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THE MORNING RANT – Buck Shots [4/11/2022]
The Boston Red Sox and partners announced this week a plan to neutralize the greenhouse gas emissions of fans attending games at the 110-year-old ballpark. They plan to use a portion of the price of each ticket to purchase carbon credits.“Carbon credits.” I thought that scam had played out back in the Al Gore era. Nope, the scam has now been updated to enrich all the usual players in global finance.
"A portion of the sale of every Red Sox ticket will be contributed to the Aspiration Planet Protection Fund which will help neutralize the climate impact of each fan attending a game at Fenway Park," Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner said in a statement.What a coincidence, “Aspiration Planet Protection Fund” is being acquired by Interprivate III Financial Partners, Inc., which is part of Ahmed Fattouh’s empire of private equity and hedge funds. Among the players in various roles in this arrangement are Doha Venture Capital of Qatar, Bernard Arnault (CEO of Moet/Hennessy/Vuitton), Steve Ballmer (former CEO of Microsoft) and plenty of other scrappy entrepreneurs who just want to save the world. If the Red Sox want to make some stupid “save the world” gestures, how about they make the players forego all air travel and instead take a bus (preferably electric) on all road trips. Yeah, those West Coast trips will be hellish, especially if they have to keep stopping to re-charge the battery, but if the Red Sox want to save the world, sacrifices will have to be made. Or how about making their groundskeeping operations petroleum-free. The field can be mowed with a good old-fashioned, human-powered push mower. But no, the Red Sox are going to set ticket prices such that a little vigorish from each ticket sale gets steered to the wealthiest people in the world. Steering money from ticket-buyers to globalist billionaires who fly in private jets, and calling it “carbon credits” is amazing in its audaciousness. It’s vulgar. It’s dishonest. But it’s perfectly emblematic of just how corrupt our ruling class is, and how corrupt the global warming hoax has become.
Gutfeld! pulled in its largest audience yet on March 15, bringing in some 2.37 million viewers.By contrast Colbert was at 2.16 million, and the two Jimmys were at only about half of Gutfeld’s ratings.
Gutfeld also topped his broadcast competitors in the key 25-54 age demographic, bringing in 446,00 demo viewers to Colbert’s 406,000.If executives at media companies cared about profits and ratings, they’d be tripping over themselves to lure Gutfeld away. Or to find another Gutfeld. But the reality at ABCNNBCBS is that it would be career suicide for an executive to hire/promote/develop a highly successful show that had a non-leftist as host. So instead, they trot out all the interchangeable Jimmys spouting interchangeable left-wing insults for perfunctory audience clapter. The resulting last-pace ratings don’t hurt anyone’s career.
I’m embarrassed for Charles C.W. Cooke that his political writing career has led him to this point. He is now making the case that granting a mega-corporation special privileges which are not offered to other businesses is somehow “libertarian.” In Disney’s case, those special privileges are the right to effectively act as a government unto itself, unburdened by the municipal governing bodies that neighboring small businesses have to deal with.
Disney’s deal is so good, Cooke argues, that other monster entertainment companies should also get the same privileges. If it’s good for Disney, let Universal get the special treatment too. Well what about Darrell’s Tire Shop, or Armando’s Plumbing Supply? Why shouldn’t they also get to be self-governing? Oh that’s right, “Libertarian” and “Conservatarian” have simply morphed into deceptive terms for “government by giant corporations.” Cooke is also strangely principled in how these special “libertarian” privileges are granted and revoked:
In Cooke’s corporatist world, granting Disney special, self-governing status offered to no other company is “good policy,” but terminating that unique special treatment is targeted “revenge.” The people of Florida, through their elected representatives and Governor, have passed laws prohibiting the sexualization of small children. Disney is trying to use its power and influence to interfere with Florida’s efforts to protect children, therefore revoking its special privileges is good policy.
last week. When you consider that essay, along with his legendary Kaboom Cereal masterpiece, I think it is fair to say that Ace has carved out a unique and timeless literary oeuvre. What Steinbeck’s writing was to the Great Depression, and Kerouac was to the Beat Generation, so will Ace’s writing be forever celebrated regarding the complex literary topic of sugar-sweetened breakfast foods.
Here is a snippet:
Exhibit B: The Eclair. From the French for "lightning," the eclair was invented by a psychiatrist as a delicious alternative to electroshock therapy for schizophrenics. Because when you're eating an eclair, you can't deny the marvelous cream-filled reality you're actually present in.I was unable to participate in the scholarly debate that ensued in the comments, so I am going to take advantage of this forum today to point out that…YOU ALL OVERLOOKED THE GREATEST DONUT-ADJACENT PASTRY OF THEM ALL – THE KOLACHE.
Once only found in small towns settled by Czechs, these delicious pastries have effectively become the state breakfast food of Texas. And now that Buc-cees* is busting out of Texas and colonizing the South, they’re taking kolaches with them. [*Buc-cees is like a Wal-Mart-sized Stuckey’s, with better food than you’ll find in several entire states, about 100 gas pumps, and restrooms so clean you can eat off the porcelain.] Kolaches are sort of like danish rolls, but instead of having a dollop of dehydrated jelly in the middle of its dried flaky crust, the kolache is a sweet, moist, yeasty roll, hollowed out in the middle, and full of fruit or cream cheese. If you read Ace’s description of the, ahem, “pleasures” a cheese danish provides, just know that a cheese kolache is even better. (buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com)
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:02 AM (k0g3G)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 11, 2022 11:02 AM (Ynyl9)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:03 AM (k0g3G)
Source: am Texan of Czech extraction
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 11, 2022 11:03 AM (kK4Ub)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 11, 2022 11:03 AM (oWBc3)
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 11, 2022 11:03 AM (bVYXr)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 11:03 AM (2OL6m)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 11, 2022 11:04 AM (kK4Ub)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 11, 2022 11:04 AM (Ynyl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:05 AM (trdmm)
: a drawing of something in, out, up, or through by or as if by suction: such as
a : the act of breathing and especially of breathing in
b : the withdrawal (as by suction) of fluid or tissue from the body the aspiration of stomach fluids
c : the taking of foreign matter into the lungs with the respiratory current problems caused by the aspiration of fluids into the patient's lungs
They plan to aspirate our wallets.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 11, 2022 11:07 AM (F0YaR)
"The middle tax aren't taxed enough!!@!"
---Some GOPe bint running for senate
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 11:07 AM (DJFLF)
Useful fodder for shit talking over the summer.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:07 AM (k0g3G)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:07 AM (1Kx8v)
Posted by: Czech Chick at April 11, 2022 11:07 AM (BxO+o)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:08 AM (m45I2)
Once again the left is projecting their obvious racism onto someone who is not racist at all.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 11, 2022 11:08 AM (DcKNO)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 11, 2022 11:08 AM (OgrpQ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 11, 2022 11:08 AM (vqhPW)
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at April 11, 2022 11:08 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 11, 2022 11:09 AM (AiZBA)
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 11:09 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:09 AM (k0g3G)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:08 AM
A stretch, but we'll allow it.
Posted by: The Czech Judges at April 11, 2022 11:09 AM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:09 AM (1Kx8v)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 11, 2022 11:10 AM (iDcra)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 11, 2022 11:10 AM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Chi-town Jerry at April 11, 2022 11:10 AM (CjFDo)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 11, 2022 11:10 AM (906pl)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:10 AM (ifUkZ)
Posted by: Trigglypuff at April 11, 2022 11:10 AM (g6+Ik)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:10 AM (1Kx8v)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 11, 2022 11:11 AM (jTmQV)
To be fair...his writers are stealing them from us.
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 11:11 AM (DOReJ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 11, 2022 11:11 AM (2FFNq)
Posted by: Jeff Bezos at April 11, 2022 11:11 AM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: dartist at April 11, 2022 11:11 AM (+ya+t)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 11, 2022 11:11 AM (iWIqo)
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$12 for a cold beer. $5 for a hot beer.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at April 11, 2022 11:11 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:12 AM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 11:12 AM (63Dwl)
Once again the left is projecting their obvious racism onto someone who is not racist at all.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 11, 2022
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I wonder which bar. I don't hang around in bars any more -- never really did; they're noisy and expensive -- but I consider it a public service to warn sane people about places that attract crazies like Benson.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:12 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway
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Go up to Scat Franshitsco.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 11, 2022 11:12 AM (iDcra)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 11, 2022 11:12 AM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (lNi74)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Trigglypuff at April 11, 2022
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Suddenly I am not hungry any more
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:09 AM (k0g3G)
It's goddamn embarrassing!
#TRIBE
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (Gzbwp)
The irony of night games with banks and banks of high-powered lights blazing deep into the night was totally lost on the team.
You want solar powered baseball games? Play in the day time.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (m45I2)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (1Kx8v)
Gutfeld leaves me cold. I don't understand the fascination with his schtick...
That's my feeling about Norm Macdonald.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 11:14 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 11, 2022 11:14 AM (iWIqo)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 11, 2022 11:12 AM (OssQ4)
If Ryan Long had a TV show....lol.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at April 11, 2022 11:14 AM (mZOHK)
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$12 for a cold beer. $5 for a hot beer.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe)
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Nope.
$12 for a cold beer. $12 for a hot beer and we don't have any cold beer.
Posted by: Boston Red Sox Climate Manager at April 11, 2022 11:14 AM (iDcra)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022
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In the whole country???? Or just your state?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:15 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: red speck at April 11, 2022 11:15 AM (gS3OW)
presenting Dale Watson, a great musician and a great American, and his 'kolache' song, Truckstop in La Grange:
https://tinyurl.com/3ybxy42r
Posted by: St. Benedict of Nursia at April 11, 2022 11:15 AM (l0Cy4)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:09 AM (k0g3G)
It's goddamn embarrassing!
#TRIBE
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (BgMrQ)
Have they banned fans from wearing Chief Wahoo gear to the stadium yet?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 11, 2022 11:15 AM (906pl)
Please define "a portion".
Posted by: Jeff Bezos at April 11, 2022 11:15 AM (ZsR3z)
Pike, "To find new life go where the aliens are." DUH!
Pike in a stage whisper to Number One or as they call her in this timeline Una, "I love this job."
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:15 AM (i4Gw3)
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Make The Fatal Conceit Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 11, 2022 11:16 AM (2rp4F)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 11, 2022 11:16 AM (2FFNq)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:16 AM (1Kx8v)
Compare it with the privately funded Great Northern Railroad to see the real difference.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:16 AM (Gzbwp)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:17 AM (1Kx8v)
He told us copies of his CDs were for sale in the lobby. All transactions go to benefit the blind.
"A very small number of the blind, mind you..." he said.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 11, 2022 11:17 AM (jTmQV)
That's a big get for CW. But in the battle of the Limeys, Piers Morgan is the more consistent Americanophile. And Piers hates the 2nd. Other than that, he likes us quite a bit.
Though his giving Meggie Mac a platform bugs me quite a bit. In a donut shortage situation, she's liable to eat Piers.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 11, 2022 11:18 AM (F0YaR)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:18 AM (m45I2)
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Very frustrating when big companies get favorable tax treatment because they "bring jobs" while established local companies that actually have jobs get no tax benefits.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at April 11, 2022 11:18 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant
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IIRC, Kmart went BK. Got all of its debt wiped out and, get this, came back strong without paying its debt. So strong that it bought Sears.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 11, 2022 11:18 AM (iDcra)
Posted by: Roland THTG at April 11, 2022 11:19 AM (j40lz)
They did, and it does, but at this point, it's basically a real estate holding company (where all their old stores and offices used to sit).
Posted by: Jeff Bezos at April 11, 2022 11:19 AM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022
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In the whole country???? Or just your state?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:15 AM (txdEq)
Whole country.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:19 AM (Gzbwp)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:18 AM (m45I2)
Make mine apple.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 11, 2022 11:19 AM (AiZBA)
Don't virtue signal with our money.
Companies should never donate to charities. If the officers want to, fine do it out of THEIR salaries and quietly.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:19 AM (i4Gw3)
Which...is what Disney is doing here.
But it is kind of dumb either way.
The libertarian answer is actually supposed to be that the government doesn't give favors to ANY business, but is also too weak itself to force behavior from people outside of the criminal code.
So really the libertarian outcome would be that Disney can be as gay as it wants - but anyone that grooms kids on a Disney theme park gets arrested by the local cops since grooming is against the law.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 11:19 AM (ESjRY)
This new move makes me happy I never actually paid for any game I went to see. Thank god for business perks.
Posted by: red speck at April 11, 2022 11:19 AM (gS3OW)
It isn't actually "libertarian" unless it applies to EVERYONE
Posted by: deadrody at April 11, 2022 11:19 AM (/jrmI)
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Yes, bring back the ultra vires doctrine.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at April 11, 2022 11:20 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (m45I2)
Hey! Hey!
THIS.
Posted by: Jack Brickhouse at April 11, 2022 11:20 AM (k0g3G)
Is that really a thing? Sounds hideous!
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:20 AM (m45I2)
It was to laugh...don't miss it and from what I gleam from the headlines they are still a bunch of absurd overpaid assholes watched by brain dead imbeciles.
Play ball!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 11, 2022 11:20 AM (cGJ0D)
It will be just down the road from me.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 11, 2022 11:20 AM (F0YaR)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 11, 2022 11:20 AM (iDcra)
I don't know how to strikeout text, but I would change the phrase in parentheses to "to sexualize small children".
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 11, 2022 11:20 AM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Some guy that looks like Ryan Long at April 11, 2022 11:21 AM (ESjRY)
He was in Blade Trinity with Jeff Bridges, who was in RIPD with Kevin Bacon.
He was in Heaven's Gate with Brad Dourif, who was in The Lord of the Rings with Christopher Lee.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 11:21 AM (44ww/)
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at April 11, 2022 11:21 AM (sX1BW)
How much you wanna bet that the Red Sox, or someone highly influential in the organization, is an investor in "Aspiration Planet Protection Fund" that is now going public? Boston funnels Other People's Money -- and a captive, unwilling people at that -- to scam funds like this, the scam funds hold on long enough for the investors to cash out, and then they move on to the next.
It would be criminal securities fraud if it wasn't in a politically powerful industry.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 11, 2022 11:22 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Corona-exile lost in spaces at April 11, 2022 11:22 AM (3wNhr)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (BgMrQ)
Have they banned fans from wearing Chief Wahoo gear to the stadium yet?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 11, 2022 11:15 AM (906pl)
They banned the "official" sales of Wahoo gear. I'm sure they'll get around to banning the wear of the Chief to the stadium.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:22 AM (BgMrQ)
Then it was bought by a development company and reimagined as they say. It is now home to a couple of big box stores, a mega gym and a car dealership is going in soon.
Ive read of some malls being turned into apartment buildings too. Retail is dead but the real estate is still valuable.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:22 AM (1Kx8v)
Pike, "To find new life go where the aliens are." DUH!
Pike in a stage whisper to Number One or as they call her in this timeline Una, "I love this job."
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022
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I've looked at 2 trailers. Aside from the usual orange or poor lighting in a lot of scenes, the bits they show don't look "bad* per se. I suppose the execution will be all PC and woke. But the scene of Pike galloping his horse across a snowy field, only to have a shuttle zoom past him . . . that is an element worthy of the original shows.
(And that they have not forgotten what little we were shown about Pike in TOS, such as his love for horses, is a good sign. I guess.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:22 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 11, 2022 11:23 AM (bkUtD)
Posted by: Ladyl at April 11, 2022 11:23 AM (Zhmkh)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 11:23 AM (Gpfnk)
We also have _kifli_, little folded-diamond or crescent-shaped cookies made with cream cheese dough and the same Heavenly fillings described above. :-)
Posted by: Rowsdower Continues to Insist Ashli Babbitt is Crispus Attucks and Michael Byrd is Lon Horiuchi at April 11, 2022 11:23 AM (P/ALc)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:18 AM
Kouign amann, man....
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 11, 2022 11:23 AM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:23 AM (ifUkZ)
Trust me donuts taste a LOT better
Posted by: Kamala Harris at April 11, 2022 11:24 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 11, 2022 11:24 AM (nfrXX)
Posted by: Kamala Harris
Especially creme-filled, right, Kami?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 11, 2022 11:25 AM (bkUtD)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 11, 2022 11:25 AM (2Jd8G)
Except this is the Kelvin timeline that got created by Nero popping back in time to blow up Kirk's father. So the TOS Pike is right out the airlock.
Which is why they can have Pike squaring off with Spock in 'Amok Time' now.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:25 AM (i4Gw3)
I get pissed at the gloom and doom encountered during the day but overall it is the best site I've found to date.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 11, 2022 11:25 AM (KATBx)
Is that really a thing? Sounds hideous!
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:20 AM
The Jamaicans would make conch fritters when we were stationed in Cuba. Nasty things.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (bVYXr)
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Wifey, raised in Waco, agrees.
Another Eastern European import (Croatian/Slovenian) honorable mention: Povitica (pronounce poe-va-teet-za).
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (eVd9g)
#hesnotfunny
Posted by
C'mon, one show last week closed with a rousing discussion of Monkey Sex. It felt like an ONT!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (trdmm)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (Gzbwp)
Is that really a thing? Sounds hideous!
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:20 AM
This. Oysters should be eaten raw, as God intended.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (bVYXr)
Had conch fritters in the BVI. They are to die for.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (1Kx8v)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022
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Not quite dead, but exhibiting Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Malls used to be exciting for men as well as women. Now all the stores are for kids and mommies, and for 20-something women. There are no bookstores, no drugstores, no gift shops with out-of-the-ordinary items like Spencer's used to be, no ice skating rinks, no ice cream parlors. And the endless ranks of thugs-in-training who lounge around the still-open malls are discouraging to suburbanites who don't want danger and drama with their shopping.
Now for all I know malls in other parts of the country may have some of these stores and have less of a problem with Future Thugs of America. But here, I can see the scrawling on the wall.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:27 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 11, 2022 11:25 AM (2Jd8G)
Bingo! Give the man a Cee-Gar!
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:27 AM (trdmm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:27 AM (i4Gw3)
Which is why they can have Pike squaring off with Spock in 'Amok Time' now.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:25 AM (i4Gw3)
Wut?
I think I am glad I haven't seen any of this.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:27 AM (k0g3G)
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 11, 2022 11:28 AM (sVtYq)
We stopped at both last weekend.
There are 2 betwixt Houston and San Antonio.
We stopped at both this weekend.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 11:28 AM (yrol0)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 11:28 AM (44ww/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 11, 2022 11:28 AM (2FFNq)
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Wifey, raised in Waco, agrees.
Another Eastern European import (Croatian/Slovenian) honorable mention: Povitica (pronounce poe-va-teet-za).
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (eVd9g)
I'd add paczki to that list.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at April 11, 2022 11:28 AM (8C7+r)
https://www.eurekasd.com/our-community/all-about-kuchen
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 11, 2022 11:28 AM (5HBd1)
Didn't have a Kolache (sp?), but treated myself to a BBQ sandwich.
Another great thing about Buc-cee's is that they don't carry any Starbucks products.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at April 11, 2022 11:29 AM (g3XnF)
Up until a year or two ago, the local Mall here STILL had NO BREAKDANCING signs on the doors.
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 11:29 AM (DOReJ)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 11, 2022 11:29 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (trdmm)
His show is the TV version of AOSHQ. There's a lot of cringe worthy stuff and a lot of off-the-wall hilarity.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 11, 2022 11:29 AM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:29 AM (i4Gw3)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 11, 2022 11:29 AM (oWBc3)
Which is why they can have Pike squaring off with Spock in 'Amok Time' now.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022
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Oh, is that what that flash was? That's the trouble with trailers now. They give you no more than an impression of what the movie will be about. To find out, you have to read the online spoilers, or actually see the movie. This is streaming TV, though, so I guess you have to subscribe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:30 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2022 11:30 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 11:30 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 11:30 AM (yrol0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 11, 2022 11:30 AM (2FFNq)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:26 AM (trdmm)
Pfft...
Gutfeld couldn't begin to compete with the ONT Horde.
He might be smart enough to steal from them, but he's no original thinker / humorist.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:30 AM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:31 AM (ifUkZ)
They did, and it does, but at this point, it's basically a real estate holding company (where all their old stores and offices used to sit).
Posted by: Jeff Bezos at April 11, 2022 11:19 AM
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There are still some small Sears stores where they sell appliances and tools. The big department stores are all gone.
Posted by: Bigsmith at April 11, 2022 11:31 AM (4DyN9)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:31 AM (Gzbwp)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:02 AM (k0g3G)
Well shoudn't they rename themselves the Boston Green Sox?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:31 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022
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Yes -- some of them will be created as martyrs someday. They just don't know it yet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:31 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 11:32 AM (44ww/)
No, you do it for revenge. And you make damn sure that Disney knows why that is the case.
(Im)moral preening has to pay a price.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:32 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:31 AM (P3gRi)
Because their commie bona fides are stronger than their environmentalist ones.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:32 AM (k0g3G)
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How about just implode itself. The environment is about to collapse. We have no time to waste, and we should eliminate such wasteful entertainment abundances. Saving the planet is too important.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at April 11, 2022 11:32 AM (sX1BW)
And of course every Great Family and government minister had secret ownership stakes in all of the Favored Businesses. So, that's the system the so-called "Libertarians" are bringing back.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:32 AM (trdmm)
Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:31 AM (P3gRi)
Because their commie bona fides are stronger than their environmentalist ones.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:32 AM (k0g3G)
The Boston Watermelons.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Yep, and the comments on them are all by people who, because they have eyes and saw the malls die in real time, have noticed exactly why the malls died. Those commenters, and the few others calling them racists.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
Another clip Spock is with a Vulcan woman, guess this version of T'Pring, and they kiss. Spock stoically says "logical thing to do." *face palm*
If you are doing Amok Time, Spock is a buck in rut. Logic has flown out the window. He should be tearing T'Pring's dress off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (i4Gw3)
My presumption is Cooke is writing what he is being paid to write, no more, no less.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (ESjRY)
Whomever his wife told him to Vote for is my guess.
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (DOReJ)
Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2022 11:30 AM (MxEKc)
Heh. I may be the exception but I may watch the game for maybe 20 minutes of the 3 hours I'm at the stadium.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (Gzbwp)
Posted by: JM in Florida at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (L7jyl)
We stopped at both last weekend.
There are 2 betwixt Houston and San Antonio.
We stopped at both this weekend.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 11:28 AM (yrol0)
Word on the street is they are building the biggest buc ees ever in Sevierville, TN. Used to hit the one on I-35 north of Austin all the time.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 11, 2022 11:34 AM (OgrpQ)
Gutfeld says that he doesn't remember who he voted for in 2016. (Cause it was Hillary or McMuffin.)
Posted by: BourbonChicken
He follows politics and comments on politics. He knows g*ddamned well for whom he voted in 2016.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:34 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM
That's the Cambridge minor league soccer team.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 11, 2022 11:34 AM (vqhPW)
Gudes in Burnet has an amazing boudin kolache. Every time I drive west, that’s the first place I stop.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 11:34 AM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 11:34 AM (yrol0)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 11, 2022 11:34 AM (2FFNq)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 11:34 AM (XvPQV)
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Kidding aside, define troubles. The players and owners seem to be doing quite well.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at April 11, 2022 11:35 AM (sX1BW)
"Purchasing carbon credits" belongs in the Hall of Fame of Ridiculous Nonsense.
Posted by: Lady in Black
At least I was affordable.
Posted by: Pet rock at April 11, 2022 11:35 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Puddinhead
I live in Babylon DC and I have news for you about Nationals fans.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2022 11:35 AM (sAmhv)
Baseball is having troubles, especially failing to lure younger fans. I read that 35% of at bats result in a strikeout, a walk , or a homerun. In other words, BORING.
Posted by: JM
Well, I heard that there are signs in abundance that KKK members are at the stadiums and are out and proud about it, too!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:35 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Justin Castreau at April 11, 2022 11:35 AM (ZW1rs)
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Secret recipe from the old country. My aunts would roll it out flat on a towel and then into a roll and bake it. Our oldest aunt would make each family one every year.
Posted by: dartist at April 11, 2022 11:35 AM (+ya+t)
On the few occasions I still go to a mall I am amazed at the number of spaces dedicated to athletic shoes and super sophisticated, super stylish and overpriced clothes. Is there really that much of a market for that? Must be.
Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2022 11:35 AM (MxEKc)
That's why the Galleria mall on Post Oak in Houston will eventually die.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:36 AM (Gzbwp)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 11, 2022 11:36 AM (2FFNq)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 11:36 AM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: Dogbert at April 11, 2022 11:36 AM (Z9HSN)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
That would do it for me. I would burn my ballcaps.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 11, 2022 11:36 AM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:36 AM (1Kx8v)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 11:36 AM (yrol0)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:36 AM (i4Gw3)
Wishful thinking on my part, doubled. I meant Florida.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:32 AM (trdmm)
Exactly right. I am slogging through a book titled The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas, and he describes the asiento system, which is a monopoly license.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (k0g3G)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 11, 2022 11:34 AM (2FFNq)
Nahhh...
Golf broadcasts are the best (and I lurv me some actual golf).
Second is/was Curling, back when they used real brooms to sweep the sheet. The "thwackthwackthwack of the brooms slapping the ice was hypnotic.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (BgMrQ)
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Do a survey of recent HS graduates and ask them how many of them played baseball. This will tell you baseball's future.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (ifUkZ)
Hah. 35 years ago we called the mall in Lake Charles , LA the giant shoe store.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (Gzbwp)
It's like a gangbanger knocking up a bunch of women to make up for the guys he's killed.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:38 AM (ynpvh)
I see kids pointing at shit and parents saying NO.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 11:38 AM (yrol0)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:10 AM (1Kx8v)
Not to mention all the CO2 emitted as the bubbles burst in the cup, or later as burps and farts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:38 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
That would do it for me. I would burn my ballcaps.
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How about renaming the team after Biden's other dogs?
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:38 AM (ifUkZ)
Because of the power that corporations flexed over working people with the vax mandate, I would be willing to re-visit the whole Supreme Court decision allowing corporations.
Abuses are stacking up.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 11:39 AM (2OL6m)
better yet is "Your thrown awaits! only 33 miles!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:39 AM (trdmm)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:39 AM (1Kx8v)
Perfectly acceptable business practice!
Posted by: The Renaissance Catholic Church! at April 11, 2022 11:39 AM (I2/tG)
Second is/was Curling, back when they used real brooms to sweep the sheet. The "thwackthwackthwack of the brooms slapping the ice was hypnotic.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (BgMrQ)
Agree on golf for rounds 1-3. The fourth round can be exciting.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:39 AM (Gzbwp)
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Do a survey of recent HS graduates and ask them how many of them played baseball. This will tell you baseball's future.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (ifUkZ)
Men playing in Women's softball like "Lia" does in swimming.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:39 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:39 AM (i4Gw3)
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 11:39 AM (Vr12I)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (i4Gw3)
Exactly.
Spock should be a pointy eared John Dough and T'Pring should be a busty VILF.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:40 AM (k0g3G)
Not to mention all the CO2 emitted as the bubbles burst in the cup, or later as burps and farts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
"Hey! This $12 beer is flat!"
"We extended moral preening across our full product offering, pal."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:40 AM (pNxlR)
The real ROI has to in about negative 50% to 75%.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 11:40 AM (yrol0)
What is the Italian non-donut? Maybe the babas? Filled baba rum?
Or sfogliatelle?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 11, 2022 11:40 AM (5AbMC)
Posted by: Joey Shitshispants Rex at April 11, 2022 11:40 AM (gmo/4)
Basically, incentives to big corp never pan out in the long run unless the company is more or less bound to the location such as a mine, dam, etc. Big sports is a spectacularly bad example of these incentives with stadiums, etc.
Otherwise, for items like headquarters, manufacturing plants, distribution warehouses, retail, etc., corporations will and can move them and take away those 'jobs' in a moment. That also leaves aside the problem of those corporations going bust.
Long run, better to offer incentives to small and local businesses than mega corp because the owners usually live in the community and are less likely to pick up and move. Instead, local government usually treats them as a cash cow to be milked while wooing the megacorps.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 11:40 AM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (k0g3G)
I've got his trilogy on the rise of teh Spanish Empire and like it a lot. Perhaps I should look into this, too.....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 11, 2022 11:41 AM (906pl)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 11, 2022 11:41 AM (2Jd8G)
I just didn't think it was FUNNY. I didn't dislike it, but it's about as funny as Bret Baier or Neil Cavuto.
Why doesn't he have writers write some jokes for him & do an opening monologue or something?
Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2022 11:41 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 11, 2022 11:41 AM (oWBc3)
Perfectly acceptable business practice!
Posted by: The Renaissance Catholic Church!
Tell me why. Go ahead, indulge me.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:41 AM (pNxlR)
Is that the one called Murder Mall?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:36 AM (i4Gw3)
We've had so many that could go by that name but lately the Galleria fits it. Previously it was Greenspoint Mall ( Gunspoint) and Sharpstown Mall.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:42 AM (Gzbwp)
Posted by: Ziba at April 11, 2022 11:42 AM (S1hrL)
I'll note at least the Renaissance Catholic Church was flogging indulgences to raise money to build Saint Peter's, as opposed to left-wing billionaires selling carbon indulgences to buy their Gulfstreams.
Posted by: The Renaissance Catholic Church! at April 11, 2022 11:42 AM (I2/tG)
Random mall memory: when I was in college, I and some buddies had an early afternoon class together and then an evening class. So we had several hours to kill in between. We would go up the road to the mall and play pinball. The machine I most remember was a Williams Space Shuttle that had a chip in its veneer right behind a pop-up target that would trap your ball and the only way to get it out was to literally tilt the machine.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 11, 2022 11:42 AM (nfrXX)
Posted by: JM in Florida at April 11, 2022 11:42 AM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 11, 2022 11:42 AM (oWBc3)
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The Atlantic Slave trade was started in 1501 by the Portuguese. 97% of all African slaves went to Brazil. African slaves only began showing up in North America after sugar gold rush burned off and slaves became cheap.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (ifUkZ)
Posted by: Puddinhead
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Hate to tell you this but football is heading to oblivion as well as parents don't want their kids to play it. Currently half of parents do not want their kids to play football and given what we know about brain injuries among other injuries suffered--that is likely to grow.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (Iq9dF)
I watched Gutfeld one time, to see what all the fuss was about.
I just didn't think it was FUNNY. I didn't dislike it, but it's about as funny as Bret Baier or Neil Cavuto.
Why doesn't he have writers write some jokes for him & do an opening monologue or something?
Posted by: mnw
He's a "mugger", in much the same manner that Jon Stewart was. Not amusing in the least.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 11, 2022 11:41 AM (oWBc3)
I would not go in a mall if they were offering free bjs and nickel beers.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (yrol0)
Gaylord, "you mean Lunch and Dinner?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:39 AM (i4Gw3)
Soap and Water
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (ifUkZ)
I could not get my kids interested in baseball to save my life...
***sigh***
On the good side of the ledger, they don't waste time in front of the TV being a spectator.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: JT at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Archer at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Ziba at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (5AbMC)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:37 AM (BgMrQ)
browndog weighs in on the trio 'rum sodomy or lash' quite convincingly. Thwack.
Now bend over.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (F0YaR)
Posted by: BuckIV at April 11, 2022 11:44 AM (CLfqv)
Posted by: dartist at April 11, 2022 11:44 AM (+ya+t)
By the way, that problem has been going on since at least the 90s. I recall an expose from that time frame.
Posted by: Emmie at April 11, 2022 11:44 AM (t62xj)
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (Vr12I)
So all those incentives sold as bringing in economic growth are lies.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (1Kx8v)
Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (MxEKc)
Hopefully we don't have to explain that, the context should give it away
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (i4Gw3)
I would not go in a mall if they were offering free bjs and nickel beers.
Posted by: rhennigantx
... but make that nickel bjs and free beers and you're right at the front of the queue, amirite?
AMIRITE?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: tmitsss at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (f/L+y)
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That's why the NFL has gone totally Black. Its they're future.
OBTW - did you hear about Dwayne Haskins getting hit/killed by a dump truck last Friday?
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (ifUkZ)
Thanks for the recommendation. I will try them out during the Temple Library’s Labor Day booksale!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 11:46 AM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:46 AM (Gzbwp)
Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2022
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Exactly. No men's stores, as in "a place to buy a suit and some dress shirts"; no place to while away some time browsing over, and buying, the latest magazines and paperback novels; for coffee there's only Starbucks. Yes, there's a food court, but you've got to be desperate to eat there.
We have only 2 real malls left here. The older (ca. 1960) is still doing well in the western suburbs. The younger, near where I live, is on life support. I rarely go there now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:46 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 11, 2022 11:46 AM (oWBc3)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (pNxlR)
That's it...he mugs for the damn camera all the fucking time.
Cannot stand that!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 11:46 AM (BgMrQ)
And the "economic studies" justifying the stadiums are crap. They invariably pretend that stadiums generate all this new economic activity, when in reality they simply redirect recreational spending from other things to the stadium, except for a sliver of tourist traffic from out-of-town.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 11, 2022 11:47 AM (I2/tG)
Thanks!
Posted by: Lizzy's phone at April 11, 2022 11:47 AM (xlLIb)
Czech Stop has some great stuff (I try to stop there when I drive to Michigan), but they are a prime example of the dictum that 90% of everything is crap.
Probably a different 90% for each customer, though.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 11:47 AM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: Archer at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (gmo/4)
Apple Fritters. If you don't get there early, they're gone. I have one a mile from my house; came into the neighborhood a couple of years ago.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:47 AM (ynpvh)
Wonder no more! They refugee LARP :
https://tinyurl.com/yckv2xap
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 11:47 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: 2nd Ammendment Mother at April 11, 2022 11:48 AM (Cs90x)
Well, 1460s or so, I think.
The Portuguese were exploring the west coast of Africa and discovered they could short circuit the slave route over the Sahara ( other trade was involved, also).
Looking for a shortcut to Chyna...
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:48 AM (k0g3G)
I suppose it may be a regional difference. Eastern European countries probably all have their own variety.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 11, 2022 11:48 AM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Infidel at April 11, 2022 11:48 AM (AhBAQ)
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Try neighborhoods without kids. Finding a neighborhood with kids on the streets is hard to do these days.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:49 AM (ifUkZ)
so Cooke's Libertarianism says:
Grooming/Abusing (other people's children) = Liberty
as long as the Disney pimp's pay BigGov their cut. So open minded.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2022 11:49 AM (Cus5s)
We're going to launder some money thru a friend of ours who will go to Kinko's and print us up a "carbon credit"
Posted by: t-bird at April 11, 2022 11:49 AM (l0Lgi)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 11, 2022 11:49 AM (2Jd8G)
By the way, that problem has been going on since at least the 90s. I recall an expose from that time frame.
Posted by: Emmie at April 11, 2022 11:44 AM (t62xj)
Someone should put a fake sign outside that says, "Mickey says, Come for the Kid Diddling, He-He!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:49 AM (ynpvh)
Think of the reduction of greenhouse gases that could be acheived if Hawaii was made a wilderness preserve.
Posted by: tmitsss at April 11, 2022 11:49 AM (f/L+y)
Posted by: tmitsss at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (f/L+y)
and ushered in the era of sweatshops and indentured servitude
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 11:49 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Archer at April 11, 2022 11:50 AM (gmo/4)
I see kids pointing at shit and parents saying NO.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022
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I heard that at the cheese display at Walmart yesterday. The little girl was as fat as her mother. Both of 'em need to say "no" once in a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:50 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: kraken
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A woman's garment, no? Maybe I should read the content.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 11, 2022 11:50 AM (bPH26)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 11:50 AM (XvPQV)
Well, 1460s or so, I think.
The Portuguese were exploring the west coast of Africa and discovered they could short circuit the slave route over the Sahara ( other trade was involved, also).
Looking for a shortcut to Chyna..
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They were delivering Africans to North African slave markets then. Once they claimed the Amazon and all its tributaries for Portugual the slave trade grew geometrically.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:50 AM (ifUkZ)
that does sound yummy!
I remember mom's homemade cream puffs.
I made some drop biscuits yesterday from box mix.
Easy peasy
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 11:51 AM (DJFLF)
I see kids pointing at shit and parents saying NO.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022
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I heard that at the cheese display at Walmart yesterday. The little girl was as fat as her mother. Both of 'em need to say "no" once in a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:50 AM (txdEq)
I wonder if they know about kolaches?
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 11:51 AM (Vr12I)
Posted by: SMOD at April 11, 2022 11:51 AM (RHGPo)
Baseball is having troubles, especially failing to lure younger fans. I read that 35% of at bats result in a strikeout, a walk , or a homerun. In other words, BORING.
Posted by: JM
Well, I heard that there are signs in abundance that KKK members are at the stadiums and are out and proud about it, too!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:35 AM (pNxlR)
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They're not the brightest bunch, though. I mean, sometimes they've got the Ks backwards!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 11, 2022 11:51 AM (CAJOC)
Buc-ee's (I don't know how to pluralize that) are strategically located based on average bladder capacity.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 11, 2022 11:51 AM (nfrXX)
LOL. When Magic Cards first got big in the 1990s, I knew the owner of a game store.
I asked: "So how many Magic Cards are you selling?"
The owner: "I'm selling a thousand bucks a day of Magic Cards."
Me: "Wow! That's great!"
The owner: "Not really. I'm selling a thousand bucks less a day of everything else."
Oh.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 11, 2022 11:52 AM (I2/tG)
Posted by: tmitsss at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (f/L+y)
The Watt steam engine design improvement is one of those things that seems so simple and obvious, but it took almost 50 years for someone to figure it out.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 11, 2022 11:52 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: JM in Florida at April 11, 2022 11:52 AM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022
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I wonder if they know about kolaches?
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022
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Each of them was shaped like a kolache.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:52 AM (txdEq)
So all those incentives sold as bringing in economic growth are lies.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (1Kx8v)
I think the guy that write on the insider trading of pols also researches on stadium spending. It really only move money from one entertainment venue to another.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 11:52 AM (yrol0)
The Portuguese were exploring the west coast of Africa and discovered they could short circuit the slave route over the Sahara ( other trade was involved, also).
Looking for a shortcut to Chyna...
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:48 AM (k0g3G)
Look up the Gold Coast. The Portuguese had one of the biggest forts constructed. They eventually needed manpower for the sugar cane plantations in South America. Little publicized fact that Brazil didn't outlaw slavery until 1887 and imported 10x more slaves than colonial America/ United States.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 11:52 AM (Gzbwp)
If you consider the privileges allotted to corporations, essentially, CEOs come and go but the corporation is theoretically forever unless bankrupted or merged. Thus, the idea is that these corporations lend stability to a political system as a counterbalance to the people and the crown (gubmints). So, it is a simple step for corporate shills to take the place of aristocratic apologists in former times and these mega corps led by enlightened leaders serve as a brake on the other two.
In truth though, if you merge economic thought with political, corporations essentially promote oligopoly and oligarchists. Under nationalism, the megacorps are constrained by governments and the people if enough abuses surface. Under globalism, any check on megacorp power by a nation government and people is weakened enough to allow megacorps to play nations and people against each other.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 11:53 AM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: JM
Well, I heard that there are signs in abundance that KKK members are at the stadiums and are out and proud about it, too!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:35 AM (pNxlR)
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They're not the brightest bunch, though. I mean, sometimes they've got the Ks backwards!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 11, 2022 11:51 AM (CAJOC)
I went to Knott's Berry farm many years ago. I won three little bears for my wife. When we placed them on the mantle, we realized each one of their little shirts had a "K" on it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:53 AM (ynpvh)
So all those incentives sold as bringing in economic growth are lies.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (1Kx8v)
Could bring people from out of town. But locally not going to generate additional economic activity no.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 11, 2022 11:53 AM (z5Vrg)
Turns out the perp is an entitled twenty-something socialite who lives for free in an apartment building her parents own. She apparently hid out for two weeks at the parents other house and scrubbed her social media profile. There is video footage of her going back to check on the woman and walking away.
She is currently incarcerated at Ryker's Island awaiting trial while her parents try to scrounge up the $500,000 bail to free her.
Video has surfaced of the suspect mocking how a deaf person talks. Another college friend has come forward to describe her in ways that the only the Grinch would love.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:53 AM (i4Gw3)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:50 AM (ifUkZ)
Definitely.
The New World increased the demand incredibly.
I was just being a pettifogger over your 1501 date.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (k0g3G)
Another clip Spock is with a Vulcan woman, guess this version of T'Pring, and they kiss. Spock stoically says "logical thing to do." *face palm*
If you are doing Amok Time, Spock is a buck in rut. Logic has flown out the window. He should be tearing T'Pring's dress off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (i4Gw3)
All this new Star Dreck shit is the product of people who hate us, and want us dead. So I won't buy it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (P3gRi)
By the way, that problem has been going on since at least the 90s. I recall an expose from that time frame.
Posted by: Emmie
An expose by CNN. They are reporting things differently now.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (txdEq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022
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I wonder if they know about kolaches?
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022
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Each of them was shaped like a kolache.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:52 AM (txdEq)
I wonder if that is an iteration of the owner-dog phenomenon - they look like each other after a time? We start to look like what we shove in our pie- holes.
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (Vr12I)
.. how about the tires of Air Force One, Marine One or "The Beast" .. this guy uses a lot of fossil fuels
Posted by: SMOD at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Ha. It used to be a tank of gas.
---so many different tanks today.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (XnG/+)
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 11:40 AM (Iq9dF)
I strongly suspect the reason behind this is that the Large Corps offer much higher and more immediate under the table payoffs than smaller businesses can ever hope to offer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (trdmm)
More slaves were imported into Jamaica than into the Thirteen Colonies.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (I2/tG)
Boycotted last year because of the Georgia voting thing, but I figured Atlanta winning the Series was too much karma to ignore, so I'm back.
Pity the Nats are gonna suck this year.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (906pl)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:50 AM (ifUkZ)
Definitely.
The New World increased the demand incredibly.
I was just being a pettifogger over your 1501 date.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (k0g3G)
So Portugal was involved in the slave trade 30 years before Columbus' trip?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 11, 2022 11:51 AM (CAJOC)
That is what happens when you just stand there looking.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (k0g3G)
Another clip Spock is with a Vulcan woman, guess this version of T'Pring, and they kiss. Spock stoically says "logical thing to do." *face palm*
If you are doing Amok Time, Spock is a buck in rut. Logic has flown out the window. He should be tearing T'Pring's dress off.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 11:33 AM (i4Gw3)
All this new Star Dreck shit is the product of people who hate us, and want us dead. So I won't buy it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (P3gRi)
You don't know how Vulcans reproduce...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:56 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:56 AM (XnG/+)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 11:56 AM (1Kx8v)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (ynpvh)
They had reached West Africa yes. Naturally it was a relatively small business to what came later.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 11, 2022 11:56 AM (z5Vrg)
Get rid of the computers and the cell phones.
Do you have any idea the energy it requires to apply a Cat Filter to a Live Video?
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 11:56 AM (DOReJ)
Posted by: Lady in Black
Saying you are "purchasing" carbon credits means someone has carbon credits to sell.
Where'd they get them?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 11:56 AM (H4qIP)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022
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I wonder if they know about kolaches?
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022
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Each of them was shaped like a kolache.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:52 AM (txdEq)
I wonder if that is an iteration of the owner-dog phenomenon - they look like each other after a time? We start to look like what we shove in our pie- holes.
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (Vr12I)
Reminds me of the joke with the punchline "Cheap, quick and easy"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:57 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM
There was a place like that in Akron Ohio. Can't remember which mall it was at, but they would do midnight movies for $1.00 with cheap popcorn. Saw Kentucky Fried Movie there. Mostly drunks and stoners.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 11, 2022 11:57 AM (bVYXr)
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The Portuguese were the hub of all American slavery. The Spanish only got into it after the easy gold/silver was picked and they needed miners. Sugar was huge in the early 1600s and created a new demand but it reached peak production around 1650 and then dwindled as the sugar prices fell. Then the Carribean had a glut of cheap slaves with only one way to go.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:57 AM (ifUkZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (P3gRi)
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The first series produced by DesiLu was all American.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:57 AM (XnG/+)
Was watching video of Tampa sheriff announcing child sex trafficking arrests of Disney employees. He commented that he wondered why none of the Orlando press was in the room.
He said there's a big problem of child sex crimes in Orlando.
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 11:58 AM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022
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So Portugal was involved in the slave trade 30 years before Columbus' trip?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 202
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I'd guess the Portuguese were bringing the slaves back to Europe, or to other colonies around Africa. After the word got out about Chris's trip and colonies were starting up over in the New World, entrepreneurs saw a new Business Opportunity.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:58 AM (txdEq)
Portugal found the West Coast of Africa a generation or two before Columbus sailed.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 11:58 AM (2OL6m)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 11:58 AM (44ww/)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
What VP's family was slave owners in Jamaica?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 11:58 AM (H4qIP)
Then the Carribean had a glut of cheap slaves with only one way to go.
Posted by: Puddinhead
And that way was NFL franchises, to hear some tell it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 11:59 AM (pNxlR)
We pay Third World villages not to install diesel generators, but to rely only on solar, so they have no electricity at night.
Really.
Posted by: Carbon Billionaires! at April 11, 2022 11:59 AM (I2/tG)
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Try neighborhoods without kids. Finding a neighborhood with kids on the streets is hard to do these days.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 11:49 AM (ifUk
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With all the Irish Catholic families in our neighborhood, we were never short on kids to play balk. Four homes in a row had 12, 8, 2, and (ours) 6. Our block had almost a hundred.
Posted by: JM in Florida at April 11, 2022 11:59 AM (L7jyl)
Changing the Migration Paths of sharks for all eternity.
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 11:59 AM (DOReJ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Exactly so but also megacorp announcements impress the locals and you always see local politicos front and center at such events. Megacorp movements also coincide with local politically connected developers buying land cheap on the leaks secretly and then cashing out by developing afterwards. Developers own most local governments.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Octochicken at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: JM in Florida at April 11, 2022 11:59 AM
Is that some form of Irish baseball?
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (bVYXr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (i4Gw3)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
What VP's family was slave owners in Jamaica?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 11:58 AM (H4qIP)
One of the biggest. But that's okay, that was the whitey branch only...
Also, speaking of the punchline "Cheap, quick and easy"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:58 AM (txdEq)
Most likely North Africa(and from there to the Middle East), which had largely been importing slaves at huge attrition rates over the Sahara. Most African slaves were going into the Ottomans are other Islamic states.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (Gzbwp)
Posted by: Emmie
An expose by CNN. They are reporting things differently now.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 11, 2022 11:54 AM (sAmhv)
I heard about it from Focus on the Family.
Posted by: Emmie at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (t62xj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:58 AM (txdEq)
And the very entreprenuerial Dutch enthusiastically embraced the slave trade
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (DJFLF)
Was watching video of Tampa sheriff announcing child sex trafficking arrests of Disney employees. He commented that he wondered why none of the Orlando press was in the room.
He said there's a big problem of child sex crimes in Orlando.
Posted by: kallisto
Polk County Sheriff Judd. The Disney employees were a lifeguard, a restaurant worker, and two IT types, IIRC. He made a deliberate point of skewering the absence of Orlando's presstitutes.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (i4Gw3)
Does it count if the roots are up in the air?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022
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I'd expect their, ah, equipment is very much like humans'. After all, Sarek, Spock's father, married at least 2 human women, Amanda and the one we saw at the end of his life on TNG. And Spock himself, it was implied earlier, had some sort of "relationship" with Jill Ireland's character, a human woman. (Clearly the Vulcan version of the apple does not fall far from the Vulcan tree.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (txdEq)
by purchasing indulgences from the Church of Gaia
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (2OL6m)
Look, I'm just going to throw out there again that a few years ago I told everyone here that if they were surprised by that sort of thing, then they simply hadn't had enough exposure to the seriously wealthy. I was roundly mocked.
Sucks being right sometimes.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at April 11, 2022 12:02 PM (qVRSW)
Revoking Disney's sweetheart deal is less about revenge and more about "Oh, you want to involve yourself in the political landscape. That's fine, here's some politics you won't like but will be very popular with voters. Enjoy!"
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at April 11, 2022 12:02 PM (1hM1d)
Remember, slavery only started in North American when English colonists started importing slaves!
The Spanish importing slaves into North America didn't count!
Posted by: The 1619 Project! at April 11, 2022 12:02 PM (I2/tG)
While trying to discover what part of or who in Conservative Inc. Koch Industries are funding I did find that Koch Industries fund a myriad of foundations. It doesn't answer the loaded question of why Koch Industries along with all the other "chicken hawk" businesses listed in the Salon article have not pulled out of Russia but it does lend credence to the concept that all big businesses [Donald Trump included] follow of spreading money around Tossing some chicken feed to the cucks is just business.
Here are a few bona fide places Koch Industries fund -
Manhattan Institute, https://is.gd/mkRLNW ; The American Energy Alliance,
https://is.gd/KY8sR0 ; The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), https://is.gd/5rBMv0 ; Federalist Society, https://is.gd/gSW1Iq ; Philanthropy Roundtable, https://is.gd/y0pvg8 ; Antonin Scalia School of Law/GMU, https://is.gd/tStv8I .
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 12:02 PM (XnG/+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 11:58 AM (txdEq)
Most likely North Africa(and from there to the Middle East), which had largely been importing slaves at huge attrition rates over the Sahara. Most African slaves were going into the Ottomans are other Islamic states.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM \
A certain future Emperor was sent to Jamaica to help put down a slave revolt.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 11, 2022 12:02 PM (bVYXr)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (Gzbwp)
Fact is, slavery was nearly universal when you go back more than a few hundred years. The word itself in English is derived from Slav, the white people who were taken as slaves by the Mussies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:02 PM (ynpvh)
Can't a ball park just tell the fans to not fart and don't sell food to the fans. And don't allow any food to be brought in to the games...Its just that simple. Maybe a cork handed out with the teams logo on it...
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:03 PM (YVx1O)
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 12:03 PM (DOReJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 12:03 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 12:03 PM (Vr12I)
Is there such a thing as flatulence neutral food?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 11, 2022 12:03 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 11, 2022 12:03 PM (2Jd8G)
Posted by: kallisto
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Anywhere there is a continuing large stream of foreign and distant domestic visitors you will get child sex trafficking. Easier to hide in the comings and goings.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:03 PM (Iq9dF)
The Spanish importing slaves into North America didn't count!
Posted by: The 1619 Project! at April 11, 2022 12:02 PM (I2/tG)
Come to think of it, that neglects Indians enslaving each other.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 11, 2022 12:03 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022
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I'd expect their, ah, equipment is very much like humans'. After all, Sarek, Spock's father, married at least 2 human women, Amanda and the one we saw at the end of his life on TNG. And Spock himself, it was implied earlier, had some sort of "relationship" with Jill Ireland's character, a human woman. (Clearly the Vulcan version of the apple does not fall far from the Vulcan tree.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (txdEq)
Maybe like the Centauri in Babylon 5 with their "secret" tentacles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:03 PM (ynpvh)
It seems he regularly holds press conferences announcing arrests of perverts.
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 12:04 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:04 PM (i4Gw3)
Posted by: Lady in Black"
Logging companies planting trees they would have planted anyway after they harvest a large area counts as reforestation. A small percentage of the money from carbon credits sales goes to the logging company to claim credit for he new trees and the rest goes to environmental lawyers and Al Gore.
Posted by: Ripley at April 11, 2022 12:04 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (ynpvh)
Okay you buggers, you made me get up and get the book.
High Thomas describes in his first paragraphs the delivery of 235 slaves to Lagos on August 8, 1444, in Portugal.
So, earlier than 1460s.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 12:05 PM (k0g3G)
He was painting clear-coat paint over the stickers. And he resisted arrest when they called the police.
Posted by: SMOD at April 11, 2022 12:05 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Erik In Texas
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The lesson of Custer is don't piss off and attack without the numbers to win because you believe that your troops are superior to mass numbers.
Davos crowd does not consider that they are Custer pissing off the natives in various lands.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:05 PM (Iq9dF)
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), founded in 2004, is a libertarian conservative political advocacy group in the United States funded by David and Charles Koch. As the Koch brothers' primary political advocacy group, it is one of the most influential American conservative organizations.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 12:05 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 11, 2022 12:05 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 12:05 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (Qhnrt)
American Indians practiced a kinder, nicer sort of slavery.
It wasn't slavery at all, really.
Posted by: The 1619 Project! at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: JM in Florida at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:04 PM (i4Gw3)
some pyrsyns keep them under the couch
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (DJFLF)
He was painting clear-coat paint over the stickers. And he resisted arrest when they called the police.
Posted by: SMOD at April 11, 2022 12:05 PM (RHGPo)
Any thinking person knew there was more to the story.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (Gzbwp)
All because of an intern's suggestion and nobody anywhere else in the org said, No, that would be wrong.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (i4Gw3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:04 PM (i4Gw3)
Ballchinians in MIB II
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (ynpvh)
hahahahahahahaha
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (i4Gw3)
At least they had heart...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:07 PM (ynpvh)
It seems he regularly holds press conferences announcing arrests of perverts.
Posted by: kallisto
Malfeasants in his own department, too. The guy is very forthright.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 11, 2022 12:07 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (Qhnrt)
It helps to get drunk on 10$ beers if you attend in person. Maybe stab someone afterwards. Or avoid a stabbing.
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 12:07 PM (Vr12I)
Posted by: Harry at April 11, 2022 12:07 PM (bnUTU)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (ynpvh)
Okay you buggers, you made me get up and get the book.
High Thomas describes in his first paragraphs the delivery of 235 slaves to Lagos on August 8, 1444, in Portugal.
So, earlier than 1460s.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 12:05 PM (k0g3G)
Depending on what quantity is considered valid, no doubt some Portuguese traders had been involved with the Trans-Saharan slave trade early on, which predates Portugal's existence as a kingdom.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 11, 2022 12:07 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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My mature trees in my yard do my planting of carbon offset trees for me. Too much so in fact.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:08 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022
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I'd expect their, ah, equipment is very much like humans'. After all, Sarek, Spock's father, married at least 2 human women, Amanda and the one we saw at the end of his life on TNG. And Spock himself, it was implied earlier, had some sort of "relationship" with Jill Ireland's character, a human woman. (Clearly the Vulcan version of the apple does not fall far from the Vulcan tree.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (txdEq)
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Maybe it's like a mind-meld, but with different finger placement.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 11, 2022 12:08 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (txdEq)
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Maybe like the Centauri in Babylon 5 with their "secret" tentacles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022
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Whatever it is, it can't be too distasteful to human women, or Amanda wouldn't have stayed married to Sarek for so long. She was still married to him while Spock was an adult in Star Fleet. Spock served with Pike, and that was, what, 11 years before? So his Academy time would have been at least 15 years in the past. Amanda would have been married to Sarek for close to 35 years, maybe more, when we saw her!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:08 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 11, 2022 12:08 PM (CAJOC)
New look at The Shocker?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 12:08 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 11:57 AM (XnG/+)
Hence my use of the word "new".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 11, 2022 12:08 PM (P3gRi)
He was painting clear-coat paint over the stickers. And he resisted arrest when they called the police.
If you feel the need to protest, do it peacefully, man! Burn down a city or something.
Posted by: t-bird at April 11, 2022 12:09 PM (DMQdU)
Now bend over.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 11, 2022 11:43 AM (F0YaR)
Thank You Sir...may I have another!
#chipdiller
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 12:09 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Harry
Klobasnicky vs kolaches.
Doesn't matter. People will call it what they want. Doesn't matter what it really is.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:09 PM (H4qIP)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (ynpvh)
Okay you buggers, you made me get up and get the book.
High Thomas describes in his first paragraphs the delivery of 235 slaves to Lagos on August 8, 1444, in Portugal.
So, earlier than 1460s.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 12:05 PM (k0g3G)
Wow. Getting in on the Mussie slave trade.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:09 PM (ynpvh)
That one line proved that Vulcans have emotions and humor. Just not pie in your face Human humor.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:09 PM (i4Gw3)
Miles and miles and miles of heart...
Posted by: aztec priests at April 11, 2022 12:09 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 11, 2022 12:09 PM (Gzbwp)
He was painting clear-coat paint over the stickers. And he resisted arrest when they called the police.
If you feel the need to protest, do it peacefully, man! Burn down a city or something.
Posted by: t-bird
Put on blackface and burn the gas station down.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:10 PM (H4qIP)
Apricot
Cheese
Apple
Peach
There are decent ones at the Slovacek's in West. But not as great as some.
A good friend, who makes delicious kolaches, had a lot of practice. In her small SE Tex town, they sold them as high school fundraisers.
Posted by: sal at April 11, 2022 12:10 PM (bJKUl)
There is a history course at Yale where the professor surveys the students at the beginning of the course. Most students think that slavery only existed in the United States.
After all, if you read "A People's History of the United States", you will get no indication that slavery ever existed anywhere else.
You will also get no indication that one of the first things the United States did when it was created was ban slave importation.
Posted by: The 1619 Project! at April 11, 2022 12:11 PM (I2/tG)
Why isn't anybody on tv questioning exactly why Joe Biden isn't in the WH and films from a fake WH stage?
Why isn't anybody speaking out about the horrible pictures on Biden's laptop and are just talking about China or Russia or Burisma? The real story is the pictures and once again we have a cover-up.
Posted by: cjhmhch at April 11, 2022 12:11 PM (eSgwh)
They have one with a big ole chunk of ham, too.
Kolaches must have just enough of the sweet in the bread recipe.
Portuguese Sweet Bread (think oversized english muffin) is always a good choice in the north suburbs of Bahston.
Posted by: micky at April 11, 2022 12:11 PM (3byMq)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 12:12 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:04 PM (i4Gw3)
Ballchinians in MIB II
Posted by: jim
Of which Kamala is their VEEP.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:12 PM (H4qIP)
That one line proved that Vulcans have emotions and humor. Just not pie in your face Human humor.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022
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If you take it another way, it might have meant that they *had* to get married because Amanda was preggers!
Spock displayed a quiet humor and wit many times in the course of the series. His exchanges with McCoy, for example. Or when Trelane asks him if Vulcans are predatory, and he says, "Not generally . . . but there have been exceptions."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:12 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:01 PM (txdEq)
*
Maybe like the Centauri in Babylon 5 with their "secret" tentacles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022
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Whatever it is, it can't be too distasteful to human women, or Amanda wouldn't have stayed married to Sarek for so long. She was still married to him while Spock was an adult in Star Fleet. Spock served with Pike, and that was, what, 11 years before? So his Academy time would have been at least 15 years in the past. Amanda would have been married to Sarek for close to 35 years, maybe more, when we saw her!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:08 PM (txdEq)
Kurt E. would be down with Vulcans with Tentacles...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: The 1619 Project! at April 11, 2022 12:11 PM (I2/tG)
One of many to steps to try and softly phase out slavery which sadly ultimately failed(as all future legislative compromises in this direction were later broken).
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 11, 2022 12:12 PM (z5Vrg)
American Indians practiced a kinder, nicer sort of slavery.
It wasn't slavery at all, really.
Posted by: The 1619 Project! at April 11, 2022 12:06 PM (I2/tG)
This is related to the question, when did slavery become endemic to most human civilizations? A society has to have an agricultural based society (or large scale animal herding) to make slavery feasible. For hunter gatherers, or nomads, they're more trouble than they're worth just to keep them fed, so unwanted people are generally just killed and dumped for the wolves to find.
But when a society starts requiring people to spend long hours in the fields doing physical labor, then slavery becomes economically attractive.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 12:12 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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Formal libertarianism with actual principles died in the West due to lack of political interest in the Anglo world. Libertarianism for the most part never found much if any support beyond those nations developed and settled by the English in part because it is very easy for libertarianism to slide into simple libertine desires. Most people are not Marcus Aurelius which is what is required to make libertarianism work.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Octochicken at April 11, 2022 12:00 PM (oCS0o)
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I have, old family friend's mother was Czech, and they were delicious.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 12:14 PM (XnG/+)
Ask pharaoh & the Jews.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:14 PM (H4qIP)
Posted by: micky at April 11, 2022 12:11 PM
There are some good Portagee bakeries on the north shore. But you have to get there early.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 11, 2022 12:14 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 12:14 PM (Vr12I)
Posted by: sal at April 11, 2022 12:14 PM (bJKUl)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 12:12 PM (trdmm)
Concur. For Angkar!
Posted by: Zombie Pol Pot at April 11, 2022 12:14 PM (cGJ0D)
Weird experience: I just reread the Calvin & Hobbes Treasury a few weeks ago. While it’s hard sometimes to tell fantasy from reality in what Calvin does, it appears that neither his parents nor the town had any problem with 6-year-old Calvin walking downtown to the movie theater.
For all his commentary on what is and is not surreal about growing up, Watterson never seems to find anything odd in Calvin as a six-year-old on his own walking around his small town.
I never found it odd, either, the first time I read it in the eighties.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: sal at April 11, 2022 12:14 PM (bJKUl)
And they certainly didn't read the Koran, either.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Norsemen at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (4I/2K)
Isn't this as stupid as something like "obesity credits" or "fat credits"? Contribute money to healthy people to offset the obesity/fat impact of unhealthy people.
Which does nothing to help the unhealthy people and just makes the healthy people turn into rich healthy people.
And, in the big picture of overall health, nothing was done, except to keep unhealthy people unhealthy and make other people rich.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (Do5/p)
in 2001: A Space Odyssey, when that ape-man figured out what that bone could do
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (i4Gw3)
EEVblog just laughed at all the scientific papers saying how wonder the new discovery of making solar panels produce electricity at night. He is wondering what is happening to science in this country. All day energy, enough to make fossil fuel totally obsolete.
Along with the 'solar highways' the electrical power produced would be enough to maybe light one LED. He is worried that it is totally crazy and the scientific papers are all in on it.
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:16 PM (YVx1O)
It is so obvious now that 3CP0 was a flaming finook.
Carrie Fisher was hot then, though.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 11, 2022 12:16 PM (k0g3G)
it's like giving money to a church so you won't go to hell
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:16 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 12:12 PM (trdmm)
Well, when you get drunk off the beer from your barley crop, well, you need someone to tend to things. See Gobekli Tepe...about 10K years ago.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:16 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:16 PM (i4Gw3)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 12:12 PM (trdmm)
Most when freed ultimately remained tenant farmers. What appears to drive mass chattel slavery or serfdom is the relative power of the nobility. Monarchs typically try to end or limit serfdom, nobles typically institute the system when the monarch is relatively weak.
We can see this in European middle ages serfdom, which did not start with the fall of Rome but happens around the high middle ages.
Also plantation slavery with the Romans begins with the consolidation of land ownership.
In other words, it's about a powerful group of individuals having the means and economic motive to practice slavery. Where slavery exists otherwise they're servants or doing highly varied work.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 11, 2022 12:17 PM (z5Vrg)
It is so obvious now that 3CP0 was a flaming finook.
Carrie Fisher was hot then, though.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 11, 2022 12:16 PM (k0g3G)
She was very pretty. I wonder if she was always crazy?
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 12:18 PM (Vr12I)
Coach little league, if you can afford the time commitment. I am not a huge baseball fan, coaching is not my thing, and I've never done it before, but my littlest is a baseball nut, and he wouldn't be able to play this year, otherwise, as there were no better options for coaches. Honestly, little league is the closest to pure baseball fun you can get, and it is cool to see the littles develop their skills, overcome failures and disappointments, and celebrate their triumphs.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:18 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 11, 2022 12:18 PM (2FFNq)
For all his commentary on what is and is not surreal about growing up, Watterson never seems to find anything odd in Calvin as a six-year-old on his own walking around his small town.
I never found it odd, either, the first time I read it in the eighties.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (U+Oxn)
Chagrin Falls, where Watterson was from, was as safe a place as you could wish for back in the day.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 12:18 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:18 PM (geLO8)
My guess is that BigTech's biggest (like Google, especially) came into power with BigGov assistance, and some secret back door agreements. But indeed DARPA/CIA/FBI may be more globalist than servant to the people. So playing people and nations against each other is part of the game ... underwritten by the nation (the children will pay)
Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2022 12:18 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Andrew Jackson permitted the Cherokee to take their slaves with them when they were re-settled.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 12:19 PM (XnG/+)
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:18 PM (geLO
Homo Erectus?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (U+Oxn)
sigh - I remember when I was growing up in Phoenix, in 7th and 8th grade, on Saturdays I could take off on my bicycle at about 9 am and never check back in until about 6 at night, in time for supper. My parents never knew where I was, and nobody really cared (and I loved the freedom!)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 12:19 PM (trdmm)
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The cultivation of cotton and the cotton gin were to blame for it.
Slavery never works very well in practice except for making the owners rich off the sweat of workers' backs. Economically, slavery leads to stagnation.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:19 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (i4Gw3)
Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (Cj7Gt)
Love love love kolaches. Weber's Bakery on Southside of Chicago makes THE best. My mom also made them for Christmas when I was a kid. We also for a year or two when I was a kid had a small bakery within a block of my childhood home which sold them which were great.
Alas, since I moved away from Chicago as an adult, I have not found anywhere that makes them as wonderfully good as Weber's Bakery in Chicago. I get an order of them whenever I go home to visit.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (Do5/p)
Red Eye, in its prime, was fun, funny and wildly unpredictable. I loved it. That was the show I wish he'd still be doing.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (HsAzN)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (Ucb0d)
EEVblog just laughed at all the scientific papers saying how wonder the new discovery of making solar panels produce electricity at night. He is wondering what is happening to science in this country. All day energy, enough to make fossil fuel totally obsolete.
Along with the 'solar highways' the electrical power produced would be enough to maybe light one LED. He is worried that it is totally crazy and the scientific papers are all in on it.
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:16 PM (YVx1O)
It's the flying car gambit.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (Qhnrt)
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The cultivation of cotton and the cotton gin were to blame for it.
Slavery never works very well in practice except for making the owners rich off the sweat of workers' backs. Economically, slavery leads to stagnation.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:19 PM (Iq9dF)
Fredrick Douglas'(?) summary of slavery:
Freedom: I work, I eat
Slavery: I work, YOU eat
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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pre-history
Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 12:21 PM (XnG/+)
Slavery: I work, YOU eat
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ynpvh)
Communism: i pretend to work, you pretend to eat
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 12:21 PM (/EuRN)
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If you look at the heads of agencies, they move back and forth easily between the corporate and government worlds. A few, like Fauci, actually skim the public treasury and get the benefits of patents, and other sweet corporate lucre. Much like Aristos moved in and out of government jobs to their financial betterment under monarchies.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:21 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Guy Smiley
Carrie Keegan
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:22 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:13 AM (m45I2)
it worked just fine until 8/8/88
...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 11, 2022 12:22 PM (otjel)
I'm a little surprised to see Mark Hamill and Alec Guinness on THAT list.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 12:22 PM (2OL6m)
No, no we did not. Go back and read the comments.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 11, 2022 12:22 PM (a3Q+t)
Slavery: I work, YOU eat
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (ynpvh)
Communism: i pretend to work, you pretend to eat
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Capitalism: You pretend to pay me, I pretend to work.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:23 PM (H4qIP)
Men have been playing it since the civil war.
Where, iirc Doubleday was an officer on the Union side.
Posted by: aztec priests at April 11, 2022 12:23 PM (jTmQV)
Newark NJ has incredible Portugese...everything, really.
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 12:23 PM (DOReJ)
Posted by: BignJames at April 11, 2022 12:23 PM (AwYPR)
Posted by: tmitsss at April 11, 2022 11:45 AM (f/L+y)
and ushered in the era of sweatshops and indentured servitude
You say that like indentured servitude did not exist prior to 1774
There is a long history of English, Scottish and Irish men being transported to Barbados. Indentured servants arrived with the first English settlers as early as 1627. The arrival of indentured men increased significantly in 1648 when Cromwell began transporting prisoners captured during the Irish Rebellion, as well as during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Scottish prisoners continued to be transported well after these battles up until at least 1745, following the Jacobite Rebellion.
The Battle of Worcester prisoners are more likely to have been sent to Barbados,
Posted by: tmitsss at April 11, 2022 12:23 PM (f/L+y)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2022 12:23 PM (UuD2k)
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 11, 2022 12:24 PM (+sD5M)
No, no we did not. Go back and read the comments.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 11, 2022 12:22 PM (a3Q+t)
Wut!!! That is blasphemy my good man...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 12:24 PM (BgMrQ)
Capitalism: You pretend to pay me, I pretend to work.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:23 PM (H4qIP)
Bidenism - you pay me, I put my hand down your kids pants.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 12:24 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 12:24 PM (/EuRN)
Posted by: kraken
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Watch or read Postcards from the Edge. Carrie's mom was Debbie Reynolds and her dad was Eddie Fisher who left Debbie to marry E. Taylor who was Debbie's friend. Hollyweird and showbiz is a bad place for children.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:24 PM (Iq9dF)
Lol.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 11:03 AM (k0g3G)
This warms my dead heart.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 11, 2022 12:24 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (HsAzN)
This. With smokeshow PAB rapping. That's ratings gold. (Or was it?)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:24 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: BignJames at April 11, 2022 12:23 PM (AwYPR)
lol
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:25 PM (SH2Zi)
For all his commentary on what is and is not surreal about growing up, Watterson never seems to find anything odd in Calvin as a six-year-old on his own walking around his small town.
I never found it odd, either, the first time I read it in the eighties.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (U+Oxn)
Chagrin Falls, where Watterson was from, was as safe a place as you could wish for back in the day.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at April 11, 2022 12:18 PM (BgMrQ
Back when I was growing up, that wasn't unusual. Just a kid walking around town.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 11, 2022 12:25 PM (Qhnrt)
Contrary to some belief, I think this has been a great two years, if only because a lot of masks have been dropped and we have a better idea of who the adversary is.
Now Imma get a donut.
J
Posted by: Witchdoktor at April 11, 2022 12:25 PM (pypoX)
yes she was a bit of alright
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:25 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 11, 2022 12:25 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: GnuBreed, not a tentacle fan at April 11, 2022 12:25 PM (F0YaR)
Here's what would seem to be a no-fail premise and yet they manage to suck all the funny out of it. Here's Chuckie in an office.
Sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJg1F_WMy6E&t=197s
Posted by: naturalfake at April 11, 2022 12:26 PM (LV9Tl)
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:26 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 11, 2022 12:26 PM (JzDjf)
Does anyone else find this odd?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2022 12:27 PM (Y5qcH)
Need to clean up seams on the B-26K before starting the fun of painting and work on the aerodynamic fairing for the KA-56A. And oh yeah build the KA-56A camera out of sheet plastic.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:27 PM (i4Gw3)
Watt struggled for years to solve the steam leakage problem. it was the adoption of the cannon making techlology developed by Wilkinson to make steam cylinders for Watt that made that possible.
Posted by: tmitsss at April 11, 2022 12:27 PM (f/L+y)
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:22 PM (geLO
Yep. For the hotness. And Bill Schultz and Pinch for the LULZ ..I miss those days. That was must-see TV.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 11, 2022 12:27 PM (HsAzN)
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 11, 2022 12:20 PM (Ucb0d)
she's skinny, but i'd bang her like a screen door in a hurricane...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 11, 2022 12:28 PM (otjel)
Posted by: tmitsss at April 11, 2022 12:23 PM
Blackadder (re Barbados): You'll really be able to stand out as an individual.
Baldrick: Will I?
Blackadder: Of course...all of the other slaves will be black.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 11, 2022 12:28 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 11, 2022 12:28 PM (HsAzN)
Does anyone else find this odd?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2022 12:27 PM (Y5qcH)
Ukraine is a big country, and there are still safe ways in and out. Doesn't mean that there isn't fighting and dying happening.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 12:28 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 12:28 PM (i4Gw3)
Posted by: kraken at April 11, 2022 12:18 PM (Vr12I)
____________________________
She supposedly had diagnosed mental illness, but I think it was mostly the drugs. Heavy, heavy drugs. The drugs she had in her system the day she died would have killed a bull.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (44ww/)
yeah .. and I thought Tom Shilua (? whatever) was better than Gutfeld. I saw he was on the other night, not sure if he is a regular ... I don't care for most of their schtick.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Jaimo at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (DBrN4)
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:24 PM (Iq9dF)
best story (I thought) was when Carrie told of a birthday party with all of her friends at her house, and in the middle of the party her mom (Debbie) went up the stairs and flashed a view under her skirt - with no underclothes, of course - to all of the party guests.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (trdmm)
.. how about the tires of Air Force One, Marine One or "The Beast" .. this guy uses a lot of fossil fuels
Posted by: SMOD at April 11, 2022 11:55 AM (RHGPo)
When I went to report that tweet to Twitter for encouraging targeted harassment I found that Twitter has changed its reporting forms significantly in the last couple of weeks.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (nC+QA)
Freedom: I work, I eat
Slavery: I work, YOU eat
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Wonder what Fredrick would say today of Nike and Apple benefiting from Chinese slave labor.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (JH1tc)
Does anyone else find this odd?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2022 12:27 PM (Y5qcH)
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He went to Kiev.
Kiev is clear.
Posted by: Braenyard - must clear at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (XnG/+)
Didn't he go NT? At which point he ceased to serve any purpose since that sector is overcrowded.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 11, 2022 12:30 PM (nfrXX)
Watt struggled for years to solve the steam leakage problem. it was the adoption of the cannon making techlology developed by Wilkinson to make steam cylinders for Watt that made that possible.
Posted by: tmitsss at April 11, 2022 12:27 PM (f/L+y)
All the good shit comes from making stuff to kill people.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 12:30 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 12:31 PM (44ww/)
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So are black and brown multi-millionaire pro athletes pretending to be "oppressed" in the raaaaaacist U.S.
Anybody dumb enough to pay to see such a-holes compete deserves to be taken.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 11, 2022 12:31 PM (k4dH2)
All the good shit comes from making stuff to kill people.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 12:30 PM (yrol0)
Wait.....what?
Posted by: NASA Space Shuttle Program at April 11, 2022 12:31 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (trdmm)
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No pedos in Hollywood,
No pedos in Hollywood
Posted by: Braenyard - must clear at April 11, 2022 12:32 PM (XnG/+)
I caught a little of their anniversary show, and Gutfeld did the usual (pretty nasty) slams on Kat. Then he explained that she writes most of his intros.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2022 12:32 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:32 PM (H4qIP)
Posted by: The Challenger Crew at April 11, 2022 12:32 PM (vqhPW)
Where in a Buc-cees can I find this tasty food? (Other than fudge and pastries.) I've still looking for it every time I go to a Buc-cees.
Let the Gref-bashing begin!
Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2022 12:32 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Looks are important to advance to Hollywood and it probably helped your career if you gave a the crowd signals that you were available.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:33 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 12:29 PM (trdmm)
I think little Carrie must have been on the pipe even back then. Her mom was a good Methodist girl who was a virgin when she married that big stinker Eddie Fisher.
Posted by: kallisto at April 11, 2022 12:33 PM (DJFLF)
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So are black and brown multi-millionaire pro athletes pretending to be "oppressed" in the raaaaaacist U.S.
Anybody dumb enough to pay to see such a-holes compete deserves to be taken.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 11, 2022 12:31 PM (k4dH2)
John fuckface Kerrys trip to Iceland to get an enviro award cost about 30 LIFETIMES of carbon for the average American.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 12:33 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (YVx1O)
yes she was a bit of alright
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:25 PM (geLO
There . . . is another. Sister. She has a twin sister.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (Cus5s)
Where in a Buc-cees can I find this tasty food? (Other than fudge and pastries.) I've still looking for it every time I go to a Buc-cees.
Let the Gref-bashing begin!
Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2022 12:32 PM (AMIL/)
Their brisket breakfast tacos are awesome. I bought a stuffed pork loin from there once and smoked it. It was fantastic.
Wife gets kolaches and loves them.
Posted by: NASA Space Shuttle Program at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (+sD5M)
Chagrin Falls sounds like the name he would make up for Calvin’s fictional town.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (U+Oxn)
So he's quite safe, as are any of his visitors.
Posted by: Witchdoktor at April 11, 2022 12:35 PM (pypoX)
Posted by: redridinghood at April 11, 2022 12:35 PM (NpAcC)
Let the Gref-bashing begin!
Posted by: Gref
Usually along the back wall is where their "deli" type stuff is.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:35 PM (H4qIP)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (YVx1O)
And that state will be dead in 5 years.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 11, 2022 12:35 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: redridinghood at April 11, 2022 12:35 PM (NpAcC)
Whomever is in charge of their billboard campaign is a genius.
"All thrones. No games."
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 11, 2022 12:36 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Colin
So, in 30 years, it will look like an updated version of Cuba.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 11, 2022 12:36 PM (5kI0z)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 11, 2022 12:36 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:36 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 11, 2022 12:36 PM (xgp0F)
Posted by: redridinghood at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM (44ww/)
The breakfast tacos are pretty good. Avoid the "bbq" turkey sandwich at all costs. It's dry, over-roasted turkey smeared with sauce delivered in 55 gallon drums.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM (nfrXX)
"All thrones. No games."
Posted by: Sponge
"Only 742 More Miles! You can hold it!"
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM (H4qIP)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (YVx1O)
UNPOSSIBLE
The superchargers take about 250 kw service. Circle K and 7 come 11 are on 25 kw service.
Maybe $250k IF the utility can even provide that much infrastructure.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM (sGtp+)
Do not try to cross an Interstate highway on foot.
Posted by: mnw at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM (NLIak)
Inspector likes the venison blend sausages and low-carb jerky. When he's taking a break from keto he likes the brisket sandwiches. I was impressed with the fruit cup I got. Each piece of fruit was perfectly ripe and tasted *exactly* as that fruit ought to.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 11, 2022 12:38 PM (nC+QA)
i read that as "bacon of endor". color me disappoint.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM (sGtp+)
Mmm...bacon.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:38 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2022 12:38 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 12:15 PM (U+Oxn)
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I grew up in a Midwest town of about 1200. Once we could ride a bike, we were free to go wherever in town, except across the tracks. For me that was around 6 years old. This was the seventies.
Posted by: Rules for thee... at April 11, 2022 12:39 PM (jDAqe)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 12:39 PM (1Kx8v)
WTF?
Obi-Wan has been hitting the peyote.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 11, 2022 12:39 PM (0KokZ)
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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A lot of the Virginia planters found that as their land's fertility exhausted, that slaves cost more than they were worth. Unfortunately, due to the US expanding, even the places where it was not economic to employ slaves, they could get rich by selling the slaves and their children to those out west. The import ban made it worse actually and also resulted in an immediate rise in slave prices. The political history of the antebellum South is tied intimately with slavery as internal schisms within states occurred over the freemen and the quasi-aristo planters.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:39 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 12:39 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 11, 2022 12:36 PM (5kI0z)
Hah. Was thinking the same thing last night.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:40 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: Shooter McGavin at April 11, 2022 12:40 PM (t8dqj)
Posted by: Rules for thee... at April 11, 2022 12:39 PM (jDAqe)
Didn't last much longer once the "stranger danger" panic began. That was the beginning of the end of having a childhood.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:40 PM (II3Gr)
---------------
Putin wants Ukraine ground to a pulp, devastated, so that he may take their wheat and all the waterfront for ports and make them labor for free or starve.
He's in a bad mood and possibly crazy.
Posted by: Braenyard - must clear at April 11, 2022 12:40 PM (XnG/+)
And the proper solution (if you're libertarian or no) is to end carve-outs for particular economic sectors. There can be some re-distrubution for common provision. Beyond that, the less we have of politically determined incomes, the better. No appropriated subsidies, no tax preferences, no regulatory favoritism.
Posted by: Art Deco at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (1BrBu)
I don't think Fox News is even on DISH's basic lineup.
Nightline used to get 10 million viewers, with 6 million for Tonight Show. It's main competitor at one point wasn't Letterman, but Rush Limbaugh following Nightline.
Some years later, ABC sports people wanted Rush Limbaugh on Monday Night Football, but higherups vetoed it. Later they got him on the postgame show, they fired him at the first chance.
Now the sports people are more left than the main nertwork execs.
Posted by: MikeN at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (o/eHL)
Posted by: wth
no, Kolache was that guy in The Night Stalker series
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (YVx1O)
UNPOSSIBLE
The superchargers take about 250 kw service. Circle K and 7 come 11 are on 25 kw service.
Maybe $250k IF the utility can even provide that much infrastructure.
Posted by: rhennigantx
SHUT THAT HYDROELECTRIC DOWN NOW!!!
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (H4qIP)
i read that as "bacon of endor". color me disappoint.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM (sGtp+)
Mmm...bacon.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:38 PM (II3Gr)
The management has requested that people please stop eating the beacon. Thank you.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (kK4Ub)
Posted by: redridinghood at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 11, 2022 12:36 PM (5kI0z)
Hah. Was thinking the same thing last night.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:40 PM (SH2Zi)
But without the 50s model Chevys all over the place.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (YVx1O)
Idaho car dealers will be popping the champagne in a few years.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (Qhnrt)
I grew up in the seventies, too, and the nearest town was of similar size—but not quite in biking distance. Nor did it have a movie theater. So I missed out on those experiences but of course have many others involving walking/biking in the middle of nowhere.
Somewhat akin to Ford auto colors, I could bike wherever I wanted, as long as it was nowhere.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 12:42 PM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 11, 2022 12:42 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:42 PM (YVx1O)
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:42 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (geLO
Kolach the Night Nosher
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:43 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 11, 2022 12:43 PM (xgp0F)
Now the sports people are more left than the main nertwork execs.
Posted by: MikeN at April 11, 2022 12:41 PM (o/eHL)
Rev Al lied about him and then they fired him.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 11, 2022 12:43 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Rules for thee... at April 11, 2022 12:39 PM (jDAqe)
Didn't last much longer once the "stranger danger" panic began. That was the beginning of the end of having a childhood.
Posted by: Insomniac
Razor blades in Halloween candy.
EoC = End of Childhood
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:43 PM (H4qIP)
For all his commentary on what is and is not surreal about growing up, Watterson never seems to find anything odd in Calvin as a six-year-old on his own walking around his small town.
I never found it odd, either, the first time I read it in the eighties.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022
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In a small town, possibly there would be no problem. Everybody knew everybody else. In a bigger town or city, no. My mother only started letting me go to the movies alone or with friends when I was 12.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:44 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Rules for thee... at April 11, 2022 12:39 PM (jDAqe)
We used to skateboard between neighboring town's in cold-war era western Germany, surreptitiously investigate abandoned mills and factories, and play tackle football everyday on the back green tract, in between duck and cover drills.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:44 PM (SH2Zi)
But what the fuck do I know?
Posted by: Witchdoktor at April 11, 2022 12:44 PM (pypoX)
Posted by: Braenyard - must clear at April 11, 2022 12:44 PM (XnG/+)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM
Well let them soak in their wokeness then.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 12:44 PM (Gpfnk)
Posted by: Witchdoktor at April 11, 2022 12:44 PM (pypoX)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM (YVx1O)
And that state will be dead in 5 years.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 11, 2022 12:35 PM (+sD5M)
I think in Kali has it at 2035 or something.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 11, 2022 12:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:45 PM (H4qIP)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 12:45 PM (2OL6m)
I like to say that the kolache is cultural appropriation at its finest.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 11, 2022 12:45 PM (kK4Ub)
Posted by: Art Deco
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Harold Lasswell became somewhat famous by his description of politics in his book title as 'Politics, Who Gets What, When and How'.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:45 PM (Iq9dF)
We would run behind it, shirtless, with our mouths open, cheering.
Maybe that explains a few things...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 11, 2022 12:46 PM (jTmQV)
But what the fuck do I know?
Posted by: Witchdoktor at April 11, 2022 12:44 PM (pypoX)
To your credit, you've never started a land war in Asia. Have you?
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:46 PM (SH2Zi)
EoC = End of Childhood
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:43 PM (H4qIP)
Oof. I remember that too. Turned out to be pure bollocks based on a single isolated incident that was intrafamilial.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:46 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 12:46 PM (v0R5T)
i read that as "bacon of endor". color me disappoint.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 11, 2022 12:37 PM
Ewok bacon? Ewww...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 11, 2022 12:47 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 11, 2022 12:47 PM (0KokZ)
Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 12:46 PM (v0R5T)
Endorsed.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:47 PM (SH2Zi)
I've never watched, just seen photos of him ...
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 11, 2022 12:43 PM (xgp0F)
I thought Colbert is 70. My bad - he is 57.
Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (AMIL/)
'Patches O'Houlihan was bereft.'
God, Patches' death was funny.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 12:45 PM (2OL6m)
Ah yes. Crushed by 1000 pounds of irony.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 12:46 PM
Kat can haz cheezburger?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (vqhPW)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 11, 2022 12:46 PM (jTmQV)
THAT is fucking funny.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (0KokZ)
Wut?
Obi-Wan thinks the Force is something else.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 11, 2022 12:47 PM (0KokZ)
A dem fundraiser?
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022
***
Up around the Wyoming line, I'd hope. Denver area was getting too crowded when I left there in 2001. I can only suppose it's vastly worse now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Insomniac
So pissed that I no longer got popcorn balls, rice crispy treats & caramel apples trick or treating.
Yeah. Halloween was lit in '67.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (H4qIP)
Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 12:49 PM (0OP+5)
B) Late night TV is a wasteland, as is all TV really. Late night shows aren't even trying to make money, just sell the idea that leftism is cool and anything else is not, see?
Nazi. Yeah, that's the ticket. So losing money isn't the issue, you're exactly right on that. So much for a competitive marketplace. You think it'd be more like a bakery where all those choices bring in many diverse people, which brings me to
III) I have a sweet tooth, so everything Ace wrote about last week? I'd read the blurb and say to myself, yeah that's my favorite. Then I'd read the next one and think the same thing. It should be no suprise that when I read about todays Kolaches I thought the same thing yet again. I love pastries. But, A1C and all that, so maybe I'll just lick them and put them back. Seems like it's an okay thing to do.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 11, 2022 12:49 PM (MFphb)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur
A wise man!
-- Vizzini
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 12:49 PM (Msys3)
Dan Simmons has a long intro to his book Summer of Night in which he talks about how kids just can't roam any more.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 11, 2022 12:49 PM (JzDjf)
We would run behind it, shirtless, with our mouths open, cheering.
Maybe that explains a few things...
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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Actually Silent Spring by Rachel whatshername regarding DDT was a hoax and due to that, the author probably killed millions by mosquito hosted infections in the Third World because of it influencing removal of ddt.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:49 PM (Iq9dF)
Kurt Schlichter's new column is called "Call Groomers 'Groomers' because of their grooming and because it annoys David French". Everyone's on to French's grift now.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 11, 2022 12:49 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:40 PM (II3Gr)
*points*
I did that!
Posted by: Adam Walsh's murderer at April 11, 2022 12:50 PM (DTX3h)
Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022
***
The Hot Librarian Personified.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:50 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: klaftern at April 11, 2022 12:50 PM (taPSh)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:50 PM (YVx1O)
Yeah. Halloween was lit in '67.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (H4qIP)
I was definitely born in the wrong place at the wrong time to the wrong people.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:50 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (vqhPW)
........
and a couple kolaches for dessert.
Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 12:51 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 11, 2022 12:51 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Gref
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Evil people often reflect their sins by their visage.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:51 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Braenyard - must clear at April 11, 2022 12:44 PM (XnG/+)
It certainly seems like they're creating the very situation they're trying to avoid. Inspector thinks it would have helped if we had, long ago, clarified that NATO was anti-communist not specifically anti-Russian and had focused more on China after the breakup of the USSR. Probably too late now though.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 11, 2022 12:51 PM (nC+QA)
I did that!
Posted by: Adam Walsh's murderer at April 11, 2022 12:50 PM (DTX3h)
John Walsh and the media did that.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:51 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2022 12:51 PM (Y5qcH)
Posted by: whig
I do?
-- The spiritually dead Hillary
Posted by: Tonypete at April 11, 2022 12:52 PM (Msys3)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:50 PM (txdEq)
Marian the Librarian.
1960s Shirley Jones.
Hubba hubba.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 11, 2022 12:52 PM (0KokZ)
Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022
un-huh
Posted by: BignJames at April 11, 2022 12:52 PM (AwYPR)
'Luck of the Irish!'
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 11, 2022 12:52 PM (2OL6m)
I would not be surprised if he reads ace daily.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 11, 2022 12:52 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Muldoon at April 11, 2022 11:08 AM (m45I2)
Groan. My daughter would call that a dad joke.
Be better, dad.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 11, 2022 12:52 PM (MFphb)
Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 12:53 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2022 12:51 PM (Y5qcH)
Because it fucking works.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 11, 2022 12:53 PM (+sD5M)
Dan Simmons has a long intro to his book Summer of Night in which he talks about how kids just can't roam any more.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 11, 202
***
In '63 and '64, my brother and I trick-or-treated all around the French Quarter -- near our place, anyway. No problems then. And we had no DST then, so it was dark by 6:00 pm.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:53 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 12:53 PM (1Kx8v)
In our small town we still got these through my T&T career. It saddens me a bit every year that kids today don’t get the weird things, like—to bring it back on topic—the old Polish woman’s kolaczkis. She had trouble separating the walnut shells out, so you had to be careful eating them. But they were still so very good.
Haven’t thought about that in ages.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 12:54 PM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: gourmand du jour
Late 60's, early '70's in St. Louis. Can remember getting yelled at to get back inside because the truck was coming.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:54 PM (H4qIP)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 12:54 PM (U+Oxn)
Posted by: Ron S. at April 11, 2022 12:55 PM (A6YLU)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:32 PM
Pop purple smoke.
Posted by: zombie Jimmy H. at April 11, 2022 12:55 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 12:55 PM (XvPQV)
-- The spiritually dead Hillary
Posted by: Tonypete
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In her case, possession by a demon.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 12:55 PM (Iq9dF)
You know what this says to me?
That they are overcharging for tickets and could reduce the price.
And I get what Cooke is arguing here: business should be unfettered and allowed to handle their own business without government interference.
Except that's not what Disney got here. They didn't get a reduction in regulation, they got the power to run their own fiefdom as a replacement for government; their own police, fire, their own ability to build roads and infrastructure, etc.
And this wasn't done out of some business-friendly policy favorable to the free market. It was done so that they'd build the park in Florida instead of somewhere else. And that's not policy that should continue or be extended to every business.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 12:55 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 11, 2022 12:46 PM (II3Gr)
I think you're allowed to just say "Mafia".
Posted by: hogmartin at April 11, 2022 12:55 PM (P4LRL)
Posted by: Biden Junta Press Team at April 11, 2022 12:56 PM (utMrO)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 11, 202
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The standing rule from mom and dad was for us was to head home when the street lights come on.
Posted by: Rules for thee... at April 11, 2022 12:56 PM (jDAqe)
Yeah. Halloween was lit in '67.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022
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At Halloween in '66, my best friend's family had a costume party at their house. I dressed as my then-favorite TV character (after Napoleon Solo), T.H.E. Cat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 11, 2022 12:56 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:56 PM (YVx1O)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 12:48 PM (H4qIP)
So was your dentist?
Posted by: m at April 11, 2022 12:56 PM (4vwwZ)
Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2022 12:34 PM
Well let them soak in their wokeness then.
Posted
Might want to open a car dealership in the westernmost part of Idaho, or the northernmost part of Oregon. Although Oregon will likely follow suit.
Posted by: Tofer732 at April 11, 2022 12:56 PM (GcxM3)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 12:56 PM (1Kx8v)
Goldman Sachs guys (like Robert Rubin), in and out of the White House, the IMF ... always protecting the TooBigToFail/Jail institutions.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2022 12:57 PM (Cus5s)
how many have we won
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 12:58 PM (geLO8)
Patches O'Houlihan was bereft.
----------------
Dwayne was a one year red shirt wonder at Ohio State who went to the Redskins after his first year. He had a real problem holding the ball too long and focusing on one receiver. As a result, he got hammered by a lot of Edge Rushers. Seems this trait may have contributed to his end when crossing a 5 lane highway at twilight or night. My condolences to the family but he never should have attempted crossing that highway in FL.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 12:58 PM (yRved)
Those dealers would do no good. The llaw vans registration of ice cars, not just the sale of.
The way to get around it would be for manufacturers to take a 2029 model and sell it as a 2029 forever. Because the law says model year not manufacture date. Although they could easily change the law to say that as well I suppose.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 12:59 PM (1Kx8v)
In the mid-60s, having a bike meant that you were free to roam all over town, alone or in a group.
"Bye, Mom!"
"Where are you going?"
"Out riding with some of the kids"
"Be back by supper time."
"Okay!"
Being asked where we were going was hit or miss with the parents.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at April 11, 2022 12:59 PM (pNxlR)
By the way, I love the Babylon Bee, but sometimes they make mistakes, like this one. Everyone should know that Texans don't need sauce on their barbecue:
https://tinyurl.com/26nfjd83
Posted by: Happy at April 11, 2022 12:59 PM (kiU2o)
Where in Texas are you? Montrose?
How about...
Smoked sausage
Smoked jalapeno cheese sausage
Ham and cheddar
Ham and swiss
Bacon
I've even had BOUDIN kolaches
Posted by: Guvnah at April 11, 2022 01:00 PM (h9uRV)
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Hmmm... this may be true, but the "T" in DDT is trichloroethane, aka trich. I was in the environmental cleanup biz for a while, and chlorinated solvents are bad ju-ju. They typically have a specific gravity heavier than water, so they sink and dwell in the environment. (Most oil spill aren't "cleaned up"; 90% of it evaporates.)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 11, 2022 01:01 PM (7Fj9P)
Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 01:01 PM (geLO8)
"Bye, Mom!"
"Where are you going?"
"Out riding with some of the kids"
"Be back by supper time."
"Okay!"
Being asked where we were going was hit or miss with the parents.
Same here. We roamed all over our part of Ft Worth.
Posted by: Happy at April 11, 2022 01:01 PM (kiU2o)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 01:02 PM (1Kx8v)
He never saw the sack coming.
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Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (2JoB8)
I fertilize and mow a small lawn, and have three trees on the property. Carbon sinks, all.
Where's my cash?
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up. The words in your content seem to be running off the screen in Opera.
I'm not sure if this is a formatting issue or something to do with browser compatibility but I thought I'd post to let you know.
The layout look great though! Hope you get the issue resolved soon. Thanks
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Keep on posting!
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