Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (5/25/22)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
“We have the means to improve the state of the world, but two conditions are necessary: The first one, is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, so that we serve not only our self-interests but we serve the community. That’s what we call ‘stakeholder responsibility.’” As World Economic Forum head Klaus Schwab

Funny way to say, tyranny

Quote II
There’s no dystopian technological overreach that[Bill] Gates won’t enthusiastically endorse. He would have already harvested your DNA and stuck it in a Shenzhen genome sequencing machine — if not for the pesky issue of, you know, human rights. Emerald Robinson

Quote III
“Sir, you are out of line, please leave this auditorium! I can’t believe you’re a sick son of a bitch who would come to a deal like this to make a political issue!”Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin

Quote IV
“All Tennessee children deserve meaningful educational options. Today’s opinion by the Tennessee Supreme Court means thousands of Tennessee parents and children trapped in failing school districts can look forward to seeking a better education this fall at a school of their choice,” IJ Managing Attorney Arif Panju

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This will not look good on future resumes. Talk about a permanent record.

SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, Colo. — A former Telluride ski patroller was arrested and charged after he allegedly threatened to "blow up" the San Miguel County Sheriff's Office, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado and the man's arrest affidavit.
According to an arrest affidavit, the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office identified Bryan Randolph Cornwell, 39, of Norwood, as a person of interest in relation to a woman who died of a suspected fentanyl overdose on Feb. 16. The two had been dating at the time.

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I'm surprised the State of New York would do anything beneficial for their elderly.

The state of New York will distribute robot companions to the homes of more than 800 older adults. The robots are not able to help with physical tasks, but function as more proactive versions of digital assistants like Siri or Alexa — engaging users in small talk, helping contact love ones, and keeping track of health goals like exercise and medication.
The scheme is being organized by the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA), and is intended to help address the growing problem of social isolation among the elderly. An estimated 14 million Americans over the age of 65 currently live alone, and this figure is projected to increase over the next decade as the boomer generation ages. Studies have suggested that long-term loneliness is as damaging to an individual’s health as smoking.

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The "Leaders" of the world present at Davos aren't making any headway with the Ukraine mess.

Zelensky Rejects Kissinger Concession Comments, Says "Russia Must Also Leave Crimea"
Ukraine’s president in fresh Wednesday remarks asserted that his country will hold no talks or negotiations with Russia until its forces pull back to their pre-war positions. It's but the latest clear signal that there likely won't be any negotiated settlement on the horizon, also as US defense officials have recently been predicting a protracted, possibly even "years-long" conflict.
President Volodymyr Zelensky laid out Ukraine's position in a virtual address before this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It came after an initial speech before the forum at the start of this week, according to the AP. He put the ball in Moscow's court, saying it must "shift from the bloody war to diplomacy" if it hopes for the war to end. "It’s possible if Russia shows at least something. When I say at least something, I mean pulling back troops to where they were before Feb. 24," which marked the start of the invasion. He added: "I believe it would be a correct step for Russia to make."

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I recently had my 50,000 mile tune up. My ~~mechanic~~ doctor wanted me to get Kung Flu booster. I said, "Thanks, but no thanks, Doc."

Quite a few people hold my opinion as well.

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the company is being forced to “throw away” 30 million COVID-19 vaccine doses due to low demand. Bancel made his comments while speaking at the World Economic Forum on Monday, adding his displeasure over the lack of people getting vaccinated and “waning immunity” among those who have had the shots but declined to get boosters.
“It’s sad to say, I’m in the process of throwing 30 million doses in the garbage because nobody wants them. We have a big demand problem,” Bancel said.

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Holy Crap!!!!

Every Dog Owner Needs a Smart Robotic Laser Guiding Them to Poop That Needs Picking Up
Caleb Olson made the worst part about owning a dog slightly less awful

I wonder how accurate it is with 2' of snow on the ground. I'm looking at you Dream Team.

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Joe Biden is a bully. But we already knew that. Right Cornpop?

The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.

All state and local agencies that receive Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) funding, including schools, will have to update their non-discrimination policies to include protections for gender identity and must investigate any allegations of discrimination on the basis of gender identity, according to a May 5 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announcement. Obama-era guidance interpreting Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to prohibit gender-identity discrimination stated that transgender students must be allowed to use the restroom, locker room and shower facility that matches their gender identity.

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It is all fun and games. Until someone forgets to get all of the permits.

Deputies from the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office made the oddest of housecalls over the weekend, specifically because the house in question was sitting in the middle of a road in the middle of the night.
“Deputies responded to Berard Road in Loreauville regarding an illegal transport of a house. IPSO deputies arrived to find an abandoned truck, trailer and house blocking the 400 block,” IPSO said.
The illegally-parked domicile was discovered early Sunday morning around 3:30 a.m. blocking both lanes of a residential road in Loreauville, La., a small town that lies to the southeast of Lafayette.

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Hmmm, I think I prefer North East Europe.

Most extraverted and introverted countries in Europe mapped

The words introversion and extraversion were presented in psychology by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung.
Extraversion is the state of predominantly getting gratification from beyond oneself. Extraverts are prone to enjoy human interactions and be enthusiastic and talkative. They like being around other people. They enjoy activities that affect big social gatherings, such as parties and demonstrations.
Introversion is the state of being primarily interested in one’s own cognitive self. Introverts are generally sensed as more reserved or thoughtful. Introvert persons predominantly enjoy time consumed sole and find less reward in time spent with sizeable groups of people. They are readily overwhelmed by excessively much stimulation from any social gatherings.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Blueberry Cheese Cake Emporium

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Born on this day:25 May 1950
Robert Steinhardt, from American rock band Kansas, who scored the 1978 US No.3 single 'Dust In The Wind', and the 1978 hit single 'Carry On Wayward Son'. which was the second-most-played track on US classic rock radio in 1995 and No.1 in 1997. He died from complications of acute pancreatitis age 71 on 17 July 2021. via thisdayinmusic.com

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On this day:25 May 1965
Blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, Sonny Boy Williamson died in his sleep. Van Morrison, Aerosmith, The Who, The Animals, Yardbirds and Moody Blues all covered his songs. According to the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, touring the UK in the 60s, Sonny Boy set his hotel room on fire while trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator. via thisdayinmusic.com

Dark roast rabbit anyone?

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Ah good old social media and Genius Award Winner.

Former Postal Worker Pleads Guilty To Defrauding Department Of Labor Of $732,000 In Disability Payments
Ocala, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that George Utley (56, Oklahoma City, OK) has pleaded guilty to receiving stolen government property (Department of Labor disability benefit payments). Utley faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. He has also agreed to a forfeiture money judgment of $732,459.46, representing the value of the stolen funds. A sentencing date has not yet been set.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:56 PM

Comments

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1 good evening

Posted by: wing at May 25, 2022 09:56 PM (PlW9M)

2

WOOT! WOOT!

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 09:56 PM (/OeOS)

3 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 09:57 PM (ifHdv)

4 Top 10? Evening, Horde!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at May 25, 2022 09:57 PM (v23vE)

5 Big night at the ONT corral

Posted by: Braenyard at May 25, 2022 09:57 PM (rV/29)

6 evening Tony

Posted by: wing at May 25, 2022 09:57 PM (PlW9M)

7 Top 5

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 25, 2022 09:57 PM (w3u3d)

8 I have heard of rifles with "the thing that goes up."

That is not what I pictured.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 09:58 PM (P1f+c)

9 Top 10 reasons to be the top 10 post...

Posted by: Gay Horsey at May 25, 2022 09:58 PM (3Or4S)

10 Fist

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 25, 2022 09:58 PM (sJHOI)

11 happy Wednesday

Posted by: wing at May 25, 2022 09:58 PM (PlW9M)

12 1. Limited.limetime.supply of HAaay!

Posted by: Gay Horsey at May 25, 2022 09:59 PM (3Or4S)

13 Aww shucks

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 25, 2022 09:59 PM (w3u3d)

14 Daily Mail on Uvalde: "the first 911 call came at 11:32am, and yet Ramos was not shot dead until 1pm." Shocking and inexplicable. This is Texas LE???

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 09:59 PM (qpX6U)

15 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at May 25, 2022 09:59 PM (Bd6X8)

16 16th

Posted by: Theodore at May 25, 2022 10:00 PM (GJnvT)

17 I'm telling people today not to tell me that they give a s*** about dead kids if they're pro abortion
Too soon?

Posted by: MaxIE at May 25, 2022 10:01 PM (DyWjM)

18 The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.

You know, this brings up the question (again) of what business is it of the local school systems to provide meals for the kids. Or after school care. Or before care. Or transportation 'accommodations' if your little shit is such a discipline problem that he is not allowed to ride the bus. There's more of course.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:01 PM (ifHdv)

19 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:01 PM (K5n5d)

20 So NY is installing listening devices in the old folks' homes. This seems fine.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:01 PM (t/4Zp)

21 wing!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:02 PM (ifHdv)

22 Bunny Boiler would be a good name for a blues song.

Posted by: fd at May 25, 2022 10:03 PM (vrz2I)

23 Top 30?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at May 25, 2022 10:03 PM (hOUT3)

24 Top 25?

Posted by: Zeera at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (zQfAA)

25 Thanks for another swell ONT, Mis Hum! That photo up top is so nice, and the more you look, the more you see, especially the reflection of the sky in the water.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (xT18z)

26 "We have a big demand problem," Bancel said.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

I agree. You're demanding that everyone take your drugs. That's a big problem.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (P1f+c)

27 I can tell him what to do with all those extra 'vaccines.' I wonder how many of those doses were already paid for by us?

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (08ncd)

28 I have heard of rifles with "the thing that goes up."

That is not what I pictured.
Posted by: mikeski
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Perhaps it's just a prop gun.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (edjZf)

29 That's some good Rory.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (lXEIW)

30 Would you believe top 100?

Posted by: fd at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (vrz2I)

31 This seems fine.
Posted by: banana Dream

They're the only ones with time to plot against the regime. All the younguns are already tracked and monitored via their phones and role-playing!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at May 25, 2022 10:05 PM (hOUT3)

32 The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.
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As always, the feds use the power of the purse to keep the states in line. Individual states really need to become self-sufficient, at least enough so that they can tell the feds to pound sand from time to time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:05 PM (K5n5d)

33 Reposting this music video of The Scorpions' 1982 song "Arizona" because it just makes me smile, and for me perfectly captures the feeling of music during that, my second year of college:

https://tinyurl.com/Arizona-The-Scorps

So goofy but such a great, fun song and video.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:05 PM (mlxZk)

34 the more you look, the more you see, especially the reflection of the sky in the water.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
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It's rife with snipers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 10:06 PM (edjZf)

35 I hate zoom. Worst invention ever.

I used to have a job. Now I zoom. All day. Every day.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:06 PM (GsQOb)

36 “We have the means to improve the state of the world, but two conditions are necessary: The first one, is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, so that we serve not only our self-interests but we serve the community. That’s what we call ‘stakeholder responsibility.’” -- World Economic Forum head Klaus Schwab

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Oops, dont' forget #3: that we commit collective mass homicide & suicide so that the Earth will live on without the destructive virus known as humanity.

/A death cult, if you can keep it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 25, 2022 10:07 PM (TZivQ)

37 Perhaps it's just a prop gun.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

No fair winning the ONT this early.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 10:07 PM (P1f+c)

38 I use a pointy piece of hickory for the hood-holder-upper.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 25, 2022 10:07 PM (3Or4S)

39 Limited.limetime.supply of HAaay!
Posted by: Gay Horsey at May 25, 2022 09:59 PM (3Or4S)
* * * *
Reminds me of an old joke: what do gay horses eat?

Answer: *snaps fingers in upward motion with a flip of the wrist* Haaaay!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (xT18z)

40 Last photo, that guy Audi not do that AK hood prop.

Could result in a negligent backfire.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (QzJWU)

41 32 The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.
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As always, the feds use the power of the purse to keep the states in line. Individual states really need to become self-sufficient, at least enough so that they can tell the feds to pound sand from time to time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:05 PM (K5n5d

Let's see what DeathSantis has to say about this.

Guessing it's gonna start with 'You stupid effing cvnt, '

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (GsQOb)

42 As always, the feds use the power of the purse to keep the states in line. Individual states really need to become self-sufficient, at least enough so that they can tell the feds to pound sand from time to time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:05 PM (K5n5d)

One problem is that we have made education so bloated and bureaucratic that the cost of actually educating someone is insane. Oooops. I mispoke, these kids are not actually 'educated' as I think of the term.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (08ncd)

43 Should have used a French Press bunny.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (63Dwl)

44 Fox interviewing sheriff in massacre town. Still not asking where he got two $2000 weapons and a high end $70,000 F-150.

Why aren't they asking?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (M9XmQ)

45 I wonder how long before it's illegal to not have a government listening device in your home. For your safety.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (t/4Zp)

46
Good thing the overthread and underthread both have been deposed for the ONT.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (/U27+)

47 We always par-boiled bunnies before pan frying.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (3Or4S)

48 I hate zoom. Worst invention ever.

Posted by: AlaBAMA
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I spend most of my time during Zoom meetings playing Free Cell.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (ITEMS)

49 Perhaps it's just a prop gun.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (edjZf)

*Golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (08ncd)

50 Still floored by the "mailroom delay" at the FDA being blamed for the baby formula issue. Is it still 1989 (and the secretary guarding the one fax machine has a nasty, evil reputation) over there?

Oh, wait, these are the fucksticks who wouldn't approve Kung Flu tests unless the submission was accompanied by a CD-ROM of the supporting data. Not kidding. https://tinyurl.com/c4wrd72p

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at May 25, 2022 10:09 PM (v23vE)

51 44 Fox interviewing sheriff in massacre town. Still not asking where he got two $2000 weapons and a high end $70,000 F-150.

Why aren't they asking?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (M9XmQ

Shut up, they explained.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:09 PM (GsQOb)

52 I get the feeling
The Klaus Schwab "we" is about
Elites, not people
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Bastard.

Posted by: Captain Haiku at May 25, 2022 10:09 PM (hIsVd)

53 Thank you for the link to "Bring It On Home". However, IMHO, Sonny Boy's best is "Temperature 110", which he recorded in Chicago for Chess Records, with Guitar Junior on lead.

BTW, I once worked with a guy who was the nephew of the Chess brothers. He used to hang around the studio; and he had some stories to tell, you can be sure. My favorite was the time that some art school kids from Liverpool showed up at the studio, asking for an audition. Called themselves the Rolling Stones, or something like that. Phil Chess told them to beat it. I wonder whatever happened to them ...

Posted by: Nemo at May 25, 2022 10:09 PM (S6ArX)

54 WTF is Sous Vide?

Posted by: Zombie Sonny Boy Williamson at May 25, 2022 10:10 PM (f5Veu)

55 The scheme is being organized by the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA), and is intended to help address the growing problem of social isolation among the elderly.

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BREAKING: Andrew "Fredo the Elder" Cuomo appointed Head of NYSOFA. Mass death developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 25, 2022 10:10 PM (TZivQ)

56 I wonder how long before it's illegal to not have a government listening device in your home. For your safety.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (t/4Zp)
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One of my coworkers won an Amazon Echo in our Staff Day raffle today. I teased her about having a spyware device in her house now...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:11 PM (K5n5d)

57 Sonny Boy set his hotel room on fire while trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Nine out of ten gentlemen prefer my perky bunnies.

Posted by: zombie Hugh Hefner at May 25, 2022 10:11 PM (P1f+c)

58 54 WTF is Sous Vide?
Posted by: Zombie Sonny Boy Williamson at May 25, 2022 10:10 PM (f5Veu

It's the name for weird people who boil hamburgers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:11 PM (GsQOb)

59 Saw Kansas in Fort Collins a long time ago. Steve Walsh and Robbie Steinhardt did the dual front man so well.

Kansas is one of the most talented bands ever. An yuge part of the soundtrack of my youth.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at May 25, 2022 10:11 PM (x8Wzq)

60 I have been lucky to only be on two conference calls since lockdown. One, I was the only attendee (I mistakenly thought it was mandatory- and it turned out later TO be) and the other I did not say a damn thing- which is odd for me, but I was more in info gathering mode than 'boorishly pontificate' mode.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:11 PM (08ncd)

61 Last photo, that guy Audi not do that AK hood prop.

Could result in a negligent backfire.

Jim
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Why am I not surprised that an Audi would have a broken/missing hood prop? The AK probably costs less than a replacement.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 10:12 PM (ITEMS)

62 I used to have a job. Now I zoom. All day. Every day.
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Never used it.
Never will.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 25, 2022 10:12 PM (rY/MT)

63 54 WTF is Sous Vide?
Posted by: Zombie Sonny Boy Williamson at May 25, 2022 10:10 PM (f5Veu)

CBD sighting in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at May 25, 2022 10:12 PM (v23vE)

64 Le repet: the new Arby's Hamburger is pretty tasty.

-it is messy as hell, ask them to go light on the 'burger sauce' (aka thousand island)
-it is a bit higher
-still damn tasty

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (08ncd)

65 14 Daily Mail on Uvalde: "the first 911 call came at 11:32am, and yet Ramos was not shot dead until 1pm." Shocking and inexplicable. This is Texas LE???
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 09:59 PM (qpX6U)

Sounds like the same response that occurred at Broward, Florida.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (+lVUW)

66 Posted by: Nemo at May 25, 2022 10:09 PM (S6ArX)

You're welcome and thanks for your input. It may make it to The ONT some day.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (3UQej)

67 WTF is Sous Vide?
Posted by: Zombie Sonny Boy Williamson at May 25, 2022 10:10 PM (f5Veu)

It's how ya call pigs in Scandinavian countries.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (t/4Zp)

68 My daughter is throwing fits because I refuse to get the booster. Sadly, I suspect she will get as many as the government hands out or recommends. She will also make her two kids get all of them. But what can you expect from someone who is a proud Democrat?

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (sjtZ7)

69 Every time I see Klaus Schwab, I think of S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

Every. Time. Evil on steroids.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (xT18z)

70 WTF is Sous Vide?

*gets popcorn, waits for CBD to show up*

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (nxdel)

71 I'm glad to see that TN decision on Education Savings Accounts. Seems like a step in the right direction.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (sWM8x)

72 Nine out of ten gentlemen prefer my perky bunnies.
Posted by: zombie Hugh Hefner at May 25, 2022 10:11 PM (P1f+c)

It's not 'your' perky bunnies they prefer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (08ncd)

73 Regarding the last photo, I've had the same problem of getting the hood of my Audi to stay up while I check the oil. I have been using gardening shears to prop it up.

Posted by: Theodore at May 25, 2022 10:14 PM (GJnvT)

74 69 Every time I see Klaus Schwab, I think of S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

Every. Time. Evil on steroids.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (xT18z)

I think... other things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:14 PM (08ncd)

75 You know, this brings up the question (again) of what business is it of the local school systems to provide meals for the kids. Or after school care. Or before care. Or transportation 'accommodations' if your little shit is such a discipline problem that he is not allowed to ride the bus. There's more of course.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:01 PM (ifHdv)

You think parents should take responsibility for their own kids? Hater.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:14 PM (+lVUW)

76 Sue Veed is one of them rilly lame comic book superheroes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at May 25, 2022 10:14 PM (x8Wzq)

77 Ha. Now I can't stop imaging Minnie Pearl yelling Sous Vide!!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:15 PM (GsQOb)

78 70 WTF is Sous Vide?

*gets popcorn, waits for CBD to show up*
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (nxdel)

Horde mind, ma'am.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at May 25, 2022 10:15 PM (v23vE)

79 "Foxfire interviewing sheriff in massacre town. Still not asking where he got two $2000 weapons and a high end $70,000 F-150"

The kid had a job at Wendy's and the truck was Grandma's. Apparently he couldn't drive.

Posted by: fd at May 25, 2022 10:15 PM (vrz2I)

80 73 Regarding the last photo, I've had the same problem of getting the hood of my Audi to stay up while I check the oil. I have been using gardening shears to prop it up.
Posted by: Theodore at May 25, 2022 10:14 PM (GJnvT)

I've had some old beaters over the years where the hood wouldn't stay up. I always carried a good size wooden dowel.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:15 PM (3UQej)

81 The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.
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As always, the feds use the power of the purse to keep the states in line. Individual states really need to become self-sufficient, at least enough so that they can tell the feds to pound sand from time to time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:05 PM (K5n5d)

This needs to be the next step, and it's something my former professor and I were discussing at lunch today.

The immediate problem I see is that doing so--a state like Florida covering any withheld federal funds, for example--will likely end up requiring tax hikes, and that will be especially difficult politically in red states.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:15 PM (Vgw1E)

82 CBD sighting in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at May 25, 2022 10:12 PM (v23vE)

Hah!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:16 PM (XIJ/X)

83 One of my coworkers won an Amazon Echo in our Staff Day raffle today. I teased her about having a spyware device in her house now...

Got one "free" when I bought a TV last year. It's around here somewhere in its unopened box. I was holding it for the company white elephant gift exchange that didn't happen.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 25, 2022 10:16 PM (nfrXX)

84 76 Sue Veed is one of them rilly lame comic book superheroes.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at May 25, 2022 10:14 PM (x8Wzq)

She's related to Ann Hydrous isn't she?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:16 PM (3UQej)

85 Pug, I left a willowed comment for you in the cafe thread

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2022 10:16 PM (kf6Ak)

86 20 So NY is installing listening devices in the old folks' homes. This seems fine.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:01 PM (t/4Zp)

Another government program that won't accomplish what it is supposed to, other than some friends and relatives of elected officials getting juicy contracts.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:17 PM (+lVUW)

87 It's how ya call pigs in Scandinavian countries.
Posted by: banana Dream
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*?*

Huh? I don't get it.

Posted by: City Dwelling Millennial at May 25, 2022 10:17 PM (c8iAR)

88 14 Daily Mail on Uvalde: "the first 911 call came at 11:32am, and yet Ramos was not shot dead until 1pm." Shocking and inexplicable. This is Texas LE???
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 09:59 PM (qpX6U)

Sounds like the same response that occurred at Broward, Florida.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (+lVUW)

When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:17 PM (Vgw1E)

89 But...why is Sous Vide a topic?

Am I missing something clever (nothing surprising there) in Misanthropic Humanitarian's ONT?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:17 PM (XIJ/X)

90 Heh --

I have a CD of Jerry Lee Lewis in duets with rock stars in my car now. Put it in just this afternoon.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (Om/di)

91 It's how ya call pigs in Scandinavian countries.
Posted by: banana Dream

That reminds me - I need to get myself to a pig calling contest soon. Good times, good times.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (ifHdv)

92 The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.

Any harm comes to my granddaughters because of this bullstit, that school administrator will answer to a very pissed off grandpa.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (anj39)

93 Apparently Sous Vide is a bat signal for CBD. Probably had Pixie code something to send him a text when Sous Vide is mentioned.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (GsQOb)

94
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:17 PM (Vgw1E)

__________

Hey, there was a long line at Shipley's!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2022 10:19 PM (/U27+)

95 That reminds me - I need to get myself to a pig calling contest soon. Good times, good times.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (ifHdv)

Is that a euphemism?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:19 PM (08ncd)

96 Zelensky is either a fool, a drug addict, an actor, or all three. Why would the Russians back down now?

They clearly said they had specific goals in mind: Ensure no further attacks on the breakaway provinces that were leaning Russian, and ensure NATO armaments would not be on their doorstep.

To that end, they attacked eastern Ukraine and hovered around Kiev for a while before leaving for reasons unknown to anyone but the Ruskies. They've claimed nearly all the industry and fertile land in the country, and if they take Odessa they permanently cripple Ukraine as it was, which thereafter is landlocked.

The Ruskies have been grinding away at the entrenched fortifications Ukraine's been setting up since the taking of Crimea nearly a decade ago. If that Maginot Line is broken, what have they got left?

Who in the world "calls for peace" when they are accomplishing their goals? And if their losses are that bad, if the attrition the Ukrainian army is raining down on them is so devastating, why the desperation for alliance, money, and/or literally American blood?

The man taking the beating does not set the conditions for ending the fight.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at May 25, 2022 10:19 PM (XNurM)

97 89 But...why is Sous Vide a topic?

Am I missing something clever (nothing surprising there) in Misanthropic Humanitarian's ONT?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:17 PM (XIJ/X

We were discussing how it's really just boiling a hot dog.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:19 PM (GsQOb)

98 The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.

I wonder how the father of that 15 year old girl who was raped by a tranny in Louden, Virginia feels about this.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (+lVUW)

99 Any word on Fen? Hope the surgery went well.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (xT18z)

100 The immediate problem I see is that doing so--a state like Florida covering any withheld federal funds, for example--will likely end up requiring tax hikes, and that will be especially difficult politically in red states.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:15 PM (Vgw1E)
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Maybe state governments should start withholding any funds they send to the feds to cover those shortfalls...A tax revolt might be the only way to get the feds to PAY ATTENTION to the states...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (K5n5d)

101 Probably had Pixie code something to send him a text when Sous Vide is mentioned.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (GsQOb)

Just serendipity. I don't know how to do that sort of thing!

How's tricks in Alaska?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (XIJ/X)

102 That reminds me - I need to get myself to a pig calling contest soon. Good times, good times.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (ifHdv)

Is that a euphemism?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Nope - but I must say, I did participate in a number of "Hog Nights" during the 70's.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (ifHdv)

103 Another government program that won't accomplish what it is supposed to, other than some friends and relatives of elected officials getting juicy contracts.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:17 PM (+lVUW)

A lot of cities now have deals where they'll give you a free "smart" wifi thermostat that will help them to "save you energy" by adjusting your settings from time to time. Lots of boondogglery afoot these days.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (t/4Zp)

104
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:19 PM (GsQOb)

You can only poke the CBD so many times. You have been warned.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (3UQej)

105 It’s sad to say, I’m in the process of throwing 30 million doses in the garbage because nobody wants them. We have a big demand problem,” Bancel said.

Oh fucking well.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:21 PM (P8k+X)

106 "stakeholder capitalism" = to each according to their value, from each according to their need

Workers of the world unite, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength!

Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2022 10:21 PM (xhaym)

107 Daily Mail on Uvalde: "the first 911 call came at 11:32am, and yet Ramos was not shot dead until 1pm." Shocking and inexplicable. This is Texas LE???

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf

Yeah, the facts and timeline of this story are just getting stranger and stranger.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:21 PM (mlxZk)

108 101 Probably had Pixie code something to send him a text when Sous Vide is mentioned.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (GsQOb)

Just serendipity. I don't know how to do that sort of thing!

How's tricks in Alaska?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (XIJ/X

Not bad. My feet hurt and some hussy is pushing in on my corner.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:21 PM (GsQOb)

109 Sous Vide ignores
The simple fact animals
Smell and taste best burned

Posted by: Captain Haiku at May 25, 2022 10:21 PM (hIsVd)

110 65 14 Daily Mail on Uvalde: "the first 911 call came at 11:32am, and yet Ramos was not shot dead until 1pm." Shocking and inexplicable.
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Spitballing - cops were following protocol some bureaucrat wrote then in comes a Border Patrol agent who has a personal investment in that school.
BP walks up, kicks the door in an kills the freak.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 25, 2022 10:21 PM (rV/29)

111 But...why is Sous Vide a topic?
Am I missing something clever (nothing surprising there) in Misanthropic Humanitarian's ONT?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

The last grey box in the music section. Cooking rabbits in coffee percolators.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (P1f+c)

112 It’s sad to say, I’m in the process of throwing 30 million doses in the garbage because nobody wants them. We have a big demand problem,” Bancel said.

Oh fucking well.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

*adopts my Seinfeld voice*

"That's a shame."

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (ifHdv)

113 Nope - but I must say, I did participate in a number of "Hog Nights" during the 70's.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (ifHdv)

I could see you in a leisure suit with collars the size of a hang glider's wings. Brass medallion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (08ncd)

114 We have the means to improve the state of the world, but two conditions are necessary: The first one, is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, so that we serve not only our self-interests but we serve the community. That's what we call 'stakeholder responsibility.'

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And the second is that we all march in step.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (FVME7)

115 When did extroverts become extroverts?

I consider myself an outgoing introvert.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (Om/di)

116 Any harm comes to my granddaughters because of this bullshit, that school administrator will answer to a very pissed off grandpa.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (anj39)

Yes...very much this!

That is about as an American reaction as anything I can imagine.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (XIJ/X)

117 Withholding fed 'education' funding from schools would present the opportunity to cut non-educational aspects of school systems. Bring education down to educating instead of having the bloated nonsense predominating now.

Too bad it's so unlikely.

Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (f5Veu)

118 I miss my SKS.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (P8k+X)

119 Soooeeey soooeeeyyy

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (kf6Ak)

120 89 But...why is Sous Vide a topic?

Am I missing something clever (nothing surprising there) in Misanthropic Humanitarian's ONT?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:17 PM (XIJ/X
* * * *
I believe the discussion was on the best way to cook rabbit (see Musical Interlude).

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (xT18z)

121 Sous Vide ignores
The simple fact animals
Smell and taste best burned

Posted by: Captain Haiku at May 25, 2022 10:21 PM

^^^This^^^

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (/OeOS)

122 Good evening morons and thanks mh

This guy Klaus is referring to what the Nazis called the Volksgemeinschaft, or "people's community."

In SF its called the "City Family." Kamala is in it. So is Pelosi.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 25, 2022 10:23 PM (EZebt)

123 I estimate amount of Workers Compensation fraud is 70% of all claims. I've seen it first hand working insurance claims for 35 years.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 10:24 PM (jNAzB)

124 The last grey box in the music section. Cooking rabbits in coffee percolators.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (P1f+c)

Well...shit. I missed that.

But shouldn't it be a "bunny boiler" reference?

I'm so confused!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:24 PM (XIJ/X)

125 Life imitates art

The other night I came home really drunk and tried to unlock my house with my car keys. The house started up. So, I drove it around for a while. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over. He asked where I lived. I said, "right here, officer". Later, I parked it on the freeway, got out, and yelled at all the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.

--Stephen Wright

Posted by: 29Victor at May 25, 2022 10:24 PM (BJKQV)

126 Withholding fed 'education' funding from schools would present the opportunity to cut non-educational aspects of school systems. Bring education down to educating instead of having the bloated nonsense predominating now.

Too bad it's so unlikely.
Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (f5Veu)
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That's another good point. "The feds are cutting our funding. We have to let some--well, all, really--of our tranny teachers go so that we can focus on teaching our kids the essentials. Good luck with your future endeavors!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:24 PM (K5n5d)

127 So the mallard finally had her eggs hath, and wait till dusk to make a break for the pond with the ducklings.
One of them got separated and we have been able to reunite the baby with her mother so far.
So it is holed up with a heating pad, food and water in a big box in the garage till tomorrow daylight when we try again.
The only upside is that the mother duck eats in our garage twice daily, so we may have an opportunity at that time.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 25, 2022 10:25 PM (1n+EO)

128 109 Sous Vide ignores
The simple fact animals
Smell and taste best burned

Posted by: Captain Haiku
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Brother, some people don't understand.
It's why God gave us fire.

Posted by: Braenyard says, burnit at May 25, 2022 10:25 PM (rV/29)

129 hath=hatch.

F'n auto-cucumber

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 25, 2022 10:25 PM (1n+EO)

130 I don't know how to do that sort of thing!
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Ha!
This is probably the stock reply formulated by the Cob Guild. Probably happened during one of those midnight meetings around a bubbling cauldron. Incantations and such.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 10:25 PM (ITEMS)

131 I could see you in a leisure suit with collars the size of a hang glider's wings. Brass medallion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

If you would kind Sir, please destroy those photos. (We would have fit right in with Walt Frazier's posse)

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (ifHdv)

132 I wonder how the father of that 15 year old girl who was raped by a tranny in Louden, Virginia feels about this.
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There will be deaths from this policy if Puddin doesn't back off.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (sWM8x)

133 But...why is Sous Vide a topic?
Am I missing something clever (nothing surprising there) in Misanthropic Humanitarian's ONT?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

The last grey box in the music section. Cooking rabbits in coffee percolators.
Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM

Nothing worse that hare hair in my coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (anj39)

134 123 I estimate amount of Workers Compensation fraud is 70% of all claims. I've seen it first hand working insurance claims for 35 years.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 10:24 PM (jNAzB)

I've heard that from others in the WC field. I've never worked in that area. And glad I don't.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (3UQej)

135 Maybe state governments should start withholding any funds they send to the feds to cover those shortfalls...A tax revolt might be the only way to get the feds to PAY ATTENTION to the states...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (K5n5d)

There's a thought. But 1) what is the feds' response to such a move, and 2) what is the response of a state like Florida to 1)? Because the feds will definitely have some kind of response.

And I'm not saying this to be concern troll-ish; I think at some point, we are going to have to play a "chicken" game with DC. But we need to make sure we know what the right tools are to win that game (and also that we in fact possess those tools, and people who are willing to use them).

Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (Vgw1E)

136 But shouldn't it be a "bunny boiler" reference?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

The healing power of "and"?

Or just three corgis fetching one stick, and trying to go in six different directions. As the Horde does.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (P1f+c)

137 The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.
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They hate us. They really frigging hate us.

Make that despise us.

If there are other words, that too.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (sy5kK)

138 Sonny Boy set his hotel room on fire while trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator.

Some ideas are not as good as others.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (Xrfse)

139 you, who besmirch the sous vide

you know so much that isn't so

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 25, 2022 10:27 PM (sJHOI)

140 I wonder how long before it's illegal to not have a government listening device in your home. For your safety.

Posted by: banana Dream

Pretty sure that if you have a cell phone that you can't take the battery out of, which is all 5G phones, I believe, then you have a government listening device in your home that cannot be turned off, even when it is turned off.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:27 PM (mlxZk)

141 Thanks for another swell ONT, Mis Hum! That photo up top is so nice, and the more you look, the more you see, especially the reflection of the sky in the water.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (xT18z)

Just don't look too deep, capisce?

Posted by: Tony The Barrel at May 25, 2022 10:27 PM (7bRMQ)

142 Cut fed food funding
Cut fed dietary control over cafeteria
Get the fed out of the schools, cities, and states.

Posted by: Braenyard says, burnit at May 25, 2022 10:27 PM (rV/29)

143 64 Le repet: the new Arby's Hamburger is pretty tasty.
-it is messy as hell, ask them to go light on the 'burger sauce' (aka thousand island)
-it is a bit higher
-still damn tasty
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (08ncd)

I get their gyro or their Reuben sandwich. Both are very good.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:27 PM (+lVUW)

144 No word on Fen yet?

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 10:27 PM (qpX6U)

145 And I'm not saying this to be concern troll-ish; I think at some point, we are going to have to play a "chicken" game with DC. But we need to make sure we know what the right tools are to win that game (and also that we in fact possess those tools, and people who are willing to use them).
Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (Vgw1E)
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Unfortunately, federal monetary policy seems completely divorced from tax revenue at this point. They just "print" more money whenever they need it. So even withholding money via a tax revolt is unlikely to have any tangible results other than to give the feds a reason to crack down militarily if necessary to keep the states in line.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:28 PM (K5n5d)

146 you, who besmirch the sous vide

you know so much that isn't so

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 25, 2022 10:27 PM (sJHOI)

Words of wisdom...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:28 PM (XIJ/X)

147

What did Fen go in for??

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 10:28 PM (/OeOS)

148 Pug, I also left you a willowed comment in the cafe thread, before I realized what time it was, sigh. It might be something to consider.

Posted by: skywch at May 25, 2022 10:28 PM (uqhmb)

149 I've heard that from others in the WC field. I've never worked in that area. And glad I don't.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (3UQej)

I have only had contact from the other side. There is a lot of bullshit there. And HR depts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:29 PM (08ncd)

150
Any harm comes to my granddaughters because of this bullstit, that school administrator will answer to a very pissed off grandpa.
Posted by: Diogenes

They'll call in the National Guard on you.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 25, 2022 10:29 PM (63Dwl)

151 I will try the Arby’s burger. Heard some good things.

Their gyro is not bad. One fills me up for the rest of the day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:29 PM (P8k+X)

152 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 25, 2022 10:16 PM (kf6Ak)

thank you. the doc actually asked her a lot of questions about migraines and headaches. he was not very charming, but he clearly knows stuff. I think guys deal better with that type of guy. Not everyone is Dr. Welby.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at May 25, 2022 10:29 PM (x8Wzq)

153
I saw the video on the AMC national news of Beto mouthing-off to Gov. Abbott.

It looked like Beto was re-enacting the scene from "Cleopatra" (1963) where Octavian (Roddy McDowell) picks up the spear in the Roman Senate, then prances about and postures like a completely inexperienced 10-year-old playing "pretend", trying to rouse the Senate, then the local rabble, before throwing it into the Egyptian advisor.

Hang this on Beto The Drunk Driver.

Posted by: Arbalest at May 25, 2022 10:29 PM (FlRtG)

154 then you have a government listening device in your home that cannot be turned off, even when it is turned off.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:27 PM (mlxZk)

I wonder whether the foil pouches for e-zpass transmitters are good enough for cellular phones?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:29 PM (XIJ/X)

155 I used to have a job. Now I zoom. All day. Every day.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:06 PM (GsQOb)

Zoom, zoom, zooma, zoom!

Posted by: The Zoom Kids at May 25, 2022 10:30 PM (7bRMQ)

156 Perhaps it's just a prop gun.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 10:04 PM (edjZf)

You. Monster.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2022 10:30 PM (xhaym)

157 "What did Fen go in for??"

Cancer surgery, this AM.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 10:30 PM (qpX6U)

158 How's tricks in Alaska?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (XIJ/X)

Hard to tell, but the ladies are indeed out on Spenard Road. Tis the season.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:30 PM (LOVUx)

159 I estimate amount of Workers Compensation fraud is 70% of all claims. I've seen it first hand working insurance claims for 35 years.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

I've heard that from others in the WC field.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

"You can fool some of the people some of the time, and that's enough to make a decent living."

Posted by: zombie W. C. Fields at May 25, 2022 10:30 PM (P1f+c)

160 Well if your gonna get shot by the national guard, might as well do it pummeling the jack wagon who hurt your granddaughter.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:30 PM (GsQOb)

161 Pine Phone is almost ready for prime time.

Posted by: Braenyard says, burnit at May 25, 2022 10:31 PM (rV/29)

162 Cancer surgery, this AM.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 10:30 PM

Thanks, and Yikes!

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 10:31 PM (/OeOS)

163 Remember the VW ads? Zoom, Zoom.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:31 PM (08ncd)

164 "I used to have a job. Now I zoom. All day. Every day."

I just got done with a club Zoom meeting. I did a presentation using Share Screen. Gotta admit, it's impressive and very useful technology.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 10:31 PM (qpX6U)

165 As always, the feds use the power of the purse to keep the states in line. Individual states really need to become self-sufficient, at least enough so that they can tell the feds to pound sand from time to time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:05 PM (K5n5d)

Remember when Trump tried to do something like this and got slapped down by the courts? I think it was benefits to illegals.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2022 10:31 PM (xhaym)

166 14 Daily Mail on Uvalde: "the first 911 call came at 11:32am, and yet Ramos was not shot dead until 1pm." Shocking and inexplicable. This is Texas LE???
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 09:59 PM (qpX6U)

Wasn't it a Border Patrol officer that took him out, not Texas LE?

IDK, haven't been following it too much, can't stand the propaganda of the media.

I will continue to pray for the families.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 10:32 PM (sy5kK)

167 Any harm comes to my granddaughters because of this bullshit, that school administrator will answer to a very pissed off grandpa.

Posted by: Diogenes

I won't be expecting an answer because there won't be any dialogue. Thinking I would include the SB and the perp in that nonexistent discussion.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 25, 2022 10:32 PM (lXEIW)

168 Pine Phone is almost ready for prime time.

They been saying that for like the last ten years...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 25, 2022 10:32 PM (ZSK0i)

169 Pretty sure that if you have a cell phone that you can't take the battery out of, which is all 5G phones, I believe, then you have a government listening device in your home that cannot be turned off, even when it is turned off.
Posted by: Sharkman

I have no technical knowledge of current devices but, I can tell you that during the late 70's, Western Electric and Bell Labs were working on adding the capability to regular, everyday phonesets to 'listen' whenever the central exchange wanted it to.

There were loads of technical challenges and I left before the project was finished/cancelled/forgotten - pick one.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:32 PM (ifHdv)

170 the ladies are indeed out on Spenard Road. Tis the season.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:30 PM (LOVUx)

Something tells me that the "Spenard Ladies" are professionals.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:32 PM (XIJ/X)

171 Wait... or was that Mazda?
Damn this 29 year old brain!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:32 PM (08ncd)

172 142 Cut fed food funding
Cut fed dietary control over cafeteria
Get the fed out of the schools, cities, and states.

Posted by: Braenyard says, burnit at May 25, 2022 10:27 PM (rV/29)

Just got the notice that if my disadvantaged son needs lunch over the summer all he has to do is show up at the school. Disadvantaged. That kid is spoiled. They took one look at his skin color and assumed he was destitute.

Fuck the Fed program and the crappy food they serve and all the rest. Hire a lunch lady and her assistant and buy real food and serve it to hungry kids who pay for it. Period.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (LOVUx)

173 I bet those Alaskan hookers are big.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (P8k+X)

174 None of you ever consented to being governed.

Posted by: Broken Apple at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (ioaGv)

175 Shit, where are my manners?

Thanks for another great ONT, MisHum.

Sorry. My late mother is going to kick my ass.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (sy5kK)

176 Unfortunately, federal monetary policy seems completely divorced from tax revenue at this point. They just "print" more money whenever they need it. So even withholding money via a tax revolt is unlikely to have any tangible results other than to give the feds a reason to crack down militarily if necessary to keep the states in line.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:28 PM (K5n5d)

That is the problem. I think before we go balls-to-the-wall with the feds, we're gonna have to start organizing on a local level, and have more DeSantis types in multiple states, who are prepared to coordinate their actions. If we can do that, the feds will have a real crisis on their hands.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (Vgw1E)

177 I wonder whether the foil pouches for e-zpass transmitters are good enough for cellular phones?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Unsure what this is a reference to. Too lazy to Goggle.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (mlxZk)

178 Something tells me that the "Spenard Ladies" are professionals.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:32 PM (XIJ/X)

If they aren't, they sure make a good show of it.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (LOVUx)

179 How's tricks in Alaska?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (XIJ/X)

Hard to tell, but the ladies are indeed out on Spenard Road. Tis the season.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:30 PM (LOVUx)

So...same as in town then?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (anj39)

180 “It’s sad to say, I’m in the process of throwing 30 million doses in the garbage because nobody wants them. We have a big demand problem,” Bancel said.

Your real problem, shitweasel, is that the product you make doesn't do what it is advertised to do, and it has also killed people.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (fIQsT)

181 Posted by: skywch at May 25, 2022 10:28 PM (uqhmb)

thank you for the info. We actually have an idea about when this began. But I'll refrain from speckle-atin' for now.

I love the Horde. Y'all are good folks.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (x8Wzq)

182 @123 Anti doesn't matter-One month to the day dealing with cocksuckers from Workmans Comp for a torn bicep. If you by chance know an insurance adjuster by the name of Vernon for AIG in San Diego tell him he was smart to not give me his physical address right before what is a four day holiday for me. Will finally get to see an orthopedic surgeon week after next.

Posted by: JROD at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (0jZnq)

183 "Wasn't it a Border Patrol officer that took him out, not Texas LE?"

Yes. I'm surprised that no parents tried to engage. Or perhaps LE stopped them from trying. I look at the photos of the kids, and it just rips me up. This one is really getting to me.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (qpX6U)

184 Trannies in bathrooms, Critical Race Bullshit, failing literacy, etc, etc... Maybe some politician could run on Getting Back to Basics, and Focusing on Fundamentals.

Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (f5Veu)

185 Pretty sure that if you have a cell phone that you can't take the battery out of, which is all 5G phones, I believe, then you have a government listening device in your home that cannot be turned off, even when it is turned off.
Posted by: Sharkman

Faraday bag.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (lXEIW)

186

I can't believe there is not a large market for a mobile phone that neither iOS nor Android...

I once owned a Windows phone, and I'm not surprised that didn't take off!

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (/OeOS)

187 Or did Juneau those Alaskan hookers are big?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (P8k+X)

188 I'm sorry Mrs. Jones, I can't let you vote for Trump. I've already sent in your ballot.

Posted by: HAL9000 Companion at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (7bRMQ)

189 "We have the means to improve the state of the world...."

Watch you mean "we"...white man?

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (wsHtO)

190 I bet those Alaskan hookers are big.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

The moose out front should have -

wait a minute, those aren't moose!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:35 PM (ifHdv)

191 Farewell and ado to you fair Spenard ladies,
Farewell and ado to you ladies of Spenard!
For we've received orders for to go back to Boston...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:35 PM (08ncd)

192 I have a CD of Jerry Lee Lewis in duets with rock stars in my car now. Put it in just this afternoon.
Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 10:18 PM (Om/di)

I love Jerry Lee Lewis. I have his version of Chantilly Lace that is great.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

193 Remember when Trump tried to do something like this and got slapped down by the courts? I think it was benefits to illegals.

Posted by: Kindltot

I think he tried to cut off Federal funds to sanctuary cities and was "corrected" by the Courts.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:35 PM (mlxZk)

194 The last grey box in the music section. Cooking rabbits in coffee percolators.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 10:22 PM (P1f+c)
-----
Well...shit. I missed that.
But shouldn't it be a "bunny boiler" reference?
I'm so confused!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Content. Something. Something. Rant rant rant. Bans Grammy Winger.
- totally not socking the boss

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at May 25, 2022 10:35 PM (UgAdJ)

195 >> The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls' bathrooms.
---
As always, the feds use the power of the purse to keep the states in line. Individual states really need to become self-sufficient, at least enough so that they can tell the feds to pound sand from time to time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:05 PM (K5n5d)

I'm so old I can recall when Trump tried to withhold federal funds from 'sanctuary cities', and some judge said "you can't do that".

But it's totes okay when a Dem does it. Also, I recall many schools just stopped taking the 'free food' funds after unelected scrunt Michelle O ordered schools to serve her preferred fat free/taste free meals; it was mostly thrown away by students.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 25, 2022 10:36 PM (F0YaR)

196 Too lazy to Goggle.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (mlxZk)

NY and NJ use a toll system called E-ZPass. the transmitters are mailed to people in foil pouches so they don't transmit false toll use. I wonder whether those pouches are good enough to prevent cellular signals from being transmitted.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:36 PM (XIJ/X)

197 I will try the Arby’s burger. Heard some good things.

Their gyro is not bad. One fills me up for the rest of the day.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:29 PM (P8k+X)

I'm just gonna say it; Arby's is not as bad as it's made out to be. Not my go-to spot by any means, but their food is no worse than half a dozen places I could name. (And when it comes to ravaging the digestive tract, they've got nothing on Jack in the Box.)

Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:36 PM (Vgw1E)

198 "..be vewwy vewwy quiet. I'm sneaking up on da pequowatah. huh-huh-huh-huh!"

/fudd

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 25, 2022 10:36 PM (QzJWU)

199 >>> Wait... or was that Mazda?
Damn this 29 year old brain!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:32 PM (08ncd)

Mazda, high end RX-7 days.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:36 PM (0fVbu)

200 51 44 Fox interviewing sheriff in massacre town. Still not asking where he got two $2000 weapons and a high end $70,000 F-150.

Why aren't they asking?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (M9XmQ

Shut up, they explained.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:09 PM (GsQOb)

it's like Las Vegas all over again.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 10:36 PM (sy5kK)

201 What did Yuri do with the hood strut that comes with that A6? Maybe he prefers that the car hold his rifle, cover him while he works?

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (wBpKf)

202 175 Shit, where are my manners?

Thanks for another great ONT, MisHum.

Sorry. My late mother is going to kick my ass.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (sy5kK)

No problem here

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (3UQej)

203 I have a zoom meeting every other Thursday evening with a bunch of old school chums, all of whom served in the Army. You can imagine the text of the discussions. Good to keep in touch.

Posted by: Javems at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (AmoqO)

204 When did it become the responsibility of the schools to feed kids?
I didn't get a free lunch.

Feed your own fucking kids.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (U2p+3)

205 Would think that this jaw-dropping education $ shit would be very vulnerable to the same sort of lawsuit that neutered Jeff Session's ridiculous attempt to withhold LE training grant $ based on "sanctuary" lawlessness.

It's usually not OK to just come up with an entirely new criterion for dispensing federal $ that is nowhere in the legislation or appropriations providing such $. Logically enough.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (OTzUX)

206 Not everyone is Dr. Welby.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
------
Heh. I asked a gastroenterologist friend about the advisability of getting a hernia repair. He replied, 'Well, if it's bothering you, you ought to get it fixed, but I can tell you this, it's gonna hurt like hell'. I said, 'Geeze, Doc, you need to work on your bedside manner'. He then replied, 'All I can tell you is that it's gonna hurt like hell!'.

He was right. It's been seven weeks now, and not so bothersome...but still wasn't much fun. At any rate, no Dr. Welby.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (ZlD3b)

207 Love is Love. *hic*

Posted by: Spenard Wine Moms at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (Xrfse)

208 Shocking and inexplicable.

-
The only thing we know for sure is that it's Ted Cruz' fault.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at May 25, 2022 10:38 PM (FVME7)

209 Mazda, high end RX-7 days.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:36 PM (0fVbu)

That was a gorgeous car.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:38 PM (08ncd)

210 Relevant to My Interests ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at May 25, 2022 10:38 PM (qAR6u)

211 Holy Shit, McKinnon just went coast-to-coast.

Hall of Fame, highlight reel material

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 25, 2022 10:38 PM (sJHOI)

212 There are two Sonny Boy Williamsons. This one is Number Two. Not a slur, just a fact.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (fIQsT)

213 A lot of cities now have deals where they'll give you a free "smart" wifi thermostat that will help them to "save you energy" by adjusting your settings from time to time. Lots of boondogglery afoot these days.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:20 PM (t/4Zp)

I was offered something like that. I turned it down. I'm not going to be uncomfortable this summer because democrats have bad energy policies. They're so concerned about our use of electricity that they are pushing people to get electric cars.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (+lVUW)

214 199 >>> Wait... or was that Mazda?
Damn this 29 year old brain!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:32 PM (08ncd)

Mazda, high end RX-7 days.

Posted by: banana Dream

And Miata nowadays.

Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (f5Veu)

215 My daughter is throwing fits because I refuse to get the booster. Sadly, I suspect she will get as many as the government hands out or recommends. She will also make her two kids get all of them. But what can you expect from someone who is a proud Democrat?
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (sjtZ7)

Tell her that it is apparent that she thinks blackmail and extortion are family values. Then ask her how her kids will treat her when she is your age with her example today.

I am a touch angry, I got disinvited to a family dinner AT A PUBLIC RESTAURANT because my wife and I haven't gotten the required number of shots.

My wife wants to know which restaurant so we can go and sit at a table to spite them

Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (xhaym)

216 I'm just gonna say it; Arby's is not as bad as it's made out to be. Not my go-to spot by any means, but their food is no worse than half a dozen places I could name. (And when it comes to ravaging the digestive tract, they've got nothing on Jack in the Box.)
Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:36 PM (Vgw1E)

Crap in the Box has killed people.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (P8k+X)

217 And every single part of this story - that American schools now have morphed into collective welfare operations that exceed anything the Soviets did, that the issue is *forcing districts to end gender bathroom common sense for KIDS* - is mind-blowing. What sort of electorate or populace tolerates anything remotely close to either situation?

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (OTzUX)

218 NY and NJ use a toll system called E-ZPass. the transmitters are mailed to people in foil pouches so they don't transmit false toll use. I wonder whether those pouches are good enough to prevent cellular signals from being transmitted.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Ah so desu ka!

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (mlxZk)

219 That McKinnon goal was unreal.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2022 10:40 PM (8GBH4)

220 Holy Shit, McKinnon just went coast-to-coast.

Hall of Fame, highlight reel material

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 25, 2022 10:38 PM (sJHOI)

Didn't know there were any WNBA fans around here!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:40 PM (XIJ/X)

221 Yes. I'm surprised that no parents tried to engage. Or perhaps LE stopped them from trying. I look at the photos of the kids, and it just rips me up. This one is really getting to me.
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (qpX6U)

As I said earlier today, the only consolation here (and it's a small one) is that the fucker died too. If he'd lived, he'd have been in the system for years and years, sucking up taxpayer money to file appeal after appeal.

The only reason to take him alive would be to publicly execute him right after. Preferably by dousing him with gasoline and striking a match. I would pay a lot of money to watch that.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 25, 2022 10:40 PM (Vgw1E)

222 209 Mazda, high end RX-7 days.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:36 PM (0fVbu)

That was a gorgeous car.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2022 10:38 PM (08ncd

I'll take an 1987 Buick GNx please. In black. Very black.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 25, 2022 10:40 PM (GsQOb)

223 It's usually not OK to just come up with an entirely new criterion for dispensing federal $ that is nowhere in the legislation or appropriations providing such $. Logically enough.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (OTzUX)

Now, where did we put those balls... dammit... never where you look. Dammit, we had them 20 years ago... didn't we?

Has anyone seen our ass? This compass and flashlight thingee does not work!

Posted by: The GOPe at May 25, 2022 10:40 PM (08ncd)

224 CBD,

Those transponders only transmit when they are interrogated by a specially coded RF signal.

That foil pouch you describe is probably at standard anti-static bag used for lots of electronic stuff.

Could be wrong about the bag but not the code transmission.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 10:41 PM (wsHtO)

225 This passed winter I bought a stationary bike and worked out pretty regularly.

This spring I bought a real bike and found...apparently none of the exercise on the stationary bike actually translated. I did lose weight on the stationary bike and I could feel muscle tightness after working out...but apparently its not exactly the same muscle group I guess?

The good thing about the real bike though - every day I can go a little farther...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 25, 2022 10:41 PM (ESjRY)

226 My wife wants to know which restaurant so we can go and sit at a table to spite them

Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (xhaym)

You married well.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:41 PM (XIJ/X)

227 Posted by: Kindltot

Why is your vaccination status any of their business in the first place? Seriously.

"Huh. My personal medical decisions are
None of your business."

Done.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 25, 2022 10:41 PM (U2p+3)

228 Kindltot YMMV of course, but any family that did that would be essentially dead to me. Not out of "hurt" from being disinvited. From a complete and thorough evaporation of any respect I would have for their intelligence and their character.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2022 10:42 PM (OTzUX)

229 What sort of electorate or populace tolerates anything remotely close to either situation?

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (OTzUX)

1) Lazy & ignorant uninformed people
2) people who want to be ruled from uterus to the grave.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:42 PM (3UQej)

230 The Onion - Is The Government Spying On Schizophrenics Enough

https://bit.ly/3sX6Xq3

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 25, 2022 10:42 PM (hk3Ke)

231 Huh? I don't get it.

Posted by: City Dwelling Millennial at May 25, 2022 10:17 PM (c8iAR)

IT IS FUNNY BECAUSE THE LATIN NAME FOR PIG IS SUI AND SCANDANAVIAN COUNTRIES PRONOUNCE THE "w" LIKE A v

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER at May 25, 2022 10:42 PM (xhaym)

232 Crap in the Box has killed people.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (P8k+X)

But those who survived got 3 tacos for $1. I was in college, so I liked my odds.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 25, 2022 10:42 PM (wBpKf)

233 Feed your own fucking kids.

Posted by: nurse ratched

Seriously. I survived on a bologna sandwich, chips and a cookie for 12 years. Probably cost 15 cents per day and took three minutes to put together. Our society is so lazy now people can't be bothered, or required, to lift a finger to help themselves.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:42 PM (mlxZk)

234 You know, this brings up the question (again) of what business is it of the local school systems to provide meals for the kids. Or after school care. Or before care. Or transportation 'accommodations' if your little shit is such a discipline problem that he is not allowed to ride the bus. There's more of course.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:01 PM (ifHdv)

Simple solution here: no more "boys bathrooms" and no more "girls bathrooms". Have bathrooms for "biological males" and bathrooms for "biological females", determination to be made by school nurse.
Freaks and trannys required to use the staff washrooms, and they will get beaten if they leave a mess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 10:43 PM (fIQsT)

235 Those transponders only transmit when they are interrogated by a specially coded RF signal.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 10:41 PM (wsHtO)

I didn't know that, but it makes sense. They last for years, so clearly they aren't broadcasting constantly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:43 PM (XIJ/X)

236 Jack's Spicy Crispy Chicken Sammich is worth the risk.

Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2022 10:43 PM (f5Veu)

237 RX-7 was a fun car to drive.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:44 PM (0fVbu)

238 207 Love is Love. *hic*
Posted by: Spenard Wine Moms at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (Xrfse)

I don't think you totally understand the state of mind that is Spenard. Wine Moms live on hillside.

Mr. Whitekeys, who is something of a local Spenard celebrity, commented that when the AK State legislature wanted to buy office space in Spenard, it was opposed by the hookers, drug addicts, drunks and welfare queens because they felt that group of people would be a bad influence on the neighborhood.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:44 PM (LOVUx)

239 "The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms."

and this is a surprise coming from the Biden Admin? Probably Joe's only original thought this year.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 25, 2022 10:45 PM (Ynyl9)

240 Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER at May 25, 2022 10:42 PM (xhaym)

NO IT ISN'T!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:45 PM (XIJ/X)

241 Avs can't handle good fortune.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2022 10:46 PM (8GBH4)

242 Nice try, BEN, but the Latin word(s) for "pig" are "sus", "porcus" or "porcorum", believe it or not.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:46 PM (mlxZk)

243 “We have the means to improve the state of the world, but two conditions are necessary: The first one, is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, so that we serve not only our self-interests but we serve the community. That’s what we call ‘stakeholder responsibility.’”
World Economic Forum head Klaus Schwab

So, if that's the only way to do it, how did the world progress before?

Posted by: West at May 25, 2022 10:46 PM (QY+6a)

244 Feed your own fucking kids.

Posted by: nurse ratched

This is what I don't get. We have WIC, we have aid to dependent children, we have food stamps (or whatever the debit card things are called these days), and we have food banks for free food. And still, the schools think they need to feed kids over the summer because kids will go hungry.

Bull and Shit. Somebody is making bank.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:46 PM (LOVUx)

245
Seriously. I survived on a bologna sandwich, chips and a cookie for 12 years.

__________

Oh, a gourmand. You and your sybaritic lunches. I got rock soup for 12 years and learned to like it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2022 10:46 PM (/U27+)

246 > I wonder whether those pouches are good enough to prevent cellular signals from being transmitted.
_________

Allegedly there are some product baggies (snacks, computer components, survival foods, etc.) that shield cellular signals to one degree or another. The old computer component, anti-static bags might have been the best.

Article from years ago on some survivalist blog I can't remember the name of....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 25, 2022 10:47 PM (BFigT)

247 I always got confused as to which Sonny Boy Williamson was which. One was older, I think.

Posted by: Theodore at May 25, 2022 10:48 PM (GJnvT)

248 >>>Sonny Boy set his hotel room on fire while trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator.

Price you gotta pay for rabbit flavored coffee.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 25, 2022 10:48 PM (hVqGz)

249 224 CBD,

Those transponders only transmit when they are interrogated by a specially coded RF signal.

That foil pouch you describe is probably at standard anti-static bag used for lots of electronic stuff.

Could be wrong about the bag but not the code transmission.
Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 10:41 PM (wsHtO)

Naturally, I read that as "transgenders."

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:48 PM (LOVUx)

250 Oh, a gourmand. You and your sybaritic lunches. I got rock soup for 12 years and learned to like it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

We were rich compared to most. Not like those "Spam" people.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:48 PM (mlxZk)

251 Seriously. I survived on a bologna sandwich, chips and a cookie for 12 years.

__________

Oh, a gourmand. You and your sybaritic lunches. I got rock soup for 12 years and learned to like it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2022 10:46 PM (/U27+)
---
I survived my senior year in high school on Oreos and Mt. Dew...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:49 PM (K5n5d)

252 Tonights music is top-notch! Well done, thanks.

Posted by: Oscar Madison at May 25, 2022 10:49 PM (PIlQh)

253 I would absolutely be at that restaurant enjoying myself with Mrs. F., that being the best revenge amirite?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 25, 2022 10:49 PM (EZebt)

254 "I'm surprised the State of New York would do anything beneficial for their elderly."

Oh, I'm sure they're equipped with syringes and "Quality of Life" sensors and algorithms.

Posted by: GWB at May 25, 2022 10:49 PM (ZA+y1)

255 Sue Veed is one of them rilly lame comic book superheroes.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at May 25, 2022 10:14 PM (x8Wzq)

"Sous Vide" is French for "empty drunk".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 10:50 PM (fIQsT)

256 The best part of waking up is rabbit in your cup.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:50 PM (P8k+X)

257 We were rich compared to most. Not like those "Spam" people.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:48 PM (mlxZk)

Toasted spam on Pilot Bread with a thin melted layer of cheese. Food of the gods to a pre-teen in AK.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:50 PM (LOVUx)

258 The best part of waking up is rabbit in your cup.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 10:50 PM

I'm dying over here!

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 10:50 PM (/OeOS)

259 137 The Biden administration will require schools that receive federal funding for lunches to enforce its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity and let biological males into girls’ bathrooms.
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They hate us. They really frigging hate us.

Make that despise us.

If there are other words, that too.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 10:26 PM (sy5kK)

This is the logical next step, after SCOTUS ruled that hospitals that take Medicare $$ can mandate their staff to take the shot, like the gov't wants them to.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 25, 2022 10:51 PM (mdjgu)

260 >>> NO IT ISN'T!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:45 PM (XIJ/X)

No, it checks out. BEN was just making a very sui generis statement.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 25, 2022 10:51 PM (0fVbu)

261 Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 25, 2022 10:13 PM (sjtZ7)

Just curious. Do you know if your daughter is or was against GMOs ?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 10:51 PM (jNAzB)

262 The best part of waking up is rabbit in your cup.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

The worst part are the hares they leave behind.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 10:51 PM (ifHdv)

263 Yankovic is coming to town next week. I was all set to buy a ticket when I saw the requirement: proof of vaccine or negative COVID test in the previous three days.

No way, Al. Screw off.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 10:51 PM (Om/di)

264 I'm dying over here!
Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 10:50 PM (/OeOS)

How do you think the rabbit felt?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:52 PM (LOVUx)

265 The kid had a job at Wendy's and the truck was Grandma's. Apparently he couldn't drive.
Posted by: fd at May 25, 2022 10:15 PM (vrz2I)

I am guessing that Grandma tried to put some discipline into him, and that is why he murdered her and took her truck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 10:52 PM (fIQsT)

266 That’s what we call ‘stakeholder responsibility.’”
World Economic Forum head Klaus Schwab

So, if that's the only way to do it, how did the world progress before?
Posted by: West at May 25, 2022 10:46 PM (QY+6a)

Pretty sure Living Space is in there somewhere amirite Klaus?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2022 10:52 PM (anj39)

267 202 175 Shit, where are my manners?

Thanks for another great ONT, MisHum.

Sorry. My late mother is going to kick my ass.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 10:33 PM (sy5kK)

No problem here
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:37 PM (3UQej)

Sorry, MisHum, I taught him better than this.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg's late mother at May 25, 2022 10:52 PM (sy5kK)

268 245
Seriously. I survived on a bologna sandwich, chips and a cookie for 12 years.

__________

Oh, a gourmand. You and your sybaritic lunches. I got rock soup for 12 years and learned to like it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2022 10:46 PM (/U27+)

I thought it was some other moron until i read your nic

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:53 PM (3UQej)

269 I like Weird Al, but I can't imagine paying to see him. Like I want to see Eat It performed live.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 25, 2022 10:54 PM (KFhLj)

270 73 Regarding the last photo, I've had the same problem of getting the hood of my Audi to stay up while I check the oil. I have been using gardening shears to prop it up.
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I use vice-grips on the telescopic arm.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 25, 2022 10:54 PM (qfLjt)

271
Sorry, MisHum, I taught him better than this.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg's late mother at May 25, 2022 10:52 PM (sy5kK)

I know you did Mam. He's still a good son.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 10:54 PM (3UQej)

272 I ate a lot of 3 for $1 boxes of Kraft Mac and cheese when I was in college.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 10:55 PM (jNAzB)

273 I ate a lot of 3 for $1 boxes of Kraft Mac and cheese when I was in college.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 10:55 PM (jNAzB)
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Ramen noodle parties are where it's at, man!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:56 PM (K5n5d)

274 Here's a link to that UK Daily Mail story about the 90 minutes that went by before the cops killed Ramos:

https://tinyurl.com/Uvalde-Cockup

This story is only going to get worse, as if it wasn't already horrible enough.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:56 PM (mlxZk)

275
I once owned a Windows phone, and I'm not surprised that didn't take off!
Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (/OeOS)

I had one as well. I really liked the camera function.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 25, 2022 10:57 PM (BgMrQ)

276 Charles Whitman stabbed his mother and wife to death before he started his shooting spree.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 10:57 PM (jNAzB)

277 Is The Government Spying On ~~Schizophrenics~~ Paranoiacs Enough

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at May 25, 2022 10:57 PM (FVME7)

278 The AK-47: It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 25, 2022 10:57 PM (xxG/v)

279 If you don't pay for that cuppa bunny, would that be a Welshed Rarebbit?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 25, 2022 10:57 PM (QzJWU)

280 Wife, kids, and their SOs went to Paris last year during Thanksgiving break. I stayed home. Didn't bother me -- and we didn't have to pay for pet care.

This year, they're headed to Europe for Christmas break. I'll stay home. More time to read and watch DVDs.

But I'll go to the TxMoMe without them.

I win.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 10:59 PM (Om/di)

281 Toasted spam on Pilot Bread with a thin melted layer of cheese. Food of the gods to a pre-teen in AK.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief

I actually love Spam, especially fried on toast with avo, mayo and cheddah on it. I was just being SnobSharkman for a moment.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:59 PM (mlxZk)

282 Ramen noodle parties are where it's at, man!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 10:56 PM (K5n5d)

Always too much salt for me but I'm weird that I've never added salt to any of my food. I prefer fries without salt.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 10:59 PM (jNAzB)

283
Charles Whitman stabbed his mother and wife to death before he started his shooting spree.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 10:57 PM (jNAzB)

_________

I thought he had some brain tumor that led him to do it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2022 10:59 PM (/U27+)

284
I am a touch angry, I got disinvited to a family dinner AT A PUBLIC RESTAURANT because my wife and I haven't gotten the required number of shots.

My wife wants to know which restaurant so we can go and sit at a table to spite them
Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2022 10:39 PM (xhaym)

Go anyway and just lie to them.
Lying is all the rage with Democrats, CCP, and Davos members these days. You'd be in good company.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 10:59 PM (sy5kK)

285 Growing up, it was a big treat to get to have a hot school lunch in elementary school. Food was nutritious and tasty. Even in high school the food wasn't bad. I feel for kids nowadays and the crap they are served at school.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 10:59 PM (xT18z)

286 In this business we call "music" there used to be a category called "novelty" music. This was music that was created in order to make us laugh. Here is one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAtu1jBQe8E

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 25, 2022 11:00 PM (jTmQV)

287 How many times have the states had their arm twisted by the threat of withholding of Fed highway funds?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 11:00 PM (BlQBM)

288 Fox interviewing sheriff in massacre town. Still not asking where he got two $2000 weapons and a high end $70,000 F-150.

Why aren't they asking?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 25, 2022 10:08 PM (M9XmQ)

I read a story last week about how kids in border towns are being recruited over TikTok and Facebook to be drivers for the cartel and these naive idiots think it's like being an Uber driver. This kid would even have an advantage in that no BP officer would want to detain a member of the protected class (if those pix of him in a skirt are accurate).

Posted by: pookysgirl, spitballing again at May 25, 2022 11:00 PM (XKZwp)

289 I prefer fries without salt.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

I understand that each of these words is an English word, however, arrayed as they are I have no understanding of what they mean.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 11:01 PM (ifHdv)

290 Life imitates art

The other night I came home really drunk and tried to unlock my house with my car keys. The house started up. So, I drove it around for a while. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over. He asked where I lived. I said, "right here, officer". Later, I parked it on the freeway, got out, and yelled at all the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.

--Stephen Wright
Posted by: 29Victor at May 25, 2022 10:24 PM (BJKQV)

There was a short story by a well-known American writer of the day (1920's) about a young lad who got into the house-moving business, but his tractor broke down, with the house blocking Main Street in his small Kansas town. The story is composed as a series of letters and telegrams between him and the Farmers' Friend Tractor company. It is a real hoot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:01 PM (fIQsT)

291 275
I once owned a Windows phone, and I'm not surprised that didn't take off!
Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 10:34 PM (/OeOS)

I had one as well. I really liked the camera function.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 25, 2022 10:57 PM (BgMrQ)

I'm typing on one right now; no SIM card in it, however. I now just use a flip phone to make calls. I still love the Windows app interface, however. Much better than the Apple or Android apps; you get dynamic updates on them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 25, 2022 11:01 PM (mdjgu)

292 We had actual lunch ladies that made the lunch. No damn food service garbage. Nonnas and bubbas in the kitchen.

Those days are gone. What a shame.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 11:01 PM (P8k+X)

293 We were rich compared to most. Not like those "Spam" people.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 10:48 PM (mlxZk)

Toasted spam on Pilot Bread with a thin melted layer of cheese. Food of the gods to a pre-teen in AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK

ShaKe n bake squirrel. FTW

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at May 25, 2022 11:02 PM (UgAdJ)

294 I think that last photo was shot in England. The dude must be "special".

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 11:02 PM (wsHtO)

295 The AK-47: It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 25, 2022 10:57 PM (xxG/v)

also a high end grade of weed, or so I hear. I get the sammich from Cheba Hut. it's basically a french dip. Pretty good.

Not familiar with that brand of spleef.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at May 25, 2022 11:03 PM (x8Wzq)

296 Is The Government Spying On Schizophrenics Paranoiacs Enough

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at May 25, 2022 10:57 PM (FVME7)

One of the reasons that Pooky is so paranoid is that he used to be Big Brother. (Another is that they were, in fact, out to get him and he has proof.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, always Little Sister at May 25, 2022 11:03 PM (XKZwp)

297 I thought he had some brain tumor that led him to do it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2022 10:59 PM (/U27+)

That's what they say but a lot of people have brain tumors that don't go on a killing sprees. I'm skeptical but there are always exceptions.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 11:03 PM (jNAzB)

298 Just stick a phone in the bag and have someone call you.

Posted by: Braenyard says, burnit at May 25, 2022 11:04 PM (rV/29)

299 DUCK COFFEE!

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at May 25, 2022 11:04 PM (63Dwl)

300 Wife, kids, and their SOs went to Paris last year during Thanksgiving break. I stayed home.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 10:59 PM (Om/di)

That what my family did too!

Posted by: David French at May 25, 2022 11:04 PM (7bRMQ)

301 Regarding the last photo, I've had the same problem of getting the hood of my Audi to stay up while I check the oil. I have been using gardening shears to prop it up.
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I use vice-grips on the telescopic arm.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 25, 2022 10:54 PM (qfLjt)

I've got a 99 A4 and the strut's still going (knock on wood). May be lucky.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 25, 2022 11:04 PM (wBpKf)

302 ShaKe n bake squirrel. FTW
Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at May 25, 2022 11:02 PM (UgAdJ)
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I made that once. A former co-worker of mine gave me some squirrel meat and told me how to fry it. It wasn't bad at all.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 11:04 PM (K5n5d)

303 Plural for sus is sui?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2022 11:05 PM (xhaym)

304 “We have the means to improve the state of the world, but two conditions are necessary:

What happened to the conditions that existed before Klaus Schwab and the evil doers within the WEF decided to throw the planet into disarray?

I mean, they brag about bringing about the Great Reset, which is really the Great Wealth Transfer from the middle class to the hyper-wealthy. They maim and murder millions of people directly through the mRNA or through the deprecated systems that previously fed the world.

Why should we trust the Destroyers who hurt us allegedly for our own benefit? Its the reasoning of psychopaths.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 25, 2022 11:05 PM (AHeqJ)

305 I was in Uvalde on business years ago. Nice town and everyone knew each other and/or were related. The largest employer in the county is the school district, as it is for a lot of small towns in Texas (and other states).

You cannot tell me that half the town didn't know what was going on with this kid and was not aware they had a rabid dog in their midst. Stuff like that is noticed in a small town.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 11:05 PM (xT18z)

306 I saw the video on the AMC national news of Beto mouthing-off to Gov. Abbott.

It looked like Beto was re-enacting the scene from "Cleopatra" (1963) where Octavian (Roddy McDowell) picks up the spear in the Roman Senate, then prances about and postures like a completely inexperienced 10-year-old playing "pretend", trying to rouse the Senate, then the local rabble, before throwing it into the Egyptian advisor.

Hang this on Beto The Drunk Driver.
Posted by: Arbalest at May 25, 2022 10:29 PM (FlRtG)

The cops missed the boat there by not shooting him dead on the spot as a wanna-be assassin. Least they could have done was ensure he fell down several flights of stairs while being escorted out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:05 PM (fIQsT)

307 Charles Whitman stabbed his mother and wife to death before he started his shooting spree.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

If I remember correctly, he had a tumor the size of a chicken egg in his head.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:06 PM (mlxZk)

308 And of course, you can't expound on novelty music without mentioning one of its originators, Spike Jones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYrv-kBUh3Y

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 25, 2022 11:06 PM (jTmQV)

309 I wonder whether the foil pouches for e-zpass transmitters are good enough for cellular phones?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 25, 2022 10:29 PM (XIJ/X)

A microwave oven ought to make a perfect Faraday cage. It kind of has to be.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:06 PM (fIQsT)

310 Posted by: Tonypete at May 25, 2022 11:01 PM (ifHdv)

Heh I said it was weird.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 11:07 PM (jNAzB)

311 I made that once. A former co-worker of mine gave me some squirrel meat and told me how to fry it. It wasn't bad at all.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 25, 2022 11:04 PM (K5n5d)

Sautéed with butter and onions. It is pretty good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 25, 2022 11:07 PM (P8k+X)

312 We could afford school lunches for the kids, but they said standing in line took almost all of their lunch period, leaving them little time to eat.

They spent all of their middle school and high school years brown-bagging it. Lunch was usually a ham sandwich.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 11:07 PM (Om/di)

313 Darrell I'm not so sure. There are limits to the feds' discretion in simply imposing new requirements for $$$ whose legislative basis and appropriations do not contain such requirements. I think this is the (entirely predictable) reason the withholding of $$$ to LE agencies based on immigration lawlessness was legally vulnerable.

Of course 1) I are not a lawyer nor have I taken the trouble to look well into this, and 2) the courts can be farcical and capricious, as we all are experiencing, so.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2022 11:08 PM (OTzUX)

314 Have a record of Sonny Boy with the Yardbirds -- wore the groves outta it back in the day, but haven't played it since my long-lost college years.

It was good stuff. Time for a nostalgia trip.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 25, 2022 11:08 PM (dkb+u)

315 DUCK COFFEE!
Posted by: Bugs Bunny

That's two windshield wipers, put it in a box, and mark it fra-gi-le
- Groucho Marx, Duck Soup

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at May 25, 2022 11:08 PM (UgAdJ)

316 > Here's a link to that UK Daily Mail story about the 90 minutes that went by before the cops killed Ramos

Texas Director of DPS was proud of the officers for keeping him pinned down while he was actively killing people?

What the ever loving fuck?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 25, 2022 11:09 PM (i0wNm)

317 Wow... 8 PM, and still 92 degrees here. Was 105 earlier.

Time to take a dip in the pool.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 25, 2022 11:09 PM (oHd/0)

318 305 I was in Uvalde on business years ago. Nice town and everyone knew each other and/or were related. The largest employer in the county is the school district, as it is for a lot of small towns in Texas (and other states).

You cannot tell me that half the town didn't know what was going on with this kid and was not aware they had a rabid dog in their midst. Stuff like that is noticed in a small town.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 11:05 PM (xT18z)

I haven't read anything about the incident other than the HQ, so I probably missed this bit. How did the guy even get into the school? I've lived in CA and CT in the last ten years, and you can't even walk into an elementary school without permission. All the doors are locked while school is in session.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 25, 2022 11:09 PM (mdjgu)

319 Texas Director of DPS was proud of the officers for keeping him pinned down while he was actively killing people?

What the ever loving fuck?

Posted by: bonhomme

Yeah, they really had to work to keep him penned inside the builiding where the kids were.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:10 PM (mlxZk)

320 It wasn't bad at all.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Yer redneck card. Present for frequent flier miles stamp.

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at May 25, 2022 11:10 PM (UgAdJ)

321 I remember Louisiana holding on as long as they could with the Feds withholding money about raising the drinking age to 21. Cajuns like their booze.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 11:10 PM (jNAzB)

322 Texas Director of DPS was proud of the officers for keeping him pinned down while he was actively killing people?

What the ever loving fuck?
Posted by: bonhomme at May 25, 2022 11:09 PM (i0wNm)

Damn, we could armor up, arm, and be on scene in 20 minutes on my ship. 90 minutes? Insane.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 25, 2022 11:11 PM (oHd/0)

323 I love Jerry Lee Lewis. I have his version of Chantilly Lace that is great.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 25, 2022 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

HIs album, "Last Man Standing" is pretty good. He is the last of the original Sun Records hit makers still alive.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:11 PM (fIQsT)

324 @269 --

This Yankovic concert is promoted as his songs that aren't parodies.

I have a CD of his original stuff. It's great.

Was hoping to hear more of that.

I'll just search out more of his CDs.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 11:11 PM (Om/di)

325
You cannot tell me that half the town didn't know what was going on with this kid and was not aware they had a rabid dog in their midst. Stuff like that is noticed in a small town.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 25, 2022 11:05 PM (xT18z)

I agree with you that many knew this person was "off". But, people are afraid to speak up.

Funny how social media let's him and others like him spew without so much as a boo from them.

But I tell that fucker from CNN learn to code and I get kicked off.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 11:11 PM (3UQej)

326 Maybe the feds are going to follow the TSA recipe and create a National School Guard Association.

Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2022 11:11 PM (f5Veu)

327 AOP. I tried that phone in the microwave thing, just a few months ago. Had a friend call the phone.

It rang. Texts got through to it, too. Bummer.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 25, 2022 11:11 PM (QzJWU)

328

Kat Timpf presents the kind viewer with a spectacularly leggy display this evening...

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 11:12 PM (/OeOS)

329 Yay for Mayor McLaughlin.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:12 PM (XG2Fi)

330 Allegedly there are some product baggies (snacks, computer components, survival foods, etc.) that shield cellular signals to one degree or another. The old computer component, anti-static bags might have been the best.

Article from years ago on some survivalist blog I can't remember the name of....
Posted by: Martini Farmer

They will work to some extent, but a real Faraday cage is thick, low resistance, and grounded. An anti-static bag is none of those.

Consider an old Yagi TV antenna, as every 29-year-old once had on their house. Only one of the crosspieces is an antenna, the others are passive re-radiators and reflectors. If ungrounded metal just ate radio waves, a Yagi would be an anti-antenna.

I just tried this with a static bag from an HDD, to prove it to myself. Turn off wi-fi, try to load the AoS homepage, close up my cell phone in the bag, and it still loads. Knowing where there's a web page that takes a long time to load by cell tower helps.....

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 11:12 PM (P1f+c)

331 What the ever loving fuck?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 25, 2022 11:09 PM (i0wNm)
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Not your daddy's DPS
New DPS is inclusive and considerate.

Posted by: Braenyard says, burnit at May 25, 2022 11:13 PM (rV/29)

332 So was this press conference that Beto hijacked attended by family members of the victims, or just state and local officials? Curious to know just how much of a shitstain on the ass of humanity Beto made himself out to be.

Pretty sure these theatrics will backfire on him. He was already going to lose. Now I'm sure of it.

Posted by: Caiwyn at May 25, 2022 11:13 PM (+dHQK)

333 306 I saw the video on the AMC national news of Beto mouthing-off to Gov. Abbott.
____________

Like most Democrats in the national spotlight, Beto has NO shame. None.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 11:13 PM (sy5kK)

334 What's the material they make those wallets out of to prevent people from stealing your credit card info?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 11:13 PM (jNAzB)

335 Night after night, more quality blues on the ONT than any other place. Anywhere.

*tips hat*

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 11:14 PM (sy5kK)

336 Trump lied about my Presfent of Coler and I wants know what we be doing abouts it ? Lying to a Presdent if Coler is a crime and Trump must be tried and jailed now !!! We hates Trump and he be out away just for the fact he has bad breath ...

Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, VT at May 25, 2022 11:14 PM (lQQ7V)

337 @323 --

I thought he was the survivor.

I listened to the Million Dollar Quartet recording last week.

I also have "Last Man Standing" from the library. Haven't heard it yet. Your comment makes me eager to play it.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 11:15 PM (Om/di)

338 'Saw Kansas in Fort Collins a long time ago. '

You can't fool me. You can't see Kansas from Fort Collins.

Posted by: DaisyB at May 25, 2022 11:15 PM (Hswbs)

339 Beto beto bo-beto
Banana nana no-neto
Fee Fi Fo feto

Beto

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:16 PM (XG2Fi)

340 272 I ate a lot of 3 for $1 boxes of Kraft Mac and cheese when I was in college.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 10:55 PM (jNAzB)

I saved enough corn dog sticks to build a replica of the white house. Probably get me arrested these days.

Posted by: Javems at May 25, 2022 11:16 PM (AmoqO)

341 I wonder whether those pouches are good enough to prevent cellular signals from being transmitted.

I would guess a Faraday cage would work.

Posted by: MammaB at May 25, 2022 11:16 PM (ePsNZ)

342 The whole trans movement is a huge lie, you are born a man but you want to be a woman, or vice versa.
Up is down, bad is good, right is left.
The usual bilge from Ba'al.
It hasn't changed in thousands of years.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 25, 2022 11:16 PM (jTmQV)

343 Let's go Blues, huh!?

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:16 PM (4NlP1)

344 My father died 7 years ago today (age 86). It was Memorial Day that year and he's a veteran, now residing in a wall at Arlington. Although I respected and somewhat admired him, and he was everything a father should be (except for being a dad) we didn't have the closest of relationships (mostly my fault). I tried to mend that during his last couple of years when he was suffering from PSP (progressive supranuclear palsy) but I'm not sure I did enough. Well, I'll always feel like I didn't do enough. I got my hair cut earlier today and it's a gorgeous salt-and-pepper like his was, which makes me happy.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 25, 2022 11:16 PM (KAi1n)

345 How do you think the rabbit felt?
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 25, 2022 10:52 PM (LOVUx)

Beaver felt makes better hats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:16 PM (fIQsT)

346 What's the material they make those wallets out of to prevent people from stealing your credit card info?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 11:13 PM (jNAzB)

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Alcantara

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:17 PM (XG2Fi)

347 @219: "That McKinnon goal was unreal."

It really was. He walked right through four Blues.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:17 PM (4NlP1)

348 IIRC, a Faraday Cage has to have a mesh spacing quite close, if not exactly on, the precise wavelength of whatever signal it's trying to block.

Or, it was a spacing smaller than that peak-to-peak wavelength. Not sure, but I'm pretty sure I'm recalling the idea of the thing, anyway.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 25, 2022 11:18 PM (QzJWU)

349 @302 --

Cannibal.

Posted by: Weak Geek (the lamer the joke, the better) at May 25, 2022 11:18 PM (Om/di)

350 Blues is good music for West Coast Swing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:18 PM (XG2Fi)

351 Beaver felt makes better hats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:16 PM (fIQsT)

I guess that's why guys always want to put one on their heads....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 25, 2022 11:19 PM (7bRMQ)

352 That's what they say but a lot of people have brain tumors that don't go on a killing sprees. I'm skeptical but there are always exceptions.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 11:03 PM (jNAzB)

I expect it would depend greatly upon where in the brain the tumor was located.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:19 PM (fIQsT)

353 I expect it would depend greatly upon where in the brain the tumor was located.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:19 PM (fIQsT)

Well, we're safe from the old pervert in the White House then.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 25, 2022 11:20 PM (7bRMQ)

354 C'mon, seriously? None of you were talking hockey tonight?

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:21 PM (4NlP1)

355 *shakes his head slowly*

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:21 PM (4NlP1)

356 Good night, all.

Lurke ya tomorrow.

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at May 25, 2022 11:21 PM (UgAdJ)

357 I haven't read anything about the incident other than the HQ, so I probably missed this bit. How did the guy even get into the school? I've lived in CA and CT in the last ten years, and you can't even walk into an elementary school without permission. All the doors are locked while school is in session.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 25, 2022 11:09 PM (mdjgu)

the doors were not locked, it's a smallish texas town.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:21 PM (r46W7)

358 Earlier this evening I turned on the TV for a few minutes and watched a news broadcast.

Chuck Schumer was prognosticating in front of a bank of microphones.

What a slimy sleazy piece of garbage. He made my skin crawl watching him. Truly the definition of a detestable human being.

He is human, isn't he?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 11:23 PM (sy5kK)

359 Bill Gates, Soros and others like him are truly evil sociopaths and megalomaniacs, and they don't care to hide it.

Look at the obvious. I'm sure we've all dreamed of being immensely wealthy, we think about what house we'd buy, what car we'd drive, what vacations we'd take, but never do we go "I've got all this money, how do I use it to control people's lives. " But that's where these billionaires go, they can't find pleasure in the same things we do, they find it in hurting people and making sure they fall in line (well Gates finds pleasure in the pants of an 11 year old too) Maybe it comes from the childhood loser now having power (though technically controlling people's lives runs in the Soros family, let's just be thankful he no longer rounds up Jewish people) but I'm guessing it's more about just being a awful awful person.

That's why Musk is great. No matter where his politics really stand, he's become rich and uses his money to have fun, while moving the world forward. SpaceX, the Boring Company, and cars are all just a rich person's way of having things you wanted as a child, I'd buy a Lego if I got extra money, Musk buys a machine to make a giant hole.

Posted by: Rbastid at May 25, 2022 11:24 PM (PomLG)

360 AOP. I tried that phone in the microwave thing, just a few months ago. Had a friend call the phone.

It rang. Texts got through to it, too. Bummer.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 25, 2022 11:11 PM (QzJWU)

I wonder if your microwave leaks going the other way, too?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:24 PM (fIQsT)

361 the doors were not locked, it's a smallish texas town.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:21 PM

I'd wager they are now!

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 11:24 PM (/OeOS)

362 347 @219: "That McKinnon goal was unreal."

It really was. He walked right through four Blues.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:17 PM (4NlP1)

But he had skates on.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 11:24 PM (3UQej)

363 I was pretending not to watch the Celtics v Heat game 5 tonight.

My teams alwaysose when I pay close attention. So I have to just accidently stumble upon the score semi-randomly.

The Celts won and can finish Heat in Bahstahn on Saturday. Which somewhat assuages my anger at the hapless Bruins losing early in the Playoffs.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:24 PM (CJsZH)

364 We'll see if the Avs cock it up like that did last year, same situation, 3 games to win 1, lose a big lead in game 5. Feels like that.

Meanwhile, the Lightning just hanging around takin her easy

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2022 11:24 PM (8GBH4)

365 IMDB comments say tonight's "Perry Mason" episode is a good one.

WG out.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 11:25 PM (Om/di)

366 By age of 50 years, you usually have the face you deserve.
Chuck Schumer is a perfect example.
His visage has warped into the perfect representation of venal narcissism.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 25, 2022 11:25 PM (jTmQV)

367 @362: "But he had skates on."

Coulda been tap shoes for all I saw.

I think I counted five stick moves on the puck including shot.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:25 PM (4NlP1)

368 Hockey is a good sport. I like when they do things with that compressed, flattened ball that resembles a crushed beer can, and also when they drink out of that trophy like people who've missed a few AA meetings. I miss some of the nuances though.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 25, 2022 11:26 PM (KFhLj)

369 re 308: another notable Spike Jones feature:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyjwIYbNm4

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 25, 2022 11:26 PM (Ynyl9)

370 366 By age of 50 years, you usually have the face you deserve.
Chuck Schumer is a perfect example.
His visage has warped into the perfect representation of venal narcissism.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 25, 2022 11:25 PM (jTmQV)

------------

Ref: Soros

The face of black-hearted corruption

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:26 PM (XG2Fi)

371 I tried to mend that during his last couple of years when he was suffering from PSP (progressive supranuclear palsy) but I'm not sure I did enough. Well, I'll always feel like I didn't do enough. I got my hair cut earlier today and it's a gorgeous salt-and-pepper like his was, which makes me happy.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 25, 2022 11:16 PM (KAi1n)

You honored him by posting this. Good job, SFG.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 11:27 PM (sy5kK)

372 I expect it would depend greatly upon where in the brain the tumor was located.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:19 PM (fIQsT)

Sure but his tumor location was likely not a one off. Maybe there are other incidents of people killing others that had a similar tumor that we just never heard about . Again not ruling it out but still skeptical.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 25, 2022 11:27 PM (jNAzB)

373 Night after night, more quality blues on the ONT than any other place. Anywhere. *tips hat* Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Keeping in the groove. Joe Bonamassa - Rock Rocks - Tiger in Your Tank. This band is on fire. And Cool. I have seen his band a dozen or so times. Red Rock gets their blood up like no other venue.

https://youtu.be/vlqK4DMhawk

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 25, 2022 11:27 PM (2mSQi)

374 had a really weird/disturbing incident this evening. Was mowing my back yard, and suddenly in an out of the way spot was an i-phone! Not mine! I charged it up and I think I have a lead to the man who owns it, and he is just as surprised as to where it ended up as I am.

I tried to figure out how it got there, and I realized the spot was one of the only spots in my yard where NO lights shine at night - in other words, if a thief were sneaking through my yard in the middle of the night, this is likely the spot he would have picked to hang out while he was casing my house. Luckily I can find nothing disturbed, but we're gonna be a LOT more serious about Security in coming days. (how I think he lost the iphone - he must have stolen it from this other poor guy, and then didn't see it when he dropped it in absolute darkness)

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:27 PM (r46W7)

375 I use vice-grips on the telescopic arm.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 25, 2022 10:54 PM (qfLjt)

In harley world when the vice grips appear you know you're at Defcon 5.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 25, 2022 11:27 PM (VwHCD)

376 @368: "I miss some of the nuances though."

College broom ball is kinda like rugby on ice with morons who can't skate plus kegs on the non-existent player benches. That might be more your speed.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:29 PM (4NlP1)

377
I know Insom is taking a break, but has anyone heard from him?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 25, 2022 11:29 PM (/U27+)

378 the doors were not locked, it's a smallish texas town.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:21 PM (r46W7)

The doors to my daughter's small private school in a town of 6,000 in Iowa are locked throughout the day. You have to get buzzed in and you're on video. And it's been this way for years. It's the same thing for the school I went to that's 20 minutes away in an even smaller town.

So.... when does the Uvalde elementary school secretary get fired, jailed, and/or sued?

Posted by: pookysgirl, the day before summer mayhem starts at May 25, 2022 11:29 PM (XKZwp)

379 re 358: people like Schumer would be perfectly happy if the whole country were just like NYC, so long as he got to live in one of the safe communities.

ok, I'm misspelling every other word. Night All.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 25, 2022 11:30 PM (Ynyl9)

380 I wonder if your microwave leaks going the other way, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They all leak.

FDA regulations allow for 5mW/cm^2 at ~5cm away from the oven, says the all-wise Internet.

And Wifi routers are supposed to be placed 20 feet away from microwave ovens because of this.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 11:30 PM (P1f+c)

381

I once used vise-grip pliers as an emergency repair for a broken shift lever on an HD...

And once, before that, to hold an axle in place on a Honda when the nut had gone missing!

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (/OeOS)

382 Wow, I thought SOP now was to go engage the shooter immediately. This is tragic.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (8GBH4)

383 In other news, the cat left a turd standing exactly upright in the litter box, kind of like the monolith in 2001. i wonder if that is a message of some kind?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (fIQsT)

384 @380: "They all leak."

In a different timeline, we've all got little mini nuke reactors buried in our backyards, and they power entire villages.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (4NlP1)

385 I find sous vide to be right up my alley as I strive to be the laziest cook in the family.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (BP3/z)

386 I wonder if your microwave leaks going the other way, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They all leak.

FDA regulations allow for 5mW/cm^2 at ~5cm away from the oven, says the all-wise Internet.

And Wifi routers are supposed to be placed 20 feet away from microwave ovens because of this.
Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 11:30 PM (P1f+c)

THE FDA?
*unplugs microwave and puts it out at the curb*

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (4I/2K)

387 354 C'mon, seriously? None of you were talking hockey tonight?
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:21 PM (4NlP1)

I'm from Seattle. Kraken. 3rd worst record, as an expansion team.
Also Mariners, 21 years and counting since the last playoff appearance.

Forgive me if I'm listening to the New Riders of the Purple Sage singing "Panama Red".

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 11:33 PM (sy5kK)

388 383 In other news, the cat left a turd standing exactly upright in the litter box, kind of like the monolith in 2001. i wonder if that is a message of some kind?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (fIQsT)

she wants you to know she's been watching the Johnny Depp trial.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:34 PM (r46W7)

389 278 The AK-47: It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!

Alaskan Airlines Flight 47 ?

Posted by: Ciampino at May 25, 2022 11:34 PM (qfLjt)

390 In other news, the cat left a turd standing exactly upright in the litter box, kind of like the monolith in 2001. i wonder if that is a message of some kind?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (fIQsT)

Touch it and see if you gain knowledge.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 25, 2022 11:34 PM (4I/2K)

391 AOP -

I wanted to say that your Texas radio and the big beat reference the other night was awesome, and I'm glad I could respond properly before you signed off. I laughed when I realized that whoever you responded to about the back beat (was it narrow and hard to master?) had no idea what you were actually doing. Then again, it was a pretty obscure reference, sort of like when I was walking down the street today and an old hippy was wearing a Quicksilver Messenger Service t-shirt and I asked him if people recognize the band. Not these days.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 25, 2022 11:34 PM (KAi1n)

392 383 In other news, the cat left a turd standing exactly upright in the litter box, kind of like the monolith in 2001. i wonder if that is a message of some kind?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (fIQsT)

---------

If you feel the urge to go after your neighbor with a tapir's femur, get help.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:34 PM (XG2Fi)

393 Tennessee's ESA program will go into place just as my daughter walks across the stage to get her diploma from the private school I've been paying for 12 years.

I don't care.

It's the best money I ever spent.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 25, 2022 11:35 PM (eovkY)

394 Broom ball is a lot of fun (and definitely more my speed). I don't really have any beef with hockey. But I know bupkis about it. I am so clueless about it that I didn't even know the Superbowl was coming up.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 25, 2022 11:35 PM (KFhLj)

395
So.... when does the Uvalde elementary school secretary get fired, jailed, and/or sued?
Posted by: pookysgirl, the day before summer mayhem starts at May 25, 2022 11:29 PM (XKZwp)

You gotta realize, Uvalde and all of South Texas have a whole lot more in common with Mexico than they do with Iowa.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:35 PM (r46W7)

396 @387: "Also Mariners ..."

Secret Base // The History of the Seattle Mariners: Supercut Edition (3h40m)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIgK56cAjfY

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 25, 2022 11:35 PM (4NlP1)

397 Beaver felt makes better hats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I've never felt a Beaver.

Posted by: Beto O'Rourke at May 25, 2022 11:35 PM (ifHdv)

398
Keeping in the groove. Joe Bonamassa - Rock Rocks - Tiger in Your Tank. This band is on fire. And Cool. I have seen his band a dozen or so times. Red Rock gets their blood up like no other venue.

https://youtu.be/vlqK4DMhawk
Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 25, 2022 11:27 PM (2mSQi)

Joe Bonamassa is an outstanding musician. Thanks for the link, LIS.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 11:35 PM (sy5kK)

399 Figured I'd check in to see how Fen is. Seems there's no word.

Long couple of weeks ahead of here but she'll be OK I'm sure.

Posted by: 496 at May 25, 2022 11:36 PM (U1eOr)

400 ..I wonder if your microwave leaks going the other way, too? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:24 PM (fIQsT)

Not sure, but I'm in glowing health with a radiant smile!

Betcha those '70s Amana RadarRanges didn't leak. Magnetron strong enough to use in a B-52 to jam incoming SAMs, it was as robust as they could make it. Heavy, too. Damn thing was an anchor.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 25, 2022 11:36 PM (QzJWU)

401 In other news, the cat left a turd standing exactly upright in the litter box, kind of like the monolith in 2001. i wonder if that is a message of some kind?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

"Stop f**king with my Zen garden."

Posted by: AOP's cat at May 25, 2022 11:36 PM (P1f+c)

402 In modern leftism-speak, stakeholder, instead of meaning someone who owns something, means someone who wishes he owned something. I.E. "I want" equals "I own". It is jealousy rendered into idea/meme/law.

Posted by: irright at May 25, 2022 11:36 PM (NTUk0)

403 They all leak.

FDA regulations allow for 5mW/cm^2 at ~5cm away from the oven, says the all-wise Internet.

And Wifi routers are supposed to be placed 20 feet away from microwave ovens because of this.
Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 11:30 PM (P1f+c)

Of course, a microwave oven has a thousand-watt magnetron blasting micowaves into the cavity, so some slight leakage is inevitable. But probably the mesh in the door glass is tuned to be very effective at the oven's operating frequency, and performance at other frequencies is not a design consideration.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:36 PM (fIQsT)

404 , this is likely the spot he would have picked to hang out while he was casing my house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:27 PM (r46W7)

Last year i heard done noise in the middle of the night, figured it was the wind, but it kept going, looked out my window and saw someone jumping my fence. Started cursing at him as he nonchalantly walked through the yard and jumped into a neighbor's yard, and tried to open their basement door.

Put it on nextdoor just to find out he went in to a neighbor's house when they were there, and stole shit.

Of course the dispatcher at thr police station, named something like Shaquanna, didn't seem to care, didn't send cops, didn't have anyone follow up, nothing.

So now I have a 9 camera security system covering my whole property, and lights everywhere (had ones before, but not as good) may not be a deterrent, but getting an axe flung at him as he jumps thr fence might.

Posted by: Rbastid at May 25, 2022 11:38 PM (PomLG)

405 In modern leftism-speak, stakeholder, instead of meaning someone who owns something, means someone who wishes he owned something. I.E. "I want" equals "I own". It is jealousy rendered into idea/meme/law.

And here I though it was someone who held the stake as their footsoldiers pounded it into the heart of Western civilization.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at May 25, 2022 11:38 PM (Bd6X8)

406 Man, some actors just look smarmy.

This one guy in the first PM scene ... guilty, I say.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 25, 2022 11:38 PM (Om/di)

407 In modern leftism-speak, stakeholder, instead of meaning someone who owns something, means someone who wishes he owned something. I.E. "I want" equals "I own". It is jealousy rendered into idea/meme/law.
Posted by: irright

Plus fire. The 2020 insurrections were done by stakeholders.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 25, 2022 11:38 PM (2mSQi)

408 I wanted to say that your Texas radio and the big beat reference the other night was awesome, and I'm glad I could respond properly before you signed off. I laughed when I realized that whoever you responded to about the back beat (was it narrow and hard to master?) had no idea what you were actually doing. Then again, it was a pretty obscure reference, sort of like when I was walking down the street today and an old hippy was wearing a Quicksilver Messenger Service t-shirt and I asked him if people recognize the band. Not these days.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 25, 2022 11:34 PM (KAi1n)

That was fun! Glad you enjoyed it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:40 PM (fIQsT)

409 Maybe an animal explains the iphone? Left outside on the deck, then snatched and discarded by a raccoon? I'd hate for you to be right, Tom Servo.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 25, 2022 11:40 PM (KFhLj)

410
Keeping in the groove. Joe Bonamassa - Rock Rocks - Tiger in Your Tank. This band is on fire. And Cool. I have seen his band a dozen or so times. Red Rock gets their blood up like no other venue.

https://youtu.be/vlqK4DMhawk

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 25, 2022 11:27 PM (2mSQi)

Really one of the best, and i can kinda forgive him for supporting Biden... maybe.

Lately I've been trying to learn more Gary Moore songs, he's great for intermediate players because his stuff sounds amazing, but isn't overly complicated if your good at controlling your bends.

Posted by: Rbastid at May 25, 2022 11:40 PM (PomLG)

411 You gotta realize, Uvalde and all of South Texas have a whole lot more in common with Mexico than they do with Iowa.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:35 PM (r46W7)

I lived there for awhile, and I often referred to Texas as "a bigger version of Iowa with a slight Southern accent." People were so friendly, open and helpful.

Posted by: pookysgirl, forever a Hawkeye at May 25, 2022 11:40 PM (XKZwp)

412 Damn, I thought Kissinger was dead! In two days, will be 99 yo.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 25, 2022 11:40 PM (ynpvh)

413 383 In other news, the cat left a turd standing exactly upright in the litter box, kind of like the monolith in 2001. i wonder if that is a message of some kind?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (fIQsT)

I could not stop laughing, thinking of a reworking of 2010 where Jupiter is consumed by infinite cat turds.

Posted by: Bruno at May 25, 2022 11:41 PM (X1xq4)

414 Everything leaks. This is a basic fact. How much and can you detect it are the unknowns.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 11:41 PM (wsHtO)

415 414 Everything leaks. This is a basic fact. How much and can you detect it are the unknowns.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 11:41 PM (wsHtO)

They keep pooping my pants!

Posted by: Sniffy Joe at May 25, 2022 11:42 PM (ynpvh)

416 My dad has a small pair of vice-grips as a door knob on his house. They actually seem to work better than a normal door knob. No one has any plans to replace them.

Posted by: irright at May 25, 2022 11:42 PM (NTUk0)

417 Well, I'll always feel like I didn't do enough. I got my hair cut earlier today and it's a gorgeous salt-and-pepper like his was, which makes me happy.

Posted by: SFGoth

I imagine that the fact that you tried to connect better toward the end of his life was noticed and appreciated greatly by him. The effort is what counts. We are human.

Sorry for your loss. My Dad has been gone 6 years next Wednesday and I still catch myself thinking of calling him and my late Mom to tell them what's up with the Kids and Grandson.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:43 PM (CJsZH)

418 ......
I tried to figure out how it got there, and I realized the spot was one of the only spots in my yard where NO lights shine at night - in other words, if a thief were sneaking through my yard in the middle of the night, this is likely the spot he would have picked to hang out while he was casing my house.....

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:27 PM (r46W7)

Could it have been a peeper?

Posted by: Javems at May 25, 2022 11:43 PM (AmoqO)

419 Everything leaks. This is a basic fact. How much and can you detect it are the unknowns.
Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 11:41 PM (wsHtO)

Like these damn diapers they make me wear.

Posted by: Joe Puddinghead at May 25, 2022 11:43 PM (4I/2K)

420 386 I wonder if your microwave leaks going the other way, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They all leak.
FDA regulations allow for 5mW/cm^2 at ~5cm away from the oven, says the all-wise Internet.
And Wifi routers are supposed to be placed 20 feet away from microwave ovens because of this.
Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 11:30 PM (P1f+c)

THE FDA?
*unplugs microwave and puts it out at the curb*
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (4I/2K)

Not good if you have a pacemaker...at least that used to be the case.

Posted by: Sniffy Joe at May 25, 2022 11:43 PM (ynpvh)

421 >>> Magnetron strong enough to use in a B-52 to jam incoming SAMs, it was as robust as they could make it.

>When you walked in the room your vision would shutter like you were in a 7.2 richter earthquake.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 25, 2022 11:43 PM (BP3/z)

422 Leftcoast Dawg - I was downtown Seattle with my wife the night the Mariners broughr Randy Johnson out of the bullpen to face the Yankees in the playoffs. Everyone went nuts. It was a great time to live in the PNW

Posted by: 496 at May 25, 2022 11:43 PM (U1eOr)

423 There is really no one to blame except the psychotic dude that came in and shot everyone.

We like to find other scapegoats after the fact.

Secretaries, SROs, gun laws, public officials, bullies, whatever.

But in the end, the one to blame is the psychotic dude. Other than that, people are just trying to claim scalps or score political points.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 25, 2022 11:44 PM (eovkY)

424 Of course the dispatcher at thr police station, named something like Shaquanna, didn't seem to care, didn't send cops, didn't have anyone follow up, nothing.

So now I have a 9 camera security system covering my whole property, and lights everywhere (had ones before, but not as good) may not be a deterrent, but getting an axe flung at him as he jumps thr fence might.
Posted by: Rbastid at May 25, 2022 11:38 PM (PomLG)

I have been very lucky here, at stately Peon Manor, to have not had any serious incidents of theft. Some siphoned gas, once or twice. I had a friend visiting today, and we were strolling in the yard, and I noticed the fuel tank door on the old blue school bus, named "Moon Unit" (really), was open. I laughed, and said, "Well, maybe the wind blew it open, or maybe someone was stealing gas, but if they did, the joke's on them, that gas was ten years old."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:44 PM (fIQsT)

425 415 They keep pooping my pants!
Posted by: Sniffy Joe at May 25, 2022 11:42 PM (ynpvh)

419 Like these damn diapers they make me wear.
Posted by: Joe Puddinghead at May 25, 2022 11:43 PM (4I/2K)

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 25, 2022 11:44 PM (ynpvh)

426 No one has any plans to replace them.

Posted by: irright

Vice grips are magic in physical form.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:45 PM (CJsZH)

427 412 Damn, I thought Kissinger was dead! In two days, will be 99 yo.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 25, 2022 11:40 PM (ynpvh)

That's what I thought when I first saw that story.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2022 11:45 PM (3UQej)

428 Maillard reaction or GTFO

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 25, 2022 11:46 PM (wPuAx)

429 Kissinger died in the 70s. You can tell because he's the only one not wearing shoes on the cover of Abbey Road.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 25, 2022 11:46 PM (KFhLj)

430 Leftcoast Dawg - I was downtown Seattle with my wife the night the Mariners broughr Randy Johnson out of the bullpen to face the Yankees in the playoffs. Everyone went nuts. It was a great time to live in the PNW

Posted by: 496

I was at that game. The sound when the Mariners won was like nothing I've heard before or since. Electrifying doesn't even get close to describing it.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:47 PM (CJsZH)

431 Of course, a microwave oven has a thousand-watt magnetron blasting micowaves into the cavity, so some slight leakage is inevitable. But probably the mesh in the door glass is tuned to be very effective at the oven's operating frequency, and performance at other frequencies is not a design consideration.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:36 PM (fIQsT)

1000 Watts.... /laughs

Posted by: Retired US Navy Radar Tech at May 25, 2022 11:48 PM (oHd/0)

432 There is really no one to blame except the psychotic dude that came in and shot everyone.

We like to find other scapegoats after the fact.

Secretaries, SROs, gun laws, public officials, bullies, whatever.

But in the end, the one to blame is the psychotic dude. Other than that, people are just trying to claim scalps or score political points.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 25, 2022 11:44 PM (eovkY)

A failure chain / cascade or whatever it's called when several seemingly little things all fail in sequence and a disaster occurs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 25, 2022 11:48 PM (4I/2K)

433 -
But in the end, the one to blame is the psychotic dude. Other than that, people are just trying to claim scalps or score political points.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 25, 2022 11:44 PM -
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Indeed. All evil/sin is an individual choice. Do this, or don't do this. Choosing to do/not do is the evil.

Posted by: irright at May 25, 2022 11:49 PM (NTUk0)

434 True, BC. But as communities we really need to recognize that Evil exists and to take steps to make sure it doesn't win. There have been enough school shootings in recent years that this kind of shit shouldn't happen any longer. You can't anticipate everything, buy locking the fucking doors during school hours isn't exactly rocket science.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:50 PM (CJsZH)

435 A failure chain / cascade or whatever it's called when several seemingly little things all fail in sequence and a disaster occurs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 25, 2022 11:48 PM

This is the story of Air France Flight 447...

Posted by: Zettai at May 25, 2022 11:50 PM (/OeOS)

436 Kissinger is only 99?

I could have sworn he was present during the negotiations of the Treaty of Westphalia.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 25, 2022 11:50 PM (xxG/v)

437 Hey all,
it's pouring here and will on and off till Sat they say. But they are like Dems, they lie alot!

Posted by: Farmer at May 25, 2022 11:50 PM (55Qr6)

438 Damn thing was an anchor.

Jim
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The ones that I recall had more chrome than a Buick.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 11:51 PM (c8iAR)

439 Kissinger is only 99?

I could have sworn he was present during the negotiations of the Treaty of Westphalia.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie

Well, we only take him out of cold sleep when we need him.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 11:51 PM (P1f+c)

440 Rumor has it that an engineer at Raytheon first got the idea for a microwave oven when he noticed that the high-frequency guidance radar prototypes in the lab kept cooking the administrative assistants.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:51 PM (XG2Fi)

441 A failure chain / cascade or whatever it's called when several seemingly little things all fail in sequence and a disaster occurs.

Posted by: Count de Monet
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Most blackouts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 11:52 PM (ZlD3b)

442 Sharkman - you lucky SOB! What an intense moment watching him walk to the mound. You knew shit was going to get very real very quickly. I still get goosebumps when I think about it because I knew the game was over. I bet it was deafening there in the Kingdome.

It's cool you were there.

Posted by: 496 at May 25, 2022 11:52 PM (U1eOr)

443 1000 Watts.... /laughs
Posted by: Retired US Navy Radar Tech at May 25, 2022 11:48 PM (oHd/0)

Heh. But a thousand Watts of RF is a lot for a consumer product, marketed to the public, some of whom vote Democrat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:52 PM (fIQsT)

444 I could have sworn he was present during the negotiations of the Treaty of Westphalia.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 25, 2022 11:50 PM (xxG/v)

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You jest, but that was a damn good treaty.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:52 PM (XG2Fi)

445 Damn thing was an anchor.

Jim
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The ones that I recall had more chrome than a Buick.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 11:51 PM (c8iAR)

Science oven!
https://youtu.be/6N8z2WIYr4M

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 25, 2022 11:53 PM (4I/2K)

446 414 Everything leaks. This is a basic fact. How much and can you detect it are the unknowns.
Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 11:41 PM (wsHtO)

Yeah, I know.

Posted by: Joe Biden's pants at May 25, 2022 11:54 PM (sy5kK)

447 And in other news at Dark Acre (that's my estate), this morning I heard an "oww-owwoo" out back. My orange and white friend, a huge feral cat I named Creamsickle ("Creamy"), was calling me to come out and feed him. He'll eat out of my hand but he won't yet let me touch him (yet). His ears are a brownish-orange and look like a lynx's. He's gotta be 20# and he's not fat at all. Very skittish dude, though, as big as he is. He's quite handsome and his coat is gorgeous. I should send some pix in to the pet thread.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 25, 2022 11:54 PM (KAi1n)

448 The ones that I recall had more chrome than a Buick.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 11:51 PM (c8iAR)

I have a combo microwave/convection oven that came out of a high-end RV. Not sure if it is Amana, or something else.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:54 PM (fIQsT)

449
I have been very lucky here, at stately Peon Manor, to have not had any serious incidents of theft. Some siphoned gas, once or twice

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:44 PM (fIQsT)

Even our crimes are going back to the 1970s.

Posted by: Rbastid at May 25, 2022 11:54 PM (PomLG)

450 Actually, Percy Spencer at Raytheon, noticed that a candy bar in his pocket had melted.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 11:56 PM (wsHtO)

451 Could it have been a peeper?
Posted by: Javems at May 25, 2022 11:43 PM (AmoqO)

interesting thought, but probably not - living areas are downstairs, but bedrooms are all upstairs and we keep blinds drawn except when the sun is up.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2022 11:56 PM (r46W7)

452 Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:50 PM (CJsZH)

......

I don't disagree, but there is always a hole in the system.

Part of what we should be learning is that the SOP is often incorrect.

From the time my daughter was in 3rd grade, we began every school year by mapping out the way to escape from classrooms and hallways. And she was trained to run, swiftly, to the exit and off school property. And I told her teachers that's what she would be doing, regardless of their procedures.

The everybody "put your head down and hold still while people are being shot" routine is horrible training.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 25, 2022 11:56 PM (eovkY)

453 > But in the end, the one to blame is the psychotic dude. Other than that, people are just trying to claim scalps or score political points.

Nuts to that. The Broward Cowards staged outside of Stonemann Douglass, the SRO ran and hid, and at least one cop was off on the damn football field doing who knows what. I blame them for being cowardly assholes. Not as much as the shooter, but some percentage.

If the reports are correct, the cops in Uvalde sat on their thumbs for 90 minutes. Who knows how many kids could have been saves if those cowardly assholes had moved instead of peeking from behind cover.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 25, 2022 11:57 PM (i0wNm)

454 The ones that I recall had more chrome than a Buick.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 11:51 PM (c8iAR)
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Here's the one that I recall:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/816558976172351448/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 25, 2022 11:57 PM (ZlD3b)

455 Actually, Percy Spencer at Raytheon, noticed that a candy bar in his pocket had melted.
Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 11:56 PM (wsHtO)

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It didn't really make for much of a story.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:57 PM (XG2Fi)

456 "Vice grips couldn't pick a wedgie!"

Actual quote from my brother

Posted by: 496 at May 25, 2022 11:57 PM (U1eOr)

457 430 Leftcoast Dawg - I was downtown Seattle with my wife the night the Mariners broughr Randy Johnson out of the bullpen to face the Yankees in the playoffs. Everyone went nuts. It was a great time to live in the PNW

Posted by: 496

I was at that game. The sound when the Mariners won was like nothing I've heard before or since. Electrifying doesn't even get close to describing it.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:47 PM (CJsZH)

I was in row 14 on the 1st base side, in front of the relief pitcher's mound beyond 1st base. It was effing awesome.

Posted by: Joe Biden's pants at May 25, 2022 11:57 PM (sy5kK)

458 A failure chain / cascade or whatever it's called when several seemingly little things all fail in sequence and a disaster occurs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 25, 2022 11:48 PM (4I/2K)

Another failure, though you can't blame one person, is how society sets the way we deal with people. I don't want children coddled, but really young boys are treated as misfits, wildboys, and other pretty awful things as they grow up, and then we wonder why ther take it out in violent ways. It's the opposite i think for females, where growing up daughters are taught they addres pure and perfect, and when they feel like failures they instead self harm because they think they did something wrong.

Posted by: Rbastid at May 25, 2022 11:58 PM (PomLG)

459 Actually, Percy Spencer at Raytheon, noticed that a candy bar in his pocket had melted.
Posted by: pawn

Mr. Spencer only formally completed 5th grade iirc.

These days, Raytheon wouldn't have hired him.

Posted by: Beto O'Rourke at May 25, 2022 11:58 PM (ifHdv)

460 go away Biden's pants.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 25, 2022 11:58 PM (sy5kK)

461 Leftcoast Dawg - I was downtown Seattle with my wife the night the Mariners broughr Randy Johnson out of the bullpen to face the Yankees in the playoffs. Everyone went nuts. It was a great time to live in the PNW
Posted by: 496

The Mariner's never failed to disappoint. Still do actually. The greatest game I saw was the playoff game (Yankees?) where Griffey ran up the outfield fence and snagged a home run. The stadium had been wild up to the point, after that the racket bowed the Kingdome walls outward. It was complete pandemonium the rest of the game.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 25, 2022 11:58 PM (2mSQi)

462 If the reports are correct, the cops in Uvalde sat on their thumbs for 90 minutes. Who knows how many kids could have been saves if those cowardly assholes had moved instead of peeking from behind cover.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 25, 2022 11:57 PM (i0wNm)

Pensions go to waste if I get dead!

Posted by: Broward Coward cousins at May 25, 2022 11:59 PM (+I6Y/)

463 high-frequency guidance radar prototypes in the lab kept cooking the administrative assistants.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 25, 2022 11:51 PM (XG2Fi)

I've used that same excuse.

Posted by: Rbastid at May 25, 2022 11:59 PM (PomLG)

464 Rumor has it that an engineer at Raytheon first got the idea for a microwave oven when he noticed that the high-frequency guidance radar prototypes in the lab kept cooking the administrative assistants.

Posted by: Cicero

It was just a melted candy bar, but cooking the admins would have been funnier.

That's also why the first Raytheon/Amana microwave ovens were called "radar ranges." My grandma always called them that. "Radarange" was the Amana trade name for them.

Posted by: mikeski at May 25, 2022 11:59 PM (P1f+c)

465 -
Actually, Percy Spencer at Raytheon, noticed that a candy bar in his pocket had melted.

Posted by: pawn at May 25, 2022 11:56 PM -
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Had he been perusing the Sears catalog bra-section at the time, the whole thing might have been misconstrued.

Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 12:00 AM (NTUk0)

466 Back in the day, it was normal for your tv dinner to be shooting sparks while it was heating up.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 26, 2022 12:01 AM (BP3/z)

467 And in other news at Dark Acre (that's my estate), this morning I heard an "oww-owwoo" out back. My orange and white friend, a huge feral cat I named Creamsickle ("Creamy"), was calling me to come out and feed him. He'll eat out of my hand but he won't yet let me touch him (yet). His ears are a brownish-orange and look like a lynx's. He's gotta be 20# and he's not fat at all. Very skittish dude, though, as big as he is. He's quite handsome and his coat is gorgeous. I should send some pix in to the pet thread.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 25, 2022 11:54 PM (KAi1n)

I have the only alley on my block, so it's the highway for all the pests in the neighborhood (which we have many of since thre house behind me has been under renovation for 4 years) on my camera I've watched many possums, skunks and or 3 local cats, who like to get in to arguments when they cut each other off.

One of the cats we would feed last year, and she became really friendly and would sit outside an meow for food, but she had such a small little pathetic meow, it was hilarious. Them she decided the people down the block apparently had better food.

Posted by: Rbastid at May 26, 2022 12:02 AM (PomLG)

468 I only went to a fre mariners games, but I did see Griffey Sr. and Griffey Jr. both hit a home run in the same game. The playoff v. the Yankees would have been much better.

Posted by: 496 at May 26, 2022 12:02 AM (U1eOr)

469 Back in the day, it was normal for your tv dinner to be shooting sparks while it was heating up.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

~~Microwaving~~ Radar-ranging things in aluminum trays will do that.

Posted by: mikeski at May 26, 2022 12:03 AM (P1f+c)

470 -
Back in the day, it was normal for your tv dinner to be shooting sparks while it was heating up.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 26, 2022 12:01 AM -
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Iron fortified.

Posted by: Swanson at May 26, 2022 12:03 AM (NTUk0)

471 Yeah, not a good story. Just another accidental discovery. Happens all the time.

Dude in Switzerland accidently ingested a giant dose of what turned out to be LSD and tried to ride his bicycle home. That's a story.

Posted by: pawn at May 26, 2022 12:04 AM (wsHtO)

472 I still have the t-shirt I bought a few nights later.

"IT TAKES MORE THAN 25 YANKS TO JERK OUR JOHNSON"
Bring on the Indians!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 26, 2022 12:04 AM (sy5kK)

473 I suspect Cicero was joking about the cooked administrative assistants.

Posted by: 496 at May 26, 2022 12:05 AM (U1eOr)

474 Howdy Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at May 26, 2022 12:05 AM (yUjc0)

475 I was in row 14 on the 1st base side, in front of the relief pitcher's mound beyond 1st base. It was effing awesome.

Posted by: Joe Biden's pants

Front row, second level, left field. Watched 'Gar's double to the wall disappear below me, looked up and Griffey was just flying around 3rd. What a moment that was. Loudest event I've been to, and I've been to see The Who.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:06 AM (CJsZH)

476 I can't get to is gd or bitly, so:
https://www.hemmings.com/ stories/2019/09/03/ big-bad-boosted-buick -the-1987-only-buick-gnx

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 26, 2022 12:07 AM (llON8)

477 Madison Bumgarner pitches complete game 6 then closes game 7. The walk to the mound from the bullpen was electric. Stud move

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (Jzz++)

478 Edgar Martinez was a class act and darn good baseball player.

Posted by: 496 at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (U1eOr)

479

It appears that Pakistan is descending into chaos at the moment...

Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (/OeOS)

480 Hey, Doof!!

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (CJsZH)

481 343 Let's go Blues, huh!?

Yes we won in spite of the enthusiasm of the commentators for the Avs to win.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (qfLjt)

482 More Mariner's. The Kingdome years were the pits. The team was awful and the front acted like farm team the Yankees. The stadium for baseball could hold something 60K people. It was not rare to be there when 5K would show up. One night in the middle part of the bottom of the 9th, a 5K game, now less, we went and sat down behind home plate. An usher showed up and told us to move. The guy in front of us had like 10 season tickets and invited us to sit with him. We were like, bonus! About 10 minutes later the usher showed up with 5 cops who gave us the choice to leave the stadium or go to jail immediately. Bonus round: My friend and I were perp walked out of the stadium by two cops each, they were not pleasant people. We discovered that cops have a way of getting your arm behind your back and keep pushing it up. The situation was completely over the top.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 12:09 AM (2mSQi)

483 Hey, Doof!!
Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (CJsZH)

Yo!

Posted by: Doof at May 26, 2022 12:09 AM (yUjc0)

484 A magnetron from a vintage RadarRange, a length of PVC pipe, copper windings and a propellant to move a magnet fitted to the PVC's inside diameter. (compressed air would work fine at sufficient pressures).

Do the math to get the coils right, the magnet the right length and velocity, energize the magnetron (and I ain't gonna tell HOW to install it), press the trigger, and you'll likely shut down anything electronic within about 50 ft. or so of the business end.

Homebrewed Electromagnetic Pulse. Oh, and Shielding? Did I mention Shielding? I can't believe I forgot to mention Shielding! Sorry, didn't mean to cook y'all when you put those un-shielded rigs* to the test!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

* .. never tell Achmed about the Shielding!

Posted by: Jim at May 26, 2022 12:09 AM (QzJWU)

485 -
He's gotta be 20# and he's not fat at all. Very skittish dude, though, as big as he is. He's quite handsome and his coat is gorgeous. I should send some pix in to the pet thread.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 25, 2022 11:54 PM (KAi1n) -
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Alley cat. Has a few "owners". None allowed too close. All supply treats. There's a reason horn-dog dudes have been likened.

Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 12:09 AM (NTUk0)

486 Edgar Martinez was a class act and darn good baseball player.

Posted by: 496

He definitely adds class to the Hall of Fame.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:11 AM (CJsZH)

487 It appears that Pakistan is descending into chaos at the moment...
Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (/OeOS)

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Huh? Disorder in Pakistan is really hard to imagine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2022 12:11 AM (XG2Fi)

488 Well you can always put the phone inside some sound muffling material if you don't want it listening, not sure how they can stop you from doing that. Although I would expect them to eventually make sound muffling material illegal.

Posted by: ... at May 26, 2022 12:12 AM (dscaa)

489 It appears that Pakistan is descending into chaos at the moment...
Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (/OeOS)

How can they tell?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2022 12:13 AM (WPTWk)

490 Hi Doof!

Long time, brother!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 26, 2022 12:13 AM (sy5kK)

491 We discovered that cops have a way of getting your arm behind your back and keep pushing it up. The situation was completely over the top.
Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 12:09 AM (2mSQi)

There are no cops left in Seattle, so you are safe now.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:14 AM (LOVUx)

492 Huh? Disorder in Pakistan is really hard to imagine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2022 12:11 AM

It might actually be serious this time...

Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:14 AM (/OeOS)

493 I was at Game 6 of the '86 WS. The people behind us left, the people next to us left. I always wondered if they came back when they heard various cheering. It was frigid.

My grandmother who lived in Flushing but not amazingly close to Shea Stadium said she heard the end of game cheers from her house. I always thought that was incredible.

Posted by: ... at May 26, 2022 12:15 AM (dscaa)

494 Doof brother I have been wondering about you.

Posted by: ... at May 26, 2022 12:15 AM (dscaa)

495 Plural for sus is sui?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 25, 2022 11:05 PM (xhaym)

"Sui" is plural for *razorback*

Posted by: GWB at May 26, 2022 12:15 AM (ZA+y1)

496 Once saw Jay Buhner grab a single that curved behind the right field side warmup mound and throw out a runner trying to go from first to third by about 8 feet. Ball hit Mike Blowers' glove on the fly, perfectly positioned on the corner of the third base bag, without him having to move it at all. The throw probably never was higher than 12 feet off the ground. Just magnificent.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:16 AM (CJsZH)

497
These days, Raytheon wouldn't have hired him.
Posted by: Beto O'Rourke
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Local boy, Cecil Philips. Dropped out of school, tried to join the Army, no go. Recruiter suggested that he try the SSA. The result was historic. He was 18-19 at the time. His mother ran a gift shop just up the road.

https://tinyurl.com/24ackytj

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2022 12:16 AM (nVDxD)

498 More, more, Mariner's - Safeco Years. This is one of the most perfect stadiums. When you enter the stadium and walk up to the 100 level, the ceiling is very low and it compress the sound which bounces around, all most bell like. The visual to go with this is it very dark and you have at best a slit view of the field which erupts into something glorious when you reach the last row of the 100 level seats. Best seats in the stadium are 200 level 1st base side as you have perfect view of the city and the same food and booze as the served to suites.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 12:16 AM (2mSQi)

499 In other news, the cat left a turd standing exactly upright in the litter box, kind of like the monolith in 2001. i wonder if that is a message of some kind?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (fIQsT)

Touch it and see if you gain knowledge.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 25, 2022 11:34 PM (4I/2K)

Damn thats some funny shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 26, 2022 12:17 AM (VwHCD)

500 Well you can always put the phone inside some sound muffling material if you don't want it listening, not sure how they can stop you from doing that. Although I would expect them to eventually make sound muffling material illegal.
Posted by: ...
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Drop it in a glass of salt water.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2022 12:17 AM (nVDxD)

501 -
It appears that Pakistan is descending into chaos at the moment...
Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (/OeOS)

How can they tell?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2022 12:13 AM -

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Official comms start to eerily mimic audio of "The View".

Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 12:18 AM (NTUk0)

502
There are no cops left in Seattle, so you are safe now.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:14 AM (LOVUx)

that's funny.

well, the cops are still there, but seldom get out of their cop Ford Explorers.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 26, 2022 12:18 AM (sy5kK)

503

I'd post a link on the unrest in Pakistan but is. gd is down...

Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:19 AM (/OeOS)

504 It appears that Pakistan is descending into chaos at the moment...
Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (/OeOS)

Somebody cut the wires to the local mosque's foghorn?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 26, 2022 12:19 AM (VwHCD)

505 I was at Game 6 of the '86 WS. The people behind us left, the people next to us left. I always wondered if they came back when they heard various cheering. It was frigid.

Posted by: ...

I was watching at my parents' house in Arizona. I turned to my Dad and said: "Dad, the Red Sox are one strike away from winning the world series!!" Next pitch the wheels started coming off.

In 2004 I didn't watch even a second of playoff baseball, knowing I'd jinx the Sox if I did. Lifelong Red Sox fan, I know better than to tempt the Baseball Fates a second time.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:20 AM (CJsZH)

506 Another failure, though you can't blame one person, is how society sets the way we deal with people. I don't want children coddled, but really young boys are treated as misfits, wildboys, and other pretty awful things as they grow up, and then we wonder why ther take it out in violent ways. It's the opposite i think for females, where growing up daughters are taught they addres pure and perfect, and when they feel like failures they instead self harm because they think they did something wrong.
Posted by: Rbastid at May 25, 2022 11:58 PM (PomLG)

Not having been raised as the "sweetness and light" aspect of girl-hood, I learned to shoot and gut a moose, smoke and can salmon, run 10Ks every other weekend, shoot black powder cannons, and wear a skirt doing it all.

Let kids do their thing. Correct them when the trespass the Big 10 or the Nasty 7, but let them be who they are, and 995 of the time they will be fine. Be a parent, for God's sake (literally).

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:20 AM (LOVUx)

507 Jerry Lee was possibly the greatest of the original rockers. Buddy Holly comes close because he invented the concept of the self contained band that became the thing after the Beatles. In many ways Jerry Lee was the originator of "punk rock".. I think he had the best voice of them all. He got derailed when he married the underage girl, they decided to not cover it up but make him the focus of the adult dislike of the blackish\countryish sound that was displacing the Sinatra style that adults liked. Don't get me wrong, Jerry Lee was not an upstanding character but none of them were except maybe Holly. What has always bugged me is the idea that Elvis was King. Artistically he was probably the least important and his only real breakthrough moment was the Sun Sessions and he dropped that for mo money in a heartbeat.

Posted by: azjaeger at May 26, 2022 12:21 AM (3/XaG)

508

Pakistan unrest:

https://tinyurl.com/wpennn7u

Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:22 AM (/OeOS)

509 Loved them 90's Mariners and Lou! Edgar is definitely HOF worthy. Dave Niehaus and the boys were my nightly entertainment for years, even before they were competitive. . Haven't listened to or been to a game since 03

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 26, 2022 12:22 AM (lXEIW)

510 Howdy Horde, I've got the music blasting and I am on a cleaning frenzy, my son swears that one couch has been completely permeated by shit, he's right. hubs has sat there for over five years, it has been pooped on, peed on, and suffered many food mishaps, can the couch be saved? It is leather, discolored in places. Oh crap, this aint the cleaning thread!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 12:22 AM (a4EWo)

511 I have thin mumetal sheet on hand. It would be no trick to fold up a 'wallet' that would effectively shield all rf in/out. Plenty for sale on Ebay.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2022 12:23 AM (X1qOg)

512 498 More, more, Mariner's - Safeco Years. This is one of the most perfect stadiums.

I never sit more than a few innings at the Safeco, now T-Mobile Park. One can walk around the entire stadium and still watch the game, peeking in the row entrances.

One of my favorite areas is the outfield end of the 300 level on the 3rd base side, where there are built in stools to eat and watch the game. You can see downtown and it also has a great view of Elliott Bay and the Olympics. Awesome. And the big screen is right in front of you.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 26, 2022 12:23 AM (sy5kK)

513 It appears that Down With Your Getup is copyright free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9yweP9qS9o

Posted by: David Prince at May 26, 2022 12:23 AM (WUxVt)

514 in 1893 here in my small town, the local Christian college was absorbed into the state higher education system as a Normal (teaching) school and the college church needed to be moved off campus. A local contractor was hired to move it down the street a 4 blocks. It wound up parked on the muddy street blocking traffic for 6 weeks that winter while the contractor dug the cellar and put in the foundation, and possibly because the city was slow in deeding over the title to the lot.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2022 12:23 AM (xhaym)

515 I tried the phone in the microwave thing.
It sparked something awful.
I needed a new phone, after.

Posted by: GWB at May 26, 2022 12:24 AM (ZA+y1)

516 I was at Game 6 of the '86 WS. The people behind us left, the people next to us left. I always wondered if they came back when they heard various cheering. It was frigid.

Posted by: ...

That was the greatest World Series I had the joy of watching until the Cubs vs Indians series. I am pretty sure I put a few holes in the sheet rock from bouncing off the wall for that game. Before I croak I want to see just one World Series game. Doing that holds the first 5, maybe 10 spots on my bucket list.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 12:25 AM (2mSQi)

517 Hi Doof!

Long time, brother!
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 26, 2022 12:13 AM (sy5kK)

Doof brother I have been wondering about you.
Posted by: ... at May 26, 2022 12:15 AM (dscaa)

Hello to you both! Hanging in there. Life's definitely different now. But I have a lot to be thankful for - which keeps me going. Hope all is well with you guys!

Posted by: Doof at May 26, 2022 12:25 AM (yUjc0)

518 The Pakistani military will get tired of their shit and come in and arrest the clowns and threaten to shoot everyone. Then the will announce elections in a couple of months . This happens every couple of years or so.

Posted by: pawn at May 26, 2022 12:25 AM (wsHtO)

519

I think Pakistan is on the short list of nations that might fare badly in the Great Reset...

Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:26 AM (/OeOS)

520 -
Let kids do their thing. Correct them when the trespass the Big 10 or the Nasty 7, but let them be who they are, and 995 of the time they will be fine. Be a parent, for God's sake (literally).

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:20 AM -
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Children need to be taught to understand and actually FEEL shame, guilt, and responsibility.

Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 12:26 AM (NTUk0)

521 It's cool you were there.

Posted by: 496

I still have the ticket stub for that game in my wallet. Can barely see what it is for any longer. Whenever I happen to put a hand on it I still get those same goosebumps I had at that game.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:28 AM (CJsZH)

522 Every Dog Owner Needs a Smart Robotic Laser Guiding Them to Poop That Needs Picking Up

I don't know what to say. Honk! Dab.

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 26, 2022 12:28 AM (glGDV)

523 427 Mis Hum

That's called "the Mandela Effect," i.e., when lots of people "remember" an event that never happened-- Mandela dying in prison; Kissinger dying decades ago.

Posted by: mnw at May 26, 2022 12:28 AM (NLIak)

524 Re: Pakistan:

Islamabad? Yes, it is.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:28 AM (LOVUx)

525 Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 12:22 AM (a4EWo)

Hello {{{Debby}}} girl.

I do not give advice on subjects I don't know about, but hello just the same.

Posted by: ... at May 26, 2022 12:28 AM (dscaa)

526 Doof, Life is completely different here too, although not in the same way. Don't be a stranger.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 12:29 AM (a4EWo)

527 I never sit more than a few innings at the Safeco, now T-Mobile Park. One can walk around the entire stadium and still watch the game, peeking in the row entrances.

One of my favorite areas is the outfield end of the 300 level on the 3rd base side, where there are built in stools to eat and watch the game. Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

I have spent more than a few games grazing my way around the stadium, that is such a lovely experience. Another fun place are the left field bleachers, total riff raff section and it has the best hecklers.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 12:29 AM (2mSQi)

528 Children need to be taught to understand and actually FEEL shame, guilt, and responsibility.
Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 12:26 AM (NTUk0)

True, but until you have a kid who is on the psychopathy spectrum, you will understand how impossible that is sometimes. Mostly, for those who don't have those "feelings," it's a case of making life miserable for them when they transgress. Self-interest, rather than shame, is all you have for a lever.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:30 AM (LOVUx)

529 Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:20 AM (LOVUx)

I'd say you turned out fine, but look at thr dregs of society your interacting with here.

But honestly that's my feeling too. I hung out with people society would probably deem less than ideal, metal heads and kids you'd probably think were gang bangers (not the pornhub kind) yet we'd go either play music, or D&D, and as long as I didn't commit any crimes my parents were fine.

Today a kid says a bad word, points his finger or does something normal and we've labeled them a child terrorist who needs mind altering medication.

Posted by: Rbastid at May 26, 2022 12:30 AM (PomLG)

530 510 Howdy Horde, I've got the music blasting and I am on a cleaning frenzy, my son swears that one couch has been completely permeated by shit, he's right. hubs has sat there for over five years, it has been pooped on, peed on, and suffered many food mishaps, can the couch be saved? It is leather, discolored in places. Oh crap, this aint the cleaning thread!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 12:22 AM (a4EWo)

Saddle soap and warm water, several time, and then oil it and leave it for a week, and then polish of the excess. If that doesn't do it, throw the damned thing out and start over.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:31 AM (LOVUx)

531 524 Re: Pakistan:

Islamabad? Yes, it is.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:28 AM (LOVUx)

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With puns like that you'd better Quetta now while you're still ahead.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2022 12:32 AM (XG2Fi)

532 1000 Watts.... /laughs
Posted by: Retired US Navy Radar Tech at May 25, 2022 11:48 PM (oHd/0)

The 1MW maggies used on the AN/FPS-16 were fun. (USAEPG radar tech before ATEC shut them down)

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at May 26, 2022 12:32 AM (l7Kbv)

533 They checked the Radarange in Airplane!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 26, 2022 12:33 AM (63Dwl)

534 Crikey, that must have been a good T&T because I'm dropping double letters like a mofo.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:33 AM (LOVUx)

535 LeftCoast Dawg, I'm not eating stools, no matter what Bill Gates says.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 12:33 AM (a4EWo)

536 Loved them 90's Mariners and Lou! Edgar is definitely HOF worthy. Dave Niehaus and the boys were my nightly entertainment for years, even before they were competitive. . Haven't listened to or been to a game since 03
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at May 26, 2022 12:22 AM (lXEIW)

Ken Griffey Jr went to hs in the town next to mine.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 26, 2022 12:33 AM (P8k+X)

537 And don't even get me started about the Garlic Fries at Safeco. Unbelievably good.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:34 AM (CJsZH)

538 -
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Children need to be taught to understand and actually FEEL shame, guilt, and responsibility.
Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 12:26 AM (NTUk0)

True, but until you have a kid who is on the psychopathy spectrum, you will understand how impossible that is sometimes. Mostly, for those who don't have those "feelings," it's a case of making life miserable for them when they transgress. Self-interest, rather than shame, is all you have for a lever.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 12:30 AM -
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I just realized it sounded like I was disagreeing with you, when I actually meant the opposite. I find the intertubes unwieldy.

Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 12:34 AM (NTUk0)

539 519

I think Pakistan is on the short list of nations that might fare badly in the Great Reset...

Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:26 AM (/OeOS)

They're only a nuclear-armed nation. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:35 AM (ynpvh)

540 Oh, fuck me:

"According to officials:

the shooter went in a classroom and locked the door

police on scene left him in there

when border patrol showed up they couldn’t break down the door

after 40-60m they got a member of the school staff to unlock it with a key."

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:36 AM (CJsZH)

541 523 427 Mis Hum

That's called "the Mandela Effect," i.e., when lots of people "remember" an event that never happened-- Mandela dying in prison; Kissinger dying decades ago.

Posted by: mnw at May 26, 2022 12:28 AM (NLIak)

I thought the Mandela effect was what happened when you were placed in a ring of tires and set alight.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:36 AM (ynpvh)

542 They're only a nuclear-armed nation. What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:35 AM (ynpvh)

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Between Pakistan/India, Russia/Ukraine and Iran/Israel, this 4th of July is gonna be lit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2022 12:37 AM (XG2Fi)

543 471 Dude in Switzerland accidently ingested a giant dose of what turned out to be LSD and tried to ride his bicycle home. That's a story.
----
IIRC he took 10mg which is a tremendously large dose, and he hallucinated for a few weeks.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 26, 2022 12:37 AM (qfLjt)

544 Sharkman, I remember well the infamous Bill Buckner 86 Red Sox, one of life's big disappointments.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 12:37 AM (a4EWo)

545 I remember Winnie Mandela's football team in the Super Bowl.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 26, 2022 12:38 AM (63Dwl)

546 518 The Pakistani military will get tired of their shit and come in and arrest the clowns and threaten to shoot everyone. Then the will announce elections in a couple of months . This happens every couple of years or so.
Posted by: pawn at May 26, 2022 12:25 AM (wsHtO)

Pakistani Civil War? Be ironic if Pakistan ends up nuking itself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2022 12:38 AM (r46W7)

547 "the shooter went in a classroom and locked the door"

That room...imagine the horror.

I'm out.

'Nite

Posted by: pawn at May 26, 2022 12:38 AM (wsHtO)

548 545 I remember Winnie Mandela's football team in the Super Bowl.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 26, 2022 12:38 AM (63Dwl)

Lost of burning tires post-victory.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:39 AM (ynpvh)

549 DDS, yes, they were a crushing blow to young Sharkman. But they finally broke through in 04, 07, 13 and 18, so I am happy.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 26, 2022 12:39 AM (CJsZH)

550 546 518 The Pakistani military will get tired of their shit and come in and arrest the clowns and threaten to shoot everyone. Then the will announce elections in a couple of months . This happens every couple of years or so.
Posted by: pawn at May 26, 2022 12:25 AM (wsHtO)

Pakistani Civil War? Be ironic if Pakistan ends up nuking itself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 26, 2022 12:38 AM (r46W7)

They'll go blind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:39 AM (ynpvh)

551 AP news and Texas news reports: onlookers begged law enforcement to go inside building instead of waiting for orders. People decides to rush the building while the law enforcement waited as shots rang out for 40 minutes as 3 men and a woman armed with only a rifle and a pistol started to reach the building law enforcement decided to go in and brush the volunteers aside.

Posted by: carley at May 26, 2022 12:40 AM (g9R08)

552 And don't even get me started about the Garlic Fries at Safeco. Unbelievably good. Posted by: Sharkman

Oh yeah, those were something special. Safeco aka T-Mobile has a remarkable range of foods, some of it is even good. I do think the management jump the shark when they added grasshoppers to the menu. I cannot abide.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 12:41 AM (2mSQi)

553 551 AP news and Texas news reports: onlookers begged law enforcement to go inside building instead of waiting for orders. People decides to rush the building while the law enforcement waited as shots rang out for 40 minutes as 3 men and a woman armed with only a rifle and a pistol started to reach the building law enforcement decided to go in and brush the volunteers aside.

Posted by: carley at May 26, 2022 12:40 AM (g9R0

What brave police officers. They need to lauded like the guy at the Florida H.S. was.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:41 AM (ynpvh)

554 552 And don't even get me started about the Garlic Fries at Safeco. Unbelievably good. Posted by: Sharkman

Oh yeah, those were something special. Safeco aka T-Mobile has a remarkable range of foods, some of it is even good. I do think the management jump the shark when they added grasshoppers to the menu. I cannot abide.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 12:41 AM (2mSQi)

Probably go well with the garlic fries. I mean, garlic fried grasshopper is good and crunchy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:41 AM (ynpvh)

555 In other news, the cat left a turd standing exactly upright in the litter box, kind of like the monolith in 2001. i wonder if that is a message of some kind?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (fIQsT)

"ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA"

or else you are going to have to import some tapirs.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2022 12:42 AM (xhaym)

556 AP news and Texas news reports: onlookers begged law enforcement to go inside building instead of waiting for orders. People decides to rush the building while the law enforcement waited as shots rang out for 40 minutes as 3 men and a woman armed with only a rifle and a pistol started to reach the building law enforcement decided to go in and brush the volunteers aside.
Posted by: carley at May 26, 2022 12:40 AM (g9R0

We’re on our own.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 26, 2022 12:42 AM (P8k+X)

557 555 In other news, the cat left a turd standing exactly upright in the litter box, kind of like the monolith in 2001. i wonder if that is a message of some kind?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 25, 2022 11:32 PM (fIQsT)

"ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA"

or else you are going to have to import some tapirs.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2022 12:42 AM (xhaym)

so, don't shit on Europa, then?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:42 AM (ynpvh)

558 Doof, Life is completely different here too, although not in the same way. Don't be a stranger.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 12:29 AM (a4EWo)

Hey there DDS - good to see you! Slowly making my way back to these parts. Just taking me a while. Looking forward to the NoVa MoMe in a few weeks. Will be great to see Hordelings in person.

Posted by: Doof at May 26, 2022 12:43 AM (yUjc0)

559 -
That's called "the Mandela Effect," i.e., when lots of people "remember" an event that never happened-- Mandela dying in prison; Kissinger dying decades ago. -
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What's it called when you WISH someone had died decades ago? Case in point: Pelosi, Schumer, Joy Behar, etc., etc., etc......

Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 12:43 AM (NTUk0)

560 That’s what we call ‘stakeholder responsibility.’
-

https://tinyurl.com/mr4x28wk

*Looks at this guy*

I regret to announce our normally hawkeyed demon-slayers wrongfully killed a hellspawn called "Nosferatu." Though he held up an innocent, pregnant she-werewolf, and shoved a bunch of a bunch of illicit garlic up his ass before being apprehended, he did not deserve to have his neck kneeled upon while being stabbed through his coal-black heart for nine straight minutes.

We regret the error, and urge concerned haints and bugaboos to keep a sharp lookout for the vile scum pictured in the above link.

Posted by: Responsible Stakeholder at May 26, 2022 12:43 AM (FIJ+3)

561

Last evening here, I'd jokingly speculated that law enforcement in Uvalde was pre-occupied with setting up a perimeter at the skoo...

Not amusing then, not amusing now!

Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:44 AM (/OeOS)

562 559 -
That's called "the Mandela Effect," i.e., when lots of people "remember" an event that never happened-- Mandela dying in prison; Kissinger dying decades ago. -
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What's it called when you WISH someone had died decades ago? Case in point: Pelosi, Schumer, Joy Behar, etc., etc., etc......

Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 12:43 AM (NTUk0)

Dunno, but probably a word for it in German, like death-wishing or something.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:45 AM (ynpvh)

563 Uggh. Wifey had another deer collision. 2nd time with this jeep. Deer hit rr panel. Damned short, soft white face hair. I bet the deer has a sore nose. No scrathes, just looks like a fist punched it. Wife said it sounded like she hit a.bird!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 26, 2022 12:45 AM (3Or4S)

564 The Mets meanwhile have paid the price for '86 ever since.

Posted by: ... at May 26, 2022 12:46 AM (dscaa)

565 563 Uggh. Wifey had another deer collision. 2nd time with this jeep. Deer hit rr panel. Damned short, soft white face hair. I bet the deer has a sore nose. No scrathes, just looks like a fist punched it. Wife said it sounded like she hit a.bird!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 26, 2022 12:45 AM (3Or4S)

If they'd only move those damned deer crossings--some libtard

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:47 AM (ynpvh)

566 well, I'm out. Good night all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:47 AM (ynpvh)

567 I am going to call it a night, too. Been a hard-working day, for me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2022 12:50 AM (e1yJj)

568 AP news and Texas news reports: onlookers begged law enforcement to go inside building instead of waiting for orders. People decides to rush the building while the law enforcement waited as shots rang out for 40 minutes as 3 men and a woman armed with only a rifle and a pistol started to reach the building law enforcement decided to go in and brush the volunteers aside. Posted by: carley

We’re on our own. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I don't have words for this horror. I read somewhere that the TX authorities had to do "special tests" to identify some of murdered children because they were so profoundly disfigured. I can't comprehend how the cops on the scene were unable to break into the school. Yes, we're on our own.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 12:51 AM (2mSQi)

569 {{{Debby}}}!
Nothing to say. I'm done for the night. Maybe.

Posted by: Theodore at May 26, 2022 12:52 AM (GJnvT)

570
I don't have words for this horror. I read somewhere that the TX authorities had to do "special tests" to identify some of murdered children because they were so profoundly disfigured. I can't comprehend how the cops on the scene were unable to break into the school. Yes, we're on our own.
Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams

Laura Ingraham reported they had to do DNA tests.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 26, 2022 12:53 AM (63Dwl)

571 Okay, I'm done. GoodNight horde!

Posted by: Theodore at May 26, 2022 12:53 AM (GJnvT)

572 We couldn't go in there because it was very dangerous, and we're very brave men and women, full of ham and eggs. Ask Sean Hannity. He'll tell you all about it. For Twenty five fuckin' years.

Posted by: Top Men at May 26, 2022 12:54 AM (FIJ+3)

573 I suspect Cicero was joking about the cooked administrative assistants.
Posted by: 496 at May 26, 2022 12:05 AM (U1eOr)

The first "technically a microwave oven" was British, and it was used to reanimate frozen hamsters

https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2022 12:55 AM (xhaym)

574 What's it called when you WISH someone had died decades ago?
=======================
Democrats.

Posted by: Cheeerful Reprobate at May 26, 2022 12:57 AM (hIsVd)

575 AI. What next?

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 26, 2022 12:58 AM (glGDV)

576 {{Theodore}}. Cicero, Well I am sure that the deer was wearing a kevlar vest, at least that's what our leader lead me to believe.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 01:01 AM (a4EWo)

577 AP news and Texas news reports: onlookers begged law enforcement to go inside building instead of waiting for orders. People decides to rush the building while the law enforcement waited as shots rang out for 40 minutes as 3 men and a woman armed with only a rifle and a pistol started to reach the building law enforcement decided to go in and brush the volunteers aside. Posted by: carley

You...got..to..be...fucking...kidding...me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 26, 2022 01:01 AM (VwHCD)

578 Texas news report local town police set up around school because town couldn't afford law suit for wrong person getting shot had to await for deep pocket out of town law enforcement. Also law news similar story.

Posted by: carley at May 26, 2022 01:01 AM (g9R08)

579 I think "carley" is last night's troll 'carly' ...

Posted by: Adriane the Pointing out the Oblivious Critic ... at May 26, 2022 01:04 AM (okV1R)

580 What have we become....

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 26, 2022 01:04 AM (bUGMk)

581 Texas news report local town police set up around school because town couldn't afford law suit for wrong person getting shot had to await for deep pocket out of town law enforcement. Also law news similar story.
Posted by: carley

The city and cops were worried about getting sued while 19 children and 2 teachers were being butchered, some so severely that DNA tests had to be done to ID them?

In the words of Berserker, You...got..to..be...fucking...kidding...me.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 01:05 AM (2mSQi)

582 What happens when Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and maybe 50 other countries claim default on their sovereign debt at the same time?
The IMF is not going to make a lot of friends if first world countries like the US start seizing their assets

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2022 01:05 AM (xhaym)

583 With all of the heartache in Uvalde, I feel bad asking for prayers for our kitty cat, Anubis. He is in the end stage of dying and I don't have the heart to take him to the vet to be euthanized. Poor thing is quite literally a bag of bones, due to old age and not eating much the past couple of weeks.

Would you please pray that the end comes swiftly and painlessly so that he can be reunited with "his" girl (our late daughter)? She loved him so much for many, many years.

And I am selfishly going to ask for prayers for me - since the end of last year, I have lost a wonderful dog, the sweetest cat, my dear father, and now I'm about to lose another much-loved cat. I am emotionally spent at this point, and I need....something.

Thank you in advance.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at May 26, 2022 01:07 AM (SRRAx)

584 Debby Doberman.. try tcnAK's advice, then burn the sofa. It'll be *and* you get to ogle the hunky firemen when they roll up to tamp down the flames.

Pro-Tip. Burn said sofa out on the lawn, and not while it's still in your living room, m'kay?

Doof. You n' Debbie Doberman remain in my prayers, and for much the same reasons. The Horde, abides.

Love one another, Horde.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 26, 2022 01:07 AM (QzJWU)

585 tcn, Thank you for couch cleaning advice, thus far I have tackled it with a diluted Mr. Clean with Fabreze mixture. My first impulse was to toss it, but I have higher priorities than couches right now. I am truly sorry for your problems with your son. You are a commendable person. Prayers for you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 01:08 AM (a4EWo)

586 That's called "the Mandela Effect," i.e., when lots of people "remember" an event that never happened-- Mandela dying in prison; Kissinger dying decades ago.
Posted by: mnw at May 26, 2022 12:28 AM (NLIak)

I think the "mandela effect" is due to no one in the West knowing the difference between Mandela and Stephen Biko, amplified by that damned song by Peter Gabriel.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2022 01:09 AM (xhaym)

587 Teresa, I don't feel like I have many prayers left in me but those two I can do, and gladly..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 26, 2022 01:10 AM (bUGMk)

588 Madison Bumgarner pitches complete game 6 then closes game 7. The walk to the mound from the bullpen was electric. Stud move
Posted by: Pete Bog

Bum is (well, he's in his dottage) a very good regular season pitcher but is one of the all-time clutch postseason pitchers. 2014 was one for the ages. He was a rookie during 2010 and I remember one of the announcers saying during his game against Texas in the Series that he may be (as in become) the best pitcher the Giants have, and that year Lincecum was still unhittable and Matt Cain was a dominant #2.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 26, 2022 01:11 AM (KAi1n)

589 IIRC he took 10mg which is a tremendously large dose, and he hallucinated for a few weeks.

Dr. Hoffman always was a lightweight.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at May 26, 2022 01:12 AM (cCxiu)

590 What have we become....

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 26, 2022 01:04 AM (bUGMk)

WE..have become nothing different. We haven't changed. The pricks running this country, the prick democrats, the pricks in the justice system, prick lawyers, and some pricks in law enforcement are the ones responsible for all of this. "We" know what would stop all this. if we had our way this shit would never happen again, but are leaders are fucking pricks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 26, 2022 01:12 AM (VwHCD)

591 Once saw Jay Buhner grab a single that curved behind the right field side warmup mound and throw out a runner trying to go from first to third by about 8 feet.

Sharkman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfhx0N21dz0

Posted by: SFGoth at May 26, 2022 01:14 AM (KAi1n)

592 What brave police officers. They need to lauded like the guy at the Florida H.S. was.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 26, 2022 12:41 AM (ynpvh)

We should mail them medals, I mean really, dig up old medals, first prize ribbons from the county fair baking competition, good conduct ribbons, and sharpshooter pendants and mail it care of the chief of police, "for those brave officers"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2022 01:16 AM (xhaym)

593 My favorite Mandela Moment was the sign-language "interpreter" at his funeral.

Teh HOrde still milks that like a slatternly cow just for the laughs. Which is as it should be, of course.

*wave wave slap tickle giggle OKsign vulcan fingers wave hokeypokey grimace slap giggle wave*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 26, 2022 01:16 AM (QzJWU)

594 -
AI. What next?

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 26, 2022 12:58 AM -

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I know that "AI" might eventually doom everyone here on earth, but we all need to thank our lucky stars that "Artificial Intelligence" trended and got funding before "Artificial Stupidity".

Posted by: irright at May 26, 2022 01:17 AM (NTUk0)

595 They didn't hesitate. They came up with a plan. They entered that classroom and they took care of the situation as quickly as they possibly could

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See. There's a lot of pages in the Top Men's Book of Procedures.

That's why it took us close to an hour to find the one that says "run to the sound of gunfire." Quickest you could possibly expect.

We're paid the for our perspicacity and courage, naysayers. No way you could've done better.

Posted by: Top Men at May 26, 2022 01:18 AM (FIJ+3)

596 Berserker - Discussed this with Little earlier tonight and let him know what I expect of him should that scenario visit his school. I pray these reports of LE cowardice are false. In any event, it does appear that we are now foreigners in this land..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 26, 2022 01:18 AM (bUGMk)

597 if we had our way this shit would never happen again, but are leaders are fucking pricks. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

The common thread in nearly every one of these mass murders are young men who in their late teens develop full blown paranoid schizophrenia and because they have an evil soul act on their obsessions resulting in unimaginable horror that is not only imaginable but reality.

Odds on a whole bunch of people in Uvalde knew this guy was a lunatic and capable of anything. This is a pretty common data point, there is a very specific profile to these madmen. Our civil commitment laws need to change so we can lock these lunatics up. This is something, a place to start.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 01:25 AM (2mSQi)

598 ..Berserker - Discussed this with Little earlier tonight and let him know what I expect of him should that scenario visit his school. I pray these reports of LE cowardice are false. In any event, it does appear that we are now foreigners in this land..Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 26, 2022 01:18 AM (bUGMk)

I know of a buncha 'Ettes who would greatly outperform the "cordon" of frozen cops in Uvalde. Never underestimate the pure motivation of a maternal mom when the lives of children are on the line.

Especially when they can SHOOT, and have received some training to do so at.. well. Higher Levels. We have such 'Ettes in our midsts, and you'd be wise to not presume their skills. Thatisall.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 26, 2022 01:26 AM (QzJWU)

599 479. It appears that Pakistan is descending into chaos at the moment...
Posted by: Zettai at May 26, 2022 12:08 AM (/OeOS)

In other words, a day ending in "-y"....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoS Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at May 26, 2022 01:30 AM (SRRAx)

600 The most important thing is that we got home to our families. Stop sweating small stuff, like yours coming home to you.

Also, make sure to donate to the FOP. We give you a sticker for your car, and it means we won't waylay you and shake you down during our monthly rent-seeking quota drive. Promise. Pinky swear.

Posted by: Top Men at May 26, 2022 01:33 AM (FIJ+3)

601 ANY time a shrink prescribes brain drugs to teen boys, that boy needs to be under the microscope until about 30 years of age.

If he ain't gone off the rails by thirty, it's not likely he's going to, at least not like the school shooters.

And, yeah. Enter their names into the NCIC system, no "approved" gun sales till age 30. After that, we pays our monies, we takes our chances. It's not a red-flag law, it's a DRUG law, and those drugs have proven to be a deadly combination with disturbed teen to twenties boys. Thirty, restore their rights, unless proven otherwise? And I don't have a clue as to how to approach any eligibility as to military service. Roll the dice, or ???

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 26, 2022 01:34 AM (QzJWU)

602 Teresa, I'm not a praying man, but I will send out those kinds of thoughts. I have a soft spot for pets (especially cats) in their last days. I know exactly how you feel, having been there myself a few years ago., Give Anubis love and buprenorphine if you can get a prescription for it (it's an opiate and one of the few good feline pain relievers). Cats do give and experience love.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 26, 2022 01:34 AM (KAi1n)

603 I thought the standard was get in fast stop the shooting now. Not set a perimeter and wait for swat. We learned that decades ago. Wtf is wrong with police now? Knowing elementary kids were being killed should have motivated the police. I know they carried more than just side arms. They were not out gunned. They forgot what they are called to do. You couldn't keep me out of the school in that situation. I'm not some sort of operator. Just an old slow father and a vet that decided long ago I would run to the sound of gun fire because some things matter more than myself.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at May 26, 2022 01:36 AM (0OmEj)

604 forgot what they are called to do.

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No cop forgets his sworn, honor-bound duty to his Union and his generous pension proves it.

Posted by: Top Men at May 26, 2022 01:38 AM (FIJ+3)

605 Betcha more than one of those Uvalde cops will suicide before two years are out.

They know what they didn't do, and it'll haunt them.

And, it should.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 26, 2022 01:41 AM (QzJWU)

606 ANY time a shrink prescribes brain drugs to teen boys, that boy needs to be under the microscope until about 30 years of age...Enter their names into the NCIC system, no "approved" gun sales till age 30. After that, we pays our monies, we takes our chances. It's not a red-flag law, it's a DRUG law, and those drugs have proven to be a deadly combination with disturbed teen to twenties boys. Posted by: Jim

Amen. We are thinking in the same direction here. These shooters have a very specific profile that can be targeted. If we can figure this out why in the fuck can't the politicians and "experts"? I think I know why, they have conferences to attend and awards to be received. Until this changes we're effectively on our own so it seems, plan and act accordingly.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 01:42 AM (2mSQi)

607 Teresa and her kitty got my last two prayers, so someone else will have to throw one up for SMOD.

Good night, all...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 26, 2022 01:44 AM (bUGMk)

608 Theresa. I pray for you and all the kitties, including mine.

They'll be thirteen in November. That's when the praying times begin, in earnest.

Warm, furry loveballs, the lot of 'em. We are SO blessed that they love us as they do, they give the gift of their love for their entire lives. And we are SO blessed, and grateful. Remember the grateful when the grief overwhelms. It is the grateful that'll see you through.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 26, 2022 01:44 AM (QzJWU)

609 Good night, Horde, I am headed to bed, half the kitchen is really clean, the couch remains to be seen. You are the most wonderful online family that anyone could ever ask for.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 01:50 AM (a4EWo)

610 Betcha more than one of those Uvalde cops will suicide before two years are out.

They know what they didn't do, and it'll haunt them.

And, it should.
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Or an angry parent decides to speed up the process...

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 26, 2022 01:51 AM (Hh3y4)

611 Before I go, {{Teresa}} You have been through so much, I hope you know how much you are loved.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 01:52 AM (a4EWo)

612 Imma drop this turd in here and then bail on the thread. nite y'all.

Posted by: Beto O'Rourke at May 26, 2022 01:53 AM (BP3/z)

613 ..Or an angry parent decides to speed up the process...
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at May 26, 2022 01:51 AM (Hh3y4)

Well, if'n they do, it best oughta be during the Police Awards Ceremony as the frozen cops medals for their doing nothing in the face of carnage and horror, writ large.

But, perish the thought. I'd never type and post such a thing!

/notpostedsuchathing

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 26, 2022 01:54 AM (QzJWU)

614 583
Thank you in advance.

Theresa, as an owner of numerous strays I know how you feel. We lost our 21 yearold cat last year.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 26, 2022 01:54 AM (qfLjt)

615 Oh yeah, Berserker, are you throwing a party at some point, I got that vibe from an earlier ONT. You better invite me or I'll be pissed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 26, 2022 01:56 AM (a4EWo)

616 594 -
AI. What next?

Posted by: Holy Crap at May 26, 2022 12:58 AM -

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I know that "AI" might eventually doom everyone here on earth, but we all need to thank our lucky stars that "Artificial Intelligence" trended and got funding before "Artificial Stupidity".
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But we did get AS, look at our schools and what's considered important to teach!

Posted by: Ciampino at May 26, 2022 01:58 AM (qfLjt)

617 Texas gunman warned online he was going to shoot up the school https://tinyurl.com/4d68j3a6

"Officers found one of the rifles in Ramos' truck, the other in the school, according to the briefing given to lawmakers. RAMOS WAS WEARING A TACTICAL VEST, BUT IT HAD NO HARDENED BODY-ARMOR PLATES INSIDE, lawmakers were told. He also dropped a backpack containing several magazines full of ammunition near the school entrance."

Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter
If true, we need a complete rethink of tactics. The expectation for anyone in law enforcement should be to immediately engage until the killer is dead or the LEO is disabled. No waiting. No hesitation. Engage until the target is dead. Even if it costs the LEO's life.
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The Associated Press @AP · 4h
Onlookers urged police to charge into the Texas grade school where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, a witness says. The rampage lasted upwards of 40 minutes, ending when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team. http://apne.ws/5giewGa
7:59 PM · May 25, 2022

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 26, 2022 02:00 AM (MFZ8i)

618 Betcha more than one of those Uvalde cops will suicide before two years are out.
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Or remain defiant about his righteous Top Man status for years of interminable legal proceedings paid for by his Union, until he's let off "Scot-free," so to speak.

Posted by: Scot Peterson, Top Man at May 26, 2022 02:03 AM (FIJ+3)

619 Sasho Todorov
@SashoTodorov1
So, to be clear: (1) The cops first went in to take out their own kids; (2) "Contained" the shooter in the building so he could slaughter the rest of the children while they waited outside; (3) Assaulted the parents who actually wanted to do something to save their kids.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture · 3h
This video make so much more sense now. The cops literally stopped parents from helping their kids. twitter.com/andyspecht/sta…
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9:21 PM · May 25, 2022

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 26, 2022 02:05 AM (MFZ8i)

620 609 Good night, Horde, I am headed to bed, half the kitchen is really clean, the couch remains to be seen. You are the most wonderful online family that anyone could ever ask for.
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Are you trying to remove a smell? If so you might try 5% hydrogen peroxide. Soak paper towel in it and rub for a while.

Posted by: Ciampino at May 26, 2022 02:06 AM (qfLjt)

621 "Scot-free," so to speak.
Posted by: Scot Peterson, Top Man at May 26, 2022 02:03 AM (FIJ+3)

It's spelled "Scott-free," bub.

Posted by: Scott Israel, Top Man at May 26, 2022 02:08 AM (FIJ+3)

622 619
This video make so much more sense now. The cops literally stopped parents from helping their kids. twitter.com/andyspecht/sta…

Do you have the full URL?

Posted by: Ciampino at May 26, 2022 02:13 AM (qfLjt)

623
I can't watch any of this stuff -- just makes my blood pressure get too high.

So, watching classic TV stations. Bewitched is on one of 'em now.

You know, Samantha was hot as hell, a smokeshow extraordinaire, but I were Derwood, after the 10th time her mother turned me into a chimp, I'd have to put my foot down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at May 26, 2022 02:18 AM (Mzdiz)

624 Do you have the full URL?
Posted by: Ciampino

I think this is the video.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1529652093354536961

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 02:18 AM (2mSQi)

625 Video link: twitter.com/paleofuture/status/
1529652093354536961

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 26, 2022 02:21 AM (MFZ8i)

626 Video link: twitter.com/paleofuture/status/1529652093354536961

Quick thoughts. There needs to be a bigger understanding of this video before drawing any conclusions. Most importantly it is not clear when this video was taken: during the carnage or after?

The implications of this, if it shows exactly what it is purported too, are important and horrifying.

After watching it a couple of times there were plenty of well armed LEOs at the scene who seemingly felt their best and highest duty was to herd screaming parents around to keep them from storming the school. If this is true, good God, they could have stormed the school and terminated the carnage and chose to do nothing.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 02:34 AM (2mSQi)

627 Had I been one of the parents, no LEO could have stopped me going into that school and shooting the hell out of whomever tried to cross me. What have we become?

I should have been in bed an hour ago, but I put on Dire Straits Brothers in Arms and I just can't quit it.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 26, 2022 02:40 AM (LOVUx)

628 Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school
Associated Press 2 hours ago

Meanwhile, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said the Border Patrol agents had trouble breaching the classroom door and had to get a staff member to open the room with a key. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Officials say he "encountered" a school district security officer outside the school, though there were conflicting reports from authorities on whether the men exchanged gunfire. After running inside, he fired on two arriving Uvalde police officers who were outside the building. The police officers were injured.

About a half-hour before the mass shooting, Ramos sent the first of three online messages warning about his plans, Abbott said.

Ramos wrote that he was going to shoot his grandmother, then that he had shot the woman. In the last note, sent about 15 minutes before he reached Robb Elementary, he said he was going to shoot up an elementary school, according to Abbott. Investigators said Ramos did not specify which school.

Ramos sent the private, one-to-one text messages via Facebook. It was not clear who received the messages.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 26, 2022 02:45 AM (MFZ8i)

629 Here's a link to Daily Mail
https://tinyurl.com/4wp7d2ne

Posted by: Ciampino at May 26, 2022 02:46 AM (qfLjt)

630 Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school
Associated Press 2 hours ago
https://t.co/Q11bo5eR6j

Javier Cazares, whose fourth grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school when he heard about the shooting, arriving while police were still gathered outside the building.

Upset that police were not moving in, he raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.

"Let’s just rush in because the cops aren't doing anything like they are supposed to," he said. "More could have been done."

"They were unprepared," he added.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 26, 2022 02:47 AM (MFZ8i)

631 Speaking of Pakistan, saw a video of a Paki woman who didn't know that the earth spins, and revolves around the sun. Also, that the moon revolved around the earth.
She thought the sun in India was different than the sun in Pakistan. Same with the moon.
She said she went to school until fifth grade.
She said her husband went to school until fifth grade.

This is what we are dealing with.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 26, 2022 02:52 AM (ufFY8)

632 Well isn't this just special. Duck Duck Go's mobile browser has a contractual arrangement with Microsoft to not block its trackers. This sort of guts their image that they are best privacy option around. This has me wondering about any and all of their claims.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9fe8eu

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now Fortified with Ultra Maga Moon Beams at May 26, 2022 03:07 AM (2mSQi)

633 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 26, 2022 03:14 AM (sAmhv)

634 Puddleglum should get up and join you

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 03:25 AM (2JoB8)

635 That Daily Mail story makes it hard to know exactly what happened. An hour and a half from 911 call to killing the shooter is a long time though.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 26, 2022 03:29 AM (KFhLj)

636 Howdy, Skip

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 26, 2022 03:30 AM (sAmhv)

637 Seem to be waking up at 3am lately and once up think of the million things I need to do, none which can be done right now.

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 03:36 AM (2JoB8)

638 On workdays, I get up at 0300.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 26, 2022 03:41 AM (sAmhv)

639 Slept like a rock for two hours.
Good morning, glories.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 26, 2022 03:43 AM (mWu8/)

640 638 On workdays, I get up at 0300.

Indians say you get up before the sun you own the day.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 26, 2022 03:44 AM (mWu8/)

641 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 26, 2022 03:51 AM (F48lu)

642 Now alarm goes off, coffee is on but will be a little yet

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 03:55 AM (2JoB8)

643 I hesitate to jump on the "bad-cop" bandwagon. That will come out in the courts. The shooter is the bad guy.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2022 04:08 AM (CRS/E)

644 The unnamed agent who shot and killed Ramos is believed to be from the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC), which has specialized agents dispersed throughout the United States.

The BORTAC agent, whose identity has not yet been revealed, rushed into the school without waiting for backup.

Ramos was behind a barricade, returning fire, but the border patrol agent managed to shoot and kill the gunman before he could claim more victims.

'They came in from opposite sides. The BORTAC agent ended up exchanging gunfire with the shooter, killed the shooter, and I am told that the agent was injured in his leg,' reported Fox News.

https://tinyurl.com/2nvrxugv

Posted by: Braenyard at May 26, 2022 04:09 AM (mWu8/)

645 579 I think "carley" is last night's troll 'carly' ...
Posted by: Adriane the Pointing out the Oblivious Critic ... at May 26, 2022 01:04 AM (okV1R)

Thank you.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2022 04:09 AM (CRS/E)

646 Coffee is done

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 04:10 AM (2JoB8)

647 Barky Tweets about shooting to remember George Floyd, he was murdered too
What a POS

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 04:12 AM (2JoB8)

648 The diagram has the killer being confronted by a school cop before he entered the building but I missed any information about that in the article.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 26, 2022 04:17 AM (mWu8/)

649 Puddleglum finally can join you

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 04:19 AM (2JoB8)

650 Barky Tweets about shooting to remember George Floyd, he was murdered too. What a POS. Posted by: Skip

Ol' Hope and Change missed an opportunity with his stupid tweet to celebrate George Floyd having two years of sobriety.

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 26, 2022 04:20 AM (5hdDQ)

651 650 Ol' Hope and Change missed an opportunity with his stupid tweet to celebrate George Floyd having two years of sobriety.
Posted by: Lost In Space at May 26, 2022 04:20 AM (5hdDQ)

Oooooh. Took me a minute.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2022 04:25 AM (CRS/E)

652 643 I hesitate to jump on the "bad-cop" bandwagon. That will come out in the courts. The shooter is the bad guy.
Posted by: m

I agree. I have a '1 week' rule with incidents like these. Maybe in a week we'll have the details.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 26, 2022 04:25 AM (sAmhv)

653 649: hurry up, Skip. Coffee is drunk and I'm packing lunch and checking weather. Gotta head out soon.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 26, 2022 04:26 AM (sAmhv)

654 >>: hurry up, Skip. Coffee is drunk and I'm packing lunch and checking weather. Gotta head out soon.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Wait for me!!

*flashback to my 6 year old self rushing to go on an adventure with my big brother

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 26, 2022 04:29 AM (F48lu)

655 I pack lunch in time the coffee takes, use to do it 5 minutes before had to leave.

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 04:29 AM (2JoB8)

656 Making blood oatmeal, cut up cherrys

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 04:31 AM (2JoB8)

657 656 Making blood oatmeal, cut up cherrys
Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 04:31 AM

Ha!
Coulda saved that for the comment that will follow comment number 665.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2022 04:32 AM (CRS/E)

658 Hate to say it Skip, but as much as I like oatmeal and cherries, calling it blood oatmeal kinda grosses me out. Lol

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 26, 2022 04:34 AM (F48lu)

659 Well, off to serve my Deep State masters!!

https://youtu.be/PrZFscfJxXc

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 26, 2022 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

660 Have a good day, Puddleglum.

I'm heading out too, as soon as cat gets his meds.

Later all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 26, 2022 04:40 AM (F48lu)

661 https://tinyurl.com/vevn7nj6
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 04:44 AM (2JoB8)

662 661 https://tinyurl.com/vevn7nj6
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 04:44 AM

Thanks, Skip!

Posted by: m at May 26, 2022 04:45 AM (CRS/E)

663 Almost choked on last bonus one, LoL

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 04:49 AM (2JoB8)

664 Morning, all,

I really like the painting or photo (?) Ace used to top the Cafe post last night. It's sort of like the setting for an old Universal werewolf movie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 26, 2022 04:52 AM (c6xtn)

665 MLII, Skip, and Puddleglum are all in a rush this morning. I slept later too and will have to drive through some rain probably this am as well. Usually I make up most of my lunch, the snacks and the slices of cheese that will go on the crackers, the night before, but not always. The salad I have to make up not long before I leave -- it would be far too soggy if I made it up before bedtime and popped it into the refrigerator.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 26, 2022 04:58 AM (c6xtn)

666 😈

Posted by: m at May 26, 2022 04:59 AM (CRS/E)

667 Hope Pixy isn't buried under boxes and can't reach the keyboard

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 05:09 AM (2JoB8)

668 Pixy's ambient irony site is up. So any minute, now!

Posted by: m at May 26, 2022 05:13 AM (CRS/E)

669 I have Ambient saved but don't go there first

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2022 05:14 AM (2JoB8)

670 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at May 26, 2022 05:16 AM (CRS/E)

671 The money-quote from the Emerald Robinson article:

"Just remember, you are the carbon that the climate change zealots want to reduce."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 26, 2022 05:16 AM (lKAqb)

672 If I remember correctly, he had a tumor the size of a chicken egg in his head.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2022 11:06 PM (mlxZk)

I grew up in Austin, and I remember my dad, who was a doctor, saying at the time that the ME was so incompetent that he could have ID'ed his pituitary as a tumor.
So, we'll never know.

Posted by: sal at May 26, 2022 05:21 AM (bJKUl)

673 ~~test~~
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Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2022 07:20 AM (ldL4g)

674

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 26, 2022 07:38 AM (SWi3y)

675 "The first one, is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, so that we serve not only our self-interests but we serve the community. That’s what we call ‘stakeholder responsibility." Adolph Schwab

So the most responsible and patriotic citizens are the ones carrying guns and protecting their neighborhoods, when the police won't? George Zimmerman, call your agent.

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