years.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 04, 2021 09:57 PM (BMmaB)


*squints into horizon*
Ayup.
*spits discreetly*

Posted by: hogmartin at August 04, 2021 10:03 PM (ghoDT)

323 Hey Marie!

Haven't heard back from you?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 04, 2021 10:03 PM (/UQ/R)

324 Howdy Doof

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 04, 2021 10:03 PM (vKPR2)

325 Freaks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 04, 2021 10:04 PM (D2tGE)

326 Oh, great contender. Could definitely compete with Riker.
Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 10:02 PM (Nt0u1)

Riker is both cut-rate Spock AND Kirk for times when Picard can't get out of his comfy chair.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:04 PM (EJbIh)

327 I'm guessing this new lambda variant that is spreading in S America will be walking across our borders soon.

Yay?

Posted by: LOLGF at August 04, 2021 10:04 PM (Agraw)

328 >>> And we haven't even started arguing about who had the best beard in Star Trek.
Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:59 PM (Nt0u1)

Evil Spock.

"What does it take to buy you, Spock? Is it power??!!"
Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:01 PM (EJbIh)


The Horta had the best beard. They're just very hard to locate under the rock and all. Spock help me out here, you know what I'm talkin about.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:04 PM (2xiYd)

329 Golly no, I like her too much.
Posted by: S



that was funny

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 10:05 PM (QBCNp)

330 Oh, great contender. Could definitely compete with Riker.
Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 10:02 PM (Nt0u1)

Riker is both cut-rate Spock AND Kirk for times when Picard can't get out of his comfy chair.
Posted by: Oldcat


Do Mudds mutton chops count?

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 10:05 PM (r1z5A)

331 https://soyaraborzoi.com/FamilyPicture2021.jpg

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (/U27+)

hubba hubba!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at August 04, 2021 10:05 PM (oEn12)

332 nurse....sent you and Jordan61 an email

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 04, 2021 10:05 PM (/UQ/R)

333 322 Most adverse possession cases involve family. Cousin Jethro's been living on the farm, which he knows belongs to Cousin Lucy who lives on the other side of the country because she inherited it from great-aunt Colleen who couldn't stand Jethro, but Lucy hasn't been back home in 20 years, then Lucy dies and her son Waylon inherits the farm, but Waylon has never even been there, then one day a few years later Waylon finds out that Jethro owns it. Jethro's been paying the taxes all this time and everybody in town thought he owned it all along, but the title and the tax records are still in Colleen's name and she's been dead for 25 years.

Posted by: ZOD Faulkner at August 04, 2021 10:06 PM (xK9An)

334 >>> I'm guessing this new lambda variant that is spreading in S America will be walking across our borders soon.

Yay?
Posted by: LOLGF at August 04, 2021 10:04 PM (Agraw)



They tried forbidding it but the lambada variant is gonna be LAF!

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:06 PM (2xiYd)

335 The Horta had the best beard. They're just very hard to locate under the rock and all. Spock help me out here, you know what I'm talkin about.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:04 PM (2xiYd)

Horta was a chick. No beard on girls.
Plus no bearded dude will say "No Kill I", more like "I Kill U"

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:06 PM (EJbIh)

336 Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 04, 2021 09:57 PM (BMmaB)


This happened to my brother and his wife after a death in her family left some nice property up for grabs in the estate adjudication!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 10:06 PM (hOUT3)

337 ...Since Sept 2008 as a matter of fact. I'm just another Cob in the long line of Overnight Entertainment.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


The fans debate the relative merits of the sequence of ONT cobs the way Doctor Who fans debate Pertwee v Baker v Tennant....

Posted by: mindful webworker - no girls allowed at August 04, 2021 10:06 PM (JtBPN)

338 Alright, I'm out. Live long and prosper.

Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 10:06 PM (Nt0u1)

339 Oh, great contender. Could definitely compete with Riker.
Posted by: Draki

Omg.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:07 PM (H3XYS)

340 To reward his theft? Fuck that. It's called communism. And I reject it in its entirety.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:46 PM (Q9lwr)

He claims the previous land owner gave him permission. Perhaps that is true. He sure doesn't look like the kind of guy who keeps meticulous written records.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 10:07 PM (ps9Qu)

341 The Horta had the best beard. They're just very hard to locate under the rock and all. Spock help me out here, you know what I'm talkin about.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:04 PM (2xiYd)

Those two Lazarus dudes had pretty bad ones, as I recall. Your taste may vary.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:07 PM (EJbIh)

342 Picard: Wesley.
Wesley: Yes sir?
Picard: What is the difference between the Prime Directive and your mother?
Wesley: I don't know sir.
Picard: I never violated the Prime Directive.


(favorite reruns here at AoS:TNG)

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 10:08 PM (ybIRR)

343 What the fuck has happened to this country that we have lost sight of property rights?

Sorry, the CDC will now define property rights. Because COVID. Because "If it saves just one life!" Because everything is insane. Properly insane.

So glad we decided to blow up the Western World because a disease.

Galaxy brain smart.

Posted by: DaisyB at August 04, 2021 10:08 PM (Hswbs)

344 I am so, so over people carrying on about slavery like it happened in their lifetime, or their parents lifetime, or even their grandparents lifetime. It ended in 1865! It would be more logical to run around being mad at Native Americans for attacking settlers in the 1880s, and that would be ridiculous.

Posted by: azjaeger at August 04, 2021 10:08 PM (3/XaG)

345 Presdent Obamsr should gets the Nobill Piece Prize for all thr work he be done to helps children of coller around the world during this Trump created disaster.

Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, VT at August 04, 2021 10:08 PM (zMaGC)

346 nurse....sent you and Jordan61 an email
Posted by: w


the are not going to have sex with you, maybe

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 10:08 PM (QBCNp)

347 Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August

Got it! All is a go. I will answer in the more when I'm sober.

Actually, when I can forward shit from a computer instead of my phone.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:09 PM (H3XYS)

348 I am so, so over people carrying on about slavery like it happened in their lifetime, or their parents lifetime, or even their grandparents lifetime. It ended in 1865! It would be more logical to run around being mad at Native Americans for attacking settlers in the 1880s, and that would be ridiculous.
Posted by: azjaeger at August 04, 2021 10:08 PM (3/XaG)

Since my fam fought in it, and was wounded, part of those reparations should be shifted to me.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:09 PM (EJbIh)

349 >>> Horta was a chick. No beard on girls.
Plus no bearded dude will say "No Kill I", more like "I Kill U"
Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:06 PM (EJbIh)


Oooooh, that wasn't a beard. Ok, ok, that makes much more sense.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:10 PM (2xiYd)

350 C5.

Who the heck CAN I have sex with, the ?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:10 PM (H3XYS)

351 300 I've met you. You don't fool me. You would do the same thing, only in a friendly Midwesterner sort of way.
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Watch out for those guys on the east coast MisHum, I think it's the raw seafood.
Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 09:57 PM (+ya+t)


It's the sous vide lifestyle

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 10:10 PM (aA3+G)

352 Amazon is paying $10 for palm prints.

(Eyes old squatter, flicks open Kershaw)

You'll do, old timer.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 10:11 PM (xK9An)

353 So, a couple of minutes ago, I got a call from one of many cop unions, asking for money. Pissed me off enough that I went off on the guy and told him that when police stop standing down and letting thugs burn, loot, and murder, in their own damn neighborhoods, call me. Until then, FU. Was that wrong?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:11 PM (MViHT)

354 They tried forbidding it but the lambada variant is gonna be LAF!
Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:06 PM (2xiYd)

you aint seen nothin yet

Posted by: Dr. Gordon Freeman at August 04, 2021 10:11 PM (+I6Y/)

355 It would be more logical to run around being mad at Native Americans for attacking settlers in the 1880s, and that would be ridiculous.
Posted by: azjaeger



Yes, from now on, the Whitman Massacre will be known as the Whitman unpleasantness.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 10:12 PM (r1z5A)

356 I'm guessing this new lambda variant that is spreading in S America will be walking across our borders soon.

Yay?

Posted by: LOLGF at August 04, 2021 10:04 PM



It's the Lambada variant -- the Forbidden Virus...

Posted by: Zettai at August 04, 2021 10:12 PM (RIJlb)

357 >>Slavery...It ended in 1865! Posted by: azjaeger at August 04, 2021 10:08 PM (3/XaG)

(Eyes sullen Aztec chain-gang outside window)

For some, it did.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 10:12 PM (xK9An)

358 Whoo Hoo! Delbert McClinton. His bands in the 1990s were the bomb. After one show I took my kid up to meet him and shake hands. He said give me a dollar and I will shake hands with your kid. I gave him a buck. He took it. And the kid got a hand shake. I swear on my Grandmother's grave this is a true story.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 10:13 PM (ESLBo)

359 I always thought the Vulcans were a little Jewish.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:13 PM (xopIz)

360 I always thought the Vulcans were a little Jewish.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:13 PM (xopIz)

Is it the sex once every 7 years?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:13 PM (EJbIh)

361 Howdy Doof
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 04, 2021 10:03 PM (vKPR2)

Hey there, Double C!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 04, 2021 10:14 PM (mZUr4)

362 Ted Cruz = Romulan

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 10:14 PM (xK9An)

363 That opening scene to the remake of "Stagecoach" scarred me.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:14 PM (xopIz)

364 So, a couple of minutes ago, I got a call from one of many cop unions, asking for money. Pissed me off enough that I went off on the guy and told him that when police stop standing down and letting thugs burn, loot, and murder, in their own damn neighborhoods, call me. Until then, FU. Was that wrong?
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:11 PM (MViHT)

Let him off light, since a union is just a way to allow bad actors to get away with shit.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:15 PM (EJbIh)

365 Thanks for the ONT.

Seriously, just pay the money for delivery. Or installation. That way it is on them if the screen gets shattered.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 04, 2021 10:15 PM (LYEvi)

366 >>> So, a couple of minutes ago, I got a call from one of many cop unions, asking for money. Pissed me off enough that I went off on the guy and told him that when police stop standing down and letting thugs burn, loot, and murder, in their own damn neighborhoods, call me. Until then, FU. Was that wrong?
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:11 PM (MViHT)


Most of those, the firemen, etc.. are farmed out to call centers. It used to be US call centers but could be India now for all I know.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:15 PM (2xiYd)

367 Oldcat, yes.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:15 PM (xopIz)

368 314 And we haven't even started arguing about who had the best beard in Star Trek.
Posted by: Draki at August 04, 2021 09:59 PM (Nt0u1)

Evil Spock.

"What does it take to buy you, Spock? Is it power??!!"
=====
Definitely Evil Spock, hands down.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 04, 2021 10:15 PM (W+kMI)

369 Worst beard on Star Trick was whichever poor chick had to play the role of Crusher's "girlfriend".


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 04, 2021 10:16 PM (QzJWU)

370 That Matthew Noto dude gets it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 04, 2021 10:16 PM (VwHCD)

371 They remade stagecoach?!?!?

Why would you do such a thing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 04, 2021 10:16 PM (LYEvi)

372 Delbert McClinton. His bands in the 1990s were the bomb.
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Loved Delbert McClinton. I hope he's still healthy and playing.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 10:17 PM (+ya+t)

373 Ashley Judd on Crushers beard, funnily enough.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 04, 2021 10:17 PM (LYEvi)

374 There was the original Stagecoach with John Wayne. Then the was the remake in the early sixties.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:17 PM (xopIz)

375 Why would you do such a thing?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone


We'll make a metric shit ton of money!!!

Posted by: Ghostbuster 2016 at August 04, 2021 10:18 PM (r1z5A)

376 So, a couple of minutes ago, I got a call from one of many cop unions, asking for money. Pissed me off enough that I went off on the guy and told him that when police stop standing down and letting thugs burn, loot, and murder, in their own damn neighborhoods, call me. Until then, FU. Was that wrong?
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:11 PM (MViHT)

Not wrong at all. In fact, I'm stealing that!

Posted by: Doof (mZUr4) at August 04, 2021 10:18 PM (mZUr4)

377 They remade stagecoach?!?!?

Why would you do such a thing?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 04, 2021 10:16 PM (LYEvi)

Do a parody movie about Kameltoe: "Stagecooch, The Continental Tailways Story."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 10:18 PM (ps9Qu)

378 Some poor settler gets a tomahawk in the face.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:19 PM (xopIz)

379 For that matter,

Elise Stefanik = Romulan princess

(I think it's something about the intense thetan-gaze lawful-evil vibe)

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 10:19 PM (xK9An)

380 I always thought the Vulcans were a little Jewish.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:13 PM (xopIz)

Is it the sex once every 7 years?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:13 PM (EJbIh)

Actually, they may have intended that - Nurse Chapel makes him "Plomeek Soup" when he isn't feeling well -- chicken soup?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:20 PM (EJbIh)

381 Off to make a late dinner. (peels back lid on Dinty Moore beef stew dumps in saucepan) Ok, I'm back.

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 10:20 PM (r1z5A)

382 60s? My Dad must have hated it because I never heard of it. Both he and Mom are great fans of John Wayne.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 04, 2021 10:20 PM (LYEvi)

383 353 So, a couple of minutes ago, I got a call from one of many cop unions, asking for money. Pissed me off enough that I went off on the guy and told him that when police stop standing down and letting thugs burn, loot, and murder, in their own damn neighborhoods, call me. Until then, FU. Was that wrong?
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:11 PM (MViHT)

No the minute President issues an order making fund illegal they will be kicking down your door

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 04, 2021 10:20 PM (dKiJG)

384 One thing about ST:TNG, The Klingon sisters showed some cleavage.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:21 PM (xopIz)

385 I did not see High and the Mighty, but even though Wayne's estate tried to bury it, I think it is a great movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 04, 2021 10:21 PM (LYEvi)

386 "Ken Burns blasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as 'an enemy of the state' who 'doesn't give a s***' about the United States and thinks he and his No. 2, Sheryl Sandberg, should be tried for crimes against humanity and put in prison. _DM
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The left eating its own.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 10:22 PM (H/umX)

387 So, a couple of minutes ago, I got a call from one of many cop unions, asking for money. Pissed me off enough that I went off on the guy and told him that when police stop standing down and letting thugs burn, loot, and murder, in their own damn neighborhoods, call me. Until then, FU. Was that wrong?
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Around here they're always phone cons. Cops never solicit by phone. You were right to tell them to fvck off.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 10:22 PM (+ya+t)

388 366
Well I gotta say, the guy didn't have an Indian accent. I just get these calls 2 - 3 times a day. I'm just angry because of so many times I see police take the side of the thugs....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:22 PM (MViHT)

389 Stupid shit out of shot put commentator chick: he needs to let it all hang out, because after this there are no more chances!

Dumbass.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 04, 2021 10:22 PM (ufFY8)

390 One thing about ST:TNG, The Klingon sisters showed some cleavage.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ


Dude!! Did you even watch the original?!

Posted by: Guy crewman 6 at August 04, 2021 10:23 PM (r1z5A)

391 *overmade blonde bombshell walks away from counter*

Man: that lady's got something! What would you say that it was?

Stewardess: 'Practice. *Pause* Lots of practice.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 04, 2021 10:24 PM (LYEvi)

392 Stagecoach
I know of three versions.
1. John Wayne classic and first
2. Remake with Alex Cord and Bing Crosby
3. Parody version with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash and Dan Haggerty.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 04, 2021 10:24 PM (FtJ1S)

393 Years ago I saw Delbert McClinton perform in a wheelchair with a cast on his leg and it was still a great show.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 04, 2021 10:24 PM (bCkNL)

394 One thing about ST:TNG, The Klingon sisters showed some cleavage.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ


Dude!! Did you even watch the original?!
Posted by: Guy crewman 6 at August 04, 2021 10:23 PM (r1z5A)

Klingon lady in "Day of the Dove" was nice. The Romulan Admiral is tough to beat though.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 04, 2021 10:24 PM (EJbIh)

395 Yes, I watched the original. I was 12 at the time.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:25 PM (xopIz)

396 >>Ken Burns

Monkees haircut. Dreamy.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 10:25 PM (xK9An)

397 I love dialogue from the 20's through the 50's. Fast, witty, suggestive.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 04, 2021 10:25 PM (LYEvi)

398 2. Burgess Meredith was also there.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:26 PM (xopIz)

399 The Klingon sisters were ugly as shit. But they had nice tits.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:27 PM (xopIz)

400 Classic Butterface.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:27 PM (xopIz)

401 398 I do recall him and a couple of other actors. Keenan Wynn as the bad guy. #2 was pretty meh in my opinion.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 04, 2021 10:28 PM (FtJ1S)

402 Their teeth were a massive problem.

Butherteef

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 04, 2021 10:28 PM (LYEvi)

403 Well I gotta say, the guy didn't have an Indian accent. I just get these calls 2 - 3 times a day. I'm just angry because of so many times I see police take the side of the thugs....
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Have some fun and tell them to fuck off.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 10:28 PM (+ya+t)

404 Good night.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 04, 2021 10:28 PM (xopIz)

405 Lursa and B'Etor. Which one of them had the tit window cut into her costume? God, they were the worst.

When Riker went to serve on the Klingon ship, which is one of my favorite episodes, there's a bit where a couple of Klingon women are discussing whether he could handle them (sexually), and the young officer who's acting as his retainer explains it to him, and he's like, "Both of them, right?" and all the Klingons laugh their asses off.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 10:29 PM (8548M)

406 Yeah, Lursa and B'etor. Kinda chicks who make you question your own sanity for looking at a little too long.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 10:30 PM (QU5/8)

407 34 What's a dumb sci-fi movie/series that you just love watching?

I liked Time Tunnel from way back when
Star Trek pretty much the 1st four series
Stargate SG-1
Battlestar Galactica

could not get through Farscape or Stargate Atlantis

Posted by: Pikov Andropov (rt0xh) at August 04, 2021 10:30 PM (rt0xh)

408 398 2. Burgess Meredith was also...
-----------

a horn dog

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 10:31 PM (H/umX)

409 One thing about ST:TNG, The Klingon sisters showed some cleavage.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ


Yup, massive center boob from Lursa and B'etor.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 04, 2021 10:31 PM (VwHCD)

410 For those that know the Feather River Canyon, CA. The Dixie Fire has taken the town of Greenville..
at least the Main St.. Firehouse, cop shop, community center, library, shops bars, many homes.

Really a bad deal.

Posted by: torabora at August 04, 2021 10:31 PM (GuMjT)

411 313

I dig the cut of your jib...
Yes sir. It may come to this...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:31 PM (MViHT)

412 >>> What's a dumb sci-fi movie/series that you just love watching?

I liked Time Tunnel from way back when
Star Trek pretty much the 1st four series
Stargate SG-1
Battlestar Galactica

could not get through Farscape or Stargate Atlantis
Posted by: Pikov Andropov (rt0xh) at August 04, 2021 10:30 PM (rt0xh)



You should try Babylon 5

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:32 PM (l6b3d)

413 >>Have some fun and tell them to fuck off.
Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 10:28 PM (+ya+t)

Or blow a whistle into the phone halfway through reciting your credit-card number.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 10:32 PM (xK9An)

414 Most of those, the firemen, etc.. are farmed out to call centers. It used to be US call centers but could be India now for all I know.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:15 PM (2xiYd)


Ask them how the weather in Mumbai is today and see what they say!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 10:33 PM (hOUT3)

415 Burgess Meredith was also...

a horn dog
Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 10:31 PM (H/umX)

THAT'S NOT FAIR!

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 10:33 PM (ybIRR)

416 323
I will certainly be in touch by the 13th!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:34 PM (MViHT)

417 I liked Stargate Atlantis. Todd the Wraith was pretty damn funny.

Shepard: Hey, fresh fruit!
Todd: May they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them.
*Shepard throws the fruit back in the bowl with a look of disgust*

*Sam and Todd have just made a deal*
Todd: I believe it is the custom of your people to shake hands. *extends his right hand, which has the vampire mouth he uses to suck people's life force out*
Sam: *McKayla Maroney look*
*everyone else aims their guns*
Todd: Hah-hah-hah! Just a little Wraith humor.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 10:35 PM (8548M)

418 UK Covid hot list:

Austria, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia will all move to the quarantine-free tier at the end of the weekend, in a huge boost for those looking to book a late summer getaway on the continent.

Meanwhile, the status of India, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will switch from red to amber, meaning arrivals from those countries will no longer have to spend 11 nights at pricey quarantine hotels.

In a blow for others, however, Mexico, Georgia, La Reunion and Mayotte were downgraded to the red list, bringing with it a raft of restrictions for travellers returning to the UK _DM

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 10:36 PM (H/umX)

419 You should try Babylon 5

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 10:32 PM (l6b3d)

Absolutely. I always thought that's exactly where mankind would be in a few hundred years. More advanced in technology, and still fucked up. No lofty star trek shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 04, 2021 10:36 PM (VwHCD)

420 For those that know the Feather River Canyon, CA. The Dixie Fire has taken the town of Greenville..
at least the Main St.. Firehouse, cop shop, community center, library, shops bars, many homes.

Really a bad deal.

Posted by: torabora at August 04, 2021 10:31 PM (GuMjT)

They couldn't pump water out of the river to save even the firehouse?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 10:37 PM (h1PYc)

421 273 I'm looking at a funny wedding compilation and a couple had two "beer burros" at their ceremony walking around with baskets of brewskies.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread)


Were they wearing diapers, because things could get messy?

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2021 10:37 PM (+lVUW)

422 The Blob

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 10:38 PM (+ya+t)

423 "What's a dumb sci-fi movie/series that you just love watching?"


I thought Quark was the funniest thing when I was a teenager. I'd love to watch it now to see if it really was.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 04, 2021 10:38 PM (qH6FZ)

424 410

I hope you are not in that area. I've had to deal with having to beat feet due to fire threats. Not a good thing. Bless you if you are dealing with this!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 10:41 PM (MViHT)

425 Pennsylvania school board president is being called to resign after he cut off an Iranian mother who spoke out against CRT during a school board meeting (pictured) and had her escorted out by police. _DM

https://is.gd/6041Jt

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 10:43 PM (H/umX)

426 Ken Burns calling the Autistic King an enemy of the state deserves a snicker. Burns is the PBS version of a Jerry's kid with two left hands.

And in spite of that what he said it is flat out true.

Truth to power. Burn down the country. And Baseball is the only game the doesn't have a clock.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 10:43 PM (ESLBo)

427 The weirdest thing about ST:TNG? Barclay was portrayed as being borderline nuts because he had a phobia of using the transporter.

Any sane person would have a fear of that piece of shit, given how there were transporter accidents about every second episode.

In real life, Barclay would have resigned from Star Fleet and made a fortune writing holodeck porn.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 04, 2021 10:44 PM (XGAZE)

428 If Riker could handle some moody bitch asking him what he's thinking every five minutes when she knows good god damn well what he's thinking already, he could handle two klingon chicks with angry snatches.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2021 10:45 PM (6FeV1)

429 Dumb sci fi movie?

Buckaroo Banzai.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:45 PM (U2p+3)

430 This murder of The Constitution brought by Miller Beer .

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 10:46 PM (qoz/n)

431 Buck Rogers the 1st season from the 80s, the Pirate Princess and her outfits

Space 1999

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 04, 2021 10:48 PM (dKiJG)

432 Dumb sci fi movie?



Buckaroo Banzai.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:45 PM (U2p+3)

Yeah that was a little out there. The only cool thing was the gunz and a young Ellen Barkin

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 04, 2021 10:48 PM (VwHCD)

433 Good evening, everyone.

Since I haven't been watching the news or the Olympics, can someone tell me if the world has collapsed yet? Although I really savored that meme on AoS earlier today with that skank Rapinoe looking fully the POS hole that she is.

$4.19 gasoline and beef doubling in price tells me it's getting closer.

Now back to reading the comments.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 04, 2021 10:48 PM (sy5kK)

434 I wasn't aware of the Dixie fire until now. It might explain why it has been so smoky in southern Oregon the past couple of days. All the smoke from the Bootleg fire blows to the east, so it's been relatively clear up until now.

Posted by: PabloD at August 04, 2021 10:48 PM (FmrzA)

435 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at August 04, 2021 10:48 PM (BOpNY)

436 Yeah that was a little out there. The only cool thing was the gunz and a young Ellen Barkin
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at

And John Lithgow as Emilio Lizardo. Ffs, his best role EVER!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:49 PM (U2p+3)

437 Of course there is an ONT

Since Sept 2008 as a matter of fact. I'm just another Cob in the long line of Overnight Entertainment.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 04, 2021 09:06 PM (aA3+G)

All in all, you're just another COB in the Wall.

Posted by: Pink Floyd at August 04, 2021 10:50 PM (sy5kK)

438 423 "What's a dumb sci-fi movie/series that you just love watching?"

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Does Trailer Park Boys count? Asking for a friend.

On topic answer: The Outer Limits.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 10:50 PM (ESLBo)

439 Dumb sci fi movie?

Buckaroo Banzai.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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'No matter where you go, there you are' -- Buckaroo Banzai

Tailored to appeal to the stoned.

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 10:51 PM (1vynn)

440 > Evil Spock.

Evil Spock is a strong contender for best beard, but don't forget Abraham Lincoln was in at least one episode.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 04, 2021 10:51 PM (XGAZE)

441 Dumb sci fi movie?


The Blob from the 80s doesn't get the love it deserves.

Trancers

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 04, 2021 10:52 PM (dKiJG)

442 "What's a dumb sci-fi movie/series that you just love watching?"
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'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' ... well, maybe not.

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 10:52 PM (1vynn)

443 It's not my goddamn planet, understand, monkeyboy?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:53 PM (U2p+3)

444 Eleven people die and 13 are injured after a Ford van carrying two dozen illegal migrants flips over in Texas while speeding _DM

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 10:54 PM (H/umX)

445

That movie where the everything was adorned with neon lights and it all took place inside a computer...

That was a lame movie...

Posted by: Zettai at August 04, 2021 10:54 PM (OwfEQ)

446 Little Shop of Horrors is awesome as well.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:54 PM (U2p+3)

447 In this one dumb scifi....they used a mask to filter urine and made it drinkable.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 10:55 PM (qoz/n)

448 And what about all the schlocky Japanese monster films? Godzilla vs Mothra?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:55 PM (U2p+3)

449 >>That movie where the everything was adorned with neon lights and it all took place inside a computer... That was a lame movie...
Posted by: Zettai at August 04, 2021 10:54 PM (OwfEQ)

Tron.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 10:55 PM (xK9An)

450 > Dumb sci fi movie?


Saturn 3, with Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett.

I remember Siskel's review... something like "The only suspense in this movie is wondering whether she's ever going to drop that towel she keeps wearing. She does it once for about three seconds. Big deal, it's not worth the price of admission."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 04, 2021 10:55 PM (XGAZE)

451 Little Shop of Horrors is awesome as well.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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'Feed me!'

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 10:55 PM (ELgVT)

452 That movie where the everything was adorned with neon lights and it all took place inside a computer...

That was a lame movie...
Posted by: Zettai at August 04, 2021 10:54 PM (OwfE

The Matrix? Yeah. Totally overrated.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2021 10:56 PM (6FeV1)

453 Eleven people die and 13 are injured after a Ford van carrying two dozen illegal migrants flips over in Texas while speeding _DM
Posted by: Braenyard


Mexican gov. to sue vehicle manufacturer, police, and joey b.

Posted by: Guy crewman 6 at August 04, 2021 10:56 PM (r1z5A)

454 "Feed me all night long"

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:56 PM (U2p+3)

455 dammit, off sock

Posted by: Some Rat in the swamp at August 04, 2021 10:56 PM (r1z5A)

456 umb sci fi movie?

Flesh Gordon?

Did I say Flesh, Typo should be Flash. Yea that's it. Flash.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 10:56 PM (bzrNB)

457 in fairness, the burns guy, he is bitching that zuckrburg is not censoring enough

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 04, 2021 10:57 PM (QBCNp)

458
Tron.
Posted by: ZOD
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Heh. I worked for a company whose video equipment was used in part of the production of that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 10:57 PM (ELgVT)

459 441 Dumb sci fi movie?

Dune
Tremors
Sharknado
Battlefield Earth
The Toxic Avenger
Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 10:57 PM (ESLBo)

460 FLASH!!!


Aaaaaaaaaaa

He'll save every one of us!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:58 PM (U2p+3)

461 The Blob from the 80s doesn't get the love it deserves.
------------
The original from 58 with Steve McQueen has got to be better.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 10:58 PM (+ya+t)

462 Okay, Tremors is dumb, but it's an entertaining dumb.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 04, 2021 10:58 PM (XGAZE)

463 In this one dumb scifi....they used a mask to filter urine and made it drinkable.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 10:55 PM (

Lorna Doone, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2021 10:58 PM (6FeV1)

464 208 It'd be a shame to set bear traps and just, umm, not check them.
Posted by: ZOD


Spontaneous fires in the middle of the woods can be a thing.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2021 09:36 PM (mD/uy)

What's the optimum dissolving mix of lye to water in a 55 gallon barrel?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 04, 2021 10:58 PM (sy5kK)

465 "What's a dumb sci-fi movie/series that you just love watching?"

They're both spoofs, so I don't know if they count:

Galaxy Quest and Spaceballs

Posted by: Average Guy at August 04, 2021 10:58 PM (p0rNW)

466
In real life, Barclay would have resigned from Star Fleet and made a fortune writing holodeck porn.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia


Dwight Schultz used to do talk radio. He guest hosted for Rusty Humphries and Jerry Doyle, especially when Doyle was sick.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2021 10:59 PM (63Dwl)

467 Evenin', Horde.

Posted by: Average Guy at August 04, 2021 10:59 PM (p0rNW)

468 Space Balls The Movie

May the Schwarze be with you

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 10:59 PM (bzrNB)

469 Biden's ATF nominee David Chipman
failed to tell Congress about appearance on state-run Chinese TV that was potentially used as propaganda to cover up mass stabbing of children in the country's Henan Province _DM

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 10:59 PM (H/umX)

470 Mars Attacks!

Helped my appreciation for Slim Whitman to new heights.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:01 PM (bzrNB)

471 The original from 58 with Steve McQueen has got to be better.
Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 10:58 PM (+ya+t)

It had a real catchy title song, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 11:01 PM (h1PYc)

472 Buck Rogers was a monumentally stupid show.

But, on the other hand, it had Erin Gray.

https://tinyurl.com/25xpskdr

71 years old. Still a one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 04, 2021 11:02 PM (XGAZE)

473 Tremors, dumb? No way...it was a cinemagraphic triumph! GWTW was nothing, by comparison.

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 11:02 PM (AytXr)

474

I saw one of the Dune movies and it made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever...

...until the lovely and long-suffering Mrs Z explained that computers where forbidden (???), then it made some sense!

Posted by: Zettai at August 04, 2021 11:02 PM (lvJh6)

475
On topic answer: The Outer Limits.
Posted by: LostInSpace


They didn't have big budgets in those days.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2021 11:02 PM (63Dwl)

476 448 And what about all the schlocky Japanese monster films? Godzilla vs Mothra?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:55 PM (U2p+3)

Message From Space, a knockoff Star Wars that's better written by today's standards.

Time After Time a really good time travel movie, HG Wells travels back in time after Jack The Ripper.

Erased. it's a must watch, a guy travels back in time to save a Childhood friend who was murdered by a serial Killer when he was a child

SIGNAL another time travel show where a walkie Talkie that can talk to a cop in the past good Korean Drama, sometimes they solve the case and sometimes bad things still happen or they trigger another bad event.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 04, 2021 11:03 PM (dKiJG)

477 Just that brief pull quote from the acting Boston mayor - the ignorance, and stupidity it reveals. In just a few words. Not to mention of course the racist mindset.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 11:04 PM (OTzUX)

478

The Sharknado films were cinematic masterpieces!

Posted by: Zettai at August 04, 2021 11:04 PM (lvJh6)

479 470 Mars Attacks!

Helped my appreciation for Slim Whitman to new heights.
Posted by: Pete Bog a

Such a good movie.

"they blew up congress, hahahahaha!"

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:04 PM (U2p+3)

480 > Biden's ATF nominee David Chipman

I saw that some of Chip Dickman's former ATF colleagues had submitted a letter to Congress slagging him off.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 04, 2021 11:04 PM (XGAZE)

481 "The Landing"

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 11:05 PM (xK9An)

482 Col. Wilma Deering caused some juvenile something or other for me. Definitely 1

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:05 PM (bzrNB)

483 Just read some chick on Twitchy in knee high leather boots giving everyone the riot act on the Supreme Court.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 04, 2021 11:05 PM (7MBHe)

484 Piranha and all its offshoot movies..not sure if it qualifies as sci-fi, but flying piranha is pretty out there

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 04, 2021 11:06 PM (+I6Y/)

485 Hmm. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea?

Wait, wait, I know...any of the Sinbad movies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 11:06 PM (vOGqy)

486 ReAminater was dumb but done well.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 11:06 PM (qoz/n)

487 228 I will wander it with a shotgun and a sidearm, and it will be posted "no trespass." I'll go to fucking jail before I let some communist steal any of my property.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at
That's hot.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 09:40 PM (U2p+3)
261 Squatters should get a surprise visit at 5 am, shot
and buried in a hole dug by a backhoe the day prior.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (U2p+3)
And that's hot!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2021 09:48 PM (Q9lwr)

HEY! Get a room!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 04, 2021 11:06 PM (sy5kK)

488 Mother, 34, Thessalonica Allenis, arrested for 'murdering her husband, chopping up his corpse with an ax then making her two CHILDREN help put his dismembered remains into bags so she could burn them'_DM


Sweet Dreams

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 11:07 PM (H/umX)

489 Surely the Senate GOP, or a few of them, will champion the ridiculous ATF nominee as a move towards unity and bipartisanship??

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 11:07 PM (OTzUX)

490

Logan's Run is a good flick...

Posted by: Zettai at August 04, 2021 11:07 PM (lvJh6)

491 > Time After Time a really good time travel movie, HG Wells travels back in time after Jack The Ripper.

Yeah, that one was pretty darned good. Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen (who unfortunately does not get nekkid in that particular movie, but it's still a good flick).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 04, 2021 11:08 PM (XGAZE)

492 344 I am so, so over people carrying on about slavery like it happened in their lifetime, or their parents lifetime, or even their grandparents lifetime. It ended in 1865! It would be more logical to run around being mad at Native Americans for attacking settlers in the 1880s, and that would be ridiculous.
Posted by: azjaeger at August 04, 2021 10:08 PM (3/XaG)

Likewise, I am so over hearing about how the evil Europeans tried to wipe out the noble "first nations" and destroy their vibrant culture. Like, am I suppose to apologize about dragging their sorry asses out of the stone age? They didn't even have the wheel, for heaven's sake, and now we pay for their healthcare, give them land outright, help them form Native Corporations which make tons of money from federal and state set-asides, and then take shit for not appreciating that they used to die of just about everything including starvation and never recorded history in any meaningful way.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:08 PM (SDdx5)

493 Tremors

I love the series and BURT has to be a fellow Moron.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 04, 2021 11:08 PM (dKiJG)

494 Saturn 3, with Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett.



I remember Siskel's review... something like "The only suspense in
this movie is wondering whether she's ever going to drop that towel she
keeps wearing. She does it once for about three seconds. Big deal, it's
not worth the price of admission."





Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 04, 2021 10:55 PM (XGAZE)

Yeah it was pretty stooopid. Farrah is camped out with a fucking fossil, and finally shows her tits to....the fucking fossil.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 04, 2021 11:08 PM (VwHCD)

495 Is the epic of Gilgamesh actually pre- science Science Fiction?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2021 11:08 PM (6FeV1)

496 >>482 Col. Wilma Deering caused some juvenile something or other for me. Definitely 1
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:05 PM (bzrNB)

Hubba hubba

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 11:09 PM (xK9An)

497 they blew up congress, hahahahaha!


That's a line from the movie Bob and Glowie, don't take it literally Our Nurse was nowhere near DC

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:09 PM (bzrNB)

498 Mother, 34, Thessalonica Allenis, arrested for 'murdering her husband, chopping up his corpse with an ax then making her two CHILDREN help put his dismembered remains into bags so she could burn them'_DM


Sweet Dreams

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 11:07 PM (H/umX)

she should have been a muslima, then she could have sold the meat two villages away.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 11:09 PM (h1PYc)

499 478 The Sharknado films were cinematic masterpieces!

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At the local Sharknado premiere I attended there was lighter than air 4 foot shark with a fan motor that had a wireless controller. The theater staff had a lot of fun attacking the audience the entire night. Best movie premier possible.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 11:09 PM (ESLBo)

500 Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 11:09 PM (+ya+t)

501 Col. Wilma Deering caused some juvenile something or other for me. Definitely 1

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:05 PM (bzrNB)

She makes me feel funny.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 04, 2021 11:10 PM (ufFY8)

502 Years ago, decades ago, I knew the feral gubbmint was going to have to renege on ... everything .. The math, the arithmetic really, didn't work. And the trends, all the markers were all bad, working to compound the issues. Balance of trade, deficits, crime, schools, divorce, manufacturing and jobs, etc. How would they do it, I wondered.

Well now I know, so there's that. We've gone from "2 weeks to flatten the curve!" to "You will be confined to your home until you accept communist dictatorship!"

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2021 11:11 PM (feFsi)

503 I still find Arness' portrayal of 'The Thing' mesmerizing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 11:11 PM (vOGqy)

504 497 they blew up congress, hahahahaha!


That's a line from the movie Bob and Glowie, don't take it literally Our Nurse was nowhere near DC
Posted by: Pete Bog a


Nope. That's the grandma in Mars Attacks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:11 PM (U2p+3)

505 And I really liked "The Lost Boys"

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:12 PM (U2p+3)

506 Yeah it was pretty stooopid. Farrah is camped out with a fucking fossil, and finally shows her tits to....the fucking fossil.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 04, 2021 11:08 PM (VwHCD)

Well, Kirk probably became partly fossilized then and there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 11:12 PM (h1PYc)

507 The incredible melting man - I think I remember that being on tv as a youth

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 04, 2021 11:12 PM (+I6Y/)

508 That's a line from the movie Bob and Glowie, don't take it literally Our Nurse was nowhere near DC
Posted by: Pete Bog a

Nope. That's the grandma in Mars Attacks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:11 PM (U2p+3)

The clang of that joke not landing just deafened entire alien civilizations.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2021 11:13 PM (6FeV1)

509 464

I saw some goofy forensic show about a guy who put a body in a barrel with lye or something. Many years later they were able to ID the corpse. Weird.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 11:13 PM (MViHT)

510 "Demon Seed."

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 11:14 PM (xK9An)

511 Oh shit.

I'm stupid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:14 PM (U2p+3)

512 Well now I know, so there's that. We've gone from "2 weeks to flatten the curve!" to "You will be confined to your home until you accept communist dictatorship!"
Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2021 11:11 PM (feFsi)

Over the past two weeks I have been told, by my superiors at work, that we were going back to maximum telework, that we have to wear masks at work, that we are NOT going to maximum telework, and that we were supposed to follow the guidance of the Mayor of Anchorage, who says no masks. So far, nobody has been clear concerning any of this. I finally asked my boss if he was serious about keeping us healthy, and when he said yes, I asked him when they were issuing ivermectin and opening the office windows.

Dead silence.

So, F 'em and I'm staying home. Not gonna diaper my face. Not gonna.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:14 PM (SDdx5)

513 THX 1138

That was weird, if kind of boring. Don Pleasance was in it, maybe that was required. Illicit substances may or may not have been imvolved.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2021 11:14 PM (feFsi)

514 Troma Entertainment, who distributed the Toxic Avenger movies, was never ending source of movies to watch while high.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 11:15 PM (ESLBo)

515 I saw some goofy forensic show about a guy who put a body in a barrel with lye or something. Many years later they were able to ID the corpse. Weird.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 11:13 PM (MViHT)

The inscribed Rolex might have been a clue.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 11:15 PM (h1PYc)

516 511 Oh shit.

I'm stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:14 PM (U2p+3)

Well, yeah, but who isn't?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:15 PM (SDdx5)

517
Logan's Run is a good flick...


the totally retro models they had were funky cool

plus non of the actresses wore a bra

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:16 PM (bTQ72)

518 >>Not gonna diaper my face. Not gonna. Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:14 PM (SDdx5)

Flatten the curve. We are all in this together.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 11:16 PM (xK9An)

519 512 So, F 'em and I'm staying home. Not gonna diaper my face. Not gonna.

---
Hero.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 11:16 PM (ESLBo)

520 487

Wait a minute! I agree with both of you!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 11:16 PM (MViHT)

521 Thx. tcn.

Any chance I can get some of your handmade soaps?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:17 PM (U2p+3)

522 The inscribed Rolex might have been a clue.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 11:15 PM (h1PYc)

We're looking for records of a man named "Wed".

Or possibly "Thu".

Posted by: Warai-otoko works for the FBI at August 04, 2021 11:17 PM (6FeV1)

523
these government peeps mandating masks AGAIN are playing with fire, someone is gonna snap and kill one of them

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:18 PM (bTQ72)

524 296 You know, Squatter Removal Services might not be a bad business opportunity, these days.
Have to develop some pretty creative "rate structures" as well as some Lloyd's Insurance and all the best attorneys on speed dial.
But if the TV Rights bring in COPS grade revenues, it'll all work out in the end.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 04, 2021 09:56 PM (QzJWU)
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Hire a biker gang, or urban thugs to clear the land. 50% down, 50% upon completion of the work, just like it always is for this kind of work. And the promise of more jobs in the future. Oh, and pay cash only.
Once they are off, don't let them back on the property. "No officer, I didn't touch them. Here is a copy of my deed, recorded in the county records."
At this stage, I would think the Castle doctrine applies here, somehow. It's not like there will be a CNN camera crew on the street.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 04, 2021 11:19 PM (sy5kK)

525 I certainly hope so

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2021 11:19 PM (feFsi)

526 Flatten the curve. We are all in this together.
Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 11:16 PM (xK9An)

I'll flatten your curve, you pervert. And according to the "social distance" model, we are all in this apart.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:19 PM (SDdx5)

527 >>>Dumb sci fi movie?<
>"War Of The Gargantuas" A popcorn Saturday matinee classic. Usually a double feature.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 04, 2021 11:19 PM (bCkNL)

528 THX 1138



That was weird, if kind of boring. Don Pleasance was in it, maybe
that was required. Illicit substances may or may not have been imvolved.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2021 11:14 PM (feFsi)

That movie was slow moving ball surgery with rusty soup can lid.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 04, 2021 11:20 PM (VwHCD)

529 these government peeps mandating masks AGAIN are playing with fire, someone is gonna snap and kill one of them

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:18 PM (bTQ72)

Worse than that. They'll be laughed at.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2021 11:20 PM (6FeV1)

530 >>I'll flatten your curve, you pervert. And according to the "social distance" model, we are all in this apart.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:19 PM (SDdx5)

Love Is Love.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 11:20 PM (xK9An)

531 521 Thx. tcn.

Any chance I can get some of your handmade soaps?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:17 PM (U2p+3)

I've got some green cedar/spruce/fir with coffee scrub, and some rather poorly poured lumpy pink jasmine right now. Where would you like me to send it?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:20 PM (SDdx5)

532 Thx. tcn.
Any chance I can get some of your handmade soaps?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Of the Fight Club variety?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 04, 2021 11:20 PM (ieIdN)

533 Love Is Love.
Posted by: ZOD


Please keep the NAMBLA slogans out of here.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 04, 2021 11:21 PM (SchxB)

534 515

So yeah. You know what I'm talking about.
People will always fuck up, no matter how clever they think they might be...damn those forensics...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 11:21 PM (MViHT)

535 248 I bought some frozen pizza that had ranch and chicken on it, just to see what it was like. It was truly horrible. I like ranch dressing on salad and all, but salad dressing and chicken DO NOT belong on pizza.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 04, 2021 09:45 PM (+lVUW)

maybe maple syrup?

Yeah, CBD is around here somewhere tonight. How did you know?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, stirring up shit for no apparent reason at August 04, 2021 11:21 PM (sy5kK)

536 That movie was slow moving ball surgery with rusty soup can lid.

We'll just put you down as "undecided"!!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2021 11:22 PM (feFsi)

537 "Attack of the Fifty-foot Woman" has to be one of the classic trashy sci-fi movies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 11:22 PM (h1PYc)

538 tcn,
Do any of the COBs have your email?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:22 PM (U2p+3)

539 537 "Attack of the Fifty-foot Woman" has to be one of the classic trashy sci-fi movies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

My boys had that poster in their bedroom for awhile.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:23 PM (U2p+3)

540 https://soyaraborzoi.com/FamilyPicture2021.jpg



Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2021 09:10 PM (/U27+)

So was that your first rodeo??

Posted by: lurk at August 04, 2021 11:23 PM (MIODZ)

541 George Mason professor who recovered from Covid is suing George Mason over the vax mandate. They require vaccination for everybody, even if recovered and having natural immunity. He's suing over this:

https://tinyurl.com/4napc37c

We now natural immunity is far superior, and taking the vax fucks it up. We'll see if he gets anywhere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 04, 2021 11:24 PM (Mzdiz)

542 538 tcn,
Do any of the COBs have your email?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:22 PM (U2p+3)

Well, bluebell does, but it's been a while. Not sure how to do direct contact.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:24 PM (SDdx5)

543
Creature Feature used to start at 10am or 11 am on Saturday when I was 9yo or so

Black and white 50/60s sci fi !

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:24 PM (bTQ72)

544 Oh shit.

I'm stupid.

Actually my jokes so seldom land that it's more surprising when they do. I tell myself it's because I'm highbrow. #S

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:24 PM (bzrNB)

545 MisHum might have it, too, not sure.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:24 PM (SDdx5)

546 I bought some frozen pizza that had ranch and chicken on it, just to see what it was like. It was truly horrible. I like ranch dressing on salad and all, but salad dressing and chicken DO NOT belong on pizza.
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Where are you guys from, I don't think even WI puts ranch on pizza.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 11:25 PM (+ya+t)

547 Mis hum has mine. I'll ask him if he has yours. He can send you mine.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:26 PM (U2p+3)

548 Oh shit.

I'm stupid.



We may be related.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 04, 2021 11:26 PM (SchxB)

549 At this stage, I would think the Castle doctrine applies here, somehow. It's not like there will be a CNN camera crew on the street that survives.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 04, 2021 11:19 PM (sy5kK)

FIXT

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 11:26 PM (hOUT3)

550 "Humanoids From The Deep"

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 11:26 PM (xK9An)

551 My boys had that poster in their bedroom for awhile.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:23 PM (U2p+3)

The new, woke remake will be "Attack of the Fifty-foot Drag Queen".

"Uh-oh, here it comes..."

(sound track) "swish, SWISH, SWISH"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2021 11:26 PM (h1PYc)

552
will local police enforce the comming mask mandates?

Idaho cops could be the worst for mask violation arrests

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:27 PM (bTQ72)

553 It's not my goddamn planet, understand, monkeyboy?
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 10:53 PM (U2p+3)


Am I creepy for loving it when you employ pejorative simian metaphors?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 04, 2021 11:27 PM (VxC1e)

554 > And the promise of more jobs in the future. Oh, and pay cash only.

Yes, because absolutely no one is going to suspect that the landowner had a hand in it. And none of those bikers are going to rat you out for a plea deal when they get caught.

Yeah, not a recommended procedure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 04, 2021 11:27 PM (XGAZE)

555 535 I like ranch dressing on salad and all, but salad dressing and chicken DO NOT belong on pizza.

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One of the best pizzas is a thin crust, red sauce, pepperoni and roasted green chiles. Really.

In New Mexico green chiles end up in everything edible: there is a place that serves frozen custard, caramel, salted pecans and green chilies. Sounds weird by it is tasty as can be.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 11:28 PM (ESLBo)

556 Well, bluebell does, but it's been a while. Not sure how to do direct contact.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:24 PM (SDdx5)


tcn, email bluebell and she will act as intermediary!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lay back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at August 04, 2021 11:29 PM (hOUT3)

557 That Matthew Noto fella's jib is cut just about right. No homo.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 04, 2021 11:30 PM (ieIdN)

558 "Attack of the Fifty-foot Woman" has to be one of the classic trashy sci-fi movies.
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That was good. Only saw her legs most of the movie.

Posted by: dartist at August 04, 2021 11:30 PM (+ya+t)

559 Love is love
Science is science
Black lives matter
And just a bunch of fuck all of that shit..

*spit*

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 04, 2021 11:30 PM (MViHT)

560 Does the existence of the continuum transfunctioner and hot alien chicks establish
Hey Dude, Where's my car? As SciFi?

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:32 PM (bzrNB)

561 Overnight Challenge Round: What don't Amish men want you to know.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 11:33 PM (ESLBo)

562 Creature Feature used to start at 10am or 11 am on Saturday when I was 9yo or so



Black and white 50/60s sci fi !

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:24 PM (bTQ72)

Don't forget Thriller. That 6 finger hand was the shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 04, 2021 11:33 PM (VwHCD)

563 will local police enforce the comming mask mandates?

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Yup

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2021 11:34 PM (JN3xP)

564 WH plans to implement a vaccine MANDATE for all foreign visitors to enter the US as part of border reopening program

now they are just rubbing the southern border in our face

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:35 PM (bTQ72)

565 will local police enforce the comming mask mandates?

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Yup
****

methinks they will too

2020 was not very good for cops or teachers

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:36 PM (bTQ72)

566 A nice light read for your viewing pleasure: https://bit.ly/3AdJZfu

I'm lying, it's thick and medical terminology throughout.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 04, 2021 11:36 PM (SchxB)

567 Great choice of song MisHum. Favorite of my late great grandmother.

Dinesh is awesome.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 04, 2021 11:36 PM (YglAn)

568 563 will local police enforce the coming mask mandates?
564 WH plans to implement a vaccine MANDATE for all foreign visitors.

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I did a serious supply run just in case The Maoist-Marxist Uniparty + Lindsey Graham (token loyal opposition, did I mention useless, Republican) lock down the country again. I am thinking this could be a thing once again now that they have nationalized the rental market - there is no limit to what they will do anymore.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 11:40 PM (ESLBo)

569 I think the smarter agencies will decline, for a number of reasons. Unless "mask" legislation is forthcoming.

Lots of things can be done by local, state, and federal bureacrats or elected officials, but only temporarily. 60 or maybe 90 days. It's been a year and a half.

Cops don't like to be put in this position, and it's already pretty tough to get anybody to be a cop.

Watch for the leftists to discover a strange new disdain for posse comitatus

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2021 11:40 PM (feFsi)

570 >>20 More accurately, Starfleet engineers have never met a safeguard they actually bothered to implement. As an engineer myself, working in an organization that prioritizes safety, I wince a lot. Like in "Mira". They beam down to the planet with no PPE, having learned NOT A DAMNED THING from "The Naked Time".
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 04, 2021 08:56 PM (8548M)

It's "Miri."

Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 04, 2021 11:41 PM (vuisn)

571 Speaking of 1s and 0's I had occasion a few weeks ago for a two day road trip with three of my dumbass friends. Hot weather big scenery/and rapid progress ensued.

As did much laughter, conversation and mutual harassment. I introduced the horde scale of would ya 1 or not 0 . it was quite revealing.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:41 PM (bzrNB)

572 571 As did much laughter, conversation and mutual harassment. I introduced the horde scale of would ya 1 or not 0 . it was quite revealing.

---
Please say nobody wanted to hit on Donny LeMon.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 11:43 PM (ESLBo)

573 I saw a t-shirt worn by a very decent-looking MILFish gal last week.

Drunk Wives Matter


Honestly, it was quite inspirational.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, stirring up shit for no apparent reason at August 04, 2021 11:43 PM (sy5kK)

574
We're looking for records of a man named "Wed".

Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2021 11:43 PM (63Dwl)

575 Almost forgot to thank our Host this evening for the exceptional musical offerings.

Little Milton and Delbert McClinton. A sea of riches.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 04, 2021 11:45 PM (sy5kK)

576 nobody wanted to hit on Donny LeMon.

But AOC was a real schism in the group.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:46 PM (bzrNB)

577 Grits Ain't Groceries.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 04, 2021 11:47 PM (vuisn)

578
"Attack of the Fifty-foot Woman" has to be one of the classic trashy sci-fi movies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Allison Hayes all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2021 11:49 PM (63Dwl)

579 577 Grits Ain't Groceries.
Posted by: Dr. Varno

Mona Lisa was a man.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:50 PM (U2p+3)

580 576 But AOC was a real schism in the group.
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That is serious. Really serious. maybe fatal.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 04, 2021 11:50 PM (ESLBo)

581 Olympic update.

Georgia Ellenwood and Emma Ooestrwegel are heptathletes. And 1's.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:51 PM (bzrNB)

582 516 511 Oh shit.

I'm stupid.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 04, 2021 11:14 PM (U2p+3)

Well, yeah, but who isn't?
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:15 PM (SDdx5)

We're not referred to as Morons for nothing. Wear it as a badge of honor.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 04, 2021 11:51 PM (sy5kK)

583 Don't forget Thriller. That 6 finger hand was the shit.
Posted by: Berserker
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Ah. I recollect the SNL ad for 'Handioff'
https://tinyurl.com/brsn2d4y

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 04, 2021 11:53 PM (ELgVT)

584 >>Ooestrwegel Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:51 PM (bzrNB)

15 Scrabble points.

Posted by: ZOD at August 04, 2021 11:55 PM (xK9An)

585
unfortunately biden will need a war to change the focus from his fuckups to something else

I do not think it will work

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:57 PM (bTQ72)

586
Herr Doktor Fauci is now ginning up fear about another variant, the Lambda variant, I was just reading.

Lambda first appeared in South America, and according to new Jap paper, nicely evades the neutralizing antibodies generated by all our wonderful vaccines. Spike mutations, you see (coronaviruses mutate their spikes like mofos, a well known fact for many years).

An actually Chicoms may be responsible for this. Peru and Chile used a Chicom vaccine, dubbed "Sinovac", which is pretty shitty -- even our vax fanatics will tell you Sinovac is shit. It's likely Sinovac contributed to the selection pressure that produced lambda.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 04, 2021 11:58 PM (Mzdiz)

587 585 unfortunately biden will need a war to change the focus from his fuckups to something else
Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 11:57 PM (bTQ72)

Hold our beers.

Posted by: Peoples Liberation Army, Taiwan Swim Team at August 04, 2021 11:58 PM (xK9An)

588 unfortunately biden will need a war to change the focus from his fuckups to something else

I do not think it will work


The way that guy screws things up it will probably involve miniature suns rising over our cities, and then the survivors will be too busy trying to find food or eating each other to pay attention to him.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at August 05, 2021 12:00 AM (SchxB)

589 Georgia Ellenwood and Emma Ooestrwegel are heptathletes. And 1's.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 04, 2021 11:51 PM (bzrNB)

I said Georgia, Georgia
A song of you (a song of you)
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines

Posted by: LeftCoast "Hoagy Carmichael" Dawg at August 05, 2021 12:02 AM (sy5kK)

590 Good time for me to bow out.
Goodnight horde!

May God bless you and keep you in the palm of His hand.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2021 12:04 AM (U2p+3)

591 I seem to have a plague of moles here in the grounds of stately Peon Manor. Any of the Horde have a sure-fire way of eradicating them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:04 AM (cN8fU)

592 591 I seem to have a plague of moles here in the grounds of stately Peon Manor. Any of the Horde have a sure-fire way of eradicating them?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at

A .22 with a scope, a lawn chair and a cooler.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2021 12:05 AM (U2p+3)

593 586
Herr Doktor Fauci is now ginning up fear about another variant, the Lambda variant, I was just reading.

Lambda first appeared in South America, and according to
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Lambda?
Farking bastards will be finished with the entire Greek alphabet by early next year.
What happens after the Zeta variant? Do the Fauchigandists go to double-digits?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 05, 2021 12:06 AM (sy5kK)

594 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 04, 2021 11:58 PM (Mzdiz)

Typical. Shitty, poorly put together Chinese crap.

Seriously though, is it an mRNA vax? If so according to everything I have read it makes sense as to the mutation.

What will be very interesting is how Africa fares death rate wise. After all HCQ is taken as a prophylactic over there as is.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 05, 2021 12:06 AM (YglAn)

595 A .22 with a scope, a lawn chair and a cooler.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2021 12:05 AM (U2p+3)

they are nocturnal, though. Can't shoot 'em if you can't see 'em.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:07 AM (cN8fU)

596 Any of the Horde have a sure-fire way of eradicating them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:04 AM



Moth balls?

Posted by: Zettai at August 05, 2021 12:08 AM (CcC3I)

597 Whoops I read South America as Africa. Completely skipping over the South part. I should go to bed.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 05, 2021 12:08 AM (YglAn)

598 >>unfortunately biden will need a war to change the focus from his fuckups to something else


What do you tink his administration's obsession with rooting out "white supremacists" is? Doesn't have to be a foreign war. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2021 12:09 AM (bDqIh)

599 Moth balls?
Posted by: Zettai at August 05, 2021 12:08 AM (CcC3I)

How do you harvest those? Microscope and tiny tweezers?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:09 AM (cN8fU)

600 >> What happens after the Zeta variant? Do the Fauchigandists go to double-digits?

Omega is the last letter. Zeta is just the 6th. There already is a zeta variant -- came from Rio.

The one that comes after lambda is mu, then nu. Mu.nu, the Ace variant.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:09 AM (Mzdiz)

601
That little fucker Faucci would keep the masks on until 2025 if he could

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 05, 2021 12:11 AM (bTQ72)

602 An actually Chicoms may be responsible for this. Peru and Chile used a Chicom vaccine, dubbed "Sinovac", which is pretty shitty -- even our vax fanatics will tell you Sinovac is shit. It's likely Sinovac contributed to the selection pressure that produced lambda.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 04, 2021 11:58 PM (Mzdiz)

Maybe it wasn't an accident at all, rather it's the CCP launching new variants to continue the non-shooting war they have unleashed on the US, the West, and anyone not CCP-aligned.

Which is to date the most successful war in history, considering how few CCP resources have been lost so far, in comparison to US/North American/European resources and people.


Or more like probably.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 05, 2021 12:11 AM (sy5kK)

603 Omega is the last letter. Zeta is just the 6th. There already is a zeta variant -- came from Rio.

The one that comes after lambda is mu, then nu. Mu.nu, the Ace variant.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:09 AM (Mzdiz)

Speaking of alphabetical order, how did the present order become established?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:11 AM (cN8fU)

604 I am bowing out as well. I have no doubt many Morons will carry on. Yall are the best!
Good night, wonderful people.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 05, 2021 12:12 AM (MViHT)

605 Niters, COMM!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:13 AM (cN8fU)

606 My memory isn't the best on mole or vole eradication, but seem to remember they are kind of a symptom, not a cause, nome sayin'? They are opportunists, so whatever their main food source is, control that, and you'll make progress.

The Amish sell those windmill driven dealie-de-bobs that supposedly keep them away. I have my doubts, though who knows. I'd focus on killing off the bugs or slugs or critters that are causing them to move in greater numbers.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2021 12:14 AM (feFsi)

607 >>they are nocturnal, though. Can't shoot 'em if you can't see 'em. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:07 AM (cN8fU)

You'll read on mole repellent instructions that staged placement is key--sage advice. You can't simply 'treat' the entire area at once--moles are 'pushed' out of an area to another area by systematic repellent application. Tough to get rid of; good luck.

Posted by: ZOD at August 05, 2021 12:14 AM (xK9An)

608 ..I seem to have a plague of moles here in the grounds of stately Peon Manor. Any of the Horde have a sure-fire way of eradicating them? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:04 AM (cN8fU)

Read J.J. Angleton's bio "A Wilderness of Mirrors". He was the Large and in Charge spook charged with purging the CIA of it's commie infiltrators in the '50s n' '60s.

Not saying you'll become a raging conspiratist, but if you have a mole on your forearm, you're likely to shoot it with a suppressed High Standard .22.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 12:14 AM (QzJWU)

609
SInovac is not mRNA, but (an attempt) at a dead virus vaccine, using pieces of the Covid virus.

Vaccines against coronaviruses are very difficult to do for a lot of reasons. There's never been a successful one in humans. If it was easy, an inactivated virus type would be the way to do. It's not, you fuck up big time trying that, and that's what the Chicoms have done.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:15 AM (Mzdiz)

610 -What do you tink his administration's obsession with rooting out "white supremacists" is? Doesn't have to be a foreign war. . .

fair point, i don't think they are bold enough to start putting people in camps yet, even if they want to start with the unvax'd

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 05, 2021 12:16 AM (bTQ72)

611 >>Speaking of alphabetical order, how did the present order become established?

4th century BC was when it was established. 24 letters.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:16 AM (Mzdiz)

612 I thought moles were lookin for the grubs. We had a cat that would seek and destroy any moles that ventured in

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 05, 2021 12:18 AM (+I6Y/)

613 I've never thought about it, maybe if you're trying to have a showcase lawn, or maybe a garden, would be one thing. Otherwise, who cares? They probably aerate the soil and that stuff. They don't get in the house and raid the cornmeal or anything I don't think.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2021 12:20 AM (feFsi)

614 but if you have a mole on your forearm, you're likely to shoot it with a suppressed High Standard .22.
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Ah. A man of refined tastes. My favorite:
https://tinyurl.com/ypssepkn

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 12:21 AM (DMQdU)

615

If you could catch just a few of them, AOP, then gibbet them in the garden, it would send a potent message to the others...

Posted by: Zettai at August 05, 2021 12:22 AM (tu9UT)

616 raise the moles taxes?

works for California and NY

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 05, 2021 12:23 AM (bTQ72)

617 Thanks for all the ONT effort!

About the poor ratings for the Olympics. Yup, have not watched a second of it. But this is what I have said for a while. There are two levels of destruction. One useful idiot, like Rapinoe, turns us off/away from the whole team, the whole Olympics. It stops us from watching a bunch of other young people fulfilling their dreams, who are proud to be representing the USA.

We boycott the Olympics, NFL, NASCAR (noose bs last year), we are forced away from movies, TV, and on and on. But these boycotts actually destroy our culture, with our capitulation.

Posted by: MikeM at August 05, 2021 12:24 AM (tA/XW)

618 this guy

Now Dr. Fauci says he fears vaccine-resistant COVID variant could emerge this fall and warns US is 'in trouble' - a day after saying the nation is on same 'trajectory' as UK where cases are in DECLINE

needs to exit the stage

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 05, 2021 12:25 AM (bTQ72)

619 Omega is the last letter. Zeta is just the 6th.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:09 AM (Mzdiz)

Fork, I knew that. I could once recite the entire Greek alphabet while holding a lit match. Pledge week, in a previous century. No need to know that for over 4 decades now, but still no excuse.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 05, 2021 12:26 AM (sy5kK)

620
REading a bit about the Sinovac, the shitty Chicom vaccine, it's initial efficacy was only 35% against infection and maybe 50% against symptomatic infection. A from the testing, the confidence interval was so wide, the efficacy could've been less than 0. That it, it made it worse.

Sinovac would be the perfect thing to throw into an active outbreak if you wanted to accelerate the viral mutation selection process to lead to vaccine evasion.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:26 AM (Mzdiz)

621
I don't know if ever could recite it in order, but I knew and still do, most of the letters -- math/physics.

I can recite pi to 14 digits from rote, though:

3.141596253589793. Check me on that.

They told me that would get me chicks. They lied.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:28 AM (Mzdiz)

622 Mike Hammer.

I know a Hush Puppy when I see one. That is a Hush Puppy.

For straight up High Standard pistol use though, the Supermatic Citation is my choice. The 1911 grip angle is also found on my Browning Buckmark UDX, and I find it to be ideal. The more raked angle on the earlier High Standards works well in Olympic Rapid Fire, but is otherwise an unnatural angle to my hand and wrists. Same reason the highly respected Glock platform, just ain't the right fit for my shooting grip.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 12:29 AM (QzJWU)

623 >>Now Dr. Fauci says he fears vaccine-resistant COVID variant could emerge this fall and warns US is 'in trouble' -


Can someone show this guy off the stage?
He has a vested interest in keeping the covid fear going, as it ensures he continues to be the nation's expert, etc.. He is addicted to the power, attention and praise. Disgusting.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2021 12:29 AM (bDqIh)

624 1 I seem to have a plague of moles here in the grounds of stately Peon Manor. Any of the Horde have a sure-fire way of eradicating them?

Two ways. The poison that is legal for prairie dogs which name currently escapes me

The second works great for ground squirrels and I think moles have a similar tunnel structure. Run a hose from your gas generator exhaust in to the tunnel network. Plug as many exit holes as you can find. Run generator at load for an hour.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 05, 2021 12:29 AM (bzrNB)

625 ..3.141596253589793. Check me on that.

They told me that would get me chicks. They lied.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:28 AM (Mzdiz)


No, they didn't. Miley said she was gonna marry ya 'cause you made the best pi.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 12:30 AM (QzJWU)

626 ...Run generator at load for an hour.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 05, 2021 12:29 AM



You may have to blanket the area with small arms fire to get any runners...

Posted by: Zettai at August 05, 2021 12:31 AM (tu9UT)

627 You can't simply 'treat' the entire area at once--moles are 'pushed' out of an area to another area by systematic repellent application. Tough to get rid of; good luck.
Posted by: ZOD
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Also accurate: substitute "Seattle homeless encampments" for "moles."

Posted by: fly gal at August 05, 2021 12:32 AM (6CtMt)

628 But these boycotts actually destroy our culture, with our capitulation.
Posted by: MikeM at August 05, 2021 12:24 AM (tA/XW)


Spot on. Every word of your post.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 05, 2021 12:32 AM (sy5kK)

629
Let's see what my rote memory can do for the Greek alphabet:

alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta .. that's the first 6, in order. Now it gets foggy, so I'm gonna just start naming

eta, theta, upsilon, lambda, kappa, mu, nu, rho, sigma, tau, pi, xi, chi, psi, omega.

That's 21. So, not so hot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:34 AM (Mzdiz)

630 I know a Hush Puppy when I see one. That is a Hush Puppy.

For straight up High Standard pistol use though, the Supermatic Citation is my choice.

Jim
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Probably to their chagrin, I was on an Army unit pistol team. We used Supermatics. They were fine...better than the shooter, in my case.

To my ever lasting regret, I came into a Model B about 5 years ago...and sold it, $195. Oh, I rue that day.

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 12:35 AM (l0Lgi)

631 If I owned that hunk of land up in New England I'd hire a moving company t go in and cart off that old geezer's gear while he was still in jail and deposit it on the land of those a-holes trying to raise money for him. He is nothing but a squatter. Have him squat on their land. See how they like it.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at August 05, 2021 12:36 AM (QMwOT)

632
You may have to blanket the area with small arms fire to get any runners...
Posted by: Zettai
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Mines

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 12:36 AM (l0Lgi)

633
Looking it up, I missed phi, omicron, and iota. I shouldn't have missed phi.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:36 AM (Mzdiz)

634 >>We boycott the Olympics, NFL, NASCAR (noose bs last year), we are forced away from movies, TV, and on and on. But these boycotts actually destroy our culture, with our capitulation.



Yes, it's sad to lose these pieces of our culture, but the boycotts aren't what's killing them.

For example, when the NFL is allowing kneeling, the black national anthem, pledging to spend millions on BLM activities, running woke commercials and even more woke PSAs -- it's already gone. Boyvotting it just means you won't have to witness it, won't support those who have destroyed it from within with your attention and money.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2021 12:38 AM (bDqIh)

635 ..To my ever lasting regret, I came into a Model B about 5 years ago...and sold it, $195. Oh, I rue that day. Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 12:35 AM (l0Lgi)

I don't know whether to turn you over to Weasel or to AtC as to your fate. Choose the form of your destructor.

OR.

You can recite three Mike Hammer Kills Commies and Sleeps Well, and find absolution here. I'll fire up the Manny Lopez Nicaraguan Puro tomorrow, to provide the smoke for the censor. Meanwhile, you say three John Brownings, and sin no more!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 12:39 AM (QzJWU)

636 they are nocturnal, though. Can't shoot 'em if you can't see 'em.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:07 AM (cN8fU)

See the documentary called Caddy Shack for important tips on hunting golfers, err, gophers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKe4zEhRxzU

Posted by: Beartooth at August 05, 2021 12:39 AM (Mo2gk)

637 >> 3.141596253589793.

I checked it, but I transposed the 6 and the 2 via typo. It's 3.141592653589793.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:39 AM (Mzdiz)

638
You can recite three Mike Hammer Kills Commies and Sleeps Well, and find absolution here.
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Down payment:

"I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I've ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago..."

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 12:42 AM (vOGqy)

639 601
That little fucker Faucci would keep the masks on until 2025 if he could

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 05, 2021 12:11 AM (bTQ72)

Best until November 2024 with mandatory lockdowns requiring mail in ballots.
Funny how a variant will flare up every 4 years....

Posted by: The Man from Athens at August 05, 2021 12:43 AM (QMwOT)

640 .."I killed more people today than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I've ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago.."

Trump, 20 min after his re-inauguration speech, Jan 2025.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 12:45 AM (QzJWU)

641 See the documentary called Caddy Shack for important tips on hunting golfers, err, gophers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKe4zEhRxzU
Posted by: Beartooth at August 05, 2021 12:39 AM (Mo2gk)

Heh. I did some DDG'ing, and I think it's more likely I am dealing with pocket gophers, not moles. But gassing them sounds like an option. One article suggests pouring a gallon each of ammonia and bleach into the burrow. They react to form chloramine gas, which kills them faster than they can burrow away.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:47 AM (VLfTk)

642 Very sad story, and I hope these parents get an attorney and get a settlement that will dwarf what the George Floyd family got from Minneapolis. https://tinyurl.com/34xfw95d

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 12:47 AM (YkawN)

643 And it's getting close to midnight here. Time for me to shut 'er down for the night. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2021 12:49 AM (VLfTk)

644 Offer to be a cat sitter for a weekend.

They know how to do the rest.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 05, 2021 12:53 AM (vuisn)

645
Put this fellow, Geert Vanden Bossche, on your reading list:

https://twitter.com/GVDBossche

He's nobody but an eminent virologist and immunologist, who has 'splained how these 'Rona vaccines are WEAPONS GRADE IDIOCY DONE BY STUPID MOTHERFUCKING FUCKS.

I laughed when he tweeted that since most of the "public health experts" are getting their information from the MSM, he will start addressing them there, via Twitter. That's a very deep dig at these "experts" by the way.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:53 AM (Mzdiz)

646 But gassing them sounds like an option.
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Hmm. A bit of tubing from the exhaust of a small engine?

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 12:53 AM (DMQdU)

647
Oh, Dr. Bossche warned them not to do this mass vaccination with a non-sterilizing vaccine in the middle of active infection pandemic 6 months ago.

And he also shows you a paper back from 2004 showing why such a strategy would be very ill advised.

Then in another deep dig at the experts, notes that he was alerted to that paper by someone who was not an expert in any of these fields, but thought it was very relevant and wanted him to look at it.

He then asks, well shit, wonder why all these experts aren't the ones who know about these things. You'd think they know more than even he does.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 12:57 AM (Mzdiz)

648 386 "Ken Burns blasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as 'an enemy of the state' who 'doesn't give a s***' about the United States and thinks he and his No. 2, Sheryl Sandberg, should be tried for crimes against humanity and put in prison. _DM

somebody missed their CPB donation deadline?

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 12:59 AM (YkawN)

649
I wonder if Twitter will have the ballz to start censoring Vanden Bossche. It would be like censoring Richard Feynman on physics topics, but that might just try it, since the world is so damned dumbed-down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 01:00 AM (Mzdiz)

650 Ken Burns said that?! Yikes. When you've lost Ken Burns...

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 01:02 AM (vOGqy)

651 It would be like censoring Richard Feynman...
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Never heard of him. Must not be an Influencer.

Posted by: MSM 'Journalist' at August 05, 2021 01:04 AM (vOGqy)

652 Mike Hammer.

I've watched a lot of Ken Burns PBS stuff. Yeah, he can drift off into semi-woke, now n' then. Thoughtlessly recite liberal tripe.

But he cannot have viewed the 1,000s of hours of tape that he left on the cutting room floor, be it Civil War, Baseball or Country Music, without much of those truths having infused his system and his mind. Small seeds planted long time back, maybe grow into mighty oaks. One acorn at a time.

Might we hope?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 01:07 AM (QzJWU)

653 634 >>We boycott the Olympics, NFL, NASCAR (noose bs last year), we are forced away from movies, TV, and on and on. But these boycotts actually destroy our culture, with our capitulation.

When did American culture become defined by watching rich people compete in athletic events? Those organizations chose to destroy themselves because they decided to piss on American culture IMHO.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:07 AM (YkawN)

654 Music that will move you - just about anything by Puccini, Brahms, or Rachmaninoff. Claire de Lune. "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess.

Dear Lord, there is SO much music out there to stir the soul.

And it is different for every person.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade Plucky Comic Relief at August 05, 2021 01:08 AM (SRRAx)

655
I'm just daydreaming if Geert Vanden Bossche held Fauci's position. How different, and sane, and effective, the response to this stupid pandemic would've been.

People of his nature were in such positions in Sweden. They got a lot of heat, but they stayed the course. And they're doing okay.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 01:08 AM (Mzdiz)

656 >>"Ken Burns blasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as 'an enemy of the state' who 'doesn't give a s***' about the United States and thinks he and his No. 2, Sheryl Sandberg, should be tried for crimes against humanity and put in prison. _DM


That's intense. Despite being a Lefty, Burns' career is focused on American history, and he clearly loves America (unless I missed something in a later docu-series that outed him as loving America the way Ike loved Tina?). Glad he is not afraid to voice his contempt for Zuck and Sandberg.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2021 01:09 AM (bDqIh)

657 640 .."I killed more people today than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I've ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago.."

Trump, 20 min after his re-inauguration speech, Jan 2025.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Sorry, Trump gave us Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett, and Bill Barr. It's time for somebody else to step up. Preferably Ron DeSantis, who tried very hard to convince Trump to nominate Barbara Ochoa instead of ACB.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:10 AM (YkawN)

658 Might we hope?
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Yeah, it may have occurred to him, 'Gee, you know what, we are one hell of a unique country, and it didn't come about by accident'.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 01:11 AM (9Fwwf)

659 People of his nature were in such positions in Sweden. They got a lot of heat, but they stayed the course. And they're doing okay.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 01:08 AM (Mzdiz)

They do not suffer from over a thousand miles of border open to a failed state, or from a government that is actively importing diseased illegals to seed pockets of covid throughout their country. We were doing pretty okay until just a month ago.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:13 AM (YkawN)

660 Eric Schmidt.

No argument, but please. It's entertainment, not prediction.

Grounding yourself doesn't necessarily involve digging down to the core of the Earth, itself. Golden ScalpWeasel images still piss off the left, and if that's good enough for them, then it's good enough (even if merely in jest), for me.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

/hasta la nite nite, Horde!

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 01:14 AM (QzJWU)

661 >>But he cannot have viewed the 1,000s of hours of tape that he left on the cutting room floor, be it Civil War, Baseball or Country Music, without much of those truths having infused his system and his mind. Small seeds planted long time back, maybe grow into mighty oaks. One acorn at a time.


Well said! I would imagine reviewing so much history, a lot of it coming from regular folks who had a shining moment of bravery, perserverence, talent, etc. that Burns recognizes the corrosive effect of FB and YT censorship - of news, ideas, opinions, voices.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2021 01:15 AM (bDqIh)

662 I just read the DM article. Burns thinks Zuckerberg is an enemy of the state because Facebook did not ban Trump in time to prevent his 2016 victory. He thinks Stacy Abrams is as important as Mohammed Ali. The man is nuts.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:17 AM (YkawN)

663 >>They do not suffer from over a thousand miles of border open to a failed state, or from a government that is actively importing diseased illegals to seed pockets of covid throughout their country.


Sweden has been overrun with third world refugees for years, to the point that they stopped noting ethnicity in their crime stats (because most of it is done by foreigners). Take a look at what's happened to Malmo, for instance. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2021 01:18 AM (bDqIh)

664 >> Burns thinks Zuckerberg is an enemy of the state because Facebook did not ban Trump in time to prevent his 2016 victory. He thinks Stacy Abrams is as important as Mohammed Ali. The man is nuts.


Holy sh#t. Never mind.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2021 01:19 AM (bDqIh)

665 ..Burns thinks Zuckerberg is an enemy of the state because Facebook did not ban Trump in time to prevent his 2016 victory. He thinks Stacy Abrams is as important as Mohammed Ali. The man is nuts.
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:17 AM (YkawN)


Well, if that's the case, then I'll gladly buy the Gorilla Glue to cement Burns' hairdo into place forever, and with the added benefit of thermodynamic heating as a bonus.

Nothing says Liberal Hothead like an external infusion of time extended 140 degree exothermic chemical reaction upon the cranium, yes?

POP goes the PBSeasel!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 01:22 AM (QzJWU)

666
Yep, I just read the article, ZuckerBorg is an enemy of the state because he helped Trump get elected in 2016. That's why he's mad at Facebook.

Fuck Ken Burns.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 01:25 AM (Mzdiz)

667 And Schmidt. That wasn't an apology.

I appreciate your passion and your speed at the keyboard. But your expression on the screen as such lacks expression, explanation, subtlety and nuance. Your points come across as combative, argumentative, belligerent and bullying. Doesn't mean you've not been right.

Does mean you suck at being persuasive.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 01:26 AM (QzJWU)

668
BTW, just reading something about a Kraut "Dr. Quincy", head of the pathology/medical examiner program at some German university. He's taken it upon himself to start doing autopsies on those who died within 2 weeks of getting the clot shot vaccines.

So far, he's autopsied about 40 such dead bodies and says that 30 - 40% of 'em were killed by effects of the vaccines. Kraut government pitched a hissy and is saying he's nuts. His university is sticking by him, for now. He's continuing his work.

I'm looking forward to the Kraut Quincy's findings.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 01:32 AM (Mzdiz)

669 Sweden has been overrun with third world refugees for years, to the point that they stopped noting ethnicity in their crime stats (because most of it is done by foreigners). Take a look at what's happened to Malmo, for instance. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2021 01:18 AM (bDqIh)

Yes, but most of them arrived before covid, and the ones trickling in since then are way less likely to be carrying fulminant disease with them. I would guess even Mutti Merkel has quietly cracked down on accepting waves of "refugees" in the past year.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:34 AM (YkawN)

670
In Germany, as I understand it, Pharma has no immunity for the vaccines, as they do here. So if Kraut Quincy can prove they are killing a shit ton of people, Pharma is Phucked in Germany at least. So are a lot of other Krauts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 01:34 AM (Mzdiz)

671 And if you wonder why I trust Publius with saying much the same, with fewer words?

He has earned TRUST here, with far more words, and that over years of time. And I trust his mate's choice in him, as she's earned the trust of the Horde, too, over years of time.

I put great stock into his declarations. Eric.. yours though? Took the horde a long time to trust MY words, as well. Everyone has to take the long route, here.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 01:35 AM (QzJWU)

672 I just read the DM article. Burns thinks Zuckerberg is an enemy of the state because Facebook did not ban Trump in time to prevent his 2016 victory. He thinks Stacy Abrams is as important as Mohammed Ali. The man is nuts.
Posted by: Eric Schmidt
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It happened on the “Sway” podcast from The New York Times, as he does interviews about his documentary airing next month on Muhammad Ali. Swisher asked him, “who do you think would be the version of Muhammad Ali in 100 years?” Burns replied "Stacey Abrams. She’s the person who has the closest chops to being somebody that we could carve into Mount Rushmore...She’s the real deal." Then he added "I hope Zuckerberg is in jail by then.”

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 01:38 AM (pbStR)

673 Publius, you will enjoy this presentation I think. Dr Been has interviewed Dr Pierre Korey a couple of times, Dr Marek, Dr Varon, and quite a few other amazing FLCCC doctors. This one with Dr Tina Peers is exceptional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOkUDh3vHVU

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:39 AM (YkawN)

674 541 George Mason professor who recovered from Covid is suing George Mason over the vax mandate. They require vaccination for everybody, even if recovered and having natural immunity. He's suing over this:

I see a lack of standing in his future

Posted by: Judge Dred Pirate Roberts at August 05, 2021 01:39 AM (rt0xh)

675 They require vaccination for everybody,
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It's a tax!

Posted by: SCOTUS at August 05, 2021 01:41 AM (pbStR)

676 I'm to the snoozer, horde. Blown left shoulder is bringing the pain and cross-eyed typing, despite the aspirin n' bourbon.

Or because of 'em. Either way, I'm past the 7/10 pain threshold, and am now to attain the horizontal in hopes of mitigating sitting before the screen.

Schmidt. Keep persevering. I think we'll find more common than apart, and I appreciate your drive.

Subtly,

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2021 01:43 AM (QzJWU)

677 Twitter suspended BAP. Wow.
If you;re not familiar with him: https://tinyurl.com/2vdemkj5

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2021 01:46 AM (bDqIh)

678 And Jim, I am sorry if I hurt your feelings by criticizing Trump. I voted for him twice, and his "loss" to Biden is obviously a crushing blow to the country. I simply oppose his running in 2024 because his judgement in personnel was awful even as late as 2020. Coney Barrett is a disaster, and he had lots of warning, and should have learned from the 3.5 years that Mike Pence should not be trusted. He did some great stuff, but I think he has a fatal flaw. I far, far prefer DeSantis, and fear that Trump will suck all the oxygen out of the room.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:46 AM (YkawN)

679 >> Publius, you will enjoy this presentation I think

Thanks, I'll watch.

Vanden Bossche says the only chance at a really effective, sterilizing, long term immunity vaccine for this coronavirus would be an attenuated live virus vaccine, but something like that would take years, maybe a decade or two to perfect, if at all. And this thing would run it's course long before then.

So effective therapeutics are the only way to go. And were he in Fauci's position, that's where we would've gone. Worry about the vulnerable, and let it rip and run its course amongst the low-risk.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 01:47 AM (Mzdiz)

680 Or because of 'em. Either way, I'm past the 7/10 pain threshold, and am now to attain the horizontal in hopes of mitigating sitting before the screen.

Schmidt. Keep persevering. I think we'll find more common than apart, and I appreciate your drive.

Subtly,

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Ugh, so sorry about the pain, and yes, we are allies. I shouldn't have brought so much heat in my initial post.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:48 AM (YkawN)

681 ...I could once recite the entire Greek alphabet while holding a lit match. Pledge week, in a previous century....
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg


A Sr in my frat when I was a Freshman was legendary. As a pledge, he had recited the Greek alphabet while holding a lit match, then when challenged, managed to recite it backward as well. Same match.

Our class hardly knew the ABCs. Dehr.

Posted by: mindful webworker - forgotten days at August 05, 2021 01:54 AM (JtBPN)

682
Thanks for the kind words Jim. I'm blushing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 01:56 AM (Mzdiz)

683 I am pretty enraged by this kid's case. Successful athlete, intact family, treated like sh*t because he was not vaccinated (at age 17, in Georgia? when did they start vaccinating under 18s?). Offensive lineman, so high BMI, black, should have been admitted and given anti-coagulants, 10,000 IU of vitamin D, and steroids, and he would most likely have returned to play for his team this fall. They wouldn't have even had to use ivermectin probably because he was young. I hope his parents put the bastards out of business and get every doctor who refused to treat him out of practicing medicine.
https://tinyurl.com/34xfw95d

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 01:56 AM (YkawN)

684 Vanden Bossche says the only chance at a really effective, sterilizing, long term immunity vaccine for this coronavirus would be an attenuated live virus vaccine, but something like that would take years, maybe a decade or two to perfect, if at all. And this thing would run it's course long before then.
So effective therapeutics are the only way to go. And were he in Fauci's position, that's where we would've gone. Worry about the vulnerable, and let it rip and run its course amongst the low-risk.

Yeah. The vaccine ineffectiveness is very sad. They took a moon shot and missed. I previously said I have a masters in biochem and my research involved genetic manipulation of viruses. I know people who do vaccine research at Harvard, and I was extremely skeptical that a vaccine based on one viral protein would give acceptable protection. I do not think they are dangerous per se to most people, and actually went and got the Moderna yesterday because I have to travel for work and family. I am also taking IVM and now aspirin to prevent vaccine induced thrombosis. I'm very pissed off that I had to do it.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 02:05 AM (YkawN)

685 >> I am pretty enraged by this kid's case.

Sue them into oblivion.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 05, 2021 02:11 AM (Mzdiz)

686 this thing is mutating. It needs to be stopped now. Vaccinate.
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Ah. Does vaccination stop the mutation? Does vaccination protect against the mutations?

No, and, no.

Posted by: Mike Hammer. etc., etc. at August 05, 2021 02:15 AM (pbStR)

687 >> Morons, this thing is mutating. It needs to be stopped now. Vaccinate.

Of course it's mutating. That's what viruses do. And you'll vaccinate my cold dead body.

Your vaccines are what's driving the mutations. Well, the selection thereof to evade the stupid S-protein only antibody flood the zone stupidity called "vaccines".

You know what the viral mutation don't evade so easily? Natural immunity. It doesn't pay any attention to the spike proteins. It goes for the N-proteins. They are generally conserved against mutations. Your own immune system knows a thing or two about fighting coronaviruses, 'cause it's seen a thing or two over millennia of natural selection.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 05, 2021 02:16 AM (Mzdiz)

688 Drive by, won't be around much:

I wonder if Twitter will have the ballz to start censoring Vanden Bossche. It would be like censoring Richard Feynman on physics topics, but that might just try it, since the world is so damned dumbed-down.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 05, 2021 01:00 AM (Mzdiz)
**

Don't know if you saw this, but Facebook / factcheck.org "fact checking" effort:

"SciCheck's COVID-19/Vaccination Project is made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation."
"The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which is one of the largest supporters of this project, just happens to get 15% of its assets through Johnson & Johnson stock, according to its 2019 financial statement! And the CEO of the foundation is none other than Richard Besser, the former acting director of the CDC under Obama and ABC News' former chief health and medical editor. "

Our helpful "fact checkers" just happen to hold $2B in stock in at least one vaccine manufacturer while being run by an ex-head of the CDC.
https://tinyurl.com/yh2muwjx

Posted by: Moron Robbie - lung cancers from wearing the same 1-use fibrous blue mask for weeks LINK at August 05, 2021 02:16 AM (hsOar)

689 Vacillate! We must vacillate now!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 05, 2021 02:17 AM (b57kA)

690 >> Our helpful "fact checkers" just happen to hold $2B in stock

No, I hadn't seen that, but that's par for the course. Thanks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 05, 2021 02:19 AM (Mzdiz)

691 689 Morons, this thing is mutating. It needs to be stopped now. Vaccinate.
Posted by: Hickler at August 05, 2021 02:07 AM (mUOTq)

Or go with Mom Nature, and Darwin, and do NOT trust the very people who created the deadly virus in the first place.

Posted by: Bill S. Preston, Esq.... at August 05, 2021 02:21 AM (oHd/0)

692 And my last little ray of sunshine-I'm sure the Germans with protect BionTech (Pfizer partner) as much as they protect Bayer, which is total protection. Anyway, with that cheerful prediction, I am off to bed.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 02:22 AM (YkawN)

693 >> chicken pox, polio, small pox...

Yes, safe and truly effective vaccines that went through years, decades of development and testing. You seem to think "vaccine" is just one thing, that all vaccines are the same. THey are not. You know how long it took to get the chicken pox vaccine to market. 20 years.

Oh, and read about the polio vaccine development. Lots of fuck ups along the way. Decades. Oh, and do you know that until 2000, the US used two polio vaccines. The IPV and OPV. The former was non-sterilizing (That's the Salk vaccine). The latter is sterilizing (that's the Sabin vaccine).

Why did they do that? Because using a non-sterilizing vaccine in the midst of active infection is stupid, and puts pressure on the virus to evade. Why not just use the sterilizing one? Because there was about 1 - 3 chance in a million the attenuated virus could become non-attenuated and cause paralysis in the children it was administered to. The IPV would stop that.

After 2000, about 10 years after there was no measurable active polio circulating, did they switch to just using IPV. That gives long term immunity, even though it is non-sterilizing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 05, 2021 02:24 AM (Mzdiz)

694 You know what the viral mutation don't evade so easily? Natural immunity. It doesn't pay any attention to the spike proteins. It goes for the N-proteins. They are generally conserved against mutations. Your own immune system knows a thing or two about fighting coronaviruses, 'cause it's seen a thing or two over millennia of natural selection.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 05, 2021 02:16 AM (Mzdiz)

The doctors who have been using IVM for outpatients are universally reporting that it does not work as well in early infections against the charming delta strain. The one that sprang up in the enemy that China hates most-India. Having done virus research, I am quite suspicious that this is a natural mutation and not actually a new release, call it covid 20. That might be untrue, and we will never know anyway, but it would explain some things. People who recovered from a covid 19 infection will still be immune because they have natural protection against more than the spike protein. I am not surprised the minimally protective vaccines are not doing great against delta covid-20. Argh. Good night for real this time.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at August 05, 2021 02:31 AM (YkawN)

695 Squatter dude...

In hard theory, I'm with CBD & co on evicting hoboes. We had to clear out a "free range" person last year from our business property. Ingenious little shelter of junk, tapped into our electricity.

Besides throwing all his stuff into a dumpster, a large armed friend of our son had a little "talk" with the bum. He won't be back.

I'll admit to some feelings of leniency in the 30yr squatter's case. If I inherited that long-term problem, I might figure, if it's not bringing down values, impeding some planned development, is septically clean, and nor causing any overt harm or threat, I wonder about... profit potential. Give the old guy a contract, a pass for whatever little life he has left, without hassle, and he has no claims thereafter. Play it up for a minor local attraction or something. Looks good on the resume.

Case by case basis.

Gooooooood night.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the last word at August 05, 2021 02:31 AM (JtBPN)

696 Old and tarred here. PT today and then 2 grocery runs, because we are a dysfunctional household.

Maybe see you all later. Nap time here.

Posted by: Farmer at August 05, 2021 02:32 AM (55Qr6)

697 >> Morons, this hoax virus is man made and it ... Please just get vaccinated.

Oh, you're the hoax virus troll. Sorry I even tried to engage you. Go fuck yourself. How long has it been since you got Moderna's clot shot? After about 6 months, the efficacy against infection is about 16% per the latest Israeli data. You're quite vulnerable to infection, cause your S antibodies have waned to nill. You'll still have higher titers of binding-only antibodies, which may may you vulnerable to ADE effects and the 'Rona will get you even more.

And you have no memory immunity. That vaccine pressured 'Rona variant is gonna get in your nase holes and your immune system won't see it until it starts infecting your cells and you get a shit ton of virus circulating in your system.

You'll be fucked. Better get the booster. And better get a booster every 5 months. And with each booster clot shot, your chances of AE just compound.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 05, 2021 02:36 AM (Mzdiz)

698 There was a horrible vampire Western I saw in the late 80s. Had David Carradine as the head of some good vampires and a guy who was a Puritan minister as the head of the bad vampires. They ended the movie in a shootout with teak bullets iirc.

Spoilers: David Carradine was secretly Dracula. In the movie. I do not think Vlad Tepes would have gone out that embarrassingly in real life.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2021 02:39 AM (LYEvi)

699 I saw Base How's open for Chinese Lung AIDS at the coliseum in '05.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2021 02:41 AM (LYEvi)

700 Fucking autocucumber 'Nase Hoes'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 05, 2021 02:42 AM (LYEvi)

701 689 Morons, this thing is mutating. It needs to be stopped now. Vaccinate.
Posted by: Hickler at August 05, 2021 02:07 AM (mUOTq)

Ignorance unmasks itself

Posted by: Pikov Andropov (rt0xh) at August 05, 2021 02:44 AM (rt0xh)

702 So who is this Hickler fellow? I just got here after going down a multitude of rabbit holes, name doesn't ring a bell, but the troll warning light is flashing. I just wanted to chat with some fellow morons and 'ettes who are awake right now.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2021 02:45 AM (a4EWo)

703 In the event the government mandates that everybody takes the vaccine, is there a best way to respond?
For those who are government employed, retired, or getting an SSA check, the possibility of having the money shut off could be worrying. Sure, let me die, but my family suffers. So, before getting the shots, maybe spend a few days taking quercetin and zinc, vitamin D, etc to build a defense to the vaccine?

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at August 05, 2021 02:46 AM (SmFPm)

704 Psst. Hickler. Go f*** yourself.

Posted by: Winston Smith at August 05, 2021 02:48 AM (QqAEG)

705 but the troll warning light is flashing.
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Klaxons sounding.

Posted by: Troll Warning System at August 05, 2021 02:50 AM (WLHrn)

706 NO good Catholic, Hickler, uses the Lords name in vain.

Posted by: Winston Smith at August 05, 2021 02:54 AM (QqAEG)

707
BTW, I am a certified Catholic

There is no God Damn government mandate.
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Heh. Perhaps you can buy an indulgence.

Posted by: Pope Frankie at August 05, 2021 02:55 AM (XHrkn)

708 So Andrew Cuomo can kill thousands of Grams and Grampys while failing to utilize a Naval hospital ship, and he is being taken down by ass slapping and unwanted kisses. I had bosses worse than that, and a good knee to the balls usually reestablished a professional working relationship.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2021 02:55 AM (a4EWo)

709
Yeah, inferior immunized clot-shot troll. You see that leaky, non-sterilizing Moderna clot shot is pressuring the virus to mutate that spike.

When it does that, your clot-shot antibodies are useless. Now, they may try to reformulate the clot shots to target the mutated spike, when you get your 5th or 10th booster to keep those antibodies up. But guess what, original antigenic sin is gonna kick in and keep your B-cells from making the correct antibodies.

You'll be fucked. Read Geert Vanden Bossche 'splain all that to you.

If I were you, I'd just hide under the bed, wearing 10 masks. The 'Rona is gonna get ya.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 05, 2021 02:56 AM (Mzdiz)

710 Hmm, I thinking that I failed to use one's preferred pronouns, douche, asswipe and ignoramus.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2021 02:59 AM (a4EWo)

711
Don't take me seriously.
Posted by: Hickler
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No one does, you're just a late night shmoo to be kicked around for entertainment.

Posted by: Shmoo Kicker at August 05, 2021 03:01 AM (8u/ei)

712 The hell with pinatas, I'm getting a shmoo for the next birthday celebration!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2021 03:03 AM (a4EWo)

713 Mornin', all

I have seriously overslept this morning !

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:10 AM (tSR17)

714 Starting a second job (part time) that requires a separate phone. Said phone came yesterday and I spent way too long setting it up.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:12 AM (tSR17)

715 So Hey to Puddleglum, Skip, JT, MyLifeisInsanity, JQ and all the others who usually arrive about this time, take your HCQ and Ivermectin, a virus lurks among us.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2021 03:13 AM (a4EWo)

716 MyLife, Is this the best time for you to be taking on a second job? I worry about you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2021 03:14 AM (a4EWo)

717 Hey Debby!

And Vitamin D and Zinc. Don't forget those.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:15 AM (tSR17)

718 Some how alarm didn't go off

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2021 03:17 AM (Cxk7w)

719 OK, I am off to bed, people, you have been warned.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2021 03:18 AM (a4EWo)

720 Not really! But it's nothing too hard. Helping a friend with his business by answering the phone remotely. And maybe some light paperwork. He's a good friend and knows my situation. He really needs the help, and I can use the money so win win

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:19 AM (tSR17)

721 @726 Go live on a desert island and you don't.

Posted by: raimondo at August 05, 2021 03:20 AM (22SNs)

722 Mine either Skip! 2 phones. Two sets of alarms! Not sure how I screwed that up.

Even the cat overslept

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:21 AM (tSR17)

723 Just saw didn't set it, it is for tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2021 03:22 AM (Cxk7w)

724 So Hey to Puddleglum, Skip, JT, MyLifeisInsanity, JQ and all the others who usually arrive about this time, take your HCQ and Ivermectin, a virus lurks among us.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

I have been since March

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:25 AM (vd8XM)

725 Just saw didn't set it, it is for tomorrow
Posted by: Skip

Cat needs a new phone

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:26 AM (vd8XM)

726 I set for wrong day.


Lol Bruce! This cat has his alarm in his stomach.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:28 AM (tSR17)

727 All trolls are Average Joe, who sucks c*ck by choice

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at August 05, 2021 03:31 AM (dB4Iz)

728 Hi, MLii! Congrats on the new jerb!

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks (dB4Iz) at August 05, 2021 03:35 AM (dB4Iz)

729 Lol Bruce! This cat has his alarm in his stomach.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

We had two that knew when it was the weekend.
When I got up at 3:45 to go to work, they would pretty much leave me alone. My wife would feed them when she got up at 7. 3:45 on the weekend? They'd be on me like white on rice to make sure they got fed.

My theory was, on the weekends when I my feet hit the floor, I wouldn't groan, "ahhhh shhiiiii++++"

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:36 AM (vd8XM)

730 Haha, Bruce! Cats are pretty f'ing smart, aren't they? LOL!

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks (dB4Iz) at August 05, 2021 03:37 AM (dB4Iz)

731 Cats. Gotta love 'em!

My Lucky is a sweetheart. But when he's hungry he's insistent. He's usually awake 15 min before my alarm and booping his nose on my face to wake up

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:39 AM (tSR17)

732 Haha, Bruce! Cats are pretty f'ing smart, aren't they? LOL!
Posted by: JQ

For sure. They get us to feed them, clean up their messes, and we give up half the bed to their ever expanding sleep radius during the night.

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:39 AM (vd8XM)

733 My Lucky is a sweetheart. But when he's hungry he's insistent. He's usually awake 15 min before my alarm and booping his nose on my face to wake up
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

You probably pulled some dumb stunt back in his early days. Like rolling over and going back to sleep.

Not on his watch dammit

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:41 AM (vd8XM)

734 So true Bruce. And then he repays me with scarfing down his food and promptly throwing it up. Sometimes in my direct path.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:43 AM (tSR17)

735 725 The hell with pinatas, I'm getting a shmoo for the next birthday celebration!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2021 03:03 AM (a4EWo)

Is it a really big Shmoo?

Posted by: Ed Sullivan at August 05, 2021 03:43 AM (rt0xh)

736 Why do I like cats again?

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:44 AM (tSR17)

737 I don't have cats any more, *snif*

But there's a couple of outdoor cats coming around. Don't know if they have real homes or not. They're welcome in my yard whenever they show up. I think they like it here because they're safe from all the neighborhood dogs-- fenced yard.

Well, the two friendly ones are welcome. The other, feral ahoes, can go away afiac.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks (dB4Iz) at August 05, 2021 03:44 AM (dB4Iz)

738 So true Bruce. And then he repays me with scarfing down his food and promptly throwing it up. Sometimes in my direct path.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

HA!

Our two would hork up a hair ball somewhere that I would find it early AM with my fresh socks on. So I'd clean up mess, go back upstairs to get fresh socks.

Thanks guys

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:45 AM (vd8XM)

739 phones. i walk out to the car it wants to open the door, then connect, then ask if it's ok to start the car. too much

probably exaggerating a little bit.
Posted by: Hickler

I've had three cars now that when I bought them the sales guy would want to pair my phone up with them. I still haven't done it.

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:47 AM (vd8XM)

740 Phones.

Amazing how much stuff I 'turned off' and it still works. If I didn't need the internet for the job I would've asked for a very basic phone

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:48 AM (tSR17)

741 Oh, gawd, the hairballs!

My old cats would hork up regularly. Ick! And yeah, you only step in that muck when you're (sock-footed) getting ready for wrk, or (barefooted) in the middle of a cold winter night.

But I still miss those fuzzy purring floofballs.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks (dB4Iz) at August 05, 2021 03:48 AM (dB4Iz)

742 I did get an email this AM from the GOP.
Send them 45 bucks and they will really really fight this Biden mask mandate stuff.

Maybe even put a stamp on the sternly worded letter this time.

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:49 AM (vd8XM)

743 Gotta run. Early appts tomorrow.

Hang in there, MLii and whomever is also struggling!

Nitey nite!

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks (dB4Iz) at August 05, 2021 03:51 AM (dB4Iz)

744 But I still miss those fuzzy purring floofballs.
Posted by: JQ

They are a hoot

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:51 AM (vd8XM)

745 >>But I still miss those fuzzy purring floofballs.
Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks

Yeah, i wouldn't trade this little guy for anything. He's probably the best cat I've had. Very loving and sweet personality. Except for the barfing. That could be over anytime!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at August 05, 2021 03:51 AM (tSR17)

746 719 So Andrew Cuomo can kill thousands of Grams and Grampys while failing to utilize a Naval hospital ship, and he is being taken down by ass slapping and unwanted kisses. I had bosses worse than that, and a good knee to the balls usually reestablished a professional working relationship.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2021 02:55 AM (a4EWo)

Some think he has more in common w/Trump than would be apparent at 1st glance: https://tinyurl.com/ye436s8u

Posted by: Ed Sullivan at August 05, 2021 03:52 AM (rt0xh)

747 Off really big sock!

Posted by: Pikov Andropov (rt0xh) at August 05, 2021 03:52 AM (rt0xh)

748 Some think he has more in common w/Trump than would be apparent at 1st glance: https://tinyurl.com/ye436s8u
Posted by: Ed Sullivan

So, DC isn't a swamp. More like a human centipede

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:54 AM (vd8XM)

749 Have we reached 1000 comments yet?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at August 05, 2021 03:55 AM (SRRAx)

750 I identify as 1000 comments

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:56 AM (vd8XM)

751 I don't think ever did see Pixy yesterday

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2021 03:58 AM (Cxk7w)

752 I don't think ever did see Pixy yesterday
Posted by: Skip

He showed up later than usual

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 03:59 AM (vd8XM)

753 ban hammered eh troll?

Posted by: Pikov Andropov (rt0xh) at August 05, 2021 04:00 AM (rt0xh)

754 Speak of the Debbil...

Pixy is nooood

Posted by: Bruce at August 05, 2021 04:00 AM (vd8XM)

755 We will never see 1K again

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2021 04:02 AM (Cxk7w)

756 Buen dia morons

Gavin Newsom is such an empty narcissist he is willing to engage 40 million Californians in his own personal psychodrama.

We have TV commercials here with Elizabeth Warren saying the whole thing is a "Trump conspiracy."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2021 04:02 AM (EZebt)

757 Skip

Lots of people are hunkering down. I know people that do not show up as much, like TeeJ or at all, like creeper.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at August 05, 2021 04:05 AM (u82oZ)

758 https://tinyurl.com/fkkr38um

Sen. Rand Paul about all the lockdowns and masks:

"We are at a moment of truth and a crossroads. Will we allow these people to use fear and propaganda to do further harm to our society, economy, and children?

Or will we stand together and say, absolutely not. Not this time. I choose freedom."

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 05, 2021 04:13 AM (ESLBo)

759 Thanks for the Delbert Mcclinton man. He's the best there ever was.

Posted by: Jack Burton Mercer at August 05, 2021 04:16 AM (P7Iz+)

760 Delbert on the Don Imus show was always a good day.

The first time I saw Delbert was in a crappy theater in Portland, Oregon with maybe 300 people there. The whole affair felt like an after thought.

Delbert and the band could have phoned it in but they didn't. They came on stage and Gary Nichols hit two notes on guitar to kick off the set - I still hear those two notes 30 some years later in my head. And then band got wicked.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 05, 2021 04:27 AM (ESLBo)

761 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 05, 2021 04:40 AM (Zsfob)

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